July 15, 2025 • 51 mins
Big Ben talks about Cal Raleigh winning the Home Run Derby and the conspiracy theory that MLB helped him win it, the chances that Nick Saban returns to the baseball sidelines, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Harrison Ford Edition, and more!
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It's not just your normal run of the mill home
run derby. No no on on the We gotta crank
it off a couple of notches for the Big Dumper.
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I leave this hour from suburban Atlanta Truest Park in Georgia,
and I've not been to Truest Park in Atlanta. I've
talked to people that have been there. They said it's great.
I remember when the Braves were leaving Turner Field going
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out to the Burbs and people were like, oh, it's
gonna suck and another. Braves did a good job of that.
By all accounts, I've not heard one bad thing about
that experience that people that have been there love it.
Tommy in Atlanta, who's not allowed to call it show
anymore because he's evil for Conyan Boss does not allow
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him to call while he drives his truck around Atlanta
at night, and he's a fan of the show. I'm
sure he loves it. Everyone loves it. But they was
all Star Monday Night. All Star Monday Night, which means,
for our purposes, the twenty twenty five home run derby
and good bye, mister baseball, see you later.
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Now.
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I don't know if you watched this or not. It
usually does pretty well in the television ratings, but everything's
watered down. Everything's watered down these days, so maybe not.
But we watched so you would not have to. And
the reason we watched there was nothing else on. If
there had been something else on, we probably would have
watched it, but there really wasn't, so I assume you
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know by now that great night for the Seattle Mariners.
Congratulations the Mariners. Now I don't get to the World Series.
They've never been, but this is their event back in
the day. I remember, I'm old enough, I remember Ken
Griffy Jr. Dominating the derby with his hat on backwards.
And now another Mariner legend, the big Dumper, cal Raley
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getting it done. It was a family affairy and his
daddy had out there. Cal Raley the first catcher ever
to win the All Star Home Run Derby. Holy Mike
Piazza and Pud Rodriguez and all other catchers have gone
years gone by, as cal Raley outlasted the player that
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many thought was going to win this from Tampa Bay,
Junior cam and Aro. Good name, and he's got big
things ahead once he leaves Tampa Bay and goes to
a different team. But the final round of the home
Run Derby as cal Ray hit not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, nine, six, eighteen dingers
for cal Raley and cam and Aro had fifteen, and
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so he'll have to center for a smaller check for
Major League Baseball. More on that in a minute, but
cal Rawley does join King Griffy Junior, the Hall of Famer,
the only two Mariners to win that particular event. And
the thing that I love about this as a talk
show host is that this was a rigg deal. There
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was controversy, how do you rig the home run derby?
How does one do that? Well, I don't have rigged
is the right word. But cal Raley was almost eliminated,
should have, could have, would have been eliminated in the
very first round of the derby. He would have been
eliminated by the Athletics Brent Rooker. Now let me explain
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if you did not watch and you have not been
paying attention here. So at the end of round one,
cal Raley and Brent Rooker from West Sacramento's A's, not
just Sacramento's West Sacramento, so they the same amount of
home runs. They were tied with seventeen home runs. However,
Major League Baseball said, well the tiebreaker, the tiebreaker goes
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to cal Raley by the slimmest of slim margins, by
the hair on my chinny chin chin, and I'm not kitting.
Major League Baseball claimed that the longest home run by
cal Dolly traveled four hundred and seventy point six y
one feet. They said that Brent Rooker of the A's
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his longest home rent went four hundred and seventy feet
point five to three. I'm not making any of this up.
I am not I'm not making this up. So let
us discuss the question do you buy the conspiracy theories
that have popped up on the interweb that Major League
Baseball took care of cal Raleigh to make sure that
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he was not eliminated in the first round of the
home run derby? Did the deep state of Major League
Baseball pull some shenanigans to help push cal Raleigh along?
So on this one, I've got quantum physics, slum Dog Millionaire,
and sasquatch, and we will combine all of these things together,
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and we are going to make a hot pastami samiche
and now now cold pastrami sandwich, a hot pastrami same wwich.
I'm on a Hogi roll. That is what we're gonna make.
So a to answer the question do you buy into
the conspiracy? Now, I would assume that you listen occasionally
show and you know that I am selective. I do
not totally dismiss conspiracy. I don't I have a collection
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as alf the alien opinter can prove of tinfoil hats.
In fact, I have been immortalized on the Internet for
my tinfoil hat love on this one. I'm in. I
am absolutely in in, in, in in all right, So
let me let me go through this. I'm nodding my head. Yes,
you can't see me because it's trading. If you can,
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you're a stalker. I'm calling the cops. So guilty as charged,
Guilty as charged of this. In a same world, the
world that I like to think that I'm part of,
you would think, if there's a tie, what do you do?
What do you do? You go to a swing off?
That's what you do. Two hitters tied swing off And
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that was originally See this is the thing that buys
into the conspiracy. If you were watching the broadcast originally,
who's the guy with the hair piece? Karl Ravage, Karl Raviitch.
He was on TV there Sanna. He thought there was
gonna be a swing off on the TV broadcast. They
were talking about a swing off. Then the plot thickened.
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Do do do Do Do doo? They changed their story.
Big brother got involved. Yep, they changed their story. Baseball
decided they were gonna get cute kutzy. They got Kiltie.
They pulled out the stat.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Cast ruler cal Raley advances because of the nerds makes
you wonder. Right now, I'm not saying for sure that
Major League Baseball rigged the home run derby because I
don't want to get sued. However, the evidence is there.
You can decide for yourself whether or not the home
run derby was rigged like a slot in Vegas back
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when the mob ran Vegas and they didn't have resort
fees and charged for parking, and it was a great
down back in the day. However, here's the thing. When
you're telling me, you're telling me that cal Raleigh squeaked
past Brent rooker by, let me check the math on this.
Zero point zero eight feet less than an inch. Now,
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I know that every inch matters, I've heard that before.
But less than an inch let me repeat that for
those in the back of the room that are a
little intoxicated. Less than an inch does that not raise
an eyebrow? It does for me. It does for me,
it it does. We're talking about baseball. This is not
supposed to be quantum physics. I know the nerds at
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Baseball got a chubby that they got to decide this
based on the stat cast allegedly, So we're measuring moonshots
right to the moon. We're measuring this and it comes
down to the width of the width of a NAT's
eyelash decides who advances in Round one of the Home
Run Derby and the conspiracy part of it when you
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toss in. Originally on the television broadcast, they assumed there
would be a swing off, they said on the broadcast.
And so here we are with the bigger name player.
We can all agree on that, every man, woman and
SHOWI can agree the bigger name player in this between
Brent Rooker and cal Rawley is cal Raley. Cal Rawley's
not gonna win the MVP, but he's having an MVP season,
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switch hitting catcher, great nickname, the big Dumper. What's not
to like? Right? He's in the MVP ways with Aaron
Judge and he advances to the second round. Originally, you know,
it was what do you advance? He advances, He ends
up going on and winning the Home Run Derby crown
by a razor thin march. We are talking again. Less
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than a ninch, Okay, less than ninch like a paper
cut is what we're talking about here, and that ended
up being the thing that descended it. And so all
things being equal, if we agree this is a television show. Okay,
it's a TV show, And the story is cal Raley
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that this is his magical career year. He's put it
all together. He'll never play as good as this for Seattle,
and this is his career here. You don't have two
career years, you have one career year. So that that's
the case. And then you look at Brent Rooker, who's
also a good player, and he's had solid numbers. He's
got a nice contract, making a lot of money. But
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the baseball mantra is anybody advances not wearing an Athletics jersey.
Do you understand the Athletics are the shame of the
family of Major League Baseball. They're an embarrassment. Okay, they
play in a minor league ballpark in a town that
baseball is so embarrassed about. They won't even say the name.
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That's how little major League Baseball thinks of Sacramento. They're
so shamed by Sacramento. It is such a wart on
their ass that they will not say Sacramento Athletics. You're
not allowed to say it. They're just the Athletics. But
where do they play? They're just athletics. It's so shameful,
And so is it beyond the realm of possibility that
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Major League Baseball said, I know nobody will question it.
Nobody ever questions the stat cast numbers. Ever, so you've
got the ugly redheaded step children in the athletics. Brent
Rooker plays for them, who are baseball orphans until eventually
they get to get to Vegas. And so I'm not
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gonna hear it say Seattle is a mecca of baseball.
We like to use the line that came from Cowboy
coach Jimmy Johnson back in the day where he famously
said of Seattle, it's southern Alaska when he had to
go up there for an NFC championship game. However, side
by sidne if you put Cal Raleigh and Brent Rooker
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side by side, right, you put them side by side,
Cal Rawley's like Taylor Swift. Okay, It's just that's the
that's the case there. So that's where we are now.
The other thing, and this has been going on for
a little bit, but we were reminded of what we
forget about it once the derby comes and goes. But
where are you at on Major League Baseball handing Cal Raley,
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the winner of the home run derby a one million
dollar cartoon side chick, and they went the winner of
the home run derby won one million dollars in this
case cal Raleigh, So where are you at on that?
