July 6, 2020 • 36 mins
Big Ben talks about David Price opting out of the 2020 MLB season, Pablo Sandoval looking rather rotund during team activities, Maller to the Third Degree, Insta-Advice Line, and much more!
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This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. We're back at it again, starting a
new week here of a programming past the fourth of
July holiday, which is now in the rearview mirror, and
we're still several weeks away from the return of actual
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legacy sports leagues. There was the great hot dog eating
contest that took place in Coney Island. They were able
to pull that off over the weekend. But we are
going to talk baseball right now. That will kind of
talk baseball right now. We had been told you and
I that you gotta be prepared. You must be prepared
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because some big names, big names in Major League Baseball
are not gonna show up. They're gonna bow out, They're
not gonna take part in the twenty twenty seasons. It's
gonna happen and over the weekend. I guess this would
count as a couple of big names that popped up
on our radar. A pair of former cy Young winners
have decided to not partake in the twenty twenty baseball season.
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They are giving up now. I don't know if you
saw this or not. Maybe you did not. Felix Hernandez,
who you know, must be honest here, he's sucked for years.
He was trying to latch on and reinvent himself with
the Atlanta Braves. He's decided not to do that anymore.
And David Price, yeah, that guy, David Price has said
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ah Asta labista to Los Angeles this summer. Now, with
all due respect to King Felix, who has been stealing
money for years in Seattle and they finally got rid
of him, and now he went to Atlanta. Don't bear
the lead, mama, in all right, We're not going to
bear the lead. This is all about David Price leaving
the Dodgers hanging, or is he leaving the Dodgers hanging.
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He came over from the Boston Red Sox in the offseason,
the late offseason blockbuster trade before the apocalypse. So let
us discuss the question should the Dodgers be upset with
David Price? Did the Dodgers have a right to be upset?
Now they're saying they're not. They're saying they're not upset
with David Price. The way I look at it, they
shouldn't be upset. They should be happy that David Price
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is giving up on the season. And my thoughts on this,
You've got basic math, rainy day, and full deck, and
we will put all these things into the pot and
we will stir it up, and we'll do that for
proximately ten fifteen minutes or so. So a David Price,
who is not someone I was excited to watch play
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and pitch for the Dodgers. Here he's a guy that
the Dodgers didn't even really want. Let's call it like
it is here. David Price was the bounty the Dodgers
had to pay to get Mookie Betts, and so they
were willing to take David Price on. And I was
trying to explain this to a couple of my buddies
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who love the Blue Crew, that David Price's decision is
a net positive, This is not a negative. And and
and they tried to play Devil's advocate and say, oh, no, no,
he's a world champion bin clearly not knowing my position
on the Championship Defenders League. That is generally the number
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one tell in my experience that a fan is an
uneducated fan, that the fans are dummy when their defense
of said player is he's a champion. Past results do
not guarantee future outcomes, just like on Wall Street, and
never been a member of that Championship Defenders. Ly, that's
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not how I roll. And I am of the mindset
that you should not be living in the past, which
many people the uneducated family. He's a champion. People who
live in the past are failures. You're gonna fail forever
if you live in past. So tell me what you're
gonna do in the future, not what you have done
in the past. I don't care about what you've done
in the past. I wonder what you've done in the future.
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And David Price is absolutely free to raise the white flag.
I don't want to say that he's not he obviously is.
We are also free to point out that this is
actually gonna have no bearing on whatever happens to the
Dodgers in twenty twenty. This mini sprint, not a marathon,
a sprint of a twenty twenty season. So and I'm
just talking about this in terms of basic math, which
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is mal or math. Basic math. This is what's known
as addition by subtraction is what this is. David Price
is on field performance would have been okay. He's been
trending the wrong way. His earned run average is ticked
up each of the last three seasons in Boston and
the Red Sox. Here's all you need to know about
David Price. The Red Sox were so giddy when they
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got the Dodgers to take Price off their hands. He
was such a liability to that franchise that they agreed
to pay a big chunk of David Price's contract just
so he wouldn't contaminate the Red Sox anymore. Then get
out of here. Please think about that. Think about David Price,
former Cy Young Winner, World champion, the Red Sox. Please,
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I'll give you a mookie backs, but you gotta take
David Price off our hands. You got his reputation proceeds.
He's a malcontent, That is who David Price has been.
He habitually complains, he's unhappy and it infects a negative
attitude on whatever team he plays in. This is a
fox in the Henhouse situation. So the Dodgers are avoiding
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a fox in the Henhouse situation. The kind of ball
player that separates and divides a team. Asked Dennis Eckerslely
what he thinks A respected relief pitcher and a cy
young guy himself back in the day, and a broadcaster
with the Red Sox. Ask Eckersly what he thinks of
David Price. David Price, your typical, thin skinned athlete now
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part B of this Major League Baseball, like every sport,
every legacy sport, is bending over backwards right now with
as much safety as possible, and it's never enough. It
is never enough. It's just remarkable to see what has
gone on with the players pitching in basketball and football
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and baseball across the board, although hockey I guess I
haven't heard too much of maybe I missed it in hockey.
But it's never enough, right, I mean, if you know,
all that falls by the wayside for the players who
are complaining all of the protocols, And this David Price
story is a stark reminder it's not so much about
the safety protocols. With David Price, they could have the
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safest game in the world. But he lives in a
different zip code, and many of these guys live in
a different zip code than the rest of us. And
when you're richer than Scrooge McDuck, you are given the
freedom to play or not play if you're unmotivated, if
it's too much of a hassle, just tap out. Doesn't
matter to you. David Price has not just a decent
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He's got an extreme rainy day fund for situations like this.
Fu money is what they call it, though, and throughout
his Big League cree he has been well compensated. Price
has earned one hundred and eighty four million dollars on field.
That's just on field, not endorsements or any of that
other stuff, going back to his early days in Tampa
and with the Blue Jays and the Tigers and the
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Red Sox, Meo my and so. It is also a
lesson on how slightly out of touch from reality the
rest of us have to deal with, the rest of
people have to deal with, And specifically I'm talking about you,
the frontline workers. So many of you listen to the
show while you're stocking grocery stores and driving trucks and
things along those lines, and the frontline employee, which I'm
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sure they'd like to tap out sometimes I'm good. I
don't need the money. I'm all right. And their protocols.
Think about the protocols that professional sports have put in
with all the extra testing and all that stuff, and
that's it's not near the same if you work at
a grocery store. And more importantly, you obviously don't have
a rainy day fund to take a year off and
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look out for your family. Can't do that. It's in
the best interest of your family to keep working because
you gotta bring home the bacon and that doesn't pay
for itself. So the price doesn't have those words again
different Zipco. He doesn't have to worry about that kind
of stuff. He's fine. And keep in mind, this is
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the same guy who his claim to fame with the
Red Sox was he was he was such a dedicated
baseball player that he actually missed the start against the
Yankees because of an addiction to Fortnite. That's a true story,
you can look it up. Not making it up. He
had carpal tunnel syndrome, a mild carpal tunnel syndrome because
he played so many hours of Fortnite that it messed
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up his hand and the ability to hold and grip
the baseball were messed up. So now he doesn't have
to worry about working his night job with the Dodgers.
He is free. He's free to play as many video
games as you want. Feed the addiction, Feed the addiction.
All right, last word on this. So back to the
Dodgers here. Then we started as David Price not gonna play.
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He's decided he's not going to show up. Fine, But
the Dodgers they didn't want, as we said, David Price.
