Dropping the Hammer

Ben Maller breaks down Joe Burrows & LSU winning the National Championship, MLB announcing punishments for the Astros organization, why players were not disciplined, how it taints the World Series win, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Spen, I hope you had a wonderful day or
night or whenever you download the podcast. But we are
back at it with a fresh piping hot out of
the audio of it edition of the Ben Maller Radio Show.
So coming up on today's program, now, I wanted to
do all four hours on just the Astros being cheating bums,

(00:23):
but I decided not to do that, not non none,
because we had a championship game in college football. So
we will look back at LSU beating Clemson in a
game that lasted about twelve hours. We will celebrate coach
oh and Joe Burrow. We will also look in the
losing locker room where Trevor Lawrence was not only a quarterback,

(00:44):
he was terrible, and what the heck happened to the
prodigy of the Clemson Tigers. But most of this show
is going to be dedicated to the cheating Astros, the
asterisk of Major League Baseball. Did they get the punishment right? No?
We examine why they did not. And also there's a
conspiracy theory and I believe it to be accurate here

(01:07):
as to why the Astro players were not suspended. It
was only the executive and the manager that we're punished
also the Astros should they have to give back the
twenty seventeen World Series Trophy, we take a look at
that as well. We have some game shows and some
other fun along the way. All of it is coming
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your way right about now. Well, anyways, is Marty Graw
in January? And I wonder if LSU is celebrating the
way the Astros did during World Series games. Bang Bang
the LSU football program, Louisiana State, the champions of college
and football, Welcome. In the beginning of the Ben Maller Show.

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We are in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports
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(02:33):
a disclaimer here at the very beginning that if I
had complete editorial control, we would not be talking about
LSU and Clemson. I feel like it's the second biggest
story in sports, and way down the list there is
a massive cheating scandal. Guilty on all charges. The jury
is in for the Houston Astros, the dirty dogs of

(02:55):
baseball and everything we've been talking about since what November,
since November wish on November, December and half of January.
We have been vindicated. But we will have plenty of
time we have. As a friend I used to work
with told many years ago, we have a four hour
blank canvas of talk radio, so we will have plenty
of opportunity to bring the hammer of God on that

(03:19):
baseball team in Houston. But I did watch, I did
check it out. I did enjoy parts of the never
ending game that wrapped up the college football season. It
was built as an epic heavyweight battle royal Joe Murrow,
the presumptive. The fact though number one pick in the
NFL draft in April, versus Trevor Lawrence, the darling of

(03:42):
years past in college football matter, Who could forget that
Clemson knocked down of Alabama and Trevor Lawrence. They said
he would have been the number one pick if he
was able to come out. He was not allowed to
come out of the college world to the NFL. And
he's got the long flowing hair. It looks like a
throw back to the seventies, got that whole thing going on,

(04:02):
and it probably wears bell bottoms and that whole thing.
So those are the headliners. And did the game live
up to the hype? I don't know how much of
it you wash? I assume maybe you watched part of it,
maybe not. I don't know. Joe Burrow not one, not two,
not three, not four, not well, he had actually five,
he had five, five touchdown passes, he ran for another,

(04:24):
and he finished off a dreamy, just absolute dreamy college
football season. And now the historians are all trying to
win up each other with compliments for Joe Burrow. He's
the greatest thing ever and blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. All I know is this the
LSU Tigers let it halftime. They you know, it came

(04:46):
out early, the play so well early in the game,
but then once they got the thing going and they
did not look back. Forty two twenty five the win.
So he had LSU. I gave you the pick on
Benny versus the penny on the podcast. And that is
a winner. You cashed in. You win over number three Clemson,
and that is it. Sayonara riva deda chac later. Aloha

(05:07):
means goodbye to the college football season. We bid ado,
but don't worry. Spring football will be here like next week.
So that's what we have to look forward to. Now
let's discuss the question. Now I'm gonna get to Clemson
in a minute, but we'll start out with the LSU side.
Are you more pleased for Joe Burrow wrapping up the
Disney esque college football season or Ed Orgeron the coach

(05:33):
at Louisiana State. Now this one is not that difficult.
A lot of people will say, Wow, it's a player.
Come on, it's gotta be Joe Burrow. It doesn't get
better than that. You win the Heisman. The guy was
left for dead at Ohio State the buck guys. Granted,
the guys that replaced Joe Burrow were pretty good college
football players, but he didn't get the opportunity to be

(05:55):
the guy at the Ohio State University. And then he
gets a redemption situation by going we know the story,
going to Louisiana, the swamps of Louisiana and gets the wind.
But the answer for me is coach Oh. I am
on team coach Oh is what I am. Absolutely, I

(06:17):
think that's a blood type. Also, I believe that's a
blood type as well. Now I've got Jambalaya, catfish and
finger painting, and we will combine all of this right now,
we'll line it up, knock it down. So to lead
off with the Fred Flintstone of the Bayou, the Cajun
Fred Flintstone is one of the great characters of college football.

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Now orgeron everyone who doesn't really pay that close attention.
I saw a lot of people like I don't really
watch college football, but where did this guy come from?
Even though he's been around for like a thousand years,
coaching as an assistant at various schools and briefly the
head coach and whatnot, he has paid his dues a
football lifer who got a second opportunity. They're flopping doing

(07:01):
the old face plane. At Old Miss back in the
early two thousands, was not only the coach of the Rebels,
he was terrible, had a two eighty six winning percentage,
and then flirted with the University of Southern California coaching job.
In twenty thirteen. He was the interim coach and had
a six and two record over eight games for that
dirt bag Lane Kiffen. And then you know, they said, hey,

(07:23):
you know, we don't want to hire you. We want
to hire the drunk Steve Sarkisian instead. How did that
work out? Now? I mentioned this on Twitter, and I
believe it bears repeating. I've told the story here. If
you're one of our people, you know I've told this
story several times. I'd said story time on the radio.

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But I had a USC booster around that time, was
twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen. I had a USC booster who
told me that flat out that the reason, the main
reason at Orgeron did not get the job because he
would have worked cheap, and they liked that. They liked
that would have worked cheap. But the main reason coach.
O did not get the University of Southern California job

(08:06):
was because, as I was told, he did not look
and sound like the USC football coach is supposed to
look and sound. It's like typecasting, right central casting. You
have a certain look and a sound of coach is
supposed to have and he just didn't do that. He
didn't sound like Listen, you can't disagree with that, but

(08:26):
how does that look now? How does that look now?
He definitely looks and sounds like a college football coach
in Baton Rouge, Louisiana is supposed to sound. In fact, Coacho,
I'm pretty confident if he was in an accident, like
an automobile accident and he started bleeding, he bleeds gumbo.
That that is his blood type as gumbo. That's I

(08:48):
believe that's accurate. I might be making that up. And
then and then when he farts, he farts Jambalaya that's
what comes out. So he's got that going for him.
He's about as Southern Louisiana as you can get and
all that, and he is a treasure and now he's
a champion as a head football coach. He had been
on some good teams as an assistant football coach. Put

(09:11):
good job by coach Oh, and let's hear from the
man of the hour. Here's ed Orgeron, who is very
excited for apparently every man, woman, and child who lives
in the state of Louisian. We love the State of Louisiana.
I love this team. One team, one heartbeat, this coaching staff,

(09:32):
everybody that planned the purpleent goal to great state of Louisiana.
This is for everybody, one team, one heartbeat. Baby. Somewhere
in the graveyard, the macho man Randy Savages say, hey,
I want my voice back. He's out of like the mansion,

(09:53):
slide into a slim gym or something. All right, anyway,
here's more from coach Oh. Let's see who does he
want to credit? You want to you want to celebrate himself?
Does he want to celebrate his family? Who's he gonna
praise here? Let's find out. Give credit to the players.
I'm at the right place at the right time. Yeah, Joe,
we get Joe Burrow, We get Joe Brady Stevens, Mega,
Dave Ranza, Hey, Glynde, that was hilarinous offensive line that

(10:16):
we have behind us for short lost. Give them all
the trad Okay, we'll give him all the credit. Meanwhile,
I hope the University of Southern California enjoys Clay Helton,
because I gotta tell you, man, you say what you
want about Clay Helton. He's a lousy football coach. He's
a bad recruiter, but he looks and sounds like the
USC football coach is supposed to look and sound. I

(10:38):
think that's most important. Right if you're a booster at USC,
doesn't matter. If he can't recruit and USC's behind everyone
else in the Pac twelve and they don't have any
really good players and all that stuff, he doesn't matter.
I mean, the guy sounds like you're supposed to sound
when you're a USC football coach, and that's really most important. Now, furthermore,
Joe Burrow. Let's let's address Joe Burrow, who was sluggish

(11:00):
at the start of the game. We had cracked some
jokes about him trying to avoid the ben Gals with
the number one pick in the April drafted and he
needed some smelling salts. Well, he apparently got the smelling salts,
because it turns out that Burrow in this game, the
championship game, of college football was like a diesel engine.
It took him a little time to warm up, and
then those globe plugs kicked in and the intact intake

(11:23):
heater and all that, and boom done. There you go.
So he wins the Heisman, National Championship, storybook season, blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But I
do not give the nod to Joe Burrow because I
believe he will go on and do more cool things,
like he's the number one pick in the NFL. Barring
him getting arrested with a hooker and cocaine, he's gonna

(11:45):
be the number one pick in the NFL draft. That's
gonna happen. So you figure he's gonna spend a couple
of years in Siberia with the Bengals and then likely
will escape there and go somewhere else. But he's gonna
have a long, a long career in the NFL. But
more importantly, he's gonna make a lot of money. So
he's got bigger catfish to fry, mister Burrow than this

(12:09):
National Championship game and all that. It's nice to take
a victory lap, though, and say, hey, all you guys
up in my home state of Ohio. There, how's that
going now? As far as Clemson is concerned, last thing, well,
just Clemson. Now, before we get to the Komodo dragon
the room, Trevor Lawrence, we must also address Brent Venables. Now,

(12:30):
Brent Venables, who is the defensive guru? And well, I
believe he's the highest paid assistant coach. He was as
of last night. Checked. I haven't maybe as somebody else
making more money, but he was the highest paid coach
in college football. And I believe he's making two point
two million dollars as a defensive stalwart, the mind behind

(12:52):
the Clemson Tigers defense. So they paid this guy for
you know, two point two million. He goes out and
LSU had six hundred and twenty eight total yards of offense,
four hundred and sixty three passing yards. They averaged almost
ten yards per pass attempt. Well, maybe they stopped the run.
Well well no, LSU ran for one hundred and sixty

(13:16):
five yards and averaged over five yards per pass attempt. Yah,
but hey, those checks still cash, man, those checks still cash. Now.
As far as Trevor Lawrence, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Now there's two ways
to look at this. There's one way of saying, well,
he was due for a stinker. He was due for

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a stinker. It's his first college football loss, all right there,
it is right there. It was on the big stage,
the flowing gold locks of Trevor Lawrence, the golden arm
of the quarterback at Clemson. And not only was he
out there, he was terrible, right terrible. And a year

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ago he was the darling of college football. We were praising,
we're galing him, throwing rose pedals at his feet. He'd
become the first true freshman starting quarterback to lead a
team to the national title since nineteen eighty five. And
didn't just squeak past Nick Saban. Not Trevor Lawrence took

(14:19):
a mallet and an anville and just whacked Nick Saban
over the head in that game. And everyone was just
going gaga. He can't go to the draft until twenty
twenty one, and all this stuff. The last time Trevor
Lawrence lost a game before Monday Night was in high
school back in twenty seventeen, back when the Astros had

(14:41):
integrity before we realized they were cheating scumbags, for example.
But Lawrence was not only a quarterback. He was bad.
I mean this call it like it is here. Oh,
it's not whose fault. I'm sure there's a PARADEI of
excuses and all that pointing fingers at other people there.
But he is someone that was built as a seasoned,
big game quarterback with championship pedigree. That turned out a

(15:04):
false advertising because he played tentative, he was hesitant. Clemson
averaged less than six and a half yards per pass
attempt for Trevor Lawrence, and you can go down the
final numbers and say, whoa how did he do? I
did not have a touchdown pass, did not have an
interception in the game. He was He looked like Jared Golf.

(15:27):
To me, I've seen that kind of performance watching the Rams.
So warning to whoever might draft Trevor Lawrence in twenty
twenty one, you could end up with Jared Goff two
point oh because that was a vintage Jared Goff type performance.
He had nineteen incomplete passes. He also reminded me a
little bit of Josh Allen the Compass Rose where he

(15:50):
didn't know where the pass was going. It's like a compass,
you know, the north, south, east, west, in matter any
any of those places. This was certainly not his magnum opus.
It was more like a finger or painting type performance
by Trevor Lawrence here and again, there will be a
bunch of excuses. I'm guessing it's gonna be that he
had some kind of unreported injury that that was part

(16:13):
of it. That will come out there. That's always a
go to excuse that he was he was hobbled a
little bit, but he didn't want to admit it. That's
always a good one. Can't go wrong with that one.
Here's Trevor Lawrence who was asked about a bunch of
different things, and well, let's just get right to the
chase here. What the hell happened? You suck. It's a
lot of different things. But I mean, like I said,

(16:33):
just at the quarterback position, if you're gonna win games
like this, you got you gotta play really well. And
I just didn't do that tonight. So a bit of
an understatement. Here's more from Trevor Lawrence, who points out
that there were a lot of opportunities that were not
taking advantage of first of all, else, you did a
really good job. They brought a lot of pressure, they

(16:53):
did a good job mixing up the coverages. But just
at the end of the day, I just didn't play
well enough for us to win. You know, too many
miss plays by me, missed a lot of receivers and
you know, just just wasn't my name. Yes, but you
had your night last you see, got a championships. You're
not that worked out, You're not bummed out about it.
Here's one more from Trevor Lawrence and he talks about

(17:13):
what he's really poed about. It sucks. I think the
worst thing is you don't get to go back and
play with this group. So that's for me, that's the
worst thing. You know, just those seniors, especially the guys
up front, you know, some of the white outs just
gonna you know, we're gonna be fine, We'll be back,
but it just sucks not getting to finished the way

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you wanted to with those guys. Now, there's another excuse
that Dabo Sweeney has the built in fall guy Clemson.
The linebacker, Remember the linebacker, James Skalski. He got knocked
out of the game with a targeting It was a
three point game. He got ejected from the game in

(17:55):
the third quarter with about five minutes to go. Ye fire,
and that was game, set and match. Good afternoon, good evening,
and good night for Clemson. From that point forward, they
were done. They were dun Skis. We are not dun Skis.
I'd like to alert all the affiliates down the line
that we will in our two, three and four have

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in depth team coverage of the global cheating scandal that
is rocket professional sports in America, and we will also
talk about, you know, where we should go after our parade.
The Dodgers, of course, vindicated twenty seventeen World Series. Baseball
will announce in the next couple of days that the
Red Sox also are apparently guilty as well, and so

(18:38):
they'll get the twenty eighteen But right now they just
have the twenty seventeen World Series. We don't get ahead
of ourselves. The Dodgers have to wait a couple more
days to win the twenty eighteen World Series. So there's
a lot of that. But we'll take your phone calls
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not my record, we'll get to that, and we'll do
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It's Ben Maller. All right, we'll take some calls here
in a minute. I did a compelling Maller monologue about
the LSU Clemson game, and looks like everyone wants to
talk about the Astros. So it's amazing how that works.

