July 14, 2026 • 43 mins
Big Ben talks about Jordan Walker of the St. Louis Cardinals winning the Home Run Derby, Bryce Harper implying that he is the victim of this FanDuel/Cameo scandal, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: RIP Sam Neill Edition, and more!
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So our lead this hour, Our lead this hour is
from well, the obvious story, the Delaware Valley, the return
of the Spectacle of Spectacles, well kind of it was
Derby time. The flag is up? Yeah, were you watching? No,
you were not. You were not watching? Maybe not all right, Well,
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don't worry. We watched so you would not have to now.
Jordan Walker, who this guy became a literal batman super
villain just like that, talking about playing Spoiler in Philadelphia
as he homered on his last not one, not two,
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not three, not four, not five, his last six swings
in the home run Derby to knock out the hometown
hero Kyle Schwarber, Bye bye, You're out of here, and
silence the angry mob in Philadelphia. The boo birds were out.
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They were furious as the final round came to an end.
And Jordan Walker, I am told he is an outfielder
for the Saint Louis Cardinals, and he is the first
Saint Louis player to win the home run Derby. Take that,
Mark McGuire and Albert Poohos and all those guys. Schwarber
the major league leader in dingers this year, and they
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were roaring, going crazy, and they were having a great time.
It was like a religious revival there. They were ringing
the Liberty bell. Oh. They were so happy, so happy
in Philadelphia for this guy. He was gonna win it
every swing. Eleven swarp bombs. He had eleven schwar bombs
during the fifteen swing final round there, and every time
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anyone came up that wasn't either Kyle Schwarber or Bryce Harper,
who got exited in the first round. He was decommissioned
in the first round of the home run Derby. Everyone
was booed other than those guys, as you might imagine,
there and roaring cheers for Schwarber as he was doing
his thing there throughout the night, and it looked like
he had it in the back. What's in the bag? Oh,
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you cut a hole in the bag. That's what happened.
And then the scene and we didn't see too much
of it, bat you up by Netflix, but they the
scene of people leaving with their heads down. Some of
them had the surrender cobra as they lost and their
guy lost the home run derby exiting as that home run,
the Walker home run soaring into the night out in
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left field. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question does Cardinals slugger Jordan Walker's
performance in the home run Derby? What does it do?
What does this do for his career? That's the question.
What does this do for the career of Jordan Marker?
So I've got SpaceX edible arrangements and Buffalo wild wings
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we are gonna make a tasty cake because that's what
Jordan Walker deserves, a bunch of tasty cakes. And right there,
shove it down your throat. Yes, absolutely all right. So
a some players survived the spotlight and this home run Derby.
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There's a lot of guys that choke in it. My
favorite story years ago, I was with the Dodgers. They
had got named Mike Piazza, who was an epic home
run hitter with the He became more of a legend
with the Mets. But Piazza was in the home in
Derby and if I remember Corfy, he didn't hit one
home run and it was very embarrassing. And he's not long.
There was a bunch of guys that have not been
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good at that. That's not their skill set. Jordan Walker
and then the pressure and how guys melt under that,
he absorbed it and that was impressive to see here.
He strolled in like he owned the place, and he
kind of did. Jordan Walker kind of did own the night.
The spotlight was his. And I'm not a Cardinal fan,
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and I enjoyed it. It was enjoyable to see this happen,
to see all those people. I had some shottenfreud for
the Philadelphia fan. Am I still bitter about that home
run years ago the Phillies hit against the Dodgers at
Dodger Stadium to beat them in the NLCS? I might be,
I might be where's Matt Stairs right now? You know
he's getting free food somewhere in a spaghetti meatball somewhere
in Philadelphia there he was right if he didn't see
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it for the blind listeners. So this guy I had
some style to him. As Walker was up there, Jordan
Walker is his cap backwards. That'll piss off Colin Cowhard
and Ken Griffy Junior style if you remember Griffy, And
if you're old, you know who that is. Ken Griffy Jr.
This guy, I think he's twenty four. He is chewing gum. Yeah,
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the whole thing. Oh, it could choke if you get
hit with the pitch, you could choke on the gum.
Oh my god. Yeah. And he looked but dazzled. He
looked but dazzled, seemed completely unfazed. And I kind of
get it from the standpoint of if he lost, it
would have been fine because Kyle Schwarber is supposed to
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win the Home Run Derby, so he was really playing
with house money in many respects there, Jordan Walker, he's
the fifth youngest player to win the Home Run Derby
if you're into those kind of age type things. And
he acted like he was ordering a HOGI from Jersey
Mike's and just calm, cool and ready to eat. And
he willing to take somebody else's food and just eat
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that and just knock it out of the park there.
And I did not crack, did not panic, did not blink,
all those things, all those hokey things we say in sports.
You could have literally dropped Jordan Walker into Mount Fuji,
the volcano, and he'd still be chewing gum.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And no, no, no no no no no no no no
no that I fear nothing that energy that he at
least it looked like that on the stream that I had.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Maybe I had a different stream than you. It's a
marketing department's dream, and this was like a national coming
out party for Jordan Walker for those that care about
baseball and kind of like think about like SpaceX and
you have that rocket launch where everyone goes down to
take photos of the rocket launch, and in this case,
the rocket launch was his Q rating massive. So if
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you're completely honest about this, he has been having a
monster year in Saint Louis under the arches there. He's
on paced at thirty eight home runs and driving one
hundred and twenty six runs this season. Yet, if you
are honest about this, anyone outside of the Cardinal fandom
in Missouri and the states around Missouri there has not
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really cared about the Cardinals in what a decade or so.
It's been about a decade since the Cardinals were any good.
It seems like it maybe a little less than that.
I don't know, it just seems like it's been that long.
And if the playoffs start to day the Cardinals, it
is true they have a winning record, they would not
qualify for the playoffs. The National League is loaded this year.
And so Walker out there showing some poise, polish, He
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had some personality to him. The holy trinity in modern
Internet age, social media age sports, right, you can have
that poise, polish and personality, the three piece, and he
had all three of them. And so that's that's where
we are. And listen, this is the kind of stuff
that moves the needle. And the joke is, if he
keeps playing like that, he's got a couple more years
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of arbitration. Eventually he'll end up playing for the Dodgers
of the Yankees. If this guy keeps playing the way
he's playing right now. Jordan Walker, now speaking of money, money, money, money, money, money,
it's all about turning the pate here to the money train,
t trip So a number of baseball scribes, the baseball elites,
as we like to call them, the guys get free
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loading trips to the All Star Game every year. So
these are Jabroni's. They were very excited. Jordan Walker. I
believe he earned one million dollars one million dollars for
winning the twenty twenty six home run derby. The Cardinals
outfielder his twenty twenty six salary before taxes seven hundred
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and ninety nine thousand, four hundred dollars, meaning, using some
back of the napkin malor math, that Jordan Walker his
home run Derby check exceeded his entire salary for the season.
And this is supposed to be a big deal. This
is used to be a big deal. So the question
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does this home run derby financial windfall for Jordan Walker?
All right? Does this count he picking up? Is this
a pick yourself up by the bootstrap situation for Jordan Walker?
So I do get a chuckle out of these type
of stories. And these are things that used to exist
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in a different time in the world when we didn't
put our athletes on pedestals like this, and the fact
that this is still the thing fascinates me, it really does. Oh,
poor Jordan Walker. Only seven hundred and ninety nine thousand
a year in salary. How does the man survive? He's
got to buy generic brand bottled water. Holy crap, how
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does he live? So sad? So I'm sorry, I don't
get the vibe that Walker was somehow lifting himself out
of baseball poverty winning the home run derby. Don't the
way I look at it, he was already living in
a gated community of major League Baseball comfort. The home
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run derby. Now listen, it handed him a bonus check
big enough to make his financial advisors send an edible arrangement.
They're very happy, very happy to see all that. It's
not some chicken soup for the sole type redemption arc
that these baseball pundits are trying to make it to
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be the kid from the wrong side of the tracks
who finally escaped that neighborhood. Now he's making the big money.
It's just not the case. Jordan Walker has already banked
five point three million dollars in careers salary. Now after taxes,
that's about three hundred thousand still, though you know, he's
made a good amount of money in career earnings around
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here where I am in this world. That's high society.
That's straight up high society for Jordan Walker. So heartwarming
tale of grinding it out. Spare me. The narrative doesn't
work anymore. And you still get these media dopes who
all went to sports writing clown college and they all
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do it. They're like, they make it seem like this
is some amazing, over the top story when everyone's doing
pretty well, when the minimum salary is where it is
in professional baseball, no one's doing bad. It's like a
tech bro saying, oh, man, I really bootstrapped it my startup.
