January 21, 2026 • 49 mins
Big Ben talks about Carlos Beltran being elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Mets trading for White Sox OF Luis Robert Jr., Maller to the Third Degree, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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as the one at the bully pulpit here behind the
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powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio, which apparently he's doing
pretty well. So I have the microphone here, I have
editorial control. There is no one story here that must
be talked about. There is no one story that must
be talked about for our purposes. Something happened that is
so egregious, so insane to the membrane that it has
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to lead off the show. There's nothing else over the
last ten years that has to find this radio program.
Then a story involving decrepit activity deep in the heart
of Texas, and it is taking a turn to the
wild side. So we'll start out at Cooper's Town. That's
in New York. In New York, it was election day
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for the Hall of Fame and the announcement was made out.
If you saw this or not, Like I was busy,
I don't really care. I mean I care, but I
wasn't paying attention. I'm not a loser like you. I
actually have a life, all right. So fine, So maybe
you missed it, so we'll fill you in. Center fielders
Andrew Jones, made famous from his days as a kid
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for the Atlanta Braids a teenager when he came up
for the Atlanta Braves years ago, and another life and
centerfielder Carlos Beltron. Carlos Beltron, it's painful to say the
name now. He played for a gaggle of teams, kept
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getting bounced around. Normally great players don't bounce from team
to team to team. But Carlos Beltron, who played for
the Royals, the Mets, the Cardinals, and that other team,
along with Andrew Jones, who also played with the Dodgers.
And when he played with the Dodgers, he actually worked
at SeaWorld as a blue whale on the weekends. It
was a wild he was so fat with the Dodgers.
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But anyway, those guys are in the Hall of Fame.
And the story here is rather obviously, if you paid
any attention, any attention at all, you know what the
story is. And the story here is Beltron. So that's
the part of this we're going to begin with. And
we're gonna break this down piece by piece. It's a
good jumping off point. A man that was convicted of
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being part of the cheating A Strews has been voted in,
has been voted in. Let us discuss the question. With
Carlos Beltron, the cheating astro elected to Cooper'stown, what message
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have the baseball scribes sent to the sporting world. So
I've got Ringleader, Spirit, airlines, and boot lickors, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a giant trash can, because that should
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be what goes in to Cooper's Town. You know, usually
they put the face of the player. It's a it's
a mausoleum there in Cooperstown. But they should put a
trash can instead of Beltron's face in the Hall of Fame.
Now that would be good. I would support that. I
would I don't think they're going to do that, but
I would support that. So my first my first thought is,
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this is the end of the Hall of Fame. We
should have a moment of silence. We should all sit
shiva for the Hall of Fame. It's over. This is
the day the Hall of Fame died. This is it.
It's all over. All those holier than now baseball riders
who took that vote completely seriously have decided to defecate
all over the Baseball Hall of Fame, all over it.
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Public defecation by baseball writers. What in God's name are
you doing? Seriously? You elected the dirty, rotten scoundrel Carlos
Beltron to Cooperstown. The BBWAA has pulled out the megaphone
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and they've announced to every man, woman and child. They
have announced that cheating is okay. It is acceptable, provided
it's the right kind of cheating, and it's done by
the right guy. Because we liked him. We liked him,
so we're gonna put him in the Hall of Fame.
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Beltron was not some kind of innocent bystander. He wasn't
just an eyewitness to what took place in Houston. That
the single greatest cheating scan in modern sports, the twenty
seventeen scumbags. Okay, a trash can burlesque show, it's what
it was. And he was the adult in the room.
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Beltron was the seasoned veteran and all that stuff. He
was a ringleader, a ringleader from the den in iniquity.
That's where Beltron was right there. The guy was might
as well been banging the drum. Literally while the integrity,
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the integrity of the sport was stuffed into a locker.
They locked it, and that locker had a hunk of metal,
just a piece of metal. According to the Commissioner of
Baseball there, rob Manfreud, that's it. Welcome to the hall,
the baseball riders said, my fat ass, Welcome to the hall.
And meanwhile, you've got players along the lines of Barry
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Bonds and Rocket Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez and Manny
Ramirez who's now off the ballot, who's now off the ballot?
All those guys remain locked outside the halls, right. Their
noses are pressed up against the glass there, and they're
treated like contaminated bio hazards because they cheated. Okay, you
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just let a cheater in, dummy, You just let a
cheater in, moron, you let him in the writers now
because you know they they're so on top of holy mountain, right,
they put a moat around the Hall of Fame, filled
it with crocodiles. When any steroid guy they don't like,
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I should say, gets in, I don't like them. They
of course, they rolled out the red carpet here for
electronic espionage. Can anyone make it make sense? Can they?
I mean to me, this isn't morality. This is again
selective outrage. It's the Hall of hypocrisy. It's the Hall
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of hypocrisy. And steroid gays. Now they were already in
the Hall of Fame. I guess steroid guys in the
Hall of Fame already. Now you've gone next level and say,
not only that, but we're going to allow the cheating
a holes to get in. Right, big poppy David Ortiz
comes to mind, right, look up that list from back
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in the day. He didn't pass the test, according to
the Internet, and that's what I read. So now you
have a certified bonafide cheater, cheater, Carlos Beltron who joins
the Hall of Fame, class, and so spare us the
think peace sermons. I can already tell you that they're
gonna say, oh, well, this is a healing moment.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
No it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You've just soiled the Hall of Fame. You have, You've
just done it. Congratulations, it's over. It's as meaningful as
the pro bouncy ball Hall of Fame with Muffett McGraw
and Russian coaches you've never heard of. Done the same
to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Congratulations. So there you go.
You've exposed the Hall for what it is. The Hall
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of Fame a dusty museum about four hours from New
York City, and it's run by the gatekeepers there with
crooked measuring sticks and selective amnesia. And the badge reads
Hall of Fame. The fine print rule right below that,
the fine prince says, rules applied differently. Rules applied differently,
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is what it says there Now. Meanwhile, continuing the train
of thought, so the other member of the Hall of
Fame is also bizarre. It's a different kind of bizarre.
This has become the new normal now in baseball. So
former Atlanta bravestar Andrew Jones with a with a weird
spelling of Andrew. But Andrew Jones, who was on the
ninth of ten possible appearances on the Hall of Fame
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about meaning the previous eight years he was eligible ball
Hall of Fame he didn't get in. So on year
nine out of ten, the Hall of Fame ballot came
back and all of a sudden, he had picked up
an extra seventy plus votes for the Hall of Fame,
and so he got the required threshold he got to
get over seventy five percent. Andrew Jones got seventy eight
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point four he needed seventy five, So he's in question
for the Esteem panel. What changed? What do you think
changed for Andrew Jones to pick up the extra seventy
two votes needed to get into Cooper's town. So the
answer is capitol En nothing, capitol En, nothing changed. The
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man's in his late forties. He made a lot of money.
He's not hit any more home runs I checked, no
more gold gloves added to his baseball reference page. More
likely than not, Andrew Jones is sitting around eating cinnabun
and watching YouTube videos on how to put better when
he's out golfing. So he went from seven percent when
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he first popped up on the ballot Andrew Jones seven
percent of the electorate to seventy eight over seventy eight percent.
That is not growth that involved. That should be investigation.
Let's get let's get an investigation. I think this thing
was rigged. What's going on here? All right? That's the
dollar menu Hall of Fame. And this is when you
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think about the cheater, Carlos Beltron on the Hall of Fame,
and then you put Andrew Jones in, who had seven
percent of the vote. That is a one way ticket
on Spirit airlines to crazy Town. Congratulations, baseball scribes, did
we do mail in ballots? Can we check the verification
on that ballot harvesting? Was there any of that going
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on for Andrew Jones to get in the Hall of Fame?
Somebody checked the truck of the cars in the back
of that pickup truck. There's got to be boxes of
ballots for the Hall of Fame, all right? And it
makes the baseball scribes and there're a holes anyway. Most
of these guys. I have some friends that are baseball, right,
A lot of them are just schmucks. They're all really
little people, and some of them wear bow ties and
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they think they're like God's gift to baseball, and you
obviously are not. You voted a cheater in and a
guy that had seven percent of the vote all of
a sudden gets in the Hall of Fame. This just
looks so ridiculous, so ridiculous. Hall of Fame is a
pass fail situation. It's kind of like you're either pregnant
or you're not pregnant. You know, there's not a gray area.
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There's like that, only there's a gray area. They're either
gonna have you're pregnant or you're not pregnant. And there's
no almost right, there's no almost, It's not fifty shades
of gray. And yet here we sit on this sad
day for baseball and really depressing day. I mean, I
was hoping to go to the Hall of Fame some day.
I don't think i'll go now. I think I will
avoid it. I actually was driving one time. I was
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driving through Central I was running from Buffalo down to
New York City, and I was like, well, I could
go to the Hall of Fame. This is many years ago.
It's so far off the beaten path out in the
woods that it would have taken an extra two hours
and really four hours because I had to go back
the other way, and I go some of it, but
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I don't really want to go. I mean, you're gonna
put a cheater in. There's why do I need to go.
I don't need to go. You can go for me.
You can go for me. You talk about lowering the
ball the bar right, lowering the bar like doing the limbo?
How low can you go? And all that stuff, and
this is continue Andrew Jones gets in, But you had
Scottie Rowland in recent years, Billy Wagner and now Andrew Jones,
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and people are so clueless on why this is bad.
