January 14, 2020 • 46 mins
Big Ben talks about the National Championship Game, the punishments for the Astros cheating scandal, Maller to the Third Degree, Maller's Mountain of Money: Neil Peart Edition, and more!
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This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Now. I'm gonna tack on a disclaimer
here at the very beginning that if I had complete
editorial control, we would not be talking about LSU and Clemson.
I feel like it's the second biggest story in sports,
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and way down the list. There is a massive cheating scandal.
Guilty on all charges. The jury is in for the
Houston Astros, the dirty dogs of baseball, and everything we've
been talking about since what November, Since November, which on
November December and half of January, we have been vindicated.
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But we will have plenty of time we have. As
a friend I used to work with told many years ago,
we have a four hour blank canvas of talk radio,
so we will have plenty of opportunity to bring the
hammer of God on that baseball team in Houston. But
I did watch, I did check it out. I did
enjoy parts of the never ending game that wrapped up
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the college football season. It was built as an epic
heavyweight battle royal Joe Murrow, the presumptive, the fact though
number one pick in the NFL draft in April, versus
Trevor Lawrence, the darling of years past in college football?
Who could forget that Clemson knocked down of Alabama and
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Trevor Lawrence. They said he would have been the number
one pick if he was able to come out. He
was not allowed to come out of the college world
to the NFL. And he's got the long flowing hair.
It looks like a throw back to the seven. He's
got that whole thing going on, and he probably wears
bell bottoms and that whole thing. So those are the headliners.
And did the game live up to the hype? I
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don't know how much of it you wash? I assume
maybe you watched part of it, maybe not. I don't know.
Joe Burrow not one, not two, not three, not four,
not well, he had actually five, he had five, five
touchdown passes. He ran for another and he finished off
a dreamy, just absolute dreaming college football season. And now
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the historians are all trying to win up each other
with compliments for Joe Burrow. He's the greatest thing ever
and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
All I know is this the LSU Tigers let it halftime.
They you know, it came out early, the play so
well early in the game, but then once they got
the thing going, then they did not look back. Forty
two twenty five the win. So he had LSU. I
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gave you the pick on Benny versus the penny on
the podcast, and that is a winner. You cashed and
you win over number three Clemson, and that is it.
Sayanara riva deda chac later. Aloha means goodbye to the
college football season. We bid ado, but don't worry. Spring
football will be here like next week. So that's what
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we have to look forward to. Now let's discuss the question.
Now I'm gonna get to Clemson in a minute, but
we'll start out with the LSU side. Are you more
pleased for Joe Burrow wrapping up the Disney esque college
football season or ed Orgeron the coach at Louisiana State. Now,
this one is not that difficult. A lot of people
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will say, Wow, it's a player. Come on, it's gotta
be Joe Burrow. It doesn't get better than that. You
win the Heisman. The guy was left for dead at
Ohio State the Buck guys. Granted, the guys that replaced
Joe Burrow were pretty good college football players, but he
didn't get the opportunity to be the guy at the
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Ohio State university. And then he gets a redemption situation
by going we know the story, going to Louisiana, the
swamps of Louisiana and gets the wind. But the answer
for me is coach Oh, I am on team coach
oh is what I am. Absolutely I think that's a
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blood type. Also, I believe that's a blood type as well.
Now I've got Jambalaya, catfish and finger painting, and we
will combine all of this right now, we'll line it up,
knock it down. So to lead off with the Fred
Flintstone of the Bayou, the Cajun Fred Flintstone is one
of the great characters of college football. Now, Orgeron, everyone
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who doesn't really pay that close attention. I saw a
lot of people. I don't really watch college football, but
where did this guy come from? Even though he's been
around for like a thousand years, coaching as an assistant
at various schools and briefly the head coach and whatnot,
he has paid his dues. A football lifer who got
a second opportunity flopping doing the old face plane at
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Old Miss back in the early two thousands. Was not
only the coach of the Rebels, he was terrible, had
a two eighty six winning percentage, and then flirted with
the University of Southern California coaching job. In twenty thirteen.
He was the interim coach and had a six and
two record over eight games for that dirt bag Lane Kiffen.
And then you know, they said, hell, no, we don't
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want to hire you, We want to hire the drunk
Steve Sarkisian instead. How did that work out? Now? I
mentioned this on Twitter, and I believe it bears repeating.
I've told the story here. If you're one of our people,
you know I've told this story several times. I'd said
storytime on the radio. But I had a USC booster
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around that time was twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen. I had
a USC booster who told me that flat out that
the reason the main reason at Orgeron did not get
the job because he would have worked cheap, and they
liked it. They liked that would have worked cheap. But
the main reason coach O did not get the University
of Southern California job was because, as I was told,
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he did not look and sound like the USC football
coach is supposed to look and sound. It's like typecasting,
right central casting. You have a certain look and a
sound of coach is supposed to have, and he just
didn't do that. He didn't sound like listen, you can't
disagree with that, but how does that look now? How
does that look now? He definitely looks and sounds like
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a college football coach in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is supposed
to sound. In fact, coacho. I'm pretty confident if he
was in an accident, like an automobile accident, and he
started bleeding, he bleeds gumbo. That that is his blood
type is gumbo. That's I believe that's accurate. I might
be making that up. And then and then when he farts,
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he farts, Jambalaya. That's what comes out. So he's got
that going for him. He's about as Southern Louisiana as
you can get it and all that, and he is
a treasure. And now he's a champion as a head
football coach. He had been on some good teams as
an assistant football coach. But good job by coach Oh.
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And let's hear from the man of the hour. Here's
ed Orgeron, who is very excited for apparently every man,
woman and child who lives in the state of Louisiana.
We love the state of Louisiana. I love this team,
one team, one heartbeat, this coaching staff, everybody that planned
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the proplement goal, the great state of Louisiana. This is
for everybody, one team, one heartbeat. Baby. Somewhere in the graveyard,
the macho man Randy Savages say, hey, I want my
voice back. He's out like the mons slide into a
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slim gym or something. All right, anyway, here's more from
coach Oh. Let's see who does he want to credit?
You want to you want to celebrate himself? Does he
want to celebrate his family? Who's he gonna praise here?
Let's find out give credit to the players. I'm at
the right place at the right time. Yeah. Yo, we
get Joe Burrow, we get Joe Brady Stevens began, Dave
a Ranza, Hey Clyde. That was hilarous offensive line that
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we have behind us. A short lost. Get them all
the track. Okay, we'll give him all the credit. Meanwhile,
I hope the University of Southern California enjoys Clay Helton,
because I gotta tell you, man, you say what you
want about Clay Helton. He's a lousy football coach. He's
a bad recruiter, but he looks and sounds like the
USC football coach is supposed to look and sound. I
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think that's most important. Right if you're a booster at USC,
doesn't matter. If he can't recruit and USC's behind everyone
else in the Pac twelve and they don't have any
really good players and all that stuff, he doesn't matter.
I mean, the guy sounds like you're supposed to sound
when you're an USC football coach, and that's really most important. Now, furthermore,
Joe Burrow, Let's let's address Joe Burrow, who was sluggish
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at the start of the game. We had cracked some
jokes about him trying to avoid the Bengals with the
number one pick in the April drafted and he needed
some smelling salts. Well, he apparently got the smelling salts,
because it turns out that Burrow in this game, the
championship game of college football, was like a diesel engine.
It took him a little time to warm up, and
then those glow plugs kicked in and the intact intake
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heater and all that and boom done. There you go.
So he wins the Heisman National Championship, storybook season, blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But I
do not give the nod to Joe Burrow because I
believe he will go on and do more cool things,
like he's the number one pick in the NFL. Barring
him getting arrested with a hooker and cocaine, he's gonna
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be the number one pick in the NFL draft. That's
gonna happen. So you figure he's gonna spent a couple
of years in Siberia with the Bengals and then likely
will escape there and go somewhere else. But he's gonna
have a long, the long career in the NFL. But
more importantly, he's gonna make a lot of money. So
he's got bigger catfish to fry, mister Burrow than this
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National championship game and all that. It's nice to take
a victory lap though, and say, hey, all you guys
up in my home state of Ohio. There, how's that going? Now,
as far as Clemson is concerned, last thing, we just Clempson. Now,
before we get to the Komodo Dragon the room, Trevor Lawrence,
we must also address Brent Venables. Now, Brent Venables, who
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is the defensive guru, And well, I believe he's the
highest paid assistant coach. He was as of last night checked.
I haven't maybe as somebody else making more money, but
he was the highest paid coach in college football. And
I believe he's making two point two million dollars as
a defensive stalwart, the mind behind the Clemson Tigers defense.
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So they paid this guy for you know, two point
two million. He goes out and LSU had six hundred
and twenty eight total yards of offense, four hundred and
sixty three passing yards. They averaged almost ten yards per
pass attempt. Well maybe they stopped the run. Well well, no,
LSU ran for one hundred and sixty five yards and
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averaged over five yards per pass attempt. Yeah, but hey,
those checks still cash, man, those checks still cash. Now,
as far as Trevor Lawrence, hey, whoa whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Now there's
two ways to look at this. There's one way of saying, well,
he was due for a stinker. He was due for
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a stinker. It's his first college football loss. All right there,
it is right there. It was on the big stage,
the flowing gold locks of Trevor Lawrence, the golden arm
of the quarterback at Clemson. And not only was he
out there, he was terrible, right terrible. And a year
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ago he was the darling of college football. We were praising,
we're galing him, throwing rose pedals at his feet. He'd
become the first true freshman starting quarterback to lead a
team to the national title since nineteen eighty five, and
didn't just squeak past Nick Saban. Trevor Lawrence took a
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mallet and an anville and just whacked Nick Saban over
the head in that game and everyone was just going gaga.