They also add the championship belt and the chain which
yet to tell you, cal Raley didn't look that cool
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with the with the chain, of they were hoping for cool,
they didn't. Cal Raley didn't look that cool anyway. So
this is the million dollar prize from Major League Baseball.
This is the people over there in New York who
run Major League Baseball, who think they are marketing geniuses.
Yet again, Hey, you know what, at NBA they give
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out more money for the dunk contest. Why don't we
take a page out of their playbook? And then you
got the wrestling people seem to like that a lot.
They have the belt and people like bling bling. So
let's put a chain. We'll have a big thing there,
and that'll be the way we do it. We'll get
we're gonna make that derby cool again. We're gonna make
the home run derby cool again. So get the bags
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of dog, get the jewelry out, and it's on put
some fireworks in there for the home run Derby, give
out some oversized gloves to fans, and we're in. So
we're at the point now in the story where you
now need to bribe players to get them to take
part in the All Star Games stivities. So again, it's
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just baseball trying to be like basketball. They're trying to
be cool. They're not cool. Baseball is never cool. I
like baseball, but they're never cool. It can be really
cool as a baseball player and trying to be a
little flashy with the jewelry, trying to get that in there.
And but the thing about this is, and maybe I'm
wrong on this, you can correct me if i am,
I'll give it the number a little bit. But it's
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like Major League Baseball selling the Home Run Derby as
slum dog millionaire, like giving the illusion this is it's
gonna be a rags to riches story. Like in their head,
the marketing people at Major the Baseball are like, yeah, listen,
somebody who's like on a rookie contract is gonna win
the derby and they're gonna make more money for winning
the derby than they make playing for whatever team they
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play for. Now, spoiler alert. It did not work. It
did not work, and it wouldn't have worked anyway. Like
if somebody they thought was going to win, one of
these guys on the rookie contract would have won, it
still would not have worked. Right. The rags to riches
think that doesn't work. Now, I'm old enough. When I
was a kid, there were still baseball players that got
jobs in the offseason selling cars or I don't think
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they cleaned toilets, but they had jobs in the offseason,
some of them did. But now everyone's loaded. Everyone's rich
that plays baseball. There's no poor people that play Major
League Baseball doesn't exist, right, do you know the minimum
salary in Major League Baseball this season is seven hundred
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and sixty thousand dollars. If I knew somebody that made
seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars, I'd say, holy crap,
what's it like to be rich? My god? And so
baseball's so out of touch. They're so obtuse to people
at marketing in Major League Baseball, Like did they really
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think that Joe Schmoe sitting on their ass eating eating
bond bonds, watching the home run derby on their sofa
was gonna think, well, I really feel good. This rags
rich's story. Here is a poor, helpless baseball player only
making seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and now they
got a million dollars. And of course it backfired. It
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was ruled because cal ralegh let me check my notes here,
seventeen and a half million dollar salary, one hundred million
dollar contract, and he won the home run derby. Yeah,
so if I just gave the check to his younger
brothers said here go buy some stock, buy some stock
with dividends, knock yourself out, all right, now, last word,
all right, last word, So cal Raley, big win there,
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big win. Now this has created I already got a
couple of emails from our friends that listen to the
Great Pacific Northwest here, because there's nothing quite like a
Mariner fan. Now, you might not know Marin fans because
you might live far away from Seattle with the Marina
fan is already pacing around their apartment, biting their nails,
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wondering whether or not yes, cal Raley is going to
now start sucking and ride the vomit comment. You know, Robbie,
The Mariner fans freaking out Oh my god, he swung
for the fences. He's gonna fit the Jinks. What about
the Jenks, the so called Derby Jinks? Right, that that's
a thing people now spoke Mariner fans. Oh my god,
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we can't have nice things. Cal Rawley's gonna blow because
of the Derby Jinks. So thumbs up, thumbs down. Should
Mariner fans be paranoid about cal Raley going into slump
City because of the home run Derby jinks? So I'm
going thumbs down on this. I'm gonna go thumbs down
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on this. Now. This is an old wisetail that has
been passed down from previous generations about the Home Run Derby,
And the theory is that the players that participate in
the Home Run Derby the All Star slugfest, right, the
people that are out there, they come back cursed that
they have home run PTSD, and it just messes with
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their mind. The swings are in share and their timing
is off, and their stans go down, down, down, down down.
That's how it goes. But let me help my brothers
and sisters in the great Pacific Northwest. Here I will
put on my shrink cap. I will be Benny the
shrink and I will help you out. I'm gonna do it.
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I'm gonna do I'm gonna cut through the psychobabble. If
you take a deep breath, you can do it. You
take take a deep breath. Uh, you put the anti
acids down, put the bottle there. You will stop buying
the Hogwatch, just stop. Uh. The jinx is about as
real as next time you go out to Safego Field, Sasquatch,
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an actual Sasquatch throws out the first pitch at America Game.
There's a better chance of Sasquatch. Hey, I'm not talking
about it a mascot. I'm talking about the real Sasquatch
coming out Bigfoot throwing out the first pit. There's a
better chance of that right now. I get it. People
love a good story, right, story the greatest Everyone we
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learned from stories. We all learn from stories. It doesn't
matter where you come from. But the idea that the derby,
that the MLB home run derby is going to screw
up cal Raley so much that he's going to be terrible.
And I know why this has been the thing because
there were players years ago that had bad second half. Right,
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But the correlation ain't causation on this one, and the
numbers back it up. The actual data. Now you go,
we have a long home run Derby history year, and
not just some internet chatter, but actual data has shown
there's no consistent drop off in performance by those that
are in the home run Derby. Now, are there players
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that go into a prolonged slump? Yes, there are, absolutely.
There's others though, like Peter Alonzo, a regular in the
home Run Derby, wasn't in this year, or Aaron Judge
who keep monster mushing even though they were in the
homerun Derby. So it's essentially a coin flip. It's a
coin flip. And if the big dumper comes out and
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takes a dump for the Seattle Mariners there on the
field in late July and August and all that stuff,
it's not because of some mythical Derby voodoo. It's not
because of that. It's because baseball is a grime. We
get into those dog days this summer and it's brute.
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to the All Star home run. Derby goes to the
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big dumper cal Raley not without controversy. He got out
of the first round based on a NERD measurement, a
NERD measurement, a NERD measurement, and he advanced to the
second round by less than an inch. It's all about
the AI. That was an AI measurement. You okay with that,
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You're good with that. Why not just have him decide
it hit a hit, a home run, have a one off.
But they didn't do it, so we'll change it up
this hour. And college football, what are you talking about?
You told me July. Why you're talking about dollege, footbalu loser.
It's the rare, inappropriate, rare and appropriate mal monologue on
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college football. We have a humdinger of a developing story.
Not that unpredictablely developing story, but a hum dinger nonetheless.
So former Crimson Tide quarterback by the name of Greg McElroy,
can you say game manager? I knew you could. So
Greg McElroy has started a bit of a wildfire in
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the Southeastern Conferences Southern Fried football. If you have not
heard yet, you're about to hear the rest of the story.
So Greg McElroy said that he has heard, always loved
when somebody says I heard through the grapevine. So he
has heard from a quote person very much in the know, person,
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very much in the know, that his former coach, Nick Saban,
is not done yet.
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Do do do Do Do Do do.
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Do do do yep. Now Nick Saban, now he famously
quit Alabama couldn't handle the changing landscape and college football,
so he said no Moss Nick Saban and ran off
to the boob tube to put makeup on and act
like a fool. So Nick Saban, who quit last year,
he was on college game Day and he was the guy.
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When he started talking, you took a nap, and he
was not not at the SEC network, the propaganda arm
of the Southeastern Conference panel of analysts at the Southeastern
Conference Media Day event this year which has been taking place,
so he wasn't there. Now. Greg McElroy, his former quarterback,
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pointed out that it was notable. It was notable. The
person that gave him this information was notable. So who's notable?
What makes someone notable? And said they Saban is not
necessarily done coaching. In fact, said the person was adamant,
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adamant that Nick Saban would return to the sideline. So
let us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which
you're part of. The question is what are the chances
what are the chances that the old Alabama football coach
Nick Saban returns to the sidelines. So I've got Wall Street, Wikipedia,
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and original Cup of Noodles, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some chicken soup for the soul. Not just chicken soup,
but chicken soup for the soul. So number, I said number.
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So I'm gonna set the Malor Sportsbook odds on this
at plus one fifty. I'm sending the odds at plus
one fifty. So if you're not good with math, that
implies a forty percent chance that we activate Saban. Watch
Saban watch activad. That's right. I know this big, big news,
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big news. So we think that's actually pretty good forty
percent if you look at all the different variables involving
Nick Saban, and he's gonna turn seventy four on Halloween. Swoocky. Now,
as a rule of thumb, the R word retirement, which
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again this is kind of a flimsy retirement college football
and just sports in general. I learned it at an
early age. I used to be a big boxing fan
and I as see, I'm retired. That's it. In really
any form of entertainment, whether it's like how many bands
have retired and said this is the last tour because
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they got to sell tickets, and then they take a
year off or two, and then they come back and
they go on tour again and they say, now this
is really the last tour. This is it. The same
thing happens in sports, right, It's a coach who's been good,
who steps aside and says I ain't coming back. That's it.
