July 16, 2025 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about the National League winning the All-Star Game in a "swing-off", the Mavericks emerging as betting favorites to land LeBron James in a trade, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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Man from the All Star festivities in hot Atlanta, the
atl Truest Park out in the suburbs there. That is
where the scene was for the ninety fifth Midsummer Classic,
the Cream of the Crop. We were told from the
National League and the All American League All Stars. They're
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wrangling on a humid night in the South, and it
was on Fox. Did you watch? Were you? Were you
watching Joe Davis and John Smoltz as they were the
Chatterbox the soundtrack to the All Star Game on television?
Maybe not, Maybe you didn't watch it, Perhaps you had
something else to do. I was texting a couple of
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friends of mine during the All Star Game with snarky
comments and they responded, not watching. Mind, these are people
that work in the media, and I'm not watching. So
that kind of defeated the whole purpose of the snarky
messages that I was sending. But it was a historical
night and it ended I assume you know by now
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in a couple hours back. Maybe not though the fighting
the Phils. Kyle Schwarber did not get a hit in
the real portion of the All Star Game, but yet
he wrote his name in the book a Legends as
he was the first person to do something in baseball history.
Kyle Schwarbert three swings, three bombs in the All Star
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Games first ever swing off, not a derby, not a derby,
a swing off, and that gave the National League the lead.
They won four to three in the swing off, so
the official final score is seven to six. The actual
All Star Game traditional Baseball was a six to six tie,
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but Baseball is calling this a seven to six win
for the National League All Stars as the NL blew
a six to nothing lead. It's always nice to see
Dave Roberts mismanage a bullpen in a big game. There
he was for the Dodgers. This is baseball's equivalent. Remember
they announced this a couple of years ago, and we
did monologues about it, then we forgot about it. But
Baseball's equivalent to the penalty kick shootout in soccer. Olay olay,
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olay olay, just like soccer. So games decided by having
three batters that supposedly were selected before the game, three
batters for each team, and each league took three swings,
and if you didn't hit a home run, it was
an out, and you only get three swings, and it
came down to the bitter end. That was agreed to
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back in twenty twenty twos, twenty twenty two, so three
years ago, and I said, we will never have ties again.
We do not want to worry about running out of pitchers,
so we'll just change the way the game is played.
That's what we're gonna do, all right, So let us
discuss we got something new, something new to talk about.
We don't often get new things to talk about, so
we have something new to talk about. The question thumbs
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up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down on
the All Star Game being decided by a swing off?
All right? So I've got Rob Parker, WWE and Amazon,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make the Gabba gool. We're gonna
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make the Gabba goool. So a as far as thumb's
up thumbs down on the All Star swing Off. I
will be not Benny Brightside, but I'm not gonna be
Benny the downer. I am going to go sideways thumb.
I'm going sideways thumb. And here's why. Let me make
my argument for this year. I didn't love the swing Off.
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I didn't. It was fine. I didn't love it. I
hear a lot of people saying, oh, it was the
greatest thing ever. It was like our gasmick. I didn't
have that reaction. I feel like people are overreacting to
what they watched because it's a shiny new object, and
everyone loves the shiny new object. My temperature on this
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is lukewarm. That's where I am. It's like room temperature.
And here's why, when you think about what we actually
watched or listened to if you're blind, the American League
was down by one home run. They needed at least
one home run to tie two to win the final
round of the swing off, not a not a derby
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swing on. The game hinged with everyone watching who stayed
up late because it was laid on the East coast.
Now we're late night people, so for us didn't matter.
But for those people who worked the dread a day shift.
It matters. So somebody named Jonathan Aranda from Tampa Bay
was in the batter's box. The three Swings needed one
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home run to tie, two to win. Who It's never
a good sign when you have to google, just google
it the name of the person who has the All
Star Game on their shoulders and you have no idea.
You didn't even know they were on the team. So
Aranda stepped in and we right off of milk carton
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into the batter's box there for the American League All Stars.
And on the last swing Solwing batter came up short,
hollow ending, hollow ending. You know I'm right. You might
not would admit it, but you know I'm right. It
was a hollow ending. Don't bury the lead, my man
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times too, don't bury the lead. So would it have killed?
Would it have killed Aaron Judge and show Hail Tani
to have taken part in this historical shindig? Would it
have been the worst thing in the world to have
the two biggest stars in baseball take part in the
swing off at the first ever edition in an All
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Star Game? And the answer is yes, it would have
killed both Aaron Judge and Sho hal Tani because they
were not in the building. Okay, you can't do something
if you're out of the building and you're thirty thousand
feet in the air because you're on a plane leaving
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Atlanta or I don't know, it's possible that Otani and
Aaron Judge went down to Magic City with Rob Parker
and were having those lemon pepper wings and having a
grand time because they didn't want to risk out of
an abundance of caution. If Aaron Judge and O'tani had batted,
they might have messed up their swing in the swing off.
Who knows, maybe they would have stepped on a booby
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trap in the batter's box there and suffered spontaneous human combustion.
They would have burned up right there in the batter's box,
and they didn't want that. But they were long gone,
and to those of us that watched the entire game,
you're a bunch of suckers. They were out of there, baby,
they were on vacation, and it gave me vibes. I
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talked about this the other day. The All Star Game
in Milwaukee years ago, over twenty years ago, when it
ended in a tie and that famous shot of then
commissioner Bud Selik that used car salesman with a shrug.
I don't know what to do now, I don't know
what to do. Uh, this was a missed opportunity of
epic proportions, and they're doing damage control major League Baseball.
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They're like, Oh, it's not that big a deal. It's okay.
Oh they are Uh bull crap, right, bull crap, swing
and miss so wing Barra, so wing Barra. Yeah, and
so deserves a big, giant fat fail stamped right across
it that Otani and Judge were not part of this thing.
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The biggest boppers in baseball tapped out to get on
a Delta Airlines flight from the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. Of course,
these guys probably play private. Private is what they do.
So instead we got, Now, there were a couple of
big names in this thing, but we also, let me
check my notes here, we had someone named Kyle Stowers
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of the Marlins and then the aforementioned Jonathan Rand of
the Rays in a swing off. What the damn do? Yes,
such a bad look for baseball, Such a bad look
on a night where this was their night. They had
the whole night, nothing else going on. Nobody watches the WNBA.
This was the only thing going on, and you screwed
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it up. Now, Pete Alonso did not hit he was
supposed to hit. The National League did not need to
have Alonzo hit because they had already won before. Alonzo
was supposed to step in, and Kyle Schwarber's stepping up
and he wins the MVP, and pretty good odds on that.
If you bet on Kyle Swarber. I'm sure there's some
dudes in the Delaware Valley that are smiling right now
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because they had a couple of bucks on Schwarber to
win the MVP. All right now, Page two, So what
did you make of the overall All Star presentation? From
a viewer standpoint? A consumer? You're the consumer? What did
you make of it? So if you tuned in the
truest part for the baseball and you just wanted to
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see the baseball, you just want to see the ball, right,
and that was a showcase of raw talent, that's what
you wanted. That's just what you wanted. You got a
lot more than you're bargained for if that's what you
were planning on. Instead, what you got was what I
would describe as a Broadway production, in this case off Broadway,
because it was in Atlanta, off Broadway, and it looked
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like the people behind baseball thought they had the Tony
Award in the bag for best choreography. And this is
one of the things you can't just let it breathe.
You have to plan everything out. Now, am I ball
humbug guy on this? I don't think I am. Oh, Ben,
you're so negative, Okay, I'm just telling you my experience
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watching Now. It's possible you had a different experience. But
the Major League Baseball scriptwriters worked overtime to plan all
this out, and what we got the result of that
was an absolute spectacle that felt less like a game
for the balance of the game and more like some
kind of reality TV episode desperate for quote moments, clothes quote.
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I just got that. The thing is like they were.
These were not organic moments, but that's what they wanted, right.
They were more concerned about going viral, becoming a trending
topic on social media. Now, for reference, why don't we
start with Clayton Kershaw. He was taken out in the
second inning, the Dodgers left hander who didn't really really
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want to go to the All Star Game. They dragged
him as the Commissioner's pick at age thirty seven. He
was miked up. He played some grab ass like he's
trying to get a podcast there, but he's playing grab
ass with John Smoltz. And then with two outs in
the in the second Dave Roberts bops out of the
dugout there and pulls him out of the game. Now,
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why did Dave Roberts do that with two outs in
that inning? Was it because Kershaw was gas? I think
he had from like twenty pitches? Is that too many?
Is you know he's an old man. No? Was his
arm about to fall off? No? Did he feel a twinge? No,
that did not happen. It was scripted. Hello, it was scripted,
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is what it was. Right, it was time for him
to exit, because that's what baseball wanted, perfectly. Time for
the fans in Atlanta, wee Clayton Kershaw whoo, and he
leaves the field. He tips his cap to the applause,
a standing ovation, a tear jerking momut made for television.
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And that was not the only one, all right, that
was not the only one. Then there was Freddie Freeman,
another Dodger, but always in Atlanta. Brave, right, more brave
than a Dodger, even though he had one of the
great home runs in World Series his history as a Dodger.