I've always said, oh, I know you're gonna rip the
Hall of Fame, and you don't understand. This is the
feedback I get from you idiots. This is the feedback
I get from you idiots. Let me explain, all right,
the Hall of Fame to have legitimacy, this is my
my take on this. The Hall of Fame to be
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legitimate should be exclusive. You have to have standards, you
have to have stand If everyone gets in the Hall
of Fame, it's just it's just a big venue with
nice lighting. It's nothing special. It's just another random museum thing.
There's nothing special about it. You lower the standards by
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putting Billy Wagner, Scott Rowland and now Andrew Jones in
the Hall of Fame. You lower the standards. You don't
honor more players. It's not being inclusive, all right, which
was the big word a few years ago. It's not
about that. If everyone is getting it right, it doesn't
again honor more players. What it does is it cheapens
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the ones who earned it legitimately. And that's what you've done.
You cheapened the Hall of Fame for Babe Ruth and
Willie Mays and all the other greats, all the other greats.
You've cheapened it with what you've done. Congratulations, help You're
proud of yourself. You lose your baseball writers, Good job
by you, all right now. The other part of this
a developing story as tensions being ratcheted up involving the
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sport of baseball. The owners are said to be quote
raging in the wake of Kyle Tucker's record break in
contract with the Dodgers in average annual value as he
gets sixty million dollars a year and behind a paywall
on the Athletic. They're reporting it is one hundred percent
a certainty, one percent of certainty that the owners will
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have a salarycap. Now, my former radio partner actually did
some shows with this guy when I worked at EEI
years ago. Evan Drelich, who's a base he's a scribe
at the Athletic and he covers the business of sports,
and he wrote that major League Baseball is going to
go for a cap no matter what it takes, according
to his source. So question, should major League Baseball owners
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be ranging for a salary cap? So I look at
this one cross eyed. I look at this one cross eyed,
and another one of these things that I can't figure out.
I'm not that bright. That's why I'm doing the overnight show.
It does. I don't understand why poverty fans are out
there acting like billion air of boot lickers. It blows
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me away. Can you explain to me why you're a
billionaire boot licker? I'd like to know. I'll give out
the number in a minute. It's a cold war and
the regular joes are the guys working in factory driving
a truck right working their ass off, and they're carrying
the water for the aristocrats like what are you doing Like,
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it's a total shell game. It's trickeration and they're laughing
at you and you're playing along. These billionaires have convinced
the regular guy, the schmo, the person with the lunch pail,
the hard hat, that crowd that the outfielder getting the
big contract is the reason that your tickets are expensive
and you're paying twenty two dollars for nachos in a
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plastic bowl. Yeah, it's again the billionaire boot licking thing.
You've convinced that these are blue collar people doing this.
It's the ultimate con, is what it is. It's the
ultimate con. You've got the fans carrying the water for
guys who own private islands.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
We really need.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
To help these people out. We really need to make
sure they keep more of their money. It's very important.
And the other thing is, like all these teams. Owning
a Major League Baseball team, you own it because you
want to go to social events in the Hamptons and
Beverly Hills in South Beach and hang out with other
a holes that will ask you, oh like to own
your team and all that stuff. So that's why you
buy a team. It's also a license to print money.
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It is, and you never ever sell a team for
less money. The Tampa Bay Race who suck financially. Everyone
says they suck financially. They played a minor league ballpark
last year as a hurricane ripped the roof off their stadium.
They just fetched one point seven billion. Okay, there's a
conga line. Do the conga a conga line of these
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robber barons who are waiting to buy these professional sports teams,
even baseball. Why passive income? That's why it's great passive income.
It's a it's a geyser that never runs dry. The
Major League Baseball ball pie twelve billion dollars. That's a
big pie. Twelve that's a big a pizza pie, twelve
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billion dollars. So if you do the Malord math on it,
as I understand it, this Maler math. So if you
cap and say, well, we've got to divide the revenue,
twelve billion is the pie. So that would mean if
you spread the butter on the bread all over and
you do the math on that, that would mean that
each team has to have a two hundred million dollars
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payroll because it would be six billion if my math
is correct. So okay, you think the pirates want to
go for that. There's other issues here where you you
wouldn't have the money giving teams giving it, like the
pirates and the a's who aren't trying to win you
embarrassing franchises like to add the marlins, so they don't
want that. It's a cold war, is what it is.
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And the owners want fans to be their infantry. And
it sounds to me like many of dump many of
the dumb people are going along with this, like you're
you're falling, you're drinking for the the kool aid and
the cry poor, you know, they cry poor. So the
owners are the ones that are crying poor. Here the
actual people that are like not poor, poor, but you know,
not naked as much as these people. The owners are
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crying poverty, and they're collecting giant amount of the small
market teams. The teams aren't trying get checks from the
Dodgers and the Mets and the teams that are actually trying.
And it's the equivalent. I guess the analogy would be
like if you're starving and you're at a restaurant and
you're like, I'm going to vote and I'm gonna give
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the steak back the Porterhouse steak. I'm gonna give that
back to the restaurant owner because even though I'm really
hungry and I'm starving, I want them to have it.
I just they don't need it. You know, they have
plenty of stak, but I want them to have it.
But I'm starving. I just think they should have it.
It's comical. Please stop advocating, all right, Stop advocating for
the house to win. The house always wins, The House
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always wins.
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We have a deal. We have a deal in baseball.
So what is it? Who cares? That makes money? So
we've learned that the New York Metropolitans have added center
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fielder Louise Robert Junior from the Chicago White Sox. Who
what Louise Robert Junior. That doesn't make it, That doesn't
make it tingle? No, okay, the Mets will send outfielder
Louise Angel Akuna. Yes he is related to his the
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brothers siblings, the guy for the Braves that always gets hurt,
and a minor league pitcher you've never heard of. They
go from the Mets to the White Sox and the
Truman Show. There you go. So the Pope's favorite team
gets a couple of scratcher takes. Now immediately the reaction
has been what over the top? As only the Met
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fan can do, only the Met fan can do. There's
immediately the Met fans, some of them are hyping up
Luise Robert Jr. He's the great Cuban missile and just
what the roster needs, just what the roster needs, and
perfect addition to the Mets lineup. Shouting from the heavens,
we have gotten our man. It's like he's got that
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Broadway aura. They, of course, keep in mind the same
people that are saying this, the same people that are
barking this out. These are casual baseball fans, and they
when the trade was announced, they went, who is that?
What's that guy's name? That's what That was their first reaction.
And then they said, well, he's him in record time, right,
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They just they google him. They google this guy once
and they're like, all right, let's build a statue. Come
on now, right next to mister Matt We'll build a
statue right there and Ralph Kiner. So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question the
Mets trading for White Sox outfielder Luis Robert Jr. Does
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this count as a blockbuster trade? No, I've got Nordstrom rack,
corporate retreat, and where's Waldo and we will combine all
of these things together, one, two, three and ABC. So
number one I said number one, one more time. Number
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This is not a blockbuster in the traditional sense that
we use in the lexicon of sports radio. It is
not and we know this. You know this, and you're smart.
I'm smart. So this is a blockbuster video in twenty
twenty six. That's the kind of blockbuster. This is the
empty shelves, dusty DVD cases and that please that little
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sticker that used to slap on there, please be kind
and rewind. You know that thing there? That's it. That's
what this is. Once upon a time, in a land
far far ago, you had Luis Robert Jr. Who got
MVP votes. He was considered a luxury brand. Think of
it like if it was a watch, he would have
been a rolex with the white sox. He just broke out.
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Was amazing and almost forty home runs, drove in a
bunch of runs. He was great. At this point in
the story, We're at the point in the story where
Luis Robert j You're is like a scratched fit bit
sitting in the clearance bin at the Nordstrom rack. That's
where he is right now, red tag final sale as
is no returns there you go. Keep in mind, the
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Mets wanted Kyle Tucker. They thought they were gonna get
Kyle Tucker. Instead, the Mets are now convincing themselves the
front office that the broken dreams of this guy Robert
they got from the White Sox. They just needed a
new zip code. Give him a new zip code. Everything.
Change of scenery, classic change of scenery, rebirth story arc
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at Sportscasting Clown College. So there is that, and it's
kind of like the house plan is dying on your window. Still,
You've got a right on the windows kind of dying there,
and so we'll just move it a little over to
the right and then it'll be good. So let's talk
about geography. You want to talk about geography. Oh, it's
a sports radio show. We don't care about geography. So
the Mets play in Queens, the Borough of Queens, more
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specifically Flushing, which could not be more appropriate, could not
be more appropriate. That's not branding. That is baseball destiny.
That is baseball destiny. Careers don't blossom there, they don't.
They don't blossom there, and they go down the porcelain
is where they go right, do the old swirly swirl
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right there, swirl swirl and then you know where that
ends up right right around the ball and disappears into
the East River. And then someone goes and catches a
fish and the fish is in well, you know what
happens anyway. So the Mets, what do they need pitching?
You gotta get pitching. You gotta get pitching, you gotta
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get and do the Mets have that. No, Instead, they're well,
we didn't get talkers, so let's go out and get
some gold. Of course, it's it's fool's gold, is what
it is, right, And so of course many people, oh,
it's great, wonderful, not exactly the championship kind of move
when you're looking for the career renaissance. Good luck. It's
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a flyer. It's a flyer that the Mets are playing.