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It's about as final as a person dying in a
soap opera. You know those soap opera desks, Well, all
of a sudden they show up, you know, a couple
of episodes later, well, and one minute the villain has
exited stage left, see you later, And the next the
villain returns right sipping gatorade in this case, and they're
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calling blitzes on the sidelines with a scowl on their face.
And Nick Saban, I know he won some kind of award,
but if you watch them on television, pretty bad at television, right, No,
no entertainment value by Nick Saban, just a hard oh
on television. I don't know anyone that thought Saban was
good at TV other than those that are sucking the
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toes of Nick Saban. Some of those people liked him,
but for people that are just looking to get entertained,
Nick Saban not very entertaining. So he was bad at television.
But he got the job because he had the resume.
And that's how that works. You get those jobs because
of your resume, and it's who you know and all
that stuff, and people get all excited because your resume
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and you know, speaking riddles and coach speak and all
that gibberish and all that nonsense. Now ask yourself, ask
yourself this question, what does a football lifer coaching football?
Since he was a young lad. What does he do
when the spotlight dims? Like, what do you do? You
go out and garden the home and garden action in there.
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You play a little church bingo on a Friday night,
try to win big money, big money, big money. Yeah, golf,
What are you fink? Fish? Is that what you did?
You go fishing in a lake somewhere? Yeah. Nick Saban
about his version of fishing is really in some five
star recruit and pantsing a rival. That's his move. Now
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this story is bouncing around, bounce bounce, bounce, bounce by
and it's it's going all over the echo chamber, kind
of like a pinball machine. The echo chambers gets in
there and starts bouncing all over the place, and there's
some he hits some buzzer. You win like a couple
extra points on that. And so I imagine that the whispers,
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which do have some credibility because it's one of Saban's
former players. It was one of his former quarterbacks that's
tossing that out into the to the ether. Who's saying that?
But you imagine just that alone, just the mere speculation
behind closed doors, not on the record, but off the record.
You have athletic directors and big time boosters at down
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in the luck football programs or even those that think
they're not down on the luck. You know, from East
Lansling to College station and everywhere in between. Son, Wait
a minute, you're saying there's a chance. You're saying there's
a chance there. Nick Saban's not dead. He's just bored.
He's just bored. And if you want to get technical,
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Nick Saban did not take retirement. They retire. He took
a TV job. He went on hiatus, is what he did.
And in many ways he escaped. And so that's the
part of the story where you're like, well, Nick Saban
innerly retire. He just was tired of the bull crap.
You get to a certain age, whatever your job is.
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I've learned this from my older relatives when I was younger.
You just get to a point in life where you
just tired of the bull crap. You're tired of people
not doing their job. You're tired of people you know,
not doing the things they're supposed to do, and you're
tire the rules to get put in there, and you
just like shut it down. And so Nick Saban slipped
through the back door of college football he just went
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to television, and I didn't want to be part of it.
He did not want to be part of what was
going on the nil. No, Nick Saban liked when he
was the guy that was given out money, and he
was he was the one handing out envelopes with cash.
That's what he liked. He didn't like when everyone's doing it.
And the transfer portal, what is wrong with you? The
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transfer portal? Have you lost your bloody mind? My god?
Transfer port and revenue sharing? What is that? Nonsense? Nonsense?
Nick Saban said. So Saban saw what was happening, this
metamorphosis as college turning into some kind of Wall Street
like internship thing mixed in with some other crap. And
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so they' say, hey, I'm a Septutioninearian, I'm out, I'm out.
As we turned the page to page through here, where
are there some of the college landing spots? Let me
kind of hold your hand walk you through this. So
where are some of the college landing spots for Nick Saban?
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If Nick Saban were to come back in the multiverse,
so Saban he can have any job that he wants.
Can we agree on that? To any job that Saban
wants outside of like maybe three, there's maybe three jobs
Saban can't have. But outside of that, any job he wants,
he's got the Q score, he's got the awards. On
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his Wikipedia page, there's a lot of chess candy, a
lot of chess candy there. And so now I don't
buy that he's necessarily going back to college football. That's
not the play here. That's not the play. However, for
the purposes of this malad monologue, to engage in this
hyper hypothetical conversation, and we will embrace the reality that
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in the multiverse, there is a dement where Nick Saban
does return to college football that he decides I had
my little temper tantrum, I had my conniption fit, I
had my hissy fit, and I want back in. So
if Saban did return, there's only two conferences he can
go back to. You've got the varsity and the junior varsity,
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the varsity of the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference.
The junior varsity is everyone else. It's everyone else. So
you've got either Southeastern Conference or the Big Ten. And
do not discount Nick Saban walking right back into Tuscaloosa
and saying, hey, I want my old gigback, or going
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up to Batol Rouge, Louisiana and saying, hey, I used
to be here. I wouldn't mind coming back. I know
you hired Brian Kelly, but I want back. Or let's
go back to Michigan and I want to make East
Lancing great again and go back to East Lansing and
all that good. You can always sell if you're Nick
Saban on unfinished business at any of those schools, he
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can say, listen, I won at Alabama, I had some success.
I did win at LSU, but I didn't win enough.
And I had Michigan State. I did not get to
the peak of my superpowers that came later, So you
can sell that. And it's obviously not about the money
because he's loaded. Have you seen the photos of Nick
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Saban's home, and he's got multiple homes. But the guy's
absolutely stacked. He's got enough dough to live the life
of Riley and for multiple reincarnations of Nick Saban for
the rest of his days and then days after that.
Now the NFL is much more likely. No, it's not,
he's too old. I'll tell you why. I believe the
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NFL is more likely for Nick Saban, because Saban sucked
at a time you cannot suck with the Dolphins. And
we were on these microphones at Fox Sports Radio when
that was going on, and it was a major blot
and remains a major blot on the resume of Nick Saban.
Not to mention the fact when the rumors were he
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was going to go coach at Alabama, and Saban lied
to the media in Miami about taking the job at
Alabama while the private plane was warming up at the
airport to take him to Alabama to sign the paperwork
to become the coach of the Crimson Tide. So the
NFL chewed up Nick Saban, there's no other way to say.
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It couldn't handle it, made bad decisions with personnel, and
of course he spent all of his years at Alabama.
Whenever the NFL comes up, he always blames the training
staff in Miami. He never takes accountability that he was
a failed NFL coach. Doesn't do it. He always well,
I wanted Drew Brees and I couldn't get Drew Brees,
and so that's why I had to settle for Dante Culpepper,
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and he sucked. And it's not my coaching and anything.
And I didn't pick the wrong players. It's the training
staff there in Miami. That's the reason I wasn't good.
But he ran out of Miami. He ran out of
Miami like the building was on fire. You cannot wait
to get out of there. And that relationship with the
Dolphins back in the early part of the two thousands, right,
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he left there and it was like quicker than somebody
finishing a Netflix night of binge watching. I mean, he's gone,
I'm out see you later. And two seasons, two seasons,
I believe Nick Saban lasted if I remember correctly, with
the Dolphins, and then he went back to college and
never looked back. He only talked about it every once
(37:38):
in a while. Somebody would bring it up and he'd
he'd come up with his normal excuses and said, well,
it was not my fault. Ain't my fault. That guy's
the problem, right, And so going back to the NFL would,
as the intellectuals like to say, close the circle. So
final point, which NFL job makes the most sense for
(38:00):
Nick Saban? If my hypothesis is correct, that the NFL
would be the place to go for Nick Saban, because
that is the one flaw that is the turd in
the punch bowl for Nick Saban. So which NFL job?
So you look at Saban here the shopping list. What's
on Nick Saban's shopping list? He wants to buy the groceries.
He wants the right chessboard. He wants that chessboard to
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be perfectly set off, the right piece is in place, right,
everything lined up in a row, pre assemble. He does
not want to go to Ikea and have to build
the thing by himself. Does not want that. Nobody wants
that right, Nobody wants that. So think of it like
one of those NFL jobs. That's like the original cup
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of noodles. You just add water. That's it. Just add water,
warming up a little bit. You're in good shape. An
established quarterback is a must. An established quarterback is a must.
Gotta have it. So by the process of elimination for
Nick Saban, there's one job that is obvious for Nick
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Saban in the NFL. You ready for it? You figured
it out. Here we go, Buffalo, Here we go Buffalo.
Who says no, the Buffalo Bills have just entered the chat.
Let me make my elevator pitch. Why if Nick Saban
does come back. The Buffalo bills make the most sense.
(39:29):
Here's why. All right, now, I know for some of
you it sounds like bananas. Well, that's why the guy's
doing the overnight show. Let me explain. It would be
like if you were to go into a bar in
Rochester and see George Clooney working as a bartender. That
makes those of why would he go to Rochester? Why
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would Nick Saban go to Buffalo? Let me make my case.
Saban has never been a guy that needs La or
New York. He does not need that. He's from the
old he doesn't need that crap. That's not what he is, right,
and he mostly coached in relatively small college towns Tuscaloosa
(40:11):
where the biggest man in Tuscaloos is Van the one
legged bamamn So Tuscaloosa and East Lansing, Michigan, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Those are the places. So you've got that. Then you
look at the bills and whether you think Nick Saban's
in line for that job or not, we can all
come to the conclusion that Sean McDermott is not lot
(40:32):
long for the bills. He's on the endangered species list
for coaches. The Bills have been hovering close to being
a really good team, and they always find a new
way to screw it up. And a lot of it
is the decision making by Sean McDermott and his decisions
on the sidelines. Not all, but a lot. So Sean
mcdermot's on the hot seat. Buffalo has an NFL MVP quarterback,
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Josh Allen. They check that box. What's in the box?