They don't need David Price. And that's why this is
nothing for the Dodgers. Like they have a full deck
of cards in terms of starting pitching. And you look
in the back in the bowels of Dodger Stadium, they
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have a treasure test of talent. And many of these guys,
now some of them were inexperience, some of them have
been around the block, but they all have the skill
set to dominate and they just have to make the
right choice. Here. They go into the stockpile and they
have to make sure they make the right decision on
who to bring in, whether it's I'd like to see
Dustin May slide on in into the Dodgers' rotation and
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see if he can find some consistency. One of the
top young pitchers in baseball, Let's see if he can
blossom here with the opportunity. If not, May, the Dodgers
have rows stripling, but they tried to trade and they
didn't worked out well. Now and Tony Gonslin also in
that rotation. They even signed Jimmy Nelson, the old Milwaukee
brewer who has been injured. He's a big, fat guy,
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played for the Milwauke So the point is, David Price,
you're not gonna be missed. No one's gonna be upset,
You're not playing for the Dodgers. You're not even gonna
be noticed. So I'm glad it's actually a good thing
because he won't rub that sour puss attitude on the
other players on the team. The Dodgers have an embarrassment
of Richard, so they are in good shape in this department.
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They are be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio apps. We're
back at it again this hour and Spring training two
point zero has started with players bitching and complaining. And
we also had a big surprise though they're talking baseball
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here and this was at all of all places, the
San Francisco Giants workouts that have been taking place like
all these other teams. And if you were out of
the loop because you were shooting off illegal fireworks over
the weekend, man, that was quite the show. Do you
see the video? Oh my god, everyone, everyone their mother
shooting off firework. More on that later, We'll get into
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that later. But anyway, the Higantes, they were working out
there in San Francisco. And if you didn't see this
because you were busy on the fourth of July, you
might have missed it. Pablo sanda Ball was the talk
of the town. He was the talk of the town.
The portly, giant fielder who has been battling the bulge
for many, many years, was photographed taking round balls at
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third base and looked like if you wondered what the
stay puffed marshmallow man would look like if he played
third base, that would be Pablo Sandoval. He's listed at
five eleven he's a I don't think he's even five eleven.
They say he's five eleven. And his weight Pablo Sandoval
is two hundred and sixty pounds. He has to be
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well over three hundred pounds based on the photographic evidence
that we saw. A picture is worth a thousand words,
or in this case, a picture is worth a Maller monologue. So,
Pablo Sandoval, we know he hasn't been skipping any meals.
Good for him. He's not on the Mallar fasting plan
that I've been on here. So let us discuss the
question what do you make of the Higante's backup infielder
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Pablo Sandoval and his new look for the Giants. So
I've got MLB shop Balina and the Beers spokesman. All right,
those three things, and we will combine them all together now.
Number one. So I was wondering, and we as a show,
we're wondering which athletes would just let themselves go, and
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who is going to show up and be lazy and
during the pandemic and not work out and not do
anything to stay in shape. And much of our focus
was on the NBA, and we didn't spend too much
time on this, but it's a bad job by us.
We missed out on Pablo Sandoval. It's a bad job,
all right, quarantine feasting and then so every night at
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the Sandoval household was the last supper every night. Now,
normally when spring training starts, there is a boiler plate story.
Now this is obviously different. These are uncharted waters that
we're in right now. But typically during spring training there
is a story that every sports writer uses. It's a
cliche story that is repeated year after year. I'm in
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the best shape of my life. I'm in the best shape.
I'm ready to go. Now, technically, that is not wrong
with Pablo Sandoval, because round, as I know I've lived
that life, round is a shape. And he's either seven
months pregnant with twins or he's been just feasting on
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a diet of candy bars and Cheetos and you name it. Man,
it must have been a great diet. Either way, it
is a very impressive lack of dedication that we should celebrate.
We on this show, we like the fat athlete. We
are fans of the fat athlete. And there's nobody fatter
right now I can think of in sports than Pablo
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Sandoval of the Giants. He is not only ready for
the major leagues, he is ready for Beer League Softball.
If the season gets canceled, Santoval can slide over and
he can play the hot corner in a Beer League
Softball situation. Now, the Giants equipment staff, they have to
put uniforms on all these guy. So I'm assuming they
went to mlbshop dot com and they ordered Sandoval some
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maternity clothing to put on there, because it looks like
that's what he's gonna do. And who knew that Pablo
Sandoval not closely being watched over by I assume trainers
and people around him, they don't have a babysitters follow
him around, and that he could actually like he could
have eaten himself to death. And he's known as the
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Panda that's his nickname, Pablo Sanva. I think he's been
working at a Panda Express. He's been eating all the
food at the end of the night, when the Beijing
beef and the orange chicken, and when they're gonna throw
that out, I'll take that now, in all fairness them,
In all fairness Sandoval, what's the old line? I remember?
I used to hear this one. I was when I
was really big that you know, I only eat when
I'm bored. Unfortunately, on board all the time, so I
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just continually eating all that stuff. And as far as
those that say, well, you gotta have a six pack
to play sports, which is not true, we know that's
not true. Sandoval does have a six pack. It's just
covered up by a nice layer of protective fat. But
somewhere in there there's a six pack. It's hidden, but
it's in there, and he is ready. This is a
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guy that's prepared to be a designated hitter. The National
League has added the DH and of course with a catch.
There is a catch there that not only is Sandoval
ready to be a designated hitter for the Giants, but
he's going to need Rob Manford to put another tweak
in the rule book and implement a universal pinch runner
because he's going to need a pinch runner there because
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he could hit the ball, but running is going to
be slight issue there. The way he looked, I could
see him hit the ball off the wall and then
be thrown out at first base. Now, fortunately the Red
Sox I believe this is correct. I'll have to go
double check, but I think the Red Sox are still
paying Pablo Sadeval his contract. He's still getting getting a check.
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Most of it's from the Red Sox because of that
horrific free agent signing several years back. Although you gotta
think that's coming to in at some point. So it's
like a headaches for the Giants. They're not really paying Sandoval,
They're just paying him, I believe the pro rated minimum.
So the second point here, so as we were commenting
on this photo of Santoval and it didn't make me smile,
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it made me smile. On the fourth of July, after
Bartolo Cologne was denied work in the big leagues, we
have been searching to find the next plump star, I
mean bigger than life, right, bigger than life, and I
had hoped it was going to be williams Astado of
the Minnesota Twins. Unfortunately, he is mister everything asked the
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deal of the Twins. He's catcher, third baseman, second baseman.
But even though he's got the great nickname, which is
he's named the tortoise or la torga, which is tortoise
in Spanish, we need to come up with some better
nicknames for Pablo Santaval. He is known as Kung Fu
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Panda or just the panda. Others have called him the
round mound of pound or little money. But we can
do better. Forget ballerina. How about ballina, which I think
I have. I know Spanglish, which is a version of smash,
but I think ballina, I believe, is the word used
for whale in the Spanish language. I think that is accurate.
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So you can just call him the ballina at third base,
and you could have the instead of just calling him
ballino or panda or little money or round mound. How
about we call him dojo, right, he could be the
Doe Joe. There you go, not bad, all right? Now?
Final final. That's when he's on defensive, of course, because
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you're dojo teaching your defensive techniques, all right, final point.
