July 31, 2025 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about a flurry of deals right as we approach the MLB trade deadline including the Mariners reacquiring Eugenio Suárez from the Diamondbacks and the Phillis giving up a lot to get closer Jhoan Duran from the Twins, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and much more!
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So our lead this hour is from the Pacific Northwest.
It is trade deadline day in baseball, and we had
a little late night razzle dazzle, which I'm happy about.
As you know, I like to complain. I'm a talk
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show host. That's what we do. We complain, and I've
complained in recent years. It's been a number of years now,
but when I started doing the overnights, we always had
the trade deadline that was midnight Eastern and sometimes there'll
be extensions and it would spill into the overnight show.
And then this redheaded woman named Rachel Nichols complained in
the NBA, and then they changed it to the afternoon.
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Then everyone else followed. So the trade deadline in baseball
is on here Thursday evening, six o'clock eastern clock in
the West. So that is the lead in. And we've
had some activity here in the trade that came down
here in the nighttime hours. The Mariners. The Mariners, yes
that I know. They've never been to the World SCE.
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The Mariners have agreed to a deal to reacquire a
player they traded in twenty twenty three, a Uhanio Suarez
from the Diamondbacks. Now the deal is pending a medical review.
We're not official yet on what Arizona's getting. It's going
to be a gaggle of suspects going to the Valley
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of the Sun, so let us discuss the question for
the esteem panel. The Mariners have agreed to a deal
to acquire a Uhaniosaurres from the Diamondbacks. What's your knee
jerk reaction? So my thoughts on this, I've got Clarendon
Garlic fries and mind virus, and we will combine all
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of these things together and you're gonna make delicious cupcakes.
Because often the Mariners turn into cupcakes and big games,
it just doesn't go very well. But the moment we
are talking right now, the Rangers and Mariners are tied
for the final wildcard spot in the American League as
we were at the trade deadline, and they actually have
a four game series that begins in Seattle here on
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Thursday night. But my first thought on the trade, the
transaction for Auhannio Suarez the GM in Seattle, Jerry Depodo
has apparently finally woken up from hibernation, right he wiped
the crust of the spreadsheet out of his eyes there
and is actually making a move. And it does move
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the needle. Now this is not a full needle blast,
but it moves the needle. Didn't think they had it
in him. I did not. This counts as a big bopper.
It is a big bopper. You're talking about a guy
who this can consistently hit the ball four and forty
feet with a smile, a little little swagger, and so
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it's out of character, that's my thought. It's out of character.
For Seattle to make this trade. So I've determined, after
a minute long Malord investigation, as endorsed by Robbie the
Mariner fan and crying Craig, that the M's front office
took some clarity right and they've cleared things up here
because normally they're allergic to taking any kind of risk.
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And the quote, which is infamous, we've talked about it here,
one of the great embarrassing moments in recent baseball history.
A couple of years back, Jerry Depoto, the GM of
the Mariners, announced the quiet part out loud. He said,
the goal of the Mariners is to win fifty four
percent of their games. It is not to win the
World Series. It is not to go all in. It
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is just to win enough so you have the illusion
of contention and your play playing a mathematical equation that
if you just win fifty four percent of your games,
eventually you're actually gonna win. Now we know that's meaning
in the World Series, but that's loser talk, right well,
not right now this summer, Seattle, right in this moment,
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we do the show today, Seattle goes out and they
get a dude who has been monster mashing this year,
Suarez has turned back the clock and he's got all
the nerd porn exit v low launch angle, all that
stuff the nerds get all horny for. And so assuming
that he doesn't get to Seattle and forget how to hit,
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he'll he'll be hitting Dingers Suarez into Puget Sound again.
And yeah, it's a rental woo pe damn do. He'll
be a free agent after the season. He won't be
back in Seattle. But regardless of that, if you look
around the landscape, I don't know if you've done inventory
in the American League, but it is softer than a
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marshmallow and a sauna. The Yankees, even though they won
on a walk off, they've been leaking oil the last
couple of months. The Tigers completely fell off the schneide,
and don't even get me started on the cheating a
one one thousand and two one thousand holes. It's wide open,
it's wide open. Get in, it's wide open. And Seattle's
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pitching for the most part, not that they're perfect, but
they seemingly could go toe to toe with just about anybody,
and they've got that Brian Woo In the American League.
All they needed was a little thumpty thump in the
middle of the lineup. And you know, in theory, of
course you have to actually do it in the moment.
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But Suarez gives them that. The Mariners, so finally they
actually act like a grown up. They actually act like
they have a pulse. So on the mal of report card,
I'm gonna give the Mariners an a. I'm giving the
Mariners an eight. The Poto gets a gold star for
actually doing something bold for once, and you got a shot.
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You take it. Now. The d Backs they got a
package of suspects. I can only give them a sea.
That's it. I can only give them a sea. At
some point I'll do a Mallard monologue about what a
scam the Major League Baseball pipeline is. But I will
not do that right now. I will not bore you
with my rant old man radio. Those pipeline it was terrible. Now,
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speaking of stunners, as we get to the trade deadline,
to San Francisco we go, and what do you make
of the Giants dealing right handed reliever Trevor Rodgers to
the Mets. So you might say, on the surface, well,
who cares about that? Is just a relief pictures not
their closer. I don't understand why you're bringing that up. Well,
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the reason this is an interesting story. It's a whirling
dervish is what it is. Okay. Just a few weeks ago,
I was sitting next to Marlin's man at Dodgers Dantama
Giants were playing the Dodgers. About thirty minutes before the game,
it was announced that the San Francisco Baseball team had
made a trade with the Boston baseball team for Rafael Devers. Right, amazing,
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big deal. Blew the budget out of the water there,
tossed it out of the ballpark, out of the bray
bridge there, and they said, hey, we're one piece away.
We need a cornerstone, middle of the lineup player, a
classic middle of the lineup hitter, Rafael Devers. They got him.
They had him for a month or so, and right
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now they say, turn out the Lights's the parties over
sending Trevor Rodgers to New York. So they went, and
this is why it's a whirling dervis. They went, the
Giants from chasing the penthouse to now folding up the
tent and going down to the soup kitchen. They saw
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the standings they felt the heat and they said we're out.
We are out of here. One minute you're acting like, hey,
we're buyers. We're gonna take down the Dodgers on the
mats and these other teams, and the next you're unloading.
The longest tenured player and Buster Posey sitting in the
catbird seat there in San Francisco, and he asked the
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question which we like to ask in sports radio, contender
or pretender. The classic duck test was used, and if
it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck,
and it sounds like a duck, it's a duck. In
this case, if it looks like a fraud, plays like
a fraud, it is a fraud. And so we have
our answer from Buster Posey. The Giants are a pretender.
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They are a team that was apparently vampires. And we
know there's a lot of garlic, the Great Garlic Fries there,
and so the vampires were exposed to those garlic fries.
They could not hang with the big boys, came apart
the seams. So they've decided that the smart move is
to cash out, and they've traded their long tenured player Rogers.
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He walks away and yeah, good, look, that is a retreat.
The Giants waved the flag, they threw in the sponge.
They said, that's it, so long, thanks for the quirky
submarine delivery, and there you go. So they sold you
some snake oil. And now they're back to where we
thought the Giants would be this year, mediocre, and now
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they're confused. Now they're stuck with the malcontent. Raphael Devers,
good luck on that. He's not exactly enjoying life outside
Fenway Park. It has not gone that well. All right,
last word to Anaheim we go. That's right, Anaheim, where
the Angels made a very minor move. There's a reason
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I'm bringing this up. So the Angels added to their
roster here at the trade deadline. They acquired a couple
of relievers, Andrew Chaffin, who is thirty five, and Luis Garcia.