They're paying this guy twenty million. I spent the flyer
twenty million dollars. I read the Mets are paying this guy.
So the Mets are playing the runner up ribbon game,
as are twenty nine other teams, because all of you
have told me it's all over. There's no need to
play this season. The Dodgers are gonna win the World Series.
There's no chance they don't win the World Series. They're
gonna win the World Series. So twenty nine other teams
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are playing for the silver medal. The Dodgers have already
wrapped up the gold medal. The Mets are one of
those teams. But you look at the Mets. They have
a history of lies and promises that were never met
and hope that's always on layaway. That's the Mets, That's
the Metway, same song, years have changed, different kind of disappointment.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Meanwhile, we head to pro bouncy ball, where the Parisian
prodigy making some headlines. Here Spurs star Victor wembon Yama.
Victor Omanyama said this week, I want name of the
All Star team and all that. I want a big
face of the new age of the NBA, he said, quote.
I want to push the great players of this sport
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to play in the All Star Game just as hard
as I will. Wemby stated, We'll see how it goes,
but if they don't play hard, I'll do it without them.
Close quote it's Victor Webber Nama. Here's the question, what
are the chances just between us, what are the chances
that Wemby, the San Antonio Spurs star Wemby helps make
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the All Star Game great again by actually hustling? So
the odds malar odds on this. We spent about thirty
seconds deliberating the available information on the NBA All Star Game,
and the odds say squad Douche gets an S for
Squad Douche. Good luck on that. This is adorable though
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it is right, how naive you can be and think
that this is all going to work out for It's
kind of like a kid shown up to a poker
game with a bunch of Monopoly money in a rule book.
It's like, you might want to sit this one out,
you know. I'm just saying so. Wemby says he's gonna
play hard. He's gonna play hard. And the other stars,
of course, they don't like that, right, and he says
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if they don't pay attention, he'll just do it alone.
And that's what he's gonna do. It's terrific, very noble
of wem ban Yama to say that he's also showing
the world he's absolutely clueless, absolutely clueless. Why this Just
in to the Ben mal Show on Fox Sports Radio,
the NBA All Star Game is not broken. People think
(30:36):
it's broken. It's not broken. It is working exactly as
it is designed to work. They keep futzing around with
the format, but it's working the way they want it
to work. When I say they, I'm talking about the
people that are on the court. It is a corporate
retreat with sneakers. That's what the NBA All Star Game is.
(30:57):
A corporate retreat in sneakers. It is a showroom. It
is a handshake, grab ass convention with a basketball problem. Right.
The problem is they're supposed to play in the All
Star Game. They don't want to play in the All
Star Game. And years ago, with no one asking, the
players of the NBA were so soft. How soft were they?
(31:20):
They were so soft, these players that they voted with
their feet wildcat style, wildcat strike style, and their effort
or the lack of effort in the NBA All Star Game.
They stop caring and we stop caring, all right, so
nobody cares. That's the NBA All Star Game. No defense,
(31:41):
no diving for loose balls, no sweat stains. Some of
these guys in the Also Game. They don't even need
to take showers after the game because they don't put
no effort into the All Star Game. It's all about
positive vibes and all that, you know, and the social
media selfies and you know, put on the gram and
TikTok and the occasion we just every once in a while,
(32:02):
the uncontested circus dunk. Uh, that's just to keep the
sponsors from panicking, just to keep them from panicking and
all that stuff. So every few years, and this just
happens to be Wemby, But every few years in all
these sports, there's a young buck that comes along, that
shows up like a fire breathing dragon, and listen, I'm
gonna play. I gotta earn my money, i gotta sing
(32:24):
for my supper, and I'm gonna play hard even though
it's the All Star Game. And inevitably what happens is
tap tap, They'll get the tap on the shoulder. Hey
hey kid, we'd like to talk to you. What is it? Yeah,
so you know you're making us look bad here. It's
a it's a marathon, not a wind sprint the All
Star Game. Save save the energy, save the calories. Nobody's
(32:48):
getting paid extra for caring. No one's getting extra money
for hustling.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
So there you go. So listen, Wembley. Wemby can play hard.
Good for him, But the revolution changing the All Star Game,
making it great again is not going to happen here,
and just not. So that's how the NBA hot Dogs
are made. Good luck, I recall when I was covering
baseball years ago before the Dodgers became good, when they sucked,
and I was doing the Dodger programming in another life,
(33:16):
and there was a guy on the team that they
called up from Triple A Albuquerque Albuquerque Dukes. And this
guy was hustling and running wild and young, young outfielder,
and he got the talk and he was taught about
the what they call it the big league jog. It's
still a thing in baseball where you hit a ball
that's almost guaranteed to be an out and you don't hustle.
(33:37):
This guy would hustle, and he would make the other
guys look bad because they were lazy. They were lazy,
so he got the talk. The veteran player said, listen,
making us look bad. Here, come on, like, what are
you doing all right? Now? Final point to Buffalo. Here
we go, Buffalo Bill's mafia going through these seven stages
of grief after they lost in Denver and then lost
(33:59):
their head. And I read an interesting story here. I
saw this or not. The Bill's organization on the leaders
had a pow wow. Was Sean McDermott, the former coach,
and McDermott pointed out. According to the story, McDermott pointed
out the many flaws in the Buffalo Bill's roster that
were preventing the team from reaching the promised land. So,
(34:23):
according to the reporting breathless reporting, the GM mister Bean
and Terry Pegoula, the owner, were not happy. They were
upset with McDermott and they got annoyed that he was
complaining about the way the roster was built there in
Western New York. So the question for you, and I'm
(34:47):
gonna answer this first, but here's the question. Former coach
Sean McDermott pointing out that the Bill's roster was not
up to standard, it was a bit broken and being rejected,
rejected by ownership. How do you decode this particular report.
So let's use the Malar decoder ring on this one.
(35:10):
We're also going to open up the MiB. So not
only are we using the Mallard Dakota ring, We're gonna
open up the MiB. Now that's not men in Black,
that's the Malor Investigative Bureau, so you can investigate. So
this leak out of Buffalo and it smells, it smells
like some rotting chicken wings from the anchor, bar and
(35:31):
grill that were left outside to rot. Is what it sounds.
It smells like that. Yeah yeah, So this is another
one to the low information fan, to the casual fan.
They see this headline and it makes the bills look
like villains twirling their mustaches. You know, the classic cartoon
villain twirling the mustache. That's what it looks like if
(35:54):
you just look at the way the story was reported.
Oh no, my coach, who I love you? What better players?
And the mean owners said no, no, no, no, you
don't get better players. And how's my acting on? That? Was?
All right? Not bad, not bad, not bad thing. I'll
be here all week anyway. If you don't like, it's
(36:16):
an overnight If you liked it, I'll be here all week.
If you don't like, it's an overnight show. So chill out, dude,
it's wrong with you. Go have a beer, all right anyway,
So let's be level headed on this one. I'm gonna
be level headed. Uh, I'm gonna play the parlor game.
What do you say? You and I are gonna play
the parlor game. So the parlor game works like this,
who not? Who done it?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Who leaked it?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
We always ask two questions, why leak it now? And
who does the leak benefit? And so I've done that
and activating the Malard Investigative Bureau. This one is child's play.
This is easy. This is like beginner level. This is
an entry level question. I'm gonna ask my students. It is.
(36:59):
It's child's way. It sure as hell wasn't the Buffalo
Bill's ownership. Can we all agree on that? You're nodding
your head, Yes, it wasn't the Bill's ownership, because this
makes them look like a bunch of country bumpkins. You
can't handle the truth. Now, if you follow the cookie
crumbs from Felexus in Buffalo and Bill's monster, if you
(37:20):
follow and also inca tear. If you follow the cookie crumbs,
they lead right to the Sean McDermott Caucus. Is where
they lead. And this is a where's Waldough situation? So
where's Waldo situation? Now? What do I mean by that?
Everyone and their uncle they're looking at the roster. And meanwhile, Waldo,
(37:45):
if you look for Waldo, were in a headset saying, hey,
hey I didn't choke. I didn't choke in those big games.
My toys were broken. This is what's called reputation laundering
by the Sean McDermott group, the people that are invested
in McDermott getting another head coaching job. It is public
(38:05):
relations scented candle, like like light the candle, you'll change
the smell in the room and all that stuff. Flip
the script, right, you flip the script. Sean McDermott goes
from playoff underachiever to misunderstood martyr. He had. Oh it
wasn't his fault. He knew they needed better players and
(38:26):
they didn't get him better players. Of course that's a
loser's attitude, right, You complain about the the ingredients, the
tools you have, and you'll figure it out, all right,
you figure it out. That's the way you're supposed to
do it. And it's also a day get it. It's
a tell buffalo brass. We obviously didn't leak it again,
(38:48):
no chance this was leaked intentionally because Sean McDermott would
like to get the Raider job or the Browns job,
one of these other jobs that is open. So simpon
you have playing the tug at the heartstrings. Symphony Symphony, Symphony.
I can't say the word. There you go the uh,
(39:08):
trying to get public favor if you will, that sells.
I'm going to court a public opinion and all this.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
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Speaker 1 (39:19):
Here We're going, It's We're gone to the third degree.