So unfortunately, Populo sive Fandabal is gonna be a bit
player on the Giants. In fact, I don't even think
he's guaranteed of being on the team. Although it seems
likely because of the pandemic that Sandoval is gonna make
the Giants. The Apocalypse gonna help him out there. I'm
pulling for him, all right. It's odd because I like
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the Dodgers. But this is a guy I can get behind,
all right. And with Mike Trout, who's kind of got
cold feet in Anaheim, he's he's never embraced the headliner's
status of professional baseball, and that's that goes without saying.
So Pablo Sandoval should become the new beer spokesman. He
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should be the new beer spokesman, absolutely right. I mean,
he is the most interesting man in the world of baseball,
and professional baseball should embracelet should They should pay some
money to the Dose Decaes people, the beer people over there.
The advertising campaign and imagine the commercials with Pablo Sandoval
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going around doing his thing, the most popular backup first baseman,
third baseman, pitch hitter, and designated hitter in baseball history.
And might I add the marketing campaign three Sports Star?
What is that? Three sports? Sorry? Well, Pablo Santoval not
only is he a baseball player who's not very good anymore,
but he can also duke it out with Bay Area legend,
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the pride of San Jose, Joey Chestnut, who just won
another Mustard Belt. More on that coming up later. And
then when the NFL season begins, assuming it does, happen
as planned, then Kyle Shanahan could offer Pablo Sandoval a
contract because he's got a spot on the forty nine
ers practice squad waiting for him as like a backup
center or guard. He could slide right over there. So, Santoval,
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you can really monetize this, right. You can never have
too much depth? Why not? What's not to like? Now?
My advice to Pablo Sandoval is someone again that has
lived this life all right, as I relate to this,
I've had the battle of the balls. I've still fighting it,
fighting the good fight. So you should try to avoid Pablo,
here's what you got. You gotta try to avoid things
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that make you fat. For example, scales. You stay away
from scales, they make you fat. Mirrors, do not look
at any mirrors, and do not allow your photograph to
be taken. If you can avoid scales, mirrors, and photographs,
the big three, then you have nothing to worry about.
And I know that the human body, what is it,
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like ninety something percent of the human body is made
up of water. So there's just a lot of water there.
There's just a lot of water if you ask the
science community. And so he's not really a big fat
tub of goo. He's just he's just water logged, is
all he is there, Pablo Sandival. But boy, that was good.
If you have not seen that photo, I retweeted it,
it's wild, wild photo. I check that out. Pablo Sandoval
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living his best life, living his greatest life for the Higantes.
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at Ben and have some fun. Let's go to the
phones right now. Let's see here where do we have
any meany mighty mot Let's go to Andrea in Berkeley.
He's got her star charts out right now. Hello, Andrea
Virgo in service on Twitter the sports sorcers. Oh, Ben,
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did you have a nice holiday full moon weekend? Oh? Yeah,
the full moon weekend was in full offen. We had
We had a big full moon show at the end
of last week there on the fourth of July as
a third of July. It was a third of July.
It was a wild yeah, yeah, I know, like you said.
The motions get a lot more intense around the full moon,
so the callers get crazier around the moon. That's the
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way I'm really worried about it. In this job, you
can tell when there's something going on out there with
the stars because people say that. Some people say that's
not true, Andrew, and they say that's not right. But
I know for a fact something's up there. Around certain
certain cosmic events, the callers get a little more on yes,
as above so below. You know, we definitely feel the
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planetary influences some more than others. So that said, I
just had to look up David Price's astrology August twenty sixth,
nineteen eighty five. What do you know a fellow Virgo,
and I can relate to the you know, hypochondria, germophobe.
I've been, you know, as you can imagine, just really
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worrisome about health and so on. So you know, Virgo
energy can be a little obsessive, compulsive, and kind of
hypochondria ish, so that can be a challenge. So we
opted out of the season, and you know, I give
him credit though he's losing um. I looked at his chart,
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he's forfeiting. Then twelve million dollars in salary by opting out. Yeah,
but he's got one hundred and eighty six whatever it
is million. If he had not, if he was somebody
making you know, fifty thousand dollars a year, you obviously
wouldn't have that up he does. I mean, to his credit,
he's made a ton of money. They've overpaid him for
years in baseball, and so he has that option where
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the unwashed doesn't have that option. They have to work
because they have to. They have food they want to eat,
and they have bills they have to pay and things
like that. He's none of those worries. It's a charmed
life as an athlete. I mean, you can imagine the
you know, the pushback we're getting with Buster Posey's saying
he may or may not play. Yeah, you know, I
was looking at the photos of Babe Ruth from like
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the Spanish flu times you back in that in the day,
and as like, like baseball players didn't in nineteen eighteen.
They weren't making it. They weren't making ridiculous right money.
It wasn't it. Obviously at some point it changed, I
guess in the in the seventies and the eighties and
the money's kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. But yeah,
I mean it's just um, you know and blow. Of
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course that was tweeted out and um, you know Leo,
he does tend to overindulge in the food. And I think,
what are they calling it to quarantine nineteen the COVID
nineteen that people are gaining about nineteen pounds from being
quarantined and being less active. He's got more than nineteen
pounds there. He's skewing the numbers. He's an outlier because
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he's gone way over nineteen pounds. So I've actually lost
weight though, Andrew, I've been able to lose some weighting
injuring it's for you. No, not really, I'm just not eating.
Oh no, I'm definitely less active. I used to walk
through campus and do a lot more activity. So now
you're honkering and bunkering is what you're doing. Yeah, I'm
working on a lot of charts and you know, just
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taking it one day at a time, but looking forward
to baseball season in the end of this month. That
should be nice. But David Price, you know, fellow virgo,
and he has his moon and Capricorn. He's kind of
overcautious venus and cancer. Saturn's opposing it, so it's not
a happy time. But you know, nonetheless, Virgo have that
critical can't see the forest for the trees energy, and
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they can get a little skeptical and nitpicking. So he'd
rather just sit it out out. And that's how Virgo rolls.
There you go, That's how they roll. Are Andrea? Thank you?
And you're on Twitter there Virgo in service? Yes, thank you,
Thank you for be sure to catch live editions of
the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
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pm Pacific. Here we go, It's Maller. How about that?
To the third degree? This is one big band gets grilled.
All right, here we go, what do we have? Cool?
So I'm attending coach Chili Davis will be coaching the
team remotely to avoid potential coronavirus exposure. And maybe wonder, Ben,
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is this a method that's foolish to even try? Or
do you think remote coaching will be the way of
the future. All right, so, first of all, listen, I
love Chilie Davis. I've told the story a few times
over the years. I covered the California Angels when Chili
Davis was playing for that team. He saved me from
getting my ass kicked by an enraged lunatic named Tony
Phillips years ago. So I love Chili Uh and I
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love that he keeps getting hitting coaching jobs around baseball.
He's been with the multiple teams now now. Secondly, it
is not the way of the future, but it is
doable in the big leagues. I had a veteran coach
tell me who had been a big league hitting coach
for years. This is many, many years ago. But by
the time a hitter reaches the big leagues, they are
set in their technique, they are set in their ways.
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The hitting coach's job is akin to just touching up
and maintenance. You're not reinventing the wheel when you get
to the major leagues. But but yeah, they're gonna be
back when this is all done. It's this is not
the wave of the future. Right Next, So, Donovan Mitchell
says that he and Rudy Gobert are now good after
reports of reparable damage being done to their relationship when
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both tested positive for coronavirus. You think the Jazz will
truly co exist peacefully in the bubble. Ben all right.