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But I have more thoughts before we get to the
Phone's real Martin from the airport in Denver, right, Sin
says that coach sounds like the macho man was with
a sore throat coach o or like Arnie Spanier, Harnie
Spanier doing gurgles with a bottle of Jack Daniels while
brushing his teeth. Corey to real Martin sounds like a

(20:28):
guy who did all the voices in the movie three
hundred and the voice Mike Tyson wishes he had all
of that content from the real Martin. Every one of
those lines came from the real Martin at the air.
That's right exactly, mister Wright. Right Sin says, I'm a
big Red Sox honk. But it makes sense why Steve
Pierce all of a sudden wasn't scrap heap material. Yes,

(20:52):
it's amazing what cheating will do. George Stringer hits five
home runs in the twenty seventeen World Series, and then
Steve Pierce, Steve I wish I could curse Steve effing
Pierce wins the World Series. MVP. Let's go through the
list of teams Steve Pierce has played for. All right,

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you ready, all right? How about this Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Boston, Toronto,
Tampa Bay, the Yankees, and the Astros. A journeyman hobo
baseball player wins the Most Valuable Player award in the
big leagues. Somebody that had never had driven in more
than fifty runs all of a sudden is mister October.

(21:34):
But Alex Cora man, he got to write a book.
He has never worked in baseball again, he's gonna be
fired by the Red Sox. He'll be banned for a
couple of years, unlikely fired later this week or in
the next couple of weeks. But you should write a book.
You know. The odd thing is, I actually know Alex
when I knew him when when I was doing Dodger
talk back in the day he was playing for the Dodgers.
He was a backup infielder that couldn't hit. If only

(21:57):
he knew about this back then, this whole way to cheat,
he would have had a longer career and been more
productive in the big leagues and actually gotten some more
hits in the major leagues. Anyway, So I want to
address go back to college football. Joe Burrow. So he
wins the Heisman National Championship, that's fine, congratulations. Then they
say most passing touchdowns in a single season in college

(22:22):
football d one history, And I'm gonna put a break
on that. Not my record, that's not a record I
am going to accept because Hawaii legend cult Brannan is
still the single season touchdown leader in college football. And
I'll tell you why. Brandon at fifty eight touchdown passes
for Hawaii back several years back, that is still the

(22:45):
real record because Brandon did it in fourteen games. Joe
Burrow has now played fifteen games after the game on
Monday Night for LSU, so he played an entire extra game,
which means the record is bogus. No, you need to
be honest about this. The reason why still has the

(23:06):
record is because he went to Saddleback college. That has
nothing to do with it. Eddie. I would never I
would never let that get in the way of this
at all. No, But Eddie, if a guy plays one
extra game, then the records bogus. Right, you would admit that, right.
The guy got an extra game. He didn't break the
record prior to the fourteen games that Brennan played. Joe

(23:28):
Burrow had to play in this game on Monday night,
game number fifteen, and then he zoomed past Brennan. And
by the way, you know who's paying attention to LSU
football when they're playing their non conference schedule did you
see how inflated Joe burrows stats are. Now, I think
the guy's gonna be good, and I am optimistic that
Burrow will have a nice career in the NFL. But

(23:50):
there's some James Harden funny business going on. There's some
Russell westbrook shenanigans with Joe Burrow and his stat sheet.
I looked it up. Burrow had twelve of those touchdown
passes against the like check this out at It's a
Murder's row of college football. Utah State, Northwestern State, and
Georgia's Southern So twelve of those touchdown passes came against

(24:13):
those schools. Well, he's in the Southeastern Conference, Okay. Vanderbilt
was three and nine this year, Arkansas two and ten,
and Old Miss four and eight, pretty much high school teams.
Burrow had fourteen touchdown passes against them. So that's twenty
six touchdown passes for Joe Burrow that are against a

(24:33):
bunch of lightweights. He also had twelve in the two
playoff games. Yeah, so that enhanced the numbers there as well.
You're right, thank you, you're helping my argument. Not actually
you're helping my argument. You're absolutely helping my argument. And
Burrow and Brandon are on the same level because while
Joe Burrow is surrounded by NFL players and all that,
Colt Brennan when he was in Hawaii, the guys that

(24:54):
we're gonna go pro Hawaii, we're gonna be pro surfers,
they were not players that were going to do anything
other than that. So it's right now he probably is,
but it doesn't matter. That's the real single season touchdown leader.
I'm sorry, LSU, you got your championship, Heisman and all
that stuff. Pathetic. That's tell me what I said that
was incorrect? What did I say that was wrong? Twenty

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six touchdowns against inferior opponents. He had talent around him
play against Alabama. That you had two touchdown passes against
Alabama's one or two or something like that doesn't matter.
He's not awful. You're a bomb. Turn his mic off.
He's a bomb. Eddie's a bomb. Fox Sports Radio has

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I've been We've had two major stories today and both
these stories could definitely fill a four hour show, which
I guess they can and I'm hoping at some point though,

(25:59):
you'll be able to squeeze in some Antonio Brown talk. Oh,
he threw a bag of blanket? Is a lady friend
threw a bag of plan He got into a confrontation
in front of his home baby mama with the mother
of his three children. The police were the kids, well yeah,
and the police were there, his kids were there, and
he went on a profanny laced high rade, yelling at

(26:21):
the baby mama. So it's worth But of course the
best part of this whole thing is that Antonio Brown
filmed this himself and then put it on social media
for everyone to see. Now, he later deleted it, but
as we all know, this stuff is ye who always
lives on social media. Plenty of people already captured it
and it still lives. You can watch it on the internet.
But uh yeah, this guy is something else man. And

(26:45):
one thing we'll say, he's always made good life choices,
and that is what really knows. How he likes to
keep his name out there and the headlines and all that,
and he's done it yet again. All right, thank you
for that eighty. It is the Ben Maler show. As
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(27:08):
for a free ray quote. We'll get back to the
college football conversation a minute. I didn't want to mention
the Wade Phillips. Did you see the Wade Phillips story there,
Grandpa Wade? Not yet, but it sounds like the Cleveland
Browns are planning on bringing him in to try to
mimic what they did, what he did with the Rams

(27:28):
when he was hired, to try to show Sean McVeigh
the way, remember that back a couple of years ago,
and they want got the Super Bowl and all that.
So the Browns hired the great Kevin Stefanski as their coach,
and it appears who Wade Phillips is in conversations to
join the Cleveland Browns, which will add another team. I

(27:50):
don't believe he's worked for the Browns, so that'll add
another team. He's worked for one third of the NFL teams. Actually,
I think more than that. They might closure to half
of the NFL teams. At this point. Wade Philip has
worked well, I like weight. I wish him well. He
won't do anything in Cleveland, that's where careers go to die.
But you know, at least he'll get paid and he'll
get to talk and have fun and all that stuff,
which he enjoys so much. All right, So I wanted

(28:11):
to address also the college football. Now, one of my
big statements over the years has been about these lists.
I don't do list radio. I work with a guy
on a podcast, David Gagon, who does a list radio
gag On. Nobody knows who he is. He's a nobody,
but he does list radio and all that stuff. And
there's a lot of people that do that, and big

(28:31):
names that do it because it works. It gets a reaction.
You do a list because people don't agree about anything,
and so people get all worked up about lists. They
get all upset about list. I don't like lists. I'm
bothered by lists. You know, the list crowd gets all upset.
So I bring this up because during the LSU College

(28:52):
of Football Championship performance there against Clemson, they released a
poll that had been done that ranked the top one
hundred and fifty college football players over the last I
was at Let's see how I guess the beginning of
college football when hundred one hundred fifty ye hundred fifty

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college football players, I think that's how it goes. Anyway.
So I'm watching this and they're going through the whole list,
and they've got all the names and all that stuff,
and I look, people are getting upset. People are getting
upset because that no player from the last thirty years
of college football qualified to be among the top eleven

(29:34):
all time players. And you think about, you know, obviously
one's Tim Tebow, who was a great college player, was
a bum in the NFL, but was a very good
college player. But here's the thing. Who's voting on that.
I would imagine a lot of older people are voting
on that, and they like the old legends of college football.
The other thing that's amazing about this event Jim Brown.

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I said this on social media and it bears repeating here.
I am so impressed with Jim Brown. Not that he
was considered the greatest NFL player of all time or
now the greatest college football player of all time, but
he beat the hell out of a woman years ago
domestic violence, and he is still brought back at all
these events. It is amazing so many these people are

(30:17):
ostracized to do these kind of things in society today
and you're not allowed to be part of the mainstream.
But Jim Brown has managed to do it. And the
great thing about Jim Brown and people that love sports,
they're so dumb. I mentioned this on social media, people say, well,
you know, back then, everyone beat women up, so it
was okay, and it was all right, and well, Harvey

(30:37):
Weinstein would probably say, listen, when I ran Hollywood, everyone
had a casting couch, So what's the big deal, you know,
come on, we mentioned that that it's the everybody. Everybody's
doing it defense, right, Well, Jim Brown beat up the woman,
but everyone beat up women back then. It was all right.
We can let him back by not what's wrong with you?
I just think it's I think it's interesting that he's allowed.

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You know, he's old, you know, he's fragile, he's got
to have a cane and you've got things to stand
up and all that stuff. But it's interesting. Now's the
time for women to get their revenge on him. Oh yeah,
you can't run away, Yeah, I think you'll probably it's
a fair point on that, and you cannot to run away.
But like if the NFL had put out a domestic
violence person and I guess Jim Brown is on their list.

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Everyone's doing lists. It's the year of the last twenty nineteen,
twenty twenty year the list the NFL top one hundred
players of all time college football with this fugasy list.
And every Mama Luke who loves a list is having
orgasm right now because of all these lists that are
out there. They can't get enough of the list. List, list, list, list,
this list. This is what I say, that's right, list

(31:43):
this all right, let's see here Pats's big mistake having
Ben opened the show talking boring college football while the
Major League Baseball world is flipped up side, don't wor
we will address we will. We will address that. Absolutely,
we will address that. Steve says, been that high school
Old Miss team had over six hundred yards of total

(32:03):
offense and scored thirty seven points against the Tigers. Yeah,
and they fired their coach and they brought in the
Lane Kiffin and who will be there for a couple
of years and then he'll either break some rule or
go back to the NFL. And that's how that goes.
Ken Bobby's how that's all going to work out, all right? Anyway,
We'll press on time now for the who Am I? Game?
And here it is, the who Am I? Game? If

(32:25):
the Green Bay Packers upset the forty nine Ers in
the NFC Championship Game this weekend, Aaron Rodgers would make
his second Super Bowls start, nine years after he made
his first Super Bowl start, and that would set a
new record for the largest gap between starts for a

(32:46):
quarterback in a Super Bowl, which I currently hold. Who
am I? The answer? Next? Be sure to catch live
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(33:07):
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pay off the who Am I? Game in a minute.
You see the story they told did you even watch

(33:28):
the game? And I don't know if you watched, you
probably didn't watch. I watched the games game or something
you had to watch. But but they told us, surprise,
you watched the game. Actually, why would you be surprised
because you don't care about college football. That's not true
at all. Why would you say that? Because we almost
never talk about college football in the show. Well, because
there's a couple of reasons for that. Number one, we're

(33:50):
not on after college football games until two days later.
The NFL is more important in this country than college football.
So I want to keep my job, so I play
the hits. I talk about the NFL, talk about you know,
in college football is a regional sport. I mean, it
doesn't really flow nationally very well. Even this. I mean,
look at the reaction I've gotten. I did a whole
hour pretty much on LSU Clemson pretty much, no reaction,

(34:12):
nobody cares. But I did it because you're supposed to
do it, and that's how it works and all that stuff.
But the NFL, uh that if this had been a
what would be the example here? I guess if like
a Carolina versus the Saints in a big game and
the playoffs and something like this had happened, we would
have had full banks of calls. People wanted to talk
about this reaction, none of that. Um, college football is

(34:35):
a regional sport. It's a popular sport, big sport and
all that, but it's a regional sport. I realized that's
why I don't talk about it that much, because a
lot of people don't when they tune out and not true.
Yes it is not. This is a national sport. I
know you're you're an old you know, old guy, Eddie.
You don't understand how I'm on the pulse of America.
People want to hear about this from you because you
have been talking about this more than most well, because

(34:57):
they want to hear your reaction. They want to hear you.
A lot of people are lazy here and they don't
understand baseball because they don't want to talk about it.
So I understand. I mean, there's a lot of lazy
talk sure hosts. I know. I'm surrounded by a lot
of them over the years that have passed through the
building here. They don't last very long anyway, the who
am I? Game? Here we go? The who am I? Game?

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If the Packers upset the forty nine ers on Sunday,
Aaron Rodgers would make his second Super Bowls start nine
years after his first. That would set the record for
the largest gap between starts at a quarterback for a
quarterback rather in a Super Bowl, which I currently hold.
Who am I? Cowboy Killer? Is going with Bruce Lee,

(35:41):
Captain Morgan from car Park and Kyle in Kansas City,
Sam Drucker from Cardiac Stanley. Who else do we have?
He is if Fran Tarkington guests by Eric in Minnesota,
the Great Richie Cuttingham from Martin Page down here, Eddie
de Bartelow from Mister Nice Guy, Jim Brown's defense attorney,

(36:04):
guessed by Lulu Stroller. Terry's going by Bang former Astro's manager, A. J.
Hinch Neil O'Donnell Chrest guests by Graveyard C. And who
else do we have? Jake Cutler from Michael in San Francisco.
That's his answer, Doctor Death. Steve Williams tossed out by
Rob in Vegas. Page down here. Bubba in Texas is

(36:27):
going with the correct answer because he obviously cheated the
same thing that Polly did. And Manic Mike and some
of these other people. All right, what's the answer there?
Tons of fun Eddie Garcia, Yes it is John Elway,
who did it eight years apart for the Denver Broncos.
He currently holds the record, but he will be dumped

(36:48):
off the list assuming that the Packers win. But they're
not going to beat the forty nine. You really think
they don't win the game against the forty nine ers,
So I don't think that's going down. Why I forgot
to even pay off the story about college football game
because you upset me so much. But anyway, uh so
ed Orgeron coach, Oh, they told the story. He had
punched himself hyping up the players. He decided to dipe

(37:12):
up the player. He decided to punch himself in the face,
and he had a scar on his on his face,
on his forehead from punching himself in the face to
fire up as players. Well, that would fire me up
to see my coach punch himself in the face. Isn't
that one of the great meathead moves all time? Yes?
It is. What are some of the other wonderful we've
seen assistant coaches bang helmets, bang heads and helmets and

(37:33):
cut themselves open. That's a that's worse. That's a good one. Well,
remember there's a quarterback that suffered a concussion. Gus Farrott
banging his head against the concrete wall with the rich.
Remember that was it Monday and night? I thought I was.
I thought it was not. I didn't even think it
was Monday night. I thought it was just regularly. I
midn't matter the Redskins on Monday night football. They probably
lost that game. They always lose on Monday and Night football, right, yes,

(37:53):
they always. That is a tradition like none other. And
happy Thanksgiving to you. Yeah, let's get to it. Here
we go. It is time now for the NBA Pick
him will each pick three players. Whoever gets the most
Fantasy points will be declared the winner. All right, who's
going first? We don't have a lot of time. Man,
That would be me. I'm back and I'm winning again.