This will be his third time with the Angels. He
is the ultimate vagabond baseball place thirty eight. So those
guys came over from the Nationals, and the Angels traded
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a left hander and some minor league first basement. So
it's a very minor trade, but it rises to the level,
nevertheless of a malad monologue. And here's why. So the
Halo's owner Arti Marino is being blasted that the Angels
have added to their roster, that they've added someone rather
than holding a garage sale outside the Big A at
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the trade deadline. So how do you rule on this?
So I really got a kick out of this because
some people at least are pretending like they're really worked
into a lather over this. And I don't understand why
you would think that the Angels owner Arti Marino committed
a war crime based on how some of these nerds
are reacting. Now, I stand with Arty. I think Artie
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is a terrible owner. I think you don't know what
he's doing, but I stand with him on this. Right. Listen,
the Halos never go anywhere. They have the longest drought
without a playoff appearance. But so what, Arti Marino's seventy
eight years old. You think he's signing up for a
seven year rebuild and just study Baseball America and that's it.
Play the minor league game. He already showed you his hands,
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Arti Marino showed you his hands, right, You remember he
had Otani, the great Otani disaster. Everyone said he's not
gonna come back to Anaheim trade Otani. He's gonna go
somewhere else. And what did he do? He kept Otani
the deadline. Everyone said he was nuts, and he said,
I'm going for it anyway. That tells you everything you
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need to know. So, for better or worse, Arti Marino
is not and I actually think this is for better.
He is not infected with the loser virus that you
are and those other idiots over there are infected with
that has gone around the league, this contaminant. It's a
mind virus. Just tank, I need prospects, just hope for
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the best, right pirates have to show for that? What
are the Marlins? What do the athletics have to show
for that? Squad? Douche right? This trade for the Angels,
it's obviously not an all in move. It's not even
an all in chip. It's just a flyer. It's a
depth move. And the Angels got a couple of guys
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who probably just eat innings and that's it. It's not
a big deal. And you want to bury Artie Marino,
come on, if you're gonna bear him, do it for
the right reasons. Do it that The fact that he
got upset with a sportswriter of the late great T. J. Simers,
who was a buddy of mine, and move the press
box down near the Pearly gates to screw the media.
Get upset with him. I'm so upset with him over that.
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But you don't blast him for trying to continue to
put a competitive team on the field. Now, the Angels
have been just average, but I stand with already on
this one. He didn't light the deadline on fire. And
who knows, maybe in the hours to come today the
Angels will make some more trades and they'll trade ken
Lee Jansen or someone like that. But he didn't at
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this point, as we're doing the show right now, the
Angels did not sell the lawn furniture. It's just a
blip on the radar. It's not a blunder. It's not
a blunder, and I actually like it. It's to me,
it's refreshing. Oh, you're just an old guy. But it's
refreshing that they didn't wave the white flag and just
give up like half the league does at the trade deadline.
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God forbid a team competes. That's such a that's such
an old guy taking Oh my god, what about the
pipeline A prospect. You gotta get the prospect. Shut up
your stupid prospects. Shove him up your tuckers. Anyway, all right,
I'm sorry, it is the Ben Mahler Show. I just
have seen way too many. I've been scanning trying to things,
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you know, find things to the act with you about,
and it's oh, this, this guy is the number seventeen
prospect in the Major League Baseball pipeline. Blow up the pipeline.
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All right, So our lead this hour is from baseball.
We're gonna bounce around trade of note from the Delaware
Valley and we began the night with the Anio Suarez
trade last hour as he goes from Arizona to Seattle.
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But there was a trade in the Delaware Valley that
caught my attention. I know Fats in Philly and Jonathan
and Delaware also aware of this. So if you didn't
see this, maybe not. The Phillies and Twins played, let's
make it to you, and general manager Dave Dombrowski in
Philadelphia shipped off an eighteen year old catcher in a
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ball someone named a Duardo Tait that is the centerpiece
that goes to the Minnesota baseball team in return Johann Duran,
the Twins flame throwing closer. He ends up coming back
to Philadelphia, and of course the prospect Huggers are having
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a melt out. Oh my god, Dave dom Browski, Oh
what is he doing? Oh my, this is Oh they're
so upset, they're so bummed out. You traded up one
of the top one hundred prospects in baseball. Oh my god,
let us discuss. So the Phillies general manager Dave Dombrowski
being called out for giving up too much to get
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Johan Duran from the Twins at the trade deadline. Here,
what say you? Right, what say you? So Johann Duran
goes to Philadelphia and some catching prospect goes to Minnesota.
So I've got Nanny flank Steak and dark Web, and
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we'll combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make the Ben Mahler chicken fingers from the landing over
in Liberty, Missouri. That's what we're gonna do, all right.
So my first thought on this number, why I said number,
Why this is a quid pro quot situation. Now, I
was always taught, and maybe I'm wrong, that if you
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want something elite, you have to give up something that's legitimate.
It's usually how it used to work back in the day.
So it's not fantasy baseball, it's not majorly. It's major
league baseball. It's not some kind of minor league operations.
So Dave Dombrowski is not some new age geek. He's
from the old country Dombrowski, and I like it. He's
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got big base balls and hair on his chest and
he's sixty nine years old. He's working, yet again a masterpiece.
At the trade deadline, Philadelphia needed a closer. They're steroid guy.
Their closer is a cheat steroid cheat, so he's not
in the playoffs. He's out the whole thing. So they
went out and made a deal. Dombrowski has worked in
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baseball front offices since it was a mom and pop
business and there were were no computers and nerds. He's
his first job was with the Chicago White Sox in
the nineteen seventies. His first job as general manager by
himself was with the old Montreal Expos in nineteen eighty eight.
So it's been a minute, and he knows a thing
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or two because he's seen a thing or two and
them is the same Dombrowski. The places he's been, he
swings for Grand slams. He doesn't try to hit base hits.
He goes for Grand slams. He did it with the Tigers,
he did it with the Red Sox, and now he's
doing it here and did in Miami as well. Dombrowski
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understands what matters. He's not sitting around Dombrowski the general
manager of the Phillies. He's like, I'm not a nanny.
I'm not here to babysit some top one hundred prospect
and maybe he'll be good. A prospect is a suspect
until proven other lies. Dombrowski sees the Phillies right now.
He's absolutely right about this. The window is open. It's
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open if you look at the core of the Phillies
and when they're clicking, anyone, when they're clicking, it's fun
to watch. But Philadelphia in that bandbox Ballpark with Bryce Harper,
Kyle Schwarz and Trade Turner, they're not just on the
way up. They're already there, all right. So this is
not about, well, we need this catcher. It might be
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good in twenty twenty nine. If that catcher pans out, man,
that'd be great. No, by twenty twenty nine, Sward will
be gone, Trade Turner will be washed up, and who
knows what you're gonna get out of Bryce Harper. This
is about winning a World Series right now, and that catcher,
the player whose everyone's all worked up about top one
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hundred plo, Oh my god, you tradered a top one
hundred player A DWARDO'TA oh I can't. But yeah, now,
could he end up being the next yadi Are Molina? Sure?
He could also be the next Martin Maldonado's. It's a
guessing game. Nobody knows anything. You're projecting greatness because you
want to believe every one of these minor league players
is gonna be great. He's a teenager, he has I
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don't think he's caught a double header in Altuona, but
he's gonna be great In the major leagues. People have
this magnetic umbulical cord to the prospect. I'm telling you
it bothered me. I know it's gonna annoy me all day.