So this is another one of those where you say, yes,
they will, but there's reasons for that. Hey, they can
play make believe as long as the cameras are on
them for a couple of months. Since the media are
segregated away from the players. With his zoom conversations and
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all that, there's very little chance unless somebody snitches that
the animosity, the underlying animosity, is gonna get out and
beat in the long term. This is ultimately up to
Donovan Mitchell. The Jazz are going to try to sign
him long term. They want to show him the money
in Salt Lake, given one of those Megamax contracts, and
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so they will be at his beck and call. Meaning
if Mitchell wants Rudy Gobert tossed off the island, then
his ass is grass. All right. Next, So the Dodgers
were supposed to have the All Star Game this season,
and I'm aware of that. I was supposed to be
sitting here Marlin's man at the All Star Game. Yeah, well,
obviously it's not going to happen because of coronavirus. So
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they got awarded the next available All Star Game, which
is in twenty twenty two. But we do know that
the Players Union or the Players Association tried to go
for a All Star Game played after the World Series,
but that didn't really get anywhere. Ben, would you have
supported that? Oh, that's a dumb idea. Listen the one thing.
First thing here, baseball players don't even like playing the
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All Star Game when it's in the season. Can you
imagine after the World Series when everyone skipped out of
town and they're on vacation and they're like, oh, no, no,
you guys gotta come back because we gotta play the
All Star Game. Imagine the vitriol that would take place
in baseball. And then secondly, when teams are eliminated, right
and everyone they're like rats jumping off a burning ship
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and all that stuff. But the more important thing here
the All Star Game is to build up hype for
the second half, right Midsummer's Night classic fuel excitement. It's
also all about the fans, and the fans still aren't
allowed and even as fifty percent it's bullcrap, wait till
the fans could come back. You don't need it. All
that's lost in translation. It's a game for the fans
without fans. What's the point all right? There? It is
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maller to the third degree. How did we do? Beny
passed this edition? There it is? That is a winner.
You can put it on the bar. Yeah, still bummed out.
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Here's some instant advice. Hold that thought. No one's paid
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don't like it, screw you all right away, week go
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it's time out for the instant advice line unscreen radio.
Who needs our advice? Now, there's a couple of ways
I could go here, there's a couple of ways I
could go, but I think what we need to do.
We were in the malamus. We like to eat a
lot of food, most of us, right, So what is
your advice to Joey Chestnut who likely already knows how
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to handle this, but he ate seventy five hot dogs
and buns in that eating contest over the weekend. So
how do you recover after a gluttonous weekend of gorging food?
Many of us did for the Fourth of July with
barbecues and all that. So what is your advice to
Joey Chestnut on recovering from over eating with the seventy
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five hot dogs? You're live on the air when you
hear my voice at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
We'll keep this simple though, in lighthearted advice to Joey
Chestnut on how to recover his body from those seventy
five hot dogs. We'll go to the phones right now. Hello,
you are on the air. Hello at eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. He should have brought two handsfo
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greet dollars, two handsfu, greet dollars. All right, that's advice
to Joey Chestnut. Thank you. Just keep yelling that over another.
All right, that's we're off to a flying star. Let's
go over to you. You are next year. Advice to
Joey Chestnunt on how to recover from eating seventy five
hot dogs being I suggested dip his hot dog in
some urine. Come on, man, don't don't encourage doc. He's
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he's probably waking up right now in Chicago, getting ready
to call in. We don't need to encourage him, all right, Yeah,
he left me several messages over the weekend. He was
very upset with his last phone call last week. Let's
go to you. You are next. We're giving advice to
Joey Chestnut on how to recover after eating seventy five
hot dogs and buns. Hello, you're on the air. Just
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change the team name to the DC Redskins. We all win,
all right? Dare you go? All right, let's see here,
that's off topic by the we're talking about Joey Chestnut.
How dare you bad job by you? Justin and Cincinnati,
you knucklehead. Let's go to the wildcard line. Wild card line.
You're on the here advice to Joey Chestnut how to
recover after eating seventy five hot dogs? You need a
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last minute anniversary good Ben Maller and cameo for three
dollars guaranteed to makers. Say, who the hell is this?
That's a good point, though, So why'd you waste your
money on that? You lose her? What's wrong with you?
All right, let's go over there. You are next. We're
giving advice to Joey Chestnut the Man's seventy five hot dogs.
There's a world record, all time record. We how great
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are we? We're alive to witness this. Hello, you're on
the air. Advice to Chestnut how to recover occas? All right,
there you go. We need somebody to call up and
say pop pop, fizz fizz, or what a relief it is?
That's that would probably be a good way to approach this.
All right, you are next over there on the line
number three. Your advice to Joey Chestnut on how to
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recover from his epic eating endeavor? I did, all right,
then we'll hang up on your ass. Was that was
that the two second, three second, four second delay? Guy
in San Antonio? Yeah? Yeah, Oh my god, Joe just
play along? What a moron? What's wrong with you? All right?
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Is that hard to play along? I didn't call for this, No, no,
thank you, Sherlock. All right, boy, I always said a
bad word. Let's go over there. Line five. You're on
the air. Hello, line five, what's up? All right, we'll
hang up on you. This is where I give out
the number. So I tried to leave a little extra time,
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and now I'm getting burned. For that see no good
deed goes unpunished. I was like, I really short change
the audience with the instant advice line in recent week,
so I need to give it more time. Let it
breathe a little bit. So eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox, this is the voice of the people, you
would be the people were giving advice back to Joey
chest out the Pride of San Jose on how to
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recover the man ate seventy five hot dogs and buns
in Coney Island, New York there over the weekend. What
is your advice? Hello, you were on the air. Hello.
Now for my next trick, I will try to mesticate
a twenty year old. All right. We knew that was
going down a path we didn't want to go down.
So we'll go over to here the line one, Line one,
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you're on the year. Line two is not working. But
line one is your advice to Joey chess Nut on
how to recover from his epic eating weekend. Good damn
funk checking and no good dumb chick. All right, I
couldn't understand most of that. Probably good I did. Got
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is he doing some kind of chicken dance or something?
Like that. Is that what he was? I'm not sure.
I only understood a couple of words. Yeah, it's probably
better that way. I've got my headphones turned up. Here.
Let's go to you over here on line six. You
are next on the Airline six, we're giving advice. Oh
it's Cowboy. It's on the wild Card line, wild carline.
What's your advice to Joey chess Nut. Oh well, Kevin Harden? Okay,
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all right, thank you cowboy. Yeah, Matthew Warrior Rater rays
fan was upset because you didn't mention bucks and blonde
in your call. I was upset at that. All right,
this is one more cooperhoop, only one more of it's good.
I'll take credit. If not, I will blame you. Line four,
Line four the final call, the instant advice line for
Joey Chestnut on how he can recover from eating seventy
five hot dogs and buns. Line four, you're on the air.
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Go this is being near craft and he can join
me and Camphor dead as a rubbing tub. All right,
there you go, dare a rub and tug. And now
you know why if you ever get a radio show,
they're cool. They're fun to have these radio shows, but please,
we are trained professionals. Do not attempt this kind of
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thing at home. Do not do it.
