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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Ben and I want to thank you for
downloading today's edition of the podcast. And yes, I still
have the rustic voice going. I'm still doing the rustic
voice as I get over this illness. But coming up
on today's show, it's pretty good, pretty good. I think
you'll like it. I hope you'll like it. But we
will discuss Kyler Murray, Mighty Mouse, Alligator Arms, Kyler Murray.

(00:22):
I continue to talk about this guy. He's been called
a generational talent. We'll get into that. Also, Baker Mayfield
believes that the Browns are being targeted and he is
not happy about it. He's talking about it, so we'll
discuss that. Also, the Houston Astros. Everything's great, you know,
going down there winning all these games, but they have

(00:42):
a problem. Something has popped up for the Astros down
They're downplaying it, but it's an issue and Marcus Mariota
in danger of losing his grip on a starting job
in Tennessee. What is this all about? We will discuss that.
We'll have some ask Ben questions, some other fun things
along the way. And before I throw to the podcast,

(01:03):
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(01:23):
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(02:05):
we have the gift of hyperbole, which I always loved
talking about hyperbole. It's a wonderful thing. So I bring
up a team that was the worst team in football
last year, and we like talking about bad things because
bad things generally lead to good radio. Like the Arizona Cardinals,
the laughing stock of the football world. They had the
number one pick because they were so bad, so terrible

(02:28):
last year. They have added another act under the big top.
And I'm talking about Steve Kim, the GM of the Cardinals,
who has outdone himself when talking about Kyler Murray. I
don't know if you heard what he said in an
interview recently, but if you missed it, we'll catch get
your caught up to speed. So seemingly with a straight face,

(02:51):
the general manager of the Cardinals trying to explain why
they had Sam Bradford, then got Josh Rosen, got rid
of both those guys, and now they're going with Kyler
Murray with the first overall pick. And he says that
Kyler Murray is just so amazing that he makes all
the other moves on the chessboard worth it. And he

(03:16):
admitted it is unprecedented what the Arizona Cardinals have done here,
but he pointed out that he really really believes in
Kyler Murray. In fact, the quote from Kime was that
he said he's a standing firm here says quote, I
just felt that Murray was a generational talent that I

(03:36):
just couldn't pass up. It's an interview he did with
a Ringer. Now, the key part of that those two
words A bing bought a boom, generational talent, generational talent?
Is he back on the booze? What's going on there
with Steve Kim the gym? Now, let's discuss the question

(03:56):
exactly are you going to buy or sell Kyler Murray
being a quote generational talent unquote for the Cardinals. Well,
if you listen to the show at all, you know
my position, you know my thoughts on this. Uh yeah, exactly,

(04:16):
I've got shoelaces, mugsy. And in addition to that, we
also have the obliteration. We'll get to that. Obliteration is
a good word, all right. You like that word. That's
not a bad word. I don't know if you use
it all the time, but I like the word anyway.
All right, So we'll begin with a Kyler Murray is

(04:39):
the biggest risk in NFL draft history, right, the biggest
risk in NFL draft history. And that's not me hyping
this that is reality because of his diminutive size and
his limited body of work at Oklahoma. This is essentially
betting on Green double zero on the roulette wheel. Now,

(05:01):
every once in a while Green double zero wins when
you play roulette, but very rarely. He is the long
shot of long shot. So it's kind of like if
you were to bet on a fight. There's some big
heavyweight fight to New Thrilla in Manila or something like that,
rumble in the jungle, and you bet on the boxer
who has the shoelaces tied together. Who would do that?

(05:24):
Kyler Murray took the field with Oklahoma having better players
than everyone Oklahoma played up until the game. They didn't
where the Sooners were. They were just steamrolling teams right
up until the moment they were exposed. And Kyler Murray
was exposed against Nick Saban and Alabama, and then Alabama

(05:44):
got molly wopped after that in the College Football Playoff.
But Kyler Murray laid an egg. He sucked. He was
so terrible in the first half, and then he had
some garbage time numbers in the second half. The game
was over for all intensive purposes at halftime, and even
Kyler Murray doesn't think he's a generational talent in football.
What's my evidence? He signed a professional baseball contract with

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the Oakland Athletics. If he thought he was a generational
football talent, why on God's green Earth would he have
signed with the Oakland A's to ride buses in the
minor leagues. I mean, you don't have to be Einstein
to know what's going on. You know what's going on.
He didn't think he could make it in the NFL.
The A's offered him a decent amount of money. He
took it, and then he walked back on his word

(06:31):
playing for the Cardinals. I'm gonna put this through the
prism that Kyler Murray and Oklahoma fans because I'm getting
peppered by these boomers sooner, guys. It's essentially, Kyler Murray
is now suiting up for Florida Atlantic, or Iowa State
or Kansas and the other team is like Oklahoma. If

(06:53):
Murray's a generational talent, then he should have no trouble
overcoming the odds. Right, It's gonna be just marvelous. He's
like eating a corn dog at the state fair. Everyone
loves the corn dog at the State Fair right eating
deep Fried you love just don't hold your breath now
Part B of this. No point, no point in Steve

(07:14):
ki being in decision. No, I think he's a he's
Doink the clown and should be in the dumpster with
Lenny Deist. But you cannot be indecisive because he has
already laid down the foundation. And once you lay the
foundation down, it's you know how many people we lay
the foundation? Then I'm gonna come and destroy the foundation
and start over. He's done that, but now he's doing

(07:35):
it again with Kyler Murray. Make no mistake. We said
it the night of the NFL draft. Behind these microphones
at Fox, Steve Kim has no choice. Now he has
put all of the chips in the middle of the
table and they all have a photo of little Kyler
Murray right there. That's it. No, for better or worse,

(07:57):
Kyler Murray will submit the football future of the general
manager of the Cardinals. Now my belief is that everyone
in Arizona will be fired. As I said, it is
the blind leading the blind. Now, if it was blind Scott,
I would be okay, because blind blind Scott's given me
a tour of Boston like walking tour, which is amazing

(08:20):
because he's blind. But this is the real no concept
blind to the blind. Kyler Murray is not gonna play
long He's not gonna play it long term dividends. You're
gonna be some beginners locked the beginning of his career
before teams get a book on Kyler Murray. But it's
kind of like watching Muggsy Bogues. Now that's an old
NBA player from a million years ago. But Mugsy Bogs

(08:42):
played in the NBA, had a decent career. I think
he played about ten years or something like that, and
he was all of like five foot three or something
along those lines. And it's a nice diversion, right watching
him play back in that year or the NBA for
the Washington Bullets they were called the Bullets or the
Charlotte Hornets others. Bogus made zero All Star games. He

(09:02):
played about twenty nine minutes a game, played well at times,
but barely bigger than a garden gnome Kyler Murray. And
so by football standards, it's the same concept. I mean,
the NFL is phil you watch these games. You watch
a college game and then watch an NFL game. If
you've ever done that in person, even the crap NFL teams,
even the dreck of the NFL, the players of the

(09:25):
size of hercules, Right, but you know King Kong running
around and it's not it's not the same. Kyler Murray
looks like a video game glitch. That's what he looks like.
I said it first moment I saw him last week
in his exhibition debut. It's like the programmers at Madden
tossed in a code and if you type the code in,

(09:47):
you can play with a Pop Warner quarterback in the
Madden Game. Kyler is I guess he's a game breaker
in peewee football, but this is adult football. So there
are two ways that Kyler Murray can do a pratfall,
either being unable to perform because he's just not good enough,
because we've seen plenty of star college players that stink

(10:10):
out loud in the NFL, and also physically being unable
to handle the abuse from the savages, the swashbuckling savages
that will take him out. Now the last worrior, So
Steve kimes track record tells you that this is not
going to go very well. Right, he has obliterated the
NFL draft, everything this guy has touched since twenty thirteen

(10:34):
has turned to vomit. And I'm not embellishing that. I
to prove my point here, let's go to the stats, right,
and if you're looking at past results, I know they
don't guarantee future outcomes. However, if you invest in real
estate or you invest in the stock market, you understand
that they look at a likelihood. Right. The analytics aren't

(10:58):
perfect in all that, but you look at likelihoods and
comes and work with that. So if you go to
the statue of the forty two players before this year's draft,
of the forty two players the Cardinals drafted since twenty thirteen,
the start of Steve Kim taking over that front office
as GM, more than half, in fact, it's closer to

(11:18):
sixty five percent are no longer with the organization. Sean
al right, not even with the team. And he said, well,
that's mostly probably six or seven the round pick. No,
it's sixty four point two percent have left the organization.
The Cardinals first round picks Robert Kimdici Cooper Loop's favorite
player from twenty sixteen. He just got released a little
while back. Josh Rosen was traded and this Hassan Reddick

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is trying to come back. He was the twenty seventeen
first round. I think he went to Temple and he
is recovering from a NIE scope and I believe he's
playing now. But we'll see how good he's going to be.
So the team is also on its third head coach
in three seasons. That is the consistency of the Cleveland
Browns in recent years. Three coaches three years. And gets

(12:03):
even better, this guy Steve Kin. Because everyone wanted to
hire somebody associated with Sean McVay. You know what they did, right.
I don't need to tell you that. They went out
and they got somebody that was a cabana boy for
Sean McVeigh for like a week or two. In this
Texas Tech coach Cliff Kingsbury, who was fired from Texas Tech,
which you say, well, coaches get fired all the time.

(12:25):
They bounce back. That was his alma mater. He had
a losing record over six seasons at Texas Tech. And
they said, this guy is so incompetent, this Kingsbury, yet
we gotta get rid of him. And so here's what
Kingsbury has done in the NFL. He's added snack breaks
to practice with juice boxes and granola bars for the players.
He's also tossed in social media breaks for team meetings.

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So guys gotta update the Graham social media. When it
comes knocking, you gotta take care of it. Is dysfunction junction.
What's your function? We know what the function is, so
screwed up mess, but it makes for good talk radio.
So just remember this. We'll say this. I want everyone
to remember this because Guyler Murray when he blows up

(13:10):
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(14:58):
Larry says, I love the new deep voice Maller. It
was like watching a good shooter in the NBA add
a quality pump fake to his game. Have you been
practicing deep voice techniques or have you hired a voice scooter? Yeah,
I'll tell you what I did, all right. And I
don't know if I should say us on the here,
but I allowed my wife to get sick at work
and then bring that illness home, and then she gave

(15:19):
it to me as a nice gift. You know, our
anniversary was in July, so it was a little late
anniversary gift. And so yeah, it's pretty much it, you know.
I mean, there's very little chance I could ever get
sick unless somebody brings it into the house. Because I
work at night. There's no one here. Everyone's in It's
like we're all in quarantine here at Fox Sports rate.
We're all in different rooms. It's it's you know, I

(15:39):
don't interact with pretty much anybody here. I mean I see,
you know, small talk, play grab ass a little bit
in the hallways coming in, but that's about it, you know,
And so there's very very little opportunity for me to
get any kind of germs. I don't go out much
during the week, and I don't eat. I mean, I
really live boring life. But my wife, you know, at
her work, people are sick all the time, and so
maybe you could put a microphone in your room and

(16:00):
then you could go in your office and you and
your wife could talk like you and I do on
the show. Yeah, you think that would be a good idea.
You think that would be it's worth a shot. Yeah, yeah,
he's a gunshot. I don't think he wants to wants
to do that. But we got here about the same time,
and he say, I'm getting here little earlier. Now I noticed. Yeah,
I usually am the first one here, but not lately.

(16:20):
You're showing up a little earlier. Yeah, well, because I'm
worried about the traffic and all that. I'm paranoid because
they you know, at night, the only thing we have
to worry about is freeways closing pretty much, and they
close them all the time, so I'm always freaking out. Again,
give a little extra time, the extra time coming in here.
I'm disappointed. Schools are starting up here soon. On my
way home. Now, it's gonna be Traffic's gonna be a
little bit. Oh yeah, the kiddies are out earlier kids

(16:43):
school started in southern California a lot of places. Robbie
the Mariner fan right since says Kyler Murray has been
impressing everyone in training camp and had a good preseason debut.
He had a good preseason debut. He threw dinking dunk passes.
Come on, did that very well? Dwayne Haskins has addie
below average training camp at best in bad preseason debut.
Please remind everyone which QB did you say Ben was

(17:04):
the best in the Jeff, Yeah, yes, Dwayne Haskins will
have a better NFL career than Kyler Murray. Boom, save
the audio tape. It's a fact. It's a damn fact.
We never saved the audio tape. Yeah, I say that,
well once unless you say something, Well know what's gonna
happen once FRANCESSA retires again, then fun House will be bored.

(17:25):
So he'll just save the stuff that we say. Oh nice, Yeah,
I think we can get fun House. No one will
care about what we say. But at least fun House
he'll give him something to do to put clips out there.
You gonna give him an opportunity, mister nice guy's losing
his mind. Another Kyler Murray monologue. I did I not
tell mister nice guy. Let's be prepared. It's the season

(17:46):
of Kyler Murray, right, Roberto. It's football. See, this is
a good story. You know. The GM's a dope. I
like when people are dopes. I can goof on him.
It's easy radio for me. And Steve comes a good
punching back. He's a pinata and every one gets a
swing at the kid's birthday party. So it's a good
see how Kyler Murray does City against that Raider defense.
That's some young guys on that defense. They have to

(18:09):
put themselves. There's a chance. I mean, the Chargers didn't
have anybody, any starters on that defense. I'm at worried there.
I mean Kyler, you know he's worried about his health.
I'm not saying he's gonna get hurt, but he's a
little petite player. I'm concerned about it. I just want
to put that out. The screaming Possum writes and says, Ben,
the double zero on the roulette table has the exact
same chance of hitting as much as any other number.