He can't go to the draft until twenty twenty one
and all this stuff. The last time Trevor Lawrence lost
a game before Monday Night was in high school back
in twenty seventeen, back when the Astros had integrity, before
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we realized they were cheating scumbags, for example. But Lawrence
was not only a quarterback. He was bad. I mean
this call it like it is here. Oh, it's not
whose fault. I'm sure there's a parade of excuses and
all that pointing fingers at other people there. But he
is someone that was built as a seasoned, big game
quarterback with championship pedigree. That turned out a false advertising
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because he played tentative. He was hesitant. Clemson averaged less
than six and a half yards per pass attempt for
Trevor Lawrence, and you can go down the final numbers
and say, whoa how did he do? He did not
have a touchdown pass, did not have an interception in
the game. He was he looked like Jared Golf To me,
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I've seen that kind of performance watching the Rams. So
warning to whoever might draft Trevor Lawrence in twenty twenty one.
You could end up with Jared Goff two point oh,
because that was a vintage Jared Goff type performance. He
had nineteen incomplete passes. He also reminded me a little
bit of Josh Allen the compass Rose where he didn't
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know where the pass was going. It's like a compass,
you know, a north, south, east west in matter any
any of those places. This was certainly not his magnum opus.
It was more like a thing your painting type performance
by Trevor Lawrence. Here and again, there will be a
bunch of excuses. I'm guessing it's gonna be that he
had some kind of unreported injury that that was part
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of it. That will come out there. That's always a
go to excuse that he was he was hobbled a
little bit, but he didn't want to admit it. That's
always a good one. Can't go wrong with that one.
Here's Trevor Lawrence who was asked about a bunch of
different things, and well, let's just get right to the
chase here. What the hell happened? You suck. It's a
lot of different things. But I mean, like I said,
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just at the quarterback position, if you're gonna win games
like this, you got you gotta play really well, and
I just didn't do that tonight. So a bit of
an understatement. Here's more from Trevor Lawrence who points out
that there were a lot of opportunities that were not
taking advantage of. First of all, else you did a
really good job. They brought a lot of pressure, they
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did a good job mixing up the coverages. But just
at the end of the day, I just didn't play
well enough for us to win. You know, too many
miss plays by me, missed a lot of receivers and
you know, just just wasn't my name. Yes, but you
had your night last you got a championships. You're not
that worked out, You're not bummed out about it. Here's
one more from Trevor Lawrence and he talks about what
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he's really poed about. It sucks. I think the worst
thing is you don't get to go back and play
with this group. So that's for me, that's the worst thing,
you know, just those seniors, especially the guys up front,
you know, some of the white outs just gonna you know,
we're gonna be fine, We'll be back, but it just
sucks not getting to finished the way you wanted to
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with those guys. Now there's another excuse that Dabo Sweeney
has the built in fall guy Clemson. The linebacker, the linebacker,
James Skalski. He got knocked out of the game with
a targeting. It was a three point game. He got
ejected from the game in the third quarter with about
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five minutes to go. Ye fire, and that was game,
set and match. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night
for Clemson. From that point forward, they were done. They
were dune skis. Be sure to catch live editions of
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So a coach was fired in Ahtown. It was not
Bill O'Brien. It was not Bill O'Brian. Even though the
Texans blew at twenty four nothing lead in the playoffs
at Kansas City and the most embarrassing NFL playoff loss
in many many years up twenty and lose by twenty
first time that's ever happened. But the baseball team in
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Space City has said bye bye, bye bye to their coach.
I assume you've been listening and you know where you
pay attention to this kind of stuff a little bit,
but it has happened. Maybe you live in a vacuum.
The Astros owner Jim Crane announced that he had fired
aj Hinch, the field manager, and the general manager, Jeff Luno,
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both gone. Why all fallout? After Major League Baseball's suspensions
were announced the punishment from Baseball. They had been suspended
already shortly before they were fired. Aj Hinch and Jeff
Luno both suspended for the twenty twenty season for their
roles being complicent with the Astros sign stealing scandal of
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twenty seventeen. It was, in many ways the day of
reckoning for the Astros, and Baseball, of course, did it
with a college football championship game that kicked off just
a few hours after the announcements. So Baseball also find
the Astros five million dollars. They stripped them of first
and second round picks in the next couple of drafts,
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which sounds impressive. Then you were like, well, you know,
it's baseball. It's not like football that would be a
big deal. First and second round picks. Baseball not so much.
Not a single player, not a single player, was punished
by Major League Baseball all got away with it. And
this is the beginning here because there's but wait, there's more.
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There's gonna be another round of punishment handed out involving
the Boston Red Sox for the twenty eighteen World Series.
So we will have more in the coming days about this,
but let's focus in on the Astros and the question
did Baseball's punishment of the Astros go far enough? Yeah? Nope,
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did not not even close. Now I've got Reggie Bush,
the Keystone Cops, and Motel six, and we will combine
all these things together and we will make some bab
a ganoos now a. On the surface. When this thing
first was announced, this thing first popped, the baseball establishment
was like, wow, Wow, you'd see what day did? Did
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ye see what day did? Shouting from the mountaintops see
in long suspensions for AJ Hinch and Jeff lu know man,
does that sound harsh? Man? Does that sound bad? Season
long suspension? First and second round picks gone? Fine? Millions
of dollars. However, when you calm down and take a
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microscope out and examined all of this, it is a
slap on the wrist, is what it is. From Major
League Baseball. Considering the ill begotten gains of the Astros.
They won a World Series. They didn't actually win it,
but they were credited with winning a World Series. We
know there was a tie in that World Series anyway,
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but not a single on field representative that went in
the batter's box and was the beneficiary of this activity
was punished. We don't have more on that in a
future monologue because I believe I know why Major League
Baseball decided not to punish a single Astros player. Pretty
good inkling at what went into that logic. Now, the
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twenty seventeen World Series, at least as of now, has
not been vacated. We hope that Baseball will come to
their senses and do the right thing and the Astros
will give up that championship, which they did not earn.
They did not win it on the field, they did
not well more on that, let us bad job by Baseball.
I would like to think that they will say, oh,
by the way, in retrospect, we've decided that there is
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no World Series winning Astros team of twenty seventeen. So
Baseball what they should do is put the Astros trophy
into quarantine and it should hang out wherever Reggie Bush's
Heisman Trophy is. Every when Reggie gave back the Heisman Trophy.
Who knew that Reggie Bush has more integrity than the
Houston Astros organization. Shun the Astros franchise is an embarrassment.
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It's an embarrassment to the people of Houston, it's an
embarrassment to the people of the state of Texas, and
it's a national disgrace from Major League Baseball. It is
a sad day in mud There's no joy in Mudville
for the Astros. With all of this stuff and the
Astro franchise. You talk about how baseball what's the one
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thing they said after the nineties and the two early
two thousands, if you're if you're an old timer and
you remember that time in the hard sense an old timer.
But in the nineties and the two early two thousands,
baseball talked they had to clean up the sport. The
baseball purists bang the drum just like the Astros bang
the trash can, and they said, hey, we have to
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have integrity. Integrity of the game. That's big buzz term
used by Baseball's hierarchy that goes out the window. The
guardians of Baseball looked the other way. They look the
other way. People in baseball said, hey, these guys in
Houston are cheating, they're breaking the rules. And what did
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major League Baseball Doaa la la la la la. They
did nothing, that did nothing. This was allowed to continue.
And if it wasn't for the Edwards Snowden of hardball,
a man that should get a statue, I'd like to
give him. I don't believe in statues and all that stuff,
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but this guy should get a statue. None of this
would have seen the light of day. Mike Fires is
a baseball hero. He should be in the Hall of Fame.
Not Jose Altwo value, Mike Fires. Put him in the
Hall of Fame Cooperstown for this guy, what a great
job by Without him crossing the thin white chalk line
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and spilling the beans. Without that happening, then none of
this would have taken place. Baseball would have continued to
look the other way, and this would have gone on
for generations. Without the whistleblower, this would still be going
on now. Part B. So we know that major League
Baseball was asleep at the switch. They were caught napping
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while all this was going on. Teams have been chirping,
as I said for many, many years, that the Astros
were bad actors, right, they were bad actors. In all this,
major League Baseball's investigative arm, the Keystone Cops found nothing.
They actually claimed they looked into this and they found up.
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You know it. It reminds me of It reminds me
of I was watching a documentary about Bernie Madoff a
while back, and while that was going on, there was
somebody that said, hey, Madeoff's dirty in the middle of
that scandal, and they went to the financial people that
oversee the oversight of Wall Street and they said, hey, listen,
we've got some dirt on Bernie Madeoff. This he's running
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a Ponzi scheme. And the people that were put into
place to look at Bernie Madoff, they went, they met
with him, He charmed them, and that was it. They
didn't actually look at the actual numbers. And within the
great thing about how bad baseball looks in all this
is roughly thirty minutes after the athletic story by Evan
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Drelik and Ken Rosenthal popped up behind a paywall. There
were details from internet investigators that had video internet sluice
like the Scooby and the modern day Scooby Doo Gang.