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I only I was only able to raise five million
in venture capital. That's it. You know my dad paid
most of that. Well, that's a real success story. That's
that's great. So let's stop acting like Jordan Walker was
living paycheck to paycheck. He wasn't broke. He was MLB broke,
which means a third home does not have the tennis court.
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Now he can afford a tennis court in a third home,
he's got so In baseball, the word broke still means
that most Americans would would love to trade the financial
situation therein with the supposedly poorly paid baseball player. All right, now,
last word to the stream, to the streams of the
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streams of the stream. Did you watch this? Are you
one of the people that don't have Netflix? Were you upset?
Were you angry you couldn't find the home run Derby?
This was the first broadcast of the Derby on a
internet stream, not on conventional television, and Netflix went all in.
They chose this as an opportunity to promote other Netflix shows.
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As you might imagine if you saw any of this,
it was all about the Hawk, not Andre Dawson. No, no, no,
if you're all doing who that is in or the
Atlanta Hawks for that matter. Instead, this was all about
a Netflix golf comedy series starring Will Ferrell. Fun fact,
I went to the same high school as Will Ferrell.
He was a little older than me, but we went
to the same high school. He was a punter on
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the football team and he actually had some records at
the punting records when I was in school, and I said,
at the time he was on Saturday Night Live. I thought, okay,
well fine, kind of became a big deal after that. Anyway,
Will Ferrell plays a character known as a Lonnie. The
Hawk Hawkins and it's going to premiere in a couple
of days here on Netflix. And so they brought these
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guys out. They had Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson, Jimmy Chatrow
is at his name, believe that's his name, and they
all saturd at a desk and they offered random commentary
as the Home Run Derby was being introduced at Citizens
Bank Park. It made for very awkward television, it did,
and for much of the time the boxing ring announcer
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Michael Buffer, who of course they brought out Michael Buffer
more on that in a mini He was trying to
introduce the players, and it was just a cluster, you
know what I mean. So the question give me your
overall assessment of Netflix's maiden voyage as the home of
the Home Run Derby. So think of this like cologne.
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Forget Calvin Klein or old spice. Netflix Home Run Derby
smelled like a clearance rack body spray called desperation with
a capital D. It just did trying a little bit
too hard, just a little bit too hard. You could
see the flops with sweat on the faces of the
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Netflix executives from outer space on this one. They turned
batting practice with millionaires into some weird comic con type thing. Now,
it's not surprising because Netflix did the same thing on
opening day the Yankees and Giants in San Francisco. It
was a very similar vibe there. They sacrificed the sport
for the infomercial. At least I didn't see Jameis Winston.
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I missed him. He might have been there. I didn't
see him. Could have been there half the time. I
want to stress this now, Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson, that
other guy. They sounded like three guys sharing one microphone
because the engineer was drunk at a Buffalo wild wings
a lot of ambient noise in the background. So Michael Buffer,
he showed up again. Is there a rule? Does Michael
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Buffer have all of these people mesmerized in sports executive world?
It's wild? Apparently Netflix they bought the insert Buffer here
button and they wanted to get their money's worth on that.
So here's Michael But good for him. He makes a
killing every time he goes to do one of these things.
First class travel, vip A hotel, and a ridonculous amount
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of money for Michael Buffer. What a cottage industry of
absolutely ripping off dumb people who sign up for this.
It's wild. Anyway, the whole thing was I thought the
booth was chaos. I wrote some notes down on my
my notes app on my phone as I was watching this.
I thought FSR alumni Matt Vasqukersion, he actually worked here
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years ago, the early days of Fox Sports, right. I
thought Matt Vesquersion was like the only adult in the room.
It felt like when he was talking, it was like recess.
Barry Bonds and Albert Poolos should never be on television again. Horrific.
It's like sitting and waiting to be called for a
jury listening to these two guys talk. And even worse
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than that, that woke Netflix lady Ellie Duncan I think
is her name there? Holy crap. I don't know how'd
she get that? Good for her? How'd she get that job? Wow?
I'm sure she's a lovely lady and my apology store,
but my god, holy crap. She is a reminder why
the remote control has a mute button, Ellie Duncan. Why
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do we have a remote control because of people like her?
That would be why she called Bonds the undisputed home
run King, which I thought was a horrible I guess
that whole steroid ere that I lived through was just
a national fever dream, That's all it was. Then you
add in the ex jocks. You had Anthony Rizzo, who
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I thought was pretty good on some of the NBC
stuff that he's done, and Hunter Pence, and they were
terrible on the Home Run Derby. They kept bouncing between
it's so hard when somebody failed, and fans just don't
understand you. Fans just don't understand with Rizzo giving X
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teammate Kyle Schwarber the Haktuah treatment when it looked like
he was gonna win the Home Run Derby, like schwarbaumb
a tremendous humanitarian, the love child, the mother Teresa, and
the Dali Lama. The way they were talking about Kyle Schwarber,
essentially the talking down, talking down to the viewer, like
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you and I are just a bunch of country bumpkins
and we've never seen a baseball game or a home
run derby. But that's the vibe they gave on the derby.
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get your podcast from the Delaware Valley Phildelphia, PA, the
birthplace of our Freedom, where Saint Louis slugger Jordan Walker
played betman super villain to win the home run derby
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over Kyles Forber. We talked about that earlier. Now another
All Star made headlines who also plays in that city
of Philadelphia other than Kyle Schwarber who lost the home
run derby to Jordan Walker. So Philadelphia Philly star Bryce
Harper has he's made a statement regarding the big hullabaloo
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that took place a few days ago. Bryce Harper has
publicly denied denied consenting to or knowing how the people
over there at FanDuel would be able to use a
personalized video that he recorded for a customer via cameo. Now,
if you didn't see this or hear about this, perhaps
you missed it. The story blew up, right. The story
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blew up recently when a guy who says, hey, I
was an addicted gambler, I'm in rehab and all that.
He filed a lawsuit and he used, as I understand it,
he used this Bryce Harper video as evidence that he's
deserved a lot of money and all that. So Harper
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posted on Instagram that he made the video in good faith,
he said, as a standard cameo fan request, and had
no idea that it would be tied to a FanDuel
commercial slash VIP situation with this guy that has a
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gambling problem. Harper said, quote, I did not know that
FanDuel would do this. I did not consent to it, Sam,
I am, and FanDuel had no right to do it,
he said, had I known the true intent of the
people over there at FanDuel, Harper's quote continues, I would
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have made the video the same is true, or it
says I would not have made the video the same
is true had I known anything about Terry or his situation.
That's the name of the guy who is suing for
a gazillion dollars. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question Bryce Harper implying rather clearly
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here that he's the victim of this fan dual cameo drama,
old rama. Do you have any empathy for Bryce Harper
in this situation? So I've got Donald Duck, twenty four
hour fitness and Rolls Royce, and we will combine all
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of these things together and we will have the cone zone.
Make sure to slow down for the cone zone. Driving
around a lot of construction at night, to slow down
for the cone zone. All right? So number one? What
funest Number one? So I give crocodile tears to Bryce Harper.
That was, by the way, the word of the week
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on the Fifth Hour podcast. Crocodile tears. That's what I
give to Bryce Harper. Harper's sympathy plea has the emotional
depth of a kidny pool at a motel six. You
feel me on that? Okay? Good. All right, So, like,
what did Bryce Harper think that this video was going
to do? Did he think it makes no sense? I
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surely do not understand. And by the way, Bryce is
a guy who has a three hundred and thirty million
dollar contract to play professional baseball in Philadelphia, and he's
charging over nine hundred dollars for generic cameos like little
thirty second videos on cameo nine hundred bucks. Dude, you
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got three hundred thirty Like what are you doing? Like seriously,
Like Bryce is swimming in cash like Donald Duck's uncle,
Scrooge McDuck. He's loaded. Good for him. Cameo is for
guys like me, overnight poorly paid gas bags charging. I
think I charged like a pult. I did like fifty
five bucks or something like that, and I've raised it
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was lower than that before for handcrafted goodness on cameo.
There's no price gouging here, Bryce Harper over nine hundred dollars,
that's price gouging, my opinion. Can't sue me for my opinion.