(18:31):
I've turned five dollars into a one hundred and eighty
dollars numerous times joking around playing double zero. I can't
even make a Roulette analogy without some dope getting upset
with me. You're you're let me let me say something.
This is this dingle berry Okay, screaming possum. I know
you're a one, but let me explain something. All right now,

(18:52):
I like Roulette. I know it's a suckers game and
all that, but here's that the way you play Roulette,
the only acceptable way is either pick red or black
or right. That's it. That's all. You don't do green,
you don't uh so stop. Yeah, but I'm one of
those idiots that he's, oh green hasn't hit yet. Let

(19:12):
me put putts. I'm telling you I went to one
of those uh we still say Indian casinos, Native American casinos.
I went to one of those one time in San
Diego and racist, and I was trying to do the
Mallard Roulette thing on a digital roulette thing, and um
and I'm telling you it was rig because it it

(19:34):
came up like zero double zero, like multiple times, and
the math on that seems impossible. Yes, I will never
play Roulette. That's not like an actual roulette table. I agree. Cool.
Even then, I'm wondering whether they use magnets or something,
but I at least I can see it physically rather
than some computer algorithm that they're using. I don't I

(19:55):
don't trust that. All right, let's go to the phones. Ben.
It's Ben and Ben and is in Michigan. Hello, Ben, Hey,
so I wanted to talk about Kyler Murley. I agree.
I don't think he's a generational talent either. But the
rules right now had it so that you can't hit
him in the head, and he's gonna be quick. It's
gonna be really hard to hit him. If they do

(20:17):
give him, Yeah, he's gonna get knocked out. But he's
so hard to hit with these rules. Well, it's not
that hard to hit because your offensive line is not
very good and you're not really sure what you're doing.
It's not that hard to hit quarterbacks. Look at Deshaun
Watson doesn't know how to handle a pressure in Houston
and he gets dinged up all the time. Guy to
take a bus to a game because he got hit
so much last year with Texans. I mean, I agree,

(20:38):
I think the smaller ones are getting hit when they
don't have the lines. Let me say this, Ben, Let
me say this though. I mean, it's it's pretty simp
If Kyler Murray turns out to be good and I'm
my calculation is incorrect, then this will open up the
floodgates and every little guy will now play quarterback. Well,

(20:59):
we'll have taul guys playing defensive back and little guys
will be playing quarterback. It'll open up the doors and
people were running in to play quarterback. I'm afraid of
I would rather see Tom Brady. He's not really flee
the foot like maneuver around, had that six sons and
still get the ball out in the middle of the crowd. Yeah, yeah,
I mean it's it's it's the trend right now, right now,

(21:21):
the trend. We'll see if it's not even a trend.
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I met I mentioned it yesterday that the NFL was

(21:41):
partnering up with Jay Z and his Rock Nation group.
They were gonna have him take over the halftime show
and he was going to be part of their Inspired
Change campaign. Yeah. Well, I guess he got a ton
of blowback on social media. A lot of social justice
warriors not happy with him because Kaepernick, Yes, exactly, Kaepernick
arrangement syndrome mark outrage very much that I feel like he's,

(22:02):
you know, him getting in bed with the NFL is
him being a sellout basically. So they had a press
converence today. It was Jay Z and Roger Goodell and
the fact the timing. They were offended by the timing,
Eddie that this is anniversary and the NFL chose this
day like it's some kind of historical landmark in society.
I guess for them it is. But here's what Here's
what Jay Z had to say about the Colin Kaepernick

(22:23):
situation in him now getting in business with the NFL.
He said, quote, everyone's heard, we hear what you're saying,
and everyone knows I agree with what you're saying talking
about Kaepernick. So what are we gonna do? You know,
what I'm saying help millions and millions of people, or
are we gonna get stuck on Colin not having a
job end quote. So yeah, he's basically saying he agrees
with Kaepernick, but now it's it's time to move forward,
and he thinks I guess he's the person to help

(22:45):
move things forward. I feel bad for like a lot
of these famous black guys because if you don't go
with the herdman, they call you like all kinds of
horrible names. I'm reading some of the stuff on social
media and Colin, jay Z, Uncle Tom and all this.
It's it's ridiculous what some of these uh, these lunatics
who are getting racist negative just because you don't agree

(23:05):
with what you know jay Z's I think jay Z's
done pretty well for himself. I think I don't. And
what was the story he wants to own an NFL
team now that he wants to that's that's all supposed
to the conspiracy that he's his first step jay Z
is this, and then he's he's I mean, basically, he's saying, Okay, look,
the NFL is mostly you know, white owners and white
you know executives. But how do you create change if

(23:28):
you don't do business with those people? If you say
I'm going to refuse to do business with you, then
you never are able to move things forward, I guess
at his point. And but yeah, the hoodspuff like, well,
jay Z should have contacted Kaepernick before he took it
the deep. What is that? There were some reports that
they said he did, and then there's some people were
saying that wasn't true. So I don't all right, Well,
good luck to jay Z. I'm sure he will make

(23:49):
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the obligatory full Mallard monologue on Antonio Brown, but we
have a mini Mallard monologue because our guy Antonio Brown

(24:10):
is added again. He has been sued every day. There
is something new with this Antonio Brown of the Raiders.
He's being sued by a celebrity chef that claims Antonio
Brown stiffed him on almost forty thousand dollars. This goes
back to January at the Pro Bowl and Stefano Tededishi
never heard of him. I don't know, he said, who. Supposedly,

(24:31):
if you're an athlete, this is the guy you go
to to make you the sports chef or heard so
he claims, yeah, how does one become the sports chef? Like? Well,
I was reading about this and he said, he's he's done.
I guess catering. Yeah, for Drew Brees. Who else was
on the list, Larry Fitzgerald? There was another quarterback I'm

(24:51):
forgetting goes on there as well. So so this is
his gig he's and you can make a living. I
guess you're getting forty thousand for a weekend that's Sunday.
So my favorite part of the story, though, There's two
things that I love about the tale of this sports
chef and Antonio Brown. The chef claimed, did you see
this part, Eddie? Where did you read this with? Was

(25:12):
it how he wanted to compensate him? Well, that that's
my favorite part. But the part where they told the
chef not to make icontact with Antonio o'brown, Well, I
mean we have we have heard that about certain people, right, Yes,
that's true. Yes, I have a funny story like that
years ago. This is this goes back way long before

(25:33):
I was even in radio unless it wasn't. But I
was doing some shows remotely from WFA and in New York.
And at the time, the Iman don Imus was the
big morning guy in radio. Not as big as Howard Stern,
but he was big, and he did a show out
of those studios, and I was doing a show at
night on the West coast, but because of the time difference,
it was on overnight on the East coast, and so

(25:55):
they were like very nice at w f AN, but
they they said that if you know, once, I had
to be out of there by a certain time because
I'm showed up about that time. And he didn't want
anyone in the building that he did not know who
they were. And uh yeah, that's when they had studios
at the Queen's a story of studios where they did

(26:16):
at that time. It was most famous because they did
the Cosby Show. I don't think they brag about that anymore.
I don't know, no, I don't think I think they
did Sesame Street out of there too. But you know,
I didn't see anything. I just walking around. That was
before nine to eleven, so you could walk anywhere you
want and there were no you no one cared you
could do anything you want. It was pretty cool actually
back in back in those days. Um but yeah, yeah.
The part which you referenced Eddy briefly is Antonio Brown

(26:38):
tried to compensate the celebrity chef with social media advertising.
Does this mean Eddie where? I think it means he
was gonna send out a tweet or something. Hey, the
sports chef really does a great job. Everybody should hire him.
So just like Antonio Brown really think like his followers
are gonna go, oh, you know, I'll spend forty thousand

(26:59):
on a week and Roberto would do it for sure. Yeah,
I got that guy have a raider tailgate this year.
Roberto bring in the sports and I got that kind
of mula man. So like Antonio Brown wouldn't let this
guy get his his culinary equipment and all that. I
bet you the equipment is probably what most of this is.
Like that stuff's expensive, that cooking stuff, Oh yeah for sure. Yeah.
All right's Ben Allen Show on Fox. Let's go to

(27:21):
the phone Jim in Providence. We have heard from Jim
in a while. What's going on, Jim? Hey man, it's
always a pleasure. Albert Einstein once said, the only way
to win at roulette is to take the wheel off
the tracks, the dealer over the head with it, and
run away with the chips. Yeah, so you don't want
to play roulette if you want to win at a casino,

(27:41):
that's for sure. Well well yeah, but you don't want
to play anything if you want to win exactly. I
mean that you have no chiman. Everyone says the game
you have a chance to win his craps, that that's
the one you can win at. Yeah, passline and four odds,
believe me, I know, my friend. But anyway, so that
brings me to my next question for you. I got
a I got a C note on the Dodges at

(28:03):
seven to one for the Futures to win the World Series.
I got a C no on the Red Stocks. We
all know that's not happening to repeat. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
there's six there's sixteen games out of first place. So
my question to you, my friend, yeah, is I gotta
I got a C note coming on the Patriots. Kansas

(28:23):
City is gonna have a there there. I think six
to one. Kansas City is gonna have a down year.
Loser Kelsey and Mahomes, they're gonna they're gonna take a
step back this year. I guarantee it. Uh, other than
the Rams, because I know that's your team. Yeah, what
other team in the NFL should I put my other scene?

(28:45):
I got a SnO on that Patriots. They go on
the super Bowl or they win or not. All right,
so just on so just to win the so just
to win the AFC, Well, i'd have to look at
the odds and see what you're getting. You're getting good, guys.
If you don't think the Chiefs are gonna win, if
you really believe the Chiefs are gonna have problems this year,
then you should take the Chargers. I mean that's the
first thing that pops in my head because they're the

(29:05):
year I'm talking about to win the super Bowl. To
win the Super Bowl? Yeah, what other teams should I pick?
I'm going up? What team you pick? I'm going with it,
all right? Gun to my head here, think about this here,
I want to look at this over. I don't want
to give you some bad advice. Here, you got I
appreciate that a thousand bucks you guys putting a sea

(29:27):
note down with us that I all right, listen, Jim,
I'll look at the numbers here. I mean keep listening, Jim,
I'll give you a team. I gotta look at some
numbers here. Okay, all right, more team, got path. I
need one more team. Now, you're in good shape. Listen,
listen to me. You're in good shape with the Dodgers
because they're gonna win the National Links. So then they're
gonna win the National Link Pettitt. And then did you
bet them to win the World Series? Just get to

(29:47):
the World Series. To win the World Series, that's seven
to one, all right. So but you're you're in good
shape there too, because if they get to the World Series,
and then if things go sideways, you can still heade
your bed. If they're about to lose the World Series,
you can get you Yeah, you know they're going you
know that. Yeah, come on, it's a gimmy. It's a
it's a layup drill. That's what it is. Fair Year.
But before I go, I want to you know, I'm

(30:08):
gonna listen to your other the pick he's up for me.
But I want to thank Roberto and Coop for sharing
their pictures and their photos from their vacations. I didn't
last time I called, there was the contest, so I
did have a chance to thank them. Yeah, I hope Eddie.
I hope Eddie shares his pictures on his Australian trip.
If I don't have a chance to call before he goes.

(30:29):
I have a good time and I hope you feel better.
Thank you. All Right, there's a friend Jim in province.
I gotta come up with a team here, but not
he's got the Patriots, says the Chiefs aren't gonna make it.
When do you going to Australia, Eddie? October? Yeah, still
a couple of months away, you know, a little time. Yeah,
I'm excited about that, are you. I'm not excited about

(30:50):
the flight, but yeah, I think I'll be excited once
I get there. What are you going to? We'll just
go to Sydney and then a place called um Cans
Cans and yeah, yes, that's it's the weird. I was
just looking up Australia earlier tonight because I was talking
about how that I want that to be one of
my next uh you know, vacation destinations. Look at you,
globe trotters, Look at you guys. I've got the itch now, Ben, Yeah,

(31:16):
you should go see Perth and when you're in Australia,
that's on the other side. I was looking them all
up and I think I googled, like best cities to visit,
and that that second one that Eddie said, it was
on the top of most of the list. What's so
good about it? Great barrier reef, Yeah, and like rainforest
and all right, it sounds like fun, But I would
not enjoy that because the whole time, and I do

(31:37):
want to get to New Zealand. I've been doing every
week I go on the radio New Zealand, like when
one day a week for like ten years, I need
to get to New Zealand. But the trip, I'm telling you,
I don't travel well. I don't fit in planes. And
then when I get there, if I survived the trip there,
the whole time I want to be dreading the fact
that I have to come back, you know, and I
have to sit on the plane for twenty hours or whatever.

(31:58):
So it's the flight back is just awful. Awful. You
do you like to do with mister T And the
A team was drug me? Yeah, drug you with some milk.
That's what That's what my mom did. Yeah, I'd be
open to that. I'd be open to being drugged. Were
you able to fall asleep on the plane, Coop in Europe.
I mean I can. I can fall asleep for on
the way back, like maybe an hour at most. But

(32:20):
I don't know. I made it makes me nervous because
I don't really like take pills. But my mom had.
I don't know if I mean, I think this is fine.
It was it was prescribed to her. She took a
xanax yeah, and was out the entire flight. Now here's
the whole time. Here's the thing, Coop. I got two
things for because I am sleep challenged. Even though I
love my sleep in bed, I don't sleep very well.

(32:41):
I'm like a four hour or five hour night guy
unless I'm drugged. But there's two things. Now. Melatonin, it
doesn't work for me. My wife takes a melotonin. She
it's like she's been tranquilized. And I take like three
melotonin's and like nothing happens. But but I found that
that Kirkland sleeps Uh supplement thing they have there that

(33:01):
works wonderfully. That gets me sleeping pretty good. But I
can't use it all the time because he's not good
to use that stuff all the time. So I was
just like, that's what that makes me nervous about it
because this isn't that like how like Elvis died like
taking a combination? Elvis died because he was on a
toilet eating and it was a combination. Or is he dead?
Maybe he's still alive? Right, Remember that was a big
urban years ago that Elvis is still and he was

(33:23):
on the yayo all right? See Ben Maller Show on
Fox Time. Now for the who am I? Game? We
get to the MLB pick him in a little bit. Also,
so Raffie L. Devers. He went six for six in
a game earlier this week at age twenty two, I
was the only player in Big League history to go
six for six at an age at the same age

(33:45):
rather or younger than Devers did earlier this week? Who
am I? Again? Rafael Devers of the Socks. He went
six for six in a game against the Indians earlier
this week at age twenty two, I was the only
player in Big League history to go six for six
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Raphael Devers of the Socks. He went six for six
in a game earlier this week at age twenty two.
I was the only player in Big League history to
go six for six at that age or younger? Who
am I? Miguel on Fires going with Ellis Valentine Supermarket.

(34:50):
Steve checks in with the great center fielder Ben Malone
as the answer. Jay in Florida formerly in Michigan, formally
in Adelphia is going with Jackie Robinson as his answer.
A Dubs Choices Frank Dreben, the fine fine character, Turk

(35:10):
Wendell from Nick in New Hampshire. Mister nice Guy's going
with William Jefferson Clinton. It's in the interesting photo, mister nisky,
is that up on your wall? In your office there.
Let's see here, Milkman, Mike is going with not Marcel
but Parcel in Brooklyn. I don't know who that is.
Barry Bonds guest by Gary Bobby Benia from Rob in Minnesota.