And they were on social media. They posted hundreds of
videos chronicling exactly what the Astros were doing. It was stunning,
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It was undeniable, although some denied it. The twenty seventeen
World Series video this is even better. The twenty seventeen
World Series video, which was released by Major League Baseball's
own marketing people, showed the setup the Astros were using
to steal the World Series illegally from the Great Dodgers
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in the video, right behind the dugout. Just like night
Fires that talked about, they didn't even hide it. These
evildoers were so cocky they didn't even worry about covering
up the evidence. Now, as they say, criminals get caught
by being sloppy, right, being lazy, being sloppy. In this case,
it was Mike Fires who had to blow the whistle.
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And then you connect the dots backwards here, the Astros
were very generous to leave a lot of blood at
the crime scene. That meant that much blood at a
crime scene since OJA back in the day, there was
DNA fingerprints you name at that crime scene. Now, the
last thing on this so in terms of the other
punishment adjudicated by Rob Manford for the Astros. There's no
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muscle behind it. There's no muscle behind it. Jim Crane,
we'll hear from more of him later. But Jim Crane
is worth two point five billion dollars. It's a very
wealthy made It's made a lot of money in business.
The Astros got fined five million dollars. That is zero
point two percent of Jim Crane's net worth. It is
the equivalent of you make fifty thousand dollars being fined
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one hundred dollars. That's what Major League based. Well did
they find the Astros owner one hundred dollars? They said,
we're gonna punish you. We're gonna find you one hundred dollars. Now,
I don't know about you. I've gotten a few parking tickes.
I used to live in Hollywood. I had an apartment
and parking was a nightmare. And I got many parking
tickets and they were like sixty bucks a pop or
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something like that. I'd get a couple of them a week,
and back in the day, many many years ago. But
it didn't really do me in. It didn't really do
me in. I think Jim Crane will be we okay,
I don't think he'll be eating Chef Boyard and oodles
for noodles with our friend from Brooklyn at his mega mansion.
I don't think that's gonna happen. So the Astros lost
draft picks whoopie damn due whoopie damn due to that.
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And not to be labor the point here, but the
draft picks, most of them fail. What Major League Baseball
got mostly right was the suspensions of aj Hinch and
Jeff Luno. But even that didn't go far enough. We
played the audio from aj Hinch. I think we had
of it again here listen to how cocky and arrogant
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this little scumbag this Mama Luke. You guys have audio
video people, people in places and nothing and there's no
evidence of anything. So yeah, that was aj Hinge during
the playoffs in the last postseason in twenty nineteen, saying
you didn't hear you don't see it? Then you guys
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all have microphones everywhere. Uh and then then he got
so arrogant one of those clips he said, hey, you
know we would have practiced this in the spring training.
Well apparently it did. Apparently it did. J Hinch, I
hope you enjoy your life out of baseball. Maybe you
can go run the Cleveland Browns because you'll never work
in baseball again. You're dirty. You're a weasel, a J.
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Hinch weasel. You Now we will point out in a
future Mala monologue why the Astros must vacate the twenty
seventeen World serious Under the Malar plan that will happen
thinks toxic. The Astros also will be banned from postseason
play for five seasons. They will not be allowed to
make the postseason for five years. Sorry, that's the way
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that works. They will also be forced to travel by
commercial airline. No more chartered flights, no more. Yeah, I'm
not done. How about this, Instead of these baseball teams
stay at resort five star hotels no more, no more. Sorry,
you will now be staying at the Motel six and
the Econo Lodge. That is where the Astros will be staying.
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And not every player gets their own room. You've got
to bunk up, that's right. You've got to have two
players per room on the road, and no team bus
team uber. Everyone's got an uber to the ballpark and
to the next road game. And all that stuff or
to the airport, just like the rest of us. That
will be the punishment for the Astros under the Mallard plant.
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All right, Spenn Mallers show on Fox, and let's go
to the phones right now. And a man who when
this story first popped up, this guy said, there's nothing
to see. M there's no evidence, you have no evidence.
Guilty on all charges. The jury is in guilty on
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all charges. There's there's white smoke coming out of the Vatican.
We have a new pope. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, gilt
and guilty. You are a fan of cheats, Chris in
Houston cheatis. First of all, are you gonna let me
talk or you usually gonna yellow ly cheetas? I'm ask
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are you gonna let me talk? Bang bang? Are you
gonna get the roverto turn me down? Whistle? This is
all I gotta say. The Astros cheating. They cheating. They
from cheetahs, they from scumps. They did some ridiculous stuff.
But this, but this is what I gotta say. A
J Hints is a cheat. But I will ride with
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a day Hints any day for not snicking. Because if
you read the report, if anybody read a page report
A j hints with fist about it, but he let
it happen and he should have put his foot down
and he didn't. So he's a cheater. But I will
arrive with him. He's he's a cheater and lie. He's
a liar, cheater. You want to hang out with, you
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want cheaters, But you know what, I don't hang out
with lies and cheater because you know what my old
man told me a long time, and don't do dirt
by yourself, don't do it with others. That leaves the
snitches alone. You know what I'm saying. But the asshow
cheated Jim Crane with his weasel self acting like nothing happened.
He know what happened. He knew what happened. He just
looked over it because they was winning. It was all
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because of winning. It wasn't because of respect of nothing
with because of winning and a weasel that's gonna get
away with it. Carlos Beltran, that's up in with the
Mets right now, just because so he could get a
World Series ring and he brought this craft up him
and Alice Corb Alex Alex gonna get the Pete Rome
Band he's out of here. You're gonna throw him out. Okay,
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But I'll tell you right now, we to city in
Houston that anyone of you lost, or anyone of them
didn't want to this title. Come see you up. That's
what I got a spect you drop your mic and
hang up and listen. I mean you didn't. You didn't
win the World Series. Um, that's the reality. You didn't.
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Major League Baseball just issue at eight page report detailing
how you did not actually win it on the field.
You cheated, So you don't win when you cheat, and
we all learned that when we were little kids. So
you didn't win the world If you want to argue
that nobody won the World Series, that's fine, but certainly
not the Astros. They didn't win the World Series. So
period stopped. You didn't win. Just admitted the Astros did
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not win. No one won the twenty s. Just admitt
it's tainted, Chris, It's still there. It is the equivalent
if you're if you're an Astros fan, if you're an
Astros apologist celebrating the Astros win. It is the equivalent
of going to a party. It is the equivalent of
going to a party and someone drops a deuce and
a punch ball, and you still drink the deuce and
the juice and say it's fine. The punch is fine.
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It's okay. I know someone dropped the poo in there,
but it's okay. That's what the Astros World Series Trophy.
Someone has used it as a urinal. All right, it's
a urinal. It's a gold uneral. Though it's a gold eural.
You wad to use gold urinal. I'll take it now.
The trophy, the baseball trophy would not make a good
urinal because there's a lot of penance and all that
stuff on. It's not do you know what? But you
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know what? Being you was right? They cheated, he lied.
You know this is Mike five. I'm sorry, but I
don't think he's contract. He's gonna get another continent. He's
he's People love pictures love him. What picture wouldn't like him?
You know how many pictures look at him? Look at
look at Kershaw, look at you Darvish, who we destroyed
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on this show. And the Dodgers would have won the
World Series in five games. The Astros one game five
games series take no indetect the Astros and let people
know that Kurshaw as a choke artist. Anyway, it wasn't astro,
then he would have won the chance. It would have
ended the legacy of Kershaw. Would he wanted twenty seven? Would?
Why not? It's not all right? He now requesting sound bites.
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He's now requesting sound Yeah, that's nice. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Let's get to it.
Here we go, It's Maller. How about that to the
third degree? This one gets quilled? All right? Here we
go over too. After the Titans win on Saturday, Dion
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Lewis spoke to the media and he said that he
thinks the MVP Award should be voted on after the playoffs.
He implied that if that were the case, Derrick Henry
would be winning the award instead of Lamar Jackson. Your thoughts, Ben,
He's a dummy, That's it. I mean, Dean Lewis is
a dummy if he thinks that, Hey, it is a
regular season award. Lamar Jackson, I goofed on him. I
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ripped on him. He deserves it. He was a tremor
in this regular season player, though Lamar played like a
super nova during the regular season right up until the
moment the playoffs started for Baltimore, and he does deserve
the regular season MVP. And Dion Lewis, who's been on
some really good Patriot teams, he should know what's going
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on here. He's compromised. I get it. He's part of
the Fraternal Order of Football Players. He's also a Titans employee,
so he's just looking out for a teammate. But if
Derrick Henry takes the Tennessee Titans into Arrowhead and they
upset Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs and go
to the Super Bowl and he wins the game, he'll
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win NVP honors in the Super Bowl, most likely because
Tennessee can't win without him having a big game, and
that will be more impressive than Lamar Jackson, so he
will have the last laugh. Next now is that he
reported on yesterday's show the Broncos are set to hire
Pat Shermer as their offensive coordinator. It's a bold higher. Yes,
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this will be the fifth offensive coordinator in five seasons
for the Broncos. Who's keeping track me, Ben? Do you
think Pat will be the one that sticks all right,
So you don't want to cover your ears and close
your eyes on this. You don't experience any site or sound.