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This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
Fox Sports Radio. We're back at it again, starting a
new week here of a programming past the fourth of
July holiday, which is now in the rearview mirror, and
we're still several weeks away from the return of actual
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legacy sports leagues. There was the great hot dog eating
contest that took place in Coney Island. They were able
to pull that off over the weekend. But we are
going to talk baseball right now. That will kind of
talk baseball right now. We had been told you and
I that you gotta be prepared. You must be prepared
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because some big names, big names in Major League Baseball
are not gonna show up. They're gonna bow out, They're
not gonna take part in the twenty twenty seasons. It's
gonna happen and over the weekend. I guess this would
count as a couple of big names that popped up
on our radar. A pair of former cy Young winners
have decided to not partake in the twenty twenty baseball season.
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They are giving up now. I don't know if you
saw this or not. Maybe you did not. Felix Hernandez,
who you know, must be honest here, he's sucked for years.
He was trying to latch on and reinvent himself with
the Atlanta Braves. He's decided not to do that anymore.
And David Price, yeah, that guy, David Price has said
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ah Asta labista to Los Angeles this summer. Now, with
all due respect to King Felix, who has been stealing
money for years in Seattle and they finally got rid
of him, and now he went to Atlanta. Don't bear
the lead, mama, in all right, We're not going to
bear the lead. This is all about David Price leaving
the Dodgers hanging, or is he leaving the Dodgers hanging.
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He came over from the Boston Red Sox in the offseason,
the late offseason blockbuster trade before the apocalypse. So let
us discuss the question should the Dodgers be upset with
David Price? Did the Dodgers have a right to be upset?
Now they're saying they're not. They're saying they're not upset
with David Price. The way I look at it, they
shouldn't be upset. They should be happy that David Price
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is giving up on the season. And my thoughts on this,
You've got basic math, rainy day, and full deck, and
we will put all these things into the pot and
we will stir it up, and we'll do that for
proximately ten fifteen minutes or so. So a David Price,
who is not someone I was excited to watch play
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and pitch for the Dodgers. Here he's a guy that
the Dodgers didn't even really want. Let's call it like
it is here. David Price was the bounty the Dodgers
had to pay to get Mookie Betts, and so they
were willing to take David Price on. And I was
trying to explain this to a couple of my buddies
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who love the Blue Crew, that David Price's decision is
a net positive, This is not a negative. And and
and they tried to play Devil's advocate and say, oh, no, no,
he's a world champion bin clearly not knowing my position
on the Championship Defenders League. That is generally the number
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one tell in my experience that a fan is an
uneducated fan, that the fans are dummy when their defense
of said player is he's a champion. Past results do
not guarantee future outcomes, just like on Wall Street, and
never been a member of that Championship Defenders. Ly, that's
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not how I roll. And I am of the mindset
that you should not be living in the past, which
many people the uneducated family. He's a champion. People who
live in the past are failures. You're gonna fail forever
if you live in past. So tell me what you're
gonna do in the future, not what you have done
in the past. I don't care about what you've done
in the past. I wonder what you've done in the future.
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And David Price is absolutely free to raise the white flag.
I don't want to say that he's not he obviously is.
We are also free to point out that this is
actually gonna have no bearing on whatever happens to the
Dodgers in twenty twenty. This mini sprint, not a marathon,
a sprint of a twenty twenty season. So and I'm
just talking about this in terms of basic math, which
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is mal or math. Basic math. This is what's known
as addition by subtraction is what this is. David Price
is on field performance would have been okay. He's been
trending the wrong way. His earned run average is ticked
up each of the last three seasons in Boston and
the Red Sox. Here's all you need to know about
David Price. The Red Sox were so giddy when they
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got the Dodgers to take Price off their hands. He
was such a liability to that franchise that they agreed
to pay a big chunk of David Price's contract just
so he wouldn't contaminate the Red Sox anymore. Then get
out of here. Please think about that. Think about David Price,
former Cy Young Winner, World champion, the Red Sox. Please,
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I'll give you a mookie backs, but you gotta take
David Price off our hands. You got his reputation proceeds.
He's a malcontent, That is who David Price has been.
He habitually complains, he's unhappy and it infects a negative
attitude on whatever team he plays in. This is a
fox in the Henhouse situation. So the Dodgers are avoiding
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a fox in the Henhouse situation. The kind of ball
player that separates and divides a team. Asked Dennis Eckerslely
what he thinks A respected relief pitcher and a cy
young guy himself back in the day, and a broadcaster
with the Red Sox. Ask Eckersly what he thinks of
David Price. David Price, your typical, thin skinned athlete now
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part B of this Major League Baseball, like every sport,
every legacy sport, is bending over backwards right now with
as much safety as possible, and it's never enough. It
is never enough. It's just remarkable to see what has
gone on with the players pitching in basketball and football
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and baseball across the board, although hockey I guess I
haven't heard too much of maybe I missed it in hockey.
But it's never enough, right, I mean, if you know,
all that falls by the wayside for the players who
are complaining all of the protocols, And this David Price
story is a stark reminder it's not so much about
the safety protocols. With David Price, they could have the
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safest game in the world. But he lives in a
different zip code, and many of these guys live in
a different zip code than the rest of us. And
when you're richer than Scrooge McDuck, you are given the
freedom to play or not play if you're unmotivated, if
it's too much of a hassle, just tap out. Doesn't
matter to you. David Price has not just a decent
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He's got an extreme rainy day fund for situations like this.
Fu money is what they call it, though, and throughout
his Big League cree he has been well compensated. Price
has earned one hundred and eighty four million dollars on field.
That's just on field, not endorsements or any of that
other stuff, going back to his early days in Tampa
and with the Blue Jays and the Tigers and the
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Red Sox, Meo my and so. It is also a
lesson on how slightly out of touch from reality the
rest of us have to deal with, the rest of
people have to deal with, And specifically I'm talking about you,
the frontline workers. So many of you listen to the
show while you're stocking grocery stores and driving trucks and
things along those lines, and the frontline employee, which I'm
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sure they'd like to tap out sometimes I'm good. I
don't need the money. I'm all right. And their protocols.
Think about the protocols that professional sports have put in
with all the extra testing and all that stuff, and
that's it's not near the same if you work at
a grocery store. And more importantly, you obviously don't have
a rainy day fund to take a year off and
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look out for your family. Can't do that. It's in
the best interest of your family to keep working because
you gotta bring home the bacon and that doesn't pay
for itself. So the price doesn't have those words again
different Zipco. He doesn't have to worry about that kind
of stuff. He's fine. And keep in mind, this is
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the same guy who his claim to fame with the
Red Sox was he was he was such a dedicated
baseball player that he actually missed the start against the
Yankees because of an addiction to Fortnite. That's a true story,
you can look it up. Not making it up. He
had carpal tunnel syndrome, a mild carpal tunnel syndrome because
he played so many hours of Fortnite that it messed
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up his hand and the ability to hold and grip
the baseball were messed up. So now he doesn't have
to worry about working his night job with the Dodgers.
He is free. He's free to play as many video
games as you want. Feed the addiction, Feed the addiction.
All right, last word on this. So back to the
Dodgers here. Then we started as David Price not gonna play.
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He's decided he's not going to show up. Fine, But
the Dodgers they didn't want, as we said, David Price.