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It's amazing how when Cooper comes back, he does the
arithmetic and he wins so much. It's odd. How that
better at this than you? Guys? Are? You are better
at doing the numbers to make you the winner? I
invite anybody to check him. Pick Luca Dante, terrible first pick.
That was a good pick two weeks ago. Eddie, all right, Roberto,

(38:35):
uh go with Rudy Gobert. Wow, all right, James Harden,
thank you very much on that one, and any meany
mighty Maltech, Trey Young of Atlanta, Robert's hurt, He's gonna
Russell Westbrook all right, and Eddie Cooper loop the back
to back. I'll go with Jonah's Valentiunas and Kawai Oh Clipper.

(38:58):
That's good job by you, the king of load management,
Kawhi Leonard. Yeah, Eddie what Coop? One more? You want
to pick one? I don't know what. Yeah, I'm just
saying he's a key manager. Yeah he. Roberto's not next, uh,
D'Angelo Russell, Roberto Diamond, Mitchell all right, I'm gonna take
for the win, DeAndre eight and of my sons. I'm

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League Baseball didn't exactly bring the hammer of God down
on the Astros, but they did throw some beanbags at him.

(39:41):
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or more on your car insurance. Just visit Geco dot
com for a free ray quote. So a coach was
fired in Ahtown. It was not Bill O'Brien. It was
not Bill O'Bryan. Even though the Texans blew at twenty
four nothing lead in the playoffs at Kansas City and

(40:22):
the most embarrassing NFL playoff loss in many many years
up twenty and lose by twenty first time that's ever happened.
But the baseball team in Space City has said bye bye,
bye bye to their coach. I assume you've been listening
and you know where you pay attention to this kind
of stuff a little bit, but it has happened. Maybe
you live in a vacuum. The Astros owner Jim Crane

(40:46):
announced that he had fired aj Hinch, the field manager
and the general manager, Jeff Luno, both gone. Why all fallout?
After Major League Baseball's suspends were announced the punishment from
Baseball They had been suspended already shortly before they were fired.

(41:08):
Aj Hinch and Jeff Luno, both suspended for the twenty
twenty season for their roles being complicent with the Astros
sign stealing scandal of twenty seventeen. It was, in many
ways the day of reckoning for the Astros, and Baseball,
of course did it with a college football championship game

(41:29):
that kicked off just a few hours after the announcements.
So Baseball also find the Astros five million dollars. They
stripped them of first and second round picks in the
next couple of drafts, which sounds impressive. Then you were like, well,
you know, it's baseball. It's not like football that would
be a big deal first and second round picks. Baseball

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not so much. Not a single player, not a single
player was punished by Major League Baseball all got away
with it. And this is the beginning here because there's
but wait, there's more. There's gonna be another round of
punishment handed out involving the Boston Red Sox for the
twenty eighteen World Series. So we will have more in

(42:12):
the coming day about this, but let's focus in on
the Astros and the question. Did Baseball's punishment of the
Astros go far enough? Nope, did not not even close.
Now I've got Reggie Bush, the Keystone Cops, and Motel six,
and we will combine all these things together and we

(42:35):
will make some baba ganoose. Now a on the surface,
when this thing first was announced, this thing first popped,
the baseball establishment was like, wow, Wow, you'd see what
day did? Did ye see what day did? Shouting from
the mountaintops? Season long suspensions for a J Hinch and
Jeff Luna Man does that sound harsh? Man? Does that

(42:58):
sound bad? Season long spension? First and second round picks
gone fine? Millions of dollars. However, when you calm down
and take a microscope out and examined all of this,
it is a slap on the wrist, is what it
is from Major League Baseball. Considering the ill begotten gains

(43:20):
of the Astros. They won a World Series. They didn't
actually win it, but they were credited with winning a
World Series. We know there was a tie in that
World Series anyway, but not a single on field representative
that went in the batter's box and was the beneficiary
of this activity was punished. We didn't have more on

(43:42):
that in a future monologue because I believe I know
why Major League Baseball decided not to punish a single
Astros player. Pretty good inkling at what went into that logic. Now,
the twenty seventeen World Series, at least as of now,
has not been vacated. We hope that Baseball will come
to their senses and do the right thing and the
Astros will give up that championship, which they did not earn.

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They did not win it on the field, they did
not well more on that, let us bad job by Baseball.
I would like to think that they will say, oh,
by the way, in retrospect, we've decided that there is
no World Series winning Astros team of twenty seventeen. So
Baseball what they should do is put the Astros trophy
into quarantine and it should hang out wherever Reggie Bush's

(44:27):
Heisman Trophy is. Remember when Reggie gave back the Heisman Trophy.
Who knew that Reggie Bush has more integrity than the
Houston Astros organiza. Shun the Astros franchise is an embarrassment.
It's an embarrassment to the people of Houston, it's an
embarrassment to the people of the state of Texas, and
it's a national disgrace for Major League baseball. It is

(44:50):
a sad day in mud there's no joy in Mudville
for the Astros with all of this stuff and the
Astro franchise. You talk about how baseball, what's the one
thing they said after the nineties and the two early
two thousands, if you're if you're an old timer and
you remember that time in the hard sense an old timer.

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But in the nineties and the two early two thousands,
baseball talked they had to clean up the sport. The
baseball purists bang the drum just like the Astros banged
the trash can, and they said, hey, we have to
have integrity. Integrity of the game. That's big buzz term
used by baseball's hierarchy. That goes out the window. The

(45:31):
guardians of baseball looked the other way. They look the
other way. People in baseball said, hey, these guys in
Houston are cheating, they're breaking the rules. And what did
major League Baseball Doaa la la, la la la. They
did nothing. The nothing. This was allowed to continue. And

(45:56):
if it wasn't for the Edwards Snowden of hard ball,
a man that should get a statue I'd like to
give him. I don't believe in statues and all that stuff.
But this guy should get a statue. None of this
would have seen the light of day. Mike Fires is
a baseball hero. He should be in the Hall of Fame.
Not Jose alto value Mike Fires. Put him in the

(46:18):
Hall of Fame Cooperstown for this guy. What a great
job by without him crossing the thin white chalk line
and spilling the beans. Without that happening, then none of
this would have taken place. Baseball would have continued to
look the other way, and this would have gone on
for generations. Without the whistleblower, this would still be going

(46:42):
on now. Part be so we know that Major League
Baseball was asleep at the switch. They were caught napping
while all this was going on. Teams have been chirping
as I said for many, many years that the Astros
were bad actors, right, they were bad actors. In all
this Major League Baseballs investigative arm, the Keystone Cops found nothing.

(47:06):
They actually claimed they looked into this and they found up.
You know what it reminds me of. It reminds me
of I was watching a documentary about Bernie Madoff a
while back, and while that was going on, there was
somebody that said, hey, Madoff's dirty in the middle of
that scandal, and they went to the financial people that

(47:26):
oversee the oversight of Wall Street and they said, hey, listen,
we've got some dirt on Bernie Madeoff. This he's running
a Ponzi scheme. And the people that were put into
place to look at Bernie Madoff, they went, they met
with him, He charmed them, and that was it. They
didn't actually look at the actual numbers. And within the

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great thing about how bad baseball looks In all this
is roughly thirty minutes after the athletic story by Evan
Drelik and Ken Rosenthal popped up behind a paywall. There
were details from internet investigators that had video Internet slue
like the Scooby in the modern day Scooby Doo Gang,

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and they were on social media. They posted hundreds of
videos chronicling exactly what the Astros were doing. It was stunning,
It was undeniable, although some denied it. The twenty seventeen
World Series video This is even better. The twenty seventeen
World Series video, which was released by Major League Baseball's

(48:30):
own marketing people, showed the setup the Astros were using
to steal the World series illegally from the Great Dodgers
in the video right behind the dugout. Just like Mike
Fires that talked about they didn't even hide it. These
evildoers were so cocky they didn't even worry about covering

(48:50):
up the evidence. Now, as they say, criminals get caught
by being sloppy, right, being lazy, being sloppy. In this case,
it was Mike Fires who had to blow the whistle.
And then you connect the dots backwards here, the Astros
were very generous to leave a lot of blood at
the crime scene. That meant that much blood at a

(49:10):
crime scene since OJ back in the day there was
DNA fingerprints you name at that crime scene. Now, the
last thing on this So in terms of the other
punishment adjudicated by Rob Manford for the Astros, there's no
muscle behind it. There's no muscle behind it. Jim Crane,
we'll hear from more of himim later, but Jim Crane

(49:31):
is worth two point five billion dollars. It's a very
wealthy made He's made a lot of money in business.
The Astros got fined five million dollars. That is zero
point two percent of Jim Crane's net worth. It is
the equivalent of you make fifty thousand dollars being fined
one hundred dollars. That's what Major League Baseball did. They

(49:51):
find the Astros owner one hundred dollars. They said, we're
gonna punish you. We're gonna find you one hundred dollars. Now,
I don't know about you. I've gotten a few parking tickes.
I used to live in Hollywood. I had an apartment
and parking was a nightmare. And I got many parking
tickets and they were like sixty bucks a pop or
something like that. I'd get a couple of them a week,

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and back in the day, many many years ago. But
it didn't really do me in. It didn't really do
me in. I think Jim Crane will be we okay.
I don't think he'll be eating Chef Boyard and oodles
for noodles with our friend from Brooklyn at his mega mansion.
I don't think that's gonna happen. So the Astros lost
draft picks whoopie damn due whoopie damn due to that,

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And not to be labor the point here, but the
draft picks, most of them failed. What Major League Baseball
got mostly right was the suspensions of AJ Hinch and
Jeff Luno, but even that didn't go far enough. We
played the audio from aj Hinch. I think we have
it again here. Listen to how cocky and arrogant this

(50:55):
little scumbag, this Mama Luke audio video people, people in
places and nothing and there's no evidence of anything. So yeah,
that was aj Hinge during the playoffs in the last
postseason in twenty nineteen, saying you did you don't see it?
Then you guys all have microphones everywhere. Uh. And then

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then he got so arrogant one of those clips he said, hey,
you know we would have practiced this in the spring
twenty Well, apparently it did. Apparently it did. J Hinch,
I hope you enjoy your life out of baseball. Maybe
you can go run the Cleveland Browns because you'll never
work in baseball again. You're dirty. You're a weasel, aj Hinch,

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weasel you. Now we will point out in a future
Mala monologue why the Astros must vacate the twenty seventeen
World serious under the Mallar plan that will happen thinks toxic.
The Astros also will be banned from postseason play for
five seasons. They will not be allowed to make the
postseason for five years. Sorry, that's the way that works.

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They will also be forced to travel by commercial airline.
No more chartered flights, no more. Yeah, I'm not done.
How about this. Instead of these baseball teams stay at
resort five star hotels, no more, no more. Sorry, you
will now be staying at the Motel six and the
Econo Lodge. That is where the Astros will be staying.
And not every player gets their own room. You've got

(52:23):
to bunk up, that's right. You've got to have two
players per room on the road, and no team bus
team uber. Everyone's got an uber to the ballpark and
to the next road game and all that stuff, or
to the airport, just like the rest of us. That
will be the punishment for the Astros under the Mallard plant.
All right, Spenn Mallers show on Fox, and let's go

(52:43):
to the phones right now. And a man who when
this story first popped up, this guy said, there's nothing
to see here. Remember, there's no evidence, you have no evidence.
Guilty on all charges. The jury is in and guilty
on all charges. There's there's white smoke coming out of

(53:05):
the Vatican. We have a new pope. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty,
gilt and guilty. You are a fan of cheaters, Chris
in Houston cheatis. First of all, are you gonna let
me talk or usually gonna yellow ly cheetas? I'm asking,
are you gonna let me talk? Bang bang? Are you

(53:25):
gonna get the roverto turn me down? Whish side? This
is all I gotta say. The Astros cheating, They cheating,
They from Cheetahs, They some scumbs, They did some ridiculous stuff.
But this, but this is what I gotta say. A J.
Hints is a cheater, But I will ride with A
Day Hints any day for not snitching because if you

(53:46):
read the report, if anybody read the apage report, A J.
Hints was fist about it, but he let it happen
and he should have put his foot down and he didn't.
So he's a cheater, but I will ride with him.
He's a cheater. He's a cheater and lie. He's a liar, cheater.
You want to hang out, you want to cheaters, But

(54:08):
you know what, I don't hang out with lies and
cheater because you know what, my old man told me
a long time, and don't do dirt by yourself, don't
do it with others. That leaves the snitches alone. You
know what I'm saying. But the asshow cheated Jim Crane
with his weasel self acting like nothing happened. He know
what happened. He knew what happened. He just looked over
it because they was winning. It was all because of winning.
It wasn't because of respect of nothing with because of winning.

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And that weasel that's gonna get away with the Carlos
Beltran that's up in with the Mets right now just
because so he can get a World Series ring. And
he brought this craft up him and Alice Corb Alex
Alice gonna get the Pete Rome band. He's out of here.
You're gonna throw him out, Okay, But I'll tell you
right now we either city in Houston that any one

(54:51):
of you Los Angeles or any one of them that
want to touch this title come see you up. That's
when I got a stack. Drop your mic and hang up,
And I mean, you didn't win. You didn't win the
World Series. Um, that's the reality. You didn't. Major League
Baseball just issued at eight page report detailing how you

(55:13):
did not actually win it on the field. You cheated,
So you don't win when you cheat, and we all
learned that when we were little kids. So you didn't
win the world If you want to argue that nobody
won the World Series, that's fine, but certainly not the Astros.
They didn't win the World Series. So period stopped. You
didn't win. Just admitted the Astros did not win. No
one won the twenty seventeen. Just admit it's tainted. Christ.

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It is the equivalent if you're if you're an Astros fan,
if you're an Astros apologist celebrating the Astros win. It
is the equivalent of going to a party. It is
the equivalent of going to a party and someone drops
a deuce in a punch bowl and you still drink
the deuce and the juice and say it's fine, the
punch is fine. It's okay. I know someone dropped a
poo in there, but it's okay. That's what the Astros

(55:55):
World Series Trophy. Someone has used it as a urinal.
All right, it's a urinal. It's a gold uneral. Though
it's a gold urnal. You the gold ural. I'll take
it now the trophy, the baseball trophy would not make
a good jurnal because there's a lot of penance and
all that stuff on. It's not you know what, but
you know what being you was right? They cheated, he lied.

