August 13, 2025 • 50 mins
Big Ben talks about Travis Kelce's interview with GQ Magazine, the latest legal troubles for Shohei Ohtani, Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and much more!
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baseball stuff, but I'll push that back, push it back
now till later. And there are some reasons for that.
We'll get to that later, but I'll begin I love
you that is not one of the reasons, but we
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will begin with GQ. When you think overnight talk radio,
you think GQ magazine. So yeah, well we go where
the stories are and a couple of times a year,
a couple of times a year, GQ magazine a feature
and athlete and they they have to put something little
spicy in there. You gotta put something spicy because who
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the hell reads GQ magazine? Who reads magazines at all anymore?
It's basically a website, So they have to throw something
in there. And Travis Kelcey took center stage. When you
think GQ, you think Travis Kelcey. Well, there's a guy
that's done on one to eighty in his left. So
if you didn't see this, then maybe not. In a
cover story for GQ, Travis Kelsey has spilled his guts, yes,
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all about his career, that little singing girl that he's
dating and all that. Now, Kelsey was brutally honest allegedly
these things. But the quotes are there. So Travis Kelcey
about the dimp? Can you do the dimp? How low
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can you go? How low can you go? The production
for the Chiefs. If you've not been paying attention to
the last couple of years, Travis Kelcey has been going down, down, down, down, down, down, down,
down down, and the rock bottom was a wretched puke
can your mouth performance in the Super Bowl where it
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looked like he had been partying all week on Bourbon
Street and had nothing, nothing for the game. It was
one of the great embarrassing moments in Super Bowl history,
the no show by Travis Kelcey against the Philadelphia Eagles,
who man handled him, pushed him around. But that's just
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a small sliver of what has been going on. Kelsey's
production has been lacking the last couple of years, and
he has revealed the reason behind the slip, slip, slip,
and fall in production, his lack of performance the decline
in Kansas City. He said, quote, I think it might
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have slipped a little bit, because, by the way, a
little bit, how about a lot? I says it might
have slipped a little bit this quote. I did have
a little bit more focus, Kelsey said, on trying to
set myself up, and opportunities came up where I was excited,
Kelsey said, to venture into a new world of acting
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and being an entertainer. Kelsey said. He went on to say,
I don't say this as I shouldn't have done it,
meaning Kelsey's proud of the fact that he's hurt the
job that he had in Kansas City. Team let the
team down. Kelsey's not upset that he did that at all.
He says, I don't say that this I shouldn't have
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done it. I'm just saying that my work ethic is such.
Kelsey said that I have so much pride in how
I do things that I never want the product to
tail off. And I feel like these past two years,
Kelsey said, I have not been to my standard close.
Quote Okay, so let's discuss. That's the money quote, So
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we'll discuss. We'll jump off that and talk about that
particular quote right there. So question for the esteem Panel,
which you are part of, chief star Travis Kelsey saying
his last two seasons, his last two seasons have not
been up to his standard amid his acting career, which
is going on right now. So how does that sound
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to you? How does that sound to you? So I've
got green juice, Halloween, and rooster, and we're going to
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a delicious cookie Sunday with extra little chips
of chocolate chip cooking in there. And we've got some
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vanilla ice cream. But then we'll mix in some different
toppings on top of that. Be just delicious. All right.
So A my first thought on this is nothing screams.
Nothing screams. Hey, I'm still football guy. I want you
to know I am still football guy. Then posing in
I don't know, three thousand dollars pants on GQ and
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wearing a wig, that's football guy. That is modern football guy.
Just ask the Bears quarterback. I don't know. Maybe Kelsey
had his nails painted on the GQ thing too, I
don't know. Now we appreciate, we do. We appreciate Travis
Kelsey's honesty. We want that he's admitting the things that
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we have pointed out. And of course anytime you point
this out the fanboys in Kansas City, you don't know
what you're talking about. Kelsey's fine, they're just double teaming. Yeah, okay,
Now Kelsey's admitting you're all a bunch of idiots that
he wasn't working as hard. He just wasn't right. And
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Travis Kelsey is it's not easy being Taylor Swift's arm candy.
It's not that job is not that easy. He's now
become Kelsey America's favorite Golden Retrievers. It's just hilarious. And
so there he is right, and the last two years
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el sucko for the Chiefs. It's the Hollywood Vortex, which
is undefeated. That starts out simple enough, just one acting. Hey, Travis,
it's your agent here. Can we we got a gig
for you. Can you fly out to La We want
to do this thing is yeah, just take a couple
of days. Sure, I'll do it, no problem. Next thing,
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you know, you're doing a game show. Then for some reason,
you're playing a waiter in an Adam Sandler movie for
no apparent reason, and so he's morphed in traps Kelsey
to the Hollywood. I guess the NFL version nothing the
NFL version of the Rock. He's just lacking some of
the workouts because the Rock still works out. But apparently
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Kelsey let let himself go a little bit. Now, this
is classic that Travis Kelcey admitted publicly with no shame
in his game that yeah, I lost, I have lost
a stab, But I want you to know I am
really good at a table read. I mean, I f
and kill it at a table read. I am so
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freaking good. Now, certainly are there others that have gone
down that road and been able to pull it off?
Like I know? This is more of a modern thing.
I don't remember Jerry Rice with the forty nine ers
back in the day leaving the Niners to go do
a reality show and saying, hey, mister Montana, I'll be back.
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I gotta do this show. I'll be back in a
couple of days. I don't remember that. Maybe it happened,
I don't know. But Kelsey's spending a lot of time
I guess doing that meathead podcast that he does, and
they're doing. Do they rehearse that? I don't know. I
don't listen to it, but I know I know he's
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admitting he's not really doing the two minute drill practice
as much. So listen Kelsey, who has recently been better
doing like some kind of cameo in a Hallmark Christmas
movie about the Chiefs and rather than the Super Bowl,
of course, I want you to know you taking a
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bowel movement and flushing and wiping more successful than Travis
Kelce in the most recent Super Bowl. So he's in
his mid thirties. The cliff is coming fast, it's right there.
And instead of fighting and throwing haymakers at Father Time,
he's letting the guy move in and Father Times now
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doing some redecoration is what he's doing here. And he's
got the double whammy, Oh, the double whammy, the double
he he's aging, and he's spending more time trying to
perfect his podcast and procure his next Hollywood gig. Then
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whether or not he needs to block or go out
and catch pas like you don't really worried much about that.
And pretty soon it will not be long. We're all
going to see Travis Kelsey show up to Chiefs practice
and he'll be wearing sunglasses maybe it's already happened. But
you know those a holes and entertainment to where sunglasses
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indoors those people and they sip some kind of weird
green juice that they heard about from some shaman somewhere
and then they call everyone, babe, what's up babe? That
kind of thing right, And then Mahomes in the cartoon
bubble in my head, Patrick Mahomes, Mahomie. He's like, dude,
all I'm really into is what a Burger? What are
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you doing? I just bought some what a Burgner franchise?
What the f is wrong with you? And Mahomes will
be looking around, where's my tight end? Where's my tight end?
And someone will come over from the chiefs and say, hey, Patrick,
he's right now. He's on set with some Jennifer Aniston
thing or something like that. I don't know, I don't
know what that is, but they're doing something. So this
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is what happens with Hollywood Kelsey. You got Hollywood Kelsey,
and that's not my tight end anymore. He's an entertainer now,
staying in Hollywood. But turning the page from the Travis
Kelsey story, we go to Hollywood Royalty. Denzel Washington, Denzel Washington,
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who is not a happy camper. He's upset with the
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Do you see this the
legend of many uber successful films. He was on some show,
Old Morning Guy I don't know the name of is
Stephen A. Smiths got some show. I don't even what
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watches that anyway, It talked about the Cowboys that came
up in conversation, and Denzel Washington suggested that Jerry Jones
his handling of Micah Parsons, who hasn't signed that extension,
the situation was a disservice to the fans, disservice to
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the Cowboy fans. And the quote is as follows from
Denzel Washington said, he's not thinking about us, the fans.
Jerry said, he is thinking about his pockets. It's like
there's the box office and then there's the Oscars, Denzel
Washington said, And you ain't been to the Oscars in
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a minute. At the end of the day, I always
love when somebody says at the end of the day.
Love that he says at the end of the day.
Denzel Washington said, I'm still gonna wear my hat with
the star on it, he said. Now. Washington then tried
to dot the I Denzel Washington by saying all money
ain't good money, Jerry, and then he moved on to
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promote some crappy movie. All right, so question, will Jerry
Jones change his cowboy ways because he has now been
publicly called out by Hollywood legend Denzel Washington. Right, so
let me start by this. I'll say this, so, unlike
your normal run of the mill, I don't know, overnight gasbag,
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Denzel Washington has gravitas obviously a little bit more than me.
A little bit more than me, uh, just a little bit.
So nevertheless, like Jerry Jones, he is not. Let me
say this from the top of the mountain, Jerry Jones
is not changing his ways, not because of Denzel Washington
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or any other Hollywood blowhard. I'm telling you, Denzi Washington.