They checked the box, so they've got that and they've
been just inches away like Brent Rooker was in the
home run derby with Cal Rawley, just an inch one,
just an inch away from the from greatness and the
downside obviously, listen, the Lake Effect blizzards are no joke,
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right the the amount of snow that they get at
that stadium is insane. It makes Siberia look like a
day at the riviera right when you're when you're watching
these games and there's a it's like a snow globe
when they're playing these games. So you know, one or
two a year it's it's like a Blizzard snow globe
game and all that stuff, and so, but that actually
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works is an advance. You don't have the distractions you
had in Miami, or you'd have in La or New
York where or Vegas where people actually want to go
out and live their life and party it up. You
don't have to worry about that, right, So Buffalo makes
a lot of sense. Now. The only other possibility, and
I'm sure this we talked about, even though it's not
gonna happened the Dallas Cowboys, because Jerry Jones will find
(42:03):
a way to grab headlines by saying, well, what about
the Cowboys. They don't have a coach, that Schottenheimer guy.
I mean, it's the worst coach in the NFL. What
a joke that higher was total placeholder, higher total seat filler,
And Jerry Jones might wake up on this. I need
some headlines. Let me get the Cowboys in the news
here and uh yeah, I'll start selling next Saban. I'll
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leak that to some of my useful idiots in the
Dallas Cowboy media.
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Speaker 1 (42:35):
Here we go, here we go smaller? How about that
to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (42:41):
This is one big fent gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
Cool TMZ caught up with Randy Moss over the weekend,
and Mass said that he thinks Justin Jefferson is on
pace to be arguably the greatest ever. Ben, do you
think goat status isn't reach for Jefferson?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Well, that shows you. Randy Moss, first of all, is
grown up. Right. The old Randy Moss was, are you
know bleeping kidding me? I'm Randy eff and Moss. I'm
the greatest of all time. But now Randy's older. R
He had some health problems, so now he's like, no,
Justin Jefferson has a chance. He is weasel turn now
in terms of Viking history. All Justin Jefferson has to
do is be the top wide receiver on a Super
Bowl winning Viking team and he zooms past Randy Moss.
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Does he have a chance, Sure, but he's got to
stay healthy, gotta have longevity, that whole thing. That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
Next, suddenly, the Red Sox are on fire heading into
the All Star break. They're on a ten game win
streak and just three games behind the division leading Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
They're on a burner. Do you think they will be
buyers at the deadline? The Red Sox should always be
buyers at the deadline. You play in Boston. Hello, you
play in Boston. And ever since they traded Rafael Devers,
it's almost like he was a tumor for that team.
They got rid of the tumor and the Red Sox
have taken off. It also helps if they played the
Rockies and the White Sox in this stretch of ten
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wins and all that, But they look like a real team.
He's young players. Some of these young guys are actually
doing well and we're heading into the dog days. And
if you're in contention and you're a team like the
Boston Red Sox, you go out, you go to market
and you add players they need. I would think another
starting pitching would be the most pressing need for the
Red Sox, just looking from afar at their roster.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
Next, Terry Francona just became the thirteenth manager ever to
reach two thousand career wins. Bruce Bochi is the only
active manager with more ben How high up the list
do you think Francona can climb before calling it a career?
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Right So, Francona right now is thirteenth in wins all time.
He's going to pass Leo de Rocher before the end
of the year and as a shot to pass Walter
Alston like he's definitely he's eight behind Leo de Rocher,
forty behind Walter Allston, but realistically tenth where Joe McCarthy
is or Bucky Harris at number nine. He can finish
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number nine. Coop number nine? How did we do you pass?
This edition?
Speaker 3 (44:48):
There is not so what punny on that Bart Putty
on that Bart I won the game?
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Blind Scott I won the game.
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We have Dave in Cincinnati. What's going on? Dave? Welcome?
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Just get ready for work?
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Right?
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To win this game? All right? Who do you want
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All right, We're in it to win to day we're
in it to win it, and we have Kelly in
the moin Hello, Kelly, Hi, Ben, how's everything going Donut
formerly known as Donut Kelly? Yes, all right, and Kelly, well,
I will be with you. You will be with you,
all right. Coop's excited about this studying Ben, how's that
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going for you? I could use a little more work. Okay,
you're studying sports, getting closer though, learning about sports. Okay?
What are the categories here? Coop? All right?
Speaker 4 (46:13):
This is the Harrison Ford edition. He turned eighty three
years old on Sunday.
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The Categoriana Jones is in his eighties. That's right.
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The categories are Star Wars, The Last Crusade, Water to Wine,
and forty two? Dave, which kategory?
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Would your like? The Crusade? That's to say? All right, man, Kelly,
how about you? I'm sorry?
Speaker 4 (46:35):
Wellard again, Star Wars, Water to Wine, and forty two.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Water to wine? All right, all right, let's say your category, Coop?
Very nice? All right, Dave? You picked last Crusade. Yes,
these athletes came out of retirement for one last hurrah,
one last moment in the sun. Are you ready, Dave?
All we need the first and last name put forty
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five seconds on the clock and we're on our way. Go.
Larry Bird's rival in the NBA in the nineteen eighties.
Greatest boxer of all time. He changed his name in
the middle of the Yes, a favorite tight end of
Tom Brady in the glory days of the Patriots. Yes,
start tight end with the Cowboys. He quit to go
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on Monday Night football and everyone almost Yes. Yes, the
minister of defense for the Philadelphia Eagles. He went to
Green Bay because God. Yes, all star second basement for
the Chicago Cubs of the nineteen eighties. Was a Rule
five pick from the Phillies. White guy hit a lot
of home runs at Wrigley Field, all right. Pitcher for
(47:43):
the Negro League. Pitcher went to Major League. His first
name was a was. The first name was a bag.
Would you've gotten that, Dave? His first name was a bag.
First name was a bag. Bag. Yes, Satchel Pagetchel Page.
I was proud of myself.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
That was a good hint, all right. And Ryan Sandberg
was the other one that you missed there.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
He did all right there pretty well?
Speaker 4 (48:07):
All right, Kelly, we have water to wine was our school. Yes,
These athletes were all part of miracle plays. Okay, all right,
forty five seconds on the clock. Kelly at to begin
Giants quarterback brother of Peyton.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Yes, uh.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
This guy was the rival of Magic Johnson in the eighties. Yes,
this guy was the quarterback for the Steelers in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
Terry Bright. Yes uh, this guy he had the miracle catch.
His nickname was to say, hey kid. He died recently.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Willie.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Yes, uh.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
This guy was the quarterback that threw the touchdown pass
to Stefan Diggs during the Minneapolis Miracle.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Oh the other one, I answered, answering, No, okay, we're.
Speaker 4 (48:56):
Gonna get that. This guy was the Minneapolis miracle. You
had the touch down. He was also stopped one yard
short of the Super Bowl man Case Case Keenum was
the quarterback and Kevin Dyson was the one who was
stop short.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
What is it? Seventy points? Is that it? Really? I
don't know. I thought that was more than that. All right,
let's find so oh yeah, I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry,
what is it? I apologize? I didn't think you guys
it was one hundred Yeah it was one hundred point. Yeah,
you were very old, We were very loud, very Okay, Kelly,
do you want Star Wars or forty two Star Wars? Okay? Uh.
Speaker 4 (49:35):
These athletes have all won an All Star Game or
Pro Bowl MVP for forty five segments. Begin star on
the Golden State Warriors right now. Yes, he is the
quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
Right now. He was.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
He was a quarterback for the Browns before he's on
the commercials.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
All right.
Speaker 4 (50:01):
Most famous Japanese player before O Tawny.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Yes, this guy was Barry's dad, the home run King,
his dad.
Speaker 4 (50:11):
Yes, this guy was part of the two Towers in Houston,
but not not.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Him, the other one.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
No, all right, this guy was the quarterback after Kurt
Warner on the Rams.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
How many is that? Good job? Good job? Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
It was eighty points eight.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Twenty. All right, here we go, Dave. These athletes all
were number forty two. Are you ready, Dave? All right?
Brooklyn Dodgers number forty two, retired by everybody. Yes, the
closer for the Yankees, the sand Man in the nineties. Yes,
you said it, he did it. Say it. Marion Man,
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the safety for the forty nine ers in the eighties.
He cut off his finger for the forty nine ers. No,
oh my god, he run single. Yeah, it's Ronnie Lot.
We Ronnie Cats. Ronnie Lock got a goal to tack,
and we got a goal in the tack. We won
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It's not just your normal run of the mill home
run derby. No no on on the We gotta crank
it off a couple of notches for the Big Dumper.
Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Benmahler Show.
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I leave this hour from suburban Atlanta Truest Park in Georgia,
and I've not been to Truest Park in Atlanta. I've
talked to people that have been there. They said it's great.