They don't need David Price. And that's why this is
nothing for the Dodgers. Like they have a full deck
of cards in terms of starting pitching. And you look
in the back in the bowels of Dodger Stadium, they
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have a treasure test of talent. And many of these guys,
now some of them were inexperience, some of them have
been around the block, but they all have the skill
set to dominate and they just have to make the
right choice. Here. They go into the stockpile and they
have to make sure they make the right decision on
who to bring in, whether it's I'd like to see
Dustin May slide on in into the Dodgers' rotation and
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see if he can find some consistency. One of the
top young pitchers in baseball, Let's see if he can
blossom here with the opportunity. If not, May, the Dodgers
have rows stripling, but they tried to trade and they
didn't worked out well. Now and Tony Gonslin also in
that rotation. They even signed Jimmy Nelson, the old Milwaukee
brewer who has been injured. He's a big, fat guy,
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played for the Milwauke So the point is, David Price,
you're not gonna be missed. No one's gonna be upset,
You're not playing for the Dodgers. You're not even gonna
be noticed. So I'm glad it's actually a good thing
because he won't rub that sour puss attitude on the
other players on the team. The Dodgers have an embarrassment
of Richard, so they are in good shape in this department.
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They are be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm
Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio apps. We're
back at it again this hour and Spring training two
point zero has started with players bitching and complaining. And
we also had a big surprise though they're talking baseball
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here and this was at all of all places, the
San Francisco Giants workouts that have been taking place like
all these other teams. And if you were out of
the loop because you were shooting off illegal fireworks over
the weekend, man, that was quite the show. Do you
see the video? Oh my god, everyone, everyone their mother
shooting off firework. More on that later, We'll get into
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that later. But anyway, the Higantes, they were working out
there in San Francisco. And if you didn't see this
because you were busy on the fourth of July, you
might have missed it. Pablo sanda Ball was the talk
of the town. He was the talk of the town.
The portly, giant fielder who has been battling the bulge
for many, many years, was photographed taking round balls at
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third base and looked like if you wondered what the
stay puffed marshmallow man would look like if he played
third base, that would be Pablo Sandoval. He's listed at
five eleven he's a I don't think he's even five eleven.
They say he's five eleven. And his weight Pablo Sandoval
is two hundred and sixty pounds. He has to be
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well over three hundred pounds based on the photographic evidence
that we saw. A picture is worth a thousand words,
or in this case, a picture is worth a Maller monologue. So,
Pablo Sandoval, we know he hasn't been skipping any meals.
Good for him. He's not on the Mallar fasting plan
that I've been on here. So let us discuss the
question what do you make of the Higante's backup infielder
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Pablo Sandoval and his new look for the Giants. So
I've got MLB shop Balina and the Beers spokesman. All right,
those three things, and we will combine them all together now.
Number one. So I was wondering, and we as a show,
we're wondering which athletes would just let themselves go, and
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who is going to show up and be lazy and
during the pandemic and not work out and not do
anything to stay in shape. And much of our focus
was on the NBA, and we didn't spend too much
time on this, but it's a bad job by us.
We missed out on Pablo Sandoval. It's a bad job,
all right, quarantine feasting and then so every night at
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the Sandoval household was the last supper every night. Now,
normally when spring training starts, there is a boiler plate story.
Now this is obviously different. These are uncharted waters that
we're in right now. But typically during spring training there
is a story that every sports writer uses. It's a
cliche story that is repeated year after year. I'm in
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the best shape of my life. I'm in the best shape.
I'm ready to go. Now, technically, that is not wrong
with Pablo Sandoval, because round, as I know I've lived
that life, round is a shape. And he's either seven
months pregnant with twins or he's been just feasting on
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a diet of candy bars and Cheetos and you name it. Man,
it must have been a great diet. Either way, it
is a very impressive lack of dedication that we should celebrate.
We on this show, we like the fat athlete. We
are fans of the fat athlete. And there's nobody fatter
right now I can think of in sports than Pablo
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Sandoval of the Giants. He is not only ready for
the major leagues, he is ready for Beer League Softball.
If the season gets canceled, Santoval can slide over and
he can play the hot corner in a Beer League
Softball situation. Now, the Giants equipment staff, they have to
put uniforms on all these guy. So I'm assuming they
went to mlbshop dot com and they ordered Sandoval some
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maternity clothing to put on there, because it looks like
that's what he's gonna do. And who knew that Pablo
Sandoval not closely being watched over by I assume trainers
and people around him, they don't have a babysitters follow
him around, and that he could actually like he could
have eaten himself to death. And he's known as the
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Panda that's his nickname, Pablo Sanva. I think he's been
working at a Panda Express. He's been eating all the
food at the end of the night, when the Beijing
beef and the orange chicken, and when they're gonna throw
that out, I'll take that now, in all fairness them,
In all fairness Sandoval, what's the old line? I remember?
I used to hear this one. I was when I
was really big that you know, I only eat when
I'm bored. Unfortunately, on board all the time, so I
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just continually eating all that stuff. And as far as
those that say, well, you gotta have a six pack
to play sports, which is not true, we know that's
not true. Sandoval does have a six pack. It's just
covered up by a nice layer of protective fat. But
somewhere in there there's a six pack. It's hidden, but
it's in there, and he is ready. This is a
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guy that's prepared to be a designated hitter. The National
League has added the DH and of course with a catch.
There is a catch there that not only is Sandoval
ready to be a designated hitter for the Giants, but
he's going to need Rob Manford to put another tweak
in the rule book and implement a universal pinch runner
because he's going to need a pinch runner there because
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he could hit the ball, but running is going to
be slight issue there. The way he looked, I could
see him hit the ball off the wall and then
be thrown out at first base. Now, fortunately the Red
Sox I believe this is correct. I'll have to go
double check, but I think the Red Sox are still
paying Pablo Sadeval his contract. He's still getting getting a check.
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Most of it's from the Red Sox because of that
horrific free agent signing several years back. Although you gotta
think that's coming to in at some point. So it's
like a headaches for the Giants. They're not really paying Sandoval,
They're just paying him, I believe the pro rated minimum.
So the second point here, so as we were commenting
on this photo of Santoval and it didn't make me smile,
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it made me smile. On the fourth of July, after
Bartolo Cologne was denied work in the big leagues, we
have been searching to find the next plump star, I
mean bigger than life, right, bigger than life, and I
had hoped it was going to be williams Astado of
the Minnesota Twins. Unfortunately, he is mister everything asked the
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deal of the Twins. He's catcher, third baseman, second baseman.
But even though he's got the great nickname, which is
he's named the tortoise or la torga, which is tortoise
in Spanish, we need to come up with some better
nicknames for Pablo Santaval. He is known as Kung Fu
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Panda or just the panda. Others have called him the
round mound of pound or little money. But we can
do better. Forget ballerina. How about ballina, which I think
I have. I know Spanglish, which is a version of smash,
but I think ballina, I believe, is the word used
for whale in the Spanish language. I think that is accurate.
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So you can just call him the ballina at third base,
and you could have the instead of just calling him
ballino or panda or little money or round mound. How
about we call him dojo, right, he could be the
Doe Joe. There you go, not bad, all right? Now?
Final final. That's when he's on defensive, of course, because
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you're dojo teaching your defensive techniques, all right, final point.
So unfortunately, Populo sive Fandabal is gonna be a bit
player on the Giants. In fact, I don't even think
he's guaranteed of being on the team. Although it seems
likely because of the pandemic that Sandoval is gonna make
the Giants. The Apocalypse gonna help him out there. I'm
pulling for him, all right. It's odd because I like
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the Dodgers. But this is a guy I can get behind,
all right. And with Mike Trout, who's kind of got
cold feet in Anaheim, he's he's never embraced the headliner's
status of professional baseball, and that's that goes without saying.