So listen, Harper comes off as a total meathead to me,
just a total meathead on this. Ultimately, the problem isn't
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even the price tag or the people that fanduels aggressive
marketing and all that. The problem is the gambler who
looks at the clip as I understand that in order
to win the lawsuit. And I don't read a little
bit about it. I don't know all the details, but
as I was perusing some of the stories that were
available about this particular lawsuit, essentially, it's like this guy
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saw the clip Bryce Harper, it was around Thanksgiving, and
he lost his mind and then decided, Okay, I'm gonna
keep betting. I'm gonna bet more. And that's like my minush.
I understand there are major addiction problems. I was addicted
to food for a long time. That was my thing,
love the food, and we're all addicted to something in one
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way or another. But people love to pass the buck
as a society and blaming the app or blaming a
cameo video from Bryce Harper. Now, does this guy have
a winnable case? Well, the video is pretty damning right.
If he gets the right situation in court, I can
see him winning some money and getting some money back. However,
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nobody forced this guy. Nobody forced him or anyone else
to you know, to get the app and to download
it and all that, and if you're betting all of
your money, this guy lost over a million dollars. I
think it was all close to two million dollars. You
didn't do it because Bryce Harper went it. You want
a cameo video. I don't think I wish you a
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happy Thanksgiving, so I don't want to hear it. It's
called personal responsibility on some level. There Now page two
to Anaheim, we go, oh, we're yet again for the
second time, and recently second time. Recently we are hearing
that Angels slugger Mike Trout has not changed his position.
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We are now, what are we? A few weeks away
from the trade deadline? Today is July fourteenth, as we're
doing this in real time, and the trade deadline is
August third, so we're not that far away from the
trade deadline. And Mike Trout very happy. He's a happy
Camper's got his chateau in Laguna Beach right there on
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the Pacific, and he goes out to the Big A
and hangs out for a few hours a day, goes
back to his chateau in Laguna Beach, and that's it.
And he doesn't want to be traded question. What stands
out about Mike Trout passing It would appear, if this
report is accurate, passing on the opportunity to play for
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a contender and wanting to stay at the Big A.
So Trout much like that guy we just talked about
with Bryce Arber. Bryce, listen, Mike Trout. When all this
is said and done, this is ultimately on Mike Trout.
If Mike Trout really wants to get out of Anaheim
and go to a good team and he's only got
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a couple of decent years left, most likely this is
on him. You got to step up, and you know,
loyalty is great if the employer deserves loyalty, I would argue.
I think most would agree that the Angels are not
a franchise that deserves that kind of loyalty. And Bryce
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or not, Mike Trout exhoes Mike Trout. He sounds to
me like kind of reading between the lines here, listening
between the words. Mike Trout's like that friend who's stuck
in a toxic relationship and you're like, hey, you got
to get out of the do it. You know he's
not good. Yeah, he's gonna do something crazy you're gonna
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end up in jay. I was going to call the
cops on you. It's it's a crazy situation. And your
buddy ignores you and everyone else. He's like, your body's
I love her, bro I know you love her, dude,
but you got it. It's not good. And Trout doubling down,
doubling down on loyalty while the franchise has been a
demilitarized zone under Ardi Marine. Remember the franchise motto is
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affordable tickets, safe environment, don't care about winning. That's the
Arty Marino Angels right there. Market research, don't try to win.
You don't need to win as long as you have
a safe environment. A lot of bobbleheads kids run the basis,
everything's good, Everything is good, right, absolutely so whatever's in
the water system in Anaheim and Laguna Beach. Mike Trout
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is hooked. He's hooked, and he's not hooked trying to win,
that's not it. And staying with the Halos. It's kind
of like review renewing your membership to twenty four hour
finish to the gym even though you haven't gone to
the gym since twenty seventeen. You know we I mean
I'll go. I knew it and I'm gonna go. It's admirable.
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You're showing great loyalty. If you're Mike Trout, it's not
great decision making. It's not. And his mantra clearly is
work smarter, not harder, meaning he's embracing load management. Mike Trout.
The good thing about playing for the Angels you don't
have to work any overtime. You don't have to worry
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about playing October baseball. You don't have to worry about
going to play the Yankees and the cold weather or
somewhere else where it's nasty in October when the weather
turns bad. No, no, no, no. Now, he is a
Jersey guy, so he can go back to Jersey and
he can live in his home back there and hunt
and go to pumpkin patches around Jersey and enjoy the
fall weather and doesn't have to worry about playing baseball
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games and chasing championships and all that stuff. He's gonna
retire with exactly one career postseason hit. That's how many
has hit one meaningless home run in a blowout game
against the Kansas City Royals in a playoff game. And
it's like Joe Mauer, except Joe Mauer, who also wasn't great.
He actually had eleven playoff hits for the old Minnesota
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Twins back in the day, so it would appear, barring
some kind of eleventh hour change, Mike Trout has picked
comfort over winning, and he's got really no excuse. He's
at the point now he's like, well, he's not going
to trade him now, good luck?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Final point to the NBA. Yes, just to annoy Wane
the curmudgeon, some hot NBA talk where Milwaukee Bucks forward
Kyle Kuzma. That's right, Milwaukee Bucks forward Kyle Kuzman filling
the content machine this week. So Kuzma recently slammed the CBA.
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That's what it's known for, or known as some call
it by its formal name, the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Kuzma
went on a rant saying, quote, let's be real, the
CBA make sure that the owners, the funds, the private
investor funds, and outside investors can eat off NBA team equity.
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But Kuzma said, the players driving the ratings and the
merch are treated like short term contractors. You went on
a diet tribe on social media responding to a Jalen
Brown bitchfest about the way the NBA does business. And
funny thing is, quote continues from Kyle Kuzma. We should
be like independent contractors, Kuzma said, since we are W two,
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we can't even write off certain things like our agent
fees bs. He said close quote all right. Question. Kyle
Kuzma says NBA players are treated like short term contractors
while owners profit from the rising team values. Are the
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players getting a raw deal? So on this one, I'm
giving the rant and rave by Kyle Kuzma a little
side eye, little sidey Kuzma crying about NBA players being
treated like short term contractors or they should be. It's
for gazy, is what it is. And this pops up
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every company. This is not a new story, I admit it.
It's just the latest guy to do it. And so
here we are. Why do these guys think they deserve
equity in a business they didn't build, like I've worked
here at Fox Sports Radio. Here's how I related. I
worked here since the network started. Network's the top network
in radio whatever that's worth sports radio. It's the number
(31:40):
one network in the country. Very proud of that, right
and that's great. Do I go into the boss's office
and say, well, I get I should get some equity
in this. I've been here since the network started. Why
don't I get some equity? No, they laugh at me,
just like when my contract comes up and they laugh
at me. So why would I know. I wouldn't do that.
I wouldn't even think about doing that. I don't have
that level of hutsbah, clearly these guys do. Now, the
(32:04):
NBA is a star league, right, all the NBA is
a star league. However, stars don't own the sky. They don't.
And they're more like these players are more like shooting stars,
and they dazzled briefly, really impressive meteor shower, and then
they disappear, that's it. Or they're more like another analogy.
(32:26):
They're more like luxury rental cars. You go out, you
get that Rolls Royce, so that Bentley or more of
a Ferrari person. You rent that car, flashy expensive, You
pull up to the high end restaurant. All the hot
chicks are looking at you all that. You're all excited
about it, right, and then when the mileage goes up,
you just that's it. The car goes back and they
(32:48):
that's all like just when I started, I guess I'm
gonn date myself. When I was going to the NBA
games as early I was a teenager, Larry Bird was
still playing magic and these were the they were old
at the time. They were still playing in the NBA, right,
And I remember people saying, Oh my god, no one's
gonna watch the NBA, these are the face of the NBA.
(33:08):
And this guy Michael Jordan came along and he was
pretty good. And then when Jordan got old, Oh no,
no one's gonna watch the NBA because there's no Michael Jordan.
And then this guy Kobe Bryant came along. People seemed
to like him a lot. And then Kobe got all
and he went away. And then like Lebron James called,
you know, going along and he was around, Oh my god, No,
Lebron's getting all these gonna retire, No one's gonna watch.
(33:30):
Oh my god. Yeah, there's always somebody else. Is that
the assembly line always pumped somebody out, else out, whether
it's the Parisian Proigy Wemby or some other Jimoke, there'll
be somebody else. And through it all, the multi billion
dollar team valuations remained intact. The permanent institution. The asset
is the is the foundation, logos and all that stuff.
(33:51):
The labor force is where the volatility is in professional basketball.