(35:33):
Just Josh says Elvis Presley's pill the Spenser is the answer.
Let's see page down here. Ken Griffey Jr. From Fluffy Dave,
Bill Mazeroski guess by David. Tony Bautista from Mike Rooster
says it's gotta be the Coon Rapids Boys Little League team. Man,
that's got to be the answer. He's all excited leading

(35:54):
the charge. All right, do you have an answer? Eddie?
Go ahead. It's not Marty Barrett. That was Jim and Providences.
I'm still working Jim on my my NFC team for you. Jim,
Now the answer is Greg Lazinski. Greg Lazinski, is it?
Greg Lazinski? Know the correct answer? This guy ended up
in the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown of York.
He was an annoying broadcaster for like thirty years. Joe

(36:16):
Morgan of the Cincinnati Reds back in the nineteen sixties.
He didn't when he was twenty one years old. So
Joe Morgan is the answer to the phones. We go.
Matt is in Alabama. Hello Matt, Hello Ben roll Todd
roll Ty. Do you see they're gonna have their They're
working Alabama. Sure you saw this, you love Alabama. They're

(36:38):
gonna have a hard knocks style Alabama football show coming
to HBO. They're working on that. Earlier said that they
weren't necessarily sure that they were gonna do it Amabama.
They haven't agreed yet, but man, I want to see it.
But before do you see that, you need to know
that Alabama's got a brand new set of LED lights.
Yeah on the stadium. So it's gonna pop off some

(37:00):
we score touchdown, It's gonna be beautiful. There will there
be any students. There will there be any students in
the crowd. Remember Saban every year now complaints because no
one's going. The student section is not full. It's very
upset by that. I plan on being there and I
am a year twenty nineteen. I'm an eighteenth year senior. Congratulations,

(37:21):
you're still I'm twenty one credits away from graduat You're
gonna get at national championship. Yes, you're gonna get there,
and I'm glad that you're milking the education at Alabama.
That's good. You need to milk that. You don't want
to rush into getting a diploma because I'm paying for it. Brother,
I understand. Well, I have a lot of my friends
that went to college and they're still paying for it too.

(37:43):
I got a job too. It's cool. Well we're doing that.
I got you. Do you have like a shrine to
Nick Saban? Do you have that going on? I have
a shrine to marketing room on mark Ingram's your guy,
the first, our first heisman champion. Yeah, that's right, I
got you, roll Tad. How was that good? Did I

(38:03):
do it right? Roll Tad? Yeah, that's very good. That's
very good. I gotta practice. What do I want to
talk to you about? Not all, Matt, Matt, you didn't
really want to talk about anythy You just called up,
which is fine. You want to say hello, but there's
really nothing you really are When I enjoy your show.

(38:25):
I listened to it every night coming home from work.
Hey buddy, all right, well thank you? What kind of
work here? Wait? What? What? What? I'm not going anywhere?
What I got something to say? The weed man, he'll
be all right, thank you, all right, road roll that

(38:52):
weed is what he's doing. I didn't know it was
legal in Alabama. I don't know. I don't think it is.
I don't think certain parts of the Bible belt there.
I don't know. He's a heathen. He was in go
to hell Man, he was in California. You'd have no
problem in Massachusetts, many other states. But wow, good a

(39:15):
new bong sound effector it could be I think I
might have talked over thought the very end. There a
decent sounder, decent sound. All right, let's get to it.
Here we go. It is time now for the MLB
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(39:38):
playing on Thursday. But who is going first? Here? Coobalo,
who has the number one selection in the MLB Pick
each You gonna pick two position players and a picture
in a picture that would be robertso Yes, finally a slotbuster.
Thank god, thank you Jesus. I don't even I'm wearing headphones. Okay, okay,

(40:01):
well my first pick, I'm taking Walker Bueller, you're yelling.
See what you did there is You're yelling. That's a
bad job of you. I'm gonna go with I get
a couple of options here. I'll take Mike Trout, Mike Trout, Eddie.
Now the pitching options are slim, so I'm gonna go
with Mike fires Wow. Yeah, all right. Now the man

(40:22):
that finished in the last place, thus he has the
last pick up. But I'm in first place overall, I'm
still winning your game. Dead last, right now, you're dead last.
I'm gonna go with. It's a risky Marcus Stroman. Wow,
all right, go ahead, Eddie. Oh no, it's my turn back.
I'm gonna go against myself. I'm gonna go Accuna Junior,

(40:44):
Ronald Lacuna Junior. Okay, uh, Eddie, all right, I'm gonna
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So last hour was the hour of Kyler Murray. This
hour the hour of the Browns, in particular Baker Mayfield.
These things keep popping up. Now, the Browns are one

(41:49):
of the cool kids. They've not been a cool kid
since like the eighties, and maybe not even since the sixties,
but the Cleveland Browns are one of the cool kids.
In the end of the Hill in the off season,
Baker Mayfield has a theory on how this will impact
Cleveland in twenty nineteen. Now I want to talk about
his theory because I like theories. I have my own theories,

(42:11):
and so Baker has his theory. So we'll do that.
So if you didn't hear what Baker Mayfield had to say,
he had a very long winded quote in a magazine interview,
but he said, I wouldn't say that everybody wants to
beat us, meaning the Browns. This is a quote I
think in the media and everything that comes with the
hype around our team right now, people want to see us,

(42:33):
meaning the Browns lose just because the hype is so real.
That's what he opined. Baker Mayfield. Now, there's no question
the Browns have gotten excessive media coverage. We've talked a
lot about the Browns, more this year than in years past,
although we've always talked about the Browns because it's fun
to pick on him. It's fun to goof on him,

(42:53):
because there's such an embarrassment and so it's good, you know,
the traveling circus that is the Cleveland Browns, but they've
cranked it up a couple of notches, if you will.
So a lot of this revolves around the very verbose
Baker Mayfield, the loquacious quarterback who oozes swaggers. Some say
it's fake swagger, but he's oozing, you know, and things

(43:14):
ooze they get your attention. Now. Mayfield also attempted to
say that the belief stays within the locker room, which
I love because he did this while talking to a reporter.
So if it stays in the locker room. Now, I've
heard these wild stories over the years about Belichick with
the Patriots, and he uses some of these motivational techniques,

(43:34):
but he never does it with the media. Like in
the locker room, Belichick from time to time will pull
out you know, they don't think you're gonna win. You know,
they think you're too old, Brady and all. They use
that kind of stuff, but they don't talk about they
don't advertise it. And Baker Mayfield's like, it's right in
your face right there. All right, So let us discuss
now the question thumbs up or thumbs down? Do you

(43:56):
agree with Baker Mayfield's assessment of people wanting to see
the Browns do a face plant and the old Flopperoo?
I actually agree with him. I don't give me my
thumbs up on this, and a lot of the other
guys in the in the media or that, I don't know.
I just agree nobody cares about that Browns. Now. My
evidence here I have Eddie, who I am on the

(44:16):
brown bandway. I think the Browns will meet the playoffs
this year. I've said that very clear clearly in the past.
And Eddie's a biased He's a Steelers fan, and he
doesn't think so much. But my observations, I've got meat
and potatoes, the straw man and the arch villain, and
we will put all of these things together and we'll
make it banana cream pine. That's what we're gonna do now.

(44:38):
Number one the Cleveland Browns. No matter what happens in
the regular season, it doesn't take away from the fact
that they are the darlings of the off season. They
won the Odell Beckham Sweepstakes. They got Beckham for a song,
considering how good a player he is, and they also
gambled on Kareem Hunt, who's gonna miss the first half

(44:59):
of the year, the old ca the City Chiefs running
back who was electrifying when he played in Kansas City.
So it is set up a tsunami of hyperboleate a
literal tsunami. And you know this, and they have gotten
the vast majority of the chatter. A great deal of
high expectations have been put out there from the punt.
It's Cleveland went five and two to finish last year.

(45:21):
So the last seven games they were five and two,
and people believe that's going to carry over. Now we
know momentum doesn't exist there is no such thing as momentum,
and certainly from season to season it doesn't exist. You
start over, you hit the reset button. So that's a
little strange to me. They think, well, the Browns went
five and two at the end of the last year,
they're gonna go like that to start this year. This
not out works and it's this weird shell game, like

(45:43):
a three card monte game that takes place. And the
Browns are experiencing this to a degree, And so maybe
it's not wrong where you build them up to knock
them down. You build somebody up. I think they're great
and all this stuff, and then you take your acts
and you're Paul Bunyan and you're chopping down the totem pole.

(46:05):
Cleveland has a group of flamboyant players who are clearly
self absorbed and they love to play to the camera,
and that as we have seen over the years. And
I like talking about these kind of teams and players,
but I know it is something that shakes up the
sensibilities of the meat and potato football fan. The meat
and potato football fan does not want to deal with

(46:27):
any of this nonsense, These grumpy cur mudgeons. I don
like this now I want you to play football and
keep your mouth shutting all that. You know, that kind
of thing. It's also human nature, right, People love rooting
for a lovable loser. The Browns have been lovable losers
because they're so incompetent. The moment that stops is when
they start winning the Chicago Cups. Everyone loved the Cup

(46:49):
they want. Finally won the World Series and they're not
as lovable anymore. The Boston Red Sox, you know, they've
been a dynasty in baseball last fifteen twenty years or whatever.
They've won the three World Series and all that. But
guess what, the Red Sox, they're not as likely. People
felt bad for the Red Soxes. They always seem to
blow it in the playoffs of the World Series or whatever,
and now they don't feel that way anymore now. The

(47:12):
second thing, Baker Mayfield is your classical like from the
renaissance football player who's motivated by doubters. And there's so
much of the sports world it's like this, you didn't
think I could do this, and that's the driving force,
and that's what fuels their passion. He's he's searching for negativity.

(47:33):
This is not new information now he wants that jet fuel.
Baker Mayfield, and we know he's been battling with Colin Cowherd,
among others, our colleague here at Fox Sports Radio. When
I say colleague, he's you know, he's a big star
and we're not. But we do work at the same
compan Yeah. So so when when he can't find enough negativity,

(47:56):
Baker Mayfield, he goes into his workshop and he creates
a straw man argument to help enhance the rage. Right,
gotta come up with the straw man. You invent something.
But that is not what's happening here. On a smaller
scale last year, who was the top team of the

(48:17):
off season? Who won the off season last year? You
can ram it all day, you can ram it all night.
The Rams felt the same angst last season. They had
fortified the roster with players like a Keep to lead,
Marcus Peters and Domi Con Sue, Brandon Cooks me om
And what happened many people I heard all time as

(48:39):
a Ram suck up. We're hoping that Sean McVay would
do a pratfall and a trapdoor would open up and
he would be eaten by alligators. I would say. Getting
to the Super Bowl winning the NFC Championship is not
a lost year. The Rams lived up to the hype.
They were in position going to the fourth quarter to
still pull out the Super Bowl, even the offense didn't

(49:00):
show up. So where is the bar for the Cleveland
Browns of twenty nineteen. I believe it's this win the
AFC North and make a little bit of noise in
the posts. I don't think they're going to the super Bowl.
Cleveland be shocked if the Browns go to the super Bowl,
but they can certainly make the playoffs. That's a very
winnable division. It's a very poor division. The Bengals look

(49:21):
like a six win team. If everything goes right, they'll
win six games. The Ravens have a sideshow quarterback, Lamar Jackson,
who is a gimmick guy, no threat at all to
throw the ball. Teams are gonna figure him out and
then good luck, we'll see if he can adjust. And
then you've got the Steelers who lost Antonio Brown and
Levion Bell and well Bell didn't play last year, but
he's not playing this year for the Steelers either, and

(49:43):
they will be depending on diamonds in the rough. How
often do diamonds in the rough turn out to be sparkling.
It happens. It also happens that you've got a cubic zirconia.
That happens a lot too. It's a fake time. So
the arms are raised. Cleveland is winning if you look
at it just that division. Forget about the rest of

(50:04):
the AFC, because the Patriots are still better at all that,
assuming Tom Brady doesn't fall off the cliff. But just
in that division they are more talented from top to botom,
making a bunch of high draft picks. The defense actually
was pretty good last season in Cleveland. All right, final
point here. So here's my advice, unsolicited overnight radio advice
to Baker Mayfield and the Brownies. Here's what you do,

(50:27):
all right. You need to embrace your inner villain, is
what you need to do. This makes it more fun
to me. You got good guys and bad guys. They
are the team of show ponies, the Browns mixed with
wild child tendencies. So embrace it. Own it. You gotta
own it. Become the arch villain of the NFL, the

(50:49):
team that people despise and they now that's already happening,
but you got to really crank it. Up a couple
of notches. Now, you think of the most hated teams,
and there's a lot of people like the Patriots right now,
But it's more because they win all the time than anything.
Like I remember I was younger than the Bad Boys Pistons.
If you hated the Bad Boys Pistons, their attitude and

(51:09):
all that, they didn't like them. The Yankees get a
lot of hate, but I think it's also because you know,
they win and all that stuff. But there've been a
few teams that have stood out. I'm blanking on something.
I think you know who they are if you pay
attention to this stuff. But be the football outlaw, be
the desperado. You know you're running a bootleg operation there.
I'm not talking about the bootleg play. I'm talking about
the bootleg operation in Cleveland, that menacing evil empire of

(51:34):
the the NFL. Right, you have an opportunity to become
the arch villain of pro football, as we pointed out there.
In order to do that, the Browns have to be good.
Average doesn't make you hated. You have to be good.
If they are good. This this to me, looks like
a ten win team. Ten wins doesn't guarantee anything, but

(51:57):
it gives you a pretty good shot to win the division.
Not only that, that's twelve win division. I don't buy that.
So ten wins get you in position, and certainly the
wild card. I don't know about that. I mean you
might have to win more because you know, eleven or
twelve might be the number for the wild card, depending
on how crazy things get on the topsy turvy AFC.