First of all, Pat Shermer is a vagabond coach. He
is part of the good old boys network, so he's
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gonna keep finding work to say that this is somehow
the savior of the Broncos offense and the offensive genius. No,
he has produced three offenses in his long NFL career
that has finished in the top ten and four that
have finished twenty fourth or lower. So it's not exactly
you're more likely to get an offense that's twenty fourth
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or lower than in the top ten. And secondly, there
is this tumultuous cloud. It's like a cloud of a sewer,
like a sewer smell, hanging over Denver. Until the Broncos
get some real playmakers, they will continue to be stuck
in neutral. Pat Schermer is gonna bounce all over like
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a pinball, all over the NFL. He's like a criminal
trying to evade capture. Pat Schermer as often as he moves,
And I'm not exaggerating that Denver is going to be
his seventh team in twelve seasons in the NFL. Great
coaches don't change teams that often. Next and yesterday you
briefly mentioned reports that ESPN is set to try and
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steal Tony Romo away from CBS with a contract that
would make him the highest paid broadcaster of all timexal
ten to fourteen million a year. You'd go there too
for that money, absolutely, Ben, Do you think Romo can
make Monday Night football grade? Again? No, I love Romo.
I'm a card carrying Romo sexual. But no, no, no, no, no.
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All right, and I'll tell you why. Number One, Tony
Romo's first love isn't even football. It's golf. We talked
about this while you were away, Coop. He does football
to pay the bills. It is disconcerting that one of
his motivations, aside from obviously financial game, the reason he
would leave to go to Monday Night, which is a
step down the CBS package is more impressive than the
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Monday Night package, is because he wants to play more golf,
and playing golf on Sunday means he doesn't have to
do TV and he can do football on Monday. And secondly,
now with Tony Romo be an upgrade over Booger McFarland absolutely,
no more boogermobile and all that. But my position is
nobody watches an NFL game because of the broadcasters. If
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it's a good matchup, you're gonna watch. If the game sucks,
you're not gonna watch. It doesn't matter who's doing the game.
People tune in to radio shows to hear what the
announcers have, not TV. All right, how do we do? Kobaloo?
Benny failed this edition? That is a win for me.
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game we have. Let's see here. Matt in Minnesota, Hello Matt?
(38:18):
What's going on? Big Ben? Welcome and you're ready to
do this? Matt? What do you do for a living?
I work at UPS? What can Brown do for you exactly?
How's business at UPS? I'm busy? Yeah. Because of the internet. Right,
everyone's fine crap and they're sending a different ways. Absolutely,
stand at home, moms, look at you making you have
(38:42):
to work, all right, Matt? Hold on, Matt from ups
and we have Justin and Cincinnati. Hello, Justin. Safeco is
not like Geico. We love Geico. They blocked me for
that crap, did they really? Yeah? Yeah, Well, good job
(39:02):
by you. All I have to say is there are
attorneys attorneys involved. That's all I will see you. And
no no current kitchen at the Mallard mansion, so which
is good because I'm not eating anyway. I'm doing intermitted fasting,
so it's it's all right, all right, hold on, It's
like Justin and let's see here, Matt, who do you
want to partner up with? Matt? You can play with me, Ben, Eddie,
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Roberto or Coop. Let's see. I want to win Ben,
so I'm going with Eddie Garcia. All right, Well, you're
gonna lose here and that gonna happen. Hold on a second, Justin,
who do you want to partner up with? Well, you
know the Minnesota guy, he's not very smart. I'm going
with Ben. That's good job by you. We are gonna win.
You have moved up by the way, and the malam militia.
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Justin now that I've learned you've been blocked by that
evil and you know people that mess with my house?
Thank you, good job by you. You're a brigadier general,
is what you are? All right? What are the categories here? Cool?
Why don't we pick this here? And all right, gentlemen,
this is the Neil Pert of Maller's Mountain of Money,
you'll pass passed away at sixty seven years old this
past week, and legendary drummer for the band Rush. The
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categories are anthem, the trees, the spirit of radio? And
why why z Matt? You were on first? What category
would you like? I'll take anthem all right? And justin
last one? Why why is he? All right? All right,
everyone's staying in place here. We'll have Maller's Mountain of
(40:27):
Money in its entirety and we'll get to that. We'll
do it next. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
pm Pacific. All r right to the game we go.
It is Mallor's Mountain of Money. We've got Matt in Minnesota,
the ups guy who's got a death wish. He picked Eddie,
so he's got no chance to win. And then I am,
I mean, I'm easy Street here with Justin in Cincinnati.
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So gentlemen, you are there, Cooper Loop. Who's going first year?
I believe it is Eddie. Yes, Matt and Eddie start
out first with the category anthem, the song that we
just heard, and back from break, these athletes all protested
the national anthem, I mean the first and last name
of the athlete. Forty five seconds on the clock. Matter
you ready, it's the Neil Pert Edition. All right? Ready? Begin? Uh?
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Former forty nine Ers quarterback, he's been looking for a
job ever since. Former Ravens linebacker. Great linebacker involved in
a murder in Atlanta and the Super Bowl. Current Tampa
Bay Buccaneers star wide receiver. Uh. Yes, bad clue by
me guest by former Bills and Eagles running back. He's
now with the Chiefs. Yes, all pro cornerback with Kansas City,
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traded to the Rams, then traded to the Ravens. Uh.
Oh my gosh. Uh. Former star basketball player at LSU.
His name was Chris Jackson. He converted to being a Muslim.
That first name is that quite right? Mak Mood Marcus
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Peters guy, you passed on Hi, you didn't get it's
a hundred points. Good job by Mike on Mike Evans though.
All right, we're moving over to Justin and Ben. The
category is y y Z. These athletes will live on
as Toronto legends. It's the airport code for Toronto. Forty
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five seconds of the clock. Ready begin, all right, new
Clipper star came from the Raptors. Eric Canada for the Raptors. Yes,
quarterback at Boston College. He played Canadian. Yes, Blue Jay pitcher.
You made jokes about him dying in a plane crash.
Oh yes, a slugging outfielder for the Blue Jays. We
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used to sing his name as a jingle on the
show back in the day. All right, Uh, second basement
for the Blue Jays, spitting Hall of famer, known for
spitting at pire Blue Jay's Puerto Rican first baseman play
with the Mets in the nineties and the two thousands out.
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All right, Uh, let's see you don't know. Oh my god,
are you throwing the game? Justin? Wow, he doesn't know?
I mean that is the guy was a huge star. Delgado,
That's true. It's pretty close. Eight points. You still have
the lead. Uh, but we go back to Matt. No,
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it was hung over. I'd like we go back to you.
Guys are eighty points behind Matt. Would you like the
spirit of radio or the trees? All right? Thank you
for that? All right. These athletes are some of the
tallest at their position. Forty five seconds on the clock.
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Begin current star running back for the Tennessee Titans. Young
slugger for the Yankees. Where's number ninety nine? European star
with the Nicks, the Unicorn now with the Mavericks. Standout
tight end with the Packers. He also played for the
Seahawks and Saints. Jimmy Graham. Yes, reliable starting pitcher for
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the Cardinals, a two time World Series champ. Uh okay,
this guy plays for the Celtics. His first name is
a tasty Yes. Wow Uh. Slugger for Yankees first baseman.
He won a batting title with the Rockies. His first
name is No. His first names are initials, or he
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goes by his initials. I gave the wrong position, Eddie. Oh,
he's not a first base for the second bad I
don't think he did. He missed DJ Lemayhew and Adam Wainwright.
What once he missed. But lea, do you have three
hundred points total? Not for long, Justin and Ben your category,
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Come on, hangover spirit the spirit of radio. These athletes
have made a voice on radio, at least initially. Forty
five seconds on the clock. Ready begin all right? The
NBC broadcaster without Michael's former Bengal Yes, shortstop for the
Red Sox was traded before they won the World Series.
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The long last name, play all right? Monday night football
broadcaster played at played at Michigan with the Saint Louis Cardinals.
Also back in the day, offensive lineman. How about the
bull the Bulldog for the Dodgers nineteen eighty eight. Yes,
nasty boy, he did radio here at Fox. Yes, I
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shouldn't have been that was too easy. Yeah, you should
add Michael Thompson, but I'll take it. Well he worked, Ye,
that's no listen. I won with a wounded soldier. Anyone
other than Justin and Cincinnati wouldn't have been able to
get robbed. M I like how Mad immediately hangs up.
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Matt immediately hung up because he's disgusted with what I did.
I'm like Von Miller pushing Peyton Manning past the finish line.
When Manning has nothing left. Justin had nothing left and
I was able to push him across the finish line.
He's not He's there. Are you there? Justin? No? I
think he hung up. Wait, maybe he hung up and
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Matt didn't hang up waiting hold here, let me see.
I think no, he hung up to that, I know,
I didn't even know. They still do that now to
make all please hang out. I know man was not listening,
but we are like a week away from a party
for line one being broken for three. I'm gonna buy
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a cake. I'm I'm not lying that I'm buying a cake.