Like fans support franchises and you like the players, I
don't discount you love the players that you're watching, But
no one last forever. There's no individual that lasts forever
in the NBA. Doesn't happen. And so if Kyle Kuzma
(34:12):
wants long term stability, I recommend getting a job at
the post office. That's pretty good stability. We have some
postal carriers that listen. I know one of our buddies
in Nebraska who I met with his son at a
meet and greet in Kansas City. He's a proud mailman.
He listens to the podcast every day while wandering around Nebraska.
He's got a stable job. Good for him. The NBAT,
(34:34):
the points listen. In the NBA existed before these guys,
It'll exist after these guys. And in the case of
Kyle Kuzman, no one's going to remember even playing in
the NBA. Is that too harsh? Is that too me?
What's real?
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Here we go, it's Mallard. How about that? To the
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Get squirrilled. Your pipe dream has come true, kublu.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Ben Titan's running back Taj Spears says they've got a
new head coach, a new logo, and they're gonna have
new results. He vowed that the Titan's gonna have a
winning record this year. Ben, do you think that'll be
the case.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well, they are playing a last play schedule, and typically
guys do get better when they leave the Jets. I'm
talking about Robert Salum, the new head coach that said
if they're around five hundred, Robert Salad should be coach
of the year. Okay, let's be honest here.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Next all right, Ben Sean Payton is part of the
NFL's Competition Committee, and he was commenting on how the
UFL goes straight to the live to the booth when
they have a review, and he said he thinks that
they'll have that kind of transparency in the NFL in
the next two or three years. Do you believe him?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I don't believe him. I still think the NFL when
you would go what happened the injustice in Seattle with
that game against the Rams, coop where the Rams got
screwed on that ridiculous Just give Seattle two points. I
don't believe the NFL wants to give up total, so
I'll believe it when it happens. I am very skeptical, coop,
(36:05):
very very skeptical that the NFL will actually cross the rubicon.
Just like you listen, all these leagues they didn't like
to have a little influenced in, a little here and there,
little help all right, Next.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
James Franklin was never able to make it over the
hump with the Nitney Lyons.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yes, but much of the dismay of LeVar aarringthing.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Yes, but he just finished the annual Tailgate tour with
Virginia Tech and he said he doesn't think he needs
to reinvent himself in order to succeed at Virginia Tech.
Do you think that's the case.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Well, he needs to get good players, he needs somebody.
I don't know the setup at Virginia Tech. I mean
there was a time they had good teams every year.
The hokey pokey Virginia Tech for years had competitive teams
and they were you know, Michael Vick and all that,
and they were a player on the big stage in
college football. Of course, you got to have people with money.
I don't know the most famous alumni from Virginia Tech
that are loaded, that have deep pockets. That's all you need. Now,
(36:57):
Indiana sucked mine for the world and they won because Mark,
you been paid for good players. So if jam Franklin
has someone to pay for good players, then yes, Virginia
Tech can win a national championship in the next couple
of years. I wouldn't bet on it. How did we do?
Kooble loop? You pass the sh away?
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Let's welcome our contestants. We have Tyler in Boston. Who's
gonna play Mathers amount of money? Hello, Tyler? What's going on?
Benny there? He is my man, Tyler. You're gonna be
one of our guys. Who would you like to partner
up with? Tyler? Unfortunately, I ain't gonna go with Coop
because I do enjoy trying to be Yes, Why are
(37:54):
you so happy, Coop? Why would you be?
Speaker 4 (37:56):
I like Tyler?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Uh huh? Okay, all right, I feel like there's other
other ulterior motives that you might have. Mike in Tucson, Hello,
Mikey in Tucson Barbecue, Mikey, Let's go a bet.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
I remember when I got sworn into.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
The maltor of Oath. I'll never forget that night. That's
not in my Life's big moment in men's lives, it
really does. You know you're laughing. This is a big
deal for these people. You understand this is a game change,
best night.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Of his life. Well, tonight's gonna be the worst not
in your life. You're gonna get your ass kicked.
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And hurry up, hurry the Smaller's Mountain of Money.
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The Sam Neal addition, He passed away on Monday at
the age of seventy eight. The categories are just out
of reach, The Hunt for Red October, Jurassic Park, and
the twelve. Uh, Tyler, which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Red October?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Okay? And Mike, what about you?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I Drastic Park? All right? All right, everyone, hold on
there we will have Mallard's amount of money innoc entirety.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
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Speaker 1 (39:22):
Let's do it right to the game. Tyler is in
Boston and he is teamed up with Coop. It's Mallard's
Mountain Money. This is what is this a Coop which edition?
There with Sam Nils Sam Beal edition? Alright, he just
passed recently. All right, here we go, Cooper Loop, you're
up first with Tyler. What's the category?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
We have?
Speaker 4 (39:39):
The hunt for Red October? All right, you're ready, Tyler?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
What is this category?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
These athletes were born in October? Forty five seconds on
the clock. Let's begin. Hall of Fame. Quarterback for the
Packers more number four, the best wide receiver of all time,
Jerry Right, the longtime Boston Celtic. He had to be
wheeled off the court in a wheelchair. Again here, yes, uh,
this guy is a slugger, All Star outfielder that was
(40:08):
on the Nationals then the Padres. He's on the Mets.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Yes, uh, this guy is a quarterback out of Hawaii
for usc The commissioner mispronounced his name at the draft.
It could be any path, all right, this guy is
a long time Tampa Bay Ray. They've just retired as
number third baseman. Yes, this guy was a center for
(40:34):
the Lakers with Oh.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
It's tough break for you. Oh tough, all right? On eight. Alright,
let's go. Here we go. You ready to do his
mic and Tucson completely hammered. Here we go. These athletes
you pick Jurassic Park. These athletes are practically dinosaurs in
their sport. Are you ready, Mike, Yes, all right, forty
five seconds of the clock. We're on our way and go.
(40:59):
He's free agent. He has played for the Lakers, famous
for Cleveland and Miami. Yes, quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers
right now, known for his days Rogers. Yes, uh. Pitcher
for the Detroit Tigers. He announced he's going to retire
at the end of the in the year, just yeah, say.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Justin Vader is your clubs?
Speaker 1 (41:23):
All right? Pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. He's got
two different colored eyes. He won a championship for the Nationals. Yes,
tight end, he's forty something, Yes, correct, tight end forty
some first name is like a high end automobile, a
luxury car. H he's bounced. You got one hundred, You
(41:46):
got one hundred? Yeah, back up. Marceides Lewis, Marsides Lewis.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Mike, do you want just out of reach for the twelve?
Speaker 1 (41:58):
All right, all right, these athletes all wore number twelve. Mike,
forty five seconds on the clock. We're on our way
go the greatest quarterback of all time? H Ridge Dannen. Yes,
all right, great answer, wonderful MVP for the Orlando Magic Center.
He was on Dancing with the Stars. Not shack but
(42:18):
not fat. All right, shortstop for the New York Mets.
He's got a big contract.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
He stinks, No another one, it stinks shortstop. Oh yeah,
the alcohols kicking in, all right. Quarterback center had a
beard for the Lakers in the eighties and the nineties. Smoked,
smoked a lot of cigarettes for the Lakers. European player,
(42:44):
All right, angel picture there.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
All right. Blotty flotody debots Francisco Lindor. You didn't get
Tom Bright. It ain't got toplrighty, how do you knock
your time? That's a felony. You committed a felony.
Speaker 4 (43:06):
That's what we call the one category win Tyler, that's
how we do it.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
That's what we call uku putting a drunk on. How
dare you? How dare you?
Speaker 3 (43:15):
All Right?
Speaker 1 (43:16):
I love you, Mike, but come on, man, you killed me.
I mean, geez, chats the alcohol kicked in. You notice
that the first round he was fine. All of a
sudden the booze kicked in.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
Have another sat Oh
Speaker 1 (43:28):
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So our lead this hour, Our lead this hour is
from well, the obvious story, the Delaware Valley, the return
of the Spectacle of Spectacles, well kind of it was
Derby time. The flag is up? Yeah, were you watching? No,
you were not. You were not watching? Maybe not all right, Well,
(00:53):
don't worry. We watched so you would not have to now.
Jordan Walker, who this guy became a literal batman super
villain just like that, talking about playing Spoiler in Philadelphia
as he homered on his last not one, not two,
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not three, not four, not five, his last six swings
in the home run Derby to knock out the hometown
hero Kyle Schwarber, Bye bye, You're out of here, and
silence the angry mob in Philadelphia. The boo birds were out.