(56:17):
You know this is Mike fives. I'm sorry, but I
don't think he's contract. He's gonna get another content. He's
he's people loving pictures love him. What picture wouldn't like him?
You know how many pictures look at him? Look at
look at Kershaw? Look at you Darvish, who we destroyed
on this show. And the Dodgers would have won the
World Series in five games the ass one game, five

(56:39):
games in take no intake the ass Thros and left.
People know that Kershaw as a choke artist. Anyway it
wasn't Assro. Then he would have won the chance. It
would have ended the legacy of of Kershaw. They would
he wanted twenty seven. Wouldn't know why you chid you chi?
It's not even it's not even a crush. Her are

(57:01):
now requesting sound bites. He's now requesting sound Yeah, that's nice,
all right, it is the Ben Maller Show. We'll take
some more of these phone calls. People fired up. The
Astros are guilty. They're going to jail. The Houston Astros
have been convicted on all charges. They have cheated Major
League Baseball's disgrace for Houston sports. Everything is tarnished in

(57:21):
the state of the state of Texas and the city
of Houston in particular, obviously by what has gone on.
You'll talk some Super Mario Brothers. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next. They dropped the guillotine on him,
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(58:08):
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It's Ben Maller, Yeah, and who the hell knows who
Michael Jordan is A long time ago before my time,
of course. Rob from Des Moines rights and says Chris
and Houston still refusing to vacate the twenty seventeen championship.

(58:29):
Boo this man, boom boom. Matt the Warrior Raider, as
fan says Oaktown is he's very excited about the A's
back to back I guess Division championships and all that stuff. Yeah,

(58:49):
the A's. How about the A's. They they got screwed
by the ass back to back AO West titles. That
would have noticed I Matt has changed the avatar on
his Twitter account is now the asterisk. Yep, that's their
new nickname. They're gonna have a little star in the
background behind the ages. That is solid. All right, So
a lot of reaction to this. Let's keep it going here.

(59:11):
We're talking about the Astros. The end of the Astro's
guilty on all charges. The jury is in. All of
them are dirty. Everyone's dirty, dirty dirty. If you if
you own an Astro's hat, you might want to burn
it because it's dirty. It's got some taint. On it
is what it's got. Let's go to Jim in Providence.
Who hello, Jim, Hi Ben? How are you sorry about
the Vikings? Jim? But at least you made the playoffs.

(59:32):
I know that. I tell you, I'm gonna mush with
these preseason future picks. I'm all for four in the
last year. But that's okay. That was a good pick though,
and I thank you for that because I had a
good chance to make some good money on it. Yeah,
I'm here for We'll get one right one of these years. Eventually,
Yes we will. I will. I will ask for a
pick for the mlbuh this season coming up. But anyway,

(59:56):
everybody knows, we get the greatest bsketball NBA organization up here,
the Boston Celtics. We get the greatest NFL team of
all time organizations, the New England Patriots. We get this
guy Cora comes up here, and I don't believe for
one minute he wasn't corrupted down there by that Hinch

(01:00:17):
and the GM. He was corrupted down there. He brings
his cheating ways up here to New England, where we're
all about doing things the right way, the Patriot way. Okay,
yeah we we we say our prayers, we eat our vitamins,
we do things the right way. And this guy get
corrupted down there in that cheating Houston and brought it
up here to New England and he brought a stain

(01:00:38):
on us. I want this guy out of here immediately,
and I want the two thousand seventeen World Series Championship vacated,
and I wanted awarded to the Los Angeles Dodgers twenty eighteen.
Well that's right kind of you, Jim. I appreciate that.
And uh and I think can we tweet that out
on the Fox Sports twitter feed that Jim in Providence

(01:00:59):
with like the Red Sox to vacate the twenty eighteen
the Red Sox, I'm talking about the ast Oh I
saw you one of the Red Sox. I'm sorry, no, no, no, no,
no no, they cheated in twenty eighteen also though, no, no, no,
that's separate because corrupted by Euston. Okay, so, but didn't
he he was wearing a Red Sox laundry outfit, right,

(01:01:20):
he had Red Sox laundry up. It's not his fault.
That's good, okay, So not corrupted. He got corrupted by
that Hinch and they're throwing him under the bus because
he's not there. Everybody's throwing this guy under the bus.
But I want him anyway. I want him gone, all right,
So staying on the New England Sports. Yes, that's right.

(01:01:42):
You guys do things the right way. You don't pass
the rules at all. I completely understand. That's right, the
Patriot way absolutely away. You're not supposed to get caught,
that's right. Yeah, that one last thing I want to
you know, I wish everybody on the now rush you're
happy New Year and happy all days. I wish you
four guys happy, Harnacker and Mary Kray. I didn't get

(01:02:02):
any response, but I got a response from the number one,
the world's number one charges fan, very class. He sent
me a nice holiday message. But I didn't get anything
from you guys. But I'll forgive you because you're the
greatest four guy in uh. I didn't see it, all right,
thank you. That's Jim's. My wife's tweeted at him. I

(01:02:22):
guess I mean, Jim, I I met you. I love you, Jim,
But I mean I don't keep track of every message
that comes in. Doesn't doesn't work that way. I was
on the case. I was speaking on the behalf of
the whole show, Jim. I don't know if it was
you or your wife, it might have done that. I
don't know. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk

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Search f SR to listen live. Ben. This probably won't
get talked about a lot, but it's kind of interesting
if you're a college football fan. Houston senior quarterback Derrick
King announced Monday night that he is entering the incidentally
trans transfer portal. King played four games. It's portal. I

(01:03:06):
thought it was protocol. Now it's portal. King played four games. No,
they didn't change it. Apparently you didn't hear it correctly.
King played four games this past season, announced in September
that he would be red shirting for the rest of
the year, but claimed he was going to return to
the Cougars next season. Now, he had thirty six passing
touchdowns and fourteen rushing touchdowns last season. He's now basically
a free agent to go wherever he wants, and since

(01:03:28):
he graduated in December, he will be eligible to play immediately.
So I know LSU needs to replace Joe Burrow, Oklahoma
doesn't seem to mind getting big name transfer quarterbacks, and
anyone else looking for a quarterback. Deeric King, he's looking
for a place to play, so that should be interesting
to watch. Okay, it is the Ben Malers Show as
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(01:03:51):
Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on
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free right quote. It turns out I am not alone
with my opinion on the Astros and what happened by
Major League Baseball. A mega star in Hollywood is on

(01:04:11):
the Mallard train and we now go, what's that, Eddie?
I'm just wondering who that might be. Well, it's a
man who's an actor, an entertainer, a journalist. I don't
know about megastar better known, but I grew up with
this guy when I was a kid. Saved by the
bell A. C. Slater. Let's welcome in Ac Slater his

(01:04:32):
thoughts on the Astros. Well, I'm gonna tell you what's
really on my mind. I'm really I'm really fired up
today because all my Dodgers fans out there know what
I'm talking about Houston Astros just got pinched. Officially, those
cheat and rat bastards use technology to steal signs steel science, Tony,
I know it's part of baseball. I'm not using technology.
They are suspending the GM and the manager for a year,

(01:04:56):
finding them five million dollars. But that's too late. Oh
in draft picks for two years. But that that's too
late to take away the ring. They need to take
away the rate, give it to the Dodgers. Right, that's
what I'm talking about. That's right. Me and Mario Lopez,
host of What's the Host? Extra? Is that the show?
He's actually yeah, extra, that's right, Man's right, He's right

(01:05:20):
good yet by him. Can't wait to see that reboot
of Saved by the Bell. I'm sure that'll be great.
When's that happening? Is that happening soon? No? Coop Scoop,
Coop Scoop and gone for a while, all right? It
is the Ben Malla Show of the Phones. We go
and we going out to northern California. She's got her
star charts, actually got all the work for her here
in Berkeley. Andrea, as we talk about the astros cheating scandal,

(01:05:46):
which is rocked baseball to its bedrock. What a stunner.
Guilty on all charges. The Astros. Hello, Andrea Virgo in
service on Twitter, the sports Sorceress, Hello all time, Bend.
How are you? If I was any better, I'd be
an astro, but not a Houston astro. Har just the

(01:06:08):
cosmic astro. Because you know, you do the crime, you
do the time. I'll tell you Saturn and Pluto, the
conjunction happens once every thirty three years, and Saturn is
the cosmic cop of the zodiac Ben, So it's like,
you do the crime, you do the time. Yeah. And
I was looking at Jeff Lunel's chart, check it out

(01:06:29):
December twenty nine, nineteen sixty eight. So he's a Capricorn
Mercury and Capricorn and Saturn conjunct is Mercury, which is
and Pluto the dark side. All the manipulation, controlling things
and Pluto purges things up, and the self destructiveness. I
mean this everything backfired, and Pluto and Saturn are bringing

(01:06:54):
justice and they're definitely you know, meeting out there karmic deserves.
I think you called it karmic reckoning or something. That
day of reckoning I believe was it. Yeah, yes, I
mean that's really I mean, five planets in Capricorn. You
just can't get away from it. And you know, I
think the A's have a legitimate gripe the Dodgers do.

(01:07:16):
I heard what you said earlier. I mean, this is
really going to change a lot, hopefully in baseball because
the sat and Pluto. It's once every thirty three years,
and it's like the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yeah,
or in this case, the two Horsemen of the Apocalypse,
but we will will include some of those Astros players
because they're dirty. They got away with it, but not

(01:07:36):
in our in our world, they didn't get away with it,
right not. And this guy, Jeff Luno, let me tell
you something, all right, there was a story of years
ago we talked about here. I've been doing this for
a long time, the Saint Louis Cheating Cardinals. We give
him the nickname the Cheating Cardinals. There was a hacking
scandal that involved Jeff Luno and this goes back, you know,

(01:07:58):
several years now, and ultimately the Cardinals. The person went
to jail for this, Chris Correa, guy who was the
scouting director at the time for the Cardinals, he was
found guilty of hacking the Astros. The computer system of
the Astros had well. His defense was, hey, Jeff Luno

(01:08:20):
was stealing cardinal material and using it for the Astros. Well,
in retrospect, considering the scumbag that Jeff Luno apparently is
according to Baseball, they might want to go back and
look at that case again with the Cardinals, because that
guy doesn't look so so bad right now. I'd love
to interview that guy. I don't know where that guy is.

(01:08:40):
He's out of jail now, he's spent like I think
he spent a year or something like that in jail
and whatnot. But man, what a mess. Yeah, you know
your point is well taken. Every sign has their dark
side and Capricorn in terms, it's like Matchiavellian. They want
to win at any cost. Their opportunistic and calculating an older,

(01:09:01):
ambitious and self seeking. Yeah, so what it was it
say about alas Cord? Do you have anything on Alice?
And you know he's a Libra, And you know that's
too bad because Libra in a perfect role band is
kind of cooperative. Is a sign of the scales. It's
wanting to be balanced and diplomatic and impartial, but I
think he got caught up in the whole maelstrom of

(01:09:22):
it all. Well, according to the baseball he was behind you.
He was the one running the whole thing and all that. Yeah,
so I think, you know, libras can kind of get
talked into things. They give their power away to others.
So I think he got talked into it and went
along with it. And quite frankly, this taints um. Carlos Beltron,
two of the Mets, the new manager of the Mets,

(01:09:43):
and that's gotta fire three managers out. A J. Hinch
has already been fired. We're gonna have Cora out soon,
and then Beltron will be gone. They can they can
go back. Is Davy Johnson still alive. They can bring
Davy Johnson back if he's still around. I don't know
if he passed away. Okay, start and ruf see, But
you know, and the other one was a Taurus. I

(01:10:03):
was just looking at his chart May fifteen seventy four.
The other aj hinge hinge yeah him, yeah, but really
the cosmic cop I mean, this is a dark knight
of the soul of abuse of power, and Pluto does
purge things up from the darkness. Yeah, you know, if
Capricorn has that ruthless um, you know, a compulsive need

(01:10:28):
to win ed look what happened. You know this is
a karmic lesson for many people to take heed. Yeah,
all right, Andrew, we'll leave it there. Virgo in service
on Twitter. Thank you Andrea there from Berkeley. Get the
star charts out. We will press on. We've got Mallard
of the third degree. Here's the insta trivia. Derek Henry

(01:10:49):
got a lot of Derek Henry related questions because he's
had a pretty good run here for Tennessee. Derrick Henry
is just the second player in NFL history to have
back to back playoff games with two hundred yards from scrimmage.
He joins Blank again. Derrick Henry of the Titans, just
the second player in NFL history to have back to
back games with two hundred yards from scrimmage, joining Blank.

(01:11:14):
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(01:11:58):
the back playoff games with two hundred yards from scrimmage
joining blank. That is the question. What is the answer?
The Titans star running back? The answers coming in here
on Twitter at Ben Maller. You can send your answers
in Let's see here page down. We've got Oscar going
with Danny Tartibiles. His answer Halle Barry guests by mister

(01:12:21):
nice guy. Interesting choice of a picture there. Who else
do you have? Just Josh is going with Eddie Lazy
Dick Trickle from Rob in Vegas, a sports legend. Bob
is going with John Riggins as his answer. Let's see
page down here, page down. Matt the Warrior Ritter Ayes
fan got this right, so did a Red. Clearly those

(01:12:43):
guys guilty of cheating Tim Tebow from the hoopster. That's
his guests. Who else do we have here? Manic Mike
got it right. Walt Garrison from Tony wore a Dunne
tossed out by Trucker, Joe the moonshine guy, David the
fathead Guy is going with Barbara Eden as his answer.
Tommy John or as Johnny Q said, Tommy's John as

(01:13:08):
the answer. I don't know how you got that wrong.
M Eddie, do you have an answer? It's not Elroy
Crazy legs Hurst, which was guest by Hobby Bobby Ben.
The answer is Ikey Woods. Oh the Ikey Shuffle? Is
it Ikey Woods? No, it is not Marshall Falk either
a guest by James or t d Terrell Davis from
Will That was his guest. The correct answer Marcus Allen

(01:13:32):
fun all Raiders. That was the LA Raiders right, LA
Raiders right nineteen eighty three For the old LA Raiders,
Raiders are backs. Who knows they moved to the suburbs
of Los Angeles and lost wages Nevada. So the Raiders
are back. Three NFL teams in the Los Angeles market.
Let's get to it. Here we go. It's Meller. How

(01:13:52):
about that to the third degree. This Ben gets quilled.
All right, here we go over to cool. After the
Titans win on Saturday, Dion Lewis spoke to the media
and he said that he thinks the MVP award should
be voted on after the playoffs. He implied that if
that were the case, Derrick Henry would be winning the
award instead of Lamar Jackson. Your thoughts been, He's a dummy,

(01:14:17):
that's it. I mean, Dean Lewis is a dummy if
he thinks that, Hey, it is a regular season award.
Lamar Jackson, I goofed on him. I ripped on him.
He deserves it. He was a tremendous regular season player, though.
Lamar played like a super nova during the regular season
right up until the moment the playoffs started for Baltimore,
and he does deserve the regular season MVP. And Dean Lewis,

(01:14:41):
who's been on some really good Patriot teams, he should
know what's going on here. He's compromised. I get it.
He's part of the Fraternal Order of Football Players. He's
also a Titans employee, so he's just looking out for
a teammate. But if Derrick Henry take the Tennessee Titans
into Arrowhead and they upset Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes and

(01:15:05):
the Chiefs and go to the Super Bowl and he
wins the game. He'll win MVP honors in the Super
Bowl most likely because Tennessee can't win without him having
a big game, and that will be more impressive then
Lamar Jackson. So he will have the last laugh. Next
now is that he reported on yesterday's show the Broncos
are set to hire Pat Shermer as their offensive coordinator.