I remember when the Braves were leaving Turner Field going
(02:30):
out to the Burbs and people were like, oh, it's
gonna suck and another. Braves did a good job of that.
By all accounts, I've not heard one bad thing about
that experience that people that have been there love it.
Tommy in Atlanta, who's not allowed to call it show
anymore because he's evil for Conyan Boss does not allow
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him to call while he drives his truck around Atlanta
at night, and he's a fan of the show. I'm
sure he loves it. Everyone loves it. But they was
all Star Monday Night. All Star Monday Night, which means,
for our purposes, the twenty twenty five home run derby
and good bye, mister baseball, see you later.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
I don't know if you watched this or not. It
usually does pretty well in the television ratings, but everything's
watered down. Everything's watered down these days, so maybe not.
But we watched so you would not have to. And
the reason we watched there was nothing else on. If
there had been something else on, we probably would have
watched it, but there really wasn't, so I assume you
(03:33):
know by now that great night for the Seattle Mariners.
Congratulations the Mariners. Now I don't get to the World Series.
They've never been, but this is their event back in
the day. I remember, I'm old enough, I remember Ken
Griffy Jr. Dominating the derby with his hat on backwards.
And now another Mariner legend, the big Dumper, cal Raley
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getting it done. It was a family affairy and his
daddy had out there. Cal Raley the first catcher ever
to win the All Star Home Run Derby. Holy Mike
Piazza and Pud Rodriguez and all other catchers have gone
years gone by, as cal Raley outlasted the player that
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many thought was going to win this from Tampa Bay,
Junior cam and Aro. Good name, and he's got big
things ahead once he leaves Tampa Bay and goes to
a different team. But the final round of the home
Run Derby as cal Ray hit not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, nine, six, eighteen dingers
for cal Raley and cam and Aro had fifteen, and
(04:39):
so he'll have to center for a smaller check for
Major League Baseball. More on that in a minute, but
cal Rawley does join King Griffy Junior, the Hall of Famer,
the only two Mariners to win that particular event. And
the thing that I love about this as a talk
show host is that this was a rigg deal. There
(05:02):
was controversy, how do you rig the home run derby?
How does one do that? Well, I don't have rigged
is the right word. But cal Raley was almost eliminated,
should have, could have, would have been eliminated in the
very first round of the derby. He would have been
eliminated by the Athletics Brent Rooker. Now let me explain
(05:25):
if you did not watch and you have not been
paying attention here. So at the end of round one,
cal Raley and Brent Rooker from West Sacramento's A's, not
just Sacramento's West Sacramento, so they the same amount of
home runs. They were tied with seventeen home runs. However,
Major League Baseball said, well the tiebreaker, the tiebreaker goes
(05:48):
to cal Raley by the slimmest of slim margins, by
the hair on my chinny chin chin, and I'm not kitting.
Major League Baseball claimed that the longest home run by
cal Dolly traveled four hundred and seventy point six y
one feet. They said that Brent Rooker of the A's
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his longest home rent went four hundred and seventy feet
point five to three. I'm not making any of this up.
I am not I'm not making this up. So let
us discuss the question do you buy the conspiracy theories
that have popped up on the interweb that Major League
Baseball took care of cal Raleigh to make sure that
(06:32):
he was not eliminated in the first round of the
home run derby? Did the deep state of Major League
Baseball pull some shenanigans to help push cal Raleigh along?
So on this one, I've got quantum physics, slum Dog Millionaire,
and sasquatch, and we will combine all of these things together,
(06:53):
and we are going to make a hot pastami samiche
and now now cold pastrami sandwich, a hot pastrami same wwich.
I'm on a Hogi roll. That is what we're gonna make.
So a to answer the question do you buy into
the conspiracy? Now, I would assume that you listen occasionally
show and you know that I am selective. I do
not totally dismiss conspiracy. I don't I have a collection
(07:15):
as alf the alien opinter can prove of tinfoil hats.
In fact, I have been immortalized on the Internet for
my tinfoil hat love on this one. I'm in. I
am absolutely in in, in, in in all right, So
let me let me go through this. I'm nodding my head. Yes,
you can't see me because it's trading. If you can,
(07:36):
you're a stalker. I'm calling the cops. So guilty as charged,
Guilty as charged of this. In a same world, the
world that I like to think that I'm part of,
you would think, if there's a tie, what do you do?
What do you do? You go to a swing off?
That's what you do. Two hitters tied swing off And
(07:58):
that was originally See this is the thing that buys
into the conspiracy. If you were watching the broadcast originally,
who's the guy with the hair piece? Karl Ravage, Karl Raviitch.
He was on TV there Sanna. He thought there was
gonna be a swing off on the TV broadcast. They
were talking about a swing off. Then the plot thickened.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Do do do Do Do doo? They changed their story.
Big brother got involved. Yep, they changed their story. Baseball
decided they were gonna get cute kutzy. They got Kiltie.
They pulled out the stat.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Cast ruler cal Raley advances because of the nerds makes
you wonder. Right now, I'm not saying for sure that
Major League Baseball rigged the home run derby because I
don't want to get sued. However, the evidence is there.
You can decide for yourself whether or not the home
run derby was rigged like a slot in Vegas back
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when the mob ran Vegas and they didn't have resort
fees and charged for parking, and it was a great
down back in the day. However, here's the thing. When
you're telling me, you're telling me that cal Raleigh squeaked
past Brent rooker by, let me check the math on this.
Zero point zero eight feet less than an inch. Now,
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I know that every inch matters, I've heard that before.
But less than an inch let me repeat that for
those in the back of the room that are a
little intoxicated. Less than an inch does that not raise
an eyebrow? It does for me. It does for me,
it it does. We're talking about baseball. This is not
supposed to be quantum physics. I know the nerds at
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Baseball got a chubby that they got to decide this
based on the stat cast allegedly, So we're measuring moonshots
right to the moon. We're measuring this and it comes
down to the width of the width of a NAT's
eyelash decides who advances in Round one of the Home
Run Derby and the conspiracy part of it when you
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toss in. Originally on the television broadcast, they assumed there
would be a swing off, they said on the broadcast.
And so here we are with the bigger name player.
We can all agree on that, every man, woman and
SHOWI can agree the bigger name player in this between
Brent Rooker and cal Rawley is cal Raley. Cal Rawley's
not gonna win the MVP, but he's having an MVP season,
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switch hitting catcher, great nickname, the big Dumper. What's not
to like? Right? He's in the MVP ways with Aaron
Judge and he advances to the second round. Originally, you know,
it was what do you advance? He advances, He ends
up going on and winning the Home Run Derby crown
by a razor thin march. We are talking again. Less
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than a ninch, Okay, less than ninch like a paper
cut is what we're talking about here, and that ended
up being the thing that descended it. And so all
things being equal, if we agree this is a television show. Okay,
it's a TV show, And the story is cal Raley
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that this is his magical career year. He's put it
all together. He'll never play as good as this for Seattle,
and this is his career here. You don't have two
career years, you have one career year. So that that's
the case. And then you look at Brent Rooker, who's
also a good player, and he's had solid numbers. He's
got a nice contract, making a lot of money. But
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the baseball mantra is anybody advances not wearing an Athletics jersey.
Do you understand the Athletics are the shame of the
family of Major League Baseball. They're an embarrassment. Okay, they
play in a minor league ballpark in a town that
baseball is so embarrassed about. They won't even say the name.
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That's how little major League Baseball thinks of Sacramento. They're
so shamed by Sacramento. It is such a wart on
their ass that they will not say Sacramento Athletics. You're
not allowed to say it. They're just the Athletics. But
where do they play? They're just athletics. It's so shameful,
And so is it beyond the realm of possibility that
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Major League Baseball said, I know nobody will question it.
Nobody ever questions the stat cast numbers. Ever, so you've
got the ugly redheaded step children in the athletics. Brent
Rooker plays for them, who are baseball orphans until eventually
they get to get to Vegas. And so I'm not
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gonna hear it say Seattle is a mecca of baseball.
We like to use the line that came from Cowboy
coach Jimmy Johnson back in the day where he famously
said of Seattle, it's southern Alaska when he had to
go up there for an NFC championship game. However, side
by sidne if you put Cal Raleigh and Brent Rooker
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side by side, right, you put them side by side,
Cal Rawley's like Taylor Swift. Okay, It's just that's the
that's the case there. So that's where we are now.
The other thing, and this has been going on for
a little bit, but we were reminded of what we
forget about it once the derby comes and goes. But
where are you at on Major League Baseball handing Cal Raley,
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the winner of the home run derby a one million
dollar cartoon side chick, and they went the winner of
the home run derby won one million dollars in this
case cal Raleigh, So where are you at on that?
They also add the championship belt and the chain which
yet to tell you, cal Raley didn't look that cool
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with the with the chain, of they were hoping for cool,
they didn't. Cal Raley didn't look that cool anyway. So
this is the million dollar prize from Major League Baseball.
This is the people over there in New York who
run Major League Baseball, who think they are marketing geniuses.
Yet again, Hey, you know what, at NBA they give
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out more money for the dunk contest. Why don't we
take a page out of their playbook? And then you
got the wrestling people seem to like that a lot.