(52:18):
But the other the other thing in play here, as
we point out all the time, it's one of the
great words. There's no synonym for schadenfreud. Did you know that?
There's no other word to use. It's in the German lexicon,
but there's nothing else you can say that is the
same exact meaning of schadenfreud, which is just people taking
joy out of the misery of others, which is a

(52:38):
wonderful term and is appropriate here. Like people will really
celebrate if Baker Mayfield throws seventeen interceptions and five touchdowns
to start the year and the Browns get off to
a one in six start. There will be people who
will regale in celebration, how and evangelize about the Browns
and what a joke they are. All that stuff. All right,

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to the man or monologue. See you can't read that
on the air, David says, Ben, your profile picture on
Twitter looks like a cross between a used car salesman
and a small town divorce attorney. As required by the

(54:54):
Fox brass Do you have a bachelor's degree? But no,
I do not, David. I went to Saddleback Coach Fine
Institution a job at a radio station in San Diego,
and I was taught I have street smarts, is what
I have. These other guys don't have street smarts I was.
I was taught too. I don't have a blatch's degree.
There you go, no, but I was. I learned on
the streets my radio friends Lee Hack, Saw Hamilton, the

(55:15):
late great Joe McDonald. I was an apprentice, but not
the apprentice, but I was on Yeah, a radio apprenticeship fired. Yeah,
people liked it. We butchered the clock. We did that,
Maddie Bear intentionally. Uh. It sounds like it was unintentional
that we ran into a brick wall at the end
of last hour, but it was not. That was all
planned for comedic reasons. We knew it would be much

(55:37):
more entertaining if we butchered the clock then if we
actually got it in. So is everybody gonna finish getting
in their picks there? Or what's gonna happen? I got
Julio Tehran I think I took him. And Geo your Shella,
the Yankee guy he didn't field, the guy for the issue,
whatever his name. He's made a few home runs here recently,
So I got him. Eddie, give me Alonzo, all right?

(56:01):
I think Roberto took Alonzo. Yeah, all right, give me
Freddie Freeman you want to finish this next hour? Or
and I took Aquino Yeah, and Coop you can pick
somebody else if you want you can knock yourself out.
I mean, I'll go with Kettle Martel, Yep, Kettle yeah whatever.
His name is, Kyle, and Denver says Ben, it sounds

(56:23):
like you need to suck on four cloves of garlic. Uh, well, Kyles,
I've been doing that and without the garlic, I wouldn't
be here. So you should all thank the garlic gods,
because without that I would be sitting somewhere else and
I wouldn't be doing anything. But it's a vision. I
was telling Roberto before the show. I was like, you know,
you come in here, you do you know on the weather,

(56:44):
you do the show. I'm not looking for sympathy, but
you put your voice in a blender for four hours
and then you have to recover and then by the
time you get back, you do it all over again.
So just hit the button on the blender. That's all
you have to do. Hit the button on the blender.
All right's beam tonight? Yeah, you recommend the apple cider
of vini. All right, let's go to let's see here

(57:06):
any meany miney mo? Let's go to John in Missoo.
Who's next? Hello? John? Yeah? Hello? Ben? Yeah, Oh it's
you it's you, John, it is It is legit John,
real talk John is dead and real talking. This is

(57:27):
John An I know he's very joh. Yeah. I don't
know what's going on with Robert though. But now, John,
I know you're not John and missoo. I know you're
not real talk wink wink. But will you do a
duet with Eddie like Real Talk used to do? Will
you do that? Oh? Sure you will? All right? What

(57:49):
song will you sing? What's your what's your go to? Like?
If you do go to a karaoke bar, what's your
go to? Sorr? Do you ever do that karaoke? No?
You have no idea what play? You have no idea
what karaoke is. It's a fortun I know what karaoke is,
but I've never really done it. Okay, all right, I

(58:09):
feel like we've we've reached a brick wall here. What
do you guy for me? Here? John? What can we
help you? Oh? Yeah, I heard you? I played there.
Now when the Cardinals and Daughters play that. The Cardinals
stunk in that serie, and I do agree with you.
They played pretty bad down in l What But I
will tell you who is even worse than the Cardinals.

(58:30):
That is the Miami Marlins being crushed. Yeah, fifteen to one.
Well that's true, I mean, but that's kind of captain
obvious stuff, John. I mean, the Marlins aren't even trying.
They're a minor league organization. It's a bush league ownership
group led by Derek Jeter. He didn't care about anything.
He's just making money, good for him, and he's a
scoundrel as an owner. And that's the Marlins are embarrassment

(58:53):
in baseball. They should have they should have relegation and
the Marlins and Orioles can go play in the Pacific
Coast League or the Atlantic League or whatever. Get him
out of here exactly, I mean, I mean, Derek Zeter
is a future Hall of Fame. I don't know why
he would God and worked with the Miami marl is
one of the worst season baseball. It's not working for him.

(59:14):
He's the one calling the shots with the Marlins. He's
the guy behind it with those hedge fun you know,
the real money people, the hedge fund people. But but
Jeeter is the one that's calling the shots on who
to hire and which players to pick up. We'll give
this guy away for peanuts, John Carlos stan He's been
hurt this year, but but it was the other guy,
the Brewers guy. What's his name, Christian Yellich. He was

(59:34):
with the long as they got rid of him, and
and he's won an MVP Award. Not gonna win it
this year, but he went last year. All right, thank you, John.
Let's go to Wayne in Southey, my guy, Wayne, Hello, Wayne,
Oh my god, I'm over here doing the dishes? How
many how many dishes do you have? I just bumped

(59:55):
into somebody. I'm John, You a homeless play me? Wait, man,
I got I got four people that need to be paying.
Are you paying me? Yeah? Sure, I'll give you my
credit card number. What else do you want? I need

(01:00:17):
a place to stake and I stay in bad with
you Jay as long as we cuddle. Yeah, you can
stay at the Mallard mansion. Yeah you want? You want
to do Benny and the weed Man. You want to
do that too, weed man, we can do fake weed man.
We can do that right. Well, I told you when
we are first ill calling you, and I thought, I said,

(01:00:37):
come on bad. I worked in radio twenty five years.
That's a plant. I thought like he was working for you. Yeah,
a lot of people. A lot of people wait, wait, wait,
until until I met Blair and then I was like,
oh my god, Malo was right. Wait, Wayne, listen to me.
People think you're not real, Wayne. People think that you
are a character on the show, and we're paying you
to call in? Are we paying you to call in? Wayne?

(01:00:58):
I wish I wish we had a budget too. I
would be great, We'll give you a couple of bucks
to call in. But that's not all wish I wish
I could be getting paid. No. I told this kind
of passion in my heart for my brother Ben Now
and Ben Wing out in Boston. We had a great,
unbelievable time. It was cool. Yeah, it was a good night.

(01:01:19):
We had a fun That's one of the top five
nights I've had. That was a good time, but real quick.
And then the girls came in from the DMX party,
and you know, I had to do my thing. I know,
I know you you were, you were vicious, you were
relentless with the ladies over there from DMX there. Yeah, yeah,
no I did. I did what nightclubs to you? What

(01:01:39):
I mean? And I'll talk to women, they're pretty easy
to talk to. Yeah, that's so much. Women want attention,
that's it. They want to send. So that's the key.
Just that's the secret. You should run a dating advice
side is what you should do, give out dating advice.
I thought, now with all the girls I went through,
Holy I'm gonna give you that video. You're gonna know, Yeah, Yeah,
that's a great for the year, the shne Yeah, for

(01:02:02):
the national audience that doesn't know Wayne. Wayne used to
call when I did the local Boston show the last
couple of years, and Wayne was on the local news
because he ended a very serious relationship. Because the girl
you were gonna marry wasn't into the Patriots, right, She
wasn't as if she told me, she told me take
the shrine down. I built a shrine. It had had

(01:02:23):
Bruce Keel on one wall. She said, you was scar
because his albums were up in the ear. It looked
like he was gonna attack or I said, shut up.
If the thing on the wall, then I have the
video on the other thrown the deep past. Then I
had all this stuff. It was all seventy to Alice,
because I really thought we were gonna go nineteen and a.
When I was gone the way down the street. Yeah,

(01:02:44):
it's like the Joe Vo thing in Major League the
shrine with that's the whole thing. Wash. I mean, people,
I was really depressed. People were like, Wayne, we haven't
seen you for three months, Like, get away from me. Yeah,
you were more depressed than Belichick was, which is odd.
I mean, you were really took it harder than some
of the Patriots. I'm telling you right battle though. Now
they're not playing this year. They're coming out strong. Bro,

(01:03:06):
are they gonna destroy? Watch what they when they opened
the season up. They're already mad. But let's already get
them mad because they won the Super Bowl. So they're
supposed to open up on Thursday night until their banday,
but they got booted. Oh because it's oh wait, it's
the hundredth anniversary run Yea, all right, I gotta go.
I gotta go with I gotta hard network out here.

(01:03:26):
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but interesting story out of my old stomping grounds of Fresno, California.
Band Now what could go wrong with the night out

(01:03:48):
of the old ballpark and a taco eating contest. Well
apparently a lot as a man died at the Fresno
Grizzlies Triple A baseball game competing in a taco eating
con test. He was forty one years old. His name
was Dana Hutchins. Uh. Now they're not sure if he
choked because they got to wait for an autopsy. He

(01:04:08):
also said that he had diabetes and hadn't eaten for
quite a while as he was, you know, working up
an appetite to try and win this contest. Yea, he
was winning the contest when things went wrong. Uh. They
also were saying that they're they're having they were going
to have this weekend the World Taco Eating Championships in Fresno,

(01:04:30):
which they have now canceled because of this death. But
the winner of the event at the minor league baseball
game was going to automatically be given entrance into that
world championship as well. But uh, yeah, I feel bad.
I saw a photo of the guy. He's not a big,
fat guys, skinny guy, regular kind of looking guy. So
they're not sure if he choked. They're not sure if
he you know, because of his diabetes some kind of reaction.

(01:04:52):
This was not an officially that event was not officially
sanctioned by Major League Eating. I did a Major League
eating stunt a couple of years back, many years ago,
and we had a professional eater in here, and they
hired paramedics. I guess there were paramedics at the game,
though it didn't matter. And then whatever they couldn't they
couldn't couldn't help him out. Yeah, but I had I
had this guy, Big Sexy, who was a professional eater

(01:05:14):
years ago out of Denver, but he's a radio guy now.
But we had him in here, a good guy, good dude,
and we had him in here, and they made sure
if we were gonna have him do a hot dog
eating contest for the stunt, they had to have paramedics
so or not like ambulance guys. They had an ambulance
crew there. So it was ridiculous. We had They brought
the gurney in and they had yeah, yeah, the amy

(01:05:36):
for you know, I guess for the photo or whatever.
But they had the gurney in here, and we had
two guys from an ambulance or you know, again not paramedics,
but amuence guys, and then we had uh yeah, it
was it was wild Man. That was back when this guy,
Jeff Deray used to work with the Did you remember him?
Old school so school. You don't know that it's old
school Fox Sports Radio guy. I feel bad. You know,

(01:05:57):
people liked the trash, competitive eating. He just dangerous though
you can die. Yeah, I'm sure this guy had to
sign a waiver and I don't know. You hope yeah, yea,
but it's a local minor league baseball stories. They're still
I'm sure lawyers have approached to his family. If not,
that guy's gonna own his relatives are gonna own the
Fresnel Grizzlies. You think he might have been the salsa

(01:06:19):
in the tacos that might have been the problem. Possibly
maybe some spicy saucea or something like that, maybe, but
probably not. No, I don't think it's because he was fasting,
because I well, if you have diabetes and you have to,
you have to you know, every once in a while,
you can't just fast. I don't think that's healthy. So,
but I don't know. We'll wait and see you, all right,
thanks for that. It is the Ben Mather Show. As
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Warren Sap. He hadn't played football in a while. I
don't think he's broadcasting much. He had that little arrest
in Arizona kind of downplayed his broad shot down his

(01:07:03):
broadcasting career. But anyway, Warren Sapp did an interview recently
and commented on Gerald McCoy. This is a story a
couple of months ago, Gerald McCoy, who had been a
long time defensive player for Tampa Bay, and he switched
teams in the off season, and McCoy was offended. His
sensibilities were all shook up because his old number number

(01:07:25):
ninety three had been handed out to right away to
Damakan Sue, and McCoy said that the Bucks displayed a
lack of respect by not putting the number ninety three
on a shelf. So so my man, Warren Sap, pots
and pants. He comes in there banging on pots and pans.
Warren Sapp, and he shoots down Gerald McCoy and he Essentially,

(01:07:52):
I'll sum it up like this, He said, Gerald McCoy
is not a Bucks legend, and the team had the
right to give out the number ninety three. I completely
agree with Warren Sapp, which tells you I'm probably on
the wrong side. But I agree with Warren Sapp. I
don't think this is any kind of upset situation at all.
There's nothing to be upset about. And the Buccaneers, they
haven't had many good players. But if you look at

(01:08:13):
the great players the Bucks have had, Derek Brooks, John Lynch, Ronde,
Barber SAPs on that list. Back in the in the
seventies and eighties, they had Lee Roy Selman, guys guys
like that. Those are the Kremla krem of the Buccaneers.
Gerald McCoy is not on that list. He's not. I mean,

(01:08:34):
he's well, you shouldn't say that, And yeah, I get that.
Warren Sapp looks like a douche. I understand that, but
he's not wrong. All right. So the Bello Show on
Fox is going to Carry in Florida. We're gonna have
Mallard to the third degree coming up in a moment. Hello, Carry, Harry,
you want to get on the air. Who I'm on

(01:08:55):
the air. Yeah, you are on the maybe not for long.
If this doesn't pick up here, how can we help you? Well,
I've heard you man bashed Lamar jack Yeah, one too
many times here lately. Really you've had enough. You're putting
you're putting your foot down. I mean, do you seriously
called Lamar Jackson at side show? Yes? He is. He's

(01:09:18):
not a He's a running back. Who is miscast as
a quarterback? What is it? Did I did I speak
pig Latin? What am I? What am I saying? On? On? What? On? What? Browns?
Is Lamar Jackson is because he can run a lot

(01:09:38):
of quarterbacks can run, but they know that's that's not
the first thing you should look to do is to run.
The Ravens design plays sol Lamar Jackson can carry the football.
Last season, in eight games, he had one hundred and
forty seven rush attempts and he had one hundred and
seventy pass attempts. He was almost even you're not a
quarterback at that point, you're a running back. What's that?