(01:15:28):
It's a bold hire. Yes, this will be the fifth
offensive coordinator in five seasons for the Broncos. Who's keeping
track me? Ben? Do you think Pat will be the
one that sticks? All right? So you don't want to
cover your ears and close your eyes on this. You
don't experience any site or sound. First of all, Pat
Shermer is a vagabond coach. He is part of the

(01:15:49):
good old Boys network. So he's gonna keep finding work
to say that this is somehow the savior of the
Broncos offense and the offensive genius. No, he has produced
reoffenses in his long NFL career that has finished in
the top ten and four that have finished twenty fourth
or lower. So it's not exactly You're more likely to

(01:16:11):
get an offense that's twenty fourth or lower than in
the top ten. And secondly, there is this tumultuous cloud.
It's like a cloud of a sewer, like a sewer smell,
hanging over Denver. Until the Broncos get some real playmakers,
they will continue to be stuck in neutral. Pat Shermer

(01:16:31):
is gonna bounce all over like a pinball, all over
the NFL. He's like a criminal trying to evade capture.
Pat Schermer as often as he moves. And I'm not
exaggerating that Denver is going to be his seventh team
in twelve seasons in the NFL. Great coaches don't change
teams that often. Next and yesterday you briefly mentioned reports

(01:16:54):
that ESPN is set to try and steal Tony Romo
away from CBS with a contract that would make him
the highest paid broadcaster of all time rosexual ten to
fourteen million a year. You'd go there too for that money, absolutely, Ben,
Do you think Romo can make Monday Night Football grade? Again? No?
I love Romo. I'm a card carrying Romo sexual. But no, no, no, no, no,

(01:17:16):
all right, and I'll tell you why. Number one, Tony
Romo's first love isn't even football, it's golf. We talked
about this while you were away, Coop. He does football
to pay the bills. It is disconcerting that one of
his motivations, aside from obviously financial gain, the reason he
would leave to go to Monday Night, which is a
step down the CBS package is more impressive than the

(01:17:37):
Monday Night package is because he wants to play more golf,
and playing golf on Sunday means he doesn't have to
do TV and he can do football on Monday. And secondly,
now with Tony Romo being an upgrade over Booger McFarland,
absolutely no more boogermobile and all that. But my position
is nobody watches an NFL game because of the broadcasters.

(01:17:59):
If it's a good matchup, you're gonna watch. If the
game sucks, you're not gonna watch. It doesn't matter who's
doing the game. People tuned in to radio shows to
hear what the announcers, not TV. Right, how do we
do Kobalo Benny failed this edition. That is a win
for me. You can put it on the bar. Winning
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listen live. Well, the punishment came down from Major League Baseball.
That was something missing, though Baseball's admitted there was a crime.
Guilty on all charges, but some of the conspirators were
not punished at all. Why we will discuss welcome in

(01:18:45):
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(01:19:08):
free rate quote. So Rob Manford crossed the t's dotted
the eyes made it all ko shirt. It's all official now.
The Major League Baseball Investigating Arm has determined that the
Astros did it. They are in fact guilty. They stole signs.
Guilty on all charges. The jury is in here beginning

(01:19:30):
in the twenty seventeen season. They illegally in the playoffs.
That's just yeah. Red Sox are claiming they didn't do
it in the playoffs in twenty eighteen. The Astros were
found guilty of doing it in the playoffs in twenty seventeen.
Of course, it's hard to deny that when it's in
the playoffs official Major League Baseball World Series video that
bad media puts out, it's hard to deny that. So

(01:19:52):
Manford patted himself on the back. The commissioner said that
the league interviewed sixty eight witnesses. They had twenty three
current and four we're astral players, and that they did
indeed find that the allegation is no longer just an allegation,
it is credible, and as a result of that, they
announced a one year suspension for A. J. Hinch and

(01:20:13):
Jeff Luno, as well as a five million dollar fine
loss of a bunch of draft picks. Both Hinch and
Luno were fired shortly after five US came out they
got whacked. Manford also announced that the raft picks had
been taken away in the first and second round picks
this year, twenty twenty and in twenty twenty one. And

(01:20:35):
it is a report that vindicated everything that we have
been talking about over the last several months, and several
people in Denile didn't want to admit the truth. And
they were like, oh, Mallory, you're just making a big
deal about this. Nothing's gonna come of it. Baseball will
not do anything. Okay, well baseball has done something. Now
they haven't done enough. Major League Baseball found the Astros

(01:20:57):
used a scheme that included filming signs using real time video.
They decoded them in a separate room, then relayed the
upcoming pictures to batters by panging on trash cans. The
Oscar the Grouch scandal has come to life here. But

(01:21:19):
none of the players who were part of this were punished,
not a single one. Baseball says they're guilty, but none
of them were punished. Now that is a stunning revelation.
We need to examine that. The question do you agree
or disagree with Major League Baseball deciding not to punish
a single player who was the beneficiary of this espionage scandal. Now,

(01:21:45):
obviously we disagree on this show. You've got blood, Canna,
saw and the scarity cat and we will combine all
these things together. Now, Number one, not suspend multiple Astro
players is a giant oversight, a misstep by Baseball. These

(01:22:08):
mongrels should not get a pardon those that took part
in this illicit activity. None of the players should be
exempt from punishment, and yet Major League Baseball is essentially
looking the other way. Everyone who played for the Astros
in recent years is tainted. They're all dirty. These guys
were the beneficiaries of cheating. Every man, woman, and child

(01:22:31):
who was a part of that organization knew they were
breaking the rules. Certainly the players on the field knew
they were breaking the rules. And they have the blood
of the Dodgers all over their hands, Dodger blue blood
all over their hands. Guilt by association. By the way,
for all the Astros, now, we're not talking about a

(01:22:52):
bunch of children. We're talking about grown ass men here
and who they're just young baseball players. They don't know
any better. Stop, they know exactly what they're doing. They're
not talking about a bunch of toddlers here that are
on a bottle with their stuffy These are professional ball
players that know exactly what they were doing. Major League Baseball,

(01:23:12):
in many ways we talked about it earlier, enabled the
Astros cheating to continue because they did a shoddy investigation. Now,
the second thing, while A J. Hinch and Jeff Luna
are collateral damage. They're the fall guys. Gotta have a
fall guy. More heads should have roll and should still roll.

(01:23:32):
It's not over yet. You can still say, hey, you know,
we released this statement, but we went back and looked
at it again and presto, We've decided there's some more
punishment that should be handed out. Rob Manford Autigo Full
Kenne saw mountain landis Kenne saw mountain landis the original
commissioner of baseball and using that as a boilerplate, using

(01:23:55):
that as a boilerplate. Eight men out, all right, eight
men out? Despite being acquitted. We know the story. They've
been much of movies over the years. They have been
made about it, Books have been written about it. The
Chicago White Sox of nineteen nineteen were acquitted of criminal charges.
Eight players though from that White Sox team are still banned.

(01:24:16):
We're still banned from organized baseball because they fixed that
series or had knowledge about the fix. Well, let's look
at modern times. The astros, the players on the team
either knew about it, didn't say anything until after the fact,
or they were part of it. They were part of
what was going on here. It's no different now, it's

(01:24:39):
ironic because somebody I know whose relative was involved in
that nineteen nineteen White Sox story claims it's a it's
a family story that's been passed down from a couple
of generations that the reason those White Sox players were
acquitted of all charges in nineteen nineteen was because of
some influence. They contacted all the jurors and made sure

(01:25:04):
that they did not come back with a guilty play.
But using the White Sox as a template the Black
Sox of nineteen nineteen, I think we should band together
eight players from the twenty seventeen Astros. So I've already
done it for you. The Astros under the Mallard plan.
George Springer is now banned from baseball. He's out. Carlos

(01:25:27):
Correa band, go home, Alex Bregman band that racist Julie
Gurielle band, He's out of here? How about Gurlielle while
cheating making racial gestures to you? Darvish from the dugout
and Baseball didn't even punish him during the World Series.
They waited until next year helping the Astros along. So

(01:25:49):
i'd s spend Rob Banford also who else? Jose Altuve? Sorry,
you're done, you're suspended. Out Tuve, you're out of here.
Marwin Gonzale gone, get out of here. You're suspended. Brian McCann,
get out of here, grab your lunch, get done. All
of those players hit home runs in the twenty seventeen

(01:26:12):
World Series. Ban all of them from organized baseball for cheating.
And as an addendum, I would also ban just at Verlander. Now,
Verlander didn't win a game in the World Series. Verlander
didn't get a hit in the World Series, but he
should be banned because he was aware of the cheating scandal,
and he's a douche, so we will ban him. He

(01:26:33):
put up this facade. Remember he was all outspoken about
your integrity of the game and all that stuff. But
now when it comes to his own house, not when
it comes to his own locker room, ban him and
the old line. People that live in glass houses should
not throw stones. Final point, Now we're gonna get to
the good stuff. I have saved the good stuff here.

(01:26:55):
So the streets are talking, and my own started buzz
and I started texting people. People were texting me, how
could baseball not suspend a single player? What is going
on at the Commissioner's office? Of Major League Baseball. Well,
the dogs are marking, they're marking, the birds are chirping.

(01:27:17):
And here's what I have uncovered based on some connecting
of friends I've known over the years who were involved
in the sport of baseball on the media and whatnot.
The word is that this is it's intentional. Baseball did
not punish any place, not that they know for a
fact that these players were doing it. They know who

(01:27:39):
was doing it, how they were doing it, all of it.
So why didn't they punish anybody? Because Major League Baseball's commissioner,
Rob Manford is afraid of the players Union. He's a
scaredy cat. Bottom line, what was different in nineteen nineteen
when the Chicago White Sox we're throwing the World Series there?

(01:28:03):
What was the difference? There was no players union. The
union was not formed for thirty seven years after that.
The players Union didn't come around until nineteen fifty six.
So Baseball's commissioner had the almighty, all powerful mallet could
punish anybody who wanted, and baseball players couldn't do anything

(01:28:23):
for the most part. Well, the union came around in
the nineteen fifties, didn't really become more powerful till years
after that. But Rob Manford the working theory from people
I've talked to who would know sources close to the situation,
or at least I think they're close to the situation.
The Rob Manford does not want to bother did not
want to bother with the inconvenient truth of having to

(01:28:47):
deal with the Players Association. It is a thorn in
the side of baseball because what would have happened here
If Manford had done the right thing and suspended George
Springer for a year and Carlos Corey and Alex Bregman
and Jose Altuve and all these guys, the union would
have appealed. They would have taken part in a prolonged

(01:29:07):
legal battle that would have been drawn out for years.
Likely because one thing about unions, whether you like them
or don't like them, unions protect employees even when they've
done wrong. Even when union employees had broken the law,
the union will still defend them most of the time.
So Rob Manford took the path of leaves from resistance.

(01:29:28):
He took the easy road and the scarity cat road,
and he only punished those people who did not fall
under the umbrella of the Players Union and that's why
these players got away with it. That's why these guys
got away with it. Meanwhile, they were all good. Say
what you want about aj Hanshen, he's a weasel and

(01:29:50):
he's a disingenuous scumbag. From those sound bites we have
from the playoffs last year that we've played at nauseum.
He can say all that, but he wasn't in the
batter's box. He wasn't the one that was getting the
tell from the bang bang, oh, the whistle that was
the beneficiary of that. Now, he obviously benefited because he's
been tagged as a World Series winning manager. But the

(01:30:14):
players got a free pass because the commissioner in baseball's
hierarchy is scared of the union. It's like they're the
Mexican drug cartels or something like that. They're afraid of
the cartels. I mean, how bad could it be? What
are we doing here? What are we doing baseball? Rob
Manford's pumping his chest out, like see look at us,

(01:30:35):
Look how good we did, And and people like me
are like, wait a minute, the people that were actually
doing it on the field, you didn't do anything do them? Now,
let me remind you the same argument has been brought
up to me. This was brought up to me a
couple of years ago. I think we mentioned on the
show many many years ago that that is one of
the reasons baseball did not punish the players they knew

(01:30:57):
were doing steroids who didn't fail a sterioid test because
of the union, they knew that they would be dragged
and drawn out the union and all that stuff. So
guys that did it did the steroids back in that
era of illicit activity, they were not punished either for
the same concept. But that is the word on the
street here that baseball did not punish any players because

(01:31:19):
they did not want to deal with the union. Rob
Manford did not want to have Tony Clark, who runs
the players union, and an army of attorneys, go to court.
So instead they said, all right, we're only gonna get
the people in charge and that's it period. Stop. All right,
Ben Mallow's show on Fox If you would like to
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(01:31:40):
seven seven nine nine six six three six nine. We're
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of money. Later this side, let's go to Mason in
the Bay Area. Who's up next? Hello Mason? See here?
Where is He's not a free Mason because he's not.

(01:32:01):
He's not free right now. He's busy. I don't hear
him sleeping, though, so I guess he's not there. A
weed man, hippie, Hello weed man? He Hey? Oh what sports? Wow? Wow?
Oh you know I saw Trevor Lawrence. Was was great.

(01:32:22):
I mean, wheed man. I feel like you were not
prepared for me to go to you, weed Man. I
feel like you are. You are gobsmacked that I chose
to go to you at this time. Yes, well, I
never know where you're going to be. And I lay
down and I'm really excited about the super Bowl. Let's
just poke a super Bowl, the super Bowl for me.
I gotta do that. I'm not ready right now to

(01:32:45):
talk about that. I'm not I don't want it. I've
been doing the Astros thing. You know what I'm saying.
You know, I mean, what are we doing? It's wrong
with Let's go to John in Houston. Hello, John, This
Johnny Sanchez. I haven't talked to you since you ran
down my strows during the World Series. Well, welcome back, Johnny.