This is one big Ben gets gral cool.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
In his ten games with the Seahawks, Rashid Shahed has
returned to kickoff for a touchdown three times now summer
crediting Shahied with changing Seattle season. Ben is the trade
for Shahied the best deadline deal since the forty nine
ers dealt for McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
First of all, he didn't change their season. They were
having a good year. That what changed their season is
Puka Nakula went on a podcast and ripped the NFL
officials or a live stream in the NFL officials violated
the rule book and helped Seattle out in that game
on that Thursday night. That helped a lot more than
anything else but the playoff game against the Night. They
could have had Doug Baldwin out there or Tyler Lockett
(40:06):
and they would have won that game the way the
forty nine ers played, it's been a good trade. Let's
not get crazy, though, Come on place Next.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
There's been a call for full time reps for years now,
but former VP of Officiating Mike Pereira might be the
most prominent person calling for that. Peira said in before
the divisional round that the seventeen referees who lead each
of the officiating crews should be full time employees. Ben,
with that and all the controversy over the weekend, do
you think the NFL finally takes a shot at this.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
No, Because the NFL loves controversy, it wouldn't end the controversy.
Baseball has full time umpires, People still wrap up umpires.
NBA has got full time officials. How often does Scott
Foster get ripped in the NBA? Doesn't change it. The
issue is the subjective nature of the calls. That's never
going to change. The NFL likes it that way.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
Next, these Charlotte Hornets are eleven games under five hundred,
but analyst Brian Winhorse believes that they would beat the
Lakers in a series.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Ben, if the Lakers you that bad, well, if.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Brian wind Horse said it, the Hornets have They did
play well against the Lakers this year, but now in
a seven game series, it would be different. I would
like to think they would beat the Hornets. Otherwise, JJ
Redick will be back doing podcast full time. A fact
of the case, how did we do Kopolo?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
You pass as? They would play? Won again?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Hollowing James, I won, James Hollowing, James I won.
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you doing over there?
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Ben? Oh? Listen live in the dream here Lorrain and
the button the buttons are fixed. Everything's good here. I
haven't seen cockroaches walking around the building, so things are good.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
All good?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Yeah, feeling feeling good? Are you ready to answer some
questions here?
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yes, Ferg Dog writes and he says, hey, Lo Raina.
Do women buy dude wipes or are they fine with
single ply toilet paper. Great question.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
I think wet wipes have been around for a long time.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Now these are dude wipes, so this is a better product,
right right?
Speaker 7 (42:22):
Well, I think the dude branding is to get you
guys to want.
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To use They're special. There's something mad. I don't know
where it is, but in my opinion, it's magical. Well.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
I did buy a whole bunch of dude wipes here
a couple months back. I did, I did, and I
put a whole box of them in there, and Alex
tight Shirt stole all of them.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yes? I like that. You added him on the air.
Does he work here anymore? I never see him?
Speaker 7 (42:42):
I don't know. I think it's Mary all the time.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Now, Yeah, the vegan Alex, the vegan kaus of got
in a relationship. Oh is that why? I think so?
So they're not allowed to work. He's in a related
What kind of weird you should ask him? None of
my business. I just I never see him. I used
to see him all the time. Like what happened?
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Man?
Speaker 1 (43:04):
All right? Next up, Mike the lepregaunt says, is it
a red flag when on a first date you discover
that your very good looking date has already had three divorces.
Speaker 7 (43:15):
No, I think you should be really thankful that she's
gotten rid of those husbands so that she could be
on this date with you. You should be thankful and
not hold her past against her.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Probably, I say we all get one mulligan. I don't
know though, maybe even two, but three.
Speaker 7 (43:31):
I think Jlo's on what six?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
And she Yeah, she's a nut job. She's a nut job.
Comes back? Well, yeah, because I d even went back
three times. She's got money and all that, but she's
you know, I'm sure she's talented in some areas, but
come on now, no, you you got one or two,
but once you get to three, that's you're in the
danger zone at that point.
Speaker 7 (43:50):
Maybe she's a hopeless romantic or.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Or what she's a whacker doodle? How about that?
Speaker 7 (43:57):
Maybe she's a oh what's that called? You should find
out for X husbands are dead. That's what you should
worry about.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
There you go poisoned? Yes, yeah, okay, I have your problem. Yeah.
Danny is in Toronto on the phones. He has a question.
Hello Danny, welcome, Hello Ben. Hello.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
So here's here's my question for Lorena, And this is
a genuine question. This is honest here. So I dated
a girl for three months this summer. So imagine you
were dating a guy for three months and everything was perfect.
He checks all the boxes. He's handsome, he's got a
(44:38):
great sense of humor.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
You guys have ever had paycheck? Uh huh? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (44:42):
Keep going?
Speaker 3 (44:43):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (44:45):
Sounds like you didn't keep going?
Speaker 5 (44:46):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (44:47):
But but hurry upset.
Speaker 6 (44:50):
Everything's perfect and then you find out he gets cold sores?
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Are you in?
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Okay, so pre existing? Can I believe? Yes?
Speaker 7 (45:01):
Yes, you know a lot of people have cold soares
aka herpes. They have it in their face, and we didn't.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Doctor Drew say that pretty much like I think.
Speaker 7 (45:11):
I think eighty percent of the people people.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Don't even know they haven't.
Speaker 7 (45:13):
Yeah, so you know, just watch for outbreaks, and if
you really like the person, you should just make sure
you're protecting yourself or just.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Enjoy some private time with yourself. What do you want
me to do? All right? Thank you, Danny? All right?
Man alive? All right? What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Bob?
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Question Bobby? Yeah, wonderful question, Bobby, and Florida says, is
anything that gives every woman the ick factor? Besides being
a leprechaun.
Speaker 7 (45:37):
Being overly like on top of that person like stop.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Stop space j The women says, when in a relationship,
should you start traveling by.
Speaker 7 (45:46):
Plane as soon as you want to go on a
date somewhere?
Speaker 1 (45:49):
That's not that's more than a date, Lorrange, No, I
used to do that.
Speaker 7 (45:52):
All the time, especially if you're a long distance I'll
meet you anywhere, baby.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Let's go about that one.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
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and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
Game of the Stars.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Here's Ben Meler. All right, let's do it. Password time.
We welcome in our contestants for password. We know I
got to see here. Manuel and Gardena is going to
be one and Soca Hello, Manuel, welcome.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
Manny Bong Ribs, what's please?
Speaker 1 (46:28):
And my man? We Man good to hear from you.
And who would you like to be partnered up with?
Manuel and Guardina? You all right? We're in it to
win it? Okay, very good. We're gonna be one of
the teams. And Lorena pick between two and six. Pick
a number between two and six.
Speaker 7 (46:47):
Darn, let's go with two.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Really sure about that?
Speaker 7 (46:51):
Six?
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Okay? Six? Okay? Six? It is he talked you out it?
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Two?
Speaker 1 (46:55):
Well you picked Chris in Boston. Hello, Chris, welcome, good morning,
How are you? Good morning, sir, welcome to the show.
Who would you like to partner up with? There, Chris Cooper?
Don't seem very confident. I wouldn't be confident either.
Speaker 7 (47:08):
A the better choice, though, for sure.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 5 (47:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
About that not lately. Let's play the game. We have
a list of words one to ten and Manuel you
were on the air first, so please pick a number
number number the oho. Al right, here we go. Let's
see you. Let's go with and I could do the
(47:33):
malar maneuver on this right, I could. Right, let's see
if you can all right, uh, potted soil?
Speaker 2 (47:44):
What?
Speaker 1 (47:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (47:46):
Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (47:47):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (47:48):
Are you on the right word?
Speaker 7 (47:49):
Are we looking at the same word?
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Well, I just grabbed this out of the printer, he said, Oh,
I thought, he says, okay, all right, all right, all right,
I screwed that up. Go ahead there there you're screwed.
Then you're screwed, then.
Speaker 3 (47:59):
Yours, Chris. Let's go with courageous.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Great, yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
It was easy. Come on, please, all right, I gave
you that one. I spotted you. But go ahead there
picking number Chris.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Let's go in honor of Marcello.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Number two. Wow, it's a shot. Yeah, good luck, coop.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
That's what you said.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
Okay, let's go with uh foliage.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
No, no, all right, U man, Well let's go with
U container.
Speaker 3 (48:40):
What are you in the right number again?
Speaker 1 (48:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Maybe all right, Chris, I'm gonna do the valor of Duba.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
I don't do the mall of maneuver. Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Hurry up, potted.
Speaker 5 (48:55):
Toil.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
No, alright up flower and well.
Speaker 7 (49:02):
Oh quickly.
Speaker 6 (49:08):
Wait no, no, no, we're out.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
We're out of time.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
It's the word.
Speaker 6 (49:14):
Was the word.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
It was bland play. That was my that was my
partner that got that win, the winner, kicking down. I
didn't win anything, you know. It's a for Gayzy list.
It's for Gayze. This list, my god,
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as the one at the bully pulpit here behind the
(03:27):
powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio, which apparently he's doing
pretty well. So I have the microphone here, I have
editorial control. There is no one story here that must
be talked about. There is no one story that must
be talked about for our purposes. Something happened that is
so egregious, so insane to the membrane that it has
(03:49):
to lead off the show. There's nothing else over the
last ten years that has to find this radio program.
Then a story involving decrepit activity deep in the heart
of Texas, and it is taking a turn to the
wild side. So we'll start out at Cooper's Town. That's
in New York. In New York, it was election day
(04:11):
for the Hall of Fame and the announcement was made out.