(01:10:02):
Fifty fifty eight fifty fifty eight percent sucks. Guys are
at seventy percent now fifty eight percent is not good.
It is not Listen, you can you liked the guy, whatever,
that's fine, Lamar Jackson, unless he gets a lot better
the same guy. If he's the same player he was
last year, the Ravens are screwed. They'll be lucky if

(01:10:23):
they win eight games. Listen, Lamar Jackson was a freshman
at Louisville. Now here we go, here we go. Who
he wasn't very good at throwing the football? Do you
know what happened to guess what? Spoiler alert. He ain't
good right now in the NFL throwing the football. Okay,
he just had a higher completion percentage in Baker Mayfield

(01:10:44):
fifty eight Okay, so yeah, fifty eight percent. It's not good.
You wouldn't you understand? That's not good. I would rather
have Baker. Maybe I would rather have Baker Mayfield than
Lamar Jackson. What's that? Lamar Jackson wins the division again? There? Yeah,
call me up then, because it won't happen. You'll never
call again. You'll disappear like all these other clowns. All right,

(01:11:06):
let's get too and here we go. Let's do it
right now, here we go, Hitch, it's smeller. How about
that to the third degree. This is one big Ben
gets Gill. I just want to bury this guy one
more time there at Coop a little but I'll do
it after they'll go ahead. I won't waste your time.
Go ahead. I mean the fact that he had a
Baker Mayfield a sixty three percent completion percentage, well that,

(01:11:28):
but yeah, I'll kill him with all right, uh? Ben.
With all the talk of Ezekiel Elliot's hold out in
Dak Prescott's contract negotiations, someone that's been a bit lost
in the mix was Jadeveon Clowney. Well, now the rumors
are starting to fly that he could be traded before
the start of the season. Does it happen? Ben, Well,
the smart money says no. And I'll tell you why. Hey,

(01:11:49):
there doesn't appear to be all that much interest in
Jadeveon Clowney. Otherwise, someone like the Patriots or the Eagles
or even the Rams would have swooped in and offered
a goodie bag of draft picks to get this guy
out of Houston. And it hasn't happened yet. I see
no reason to think why. Why will it all of
a sudden happen these there's a lot of teams that
need help on the defensive front line and a player

(01:12:11):
like Jadeveon Clowney, at least in theory what Clowney could be,
but no one stepped up and be. The Texans have
delusions of winning the AFC. If that's the case, they're
better off keeping Clowney because you're only going to get
some draft picks in return, like ninety five percent of
NFL trades or draft pick for player, not player for player.
So his only leverage here is that he's unsigned, which

(01:12:33):
actually does mean he can't be traded because he's not
a signed player. So he has to give his blessing.
He has the sign of concers. Everything indicates he's not
going to stay or he's not gonna be trade. He's
gonna stay at least for one more year with the Texans,
then go somewhere else. Next Ben. Last week he were
doing a monologue on the Red Sox and their future. Well,
kind of a throwaway line, you mentioned something, I'm you mentioned,

(01:12:56):
I'm sorry. On Tuesday night, Chris Chris Sale became the
fastest pitcher I ever to reach two thousand strikeouts. Yes,
he bested the pace of Pedro Martinez. Now. The other day,
during a monologue about Red Sox pitching woes, you were
very down on Sale and he's had a tough season,
but his whole career until now has been stellar. You
don't think this one season as an outlier. Yeah, no,

(01:13:17):
I definitely it was. Actually I was killing David Price.
But I think Chris Sale will bounce back and be
pretty good for the Red Sox next year. And the
Red Sox have no choice on this. They're gonna try
to trade. I believe they'll trade David Price or try
to in the off season. But I would expect a boomerang.
I've watched Sales the handful of his last starts, recent starts,
and his velocity is back. He's been throwing ninety six

(01:13:40):
ninety seven, ninety eight miles per hour. He didn't have
that at the end of last year. He didn't have
that in the early part of this year. So he
is showing glipses of his old dominating self. It's the
lack of consistency, and you know from year to year. Yeah,
I expect him to be a lot better. And secondly,
this is if you look at his season now, twenty
eight percent of his starts he's given up five or

(01:14:00):
more runs, which sucks, but he has fifty six percent
of his games he's ended with ten or more strikeouts,
so he's been striking out a lot of batters. So yeah,
I expect him to have a big year next year.
And the Red Sox have no other choice. They need Christal.
He's there for like the next five years. All right, next, Ben,
I've only got two questions for asses edition. All right,
there it is Boom Shaka Laka. As my friend Wheels

(01:14:22):
would say, seven Maller to the third degree. In another
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(01:14:44):
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(01:15:27):
the most twenty five plus yard touchdowns in a single season,
single season. That's the question. What is the answer? And
they are flowing in. Rod the Ambassador of Bakersfield is
going with Priest Holmes. Matt the Warrior Rader, AES fan
says it's DeShawn Jackson. Who else? Who have Easy Money
says it's the Mallard Mansion security guard. Who else? Barry

(01:15:50):
Sanders from Just Josh. Robbie's also going. Robbie the Mariner
fan with DeShawn Jackson. Otto Graham guest by Eric Ryan
is going with Hot Hands Hannon from the Little Giants.
It's a solid guest. Walt Garrison from Tony There's a
random name. Walt Garrison unreal talking Missoula from Milkman Mike

(01:16:11):
in Colorado. Robin Vegas checks in with ming Jene Okerland
as his answer Timmy and Toledo says it's Achilles Smith.
He was a legend. Pete Johnson from Scott Megatron tossed
out by our friend Georgia Boy Dave Megget from Rob
in Minnesota. Here's a good name. Slow came up with

(01:16:32):
pork chop. Womack love that name, offensive lineman, pork chop.
We were watching the egg Bowl when he was in
Mississippi State playing in that in that game. See anybody
else can't read that? Ray Caruth from Eddie, that's not
the any that works here. Jerry Rice tossed out by
Johnny Q. Bob Hope from Jay, Steve Grogan from Smitty.

(01:16:54):
El Guapo's going with Lamar Jackson's interceptions and Jacobson says
it's Stan Humper's. What's your answer, Eddie, I'll go with
Devin Hester. Devon Hester. It's fine, guest, but it's not
Devin Hester the correct answer. Believe it or not, You're
gonna all the way back to nineteen fifty one. El
Roy Crazy Legs Hirsh for the La Rams in nineteen
fifty one. He had fourteen touchdowns that season, Tom Looney's doppelganger.

(01:17:20):
Is that right? Yeah? Have you ever seen the picture
of it? I have to look at twenty five plus
yards in a single season. So crazy Legs Hirsh is
the answer. I don't think I don't think you could
have that nickname. Now, let's go to Sonny in Denver.
People would be saying it's an offensive nickname. Hello Sonny,
Hi Ben, Hello doing I'm great, I sound wonderful. I'm

(01:17:42):
doing fine. So I had an epiphany tonight. That's a word, right, epiphany. Yes,
it's a fine word. I use it from time to time.
It's a great word. I got it. Yeah. So, for
the longest time, I thought your last name was Mallard,
like the duck. Oh here we go. Yeah, yeah, like
the duck. You probably heard that before. Huh yeah. This
should be this guy years ago in Maryland boardwalk Bob,

(01:18:03):
and he would always call me Mallard and then he'd
quack like a duck. Uh yeah. But there's no there's
no d at the end of the yea. And the
only reason I figured out it was Mallards because the
guy previously it said you look like a divorce attorney,
looked at your picture inside his spelling. Ah, there you go.
Do I look like a diverse attorney? I don't think

(01:18:24):
I look like that. I look like yeah, oh yeah
I do. Oh yeah, oh come on, that's yeah. I
just I just I just went through a divorce. I'd
hire you in a minute. Let's talk. I mean, I
can pretend what's that? What's that Abercrombie guy? I remember
the guy that pretended to be a lawyer passed the
bar without ever studying for it and all that supposedly.

(01:18:46):
Uh Walter, yeah, catch me if you can. It was
a good movie. Leo, Leo DiCaprio. Yeah, look at you.
That's a few years many years ago, now, yeah, look
at you. All right, Well, how did your divorce or now?
Did you get anything out of it? Sonny? Are you screwed? Yeah? Yeah,
you got nothing? I got you. Hey, wait, hey, hey,

(01:19:06):
what's your what's your thoughts on Joe Flacco? Man? You
don't want to hear what I have to say about? Yeah?
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scorecard limitations apply. So Lamar Jackson last season, I want
to continue to bury that guy they called up earlier.
Fifty eight percent completion percentage last year. That would have
ranked thirty second in the NFL behind Blake Bortles. The
only quarterbacks that were worse last season completion percentage wise,
we're Sam Darnold, Josh Rosen, and Josh Allen. Josh Allen

(01:19:52):
of the Bills was at fifty two point eight percent,
and yet Robbie the Mariner fans gonna die on that
hill with Josh Allen. Now, I do understand p people
get better, they improve and all that stuff. But I'm
in the like the state motto in Missouri, I'm in
a show me state of mind with Lamar Jackson and
Josh Allen because I am not feeling it, not at all.

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the Astros are having a fine season. They won seventy

(01:20:55):
eight games, third best record in baseball. Lost a couple
of games in a row here, but the Astrols are
in pretty good shape. They're pretty good shape. But it's
not all great. And we know that. After they acquired
Houston Zach Granky at the trade deadline, they skyrocketed into
the pole position as the favorite. They were the World
Series favorite. Now they've hit a speed bump and it

(01:21:18):
involves Garrett Cole. We talked about this in a previous
episode of the show. I want to get into it
again here because if you've not heard the update. Now.
Cole was scratched from a start this week in Chicago.
He was gonna start against the White Sox and at
the very last minute the eleventh hour, not even the
eleven hour. A minute before he was supposed to go

(01:21:39):
to the mound, he was removed because of a sore
right hamstring. So Garrett Cole underwent a battery of tests
in the Windy City. And I don't think Doc Mike
was there, but who knows. Doc is in Chicago, so
it could have been Doc Mike. And Cole is downplaying

(01:22:00):
all of this. He says that his hamstring is quote
not super serious, is what he had to say. Let
us discuss now the question. Do you think that Garrett
Cole is correct that his hammy is quote not that serious. Well,
I do not agree. I'm gonna object to this. Now.
I've got automatica weasel words and lingering, and we will

(01:22:26):
combine all this together and we will make a donut.
I was offered a wonderful donut from Mike Harmon. My
friend Mike Harmon brought in donuts. There was one left
from Voodoo Donuts. Apparently they open a Voodoo Donuts here
in La City Walk CityWalk. I was offered the donut
and I said thank you, I am fasting, and then

(01:22:47):
he kept offering me the donut. Coope, did you eat
the donut you took the was the donut? It was delicious?
Was it good? Yummy to your tummy? It looked like
a great donut. It looked like a really good I
feel really bad about it, but it was delicio. I
could have been You wouldn't even had a chance because
I was offered the donut. So you should thank me.
I gave you the Oh. I wish you would have
taken on. I can't on the weekends, but I'm not

(01:23:09):
here on the weekends. On the weekends, I would have
absolutely done it. But as far as this is concerned
with Garrett Cole, now we'll lead off with this. Garrett
Cole is the top pitcher on the Asterist. To me,
it's not Verlander, it's not Grenky. He is the guy
in the prime of his athletic career. And you cannot
minimize this. You can try to minimize it, but my

(01:23:31):
BS detector goes off regardless of the words. Garrett Cole
is the one person that strikes the most fear in
the Yankees, of the Dodgers and these other teams that
think they're gonna get to the World Series, these contenders,
these quasi contenders around baseball. I think they could end
up playing Houston down the line. Verlander and Granky are
old war horses, and while certainly Verlander in particular has

(01:23:53):
been great, I think he's leading the American League Indra.
Both those guys are long in the tooth. We saw
Verlander have issues last postseason against the Red Sox. He
had a vomit start in that particular series. And teams
believe they can get to Verland, or whether that's true
or not, we'll find out. And Greggy zach Grenky's got

(01:24:14):
a spotty resume in October baseball. I saw that when
he was with the Dodgers. He didn't pitch very well
in some playoff baseball in Arizona, some of his recent appearances.
And so Cole, Garrett Cole is, you know, he's the
guy that's throwing darts right now. He's the young blood
in the prime of his career, and he has been
a pitching prodigy. Leads Major League Baseball and strikeouts, and

(01:24:38):
he has been lately mister automatica. Since May twenty seventh,
Garrett Cole has won ten straight decisions and in that time,
the league is batting one eighty six against Garrett Cole
one eighty six is era is under two since May.
End of May, he's been ridiculously good. So to say, well,

(01:24:58):
it's not that big a de or he said, not
super serious. Now. Furthermore, I looked it up. Garrett Cole
did go to UCLA, but he did not go to
medical school in Westwood, so he's not a doctor. He
might play one in the clubhouse. But I also looked
up on a medical dictionary, because you want to know
how I roll. The medical term super serious does not

(01:25:23):
come up. I do not believe that's medical jargon. Super serious.
Nothing popped up there in my advice, and I give
the advice a lot, but it bears repeating because there's
new people that come into our store and sample our product.
You've got to listen between the words. You gotta watch
out for the weasel words and phrases. If it's not

(01:25:43):
super serious, then is it just serious? Because serious is
a problem. You know. Yeah, it's standard operating procedure when
an injury happens to downplay the significance of the This
is by the book, it's a boiler plant response. And

(01:26:04):
that might be the case. But guess what if it
is a serious problem, just not a super serious problem.
It's still a problem. And Garrett Cole said the doctors
informed him that he should have a quote pretty quick recovery,
bearing any setbacks. Of course, that's also reasonal terminology. What's
quick to you? Where it's pretty quick to you might

(01:26:26):
not be pretty quick to me. When I'm waiting in
line at the DMV and if it takes, you know,
thirty minutes, a lot of people will say that's super
pretty quick. I'm like, that's too long. I don't want
to wait thirty minutes. So what's going on? But the
recovery is always the rub. That's always the rub, right,
you know, barring any setbacks. It's like past results don't

(01:26:48):
guarantee future outcomes. When you invest in something, they tell
you that, and I expect the unexpected. That the fact
that many so called experts, dime store experts, expect Garret
Cole to be scratched from his next start I think
it's on Monday, if not earlier, tells you that this

(01:27:09):
isn't nothing, it is something. Otherwise Garrett Cole will make
the start. Now we'll find out. Maybe he will make
the start. Maybe these reports are erroneous and Garret Cole
will be out there on the mountain. Now the last
thing here, So the real quagmire facing Garret Cole, the
Astros pitcher, is this, You've got the micro and the macro,
and we'll start with the macro, which is the long game.

