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Well, nothing has happened of note regarding Khalil Max, So
why don't we throw out a trade rumor? Why not?
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Back at it again, and the story the NFL getting
back at it was exhibition football games so stimulating last week.
They're gonna play even more this weekend, and we will
react to everything. That's how we roll. But one of

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the storylines that caught my attention here the last day
or so has been a whole lot of nothing regarding
Khalil Macnow the contract negotiations, which is really not the
right way to phrase it, right because the right way
to phrase it would be there is no negotiation. Khalil
Mack wants a new contract. The Raiders know they don't

(01:06):
have to give him a new contract, and so we
have a standoff. Khalil Mack isn't planning for the Raiders.
The Raiders are doing nothing. They know they don't have
to do anything, because unless Khalil Mack is planning on
going out and getting a real job, he's got no choice.
He's going to eventually play for the Raiders this year.
Maybe he'll miss a game in the regular season or two,

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but at some point he is going to play football,
and the only place he's going to play football is
with the Raiders, unless the Raiders decide they want to
do something else. So this whole thing is stuck in molasses,
and it's not gonna change until we get closer to
the regular season, which is still unfortunately many many weeks away,

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and a lot of prognosticators now, not me because I
am the distant relative. The great nos for Damas are
predicting that this is going to end bad for these
Silver and Black attack and since there is no closure
at least close to being on the horizon till the
regular season comes around, that this has led to what

(02:13):
banging of the drum for a trade of Khalio Mack. Right.
The trade deadline in the NFL is October thirtieth, very spooky,
right Halloween time of the year, right there, oh, scary
scary scary stuff. Get your pumpkin, Get your pumpkin ready.
So between now and October thirtieth, at the trade deadline,

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will Khalil Mack be moved? Now? There has been one
team in particular that has been tossed out as a
primo destination. I don't if you've been following this or not,
if you've heard. If not, perhaps you have not been
paying attention. I can't blame you. I mean, how if
you're not a Raider fan of who really cares about

(02:55):
a random linebacker? I don't care how good you think
Khalil Mack is of the Raider. Mister Davis has been
gone for a while now, and even when he was
around the last couple of years, not so good. So
it is believed that the mystery team, which is not
a mystery because it's been tossed around now the echo
chamber of sports conversation, the team that's been tossed out

(03:16):
there is a legit possibility for the Packers, the green
Bay Packers, I should say, with Khalil Mack coming to
Green Bay and then the Raiders getting some draft picks.
The mainstream media, you know, Roberto does not approve of that.
The mainstream media says the Raiders would deal Khalil Mack
to Wisconsin for a couple of blocks of cheese, Parmesan

(03:41):
cheese and two first round picks. The Packers happen to
have two first round picks, those would go back to Oakland,
So Green Bay would use their own pick and a
pick they got from the New Orleans Saints in the
twenty nineteen draft that would go to John Gruden. All right,
so let's discuss. So that's that's the speculation that the
Packers are the favorite to land the services of Khalil Mack.

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If you were the Packers, would you trade that bounty
to get Khalil Mack? Would you do it? Now? I'm
gonna look at this from the green Bay Packers' perspective.
I'm sitting in Wisconsin and I'm just hanging out and
eating cheese curds watching the Packers practice. One hundred percent,

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would I make that trade? Yes? And my viewpoint on this,
you're playing the odds. You got the squeeze and the blessing,
and we will bind all of this together. Now, the
first thing that comes into my mind here, you cannot
have any trepidation if you're the Green Bay Packers front
office in trading away multiple first round draft picks. Khalil

(04:49):
Mack has been an elite player. Now you can slice
up the numbers and say, well, he wasn't as good
last year as he had been the year before, but
he's still one of the top defend some players at
his position in the NFL, and he is a proven commodity.
And you will be trading an unproven commodity, an unknown

(05:11):
for a known. You always win. That when you trade
the unknown for the known, you win. It's would you
rather have curtain number three or a stack of seven
thousand dollars? You'd rather have the stack of seven thousand dollars.
That's a known thing draft picks. We've been preaching about
this for many, many years. It's the old thing. So

(05:31):
a lottery tickets, a scratch your ticket, and yeah, you
could win a couple hundred thousand dollars. Some lotteries you
give out a million dollars on a scratch your ticket.
It could happen, but it's more than likely the case
that's not going to happen. And here's what's what takes
place in the draft. Every year, people get so excited
at the combine they have the season building up the

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hype for the NFL Draft, and then more times than not,
you end up with you know, when you end up
with a marginal player, you end up with someone who
contributes very very little, doesn't provide any real value to
an NFL franchise. And that's what you get in your
first round of the draft. Now that's not just my
opinion that has been proven out over time. Now my

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evidence on that you're playing the odds here, right, and
if you can trade for an established, good player who's
not passed the age of thirty, let's say you do it.
Based on research, forty eight point five percent of all
Pro Bowl players were draft in the first round. A
lot of people like to talk about that stat and say,
well forty eight percent over forty eight percent which drafted

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in the first round. You know what that means more
than fifty percent, the chances are you will not be
getting at all pro that was draft in the first round.
And nearly thirty percent of all starters in the National
Football League were drafted in the first round. Right, thirty percent,
that's a big number, close to thirty percent, But that
also means that seventy percent, there's a seventy percent chance

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that you draft someone that doesn't even start based on
those odds if you slice the numbers up. And while
I'm not sitting here saying, well, the draft isn't important.
Of course, it's very important. The fact that you don't
have to pay top dollar to get most of the
players in the draft, I get it and team building,
but it's also blind dart throwing in the draft. So

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if a team like Green Bay can get Khalil Mack,
who's shown that he can play well in the NFL,
for a couple of draft picks, and you figure both
those draft picks are not going to be that high
because the Saints think they're gonna win the NFC. They're not,
but they think they are. And the green Bay Packers
are confident that Aaron Rodgers, un till he gets hurt,
is going to be wonderful, and so they're gonna win

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a bunch of games. So you're trading a couple of
first round picks that are likely in the twenty to
thirty two range to get a proven linebacker who can
dominate for the next couple of years. Now, the second thing,
the potential possible transaction between green Bay and Oakland. It
makes sense if you look at the front office. Both

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teams have new leadership, and you know not to spend
too much time dissecting that and perusing the front office.
But John Grewen, we mentioned this a while back. I
said it was a forty percent chance from the Raiders
side that this ends up with Khalil Mack wearing a
different set of laundry. But John Gruden wants to show
who's the boss with the Raiders and that things are

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going to be different now with the Silver and Black,
and there's no room for selfish players. Of course, any
player that wants to get paid as selfish. That's the
rules of engagement. And from the Green Bay side of things,
you gotta squeeze as much out of the Aaron Rodgers
toothpaste tube as you can before the expiration date. And
while some are trying to sell the fact that this

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is the new normal in the NFL, that Tom Brady
can win an MVP past the age of forty and
he's still going strong conceivably into his forties, that is
not the normal. That is the outlier. If you bet
on the outlier, if you bet on the exception to
the rule, you will look like a donkey. If you
do that, do not bet on the exception to the rule.

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The reality is that Aaron Rodgers has already passed his prime.
He's gonna turn thirty five this season. You parley that
with a history of injuries, the clock is a ticket.
And green Bay has also got a new front office.
There's a new guy running the green Bay Packers, Brian
guden Kount's good name there. He's the new GM of
the green Bay Packers and he wants to put his

(09:27):
stamp on the Packers as well. So but that I
will tell you that clearly from years and years of
observing as a neutral observer doing radio over the years,
the green Bay Packers, this would be an unorthodox move
for their stockholders. Not that the stockholders have any power,
but it would be an unorthodox move for the Packers.
That's normally not how they operate. They are buttoned up,

(09:49):
they are conservative. They don't roll making trades of first
round picks to get veteran players. That's that's abnormal for
the Packers. Now. The final thing here, the Raiders have
all of the leverage and that hasn't changed just because
there's rumors being tossed out. Are they being started by
the agent for Khalil Mack, the people representing him in

(10:10):
his inner circle. It's a possibility. But the Raiders have
everything in their hand. They can play hardball here. Khalil
Mack is not going to go anywhere unless John Gruden
gives his blessing that this is well, okay, this is
what I want to do, and we've explained it. Ad
Nauseam will do it again here. Khalil Mack, you don't

(10:30):
feel sorry for him. You don't feel like he's getting
the raw under the stick. He's gonna make thirteen point
eight million. This is the last year of his rookie contract.
And the Raiders can take their time. They can whistle Dixie.
They don't have to do anything because the worst case
scenario here for the Raiders is they just franchise tag
Khalil Mack for the next couple of years. They make

(10:51):
him their franchise player, and they'll have to pay him
a ton of money. But it's one year contract, one
year contract, and for Khalil Mack, that's a win too.
He'll actually, if he's smart about it, he would end
up wanting to be the franchise player for the Raiders
because he would make even more money, and he's making
this upcoming season for the Raiders and he would do that.

(11:11):
Guaranteed money for the next couple of years. You don't
have to show up the training camp when you're the
franchise player, asked Levion Bell about that. You don't have
to go to training camp, so you just go through
the motions, that whole thing. You show up for the
regular season, you guaranteed money. As long as you don't
turn into a stiff and start sucking with the Raiders,
you get the franchise tag the following year. And then
assuming again that you're not a bum and you're not

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pathetic and you're good, then you end up getting a
big contract after that. So it's a win win for
Khalil Mack. You know, if you don't get an extensions,
the Raiders keep placing the franchise tag. That said, we
talked about that a couple of weeks ago. The Cousins plan,
the Kirk Cousins plan with the Redskins franchise tag Cousins

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for two years, and then he goes to the Vikings
and signs the biggest contract in the planet at the
time with the Minnesota Vikings. All right, So Ben Maller
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(12:35):
Eddiot's so so nice to be missing. I want to know.
I knew I was missed when Cooper Loop walked right
by me without even knowledging that I was here. That
it was good to be back. That is the kind
of producer we have here. No even hey, Ben, how
is your how you've been? Everything? Okay? Well, at least
Roberto came over and said hello, so he did. He
showed some courtesy, which was nice. Yes, well, I was

(12:56):
already here by the time you showed up, but I
was back. So I have question for you now, Well,
are you talking about August twenty fourth in San Burdu?
Is that what you're gonna ask about? It gonna be
in San Berdu August. I look forward to hearing the
details of that many times during the show. Now, when
you're out, I have no doubt you get tons of
messages on Twitter and email saying, where the hell are you?

(13:17):
Why aren't you here? Is it flattering that they miss you?
Or is it annoying that people lose their minds when
you take a couple of days off. Well, at first
it's flattering, but then they don't stop. They badger, they,
they they whoever fills in. They could have Howard Sterner
his prime filling in and people would rip whoever. That
is just that's the way it works, a little flattering,

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But then then it morphs into I'm like a factory
worker or I'm like a trained seal, you know, and
I gotta I gotta entertain and I gotta you know,
it's like, come on, dance monkey, exactly exactly. But do
you want to explain why you were out or Wow,
there was some things I had to take care of,
but I did before that, before I had to take
care of some business there. I did have some family

(13:59):
in a few days ago that were from from the
East coast. Are them but it was nice. So what's
up with what's up with San Bernardino? We're in, We'll
be hanging out. It's gonna be great. Coat and here
tickets are selling good on that our little section that
we have there. The Mallard Militia will be all tied
in there, so we're gonna throw out the first pitch.
I'm told that I will be doing something with a

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mascot costume. I don't think they realize how tall I am.
I don't believe I'll fit in the mascot costume, so
that's a bit of a problem. But it's gonna be great.
We have a wonderful time on a Friday night in
late August and we'll be chilling out and we don't
have to watch exhibition football that night, which is good,
so avoid that that nightmare. And some people are already

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sending me message on Twitter, why didn't you start with
to dodge your giant the rhubarb? I think I know why. Well,
I'm waiting Eddie for the full effect here because we've
been covered up. But we're on the our friends in
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which is what real p ones do. I also am
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when our show comes on on that station, AM five
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you my thoughts on that the proper side of history
will show and we will get to that coming up
a little bit later. So we have to we have
some business to take care though. We need to have

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Neoby Night at some point, which I guess would have
to be tomorrow, right, and the Talent Show. The Talent
Show is going to be just a couple of days
before the minor league baseball appearance, right, so we have
to set that up. And the way we were talking
about doing, and I believe this is still the plan,
is that we will have you know throughout the show

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sprinkled in for an enhancement some performance. It's like a
talent show when you're an elementary some performance enhancement. Very good.
Now we're gonna have our gong. We will have a gong.
And just because you're on the Talent show does not
mean that your entire performance will get through. Like if
you want to go read a high coup and it stinks,
we're not going to allow you to read the entire

(16:28):
high coup. You're not going to be able to give
it seems reasonable, Yeah, exactly so. And who are the judges.
We're the judges. It's totally subjective. Whatever we think, whatever
we feel, we will eliminate you. And but at the end,
someone will be crowned the champion, the first ever champion
of the Ben Maller Show Talent Show. I guess it
would just be the Ben Maller Talent Show because show
would be repetitive if you used show twice, that sounds stupid.

(16:51):
So we'll just call it the Ben Maller Talent Show.
Or we can Mallar Militia Talent Show if you want
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Militia Talent Show. So we'll do that coming up in
a couple of weeks. So if you'd like to schedule
an appearance on that, if you have something now you
have to get on the air here and you have
to run it by us, and we have to approve
that and if we if we think it's a good idea,

(17:12):
if you may want to sing something or play an instrument,
I don't know how many other acts we can have.
YE think it's pretty much musically based done news stand
up comedy. We have some comedians that claim to listen
to the show. Impressions we've got, yes, our guy in Australia, Yeah,
the Yazzi guys wonderful. I hope he enters. There's no guarantee.
I don't know that he's gonna enter or not, but

(17:32):
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now now, Ben, I think yes, yes, I was winding down,

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But what do you have, Cooper lou Well, it's only
a four hour show. Yeah, so I'm depending on how
popular this idea is for this this talent show. Yeah,
we may have a limited number of contestants. So if
it's something you really want to do, make sure you
know you get in because I feel like I feel
like we're gonna have hundreds of people that want to

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perform and we'll probably have to cap it it like ten. Yeah. Yeah,
that's a good point. So if you're thinking about it,
just do it now. If you're gonna do it, do
it though, you know what I mean, I don't. We
have a lot of guys as all, I'm gonna do this,
somebody that, and then they chick it out. They they're
like dodge your relief pictures. They total up and they
run away, you know, in the ninth thetting. So don't
if you're gonna do it, we'd like you to be
part of it. If you don't, if you're not into it,

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that's why you don't have to do it. There's other
people who would love to do it. But if you're
into it, and the cool thing about this, unlike my
talent show when I was in junior high school and
I embarrassed the hell out of myself and got up
on stage in front everybody when I was in junior
high school. Unlike that, I did too Oh you did
too good. No one can see you here. It's just
your voice, and you can use a fake name if
you want. So it's all good. Now, we'll coope have
to do some of his quality screening. Will they have

(18:59):
to perform a little bit for coup to see if
it's worthy geting on. You'd like to do some of
that on the air, But yeah, I mean well, they
have to ask on you. The request has to be made.
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Sit they open, Yeah, I know we can play the
open if you want. It's a good open. Yeah, it
is a good open. It went all downhill after the open.