When all these other trades happen today. They treat the
prospect is treated now like a family pet. Right, there's
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this weird separation anxiety, and it's like, dude, it's just baseball.
The reason you have a minor league system is to
enhance the major league roster. These guys are just chess pieces.
They're not family heirlooms, Okay, they're not. And if you
look at what the Phillies needed, and they needed Johan
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in the intercloser, Johann Duran comes in from the Twins,
He's there and that's what they needed, right and he's good. Now.
The guy's a monster. He's under team control through twenty
twenty seven. So you need someone to slam the door
right now and in those close playoff games, on those
chili nights in Philadelphia. You go get him. You don't
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hope that some eighteen year old catcher is going to
blossom in five years and be ready when Bryce Harper
is doing commercials for medicare right, you strike while the
Irons hot and Dombrowski He's always gotten it. He always
has right. He just builds winning teams. And I like
the fact also that he's an irritant to those that
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worship all the nerd numbers. It's not that Dombrowski ignores
all that. It's just that he's not married to the formula.
He's willing to go big, and to me, it's a
great deal for Philadelphia and for the Twins. If you
want to check back in five years as oh ah
it turned out to be great. Okay, maybe it will
be great, but I'm worried about today. I don't know
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where I'll be in five years, and neither do you, right,
So it's an aggressive move. It's a smart move. I
like it, all right. Moving on from that, we're going
over to the NFL to Indianapolis. We go that Ash
Football League, and that is where Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson
said recently that he quote, didn't you enough last season?
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So how do you categorize that quote from Anthony Richardson?
So this is el capitan as in captain obvious Richardson
saying he didn't do enough. Oh really, I wonder where
he came to that conclusion. What gave it away? The
part where he got hurt every five seconds, or the
fact that he looked like he was running the wing
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t offense and that more than that in a minute? Right?
You know he was drafted. When the Colts drafted him,
it was a big risk. By the late Jim Mercy
right said, well, originally he was supposed to be I'm
talking about Richardson, developmental player, fourth fifth, sixth round pick.
He gets drafted in the top ten. He was drafted,
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and it's like, well, this is Filet Mignon, right, file Mignon,
the good stuff Kobe beef, and a couple of years later,
Anthony Richardson is just an undercooked piece of flank steak,
and they they forgot to season it and it's just bad.
And your draft after the project and the project didn't
work out. You're never supposed to do that, and you
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just don't. You don't rebuild your franchise around a construction site.
But they have He tapped out of the Texans game
because he was tired, right, and that is going to
haunt him. You're the quarterback. You're not some toddler. He
took himself out of a game for the Colts because
he was tired. You don't get nap time on a Sunday.
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You only play seventeen regular season games. You're the face
of a billion dollar business. And what are you doing right?
You're running on three G and a five G league.
That doesn't work. And I keep going back to just
the way he has looked Anthony Richardson. He has set
offensive football back. He has to the leather helmet era,
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back when the forward pass was just a suggestion.
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Right.
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You see those old when I was a kid that
used to have this thing called NFL films, and they'd
show these early NFL videos and you're like, man, there
are a lot of slow dudes, and uh, I mean
a lot of leather helmets. And but he was ranked
Anthony Richardson thirty ninth among quarterbacks. You know, any teams
that are in the NFL, it's not a trick question. No,
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they're not thirty nine teams. They're thirty two teams, so
you know how hard that is to do to be
ranked thirty ninth in a thirty two team league. That's
like finishing dead last in a race where you're the
only one who showed up and you finished in dead lige.
Like Richardson, we know how this is going to go.
He hurts a little pinky and he's into the injury
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tech right, and he makes there's a guy Carson Wentz
who played for the Colts and others, but making Carson
Wentz look like an iron man. And now another indictment
of Anthony Richardson is he is in a dog fight
with Daniel Jones for QB one. Let me tell you
right now, there are a lot of dogs in that room,
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just Daniel Jones and Athey Richardson, and there's also a
lot of fleas in that quarterback room. All right, final point.
We now pivot to medi a Musings, medi A Musings,
NFL Newshounds, Sparring, NFL Newshounds, Sparring, Pro Football Talks Mike Florio.
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Mike Florio put Adam Schefter on Blast Now. He said,
Florio that Schefter is reporting favorably on the Christian Wilkins
story due to his agent. David Mullaghetta is the agent
there now. Wilkins was fired by the Raiders a few
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days ago, who are now attempting to void thirty five
million in guaranteed money because of some locker room dramenaw
Schefter claimed that Wilkins kissed a teammate on the forehead
playfully at the Raider facility last week. He said, it
was just playful. The teammate took a f that Wilkins.
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As a result, they went to HR. Did you even
know that you could go to HR if you're an
NFL player? I wonder if there HR is in building?
I don't know, I know ours is in anyway, Mike
Florio says, something worse happened with Christian Wilkins and the Raiders,
and that Schefter is, as we said, giving a favorable version.
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He's helping out the Asian, doing him a solid. So
how does that taste to you? How does that taste
to you? So an it's an NFL insider slap fight,
and to me that is delicious, capital D delicious. You've
got Schefter, who I like Adam used to be believe
(30:45):
it or not. In the early days of Fox Sports
Radio was on here all the time. He worked for
the I know him when he first worked in Denver Schefter,
and then as a writer covering the Broncos, and then
he worked at the NFL network. He's been a ESPN forever.
But Schefter's out there saying that Wilks kissed the guy
on the forehead like it's some kind of Disney movie
or something like that, and it's great. I'm sure he's
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also going to report tomorrow that Wilkins skipped through the facility,
also holding out a basket of skittles for his teammates.
The whole thing, it just doesn't pass the smell doest.
There's obviously more to the story. We are getting a
version of the truth, but not the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. It sounds like something worse went down,
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something really grimy, really grimy. But if you look at
it this way, Adam Schefter is an information broker. Think
of him like a concierge at Caesar's Palace. Right. He
gets you the tickets to the show, but only, okay,
only if you book the room through him. So if
you want favorable coverage, you know who you're gonna call.
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And I understand why Mike Florio is all upset at
his shack in West Virginia. He's mad because he doesn't
get those parks in the circle. He's not one of
the cool kids. He doesn't get the same juicy text
messages from some agent who's peddling off information. Instead, Florio
is playing go fish while Adam Schefter is running a
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private blackjack table, and he's got Drew Rosenhaus and he's
got that David Mullaghetta, the other agent over there. Like
the NFL gossip, And I dabbled in this when I
had my website many years ago, But the NFL gossip
is like the dark Web. You don't really get the
good stuff unless you trade right. Schefter, he's gonna report
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some sanitized bedtime story about Christian Wilkins because that way
Wilkins has an easier path to return to the NFL,
get more money for the agent, and in return, Boom
goes to Dynamite. He gets crab Legs, which is the
Micah Parsons is about to sign a deal with the Cowboys,
and the agent Mullagetta feeds him that info like it's
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a nice five course dinner at a great restaurant. And
so it's not journalists. I'm like, none of this is journalism, right,
I mean, journalism is pretty much dead, all of it.
Everything's traded. But this is bartering. It's like you give
a shaggy dog version of the Christian Wilkins meltdown, and
then next week or the week after, I will give
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you an exclusive story. There is video out there of
an AFC South coach with his pants down in the
bathroom at a waffle house, and I will give that
story to you because you did me a good mitzvah.