But Freddie Freeman, the Dodger first baseman, who's been pretty
terrible the last month. Freddie Freeman a darling of Braves
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teams gone by. So he got the full w Wue treatment.
It's like a Monday night Raw broadcast on a Tuesday,
because before the game, before the All Star Game even started,
you had the TV cameras zooming in on Freddie Freeman,
like right in the dugout or just outside the dug
out there with Ken Rosenthal prodding him about his emotional
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Atlanta homecoming. Oh, it was so emotional. Freeman of course
played along right, It's got a little misty eye there.
Oh Man talked about his glory days with the Atlanta
Braves and he still loves Atlanta and the fans and
really just can't get enough. And then que the violins, right,
just que the violins. The crowd goes wild. Oh my god, Gouse.
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They played in the stadium, so the crowd went wild,
and he was introduced and I could hear the producers
probably on television and a truck whispering. Perfect, we got
the shot. That's fade to the commercial. Fade to the commercial.
Now later in the fourth fitting Freddie Freeman single. He
then took a bow about chickawaw wow. He took a
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little bow. There a curtain call and he was removed.
Freeman was removed for Pete Alonzo with two outs in
the third inning, giving the fans another chance to go
wild and give Freddie Freeman a big ovation. Of course,
everyone ate it up. Made for television moment. Why not?
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Cameras lingered on Freddie Freeman there like they were filming
Titanic the remake. And was any of this spontaneous? Of course?
Not police you know it was not spontaneous. It was choreographed.
It was like a boy band dance routine back in
the day, right, it was choreographed. It was a soap
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opera like production. And Major League Baseball the puppet masters
who go to that board meeting in Manhattan, I how
can we get some Vinyl moments? Shir? What do we
need to do? All right, Let's have Kershaw step out,
take him out early. We'll have Freeman come out early.
We'll do a tribute to Hank Aaron. We'll do that later.
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I mean, there's certain things that were in this thing
that were just done for They were done for the moment, right,
done for the moment. Even the home run derby at
the end, which was not a derby, it was a
swing off. Same concept, right, same concept and all. Now
the last word here, which I think is appropriate. On
the night that Freddy Freddie Freeman left the All Star
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Game early and he was not alone. Right. We talked
about this at the beginning of this monologue that Shoe
Otani and Aaron Judge were Gonzo the biggest stars in
the game left before the game was over because they
had to plane to catch or they had to go
down to Magic City and get those Lemon Pepper chicken
wings Rock Park. So they were gone. And the did
I do that? Yeah, yeah, So the faces of the
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Dodgers and the Yankees there side by side, and they
did a side by side call the challenge leading up
to the All Star Game. And it's not even close
in one area. It's not even close in one area.
Endorsement dollars. Now, I was reading this earlier if you
saw this, but Shoe Oltani is making how much more
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than Aaron Judge per season in endorsements. This is just
based on twenty twenty five endorsement revenue. Otani is making
over ninety million dollars more than Aaron Judge in off
field earnings. So how do you compute that? How does
that compute with you and the amount of money the
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revenue between the discrepancy between Otani and Aaron Judge, So
it's not surprising. In fact, if you go down to Walmart,
you go down to Walmart and you buy my new
book Branding for Dummies, you will find out why there
is such a disparity. Right While Otani and Judge both
have high end companies that they have partnerships with a
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brand Ambassadors, blue chip companies, Hugo, Boss, New Balance, Otani
is in bed with the people over at Epic Games.
There he was a first player ever featured in Fortnite,
first baseball player ever featured in Fortnite, so that was
kind of a big deal. But a Choiltani makes a
hundred million dollars a year from endorsements. Aaron Judge, no,
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I think he'll be okay, but he's at eight million.
So using my computer like brain, that's a ninety two
million dollar gap. And the reason, again, it's in my book.
You can get it at Walmart. It's called Branding for Dummies,
Benny's Branding for Dummies, and it's it's got a global
icon on one side and a domestic boss on the other.
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Advantage global icon. Otani is the yokozuna of merch in Japan.
Now I've not been to Japan, but I have been
told by those that have been there, some of the
people that were part of the Dodger traveling party, that
Otani's ugly mug is on every other building in Tokyo,
that it's all Otani all the time. And so they
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pay big money on that ninety two million dollars a
year gap or ninety two million total. But the gap
is insane, right, Otani, You're getting that kind of money,
getting that kind of money, and you can defer six
hundred and seventy million dollars to avoid paying the People's
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Republic of California taxes. All the other suckers that live
in California have to pay those taxes. But Otani's like, ah,
I'm gonna take that deferred money and I'm out clater
losers I'm gone, so I don't think we need a
bake sale for Aaron Judgy. He does have a three
hundred and sixty million dollar contract and that's separate from
the eight million dollars a year, and so he'll be
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able to handle those hard scrabble streets of the Bronx.
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I know some of you guys are hanging on. You
want to yap about that the All Star Game went
to a swing off while show Heil Tani and Aaron
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Judge made a mad dash. They were like Speedy Gonzalez
trying to get out of there and get the airports,
get the hell out of Atlanta. Very reminiscent of All
Star Games gone by the game came down to it.
It was a tie because the National League All Stars
suck and blew a six run lead, so the al
came back tied it. Kyle Schwarber ended up winning it.
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He was your All Star MVP as he won the
first ever not home run derby swing off, not home
run derby swing off. More on that later, but our
lead this hour is from the Chatterbox. We have a
update update the King malcontent to pro bouncy Ball, making
headlines yet again Lebron James. That's right, Lebron James. So
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feeding the content machine over the Baseball All Star Break
and of course making it all about Lebron, all about Lebron,
just the way he likes it, just the way he
likes it. So the gambling market has checked in this,
They have entered the ring and they have updated, updated
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the odds on this. A new betting favorite has emerged
for Lebron James. And if you didn't see this, and
perhaps you're not a degenerate gambler and you don't keep
track of these things, So the gambling market says, the
new favorite to land Lebron James is you know, no,
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the Dallas Mavericks, Holy Cowboy Boots, Batman. Yeah, the Mavericks
and the new betting favorites to land Lebron James. Of course,
everything is bigger in Texas. Dallas listed at plus one
twenty five. The Miami Heat are number two behind behind
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the Mavericks, followed by the Cadavers from Cleveland and the
Golden State Warriors, who are also listed in the Knicks.
So Dallas, which I think, if I'm not mistaken, gave
away the keys to the franchise. They dumped Luca Hukah
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Luca for some stale popcorn, and they are now the
betting favorite for Lebron. It's a small world, after all.
It's a small small world. So let us discuss the
question for the esteem panel. Where do you stand on
the mav Rex as the betting favorite for Lebron James,
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that Dallas is the betting favorite for Lebron? Where do
you stand on that? So I've got Quentin Tarantino, Happy
Place and packaged deal. In this hour of Lebron, We'll
put all these things together and make a giant sized
ego which cannot match as big as we make it
cannot match the ego of Lebron James. So First of all,
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you talk about bizarro world, and I don't think I'm
just bringing a king of hyperbole here. Lebron under this scenario,
and I do believe in the multiverse, But in this
portion of the multiverse, Lebron would rejoin Anthony Davis again,
reunited and it feels so good, and they'd play together
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in Big d this time side by side while Hookah
Luca plays Hollywood Hero and Lebron and Anthony Davis would
go from Taco Tuesday to tex Mex Monday, So no
more Taco Toos, but tex Mex Monday they would go
for now. Unfortunately, the Mexican food is better in La
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than it is in Texas, so that's a downgrade for Lebron.
But it's like watching if you will, Quentin Tarantino and
the remake of The Decision, Where is Jim Gray? Is
there a boys and girls club in Connecticut where Lebron
can pop in and decide where he's going to take
his talents? But imagine if Kyrie gets looped in. Kyrie
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is always hurt, but he's also on the Mavericks, and
if he lands in this if you put Kyrie out
there with Lebron and Anthony Davis. This is like one
big ayahuasca trip and you're going to never never Land
is what you're doing there. It's the headline. Imagine that Lebron,
Kyrie and Anthony Davis side by side, the three headed
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fire breathing dragon. It's like the NBA's version of the
modern rat pack of the NBA and the Mavericks. Now,
I'm old enough to remember when they could not convince
top level players to go to Dallas. They couldn't get him.
They offer him a mistake dinner and a Cuban cigar.
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It didn't matter. And I'm not talking about a Mark
Cuban cigar. I'm talking about a literal Cuban cigar. It
wouldn't matter. And so now they're the darlings of the
Betty market. To get Lebron James the Elder Statesman and
pro bouncy ball. Now, I would say forget the Heat
because Lebron still got his panties in a bunch over
pat Riley and didn't really like Eric Spolstra. Last I checked,
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they're still with the Heat, so I would dismiss them.
I don't see the Warriors. I'm not gonna dismiss Golden state.
But I don't see that. I'd forget about the Knickerbockers.
Lebron's had multiple opportunities to go to Gotham, and he
wants nothing to do with New York City, nothing to
do with that, running from the grind of the Big Apple.