(01:27:30):
The long game, which isn't even that long. It's the
off season. He is about to win the publisher clearing
House sweepstakes. In free agency. Garrett Cole is expected to
cash in this season the last couple of years in Houston,
whether it's with the Astros or somebody else. He's gonna
get one of those two hundred million dollar contracts, which

(01:27:51):
is an amazing thing that's been out there. And you know,
a torn hamstring would put that in jeopardy. Yes, they said, well,
he didn't tear his hamstring band. You're you're doing Sky
is Falling Radio? Am I doing Sky is Falling Radio.
Garrit Cole has combated different injuries over the years, hamstring problems.

(01:28:14):
In the past, He's had hamstring issues, but never in
his right legs. So this is unshartered water for Garrit
Cole and all of Cole's stints on the disabled list
from you know, I guess it's not the disabled list anymore.
But I'm a rebel. I don't call it. The injured
list with the Pirates were arm or elbow related maladies.

(01:28:34):
There were problems and illnesses and things that tweaks there, here,
there and everywhere that happened. But this is a new thing.
This is a new thing. And one thing I've I've
learned regarding the hamstring from different sports, but pitching in particular.
Once a hamstring is injured, you then become more susceptible

(01:28:58):
to future injuries. Right now, the more serious obviously, the
more that becomes a situation. But even a Grade one,
which is the lowest grade hamstring injury, is problematic, and
it's something that lingers. It's a lingering thing, and it's
the nagging injury that has to be the concern. In
the micro. The macro is like, hey, I gotta stay

(01:29:21):
healthy because I gotta get that big contract and I
want to close out the year and not have to
go into the offseason with a torn hamstring. But the
Astros are in cruise control right now for the playoff.
The smart money says that we won't see Garrett Cole
anytime in the near future. I mean, even if it's

(01:29:42):
not that bad. The Astros have so much equity built
up in the American League West. There they're nine and
a half games up on Oakland in the division. I
know there's trying whether they're trying to get catch the
Yankees and only a couple of games behind the Yankees
and all that, and they're trying to get where the
Yankees are. But you know, Garrett Cole again, my instincts

(01:30:05):
tell me he ain't gonna be pitch pitch very much
anytime soon for the Astros. And we'll see if he
ends up on the disabled list. I've experienced this over
the years, where you guys end up it's like it's
no big deal, and then they end up on the
disabled list and again the injury list or whatever. It's
so stupid politically correct, all right. See the Ben Mallers
show on Frex. Now, speaking of the Yankees blood rival,

(01:30:25):
the Houston Astros, have you seen the video yet of
Brian Cashman? This wild video of him being pulled over. Now,
the story is from a couple of weeks ago. But
Brian Cashman's driving around in his jeep and somehow the
jeep was listed as like a stolen It was on
a Stolen Vehicles list. And so he's driving around, cruising

(01:30:50):
around the Bronx and apparently I guess it was actually
in Connecticut, but the Bronx police had found the actual
stolen stolen jeep. Anyway, Cashman gets pulled over and he
had to get out of his car. There were guns
pointed and the GM of the No, the guy didn't.

(01:31:10):
He didn't freak out and otherwise I would have been shot. Uh,
but it's it's pretty crazy. This bodycam footage. If you
haven't seen that yet, you gotta check it out. His
bodycamp footage of of Cashman as he gets out and
they have him do the backup thing, you know how
they back up, arms on your head, her hands on
your head, kind of walked backwards and all that. I

(01:31:31):
think this happened in I think it was in Connecticut.
Actually it was in Darren, Connecticut is where this happened
last last week. And uh he apparently Cashman had reported
his jeep had been stolen and then that's that's where
this all started. So they had reported the car was
stolen and they actually recovered it and then they found

(01:31:55):
they found wait a minute, well we gotta, we gotta
and he was in the car. I've never never had
that happ I've never had the gun pulled on you
and all that. And he's cashman, seems to be handling
it pretty well. He's like the police were nice and
they were good and all that stuff. They didn't they
weren't jerks. They were doing their job. And I've had
it happened to me. Ben, You've had guns pulled on you, Cooper, Yes,

(01:32:18):
a single gun? Really? Yes? What were you doing? So?
I was like probably fifteen or sixteen, and I was
in a car with a couple of my friends and
my older brother. Yeah, and uh, he was getting pulled over.
We had just left Vaughans and he he no, he

(01:32:41):
forgot to turn his headlights on. Oh right, I know
that's why Cooper I got four hundred dollar ticket because yes,
but of course, I mean we were we were all
a little bit. Yeah, yeah, you come on, Cooper and
uh me like a like an idiot. So I'm like panicking,
right because I'm also I also snuck out of my

(01:33:02):
my mom's house to like go hang out in the
middle of the night. It's past curfew. I'm like fifteen
and sixteen years old. That phone call from yes, exactly.
So when we're getting pulled over, my idiot teenage brain
was like, all right, just just pretend like you don't
know that they're pulling you out, because we pulled into
the seven eleven parking lot in part. And I was like,

(01:33:24):
you know, just just pretend like you weren't, like you
didn't even realize that they're pulling you over, and get
out and get out and act like you're gonna walk
into seven eleven. That's that's a good idea. Yeah. And
I had my my had my hoodie on two, so
it's like it's like two love that. Yeah, it's like
two in the morning. They're pulling us over. We stopped
in the spot, and I get out of the car

(01:33:44):
like I'm gonna walk into seven eleven and then and
then get back in the car to it. Now, get
back in the car. Usually they want you out of
the car though, right, No, no, no, well, because I
mean they hadn't even we had just pulled over. They
don't want you out of the car until they tell
you to get out of the car. Yeah. I just
turn around saw that one of them had gotten out.
It was holding their gun over the door. And oh,

(01:34:06):
so you and Brian Cashman have something in common, the
GM of the Yankees. That's great. I wonder we stole
Cashman's car. Well, it has had a happy ending, coople,
look at that. Here you are all these years later.
All right, So the Ben Maller Show on Fox will
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What is it? What's it all about? We'll get to
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We'll have asked Ben coming up here in a little bit,
your questions, our answers. But a sacred sporting event, very sacred,
with cheating accusations being tossed out the Little League World Series.
I don't know if you heard about this one, but
it's that time of the year where our team is
the Coon Rapids, Minnesota. That's who we're pulling for in

(01:35:56):
the Little League World Series. That's right, right, yeah, right?
So sure there's a sign stealing controversy racist The Rhode
Island Little League World Series team has been accused of
stealing signs. A rival coach or manager says the team
that beat his in the New England Regional final was

(01:36:16):
stealing signs. Quote, you can do that in Big league ball,
but in Little league it's unsportsmanlike. It's dishonorable and it's disgusting.
Pat Dutton said he's the manager of the other team. Now,
I strongly disagree. I don't know if there was actually
signs stealing or not, but if you are so incompetent,

(01:36:38):
even at the little league level, you don't know how
to hide your signs, then you deserve to have your signs. However, however,
I don't know if you know this or not. They
actually make the players like do a pledge before the game,
or they have to stand out there and like and
say that I will play fair and all this kind
of stuff. Yeah, and that's meaningless. Okay, heat in the

(01:37:00):
heat of competition, Eddie, In the heat of competition, when
you're a young guy like that, you will do whatever
it takes to win, whatever it takes. And it shouldn't
even matter the sign stealing thing. If you're if you're
good enough, you should be able to to win. And
it's just belly aching and complaining and all that stuff.
And uh, there you go. I think it is part
of the game. Part of the game. That's right. Me

(01:37:23):
and Roberto are right. You're on the wrong side of history.
You're the wrong side. Dodgers were idiots didn't realize Carl's
bell channels. We're not talking about the Dodgers. Everything the Dodgers,
everything relates to It's part of the game, Eddie. It
is little League. Yeah, you're supposed to listen. Children, and
many of these, like the technology stuff, people get all

(01:37:43):
freaked out about that. And I remember years ago there
were you know, cameras being placed in the outfield and
teams are very paranoid about that. But if it's a
simple you know, coach in the third base box, you know,
tapping his arm a couple of times, and you realize
two taps means this, then that's on you that that's
on the other guy for not doing a better job.

(01:38:04):
And you know, come on, it's ridiculous. Make better signs,
do better, do better making signs? Right, yep, all right,
Angry Bill is next on Fox. I know you know
he's there. Hello, how you doing, Ben, My best budd.
I saw Brian Finley earlier. I saw him and he's

(01:38:26):
wearing a clipper had. He's trying to suck up to
me with the clipper had. It's a bad job by him,
that's a good job by him. And anyway, it was
nice to hear him mentioned name, I didn't admit to
him Baseball Dan Pasqual last night, You're welcome. It was
just for you, Yeah, Frankie, fantastic home level from being
a playoff game that's still going. It's always about you.

(01:38:49):
It's always a bet. It was about Dan passcorth Man. No,
but it relates to you and Dan Pasqual. So it's
give me a little story, give me a whole story.
Don't know that I want a story and the other
people who want a story. So take that in your pooper.
And you're like the King of the Morons. Though you
understand that you're you're on a special island, Moron Island

(01:39:12):
you're on at least I know you haven't figured it
out yet. Well, I know every time I take your call.
I mean it's not it's not like I had an
awakening or something like that. I've known since the moment
when you first called up. Like a lunatic is what
about a nine year old girl? Would you like to
ban angry? But you want to ban eating stunts because
somebody died at a taco eating contest, and freds, no,

(01:39:34):
should we get rid of that, We should get rid
of anything at all. They could damage anyone. So everyone
just sit in their house in the fetal position, sucking
the thumb because something bad could happen. The boogeyman could
get you if you go out of your house. What
are they sucking some you think you're funny? Every time

(01:39:55):
I say something, you just start yelling like a moron,
and don't give me a chance of tork like yourba.
You have nothing to say. I mean, well, you to
tell a Dan pass if you'd let me say it. Well,
you mentioned was nice to hear his name brought up.
He's ruined the kid. Yeah, he got drafted by the Yankees.
Nicky ruined him. Okay, they or he wasn't that good.
Orn just didn't last because he wasn't very good. He

(01:40:17):
wasn't the right stadium, the right team. He was an
excellent player. Everything was great except he couldn't hit. You know,
everything was wonderful except he hit two forty in the
major leagues or whatever. He hit right, except you never
saw him head and I did I know him since
he was sixteen years old. Congratulations, Okay, I know guys
I went to school with it. Made the minor leagues
or whatever. They never made the major league. Scause that's

(01:40:37):
what happened. He made the major that yeah, at least
he made He should be happy. He's getting a pension.
He's getting the major league pension. Dan Pass was so
good for him. I only got busted for the pot
mail to him. He had like twenty pounds of pot
melt him. That was a big problem. The pot. It's
always the pot. It's always the pot. He's a way
the poop or the pot, one or the other. Yeah,

(01:40:58):
well you know all about the pooper. All right, thank you?
Are you doing? Are you doing? Should ask them how
the Mets are doing. He was big on the Mets.
Oh yeah, I remember. That's a good point. He's gone.
We blew them up, used the dynamite too soon. There
at that magic button, kaboom and he disappeared. Strollman, they stroller. Yeah, yeah,
we're all those Mets guys that were riding us last

(01:41:21):
week the match. You don't want to play the Mets.
I wish the Daughters played the Marlins all the time too,
it'd be nice. Dodgers. Marlins is like Yankees Orioles. Yeah,
exact same same concept. I mean the Yankees. Now the
Red Sox are having a bad year this year, you
look at the Yankees against the Orioles and the Red Sox.
They are twenty seven and six against those two deficient

(01:41:44):
rivals combined. Twenty seven in six is the record. They've
also destroyed Tampa, wh's actually had a good year this year,
but twenty seven and six against Boston and Baltimore for
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(01:42:07):
have been listening to the show for a while. No,
you're a big fan of LaVar ball. That's right, big
baller brand, well speaking, a big Baller brand. I guess
they're still doing a show on Facebook. Ye so, and
then this kuos This could just be for the publicity,
but apparently Lonzo and LaVar got into it on the
latest edition of Ball in the Family over the Big

(01:42:31):
Baller brand. Lonzo telling his dad that the brand is
demolished and his dad says, that's how you feel. Lonzo said,
that's how everyone feels. LaVar said, who is everyone? Lonzo said?
The world that did this show also feature Lonzo ball

(01:42:52):
learning how to make a foul shot? Was that part
of the show also, I don't believe so, but just
getting into it with his father, and apparently Lonzo's been
distancing himself from the Big Baller brand. Did you know
he had a tattoo? I saw that, he just got it. Yeah,
he's been covering up his sleeve brand. Well know, he
got a I saw the sleeve tattoo that he got,

(01:43:12):
which is an amazing I'm not a tattooed guy, but
that's an amazing tattoo. I mean, that is a high
end tattoo. Did you see the new he's got the
sleeve tattoos got like Jackie Robinson on their Barack Obama
A bunch of like civil rights figures from the past
also mixed in there, and it's they're like fitted well
with the Big Baller brand tattoo. Yeah, I don't see

(01:43:33):
the Big Baller brand tattoo. But yeah, like a lot
of those people are cemented their legacy. But you know,
you know, as far as dangerous when you put people
that are still alive on your arm, because stuff could
come out and scandals and all that, and then you
gotta you know, wander around with that, but he's got Obama,
Malcolm X, Jackie Robinson, Harriet Tubman. Isn't she supposed to

(01:43:55):
be on like the twenty dollars bill or something like that,
or a ten dollar bill or five dollar bill or
I don't know, but I didn't see there as a
movie coming out about her. Rosa Parks heard her, Martin
Luther King, Yeah, there you go anyway, all right, it
is the the Ben Mallers, Joe on Fun tell me
these things. I do what I want? All right? Uh hey,
did you see yah Cel Pui has becomes America? My

(01:44:18):
man Puig. The guy's an American citizen now and good
for him. Welcome yah Cel. Please pay those taxes, enjoy
the political process which blows for everybody. Republicans, I wonder
if you had to do the pledge of allegiance like
our R caller did. Hope he did US citizen stuff

(01:44:40):
like your first act? Were you actually these people that
become US cities, Like you have to learn like a
lot more stuff than we had to learn just being
born in as a US citizen, Like you got to
rememborize a bunch of stuff. It's like a big process
or process to be legalized as a citizen. I've seen
seen some stories on that over the years. But good Foray.
And he did it while he had the red hair,
he had the bright red hair. He was an Indian

(01:45:01):
now patriotic. Yeah for him, man, Yeah, good for him.
You're happy. He won't be in Cleveland next year, so
he's only there for a couple of months and they
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wanted to mention it is a Gabe Kappler. We talked
to Eddie just mentioned a few minutes ago here. If
you weren't listening, bad job by you that the Phillies
changed hitting coaches. They went out scored a bunch of runs,
the eleven runs or whatever against the Cubs and random night,

(01:45:43):
good deal. Happy for them. Charlie Manuel is the new
hitting coach. So Gabe Kapler is trying to put up
this false front. The Phillies manager. The embattled Phillies manager
and Gabe Kappler says he's not gonna let the speculation
about his future chain his managerial style. So I wanted
to talk about this for you're saying, ay, I don't

(01:46:05):
believe him. I think he's lying. And b the fact
that Charlie Manuel was brought in is a direct reflection
of Gabe Kapler and his style. Charlie Manuel, I don't
think he even has a computer. Like all these guys
running the Phillies are a bunch of brainy acts, right,
They're a bunch of analytical guys, just like the Dodgers have.