That's the business. Now. Meanwhile, so Christian Wilkins again, I
go back to this and I'm put some feelers out.
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He must have done something beyond bizarre. Right, you don't
lose a gig like that, And an NFL team's not
going to go to the Lanks to try to get
out of thirty five million. Tom Brady's running the show
with the Raiders, but thirty five million just over a
playful kiss on the forehead, like something rotten had to
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take place in Vegas and shifters, He's essentially putting for
breeze on a burning dumpster. Is what he's doing at
this point. But I will guarantee you one thing I
know about how this works. The real story, which is
juicier and just more out and tastes wonderful. It's out
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there and it will end up leaking out eventually, and
likely sooner than later. That story is going to get out,
So stay tuned on that.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
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Speaker 1 (34:38):
This is a long time ago, it's my think. How
about that I was alive then? This is one big
gets grilled all right, Coop believe.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
New Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patulo recently told reporters that
he talked to Saquon Barkley about his workload next season
and that he plans to be quote game specific with
how he uses Barkley in the regular season. Ben, do
you think they are going to cut down on his workload?
And if so, is that a bad idea?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah? Yeah, here's game specific. Every game you rush him
until his body falls apart. Listen, the backup. I believe
aj Dillon is the backup. He's not that good. He's
an average running back. No, you ride the car till
the wheels come up. I don't bite it. I don't
believe it. Jalen Hurts is a Middland quarterback throwing the ball.
They have to play this way. They're dominant this way.
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They're not going to stop doing it next.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
According to a new report out of Jets camp, owner
Woody Johnson is trusting new GM Darren Mogi and his
new coach Aaron Glenn to take care of the football
side of the operation.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Ben, how long do you think that will last? Well
until one of Woody Johnson's kids says, Hey, Dad, I
made this trade on Madden, and I think that we
should contact Aaron Glenn and then we can make the
trade and we'll get Jared versus the Rams and give
up a couple of late draft picks. Like, No, Woody
Johnson is always meddling around. I don't believe that next.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Charles Barkley made a recent podcast appearance, and he said
he's concerned that ESPN will have time constraints on inside
the NBA when certain games run long, and they'll be
forced to throw a sports center or something after fifteen minutes. Yeah,
and do you think ESPN is going to ruin inside
the NBA thousand percent.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
They will try. Uh, they're gonna be solid. We're not
gonna mess with the product, but they'll mess with the product.
I would be shocked. Barkley's going to complaining, Shack, They're
all gonna complain. How do we know you pass this
edition to win?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I won?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Put that on my scorecard, burg Dog, I won.
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Speaker 6 (37:53):
All right, so our first question is going to be
from Alf, the alien opiner. Hi Alf says for the crew,
what food does your significant other like that?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
You hate cauliflower? Uh? She always like makes it. It
smells up the entire house. It's disgusting, just the smell
of it. I want to puke in my mouth. It's horrible.
So that's Lorena.
Speaker 7 (38:16):
Well, my significant other is myself, and I really I struggle.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Sometimes because you hate yourself.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
Well, sometimes I really want salmon and then I get
salmon and I hate it. And why did you get that?
It smells bad? It tastes bad, you know, but part
of me wanted it so anyways, how.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Do you eat salmon? Do you fry it or do
you what do you have?
Speaker 7 (38:35):
I usually would like pants sante. I caught it on
fire once in my oven last year.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
That's wonderful. The salmon my mom when I was a kid,
she served a lot of fish. You know, I hate
it now as an adult. But she would make salmon patties,
which is like a burger like of salmon.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
Oh, I don't know about that text yure.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yeah, I neither do. I coop and I had no choice.
I was a captive audience.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
I would say peas.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Oh, like the green peas the jolly green Giant.
Speaker 6 (39:08):
I'm not a not a fan of peas.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Hey, you should go to Minnesota. There's a giant statue
of the Jolly Green Giant in Minnesota. See it you
have a nightmares? Yeah, it's like the thing that got
flown on the court at the w w n B.
All right, what's what's next? To ask Ben your questions?
Speaker 6 (39:31):
Donkey Sausage would like to know from everybody, what's your
favorite burger topping?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Well, Donkey Sausage, it depends on my mood, but you
can't go wrong with I like smash burgers. But if
you put like an onion ring on top or a
grilled onions is either like sauce or like other.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
I guess any any topping, anything that you would put, yeah,
that you would put on a burger.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Yeah, Like my go to would be if I make
him here to you know, the malor mansion, I would
do like smash burger, a couple of onion rings. I
might even go grilled onions and then, uh, I'm a
purist ketchup mustard. Male, what about you, Lorena?
Speaker 7 (40:11):
You know, if I have to put one thing on
my burger besides sauce, it's gonna be lettuce. I have
to have something refreshing. It can't just all be like dense.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Well speak for yourself. Cool. Which lettuce? You know that's
the worst answer is so good? Oh I do some
lettuce on my burger? Or disqualified?
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Uh I'm assuming that, like I don't know, because I
feel like cheese is like a cheap answer.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
What kind of cheese go? Pro bolone you go?
Speaker 6 (40:43):
I mean, I mean pepper drag, a nice sharp cheddar. Yeah,
but I mean I like all kinds of cheese, So
like you can put anything on there.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Pretty much do you mix cheese, do you throw yeah
sometimes yeah, yeah, do that.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Yeah. But like if we're not talking cheese, then then
it's gonna be onion, like the strip onion strings.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Those are oh yeah, yeah, that's solid. Yeah yeah, it's
hard like to make all that at the same time
that it was a pain in the ass. I'm not
a line chef, but I can do the iron rings
in the air fryer and then that have them done
because you gotta make it perfect, you know. I don't
want to make them in advance. I want them hot. Right, Well,
what is next year? It's ask Ben? Your questions are answers,
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Benny Blizzard? Yes, what the King?
Speaker 6 (41:28):
Rory? Rory actually has a couple of good ones here,
so I'm gonna do them back to back. The first
one is would you rather play pictionary or charades?
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (41:40):
I think charades? Go charades? What about you like?
Speaker 6 (41:44):
Yes, charades?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I agree, all right.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
The second question, when using a public bathroom, do you
judge others on how much paper towels they use to
dry their hands?
Speaker 1 (41:56):
No, because I see too many people that don't even
wash their hands, so I don't if you use too many,
I'm fine with that because you're actually washing your hands, Like, yeah,
you stand there. It's like, oh man, we were Disneyland
a while back and go to the bathroom and there's
like nobody's like they're just dudes are just going in there.
They're you know, grabbing their junk urine eating and they
walk right out. That's wild, that's no, Lorena. Oh god, yeah, no,
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I don't.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
I don't judge them, but I usually I don't really
use the paper towels either. I don't want to touch
anything more than I need to, so I like wash
my hands.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
I'm always worried that I'm being judged because I feel
like I use a lot of the paper towels.
Speaker 7 (42:38):
How many do you use?
Speaker 6 (42:39):
Like three or four?
Speaker 1 (42:42):
All right, let's try to get another one. And what
do we have to ask?
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Bang?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Your questions are answer? Fer Dog wants to know.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Do you eat the ice cubes in the bottom of
the glass or do you throw them out?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
No? I wait for them to melt, is what I do, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
Depends on what I'm drinking. If it's like a frosty
type drink, y'all eat the bottom.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
No, no, gross, no ice cubes. There's
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So our lead this hour is from the Pacific Northwest.
It is trade deadline day in baseball, and we had
a little late night razzle dazzle, which I'm happy about.