He could show up to the Cowboys game on Thanksgiving
in Jerry's world and pretend it's Halloween. He well talk
through Halloween. He can pretend it's Halloween late Halloween. He
could dress up in a gladiator outfit and have a
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reading at halftime of Remember the Titans and do some
of the the lines from that and Jerry would still
be in the luxury suite counting how many commas are
on the bank statement and the revenue. You see, Jerry
Jones when you talk about movies, and Denzel was like
bragging about the oscars as opposed to the ones that
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make money. But Jerry Jones has been pretty clear he's
a comic book movie guy. Those are the ones people
pay to watch. You know. He's not into the artsy
fartsy movie. Jerry wants big, big box office. He wants
a billion tickets sold worldwide and all that stuff and
care the critics say, and in the Rotten Tomatoes score
and all that. Doesn't care about that. See, you think
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he's losing sleeps. He got called out by a big star,
you know, and the Cowboys haven't won Best Picture in
the NFL. Comer Jerry Jones, he's the Michael Bay of
football management. A lot of explosions, a lot of spectacles,
cgi all that stuff there, and there's no real storyline
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in terms of the playoffs other than failure. And there's
no awards. And Jerry's just going to keep rolling out
fast and furious movies because people watch them. The Dallas Drift,
whatever you want to call it because it works and
it's a good formula. And here's the other thing. And
I need to point this out because Denzel said something
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that he lost all credibility with his criticism of Jerry Jones.
Did you notice what he said that he lost everything?
Denzel said he still loves the Cowboys, all right, So
it's like put but in a conversation with anything before
the word butt is it's a lie. So Denzel like,
he still loves the cowboy. That's the whole point. He's
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not apathetic. Now, he's not apathetic if he If he were,
then we'd be having a different conversation. But he's not.
The Oscar winner is still wearing the hat with the
star on it. That's a cowboy hat. Jerry got money
for that hat. And Denzel's like, hey, you know, he's
like the guy that sees the sequel. We all know
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people like this. We all know people like this, the
guy that sees the sequel to the bad movie franchise
that made like two good movies back in the nineties.
But you're still watching hoping that they're gonna make something
good now And for the cowboys, how about him? Cowboys?
As long as the stadium is full and the TV
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ratings are baffo sokka, which they seemingly always are. You know,
Jerry's not and there's too old to change anyway. But
even if that were the case, he'd consider it. But
Denzel's going to keep being disappointed every late December and January.
That's how that's going to go, all right, quickly. The
last word here to the land of television the boob
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tube report card out, report card out. Shedur Sanders, the
four string quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, made his exhibition
debut last week. The Brownies played the Panthers in an
exhibition game that somehow drew two point three million viewers,
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had a solid rating, all the key demos, all the
key demos, big ratings. So can you put Can you
put the massive NFL exhibition TV ratings for a Browns
Titans game into context? So yes, I can put this
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into context. The Browns and Panthers are bad at football.
They suck. They combined last year to win eight games
between them. Eight. That's it. They went between both. You
can mind both, they were eight and twenty six last year.
There's no star power, there's no juice. They don't have
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big name coaches, they don't have star players, they have
none of the things that you would normally associate with
drawing a big audience, and yet they got more people
to watch that game then the highest rated MLB regular
season game, as I understand it, the highest rated regular
season baseball game this year, Yankees and Dodgers. Yankees and Dodgers,
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like two point two million. Two point two million, I
believe was the rating on that. And so that's where
we are. A exhibition game between two dog food NFL
teams gets better ratings and than the Dodge and the Yankees.
And so that's why the NFL schmucks. The executives there
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at the NFL, they run around like the banti rooster
and they've they've got their chest out and they're just
chest pumped out and all that stuff, and they've got
they know they can serve an inferior product. It's like
a restaurant and saying, I'm we're going to serve food
that has had maggots on it, and people are gonna
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buy it and they're gonna pay full price for it.
And it's just the way it is. And we know
that no matter what we serve we're good.
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so or lead. This hour is from baseball. We will
address in the B block the B for bad B
for bad Dodgers on the field. But another day, another scandal. Now,
this story blew up. We had mentioned this in a
previous episode of the show, and it took a life
of its own in the hours since we talked about it,
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and we just tossed it out here. It is. It's
like a boomerang. It's come back again. So if you
don't know where I'm going with this, Shohei Otani and
his agent Nez battle Loo, probably butchering the name, but
he has been sued. The agent and Otani, they've both
been sued. That's what you need to know about this.
And essentially the argument is that they screwed over a
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big real estate company, couple of big muckety MUCKs in
the real estate world in Hawaii, costing these people hundreds
of millions of dollars. The lawsuit filed in the Circuit
Court of Hawaii where everyone wears Hawaiian shirts. This happened
actually last week, but the story just came out in
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the last couple of days, and as we've said, it's
bounced all over the echo chamber here. It's kind of
a big deal. In the actual legal documents, the plaintiffs
claim that Otani and his agent are saboteurs. They sabotaged
a two hundred and forty million dollar real estate venture,
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and they had all entered into this and ix nay
on the according to the lawsuit, and they're pointing the
finger at the Dodger Star who was supposed to endorse
and promote this real estate project, which was actually located
on the Big Island. That's the one that not many
people go to. The Big Island. The sinse deleted website,
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which at one point was boomint Booming for the project,
said that Otani would buy a home in this part
of Hawaii and the Big Island and act as a
quote celebrity spokesperson and build a baseball workout facilities on
the Big Island, clearly trying to get some of that
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money from Japan to invest in the Big Island of Hawaii.
You don't have to be a business mogul to know
what this is all about. So let us discuss the question.
You take a couple of steps back and you look
at what has happened with Otani the last couple of
years as he's joined the Dodgers, and you have to
ask question with the latest legal issue, is shoh Otani
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clueless or is he ruthless? All right, those are the
only options. Clueless is over here and ruthless is over here,
So which one is it? So my observations, I've got
teflon construction site and Donkey Kong, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
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give you billable hours, which Otani is spending a lot
of money on billable hours. So number why said number?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Why?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Number? So, assuming the position it's either or one or
the other. The only two options are Otani is clueless
or he's ruthless. Those are the only options. This is
like that old aloha means hello and goodbye thing, except
this version of aloha means good Buy to your money
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by by aloha to your money. And imagine if you will,
buying this group that had all this land, this ocean
front property in the big Island there and then finding
out that there was a surprise lava flow. Now, this
lava flow was not from an actual volcano on the
Big Island. It was from sho Heotani and all that.
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So it kind of sounds like that's what's happening. But
the answer the question, the arrow on this one is
pointing towards Otani as ruthless. Right, There's a lot going on,
like we are not getting the full story here. There's
a lot of people that are writing the coattails of Shohotani.
We're not getting what's really going on. There's a lot
of people that are toe liquors as I like to
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call them, that are the beneficiaries of the star power
of Otani. I'm just on the sidelines. I'm just observing
what's been going on the last couple of years. Just
looking at what's been going on, this is another star
that's got a lot of stuff going on. There's a
lot of issues here and it's always been that way.
Like Michael Jordan was addicted to gambling. There were some
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legendary stories that came out after Jordan played for the
Chicago Bulls about some of his dalliances with the ladies.
Babe Ruth was a legendary womanizer with the Yankees. Barry
Bonds was a complete douche and also like the Peds,
he blew himself up. Looked like a parade in the
Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. There Thanksgiving Parade with Macy's, and
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they all played, and they had their careers and all that.
But everyone's got some dirt on them. Everyone's got some
dirt on them. And I also believe everyone's got multiple personality.
No one's Mother Teresa all the time, and no one's
the devil all the time. Right, you're somewhere in the
middle and the guy that you see hitting bombs and
he hit another home run. Dodgers suck. So they lost
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to the pathetic Angels again. How embarrassing These guys don't
even care. More on that in a minute, but it
was about all TIMI. So he had a home run
late dodge. Of course, Bullpen came in and vomited all
over the mound and gave the game to the Angels
and extra innings. So Otani hits a home run, and
you think he's reading the fine print. So the argument
is gonna be, well, Tani's a big star and his
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agent took care of this, and you think he's reading
real estate contracts on Hawaiian real estate. Come on, you
think he's sitting there reading the zoning laws for the
big island of Hawaii. Of course not please, right, So
then they'll argue he's just clueless. He's just a dumb
dumb is what they're going to say. But you combine
everything together and you see patternicity. You see the lawsuit
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that took place, and you can sue anyone for anything.
There's also a gambling scandal that was taking place while
he was with the Angels, and there's a buddy of
his that's in jail for a few years there who
took the hit on that, and so Otani is looking
like the Teflon don in all this, and The bigger point,
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and the point I'm trying to get at, is he
is so massive in that industry. He's too big to fail.
That Otani is the single most important player in Major
League Baseball in at least fifty years, likely a lot
longer than that. And you're not letting a real estate
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deal doing Otani. You're not letting a gambling scandal. I
don't care if he's betting seventeen parlays in the dugout.