(01:33:06):
Well we're back. I'm telling you man, I think that
we have some sacrificial lambs on the altar of ratings.
For ratings, yeah, like I think major League Baseball is like,
how are we gonna stay relevant? We're gonna stay relevant
by creating a huge drama over some guys in the

(01:33:29):
dugout banging the trash can, and like it's great, it works. Like, Johnny, Johnny,
have you been doing bass salts here? Johnny? What's going
on with you? What you trying to pull out? Is
this a punk call? Here? Is this a prank call?
You're trying to You're trying to pull my here? What's
going on? You don't believe that? Do you think that
Major League Baseball did this for ratings? Yeah? How is

(01:33:53):
that gonna help? It's January, there's no game until April.
How does that help the ratings? I'm just telling you, man,
I think that. Well, Okay, you're you're smarter than me,
So explain it to me, like I'm five years old.
Tell me why this helps ratings? Go ahead, Oh wait,
I listen. Oh wait, it's the first of all, it's
what you're talking about. It's what everybody's talking about. So

(01:34:15):
it's obvious it helps ratings and I think that, like
it helps my ratings. I don't know how it helps
my ratings. I don't know how it helps Major League
Baseball's ratings. EL would just it's just drama, like you know,
like it's America, and I just think that aj Hinge
and Jeff lu Now like I thought, maybe, you know,
they should have been suspended for a year by Major

(01:34:36):
League Baseball, But when the owner fired them, I thought,
like that's just that's just not fair. Or should they
have gotten a new contract and a raise? Would that
have been fair? Johnny, what you want him to do? He?
Aj Hinch lied, You have a liar. You should be happy.
This is a good day for the Astros. Aj Hinch
lied to your face, he mocked. Ala the line go

(01:35:00):
ahead please? Is a j Hinch from the playoffs against
the Yankees last year in the middle of this, Well,
this was still going on. The cheating, you know, nobody
heard of you guys have audio video, people people in
places and nothing and there's no evidence of anything. So yeah,
no evidence of everything the Astros were, Johnny. The Astros

(01:35:23):
are guilty of all charges, all charges, I know. But
like they did a plea deal and like they put
there's no plea deal, anything wrong. You ever done anything wrong?
I have never stolen signs in a baseball game. Yeah, technology,
I've never done all right, Johnny, there you go, go

(01:35:45):
buy a new Astros jersey. Yeah. Hey, you remember the
Astros Before this all started, they had zero point zero
TV ratings in the Houston market. They had no one,
literally no one was watching h this and as far
as this helping ratings. The only baseball program right right
now is is state run MLB TV. And I think
the only one watching that is Bob Costas. I think

(01:36:06):
he's the only one watching that. And that's about it.
All right, that's the Ben Maller Show. We'll press on here.
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It's Ben Maller. So his cost is not gonna watch
anymore baseball now because the integrity of the game has
been ruined by the astros. Is he done now because
he gave up football right because of the concussions and

(01:37:10):
all that. Yeah, I see him on the MLB network
right now. I guess he'll still be watching baseball. He
wants those checks to come in there and his retirement
from NBC. Leslie writes in says there's too much money
to lose in penalties and contracts to penalized players individually.
I disagree, Leslie. You punish players, you discourage the common

(01:37:30):
dude from baseball. No one in Major League Baseball wants that. No,
that's not it, Leslie. I'm telling you, the baseball hierarchy
did not want to have to deal with the fallout
from the Union. She does say, though eight men at
I'm all for it, a great example recent events, historical
blah blah blah, and she agrees with my suggestions, including
Justin Verlander being suspended considering the Astros mean players mean

(01:37:54):
four hundred over four hundred thousand, Yeah, winning that World Series.
Because they didn't win, they'll have to give that back.
They'll have to give that back under the Mallard plan,
they'll have to give that back or any of the
greater opineer says Ben, I think you might be banging
on the Astros in the city of Houston a little
too much because they've been through a lot lately, from
the gag on job by the Texans and Bill O'Brien

(01:38:16):
and the always overrated Roquetts playoff record. I mean, even
the Houston arrows of the WHA probably suck. That's from
Ernie the great opiner. Weed Man's having a temper tantrum
so that you guys that hate weed Man will be happy.
He's very angry. Mister nice guy says, I'm sending you

(01:38:39):
a bottle of kettle one to help you celebrate the
twenty seventeen World champion Dodgers. Well, Thank you very much.
Mister Knice gets nice that you finally honor the Dodgers
winning the championship. Very kind of you to do that.
You don't have to go that far, but I appreciate it.
Let's go to MGM John, who's in Vegas. Hello MGM John.

(01:39:02):
Okey pokey pokey, mister ban Maller? Hello John? What's up then?
That your Mallard plant is the greatest thing I've ever heard.
They should ban the players, they should ban the manager
and ban the GM for life. Right, Well, that's what
I have been saying. I said that back in November.

(01:39:23):
If Nichha Landis was still alive, he will ban them
for a live He doesn't, It doesn't matter if there's
a union. You don't know Nichha Landis the one who
banned the White Sox on nineteen nineteen, the first Commissioner
of Baseball. Yeah, what's wrong with you, Eddie? You don't
know who that is? He? Come on, what's his first name,
Nisha Landis? I don't think that was his first name. No, well,

(01:39:46):
that's a cousin of Kennesaw. Yeah, oh okay, if Nisha
was still alive, he would ban those players. It does
not matter. He would ban them for life. He doesn't
matter if there's a union, doesn't you know what I
love about MGM John. That's great because you're you're wrong,
but you keep repeating, which I like. I do the
same thing, and I just keep going that's the way

(01:40:07):
to do it. Yeah, they should, Thank God. Alright, thank
thank you, Ja, I gotta thank you. Let's go to
America's Friend. I'm sure that was his nickname. Dinner parties
and sores and all that. Let's go to let's see here,
America's favorite or formerly America's favorite drag queen seven toes Fulexus. Hello, Flexus,

(01:40:35):
you've become a bit of a heel on the show. Now, Flexus,
you know that you're you're You're in the doghouse. You're
in the doghouse. Well, the dog got my foot then,
because I gotta get my vein splashed, arras, I'm gonna
lose some more too. Oh man, that sounds very yeah.
What kind of diet are you on, felexus? What kind

(01:40:57):
of food are you eating? Oh? I you anything? I
see that? Probably a lot. I'm on a seafood ape man.
Then what what what I'm here? What? Well? I don't
have to yell at me. I can hear. I'm blind
I here, But anyway, um, I know how how that
guy learned how to cheat? You know that guy that

(01:41:19):
got busted with the Astrals, he had a great teacher, Ben,
you know that. Would you like to tell me who
that cheat that teacher was? Who? You? You're the greatest
cheater sports ever, right, Eddie, you're drowning, Flexus, You're drowning.

(01:41:40):
You realize that you no one. I am a beacon
of morality. I am a man of integrity. Eddie Garcia
has been caught cheating so many times. Eddie's my foot,
Eddie's nickname. By the way, Coop, you were gone. But

(01:42:03):
Ben is not paying off his bet to me over
the Steelers and Browns. Well, neither team made the pluff,
so nobody won the bet. So that's not really And
by the way, I haven't gotten my prize for winning
the NFL offseason. Pick him a book him whatever that
stupid thing was, I won that. I where's the food?
Am I still on the air now you're not on? Yeah?
I feel like a third party here? What do you

(01:42:26):
want to file a lawsuit or something like that? Everyone
do what do you want? Yeah, called Shapiro. Shapiro. You
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(01:42:48):
iHeartRadio app. Search f SR to listen live. Ben, I'm
always amazed in sports like basketball, baseball and hockey football. Well,
you've seen millions and millions of games and everyone's while
you see something that you don't remember ever seeing before.
Now this is a kind of a visual thing. But
let me explain what happened last night in hockey. If
you missed it, the Philadelphia Flyers were taken on the

(01:43:10):
Boston Bruins. I saw, Yeah, the game went to a shootout,
and Brad Marshawn of Boston, who's a very good player,
I picked him in the NHL, he went to do
his shootout attempt. Now, if you're not familiar with hockey,
they put a pucket center ice and the players skates
in one on one against the goaltender. It's a hockey
equivalent of a home run. Well, Brad Marshawn approached the

(01:43:31):
pocket high speed. He then basically whipped on the park.
He barely touched it, just a little bit, and that
was enough to be considered an attempt. The game was
over and the Bruins lost by a score of six
to five. Even professionals who are very skilled to what
they do sometimes have some funny bloopers, and that was

(01:43:53):
certainly one of them last night. And yeah, that was
pretty good. That was good. Did they have the hockey
blooper tapes like they used to have back in the day,
to the say he used to. I don't know that
any sport does those anymore. I don't know. I guess
because this on real, real time. It's on social media now,
so you don't have to put a whole highlight video together. Anyway,
we were wondering what would be the equivalent, and and
someone I can't remember who on Twitter brought up a
good one. He's saying, maybe a kicker for a game

(01:44:15):
tying extra point in overtime would swing and miss at
the ball or shooting an air ball on the foul line.
Shooting an air ball on the foul line. That happens
a lot. Actually, oh yeah, is every game, especially if
you're listen. Dwight Howard would be a good one. Yeah,
he's actually played well, he's starting to get a new
contract from the not a good free throw shoot though

(01:44:35):
I saw by the way, I was right. I said
last week Anthony Davis, they said he's only a missed
two games. He'll be back for the game on Monday night.
He didn't play in the game Monday night. He's out.
He's still hurt, freezing his ass off at lambeau Field. There,
all right's Bett Mather's show. We're coming from the Geico
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(01:44:57):
Geico dot com for a free r quote. I have
a prediction here now. Alice Core is going to be
suspended by Baseball, likely fired by the Red Sox, and
that's gonna happen sooner than later. And I predict that
he will end up on the Twitter feed of President
Donald Trump because Alice Core, remember he decided to skip

(01:45:17):
a trip to the White House. You know, he's talking
about morality and all that stuff and ethics that is
right in Trump's wheelhouse. Like he is gonna unload on
Alice's Core, who did not want to visit the president
the White House and all that. And I said, okay,
all right, you know that's gonna happen. If that pops

(01:45:39):
up on Trump's radar, he is definitely gonna tweet about
that a thousand percent. Now, as far as the issue
at hand here, Jeff Luno or lu Now, depending on
how you choose to pronounce it, the Astrost general manager,
he has been fired no longer the Astrost general manager.
He released a prepared statement after he was whacked that play.

(01:46:01):
He blamed who who did he blame? He blamed Alex
Cora for everything he did. Now we know that that
Cora was a big part of this, at least according
to the Baseball investigation. But the statement he began by
I accept responsibility. The statements should have been I expect

(01:46:22):
I accept responsibility for rules violations that occurred on my
watch as president of Baseball Operations of the ASTROS. Period stopped.
But no, he went on. He said, I am not
a cheater. Out Right, he said that I am not
a cheater. Anybody who has worked closely with me during

(01:46:43):
my thirty two year career inside an outside of baseball
can attest to my integrity. You have now integrit eight
that would have been believable maybe twenty years ago when
when general managers had nothing to do with the on
field with the on field play. But now that there's
so in tune with the manager, come on, man, Well,
you know, Roberto, the people that are really happy at

(01:47:04):
the demise that Jeff Luno are the old school baseball crowd,
like the the Dusty Baker crowd. Those people, oh yeah,
don't like the analytics in baseball. Yeah, and they hate
the fact that Wall Street and the Ivy League has
overtaken baseball and their tentacles are all over the sport,
and the old school baseball people have been pushed out
by weasels like Jeff Luno. Yeah, that gentle managers basically

(01:47:26):
set up the lineup card every day. Now. Yeah, it's
micro managing by the front offices there. And these old
school baseball people there's no room for them in the
sport anymore because of this and now and now here
we go and the same day he gets busted for cheating,
he says, I'm not a cheaters. I'm I'm not a cheaters.

(01:47:47):
The announcement there that is wonderful, Absolutely are great. You know,
it's also great, that's meet our contestants. Why Mallar's mounting
of money. Do you have what it takes to get
to the top? Probably not. Let's play the game we have.

(01:48:07):
Let's see here Matt in Minnesota. Hello, Matt, what's going on?
Big Ben? Welcome and you're ready to do this? Matt?
What do you do for a living? I work at UPS?
What can Brown do for you? Exactly? Yeah? How's business
at UPS? I'm busy? Yeah, because of the Internet. Right,

(01:48:28):
everyone's fine. Crap and they're sending a different ways. Absolutely
all the standing at all models look at you making
you have to work, all right, Matt? Hold on, Matt
from UPS, and we have Justin and Cincinnati. Hello, Justin
Safeco is not like Geico. We love Geico. They blocked

(01:48:48):
me for that crap, did they really? Yeah? Yeah, Well
good job by you. All I have to say is
there are attorneys attorneys in That's all I will see you.
And no no current kitchen at the Mallard mansion, so
which is good because I'm not eating anyway. I'm doing
intermitted fasting. So it's it's all right, all right, hold on,

(01:49:11):
It's like Justin And let's see here, Matt. Who do
you want to partner up with? Matt? You can play
with me, Ben, Eddie, Roberto or Coop. Let's see. I
want to win Ben, so I'm going with Eddie Garcia.
All right, Well, you're gonna lose here, and that gonna happen.
Hold on a second, Justin, who do you want to
partner up with? Well, you know the Minnesota guy, he's

(01:49:31):
not very smart. I'm going with Ben. That's good job
by you. We are gonna win. You have moved up
by the way and the Mallam militia. Justin, now that
I've learned you've been blocked by that evil and you
know people that mess with my house. General, Thank you.
Good job by you. You're a brigadier general, is what
you are? All right? What are the categories here? Cool?
Why don't we pick this here? And all right, gentlemen,
this is the neil Pert edition of Mallar's Mountain of Money.

(01:49:54):
You'll pass passed away at sixty seven years old this
past weekend legendary drummer for the band Rush, Michael Doolan's.
The categories are anthem, the trees, the spirit of radio,
and why why z Matt? You were on first? What
category would you like? I'll take anthem? All right? And Justin, oh,

(01:50:16):
that's one. Why why is he all right? All Right,
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to the game we go. It is Maller's Mountain of Money.
We've got Matt in Minnesota, the ups guy who's got
a death wish. He picked Eddie so he's got no

(01:50:59):
chance to win. And then I I mean, I'm an
easy street here with Justin in Cincinnati. So gentlemen, you
are there, Cooper Loop who's going first year? I believe
it is Eddie? Yes, Matt and Eddie start out first
with the category anthem, the song that we just heard
coming back from break. Uh. These athletes all protested the
national anthem. I mean the first and last name of

(01:51:19):
the athlete. Forty five seconds on the clock. Matter you ready,
it's the Neil Pert edition. All right? Ready begin Uh?
Former forty nine Ers quarterback, he's been looking for a
job ever since. Former Ravens linebacker. Great linebacker involved in
a murder in Atlanta and the Super Bowl. Current Tampa
Bay Buccaneers star wide receiver. Uh. Yes, bad clue by me.

(01:51:44):
Guess by you? Former Bills and Eagles running back. He's
now with the Chiefs. Yes. All pro cornerback with Kansas City,
traded to the Rams, then traded to the Ravens. Uh,
oh my god. Pass Uh. Former star basketball player at LSU.
His name was Chris Jackson. He converted to being a Muslim.

(01:52:08):
That first name. Is that quite right? Mak Mood Marcus
Peters guy you passed on? Ah, you didn't get it's
one hundred points. Good job by Mike on Mike Evans.
Those all right. We're moving over to Justin and Ben.
The category is y y Z. These athletes will live

(01:52:32):
on as Toronto legends. It's the airport code for Toronto.
Forty five seconds with the clock ready begin, all right,
new Clipper Star came from the Raptors. Eric Canada for
the Raptors. Yes, quarterback at Boston College. He played Canadian. Yes,
blue Jay pitcher. You made jokes about him dying in

(01:52:52):
a plane crash. Oh yes, a slugging outfielder for the
Blue Jays. We used to sing his name as a
jingle on the show back in the day. All right, Uh,
second basement for the Blue Jays. Spitting Hall of Famer,
known for spitting at an umpire. Blue Jay's Puerto Rican

(01:53:16):
first baseman play with the Mets in the nineties and
the two thousands out of port. All right, Uh, let's
see you don't know. Oh my god, are you throwing
the game justin Wow? He doesn't know. I mean that
is the guy was a huge star Delgado. That's true.