(01:34):
They were furious as the final round came to an end.
And Jordan Walker, I am told he is an outfielder
for the Saint Louis Cardinals, and he is the first
Saint Louis player to win the home run Derby. Take that,
Mark McGuire and Albert Poohos and all those guys. Schwarber
the major league leader in dingers this year, and they
(01:59):
were roaring, going crazy, and they were having a great time.
It was like a religious revival there. They were ringing
the Liberty bell. Oh. They were so happy, so happy
in Philadelphia for this guy. He was gonna win it
every swing. Eleven swarp bombs. He had eleven schwar bombs
during the fifteen swing final round there, and every time
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anyone came up that wasn't either Kyle Schwarber or Bryce Harper,
who got exited in the first round. He was decommissioned
in the first round of the home run Derby. Everyone
was booed other than those guys, as you might imagine,
there and roaring cheers for Schwarber as he was doing
his thing there throughout the night, and it looked like
he had it in the back. What's in the bag? Oh,
(02:44):
you cut a hole in the bag. That's what happened.
And then the scene and we didn't see too much
of it, bat you up by Netflix, but they the
scene of people leaving with their heads down. Some of
them had the surrender cobra as they lost and their
guy lost the home run derby exiting as that home run,
the Walker home run soaring into the night out in
(03:07):
left field. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question does Cardinals slugger Jordan Walker's
performance in the home run Derby? What does it do?
What does this do for his career? That's the question.
What does this do for the career of Jordan Marker?
So I've got SpaceX edible arrangements and Buffalo wild wings
(03:30):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are gonna make a tasty cake because that's what
Jordan Walker deserves, a bunch of tasty cakes. And right there,
shove it down your throat. Yes, absolutely all right. So
a some players survived the spotlight and this home run Derby.
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There's a lot of guys that choke in it. My
favorite story years ago, I was with the Dodgers. They
had got named Mike Piazza, who was an epic home
run hitter with the He became more of a legend
with the Mets. But Piazza was in the home in
Derby and if I remember Corfy, he didn't hit one
home run and it was very embarrassing. And he's not long.
There was a bunch of guys that have not been
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good at that. That's not their skill set. Jordan Walker
and then the pressure and how guys melt under that,
he absorbed it and that was impressive to see here.
He strolled in like he owned the place, and he
kind of did. Jordan Walker kind of did own the night.
The spotlight was his. And I'm not a Cardinal fan,
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and I enjoyed it. It was enjoyable to see this happen,
to see all those people. I had some shottenfreud for
the Philadelphia fan. Am I still bitter about that home
run years ago the Phillies hit against the Dodgers at
Dodger Stadium to beat them in the NLCS? I might be,
I might be where's Matt Stairs right now? You know
he's getting free food somewhere in a spaghetti meatball somewhere
in Philadelphia there he was right if he didn't see
(04:57):
it for the blind listeners. So this guy I had
some style to him. As Walker was up there, Jordan
Walker is his cap backwards. That'll piss off Colin Cowhard
and Ken Griffy Junior style if you remember Griffy, And
if you're old, you know who that is. Ken Griffy Jr.
This guy, I think he's twenty four. He is chewing gum. Yeah,
(05:20):
the whole thing. Oh, it could choke if you get
hit with the pitch, you could choke on the gum.
Oh my god. Yeah. And he looked but dazzled. He
looked but dazzled, seemed completely unfazed. And I kind of
get it from the standpoint of if he lost, it
would have been fine because Kyle Schwarber is supposed to
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win the Home Run Derby, so he was really playing
with house money in many respects there, Jordan Walker, he's
the fifth youngest player to win the Home Run Derby
if you're into those kind of age type things. And
he acted like he was ordering a HOGI from Jersey
Mike's and just calm, cool and ready to eat. And
he willing to take somebody else's food and just eat
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that and just knock it out of the park there.
And I did not crack, did not panic, did not blink,
all those things, all those hokey things we say in sports.
You could have literally dropped Jordan Walker into Mount Fuji,
the volcano, and he'd still be chewing gum.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And no, no, no no no no no no no no
no that I fear nothing that energy that he at
least it looked like that on the stream that I had.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Maybe I had a different stream than you. It's a
marketing department's dream, and this was like a national coming
out party for Jordan Walker for those that care about
baseball and kind of like think about like SpaceX and
you have that rocket launch where everyone goes down to
take photos of the rocket launch, and in this case,
the rocket launch was his Q rating massive. So if
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you're completely honest about this, he has been having a
monster year in Saint Louis under the arches there. He's
on paced at thirty eight home runs and driving one
hundred and twenty six runs this season. Yet, if you
are honest about this, anyone outside of the Cardinal fandom
in Missouri and the states around Missouri there has not
(07:15):
really cared about the Cardinals in what a decade or so.
It's been about a decade since the Cardinals were any good.
It seems like it maybe a little less than that.
I don't know, it just seems like it's been that long.
And if the playoffs start to day the Cardinals, it
is true they have a winning record, they would not
qualify for the playoffs. The National League is loaded this year.
And so Walker out there showing some poise, polish, He
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had some personality to him. The holy trinity in modern
Internet age, social media age sports, right, you can have
that poise, polish and personality, the three piece, and he
had all three of them. And so that's that's where
we are. And listen, this is the kind of stuff
that moves the needle. And the joke is, if he
keeps playing like that, he's got a couple more years
(08:00):
of arbitration. Eventually he'll end up playing for the Dodgers
of the Yankees. If this guy keeps playing the way
he's playing right now. Jordan Walker, now speaking of money, money, money, money, money, money,
it's all about turning the pate here to the money train,
t trip So a number of baseball scribes, the baseball elites,
as we like to call them, the guys get free
(08:21):
loading trips to the All Star Game every year. So
these are Jabroni's. They were very excited. Jordan Walker. I
believe he earned one million dollars one million dollars for
winning the twenty twenty six home run derby. The Cardinals
outfielder his twenty twenty six salary before taxes seven hundred
(08:42):
and ninety nine thousand, four hundred dollars, meaning, using some
back of the napkin malor math, that Jordan Walker his
home run Derby check exceeded his entire salary for the season.
And this is supposed to be a big deal. This
is used to be a big deal. So the question
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does this home run derby financial windfall for Jordan Walker?
All right? Does this count he picking up? Is this
a pick yourself up by the bootstrap situation for Jordan Walker?
So I do get a chuckle out of these type
of stories. And these are things that used to exist
(09:24):
in a different time in the world when we didn't
put our athletes on pedestals like this, and the fact
that this is still the thing fascinates me, it really does. Oh,
poor Jordan Walker. Only seven hundred and ninety nine thousand
a year in salary. How does the man survive? He's
got to buy generic brand bottled water. Holy crap, how
(09:47):
does he live? So sad? So I'm sorry, I don't
get the vibe that Walker was somehow lifting himself out
of baseball poverty winning the home run derby. Don't the
way I look at it, he was already living in
a gated community of major League Baseball comfort. The home
(10:07):
run derby. Now listen, it handed him a bonus check
big enough to make his financial advisors send an edible arrangement.
They're very happy, very happy to see all that. It's
not some chicken soup for the sole type redemption arc
that these baseball pundits are trying to make it to
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be the kid from the wrong side of the tracks
who finally escaped that neighborhood. Now he's making the big money.
It's just not the case. Jordan Walker has already banked
five point three million dollars in careers salary. Now after taxes,
that's about three hundred thousand still, though you know, he's
made a good amount of money in career earnings around
(10:50):
here where I am in this world. That's high society.
That's straight up high society for Jordan Walker. So heartwarming
tale of grinding it out. Spare me. The narrative doesn't
work anymore. And you still get these media dopes who
all went to sports writing clown college and they all
(11:12):
do it. They're like, they make it seem like this
is some amazing, over the top story when everyone's doing
pretty well, when the minimum salary is where it is
in professional baseball, no one's doing bad. It's like a
tech bro saying, oh, man, I really bootstrapped it my startup.
(11:34):
I only I was only able to raise five million
in venture capital. That's it. You know my dad paid
most of that. Well, that's a real success story. That's
that's great. So let's stop acting like Jordan Walker was
living paycheck to paycheck. He wasn't broke. He was MLB broke,
which means a third home does not have the tennis court.
(11:57):
Now he can afford a tennis court in a third home,
he's got so In baseball, the word broke still means
that most Americans would would love to trade the financial
situation therein with the supposedly poorly paid baseball player. All right, now,
last word to the stream, to the streams of the
(12:17):
streams of the stream. Did you watch this? Are you
one of the people that don't have Netflix? Were you upset?