(01:46:27):
And Charlie Manuel is the polar opposite that. He's old
school baseball. He's hiss c ball, hit ball. I'm gonna
tell a joke. I'll tell a fart joke on the
bench and make my guys laugh. That's how he does.
Gabe Kapler pulls out a tablet and has all these
different trends and things like this. And you gotta swing

(01:46:48):
on a curveball lowing away with a one ball, two
strike count. But you don't swing on it if it's
a two two count because it's probably gonna be outside this.
But that's not just Gabe Capital, that's like the whole
Phillies organization. But Gabe Kapler was hired in part because
of that because he's, you know, they even though he's
a former player, he's like analytical guy and all that.
And Charlie Manuel is the options. So yeah, it's it's

(01:47:09):
nice Gabe Kapler that you're telling people you're not worried
about this, and he's you're not going to change anything.
I don't believe you. I do not believe you. You
know what I do believe? I believe and random questions
whatever the time for horry, I can wait, ask Ben Twitter,
send your questions on Twitter. Not all right for the

(01:47:31):
rest of the hour, new clock, more time for ask
Ben your questions. We'll see we have enough. Maybe we'll
run out of questions and we'll have to limit ask Ben.
We'll see how many questions have been coming in. But
these are actual questions by actual listeners like yourself. Generally,
we don't ask hardcore sports questions because give you that
the rest of the time. We're a hardcore sports show, yes,
Salt of the Earth, So questions about us, questions about

(01:47:54):
the show kind of unique questions, if you will learn
more about us, if you have a question about something,
our favorite type of pasta feteccini alfredo for me, and
any of those questions, feel free, all right, So we
passed the microphones over to the Koopa Loop, who has
the reading of the questions. He's at the dais right now. Ben,
We're gonna start with a question for you, all right.

(01:48:15):
This is from Jason on Facebook. Hi, Jason Benn. Has
anyone ever told you you sound like Rodney Dangerfield? Sometimes? No,
No one has ever told me that, although I remember
Dangerfield's big line was I get no respect and I
feel like I get no respects. So it's very similar.
And I was in an elevator with Rodney Dangerfield in
Burbank on Riverside Drive in Burbank, the radio station I

(01:48:38):
worked at. Rodney Dangerfield was in there, obviously, you know,
a couple of years before he died. And I guess
his agency was in the building for some reason. Was there.
I guess you hang out with his agent or whatever.
And I was in the elevator and I didn't say
anything to him, and I'm still upset by that. I
could have said something to Rodney Dangerfield, and I just
sat there and stared at him and he got off

(01:48:59):
the floor. He off on. That was it all right? Next,
let's ask Ben your questions are answers. Another one for you, Ben,
back to back, belly to belly. What are your top
three baseball parks that you've been to? Top three? While
you know, I'll have Dodger Stadium, but outside of LA
I really enjoyed Finway, although if you're a fat guy,
you need to sit in the monster seats because it's

(01:49:20):
not fat friendly. It's not fat friendly. It's designed for
people that were the size of like the early nineteen
hundreds Robert Gara size. Yeah, I like fun size. I
like Chicago, although I have not been to Wrigley Fields
since they renovated. When I was doing stuff with the Dodgers,
it was back in the Stone age. They now they
got big scoreboard there and all that stuff, So I

(01:49:41):
don't know what that's like. But I enjoyed that. You know,
it's pretty cool. Um Well, I hate saying this because
it's an anab combatant, but that ballpark in San Francisco,
they keep changing the name of it, that is beautiful
and I never saw so I'm giving you more than three.
But I like everything apparently. I've never been to cameraon Yards.
I hear that's nice Pittsburgh. I've never seen a game
in Pittsburgh, but I sucked around the ballpark in Pittsburgh

(01:50:02):
and it was beautiful. I think that the water the
bridges behind it were awesome. I mean maybe I like
that dopey train station in Seattle. That was kind of cool,
although it's annoying because that train, you know, the horns
and all I go off all the time. But anyway, so,
but I guess the top Finway Wrigley, how boring is that? Um?

(01:50:22):
You know? Those are? Those are some of the top
and the San Francisco's beautiful because it's right on the
water and all. All right, Next it's asked man, your
questions are answers. All right, this is for the crew, right.
This could be a dangerous question. It says, what is
the This is from Alex on Facebook. By the way, Hi, Alex.
Worst restaurant you guys ever ate at? Um? Well, the

(01:50:43):
one Eye the last time I ever ate it. The
I don't know if I can name it. I'll give
it by its code name, the Crazy Chicken. I ate
it the Crazy Chicken and I had food poisoning and
I've never been back. I used to eat there all
the time. I loved it. I was loved the food there.
And there's one right across the street from where we work,
and I have not been bad. Oh I love that place. Man,
if you've ever had food poisoning from a meal gone bad,

(01:51:06):
you will not go back. You will not. You are
at the throne with your head in the toilet. What
about you at any meal? That's any restaurant that you've
had a terrible experience that well there. I won't name
it because I don't want to be a jerk, But
there's a there's a sandwich place in Sampedro. Is it
one the one right across No? No, that's a good one.
That's busy Bee. Good. Busy Bee is fantastic. There's one

(01:51:27):
right there on the mains main road as you come
into town. Everyone raves over it. I think it's horrible,
just awful. What's bad about it is the bread is
not good, the land is real flavor to it. My
my wife got me a sandwich from that place and
I actually refused to eat it. Wow. Is it maybe
an order? Probably like you guys. They have nothing on
the menu spicy or anything. Nothing that it's possible to

(01:51:49):
be on you. I did give it a second chance
after the first time, and it was still terrible, so
I said done forever. Yeah it's good. I mean, if
you don't like the food, don't spend this food's expensively
eat out. What about you were or anything that stands
out here? It used to be the Uh when I
first started dating my wife, she was a big fan
of this breakfast place. Yeah. Uh, Tony genius would be

(01:52:10):
a big sponsor of it back in the day. Yeah,
not a big fan of it. Breakfast is not so
great there, no, no, not for me, not for you,
not for me, like the pancakes or something they and
the eggs. Yeah, coffee's not that great. That coffee's not good.
All right, what about you coop anything there? Yeah? Um,
I've been too, and I've only been here one so
I only gave it one try. But it's h it

(01:52:30):
rhymes with damis faves, Oh okay, Yeah, and it was
just it was very overpriced and very underwhelming. Yeah, and
I never went back. Yeah, I get that. Like a
lot of people, I don't hate like Chick fil a
I don't hate, but I feel like the food portions
are not big enough. I feel like the food they're

(01:52:50):
chipping you on the food that is that is true, Yeah,
but it's delicious, it's really fine. Raising canes is better.
But the problem is that my wife likes Chick fil A. So,
you know, she she's a heathen. I tell her raising
cane's yeah. So we had him eating there occasionally and
I'm like, you know, it's like, yeah, we need bigger
sandwiches and order two more of those uh wedge cut

(01:53:11):
fries or whatever they got there, wafle waffle. Damn, I'm
getting hungry. All right, we'll press. I'm up more of
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(01:53:56):
Your questions are answers, So the rest of the eye
of these are actual questions and sent in by actual
listeners on our social media channels asked hashtag, asked Ben
on Twitter and our Facebook page, which is Ben Mallard Show.
So here we go, coopolo, what do we have? Well,
we've got another question for the crew. This is from
Teresa on Facebook. High terse when you guys were in

(01:54:18):
high school, did any of you fall asleep in class?
And if so, what class was it. No? I never
did that, but I just didn't show up. So I'd
sleep at home and I wouldn't get out of wouldn't
get out of bed and all that. I Truancy was
my friend in high school, but no, usually want I
showed up by kind of paid attention. What about you, Eddie?
I never fell asleep in class, but I do remember

(01:54:39):
one time in Spanish class one of my classmates did
fall asleep and the teacher grabbed in a racer from
the chalkboard, threw it at his head and it bounced
off like a big puff of like white chalky smoke
like went into the air. Yeah, and the kid kind
of woke up, like what just happened? He probably teacher
probably fired now if did that? Oh yeah, charges fell

(01:55:02):
any charges child and danger in these days? What about
your Roberto never fell asleep in class. But I was
a troublemaker in high school, so at detention. I was
attention all the time. Yeah, yeah, never fell asleep. Yeah yeah,
that was a class clown a few issues. Some of
my finest memories on in school were when we had
a substitute and someone would go in there and take

(01:55:24):
the teacher's guide and hide it. Would play hot, we
play hot and cold with Yeah. No, we'd be like, oh,
you're getting warmer, you're getting warmer, you're getting colder, you're
getting cold. Oh my god. We couldn't do that now anymore.
The kids today can't do that, right, you're getting Oh
my god, take it away? What about you, cool bloop?
How did none of you ever fall asleep in class?

(01:55:45):
That's because if I was so tired, I just stay
asleep when I was at home, I wouldn't get our bet.
The better question is what class did I not fall asleep?
And yeah, the best one to get some zse was
was web design because you just you put your hand
on the mouse and the other hand on the keyboard. Yeah,
and then just like that, so it looks like you're

(01:56:07):
working on something. Yeah, just let me. When I was
in high school, the Internet didn't exist. We had type typewriting. Yeah, yeah,
typewriting too. We learned how to type on a typewriter. Roberto,
you're not as old as that. What wows asked? Ben?
Your questions our answers for the rest of the eye.

(01:56:28):
These are actual questions by actual listeners like yourself. Ben.
This one is for you. I believe it's from Mike
on Facebook. It's it's kind of sports related. Mike wants
to know what's the best kind of broom brand or
style to bring to a series sweep game. They will
let you take brooms into the stadium. It's a weapon.
What really? Yeah, you can Yeah that's you can't. That

(01:56:49):
happen all years ago. Yeah, you got idiots like Angry
Bill going around. You can't. You can't have any fun.
You can't have it. You can't sweep the dugout or
anything like that. I don't know. I don't know A
broom companies. What's a big broom company? I don't know.
I mean style of bo's terill I can't believe. I
like like a witches broom, you know, like an old
witches broke that kind of broke, like a straw broom,

(01:57:10):
like a straw Yeah, because that would be offensive. You
know you're getting swept by an old witches broom. Yeah,
not one of those, Not one of those industrial ones
you get at home depot or whatever. You're like an
outdoor garden one. No, not that. Um all right, this
one is for everybody. This is from Fluffy Dave High Fluffy.
I hope you learned how to say that. If you
were ever to become a motorcycle guy, what would you
be driving a sport bike, a cruiser or a moped?

(01:57:33):
Uh No? I think I get one of those big Harley's.
You know, I can sit back, and I don't know
if I do the high handlebars, I think that would
get I get tired, you know, you those hand the
high handle bars and all. I don't think I can
handle that, but good looking, Harley. These things are so
big though. Here's my complaint, Like, I think you should
only be allowed to drive between the lanes if you're
in a small motorcycle. These big motorcycles like another car
driving between lanes. I don't like it. What about you, Eddie,

(01:57:55):
I'm sure I'd go for the crotch rocket. You know.
It was funny. Uh it was with my wife and
her ten year old nephew and he's he said crotch
rocket and she got She's like no, she got very
upset with him. Yeah, I'm like, no, that's actually what
they called him there. That's he didn't like just make
that up. That's real that you never heard that before.
That's the lingo. Yeah, what about you, Roberto, crotch rocket,

(01:58:18):
You're gonna go with the heart of David's and of
course had high handlebars. Oh you go high yeah chopper,
yeah exactly, Yeah, and then you got to get the helmet,
the sunglasses and yeah you go Coop. I'd have to
I have to go with Eddie. I'd have to do
like a sports bike. I just you choose the croc
crotch rocket. Yeah, my persona doesn't fit with Harley. I

(01:58:44):
could pull off a Harley, Yeah you could. You could.
I could Coop on a Harley bad of the Bone,
playing the best he could pull off riding a Harley.
He could too, like I couldn't pull off a sport
bike like I could. I mean, you know, you see
a fat guy in a sport bike. Hartley's for the everyman,
it is. Yeah, man, we'll see if we can fit

(01:59:05):
this in Coop. That's for you. When you what do
you do in moments when you draw blank and have
nothing to say on air? I give out the number.
Yeah I got handed guy. If I have nothing to say,
I will just give out the number my Twitter account
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(02:00:11):
tonight in the NFL practice games. The Eagles and Jags
will get together, Jets and Falcons, Packers and Ravens, Bengals
and Redskins, me oh my, and the Raiders and Cardinals.
Those are the games on tap Thursday exhibition football games.
The Titans are not playing. The Tennessee Titans are not
playing tonight. The Titans play Saturday against the Patriots, and

(02:00:32):
Tennessee is the Patriots of the South. Right, You've got
Patriots of the Upper Say, you got Patriots of the
Upper Midwest, Detroit right the Lake the Great Lakes Patriots,
which is the Detroit Lions with Matt Patricia. You've got
the Patriots below the Mason Dixon line in Nashville with

(02:00:53):
Mike Rabel and Bill O'Brien. In Houston is the Lone
Star Patriots. So you got different actions that are trying
to mimic what the Patriots have. But there is a
stunner out of the music city here. It involves the
future of Marcus Mariota, and if you have not heard
about this maybe now. Per reports, Mariota is quote not
a lock to start for the Titans, that he could