If you saw this or not, Like I was busy,
I don't really care. I mean I care, but I
wasn't paying attention. I'm not a loser like you. I
actually have a life, all right. So fine, So maybe
you missed it, so we'll fill you in. Center fielders
Andrew Jones, made famous from his days as a kid
(04:35):
for the Atlanta Braids a teenager when he came up
for the Atlanta Braves years ago, and another life and
centerfielder Carlos Beltron. Carlos Beltron, it's painful to say the
name now. He played for a gaggle of teams, kept
(04:55):
getting bounced around. Normally great players don't bounce from team
to team to team. But Carlos Beltron, who played for
the Royals, the Mets, the Cardinals, and that other team,
along with Andrew Jones, who also played with the Dodgers.
And when he played with the Dodgers, he actually worked
at SeaWorld as a blue whale on the weekends. It
was a wild he was so fat with the Dodgers.
(05:16):
But anyway, those guys are in the Hall of Fame.
And the story here is rather obviously, if you paid
any attention, any attention at all, you know what the
story is. And the story here is Beltron. So that's
the part of this we're going to begin with. And
we're gonna break this down piece by piece. It's a
good jumping off point. A man that was convicted of
(05:40):
being part of the cheating A Strews has been voted in,
has been voted in. Let us discuss the question. With
Carlos Beltron, the cheating astro elected to Cooper'stown, what message
(06:03):
have the baseball scribes sent to the sporting world. So
I've got Ringleader, Spirit, airlines, and boot lickors, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make a giant trash can, because that should
(06:24):
be what goes in to Cooper's Town. You know, usually
they put the face of the player. It's a it's
a mausoleum there in Cooperstown. But they should put a
trash can instead of Beltron's face in the Hall of Fame.
Now that would be good. I would support that. I
would I don't think they're going to do that, but
I would support that. So my first my first thought is,
(06:47):
this is the end of the Hall of Fame. We
should have a moment of silence. We should all sit
shiva for the Hall of Fame. It's over. This is
the day the Hall of Fame died. This is it.
It's all over. All those holier than now baseball riders
who took that vote completely seriously have decided to defecate
all over the Baseball Hall of Fame, all over it.
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Public defecation by baseball writers. What in God's name are
you doing? Seriously? You elected the dirty, rotten scoundrel Carlos
Beltron to Cooperstown. The BBWAA has pulled out the megaphone
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and they've announced to every man, woman and child. They
have announced that cheating is okay. It is acceptable, provided
it's the right kind of cheating, and it's done by
the right guy. Because we liked him. We liked him,
so we're gonna put him in the Hall of Fame.
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Beltron was not some kind of innocent bystander. He wasn't
just an eyewitness to what took place in Houston. That
the single greatest cheating scan in modern sports, the twenty
seventeen scumbags. Okay, a trash can burlesque show, it's what
it was. And he was the adult in the room.
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Beltron was the seasoned veteran and all that stuff. He
was a ringleader, a ringleader from the den in iniquity.
That's where Beltron was right there. The guy was might
as well been banging the drum. Literally while the integrity,
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the integrity of the sport was stuffed into a locker.
They locked it, and that locker had a hunk of metal,
just a piece of metal. According to the Commissioner of
Baseball there, rob Manfreud, that's it. Welcome to the hall,
the baseball riders said, my fat ass, Welcome to the hall.
And meanwhile, you've got players along the lines of Barry
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Bonds and Rocket Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez and Manny
Ramirez who's now off the ballot, who's now off the ballot?
All those guys remain locked outside the halls, right. Their
noses are pressed up against the glass there, and they're
treated like contaminated bio hazards because they cheated. Okay, you
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just let a cheater in, dummy, You just let a
cheater in, moron, you let him in the writers now
because you know they they're so on top of holy mountain, right,
they put a moat around the Hall of Fame, filled
it with crocodiles. When any steroid guy they don't like,
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I should say, gets in, I don't like them. They
of course, they rolled out the red carpet here for
electronic espionage. Can anyone make it make sense? Can they?
I mean to me, this isn't morality. This is again
selective outrage. It's the Hall of hypocrisy. It's the Hall
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of hypocrisy. And steroid gays. Now they were already in
the Hall of Fame. I guess steroid guys in the
Hall of Fame already. Now you've gone next level and say,
not only that, but we're going to allow the cheating
a holes to get in. Right, big poppy David Ortiz
comes to mind, right, look up that list from back
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in the day. He didn't pass the test, according to
the Internet, and that's what I read. So now you
have a certified bonafide cheater, cheater, Carlos Beltron who joins
the Hall of Fame, class, and so spare us the
think peace sermons. I can already tell you that they're
gonna say, oh, well, this is a healing moment.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
No it's not.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
You've just soiled the Hall of Fame. You have, You've
just done it. Congratulations, it's over. It's as meaningful as
the pro bouncy ball Hall of Fame with Muffett McGraw
and Russian coaches you've never heard of. Done the same
to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Congratulations. So there you go.
You've exposed the Hall for what it is. The Hall
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of Fame a dusty museum about four hours from New
York City, and it's run by the gatekeepers there with
crooked measuring sticks and selective amnesia. And the badge reads
Hall of Fame. The fine print rule right below that,
the fine prince says, rules applied differently. Rules applied differently,
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is what it says there Now. Meanwhile, continuing the train
of thought, so the other member of the Hall of
Fame is also bizarre. It's a different kind of bizarre.
This has become the new normal now in baseball. So
former Atlanta bravestar Andrew Jones with a with a weird
spelling of Andrew. But Andrew Jones, who was on the
ninth of ten possible appearances on the Hall of Fame
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about meaning the previous eight years he was eligible ball
Hall of Fame he didn't get in. So on year
nine out of ten, the Hall of Fame ballot came
back and all of a sudden, he had picked up
an extra seventy plus votes for the Hall of Fame,
and so he got the required threshold he got to
get over seventy five percent. Andrew Jones got seventy eight
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point four he needed seventy five, So he's in question
for the Esteem panel. What changed? What do you think
changed for Andrew Jones to pick up the extra seventy
two votes needed to get into Cooper's town. So the
answer is capitol En nothing, capitol En, nothing changed. The
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man's in his late forties. He made a lot of money.
He's not hit any more home runs I checked, no
more gold gloves added to his baseball reference page. More
likely than not, Andrew Jones is sitting around eating cinnabun
and watching YouTube videos on how to put better when
he's out golfing. So he went from seven percent when
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he first popped up on the ballot Andrew Jones seven
percent of the electorate to seventy eight over seventy eight percent.
That is not growth that involved. That should be investigation.
Let's get let's get an investigation. I think this thing
was rigged. What's going on here? All right? That's the
dollar menu Hall of Fame. And this is when you
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think about the cheater, Carlos Beltron on the Hall of Fame,
and then you put Andrew Jones in, who had seven
percent of the vote. That is a one way ticket
on Spirit airlines to crazy Town. Congratulations, baseball scribes, did
we do mail in ballots? Can we check the verification
on that ballot harvesting? Was there any of that going
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on for Andrew Jones to get in the Hall of Fame?
Somebody checked the truck of the cars in the back
of that pickup truck. There's got to be boxes of
ballots for the Hall of Fame, all right? And it
makes the baseball scribes and there're a holes anyway. Most
of these guys. I have some friends that are baseball, right,
A lot of them are just schmucks. They're all really
little people, and some of them wear bow ties and
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they think they're like God's gift to baseball, and you
obviously are not. You voted a cheater in and a
guy that had seven percent of the vote all of
a sudden gets in the Hall of Fame. This just
looks so ridiculous, so ridiculous. Hall of Fame is a
pass fail situation. It's kind of like you're either pregnant
or you're not pregnant. You know, there's not a gray area.
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There's like that, only there's a gray area. They're either
gonna have you're pregnant or you're not pregnant. And there's
no almost right, there's no almost, It's not fifty shades
of gray. And yet here we sit on this sad
day for baseball and really depressing day. I mean, I
was hoping to go to the Hall of Fame some day.
I don't think i'll go now. I think I will
avoid it. I actually was driving one time. I was
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driving through Central I was running from Buffalo down to
New York City, and I was like, well, I could
go to the Hall of Fame. This is many years ago.
It's so far off the beaten path out in the
woods that it would have taken an extra two hours
and really four hours because I had to go back
the other way, and I go some of it, but
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I don't really want to go. I mean, you're gonna
put a cheater in. There's why do I need to go.
I don't need to go. You can go for me.
You can go for me. You talk about lowering the
ball the bar right, lowering the bar like doing the limbo?
How low can you go? And all that stuff, and
this is continue Andrew Jones gets in, But you had
Scottie Rowland in recent years, Billy Wagner and now Andrew Jones,
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and people are so clueless on why this is bad.
I've always said, oh, I know you're gonna rip the
Hall of Fame, and you don't understand. This is the
feedback I get from you idiots. This is the feedback
I get from you idiots. Let me explain, all right,
the Hall of Fame to have legitimacy, this is my
my take on this. The Hall of Fame to be
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legitimate should be exclusive. You have to have standards, you
have to have stand If everyone gets in the Hall
of Fame, it's just it's just a big venue with
nice lighting. It's nothing special. It's just another random museum thing.