(01:53:37):
It's pretty close points you still have the lead. Uh,
but we go back to you, Matt. I know he
was hung over. I'd like to point you guys are
eighty points behind Matt. Would you like the spirit of
radio or the trees? All right, thank you for that,

(01:53:59):
Oh all right. These athletes are some of the tallest
at their position. Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin
current star running back for the Tennessee Titans. Young slugger
for the Yankees. Where's number ninety nine? European star with
the Nicks, the Unicorn now with the Mavericks. Standout tight

(01:54:24):
end with the Packers. He also played for the Seahawks
and Saints. Jimmy Graham, Yes, reliable starting pitcher for the Cardinals,
A two time World Series champ. Uh okay, this guy
plays for the Celtics. His first name is a tasty
yes wow uh slugger three Yankees first baseman. He won

(01:54:44):
a batting title with the Rockies. His first name is No.
His first names are initials, or he goes by in
his initials. I gave the wrong position, Eddie. Oh he's
not a first base for all? I don't think. Yeah
he did. He missed DJ Lemayhew and Adam Wainwright once

(01:55:05):
he missed. But do you have three hundred points total?
Not for long? Justin and Ben your category? The spirit
the spirit of radio. These athletes have made a voice
on radio, at least initially. Forty five seconds on the clock. Ready, begin,
all right? The NBC broadcaster without Michael's former Bengal Yes,

(01:55:30):
shortstop for the Red Sox was traded before they won
the World Series. The Long Last Name Play all Right,
Monday night football broadcaster played at played at Michigan with
the Saint Louis Cardinals. Also back in the day, Offensive Lineman.
How about the bulldog for the Dodgers nineteen eighty eight, Yes,

(01:55:53):
nasty boy, he did radio here at Fox. Yes, I
shouldn't have been that was too easy. Yeah, you should
have add Michael Thompson is, but I'll take you Rob
diddles a rats well he worked out. Yeah, yeah, that's
no Listen, I won with a wounded soldier. Anyone other

(01:56:16):
than Justin and Cincinnati wouldn't have been able to get
Rob dim. I like how Mad immediately hangs up. Matt
immediately hung up because he's discussed what I did. I'm
like Von Miller pushing Peyton Manning past the finish line
when Manning has nothing left. Justin had nothing left and
I was able to push him across the finish line.
He's there. Are you there? Justin? No? I think he

(01:56:39):
hung up. Wait, maybe he hung up and Matt didn't
hang up, waiting homes sake here, let me see I
think no he hung up to that. I know, I
didn't even know they still do that now to make
a call out. I know man was not listening. But
we are like a week away from a party. For
line one being broken. For three, I'm gonna buy a cake.

(01:57:02):
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free ray quote. So congratulations to Louisiana State. They are
the champions of college football. As Joe Burrow Berry. LSU
was built as a big matchup of legendary college quarterbacks. Well,
one guy showed up. That would be Joe Burrow. The

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other guy Trevor Lawrence did not. He flopped first college loss,
and boy was in a beauty. He averaged less than
six and a half yards per past attempt, didn't have
a touchdown pass of the game. Looked like Jared Goff.
That's what Trevor Lawrence looked like. That's not a compliment.
That's not a compliment. So that's the college football story.

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But baseball is number one baseball in January, because Major
League Baseball is a top the fold here, a number
one king of the hill. The punishment has been handed
out and the Astros have been found guilty of all charges.
Aj Hens, Jeff Luneau, suspended for the season and then
immediately fired. All of this because they were involved in

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an elaborate sign stealing scandal. Now baseball painted Alex Cora
as the or a straighter, but the Astros use trash cans, whistles,
and other devices as tells using technology, which is a
no no. It's against the rules of baseball. So keep
in mind there. Now, there is no rule against overhearing someone,

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Like if you overhear someone say, hey, I'm gonna throw
a fastball, that's fine. If you read their lips, that
is allowed. As well. In fact, one of the reasons
when people go out to the mound they cover their
mouth with their gloves is because they don't want lip
breeders to find out what's coming. If you happen to
catch a sign from the dugout with your own two eyes,

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that is also allowed. All of that is allowed. All
of that is kosher. If a pitcher is tipping his pitches,
it is allowed if you if you do it without technology.
If there's an accidental thing where a pitcher touches his
right right hand with his left hand, his left handed pitcher,
he tells it. He touches his right hand right before

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he's about to throw a breaking ball for whatever reason,
and you figure that out, that's a lot. It is
the use of technology that led to all of this.
That is where the Astros crossed the line. Now Houston's
baseball team. They also lost some draft picks, they got fined,
big deal, but Major League Baseball did not have the

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guts to punish any players. Now we talked about this earlier.
Go back to download the podcast. The conspiracy theory is
that Baseball did not want to deal with the union,
that they are afraid of the players union, and they thought, well,
we could punish a J. Hinch and Jeff Luno and
nothing will happen to us. But if we if the
Astros players, like, for example, George Springer, who was the

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MVP of that twenty seventeen World Series hit five home
runs in seven games, if they had suspended George Springer
from baseball for cheating, well the Union would have appealed.
Even if George Springer was on tape doing it, the
Union would have appeal. That would have been a drawn
out legal process. We were brought in independent arbitrator and
all that stuff. So they just decided not to do it.

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They took the easy road out. Now, what about the trophy?
What about the trophy? And that's what I would like
to address right now. So let us discuss the question
should the Astros have to vacate the twenty seventeen World
Series and the trophy and all that comes with it,
all the bells and whistles and all that thousand percent.

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Now I've got that nineties show Tim Buck two and Reactor,
and we will connect all this together. Now, first of all,
it is not only the right thing to do for baseball,
it is the only thing to do. Rob Manford went soft.
There's a pill for that. On the punishment for the Astros.

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He was afraid to slap the players around because of
the union. We talked about that. So Hinch and Luno
got dinged. He fined the team five million, took away
some draft picks. D damn new Rob Manfred needs to
add an addendum to the punishment. Major League Baseball should say, hey, listen.
We looked at it further. We said, well, there's some

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new information that came forward. We listened to the Maller
monologue on the Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio,
and we've now determined that we cannot as a sport.
Major League Baseball should be their statement, we cannot recognize
the twenty seventeen Astros as the champions of the sport
of baseball. Now, State Run TV can launch a new program,
that nineties show, and we can harken back to the

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early nineties, the Bronze Age and the nineteen nineteen ninety
four baseball season. You know who won the nineteen ninety
four World Series. Nobody, Nobody, that's right. There was a
work stoppage and they did not hold the Fall Classic
in nineteen ninety four and that is a void in

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the Major League Baseball record book. Well, the Astros of
twenty seventeen have left another empty line. Next two World
Series champion. Now. Secondly, now I believe the Dodgers should
be given the title. But even if you say the
Dodgers should not be handed the title because they didn't
earn them on the field, my counter argument would be, Okay,
i'll agree with you, I'm gonna disagree with you. Also,

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I'm gonna agree to disagree. However, turns out the Astros
did not earn it on the field either. They didn't.
So if you're gonna make the argument the Dodgers didn't
earn it, I'm gonna make the argument the Astros didn't
earn it. So Major League Baseball needs to take away
the trophy wherever it is. Call in the Feds, take
away the trophy, call in the bomb squad if you

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have to. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Astro players also must give back their World Series bonuses.
My Man Roberto pointing out almost half a million dollars
was paid out to the astral players, that money must
be given back, donated to charity. Whatever you want to do,
that's got to happen. Those championship rings must be confiscated

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by Major League Baseball Security. Those rings, those illegally gained
Astro's championship rings, along with the championship T shirts, the hats,
the merchandise that was made there will all be put
onto a cargo ship and they will be sent to
tim Buck two days. The people of tim Buck two

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and Zimbabwe and Haiti will be benefiting. They will get
the championship, bling, bling, They'll get the T shirts and
all that. George Springer, he also has to give up
the World Series MVP trophy. That will never see the
light of day again. There will be no ten year,
no twenty year, there will be no thirty year reunion

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to celebrate the ill be gotten gains. Not gonna happen. Sorry,
you didn't win a right final five. So the weasel
Astros owner Jim Crane, he had a lot to say,
He had a lot to say, and he one thing
he said made me want to punch him. I made

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me want to punch him. Now he began by accepting
the punishment. He began by saying, all right, we did
it fine, so be it today. It's a very difficult
day for the Houston Astros. MLB did a very thorough
investigation and the Astros fully cooperated. We accept their decisions
and findings and penalties. Yeah. Well, he should have stopped

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right there, but he didn't. Here's more from the Astros
owner worth two point five billion dollars. If you want
to sound here, two point five billion sounds like Jim Crane.
And he explained why he decided to get rid of
the skipper and the GM. I have higher standards for
the city and the franchise, and I'm going above and

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beyond MLB's penalty. Today, I have made the decision to
dismiss AJ Hinch and Jeff lun Now we need to
move forward with a clean slate, and the Astros will
become stronger, a stronger organization because of this. Today. That's
a lie. Here's more from the Astros owner who says,

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if you think the Astro is going to be caught
cheating again, well please come on. You can be confident
that we will always do the right thing and will
not have this happened again on my watch. Then the
Astros owner pointed out that even though he fired AJ
Hinch and Jeff lou Now he points out, well, it's

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not the whole story. They both had responsibilities, Jeff running
the baseball operation and overseeing AJ and all of those
people associated with that, and AJ on the bench and
was aware. If you read the report, it's pretty clear
A didn't endorse it, and neither did Jeff. Neither one
of them started this, but neither one of them did

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anything about him. And that's how we came to the conclusion.
They didn't start the fire, but they didn't put out
the fire either. The fire was burning and the building
was on fire, was a five law fire, and they
did not do anything to stop the fire. Now, this
is the one that really got my blood boiling, this
last SoundBite from the Astros owner. So again he started

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by saying, Jim Crane that hey, we did it. We're guilty,
fired the manager, fired the GM. And then listen to
what he had to say. This guy talks out of
both sides of his mouth. Listen to what he had
to say about the twenty seventeen World Series. Jim, does
this taint the World Series Championship? And what do you
say to the fans right now? Well, I think absolutely not.

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I think you know, we've had a very good team
for a number of years before seventeen. We return in
the corner eighteen nineteen. We have a very good team
on the field this year. You know, I think we'll
have a great season. Got a lot of great players. Still,
I don't think it taints it. Yeah. Well, he went on,
and we don't have this one. But he in a

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later SoundBite in that press conference, he said, there is
nothing that is clear to suggest it, meaning the cheating
affected the outcome of these games. I feel we had
the best team on the field in twenty seventeen. From
the Astros owner, now, this is an example of missing
the point. So I'd like to help out the older

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Astros owner there. I want to help him out. Now,
what's my evidence that the Astros did did have some
help from the cheating here? Because he says there's no
nothing that is clear to suggest the Astros cheating affected
the outcome of the World Series, well including the playoffs.
Houston check this out. Since they were accused of beginning

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this illicit campaign of cheating, they have won three hundred
and thirty six games since twenty o seven or twenty seventeen. Rather,
that's the most over a three year span in the
history of baseball? Do you understand that the Astros cheating
was the most successful three year run in the history
of the sport. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, their

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three year run of winning at least one hundred games
is tied for the longest in the history of baseball.
It goes back to the eighteen eighties, all right, longest
in baseball history. The Astros were eight and one at
home during the twenty seventeen postseason. They hit two seventy
three at home. On the road, they played nine games,
they were three and six on the road. They batted

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two h eight outside of Houston. The Astros hit fifteen
home runs in seven games of the twenty seventeen World Series,
fifteen of them. The Dodgers would have won that World
Series in five games had it not been for the
espionage scandal. That's a fact, Jack, It's a fact. And
yet the owner, Jim Crane has the hutzpah to say

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that it did not affect the outcome of the twenty
seventeen World Series. Maybe they should suspend him. Also, the
owners should be suspended. The Astros right now as an
organization are Chernobyl Reactor four is what they are. They
are chernobyl Act four. It is a total fiasco. And

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there you have the owner of the Astros talking out
of both sides of his mouth saying we did it,
We accept the punishment, and then move on. Nothing to
see here, Please disperse. And I am actually right now.
I don't know if you know this, but I'm fasting.
I'm not really eating today, but I am drinking the

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tiers of Astros fans because they are having a tough
time dealing with this. I don't know about you, Roberto,
but it's just not enjoyable. Listen. I mean, all these
Astro fans, well, everyone does it, and all the excuses
that are coming up with it's hilarious. I love it.
They are squirming. Yeah, yeah, everybody steals or steals signs,
but not he's in technology. No, no, the Astros crossed

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the line. They clearly did. We will take your phone
calls if you'd like to be part. You can join
the festivities here at eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
We're also on Twitter at ben mau. I have a prediction.
You know who's gonna happen? What's gonna happen next year.
Lawyers are gonna get involved. I am predicting there will

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be some class action lawsuits that will be filed against
Major League Baseball on behalf of ticket holders that claim
that the Baseball Yeah, how much you're still paying off
your World Series tickets? Right? Yeah? No, I predict that
the lawyers will get involved. In the next forty eight
hours or so, you will see a class action lawsuit

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filed against Major League Baseball and or the Houston Astros
in regards to this, and that people are gonna try
to get some money out of Baseball and the Astros. Now,
I know that Baseball when you buy a ticket, there's
a disclaimer on every ticket and all that. So I'm
not sure whether it's likely just a frivolous lawsuit, but
that doesn't mean it won't happen. People. You can sue

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anybody for anything only good things about America. You can
sue anybody for anything America. Here's another staff or, Jim Crane.
I mentioned this last week. The Astros homes chet rate
was twenty four point five percent, the third worst in
baseball in twenty sixteen. Yeah. The next year, the year
the supposedly implemented their science dealing system, which we know,
I'll know it's true. It plummeted to sixteen point seven

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percent the best in baseball. Really yeah, wow, I wonder
how that happened. It's gotta suck, you know, this gotta
suck for Jose Al Tube. He's not getting in the
Hall of Fame. He's dirty. He's dirty. I mean, that's
really the only Hall of Famer. I mean, I guess
Verlander can't get it in either, right, so he's not
he's part of it. So Verlander not a Hall of Famer.
Al Tube not a Hall of Famer. That's some of

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the collateral damage from this cheating skin eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox. Well, a very well known, very
well known personality in sports did something that had everyone buzzing.
He did something on the bench last night. Very few

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people outside of this, this very small group of people
that saw this realize what It's gonna be a big
story when people figure it out. I know I'm speaking
jibberish pig Latin, but I'll explain. We'll get to that.
We'll do it next. Be sure to catch live editions
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have site the bite, the great sports radio mystery. Something
happened last night that was off the grid, shall we say,
from what we were paying attention to. Everyone's focused on
the astros cheating and the great story that that is,
and also college football's championship game. But somebod else happened.
We'll get to it in a minute, which was pretty
amusing and has a chance of having legs. It's a

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story that has a chance of having legs. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to John who's
in Boston. Hello John, good morning, You're on Fox. David's up.
So I want to talk about how the biggest name
behind this whole cheating scandal is Alex Cora. Because Alex
core has brought up multiple times in the Astro's report,
and then it's been reported that Boston was doing the

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exact same thing in the twenty eighteen World Series. And
I believe they said that cors punishment would be much
more severe than what the Astros got. What do you
think that that Alex core is gonna get lifetime management? Well,
he's gonna get fired, is what he's gonna get. But
they weren't doing the same thing from the story the

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Red Sox. They had advanced what the Astros are doing.
They were using more nuance, so allegedly from what the
Astros were doing. But yeah, he's not going to manage
another game for the Red Sox. He's done. They're gonna
fire his ass as soon as the punishment comes down.
So you'll have some interiom manager with the Red Sox
when spring training. They've been do it quick because spring
training starts in less than a month, I think, so

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they gotta do it fast. Hopefully it's it's the Scott thing.
I mean, it completely ruins the game. Well, it ground
stop Baseball's flow of sports right now, and it's all
because these guys are taking their time trying to steal
signs trying to make the competitive edge up. Just play
the game. Well, that would be nice, John, if they

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actually just played the game and it didn't take seven
hours to play a nine inning baseball game, that would
be a nice concept. But this doesn't explain a little bit, John,
how Steve Pearce, a journeyman player, was able to win
World Series MVP on It is a twenty eighteen and
it does makes you. It makes you kind of figure
things out there are Thank you, John. Let's go to Hank,
who's in Virginia. Hello, Hanky, a little ouigo. How you're doing.