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This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. Now. I'm gonna tack on a disclaimer
here at the very beginning that if I had complete
editorial control, we would not be talking about LSU and Clemson.
I feel like it's the second biggest story in sports,
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and way down the list. There is a massive cheating scandal.
Guilty on all charges. The jury is in for the
Houston Astros, the dirty dogs of baseball, and everything we've
been talking about since what November, Since November, which on
November December and half of January, we have been vindicated.
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But we will have plenty of time we have. As
a friend I used to work with told many years ago,
we have a four hour blank canvas of talk radio,
so we will have plenty of opportunity to bring the
hammer of God on that baseball team in Houston. But
I did watch, I did check it out. I did
enjoy parts of the never ending game that wrapped up
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the college football season. It was built as an epic
heavyweight battle royal Joe Murrow, the presumptive, the fact though
number one pick in the NFL draft in April, versus
Trevor Lawrence, the darling of years past in college football?
Who could forget that Clemson knocked down of Alabama and
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Trevor Lawrence. They said he would have been the number
one pick if he was able to come out. He
was not allowed to come out of the college world
to the NFL. And he's got the long flowing hair.
It looks like a throw back to the seven. He's
got that whole thing going on, and he probably wears
bell bottoms and that whole thing. So those are the headliners.
And did the game live up to the hype? I
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don't know how much of it you wash? I assume
maybe you watched part of it, maybe not. I don't know.
Joe Burrow not one, not two, not three, not four,
not well, he had actually five, he had five, five
touchdown passes. He ran for another and he finished off
a dreamy, just absolute dreaming college football season. And now
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the historians are all trying to win up each other
with compliments for Joe Burrow. He's the greatest thing ever
and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
All I know is this the LSU Tigers let it halftime.
They you know, it came out early, the play so
well early in the game, but then once they got
the thing going, then they did not look back. Forty
two twenty five the win. So he had LSU. I
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gave you the pick on Benny versus the penny on
the podcast, and that is a winner. You cashed and
you win over number three Clemson, and that is it.
Sayanara riva deda chac later. Aloha means goodbye to the
college football season. We bid ado, but don't worry. Spring
football will be here like next week. So that's what
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we have to look forward to. Now let's discuss the question.
Now I'm gonna get to Clemson in a minute, but
we'll start out with the LSU side. Are you more
pleased for Joe Burrow wrapping up the Disney esque college
football season or ed Orgeron the coach at Louisiana State. Now,
this one is not that difficult. A lot of people
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will say, Wow, it's a player. Come on, it's gotta
be Joe Burrow. It doesn't get better than that. You
win the Heisman. The guy was left for dead at
Ohio State the Buck guys. Granted, the guys that replaced
Joe Burrow were pretty good college football players, but he
didn't get the opportunity to be the guy at the
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Ohio State university. And then he gets a redemption situation
by going we know the story, going to Louisiana, the
swamps of Louisiana and gets the wind. But the answer
for me is coach Oh, I am on team coach
oh is what I am. Absolutely I think that's a
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blood type. Also, I believe that's a blood type as well.
Now I've got Jambalaya, catfish and finger painting, and we
will combine all of this right now, we'll line it up,
knock it down. So to lead off with the Fred
Flintstone of the Bayou, the Cajun Fred Flintstone is one
of the great characters of college football. Now, Orgeron, everyone
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who doesn't really pay that close attention. I saw a
lot of people. I don't really watch college football, but
where did this guy come from? Even though he's been
around for like a thousand years, coaching as an assistant
at various schools and briefly the head coach and whatnot,
he has paid his dues. A football lifer who got
a second opportunity flopping doing the old face plane at
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Old Miss back in the early two thousands. Was not
only the coach of the Rebels, he was terrible, had
a two eighty six winning percentage, and then flirted with
the University of Southern California coaching job. In twenty thirteen.
He was the interim coach and had a six and
two record over eight games for that dirt bag Lane Kiffen.
And then you know, they said, hell, no, we don't
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want to hire you, We want to hire the drunk
Steve Sarkisian instead. How did that work out? Now? I
mentioned this on Twitter, and I believe it bears repeating.
I've told the story here. If you're one of our people,
you know I've told this story several times. I'd said
storytime on the radio. But I had a USC booster
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around that time was twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen. I had
a USC booster who told me that flat out that
the reason the main reason at Orgeron did not get
the job because he would have worked cheap, and they
liked it. They liked that would have worked cheap. But
the main reason coach O did not get the University
of Southern California job was because, as I was told,
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he did not look and sound like the USC football
coach is supposed to look and sound. It's like typecasting,
right central casting. You have a certain look and a
sound of coach is supposed to have, and he just
didn't do that. He didn't sound like listen, you can't
disagree with that, but how does that look now? How
does that look now? He definitely looks and sounds like
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a college football coach in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is supposed
to sound. In fact, coacho. I'm pretty confident if he
was in an accident, like an automobile accident, and he
started bleeding, he bleeds gumbo. That that is his blood
type is gumbo. That's I believe that's accurate. I might
be making that up. And then and then when he farts,
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he farts, Jambalaya. That's what comes out. So he's got
that going for him. He's about as Southern Louisiana as
you can get it and all that, and he is
a treasure. And now he's a champion as a head
football coach. He had been on some good teams as
an assistant football coach. But good job by coach Oh.
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And let's hear from the man of the hour. Here's
ed Orgeron, who is very excited for apparently every man,
woman and child who lives in the state of Louisiana.
We love the state of Louisiana. I love this team,
one team, one heartbeat, this coaching staff, everybody that planned
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the proplement goal, the great state of Louisiana. This is
for everybody, one team, one heartbeat. Baby. Somewhere in the graveyard,
the macho man Randy Savages say, hey, I want my
voice back. He's out like the mons slide into a
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slim gym or something. All right, anyway, here's more from
coach Oh. Let's see who does he want to credit?
You want to you want to celebrate himself? Does he
want to celebrate his family? Who's he gonna praise here?
Let's find out give credit to the players. I'm at
the right place at the right time. Yeah. Yo, we
get Joe Burrow, we get Joe Brady Stevens began, Dave
a Ranza, Hey Clyde. That was hilarous offensive line that
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we have behind us. A short lost. Get them all
the track. Okay, we'll give him all the credit. Meanwhile,
I hope the University of Southern California enjoys Clay Helton,
because I gotta tell you, man, you say what you
want about Clay Helton. He's a lousy football coach. He's
a bad recruiter, but he looks and sounds like the
USC football coach is supposed to look and sound. I
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think that's most important. Right if you're a booster at USC,
doesn't matter. If he can't recruit and USC's behind everyone
else in the Pac twelve and they don't have any
really good players and all that stuff, he doesn't matter.
I mean, the guy sounds like you're supposed to sound
when you're an USC football coach, and that's really most important. Now, furthermore,
Joe Burrow, Let's let's address Joe Burrow, who was sluggish
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at the start of the game. We had cracked some
jokes about him trying to avoid the Bengals with the
number one pick in the April drafted and he needed
some smelling salts. Well, he apparently got the smelling salts,
because it turns out that Burrow in this game, the
championship game of college football, was like a diesel engine.
It took him a little time to warm up, and
then those glow plugs kicked in and the intact intake
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heater and all that and boom done. There you go.
So he wins the Heisman National Championship, storybook season, blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But I
do not give the nod to Joe Burrow because I
believe he will go on and do more cool things,
like he's the number one pick in the NFL. Barring
him getting arrested with a hooker and cocaine, he's gonna
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be the number one pick in the NFL draft. That's
gonna happen. So you figure he's gonna spent a couple
of years in Siberia with the Bengals and then likely
will escape there and go somewhere else. But he's gonna
have a long, the long career in the NFL. But
more importantly, he's gonna make a lot of money. So
he's got bigger catfish to fry, mister Burrow than this
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National championship game and all that. It's nice to take
a victory lap though, and say, hey, all you guys
up in my home state of Ohio. There, how's that going? Now,
as far as Clemson is concerned, last thing, we just Clempson. Now,
before we get to the Komodo Dragon the room, Trevor Lawrence,
we must also address Brent Venables. Now, Brent Venables, who
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is the defensive guru, And well, I believe he's the
highest paid assistant coach. He was as of last night checked.
I haven't maybe as somebody else making more money, but
he was the highest paid coach in college football. And
I believe he's making two point two million dollars as
a defensive stalwart, the mind behind the Clemson Tigers defense.
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So they paid this guy for you know, two point
two million. He goes out and LSU had six hundred
and twenty eight total yards of offense, four hundred and
sixty three passing yards. They averaged almost ten yards per
pass attempt. Well maybe they stopped the run. Well well, no,
LSU ran for one hundred and sixty five yards and
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averaged over five yards per pass attempt. Yeah, but hey,
those checks still cash, man, those checks still cash. Now,
as far as Trevor Lawrence, hey, whoa whoa whoa whoa
whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Now there's
two ways to look at this. There's one way of saying, well,
he was due for a stinker. He was due for
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a stinker. It's his first college football loss. All right there,
it is right there. It was on the big stage,
the flowing gold locks of Trevor Lawrence, the golden arm
of the quarterback at Clemson. And not only was he
out there, he was terrible, right terrible. And a year
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ago he was the darling of college football. We were praising,
we're galing him, throwing rose pedals at his feet. He'd
become the first true freshman starting quarterback to lead a
team to the national title since nineteen eighty five, and
didn't just squeak past Nick Saban. Trevor Lawrence took a
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mallet and an anville and just whacked Nick Saban over
the head in that game and everyone was just going gaga.