There's nothing special about it. You lower the standards by
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putting Billy Wagner, Scott Rowland and now Andrew Jones in
the Hall of Fame. You lower the standards. You don't
honor more players. It's not being inclusive, all right, which
was the big word a few years ago. It's not
about that. If everyone is getting it right, it doesn't
again honor more players. What it does is it cheapens
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the ones who earned it legitimately. And that's what you've done.
You cheapened the Hall of Fame for Babe Ruth and
Willie Mays and all the other greats, all the other greats.
You've cheapened it with what you've done. Congratulations, help You're
proud of yourself. You lose your baseball writers, Good job
by you, all right now. The other part of this
a developing story as tensions being ratcheted up involving the
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sport of baseball. The owners are said to be quote
raging in the wake of Kyle Tucker's record break in
contract with the Dodgers in average annual value as he
gets sixty million dollars a year and behind a paywall
on the Athletic. They're reporting it is one hundred percent
a certainty, one percent of certainty that the owners will
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have a salarycap. Now, my former radio partner actually did
some shows with this guy when I worked at EEI
years ago. Evan Drelich, who's a base he's a scribe
at the Athletic and he covers the business of sports,
and he wrote that major League Baseball is going to
go for a cap no matter what it takes, according
to his source. So question, should major League Baseball owners
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be ranging for a salary cap? So I look at
this one cross eyed. I look at this one cross eyed,
and another one of these things that I can't figure out.
I'm not that bright. That's why I'm doing the overnight show.
It does. I don't understand why poverty fans are out
there acting like billion air of boot lickers. It blows
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me away. Can you explain to me why you're a
billionaire boot licker? I'd like to know. I'll give out
the number in a minute. It's a cold war and
the regular joes are the guys working in factory driving
a truck right working their ass off, and they're carrying
the water for the aristocrats like what are you doing Like,
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it's a total shell game. It's trickeration and they're laughing
at you and you're playing along. These billionaires have convinced
the regular guy, the schmo, the person with the lunch pail,
the hard hat, that crowd that the outfielder getting the
big contract is the reason that your tickets are expensive
and you're paying twenty two dollars for nachos in a
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plastic bowl. Yeah, it's again the billionaire boot licking thing.
You've convinced that these are blue collar people doing this.
It's the ultimate con, is what it is. It's the
ultimate con. You've got the fans carrying the water for
guys who own private islands.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
We really need.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
To help these people out. We really need to make
sure they keep more of their money. It's very important.
And the other thing is, like all these teams. Owning
a Major League Baseball team, you own it because you
want to go to social events in the Hamptons and
Beverly Hills in South Beach and hang out with other
a holes that will ask you, oh like to own
your team and all that stuff. So that's why you
buy a team. It's also a license to print money.
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It is, and you never ever sell a team for
less money. The Tampa Bay Race who suck financially. Everyone
says they suck financially. They played a minor league ballpark
last year as a hurricane ripped the roof off their stadium.
They just fetched one point seven billion. Okay, there's a
conga line. Do the conga a conga line of these
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robber barons who are waiting to buy these professional sports teams,
even baseball. Why passive income? That's why it's great passive income.
It's a it's a geyser that never runs dry. The
Major League Baseball ball pie twelve billion dollars. That's a
big pie. Twelve that's a big a pizza pie, twelve
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billion dollars. So if you do the Malord math on it,
as I understand it, this Maler math. So if you
cap and say, well, we've got to divide the revenue,
twelve billion is the pie. So that would mean if
you spread the butter on the bread all over and
you do the math on that, that would mean that
each team has to have a two hundred million dollars
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payroll because it would be six billion if my math
is correct. So okay, you think the pirates want to
go for that. There's other issues here where you you
wouldn't have the money giving teams giving it, like the
pirates and the a's who aren't trying to win you
embarrassing franchises like to add the marlins, so they don't
want that. It's a cold war, is what it is.
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And the owners want fans to be their infantry. And
it sounds to me like many of dump many of
the dumb people are going along with this, like you're
you're falling, you're drinking for the the kool aid and
the cry poor, you know, they cry poor. So the
owners are the ones that are crying poor. Here the
actual people that are like not poor, poor, but you know,
not naked as much as these people. The owners are
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crying poverty, and they're collecting giant amount of the small
market teams. The teams aren't trying get checks from the
Dodgers and the Mets and the teams that are actually trying.
And it's the equivalent. I guess the analogy would be
like if you're starving and you're at a restaurant and
you're like, I'm going to vote and I'm gonna give
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the steak back the Porterhouse steak. I'm gonna give that
back to the restaurant owner because even though I'm really
hungry and I'm starving, I want them to have it.
I just they don't need it. You know, they have
plenty of stak, but I want them to have it.
But I'm starving. I just think they should have it.
It's comical. Please stop advocating, all right, Stop advocating for
the house to win. The house always wins, The House
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always wins.
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We have a deal. We have a deal in baseball.
So what is it? Who cares? That makes money? So
we've learned that the New York Metropolitans have added center
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fielder Louise Robert Junior from the Chicago White Sox. Who
what Louise Robert Junior. That doesn't make it, That doesn't
make it tingle? No, okay, the Mets will send outfielder
Louise Angel Akuna. Yes he is related to his the
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brothers siblings, the guy for the Braves that always gets hurt,
and a minor league pitcher you've never heard of. They
go from the Mets to the White Sox and the
Truman Show. There you go. So the Pope's favorite team
gets a couple of scratcher takes. Now immediately the reaction
has been what over the top? As only the Met
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fan can do, only the Met fan can do. There's
immediately the Met fans, some of them are hyping up
Luise Robert Jr. He's the great Cuban missile and just
what the roster needs, just what the roster needs, and
perfect addition to the Mets lineup. Shouting from the heavens,
we have gotten our man. It's like he's got that
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Broadway aura. They, of course, keep in mind the same
people that are saying this, the same people that are
barking this out. These are casual baseball fans, and they
when the trade was announced, they went, who is that?
What's that guy's name? That's what That was their first reaction.
And then they said, well, he's him in record time, right,
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They just they google him. They google this guy once
and they're like, all right, let's build a statue. Come
on now, right next to mister Matt We'll build a
statue right there and Ralph Kiner. So that is a
good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question the
Mets trading for White Sox outfielder Luis Robert Jr. Does
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this count as a blockbuster trade? No, I've got Nordstrom rack,
corporate retreat, and where's Waldo and we will combine all
of these things together, one, two, three and ABC. So
number one I said number one, one more time. Number
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This is not a blockbuster in the traditional sense that
we use in the lexicon of sports radio. It is
not and we know this. You know this, and you're smart.
I'm smart. So this is a blockbuster video in twenty
twenty six. That's the kind of blockbuster. This is the
empty shelves, dusty DVD cases and that please that little
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sticker that used to slap on there, please be kind
and rewind. You know that thing there? That's it. That's
what this is. Once upon a time, in a land
far far ago, you had Luis Robert Jr. Who got
MVP votes. He was considered a luxury brand. Think of
it like if it was a watch, he would have
been a rolex with the white sox. He just broke out.
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Was amazing and almost forty home runs, drove in a
bunch of runs. He was great. At this point in
the story, We're at the point in the story where
Luis Robert j You're is like a scratched fit bit
sitting in the clearance bin at the Nordstrom rack. That's
where he is right now, red tag final sale as
is no returns there you go. Keep in mind, the
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Mets wanted Kyle Tucker. They thought they were gonna get
Kyle Tucker. Instead, the Mets are now convincing themselves the
front office that the broken dreams of this guy Robert
they got from the White Sox. They just needed a
new zip code. Give him a new zip code. Everything.
Change of scenery, classic change of scenery, rebirth story arc
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at Sportscasting Clown College. So there is that, and it's
kind of like the house plan is dying on your window. Still,
You've got a right on the windows kind of dying there,
and so we'll just move it a little over to
the right and then it'll be good. So let's talk
about geography. You want to talk about geography. Oh, it's
a sports radio show. We don't care about geography. So
the Mets play in Queens, the Borough of Queens, more
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specifically Flushing, which could not be more appropriate, could not
be more appropriate. That's not branding. That is baseball destiny.
That is baseball destiny. Careers don't blossom there, they don't.
They don't blossom there, and they go down the porcelain
is where they go right, do the old swirly swirl
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right there, swirl swirl and then you know where that
ends up right right around the ball and disappears into
the East River. And then someone goes and catches a
fish and the fish is in well, you know what
happens anyway. So the Mets, what do they need pitching?
You gotta get pitching. You gotta get pitching, you gotta
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get and do the Mets have that. No, Instead, they're well,
we didn't get talkers, so let's go out and get
some gold. Of course, it's it's fool's gold, is what
it is, right, And so of course many people, oh,
it's great, wonderful, not exactly the championship kind of move
when you're looking for the career renaissance. Good luck. It's
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a flyer. It's a flyer that the Mets are playing.
They're paying this guy twenty million. I spent the flyer
twenty million dollars. I read the Mets are paying this guy.
So the Mets are playing the runner up ribbon game,
as are twenty nine other teams, because all of you
have told me it's all over. There's no need to
play this season. The Dodgers are gonna win the World Series.
There's no chance they don't win the World Series. They're
gonna win the World Series. So twenty nine other teams
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are playing for the silver medal. The Dodgers have already
wrapped up the gold medal. The Mets are one of
those teams. But you look at the Mets. They have
a history of lies and promises that were never met
and hope that's always on layaway. That's the Mets, That's
the Metway, same song, years have changed, different kind of disappointment.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Meanwhile, we head to pro bouncy ball, where the Parisian
prodigy making some headlines. Here Spurs star Victor wembon Yama.