Were you angry you couldn't find the home run Derby?
This was the first broadcast of the Derby on a
internet stream, not on conventional television, and Netflix went all in.
They chose this as an opportunity to promote other Netflix shows.
(12:41):
As you might imagine if you saw any of this,
it was all about the Hawk, not Andre Dawson. No, no, no,
if you're all doing who that is in or the
Atlanta Hawks for that matter. Instead, this was all about
a Netflix golf comedy series starring Will Ferrell. Fun fact,
I went to the same high school as Will Ferrell.
He was a little older than me, but we went
to the same high school. He was a punter on
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the football team and he actually had some records at
the punting records when I was in school, and I said,
at the time he was on Saturday Night Live. I thought, okay,
well fine, kind of became a big deal after that. Anyway,
Will Ferrell plays a character known as a Lonnie. The
Hawk Hawkins and it's going to premiere in a couple
of days here on Netflix. And so they brought these
(13:26):
guys out. They had Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson, Jimmy Chatrow
is at his name, believe that's his name, and they
all saturd at a desk and they offered random commentary
as the Home Run Derby was being introduced at Citizens
Bank Park. It made for very awkward television, it did,
and for much of the time the boxing ring announcer
(13:50):
Michael Buffer, who of course they brought out Michael Buffer
more on that in a mini He was trying to
introduce the players, and it was just a cluster, you
know what I mean. So the question give me your
overall assessment of Netflix's maiden voyage as the home of
the Home Run Derby. So think of this like cologne.
(14:14):
Forget Calvin Klein or old spice. Netflix Home Run Derby
smelled like a clearance rack body spray called desperation with
a capital D. It just did trying a little bit
too hard, just a little bit too hard. You could
see the flops with sweat on the faces of the
(14:37):
Netflix executives from outer space on this one. They turned
batting practice with millionaires into some weird comic con type thing. Now,
it's not surprising because Netflix did the same thing on
opening day the Yankees and Giants in San Francisco. It
was a very similar vibe there. They sacrificed the sport
for the infomercial. At least I didn't see Jameis Winston.
(15:00):
I missed him. He might have been there. I didn't
see him. Could have been there half the time. I
want to stress this now, Will Ferrell, Luke Wilson, that
other guy. They sounded like three guys sharing one microphone
because the engineer was drunk at a Buffalo wild wings
a lot of ambient noise in the background. So Michael Buffer,
he showed up again. Is there a rule? Does Michael
(15:23):
Buffer have all of these people mesmerized in sports executive world?
It's wild? Apparently Netflix they bought the insert Buffer here
button and they wanted to get their money's worth on that.
So here's Michael But good for him. He makes a
killing every time he goes to do one of these things.
First class travel, vip A hotel, and a ridonculous amount
(15:47):
of money for Michael Buffer. What a cottage industry of
absolutely ripping off dumb people who sign up for this.
It's wild. Anyway, the whole thing was I thought the
booth was chaos. I wrote some notes down on my
my notes app on my phone as I was watching this.
I thought FSR alumni Matt Vasqukersion, he actually worked here
(16:07):
years ago, the early days of Fox Sports, right. I
thought Matt Vesquersion was like the only adult in the room.
It felt like when he was talking, it was like recess.
Barry Bonds and Albert Poolos should never be on television again. Horrific.
It's like sitting and waiting to be called for a
jury listening to these two guys talk. And even worse
(16:29):
than that, that woke Netflix lady Ellie Duncan I think
is her name there? Holy crap. I don't know how'd
she get that? Good for her? How'd she get that job? Wow?
I'm sure she's a lovely lady and my apology store,
but my god, holy crap. She is a reminder why
the remote control has a mute button, Ellie Duncan. Why
(16:50):
do we have a remote control because of people like her?
That would be why she called Bonds the undisputed home
run King, which I thought was a horrible I guess
that whole steroid ere that I lived through was just
a national fever dream, That's all it was. Then you
add in the ex jocks. You had Anthony Rizzo, who
(17:11):
I thought was pretty good on some of the NBC
stuff that he's done, and Hunter Pence, and they were
terrible on the Home Run Derby. They kept bouncing between
it's so hard when somebody failed, and fans just don't
understand you. Fans just don't understand with Rizzo giving X
(17:31):
teammate Kyle Schwarber the Haktuah treatment when it looked like
he was gonna win the Home Run Derby, like schwarbaumb
a tremendous humanitarian, the love child, the mother Teresa, and
the Dali Lama. The way they were talking about Kyle Schwarber,
essentially the talking down, talking down to the viewer, like
(17:53):
you and I are just a bunch of country bumpkins
and we've never seen a baseball game or a home
run derby. But that's the vibe they gave on the derby.
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Speaker 1 (18:12):
Hey, it's Ben, host of The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller.
Would mean a lot to have you join us on
our weekly auditory journey. You're asking, what in God's name
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nature and more. Listen to The Fifth Hour with Ben
Maller on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you
get your podcast from the Delaware Valley Phildelphia, PA, the
birthplace of our Freedom, where Saint Louis slugger Jordan Walker
played betman super villain to win the home run derby
(18:57):
over Kyles Forber. We talked about that earlier. Now another
All Star made headlines who also plays in that city
of Philadelphia other than Kyle Schwarber who lost the home
run derby to Jordan Walker. So Philadelphia Philly star Bryce
Harper has he's made a statement regarding the big hullabaloo
(19:20):
that took place a few days ago. Bryce Harper has
publicly denied denied consenting to or knowing how the people
over there at FanDuel would be able to use a
personalized video that he recorded for a customer via cameo. Now,
if you didn't see this or hear about this, perhaps
you missed it. The story blew up, right. The story
(19:44):
blew up recently when a guy who says, hey, I
was an addicted gambler, I'm in rehab and all that.
He filed a lawsuit and he used, as I understand it,
he used this Bryce Harper video as evidence that he's
deserved a lot of money and all that. So Harper
(20:05):
posted on Instagram that he made the video in good faith,
he said, as a standard cameo fan request, and had
no idea that it would be tied to a FanDuel
commercial slash VIP situation with this guy that has a
(20:25):
gambling problem. Harper said, quote, I did not know that
FanDuel would do this. I did not consent to it, Sam,
I am, and FanDuel had no right to do it,
he said, had I known the true intent of the
people over there at FanDuel, Harper's quote continues, I would
(20:47):
have made the video the same is true, or it
says I would not have made the video the same
is true had I known anything about Terry or his situation.
That's the name of the guy who is suing for
a gazillion dollars. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question Bryce Harper implying rather clearly
(21:07):
here that he's the victim of this fan dual cameo drama,
old rama. Do you have any empathy for Bryce Harper
in this situation? So I've got Donald Duck, twenty four
hour fitness and Rolls Royce, and we will combine all
(21:27):
of these things together and we will have the cone zone.
Make sure to slow down for the cone zone. Driving
around a lot of construction at night, to slow down
for the cone zone. All right? So number one? What
funest Number one? So I give crocodile tears to Bryce Harper.
That was, by the way, the word of the week
(21:50):
on the Fifth Hour podcast. Crocodile tears. That's what I
give to Bryce Harper. Harper's sympathy plea has the emotional
depth of a kidny pool at a motel six. You
feel me on that? Okay? Good. All right, So, like,
what did Bryce Harper think that this video was going
to do? Did he think it makes no sense? I
(22:14):
surely do not understand. And by the way, Bryce is
a guy who has a three hundred and thirty million
dollar contract to play professional baseball in Philadelphia, and he's
charging over nine hundred dollars for generic cameos like little
thirty second videos on cameo nine hundred bucks. Dude, you
(22:35):
got three hundred thirty Like what are you doing? Like seriously,
Like Bryce is swimming in cash like Donald Duck's uncle,
Scrooge McDuck. He's loaded. Good for him. Cameo is for
guys like me, overnight poorly paid gas bags charging. I
think I charged like a pult. I did like fifty
five bucks or something like that, and I've raised it
(22:56):
was lower than that before for handcrafted goodness on cameo.
There's no price gouging here, Bryce Harper over nine hundred dollars,
that's price gouging, my opinion. Can't sue me for my opinion.