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The imaging was wonderful on that bit. But no, so
I'll have a new bit. Oh we have more imaging
on that. Yeah, yeah, how come you get I have
the same imaging I've had for like fifteen years. Like
what you get new imaging? You just really Yeah, you
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works typically? How it works? So, but we will have
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compelling commentary about a bench is clearing not not fight.
It was. It was a casual rhubarb between the Giants

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and Dodgers, a confrontation between the great yac Puig, who
helped lead the Dodgers to the World Series and then
and then did nothing and Nick Huntley random journeyman catcher,
Nick Huntley, they got into it. So we will have
much on that, much on that here. And I don't
think Nick Hunley has Twitter, so if you want to

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direct your rage at anyone, please on Twitter. But Hunley
is not. But they both got ejected. It was not
really a bench clearing brawl, but it was a bench
clearing situation. Into the net is how it went, all right,
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Green Bay Packers dealing for Khalil Macko. Let's go out

(21:32):
in Milwaukee, and Marcellis is up next here and up
first on the Ben Mallers Show. Hello, Marcellis, how you doing. Look?
I think your take is perfect. I think that the
Packers because as you said, we have Aaron Rodgers we
usually take very very low. And we have a new

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staff turn over. We have a new officsive coordinator, a
new diffic coordinator, a new general manager. We have changed
over everything almost except the head coach and our star quarterback.
Who is the best quarterback in the NFL. He can
do everything Brady do and he can run Calm down

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you really, how long you've been a Packer fan? Well,
truth is, I've been a Packer fan since sixty three.
Hold I say because I was on a bed when
my father was watching it, and I didn't know what
I was watching. But during that time, the Packers were winning.
So your father brainwatched you as a child in nineteen
sixty three. So you see that, Eddie. This I'm my
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Green Bay Packer fan since the nineteen sixties. This guy
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than any other team. Green Boom, Come on, Bears have more.

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Check this out for yourself, your yeah, help your research
team do this. Bes have more wins in the NFL
than any team to this very date. Thank you. I
had me right up until the end. I was right
there with your MARCHI, but you lost me a little
bit with the Aaron Rodgers thing. You lost me a

(23:28):
little bit on that. Listen, Aaron Rodgers is good, Tom
Brady's better. That's just the reality of the situation. Championships
are for the merger, don't matter. Well, the Bears are
one of the early franchises in the NFL also, and
they had the George Hallis run of success. But in
I always judge things in my lifetime because I don't
really care. And before I was alive and I wasn't around.

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When I'm gone, I won't be around either, So I
judge things on my time on this earth, in this
mortal coil. And the Bears have been pretty mediocre. I
remember in my time they had the mid eighties Chicago Bears,
the Monsters of the Midway and all that. But every
so often they'd have a good team. They always had
some good running backs back in the day. But the
last fifteen years or so, they did get to the

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super Bowl with Rex Grossman. That is true. Yeah, I
don't know how that happened. The miracle. That just shows
you there's a higher power, or or someone's just got
a funny sense of humor. All right, we'll press on
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(24:37):
latest Eddie Well, let's give you some baseball games of note,
including the A's beating the Mariners three to two. Oakland
is now just one game back of Houston for the
ALS lead. With the Astros falling to the Rockies five
to one. For Seattle, they dropped three and a half
back of Oakland for the final wildcard spot in the
American League. Brewers blanked the Cubs seven nothing. Milwaukee moves
two back of Chicago for first in the NL Central.

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It was the Braves beating the Marlins ten to six.
Ronald Acuna Junior hitting two home runs. He's got five
homers now, I should say he's got a homer in
five straight games. Eight home runs now in his last
eight games in Atlanta, leads the analyst by two games.
On Philadelphia, Phillies lose to the Red Sox to one.
College football, University of Maryland anounces accepting responsibility for the
death and player Jordan McNair, who died in June following

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a heat stroke at practice head coach DJ Durkin is
still on paid leave. NFL News Pittsburg Steelers quarterback Ben
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(25:43):
the reigning NBA MVP is tied to an ongoing investigation
of an incident that took place over the weekend at
a nightclub in Scottsdale, Arizona. Of course, we're talking about
James Harden. TMZ alleges that a woman spotted Harden at
the Mint nightclub in scotts l and that the woman
alleges that during the incident, Harden grabbed her wrist, took

(26:05):
her cell phone and tossed it on the roof of
the building, apparently it didn't want his picture taken. He
later gave her three hundred dollars it it issed to
two hundred dollars at Harden's entourage. I had offered her
to go out and get a new phone. Yeah. So
does Harden realize though, like when you toss a phone
on the roof, it doesn't delete the you know what

(26:25):
I mean, it's no delesian process. It just you have
to get a ladder and go to the roof. Right,
But then you still have said video right, Yeah, that
would have been my move. I would have taken the
money and then paid somebody to go up on the
roof and get my phone for me. But I mean,
what's the big deal about getting your picture taken? Isn't
that part of being you know, a select But here's

(26:45):
the other question. What is the proper age to stop
going to nightclub? What's the proper I would say this,
Harden's almost twenty nine. Yeah, I think he's still he's
still all right, he's okay. Yeah, I would say, like
mid thirties, So you're good until you're thirty five to
go to the nightclub. In your opinion, once the last
time you went to a nightclub, Bady, how old do

(27:06):
you think you were? Younger than thirty five? Yeah? But
but then again, you know, me going to the nightclub,
it wasn't exactly a success, you know what I mean? So,
so neither was it I I didn't do very well
at all. Had I had I had more success, I
probably would have gone to the nightclub longer. If you know,
women had shown any interest, I might have done back. Yes,

(27:29):
I'm guessing I never. Let's put it this way. I
never had a woman try to run up and take
a picture with me and be upset about that. No. No,
But like the Hardened thing, I don't know what's going
on with Harden. I don't know the man. I've interviewed
him a few times over the years, but like this
is the second time in a couple of years he's
been accused of having his muscle do muscle things goon

(27:52):
up on Some remember that the Moses Malone junior thing.
A couple of years ago. He got sued because I
guess hard Hardened and supposedly ordered a beat down of
Moses Malone's junior and they took a bunch of jewelry
from him. Whatever happened with that, Did he have to
write a check? Harden? That was a lawsuit? Yeah, I

(28:12):
do not remember what happened with the result of the lawsuit.
I remember talking about the lawsuit, but that was that
wasn't an after hours club in Houston, and it was
because Hardened. The claim then was that Harden was upset
with him. Well, you know, but you know how the
law is as well. And I'm not saying it's necessarily wrong.
But if you twist someone's wrist, that could be considered assault.

(28:34):
If you throw their property on a roof, is that theft?
Is that? What does that? I mean? The well? And
the other problem is it was like an iPhone that's
a seven hundred dollars item, and so then it becomes
is it grand theft at that point because of the value?
How much is something? When they up the value, it
doesn't matter. All of this doesn't matter. Harden has a
lot of money. He's got lawyers. When you have a

(28:57):
lot of money, it doesn't matter anything else. Money is
the ultimate win winning trump card, if you will. And
so he'll just pay, write a check and what even
if he's charged you it was something like a felony.
No'll just make some kind of deal and then it'll
go away. There you go, all right? So I bet
the show on Fox as we press on here from

(29:17):
the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios, fifteen minutes could save
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don't don't spoil it. Because I've not watched the latest
installment of Hard Knocks. I'm on like a three or
four day lag time. I wait till the weekend to

(29:38):
watch it. So I caught up last weekend on the
first episode of Hard and I saw him a few
days behind. Why do you wait till the weekend? Then
I like to sit down and kind of fully get
into it. I feel like if I watch it during
the week Roberto, I won't get the full flavor of
the show. I'll be hurrying, I'll be distracted by something
else because I'll end up wanting to watch a game
or something like that. So I just, I just, but
I do. My move is I wait and I have

(29:58):
it on the DVR and then watch it on the weekend.
I'll go back and play it. And you did a
couple of scenes over and over again. But I did
see here that the people at Budweiser, they are trying
to get in on the attention that Cleveland Browns are
getting for Hard Knocks, and some of the publicity here
and they have come up with something called the Victory Fridge,

(30:19):
and it's a guerrilla marketing effort by by Budweiser. But
it's not really guerrilla marketing because they are the official
I believe, isn't bud Light like the beer of the NFL.
So it's it's not really like they're going out and
they're being you know, in the shadows here. There's they're
writing a big check to the NFL every year. But
here's what they've done. They have put refrigerators around Cleveland.

(30:42):
They've picked ten bars sports bars around Cleveland, and they
have put padlocks and these big chains around these these
coolers where they have the filled with Budweiser. And as
soon as the Cleveland Browns win a game, as soon
as they win a game, all of these will be

(31:03):
simultaneously released of the padlock through Wi Fi. They're all
connected through Wi Fi. The chains will come off, they
will be unchained, and then I'm sure the fine people
of Northern Ohio will respect boundaries and there will be
who's going to really get into a fight for bud
bud Light, by the way, you know what I'm saying.

(31:25):
Will there be civil unrest? For free bud Light. Is
that what's gonna happen here? So, now, will the Browns
win a game? Though, that's the other question. You're do
the Cleveland Browns win a game this year? They've won
won the last two years, and before we said, well,
they're more talented than they've been, they're gonna win a game. Okay,
we've heard that before about the games. Have you still
actually have to play? You play to win the game.

(31:47):
You play to win the game. The Browns open up
with your Pittsburgh Steelers, Eddie. Oh, then they play at
New Orleans, so that's a lost loss. Then they come
back and play the Jets. You assume they can win
that game. But it's the Browns and they don't have
any depth and so guys will get hurt against Pittsburgh
and New Orleans. So then they'll be playing the B
squad against the Jets. And of these reports are not

(32:09):
being greatly exaggerated out of New York about Sam Darnold,
which they probably are because everything gets cranked up in
New York. But Donald's the Jesus Christ, according to the
media New York. So that means the Jets will beat
the Browns. So that and then the Browns will be
all in three. Then they go play the Raiders. Wow.
So the first chance if they do lose in Oakland,

(32:30):
the first chance the Browns would have to win a
game would be Week five at home against the Ravens.
That would be the chance. Now do you remember the
last time the Browns won a game? Do you know
who they beat? Eddie? Oh? Boy, no, I do not?
You write a check to this team every year? Eddie? Oh,
the Chargers believe that's correct? Am I wrong on that?

(32:52):
I do not recall? That? Wasn't it Christmas? Around Christmas time?
In twenty sixteen the Chargers went to Cleveland. Yeah, and
the and the brown came out victories. As a charge
of season ticket order. What do you have to say
for your team, Manie? It's disgraceful, disgraceful. A lot of
questions coming in about the Talent Show. Manic Mike says,
would a very long loud belch qualify for the Talent Show?

(33:15):
All right, that's a good question, Manny. It depends on
what kind of what kind of acts we have coming
in here, And we don't really know yet what kind
of acts we're gonna get. But if you can belch
on command, if you can fart on command, I think
that's those are both skills that not everyone has. So
I think if you can do it some kind of
rhythmic belching, if you can belch, it is talent. That's

(33:37):
absolutely talent. So if you can do something like that, yes,
Ernie and Michigan, says Ben Well, at least Brian know
had some respect for you by not picking off, by
picking should say quality players. There's what Ernie said in
the MLB pick him last night, And since you were off,
will there be an improp to Instant AdviceLine segment? And

(33:59):
isn't saying malmilitian talent really an oxymorn? Except for Ernie Well,
I have been asked to have a special edition of
the Instant AdviceLine. Nothing is scheduled, but you never know.
You never know, so you always have to be ready.
You have to be prepared, kind of like Ohio State
is prepared to write a check. Now this story came

(34:21):
out here a couple of hours ago. Ohio State they
have not decided on the fate of Urban Meyer. Urban Meyer.
I love that drop. We need more chanting. I am
all about the chanting drops on radio I love it.

(34:41):
So anyway, here's the story about a coach named Urban
and no matter what happens, we assume Urban's going to
keep his job at this point because nothing has come
up to change that opinion. After originally thinking he was done,
the odds have shifted, the pendulum is shifted in favor
of urban Meyer. But the estimate is that it's going
to cost. This probe into Urban Meyer is going to

(35:03):
cost five hundred thousand dollars. I am offering right now
all future universities the legal services of the Mallar Law
Firm for half of that. I will conduct a thorough investigation,
and just like Ohio State, you tell me the outcome,

(35:25):
I will give you the outcome. All right. I will
go to Google and I'll get some legal forms, and
I'll mimic those legal forms and you can write a
check for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Okay, you'll
save half of that five hundred thousand dollars and just
give me that money. Done. I'll wait two weeks. Problem solved,

(35:46):
You keep your coach, you save two hundred and fifty
g's done. There. You go, well, have the MLB pick him.
Coming up in a few minutes. Here's the who am
I game? Just Upton? Who I am? Told? Place for
the Angels? Now, Justin Upton has hit twenty five or
more home runs in eight of the last ten seasons.

(36:08):
He's bounced all over baseball, but eight of the last
ten seasons he's hit twenty five plus home runs. That
ties me for the most such seasons in the big
leagues in that span. Over the last decade. Again, Justin Upton,
twenty five or more home runs in eight of the
last ten seasons, tying me for the most such seasons

(36:29):
in the big leagues in that span. Who am I?
The answer? Next? On The Ben Madler Show, we specialize
in sarcasm, snark, and satire, all things needed to survive
the shady late night characters on Twitter and let your
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the micro blogging website. Follow Ben on Twitter. He's at

(36:50):
Ben Maller and you can tweet that and follow me.
Eddie Garcia, I'm at Eddie on Fox. It's so big,
I don't think you could really kind of get your
mouth rounded. I mean, it's you know what I'm saying
talking about a Hamburger talking about a Hamburger right now
live from the Guy Coo Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's
Ben Maller. Last part you said there was incorrect. Eddy,

(37:10):
that's it's not true at all. Will press on time
for the Who Am I? Game? This is where we
pretend to be somebody else in a blatant attempt to
get you to listen a little bit longer. All right,
here we go. Justin Upton now with the Angels, has
hit twenty five or more home runs in eight of
his last ten seasons. That ties me for the most

(37:33):
such seasons in the big leagues in that span. Who
am I? That is the question? What's the answer. Who
do we have here? Let's see here we have? Let's
see here Dora the Explorer from Mister Nice Guy with
a photo, Albert Pouhost from Brett A Salt in the Wound,
Dwayne Kiper tossed out by Matt the Warrior Raider, A's fan.

(37:59):
Ivanson's going with Ronald Acuna and he's got the accompanying
Lion King gift. They're very nice. I like that. It's good.
Who else do we have you? Let's see here? Ricardo
Montabon from Ernie chent Lemon tossed out by Parker the
snow Dog Larry Ball from Patrick the Uber driver in

(38:20):
San Diego and the Looney Franco account going with Steve
Bye Bye Balboni as his answer. Eddie, do you have
an answer? Eddie? Yes, the answer is Eric Carros Oh,
Eric Carris, all time La Dodger home run King, Eric Harris.
That is incorrect. It is not Edwin and Carnassi owned
guests by Crooked County. The correct answer Nelson Cruise of

(38:44):
the Seattle Mariners. Nelson Cruise has done it, and justin
up to right, let's get to it. Here we go,
we got we gotta get quick. Here, we gotta go fast.
It's the MLB pickup attention Coop go fast, hurt, Yeah, exactly,
hurry up, cool, who's going first? I was told no
show did a job for me. Apparently that's not the case.
That was a lot. That is a lie. Eddie Garcia

(39:05):
was the winner. All right, hurry up, Oh gosh, let's
go with Garrett Cole. Garrett Cole off the board, Roberto
Carlos Hordan, all right, you got him. Coop he's pronounced
probably coop Hendrix Kyle Hendrix. Kyle Hendrix, all right, I
will go with Ronald Acuna Junior and j D Martinez. Coop,
I will go with Javi Baiez, Roberto Francisco Lindor Eddie,

(39:28):
Chris Davis on one more Jose Riverrez, two players and
a pitcher, Roberto, hurry up, properto your part him, Coop,
Jean Sigura, Chris Archer of the Bucos from the win.
I don't like you. You know what, I don't like

(39:49):
you more. I'm gonna shove you. That's how the Dodgers
and Giants did it on not really fighting night, but
more like shove night in the Big Leagues. Welcome in
the beginning of another hour. It's the Bend Mathers Show.
We are in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports

(40:10):
Radio network, emanating live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios.
Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on
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free rate quote. We might or might not hear the
audio here in a moment, but I'll give you my
version of events that took place. The Dodgers and Giants

(40:30):
playing a random baseball game on a Tuesday night. Now,
typically that is not worthy of too much conversation in
these parts unless something like blank happened. What is blank
you say, I will tell you. It was the seventh
inning Dodgers and Giants. Yasio Puig is at the play.