They're not gonna have Otani go down for that. And
so this will end up, as I look into my
crystal ball, it will end up as a misunderstanding. It's
a misunderstanding. There'll be some kind of charity donation, and
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you'll see some commercials on Major League Baseball broadcast. They'll
call him a show hey or a loja show a,
and that they'll do that whole thing. I learned one
of my professors years ago. There was a professor named
Chris Carter. He may or may not have played for
the Minnesota Vikings, and he taught me. Chris Carter taught me,
you gotta have a fall guy, gotta have a fall guy.
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So guess what the fall guy originally was Otani's personal assistant,
but he's translator guy. But he's in jail so she
can't use him again. So let's see who's the fall
guy gonna be. Let's do some inventory. Well, look around,
who's the fall guy? And let's see reveal answers, reveal answers.
The fall guy here is going to be anyone other
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than Otani, anyone and everyone other than Otani. So will
anything come of this? I think I've made my point.
I don't need to flog the dead horse here. Not
a damn thing will come out of this. Otani will
just smile and nod his head and and go out
and hit fifty home runs. He's got forty three home
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runs now, so it hit fifty, and the lawsuit will
go abra cadabra and will vanish like a Mike tie
at a traditional Hawaiian luau. Just gone see you later,
all right now, staying with the Dodgers, and we're gonna
get to the play on the field the minute. I
saw some other comments here that got my attention in
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recent days, and I wanted to bring them up. The
Dodgers have a shortstop, not a good one. You want
a two forty shortstop that sucks. Mookie Bets is your guy.
So Moogie Bets, who's been an abject failure for the
Los Angeles Dodger, But in the LA media they won't
call him out on that. Guys like David Vasse will
kiss his ass. So Mookie Bets very disappointing here in
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twenty twenty five, and he said of this season, he
was concerned about the Hall of Fame. He said, once
again in the Hall of Fame one day and this
will be a blemish on his Hall of Fame resume.
That was one of the quotes that Mookie Bets had recently.
How does that one hit you?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
All?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
So, Moki spoiler alert. If you're talking about the Hall
of Fame right now, you have another gazillion years on
your Dodger contract, right and it's like you're you're already
shopping for a retirement condo in Boca and you still
got a job to do. Like the Hall of Fame
is last I heard Lifetime Achievement award. And that's for
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when you're sipping lemonade in the rocking chair and you're
sixty five years old and you're telling your grandkids back
in my day, I went six for six at Coors
for you one day. That's what you do. Right now,
you are in the middle of the Big Blue Marathon,
and you are one of the central reasons your team sucks.
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Mookie bets congratulations and your worrying about the ribbon. You're
running the marathon and you're just beginning the marathon and
you're worried about the finish line ribbon. I wonder what
color it is. Spoiler alert. You still have thirteen point
one miles to go. You're halfway home, and let's I check.
Baseball's not social media. Nobody really cares if you look
(32:20):
good in the snapshot. They don't. And it's think of
it like a construction site, right You build your legacy
brick by brick, right, break by brick, day by day,
inning by inning, and you can also tear apart your
legacy at the same time. So you're out there, Mookie,
you're stressing because you're on the construction site. You're worried
(32:43):
about the blueprints while the cement truck hasn't even parked yet.
Your priorities are a little off on this, and you know,
it's like you're acting like a pilot flying around and
the concern is, well, the in flight movie he's not
started playing it's supposed to play, but yet you're in
(33:04):
the cockpit and the plane is losing altitude. That's what's
going on. The Dodger plane is losing altitude right now,
and you're worried about what the in flight movie is
and when it's gonna be played during the flight, and
so betts By any way, you slice it is terrible. Listen.
Is he gonna be terrible forever? No? Right, I'm doing
a show right now. Today. He sucks. He's horrible, right,
(33:26):
worst season of his career going back to his days
in Boston and the lowest ops of his career. He's
a two forty hitting shortstop who will often make mistakes
on routine plays, and one hundred points lower than his
previous career low. So that's not even just a little
bit worse. That's like, that's like falling into the Grand Canyon.
(33:48):
Is how bad that is? And you've got to grind
through the bad years like that. Everyone's gonna bed be
great and you're judged on the Hall of Fame by
your whole career and you don't worry about it. And
Willie Mays had bad years, and Ricky Henderson had some
very mid years, and they still got their little plaque
and Sleepy Cooper'stown. They got that going for them. And
(34:09):
you're worried about like a smudge, Mookie Batcher. You're like,
why I go a little smudge in my suit here?
And you're not even at the banquet, like you're not
even there yet, So who cares?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
All? Right?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Now? Final point? We go to New York City, the
Big Apple. A lot of chattering baseball because Pete Alonso,
the Polar Bear, ended up breaking the New York Metropolitans
franchise home run record as he said, see a later
(34:41):
straw and zoom past Darryl Strawberry with career home run
number two fifty three. So Peter Alonzo has passed Darryl
strawberry by in the Mets record book. However, has Pete
Alonzo also passed Darryl straw By in the hearts minds
(35:03):
of the Mets Fan. So I'm gonna answer this like
I'm playing Wheel of Fortune. I'm gonna answer this like
I'm playing Wheel of Fortune. So I'd like an N
and can I buy a vowel? I would like to
buy an Oh so I want an N. I want
to buy a vowel. I'd like to have an O
and sparler alert put those together, slap those together. And
that's what's that spell No, that spells It spells no.
(35:27):
That's what it's about. No is what it's most So
Pete Alonzo is the Mets masher, the monster Mets masher.
Right now, He's at the top of the record book.
And isn't that special? Isn't that cute? That's adorable, Pee Alonzo,
mister home run derby guy, Pete Alonzo. However, however, you
(35:49):
do a side by side compission, you're talking about Darryl Strawberry.
Darryl Strawberry was not a great postseason player. He hit
one of the big home runs for the Mets, if
you remember, if you're old enough or you went back
and watch the six playoffs. But this is not a
moment where you're passing the torch. This is not Strawberry
symbolically passing the mantle to Peter Alonzo. It's just not.
(36:12):
And it's like saying, well, broccoli is going to replace
donuts as a food that sells at the county Fair.
We're going to sell more broccoli this year than donuts.
Broccoli will be more popular. Well, no, obviously not. They're
not even the same food group for people to go
(36:34):
to the fair. And Peter Alonzo's broccoli obviously, and strawberry
is a nice donut. And Daryl was not just a
guy hitting those home runs back you know, a million
years ago. Forty I can't believe that forty years almost
has been. But he will even just hitting the home run.
Think about Strawberry, and I'm not he sucked it with
(36:56):
the Dodgers. It was embarrassing. He was doing more coke
than hitting the baseball when he was with the Dodger.
But he was the straw Daryl Strawberry that stirred the
big apple cocktail. I mean, he was it. And you
know he did everything, hit home runs, he'd throw guys out,
He you know, snorted cocaine off the hookers, took us
the whole thing playing for those eighty eighty nineteen eighties Mets.
(37:17):
And uh, smooth swing. I just smooth, elegant watching Strawberry
swing the bat and brought the drama tablet. Him and
Dwight Gooden, we're always in the tableaus back before social media.
So and it's just the eighty six Mets. They were parabolic,
the eighty six Mets here and you think about wild
(37:39):
Bill Hitcock with the bat in his hands, a mythical
character there and a poker chip on the other hand.
And you got Darryl Strawberry. He was like Donkey Kong
launching barrels for the for the Mets, and he got
the lines. And listen, Pete Scott as many home runs
as Strawberry. You know, he's a home run king for
the Mets right now and all that stuff. I just
look at him, like a lot of empty calories? Is
(38:02):
that fair? I think that's fair. There's a lot of
empty calories with Pee Alonzo hitting home runs and he's
like eating a big supersized box of twinkies. Like, all right,
you ate the twinkies. That's good. They taste good. You're
feeling pretty good at the moment you're eating them. And
then when you take some time and they settle into
your stomach and you're sitting there and you're wondering, man,
(38:25):
what did I eat? What did I do? Like? What
is that The Mets have not reached the peak of
the mountains since nineteen eighty six. The last that eighty sixteen,
the last time they won. Pee Alonzo was born in
nineteen ninety four, eight years after they had their last
championship as the Mets. And is he a talented guy? Yes,
(38:46):
of course, pet A Lonzo is a talented player. And
it's cool that he did a lot of the home
run derby's and all that stuff where a lot of
these other a lot of these other Dingleberries would not
do it because they're a hooses and Alonzo would be
in it, and that's great. And he hits some home
runs in the playoffs. Sure, does he light up the
room in the playoffs? Does he have the fear factor
(39:07):
ped A lions on the plaf No, not really. It's
more like a lava lamp which does light up. There's
a little bit of glow there. Yeah, nothing nothing magical.
And so Strawberry the point of all this, he's still
the king and still the guy that is in Mets,
the mythological part of the Mets. You know, he's the
(39:29):
guy that rides in on the white horse, Daryl Strawberry
and Pete Alonzo's kind of the guy that shows up
to the Mets barbecue. The franchise barbecue. You got strawberry
and a white horse. And then Alonzo comes in there
and he's got a paper bag and he's got a
metal tin of potato salad, and he says, hey, guys,
I brought the potato salad. You know who wants potato salad?