So listen, Harper comes off as a total meathead to me,
just a total meathead on this. Ultimately, the problem isn't
(23:19):
even the price tag or the people that fanduels aggressive
marketing and all that. The problem is the gambler who
looks at the clip as I understand that in order
to win the lawsuit. And I don't read a little
bit about it. I don't know all the details, but
as I was perusing some of the stories that were
available about this particular lawsuit, essentially, it's like this guy
(23:41):
saw the clip Bryce Harper, it was around Thanksgiving, and
he lost his mind and then decided, Okay, I'm gonna
keep betting. I'm gonna bet more. And that's like my minush.
I understand there are major addiction problems. I was addicted
to food for a long time. That was my thing,
love the food, and we're all addicted to something in one
(24:04):
way or another. But people love to pass the buck
as a society and blaming the app or blaming a
cameo video from Bryce Harper. Now, does this guy have
a winnable case? Well, the video is pretty damning right.
If he gets the right situation in court, I can
see him winning some money and getting some money back. However,
(24:26):
nobody forced this guy. Nobody forced him or anyone else
to you know, to get the app and to download
it and all that, and if you're betting all of
your money, this guy lost over a million dollars. I
think it was all close to two million dollars. You
didn't do it because Bryce Harper went it. You want
a cameo video. I don't think I wish you a
(24:49):
happy Thanksgiving, so I don't want to hear it. It's
called personal responsibility on some level. There Now page two
to Anaheim, we go, oh, we're yet again for the
second time, and recently second time. Recently we are hearing
that Angels slugger Mike Trout has not changed his position.
(25:12):
We are now, what are we? A few weeks away
from the trade deadline? Today is July fourteenth, as we're
doing this in real time, and the trade deadline is
August third, so we're not that far away from the
trade deadline. And Mike Trout very happy. He's a happy
Camper's got his chateau in Laguna Beach right there on
(25:33):
the Pacific, and he goes out to the Big A
and hangs out for a few hours a day, goes
back to his chateau in Laguna Beach, and that's it.
And he doesn't want to be traded question. What stands
out about Mike Trout passing It would appear, if this
report is accurate, passing on the opportunity to play for
(25:54):
a contender and wanting to stay at the Big A.
So Trout much like that guy we just talked about
with Bryce Arber. Bryce, listen, Mike Trout. When all this
is said and done, this is ultimately on Mike Trout.
If Mike Trout really wants to get out of Anaheim
and go to a good team and he's only got
(26:15):
a couple of decent years left, most likely this is
on him. You got to step up, and you know,
loyalty is great if the employer deserves loyalty, I would argue.
I think most would agree that the Angels are not
a franchise that deserves that kind of loyalty. And Bryce
(26:36):
or not, Mike Trout exhoes Mike Trout. He sounds to
me like kind of reading between the lines here, listening
between the words. Mike Trout's like that friend who's stuck
in a toxic relationship and you're like, hey, you got
to get out of the do it. You know he's
not good. Yeah, he's gonna do something crazy you're gonna
(26:57):
end up in jay. I was going to call the
cops on you. It's it's a crazy situation. And your
buddy ignores you and everyone else. He's like, your body's
I love her, bro I know you love her, dude,
but you got it. It's not good. And Trout doubling down,
doubling down on loyalty while the franchise has been a
demilitarized zone under Ardi Marine. Remember the franchise motto is
(27:19):
affordable tickets, safe environment, don't care about winning. That's the
Arty Marino Angels right there. Market research, don't try to win.
You don't need to win as long as you have
a safe environment. A lot of bobbleheads kids run the basis,
everything's good, Everything is good, right, absolutely so whatever's in
the water system in Anaheim and Laguna Beach. Mike Trout
(27:44):
is hooked. He's hooked, and he's not hooked trying to win,
that's not it. And staying with the Halos. It's kind
of like review renewing your membership to twenty four hour
finish to the gym even though you haven't gone to
the gym since twenty seventeen. You know we I mean
I'll go. I knew it and I'm gonna go. It's admirable.
(28:07):
You're showing great loyalty. If you're Mike Trout, it's not
great decision making. It's not. And his mantra clearly is
work smarter, not harder, meaning he's embracing load management. Mike Trout.
The good thing about playing for the Angels you don't
have to work any overtime. You don't have to worry
(28:28):
about playing October baseball. You don't have to worry about
going to play the Yankees and the cold weather or
somewhere else where it's nasty in October when the weather
turns bad. No, no, no, no. Now, he is a
Jersey guy, so he can go back to Jersey and
he can live in his home back there and hunt
and go to pumpkin patches around Jersey and enjoy the
fall weather and doesn't have to worry about playing baseball
(28:52):
games and chasing championships and all that stuff. He's gonna
retire with exactly one career postseason hit. That's how many
has hit one meaningless home run in a blowout game
against the Kansas City Royals in a playoff game. And
it's like Joe Mauer, except Joe Mauer, who also wasn't great.
He actually had eleven playoff hits for the old Minnesota
(29:13):
Twins back in the day, so it would appear, barring
some kind of eleventh hour change, Mike Trout has picked
comfort over winning, and he's got really no excuse. He's
at the point now he's like, well, he's not going
to trade him now, good luck?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Final point to the NBA. Yes, just to annoy Wane
the curmudgeon, some hot NBA talk where Milwaukee Bucks forward
Kyle Kuzma. That's right, Milwaukee Bucks forward Kyle Kuzman filling
the content machine this week. So Kuzma recently slammed the CBA.
(29:52):
That's what it's known for, or known as some call
it by its formal name, the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Kuzma
went on a rant saying, quote, let's be real, the
CBA make sure that the owners, the funds, the private
investor funds, and outside investors can eat off NBA team equity.
(30:12):
But Kuzma said, the players driving the ratings and the
merch are treated like short term contractors. You went on
a diet tribe on social media responding to a Jalen
Brown bitchfest about the way the NBA does business. And
funny thing is, quote continues from Kyle Kuzma. We should
be like independent contractors, Kuzma said, since we are W two,
(30:37):
we can't even write off certain things like our agent
fees bs. He said close quote all right. Question. Kyle
Kuzma says NBA players are treated like short term contractors
while owners profit from the rising team values. Are the
(30:57):
players getting a raw deal? So on this one, I'm
giving the rant and rave by Kyle Kuzma a little
side eye, little sidey Kuzma crying about NBA players being
treated like short term contractors or they should be. It's
for gazy, is what it is. And this pops up
(31:19):
every company. This is not a new story, I admit it.
It's just the latest guy to do it. And so
here we are. Why do these guys think they deserve
equity in a business they didn't build, like I've worked
here at Fox Sports Radio. Here's how I related. I
worked here since the network started. Network's the top network
in radio whatever that's worth sports radio. It's the number
(31:40):
one network in the country. Very proud of that, right
and that's great. Do I go into the boss's office
and say, well, I get I should get some equity
in this. I've been here since the network started. Why
don't I get some equity? No, they laugh at me,
just like when my contract comes up and they laugh
at me. So why would I know. I wouldn't do that.
I wouldn't even think about doing that. I don't have
that level of hutsbah, clearly these guys do. Now, the
(32:04):
NBA is a star league, right, all the NBA is
a star league. However, stars don't own the sky. They don't.
And they're more like these players are more like shooting stars,
and they dazzled briefly, really impressive meteor shower, and then
they disappear, that's it. Or they're more like another analogy.
(32:26):
They're more like luxury rental cars. You go out, you
get that Rolls Royce, so that Bentley or more of
a Ferrari person. You rent that car, flashy expensive, You
pull up to the high end restaurant. All the hot
chicks are looking at you all that. You're all excited
about it, right, and then when the mileage goes up,
you just that's it. The car goes back and they
(32:48):
that's all like just when I started, I guess I'm
gonn date myself. When I was going to the NBA
games as early I was a teenager, Larry Bird was
still playing magic and these were the they were old
at the time. They were still playing in the NBA, right,
And I remember people saying, Oh my god, no one's
gonna watch the NBA, these are the face of the NBA.
(33:08):
And this guy Michael Jordan came along and he was
pretty good. And then when Jordan got old, Oh no,
no one's gonna watch the NBA because there's no Michael Jordan.
And then this guy Kobe Bryant came along. People seemed
to like him a lot. And then Kobe got all
and he went away. And then like Lebron James called,
you know, going along and he was around, Oh my god, No,
Lebron's getting all these gonna retire, No one's gonna watch.
(33:30):
Oh my god. Yeah, there's always somebody else. Is that
the assembly line always pumped somebody out, else out, whether
it's the Parisian Proigy Wemby or some other Jimoke, there'll
be somebody else. And through it all, the multi billion
dollar team valuations remained intact. The permanent institution. The asset
is the is the foundation, logos and all that stuff.