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So forget that possibility. And so you're you're looking around
and what else is going on? Now? I'm just not
feeling the Mavericks. I'm not. And it's I've got the microphone,
I've got the headphones, the tools of ignorance here, So
I'm just not feeling it. I like the storylines, It's
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just not there now. I have my spidy senses tingling
and not in a good way with his story, not
in a good way with his story, Like Ron with
the Mavericks. It just doesn't connect. The jigsaw puzzle piece
to me doesn't fit. Now. Secondly, what makes the most
sense as we psychoanalyze Lebron James, So let me point
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that the I want to get this right out of
the way. We have long said the gambling market is
a pretty good indicator. Generally speaking, it is a solid
indicator of what's going to happen. The reason is they
have some skin in the game, they have financial liability.
At the same time, there are times where the gambling
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market will change some things up because they know they
can get some dumb money and they love dumb money,
and people react. And just by me talking about this
or seeing somewhere on the interweb that the Mavericks are
the betting favorite for Lebron, some of that dumb money,
I better bet on the Mavericks. They're the favorite and
all that stuff. So while it is a touchdoone that
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we use, it's not the old thing that we use then.
And you have to use your own intelligence when you
look at these kind of things. And so regardless, I
just have it sideways on this one. I do now
Lebron he's got a no trade clause. He's one of
two people in the NBA that have a no trade class,
Bradley Beal and Lebron who doesn't belong anyway. So that
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means that he's got the Lakers by the balls, okay,
And if he wants out, it's his call. He'll hand
pick the team and then the Lakers will have to
be the Dallas Mavericks in that trade. They're the ones
that are gonna get bent over and if you know
what I mean, they're gonna have to get nothing, nothing
in return. And so if Lebron wants out, it's going
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to be his call. He's gonna say bye bye and
then step right into the portal. Now for me, And
if I'm putting my money down, I am betting on Cleveland,
the mistake by the Lake. That's where I'm betting by money.
The Calves are the team that makes the most sense.
If Lebron leaves the Lakers, it makes the most sense, right. Good,
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I'm not gonna go great roster. Some people say great roster.
I don't think it's a great roster. I'm gonna say good.
Lebron's heart from Akron, which is not Cleveland, but close enough,
the closest NBA team. Lebron's heart is still there. Now,
what is my evidence? Let me make my evidence here.
So Lebron, he's still interacting, right, he just said We
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talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
Lebron just sent out a congratulatory message on social media
to some Cavalier executives. It's like he's ready. He's like, hey, congratulations,
By the way, can I get the locker next? To
Evan Mobley, by the way, can I get that? Yeah,
he didn't send that on X, but he thought about it.
He's in recent weeks been spotted working out at the
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Cavaliers facility. Hello. Yes, he has worn back in Ohio
a welcome home, a welcome home hat. He's done that.
He's essentially leaving neon breadcrumbs like that old the old game,
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the old the movie tron from back in the day, right,
if you're into nostalgia, He's leaving neon bread crumbs around.
And so the Cavaliers are quietly lurking there at plus
five point fifty on the updated gambling market. And if
you think Lebron does not know, does not know exactly
(31:30):
what he's doing here, and he's just going to drag
this thing out as long as he can, then eventually
he'll he'll hit the button and he's got the code.
He's got the nuclear code. You just have him been
paying attention. And so again, while the Mavericks Wald Mavericks,
maybe the bookies picked, they may be the books pick.
(31:50):
I would not bet the mortgage on any of these teams.
I certain wouldn't better on Dallas. Lebron's bunker is in.
It's in Ohio, not Cleveland as an acrid, but that
is his happy place. That is his happy place, and
that's where the wine flows. And he goes down memory
lane like, oh man, memories are alive. Man, I love
(32:15):
that town. And it's got statues everywhere. Probably there's a
statue there. Why not? All right? Now? Final thought? So,
how would the Lakers end up spinning a Lebron James trade? Like,
how do you end up spinning this? What's the move
if you end up trading Lebron? So you bring in here?
(32:35):
What you do is you bring in Star Jones. You
know Star Jones, Right, she's I think she's still on
Divorce Court. Last night, watched that show a while back.
She was on there, So I'm going to say that
that she's still on there. And you know, thirty minute
episode of Divorce Court and the Lakers come out and say, oh,
we had a great relationship. It was really good, it
was wonderful. We didn't win a championship. We just got
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that Mickey Mouse ring, but we're happy with that. We
pretend that's a real championship from that bogus bubble the
resort in Orlando, So you celebrate that celebrate the good times,
and you thank Lebron and you just say listen, you
tell Star Jones in that divorce court, like many relationships,
he reconcilable differences. That's it. Put that check that box.
(33:17):
And the differences, of course are that Luca is now
the bell of the ball and there's no joy on
skid Row where the Lakers play, right, So it does
get a little dicey. It does get a little bit
dicey because the Lakers have a lot of dead weight.
It's the family business. And that's no one's talking about this.
(33:40):
We're the only ones bringing this up. No one else
is bringing this up. If you get rid of Lebron James,
it has to be a package deal. It's got to
be a package. What do I mean by that? Any
Lebron James trade you have to include Bronnie James. Bronnie
James and Lebron must be traded together. It's like a
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complimentary item when you go to Jack in the Box
and you want to upgrade to a combo meal. Right,
So it's a combo meal. It's like going to Mickey
D's or Harte's or Chick fil at. You want a
combo meal. If you're the Lakers, you have to include
Bronnie Jims. Now, why do you have to include Bronnie James.
(34:23):
It would be malfeasance if you don't include it. Because
Bronnie James he has to exit stage right now. He
might be able to exit stage love, but he's got
to be gone if Lebron's gone. Bronni is only there.
He's a marketing mascot. He's a great tribute to Lebron
and the powers of persuasion. By Lebron James, he gets
(34:47):
to play dress up. It's like make a wish. You
get to be on the Lakers. You're an emotional support
player for Lebron James, your daddy. Congratulations. Right without Lebron,
Without Lebron, Bronnie James is not even sniffing a summer
league opportunity. The guy can't play. It's fascinating that there
are dumb people that think he can play. Right, he'd
(35:11):
be sitting courtside maybe if Lebron bought tickets, if Lebron
didn't pull strings to get him on the Lakers. And
so the statuet reads, Okay, the stat sheet reads with Brownie,
it reads like a witness protection profile like barely. They're
hoping not to be noticed. When you look at the
(35:33):
stats of Bronnie James, there the spawn of bron the
spawn of bron Now, maybe one day Bronnie, I'm not
gonna be completely negative, I'll be Benny bright Side. There
is a possibility in the multiverse that one day Bronnie
James becomes a serviceable rotation guard. Of course that'll be
in Serbia or in Russia or China, but it ain't
(35:55):
gonna be in the NBA. Right right now, he is
a member of the inn Innational International Union of Bricklayers.
It is always a brick house with Bronnie James there.
So cut the cord. If you're gonna get rid of Lebron,
you got to get rid of Bronnie James. And they
can ride off into the sunset together because when Lebron's
out of the NBA, Broni's going to be out of
(36:16):
the NBA. Now, maybe they can do a podcast together,
right to a podcast? Who's Lebron doing a podcast with?
Somebody said, I've not listened to Lebron's podcast. Somebody said
he's doing one with Steve Nash. Does that mean Steve
Nashill replace Jason Kidd as the coach of the Mavericks.
Is that because that's how you do it, right, Lebron?
Whoever's doing the podcast with Lebron, they get to coach Lebron, right.
(36:38):
I mean that's how jj Reddick got the job. He
didn't know he's doing, and he's pretending to be a
Laker coach.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
Wild be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meler Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Like that to the third degree.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
All right, cooler, what do we got?
Speaker 6 (37:00):
It was reported on Monday that breakout forty nine Ers
receiver Juan Jennings wants a new contract from the forty
nine Ers or to be traded. Ben, what's the most
likely outcome here?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Yeah, so they can't pay everyone the Niners obviously, if
they've given out a lot of money, the salary cap
is fugezy. But they've already paid brockberdy Kittle, they've paid
Warner on defense big money. You got Brandon Ayuck recovering.
They have a second year receiver, Ricky Piersol, so Jennings
(37:30):
is replaceable, so he's not gonna. He's not gonna. He's
a one year wonder. If he did it for more
than one year, he was good last year, he stepped
up with guys getting hurt. But he's not someone that
you're going to pay a lot of money too because
he's only done it for one year and you've got
other players next.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
A recent survey of NFL league executives, coaches, and scouts
ranked Baker Mayfield as the tenth best quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
How do you feel about that ranking? It doesn't seem
legit to me, and Bakers played well Tampa. It's a scheme.
He's a scheme guy. He's scheme dependent, and he's he's
been a roller coaster. Baker Mayfield with Cleveland, good rookie year,
a radic up and down injury, sucked in Carolina, Okay
with the Rams for like two games, and then he's
(38:15):
become okay in Tampa. I I just don't trust him,
and he just he still throws a lot of interceptions. Next.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Johnny Manziel said in a recent interview that if nil
had existed back when he was playing at Texas A
and M, he would have been taking a pay cut
to play in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
Yeah, Bennessee, right, Yeah, that's not hyperbole, it's not. I
mean they raised over four hundred million in booster money
for the stadium. Because of Johnny Manziel. He would have
been making twelve million dollars a year at Texas A
and M, which is more than he would have made
as a rookie in the envia. How did we know
you pass?