(39:51):
Nobody likes potatoes. I remember it. Anyone likes potato sounds disgusting.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
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Speaker 1 (40:00):
Here we go, Here we go the game? How about that?
Speaker 2 (40:03):
To their gets grilled? All right?
Speaker 1 (40:09):
Cool Bolo.
Speaker 4 (40:10):
The Athletic has released their latest quarterback rankings, compiled from
a panel of GM's coaches and other executives. They have
Brock Perty at number fourteen. Now, some are looking at
that as a snub. Do you think that's about right
for Party?
Speaker 1 (40:23):
I would say it's too high for brock Party. He
does not have pinpoint accuracy, he does not have great mobility.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (40:31):
Those things are put together based on your skill set,
and he doesn't elevate his teammates. It's the other way around.
So I think that's very generous to have him a
system quarterback that high. I think that's a little much.
Actually it's too high.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Next, for the first time in the school's history, Texas
is the AP preseason number one. Do you think they
are deserving of the ranking or is this just arch
Manning hype? Well, it's the whole preseason ranking thing is dumb.
It's you know, it's all about I know, do it
for TV, the razzle dazzle.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Nobody knows anything, and Texas has had a lot of hype,
and arch Manning is very important to the business of
college football, so that's why they did it. Next, Kyle
Schwarber continues to light it up for the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
Now twenty games over five hundred, they're ahead of the
Mats in the NALY is a comfortable lead. Ben, Do
you think Swarburn has any chance of challenging Otani for
the MVP?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
No, he's He's a better offensive player this year than Otani.
He's second in home runs in RBIs. But no, Otani's
because of the pitching stuff. He's gonna win. How do
we do? What do we do? That's a pass? I won,
of course I won.
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Gear Rye, gear Rye to night, gear right to night,
dear ry.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
You heard the man at Time for Love here on
the Ben Mallor Show. And as a few of you
may know, summer is coming to an end, which means
cuffing season is upon us. And Ben, you don't know
what cuffing season is, No, and.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Isn't the hottest part of the year usually in September anyway.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
So it's like in summer areas, yes, especially in California,
but no, coffing season is right before the holidays, right
before it starts to get cold. You pick your favorite
person from the summer and you put a cuff on them, right, So, now,
so that is your person for the winter.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Okay, So then you can dump them before before summer,
before Valentine's before Valentine's Yeah, okay, so you say August,
late August to early February relationship.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
So you take them home to meet your family so
they don't bug you all winter, like, oh, are you
seeing anyone?
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yes? Mom, meet Vanessa. Isn't she beautiful?
Speaker 5 (42:52):
And then you leave her in the dumpster at the
beginning of the night.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Okay, so that's the move. Okay, that's that's solid. I
did not realize that was the term.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
I want to put out a little public p s
a here. Okay, do not send me pictures of your
third leg?
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Are people doing that?
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Really?
Speaker 5 (43:08):
A bunch of Really, I'm about to just start posting
them on my Instagram.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Oh, I don't let anyone wants that either, But yeah,
these guys must be very proud. I gotta tell you, Lorenda,
I have never ever done that. Of course, I'm all
my old I didn't you know. I didn't have that
opportunity to do that in my younger days. But I
there's nothing I'm proud enough there to to promote in
that way.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
Uh sending this picture?
Speaker 4 (43:35):
No, does that work? I can't imagine that ever. I mean,
I don't know, somebody does a woman just be like,
oh man, I just I just have to I was.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I wasn't into that guy, but now, oh my gosh,
I yeah, I don't know. Listen, Okay, try turned on.
I understand, I understand, all right, down, all right, here's
some questions. Late night drug tester says, is it okay
to test a couch at the furniture store to make
(44:09):
sure there's enough room to maneuver on said couch?
Speaker 5 (44:13):
Yes, and you should try all the positions. You should
lay upside down, you should lay over the edge, make.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Twister do like, yeah, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
Because that the couch is not going to work for you.
And honestly, oh my gosh, you could get one of
those like let's say the couch is a little flat, right,
you could get one of those body shape position things.
They come in like triangle shades.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah, so you can, okay, support all right, that's I
go to the phone's Nico is in Minnesota. Nico, you're
on with Lorraina. It's the Queen of Hearts. Hey, Lorena,
I drew a very inappropriate picture and I was pranking
the guys that work, sticking it on their locker.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
But I can't leave that kind of stuff that would
so I bring it home and put it in a
cool bag.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
I forget about it. In my my wife finds that
picture and how do I get that picture back? She?
I think obfiscated it for me and ask me what's
wrong with me?
Speaker 4 (45:02):
But it was just a praying.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
Yeah, you know, maybe draw her a couple of pictures.
Has she destroyed them them in the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Draw a new one? Has she destroyed the picture?
Speaker 2 (45:12):
It was the original.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
I worked on it for about twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
I mean it was very good.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
So it listened twenty minutes in your life when you're
on your deathbed someday, I wish I had that twenty
minutes back. And you're to say I wish they had
that picture, Well, exactly, Yeah, you'd be buried with it.
You need it, you need it. That's such a sad story. Niko.
You're such a great artist. I mean you're like Picasso
over there. All right, death, thank you?
Speaker 5 (45:34):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Next up, ferg Dog says, how long do you need
to date a girl before it's okay to ask her
for help while manscaping? You know, if she.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Cares about you, she'll be down to help you manscape
at any time. That goes from like pimple popping, helping
you get the hair out.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Of your ears, or other places places.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
If she really does love you, she'll do it at
any point.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Shane and the Moyes says, do you have any tattoos
or have you ever that's shaded them?
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (46:02):
Yes, I had multiple tattoos, and I've had a few piercings.
I've taken them out over time, though I really don't
have any piercings at the moment.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
No, you've got one. Time.
Speaker 5 (46:11):
Me and my girlfriends we went and got our booms
on at the same time. Yeah and uh yeah, then
we just took him out just like that.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Don't need him anymore. The Queen of hearts right there with.
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Speaker 2 (47:03):
Good morning, Ben thank.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
You, brings it look beautiful. Everyone loves him outstanding.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
I'm going to send you a roll of five. I
don't have boxes for him, but you can probably give
him away at the Vegas meeting.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
All right, well, very good. We'll have to find a way.
We'll have a contest or something to give some of
those things away. That's a good idea. All right, Who
do you want to partner up with? Mister irrigation? All right?
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Look at that?
Speaker 1 (47:28):
I got big shocker. Oh the rain is jealous? All right,
hold on a sec and we have far out Dave?
How far out he's in? Ohio? Hello? Far out Dave.
I'm out there there, I'm out there with Neptune. How
are you sported? Hello Dave? Who do you want to partner? O?
Speaker 3 (47:45):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (47:46):
What's Bill doing? Rolling?
Speaker 4 (47:48):
Went up?
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Bill? Miller's out smoking a stogie in the hall?
Speaker 5 (47:52):
Whatever been done? Ben? Against Bill?
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Point? That's not been done? All right? We got that's right?
All right, fairy good. Let's play the game. Let me
make sure everyone's still on the air. Mister irrigation. We
have a list of words. Don't cheat. One to ten,
mister irrigation. Please pick eight, number seven, number seven. All right,
(48:18):
how about to pay? Yeah, there you go. Ten? Nothing good, guys,
ten nothing good guys. Alright, far out, Dave. You're up two,
number two? All right? Cool, alright, let's go with wow.
(48:41):
This is a tough one. Clutter, clutter junk. No, all right,
how about we go with number two. Let's go with
untidy flash? No, all right, we're down. We started with
(49:04):
ten points nine eight now eight points. Let's let's try yes,
I guess, uh, oh, coops, drowning litter, I don't know,
I organized No, how about muddled.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Massing.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Yeah, that's that wady to go? All right? What was
that like six points or something? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
I think I was overthinking that.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Shut out was keeping this run up the score. Mister irrigation,
pick a number one to ten, but not two and
not seven? Number one, number one, number one. This one's
a hard one. Actually, this was a good one.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (49:57):
Let's go with Let's go with disguise.
Speaker 4 (50:10):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
We're on the air, mister. I think he's using your maneuver,
mister irrigation, did you lose him?
Speaker 4 (50:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (50:20):
I don't think we lost him. He's he's thinking costume,
he said, costume. All right, let's go up conceal. No, misteration,
I'm gonna use I said, disguise. I'm gonna use military quickly. No,
(50:43):
the word was camel flies. We want anyway, all right,
we want mister irrigation.
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now till later. And there are some reasons for that.
We'll get to that later, but I'll begin I love
you that is not one of the reasons, but we
(01:59):
will begin with GQ. When you think overnight talk radio,
you think GQ magazine. So yeah, well we go where
the stories are and a couple of times a year,
a couple of times a year, GQ magazine a feature
and athlete and they they have to put something little
spicy in there. You gotta put something spicy because who
(02:21):
the hell reads GQ magazine? Who reads magazines at all anymore?