(33:51):
The labor force is where the volatility is in professional basketball.
Like fans support franchises and you like the players, I
don't discount you love the players that you're watching, But
no one last forever. There's no individual that lasts forever
in the NBA. Doesn't happen. And so if Kyle Kuzma
(34:12):
wants long term stability, I recommend getting a job at
the post office. That's pretty good stability. We have some
postal carriers that listen. I know one of our buddies
in Nebraska who I met with his son at a
meet and greet in Kansas City. He's a proud mailman.
He listens to the podcast every day while wandering around Nebraska.
He's got a stable job. Good for him. The NBAT,
(34:34):
the points listen. In the NBA existed before these guys,
It'll exist after these guys. And in the case of
Kyle Kuzman, no one's going to remember even playing in
the NBA. Is that too harsh? Is that too me?
What's real?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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Speaker 1 (34:52):
Here we go, it's Mallard. How about that? To the
third degree? Here we go, this is one big man.
Get squirrilled. Your pipe dream has come true, kublu.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Ben Titan's running back Taj Spears says they've got a
new head coach, a new logo, and they're gonna have
new results. He vowed that the Titan's gonna have a
winning record this year. Ben, do you think that'll be
the case.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Well, they are playing a last play schedule, and typically
guys do get better when they leave the Jets. I'm
talking about Robert Salum, the new head coach that said
if they're around five hundred, Robert Salad should be coach
of the year. Okay, let's be honest here.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
Next all right, Ben Sean Payton is part of the
NFL's Competition Committee, and he was commenting on how the
UFL goes straight to the live to the booth when
they have a review, and he said he thinks that
they'll have that kind of transparency in the NFL in
the next two or three years. Do you believe him?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
I don't believe him. I still think the NFL when
you would go what happened the injustice in Seattle with
that game against the Rams, coop where the Rams got
screwed on that ridiculous Just give Seattle two points. I
don't believe the NFL wants to give up total, so
I'll believe it when it happens. I am very skeptical, coop,
(36:05):
very very skeptical that the NFL will actually cross the rubicon.
Just like you listen, all these leagues they didn't like
to have a little influenced in, a little here and there,
little help all right, Next.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
James Franklin was never able to make it over the
hump with the Nitney Lyons.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yes, but much of the dismay of LeVar aarringthing.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Yes, but he just finished the annual Tailgate tour with
Virginia Tech and he said he doesn't think he needs
to reinvent himself in order to succeed at Virginia Tech.
Do you think that's the case.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Well, he needs to get good players, he needs somebody.
I don't know the setup at Virginia Tech. I mean
there was a time they had good teams every year.
The hokey pokey Virginia Tech for years had competitive teams
and they were you know, Michael Vick and all that,
and they were a player on the big stage in
college football. Of course, you got to have people with money.
I don't know the most famous alumni from Virginia Tech
that are loaded, that have deep pockets. That's all you need. Now,
(36:57):
Indiana sucked mine for the world and they won because Mark,
you been paid for good players. So if jam Franklin
has someone to pay for good players, then yes, Virginia
Tech can win a national championship in the next couple
of years. I wouldn't bet on it. How did we do?
Kooble loop? You pass the sh away?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:17):
I won the game.
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Speaker 1 (37:31):
Let's welcome our contestants. We have Tyler in Boston. Who's
gonna play Mathers amount of money? Hello, Tyler? What's going on?
Benny there? He is my man, Tyler. You're gonna be
one of our guys. Who would you like to partner
up with? Tyler? Unfortunately, I ain't gonna go with Coop
because I do enjoy trying to be Yes, Why are
(37:54):
you so happy, Coop? Why would you be?
Speaker 4 (37:56):
I like Tyler?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Uh huh? Okay, all right, I feel like there's other
other ulterior motives that you might have. Mike in Tucson, Hello,
Mikey in Tucson Barbecue, Mikey, Let's go a bet.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
I remember when I got sworn into.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
The maltor of Oath. I'll never forget that night. That's
not in my Life's big moment in men's lives, it
really does. You know you're laughing. This is a big
deal for these people. You understand this is a game change,
best night.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
Of his life. Well, tonight's gonna be the worst not
in your life. You're gonna get your ass kicked.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
And hurry up, hurry the Smaller's Mountain of Money.
Speaker 4 (38:32):
The Sam Neal addition, He passed away on Monday at
the age of seventy eight. The categories are just out
of reach, The Hunt for Red October, Jurassic Park, and
the twelve. Uh, Tyler, which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Red October?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Okay? And Mike, what about you?
Speaker 1 (38:55):
I Drastic Park? All right? All right, everyone, hold on
there we will have Mallard's amount of money innoc entirety.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
Malor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
takes to get to the top. Probably not.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Let's do it right to the game. Tyler is in
Boston and he is teamed up with Coop. It's Mallard's
Mountain Money. This is what is this a Coop which edition?
There with Sam Nils Sam Beal edition? Alright, he just
passed recently. All right, here we go, Cooper Loop, you're
up first with Tyler. What's the category?
Speaker 3 (39:38):
We have?
Speaker 4 (39:39):
The hunt for Red October? All right, you're ready, Tyler?
Speaker 1 (39:43):
What is this category?
Speaker 4 (39:44):
These athletes were born in October? Forty five seconds on
the clock. Let's begin. Hall of Fame. Quarterback for the
Packers more number four, the best wide receiver of all time,
Jerry Right, the longtime Boston Celtic. He had to be
wheeled off the court in a wheelchair. Again here, yes, uh,
this guy is a slugger, All Star outfielder that was
(40:08):
on the Nationals then the Padres. He's on the Mets.
Speaker 1 (40:10):
Now.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
Yes, uh, this guy is a quarterback out of Hawaii
for usc The commissioner mispronounced his name at the draft.
It could be any path, all right, this guy is
a long time Tampa Bay Ray. They've just retired as
number third baseman. Yes, this guy was a center for
(40:34):
the Lakers with Oh.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
It's tough break for you. Oh tough, all right? On eight. Alright,
let's go. Here we go. You ready to do his
mic and Tucson completely hammered. Here we go. These athletes
you pick Jurassic Park. These athletes are practically dinosaurs in
their sport. Are you ready, Mike, Yes, all right, forty
five seconds of the clock. We're on our way and go.
(40:59):
He's free agent. He has played for the Lakers, famous
for Cleveland and Miami. Yes, quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers
right now, known for his days Rogers. Yes, uh. Pitcher
for the Detroit Tigers. He announced he's going to retire
at the end of the in the year, just yeah, say.
Speaker 4 (41:20):
Justin Vader is your clubs?
Speaker 1 (41:23):
All right? Pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays. He's got
two different colored eyes. He won a championship for the Nationals. Yes,
tight end, he's forty something, Yes, correct, tight end forty
some first name is like a high end automobile, a
luxury car. H he's bounced. You got one hundred, You
(41:46):
got one hundred? Yeah, back up. Marceides Lewis, Marsides Lewis.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
Mike, do you want just out of reach for the twelve?
Speaker 1 (41:58):
All right, all right, these athletes all wore number twelve. Mike,
forty five seconds on the clock. We're on our way
go the greatest quarterback of all time? H Ridge Dannen. Yes,
all right, great answer, wonderful MVP for the Orlando Magic Center.
He was on Dancing with the Stars. Not shack but
(42:18):
not fat. All right, shortstop for the New York Mets.
He's got a big contract.
Speaker 5 (42:24):
He stinks, No another one, it stinks shortstop. Oh yeah,
the alcohols kicking in, all right. Quarterback center had a
beard for the Lakers in the eighties and the nineties. Smoked,
smoked a lot of cigarettes for the Lakers. European player,
(42:44):
All right, angel picture there.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
All right. Blotty flotody debots Francisco Lindor. You didn't get
Tom Bright. It ain't got toplrighty, how do you knock
your time? That's a felony. You committed a felony.
Speaker 4 (43:06):
That's what we call the one category win Tyler, that's
how we do it.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
That's what we call uku putting a drunk on. How
dare you? How dare you?
Speaker 3 (43:15):
All Right?
Speaker 1 (43:16):
I love you, Mike, but come on, man, you killed me.
I mean, geez, chats the alcohol kicked in. You notice
that the first round he was fine. All of a
sudden the booze kicked in.
Speaker 4 (43:27):
Have another sat Oh
Speaker 1 (43:28):
My god, no,
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