So Pablo Sandoval should become the new beer spokesman. He
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should be the new beer spokesman, absolutely right. I mean,
he is the most interesting man in the world of baseball,
and professional baseball should embracelet should They should pay some
money to the Dose Decaes people, the beer people over there.
The advertising campaign and imagine the commercials with Pablo Sandoval
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going around doing his thing, the most popular backup first baseman,
third baseman, pitch hitter, and designated hitter in baseball history.
And might I add the marketing campaign three Sports Star?
What is that? Three sports? Sorry? Well, Pablo Santoval not
only is he a baseball player who's not very good anymore,
but he can also duke it out with Bay Area legend,
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the pride of San Jose, Joey Chestnut, who just won
another Mustard Belt. More on that coming up later. And
then when the NFL season begins, assuming it does, happen
as planned, then Kyle Shanahan could offer Pablo Sandoval a
contract because he's got a spot on the forty nine
ers practice squad waiting for him as like a backup
center or guard. He could slide right over there. So, Santoval,
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you can really monetize this, right. You can never have
too much depth? Why not? What's not to like? Now?
My advice to Pablo Sandoval is someone again that has
lived this life all right, as I relate to this,
I've had the battle of the balls. I've still fighting it,
fighting the good fight. So you should try to avoid Pablo,
here's what you got. You gotta try to avoid things
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that make you fat. For example, scales. You stay away
from scales, they make you fat. Mirrors, do not look
at any mirrors, and do not allow your photograph to
be taken. If you can avoid scales, mirrors, and photographs,
the big three, then you have nothing to worry about.
And I know that the human body, what is it,
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like ninety something percent of the human body is made
up of water. So there's just a lot of water there.
There's just a lot of water if you ask the
science community. And so he's not really a big fat
tub of goo. He's just he's just water logged, is
all he is there, Pablo Sandival. But boy, that was good.
If you have not seen that photo, I retweeted it,
it's wild, wild photo. I check that out. Pablo Sandoval
(21:38):
living his best life, living his greatest life for the Higantes.
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at Ben and have some fun. Let's go to the
phones right now. Let's see here where do we have
any meany mighty mot Let's go to Andrea in Berkeley.
He's got her star charts out right now. Hello, Andrea
Virgo in service on Twitter the sports sorcers. Oh, Ben,
(22:20):
did you have a nice holiday full moon weekend? Oh? Yeah,
the full moon weekend was in full offen. We had
We had a big full moon show at the end
of last week there on the fourth of July as
a third of July. It was a third of July.
It was a wild yeah, yeah, I know, like you said.
The motions get a lot more intense around the full moon,
so the callers get crazier around the moon. That's the
(22:43):
way I'm really worried about it. In this job, you
can tell when there's something going on out there with
the stars because people say that. Some people say that's
not true, Andrew, and they say that's not right. But
I know for a fact something's up there. Around certain
certain cosmic events, the callers get a little more on yes,
as above so below. You know, we definitely feel the
(23:03):
planetary influences some more than others. So that said, I
just had to look up David Price's astrology August twenty sixth,
nineteen eighty five. What do you know a fellow Virgo,
and I can relate to the you know, hypochondria, germophobe.
I've been, you know, as you can imagine, just really
(23:23):
worrisome about health and so on. So you know, Virgo
energy can be a little obsessive, compulsive, and kind of
hypochondria ish, so that can be a challenge. So we
opted out of the season, and you know, I give
him credit though he's losing um. I looked at his chart,
(23:45):
he's forfeiting. Then twelve million dollars in salary by opting out. Yeah,
but he's got one hundred and eighty six whatever it
is million. If he had not, if he was somebody
making you know, fifty thousand dollars a year, you obviously
wouldn't have that up he does. I mean, to his credit,
he's made a ton of money. They've overpaid him for
years in baseball, and so he has that option where
(24:07):
the unwashed doesn't have that option. They have to work
because they have to. They have food they want to eat,
and they have bills they have to pay and things
like that. He's none of those worries. It's a charmed
life as an athlete. I mean, you can imagine the
you know, the pushback we're getting with Buster Posey's saying
he may or may not play. Yeah, you know, I
was looking at the photos of Babe Ruth from like
(24:28):
the Spanish flu times you back in that in the day,
and as like, like baseball players didn't in nineteen eighteen.
They weren't making it. They weren't making ridiculous right money.
It wasn't it. Obviously at some point it changed, I
guess in the in the seventies and the eighties and
the money's kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger. But yeah,
I mean it's just um, you know and blow. Of
(24:51):
course that was tweeted out and um, you know Leo,
he does tend to overindulge in the food. And I think,
what are they calling it to quarantine nineteen the COVID
nineteen that people are gaining about nineteen pounds from being
quarantined and being less active. He's got more than nineteen
pounds there. He's skewing the numbers. He's an outlier because
(25:12):
he's gone way over nineteen pounds. So I've actually lost
weight though, Andrew, I've been able to lose some weighting
injuring it's for you. No, not really, I'm just not eating.
Oh no, I'm definitely less active. I used to walk
through campus and do a lot more activity. So now
you're honkering and bunkering is what you're doing. Yeah, I'm
working on a lot of charts and you know, just
(25:33):
taking it one day at a time, but looking forward
to baseball season in the end of this month. That
should be nice. But David Price, you know, fellow virgo,
and he has his moon and Capricorn. He's kind of
overcautious venus and cancer. Saturn's opposing it, so it's not
a happy time. But you know, nonetheless, Virgo have that
critical can't see the forest for the trees energy, and
(25:55):
they can get a little skeptical and nitpicking. So he'd
rather just sit it out out. And that's how Virgo rolls.
There you go, That's how they roll. Are Andrea? Thank you?
And you're on Twitter there Virgo in service? Yes, thank you,
Thank you for be sure to catch live editions of
the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
(26:17):
pm Pacific. Here we go, It's Maller. How about that?
To the third degree? This is one big band gets grilled.
All right, here we go, what do we have? Cool?
So I'm attending coach Chili Davis will be coaching the
team remotely to avoid potential coronavirus exposure. And maybe wonder, Ben,
(26:37):
is this a method that's foolish to even try? Or
do you think remote coaching will be the way of
the future. All right, so, first of all, listen, I
love Chilie Davis. I've told the story a few times
over the years. I covered the California Angels when Chili
Davis was playing for that team. He saved me from
getting my ass kicked by an enraged lunatic named Tony
Phillips years ago. So I love Chili Uh and I
(26:58):
love that he keeps getting hitting coaching jobs around baseball.
He's been with the multiple teams now now. Secondly, it
is not the way of the future, but it is
doable in the big leagues. I had a veteran coach
tell me who had been a big league hitting coach
for years. This is many, many years ago. But by
the time a hitter reaches the big leagues, they are
set in their technique, they are set in their ways.
(27:19):
The hitting coach's job is akin to just touching up
and maintenance. You're not reinventing the wheel when you get
to the major leagues. But but yeah, they're gonna be
back when this is all done. It's this is not
the wave of the future. Right Next, So, Donovan Mitchell
says that he and Rudy Gobert are now good after
reports of reparable damage being done to their relationship when
(27:39):
both tested positive for coronavirus. You think the Jazz will
truly co exist peacefully in the bubble. Ben all right.