(40:51):
He'd fouled off a pitch. He just missed it, just
missed it. And it was believe the count was two
and one. I think that was the count at the time.
But the Nick Unley, vagabond, nondescript, marginal baseball player, Nick
Hundley was talking under the cover of a catching mask
as he was the catcher, and he was goading ya

(41:15):
Cil Puig right, and whatever Nick Hunley said, and we
don't know whatever it was was the right combination of words.
And that then led to this about Quigue and Hundling
are calling at it, and the pench is cleared Quigan Hunley,

(41:38):
I'm not sure what caused it. And now Hundley has
been tackled. Pence is in the middle of it now
getting Hundley out of the way. The penchons have cleared,
the pullpens have cleared. Not sure what was said, but
we could tell you what was done Quig is really hot.

(41:59):
Bob Garn trying to keep him away from the scrum.
They started chirping and then all of a sudden, pushing
and shoving and benches clearing. So that was the voice
of Charlie Steiner the Dodgers radio their AM five seventy
in Los Angeles. So we had a mild fracas. I
like to use the word Donnie Brooks one of my

(42:19):
favorite words. I don't use it enough. Donnie brook brew
hahas another word that we could use to describe what happened.
But it was a whole lot enough, you know, because
one guy's holding the baseball bat. The guy holding the
baseball bat. If you really want to go scorched earth
and get into a kind of a fight for the ages,
it has happened in baseball history where you take the
baseball bat and it's called blunt force trauma. That didn't happen.

(42:44):
That didn't happen. But they went back and forth there
and so be it. And when the dust had settled there,
Puig was ejected and Nick Hundley was ejected. So the
question here is this, we're gonna frame it this one
Whose side are you? Are you on the side of
ya Ceo Pue or the side of Nick Hunley, the

(43:07):
Higantes catcher who went into instigator mode, right, and it
clearly worked here. Now I'm gonna take the side of
ya Ceo Peak. Why, because that's the right side. That's
the right side of this. I've analyzed that happened to
be watching the game as this happened. Although granted I
was watching the Dodger Giant game, but I was zoning out.

(43:27):
I was I was focused on something else and I
had the game on. I was like, oh, wait a minute,
we gotta fight, we gotta throw down. But then it
sounded much worse than it was. It was benching, benches clearing,
but it did not reach and I want to I
wanna yell this from the top of the microphone here.
It did not reach full on tussle. It was not

(43:48):
a tussle. It was I was like, all right, we'll
run out and the couplet. The guys got shoved down there.
Hunley got tossed down by a Dodger coach U and
one of the Giant players came over. But I'm on
the side of Y'asia Peak. Now my thoughts on this.
You've got the instigator, the unwritten rules, and spineless, And

(44:09):
I will combine all these things for you and will
begin with the first thing that pops into my head
when I saw this, Nick Hunley, was how this all began. Now,
you can say, y'all, cel Peek escalated it, and I
wouldn't disagree. And y'all, cel Poee, you know you're supposed
to not do that. You're supposed to keep your wits
about you. And Peek didn't keep his wits about him.

(44:32):
But Nick Hunley was the one that started. Y'all, Ceil
Peak was minding his own business, attempting to hit a baseball,
which currently has been a gigantic problem for everyone wearing
Dodger blue. They have collectively had forgotten. They've got amnesia.
They don't know how to hit a baseball. That's a

(44:52):
different conversation. But you gotta put the blame where the
blame belongs, and that is on the instigator and the
the gator here that fanned the flames is Nick Huntley,
who that I don't even know who. The guy, yes,
a journeyman, vagabond baseball player, and it was him. He

(45:15):
was the guy that did it. He ignited it. He
stirred it up. He was the one that was there
standing by pouring gasoline on the fire and then shocked
when just a small little fire burst into an inferno.
Couldn't believe when you miss with Yasiel Puigue, he is
not going to sit back. He is If you provoke

(45:38):
Yasiel Puige, he is the bull. He will come at
you like a bull would come after you. I mentioned
the last hour, but maybe you weren't listening to. My
family from the East Coast was visiting over the weekend
and they were in Africa. They went on like a
like an African you know, to see all the big five.
They're in Africa. And they told me that the animals

(46:00):
they're the lions and all that, and the elephants and
the rhinos, they all respect the car. But they were
told by the person that was leading them on this
safari that if you got out of the car that
that is a sign of disloyalty to the lion, that
you don't respect their space and they will attack you
or or the elephant. All that. And with Yasio Pui,

(46:23):
all right, if you ignite him, if you attempt as
a lighter and you're trying to get him going there.
Whatever combination of words, Huntley said, we're the right combination.
And you know, again, Huney was doing his own thing.
He was stay in y'all light. He was staying his lane,
attempting to hit a baseball, which is the hardest damn

(46:43):
thing to do for these bums, and he was trying
to do that. Now, the second thing here, part b
this catcher Nick Huntley. Now he never played for the
cheating Cardinals, but this is the kind of donkey crap
that we get from the Cardinal way. He might as
well play for the Saint Louis cheating cards because what

(47:03):
Hunley would I know exactly what Hunley was doing here.
Hunley was being the troublemaker, right, he overreacted, and these
old school losers in baseball, they don't get it that
Nick Hunley's part of that fraternity. Comparently with that thinking,
he was upset because Yasio puige, you know what, yasous

(47:25):
crime was against humanity. He was frustrated. He fouled the
pitch off. So what did he do? He grabbed at
the bat. He tossed a bat, grabbed at it, right,
and this was an act of disrespect. This is one
of the unwritten rules of baseball, and so in Nick
Hunley's little mind, he was upholding the unwritten rules of baseball.

(47:46):
He was offended. The Giants catcher's sensibilities were thrown off
because Puigue slapped at a bat. That is baseball. I
love baseball. We gotta get rid. It's a disease, it's
a cancer. People like Nick Hunley. Oh my god, slapped

(48:06):
at the bat. That's a sign of disrespect. Oh, Mike,
it's so stupid. Now, many of many have pointed out
that Puigue attempted a superman punch in the middle of that,
but it was really more of a slap. It was
a it was a shove. If Yasio Puig had punched

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Nick Hunley, even with Nick Hunley in catching gear, Nick
Hunley would be in a hospital right now if that
was the case. Let's be honest about this. And how
much toughness did Hunley show as he was wearing the
catcher's gear. Now, you could say that was a smart
move there, because he was the smaller man. He would
have been demolished if he had not taken off the

(48:48):
catching gear, if there had been a clean shot there.
But it's it's the whole story right, it's you know,
it's a punk move by Hunley. Now again I will
point out that, Yasio Puig, you got to bite your
tongue a little bit. I saw some of the quotes
coming out of the Dodger locker room. There. Puiga attempting
to talk about what happened there. He said quote part

(49:10):
of the quote was I'm not going to let them
act like that in our house. Oh that's like a
football thing. Our house, the big house. But were what
were the combination words? Now some people are blaming Eric Cooper,
who I guess is the umpire. I don't know who
that is, but I guess he's the umpire. And Cooper
was interviewed the umpire. No, he might be related to

(49:33):
Justin Cooper. I don't know. I don't think they're related.
But Eric Cooper, the umpire was interviewed, and he said, Now,
the umpire was right near all of this, and the
umpire did not interview the umpire is just kind of
like why. I think he was enjoying it, like this
is kind of good. These guys are going back and forth.
I like this. The umpire was getting some new baseballs

(49:54):
from the ball boy that was running out to give
them baseballs, and the umpire said, well, the something that
was said at the plate Quig stepped up on he
just like described what you just heard, and the fight started.
The umpire was asked, was there anyone else involved that
was considered for ejection in the altercation, and the umpire said,

(50:15):
we ejected who we felt needed to be ejected. Well,
thank you, captain Obvious, he says, what did you see
that warranted the ejection of Puig? And then the umpire said,
he took a quote from every NFL coach, every NBA
coach I've ever interviewed. His quote was watched the tape.
That was his quote. Watched the tape, You'll see why

(50:35):
he had to be ejected. It's on the tape, was
the quote from Eric Cooper the umpire. But wait, there's more.
Why was Hunley ejected? Why was that announced? Later the
umpire was asked. The umpire said, there was no delay.
He said anything. We were getting together as a group
and talking about how we were going to handle it.
We needed to put warnings out, so we had to

(50:56):
make sure we were all on the same page. So
pretty harmless, Pretty harmless. Quotes from the umpire, at least
the ones I see in front of me right here.
But again, it began because of Yasipi swinging and fouling
a pitch off and slapping at his back. God forbid
the horror of horrors that that happens. It's a joke,

(51:18):
It's an absolute joke. Makes the whole giant organization look bad.
You know, Nick Henley, they're the giants. They got to
hope that Henley gets suspended. I would release his ass.
He sucks anyway, get rid of him, get him out
of there, the whole deal. Now, the last thing here,
the last thing I would like to address, speaking of
the animals in Africa, the elephant in the room here,

(51:42):
the Dodger bullpen is absolutely spineless. You know, sometimes in
life you have to do things above and beyond the
call of the duty, like you're hired to do job,
especially in the last like ten years or so. If
you've been in the workforce in America for the last thing,
I think he's awhere, I don't know, it's just America.
Oftentimes you are asked to do things that you are

(52:03):
not hired to do, that you have to do more
to help your employer out happens all the time, even
in jobs like this in radio, right, even these kind
of jobs, you have to do things sometimes that are uncomfortable,
that you don't like to do, that you weren't hired
to do. You can either embrace those things and rise
to the occasion, or you can be a spineless Dodger

(52:25):
relief pitcher. Because Kenley Jansen has a bad heart, he's
got a bad ticker that they're trying to work out,
trying to get that fixed, and he had to go
on the d L completely understandable, and so other guys
had to step up. Who knew that Kenley Jansen was
the glue of the Dodgers. Nine runs in the ninth
inning the last four games. The Dodger bullpins allowed nine
runs in the ninth inning the last four games, six

(52:49):
straight blown leads, six straight blown leads. You talk about
embracing opportunity and then getting up on the mound, going
into the full wind up and vomiting. That's the Dodger
bullpen right there. Vomit here, vomit there, vomit everywhere. And
don't get me started on Manny Machado. You know, do

(53:10):
you know that Manny Machado let me tell you, Machado
has as many hairstyles as he does home runs as
a Dodger. Two two hairstyles, two home runs as a Dodger.
This is false advertising. I want my money back. I'm
not impressed. I am not impressed with Manny Machado. What

(53:32):
the hell's up with that? I mean, you're gonna you
want two hundred and fifty three hundred million dollars contract.
You're finally playing meaningful games out to being stuck in
purgatory in Baltimore, and that's how you play, Manny Machado.
I mean, come on, you're better than that macheda you've got.
I'll relax. Eddie Garcia, Edmund Dallas steamboat Willie Judas Garcia

(53:57):
right over there. Well, I am not in the Dodger
lapdog like some on the show, but I'm objective. I
will agree with you. I don't understand what Nick Hunley's
beef was. Yasil Pueeg was clearly upset at himself that
he had missed a pitch that he thought he should handle.
He didn't say anything to Hunley, like grabbed the barrel
of his bat, upset it himself. I don't understand why

(54:21):
Hunley because he has to say anything. Baseball as a
community hate Yasio Puig. He's ever he goes against all
of the way that they've been taught to play the
game right. They can't stand guys like Yasio Puig and
so they despise him. And he was showing up the pitcher, Eddie.
They're upset because by slapping at the bat, he's showing

(54:42):
up the giant pitcher. To joke, we have Dave's here
from Dave Roberts said, we got more audit. We're all
over this story. Our investigative team is all over this
this year. From Dave Roberts here right after the game,
Dave Roberts explain what happened. Thought it was a pitch
he could handle, and Hunley had something to say about it,
and Yasi intent was not at the picture nor at

(55:02):
Nick where he instigated and said something else took exception
to it. We just we didn't really, I mean, we
knew that. We knew that. Now. I will point out
that the moment the Dodger bullpen went bad, many people
with big miles on the radio and television, fellow gas
backs like myself will say the point where it all
went bad. Where the Dodger bullpen went rotten was in Colorado.

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I say, no, I say, after further research, the moment
it all went bad, Eddie, was when Dave Roberts brought
in Keith Gay Hernandez in Philadelphia and thought that he
would keep a tie game a tie game. Ever since then,
the Dodger bullpen has lost their way, Eddie. And I

(55:48):
blamed Dave Roberts for bringing in Keith Gay Hernandez in
a tie game and then laughing about it. You had
a chance to win a game, and you played for
six out six plus hours, Eddie, whatever it was that night,
it seemed like it was twenty hours, and you gave
the game away like a French soldier. You raise the flag.

(56:09):
You said, that's it, I quit, I'm gonna retreat. And
you're right. The Dodgers have never been the same, That's right.
It's they lost. They've lost first place, They've dropped five
in a row. They're free falling. It is disgusting. Just
they've been hosed by the Rockies in the stands. The Rockies, Eddie,
they don't even play real baseball in the altitude. They
play that that fake coors Field baseball. They got to

(56:31):
bring in the human door to joke and the point
of demarcation, Keith Gay Hernandez and Dave Roberts bringing him in.
Let's remember Dave Roberts takes uh what's that yboter? Dave
Roberts doesn't really manage the team. Uh you know, Oh,
that's right. It's a computer that does it, right, isn't
the computer that does manage that? I take a baseball

(56:51):
back to the computer. Of course. Now everything's on the clouds,
so it really wouldn't work. They just you know, it's
on the clouds, so it really wouldn't matter. And man,
he's coming around RBI today. Yeah. I know you've got
a Manni Machado shirt, and I respect that about you
that you were. You were one of the early believers
in Mannie Machado. I'm not impressed. I'm not I'm not impressed.

(57:13):
Along I was expecting Manny would two point zero the
fully router, do remember me, Yeah, Manny is routed up
on something. Yeah, but Machado was really good for the Orioles,
like really good for the Orioles. And with the Dodgers,
he's been just he's been okay, he's gonna. He's not

(57:36):
an impact play. He hasn't been an impact player since
he got to the Dodgers. No, he hasn't, he's not.
I think after tonight Brian Dogers has been more impactful
than That's true. Machado's betting two fifty five with the Dodgers.
He was batting three fifteen. He has a three ninety
four slugging with the Dodgers. Machado does. Yeah, his average
already down to three hundred. I believe his ops is

(57:58):
seven thirty with the Orioles, it was nine to sixty.
Is that all Dodgers stadiums? That the marine layer at
Dodger Stadium? Is that why he can't hit the products?
So he's a fraud. Machado's a fraud. He's a product.
At this point, it will prove it otherwise. He's a
product of cam in Yards. You got a new haircut,
a new hairstyle, all that good. That's what I said.
He's got two hairstyles and two home runs as a Dodger.

(58:21):
That's what he's got. We'll press on if you'd like
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We'll also get to Unforgettable quite detail. But right now

(59:06):
we have in depth team coverage here a slapping fest
at Dodgers Stadium, Giants and Dodgers as the Dodger bullpen
continues to puke all over the mound there, day after
day after day. That is the definition of turtling up thin.
Think about how much money these idiots are losing too.