As you know, I like to complain. I'm a talk
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show host. That's what we do. We complain, and I've
complained in recent years. It's been a number of years now,
but when I started doing the overnights, we always had
the trade deadline that was midnight Eastern and sometimes there'll
be extensions and it would spill into the overnight show.
And then this redheaded woman named Rachel Nichols complained in
the NBA, and then they changed it to the afternoon.
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Then everyone else followed. So the trade deadline in baseball
is on here Thursday evening, six o'clock eastern clock in
the West. So that is the lead in. And we've
had some activity here in the trade that came down
here in the nighttime hours. The Mariners. The Mariners, yes
that I know. They've never been to the World SCE.
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The Mariners have agreed to a deal to reacquire a
player they traded in twenty twenty three, a Uhanio Suarez
from the Diamondbacks. Now the deal is pending a medical review.
We're not official yet on what Arizona's getting. It's going
to be a gaggle of suspects going to the Valley
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of the Sun, so let us discuss the question for
the esteem panel. The Mariners have agreed to a deal
to acquire a Uhaniosaurres from the Diamondbacks. What's your knee
jerk reaction? So my thoughts on this, I've got Clarendon
Garlic fries and mind virus, and we will combine all
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of these things together and you're gonna make delicious cupcakes.
Because often the Mariners turn into cupcakes and big games,
it just doesn't go very well. But the moment we
are talking right now, the Rangers and Mariners are tied
for the final wildcard spot in the American League as
we were at the trade deadline, and they actually have
a four game series that begins in Seattle here on
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Thursday night. But my first thought on the trade, the
transaction for Auhannio Suarez the GM in Seattle, Jerry Depodo
has apparently finally woken up from hibernation, right he wiped
the crust of the spreadsheet out of his eyes there
and is actually making a move. And it does move
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the needle. Now this is not a full needle blast,
but it moves the needle. Didn't think they had it
in him. I did not. This counts as a big bopper.
It is a big bopper. You're talking about a guy
who this can consistently hit the ball four and forty
feet with a smile, a little little swagger, and so
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it's out of character, that's my thought. It's out of character.
For Seattle to make this trade. So I've determined, after
a minute long Malord investigation, as endorsed by Robbie the
Mariner fan and crying Craig, that the M's front office
took some clarity right and they've cleared things up here
because normally they're allergic to taking any kind of risk.
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And the quote, which is infamous, we've talked about it here,
one of the great embarrassing moments in recent baseball history.
A couple of years back, Jerry Depoto, the GM of
the Mariners, announced the quiet part out loud. He said,
the goal of the Mariners is to win fifty four
percent of their games. It is not to win the
World Series. It is not to go all in. It
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is just to win enough so you have the illusion
of contention and your play playing a mathematical equation that
if you just win fifty four percent of your games,
eventually you're actually gonna win. Now we know that's meaning
in the World Series, but that's loser talk, right well,
not right now this summer, Seattle, right in this moment,
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we do the show today, Seattle goes out and they
get a dude who has been monster mashing this year,
Suarez has turned back the clock and he's got all
the nerd porn exit v low launch angle, all that
stuff the nerds get all horny for. And so assuming
that he doesn't get to Seattle and forget how to hit,
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he'll he'll be hitting Dingers Suarez into Puget Sound again.
And yeah, it's a rental woo pe damn do. He'll
be a free agent after the season. He won't be
back in Seattle. But regardless of that, if you look
around the landscape, I don't know if you've done inventory
in the American League, but it is softer than a
(06:59):
marshmallow and a sauna. The Yankees, even though they won
on a walk off, they've been leaking oil the last
couple of months. The Tigers completely fell off the schneide,
and don't even get me started on the cheating a
one one thousand and two one thousand holes. It's wide open,
it's wide open. Get in, it's wide open. And Seattle's
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pitching for the most part, not that they're perfect, but
they seemingly could go toe to toe with just about anybody,
and they've got that Brian Woo In the American League.
All they needed was a little thumpty thump in the
middle of the lineup. And you know, in theory, of
course you have to actually do it in the moment.
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But Suarez gives them that. The Mariners, so finally they
actually act like a grown up. They actually act like
they have a pulse. So on the mal of report card,
I'm gonna give the Mariners an a. I'm giving the
Mariners an eight. The Poto gets a gold star for
actually doing something bold for once, and you got a shot.
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You take it. Now. The d Backs they got a
package of suspects. I can only give them a sea.
That's it. I can only give them a sea. At
some point I'll do a Mallard monologue about what a
scam the Major League Baseball pipeline is. But I will
not do that right now. I will not bore you
with my rant old man radio. Those pipeline it was terrible. Now,
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speaking of stunners, as we get to the trade deadline,
to San Francisco we go, and what do you make
of the Giants dealing right handed reliever Trevor Rodgers to
the Mets. So you might say, on the surface, well,
who cares about that? Is just a relief pictures not
their closer. I don't understand why you're bringing that up. Well,
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the reason this is an interesting story. It's a whirling
dervish is what it is. Okay. Just a few weeks ago,
I was sitting next to Marlin's man at Dodgers Dantama
Giants were playing the Dodgers. About thirty minutes before the game,
it was announced that the San Francisco Baseball team had
made a trade with the Boston baseball team for Rafael Devers. Right, amazing,
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big deal. Blew the budget out of the water there,
tossed it out of the ballpark, out of the bray
bridge there, and they said, hey, we're one piece away.
We need a cornerstone, middle of the lineup player, a
classic middle of the lineup hitter, Rafael Devers. They got him.
They had him for a month or so, and right
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now they say, turn out the Lights's the parties over
sending Trevor Rodgers to New York. So they went, and
this is why it's a whirling dervis. They went, the
Giants from chasing the penthouse to now folding up the
tent and going down to the soup kitchen. They saw
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the standings they felt the heat and they said we're out.
We are out of here. One minute you're acting like, hey,
we're buyers. We're gonna take down the Dodgers on the
mats and these other teams, and the next you're unloading.
The longest tenured player and Buster Posey sitting in the
catbird seat there in San Francisco, and he asked the
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question which we like to ask in sports radio, contender
or pretender. The classic duck test was used, and if
it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck,
and it sounds like a duck, it's a duck. In
this case, if it looks like a fraud, plays like
a fraud, it is a fraud. And so we have
our answer from Buster Posey. The Giants are a pretender.
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They are a team that was apparently vampires. And we
know there's a lot of garlic, the Great Garlic Fries there,
and so the vampires were exposed to those garlic fries.
They could not hang with the big boys, came apart
the seams. So they've decided that the smart move is
to cash out, and they've traded their long tenured player Rogers.
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He walks away and yeah, good, look, that is a retreat.
The Giants waved the flag, they threw in the sponge.
They said, that's it, so long, thanks for the quirky
submarine delivery, and there you go. So they sold you
some snake oil. And now they're back to where we
thought the Giants would be this year, mediocre, and now
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they're confused. Now they're stuck with the malcontent. Raphael Devers,
good luck on that. He's not exactly enjoying life outside
Fenway Park. It has not gone that well. All right,
last word to Anaheim we go. That's right, Anaheim, where
the Angels made a very minor move. There's a reason
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I'm bringing this up. So the Angels added to their
roster here at the trade deadline. They acquired a couple
of relievers, Andrew Chaffin, who is thirty five, and Luis Garcia.
This will be his third time with the Angels. He
is the ultimate vagabond baseball place thirty eight. So those
guys came over from the Nationals, and the Angels traded
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a left hander and some minor league first basement. So
it's a very minor trade, but it rises to the level,
nevertheless of a malad monologue. And here's why. So the
Halo's owner Arti Marino is being blasted that the Angels
have added to their roster, that they've added someone rather
than holding a garage sale outside the Big A at
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the trade deadline. So how do you rule on this?