He can't go to the draft until twenty twenty one
and all this stuff. The last time Trevor Lawrence lost
a game before Monday Night was in high school back
in twenty seventeen, back when the Astros had integrity, before
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we realized they were cheating scumbags, for example. But Lawrence
was not only a quarterback. He was bad. I mean
this call it like it is here. Oh, it's not
whose fault. I'm sure there's a parade of excuses and
all that pointing fingers at other people there. But he
is someone that was built as a seasoned, big game
quarterback with championship pedigree. That turned out a false advertising
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because he played tentative. He was hesitant. Clemson averaged less
than six and a half yards per pass attempt for
Trevor Lawrence, and you can go down the final numbers
and say, whoa how did he do? He did not
have a touchdown pass, did not have an interception in
the game. He was he looked like Jared Golf To me,
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I've seen that kind of performance watching the Rams. So
warning to whoever might draft Trevor Lawrence in twenty twenty one.
You could end up with Jared Goff two point oh,
because that was a vintage Jared Goff type performance. He
had nineteen incomplete passes. He also reminded me a little
bit of Josh Allen the compass Rose where he didn't
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know where the pass was going. It's like a compass,
you know, a north, south, east west in matter any
any of those places. This was certainly not his magnum opus.
It was more like a thing your painting type performance
by Trevor Lawrence. Here and again, there will be a
bunch of excuses. I'm guessing it's gonna be that he
had some kind of unreported injury that that was part
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of it. That will come out there. That's always a
go to excuse that he was he was hobbled a
little bit, but he didn't want to admit it. That's
always a good one. Can't go wrong with that one.
Here's Trevor Lawrence who was asked about a bunch of
different things, and well, let's just get right to the
chase here. What the hell happened? You suck. It's a
lot of different things. But I mean, like I said,
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just at the quarterback position, if you're gonna win games
like this, you got you gotta play really well, and
I just didn't do that tonight. So a bit of
an understatement. Here's more from Trevor Lawrence who points out
that there were a lot of opportunities that were not
taking advantage of. First of all, else you did a
really good job. They brought a lot of pressure, they
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did a good job mixing up the coverages. But just
at the end of the day, I just didn't play
well enough for us to win. You know, too many
miss plays by me, missed a lot of receivers and
you know, just just wasn't my name. Yes, but you
had your night last you got a championships. You're not
that worked out, You're not bummed out about it. Here's
one more from Trevor Lawrence and he talks about what
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he's really poed about. It sucks. I think the worst
thing is you don't get to go back and play
with this group. So that's for me, that's the worst thing,
you know, just those seniors, especially the guys up front,
you know, some of the white outs just gonna you know,
we're gonna be fine, We'll be back, but it just
sucks not getting to finished the way you wanted to
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with those guys. Now there's another excuse that Dabo Sweeney
has the built in fall guy Clemson. The linebacker, the linebacker,
James Skalski. He got knocked out of the game with
a targeting. It was a three point game. He got
ejected from the game in the third quarter with about
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five minutes to go. Ye fire, and that was game,
set and match. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night
for Clemson. From that point forward, they were done. They
were dune skis. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
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So a coach was fired in Ahtown. It was not
Bill O'Brien. It was not Bill O'Brian. Even though the
Texans blew at twenty four nothing lead in the playoffs
at Kansas City and the most embarrassing NFL playoff loss
in many many years up twenty and lose by twenty
first time that's ever happened. But the baseball team in
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Space City has said bye bye, bye bye to their coach.
I assume you've been listening and you know where you
pay attention to this kind of stuff a little bit,
but it has happened. Maybe you live in a vacuum.
The Astros owner Jim Crane announced that he had fired
aj Hinch, the field manager, and the general manager, Jeff Luno,
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both gone. Why all fallout? After Major League Baseball's suspensions
were announced the punishment from Baseball. They had been suspended
already shortly before they were fired. Aj Hinch and Jeff
Luno both suspended for the twenty twenty season for their
roles being complicent with the Astros sign stealing scandal of
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twenty seventeen. It was, in many ways the day of
reckoning for the Astros, and Baseball, of course, did it
with a college football championship game that kicked off just
a few hours after the announcements. So Baseball also find
the Astros five million dollars. They stripped them of first
and second round picks in the next couple of drafts,
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which sounds impressive. Then you were like, well, you know,
it's baseball. It's not like football that would be a
big deal. First and second round picks. Baseball not so much.
Not a single player, not a single player, was punished
by Major League Baseball all got away with it. And
this is the beginning here because there's but wait, there's more.
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There's gonna be another round of punishment handed out involving
the Boston Red Sox for the twenty eighteen World Series.
So we will have more in the coming days about this,
but let's focus in on the Astros and the question
did Baseball's punishment of the Astros go far enough? Yeah? Nope,
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did not not even close. Now I've got Reggie Bush,
the Keystone Cops, and Motel six, and we will combine
all these things together and we will make some bab
a ganoos now a. On the surface. When this thing
first was announced, this thing first popped, the baseball establishment
was like, wow, Wow, you'd see what day did? Did
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ye see what day did? Shouting from the mountaintops see
in long suspensions for AJ Hinch and Jeff lu know man,
does that sound harsh? Man? Does that sound bad? Season
long suspension? First and second round picks gone? Fine? Millions
of dollars. However, when you calm down and take a
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microscope out and examined all of this, it is a
slap on the wrist, is what it is. From Major
League Baseball. Considering the ill begotten gains of the Astros.
They won a World Series. They didn't actually win it,
but they were credited with winning a World Series. We
know there was a tie in that World Series anyway,
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but not a single on field representative that went in
the batter's box and was the beneficiary of this activity
was punished. We don't have more on that in a
future monologue because I believe I know why Major League
Baseball decided not to punish a single Astros player. Pretty
good inkling at what went into that logic. Now, the
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twenty seventeen World Series, at least as of now, has
not been vacated. We hope that Baseball will come to
their senses and do the right thing and the Astros
will give up that championship, which they did not earn.
They did not win it on the field, they did
not well more on that, let us bad job by Baseball.
I would like to think that they will say, oh,
by the way, in retrospect, we've decided that there is
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no World Series winning Astros team of twenty seventeen. So
Baseball what they should do is put the Astros trophy
into quarantine and it should hang out wherever Reggie Bush's
Heisman Trophy is. Every when Reggie gave back the Heisman Trophy.
Who knew that Reggie Bush has more integrity than the
Houston Astros organization. Shun the Astros franchise is an embarrassment.
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It's an embarrassment to the people of Houston, it's an
embarrassment to the people of the state of Texas, and
it's a national disgrace from Major League Baseball. It is
a sad day in mud There's no joy in Mudville
for the Astros. With all of this stuff and the
Astro franchise. You talk about how baseball what's the one
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thing they said after the nineties and the two early
two thousands, if you're if you're an old timer and
you remember that time in the hard sense an old timer.
But in the nineties and the two early two thousands,
baseball talked they had to clean up the sport. The
baseball purists bang the drum just like the Astros bang
the trash can, and they said, hey, we have to
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have integrity. Integrity of the game. That's big buzz term
used by Baseball's hierarchy that goes out the window. The
guardians of Baseball looked the other way. They look the
other way. People in baseball said, hey, these guys in
Houston are cheating, they're breaking the rules. And what did
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major League Baseball Doaa la la la la la. They
did nothing, that did nothing. This was allowed to continue.
And if it wasn't for the Edwards Snowden of hardball,
a man that should get a statue, I'd like to
give him. I don't believe in statues and all that stuff,
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but this guy should get a statue. None of this
would have seen the light of day. Mike Fires is
a baseball hero. He should be in the Hall of Fame.
Not Jose Altwo value, Mike Fires. Put him in the
Hall of Fame Cooperstown for this guy, what a great
job by Without him crossing the thin white chalk line
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and spilling the beans. Without that happening, then none of
this would have taken place. Baseball would have continued to
look the other way, and this would have gone on
for generations. Without the whistleblower, this would still be going
on now. Part B. So we know that major League
Baseball was asleep at the switch. They were caught napping
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while all this was going on. Teams have been chirping,
as I said for many, many years, that the Astros
were bad actors, right, they were bad actors. In all this,
major League Baseball's investigative arm, the Keystone Cops found nothing.
They actually claimed they looked into this and they found up.
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You know it. It reminds me of It reminds me
of I was watching a documentary about Bernie Madoff a
while back, and while that was going on, there was
somebody that said, hey, Madeoff's dirty in the middle of
that scandal, and they went to the financial people that
oversee the oversight of Wall Street and they said, hey, listen,
we've got some dirt on Bernie Madeoff. This he's running
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a Ponzi scheme. And the people that were put into
place to look at Bernie Madoff, they went, they met
with him, He charmed them, and that was it. They
didn't actually look at the actual numbers. And within the
great thing about how bad baseball looks in all this
is roughly thirty minutes after the athletic story by Evan
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Drelik and Ken Rosenthal popped up behind a paywall. There
were details from internet investigators that had video internet sluice
like the Scooby and the modern day Scooby Doo Gang.