(59:27):
I don't know, they're all making a lot of money.
But if you go out there, they say Kenny Jansen's
out for a month, he says he's gonna be back
next week. Let's say he's out for a month and
you get somebody, you know, Alexander and these guys in
the bullpen that prove they can be a closer for
you know, a short period of time. That'll then give
them an opportunity. Maybe next year somebody trades for them
and they get an opportunity to be a closer. You

(59:49):
make more money as a closer than a setup guy.
And all these guys, it's it's the Keystone Cops, every
one of them. Even they're bringing in starting pitch my
eight as a starting pitcher. They bring him in and
he does the same damn thing. All right, yeah, well
he's a relief pitcher. Now, mister nice guy says, can

(01:00:10):
you dig up the reaction if Ben had the night
the Dodgers signed Machado appreciate? Well, yes, at that time
that was an accurate analysis. How did I know that
Machado is gonna bat two fifty with as many hairstyles
as home runs as a Dodger? How was I supposed
to know that? All right, let's go to Joe in Cincinnati.
Who's up next? On Fox Sports Radio? Hello Joe, Hey,

(01:00:33):
thank you for having me. Shows amazing, But the doctor's bullpen.
I mean, that's that's always what they've done. They've done it,
they've done it for years, and they just did it
in the All Star Game. They lost the National League
the All Star Game this year, but that's an exhibition game.
Who cares well, they say it, and yes, O plea

(01:00:54):
guess probably that's probably why it's frustrated. He's got a
mediocre catcher. Join in the eerie. He knows he won't
win the game because he could hit three home runs
in the in the in the bull Tunnel radio, Thank you, Joe,
So glad I came back for that, Joe, to hear
your radio turns all the way up, so good, so good,
amazing Again, do I need to go on my rant

(01:01:17):
talk radio with the delaysman around? Since the nineteen fifties
there was a station to Pennsylvania, the first one that
had of delay. And here we are, all these years later,
right all these years later, almost seventy years after the
delay system began in radio, and people still haven't figured
it out. Let's go to a man who does haven't
figured out. We head to South Beach and weed Man

(01:01:38):
Hippie is back. I love you there. He is the
great weed Man, Hello weed Man. Then I have so
much to say. I kiss your ring every day. I
revolve my life around her. So right now, starting this

(01:01:59):
past nay, and you aren't there, but you are know
because you got me brought on Twitter? What are you? Universe?
Is that your way? Is that your way? You don't
have to follow me just on brought me? Is that
your way of saying that you would like that? That
would mean a lot to you. So I would mean

(01:02:20):
a great deal involved my wife around your soul. I
mean now I'm told listening on the Talent Show, right
I'm in on the Town show, that you would know
that if you don't have me block on Twitter? What
why are you yelling? Why are you yelling? I can
your phone's over modulator. Here we are in the same

(01:02:40):
back before before you went off the deep end. We
had the same problem when you were a Caller of
the Year, before you lost that title. I am no,
you're not, I tell you are. That is incorrect. You've
lost your title. Real talk is the call of the year.
We do whatever. If lost, she will tell you I'm
a new player. Hold on, I say, Eddie, it might
maybe my headphones are messed up. It sounds overmodulated. I

(01:03:03):
don't think I can hear what weed Man's really saying
because he sounds like he's yelling. Is that correct? Okay,
I have something that might hear. I'd like to sing
to you. I heard that, ben Oh, I heard that you. Oh?
He wants to sing? Now do you need anything from me? Nothing?
Hold on a second. I was just a preview of
the upcoming talent show. It's just okay, hold on, seg
weak man. I gotta take care of some business. We'll
have weed Man perform a song. It's a song and

(01:03:26):
dance routine on the radio. We're gonna get to that
here momentarily live musical entertainment on a sports talk radio show. Wow,
you don't get that everywhere. It's like a variety show.
We'll get to that. And also we're gonna have Mallard
to the third degree and unforgettable. We get a lot
of stuff. We're already backed up. What's up with that?
Right now? Though? From the Geico Studios, Eddie Garcia with
the latest Eddie, Let's give you some baseball games of note.

(01:03:48):
With the Diamondbacks beating the Rangers six to four, Arizona
still holds day one game lead on Colorado for the
top spot on the NLS. The Rockies were able to
keep pace with a five one win over the Astros.
Colorado is also a game and half out of that
final card spot in the National League. Giants beat the
Dodgers two to one. That's five loss center row for LA.
They're two back in the NLST and two and a
half out in the NL wildcard race. Now, Cardinals won

(01:04:09):
their seventh in a ROWBEDI in the Nationals six to four.
Saint Louis is now one game behind Philadelphia for that
last wildcard spot in the National League, with the Phillies
falling into the Red Sox two to one. College Football
News University of Maryland announced his accepted responsibility for the
depth of player Jordan McNair, who died in June following
a heat stroke at practice. Head coach DJ Durkin is
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Bendy just see New York Jets head coach Todd Bowles
went after one of his players on Tuesday, telling where

(01:04:52):
porters at wide receivers Roll Prior quote, should keep his
mouth shut end quote. This is because Prior told reporters
that the reason he needed injury and may was due
to a fractured ankle. Bowles doesn't want his players talking
about injuries, he said, quote, Terrell doesn't need to be descriptive.
I feel we should keep his mouth shut and leave
the injuries to me. We had a conversation. Will always

(01:05:12):
discuss our in house things in house and quotes. Let
me tell you something about the Jets. The other team
could tell the Jets what plays they're running. It wouldn't matter.
And as far as the Jets are concerned, this minds
who cares? All right? Now you get you think this
is going to give some kind of competitive advantage to
anyone else. It's the Jets, all right, and coaches in general.

(01:05:34):
We've had coaches work here over the years back in
the olden days, the late Dennis Green worked here for
about two weeks before he got a TV job and
let Jim Mora for many years worked here back in there.
This and the general consensus from those NFL coaches that
I've worked with over the years is that they speak
a version of the truth, but it's not the whole truth,
and that's how they operate. They dabble with white lies

(01:05:56):
and things like that. But I mean this one, if
it doesn't want to release, make a make a roster
move because of this and make an example, they're more
than welcome to. It just seems absurd to me. It's like, really, like, what,
how's that going to affect the outcome? What kind of
state secret? He didn't publish the Jets playbook Again, that

(01:06:16):
wouldn't matter either. But if it seems like maybe the
Jets are preparing to release to roll prior, doesn't he
he's not on a guaranteed contract. I think he's got
a short guaranteed money so they could get rid of him.
He signed a one year I think it's just about
a coach wanting control of everything that comes out of
his locker room. Yeah, remember when the Jets were winning
a couple of games last year and people were upset

(01:06:37):
with Todd Bowles because they were supposed to be as
bad as the Browns. And then they won a couple
of games and people were upset, but then eventually they
morphed back into being the Jets. So all right, So
the Bet Mather Show on Fox, as we press on
ed he's very excited about preseason week two Thursday night.
It kicks off though, so exciting, Oh my god, so exciting.

(01:06:58):
Unless it's not. Um, we'll take your calls and we
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and you're you're a little late to the party, welcome, sincerely,

(01:07:20):
glad to have you listening. Try the podcast to go
back and hear what you missed. We're gonna have a
talent show coming up. Is it next week? Do we
have a firm date on this or is it still
an open ended situation. It's gonna have to be next week. Right, Yeah.
I thought we were gonna do it on the last
show of the week. But um, I mean, if you
think that Wednesday into Thursday is better, well, you want

(01:07:42):
to do it the day of the morning of the
minor league baseball appearance in San Burdu. You want to
do it that morning. I thought that's the date that
we had said, But I mean, I didn't know we
had a firm date, don't I don't recall, But I
mean we could do it that. I'm fine. Does anyone
have a problem with it? Does anyone raise your hand
now or hold hold your hand? Anybody? I ob checked,
Oh you're jazz kidding. I'm fine. I don't think I

(01:08:02):
think you do object you're a problem. Eddie any problem
with that? I'm good. Eddie doesn't care. He's like, just
do the stupid thing with a preview now, weed Man,
don't perform the song you're gonna perform in the Talent Show.
So if you're gonna do it, don't don't do it.
You know what I mean. If you're gonna do this
the song now that you're gonna do in the Talent Show,
don't do it, is what I mean. Then no, I
can sing a Mormon songs. I'm going to talk creation

(01:08:26):
and then I want to be on this show every
second it's on, so you can go to me wherever
you want, like we used to, I love you and
our dynamic is the most important thing there. I've been
trying to raise the vibration and change the world. There.
Are you used? Man? Are you using like a bluetooth

(01:08:49):
or headphones or something? No, I'm not using any headphone.
I'm using the actual phone in you on speaker phone?
Are you find the phone in the gutter? Is this
an Obama phone? No, it's not, it's not. Okay, how
does this? Is this better? How about you a little bit?
How about you go in the next room, because now
you're not better When we were on speaker, Jesus well,

(01:09:15):
Lisa assumes the thing that I sounded that on the speaker. Anyway,
we're gonna hear to raise the vibration of the planet. Dan,
you and I we have God's work to do. You
and I. Yes, we're very religious people. Now we've been
it has nothing we can religion, no religion, and the sun, creation, consciousness,

(01:09:39):
the sun. All right, Can we get to the song?
I would like the song? Yeah, Man, I'm gonna sing
to you. Okay, here we can love this song then, okay,
because I love you Ben, and everybody knows this song.
Oh my god. Then you don't know how much I
love you. You're looking for something you don't you just started.

(01:10:01):
You're looking for a piece of paper. You're gonna read this,
You're gonna do karaoke? Bro, I love you. That to sell.
I want to put my arms around you. Ring that's wrong,

(01:10:26):
I b band? So am I putting him on the
official sign up sheet? Or? Can we revisit this idea
for a talent show? Is that? Is that what we got?
He did not make the cut in my opinion? Yeah?
We Hey wait man, that wasn't good enough. You gotta
do better? Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I'll sing it an

(01:10:49):
after pier second. Yeah, okay, I mean we want we've
chased enough people. We don't want to chase all the
listeners away. Okay, we gotta have some people still list man.
That was somewhere Rachel is laughing at that. Man. Oh man,
all right, Holly write since she says, I thought you

(01:11:11):
were going to say. It all went downhill for the
Dodgers when Dave Roberts brought in you darvish. Why you
gotta go there, Holly? All right? You know typical, you know,
piling on, pile on, very funny, very very funny. Well,
this is one of the most outrageous quotes. I think
you'll agree with me. Carmelo Anthony, now of the Houston Rockets,

(01:11:32):
on his way out of Oklahoma City. Of course, he
stopped in Atlanta. I never played a game. Here is
what he told the fans of Oklahoma as he leaves
Oklahoma City. This is a quote. He said, Carmelo that
he will always cherish and never forget his time with

(01:11:53):
the Thunder. Let me repeat that, Carmelo Anthony on his
way out of Do you think this ever originated with Carmelo?
This had to be somebody. Hey, here's what you say, Carmelo,
you're changing teams. When you change teams, you've done this
a lot. You have to say the standard cliche, which

(01:12:14):
is he will all. This is even over the top
for that. He said he will always cherish and never
forget his time in Oklahoma City. Now, what was memorable
about Carmelo Anthony's time in Oklahoma City The fact that
the thunder were marginalized, that Carmelo Anthony was nothing spectacular

(01:12:35):
and was a declining falling star. All of that, all
of that would be act. We have Mallard of the
third degree. We're gonna get to that, but first the
instant tribute. Here it is Ronald Acuna of the Atlanta
Braves became the fourth player to hit a leadoff home
run in both games of a double header. He did

(01:12:56):
it the other day. Blank is the last player to
do it again. Lacuna of the Braves the fourth player
to hit a leadoff home run in both games of
a doubleheader. Blank is the last player to do it.
That is the instant trivia. The answer next on the
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(01:13:44):
Lie from the Guico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben
Maller And here's the instant trivia. Ronald Lacuna the Braves.
The phenom over the last week or so is lit
the world on fire? The fourth player to hit a
leadoff home run in both games of a doubleheader Blank
is the last player to do it. That's the question.
What's the answer? Rod the Midnight Walker, j P Mister

(01:14:08):
wonderful Manic Mike got it right and a bunch of
people didn't. Though we have Brad going with Antonio's mom.
How dare you? Patrick the Uber driver in San Diego?
He went with Ricky Henderson. Is his answer? Rusty stab
tossed out by Rob in Minnesota. Marcus says Ricky Henderson

(01:14:29):
thinks it was Ricky Henderson. Bob Yuker from Rob, I
m Willie McGee tossed out by Eric, Mike Pallarullo from Richard.
That's a good name, Old Yankee Third Basement played with
the Padres. Also Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie? Yes,
it's Ryan Klesko. Ryan Klesco, former Atlanta Brave Know that
is incorrect. The correct answer one of the great one

(01:14:50):
hit wonders in baseball history. Brady Anderson of the ninth
Jamarre Orioles, Well that was he was the earlier, much
earlier than that. But Brady Anderson of the Oriols is
the answer back in the day. Also, Ricky Henderson did
it in nineteen ninety three, and someone named Harry Hooper

(01:15:12):
in nineteen thirteen. But I don't know who that is.
All right, let's get to it. Here we go, Let's
do it right, It's Meller. How about that to the
third degree? This is one big band gets quailed and
we bring in the Cooper the loop. And report's surfaced
on Monday that the Clippers fired former San Antonio spur

(01:15:32):
Bruce Bowen, who was working as an analyst for the team,
after he made critical comments about Kawhi Leonard. Apparently they
are delusional thinking Kawhi Leonard wants to come to the
Clippers commentary. That's an opinion. What do you have to
say for your disgrace of an organization? It's really the
only disgrace here is you a Cooper loop on this?
And then let me explain why it's fake news. You

(01:15:53):
fell for fake news? Okay, it is. Let me tell
you what happened here. Bruce Bowen is simply trying to
save face. He's a guy that lost a job. It's embarrassing, right,
It's a false correlation. It doesn't equal causation. This had
nothing to do His comments had nothing to do with

(01:16:13):
the loss of his job. They were pretty harmless comments
about Kawhi Leonard. Bruce Bowen had was never embraced by
the Clipper fan bowing his Spurs trash, that's what he is.
He's got no connection to the Clippers. He never vied
with the iconic Ralph Laler, Holy Smokers, bingo and all that.
There was no connection. And so what Bowen is doing,

(01:16:35):
he's trying to spend this like, hey, I'm the bad guy,
and he also wants to be in the good graces
with the Spurs fans by saying, hey, look, no, I
was ripping Kawhi Leonard. I lost my job because of it.
And now that he's been offered a job at like
the San Antonio Zoo or something like that, it's absurd.
And secondly, again, the thing that Bowen said about Kawhi
Leonard wasn't that bad, and he was as simply embracing

(01:16:58):
the dogma of Greg Popovich and Leonard He's you know,
he's the biggest pussy willow on the planet here if
he's like, oh, I can't sign him with a team
because a broadcaster says something. Of course, that's not why
Bowen's out. He's out because he was bad at his job.
Next good start. Woads reported yesterday that Carmelo Anthony would

(01:17:21):
be coming off the bench for the Rockets, but then
he quickly clarified that Carmelo would still have the chance
to earn a starting spot heading into the season. Ben,
what do you think ends up happening? Does Melo start
or not? Well, that's not accomplished. I imagine here's what's
gonna happen. Carmelo will infest the Rocket locker room with
all of his bad habits. He will start, he will
come off the bench over the course of the season.
First of all, Houston's gonna attempt to bring Carmelo Anthony

(01:17:43):
off the bench. That won't work, And then Mike D'Antoni
will attempt to pacify Carmelo and put him in the
Rockets starting lineup based on the diminishing skill set, the
bad work habits, it is sensible to think that this
is going to be a disaster. And secondly, when I
say disaster, don't get me wrong. I got on the service.