Speaker 2 (38:50):
That's the way I won.
Speaker 1 (38:52):
I'm a winner for GoGG, I won for God.
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Speaker 5 (39:09):
It's love It Buzz with lir Rain at nine clean
Up Hearts, Gonna Help You, dear Rye, Dear ride to night,
dear Rye to Night.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
Dear Rye.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
Am I the only one who sings that. I absolutely
love it. Sometimes I sing it at home.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Now. This was the temporary open.
Speaker 7 (39:29):
Yes, but I'm just in love with you. Love it,
love it, It's sure, It's sweet, perfect. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
All right, so these are actual questions. You have an
opening statement radio you actually you know it? Do you
love me?
Speaker 8 (39:40):
A good opening statement and it is the summer of love.
Do not forget to take your lady or your man
out on special date nights to the ocean, go have
a corn dog at the fair, take them on a
carnival ride. Oh my gosh, kissing on top of the
ferris wheel is so romanic.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
You know what if you live in Nebraska and go
to the ocean, so you go like the lake? Is
that the movie? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:02):
You know?
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Maybe a fountain, a water fountain.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Fountain, how about it? What a toilet work? Yeah? The days?
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Yeah, but day it's like a stand in front of
it with your pants on. Probably not to my father.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Probably not a good idea. Probably.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Anyways, what we got today, Ben Well.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I thought this was a really interesting question. This is
so this guy, Doug or Douglas, has been a long
time listening to the show. He lives in Mississippi. You
hear me mention his name sometimes. So Douglas says, after
my wife of twenty plus years passed away, I married
her best friend a year later, but I had her
permission before she passed. What's your take on that?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (40:43):
I love this because I also have a best friend, right,
and she had a best friend.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I do send that out on. Somebody has the best
is that the one that came in here.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
And that's Victoria. Sarah lives in Oregon. I've known her
since kindergarten. But her she told me that if she
dies before her husband, that I have to marry her husband.
Speaker 7 (41:03):
I don't even have a choice.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I have to marry that'll be because that's he'll be
helpless without.
Speaker 8 (41:09):
Her, and she doesn't want the kids alone with him, right,
he's the.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Kids alone, want the kids alone with him?
Speaker 7 (41:15):
It will be the new maternal figure. So yeah, no,
we joke about it every time.
Speaker 8 (41:19):
And if he really did do that, you know, usually
you have a good connection with your wife's best friend.
You have a lot of bonding moments, good memories.
Speaker 7 (41:26):
I think it's actually really healthy. I think it's healthy.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
It's very nice of your wife Douglas when she before
she checked out to give you the okay on that
Bobby and Florida right since says how do you get
the the back door to open up? If you if
you keep knocking and it hasn't opened yet? From Bobby there.
Speaker 7 (41:45):
Well, it all starts with a good conversation and.
Speaker 8 (41:48):
A little bit before play, you know, but you know
you got to get them tempted into the idea, So
you got to introduce it in a fun way, and
then they're like, oh, I don't like that.
Speaker 7 (41:59):
You'd be like, but you could like it. Let me
take you to the shop.
Speaker 8 (42:02):
They got dilators, they got all sorts of fun things
that you can use to make it more comfortable, a
lot of products. My my best thing when I was younger,
I actually asked a man who you know, liked that
type of play, what his opinion and what to do.
So really, yeah, pick their curiosity, see what they think.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
The yoda of that exactly third Dog rights in is
my brother's dating a girl who's obsessed with Disneyland. Should
I tell him to break up with her? No, that's
an expensive lorraina. That's an expensive habit. That is a
that you might as well be a drug addict. It's cheaper, Okay,
it's cheaper to buy fentanyland.
Speaker 8 (42:41):
You'd rather have your girlfriend on the streets of Disneyland
than on the streets of downtown.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
I don't know, man, there's some homeless people in Tonetown.
I don't know about that.
Speaker 7 (42:49):
Maybe pass it out in the grass the trees.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
I've been there, yeah, yeah, be careful man.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
But it is a little expensive.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
But you don't little.
Speaker 8 (42:57):
You don't always have to go to with them either.
I'm sure she has friends that can go to Disney.
Speaker 7 (43:02):
You don't have to go.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
With well, like those passes you got to pay every month,
or I say, paying a car payment. It is yeah,
it's very similar. Mike the Leprechaun writes and says, what
would be a good first date, Lorena? For someone dating blind?
Scott says, your options are the Wimbledon Final, Kentucky Derby,
or a day at either Disneyland Universal Studios or a
(43:24):
trip in Mike in New Hampshire's truck.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
Huh interesting options there to be honest, I don't know.
I think I'd want to do something like auditory, you know, yeah,
I go listen to music or something. Yeah, I think
that would be a better experience.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Boston Pops.
Speaker 8 (43:42):
Yeah, I don't want to be responsible for them running
into anything out in the wild, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (43:48):
A little tough. JT. The Wingman writes in Good Questions,
by what happened, all I had to do is complain?
You know what that is, Lorena? Tough love. Tough love
people respond to tough love. They like it this younger
jenner if they can't handle tough anyway. JT. The wing
man rights and says says, I'm a truck driver and
don't work in an office or for a work wife.
(44:08):
Is it okay to have a malor show wife instead? Yes?
Speaker 7 (44:15):
And if you do, make sure you send her lots
and lots and lots of gift packages. Really yes, because
you must treat your wife nice.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Your work wife, yes, radio wife.
Speaker 9 (44:27):
I mean.
Speaker 8 (44:27):
And if your job is driving, we're technically with you
in the car, right, so we are your work.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
We're a voice in your head. Oh, Lorraina. What is these?
Shanean nooy? What is the smallest amount of makeup you
can leave the house wearing? Still for comfortable? Quickly?
Speaker 7 (44:42):
Mascarat?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
That's it. As long as you have that, you're going.
Because I've got that, I'm good to go else. Baby,
that's all just a mass scare. You're fine, that's it.
Speaker 7 (44:50):
And a smile. Gotta always have your smile on.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Oh, of course, yes, smile.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention
everyone and The password.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.
Here's Ben Meler and right to password we go. We
have let's hear any meenie money more. We have Mark
on the North End. Hello, Mark, Welcome, Good morning Ben.
Good to have you Mark. You're going to play password?
Who do you want to partner up with? Mark? All right,
(45:27):
we're in it, Mark in North End. We're gonna win.
Just put a W next to our name right now,
hold on, say Mark out. You're gonna play. And we
have who do we have? See Mikey in the state
of Texas. It's kind of a big state. Hello Mikey, Welcome,
Good morning Sarah. How are you guys going?
Speaker 5 (45:46):
Glad to be on with shoe?
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Thanks to welcome? And where are you at in Texas?
Mikey and Jefferd fifty miles north east, a little north
of Houston. I got you a very cool let's play it.
Who do you want to partner? Have you got Loraina
or cool? Then go with the loop? Okay, coop. The
loop is the pick. And we have a list of
words here. You can see them. You're cheating, don't cheat.
(46:12):
You can see them calling my attorney. All right, let's
see your pick a number. Mark on the north end.
Pick a number one to ten, please, one to ten.
Oh oh, I say, it's not even up. Let's see
on the phones. Let's say all right, there you go, Mark,
What is the word you would like here?
Speaker 5 (46:36):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (46:38):
All right, let's go with UH regulations rule. There you go.
All right, good job, and it's ten to nothing, strong starry,
good guys. Okay, Mikey, you are up with Coop. Pick
a number two to ten, please, two to ten. Let's
(47:00):
go with number ten, number ten? Yeah, alright, like ambient
noise in the background. All right, Mikey, let's go with
Let's go with tremble.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Quake.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
No, now, let's go with he said tremble.
Speaker 10 (47:22):
I'll say cold Shriver. Yeah, wow, Gas nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
You think it's over now, it's probably we got plenty
of it's over. Pick another number, Go ahead, Mark, let's
run up the score. Mark. Pick another number. Mark. Let's
run Mark three, number three. Number. He got that last
one from my cliff, No, I got it from mine.
Let's go. I'm gonna use the mall. The mal remover
will work. I kind of want to use the malume.
(47:53):
You know, we got such a big lead. I don't care.
I'll use the malle maneuver. Here we go, save safety.
Not a chance had has it? No, that's not all right, Sorry, Mikey.
Let's go with her. Let's go with quilt blanket. Yeah,
(48:19):
let's go. We're back. And got it back and he
got it off my clue. He got it off Mike.
Another number, Mike got it off my clue. That was
my clue. He got it off of all right, Ben,
we got it.
Speaker 6 (48:30):
Take another mark number, Mikey, Mike Lee.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
What number? Oh, I'm sorry, number nine, number nine. All right,
let's something Coop needs to do.
Speaker 9 (48:46):
Let's go with let's go with or yeah, rest rest rest, No,
we're out of time.
Speaker 8 (48:58):
And we were loss.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
The word was relaxed. The word was relaxed. I come
too slow. We won, great job Mark on the north end.