It's basically a website, So they have to throw something
in there. And Travis Kelcey took center stage. When you
think GQ, you think Travis Kelcey. Well, there's a guy
that's done on one to eighty in his left. So
if you didn't see this, then maybe not. In a
cover story for GQ, Travis Kelsey has spilled his guts, yes,
(02:47):
all about his career, that little singing girl that he's
dating and all that. Now, Kelsey was brutally honest allegedly
these things. But the quotes are there. So Travis Kelcey
about the dimp? Can you do the dimp? How low
(03:09):
can you go? How low can you go? The production
for the Chiefs. If you've not been paying attention to
the last couple of years, Travis Kelcey has been going down, down, down, down, down, down, down,
down down, and the rock bottom was a wretched puke
can your mouth performance in the Super Bowl where it
(03:32):
looked like he had been partying all week on Bourbon
Street and had nothing, nothing for the game. It was
one of the great embarrassing moments in Super Bowl history,
the no show by Travis Kelcey against the Philadelphia Eagles,
who man handled him, pushed him around. But that's just
(03:52):
a small sliver of what has been going on. Kelsey's
production has been lacking the last couple of years, and
he has revealed the reason behind the slip, slip, slip,
and fall in production, his lack of performance the decline
in Kansas City. He said, quote, I think it might
(04:15):
have slipped a little bit, because, by the way, a
little bit, how about a lot? I says it might
have slipped a little bit this quote. I did have
a little bit more focus, Kelsey said, on trying to
set myself up, and opportunities came up where I was excited,
Kelsey said, to venture into a new world of acting
(04:37):
and being an entertainer. Kelsey said. He went on to say,
I don't say this as I shouldn't have done it,
meaning Kelsey's proud of the fact that he's hurt the
job that he had in Kansas City. Team let the
team down. Kelsey's not upset that he did that at all.
He says, I don't say that this I shouldn't have
(04:59):
done it. I'm just saying that my work ethic is such.
Kelsey said that I have so much pride in how
I do things that I never want the product to
tail off. And I feel like these past two years,
Kelsey said, I have not been to my standard close.
Quote Okay, so let's discuss. That's the money quote, So
(05:21):
we'll discuss. We'll jump off that and talk about that
particular quote right there. So question for the esteem Panel,
which you are part of, chief star Travis Kelsey saying
his last two seasons, his last two seasons have not
been up to his standard amid his acting career, which
is going on right now. So how does that sound
(05:43):
to you? How does that sound to you? So I've
got green juice, Halloween, and rooster, and we're going to
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a delicious cookie Sunday with extra little chips
of chocolate chip cooking in there. And we've got some
(06:03):
vanilla ice cream. But then we'll mix in some different
toppings on top of that. Be just delicious. All right.
So A my first thought on this is nothing screams.
Nothing screams. Hey, I'm still football guy. I want you
to know I am still football guy. Then posing in
I don't know, three thousand dollars pants on GQ and
(06:24):
wearing a wig, that's football guy. That is modern football guy.
Just ask the Bears quarterback. I don't know. Maybe Kelsey
had his nails painted on the GQ thing too, I
don't know. Now we appreciate, we do. We appreciate Travis
Kelsey's honesty. We want that he's admitting the things that
(06:44):
we have pointed out. And of course anytime you point
this out the fanboys in Kansas City, you don't know
what you're talking about. Kelsey's fine, they're just double teaming. Yeah, okay,
Now Kelsey's admitting you're all a bunch of idiots that
he wasn't working as hard. He just wasn't right. And
(07:05):
Travis Kelsey is it's not easy being Taylor Swift's arm candy.
It's not that job is not that easy. He's now
become Kelsey America's favorite Golden Retrievers. It's just hilarious. And
so there he is right, and the last two years
(07:27):
el sucko for the Chiefs. It's the Hollywood Vortex, which
is undefeated. That starts out simple enough, just one acting. Hey, Travis,
it's your agent here. Can we we got a gig
for you. Can you fly out to La We want
to do this thing is yeah, just take a couple
of days. Sure, I'll do it, no problem. Next thing,
(07:48):
you know, you're doing a game show. Then for some reason,
you're playing a waiter in an Adam Sandler movie for
no apparent reason, and so he's morphed in traps Kelsey
to the Hollywood. I guess the NFL version nothing the
NFL version of the Rock. He's just lacking some of
the workouts because the Rock still works out. But apparently
(08:10):
Kelsey let let himself go a little bit. Now, this
is classic that Travis Kelcey admitted publicly with no shame
in his game that yeah, I lost, I have lost
a stab, But I want you to know I am
really good at a table read. I mean, I f
and kill it at a table read. I am so
(08:30):
freaking good. Now, certainly are there others that have gone
down that road and been able to pull it off?
Like I know? This is more of a modern thing.
I don't remember Jerry Rice with the forty nine ers
back in the day leaving the Niners to go do
a reality show and saying, hey, mister Montana, I'll be back.
(08:53):
I gotta do this show. I'll be back in a
couple of days. I don't remember that. Maybe it happened,
I don't know. But Kelsey's spending a lot of time
I guess doing that meathead podcast that he does, and
they're doing. Do they rehearse that? I don't know. I
don't listen to it, but I know I know he's
(09:13):
admitting he's not really doing the two minute drill practice
as much. So listen Kelsey, who has recently been better
doing like some kind of cameo in a Hallmark Christmas
movie about the Chiefs and rather than the Super Bowl,
of course, I want you to know you taking a
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bowel movement and flushing and wiping more successful than Travis
Kelce in the most recent Super Bowl. So he's in
his mid thirties. The cliff is coming fast, it's right there.
And instead of fighting and throwing haymakers at Father Time,
he's letting the guy move in and Father Times now
(09:57):
doing some redecoration is what he's doing here. And he's
got the double whammy, Oh, the double whammy, the double
he he's aging, and he's spending more time trying to
perfect his podcast and procure his next Hollywood gig. Then
(10:17):
whether or not he needs to block or go out
and catch pas like you don't really worried much about that.
And pretty soon it will not be long. We're all
going to see Travis Kelsey show up to Chiefs practice
and he'll be wearing sunglasses maybe it's already happened. But
you know those a holes and entertainment to where sunglasses
(10:38):
indoors those people and they sip some kind of weird
green juice that they heard about from some shaman somewhere
and then they call everyone, babe, what's up babe? That
kind of thing right, And then Mahomes in the cartoon
bubble in my head, Patrick Mahomes, Mahomie. He's like, dude,
all I'm really into is what a Burger? What are
(11:00):
you doing? I just bought some what a Burgner franchise?
What the f is wrong with you? And Mahomes will
be looking around, where's my tight end? Where's my tight end?
And someone will come over from the chiefs and say, hey, Patrick,
he's right now. He's on set with some Jennifer Aniston
thing or something like that. I don't know, I don't
know what that is, but they're doing something. So this
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is what happens with Hollywood Kelsey. You got Hollywood Kelsey,
and that's not my tight end anymore. He's an entertainer now,
staying in Hollywood. But turning the page from the Travis
Kelsey story, we go to Hollywood Royalty. Denzel Washington, Denzel Washington,
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who is not a happy camper. He's upset with the
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. Do you see this the
legend of many uber successful films. He was on some show,
Old Morning Guy I don't know the name of is
Stephen A. Smiths got some show. I don't even what
(12:04):
watches that anyway, It talked about the Cowboys that came
up in conversation, and Denzel Washington suggested that Jerry Jones
his handling of Micah Parsons, who hasn't signed that extension,
the situation was a disservice to the fans, disservice to
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the Cowboy fans. And the quote is as follows from
Denzel Washington said, he's not thinking about us, the fans.
Jerry said, he is thinking about his pockets. It's like
there's the box office and then there's the Oscars, Denzel
Washington said, And you ain't been to the Oscars in
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a minute. At the end of the day, I always
love when somebody says at the end of the day.
Love that he says at the end of the day.
Denzel Washington said, I'm still gonna wear my hat with
the star on it, he said. Now. Washington then tried
to dot the I Denzel Washington by saying all money
ain't good money, Jerry, and then he moved on to
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promote some crappy movie. All right, so question, will Jerry
Jones change his cowboy ways because he has now been
publicly called out by Hollywood legend Denzel Washington. Right, so
let me start by this. I'll say this, so, unlike
your normal run of the mill, I don't know, overnight gasbag,
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Denzel Washington has gravitas obviously a little bit more than me.
A little bit more than me, uh, just a little bit.
So nevertheless, like Jerry Jones, he is not. Let me
say this from the top of the mountain, Jerry Jones
is not changing his ways, not because of Denzel Washington
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or any other Hollywood blowhard. I'm telling you, Denzi Washington.