(01:18:04):
Carmelo Anthony looks fine. It's like, well, he still looks
like you can play. And the Rockets will win a
bunch of games during the regular season, but they have
no chance with Carmelo winning in the playoffs outside of
five Golden State Warriors getting in a demolition derby and
running into each other. Forget about it all right, next now,
Pete Carroll said in a recent interview that he's not

(01:18:24):
worried about the huge amount of turnover the team is
facing with Richard Sherman, Michael Bennett, Cliff Avril, cam Chancellor
all gone. Earl Thomas is still holding out, but he
pointed out the most important position has been consistent. But
you think Russell Wilson is going to be enough to
keep the Seahawks competitive in the West before the twelfth
man calls up? It's April, Cliff Avril. But but what's
your definition of competitive? I'm gonna sell on the Seattle

(01:18:46):
Seahawks here. But number one, Pete Carroll, he's all about
optimism and all that rah rah rah, cheerleader guy, but
he sounds like a snake oil salesman. And these remedies
are not going to cure the Seahawks. Here. They look
like a middle of the road team, the eight and eight,
seven and nine, like a Jeff Fisher type team. Russell
Wilson will put up a great bunch of stats. They're

(01:19:07):
not gonna win. All right. There, It is Mallard to
the third degree. How did we do? Ben? You fail this?
That is a win for me. What Cooper said in
my headphones is I won. So I won the game
out a winner, a winner setting the stage. But for
what Welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's the

(01:19:31):
Ben Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere the
vast Fox Sports Radio network, emanating live from the Geico
Fox Sports Radio studios. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen
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dot com for a free rate quote. And rather than

(01:19:53):
breakdown the impending exhibition football games which will be taking
place on Thursday, Rather than do that and to analyze
the mind of Lane Johnson, which is not that deep
an analyzation, I thought something that caught my attention that
I would like to talk about, and it does any
roundabout way involve basketball. So bear with me. You got

(01:20:15):
bear with me. We're seventy days away, seventy days away
from the start of the NBA season. It is never
too ear early to jump on that hype train to
get out there and just ra ross celebrate. Why not
take Kyle Kuzma for example. He is he's getting out
in front there. He's the corner guy. He's the carnival barker,

(01:20:38):
Kyle Kuzma. You probably don't even know who that is.
I should explain who Kyle Kuzma is because nobody really knows.
This guy's a nobody's a zero. He plays for a
terrible franchise. That's been one of the jokes of the
end regularly in the lottery, year after year. A lot
of old timers like to talk about the good old days,
but the recent times have not been good for the

(01:20:59):
team that Kuzma plays for. Oh, that's right, the Lakers.
What is still wrong with the Cliffs. That's a red herring.
So we're talking about Kyle Kuzma, who plausibly plays for
the Lakers. He's a nobody. So I had to explain
who he was. So Kuzma is super duper excited about
the new additions to the Woebegone franchise that's holding back

(01:21:22):
Staples Center. There the Lakers and Kyle Kuzma went out
and he used the U word, used the U word
to describe the Laker outlook. He claimed that many people
are underestimating what the Lakers are capable of. Now, I
think he did this with a straight face. I'm not sure.

(01:21:44):
I don't know that he Maybe he was laughing like
that because because outside of him living in a shoe box,
what the hell's he talking about. I know a lot
of athletes like to play the Hey, you know, no
one thought we could card. No one believe in this card.
You can't do that when you play for the Lakers. Now,

(01:22:04):
Kyle Kuzma speaking at the Flint YMCA. Why was he
in the Flint, Michigan YMCA. That's his hometown and Kuzma
waxed poetic about the upcoming NBA season, Still seventy nights
away from opening night, Kuzma believes that people, as as
I said, they were underestimating the Lakers because they are young.

(01:22:26):
That's actually reality, Kyle, that's the way that life works
in the NBA. He then used buzzwords like hungry and
competitive and celebrated the fact that the Lakers were in
a lot of games last season. Of course, they lost
most of those games, but he was happy that they
were in a lot of games. I guess he picked
up his participation award at the end of those games

(01:22:48):
when they were close and they lost games in the
fourth quarter. All right, so let's let's frame it this way.
The question Kyle Kuzma. He heard what he said there.
He says people are underestimating the Lakers. Is this real
or not real? All right, I'm gonna go first. Not
only is it not real or real, it is rubbish.

(01:23:10):
It is absolute rubbish from Kyle Kuzman. Now my observations.
You've got location, Gremlins, and the Looney Tunes, and we
will fasten all of this together for you. There's no
need for premature booing. There's no need to premature boo.
I will explain all of this and I will fasten

(01:23:30):
all of these things together. Now we'll begin with the
fact that ninety nine percent of the time, the Lakers
are not under estimated, they are overhyped. The epicenter of
gambling in the United States is Lost Wages Nevada. It
is a short drive from Los Angeles. In fact, most

(01:23:52):
of the people that visit Vegas are from Los Angeles,
and many of them open up their wallet and toss
down a couple of nickels on who that's right, the Lakers,
because there is no more diabolical, delusional fan base than

(01:24:13):
the Laker families say they think they're gonna win every year.
They're gonna win the championship every single year, and more
money comes in to those casinos in Vegas from the
Laker sycophan than any other fan in basketball. And so
the effect on that the casino inflates the Lakers' odds
to cover themselves, making it seem like the Lakers have

(01:24:36):
a better chance of winning and knowing that the public
is going to fall for the ruse every time. Now,
unfortunately for Kyle Kuzma, you don't get the ribbon for
losing close games. My theory has always been bad teams
lose close games. That is what happened. There's this myth
that just because you're a bad team, you get blown

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out every single game and all my god, you have
no chance of winning. Your a terrible team, and you sucking,
you sucking all that stuff. But more times than not
that is not the case. That is a falsehood that
is repeated by low information fans, and that you know,

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look at the Jets last year or not the Jets,
look at the Browns. How about who used the Browns
as an example? The Browns last season went in sixteen. Now,
in that sixteen season, they lost a game to Pittsburgh,
buy a field goal, They lost to Indianapolis, buy a
field goal. They lost to the Jets by three points.
They lost on a field goal in overtime to the

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Tennessee Titans. By using the Kyle Kuzma model, the Cleveland
Browns are really close to being a good team because
they lost a lot of games that were close. Yeah,
they got blown out in some games, but there were
many games that were one score games or two score games.
A couple of players go either way in the fourth quarter,
the Browns would have won the game. Using the Kuzma model,

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that means all horse bleep teams are actually very close
to being good teams, which we know is not true.
We know that to be not true, We know that
to be false. Now, Moreover, this simply comes down to
the old real estate axiom location, location location. The Lakers

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are in the same real estate, they share the same
division with the Mighty Golden State Wars. The conference has
the Rockets. Now, I'm not betting on the Rockets, but
they're gonna win a bunch of games in the regular season.
They're selling to be much better than the Lakers are.
So get not underestimating at all, not underestimate, being realistic.

(01:26:44):
I'm being realistic. Other people are overestimating the Lakers. Let's
let's break down these young Laker players that Kyle Kuzma
was selling. Lonzo Ball can't shoot, Brandon Ingram has no
killer instinct. Kuzma himself is a marginal talent. Josh Hart's
a backup. That's the core of the young Lakers. That's

(01:27:04):
who they got. Now. In addition, you've got the giant
pink spotted rhino in the corner. Lebron James right over there.
Said well, yeah, but Lebron jif the yeahbut crowd, Well yeah,
but Lebron James is there. Yeah but Lebron James sold
his soul to Hollywood. It is no longer about competing

(01:27:24):
for NBA Championships with Lebron James, it is about competing
for Academy Awards. That's what Lebron James wants to win.
He's worried about winning the awards in Hollywood, being embraced
by Tinseltown. That's what this is all about. No kid
yourself and thinking there's some other plan here. There's no
other plan. You would have been better off signing with

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just about any other team in the NBA other than
the Lakers if you're Lebron James. But no other team
other than the Clippers is located in Hollywood. And Lebron
James realizing how Hollywood is embraced the Lakers and the
Clippers of the people's team, the common man's team, the
hard working factory workers team, and the Lakers are a
celebrity ny and all that he wanted to be with

(01:28:07):
phony because those Hollywood executives hang out they haven't gotten
the memo the Lakers suck, and he wants to hang
out with those people. But the Laker roster, the twenty
nineteen Laker roster, is much worse than the roster Lebron
James had in Cleveland. And it's not my opinion, again,
it's factual my evidence on that there is not a

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single player worth their salt running alongside Lebron James as
good as Kevin love Hey, even Kyle Corver. Kyle Corver
a better option as a perimeter gunner than anybody on
the Laker roster, the twenty nineteen version of the Lakers.

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That's right, it's vomit is what it is. I agree
with that and this upcoming Laker team, it's the gang
that can't shoot straight, is what it is. Now. The
last observation here, instead of just having to deal with
j R. Smith, remember j R. Smith who was the
first player in NBA Finals history to dribble out the
clock in a tie game. It had never happened before
because most guys try to shoot to win the game.

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And j R. Smith decided, you know what, I'm gonna
go into the victory formation and dribble the clock out
and play for overtime. Lebron James, remember how I said
he was. He threw his arms in the air like,
oh my god. Then he grabbed his head. I can't
believe this. Remember that, I remember it. I remember it well.

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Lebron James will be dealing with that but this is
like gremlins like j R. Smith isn't coming. But it's
like j R. Smith escaped to the local y MCA.
He jumped into the swimming pool, spawning an army of
gremlins who are going to wreak havoc on Lebron James
and the Laker locker room. The gremlins of j R. Smith,

(01:29:56):
Rajon Rondo, the Coach Killer, wrong Way, Vail McGhee, he's
a Laker, Lance Looney Tune Stevenson another Laker. He'll blow
into your ear, Michael Airhead, Beasley, he's a Laker. Anywhere
Lebron James looks around the Laker locker room, he will
be surrounded by a bunch of space cadets. What is

(01:30:18):
still now? If you like them, you'll say Wow. They're
colorful personalities and they provide character. If you're a realist,
you'll point out what I just pointed out. These guys
are often baffled, confounded by simple basketball one on one,
and they all were united by Lebron James and Kyle
Kuzma is talking about how people are underestimating the Looney Tunes,

(01:30:40):
the Airhead, Wrong Wage, Avail, and the Coach Killer you
gotta be kidding me. It doesn't matter. God, I can
tell you seventy as seventy days before the NBA season,
as a distant relative of the Great Nostre Damas, the
Golden State Warriors are going to win. The question is
who finishes in the runners up chair in the West

(01:31:01):
losing in the Western Finals, and who loses in the
NBA Finals. Right now, it's the Boston Celtics and Golden
State Warriors. Prove me wrong, all right, So Ben Mallor
Show on Fox, we saylo to Edmund Dallas, Steamboat, Willie
Judas Garcia, who's right over. Well, it's a long horn now, Ben,

(01:31:29):
I understand we have what we have a new segment
coming up. Yes, we have a new segment. I'm glad
you brought that up, Eddie. We need to promote a
head later this hour, Roberto. If you if you love
romance with Roberto, you're gonna love this even more? Who didn't?
Maybe you won't love this even more because we think
it'll be good. But that'll be coming up later this hour.
And I don't want to give any I don't want
to give any kind of surprise away. I want this.

(01:31:51):
I don't want to give any kind of tip away
what it is. I want this to be new to you.
I want you to experience it. I don't even really
know what it's all about. I think I know, and
we will see if Roberto can pull it out and
and pull it off later this hour. So this is
a Roberto and Danny G radio production. That is yeah,

(01:32:12):
Danny was advising. Danny G apparently heard Romance with Roberto
and decided to get involved about this is not going well,
so he did step up. We thanked Danny for that
and for helping out. It was a team effort there
with Roberto and Danny G. And they cooked up this
this plan. So we'll see if you like it, and
if you like it, we'll do it every week and

(01:32:34):
if it sucks, we'll pretend it didn't happen. Like Romance
with Roberto. Do Romance with Roberto again? That was great? Wow?
Was that like the clip? It was like too much
like the Clippers again. Like Sweet Lou Williams said that
Clippers have been better than the Lakers for a year.
Who there are you're laughing, But there are children, their

(01:32:56):
entire lives that have only known a world with the
Clippers team to win a hip. You're looking in the
rear view mirror many many years, you said that the
Lakers have been terrible. If you're talking about recent history,
is what I'm You're talking about old recent history in
this decade, this last decade, which started in twenty ten.
I'm talking about that from that point forward. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(01:33:18):
talking twenty ten. No, I'm talking from this point forward.
The Clippers have been much better than the Lakers, year
after year, regular season win after regular season win. Twenty ten,
the Lakers won the NBA Championship. Just fy, Who's who's
had a better record this last decade? Go through it.
Who's had a better record? You want to go year
by year? You want to break that down. It's all

(01:33:38):
about winning championships, is am I? Am I wrong? Or right? Eddie? No,
that's not what Phil Jackson said. It's all about the journey,
not just the destination. That's your old as zen master
Phil Jackson used to talk about that. Well, Roberto, if
you have a team that has won championships, it's about that.
If you have a team that is not, it's not
about that. And I don't really count the twenty ten

(01:33:59):
that's a twenty one iron into twenty ten, ten, twenty
eleven is what I can That's how I can't. That's
how I count it. Yeah, that's how I didn't change anything.
Then calls a lot of audibles or okay about a
good quarterback will change the play at the line of scrimmage.
As you know, Eddie, you have to call you have
to change it up the line of scrimmage. That's not

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terrible loss is one of the better audible there is
out there. What I goes, I olveraylook the defense, Eddie.
I go up to the line scremage. I see where
that linebacker is. I see where the safety's position. If
the safety is coming up, where's the mic at where's
the mic? If the safety is coming up to the
line of scrimmage. I know at that particular point that
I have options here. Now, if I've called a running play,
that safety is like a hawk and he's gonna come

(01:34:41):
up to that line of scrimmage, he's gonna he's gonna
bottleneck that running back there because there'll be too many
guys that the line of scrimmage. So what I do then,
is I call an audible. I throw to the tight
end over the middle and that safety is coming up
to stop the run. I throw to the tight end
over the middle of the defense. I get thirty five
forty yards, just like that. That's how I do it.
That's that's serious. That's how I do it. Eight seven

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seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine
six sixty three six nine. Are you going to the
Rams game to Saturday? Ben? Why would I go to that? Why?
Why would I? It's an exhibition game? Why would I
want to? Are you gonna be out there? Are gonna
be out? I'm tended to go. Man, I'm not gonna lie.
It's gonna be ninety five degrees at one o'clock in

(01:35:30):
the afternoon sum exhibition football game. There's no air conditioning
within seven miles of the coliseum. Uh, there's no air
conditioning at all there. And you're gonna have people pretty
much drinking all morning and then getting into fights. There'll
be more act there will be more violence in the
crowd than on the field. And yeah, and the cheapest

(01:35:53):
tickets I can find our forty dollars and those other
ones out there for exhibition game forty bus bucks. Yeah, yeah,
I don't know. You could go to the Charger game
probably for like ten bucks that night if you want
to see I know you're not a charge a fan,
you don't care about that, but you can get in
for like ten bucks. Alight eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox is the number eight seven seven nine nine

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(01:37:23):
the NBA official insiders puts it out there. But it
is being reported by some that Dwayne Wade has decided
on what he is going to do. I know you're
dying to hear what a washed up NBA player is
going to do. But the report is that Dwayne Wade
is going to sign a one year contract to continue
playing professional basketball with the Miami Heat. And oh, this

(01:37:45):
is boy, this is this is true. You can expect
a full Mallard monologue on this. D Wade planning to
retire at the end of the season, which means a
victory laugh around the NBA for Dwayne Wade. Every town
he goes to, He's gonna take a bow. You know
I love that. I can't get enough of that. The

(01:38:07):
victory laugh. Oh my god. Is he can give it
an acceptance speech when he gets all the goodies in
every city. Wait till he gets the Dallas. He got
to thank the referees in Dallas. Remember that NBA Finals.
Every time Dwayne Wade they breathed on him, it was
a foul. Every single time. There some reaction to the

(01:38:29):
Malan monologue, which was a few minutes ago. We talked
about Kyle Kuzma, who thinks people are underestimating the Lakers.
Now Barbecuing Lynn backs up my point here. He says,
twenty ten is to twenty oh one, meaning you start
counting from one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine.
So I was correct. The new decades started in twenty eleven.
You tried to catch me on that, Roberto, but I

(01:38:51):
am right, and my math expert I learned arithmetic from
Barbecuing Lynn, and he actually follows up on that right now, Hello,
Barbequing Len. Wow, you know that's my favorite subject. Numbers.
I crunched numbers. I'm not good with words, I'm not
good at spelling, and all that numbers are my which
which says a lot Lenn about you calling the show

(01:39:13):
up as one of our worst cars. If only we
could just give you math, if we gave you math questions,
you'd be really good. Right, yes, all right? What is
seven times nine? What is it? Go ahead? Seven times nine?
Hold on, that's sixty three. I almost had to put
my hands down from then I could do that. That
Ham theme you gave me an easy one. I did.