You get a golden ticket. Unbelievable. What a win. One
of my greatest wins of all time.
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our lead this hour is don't bear the lead, ma
Man from the All Star festivities in hot Atlanta, the
atl Truest Park out in the suburbs there. That is
where the scene was for the ninety fifth Midsummer Classic,
the Cream of the Crop. We were told from the
National League and the All American League All Stars. They're
(02:13):
wrangling on a humid night in the South, and it
was on Fox. Did you watch? Were you? Were you
watching Joe Davis and John Smoltz as they were the
Chatterbox the soundtrack to the All Star Game on television?
Maybe not, Maybe you didn't watch it, Perhaps you had
something else to do. I was texting a couple of
(02:34):
friends of mine during the All Star Game with snarky
comments and they responded, not watching. Mind, these are people
that work in the media, and I'm not watching. So
that kind of defeated the whole purpose of the snarky
messages that I was sending. But it was a historical
night and it ended I assume you know by now
(02:56):
in a couple hours back. Maybe not though the fighting
the Phils. Kyle Schwarber did not get a hit in
the real portion of the All Star Game, but yet
he wrote his name in the book a Legends as
he was the first person to do something in baseball history.
Kyle Schwarbert three swings, three bombs in the All Star
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Games first ever swing off, not a derby, not a derby,
a swing off, and that gave the National League the lead.
They won four to three in the swing off, so
the official final score is seven to six. The actual
All Star Game traditional Baseball was a six to six tie,
(03:40):
but Baseball is calling this a seven to six win
for the National League All Stars as the NL blew
a six to nothing lead. It's always nice to see
Dave Roberts mismanage a bullpen in a big game. There
he was for the Dodgers. This is baseball's equivalent. Remember
they announced this a couple of years ago, and we
did monologues about it, then we forgot about it. But
Baseball's equivalent to the penalty kick shootout in soccer. Olay olay,
(04:05):
olay olay, just like soccer. So games decided by having
three batters that supposedly were selected before the game, three
batters for each team, and each league took three swings,
and if you didn't hit a home run, it was
an out, and you only get three swings, and it
came down to the bitter end. That was agreed to
(04:26):
back in twenty twenty twos, twenty twenty two, so three
years ago, and I said, we will never have ties again.
We do not want to worry about running out of pitchers,
so we'll just change the way the game is played.
That's what we're gonna do, all right, So let us
discuss we got something new, something new to talk about.
We don't often get new things to talk about, so
we have something new to talk about. The question thumbs
(04:49):
up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down on
the All Star Game being decided by a swing off?
All right? So I've got Rob Parker, WWE and Amazon,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make the Gabba gool. We're gonna
(05:11):
make the Gabba goool. So a as far as thumb's
up thumbs down on the All Star swing Off. I
will be not Benny Brightside, but I'm not gonna be
Benny the downer. I am going to go sideways thumb.
I'm going sideways thumb. And here's why. Let me make
my argument for this year. I didn't love the swing Off.
(05:32):
I didn't. It was fine. I didn't love it. I
hear a lot of people saying, oh, it was the
greatest thing ever. It was like our gasmick. I didn't
have that reaction. I feel like people are overreacting to
what they watched because it's a shiny new object, and
everyone loves the shiny new object. My temperature on this
(05:54):
is lukewarm. That's where I am. It's like room temperature.
And here's why, when you think about what we actually
watched or listened to if you're blind, the American League
was down by one home run. They needed at least
one home run to tie two to win the final
round of the swing off, not a not a derby
(06:16):
swing on. The game hinged with everyone watching who stayed
up late because it was laid on the East coast.
Now we're late night people, so for us didn't matter.
But for those people who worked the dread a day shift.
It matters. So somebody named Jonathan Aranda from Tampa Bay
was in the batter's box. The three Swings needed one
(06:40):
home run to tie, two to win. Who It's never
a good sign when you have to google, just google
it the name of the person who has the All
Star Game on their shoulders and you have no idea.
You didn't even know they were on the team. So
Aranda stepped in and we right off of milk carton
(07:01):
into the batter's box there for the American League All Stars.
And on the last swing Solwing batter came up short,
hollow ending, hollow ending. You know I'm right. You might
not would admit it, but you know I'm right. It
was a hollow ending. Don't bury the lead, my man
(07:21):
times too, don't bury the lead. So would it have killed?
Would it have killed Aaron Judge and show Hail Tani
to have taken part in this historical shindig? Would it
have been the worst thing in the world to have
the two biggest stars in baseball take part in the
swing off at the first ever edition in an All
(07:44):
Star Game? And the answer is yes, it would have
killed both Aaron Judge and Sho hal Tani because they
were not in the building. Okay, you can't do something
if you're out of the building and you're thirty thousand
feet in the air because you're on a plane leaving
(08:04):
Atlanta or I don't know, it's possible that Otani and
Aaron Judge went down to Magic City with Rob Parker
and were having those lemon pepper wings and having a
grand time because they didn't want to risk out of
an abundance of caution. If Aaron Judge and O'tani had batted,
they might have messed up their swing in the swing off.
Who knows, maybe they would have stepped on a booby
(08:26):
trap in the batter's box there and suffered spontaneous human combustion.
They would have burned up right there in the batter's box,
and they didn't want that. But they were long gone,
and to those of us that watched the entire game,
you're a bunch of suckers. They were out of there, baby,
they were on vacation, and it gave me vibes. I
(08:48):
talked about this the other day. The All Star Game
in Milwaukee years ago, over twenty years ago, when it
ended in a tie and that famous shot of then
commissioner Bud Selik that used car salesman with a shrug.
I don't know what to do now, I don't know
what to do. Uh, this was a missed opportunity of
epic proportions, and they're doing damage control major League Baseball.
(09:09):
They're like, Oh, it's not that big a deal. It's okay.
Oh they are Uh bull crap, right, bull crap, swing
and miss so wing Barra, so wing Barra. Yeah, and
so deserves a big, giant fat fail stamped right across
it that Otani and Judge were not part of this thing.
(09:30):
The biggest boppers in baseball tapped out to get on
a Delta Airlines flight from the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. Of course,
these guys probably play private. Private is what they do.
So instead we got, Now, there were a couple of
big names in this thing, but we also, let me
check my notes here, we had someone named Kyle Stowers
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of the Marlins and then the aforementioned Jonathan Rand of
the Rays in a swing off. What the damn do? Yes,
such a bad look for baseball, Such a bad look
on a night where this was their night. They had
the whole night, nothing else going on. Nobody watches the WNBA.
This was the only thing going on, and you screwed
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it up. Now, Pete Alonso did not hit he was
supposed to hit. The National League did not need to
have Alonzo hit because they had already won before. Alonzo
was supposed to step in, and Kyle Schwarber's stepping up
and he wins the MVP, and pretty good odds on that.
If you bet on Kyle Swarber. I'm sure there's some
dudes in the Delaware Valley that are smiling right now
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because they had a couple of bucks on Schwarber to
win the MVP. All right now, Page two, So what
did you make of the overall All Star presentation? From
a viewer standpoint? A consumer? You're the consumer? What did
you make of it? So if you tuned in the
truest part for the baseball and you just wanted to
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see the baseball, you just want to see the ball, right,
and that was a showcase of raw talent, that's what
you wanted. That's just what you wanted. You got a
lot more than you're bargained for if that's what you
were planning on. Instead, what you got was what I
would describe as a Broadway production, in this case off Broadway,
because it was in Atlanta, off Broadway, and it looked
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like the people behind baseball thought they had the Tony
Award in the bag for best choreography. And this is
one of the things you can't just let it breathe.
You have to plan everything out. Now, am I ball
humbug guy on this? I don't think I am. Oh, Ben,
you're so negative, Okay, I'm just telling you my experience
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watching Now. It's possible you had a different experience. But
the Major League Baseball scriptwriters worked overtime to plan all
this out, and what we got the result of that
was an absolute spectacle that felt less like a game
for the balance of the game and more like some
kind of reality TV episode desperate for quote moments, clothes quote.
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I just got that. The thing is like they were.
These were not organic moments, but that's what they wanted, right.
They were more concerned about going viral, becoming a trending
topic on social media. Now, for reference, why don't we
start with Clayton Kershaw. He was taken out in the
second inning, the Dodgers left hander who didn't really really
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want to go to the All Star Game. They dragged
him as the Commissioner's pick at age thirty seven. He
was miked up. He played some grab ass like he's
trying to get a podcast there, but he's playing grab
ass with John Smoltz. And then with two outs in
the in the second Dave Roberts bops out of the
dugout there and pulls him out of the game. Now,
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why did Dave Roberts do that with two outs in
that inning? Was it because Kershaw was gas? I think
he had from like twenty pitches? Is that too many?
Is you know he's an old man. No? Was his
arm about to fall off? No? Did he feel a twinge? No,
that did not happen. It was scripted. Hello, it was scripted,
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is what it was. Right, it was time for him
to exit, because that's what baseball wanted, perfectly. Time for
the fans in Atlanta, wee Clayton Kershaw whoo, and he
leaves the field. He tips his cap to the applause,
a standing ovation, a tear jerking momut made for television.