So I really got a kick out of this because
some people at least are pretending like they're really worked
into a lather over this. And I don't understand why
you would think that the Angels owner Arti Marino committed
a war crime based on how some of these nerds
are reacting. Now, I stand with Arty. I think Artie
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is a terrible owner. I think you don't know what
he's doing, but I stand with him on this. Right. Listen,
the Halos never go anywhere. They have the longest drought
without a playoff appearance. But so what, Arti Marino's seventy
eight years old. You think he's signing up for a
seven year rebuild and just study Baseball America and that's it.
Play the minor league game. He already showed you his hands,
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Arti Marino showed you his hands, right, You remember he
had Otani, the great Otani disaster. Everyone said he's not
gonna come back to Anaheim trade Otani. He's gonna go
somewhere else. And what did he do? He kept Otani
the deadline. Everyone said he was nuts, and he said,
I'm going for it anyway. That tells you everything you
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need to know. So, for better or worse, Arti Marino
is not and I actually think this is for better.
He is not infected with the loser virus that you
are and those other idiots over there are infected with
that has gone around the league, this contaminant. It's a
mind virus. Just tank, I need prospects, just hope for
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the best, right pirates have to show for that? What
are the Marlins? What do the athletics have to show
for that? Squad? Douche right? This trade for the Angels,
it's obviously not an all in move. It's not even
an all in chip. It's just a flyer. It's a
depth move. And the Angels got a couple of guys
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who probably just eat innings and that's it. It's not
a big deal. And you want to bury Artie Marino,
come on, if you're gonna bear him, do it for
the right reasons. Do it that The fact that he
got upset with a sportswriter of the late great T. J. Simers,
who was a buddy of mine, and move the press
box down near the Pearly gates to screw the media.
Get upset with him. I'm so upset with him over that.
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But you don't blast him for trying to continue to
put a competitive team on the field. Now, the Angels
have been just average, but I stand with already on
this one. He didn't light the deadline on fire. And
who knows, maybe in the hours to come today the
Angels will make some more trades and they'll trade ken
Lee Jansen or someone like that. But he didn't at
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this point, as we're doing the show right now, the
Angels did not sell the lawn furniture. It's just a
blip on the radar. It's not a blunder. It's not
a blunder, and I actually like it. It's to me,
it's refreshing. Oh, you're just an old guy. But it's
refreshing that they didn't wave the white flag and just
give up like half the league does at the trade deadline.
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God forbid a team competes. That's such a that's such
an old guy taking Oh my god, what about the
pipeline A prospect. You gotta get the prospect. Shut up
your stupid prospects. Shove him up your tuckers. Anyway, all right,
I'm sorry, it is the Ben Mahler Show. I just
have seen way too many. I've been scanning trying to things,
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you know, find things to the act with you about,
and it's oh, this, this guy is the number seventeen
prospect in the Major League Baseball pipeline. Blow up the pipeline.
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All right, So our lead this hour is from baseball.
We're gonna bounce around trade of note from the Delaware
Valley and we began the night with the Anio Suarez
trade last hour as he goes from Arizona to Seattle.
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But there was a trade in the Delaware Valley that
caught my attention. I know Fats in Philly and Jonathan
and Delaware also aware of this. So if you didn't
see this, maybe not. The Phillies and Twins played, let's
make it to you, and general manager Dave Dombrowski in
Philadelphia shipped off an eighteen year old catcher in a
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ball someone named a Duardo Tait that is the centerpiece
that goes to the Minnesota baseball team in return Johann Duran,
the Twins flame throwing closer. He ends up coming back
to Philadelphia, and of course the prospect Huggers are having
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a melt out. Oh my god, Dave dom Browski, Oh
what is he doing? Oh my, this is Oh they're
so upset, they're so bummed out. You traded up one
of the top one hundred prospects in baseball. Oh my god,
let us discuss. So the Phillies general manager Dave Dombrowski
being called out for giving up too much to get
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Johan Duran from the Twins at the trade deadline. Here,
what say you? Right, what say you? So Johann Duran
goes to Philadelphia and some catching prospect goes to Minnesota.
So I've got Nanny flank Steak and dark Web, and
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we'll combine all of these things together and we're gonna
make the Ben Mahler chicken fingers from the landing over
in Liberty, Missouri. That's what we're gonna do, all right.
So my first thought on this number, why I said number,
Why this is a quid pro quot situation. Now, I
was always taught, and maybe I'm wrong, that if you
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want something elite, you have to give up something that's legitimate.
It's usually how it used to work back in the day.
So it's not fantasy baseball, it's not majorly. It's major
league baseball. It's not some kind of minor league operations.
So Dave Dombrowski is not some new age geek. He's
from the old country Dombrowski, and I like it. He's
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got big base balls and hair on his chest and
he's sixty nine years old. He's working, yet again a masterpiece.
At the trade deadline, Philadelphia needed a closer. They're steroid guy.
Their closer is a cheat steroid cheat, so he's not
in the playoffs. He's out the whole thing. So they
went out and made a deal. Dombrowski has worked in
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baseball front offices since it was a mom and pop
business and there were were no computers and nerds. He's
his first job was with the Chicago White Sox in
the nineteen seventies. His first job as general manager by
himself was with the old Montreal Expos in nineteen eighty eight.
So it's been a minute, and he knows a thing
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or two because he's seen a thing or two and
them is the same Dombrowski. The places he's been, he
swings for Grand slams. He doesn't try to hit base hits.
He goes for Grand slams. He did it with the Tigers,
he did it with the Red Sox, and now he's
doing it here and did in Miami as well. Dombrowski
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understands what matters. He's not sitting around Dombrowski the general
manager of the Phillies. He's like, I'm not a nanny.
I'm not here to babysit some top one hundred prospect
and maybe he'll be good. A prospect is a suspect
until proven other lies. Dombrowski sees the Phillies right now.
He's absolutely right about this. The window is open. It's
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open if you look at the core of the Phillies
and when they're clicking, anyone, when they're clicking, it's fun
to watch. But Philadelphia in that bandbox Ballpark with Bryce Harper,
Kyle Schwarz and Trade Turner, they're not just on the
way up. They're already there, all right. So this is
not about, well, we need this catcher. It might be
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good in twenty twenty nine. If that catcher pans out, man,
that'd be great. No, by twenty twenty nine, Sward will
be gone, Trade Turner will be washed up, and who
knows what you're gonna get out of Bryce Harper. This
is about winning a World Series right now, and that catcher,
the player whose everyone's all worked up about top one
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hundred plo, Oh my god, you tradered a top one
hundred player A DWARDO'TA oh I can't. But yeah, now,
could he end up being the next yadi Are Molina? Sure?
He could also be the next Martin Maldonado's. It's a
guessing game. Nobody knows anything. You're projecting greatness because you
want to believe every one of these minor league players
is gonna be great. He's a teenager, he has I
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don't think he's caught a double header in Altuona, but
he's gonna be great In the major leagues. People have
this magnetic umbulical cord to the prospect. I'm telling you
it bothered me. I know it's gonna annoy me all day.
When all these other trades happen today. They treat the
prospect is treated now like a family pet. Right, there's
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this weird separation anxiety, and it's like, dude, it's just baseball.
The reason you have a minor league system is to
enhance the major league roster. These guys are just chess pieces.