(01:39:34):
I did give you an easy Give me an easy one,
all right, Roberto, give him a math problem. Go ahead, Roberto,
what do you got one hundred times one hundred? Oh?
Come on, come on man. Oh that is adding a
couple of zeros, right, you know, yeah, that's just adding
a couple of zeros. Right, everybody ruined it, Roberto, you
said up, all right? Anything else? Land you got anything else?

(01:39:58):
I find? Yeah, you're not. We thank you. Let's go
to Oh, Chef Brett has something for the talent show.
If you just turned the radio on, where the hell
you've been? But we're gonna have a talent show coming
up next week. At the end of next week, we're
doing a talent show. And so far we've had one

(01:40:19):
person try out on the air, weed Man Hippy. We
gonged him. He's not in the talent show. Weed Man
has to come up with a better song. But let's
say hello to Brett. Hello Brett, Hey, big Ben, how
you doing? Thank you sir? Now, what's your talent? What
do you what do you have here? What's your skill
that you're going to provide us? Well? If if it

(01:40:40):
would please the masses, I would like to leave that
towards the end. I do have a couple things I
like to ask you in the meantime. All Right, as
a and I'm more of a baker than a chef,
I've gotten into baking lately. My wife has gotten me
in that. But but you're a chef. But we both
were culinary experts. But well, how can I help you?
What I want to know was, you know, I was

(01:41:02):
I was driving around town and I know that I'm
not sure how how well you are adapt in Las
Vegas culture. But many of the streets are named after
big time people that have been in Vegas or contributed
to Vegas. And I'm thinking that very soon they're going

(01:41:22):
to name a street, maybe a highway after Tiger Woods.
With all the money that he's gonna be dumping, with
all of these all this free money that's coming here,
he's gonna have a a parkway or a highway involved.
Oh yeah, Well, you're, of course referring to the fact
that the people that bet on golf, the casual consumer,

(01:41:45):
always bets on Tiger Woods because they're He's the only one.
They know who he is. Everyone else like who's brooks
Kepka who the hell's that? Oh? Absolutely? I mean watching
watching the last day of coverage, I saw Jim Nance
and his color commentary and if I had a nickel
for every time that if he makes this, the crowd

(01:42:06):
is gonna go wild. Oh yeah, well it's the first
time I can. I can. Well, it's not the first Tiger.
It's always like this. But I recall over the weekend,
I was reading a story on the Major and it
said Tiger Woods just misses out, finishes in second. And
then the next line was the guy that won was kept.

(01:42:26):
He wasn't even the it wasn't even the lead. The
wise guys once is for him to yeah, go ahead
and on the last day get into the top I
don't know, top thirty. Yeah, that are tied for a
second and third? Yeah, oh yeah no. And I listen
the tiger Woods sickophan I hear from them all They're like, oh,
you sudden he would never win another major, And I'm like, well,

(01:42:48):
he hasn't won another major. I'm not wrong, I'm not Wow.
We're building highways for him, yes, over here, because you
know that's gonna happen, and might might I ad bread
is you know you live in Vegas, but I visit
a lot, and anyone knows that if you first of all,
locals don't go to the strip other than if they
work there. But if you go to Vegas, the way
to get around is to never drive on the strip.

(01:43:11):
You go on all those sides, all those side streets
that are named after all those I had a big
wig people that have dumped a lot of money over here. Exactly.
That's the way you do it. Mean you don't get
to go down Dean Barton Drive and spring Sinatra away.
That's right, that's just really introduced Sammy Davis Junior Drive
just recently this year. All right, we have limited time here,

(01:43:33):
but you you would like to be part of the
talent show. Now what is your skill? Yeah? Well I
wanted to do a better singing aspect than mister Whitman hippie. Ye,
although I really respect him, but uh, there's no there's
no need to respect him. So you would like to sing?
Now you're trained musician? I am not. Did you ever

(01:43:55):
sing like as a kid when you're in school or
in ban for eight years? But all right, yeah, all right,
well hold on, I will will consider that. Do we
need to hear him sing, Eddie, I think we're short
on time right now. But did Cooper screen him for
his singing abilities? I don't know, no idea. No. When

(01:44:16):
he initially called, he didn't say anything about the talent show.
Then he DM me and said that he wanted to
just so, I haven't heard anything. Okay, No, we need
to hear him sing a little, but we don't have
time for that right now. We also need a contestant
for too much or not enough because we gotta get
to that. And also Roberto's wall of whatever it is.
We'll get to that as well. Mom Matelly from the

(01:44:37):
Geico studio, So call up. He want to be in
the Game show at eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox right now, though, Eddie Garcia is here and he'll
give you the latest Eddie well Ben. In baseball games
of note, we had the A's edging the Mariners three
to two. Oakland is now just one game back of
Houston for the AL West lead, with the Astros losing
to the Rockies five to one. As for Seattle, they
followed three and a half back of Oakland by the
final wildcard spot in the American League. Brewer's blank comes

(01:45:00):
seven nothing. Milwaukee's now two back in Chicago for the
NL Central lead. It was the Braves over the Marlins
ten to six. Ronald o'cuona hit two home runs in
the way. He's got a home run in five straight
games and eight home runs in his last eight games.
Atlanta that leads the n least by two on Philadelphia
Phillies followed the Red Sox two to one for Boston.
Rick Porcello gets his fifteenth win of the year to
tie for the Major league lead. College football, the University

(01:45:22):
of Maryland anounces accepted responsibility for the depth of player
Jordan McNairy, who died in June following a heat stroke
at practice. Head coach DJ Durkin is still on paid
leave in the NFL. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger is
being evaluated for a concussion after a collision with an
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Ben veteran wide receiver Dez Brand will be in Cleveland
on Thursday, the Browns have confirmed. Brian also confirmed that
this would be his first of several different teams. He'll
be visiting Cleveland though number one on the list. That's
a lie now. Brown said that at all, I don't either.

(01:46:06):
I believe what's gonna happen is Dez Bryan's gonna sign
with the Browns and then say he called off all
of the visits because he had no other visits. You
don't go to the Browns first. However, Brown's head coach
Hugh Jackson said, quote, it's not a given Nell signed
Dez when he comes in on Thursday. Both sides have
to have a comfort level, and Dez Bryant could have

(01:46:31):
an emotional collapse and the Browns would still beg him
to sign a contract. Okay, come on, you know that
Hugh Jackson's trying to be the tough guy there. He's like, oh, yeah,
we don't need you know. He said that a game
of cat and mouse, like, well, we really don't need him.
You know, We've got good players here. He's got to
want to show that he wants to be at Cleveland.
Brown people are hallucinating. It's what they're doing. All right,

(01:46:52):
thank you for that. Edie is the Ben Maler Show.
We will not cause any bloating, gasiness, or fatigue by
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Geico dot com for a free ray quo. Let's play
the game. Here we go. Hit that button right there.
Hit that button there, you go, right there, that's the one.
It's a game. Which game is it? We'll find out
right now here we go very excited, do a little
tap dance here and wait for Roberto to find the
right the right image. Yeah, we're playing too much or
not enough, that's what we're doing. That's the game. That's
the schedule we're following. We're following the schedule. Here. Hit

(01:47:37):
the button right there, go hit that button. Do do
do do do do do do do do do do?
Did I blind say something? What happened? We change the
schedule here, and we're not supposed to play the game.
We played every game every week in the same time
for ten years. Too much and not and off, let's
play the game right now? Too many of these? Is

(01:48:01):
it too much or not enough enough? Already too much
or not enough? Or Cooper didn't get me a contestant,
so we'll have weed Man play the game. I guess
he's standing by Coop put people on the hole, but
not to play the game. What's going on? Weed Man?
He's not even listening. Welcome to the Blue World. He's
not even listening. Who is this? This is Lisa? How

(01:48:24):
did we get Lisa on the Lisa? Would you like
to play? Too much or not enough? Lisa? Yeah, all right,
turn the radio all the way up. I don't think
it's loud enough. We like the ambient noise in the background.
It makes for great talk radio. Uh. Coop not prepared,

(01:48:49):
he doesn't have the questions, Roberto didn't have the open
and we don't have a contestant. Other than that, this
segments going very well, This is very very good. All right,
hang up on you. Let's get rid of you barbecuing
lend are you there barbecuing? Land? Would you like to
play the game? Land? You called back for some reason.
We thought we hung up on you. Yeah, you're talking
about numbers still. Oh, I'm gonna hang up on you. Eddie.

(01:49:13):
Would you like to play the game? Eddie? Sure, I'm
here Ben. All right, we'll play the game with Eddie Garcia. First,
long time, I'd like to take I'd like to take
back what I said there about this show not causing
bloating and gassiness and fatigue, because I have all those things.
I have all of those things that I am. I'm
feeling the effect up all right. Now that we've done that,

(01:49:34):
let's see you. Let's just pick a random line now,
Line six, Hello, you're on the airline all right, we'll
hang up on that. This is a disaster. I am drowning.
Line too, are you there? Line too? Hello? Line too
is TJ? Hello, t y'all? Thank god? TJ. You like

(01:49:54):
a voice from the heavens? All right, t J? Would
you like to play? TJ? Yes? And yes, I WI
all right, very good? Where are you at? TJ? Tell
the guy in beaver Dam, York, beautiful ry recognize your voice?
All right? Well, TJ? Tell the guy in biver Dam
what you do for a living. I'm a sales guy.
Bad semi retire but still at it. Once a sales guy,

(01:50:15):
you're always a sales guy. Make that money. All right? Well,
good luck you go three three out of fighting. Who
won last week? James in Minnesota. This is the James
in Minnesota edition of too Much or Not Enough? Good
job by James, he swept the board. Question number one,
The Atlanta Braves have scored in double digits twenty two
times this season? TJ. In Rochester? Is that too much

(01:50:37):
or not enough? I'm gonna say not enough, so it's
not enough? Is he right? No? The answer was too much.
They have scored double digits fifteen times. That is tied
for the most of the major leagues. But it is
not at twenty two year oh for one. That's all right.

(01:50:58):
We've seen people come from back further behind, all right,
t J. Question number two, there are only five players
that have scored more career points than Carmelo Anthony without
appearing in the NBA Finals. Too much or not enough?
Too much? The man says too much? Is TJ. Wright?

(01:51:21):
You can put it on the bar. Yes, good job
by you. There only two Dominique Wilkins and Alex English
and the old Denver Nuggets back in the day. All right,
question number three, you're tied up one win apiece, one win,
one loss. Question three. Max Scherzer has had seven plus
strikeouts through three innings three times this season for the Nationals.

(01:51:46):
Too much or not enough? Not enough? Is you right?
That's correct Erzer has done at five times. He's gonna
win the Cy Young Award. Us to the chagrined Mets fans,
but he's gon win the Cy Young Max sure's a
question number four. Alex Cora is the fourth rookie manager

(01:52:08):
to guide a team to fifty plus games over five hundred,
doing it with the Red Sox this year. Is that
too much or not enough? Too much? He says, that's
too much? All right, that's this is for the win.
That's that's good job by you. He's only the second
manager to do so, Ralph Hawk back in the day

(01:52:30):
with the Yankees in nineteen sixty one. So good job
by you. TJ in Rochester, you were paying attention. You
heard me drowning on the air. You saved me from drowning.
I got that's right, and you get a golden take.
Thank you. T J. Good job by you man, all right,
thank you, take care baby, good luck on the next pie.

(01:52:52):
Oh see, that's like a real sales guy, babe. That's
a that's an old school sales guy loving your babe.
Oh yeah, that's awesome. I love that. Right, we'll press on.
We are going to half a new segment on the show.
Should I give the name of it? I started? I'm
not gonna even give the name of it. All right, Roberto,
we rest in peace Romance with Roberto. It's a new

(01:53:13):
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(01:53:34):
Now live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios, it's
Ben Mallor. Turn on the line, find something else. It's
time for Roberto's Wall of Drops play Now. Each week,
our tech place three drops that should be used more
than you decide which one stays in rotation on his
digital wall. So you get to help Roberto build a wall.

(01:53:58):
Answer that question. See was fifteen years old. Ben Maller
has been spouting on FSR royles having their problems on
the road. I'm Ben Mallock and you need to talk more.
Not a problem for Ben. Thousands of good drops to
choose from. I'm a doctor. They're drafting of Robert Nickolm Jason.
Here's Roberto's wall of drops. Yeah, it is time now

(01:54:20):
for Roberto's wall of drops. As you heard there, bat
Bearto Ben, Roberto Roberte, Reberto Man. All right boy, that
imaging guy. All right. Anyway, here's how it's gonna work.
Each week, at about this time, our friend Roberto is
gonna pick three Mallards show drops out of the archive.
We have literally hundreds of soundbites we've collected from listeners

(01:54:44):
and callers over the years here and stupid things we've
said on the air. A lot of my drops, of course,
are edited. I don't actually use those things. I don't
say those things. I'm a professional broadcaster. But these will
be three drops that are not used often enough. But
you can help change that. Now after Roberto plays this
week's drop. I will put up a pole on Twitter

(01:55:05):
at Ben Maller for the next to twenty four to
forty eight hours or so, and you can vote for
your favorite out of the three. Now, we're gonna announce
the champion tomorrow at about this time, and then Roberto
will add that winner to the wall of drops, his
own wall of drops he's got right in front of
this big board of all these sound bites, and it'll
get into regular rotation, so you will actually affect the

(01:55:28):
sound bite that we pick your So, without further ado,
here Roberto, it is time. Now what are our three
drops this week? Oh Roberto, here we go. People wanted
more drops band til we gave them more drops. What
do we personally have is right here? If you're going
to be my radial timp, I, oh, that's our friend

(01:55:49):
Tammy Amy Tammy from I don't even remember that one.
Play that again? Can I hear that? Yeah? Of course,
if you're going to be my radial timp, I need
to be paid. Okay, they were a pimp, get in line,
Tammy getting the line. Okay, that's I don't I don't
really remember that much either. I think I don't think
that was long ago. But I think that was more recent.

(01:56:10):
And then we have oh, now, what's next? We have
all right here we got a hallerween James. Oh, Halloween James.
That's a classic. Oh man, I heard that. I couldn't
believe it was real. Man. Yeah, that's either that or
a beached whale, uh, dying whale. Yeah, that's that's that

(01:56:31):
was one of the great snores in radio history. We
went back to him for about an hour and a half,
and every time we went back sometimes he would pause,
and then it was this build build up like a
volcano bert On and I couldn't believe that was real. Man. Yeah,
that's Halloween James. Man, that's play that and I won't
hear that. Listen. This is not edited. This was an

(01:56:51):
actual drop from a caller, our friend of Halloween James
from Minnesota. Listen, let's play it again. All right, that's
pretty good. Let's hope the doctor it's gonna be hard
to trump that. But what do we have last year?

(01:57:11):
What's the last last thing we have? Uh? Uh? Who
was it? Requested more drops from Genie. Several people. Yeah,
several people say so here we have one, Yeah, exactly,
Baby out with me. You better give me that good stuff.
One thing about our friend, the late great Genie and Medford,
she always knew where the good stuff was. She always

(01:57:33):
knew our friend Genie or the cheap stuff. Well, yeah,
quantity over quality. But that's all right. I love hearing
Genie's voice play. I haven't heard her voice enough lately.
Let's play again, Baby out with me. You better give
me that good stuff. My favorite part is the is

(01:57:55):
the weeeze that you can hear? She breezed in to say.
The next part that was the beauty of Genie. Well,
there were so many things they were wonderful about our
friend Genie. And what a great job by the Mallard
militia raising all that money to help Genie out. Oh
that's awesome. It was awesome. It was so so wonderful.
I tried to tell it last time I talked to Genie.