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And that was not the only one, all right, that
was not the only one. Then there was Freddie Freeman,
another Dodger, but always in Atlanta. Brave, right, more brave
than a Dodger, even though he had one of the
great home runs in World Series his history as a Dodger.
But Freddie Freeman, the Dodger first baseman, who's been pretty
terrible the last month. Freddie Freeman a darling of Braves
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teams gone by. So he got the full w Wue treatment.
It's like a Monday night Raw broadcast on a Tuesday,
because before the game, before the All Star Game even started,
you had the TV cameras zooming in on Freddie Freeman,
like right in the dugout or just outside the dug
out there with Ken Rosenthal prodding him about his emotional
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Atlanta homecoming. Oh, it was so emotional. Freeman of course
played along right, It's got a little misty eye there.
Oh Man talked about his glory days with the Atlanta
Braves and he still loves Atlanta and the fans and
really just can't get enough. And then que the violins, right,
just que the violins. The crowd goes wild. Oh my god, Gouse.
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They played in the stadium, so the crowd went wild,
and he was introduced and I could hear the producers
probably on television and a truck whispering. Perfect, we got
the shot. That's fade to the commercial. Fade to the commercial.
Now later in the fourth fitting Freddie Freeman single. He
then took a bow about chickawaw wow. He took a
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little bow. There a curtain call and he was removed.
Freeman was removed for Pete Alonzo with two outs in
the third inning, giving the fans another chance to go
wild and give Freddie Freeman a big ovation. Of course,
everyone ate it up. Made for television moment. Why not?
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Cameras lingered on Freddie Freeman there like they were filming
Titanic the remake. And was any of this spontaneous? Of course?
Not police you know it was not spontaneous. It was choreographed.
It was like a boy band dance routine back in
the day, right, it was choreographed. It was a soap
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opera like production. And Major League Baseball the puppet masters
who go to that board meeting in Manhattan, I how
can we get some Vinyl moments? Shir? What do we
need to do? All right, Let's have Kershaw step out,
take him out early. We'll have Freeman come out early.
We'll do a tribute to Hank Aaron. We'll do that later.
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I mean, there's certain things that were in this thing
that were just done for They were done for the moment, right,
done for the moment. Even the home run derby at
the end, which was not a derby, it was a
swing off. Same concept, right, same concept and all. Now
the last word here, which I think is appropriate. On
the night that Freddy Freddie Freeman left the All Star
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Game early and he was not alone. Right. We talked
about this at the beginning of this monologue that Shoe
Otani and Aaron Judge were Gonzo the biggest stars in
the game left before the game was over because they
had to plane to catch or they had to go
down to Magic City and get those Lemon Pepper chicken
wings Rock Park. So they were gone. And the did
I do that? Yeah, yeah, So the faces of the
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Dodgers and the Yankees there side by side, and they
did a side by side call the challenge leading up
to the All Star Game. And it's not even close
in one area. It's not even close in one area.
Endorsement dollars. Now, I was reading this earlier if you
saw this, but Shoe Oltani is making how much more
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than Aaron Judge per season in endorsements. This is just
based on twenty twenty five endorsement revenue. Otani is making
over ninety million dollars more than Aaron Judge in off
field earnings. So how do you compute that? How does
that compute with you and the amount of money the
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revenue between the discrepancy between Otani and Aaron Judge, So
it's not surprising. In fact, if you go down to Walmart,
you go down to Walmart and you buy my new
book Branding for Dummies, you will find out why there
is such a disparity. Right While Otani and Judge both
have high end companies that they have partnerships with a
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brand Ambassadors, blue chip companies, Hugo, Boss, New Balance, Otani
is in bed with the people over at Epic Games.
There he was a first player ever featured in Fortnite,
first baseball player ever featured in Fortnite, so that was
kind of a big deal. But a Choiltani makes a
hundred million dollars a year from endorsements. Aaron Judge, no,
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I think he'll be okay, but he's at eight million.
So using my computer like brain, that's a ninety two
million dollar gap. And the reason, again, it's in my book.
You can get it at Walmart. It's called Branding for Dummies,
Benny's Branding for Dummies, and it's it's got a global
icon on one side and a domestic boss on the other.
(18:48):
Advantage global icon. Otani is the yokozuna of merch in Japan.
Now I've not been to Japan, but I have been
told by those that have been there, some of the
people that were part of the Dodger traveling party, that
Otani's ugly mug is on every other building in Tokyo,
that it's all Otani all the time. And so they
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pay big money on that ninety two million dollars a
year gap or ninety two million total. But the gap
is insane, right, Otani, You're getting that kind of money,
getting that kind of money, and you can defer six
hundred and seventy million dollars to avoid paying the People's
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Republic of California taxes. All the other suckers that live
in California have to pay those taxes. But Otani's like, ah,
I'm gonna take that deferred money and I'm out clater
losers I'm gone, so I don't think we need a
bake sale for Aaron Judgy. He does have a three
hundred and sixty million dollar contract and that's separate from
the eight million dollars a year, and so he'll be
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I know some of you guys are hanging on. You
want to yap about that the All Star Game went
to a swing off while show Heil Tani and Aaron
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Judge made a mad dash. They were like Speedy Gonzalez
trying to get out of there and get the airports,
get the hell out of Atlanta. Very reminiscent of All
Star Games gone by the game came down to it.
It was a tie because the National League All Stars
suck and blew a six run lead, so the al
came back tied it. Kyle Schwarber ended up winning it.
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He was your All Star MVP as he won the
first ever not home run derby swing off, not home
run derby swing off. More on that later, but our
lead this hour is from the Chatterbox. We have a
update update the King malcontent to pro bouncy Ball, making
headlines yet again Lebron James. That's right, Lebron James. So
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feeding the content machine over the Baseball All Star Break
and of course making it all about Lebron, all about Lebron,
just the way he likes it, just the way he
likes it. So the gambling market has checked in this,
They have entered the ring and they have updated, updated
(23:05):
the odds on this. A new betting favorite has emerged
for Lebron James. And if you didn't see this, and
perhaps you're not a degenerate gambler and you don't keep
track of these things, So the gambling market says, the
new favorite to land Lebron James is you know, no,
(23:26):
the Dallas Mavericks, Holy Cowboy Boots, Batman. Yeah, the Mavericks
and the new betting favorites to land Lebron James. Of course,
everything is bigger in Texas. Dallas listed at plus one
twenty five. The Miami Heat are number two behind behind
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the Mavericks, followed by the Cadavers from Cleveland and the
Golden State Warriors, who are also listed in the Knicks.
So Dallas, which I think, if I'm not mistaken, gave
away the keys to the franchise. They dumped Luca Hukah
(24:09):
Luca for some stale popcorn, and they are now the
betting favorite for Lebron. It's a small world, after all.
It's a small small world. So let us discuss the
question for the esteem panel. Where do you stand on
the mav Rex as the betting favorite for Lebron James,
(24:31):
that Dallas is the betting favorite for Lebron? Where do
you stand on that? So I've got Quentin Tarantino, Happy
Place and packaged deal. In this hour of Lebron, We'll
put all these things together and make a giant sized
ego which cannot match as big as we make it
cannot match the ego of Lebron James. So First of all,
(24:55):
you talk about bizarro world, and I don't think I'm
just bringing a king of hyperbole here. Lebron under this scenario,
and I do believe in the multiverse, But in this
portion of the multiverse, Lebron would rejoin Anthony Davis again,
reunited and it feels so good, and they'd play together
(25:16):
in Big d this time side by side while Hookah
Luca plays Hollywood Hero and Lebron and Anthony Davis would
go from Taco Tuesday to tex Mex Monday, So no
more Taco Toos, but tex Mex Monday they would go
for now. Unfortunately, the Mexican food is better in La
(25:37):
than it is in Texas, so that's a downgrade for Lebron.
But it's like watching if you will, Quentin Tarantino and
the remake of The Decision, Where is Jim Gray? Is
there a boys and girls club in Connecticut where Lebron
can pop in and decide where he's going to take
his talents? But imagine if Kyrie gets looped in. Kyrie
(25:59):
is always hurt, but he's also on the Mavericks, and
if he lands in this if you put Kyrie out
there with Lebron and Anthony Davis. This is like one
big ayahuasca trip and you're going to never never Land
is what you're doing there. It's the headline. Imagine that Lebron,
Kyrie and Anthony Davis side by side, the three headed
(26:23):
fire breathing dragon. It's like the NBA's version of the
modern rat pack of the NBA and the Mavericks. Now,
I'm old enough to remember when they could not convince
top level players to go to Dallas. They couldn't get him.
They offer him a mistake dinner and a Cuban cigar.
(26:43):
It didn't matter. And I'm not talking about a Mark
Cuban cigar. I'm talking about a literal Cuban cigar. It
wouldn't matter. And so now they're the darlings of the
Betty market. To get Lebron James the Elder Statesman and
pro bouncy ball. Now, I would say forget the Heat
because Lebron still got his panties in a bunch over
pat Riley and didn't really like Eric Spolstra. Last I checked,
(27:07):
they're still with the Heat, so I would dismiss them.