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Where are you being, Hank? You haven't called in a while.
I thought you died. I got fired, Ben, Oh my,
my apologies. Did you get fired for calling the show? Hank? Yeah,
that's what I got for. But the union got my
job back. There you go. You got fired for bad
calls to sports radio? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think
that's what it was. But Astros, I think you're giving

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them a little hard time. Ben, I think you need
to set back and reevaluate what you're talking about here
with these Astros. They're the best team in baseball over
the last five years, the last three years, last three years,
greatest team in baseball history. That's right, Yeah, that's right. Anyway, Ben, Yeah,
that's good talking to you. I'm back. Well that's a

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terrible call. You're gonna lose your job again. That's a
bad job by you. Let's go to Hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He won caller of the Week last week on the
show because for several days he provided us with amazing entertainment.
Ello Hollering James, sleep by your last time didn't meet

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a couple of times? Multiple times, buddy, Yeah, multiple times.
I'm a multiple Oh no, yeah, you're gonna go to radio.
You're gonna go to radio jail. I had a question
for you. What happened to you? Deplone? They let me down? God,
I was so depressed to had a chance, a chance

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to win the game. Yeah what happen? Like you didn't
really think they're gonna win the game? Right? I mean
not against your forty nine ers? Is most of them
a hustle them and just to be them. You've lived
in You've lived in the Twin Cities your whole life. Right,
you're not a new but you have You've called us
for many many years. You've how many times have we

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talked after a Viking season ending and a debacle after
a Viking season. So you're a seasoned veteran here. This
is not new to you. It's not new to me.
But I'm still heartbroken and devastated about to just ask
my Tam that she knows what I'm talking about. Woman,
ask her, I asked your plead that would destroying the scruntled. No,

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I'll call her up on a last year Okay, Oh
well I meant the info you got you the side
scoop and you're the main topic of the week. Really, yes, really,
I'm gonna just a popcorn? Yeah, all right, of you
free before you let me go? Who do you think?
How do you think? You go first? And Ric Fatiho
will do? I gotta go, Thank you, thank you, James I.

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It's not you, it's it's you know it's not you.
But I gotta move on. You know, it happens. So
Zion Williamson did something in the NBA last night. He
didn't play the number one pick of New Orleans, but
he did something that had a lot of people shaking

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their heads. What did Zion Williamson do during the Pelicans
game with the Pistons. Now, who would like to take
a guess? You know what did Zion? We were all
watching the college football game, and I certainly was not
watching an NBA game between the Pistons and Pelicans. But
what did Zion Williamson do? What do you think? Got

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a guess? And he had a glass of wine? I
think he had a Okay, that's a good guess. Like
he might have maybe he had a beer or glass
of wine or something like that on the bench to
try to crank things up. Anybody else want in on this? Anybody?
And all right, he was cheering for Clemson. Cheering for Clemson,
All right, that would be odd considering where he went
to college. But why not be odd considering where he

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plays basketball? Now? Right, Well, that's true too, Yeah, for
multiple reasons. Well, Zion Williamson apparently fell asleep on the
bench during the Pelicans Pistons game. There's video that is
circulating on social media and it appears he is taking
a snooze in the fourth quarter and the Pelicans had

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a three point lead. He's he's taking a little nap
there on the bench. Don't knock power naps, Ben, They're
very valuable. Now, who had is there a prop bed
in Vegas or one of the off short books or
one of the casinos that are popping up around America
that Zion would fall asleep during a game before he
scored a basket in the NBA. That is amazing. Well,

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they weren't playing. Yeah, he's like, he was doing it.
I'm gonna show Roberto because we were on radio, but
he was doing this kind of his eyes were kind
of you know, yeah, you know, yeah, you know, he's
like my dad back in the day, seeing the lazy boy.
We've all been there. I mean, you're trying, you're trying
to stay away, but you're like, oh man, my eyelids
are getting really heavy right now. I'm really heavy. It's great.

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Actually use my dad's own line. I was just resting
my eyes. Yeah, there you go. He's just resting his eyes.
I heard he's gonna play on Thursday, so I hope
he gets a good nap in bet now on Thursday,
so he's able to play. I think you just did.
That's good. Yeah. During the game. Then, Fox Sports Radio
has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch
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within the iHeartRadio app search f SR to listen live well.
Scottie writes and says, if I was Zion Williamson, I'd
be pressing hard to not play this season and risk
your questionable health for a last season. I think not.
I agree, Scott. I think only players that are on
teams that have a chance to win should play, and
everyone else should forfeit. I think we should have players

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forfeiting all over and the team's not being able to
feel the competitive roster because you don't want to risk injury.
So I think that's a good outlook, Scott. That's a
very nuanced outlook. Why risk injury? Right? Why do it?
It's not worth it? Justin says Zion Williamson was channeling
his inner water buffalo practicing his first phone call into

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the Ben Maller Show when he was sleeping there in advance. Yeah,
those were some heavy eyelids, heavy eyelids. Absolutely correct on that,
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Check it out. So one of the funny stories over
the weekend, after the Tennessee Titans had curbstomp the Baltimore Ravens,
people went back and they said, what's going on with that?
Mike Vrabel a coach of the Tennessee Titans, and I

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remember Mike Vrabel. He did a podcast interview, Mike Vrabel,
and he famously in that podcast interview said he would
cut off his um how can we say it here?
His Johnson Johnson and Johnson chop chop, no more sausage

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that would be gone. And he said, if the Titans
won a Super Bowl, he would cut off his junk,
is what he said. And yeah, he did that. Well,
they went back and interviewed him, and they asked for
a follow up, and we can tell you now that
the coach of the Tennessee Titans has clarified his comment

(02:23:23):
and unfortunately, he will not be self mutilating his manhood.
He says, he will not be cutting off his penis.
So it's disappointing. So he added some clarity there. I
was concerned. I thought maybe he you know, we would
have as soon as they win the super Bowl. You
know that old Disney marketing campaign. Hey, Mike Vrabel, You've
just won the Super Bowl? Where are you going? I'm

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gonna have my junk cut off? That's where I'm going.
I mean, come on, now, he's a man after your
own heart? Ben, what's that cood? What do you mean
by that? Well, he doesn't stick to his word? I
stick to my words. Weird, don't don't you owe Eddie pizza? No?
This did the Steelers make the playoffs? It wasn't the band.

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The bet was the steel whoever made it was better
made the playoffs. These they were both bad teams, so
nobody won that bet. They were both beat to us.
Whichever team was better. The Steelers were no better than
they played played twice. They were one and one against
each other, so they were essentially No, they didn't make
the playoffs. It doesn't matter. It's all irrelevant. All right,

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it is the bet show. Let's go to Travis. Where's
my where's my pie? Where's my food? For winning the
NFL offseason? Book them? I won? When was When was
that ever established? We established that before the season? I won?
You don't even remember cool, you've smoked so much weed.
You don't even remember I won. Where's my food? No,
where's my food? Of course you get conveniently when I win.

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You guys don't remember. You don't remember anything. It's amazing
how that works. Travis in Arkansas, Hello, Travis Maller, what's up. Yeah,
I'm I've been listening to your show for a lot
a while, but I'm a first time Kyler. Welcome to
the show. First time, long time. I love my favorite
radio cliche, first time, long time. And uh my question is,

(02:25:15):
you know I've been reading on, you know, all the
baseball talks and everything about the Cardinals, how they're offering
up you know, Tyler O'Neill, they're offering up Carlos Martin
Is they're offering up Matt Have you easy for you
to say? Yes? All right, So you're talking about this
baseball here, the Saint Louis Cardinals. Yes, yeah, that's that's

(02:25:36):
my favorite team, by the way, But yeah, they're talking
they're talking about trading them guys for Nolan Erronado. I
got two. That was one of the questions was are
they are they actually talking about doing that? Well, I
mean there's talk most baseball rumors don't actually happen. I mean,
there's there's obviously chatter about that, but I would be
very careful with Eronado. He's a good players, very good

(02:25:59):
defensive player, but he is a product of course field.
His numbers go down, his his ops, his slugging percentage
are dramatically different in his career home versus roads. So
you know he's good. He'll be good if he goes
to the Cardinals. But you're not gonna get the Colorado
Rockies version of Nolan Ernando because his numbers are not

(02:26:21):
nearly as good once he leaves Denver. Right, But here's
the thing, though, when you go to Saint Louis Ballpark
is so much like it's so much better compared to
any other ball park besides like Cincinnati, well you know
Chicago that's got like the short powerhouse alleys and everything.
Like you're a little biased, though, I mean you admit that.

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I mean you're a little bias. Okay, So how would
I Okay, Well, it's a big ballpark, I get it.
I mean, Dodger Stadium is a big ball but if
you're you know, guys are hitting home runs everywhere. You
hit him out of the Grand Canyon. But if I
do any more Saint Louis Cardinal talk Travis, I'll be
punished by management. So there's a limit, and I don't
mind trading young players for an establishment. The problem at Ernado,

(02:27:05):
I believe there's an out in his contract so he
could leave after next season. So I think that that's
he's got a no trade CLASSO. Well yeah, but he's
got one year and then he can leave one more year.
He signed a seven year contract but through twenty twenty five,
but it's got loopholes in it where he can exit
stage right and say bye bye bye, bye bye bye.

(02:27:28):
We say hi hi to cowboy John Brad in Windsor, Ontario.
It's Cowboys Corner. Hello cowboy, murdering Ben and congratulations coach
Joe Burrow. In the twenty twenty u NCAA Football Champion
All shoot Tigers and of course a half century of gold,

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the Texas was the last all white champions, and then
they had their first black player in nineteen seventy. He
died about two years ago. Race anyway, taking of Tigers yesterday.
Two former Tigers rust handed pitchers of Ruskin and Jim
Porr were seventy two and twenty one respectively, and today

(02:28:13):
nineteen sixties era singer Jack Jones is eighty two. Former
of nineteen sixties the right handed pitchers Sonny Seberts e
sday and one of my high school buddies. Bob McDonald's
birthday was yesterday, but I'm not sure whether he was
six or sixty seven. And congratulations Rob Manford for dropping

(02:28:36):
the hammer on the Houston Astros on I hopefully the
Tigers will consider finding their former manager Ray j I
always expensions in twenty twenty one, and anyway, I'll stay
two people tomorrow. One I get asked on Facebook a
complete load of crap where he goes? Only cowboy John

(02:28:59):
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this week. Somebody not a great team, not a great team,
all right, someone in the world of sports. The last
seven to ten days, let's figure out who it is here?
Not a great team? All right? Will anyone get this right?
I'm gonna go with let's see here, we can go

(02:30:51):
with Callar five. I'm gonna change it up this week,
go with qular five. Eddie qualified. I think last week
I picked like caller two. I think, all right, Cooper
is doing something. I don't know what he's doing. All right,
let's go to the play again, Play again, play again,
play again. Not a great team, all right, Angry Bills.

(02:31:15):
For some reason, he's going to say something offensive, so
we'll probably have to jump dump him. Angry Bill, what's
the answer here, Angry Bill? Reinstated Pete Rose? I want
to reinstated. Now, you got it, Pete Rose, we hung
up on your five minutes ago. Bill, we hung up.
So take that in your pooper and popper. Yeah. I

(02:31:37):
want Joe Jackson and Pete Rose back at baseball. Thank you,
Tremendous Sports Radio is now it's not Pete Rose. Let's
go to Rob in Vegas, who should have been batting
lead off. That's a bad job by me, Hello, Rob,
even Benjamin, let's Frank Tonight's show in the full circle.

(02:31:57):
That bang damn? All right? Is it? Bang? Bang. That's
only sounds like it could be Bang Bang. Sorry up,
Rocky Roberto. Only eight callers get to guess eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox Time for the first clue

(02:32:18):
for this player was originally committed to Virginia Tech, but
ended up going to Louisville after Seth Greenberg was fired.
Not a great team someone from the world of sports
last seven to ten days. It's a SoundBite. Obviously, you
have to figure out who that voice is. Matched the
voice with the person with the name of the human being.

(02:32:40):
It is not Bang Bang or Pete Rose. Not a
great team. Caller Number three is Midnight Mark. Hello, Midnight Mark? Yes, Ben?
Is that Joe or Phil Nikro? Is that Phil Nikro?

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Is that? I see what you did there? I'm not
gonna fall for I'm not gonna fall for your trap, Mark,
all right. I like your distinctive voice, though, Hang up
on yourself. All right. So it's not Phil Neekro, Bang
Bang or Pete Rose. These are all legitimate guests. I'm
glad that people are taking this game seriously and they're
not making a mockery of the game here. I'm really
happy about that. I really am. I'm proud of that.

(02:33:22):
All right, call her number four, NYMANI Mini Mo Matt
in Boston, is next, Matt? Who is this mystery voice?
Is that Marshawn Lynch? All right? Is that Marshawn Lynch
for the wind, But thanks for playing man. It's not
not a great team. But I remember when Marshawn wanted

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to go play for Virginia Tech and then he decided
to go to Louisville and big it's a big shocker.
Was a shocker. Many people did not see that coming,
especial to people at Berkeley. They did not see that coming.
All right, it's not Marshawn. It is not Phil necro
Bang Bang or Pete Rose. Time for another clue. This

(02:34:06):
person designs his own sneakers and wears a different pair
during the first and second half of every game. Not
a great team. I think most NBA players at least
wear different shoes the first and second half of every game.
All right, let's go to calling number five, and that
would be Justin and Cincinnati for the way in Justin,
he's a lynch pin for the people's team. That's mantras Harry. Yeah,

(02:34:30):
that's so good job by you. One of the more
underrated players in pro basketball today. Mantras Harold justin you're hungover,
you win a golden ticket by to push him across
the finish line to win the game earlier. But he

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came back and won against the Sight the bight. It
is montrase, Harold traded to the Clippers and the Chris Paultrey.
I'd like to thank the Rockets. That's almost as bad
as a J. Hinch and Jeff lou Now and the
Astro fans will think they're World Series is not tainted.
It it's tainted. I know. The more they whine, the
better I feel. The more the Astro's apologists complain and say,

(02:35:15):
I don't care. We're not giving up the trophy. It tainted.
It doesn't matter. It's dirty. The trophy's dirty. It's got
it smells like a sewer, it's got a murder. Gotta go,