(01:58:16):
I tried to say, you don't realize how many people
love you when you call the show, and how many
people's lives you you touch, you work overnight or can't sleep.
And I think she kind of figured it out a
little bit the end there. But all right, So those
are the three drops, Yes, Roberto to that's it. People,
one Malar Militia wanted more drops and we gave him
more drops. Man. Okay, so it's Roberto's wall of drops.

(01:58:37):
Those are the three this week. Tammy the radio pimp
that was drop number one, hollering James sleep apne, I
don't think that'll fit on Twitter, and Genie give me
that good stuff, and so I'll put it up Roberto.
Who do you think it's gonna win? I'm going with Genie. Yeah,
Genie's gotta be the favorite. But pollering James and Tammy
both very good as well. We'll find out who's gonna win.

(01:59:04):
It is never too early for a great debate, even
if it's about an award that'll be given out months
from now in baseball. But that's going on. Welcome in
the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Mallers Show.
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(01:59:29):
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free rate quotes all yeah after, It's very simple. So
we begin here this particular hour with the dog days
of baseball. We had a mild Donnie Brook It was

(01:59:50):
more of a slapfest between the Giants and Dodgers, and
we mentioned that earlier if you go back here the
podcast full Mallard monologue on that. But Nick Huntley, the
Ian ketcher honoring the douche bag ways of the unwritten
rules of baseball, and Yasiel Puigue was frustrated with himself
and Nick Hunley was upset with Yasil Puigue, and one

(02:00:14):
thing led to another. They both got ejected. It was
your typical baseball Shenanians. But there there's other stuff going.
One of the stories last twenty four hours or so
has been about the National League Sy Young Award. Now
we have the haves and the have nots. We know
who the playoff teams are likely going to be, with

(02:00:36):
the exception or one or two, and who the teams
that are positioning themselves for the top pick in the
twenty nineteen MLB draft arm And it's it's the same
thing that you've been around long enough to see it here.
The teams that are in contention sell the fact that
they have a chance to make the playoffs. The teams
that aren't in contention are selling the false hope of

(02:00:56):
the future young players, big dream of contending in the future,
blah blah blah blah blah. Or you can take the
path of the New York Metropolitans. Now what of the
New York Metropolitans society, They are selling hardware. They don't
really have many good young players. The Mets have not

(02:01:18):
have not been able to find that marginal young players.
But nothing spectacular, nothing to get all that excited about
at all. So you've got that. And now we are told,
if you've missed this, you might not know where I'm going.
But the crestfallen New Yorkers are cranking up the hype
machine and they're jumping on the train. Cho yep, they're

(02:01:41):
right there, and they are rallying around Jacob deGrom as
he campaigns to win the sy Young Award. And this
is the kind of debate that we have had over
the years, and it's more of a recent debate because
in days of old you could not win the sy
Young Award with the kind of a season that Jacob

(02:02:02):
Degram is having. But the product of the times we
live in today, people are trying to prop up the
gram as the CY Young favorite in the nationally. So
I wanted to talk about this, and the question is
is simple. Let's pretend that you are a long standing
baseball writer and if you have to think, you have

(02:02:23):
to be a writer for ten years. I think a
BBWAA member Baseball Writers Association of America, and they are
the cartel that gets to decide who wins the awards
of baseball. Right, they're the ones. And so you're ten years,
you're a writer, you get to vote. The question is this,
does Jacob de Ram get your vote for the Cy

(02:02:48):
Young Award? Now I'm gonna go first, and the answer
is no. End to the O as in no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no. All right. Now my thoughts on this, You've
got decode picture X and Rubes and we will tie
all this together. Now, the first thing that pops in

(02:03:10):
my head when I think about Jacob Degram in the
Cy Young campaign is the obvious state of the Mets.
This team was in the World Series a couple of
years ago. Granted they lost to the Royals, but they
were in the World Series. And the Mets are now
a downtrodden, wretched baseball team. They've been that way for
several years, and they are circling the wagons while they

(02:03:33):
circle the drain around Jacob deGrom, which is completely understandable.
I understand why they're doing it, but I am not
going to vote for de Gram and neither should you know.
I'm gonna make my argument why I'm not voting. You
have to break down and then decode what it means
to win the cy Young Award. Now, the definition of

(02:03:54):
the cy Young. It's an annual award to the outstanding
pitcher in each league of the major leagues. Now, this
is where we get into parsing words. Right, your definition
of the word outstanding, What does that mean to you? Outstanding?
Now other adjectives that I can use and you can

(02:04:17):
use them as well. For outstanding, you could use the
word excellent. Marvelous is another adjective for outstanding. Amazing. I
catching all of those things. Now, can you use those
words to describe a pitcher who's got a record of
seven wins and seven losses. I don't think that's eye catching.

(02:04:38):
It's not amazing, it's not marvelous. But the yeah, but
crowd checks and well, yeah, but it's not his fulled
the beds are bad. Okay, this is where you have
to be the grown up here. This will have to
be the adult and say that when you do the arithmetic,
that winning has to matter. It has to matter. And
I'm not gonna fall victim to the New York media machine.

(02:05:01):
I'm not gonna do it, and neither should you. Right
not in my world. I understand there's gonna be a
full onslaught of all your senses being overwhelmed with propaganda
about Jacob de Grim and woe is me? You should
feel bad for him, and what a sob story, and
he's got to win the cy Young. I wouldn't even

(02:05:21):
put the Grind in my top three on my back.
I don't have my top three. As of today, we're
at the midway point of the month of August. I
got Max Scherzer, Aaron Nola, and Zach Granky, all of
them ahead of Jacob deGrom of the match. Now Scherz
is gonna win it. Fifteen game winner era of two

(02:05:43):
point one nine. He's allowed nine more runs than the
Gram nine more runs in nine point two innings of
extra work for Max Scherzer. How about Aaron Nolan. Aaron
Nola because he doesn't blow people away and have Godi
strikeout numbers. People overlook him. He's not a household name

(02:06:05):
because in place of the Phillies, even though the Phillies
are good this year, they're not thought of as one
of the glamor teams. Aaron Nola has an ERA of
two point two eight. I put him ahead of Jacob
Degram and his shiny one point eight eight r. I've
got Zach Craigie. He's only won twelve games, but he's
got an ERA of three pitching in that bandbox in Arizona.

(02:06:28):
So all three of those guys ahead of the Mets pitcher.
And the second thing here now, many of the Jacob
deGrom apologist they point to the shining example of Felix
or Nandez as the cy Young winner from back in
the day. That is the path for Felix, You know
that Phelix Hernani's path is the same path at de

(02:06:49):
Graham has to go down when Hernandez won the cy
Young years ago, and I remember sitting here in the
same very chair, behind the same microphone debating at that
point was Steve de Sagar, and we were debating and
Disager was like, oh yeah, Felix should win the say
Young I was like, no, no, no, no no, no. Now
that year Felix hernande has won thirteen games. He was

(02:07:11):
not an All Star that year. The year that he
won the Cy Young Award, it was like twenty ten.
I think it was he won the cy, he won
the sayn't work, he wasn't an All Star. The Mariners
that year went sixty one and one hundred and one.
They lost over one hundred games. And in the thirty
four starts that Felix Hernandez had that year for Seattle,

(02:07:31):
the Mariners were seventeen wins in seventeen losses, so they
were five hundred team. So they went from one hundred
loss team to go a five hundred team, So they
improved by twenty games. Now, how does that relate to
Jacob de Gram? De Graham is seven and seven. That's
his overall record, a one point eight one r A
was an All starr start of the All Star Game.
I believe, I know he He came in after that.

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But the Mets are bottom feeders, right the Metropolitans in
the twenty four starts for the Graham this year they're
ten and fourteen. Now that's more of a product of
having bad players. And all that. I got it. They
don't score a lot of runs, but that's one of
the ingredients into the cione. It's outstanding. But how can
you be outstanding when you're surrounded by vomit? Now, the

(02:08:17):
idea that de gram is in the conversation shows you
that this is the era that we're in baseball, the
obsessed fan base with statistic everything matters but wins and losses.
And it's the late great Tony Phillips once ranted to
me in the bowels of the Big A after the
Angels had lost the game. Wins and losses, wins and losses,

(02:08:40):
wins and mother bleep and losses. That's all you care about.
It's a famous quote from from Tony Phillips, left former
baseball player back in the day, the late Tony Phillips.
But I'll give you an old school example. Barbecuing lenn
called up earlier. He says it all about numbers and
all that stuff. Fine, let me get you an example
here of how times have changed. All right, And you

(02:09:01):
can rationalize anything. You can rationalize anything when you put
the right numbers out there. I'm gonna give you an
old school example. Let's call this person picture X, picture X,
We're gonna call them led the National League in earn
run average, strikeouts, fielding, independent pitching. I don't even know

(02:09:22):
what that is. It's called FIP, like they just made
that up er A plus kase to walks at strikeouts
to walks and hits per nine innings. This picture had
an eight and sixteen record, but again led the national
legue in ra led the nationallygue and strikeouts in several
other categories. Pitcher X finished that particular year fifth in

(02:09:47):
the Cy Young voting. But again all the key numbers
right there. Number one, number one, number one, number one,
number one, number one. That picture was a member of
the nineteen eighty seventy Houston Astros who won seventy eight games.
That picture is a Hall of Famer, the all time
strikeout king, Nolan Ryan. That's right, Nolan Ryan. Nolan Ryan

(02:10:10):
made thirty four starts for the Astros that year, had
an era that led the National League. In nineteen eighty seven,
an era of two point seventy six. The Astros were
twelve and twenty two and Nolan Ryan's thirty four starts
they couldn't score when he was on the mount. Now,
I realized we're going to win the hot tub time machine.
Back to a different era. But in that era, wins

(02:10:31):
didn't matter, right, they did matter, It mattered, It mattered
for generations. Now it doesn't matter. And then Al Gore
invented the Internet and all all hell went, you know,
we went everywhere, and baseball wanks, they lost their way,
they lost it. Think about where we've gone from that
point to where we are now. Where there are people
campaigning for Jacob deGrom on, a brutally bad, boring Mets

(02:10:56):
team who's got seven wins to win the cy Young
because he's got the good numbers elsewhere. It's ridiculous. Now.
The last thing here, Mickey Callaway, who I am told
is the Mets manager. You don't need to learn who
the Mets manager is because it's the revolving doors. We
say about the Cleveland Browns coaching job. But Mickey Calloway

(02:11:18):
is campaigning that wins and losses don't matter. The Mets
manager is saying that wins and losses don't manage manor.
And now I thought about this, and I actually had
an epiphany when I was driving in here to the
Geico Studios, a Fox Sports radio and the epiphany was this,
if you manage the Mets, or if I manage the Mets,

(02:11:40):
we would both also say that wins don't matter because
when you manage the Mets, most of the time, you're
not winning a bunch of games. You play to win
the game unless you manage the Mets, and then wins
and losses shouldn't matter for things like the Cy Young Award.
Why even keep score, right, why even bother Let's just

(02:12:02):
keep the strikeout totals, will keep the urn run totals,
but we won't keep the final score. It's ridiculous, is
what it is. You expect the Mets manager to be
a cheerleader for the garam I get that. Dry humping
guys is something that I feel very strongly about. I
understand you're the Mets manager. But that's not the story,
all right, That is not the I did get a

(02:12:24):
kick out of many of the Metropolitans trying to sell
and this was actually some of this was from Mickey
Callaway and other people around the Mets, the New York
media machine selling the fact that the gram has had
a lot of high stress pitches and innings because the
Mets don't score a lot of runs for him. Now
keep in what kind of rooms are buying this? Right,

(02:12:47):
the Mets. It wasn't for the Marlins, the Mets would
be in last place. Remember when the Mets were eleven
and one, they were playing nine to seventeen baseball to
start the your first twelve games, they were eleven and one,
greatest start in Mets history. You know, that was on
April thirteenth. The Mets record since then thirty nine and
sixty five. They have the worst record in the National League.

(02:13:09):
FATA bam, there you go. How many stress innings does
it really matter? Like if the stress inning is when
you're pitching in a pennant race and you have to
win the game to get into a playoff spot, that's
a high stress inning. A random Wednesday night when the
Mets are playing the Marlins and the Mets happen to

(02:13:32):
score one run in five innings of the gram, that's
not high stress. It's not again, who's buying this? I
can go on on here, but I better stop. It
is the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. We say hello
to Edmund Dallas, steamboat WILLI, Judas Garcia. The people that

(02:13:55):
are buying that are the analytics nerds. Oh, they're all
over it. Many all they were triggered, triggered. They need
their blankie eddies, what they need. Guys are very upset.
I saw an impassioned speech of why de Gram is
clearly the CIA Ward winner this year by someone on

(02:14:17):
the MLB network. I won't name who it was, but
he is all about those analytics and all those numbers
and whatnot. Just to think about Nolan Ryan that year,
I mentioned, with all those numbers and all those glorious
numbers and didn't win this SI anyone. There would be
people if that happened today. Oh my god, marshing around.
I don't even have the Grom in my top three, Eddie,

(02:14:38):
I mentioned that in the monologue there. I got Shuzer,
Aaron Nola, and Zach Grenky, all of them ahead of Jake. Yeah.
I think the only time you would have a player
who's having great individual success but his team is just
awful is if there were no other real candidates for

(02:14:58):
the for the award. Right If if you've got no
one else that's really having a good year, and this
guy's clearly despite the record of his team, having great
individual season, then I could understand it, but it could happen.
Though you remember a Rod winning the MVP with that
terrible text. That's the exception of the rule, though that
shouldn't be the rule. I mean, the Shots are just

(02:15:18):
having a better year. You're talking about nine runs difference
are you gonna give? And now the Nationals are not
really a playoff team either, But there's better than the
Mets if you want to, you judge things by that.
You look at your standings. At least there's a path,
not much of a path. The Nationals are playing five hundred,
they're eight games back, the Mets are sixteen and a

(02:15:40):
half games out of the division. And you look at
your wild card standings in the National League and the
Nationals are only six games out of a wild card spot,
while the Mets are fourteen and a half out. So anyway, again,
we're giving you more numbers, lots of numbers. Numbers, numbers, numbers. Now,
later this hour, password the word Game of the Stars

(02:16:02):
will take a bunch of these phone calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine
six sixty three sixty nine. I'm gonna call this one
intentional kindness. Intentional kindness, we'll get to that. It's a
Mallard conspiracy theory. You're only gonna hear on the Ben

(02:16:23):
Maller Show. We'll get to that. We'll do it. Nay,
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(02:16:44):
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The Husky fan can't says, maybe I'm getting old. Anytime
you start a sentence, maybe I'm getting old. The answers
always yes. I says, maybe I'm getting old. But there's

(02:17:06):
too much rap music being played. The lead as lead
in music, He says, Well, I tune out. I tune
out all the lead in music. I tune it all out.
I'm only worried about me. I'm only worried about the
parts that I talk. That's what I'm concerned about. Let's
say as too old. It's too old a right, yeah,

(02:17:27):
Roberto too. But the new flavor on the image, I've
noticed a little Have you noticed a little change, a
little little twist. I know it's a little something, Robert.
Have you noticed that? He what I'm talking about? When well,
when it comes to Roberto, yes, well that and it's
a little it's a little different to me. Yeah, I
hear the nuance. As a trained broadcaster, I hear the

(02:17:48):
nuance I do. It's not help Wait wait, what's that?
So this is this guy on Twitter? Just some random guy?
Sure that that's vague? No? No, the guy you were
talking about, the Husky fan, I can't. Yeah, so he
thinks now there's too much rap music being played as

(02:18:09):
leading music. Where has he been listening for the past
two plus years? That, Danny Gee? I don't. I'm just
I don't shoot the messenger, man, I'm just telling you
what the people say. Like I said, he's probably too
old or alternative music is probably offended. There, you're offending
pe Ones. Let's go to Angry Bill, Who's up next?