I don't see the Warriors. I'm not gonna dismiss Golden state.
But I don't see that. I'd forget about the Knickerbockers.
Lebron's had multiple opportunities to go to Gotham, and he
wants nothing to do with New York City, nothing to
do with that, running from the grind of the Big Apple.
(27:29):
So forget that possibility. And so you're you're looking around
and what else is going on? Now? I'm just not
feeling the Mavericks. I'm not. And it's I've got the microphone,
I've got the headphones, the tools of ignorance here, So
I'm just not feeling it. I like the storylines, It's
(27:50):
just not there now. I have my spidy senses tingling
and not in a good way with his story, not
in a good way with his story, Like Ron with
the Mavericks. It just doesn't connect. The jigsaw puzzle piece
to me doesn't fit. Now. Secondly, what makes the most
sense as we psychoanalyze Lebron James, So let me point
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that the I want to get this right out of
the way. We have long said the gambling market is
a pretty good indicator. Generally speaking, it is a solid
indicator of what's going to happen. The reason is they
have some skin in the game, they have financial liability.
At the same time, there are times where the gambling
(28:36):
market will change some things up because they know they
can get some dumb money and they love dumb money,
and people react. And just by me talking about this
or seeing somewhere on the interweb that the Mavericks are
the betting favorite for Lebron, some of that dumb money,
I better bet on the Mavericks. They're the favorite and
all that stuff. So while it is a touchdoone that
(28:58):
we use, it's not the old thing that we use then.
And you have to use your own intelligence when you
look at these kind of things. And so regardless, I
just have it sideways on this one. I do now
Lebron he's got a no trade clause. He's one of
two people in the NBA that have a no trade class,
Bradley Beal and Lebron who doesn't belong anyway. So that
(29:21):
means that he's got the Lakers by the balls, okay,
And if he wants out, it's his call. He'll hand
pick the team and then the Lakers will have to
be the Dallas Mavericks in that trade. They're the ones
that are gonna get bent over and if you know
what I mean, they're gonna have to get nothing, nothing
in return. And so if Lebron wants out, it's going
(29:43):
to be his call. He's gonna say bye bye and
then step right into the portal. Now for me, And
if I'm putting my money down, I am betting on Cleveland,
the mistake by the Lake. That's where I'm betting by money.
The Calves are the team that makes the most sense.
If Lebron leaves the Lakers, it makes the most sense, right. Good,
(30:04):
I'm not gonna go great roster. Some people say great roster.
I don't think it's a great roster. I'm gonna say good.
Lebron's heart from Akron, which is not Cleveland, but close enough,
the closest NBA team. Lebron's heart is still there. Now,
what is my evidence? Let me make my evidence here.
So Lebron, he's still interacting, right, he just said We
(30:26):
talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
Lebron just sent out a congratulatory message on social media
to some Cavalier executives. It's like he's ready. He's like, hey, congratulations,
By the way, can I get the locker next? To
Evan Mobley, by the way, can I get that? Yeah,
he didn't send that on X, but he thought about it.
He's in recent weeks been spotted working out at the
(30:48):
Cavaliers facility. Hello. Yes, he has worn back in Ohio
a welcome home, a welcome home hat. He's done that.
He's essentially leaving neon breadcrumbs like that old the old game,
(31:09):
the old the movie tron from back in the day, right,
if you're into nostalgia, He's leaving neon bread crumbs around.
And so the Cavaliers are quietly lurking there at plus
five point fifty on the updated gambling market. And if
you think Lebron does not know, does not know exactly
(31:30):
what he's doing here, and he's just going to drag
this thing out as long as he can, then eventually
he'll he'll hit the button and he's got the code.
He's got the nuclear code. You just have him been
paying attention. And so again, while the Mavericks Wald Mavericks,
maybe the bookies picked, they may be the books pick.
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I would not bet the mortgage on any of these teams.
I certain wouldn't better on Dallas. Lebron's bunker is in.
It's in Ohio, not Cleveland as an acrid, but that
is his happy place. That is his happy place, and
that's where the wine flows. And he goes down memory
lane like, oh man, memories are alive. Man, I love
(32:15):
that town. And it's got statues everywhere. Probably there's a
statue there. Why not? All right? Now? Final thought? So,
how would the Lakers end up spinning a Lebron James trade? Like,
how do you end up spinning this? What's the move
if you end up trading Lebron? So you bring in here?
(32:35):
What you do is you bring in Star Jones. You
know Star Jones, Right, she's I think she's still on
Divorce Court. Last night, watched that show a while back.
She was on there, So I'm going to say that
that she's still on there. And you know, thirty minute
episode of Divorce Court and the Lakers come out and say, oh,
we had a great relationship. It was really good, it
was wonderful. We didn't win a championship. We just got
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that Mickey Mouse ring, but we're happy with that. We
pretend that's a real championship from that bogus bubble the
resort in Orlando, So you celebrate that celebrate the good times,
and you thank Lebron and you just say listen, you
tell Star Jones in that divorce court, like many relationships,
he reconcilable differences. That's it. Put that check that box.
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And the differences, of course are that Luca is now
the bell of the ball and there's no joy on
skid Row where the Lakers play, right, So it does
get a little dicey. It does get a little bit
dicey because the Lakers have a lot of dead weight.
It's the family business. And that's no one's talking about this.
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We're the only ones bringing this up. No one else
is bringing this up. If you get rid of Lebron James,
it has to be a package deal. It's got to
be a package. What do I mean by that? Any
Lebron James trade you have to include Bronnie James. Bronnie
James and Lebron must be traded together. It's like a
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complimentary item when you go to Jack in the Box
and you want to upgrade to a combo meal. Right,
So it's a combo meal. It's like going to Mickey
D's or Harte's or Chick fil at. You want a
combo meal. If you're the Lakers, you have to include
Bronnie Jims. Now, why do you have to include Bronnie James.
(34:23):
It would be malfeasance if you don't include it. Because
Bronnie James he has to exit stage right now. He
might be able to exit stage love, but he's got
to be gone if Lebron's gone. Bronni is only there.
He's a marketing mascot. He's a great tribute to Lebron
and the powers of persuasion. By Lebron James, he gets
(34:47):
to play dress up. It's like make a wish. You
get to be on the Lakers. You're an emotional support
player for Lebron James, your daddy. Congratulations. Right without Lebron,
Without Lebron, Bronnie James is not even sniffing a summer
league opportunity. The guy can't play. It's fascinating that there
are dumb people that think he can play. Right, he'd
(35:11):
be sitting courtside maybe if Lebron bought tickets, if Lebron
didn't pull strings to get him on the Lakers. And
so the statuet reads, Okay, the stat sheet reads with Brownie,
it reads like a witness protection profile like barely. They're
hoping not to be noticed. When you look at the
(35:33):
stats of Bronnie James, there the spawn of bron the
spawn of bron Now, maybe one day Bronnie, I'm not
gonna be completely negative, I'll be Benny bright Side. There
is a possibility in the multiverse that one day Bronnie
James becomes a serviceable rotation guard. Of course that'll be
in Serbia or in Russia or China, but it ain't
(35:55):
gonna be in the NBA. Right right now, he is
a member of the inn Innational International Union of Bricklayers.
It is always a brick house with Bronnie James there.
So cut the cord. If you're gonna get rid of Lebron,
you got to get rid of Bronnie James. And they
can ride off into the sunset together because when Lebron's
out of the NBA, Broni's going to be out of
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the NBA. Now, maybe they can do a podcast together,
right to a podcast? Who's Lebron doing a podcast with?
Somebody said, I've not listened to Lebron's podcast. Somebody said
he's doing one with Steve Nash. Does that mean Steve
Nashill replace Jason Kidd as the coach of the Mavericks.
Is that because that's how you do it, right, Lebron?
Whoever's doing the podcast with Lebron, they get to coach Lebron, right.
(36:38):
I mean that's how jj Reddick got the job. He
didn't know he's doing, and he's pretending to be a
Laker coach.
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It was reported on Monday that breakout forty nine Ers
receiver Juan Jennings wants a new contract from the forty
nine Ers or to be traded. Ben, what's the most
likely outcome here?
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they've given out a lot of money, the salary cap
is fugezy. But they've already paid brockberdy Kittle, they've paid
Warner on defense big money. You got Brandon Ayuck recovering.
They have a second year receiver, Ricky Piersol, so Jennings
(37:30):
is replaceable, so he's not gonna. He's not gonna. He's
a one year wonder. If he did it for more
than one year, he was good last year, he stepped
up with guys getting hurt. But he's not someone that
you're going to pay a lot of money too because
he's only done it for one year and you've got
other players next.
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A recent survey of NFL league executives, coaches, and scouts
ranked Baker Mayfield as the tenth best quarterback in the NFL.
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How do you feel about that ranking? It doesn't seem
legit to me, and Bakers played well Tampa. It's a scheme.
He's a scheme guy. He's scheme dependent, and he's he's
been a roller coaster. Baker Mayfield with Cleveland, good rookie year,
a radic up and down injury, sucked in Carolina, Okay
with the Rams for like two games, and then he's
(38:15):
become okay in Tampa. I I just don't trust him,
and he just he still throws a lot of interceptions. Next.