They have the belt and people like bling bling. So
let's put a chain. We'll have a big thing there,
and that'll be the way we do it. We'll get
we're gonna make that derby cool again. We're gonna make
the home run derby cool again. So get the bags
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of dog, get the jewelry out, and it's on put
some fireworks in there for the home run Derby, give
out some oversized gloves to fans, and we're in. So
we're at the point now in the story where you
now need to bribe players to get them to take
part in the All Star Games stivities. So again, it's
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just baseball trying to be like basketball. They're trying to
be cool. They're not cool. Baseball is never cool. I
like baseball, but they're never cool. It can be really
cool as a baseball player and trying to be a
little flashy with the jewelry, trying to get that in there.
And but the thing about this is, and maybe I'm
wrong on this, you can correct me if i am,
I'll give it the number a little bit. But it's
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like Major League Baseball selling the Home Run Derby as
slum dog millionaire, like giving the illusion this is it's
gonna be a rags to riches story. Like in their head,
the marketing people at Major the Baseball are like, yeah, listen,
somebody who's like on a rookie contract is gonna win
the derby and they're gonna make more money for winning
the derby than they make playing for whatever team they
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play for. Now, spoiler alert. It did not work. It
did not work, and it wouldn't have worked anyway. Like
if somebody they thought was going to win, one of
these guys on the rookie contract would have won, it
still would not have worked. Right. The rags to riches
think that doesn't work. Now, I'm old enough. When I
was a kid, there were still baseball players that got
jobs in the offseason selling cars or I don't think
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they cleaned toilets, but they had jobs in the offseason,
some of them did. But now everyone's loaded. Everyone's rich
that plays baseball. There's no poor people that play Major
League Baseball doesn't exist, right, do you know the minimum
salary in Major League Baseball this season is seven hundred
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and sixty thousand dollars. If I knew somebody that made
seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars, I'd say, holy crap,
what's it like to be rich? My god? And so
baseball's so out of touch. They're so obtuse to people
at marketing in Major League Baseball, Like did they really
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think that Joe Schmoe sitting on their ass eating eating
bond bonds, watching the home run derby on their sofa
was gonna think, well, I really feel good. This rags
rich's story. Here is a poor, helpless baseball player only
making seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars, and now they
got a million dollars. And of course it backfired. It
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was ruled because cal ralegh let me check my notes here,
seventeen and a half million dollar salary, one hundred million
dollar contract, and he won the home run derby. Yeah,
so if I just gave the check to his younger
brothers said here go buy some stock, buy some stock
with dividends, knock yourself out, all right, now, last word,
all right, last word, So cal Raley, big win there,
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big win. Now this has created I already got a
couple of emails from our friends that listen to the
Great Pacific Northwest here, because there's nothing quite like a
Mariner fan. Now, you might not know Marin fans because
you might live far away from Seattle with the Marina
fan is already pacing around their apartment, biting their nails,
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wondering whether or not yes, cal Raley is going to
now start sucking and ride the vomit comment. You know, Robbie,
The Mariner fans freaking out Oh my god, he swung
for the fences. He's gonna fit the Jinks. What about
the Jenks, the so called Derby Jinks? Right, that that's
a thing people now spoke Mariner fans. Oh my god,
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we can't have nice things. Cal Rawley's gonna blow because
of the Derby Jinks. So thumbs up, thumbs down. Should
Mariner fans be paranoid about cal Raley going into slump
City because of the home run Derby jinks? So I'm
going thumbs down on this. I'm gonna go thumbs down
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on this. Now. This is an old wisetail that has
been passed down from previous generations about the Home Run Derby,
And the theory is that the players that participate in
the Home Run Derby the All Star slugfest, right, the
people that are out there, they come back cursed that
they have home run PTSD, and it just messes with
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their mind. The swings are in share and their timing
is off, and their stans go down, down, down, down down.
That's how it goes. But let me help my brothers
and sisters in the great Pacific Northwest. Here I will
put on my shrink cap. I will be Benny the
shrink and I will help you out. I'm gonna do it.
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I'm gonna do I'm gonna cut through the psychobabble. If
you take a deep breath, you can do it. You
take take a deep breath. Uh, you put the anti
acids down, put the bottle there. You will stop buying
the Hogwatch, just stop. Uh. The jinx is about as
real as next time you go out to Safego Field, Sasquatch,
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an actual Sasquatch throws out the first pitch at America Game.
There's a better chance of Sasquatch. Hey, I'm not talking
about it a mascot. I'm talking about the real Sasquatch
coming out Bigfoot throwing out the first pit. There's a
better chance of that right now. I get it. People
love a good story, right, story the greatest Everyone we
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learned from stories. We all learn from stories. It doesn't
matter where you come from. But the idea that the derby,
that the MLB home run derby is going to screw
up cal Raley so much that he's going to be terrible.
And I know why this has been the thing because
there were players years ago that had bad second half. Right,
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But the correlation ain't causation on this one, and the
numbers back it up. The actual data. Now you go,
we have a long home run Derby history year, and
not just some internet chatter, but actual data has shown
there's no consistent drop off in performance by those that
are in the home run Derby. Now, are there players
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that go into a prolonged slump? Yes, there are, absolutely.
There's others though, like Peter Alonzo, a regular in the
home Run Derby, wasn't in this year, or Aaron Judge
who keep monster mushing even though they were in the
homerun Derby. So it's essentially a coin flip. It's a
coin flip. And if the big dumper comes out and
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takes a dump for the Seattle Mariners there on the
field in late July and August and all that stuff,
it's not because of some mythical Derby voodoo. It's not
because of that. It's because baseball is a grime. We
get into those dog days this summer and it's brute.
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to the All Star home run. Derby goes to the
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big dumper cal Raley not without controversy. He got out
of the first round based on a NERD measurement, a
NERD measurement, a NERD measurement, and he advanced to the
second round by less than an inch. It's all about
the AI. That was an AI measurement. You okay with that,
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You're good with that. Why not just have him decide
it hit a hit, a home run, have a one off.
But they didn't do it, so we'll change it up
this hour. And college football, what are you talking about?
You told me July. Why you're talking about dollege, footbalu loser.
It's the rare, inappropriate, rare and appropriate mal monologue on
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college football. We have a humdinger of a developing story.
Not that unpredictablely developing story, but a hum dinger nonetheless.
So former Crimson Tide quarterback by the name of Greg McElroy,
can you say game manager? I knew you could. So
Greg McElroy has started a bit of a wildfire in
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the Southeastern Conferences Southern Fried football. If you have not
heard yet, you're about to hear the rest of the story.
So Greg McElroy said that he has heard, always loved
when somebody says I heard through the grapevine. So he
has heard from a quote person very much in the know, person,
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very much in the know, that his former coach, Nick Saban,
is not done yet.
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Do do do yep. Now Nick Saban, now he famously
quit Alabama couldn't handle the changing landscape and college football,
so he said no Moss Nick Saban and ran off
to the boob tube to put makeup on and act
like a fool. So Nick Saban, who quit last year,
he was on college game Day and he was the guy.
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When he started talking, you took a nap, and he
was not not at the SEC network, the propaganda arm
of the Southeastern Conference panel of analysts at the Southeastern
Conference Media Day event this year which has been taking place,
so he wasn't there. Now. Greg McElroy, his former quarterback,
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pointed out that it was notable. It was notable. The
person that gave him this information was notable. So who's notable?
What makes someone notable? And said they Saban is not
necessarily done coaching. In fact, said the person was adamant,
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adamant that Nick Saban would return to the sideline. So
let us discuss the question for the esteem panel, which
you're part of. The question is what are the chances
what are the chances that the old Alabama football coach
Nick Saban returns to the sidelines. So I've got Wall Street, Wikipedia,
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and original Cup of Noodles, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
some chicken soup for the soul. Not just chicken soup,
but chicken soup for the soul. So number, I said number.
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So I'm gonna set the Malor Sportsbook odds on this
at plus one fifty. I'm sending the odds at plus
one fifty. So if you're not good with math, that
implies a forty percent chance that we activate Saban. Watch
Saban watch activad. That's right. I know this big, big news,
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big news. So we think that's actually pretty good forty
percent if you look at all the different variables involving
Nick Saban, and he's gonna turn seventy four on Halloween. Swoocky. Now,
as a rule of thumb, the R word retirement, which
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again this is kind of a flimsy retirement college football
and just sports in general. I learned it at an
early age. I used to be a big boxing fan
and I as see, I'm retired. That's it. In really
any form of entertainment, whether it's like how many bands
have retired and said this is the last tour because
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they got to sell tickets, and then they take a
year off or two, and then they come back and
they go on tour again and they say, now this
is really the last tour. This is it. The same
thing happens in sports, right, It's a coach who's been good,
who steps aside and says I ain't coming back. That's it.
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It's about as final as a person dying in a
soap opera. You know those soap opera desks, Well, all
of a sudden they show up, you know, a couple
of episodes later, well, and one minute the villain has
exited stage left, see you later, And the next the
villain returns right sipping gatorade in this case, and they're
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calling blitzes on the sidelines with a scowl on their face.