He could show up to the Cowboys game on Thanksgiving
in Jerry's world and pretend it's Halloween. He well talk
through Halloween. He can pretend it's Halloween late Halloween. He
could dress up in a gladiator outfit and have a
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reading at halftime of Remember the Titans and do some
of the the lines from that and Jerry would still
be in the luxury suite counting how many commas are
on the bank statement and the revenue. You see, Jerry
Jones when you talk about movies, and Denzel was like
bragging about the oscars as opposed to the ones that
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make money. But Jerry Jones has been pretty clear he's
a comic book movie guy. Those are the ones people
pay to watch. You know. He's not into the artsy
fartsy movie. Jerry wants big, big box office. He wants
a billion tickets sold worldwide and all that stuff and
care the critics say, and in the Rotten Tomatoes score
and all that. Doesn't care about that. See, you think
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he's losing sleeps. He got called out by a big star,
you know, and the Cowboys haven't won Best Picture in
the NFL. Comer Jerry Jones, he's the Michael Bay of
football management. A lot of explosions, a lot of spectacles,
cgi all that stuff there, and there's no real storyline
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in terms of the playoffs other than failure. And there's
no awards. And Jerry's just going to keep rolling out
fast and furious movies because people watch them. The Dallas Drift,
whatever you want to call it because it works and
it's a good formula. And here's the other thing. And
I need to point this out because Denzel said something
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that he lost all credibility with his criticism of Jerry Jones.
Did you notice what he said that he lost everything?
Denzel said he still loves the Cowboys, all right, So
it's like put but in a conversation with anything before
the word butt is it's a lie. So Denzel like,
he still loves the cowboy. That's the whole point. He's
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not apathetic. Now, he's not apathetic if he If he were,
then we'd be having a different conversation. But he's not.
The Oscar winner is still wearing the hat with the
star on it. That's a cowboy hat. Jerry got money
for that hat. And Denzel's like, hey, you know, he's
like the guy that sees the sequel. We all know
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people like this. We all know people like this, the
guy that sees the sequel to the bad movie franchise
that made like two good movies back in the nineties.
But you're still watching hoping that they're gonna make something
good now And for the cowboys, how about him? Cowboys?
As long as the stadium is full and the TV
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ratings are baffo sokka, which they seemingly always are. You know,
Jerry's not and there's too old to change anyway. But
even if that were the case, he'd consider it. But
Denzel's going to keep being disappointed every late December and January.
That's how that's going to go, all right, quickly. The
last word here to the land of television the boob
(17:15):
tube report card out, report card out. Shedur Sanders, the
four string quarterback of the Cleveland Browns, made his exhibition
debut last week. The Brownies played the Panthers in an
exhibition game that somehow drew two point three million viewers,
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had a solid rating, all the key demos, all the
key demos, big ratings. So can you put Can you
put the massive NFL exhibition TV ratings for a Browns
Titans game into context? So yes, I can put this
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into context. The Browns and Panthers are bad at football.
They suck. They combined last year to win eight games
between them. Eight. That's it. They went between both. You
can mind both, they were eight and twenty six last year.
There's no star power, there's no juice. They don't have
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big name coaches, they don't have star players, they have
none of the things that you would normally associate with
drawing a big audience, and yet they got more people
to watch that game then the highest rated MLB regular
season game, as I understand it, the highest rated regular
season baseball game this year, Yankees and Dodgers. Yankees and Dodgers,
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like two point two million. Two point two million, I
believe was the rating on that. And so that's where
we are. A exhibition game between two dog food NFL
teams gets better ratings and than the Dodge and the Yankees.
And so that's why the NFL schmucks. The executives there
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at the NFL, they run around like the banti rooster
and they've they've got their chest out and they're just
chest pumped out and all that stuff, and they've got
they know they can serve an inferior product. It's like
a restaurant and saying, I'm we're going to serve food
that has had maggots on it, and people are gonna
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buy it and they're gonna pay full price for it.
And it's just the way it is. And we know
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so or lead. This hour is from baseball. We will
address in the B block the B for bad B
for bad Dodgers on the field. But another day, another scandal. Now,
this story blew up. We had mentioned this in a
previous episode of the show, and it took a life
of its own in the hours since we talked about it,
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and we just tossed it out here. It is. It's
like a boomerang. It's come back again. So if you
don't know where I'm going with this, Shohei Otani and
his agent Nez battle Loo, probably butchering the name, but
he has been sued. The agent and Otani, they've both
been sued. That's what you need to know about this.
And essentially the argument is that they screwed over a
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big real estate company, couple of big muckety MUCKs in
the real estate world in Hawaii, costing these people hundreds
of millions of dollars. The lawsuit filed in the Circuit
Court of Hawaii where everyone wears Hawaiian shirts. This happened
actually last week, but the story just came out in
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the last couple of days, and as we've said, it's
bounced all over the echo chamber here. It's kind of
a big deal. In the actual legal documents, the plaintiffs
claim that Otani and his agent are saboteurs. They sabotaged
a two hundred and forty million dollar real estate venture,
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and they had all entered into this and ix nay
on the according to the lawsuit, and they're pointing the
finger at the Dodger Star who was supposed to endorse
and promote this real estate project, which was actually located
on the Big Island. That's the one that not many
people go to. The Big Island. The sinse deleted website,
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which at one point was boomint Booming for the project,
said that Otani would buy a home in this part
of Hawaii and the Big Island and act as a
quote celebrity spokesperson and build a baseball workout facilities on
the Big Island, clearly trying to get some of that
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money from Japan to invest in the Big Island of Hawaii.
You don't have to be a business mogul to know
what this is all about. So let us discuss the question.
You take a couple of steps back and you look
at what has happened with Otani the last couple of
years as he's joined the Dodgers, and you have to
ask question with the latest legal issue, is shoh Otani
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clueless or is he ruthless? All right, those are the
only options. Clueless is over here and ruthless is over here,
So which one is it? So my observations, I've got
teflon construction site and Donkey Kong, and we will combine
all of these things together and we are going to
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give you billable hours, which Otani is spending a lot
of money on billable hours. So number why said number?
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Why?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Number? So, assuming the position it's either or one or
the other. The only two options are Otani is clueless
or he's ruthless. Those are the only options. This is
like that old aloha means hello and goodbye thing, except
this version of aloha means good Buy to your money
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by by aloha to your money. And imagine if you will,
buying this group that had all this land, this ocean
front property in the big Island there and then finding
out that there was a surprise lava flow. Now, this
lava flow was not from an actual volcano on the
Big Island. It was from sho Heotani and all that.
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So it kind of sounds like that's what's happening. But
the answer the question, the arrow on this one is
pointing towards Otani as ruthless. Right, There's a lot going on,
like we are not getting the full story here. There's
a lot of people that are writing the coattails of Shohotani.
We're not getting what's really going on. There's a lot
of people that are toe liquors as I like to
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call them, that are the beneficiaries of the star power
of Otani. I'm just on the sidelines. I'm just observing
what's been going on the last couple of years. Just
looking at what's been going on, this is another star
that's got a lot of stuff going on. There's a
lot of issues here and it's always been that way.
Like Michael Jordan was addicted to gambling. There were some
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legendary stories that came out after Jordan played for the
Chicago Bulls about some of his dalliances with the ladies.
Babe Ruth was a legendary womanizer with the Yankees. Barry
Bonds was a complete douche and also like the Peds,
he blew himself up. Looked like a parade in the
Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. There Thanksgiving Parade with Macy's, and
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they all played, and they had their careers and all that.
But everyone's got some dirt on them. Everyone's got some
dirt on them. And I also believe everyone's got multiple personality.
No one's Mother Teresa all the time, and no one's
the devil all the time. Right, you're somewhere in the
middle and the guy that you see hitting bombs and
he hit another home run. Dodgers suck. So they lost
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to the pathetic Angels again. How embarrassing These guys don't
even care. More on that in a minute, but it
was about all TIMI. So he had a home run
late dodge. Of course, Bullpen came in and vomited all
over the mound and gave the game to the Angels
and extra innings. So Otani hits a home run, and
you think he's reading the fine print. So the argument
is gonna be, well, Tani's a big star and his
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agent took care of this, and you think he's reading
real estate contracts on Hawaiian real estate. Come on, you
think he's sitting there reading the zoning laws for the
big island of Hawaii. Of course not please, right, So
then they'll argue he's just clueless. He's just a dumb
dumb is what they're going to say. But you combine
everything together and you see patternicity. You see the lawsuit
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that took place, and you can sue anyone for anything.
There's also a gambling scandal that was taking place while
he was with the Angels, and there's a buddy of
his that's in jail for a few years there who
took the hit on that, and so Otani is looking
like the Teflon don in all this, and The bigger point,
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and the point I'm trying to get at, is he
is so massive in that industry. He's too big to fail.
That Otani is the single most important player in Major
League Baseball in at least fifty years, likely a lot
longer than that. And you're not letting a real estate
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deal doing Otani. You're not letting a gambling scandal. I
don't care if he's betting seventeen parlays in the dugout.