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had existed back when he was playing at Texas A
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for the stadium. Because of Johnny Manziel. He would have
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Speaker 1 (39:35):
All right, so these are actual questions. You have an
opening statement radio you actually you know it? Do you
love me?
Speaker 8 (39:40):
A good opening statement and it is the summer of love.
Do not forget to take your lady or your man
out on special date nights to the ocean, go have
a corn dog at the fair, take them on a
carnival ride. Oh my gosh, kissing on top of the
ferris wheel is so romanic.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
You know what if you live in Nebraska and go
to the ocean, so you go like the lake? Is
that the movie? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (40:02):
You know?
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Maybe a fountain, a water fountain.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Fountain, how about it? What a toilet work? Yeah? The days?
Speaker 8 (40:12):
Yeah, but day it's like a stand in front of
it with your pants on. Probably not to my father.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
Probably not a good idea. Probably.
Speaker 7 (40:19):
Anyways, what we got today, Ben Well.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I thought this was a really interesting question. This is
so this guy, Doug or Douglas, has been a long
time listening to the show. He lives in Mississippi. You
hear me mention his name sometimes. So Douglas says, after
my wife of twenty plus years passed away, I married
her best friend a year later, but I had her
permission before she passed. What's your take on that?
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (40:43):
I love this because I also have a best friend, right,
and she had a best friend.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
I do send that out on. Somebody has the best
is that the one that came in here.
Speaker 8 (40:53):
And that's Victoria. Sarah lives in Oregon. I've known her
since kindergarten. But her she told me that if she
dies before her husband, that I have to marry her husband.
Speaker 7 (41:03):
I don't even have a choice.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
I have to marry that'll be because that's he'll be
helpless without.
Speaker 8 (41:09):
Her, and she doesn't want the kids alone with him, right,
he's the.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Kids alone, want the kids alone with him?
Speaker 7 (41:15):
It will be the new maternal figure. So yeah, no,
we joke about it every time.
Speaker 8 (41:19):
And if he really did do that, you know, usually
you have a good connection with your wife's best friend.
You have a lot of bonding moments, good memories.
Speaker 7 (41:26):
I think it's actually really healthy. I think it's healthy.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
It's very nice of your wife Douglas when she before
she checked out to give you the okay on that
Bobby and Florida right since says how do you get
the the back door to open up? If you if
you keep knocking and it hasn't opened yet? From Bobby there.
Speaker 7 (41:45):
Well, it all starts with a good conversation and.
Speaker 8 (41:48):
A little bit before play, you know, but you know
you got to get them tempted into the idea, So
you got to introduce it in a fun way, and
then they're like, oh, I don't like that.
Speaker 7 (41:59):
You'd be like, but you could like it. Let me
take you to the shop.
Speaker 8 (42:02):
They got dilators, they got all sorts of fun things
that you can use to make it more comfortable, a
lot of products. My my best thing when I was younger,
I actually asked a man who you know, liked that
type of play, what his opinion and what to do.
So really, yeah, pick their curiosity, see what they think.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
The yoda of that exactly third Dog rights in is
my brother's dating a girl who's obsessed with Disneyland. Should
I tell him to break up with her? No, that's
an expensive lorraina. That's an expensive habit. That is a
that you might as well be a drug addict. It's cheaper, Okay,
it's cheaper to buy fentanyland.
Speaker 8 (42:41):
You'd rather have your girlfriend on the streets of Disneyland
than on the streets of downtown.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
I don't know, man, there's some homeless people in Tonetown.
I don't know about that.
Speaker 7 (42:49):
Maybe pass it out in the grass the trees.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
I've been there, yeah, yeah, be careful man.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
But it is a little expensive.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
But you don't little.
Speaker 8 (42:57):
You don't always have to go to with them either.
I'm sure she has friends that can go to Disney.
Speaker 7 (43:02):
You don't have to go.
Speaker 1 (43:02):
With well, like those passes you got to pay every month,
or I say, paying a car payment. It is yeah,
it's very similar. Mike the Leprechaun writes and says, what
would be a good first date, Lorena? For someone dating blind?
Scott says, your options are the Wimbledon Final, Kentucky Derby,
or a day at either Disneyland Universal Studios or a
(43:24):
trip in Mike in New Hampshire's truck.
Speaker 8 (43:27):
Huh interesting options there to be honest, I don't know.
I think I'd want to do something like auditory, you know, yeah,
I go listen to music or something. Yeah, I think
that would be a better experience.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Boston Pops.
Speaker 8 (43:42):
Yeah, I don't want to be responsible for them running
into anything out in the wild, you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1 (43:48):
A little tough. JT. The Wingman writes in Good Questions,
by what happened, all I had to do is complain?
You know what that is, Lorena? Tough love. Tough love
people respond to tough love. They like it this younger
jenner if they can't handle tough anyway. JT. The wing
man rights and says says, I'm a truck driver and
don't work in an office or for a work wife.
(44:08):
Is it okay to have a malor show wife instead? Yes?
Speaker 7 (44:15):
And if you do, make sure you send her lots
and lots and lots of gift packages. Really yes, because
you must treat your wife nice.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
Your work wife, yes, radio wife.
Speaker 9 (44:27):
I mean.
Speaker 8 (44:27):
And if your job is driving, we're technically with you
in the car, right, so we are your work.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
We're a voice in your head. Oh, Lorraina. What is these?
Shanean nooy? What is the smallest amount of makeup you
can leave the house wearing? Still for comfortable? Quickly?
Speaker 7 (44:42):
Mascarat?
Speaker 1 (44:43):
That's it. As long as you have that, you're going.
Because I've got that, I'm good to go else. Baby,
that's all just a mass scare. You're fine, that's it.
Speaker 7 (44:50):
And a smile. Gotta always have your smile on.
Speaker 1 (44:53):
Oh, of course, yes, smile.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention
everyone and The password.
Speaker 1 (45:04):
Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.
Here's Ben Meler and right to password we go. We
have let's hear any meenie money more. We have Mark
on the North End. Hello, Mark, Welcome, Good morning Ben.
Good to have you Mark. You're going to play password?
Who do you want to partner up with? Mark? All right,
(45:27):
we're in it, Mark in North End. We're gonna win.
Just put a W next to our name right now,
hold on, say Mark out. You're gonna play. And we
have who do we have? See Mikey in the state
of Texas. It's kind of a big state. Hello Mikey, Welcome,
Good morning Sarah. How are you guys going?
Speaker 5 (45:46):
Glad to be on with shoe?
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Thanks to welcome? And where are you at in Texas?
Mikey and Jefferd fifty miles north east, a little north
of Houston. I got you a very cool let's play it.
Who do you want to partner? Have you got Loraina
or cool? Then go with the loop? Okay, coop. The
loop is the pick. And we have a list of
words here. You can see them. You're cheating, don't cheat.
(46:12):
You can see them calling my attorney. All right, let's
see your pick a number. Mark on the north end.
Pick a number one to ten, please, one to ten.
Oh oh, I say, it's not even up. Let's see
on the phones. Let's say all right, there you go, Mark,
What is the word you would like here?
Speaker 5 (46:36):
Number one?
Speaker 1 (46:38):
All right, let's go with UH regulations rule. There you go.
All right, good job, and it's ten to nothing, strong starry,
good guys. Okay, Mikey, you are up with Coop. Pick
a number two to ten, please, two to ten. Let's
(47:00):
go with number ten, number ten? Yeah, alright, like ambient
noise in the background. All right, Mikey, let's go with
Let's go with tremble.
Speaker 3 (47:16):
Quake.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
No, now, let's go with he said tremble.
Speaker 10 (47:22):
I'll say cold Shriver. Yeah, wow, Gas nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 1 (47:33):
You think it's over now, it's probably we got plenty
of it's over. Pick another number, Go ahead, Mark, let's
run up the score. Mark. Pick another number. Mark. Let's
run Mark three, number three. Number. He got that last
one from my cliff, No, I got it from mine.
Let's go. I'm gonna use the mall. The mal remover
will work. I kind of want to use the malume.
(47:53):
You know, we got such a big lead. I don't care.
I'll use the malle maneuver. Here we go, save safety.
Not a chance had has it? No, that's not all right, Sorry, Mikey.
Let's go with her. Let's go with quilt blanket. Yeah,
(48:19):
let's go. We're back. And got it back and he
got it off my clue. He got it off Mike.
Another number, Mike got it off my clue. That was
my clue. He got it off of all right, Ben,
we got it.
Speaker 6 (48:30):
Take another mark number, Mikey, Mike Lee.
Speaker 1 (48:36):
What number? Oh, I'm sorry, number nine, number nine. All right,
let's something Coop needs to do.
Speaker 9 (48:46):
Let's go with let's go with or yeah, rest rest rest, No,
we're out of time.
Speaker 8 (48:58):
And we were loss.
Speaker 1 (49:00):
The word was relaxed. The word was relaxed. I come
too slow. We won, great job Mark on the north end.
You get a golden ticket. Unbelievable. What a win. One
of my greatest wins of all time.
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