Victor Omanyama said this week, I want name of the
All Star team and all that. I want a big
face of the new age of the NBA, he said, quote.
I want to push the great players of this sport
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to play in the All Star Game just as hard
as I will. Wemby stated, We'll see how it goes,
but if they don't play hard, I'll do it without them.
Close quote it's Victor Webber Nama. Here's the question, what
are the chances just between us, what are the chances
that Wemby, the San Antonio Spurs star Wemby helps make
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the All Star Game great again by actually hustling? So
the odds malar odds on this. We spent about thirty
seconds deliberating the available information on the NBA All Star Game,
and the odds say squad Douche gets an S for
Squad Douche. Good luck on that. This is adorable though
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it is right, how naive you can be and think
that this is all going to work out for It's
kind of like a kid shown up to a poker
game with a bunch of Monopoly money in a rule book.
It's like, you might want to sit this one out,
you know. I'm just saying so. Wemby says he's gonna
play hard. He's gonna play hard. And the other stars,
of course, they don't like that, right, and he says
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if they don't pay attention, he'll just do it alone.
And that's what he's gonna do. It's terrific, very noble
of wem ban Yama to say that he's also showing
the world he's absolutely clueless, absolutely clueless. Why this Just
in to the Ben mal Show on Fox Sports Radio,
the NBA All Star Game is not broken. People think
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it's broken. It's not broken. It is working exactly as
it is designed to work. They keep futzing around with
the format, but it's working the way they want it
to work. When I say they, I'm talking about the
people that are on the court. It is a corporate
retreat with sneakers. That's what the NBA All Star Game is.
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A corporate retreat in sneakers. It is a showroom. It
is a handshake, grab ass convention with a basketball problem. Right.
The problem is they're supposed to play in the All
Star Game. They don't want to play in the All
Star Game. And years ago, with no one asking, the
players of the NBA were so soft. How soft were they?
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They were so soft, these players that they voted with
their feet wildcat style, wildcat strike style, and their effort
or the lack of effort in the NBA All Star Game.
They stop caring and we stop caring, all right, so
nobody cares. That's the NBA All Star Game. No defense,
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no diving for loose balls, no sweat stains. Some of
these guys in the Also Game. They don't even need
to take showers after the game because they don't put
no effort into the All Star Game. It's all about
positive vibes and all that, you know, and the social
media selfies and you know, put on the gram and
TikTok and the occasion we just every once in a while,
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the uncontested circus dunk. Uh, that's just to keep the
sponsors from panicking, just to keep them from panicking and
all that stuff. So every few years, and this just
happens to be Wemby, But every few years in all
these sports, there's a young buck that comes along, that
shows up like a fire breathing dragon, and listen, I'm
gonna play. I gotta earn my money, i gotta sing
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for my supper, and I'm gonna play hard even though
it's the All Star Game. And inevitably what happens is
tap tap, They'll get the tap on the shoulder. Hey
hey kid, we'd like to talk to you. What is it? Yeah,
so you know you're making us look bad here. It's
a it's a marathon, not a wind sprint the All
Star Game. Save save the energy, save the calories. Nobody's
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getting paid extra for caring. No one's getting extra money
for hustling.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
So there you go. So listen, Wembley. Wemby can play hard.
Good for him, But the revolution changing the All Star Game,
making it great again is not going to happen here,
and just not. So that's how the NBA hot Dogs
are made. Good luck, I recall when I was covering
baseball years ago before the Dodgers became good, when they sucked,
and I was doing the Dodger programming in another life,
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and there was a guy on the team that they
called up from Triple A Albuquerque Albuquerque Dukes. And this
guy was hustling and running wild and young, young outfielder,
and he got the talk and he was taught about
the what they call it the big league jog. It's
still a thing in baseball where you hit a ball
that's almost guaranteed to be an out and you don't hustle.
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This guy would hustle, and he would make the other
guys look bad because they were lazy. They were lazy,
so he got the talk. The veteran player said, listen,
making us look bad. Here, come on, like, what are
you doing all right? Now? Final point to Buffalo. Here
we go, Buffalo Bill's mafia going through these seven stages
of grief after they lost in Denver and then lost
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their head. And I read an interesting story here. I
saw this or not. The Bill's organization on the leaders
had a pow wow. Was Sean McDermott, the former coach,
and McDermott pointed out. According to the story, McDermott pointed
out the many flaws in the Buffalo Bill's roster that
were preventing the team from reaching the promised land. So,
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according to the reporting breathless reporting, the GM mister Bean
and Terry Pegoula, the owner, were not happy. They were
upset with McDermott and they got annoyed that he was
complaining about the way the roster was built there in
Western New York. So the question for you, and I'm
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gonna answer this first, but here's the question. Former coach
Sean McDermott pointing out that the Bill's roster was not
up to standard, it was a bit broken and being rejected,
rejected by ownership. How do you decode this particular report.
So let's use the Malar decoder ring on this one.
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We're also going to open up the MiB. So not
only are we using the Mallard Dakota ring, We're gonna
open up the MiB. Now that's not men in Black,
that's the Malor Investigative Bureau, so you can investigate. So
this leak out of Buffalo and it smells, it smells
like some rotting chicken wings from the anchor, bar and
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grill that were left outside to rot. Is what it sounds.
It smells like that. Yeah yeah, So this is another
one to the low information fan, to the casual fan.
They see this headline and it makes the bills look
like villains twirling their mustaches. You know, the classic cartoon
villain twirling the mustache. That's what it looks like if
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you just look at the way the story was reported.
Oh no, my coach, who I love you? What better players?
And the mean owners said no, no, no, no, you
don't get better players. And how's my acting on? That? Was?
All right? Not bad, not bad, not bad thing. I'll
be here all week anyway. If you don't like, it's
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an overnight If you liked it, I'll be here all week.
If you don't like, it's an overnight show. So chill out, dude,
it's wrong with you. Go have a beer, all right anyway,
So let's be level headed on this one. I'm gonna
be level headed. Uh, I'm gonna play the parlor game.
What do you say? You and I are gonna play
the parlor game. So the parlor game works like this,
who not? Who done it?
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Who leaked it?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
We always ask two questions, why leak it now? And
who does the leak benefit? And so I've done that
and activating the Malard Investigative Bureau. This one is child's play.
This is easy. This is like beginner level. This is
an entry level question. I'm gonna ask my students. It is.
(36:59):
It's child's way. It sure as hell wasn't the Buffalo
Bill's ownership. Can we all agree on that? You're nodding
your head, Yes, it wasn't the Bill's ownership, because this
makes them look like a bunch of country bumpkins. You
can't handle the truth. Now, if you follow the cookie
crumbs from Felexus in Buffalo and Bill's monster, if you
(37:20):
follow and also inca tear. If you follow the cookie crumbs,
they lead right to the Sean McDermott Caucus. Is where
they lead. And this is a where's Waldough situation? So
where's Waldo situation? Now? What do I mean by that?
Everyone and their uncle they're looking at the roster. And meanwhile, Waldo,
(37:45):
if you look for Waldo, were in a headset saying, hey,
hey I didn't choke. I didn't choke in those big games.
My toys were broken. This is what's called reputation laundering
by the Sean McDermott group, the people that are invested
in McDermott getting another head coaching job. It is public
(38:05):
relations scented candle, like like light the candle, you'll change
the smell in the room and all that stuff. Flip
the script, right, you flip the script. Sean McDermott goes
from playoff underachiever to misunderstood martyr. He had. Oh it
wasn't his fault. He knew they needed better players and
(38:26):
they didn't get him better players. Of course that's a
loser's attitude, right, You complain about the the ingredients, the
tools you have, and you'll figure it out, all right,
you figure it out. That's the way you're supposed to
do it. And it's also a day get it. It's
a tell buffalo brass. We obviously didn't leak it again,
(38:48):
no chance this was leaked intentionally because Sean McDermott would
like to get the Raider job or the Browns job,
one of these other jobs that is open. So simpon
you have playing the tug at the heartstrings. Symphony Symphony, Symphony.
I can't say the word. There you go the uh,
(39:08):
trying to get public favor if you will, that sells.
I'm going to court a public opinion and all this.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
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Speaker 1 (39:19):
Here We're going, It's We're gone to the third degree.
This is one big Ben gets gral cool.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
In his ten games with the Seahawks, Rashid Shahed has
returned to kickoff for a touchdown three times now summer
crediting Shahied with changing Seattle season. Ben is the trade
for Shahied the best deadline deal since the forty nine
ers dealt for McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
First of all, he didn't change their season. They were
having a good year. That what changed their season is
Puka Nakula went on a podcast and ripped the NFL
officials or a live stream in the NFL officials violated
the rule book and helped Seattle out in that game
on that Thursday night. That helped a lot more than
anything else but the playoff game against the Night. They
could have had Doug Baldwin out there or Tyler Lockett
(40:06):
and they would have won that game the way the
forty nine ers played, it's been a good trade. Let's
not get crazy, though, Come on place Next.