They're not gonna have Otani go down for that. And
so this will end up, as I look into my
crystal ball, it will end up as a misunderstanding. It's
a misunderstanding. There'll be some kind of charity donation, and
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you'll see some commercials on Major League Baseball broadcast. They'll
call him a show hey or a loja show a,
and that they'll do that whole thing. I learned one
of my professors years ago. There was a professor named
Chris Carter. He may or may not have played for
the Minnesota Vikings, and he taught me. Chris Carter taught me,
you gotta have a fall guy, gotta have a fall guy.
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So guess what the fall guy originally was Otani's personal assistant,
but he's translator guy. But he's in jail so she
can't use him again. So let's see who's the fall
guy gonna be. Let's do some inventory. Well, look around,
who's the fall guy? And let's see reveal answers, reveal answers.
The fall guy here is going to be anyone other
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than Otani, anyone and everyone other than Otani. So will
anything come of this? I think I've made my point.
I don't need to flog the dead horse here. Not
a damn thing will come out of this. Otani will
just smile and nod his head and and go out
and hit fifty home runs. He's got forty three home
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runs now, so it hit fifty, and the lawsuit will
go abra cadabra and will vanish like a Mike tie
at a traditional Hawaiian luau. Just gone see you later,
all right now, staying with the Dodgers, and we're gonna
get to the play on the field the minute. I
saw some other comments here that got my attention in
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recent days, and I wanted to bring them up. The
Dodgers have a shortstop, not a good one. You want
a two forty shortstop that sucks. Mookie Bets is your guy.
So Moogie Bets, who's been an abject failure for the
Los Angeles Dodger, But in the LA media they won't
call him out on that. Guys like David Vasse will
kiss his ass. So Mookie Bets very disappointing here in
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twenty twenty five, and he said of this season, he
was concerned about the Hall of Fame. He said, once
again in the Hall of Fame one day and this
will be a blemish on his Hall of Fame resume.
That was one of the quotes that Mookie Bets had recently.
How does that one hit you?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
All?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:11):
So, Moki spoiler alert. If you're talking about the Hall
of Fame right now, you have another gazillion years on
your Dodger contract, right and it's like you're you're already
shopping for a retirement condo in Boca and you still
got a job to do. Like the Hall of Fame
is last I heard Lifetime Achievement award. And that's for
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when you're sipping lemonade in the rocking chair and you're
sixty five years old and you're telling your grandkids back
in my day, I went six for six at Coors
for you one day. That's what you do. Right now,
you are in the middle of the Big Blue Marathon,
and you are one of the central reasons your team sucks.
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Mookie bets congratulations and your worrying about the ribbon. You're
running the marathon and you're just beginning the marathon and
you're worried about the finish line ribbon. I wonder what
color it is. Spoiler alert. You still have thirteen point
one miles to go. You're halfway home, and let's I check.
Baseball's not social media. Nobody really cares if you look
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good in the snapshot. They don't. And it's think of
it like a construction site, right You build your legacy
brick by brick, right, break by brick, day by day,
inning by inning, and you can also tear apart your
legacy at the same time. So you're out there, Mookie,
you're stressing because you're on the construction site. You're worried
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about the blueprints while the cement truck hasn't even parked yet.
Your priorities are a little off on this, and you know,
it's like you're acting like a pilot flying around and
the concern is, well, the in flight movie he's not
started playing it's supposed to play, but yet you're in
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the cockpit and the plane is losing altitude. That's what's
going on. The Dodger plane is losing altitude right now,
and you're worried about what the in flight movie is
and when it's gonna be played during the flight, and
so betts By any way, you slice it is terrible. Listen.
Is he gonna be terrible forever? No? Right, I'm doing
a show right now. Today. He sucks. He's horrible, right,
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worst season of his career going back to his days
in Boston and the lowest ops of his career. He's
a two forty hitting shortstop who will often make mistakes
on routine plays, and one hundred points lower than his
previous career low. So that's not even just a little
bit worse. That's like, that's like falling into the Grand Canyon.
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Is how bad that is? And you've got to grind
through the bad years like that. Everyone's gonna bed be
great and you're judged on the Hall of Fame by
your whole career and you don't worry about it. And
Willie Mays had bad years, and Ricky Henderson had some
very mid years, and they still got their little plaque
and Sleepy Cooper'stown. They got that going for them. And
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you're worried about like a smudge, Mookie Batcher. You're like,
why I go a little smudge in my suit here?
And you're not even at the banquet, like you're not
even there yet, So who cares?
Speaker 2 (34:19):
All? Right?
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Now? Final point? We go to New York City, the
Big Apple. A lot of chattering baseball because Pete Alonso,
the Polar Bear, ended up breaking the New York Metropolitans
franchise home run record as he said, see a later
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straw and zoom past Darryl Strawberry with career home run
number two fifty three. So Peter Alonzo has passed Darryl
strawberry by in the Mets record book. However, has Pete
Alonzo also passed Darryl straw By in the hearts minds
(35:03):
of the Mets Fan. So I'm gonna answer this like
I'm playing Wheel of Fortune. I'm gonna answer this like
I'm playing Wheel of Fortune. So I'd like an N
and can I buy a vowel? I would like to
buy an Oh so I want an N. I want
to buy a vowel. I'd like to have an O
and sparler alert put those together, slap those together. And
that's what's that spell No, that spells It spells no.
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That's what it's about. No is what it's most So
Pete Alonzo is the Mets masher, the monster Mets masher.
Right now, He's at the top of the record book.
And isn't that special? Isn't that cute? That's adorable, Pee Alonzo,
mister home run derby guy, Pete Alonzo. However, however, you
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do a side by side compission, you're talking about Darryl Strawberry.
Darryl Strawberry was not a great postseason player. He hit
one of the big home runs for the Mets, if
you remember, if you're old enough or you went back
and watch the six playoffs. But this is not a
moment where you're passing the torch. This is not Strawberry
symbolically passing the mantle to Peter Alonzo. It's just not.
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And it's like saying, well, broccoli is going to replace
donuts as a food that sells at the county Fair.
We're going to sell more broccoli this year than donuts.
Broccoli will be more popular. Well, no, obviously not. They're
not even the same food group for people to go
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to the fair. And Peter Alonzo's broccoli obviously, and strawberry
is a nice donut. And Daryl was not just a
guy hitting those home runs back you know, a million
years ago. Forty I can't believe that forty years almost
has been. But he will even just hitting the home run.
Think about Strawberry, and I'm not he sucked it with
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the Dodgers. It was embarrassing. He was doing more coke
than hitting the baseball when he was with the Dodger.
But he was the straw Daryl Strawberry that stirred the
big apple cocktail. I mean, he was it. And you
know he did everything, hit home runs, he'd throw guys out,
He you know, snorted cocaine off the hookers, took us
the whole thing playing for those eighty eighty nineteen eighties Mets.
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And uh, smooth swing. I just smooth, elegant watching Strawberry
swing the bat and brought the drama tablet. Him and
Dwight Gooden, we're always in the tableaus back before social media.
So and it's just the eighty six Mets. They were parabolic,
the eighty six Mets here and you think about wild
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Bill Hitcock with the bat in his hands, a mythical
character there and a poker chip on the other hand.
And you got Darryl Strawberry. He was like Donkey Kong
launching barrels for the for the Mets, and he got
the lines. And listen, Pete Scott as many home runs
as Strawberry. You know, he's a home run king for
the Mets right now and all that stuff. I just
look at him, like a lot of empty calories? Is
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that fair? I think that's fair. There's a lot of
empty calories with Pee Alonzo hitting home runs and he's
like eating a big supersized box of twinkies. Like, all right,
you ate the twinkies. That's good. They taste good. You're
feeling pretty good at the moment you're eating them. And
then when you take some time and they settle into
your stomach and you're sitting there and you're wondering, man,
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what did I eat? What did I do? Like? What
is that The Mets have not reached the peak of
the mountains since nineteen eighty six. The last that eighty sixteen,
the last time they won. Pee Alonzo was born in
nineteen ninety four, eight years after they had their last
championship as the Mets. And is he a talented guy? Yes,
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of course, pet A Lonzo is a talented player. And
it's cool that he did a lot of the home
run derby's and all that stuff where a lot of
these other a lot of these other Dingleberries would not
do it because they're a hooses and Alonzo would be
in it, and that's great. And he hits some home
runs in the playoffs. Sure, does he light up the
room in the playoffs? Does he have the fear factor
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ped A lions on the plaf No, not really. It's
more like a lava lamp which does light up. There's
a little bit of glow there. Yeah, nothing nothing magical.
And so Strawberry the point of all this, he's still
the king and still the guy that is in Mets,
the mythological part of the Mets. You know, he's the
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guy that rides in on the white horse, Daryl Strawberry
and Pete Alonzo's kind of the guy that shows up
to the Mets barbecue. The franchise barbecue. You got strawberry
and a white horse. And then Alonzo comes in there
and he's got a paper bag and he's got a
metal tin of potato salad, and he says, hey, guys,
I brought the potato salad. You know who wants potato salad?
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Nobody likes potatoes. I remember it. Anyone likes potato sounds disgusting.
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Here we go, Here we go the game? How about that?
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To their gets grilled? All right?
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Cool Bolo.