(02:18:32):
On Fox Sports Radio? Hello, Angry Bill? What about a
nine year old girl? Answered that question? How's my best
Bud Doings. I was stop that. I really I missed
it bad. That's a lie. Brian did a great job,
but I really I really incorrect. But all right, oh

(02:18:53):
I would have done a lot longer than that. But Ben,
remember fifty years ago? Yeah, go ahead, Yes, I hate
the jog. You member back to last year, but this
is the exact time that the Dodgers went into their
deep tail spin for twenty or thirty games. It was
so bad and they got to the World Series. It
was a horrific run. And yeah this year and this

(02:19:16):
year is gonna be different. So you say, so you
think this year is gonna be different. No, it's not
gonna be different three or three year so they'll get
to the World Series. All right, good done. I'm happy
with that. Why don't you let me finish well, because
you're trying to compare. You're trying to compare last year
to this year. But that's year ended up with the
National League pennant and they got the game facts. Yeah,

(02:19:37):
you know you were comparing last season this season. That's
a false correlation. Yeah, okay, well three of your players
are having queer years. Aren't having queer years? You're one
guy that's having doing a good job. Which had surprised
me was kemp He over the last thirty games, he's
gotten one seventy six. Okay, oh kemp I never believed
in Matt keV. I was on Matt Kevin spring training.

(02:19:59):
He they got half a season out of him. That
keps to the marginal, the bad ball player and the job.
I called that one in spring training. The problem you
don't have one picture that has nine wins. Pitching is
the name of the game. As you know, the pitching
staff is garbage. You have a dollic a little flower.

(02:20:21):
The dulcate little flower stops pitching because he has a
regular part. Now you claimed in being you claim to
know about baseball. Yes, you like to brag here I
told you this. Yeah, I'm a complete Expertose, So what
is the dot? And that described the dodge of pitching? Again,
go ahead. They are complete garbage, complete garbage. They are

(02:20:44):
third in baseball and earn run average, and you just
call them complete garbage. They are second in whip walks, hits, inning, pitch,
keep their second in quality. Start in your how many
teams are there in baseball? How many teams are there?

(02:21:05):
I don't decide what you want thirty. There's thirty teams,
all right. Out of those thirty teams, the Dodger pitching
staff collective, and I will agree the bullpen has been
an embarrassment. They've been in a disgrace to the Dodger uniform.
The last week or so or the last couple of weeks.
The collective batting average against fifth in baseball for the
Dodgers in all the baseball and that's garbage. How do

(02:21:26):
you put a stat on the manager with no hard
the tin man? No? Now you change. See now you're
moving the goalposts are doing the team. You're moving the goldpost.
We're having a debate here. You're losing the debates. So
you're moving the goldpost game. Oh I don't. I decide.
I'm not going to bring any pictures in in a tie.
And now you're using my material. That's my trademark, rant,
that's my material. I was the one that ranted about

(02:21:48):
kk Nandez not yet. Man, he's a complete tin man.
Okay here, I hope the Dodgers season goes just like
last year and they win the National League Pennant. That
would be great. Let me tell you how it's gonna go,
oh yeah, he's gonna get fired fired, Yeah yeah. The
bad news. They're gonna bring in Dusty Baker. That is

(02:22:12):
not gonna happen. You know nothing. I like Dusty Baker
and all that. He's like a good guy. He's a
very sociable guy. He has no chance. The Dodgers are
being run with the dogma of stat based the supercomputer.
Dusty Baker, by his own words, thinks he will never
manage again because of the bias against baseball people. Not

(02:22:35):
a racial bias. It's a bias against people that are
just like old school and don't don't have the super
computer on their lap and the tablet out, and those
guys are frowned upon in baseball. All right, So the
Ben mallis showing just a win for me, that's a
loss for Angry Bill. He loses that debate. We're gonna
have password coming up here in a little bit. Also,
we will get to intentional kindness. We'll get to that.

(02:23:00):
Some ulterior motives didn't play there. Right now, though, from
the Geico Studios, Eddie Garcia will give you the latest
Eddie Ben. Let's start with some major League baseball games
of note. With the Domabacks beating the Rangers six to four,
Arizona still holds a one game lead on Colorado atop
the NLS. Rockies kept pace with a five one win
over the Astros. Colorado is also a game and half
out of that final wildcard spot in the National League.

(02:23:21):
Giants beat the Dodgers two to one. LAS Yasiel League
and San Francisco's Nick Huntley were ejected in the seventh
inning after an altercation. As for the result of the the game,
that's five losses in a row for LA. There are
two back in the NLS to two and a half
back in the NL wildcard race. Cardinals won. There's seventh
in a row, beat in the Nationals six to four.
Saint Louis is now one game back in Philadelphia for
that final wildcard spot in the National League. Phillis lost

(02:23:41):
to the Red Sox two to one. College football, the
University of Maryland announced accept the responsibility for the death
of player Jordan McNair, who died in June following a
heat stroke at practice. Head coach DJ Durkin is still
on paid lead NFL news. Pittsburg Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger,
who's being evaluated for a concussion after a collision with
one of his office in him and in practice. This
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confident car buying experience. Ben Buffalo Bill's running back Leshaun
McCoy finalized eviction proceedings against his ex girlfriend. This also
Afterdecilia Cordon filed a personal injury lawsuit against McCoy and
his former University of Pittsburgh teammate to Marcus Porter, in

(02:24:25):
connection with that July tenth home invasion in which Cordon
was beaten and robbed of jewelry. Now Bill's general manager
Brandon Bean said no evidence has come to light to
alter McCoy's status with the team, amid allegations that he
also severely disciplined his son and beat his dog. So
does that mean either this is the perfect crime by
shady McCoy or does that mean he actually had nothing

(02:24:49):
to do with it? About that? Hmm? Interesting? Interesting? Now
he didn't I saw a story I was reading somewhere
where he he's accused the girlfriend or the ex girlfriend
of stealing a pair of Kobe Bryant basketball shoot about that. Yeah,
those are expensive, ben God forbid. Well, actually, well they're

(02:25:11):
expensive in value, but the production cost is not very much.
Speaking of Kobe, did you see him? But he was
at the University of Alabama talking to the football team,
apparently part of his Nike contract. He's got what you know?
He was wearing a swoosh. They'll go to any Nike school.
Kobe right there. Did he talk about that little in

(02:25:31):
Colorado and teach the kids you gotta have someone there
as a witness. Did he teach him that? No? I
don't believe m No, I did see you know what
I'm talking about. You don't know what I'm talking about.
What I reads Kobe? I us Coca Cola's investing in
some sports drink that Kobe is a part of. You
see that. I did not see that. Yeah, did Mamba

(02:25:53):
juice or something? What's h I don't think it's called Mama.
That would be rather disgusting, But I don't. I don't.
I'm not familiar with you know, the the number that
whole sports drink market is. It's a bit of a
bit of a scam. You know the two two drinks
that most water? Yeah, water and like like chocolate milk

(02:26:17):
or something. I remember reading a story about before Olympics
years ago. It was like endurance athletes and milk, like
chocolate milk. It was it was probably from the Milk
Council that put it out there, but I bought it.
I believed it. The two greatest ad campaigns of all
time are Diamonds Are Forever and what was the other one? Oh,
breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Yeah,

(02:26:39):
those two, Those two marketing campus pains are brilliant. Anyways,
the Ben Mather Show on Fox for company from the
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Geico dot com for a free rate quote. As we
are on the road to the regular season, I'm gonna
call this one intentional kindness. So the Jets and the

(02:27:02):
Redskins holding joint practices, and after the practice yesterday, Josh
Norman came out, the Pro Bowl defensive back of the Redskins,
and he was slobbering all over Sam Darnel, the rookie
quarterback out of the University of Southern California for the Jets.

(02:27:22):
Norman waxed poetic about how wonderful Sam Donald looked. He
went on and on with glowing reviews of the Jets
rookie quarterback. He said, Josh Norman, he didn't expect much him,
paraphrasing some of this, It's like whatever, He's just a guy.
And then you go out there, Norman said, and you

(02:27:43):
see him making those throws, and they're like, well, You're
like wow, all right, Now, I believe this was an
intentional act of kindness. I'm gonna tell you what, because
Josh Norman knew that if he fawned all over Sam Darnald,
that was gonna end up prominently displayed on the tabloids
in New York. And sure enough, there was a subheadline

(02:28:05):
on the New York Post referencing the Josh Norman quote
about Sam Darnold. This is good, this intentional kindness. He
had ulterior motives. Now, you can't judge anything on a practice.
You'll wait till the game starts. That's when you judge
these people. But it was an intentional kindness and you're
speaking of on the road to the regular season. Do

(02:28:26):
you think it's okay to drive stone? Come on? The
truth is your reaction time slow way down. When you're high,
you're not only putting yourself in danger but everyone around you.
So stop kidding yourself. If you've been using marijuana in
any form, believe it or not, do not get behind
the wheel. If you feel different, you drive different, drive high,

(02:28:51):
get a d you I And as their old slogan goes,
they will see you before you see them. That's a
good slogan. I liked it, all right. We'll press on here.
Let's go to Antonio, the champion. One of the great
upsets of all time. At the end of last week, Antonio,
kid caller from the Bay Area, knocking off the great

(02:29:14):
champion of ball. Hello, dad, there's his voice, Hello Antonio. Hello.
When are you going back to school? Antonio? Next Monday?
Next Monday? O, no, one, Only a few more weeks here,
and we're gonna lose Antonio to school. It's gonna be
tough to stay up. No, and don't no no, because

(02:29:40):
your teacher's gonna call. I'm gonna I'm gonna be accused
of causing bad grays. What kind of grades do you
get in school, Antonio? Grad you do pretty good? All right?
What are you like a B student something like that? Yeah, okay,
all right, listen to you. You're allowed to call the show, Antonio.

(02:30:00):
But if you start going down to that sea level
I call out the Mallar level, then then you're in
trouble and you gotta stop calling, okay, because you gotta
you gotta take care of your education. Okay, all right,
Well I got I got a few things to say. Okay.
First of all, I think Barry Bond should be in
the Hall of Thing. That's a lie, all right, that's
I disagree, all right. Next, second of all, the reason

(02:30:24):
I'm a true Warriors fan is because, well, three years old,
I remember the Warriors drafting Stephan Curry third three and all.
I don't I would like to face anyone. I don't

(02:30:47):
care who it is. You've already been, you've already been
in the chair. Well, actually, Ben, I like to face
I would like to face anyone. I don't care who
it is, and bolder that. Okay, hold on, Antonio, Yes,
I believe I believe we may need a rematch. Band
was scoring area, Well, there was that question where he

(02:31:10):
chimed in and the answer was Mike Trout, but nobody answered.
I did not deduct points from Antonio for for chiming
in there. Oh cool, yes, let me do that PSA
over do you think it's okay to do a radio show? Store?
Is your reaction? Time? Slow? White out? When you're high?
All right? Don't get behind the microphone with the weed.

(02:31:35):
You've got to be kidding me. So what should the
score have been? Well, see the way I see it,
Antonio was on a run, you know, so he was
on a run. We ran at a time. It was
a great matchup. I think we I think we need
a round two with with a proper amount of a time.

(02:31:56):
Are you okay with that? Antonio? Okay, all right, we'll
put you on hold. All right, buddy, hold on. That
wasn't listening, but hold on and then we'll have you
play on Friday. We must get to a Baldinis now,
Jason and Ottaway or pass passwork? Yeah, we get the
passway Jason and Ottawa. Now, I see you under the

(02:32:16):
CFL report. We don't have time for it right now.
Can we do it tomorrow or you can't do it tomorrow?
I was time shifting for Reds purposes, But you know what,
for the Mallar militia, I will make sure we have
a CFL reports in the world. All right, buddy, thank
you for that. You're doing God's work. Jason. It's very
important we hear that. My picks I've got. I'm gonna
study tonight on those CFL games. I will have some

(02:32:39):
numbers there to back up my picks. We are going
to get to shut up. We're gonna get the password.
We're gonna do it. The word Game of the Stars,
and it is next. Almost all talk shows sound the
same after a while. Think of us as a sports
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(02:33:00):
our closest friends, most of them Ig Norris. Please take
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Coo Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. All right
too we go. Here we go the password, password, you idiot, password,

(02:33:24):
the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Miller, and
the way we're going is password time. Each and every
weekend about this time, we play pass was welcome in
our contestants. For this week's edition of Password, we have
our combatants lined up. We say hello to Jed who fled.
Hello Jed when Detroit University. You have to workout, so
we drank up through version of Chocolate Mill. Dude, You're

(02:33:46):
always on point. You always know what you're talking about.
The tremendus job by you backing up my point earlier.
And we have Sean in the Hoosier state of Indiana. Hello, Sean,
how's it going? Then? Welcome Sean. What do you do
for a living? Sean? I'm a lab tack in the
chemistry lab. Cool, like at a school or something like that,
or like a business or yeah no, I said two

(02:34:09):
things and everything. But now with the production lab, production lab,
I got you. Got you? Okay, cool, very cool? All right, Well,
good luck to you, Sean. Hold on a second. And Jed,
of course eats gizzards and all that stuff. We learned
that last time he called up Jed, Who would you
like to partner up with? Jed? Hey, man, man, I'm
gonna say you from going to the going with that
narcotics and manufacturer. Apparently I go with you Ben. Okay,

(02:34:30):
very good. It's me and Jed and Sean. Who would
you like to partner up with? Sean Eddie? All right, Eddie,
it is very good. He didn't deny it. Yes, So
we have a list of ten words, gentlemen. We start
out with ten points or everywhere. We go down to nine, eight, seven, six, five, four.
Then we throw the word out because we get tired.
You listening as you drive around, or you attempt to

(02:34:51):
go back to sleep, whatever it might be, you can
play along with the show. Let's get started. Jed pick
a number between one and hand three. Word number three.
All right. The clue is bargain, negotiate. No, all right, Sean,

(02:35:20):
Ben said bargain. My clue to you is discount deal.
Oh all right, sale, Yes that's right yet, good shot
by you. All right, it is a sale. So we
eight points eight points for that man. But let's get

(02:35:43):
it together. Here we go, let's get together. No bargain.
There's a sale, is a sales a bargain. He doesn't
want to give me credit, but I deserve No, I
get it. I gave a better clue. My clue set
up all other clues. You're up. Sean. Pick a number
one to ten, but not three, number one, number one
e numerals scenes easy. Let's see, Sean, the password for

(02:36:10):
you the clue is recall. Remember, Yes, how about that?
It was easy? It was the easiest word of the
You don't celebrate easy wins. Do you think the Harlem
Globe trying to celebrate it beating the Washington Generals? No,
let's score every time they did? Oh your back up,

(02:36:32):
Now that's Increate's a lie, Sean. All right, go ahead, Jed? Eight?
All right, word number maybe you should skip that one?
Number nine? Yeah, good point, Coop, Yeah, Coop? Should I
do the PSA on the weak thing? Alright? Just for
the record, word number eight. The Coop had, which we

(02:36:55):
will not be using, was memory, which season really similar
to remember? All right? Anyway, you picked number nine, Jed.
All right, let's go with championship. Oh god, trophy. No,

(02:37:19):
it's a bad job by you, Jed. I got the
Scooper loop problem, dude, be honestly, I understand it's not
helping the game. All right, I'm Sean. Are you familiar
with the Mallar maneuver using my name like this? Come on? Okay, well,
Ben said championship, So we're using the mallar maneuver, Ben
said championship heavyweight. Okay, ma um oh he doesn't know

(02:37:49):
the mallet maneuver. We need an answer, uh contender, No,
Kyle b Yes, Oh my god, he got it right again.
Mike Closer of math like Eddie has two partners. My
clues of everyone's talking, everyone talking at the same time,

(02:38:14):
TI radio titles were weaving. Jed got it right, So
we take the lad that's it. We're out of time.
You're the man man. That's it. We're out of time.
That's it. Because Jed got two answers from Mike uns Mike,
I am the word and I correct Jail I win. No,
good job, direct Jed, you get and I get credit

(02:38:37):
my clues shut up and he didn't even give him
a clue. He answered off of my clue, of my clue, Jettie,
we w clue start another one from mallor

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