They're not family heirlooms, Okay, they're not. And if you
look at what the Phillies needed, and they needed Johan
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in the intercloser, Johann Duran comes in from the Twins,
He's there and that's what they needed, right and he's good. Now.
The guy's a monster. He's under team control through twenty
twenty seven. So you need someone to slam the door
right now and in those close playoff games, on those
chili nights in Philadelphia. You go get him. You don't
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hope that some eighteen year old catcher is going to
blossom in five years and be ready when Bryce Harper
is doing commercials for medicare right, you strike while the
Irons hot and Dombrowski He's always gotten it. He always
has right. He just builds winning teams. And I like
the fact also that he's an irritant to those that
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worship all the nerd numbers. It's not that Dombrowski ignores
all that. It's just that he's not married to the formula.
He's willing to go big, and to me, it's a
great deal for Philadelphia and for the Twins. If you
want to check back in five years as oh ah
it turned out to be great. Okay, maybe it will
be great, but I'm worried about today. I don't know
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where I'll be in five years, and neither do you, right,
So it's an aggressive move. It's a smart move. I
like it, all right. Moving on from that, we're going
over to the NFL to Indianapolis. We go that Ash
Football League, and that is where Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson
said recently that he quote, didn't you enough last season?
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So how do you categorize that quote from Anthony Richardson?
So this is el capitan as in captain obvious Richardson
saying he didn't do enough. Oh really, I wonder where
he came to that conclusion. What gave it away? The
part where he got hurt every five seconds, or the
fact that he looked like he was running the wing
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t offense and that more than that in a minute? Right?
You know he was drafted. When the Colts drafted him,
it was a big risk. By the late Jim Mercy
right said, well, originally he was supposed to be I'm
talking about Richardson, developmental player, fourth fifth, sixth round pick.
He gets drafted in the top ten. He was drafted,
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and it's like, well, this is Filet Mignon, right, file Mignon,
the good stuff Kobe beef, and a couple of years later,
Anthony Richardson is just an undercooked piece of flank steak,
and they they forgot to season it and it's just bad.
And your draft after the project and the project didn't
work out. You're never supposed to do that, and you
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just don't. You don't rebuild your franchise around a construction site.
But they have He tapped out of the Texans game
because he was tired, right, and that is going to
haunt him. You're the quarterback. You're not some toddler. He
took himself out of a game for the Colts because
he was tired. You don't get nap time on a Sunday.
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You only play seventeen regular season games. You're the face
of a billion dollar business. And what are you doing right?
You're running on three G and a five G league.
That doesn't work. And I keep going back to just
the way he has looked Anthony Richardson. He has set
offensive football back. He has to the leather helmet era,
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back when the forward pass was just a suggestion.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
You see those old when I was a kid that
used to have this thing called NFL films, and they'd
show these early NFL videos and you're like, man, there
are a lot of slow dudes, and uh, I mean
a lot of leather helmets. And but he was ranked
Anthony Richardson thirty ninth among quarterbacks. You know, any teams
that are in the NFL, it's not a trick question. No,
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they're not thirty nine teams. They're thirty two teams, so
you know how hard that is to do to be
ranked thirty ninth in a thirty two team league. That's
like finishing dead last in a race where you're the
only one who showed up and you finished in dead lige.
Like Richardson, we know how this is going to go.
He hurts a little pinky and he's into the injury
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tech right, and he makes there's a guy Carson Wentz
who played for the Colts and others, but making Carson
Wentz look like an iron man. And now another indictment
of Anthony Richardson is he is in a dog fight
with Daniel Jones for QB one. Let me tell you
right now, there are a lot of dogs in that room,
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just Daniel Jones and Athey Richardson, and there's also a
lot of fleas in that quarterback room. All right, final point.
We now pivot to medi a Musings, medi A Musings,
NFL Newshounds, Sparring, NFL Newshounds, Sparring, Pro Football Talks Mike Florio.
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Mike Florio put Adam Schefter on Blast Now. He said,
Florio that Schefter is reporting favorably on the Christian Wilkins
story due to his agent. David Mullaghetta is the agent
there now. Wilkins was fired by the Raiders a few
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days ago, who are now attempting to void thirty five
million in guaranteed money because of some locker room dramenaw
Schefter claimed that Wilkins kissed a teammate on the forehead
playfully at the Raider facility last week. He said, it
was just playful. The teammate took a f that Wilkins.
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As a result, they went to HR. Did you even
know that you could go to HR if you're an
NFL player? I wonder if there HR is in building?
I don't know, I know ours is in anyway, Mike
Florio says, something worse happened with Christian Wilkins and the Raiders,
and that Schefter is, as we said, giving a favorable version.
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He's helping out the Asian, doing him a solid. So
how does that taste to you? How does that taste
to you? So an it's an NFL insider slap fight,
and to me that is delicious, capital D delicious. You've
got Schefter, who I like Adam used to be believe
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it or not. In the early days of Fox Sports
Radio was on here all the time. He worked for
the I know him when he first worked in Denver Schefter,
and then as a writer covering the Broncos, and then
he worked at the NFL network. He's been a ESPN forever.
But Schefter's out there saying that Wilks kissed the guy
on the forehead like it's some kind of Disney movie
or something like that, and it's great. I'm sure he's
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also going to report tomorrow that Wilkins skipped through the facility,
also holding out a basket of skittles for his teammates.
The whole thing, it just doesn't pass the smell doest.
There's obviously more to the story. We are getting a
version of the truth, but not the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. It sounds like something worse went down,
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something really grimy, really grimy. But if you look at
it this way, Adam Schefter is an information broker. Think
of him like a concierge at Caesar's Palace. Right. He
gets you the tickets to the show, but only, okay,
only if you book the room through him. So if
you want favorable coverage, you know who you're gonna call.
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And I understand why Mike Florio is all upset at
his shack in West Virginia. He's mad because he doesn't
get those parks in the circle. He's not one of
the cool kids. He doesn't get the same juicy text
messages from some agent who's peddling off information. Instead, Florio
is playing go fish while Adam Schefter is running a
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private blackjack table, and he's got Drew Rosenhaus and he's
got that David Mullaghetta, the other agent over there. Like
the NFL gossip, And I dabbled in this when I
had my website many years ago, But the NFL gossip
is like the dark Web. You don't really get the
good stuff unless you trade right. Schefter, he's gonna report
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some sanitized bedtime story about Christian Wilkins because that way
Wilkins has an easier path to return to the NFL,
get more money for the agent, and in return, Boom
goes to Dynamite. He gets crab Legs, which is the
Micah Parsons is about to sign a deal with the Cowboys,
and the agent Mullagetta feeds him that info like it's
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a nice five course dinner at a great restaurant. And
so it's not journalists. I'm like, none of this is journalism, right,
I mean, journalism is pretty much dead, all of it.
Everything's traded. But this is bartering. It's like you give
a shaggy dog version of the Christian Wilkins meltdown, and
then next week or the week after, I will give
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you an exclusive story. There is video out there of
an AFC South coach with his pants down in the
bathroom at a waffle house, and I will give that
story to you because you did me a good mitzvah.
That's the business. Now. Meanwhile, so Christian Wilkins again, I
go back to this and I'm put some feelers out.
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He must have done something beyond bizarre. Right, you don't
lose a gig like that, And an NFL team's not
going to go to the Lanks to try to get
out of thirty five million. Tom Brady's running the show
with the Raiders, but thirty five million just over a
playful kiss on the forehead, like something rotten had to
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take place in Vegas and shifters, He's essentially putting for
breeze on a burning dumpster. Is what he's doing at
this point. But I will guarantee you one thing I
know about how this works. The real story, which is
juicier and just more out and tastes wonderful. It's out
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there and it will end up leaking out eventually, and
likely sooner than later. That story is going to get out,
So stay tuned on that.