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The Athletic has released their latest quarterback rankings, compiled from
a panel of GM's coaches and other executives. They have
Brock Perty at number fourteen. Now, some are looking at
that as a snub. Do you think that's about right
for Party?
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I would say it's too high for brock Party. He
does not have pinpoint accuracy, he does not have great mobility.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Uh.
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Those things are put together based on your skill set,
and he doesn't elevate his teammates. It's the other way around.
So I think that's very generous to have him a
system quarterback that high. I think that's a little much.
Actually it's too high.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
Next, for the first time in the school's history, Texas
is the AP preseason number one. Do you think they
are deserving of the ranking or is this just arch
Manning hype? Well, it's the whole preseason ranking thing is dumb.
It's you know, it's all about I know, do it
for TV, the razzle dazzle.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
Nobody knows anything, and Texas has had a lot of hype,
and arch Manning is very important to the business of
college football, so that's why they did it. Next, Kyle
Schwarber continues to light it up for the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
Now twenty games over five hundred, they're ahead of the
Mats in the NALY is a comfortable lead. Ben, Do
you think Swarburn has any chance of challenging Otani for
the MVP?
Speaker 1 (41:20):
No, he's He's a better offensive player this year than Otani.
He's second in home runs in RBIs. But no, Otani's
because of the pitching stuff. He's gonna win. How do
we do? What do we do? That's a pass? I won,
of course I won.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
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Speaker 1 (41:52):
Gear Rye, gear Rye to night, gear right to night,
dear ry.
Speaker 5 (41:58):
You heard the man at Time for Love here on
the Ben Mallor Show. And as a few of you
may know, summer is coming to an end, which means
cuffing season is upon us. And Ben, you don't know
what cuffing season is, No, and.
Speaker 1 (42:13):
Isn't the hottest part of the year usually in September anyway.
Speaker 5 (42:16):
So it's like in summer areas, yes, especially in California,
but no, coffing season is right before the holidays, right
before it starts to get cold. You pick your favorite
person from the summer and you put a cuff on them, right, So, now,
so that is your person for the winter.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Okay, So then you can dump them before before summer,
before Valentine's before Valentine's Yeah, okay, so you say August,
late August to early February relationship.
Speaker 5 (42:43):
So you take them home to meet your family so
they don't bug you all winter, like, oh, are you
seeing anyone?
Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yes? Mom, meet Vanessa. Isn't she beautiful?
Speaker 5 (42:52):
And then you leave her in the dumpster at the
beginning of the night.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Okay, so that's the move. Okay, that's that's solid. I
did not realize that was the term.
Speaker 5 (42:59):
I want to put out a little public p s
a here. Okay, do not send me pictures of your
third leg?
Speaker 1 (43:06):
Are people doing that?
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Really?
Speaker 5 (43:08):
A bunch of Really, I'm about to just start posting
them on my Instagram.
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Oh, I don't let anyone wants that either, But yeah,
these guys must be very proud. I gotta tell you, Lorenda,
I have never ever done that. Of course, I'm all
my old I didn't you know. I didn't have that
opportunity to do that in my younger days. But I
there's nothing I'm proud enough there to to promote in
that way.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
Uh sending this picture?
Speaker 4 (43:35):
No, does that work? I can't imagine that ever. I mean,
I don't know, somebody does a woman just be like,
oh man, I just I just have to I was.
Speaker 1 (43:47):
I wasn't into that guy, but now, oh my gosh,
I yeah, I don't know. Listen, Okay, try turned on.
I understand, I understand, all right, down, all right, here's
some questions. Late night drug tester says, is it okay
to test a couch at the furniture store to make
(44:09):
sure there's enough room to maneuver on said couch?
Speaker 5 (44:13):
Yes, and you should try all the positions. You should
lay upside down, you should lay over the edge, make.
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Twister do like, yeah, here's the thing.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
Because that the couch is not going to work for you.
And honestly, oh my gosh, you could get one of
those like let's say the couch is a little flat, right,
you could get one of those body shape position things.
They come in like triangle shades.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
Yeah, so you can, okay, support all right, that's I
go to the phone's Nico is in Minnesota. Nico, you're
on with Lorraina. It's the Queen of Hearts. Hey, Lorena,
I drew a very inappropriate picture and I was pranking
the guys that work, sticking it on their locker.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
But I can't leave that kind of stuff that would
so I bring it home and put it in a
cool bag.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
I forget about it. In my my wife finds that
picture and how do I get that picture back? She?
I think obfiscated it for me and ask me what's
wrong with me?
Speaker 4 (45:02):
But it was just a praying.
Speaker 2 (45:02):
I don't know what to do.
Speaker 5 (45:04):
Yeah, you know, maybe draw her a couple of pictures.
Has she destroyed them them in the bathroom?
Speaker 1 (45:09):
Draw a new one? Has she destroyed the picture?
Speaker 2 (45:12):
It was the original.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
I worked on it for about twenty minutes.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
I mean it was very good.
Speaker 1 (45:17):
So it listened twenty minutes in your life when you're
on your deathbed someday, I wish I had that twenty
minutes back. And you're to say I wish they had
that picture, Well, exactly, Yeah, you'd be buried with it.
You need it, you need it. That's such a sad story. Niko.
You're such a great artist. I mean you're like Picasso
over there. All right, death, thank you?
Speaker 5 (45:34):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (45:35):
Next up, ferg Dog says, how long do you need
to date a girl before it's okay to ask her
for help while manscaping? You know, if she.
Speaker 5 (45:44):
Cares about you, she'll be down to help you manscape
at any time. That goes from like pimple popping, helping
you get the hair out.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
Of your ears, or other places places.
Speaker 5 (45:55):
If she really does love you, she'll do it at
any point.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
Shane and the Moyes says, do you have any tattoos
or have you ever that's shaded them?
Speaker 3 (46:02):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (46:02):
Yes, I had multiple tattoos, and I've had a few piercings.
I've taken them out over time, though I really don't
have any piercings at the moment.
Speaker 1 (46:09):
No, you've got one. Time.
Speaker 5 (46:11):
Me and my girlfriends we went and got our booms
on at the same time. Yeah and uh yeah, then
we just took him out just like that.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Don't need him anymore. The Queen of hearts right there with.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
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Speaker 1 (46:29):
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welcome in the ring. Daddy, mister irrigation, Hell, hell, mister irrigation.
Speaker 2 (47:03):
Good morning, Ben thank.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
You, brings it look beautiful. Everyone loves him outstanding.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
I'm going to send you a roll of five. I
don't have boxes for him, but you can probably give
him away at the Vegas meeting.
Speaker 1 (47:17):
All right, well, very good. We'll have to find a way.
We'll have a contest or something to give some of
those things away. That's a good idea. All right, Who
do you want to partner up with? Mister irrigation? All right?
Speaker 2 (47:28):
Look at that?
Speaker 1 (47:28):
I got big shocker. Oh the rain is jealous? All right,
hold on a sec and we have far out Dave?
How far out he's in? Ohio? Hello? Far out Dave.
I'm out there there, I'm out there with Neptune. How
are you sported? Hello Dave? Who do you want to partner? O?
Speaker 3 (47:45):
Bud?
Speaker 2 (47:46):
What's Bill doing? Rolling?
Speaker 4 (47:48):
Went up?
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Bill? Miller's out smoking a stogie in the hall?
Speaker 5 (47:52):
Whatever been done? Ben? Against Bill?
Speaker 1 (47:55):
Point? That's not been done? All right? We got that's right?
All right, fairy good. Let's play the game. Let me
make sure everyone's still on the air. Mister irrigation. We
have a list of words. Don't cheat. One to ten,
mister irrigation. Please pick eight, number seven, number seven. All right,
(48:18):
how about to pay? Yeah, there you go. Ten? Nothing good, guys,
ten nothing good guys. Alright, far out, Dave. You're up two,
number two? All right? Cool, alright, let's go with wow.
(48:41):
This is a tough one. Clutter, clutter junk. No, all right,
how about we go with number two. Let's go with
untidy flash? No, all right, we're down. We started with
(49:04):
ten points nine eight now eight points. Let's let's try yes,
I guess, uh, oh, coops, drowning litter, I don't know,
I organized No, how about muddled.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
Massing.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Yeah, that's that wady to go? All right? What was
that like six points or something? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (49:36):
I think I was overthinking that.
Speaker 1 (49:40):
Shut out was keeping this run up the score. Mister irrigation,
pick a number one to ten, but not two and
not seven? Number one, number one, number one. This one's
a hard one. Actually, this was a good one.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (49:57):
Let's go with Let's go with disguise.
Speaker 4 (50:10):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (50:12):
We're on the air, mister. I think he's using your maneuver,
mister irrigation, did you lose him?
Speaker 4 (50:20):
No?
Speaker 1 (50:20):
I don't think we lost him. He's he's thinking costume,
he said, costume. All right, let's go up conceal. No, misteration,
I'm gonna use I said, disguise. I'm gonna use military quickly. No,
(50:43):
the word was camel flies. We want anyway, all right,
we want mister irrigation.
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