So this is another one of those where you say, yes,
they will, but there's reasons for that. Hey, they can
play make believe as long as the cameras are on
them for a couple of months. Since the media are
segregated away from the players. With his zoom conversations and
(28:01):
all that, there's very little chance unless somebody snitches that
the animosity, the underlying animosity, is gonna get out and
beat in the long term. This is ultimately up to
Donovan Mitchell. The Jazz are going to try to sign
him long term. They want to show him the money
in Salt Lake, given one of those Megamax contracts, and
(28:21):
so they will be at his beck and call. Meaning
if Mitchell wants Rudy Gobert tossed off the island, then
his ass is grass. All right. Next, So the Dodgers
were supposed to have the All Star Game this season,
and I'm aware of that. I was supposed to be
sitting here Marlin's man at the All Star Game. Yeah, well,
obviously it's not going to happen because of coronavirus. So
(28:42):
they got awarded the next available All Star Game, which
is in twenty twenty two. But we do know that
the Players Union or the Players Association tried to go
for a All Star Game played after the World Series,
but that didn't really get anywhere. Ben, would you have
supported that? Oh, that's a dumb idea. Listen the one thing.
First thing here, baseball players don't even like playing the
(29:05):
All Star Game when it's in the season. Can you
imagine after the World Series when everyone skipped out of
town and they're on vacation and they're like, oh, no, no,
you guys gotta come back because we gotta play the
All Star Game. Imagine the vitriol that would take place
in baseball. And then secondly, when teams are eliminated, right
and everyone they're like rats jumping off a burning ship
(29:25):
and all that stuff. But the more important thing here
the All Star Game is to build up hype for
the second half, right Midsummer's Night classic fuel excitement. It's
also all about the fans, and the fans still aren't
allowed and even as fifty percent it's bullcrap, wait till
the fans could come back. You don't need it. All
that's lost in translation. It's a game for the fans
without fans. What's the point all right? There? It is
(29:47):
maller to the third degree. How did we do? Beny
passed this edition? There it is? That is a winner.
You can put it on the bar. Yeah, still bummed out.
I was gonna have so much fun at that All
Star game and borne the ass rows. Fox Sports Radio
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(30:09):
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Hey you sports figure, guy or girl. You talking to son?
Here's some instant advice. Hold that thought. No one's paid
attention to me for ten whole seconds, and if you
don't like it, screw you all right away, week go
(30:29):
it's time out for the instant advice line unscreen radio.
Who needs our advice? Now, there's a couple of ways
I could go here, there's a couple of ways I
could go, but I think what we need to do.
We were in the malamus. We like to eat a
lot of food, most of us, right, So what is
your advice to Joey Chestnut who likely already knows how
(30:52):
to handle this, but he ate seventy five hot dogs
and buns in that eating contest over the weekend. So
how do you recover after a gluttonous weekend of gorging food?
Many of us did for the Fourth of July with
barbecues and all that. So what is your advice to
Joey Chestnut on recovering from over eating with the seventy
(31:15):
five hot dogs? You're live on the air when you
hear my voice at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
We'll keep this simple though, in lighthearted advice to Joey
Chestnut on how to recover his body from those seventy
five hot dogs. We'll go to the phones right now. Hello,
you are on the air. Hello at eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. He should have brought two handsfo
(31:36):
greet dollars, two handsfu, greet dollars. All right, that's advice
to Joey Chestnut. Thank you. Just keep yelling that over another.
All right, that's we're off to a flying star. Let's
go over to you. You are next year. Advice to
Joey Chestnunt on how to recover from eating seventy five
hot dogs being I suggested dip his hot dog in
some urine. Come on, man, don't don't encourage doc. He's
(32:00):
he's probably waking up right now in Chicago, getting ready
to call in. We don't need to encourage him, all right, Yeah,
he left me several messages over the weekend. He was
very upset with his last phone call last week. Let's
go to you. You are next. We're giving advice to
Joey Chestnut on how to recover after eating seventy five
hot dogs and buns. Hello, you're on the air. Just
(32:21):
change the team name to the DC Redskins. We all win,
all right? Dare you go? All right, let's see here,
that's off topic by the we're talking about Joey Chestnut.
How dare you bad job by you? Justin and Cincinnati,
you knucklehead. Let's go to the wildcard line. Wild card line.
You're on the here advice to Joey Chestnut how to
recover after eating seventy five hot dogs? You need a
(32:41):
last minute anniversary good Ben Maller and cameo for three
dollars guaranteed to makers. Say, who the hell is this?
That's a good point, though, So why'd you waste your
money on that? You lose her? What's wrong with you?
All right, let's go over there. You are next. We're
giving advice to Joey Chestnut the Man's seventy five hot dogs.
There's a world record, all time record. We how great
(33:04):
are we? We're alive to witness this. Hello, you're on
the air. Advice to Chestnut how to recover occas? All right,
there you go. We need somebody to call up and
say pop pop, fizz fizz, or what a relief it is?
That's that would probably be a good way to approach this.
All right, you are next over there on the line
number three. Your advice to Joey Chestnut on how to
(33:27):
recover from his epic eating endeavor? I did, all right,
then we'll hang up on your ass. Was that was
that the two second, three second, four second delay? Guy
in San Antonio? Yeah? Yeah, Oh my god, Joe just
play along? What a moron? What's wrong with you? All right?
(33:51):
Is that hard to play along? I didn't call for this, No, no,
thank you, Sherlock. All right, boy, I always said a
bad word. Let's go over there. Line five. You're on
the air. Hello, line five, what's up? All right, we'll
hang up on you. This is where I give out
the number. So I tried to leave a little extra time,
(34:13):
and now I'm getting burned. For that see no good
deed goes unpunished. I was like, I really short change
the audience with the instant advice line in recent week,
so I need to give it more time. Let it
breathe a little bit. So eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox, this is the voice of the people, you
would be the people were giving advice back to Joey
chest out the Pride of San Jose on how to
(34:36):
recover the man ate seventy five hot dogs and buns
in Coney Island, New York there over the weekend. What
is your advice? Hello, you were on the air. Hello.
Now for my next trick, I will try to mesticate
a twenty year old. All right. We knew that was
going down a path we didn't want to go down.
So we'll go over to here the line one, Line one,
(34:59):
you're on the year. Line two is not working. But
line one is your advice to Joey chess Nut on
how to recover from his epic eating weekend. Good damn
funk checking and no good dumb chick. All right, I
couldn't understand most of that. Probably good I did. Got
(35:19):
is he doing some kind of chicken dance or something?
Like that. Is that what he was? I'm not sure.
I only understood a couple of words. Yeah, it's probably
better that way. I've got my headphones turned up. Here.
Let's go to you over here on line six. You
are next on the Airline six, we're giving advice. Oh
it's Cowboy. It's on the wild Card line, wild carline.
What's your advice to Joey chess Nut. Oh well, Kevin Harden? Okay,
(35:45):
all right, thank you cowboy. Yeah, Matthew Warrior Rater rays
fan was upset because you didn't mention bucks and blonde
in your call. I was upset at that. All right,
this is one more cooperhoop, only one more of it's good.
I'll take credit. If not, I will blame you. Line four,
Line four the final call, the instant advice line for
Joey Chestnut on how he can recover from eating seventy
five hot dogs and buns. Line four, you're on the air.
(36:07):
Go this is being near craft and he can join
me and Camphor dead as a rubbing tub. All right,
there you go, dare a rub and tug. And now
you know why if you ever get a radio show,
they're cool. They're fun to have these radio shows, but please,
we are trained professionals. Do not attempt this kind of
(36:28):
thing at home. Do not do it.
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