Speaker 5 (40:12):
There's been a call for full time reps for years now,
but former VP of Officiating Mike Pereira might be the
most prominent person calling for that. Peira said in before
the divisional round that the seventeen referees who lead each
of the officiating crews should be full time employees. Ben,
with that and all the controversy over the weekend, do
you think the NFL finally takes a shot at this.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
No, Because the NFL loves controversy, it wouldn't end the controversy.
Baseball has full time umpires, People still wrap up umpires.
NBA has got full time officials. How often does Scott
Foster get ripped in the NBA? Doesn't change it. The
issue is the subjective nature of the calls. That's never
going to change. The NFL likes it that way.
Speaker 5 (40:52):
Next, these Charlotte Hornets are eleven games under five hundred,
but analyst Brian Winhorse believes that they would beat the
Lakers in a series.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
Ben, if the Lakers you that bad, well, if.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
Brian wind Horse said it, the Hornets have They did
play well against the Lakers this year, but now in
a seven game series, it would be different. I would
like to think they would beat the Hornets. Otherwise, JJ
Redick will be back doing podcast full time. A fact
of the case, how did we do Kopolo?
Speaker 3 (41:15):
You pass as? They would play? Won again?
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Hollowing James, I won, James Hollowing, James I won.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
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Speaker 3 (41:35):
It's a good buys.
Speaker 6 (41:36):
Good Lirrain at ten nine clean up Hawks going to
help you gear Rye gear Rye to.
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Speaker 1 (41:46):
Dear ry you heard the man.
Speaker 7 (41:49):
It's town for love on this beautiful hump day. How
you doing over there?
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Ben? Oh? Listen live in the dream here Lorrain and
the button the buttons are fixed. Everything's good here. I
haven't seen cockroaches walking around the building, so things are good.
Speaker 6 (42:02):
All good?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Yeah, feeling feeling good? Are you ready to answer some
questions here?
Speaker 5 (42:06):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (42:06):
Yes, Ferg Dog writes and he says, hey, Lo Raina.
Do women buy dude wipes or are they fine with
single ply toilet paper. Great question.
Speaker 7 (42:16):
I think wet wipes have been around for a long time.
Speaker 1 (42:19):
Now these are dude wipes, so this is a better product,
right right?
Speaker 7 (42:22):
Well, I think the dude branding is to get you
guys to want.
Speaker 1 (42:25):
To use They're special. There's something mad. I don't know
where it is, but in my opinion, it's magical. Well.
Speaker 7 (42:29):
I did buy a whole bunch of dude wipes here
a couple months back. I did, I did, and I
put a whole box of them in there, and Alex
tight Shirt stole all of them.
Speaker 3 (42:37):
Oh is that right?
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Yes? I like that. You added him on the air.
Does he work here anymore? I never see him?
Speaker 7 (42:42):
I don't know. I think it's Mary all the time.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Now, Yeah, the vegan Alex, the vegan kaus of got
in a relationship. Oh is that why? I think so?
So they're not allowed to work. He's in a related
What kind of weird you should ask him? None of
my business. I just I never see him. I used
to see him all the time. Like what happened?
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Man?
Speaker 1 (43:04):
All right? Next up, Mike the lepregaunt says, is it
a red flag when on a first date you discover
that your very good looking date has already had three divorces.
Speaker 7 (43:15):
No, I think you should be really thankful that she's
gotten rid of those husbands so that she could be
on this date with you. You should be thankful and
not hold her past against her.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Probably, I say we all get one mulligan. I don't
know though, maybe even two, but three.
Speaker 7 (43:31):
I think Jlo's on what six?
Speaker 1 (43:32):
And she Yeah, she's a nut job. She's a nut job.
Comes back? Well, yeah, because I d even went back
three times. She's got money and all that, but she's
you know, I'm sure she's talented in some areas, but
come on now, no, you you got one or two,
but once you get to three, that's you're in the
danger zone at that point.
Speaker 7 (43:50):
Maybe she's a hopeless romantic or.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
Or what she's a whacker doodle? How about that?
Speaker 7 (43:57):
Maybe she's a oh what's that called? You should find
out for X husbands are dead. That's what you should
worry about.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
There you go poisoned? Yes, yeah, okay, I have your problem. Yeah.
Danny is in Toronto on the phones. He has a question.
Hello Danny, welcome, Hello Ben. Hello.
Speaker 6 (44:17):
So here's here's my question for Lorena, And this is
a genuine question. This is honest here. So I dated
a girl for three months this summer. So imagine you
were dating a guy for three months and everything was perfect.
He checks all the boxes. He's handsome, he's got a
(44:38):
great sense of humor.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
You guys have ever had paycheck? Uh huh? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (44:42):
Keep going?
Speaker 3 (44:43):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (44:45):
Sounds like you didn't keep going?
Speaker 5 (44:46):
Uh huh?
Speaker 1 (44:47):
But but hurry upset.
Speaker 6 (44:50):
Everything's perfect and then you find out he gets cold sores?
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Are you in?
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Okay, so pre existing? Can I believe? Yes?
Speaker 7 (45:01):
Yes, you know a lot of people have cold soares
aka herpes. They have it in their face, and we didn't.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
Doctor Drew say that pretty much like I think.
Speaker 7 (45:11):
I think eighty percent of the people people.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Don't even know they haven't.
Speaker 7 (45:13):
Yeah, so you know, just watch for outbreaks, and if
you really like the person, you should just make sure
you're protecting yourself or just.
Speaker 1 (45:20):
Enjoy some private time with yourself. What do you want
me to do? All right? Thank you, Danny? All right?
Man alive? All right? What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Bob?
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Question Bobby? Yeah, wonderful question, Bobby, and Florida says, is
anything that gives every woman the ick factor? Besides being
a leprechaun.
Speaker 7 (45:37):
Being overly like on top of that person like stop.
Speaker 1 (45:40):
Stop space j The women says, when in a relationship,
should you start traveling by.
Speaker 7 (45:46):
Plane as soon as you want to go on a
date somewhere?
Speaker 1 (45:49):
That's not that's more than a date, Lorrange, No, I
used to do that.
Speaker 7 (45:52):
All the time, especially if you're a long distance I'll
meet you anywhere, baby.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
Let's go about that one.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
and the password is password, you idiot, password the word
Game of the Stars.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Here's Ben Meler. All right, let's do it. Password time.
We welcome in our contestants for password. We know I
got to see here. Manuel and Gardena is going to
be one and Soca Hello, Manuel, welcome.
Speaker 3 (46:26):
Manny Bong Ribs, what's please?
Speaker 1 (46:28):
And my man? We Man good to hear from you.
And who would you like to be partnered up with?
Manuel and Guardina? You all right? We're in it to
win it? Okay, very good. We're gonna be one of
the teams. And Lorena pick between two and six. Pick
a number between two and six.
Speaker 7 (46:47):
Darn, let's go with two.
Speaker 1 (46:50):
Really sure about that?
Speaker 7 (46:51):
Six?
Speaker 1 (46:52):
Okay? Six? Okay? Six? It is he talked you out it?
Speaker 2 (46:55):
Two?
Speaker 1 (46:55):
Well you picked Chris in Boston. Hello, Chris, welcome, good morning,
How are you? Good morning, sir, welcome to the show.
Who would you like to partner up with? There, Chris Cooper?
Don't seem very confident. I wouldn't be confident either.
Speaker 7 (47:08):
A the better choice, though, for sure.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 5 (47:10):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (47:11):
About that not lately. Let's play the game. We have
a list of words one to ten and Manuel you
were on the air first, so please pick a number
number number the oho. Al right, here we go. Let's
see you. Let's go with and I could do the
(47:33):
malar maneuver on this right, I could. Right, let's see
if you can all right, uh, potted soil?
Speaker 2 (47:44):
What?
Speaker 1 (47:45):
No?
Speaker 3 (47:46):
Go ahead?
Speaker 5 (47:47):
Cool?
Speaker 3 (47:48):
Are you on the right word?
Speaker 7 (47:49):
Are we looking at the same word?
Speaker 1 (47:50):
Well, I just grabbed this out of the printer, he said, Oh,
I thought, he says, okay, all right, all right, all right,
I screwed that up. Go ahead there there you're screwed.
Then you're screwed, then.
Speaker 3 (47:59):
Yours, Chris. Let's go with courageous.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
Great, yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
It was easy. Come on, please, all right, I gave
you that one. I spotted you. But go ahead there
picking number Chris.
Speaker 3 (48:12):
Let's go in honor of Marcello.
Speaker 1 (48:14):
Number two. Wow, it's a shot. Yeah, good luck, coop.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
That's what you said.
Speaker 3 (48:22):
Okay, let's go with uh foliage.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
No, no, all right, U man, Well let's go with
U container.
Speaker 3 (48:40):
What are you in the right number again?
Speaker 1 (48:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (48:44):
Maybe all right, Chris, I'm gonna do the valor of Duba.
Speaker 1 (48:50):
I don't do the mall of maneuver. Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (48:52):
Hurry up, potted.
Speaker 5 (48:55):
Toil.
Speaker 1 (48:55):
No, alright up flower and well.
Speaker 7 (49:02):
Oh quickly.
Speaker 6 (49:08):
Wait no, no, no, we're out.
Speaker 1 (49:13):
We're out of time.
Speaker 3 (49:14):
It's the word.
Speaker 6 (49:14):
Was the word.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
It was bland play. That was my that was my
partner that got that win, the winner, kicking down. I
didn't win anything, you know. It's a for Gayzy list.
It's for Gayze. This list, my god,
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