And they were on social media. They posted hundreds of
videos chronicling exactly what the Astros were doing. It was stunning,
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It was undeniable, although some denied it. The twenty seventeen
World Series video this is even better. The twenty seventeen
World Series video, which was released by Major League Baseball's
own marketing people, showed the setup the Astros were using
to steal the World Series illegally from the Great Dodgers
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in the video, right behind the dugout. Just like night
Fires that talked about, they didn't even hide it. These
evildoers were so cocky they didn't even worry about covering
up the evidence. Now, as they say, criminals get caught
by being sloppy, right, being lazy, being sloppy. In this case,
it was Mike Fires who had to blow the whistle.
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And then you connect the dots backwards here, the Astros
were very generous to leave a lot of blood at
the crime scene. That meant that much blood at a
crime scene since OJA back in the day, there was
DNA fingerprints you name at that crime scene. Now, the
last thing on this so in terms of the other
punishment adjudicated by Rob Manford for the Astros. There's no
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muscle behind it. There's no muscle behind it. Jim Crane,
we'll hear from more of him later. But Jim Crane
is worth two point five billion dollars. It's a very
wealthy made It's made a lot of money in business.
The Astros got fined five million dollars. That is zero
point two percent of Jim Crane's net worth. It is
the equivalent of you make fifty thousand dollars being fined
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one hundred dollars. That's what Major League based. Well did
they find the Astros owner one hundred dollars? They said,
we're gonna punish you. We're gonna find you one hundred dollars. Now,
I don't know about you. I've gotten a few parking tickes.
I used to live in Hollywood. I had an apartment
and parking was a nightmare. And I got many parking
tickets and they were like sixty bucks a pop or
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something like that. I'd get a couple of them a week,
and back in the day, many many years ago. But
it didn't really do me in. It didn't really do
me in. I think Jim Crane will be we okay,
I don't think he'll be eating Chef Boyard and oodles
for noodles with our friend from Brooklyn at his mega mansion.
I don't think that's gonna happen. So the Astros lost
draft picks whoopie damn due whoopie damn due to that.
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And not to be labor the point here, but the
draft picks, most of them fail. What Major League Baseball
got mostly right was the suspensions of aj Hinch and
Jeff Luno. But even that didn't go far enough. We
played the audio from aj Hinch. I think we had
of it again here listen to how cocky and arrogant
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this little scumbag this Mama Luke. You guys have audio
video people, people in places and nothing and there's no
evidence of anything. So yeah, that was aj Hinge during
the playoffs in the last postseason in twenty nineteen, saying
you didn't hear you don't see it? Then you guys
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all have microphones everywhere. Uh and then then he got
so arrogant one of those clips he said, hey, you
know we would have practiced this in the spring training.
Well apparently it did. Apparently it did. J Hinch, I
hope you enjoy your life out of baseball. Maybe you
can go run the Cleveland Browns because you'll never work
in baseball again. You're dirty. You're a weasel, a J.
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Hinch weasel. You Now we will point out in a
future Mala monologue why the Astros must vacate the twenty
seventeen World serious Under the Malar plan that will happen
thinks toxic. The Astros also will be banned from postseason
play for five seasons. They will not be allowed to
make the postseason for five years. Sorry, that's the way
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that works. They will also be forced to travel by
commercial airline. No more chartered flights, no more. Yeah, I'm
not done. How about this, Instead of these baseball teams
stay at resort five star hotels no more, no more. Sorry,
you will now be staying at the Motel six and
the Econo Lodge. That is where the Astros will be staying.
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And not every player gets their own room. You've got
to bunk up, that's right. You've got to have two
players per room on the road, and no team bus
team uber. Everyone's got an uber to the ballpark and
to the next road game. And all that stuff or
to the airport, just like the rest of us. That
will be the punishment for the Astros under the Mallard plant.
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All right, Spenn Mallers show on Fox, and let's go
to the phones right now. And a man who when
this story first popped up, this guy said, there's nothing
to see. M there's no evidence, you have no evidence.
Guilty on all charges. The jury is in guilty on
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all charges. There's there's white smoke coming out of the Vatican.
We have a new pope. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, gilt
and guilty. You are a fan of cheats, Chris in
Houston cheatis. First of all, are you gonna let me
talk or you usually gonna yellow ly cheetas? I'm ask
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are you gonna let me talk? Bang bang? Are you
gonna get the roverto turn me down? Whistle? This is
all I gotta say. The Astros cheating. They cheating. They
from cheetahs, they from scumps. They did some ridiculous stuff.
But this, but this is what I gotta say. A
J Hints is a cheat. But I will ride with
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a day Hints any day for not snicking. Because if
you read the report, if anybody read a page report
A j hints with fist about it, but he let
it happen and he should have put his foot down
and he didn't. So he's a cheater. But I will
arrive with him. He's he's a cheater and lie. He's
a liar, cheater. You want to hang out with, you
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want cheaters, But you know what, I don't hang out
with lies and cheater because you know what my old
man told me a long time, and don't do dirt
by yourself, don't do it with others. That leaves the
snitches alone. You know what I'm saying. But the asshow
cheated Jim Crane with his weasel self acting like nothing happened.
He know what happened. He knew what happened. He just
looked over it because they was winning. It was all
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because of winning. It wasn't because of respect of nothing
with because of winning and a weasel that's gonna get
away with it. Carlos Beltran, that's up in with the
Mets right now, just because so he could get a
World Series ring and he brought this craft up him
and Alice Corb Alex Alex gonna get the Pete Rome
Band he's out of here. You're gonna throw him out. Okay,
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But I'll tell you right now, we to city in
Houston that anyone of you lost, or anyone of them
didn't want to this title. Come see you up. That's
what I got a spect you drop your mic and
hang up and listen. I mean you didn't. You didn't
win the World Series. Um, that's the reality. You didn't.
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Major League Baseball just issue at eight page report detailing
how you did not actually win it on the field.
You cheated, So you don't win when you cheat, and
we all learned that when we were little kids. So
you didn't win the world If you want to argue
that nobody won the World Series, that's fine, but certainly
not the Astros. They didn't win the World Series. So
period stopped. You didn't win. Just admitted the Astros did
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not win. No one won the twenty s. Just admitt
it's tainted, Chris, It's still there. It is the equivalent
if you're if you're an Astros fan, if you're an
Astros apologist celebrating the Astros win. It is the equivalent
of going to a party. It is the equivalent of
going to a party and someone drops a deuce and
a punch ball, and you still drink the deuce and
the juice and say it's fine. The punch is fine.
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It's okay. I know someone dropped the poo in there,
but it's okay. That's what the Astros World Series Trophy.
Someone has used it as a urinal. All right, it's
a urinal. It's a gold uneral. Though it's a gold eural.
You wad to use gold urinal. I'll take it now.
The trophy, the baseball trophy would not make a good
urinal because there's a lot of penance and all that
stuff on. It's not do you know what? But you
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know what? Being you was right? They cheated, he lied.
You know this is Mike five. I'm sorry, but I
don't think he's contract. He's gonna get another continent. He's
he's People love pictures love him. What picture wouldn't like him?
You know how many pictures look at him? Look at
look at Kershaw, look at you Darvish, who we destroyed
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on this show. And the Dodgers would have won the
World Series in five games. The Astros one game five
games series take no indetect the Astros and let people
know that Kurshaw as a choke artist. Anyway, it wasn't astro,
then he would have won the chance. It would have
ended the legacy of Kershaw. Would he wanted twenty seven? Would?
Why not? It's not all right? He now requesting sound bites.
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He's now requesting sound Yeah, that's nice. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Let's get to it.
Here we go, It's Maller. How about that to the
third degree? This one gets quilled? All right? Here we
go over too. After the Titans win on Saturday, Dion
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Lewis spoke to the media and he said that he
thinks the MVP Award should be voted on after the playoffs.
He implied that if that were the case, Derrick Henry
would be winning the award instead of Lamar Jackson. Your thoughts, Ben,
He's a dummy, That's it. I mean, Dean Lewis is
a dummy if he thinks that, Hey, it is a
regular season award. Lamar Jackson, I goofed on him. I
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ripped on him. He deserves it. He was a tremor
in this regular season player, though Lamar played like a
super nova during the regular season right up until the
moment the playoffs started for Baltimore, and he does deserve
the regular season MVP. And Dion Lewis, who's been on
some really good Patriot teams, he should know what's going
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on here. He's compromised. I get it. He's part of
the Fraternal Order of Football Players. He's also a Titans employee,
so he's just looking out for a teammate. But if
Derrick Henry takes the Tennessee Titans into Arrowhead and they
upset Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs and go
to the Super Bowl and he wins the game, he'll
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win NVP honors in the Super Bowl, most likely because
Tennessee can't win without him having a big game, and
that will be more impressive than Lamar Jackson, so he
will have the last laugh. Next now is that he
reported on yesterday's show the Broncos are set to hire
Pat Shermer as their offensive coordinator. It's a bold higher. Yes,
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this will be the fifth offensive coordinator in five seasons
for the Broncos. Who's keeping track me, Ben? Do you
think Pat will be the one that sticks all right,
So you don't want to cover your ears and close
your eyes on this. You don't experience any site or sound.