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Speaker 1 (34:38):
This is a long time ago, it's my think. How
about that I was alive then? This is one big
gets grilled all right, Coop believe.
Speaker 6 (34:49):
New Eagles offensive coordinator Kevin Patulo recently told reporters that
he talked to Saquon Barkley about his workload next season
and that he plans to be quote game specific with
how he uses Barkley in the regular season. Ben, do
you think they are going to cut down on his workload?
And if so, is that a bad idea?
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah? Yeah, here's game specific. Every game you rush him
until his body falls apart. Listen, the backup. I believe
aj Dillon is the backup. He's not that good. He's
an average running back. No, you ride the car till
the wheels come up. I don't bite it. I don't
believe it. Jalen Hurts is a Middland quarterback throwing the ball.
They have to play this way. They're dominant this way.
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They're not going to stop doing it next.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
According to a new report out of Jets camp, owner
Woody Johnson is trusting new GM Darren Mogi and his
new coach Aaron Glenn to take care of the football
side of the operation.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Ben, how long do you think that will last? Well
until one of Woody Johnson's kids says, Hey, Dad, I
made this trade on Madden, and I think that we
should contact Aaron Glenn and then we can make the
trade and we'll get Jared versus the Rams and give
up a couple of late draft picks. Like, No, Woody
Johnson is always meddling around. I don't believe that next.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Charles Barkley made a recent podcast appearance, and he said
he's concerned that ESPN will have time constraints on inside
the NBA when certain games run long, and they'll be
forced to throw a sports center or something after fifteen minutes. Yeah,
and do you think ESPN is going to ruin inside
the NBA thousand percent.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
They will try. Uh, they're gonna be solid. We're not
gonna mess with the product, but they'll mess with the product.
I would be shocked. Barkley's going to complaining, Shack, They're
all gonna complain. How do we know you pass this
edition to win?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
I won?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Put that on my scorecard, burg Dog, I won.
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Calorie free blizzard.
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Yes, well it could be. Could it's a weasel word.
It could be. Well, let's get to ask bed like
Picasso on the radio, it's your question, maybe more like
ritzent van Goel. I don't know. Anyway, your questions are answers,
and away we go over to Cooperloop.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
All right, so our first question is going to be
from Alf, the alien opiner. Hi Alf says for the crew,
what food does your significant other like that?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
You hate cauliflower? Uh? She always like makes it. It
smells up the entire house. It's disgusting, just the smell
of it. I want to puke in my mouth. It's horrible.
So that's Lorena.
Speaker 7 (38:16):
Well, my significant other is myself, and I really I struggle.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Sometimes because you hate yourself.
Speaker 7 (38:20):
Well, sometimes I really want salmon and then I get
salmon and I hate it. And why did you get that?
It smells bad? It tastes bad, you know, but part
of me wanted it so anyways, how.
Speaker 1 (38:32):
Do you eat salmon? Do you fry it or do
you what do you have?
Speaker 7 (38:35):
I usually would like pants sante. I caught it on
fire once in my oven last year.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
That's wonderful. The salmon my mom when I was a kid,
she served a lot of fish. You know, I hate
it now as an adult. But she would make salmon patties,
which is like a burger like of salmon.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
Oh, I don't know about that text yure.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Yeah, I neither do. I coop and I had no choice.
I was a captive audience.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
I would say peas.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Oh, like the green peas the jolly green Giant.
Speaker 6 (39:08):
I'm not a not a fan of peas.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Hey, you should go to Minnesota. There's a giant statue
of the Jolly Green Giant in Minnesota. See it you
have a nightmares? Yeah, it's like the thing that got
flown on the court at the w w n B.
All right, what's what's next? To ask Ben your questions?
Speaker 6 (39:31):
Donkey Sausage would like to know from everybody, what's your
favorite burger topping?
Speaker 1 (39:39):
Well, Donkey Sausage, it depends on my mood, but you
can't go wrong with I like smash burgers. But if
you put like an onion ring on top or a
grilled onions is either like sauce or like other.
Speaker 6 (39:53):
I guess any any topping, anything that you would put, yeah,
that you would put on a burger.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Yeah, Like my go to would be if I make
him here to you know, the malor mansion, I would
do like smash burger, a couple of onion rings. I
might even go grilled onions and then, uh, I'm a
purist ketchup mustard. Male, what about you, Lorena?
Speaker 7 (40:11):
You know, if I have to put one thing on
my burger besides sauce, it's gonna be lettuce. I have
to have something refreshing. It can't just all be like dense.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Well speak for yourself. Cool. Which lettuce? You know that's
the worst answer is so good? Oh I do some
lettuce on my burger? Or disqualified?
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Uh I'm assuming that, like I don't know, because I
feel like cheese is like a cheap answer.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
What kind of cheese go? Pro bolone you go?
Speaker 6 (40:43):
I mean, I mean pepper drag, a nice sharp cheddar. Yeah,
but I mean I like all kinds of cheese, So
like you can put anything on there.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
Pretty much do you mix cheese, do you throw yeah
sometimes yeah, yeah, do that.
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Yeah. But like if we're not talking cheese, then then
it's gonna be onion, like the strip onion strings.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Those are oh yeah, yeah, that's solid. Yeah yeah, it's
hard like to make all that at the same time
that it was a pain in the ass. I'm not
a line chef, but I can do the iron rings
in the air fryer and then that have them done
because you gotta make it perfect, you know. I don't
want to make them in advance. I want them hot. Right, Well,
what is next year? It's ask Ben? Your questions are answers,
(41:26):
Benny Blizzard? Yes, what the King?
Speaker 6 (41:28):
Rory? Rory actually has a couple of good ones here,
so I'm gonna do them back to back. The first
one is would you rather play pictionary or charades?
Speaker 2 (41:38):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (41:40):
I think charades? Go charades? What about you like?
Speaker 6 (41:44):
Yes, charades?
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I agree, all right.
Speaker 6 (41:48):
The second question, when using a public bathroom, do you
judge others on how much paper towels they use to
dry their hands?
Speaker 1 (41:56):
No, because I see too many people that don't even
wash their hands, so I don't if you use too many,
I'm fine with that because you're actually washing your hands, Like, yeah,
you stand there. It's like, oh man, we were Disneyland
a while back and go to the bathroom and there's
like nobody's like they're just dudes are just going in there.
They're you know, grabbing their junk urine eating and they
walk right out. That's wild, that's no, Lorena. Oh god, yeah, no,
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I don't.
Speaker 7 (42:25):
I don't judge them, but I usually I don't really
use the paper towels either. I don't want to touch
anything more than I need to, so I like wash
my hands.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
I'm always worried that I'm being judged because I feel
like I use a lot of the paper towels.
Speaker 7 (42:38):
How many do you use?
Speaker 6 (42:39):
Like three or four?
Speaker 1 (42:42):
All right, let's try to get another one. And what
do we have to ask?
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Bang?
Speaker 1 (42:45):
Your questions are answer? Fer Dog wants to know.
Speaker 6 (42:48):
Do you eat the ice cubes in the bottom of
the glass or do you throw them out?
Speaker 1 (42:52):
No? I wait for them to melt, is what I do, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (42:55):
Depends on what I'm drinking. If it's like a frosty
type drink, y'all eat the bottom.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
No, no, gross, no ice cubes. There's
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