And Nick Saban, I know he won some kind of award,
but if you watch them on television, pretty bad at television, right, No,
no entertainment value by Nick Saban, just a hard oh
on television. I don't know anyone that thought Saban was
good at TV other than those that are sucking the
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toes of Nick Saban. Some of those people liked him,
but for people that are just looking to get entertained,
Nick Saban not very entertaining. So he was bad at television.
But he got the job because he had the resume.
And that's how that works. You get those jobs because
of your resume, and it's who you know and all
that stuff, and people get all excited because your resume
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and you know, speaking riddles and coach speak and all
that gibberish and all that nonsense. Now ask yourself, ask
yourself this question, what does a football lifer coaching football?
Since he was a young lad. What does he do
when the spotlight dims? Like, what do you do? You
go out and garden the home and garden action in there.
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You play a little church bingo on a Friday night,
try to win big money, big money, big money. Yeah, golf,
What are you fink? Fish? Is that what you did?
You go fishing in a lake somewhere? Yeah. Nick Saban
about his version of fishing is really in some five
star recruit and pantsing a rival. That's his move. Now
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this story is bouncing around, bounce bounce, bounce, bounce by
and it's it's going all over the echo chamber, kind
of like a pinball machine. The echo chambers gets in
there and starts bouncing all over the place, and there's
some he hits some buzzer. You win like a couple
extra points on that. And so I imagine that the whispers,
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which do have some credibility because it's one of Saban's
former players. It was one of his former quarterbacks that's
tossing that out into the to the ether. Who's saying that?
But you imagine just that alone, just the mere speculation
behind closed doors, not on the record, but off the record.
You have athletic directors and big time boosters at down
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in the luck football programs or even those that think
they're not down on the luck. You know, from East
Lansling to College station and everywhere in between. Son, Wait
a minute, you're saying there's a chance. You're saying there's
a chance there. Nick Saban's not dead. He's just bored.
He's just bored. And if you want to get technical,
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Nick Saban did not take retirement. They retire. He took
a TV job. He went on hiatus, is what he did.
And in many ways he escaped. And so that's the
part of the story where you're like, well, Nick Saban
innerly retire. He just was tired of the bull crap.
You get to a certain age, whatever your job is.
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I've learned this from my older relatives when I was younger.
You just get to a point in life where you
just tired of the bull crap. You're tired of people
not doing their job. You're tired of people you know,
not doing the things they're supposed to do, and you're
tire the rules to get put in there, and you
just like shut it down. And so Nick Saban slipped
through the back door of college football he just went
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to television, and I didn't want to be part of it.
He did not want to be part of what was
going on the nil. No, Nick Saban liked when he
was the guy that was given out money, and he
was he was the one handing out envelopes with cash.
That's what he liked. He didn't like when everyone's doing it.
And the transfer portal, what is wrong with you? The
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transfer portal? Have you lost your bloody mind? My god?
Transfer port and revenue sharing? What is that? Nonsense? Nonsense?
Nick Saban said. So Saban saw what was happening, this
metamorphosis as college turning into some kind of Wall Street
like internship thing mixed in with some other crap. And
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so they' say, hey, I'm a Septutioninearian, I'm out, I'm out.
As we turned the page to page through here, where
are there some of the college landing spots? Let me
kind of hold your hand walk you through this. So
where are some of the college landing spots for Nick Saban?
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If Nick Saban were to come back in the multiverse,
so Saban he can have any job that he wants.
Can we agree on that? To any job that Saban
wants outside of like maybe three, there's maybe three jobs
Saban can't have. But outside of that, any job he wants,
he's got the Q score, he's got the awards. On
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his Wikipedia page, there's a lot of chess candy, a
lot of chess candy there. And so now I don't
buy that he's necessarily going back to college football. That's
not the play here. That's not the play. However, for
the purposes of this malad monologue, to engage in this
hyper hypothetical conversation, and we will embrace the reality that
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in the multiverse, there is a dement where Nick Saban
does return to college football that he decides I had
my little temper tantrum, I had my conniption fit, I
had my hissy fit, and I want back in. So
if Saban did return, there's only two conferences he can
go back to. You've got the varsity and the junior varsity,
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the varsity of the Big Ten and the Southeastern Conference.
The junior varsity is everyone else. It's everyone else. So
you've got either Southeastern Conference or the Big Ten. And
do not discount Nick Saban walking right back into Tuscaloosa
and saying, hey, I want my old gigback, or going
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up to Batol Rouge, Louisiana and saying, hey, I used
to be here. I wouldn't mind coming back. I know
you hired Brian Kelly, but I want back. Or let's
go back to Michigan and I want to make East
Lancing great again and go back to East Lansing and
all that good. You can always sell if you're Nick
Saban on unfinished business at any of those schools, he
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can say, listen, I won at Alabama, I had some success.
I did win at LSU, but I didn't win enough.
And I had Michigan State. I did not get to
the peak of my superpowers that came later, So you
can sell that. And it's obviously not about the money
because he's loaded. Have you seen the photos of Nick
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Saban's home, and he's got multiple homes. But the guy's
absolutely stacked. He's got enough dough to live the life
of Riley and for multiple reincarnations of Nick Saban for
the rest of his days and then days after that.
Now the NFL is much more likely. No, it's not,
he's too old. I'll tell you why. I believe the
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NFL is more likely for Nick Saban, because Saban sucked
at a time you cannot suck with the Dolphins. And
we were on these microphones at Fox Sports Radio when
that was going on, and it was a major blot
and remains a major blot on the resume of Nick Saban.
Not to mention the fact when the rumors were he
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was going to go coach at Alabama, and Saban lied
to the media in Miami about taking the job at
Alabama while the private plane was warming up at the
airport to take him to Alabama to sign the paperwork
to become the coach of the Crimson Tide. So the
NFL chewed up Nick Saban, there's no other way to say.
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It couldn't handle it, made bad decisions with personnel, and
of course he spent all of his years at Alabama.
Whenever the NFL comes up, he always blames the training
staff in Miami. He never takes accountability that he was
a failed NFL coach. Doesn't do it. He always well,
I wanted Drew Brees and I couldn't get Drew Brees,
and so that's why I had to settle for Dante Culpepper,
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and he sucked. And it's not my coaching and anything.
And I didn't pick the wrong players. It's the training
staff there in Miami. That's the reason I wasn't good.
But he ran out of Miami. He ran out of
Miami like the building was on fire. You cannot wait
to get out of there. And that relationship with the
Dolphins back in the early part of the two thousands, right,
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he left there and it was like quicker than somebody
finishing a Netflix night of binge watching. I mean, he's gone,
I'm out see you later. And two seasons, two seasons,
I believe Nick Saban lasted if I remember correctly, with
the Dolphins, and then he went back to college and
never looked back. He only talked about it every once
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in a while. Somebody would bring it up and he'd
he'd come up with his normal excuses and said, well,
it was not my fault. Ain't my fault. That guy's
the problem, right, And so going back to the NFL would,
as the intellectuals like to say, close the circle. So
final point, which NFL job makes the most sense for
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Nick Saban? If my hypothesis is correct, that the NFL
would be the place to go for Nick Saban, because
that is the one flaw that is the turd in
the punch bowl for Nick Saban. So which NFL job?
So you look at Saban here the shopping list. What's
on Nick Saban's shopping list? He wants to buy the groceries.
He wants the right chessboard. He wants that chessboard to
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be perfectly set off, the right piece is in place, right,
everything lined up in a row, pre assemble. He does
not want to go to Ikea and have to build
the thing by himself. Does not want that. Nobody wants
that right, Nobody wants that. So think of it like
one of those NFL jobs. That's like the original cup
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of noodles. You just add water. That's it. Just add water,
warming up a little bit. You're in good shape. An
established quarterback is a must. An established quarterback is a must.
Gotta have it. So by the process of elimination for
Nick Saban, there's one job that is obvious for Nick
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Saban in the NFL. You ready for it? You figured
it out. Here we go, Buffalo, Here we go Buffalo.
Who says no, the Buffalo Bills have just entered the chat.
Let me make my elevator pitch. Why if Nick Saban
does come back. The Buffalo bills make the most sense.
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Here's why. All right, now, I know for some of
you it sounds like bananas. Well, that's why the guy's
doing the overnight show. Let me explain. It would be
like if you were to go into a bar in
Rochester and see George Clooney working as a bartender. That
makes those of why would he go to Rochester? Why
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would Nick Saban go to Buffalo? Let me make my case.
Saban has never been a guy that needs La or
New York. He does not need that. He's from the
old he doesn't need that crap. That's not what he is, right,
and he mostly coached in relatively small college towns Tuscaloosa
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where the biggest man in Tuscaloos is Van the one
legged bamamn So Tuscaloosa and East Lansing, Michigan, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Those are the places. So you've got that. Then you
look at the bills and whether you think Nick Saban's
in line for that job or not, we can all
come to the conclusion that Sean McDermott is not lot
(40:32):
long for the bills. He's on the endangered species list
for coaches. The Bills have been hovering close to being
a really good team, and they always find a new
way to screw it up. And a lot of it
is the decision making by Sean McDermott and his decisions
on the sidelines. Not all, but a lot. So Sean
mcdermot's on the hot seat. Buffalo has an NFL MVP quarterback,
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Josh Allen. They check that box. What's in the box?