First of all, Pat Shermer is a vagabond coach. He
is part of the good old boys network, so he's
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gonna keep finding work to say that this is somehow
the savior of the Broncos offense and the offensive genius. No,
he has produced three offenses in his long NFL career
that has finished in the top ten and four that
have finished twenty fourth or lower. So it's not exactly
you're more likely to get an offense that's twenty fourth
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or lower than in the top ten. And secondly, there
is this tumultuous cloud. It's like a cloud of a sewer,
like a sewer smell, hanging over Denver. Until the Broncos
get some real playmakers, they will continue to be stuck
in neutral. Pat Schermer is gonna bounce all over like
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a pinball, all over the NFL. He's like a criminal
trying to evade capture. Pat Schermer as often as he moves,
And I'm not exaggerating that Denver is going to be
his seventh team in twelve seasons in the NFL. Great
coaches don't change teams that often. Next and yesterday you
briefly mentioned reports that ESPN is set to try and
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steal Tony Romo away from CBS with a contract that
would make him the highest paid broadcaster of all timexal
ten to fourteen million a year. You'd go there too
for that money, absolutely, Ben, Do you think Romo can
make Monday Night football grade? Again? No, I love Romo.
I'm a card carrying Romo sexual. But no, no, no, no, no.
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All right, and I'll tell you why. Number One, Tony
Romo's first love isn't even football. It's golf. We talked
about this while you were away, Coop. He does football
to pay the bills. It is disconcerting that one of
his motivations, aside from obviously financial game, the reason he
would leave to go to Monday Night, which is a
step down the CBS package is more impressive than the
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Monday Night package, is because he wants to play more golf,
and playing golf on Sunday means he doesn't have to
do TV and he can do football on Monday. And secondly,
now with Tony Romo be an upgrade over Booger McFarland absolutely,
no more boogermobile and all that. But my position is
nobody watches an NFL game because of the broadcasters. If
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it's a good matchup, you're gonna watch. If the game sucks,
you're not gonna watch. It doesn't matter who's doing the game.
People tune in to radio shows to hear what the
announcers have, not TV. All right, how do we do? Kobaloo?
Benny failed this edition? That is a win for me.
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to get to the top? Probably not. Let's play the
game we have. Let's see here. Matt in Minnesota, Hello Matt?
(38:18):
What's going on? Big Ben? Welcome and you're ready to
do this? Matt? What do you do for a living?
I work at UPS? What can Brown do for you exactly?
How's business at UPS? I'm busy? Yeah. Because of the internet. Right,
everyone's fine crap and they're sending a different ways. Absolutely,
stand at home, moms, look at you making you have
(38:42):
to work, all right, Matt? Hold on, Matt from ups
and we have Justin and Cincinnati. Hello, Justin. Safeco is
not like Geico. We love Geico. They blocked me for
that crap, did they really? Yeah? Yeah, Well, good job
(39:02):
by you. All I have to say is there are
attorneys attorneys involved. That's all I will see you. And
no no current kitchen at the Mallard mansion, so which
is good because I'm not eating anyway. I'm doing intermitted fasting,
so it's it's all right, all right, hold on, It's
like Justin and let's see here, Matt, who do you
want to partner up with? Matt? You can play with me, Ben, Eddie,
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Roberto or Coop. Let's see. I want to win Ben,
so I'm going with Eddie Garcia. All right, Well, you're
gonna lose here and that gonna happen. Hold on a second, Justin,
who do you want to partner up with? Well, you
know the Minnesota guy, he's not very smart. I'm going
with Ben. That's good job by you. We are gonna win.
You have moved up by the way, and the malam militia.
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Justin now that I've learned you've been blocked by that
evil and you know people that mess with my house?
Thank you, good job by you. You're a brigadier general,
is what you are? All right? What are the categories here? Cool?
Why don't we pick this here? And all right, gentlemen,
this is the Neil Pert of Maller's Mountain of Money,
you'll pass passed away at sixty seven years old this
past week, and legendary drummer for the band Rush. The
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categories are anthem, the trees, the spirit of radio? And
why why z Matt? You were on first? What category
would you like? I'll take anthem all right? And justin
last one? Why why is he? All right? All right,
everyone's staying in place here. We'll have Maller's Mountain of
(40:27):
Money in its entirety and we'll get to that. We'll
do it next. Be sure to catch live editions of
The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
pm Pacific. All r right to the game we go.
It is Mallor's Mountain of Money. We've got Matt in Minnesota,
the ups guy who's got a death wish. He picked Eddie,
so he's got no chance to win. And then I am,
I mean, I'm easy Street here with Justin in Cincinnati.
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So gentlemen, you are there, Cooper Loop. Who's going first year?
I believe it is Eddie. Yes, Matt and Eddie start
out first with the category anthem, the song that we
just heard, and back from break, these athletes all protested
the national anthem, I mean the first and last name
of the athlete. Forty five seconds on the clock. Matter
you ready, it's the Neil Pert Edition. All right? Ready? Begin? Uh?
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Former forty nine Ers quarterback, he's been looking for a
job ever since. Former Ravens linebacker. Great linebacker involved in
a murder in Atlanta and the Super Bowl. Current Tampa
Bay Buccaneers star wide receiver. Uh. Yes, bad clue by
me guest by former Bills and Eagles running back. He's
now with the Chiefs. Yes, all pro cornerback with Kansas City,
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traded to the Rams, then traded to the Ravens. Uh.
Oh my gosh. Uh. Former star basketball player at LSU.
His name was Chris Jackson. He converted to being a Muslim.
That first name is that quite right? Mak Mood Marcus
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Peters guy, you passed on Hi, you didn't get it's
a hundred points. Good job by Mike on Mike Evans though.
All right, we're moving over to Justin and Ben. The
category is y y Z. These athletes will live on
as Toronto legends. It's the airport code for Toronto. Forty
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five seconds of the clock. Ready begin, all right, new
Clipper star came from the Raptors. Eric Canada for the Raptors. Yes,
quarterback at Boston College. He played Canadian. Yes, Blue Jay pitcher.
You made jokes about him dying in a plane crash.
Oh yes, a slugging outfielder for the Blue Jays. We
(42:48):
used to sing his name as a jingle on the
show back in the day. All right, Uh, second basement
for the Blue Jays, spitting Hall of famer, known for
spitting at pire Blue Jay's Puerto Rican first baseman play
with the Mets in the nineties and the two thousands out.
(43:10):
All right, Uh, let's see you don't know. Oh my god,
are you throwing the game? Justin? Wow, he doesn't know?
I mean that is the guy was a huge star. Delgado,
That's true. It's pretty close. Eight points. You still have
the lead. Uh, but we go back to Matt. No,
(43:31):
it was hung over. I'd like we go back to you.
Guys are eighty points behind Matt. Would you like the
spirit of radio or the trees? All right? Thank you
for that? All right. These athletes are some of the
tallest at their position. Forty five seconds on the clock.
(43:55):
Begin current star running back for the Tennessee Titans. Young
slugger for the Yankees. Where's number ninety nine? European star
with the Nicks, the Unicorn now with the Mavericks. Standout
tight end with the Packers. He also played for the
Seahawks and Saints. Jimmy Graham. Yes, reliable starting pitcher for
(44:18):
the Cardinals, a two time World Series champ. Uh okay,
this guy plays for the Celtics. His first name is
a tasty Yes. Wow Uh. Slugger for Yankees first baseman.
He won a batting title with the Rockies. His first
name is No. His first names are initials, or he
(44:38):
goes by his initials. I gave the wrong position, Eddie. Oh,
he's not a first base for the second bad I
don't think he did. He missed DJ Lemayhew and Adam Wainwright.
What once he missed. But lea, do you have three
hundred points total? Not for long, Justin and Ben your category,
(44:58):
Come on, hangover spirit the spirit of radio. These athletes
have made a voice on radio, at least initially. Forty
five seconds on the clock. Ready begin all right? The
NBC broadcaster without Michael's former Bengal Yes, shortstop for the
Red Sox was traded before they won the World Series.
(45:21):
The long last name, play all right? Monday night football
broadcaster played at played at Michigan with the Saint Louis Cardinals.
Also back in the day, offensive lineman. How about the
bull the Bulldog for the Dodgers nineteen eighty eight. Yes,
nasty boy, he did radio here at Fox. Yes, I
(45:46):
shouldn't have been that was too easy. Yeah, you should
add Michael Thompson, but I'll take it. Well he worked, Ye,
that's no listen. I won with a wounded soldier. Anyone
other than Justin and Cincinnati wouldn't have been able to
get robbed. M I like how Mad immediately hangs up.
(46:08):
Matt immediately hung up because he's disgusted with what I did.
I'm like Von Miller pushing Peyton Manning past the finish line.
When Manning has nothing left. Justin had nothing left and
I was able to push him across the finish line.
He's not He's there. Are you there? Justin? No? I
think he hung up. Wait, maybe he hung up and
(46:28):
Matt didn't hang up waiting hold here, let me see.
I think no, he hung up to that, I know,
I didn't even know. They still do that now to
make all please hang out. I know man was not listening,
but we are like a week away from a party
for line one being broken for three. I'm gonna buy
(46:49):
a cake. I'm I'm not lying that I'm buying a cake.
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Ben Maller
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