They checked the box, so they've got that and they've
been just inches away like Brent Rooker was in the
home run derby with Cal Rawley, just an inch one,
just an inch away from the from greatness and the
downside obviously, listen, the Lake Effect blizzards are no joke,
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right the the amount of snow that they get at
that stadium is insane. It makes Siberia look like a
day at the riviera right when you're when you're watching
these games and there's a it's like a snow globe
when they're playing these games. So you know, one or
two a year it's it's like a Blizzard snow globe
game and all that stuff, and so, but that actually
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works is an advance. You don't have the distractions you
had in Miami, or you'd have in La or New
York where or Vegas where people actually want to go
out and live their life and party it up. You
don't have to worry about that, right, So Buffalo makes
a lot of sense. Now. The only other possibility, and
I'm sure this we talked about, even though it's not
gonna happened the Dallas Cowboys, because Jerry Jones will find
(42:03):
a way to grab headlines by saying, well, what about
the Cowboys. They don't have a coach, that Schottenheimer guy.
I mean, it's the worst coach in the NFL. What
a joke that higher was total placeholder, higher total seat filler,
And Jerry Jones might wake up on this. I need
some headlines. Let me get the Cowboys in the news
here and uh yeah, I'll start selling next Saban. I'll
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leak that to some of my useful idiots in the
Dallas Cowboy media.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
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Speaker 1 (42:35):
Here we go, here we go smaller? How about that
to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (42:41):
This is one big fent gets grilled.
Speaker 4 (42:44):
Cool TMZ caught up with Randy Moss over the weekend,
and Mass said that he thinks Justin Jefferson is on
pace to be arguably the greatest ever. Ben, do you
think goat status isn't reach for Jefferson?
Speaker 1 (42:55):
Well, that shows you. Randy Moss, first of all, is
grown up. Right. The old Randy Moss was, are you
know bleeping kidding me? I'm Randy eff and Moss. I'm
the greatest of all time. But now Randy's older. R
He had some health problems, so now he's like, no,
Justin Jefferson has a chance. He is weasel turn now
in terms of Viking history. All Justin Jefferson has to
do is be the top wide receiver on a Super
Bowl winning Viking team and he zooms past Randy Moss.
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Does he have a chance, Sure, but he's got to
stay healthy, gotta have longevity, that whole thing. That's the problem.
Speaker 4 (43:21):
Next, suddenly, the Red Sox are on fire heading into
the All Star break. They're on a ten game win
streak and just three games behind the division leading Blue Jays.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
They're on a burner. Do you think they will be
buyers at the deadline? The Red Sox should always be
buyers at the deadline. You play in Boston. Hello, you
play in Boston. And ever since they traded Rafael Devers,
it's almost like he was a tumor for that team.
They got rid of the tumor and the Red Sox
have taken off. It also helps if they played the
Rockies and the White Sox in this stretch of ten
(43:52):
wins and all that, But they look like a real team.
He's young players. Some of these young guys are actually
doing well and we're heading into the dog days. And
if you're in contention and you're a team like the
Boston Red Sox, you go out, you go to market
and you add players they need. I would think another
starting pitching would be the most pressing need for the
Red Sox, just looking from afar at their roster.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
Next, Terry Francona just became the thirteenth manager ever to
reach two thousand career wins. Bruce Bochi is the only
active manager with more ben How high up the list
do you think Francona can climb before calling it a career?
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Right So, Francona right now is thirteenth in wins all time.
He's going to pass Leo de Rocher before the end
of the year and as a shot to pass Walter
Alston like he's definitely he's eight behind Leo de Rocher,
forty behind Walter Allston, but realistically tenth where Joe McCarthy
is or Bucky Harris at number nine. He can finish
(44:44):
number nine. Coop number nine? How did we do you pass?
This edition?
Speaker 3 (44:48):
There is not so what punny on that Bart Putty
on that Bart I won the game?
Speaker 1 (44:54):
Blind Scott I won the game.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
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Speaker 1 (45:19):
Welcome into our contestants. We have any meenie, miney moe.
We have Dave in Cincinnati. What's going on? Dave? Welcome?
What man? Dave? You tell me?
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Dave?
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Just get ready for work?
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Right?
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To win this game? All right? Who do you want
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You know I need you?
Speaker 4 (45:38):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (45:39):
All right, We're in it to win to day we're
in it to win it, and we have Kelly in
the moin Hello, Kelly, Hi, Ben, how's everything going Donut
formerly known as Donut Kelly? Yes, all right, and Kelly, well,
I will be with you. You will be with you,
all right. Coop's excited about this studying Ben, how's that
(46:02):
going for you? I could use a little more work. Okay,
you're studying sports, getting closer though, learning about sports. Okay?
What are the categories here? Coop? All right?
Speaker 4 (46:13):
This is the Harrison Ford edition. He turned eighty three
years old on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
The Categoriana Jones is in his eighties. That's right.
Speaker 4 (46:20):
The categories are Star Wars, The Last Crusade, Water to Wine,
and forty two? Dave, which kategory?
Speaker 1 (46:27):
Would your like? The Crusade? That's to say? All right, man, Kelly,
how about you? I'm sorry?
Speaker 4 (46:35):
Wellard again, Star Wars, Water to Wine, and forty two.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
Water to wine? All right, all right, let's say your category, Coop?
Very nice? All right, Dave? You picked last Crusade. Yes,
these athletes came out of retirement for one last hurrah,
one last moment in the sun. Are you ready, Dave?
All we need the first and last name put forty
(47:01):
five seconds on the clock and we're on our way. Go.
Larry Bird's rival in the NBA in the nineteen eighties.
Greatest boxer of all time. He changed his name in
the middle of the Yes, a favorite tight end of
Tom Brady in the glory days of the Patriots. Yes,
start tight end with the Cowboys. He quit to go
(47:21):
on Monday Night football and everyone almost Yes. Yes, the
minister of defense for the Philadelphia Eagles. He went to
Green Bay because God. Yes, all star second basement for
the Chicago Cubs of the nineteen eighties. Was a Rule
five pick from the Phillies. White guy hit a lot
of home runs at Wrigley Field, all right. Pitcher for
(47:43):
the Negro League. Pitcher went to Major League. His first
name was a was. The first name was a bag.
Would you've gotten that, Dave? His first name was a bag.
First name was a bag. Bag. Yes, Satchel Pagetchel Page.
I was proud of myself.
Speaker 4 (48:00):
That was a good hint, all right. And Ryan Sandberg
was the other one that you missed there.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
He did all right there pretty well?
Speaker 4 (48:07):
All right, Kelly, we have water to wine was our school. Yes,
These athletes were all part of miracle plays. Okay, all right,
forty five seconds on the clock. Kelly at to begin
Giants quarterback brother of Peyton.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Yes, uh.
Speaker 4 (48:24):
This guy was the rival of Magic Johnson in the eighties. Yes,
this guy was the quarterback for the Steelers in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
Terry Bright. Yes uh, this guy he had the miracle catch.
His nickname was to say, hey kid. He died recently.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Willie.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Yes, uh.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
This guy was the quarterback that threw the touchdown pass
to Stefan Diggs during the Minneapolis Miracle.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
Oh the other one, I answered, answering, No, okay, we're.
Speaker 4 (48:56):
Gonna get that. This guy was the Minneapolis miracle. You
had the touch down. He was also stopped one yard
short of the Super Bowl man Case Case Keenum was
the quarterback and Kevin Dyson was the one who was
stop short.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
What is it? Seventy points? Is that it? Really? I
don't know. I thought that was more than that. All right,
let's find so oh yeah, I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry,
what is it? I apologize? I didn't think you guys
it was one hundred Yeah it was one hundred point. Yeah,
you were very old, We were very loud, very Okay, Kelly,
do you want Star Wars or forty two Star Wars? Okay? Uh.
Speaker 4 (49:35):
These athletes have all won an All Star Game or
Pro Bowl MVP for forty five segments. Begin star on
the Golden State Warriors right now. Yes, he is the
quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
Right now. He was.
Speaker 4 (49:56):
He was a quarterback for the Browns before he's on
the commercials.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
All right.
Speaker 4 (50:01):
Most famous Japanese player before O Tawny.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Yes, this guy was Barry's dad, the home run King,
his dad.
Speaker 4 (50:11):
Yes, this guy was part of the two Towers in Houston,
but not not.
Speaker 1 (50:17):
Him, the other one.
Speaker 4 (50:20):
No, all right, this guy was the quarterback after Kurt
Warner on the Rams.
Speaker 1 (50:27):
How many is that? Good job? Good job? Yeah it was.
Speaker 4 (50:32):
It was eighty points eight.
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Twenty. All right, here we go, Dave. These athletes all
were number forty two. Are you ready, Dave? All right?
Brooklyn Dodgers number forty two, retired by everybody. Yes, the
closer for the Yankees, the sand Man in the nineties. Yes,
you said it, he did it. Say it. Marion Man,
(51:00):
the safety for the forty nine ers in the eighties.
He cut off his finger for the forty nine ers. No,
oh my god, he run single. Yeah, it's Ronnie Lot.
We Ronnie Cats. Ronnie Lock got a goal to tack,
and we got a goal in the tack. We won
the game. We got a golden take it all right,
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