(02:01:16):
lose his starting job in the exhibition season here not
be the opener for Tennessee when the season begins, being
in Week one or early September. The Titans, according to
the reporting, could shock nearly everybody in the football world
and opt to bring in as the starting quarterback Ryan Tannehill,

(02:01:36):
who is the backup. They brought him in in the
offseason from the Dolphins, and he could end up starting
when the Titans play the Cleveland Browns in the regular
season open That's a game that CBS has made their
prime game. That's where Romo and Jim Nance are going
to be a Browns Titans game. Now. When asked about
all this, Marcus Mariota downplayed it. He we have some

(02:02:02):
audio here about whether or not there's a threat there
with Ryan Tannehill, and he's concerned about it. And here's
how Mariota spun. Having Ryan in our room has been
a tremendous edition. You know that competition year in and
year out for me is just with myself. I just
got to be the best version of myself. But Ryan

(02:02:23):
adds a guy that's done it, has experienced, can talk
about things that we see in practice, you know even today,
just different things that the Patriots are doing. Just being
able to communicate, and you'll really just kind of be
there be another set of eyes for each other. But
when it comes out to it, I'm just competing against myself.
I just try to be the best version that I
can be. Dan and Dale, Well, let's buy the book, right,

(02:02:43):
it's buy the book. Does anyone believe him? Though? Does
anyone believe that he is not slightly annoyed? I? Come on,
of course he is. So let's discuss the question, what
are the odds that Marcus Mariota loses his starting job
in Tennessee? Now, I actually do not believe the odds
are completely lopsided against him. I'm gonna set the line

(02:03:04):
at plus one fifty If you're not a gamble, that
implies a forty percent chance that Mariota will lose his
starting job, a sixty percent chance that he keeps the
starting job. Also, couldn't you spend what he had to
say there as a shot at was it Blaine Gabbert.
I think it was the backup last year. Spend it

(02:03:27):
that way, all right. But my thoughts on this. You've
got caffeine, the carbon copy, and doctor strange, and we
will mix all of these things together with a full moon.
A full moon is out there, all right. So first
of all, members of the Marcus Mariota Marching in Showder society,
they have made all kinds of excuses. Then this is
not something that just popped up. This has been a

(02:03:49):
lingering issue for the Titans last couple years. They'll say
it's not his fault. The coaching hasn't been the good
that they're not. They don't have offensive coaches in Tennessee,
poor pass catcher. There's a trail of excuses here. It's
never his fault. Ryan Tannehill was not brought into Nashville
because he looks good holding a clipboard. He is supposed

(02:04:09):
to be a jolt of caffeine. If he was the
Jets coach, it would be smelling salts, right, A little
jump up there for the old nose, the old nostrils
get him started there as a wake up call. So
this is clearly why Tannehill was brought in the Titans
are trying to unlock the goodness for Mariota, but they've
been trying for several years. Everyone talks about how wonderful

(02:04:32):
Mariota is based on what he did at Oregon, and
he's got all the tools in his tool bag, and
how great he's gonna be, but those rarely show up
in the NFL. In fact, let's go to the numbers.
I got the stats here, Mariota. He's played fifty six games,
and just twelve point five percent of those games has
he had over three hundred yards passing Just seven times

(02:04:53):
as he had a three hundred yard passing performance or better. Now,
that's not the end all be all. What about three
plus touchdowns? That's a pretty good time three plus touchdowns.
Less than fifteen percent of his games have ended with
three plus touchdowns. And the most egregious thing I could
come up with here about Mariota is his quarterback rating. Now,
a quarterback rating of over one hundred. It's pretty good.

(02:05:16):
That's pretty good, right, Only thirty percent, thirty point three
percent of Mariota's NFL starts he's ended up with a
quarterback rating of one hundred or better. So you are
what your numbers say you are, and it's supposed to
be a meritocracy in sports. It's not because Mariota. If
he was a fifth or six round draft pick, the
plug would have already been pulled and that would have

(02:05:38):
been in it. But because he was drafted where he was.
And there was that debate with Jamis Winston and Marcus
Mariota that year, and both these guys are on thin ice.
Here we are several years later and they're both on
sin ice, thin ice. But essentially the front office and
the coaching staff in Nashville, they're hedging their bets. It
is dubious that Marcus Mariota is the long firm answer.

(02:06:01):
It's not my opinion. That's the opinion of the Tennessee Titans.
Right this is they always say it's a result based
and the numbers Mariota has are weak. And the biggest
indictment of Mariota is that you look at the Titans.
They had an elite defense. The Tennessee Titans had an
elite defense and they tossed that in the garbage disposal

(02:06:25):
because of some suspect passing. Now, Mariota did have a
good year a couple of years back, but he has been.
He hasn't been a catastrophe, but he's been a garden
variety quarterback, and he hadn't gotten close to what he
did in Oregon. Right then, the magic carriage for Cinderella
there has turned into a pumpkin. And that's just the reality.

(02:06:45):
But the Titans are an above average quarterback away from
being a team that you say is a legit threat
to win the afcas Well, no one can win the
FC because the Patriots are there. But Tennessee's defense is
really good. They can run the ball. They just need
slightly above average quarterback play. They don't need average, they're
getting average. They need above average. You know, Jim in Providence,

(02:07:07):
I'm still working Jim. Maybe i'll have something for you tomorrow.
Jim wanted me. He's gonna put a thousand dollars bet
on he's got the Patriots winning the Super Bowl, so
he needs an NFC team. He gotta gi him ANFC team.
But he needs an NFCT So I might have to
go off the board. By the way, Jim, that's I
don't want to get carried to west a non sequitor.
But there's a team I'm looking at here that no
one's picking that I might have to throw out there.

(02:07:29):
We'll see how loyally you know. I'm not picking the Raiders.
I'm not picking the Raiders. How dare you all? Right? Secondly,
so Mike Rabel, he's the coach, he's the boss, he's Chemosabi.
So Mike Rabel, he wasn't around when the Titans drafted
Marcus Mariota, right, he was not the head coach of
the Titans at the time. He's not the chosen one

(02:07:50):
by the head coach. That does matter if you're not good.
So it makes sense that Tennessee is slow walking this.
And when I say that, Tennessee's not fully in vested
in Marcus Mariota. He's in the final year of his
rookie contract. He's coming off back to back pedestrian season
twenty seventeen twenty eighteen. The Titans, here's the key thing here.
They have not offered him an extension, instead opting to

(02:08:14):
take the old weight and see approach in twenty nineteen,
which is the smart play here. It's the right thing
to do. People don't like it, to get all upset,
but you should pay the players. Now. The reason that
this is likely going to backfire. Ryan Tannehill, we've seen
his act. He is an older version of Marcus Mariota,

(02:08:35):
slightly better, older version of Marcus Mariota. We're talking. We're
not talking about Dan Marino or Steve McNair or something
like that. In fact, Tannehill, if you look at his
numbers in Marioda, it's like the carbon copy two peas
out of the same pot. Here, they're following a similar
career path. Marioda quarterback rating last year ninety two point three,

(02:09:00):
twenty second in the NFL, Ryan Tannehill ninety two point seven.
They're almost identical here and Tannehill and I know this
because we bashed him for years when he was a
Dolphins quarterback rightfully, so he deserved it. He's a big
tease because there's another guy, Tannehill. The same thing with
Mariotie talking about all the tools. They say the same

(02:09:20):
thing about Ryan Tannehill, and yet he does the old
two step takes one step forward, two steps back. He'll
have a great game, Tannehill, if he starts for the Titans.
He'll have a four hundred yard game here and there,
and he'll also have a couple of two hundred ten
yard passing days of one seventy mixed in there something
along those lines. So it's one thing to get rid

(02:09:43):
of your quarterback because he's malingering. It's another thing when
you got a guy who's also floating on the lazy
river of mediocrity, which is what Ryan Tannehill is right
as having a beer floating on the raft there in
the lazy river. Now, the final thought here, it is
obviously put up a shut up time. As we pointed out,
we laid it all out for you, this being the

(02:10:04):
final year of the rookie contract for Marcus Mariota. And
as doctor Strange said back at the Avengers, the Avengers,
I think the Avengers for we're in the end game. Now,
we are in the end game now for Marcus Mariota.
We are, I mean he needs By the way, I
was dragged to that by my wife. All Right, they
did not choose to go see Avengers endgame. Okay, don't

(02:10:27):
you know that. I got my man card. All Right,
I'm good. Anyway, Mariota needs to fish or cut bait
is what he needs to say. I don't have any
other ways I can say it. I'm sure there's plenty
of other things I can do here, But the jig
is up. The jig is up for Marcus Mariota. It's
no longer a hooting nanny, and you gotta get it done.
And when you peel back the layers around the Titans,

(02:10:48):
he has been unable to find a niche. Now, the
deal is this. It's very simple. If Mariota goes out
and proves everyone wrong and has a full, solid season,
he is gonna get at least twenty million dollars a
year minim, probably twenty five million dollars a year from
Tennessee or somebody else. But if he does a belly whopper,

(02:11:12):
does the old face plant, then he will become a
high end backup and he will bounce around from team
to team. Unfortunately for Marcus Mariota, there's no team in Hawaii,
where he's from, and there's no team in Oregon. Maybe
he can be a backup to Russell Wilson in Seattle
or something like that, right, because the Pacific Northwest, they
get some of those Oregon people to drive up to Seattle.
All right, this is the Ben Mallers Show on Fox,

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also laid us to our fact or fiction and the
power of replay. The power of replay? What is that

(02:12:01):
all about? If that was not? I mean, I've got
a lot of stuff to get to. Medical advice from
an NFL player who's no longer performing some very odd
medical advice. I had not heard this before. We'll get
to that as well. We'll do it all, and we'll
do it next. You pay me five hundred thousand dollars,
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their stories of falling asleep in school. Good for you.
I didn't have that. I don't recall falling asleep in school.

(02:13:05):
I was tired all the time, but I was really tired.
I just stay home asleep. Yeah that the nuns in
high school wanted to let me fall asleep. Yeah, I didn't.
I didn't have nuns in high school, so I didn't.
I went to a public school. But you the Catholic
school experience. Yeah, my parents didn't want me to go
to public school. They did. They whack you with the ruler. No,
they weren't allowed. No, they weren't. Even at that time.

(02:13:28):
It was over here. Yeah, I got you. We will
have Puck the world coming up in a little bit.
Also the power of replay. But to the phones we go.
Let's say hello to Chad in MISSOI Hello, Chad, Hey,
what's up Dan? How you Dan? What's going on? Chad?
How can we help you? But what's up? I'm doing good.
I just want to talk about the NFL a little bit. Um.

(02:13:50):
My question was, well, it's not really the NFL, it's
all x NFL player oj Smson. What do you think
about his Twitter? Man? Like, I'm very disappointed all these
posting his golf pictures. Well, what do you want to be?
You wanting to show like photos of like severed heads?
What would you like? I didn't want to go that
extreme band, but I did. I pointed some juice, man,
I wanted some juice. But hey, quickly, everything he sends

(02:14:13):
out is the juice. He's he's O Jay Bleep insists.
You know Simpson, Come on, man, he's the juice. But
quick facts for you. Mike Tyson said he smokes forty
thousand dollars worth of weed every month at his ranch. Yeah. No,
we talked about that yesterday and somebody did the math.
Somebody did the math on they said it was the
thirty seven joints a day. You would have to smoke
thirty seven joints a day. Tom rolling some small joints, man,

(02:14:36):
I could get that probably en a few joints. Well
you're more advanced, yeah, more you should teach you. What
do you think about legalized marijuana? What do you how's
what's your take on that? I'm fine I think, you know,
as long as you're an adult and adults you should
have options. I don't think it's terrible marijuana all. I'm
fine with that. I'm happy all forms of debauchery should

(02:14:57):
be like I'm happy with gambling. I was just reading Iowa,
of all places with gambling, you know, launching, you know,
sports books and all that in Iowa. The Iowa Handle
could reach five billion annually from sports gambling in the
state of Iowa, you know, in tax revenue for the state,
millions of dollars tax revenue. And New Jersey they started

(02:15:18):
sports gambling last year and they have. They have a
bigger intake in New Jersey because as more people there
than Nevada. So Vegas is no longer the mecca of gambling.
As far as the revenue, New Jersey's past. I'm end.
I know you asked about weed, but gambling weed, what's next? Prostitution?
Everything's gonna be legal at some point or another, right
why now, Well, hey, man, Brady will probably get him

(02:15:39):
some some down in Vegas in twenty twenty when he
plays for the Raiders. Right, Oh, you're Brady's gonna play
for the Oh, He's gonna play for the Raiders or
against the Raiders. Play for the Raiders. You're gonna play
in or Las Vegas and you have inside information, Chet.
So Tom Brady's gonna leave the Patriots and he's gonna
he's gonna go to the Raiders and place are Tom?

(02:16:01):
Tom actually called me earlier to night. Uh well, yea
makes sense. You know, had nothing to do with the
full moon. It makes that's very logical. Yeah, what's a
better chance Tom going to the Raiders or Con Kaepernick
ever playing in the NFL again? Oh, Tom Brady going
to the Raiders. Tom Brady starting for any team other
than the Patriots is a better odd than odds than
Colin Kaepernick playing with the NFL. That that ship has

(02:16:24):
left the port. All right, thank you. A lot of
random stuff. Chat chat the random stuff guy. So that's
who he is. So I often mentioned on the show
I like these dopey studies, and I was reading a
study about instant replay in football, and the study indicated
that instant replay results actually influence how people watching the

(02:16:50):
broadcast feel about different ads in brands. And uh, you
know this happens all you know. It replays a staple
of anything college or the NFL, and you know, oftentimes
it comes down to a replay late in the game
and all that. But there's a study out of the
University of Georgia. How great is it? Our institutions of
higher learning are focusing on this, This is very important information,

(02:17:13):
but in Athens, Georgia, and the study found that even
advertising brands need to be very concerned about the divisions.
The researchers say that instant replay results, compounded by how
crucial the call may be to the game's outcome, influence
how viewers perceive brands, which does actually make sense. I

(02:17:33):
don't know that I needed to study for it. Because
if you're if you're in a good mood and you're
feeling giddy because the call went your way, you're going
to be more excited about whatever commercials on whatever cheeseburger
they're trying to sell your insurance company or whatever it
might be, and then vice versa. If it's not like that,
you're like, wait, wait a minute, what's up with that?
What's up with that? I don't know zac. So anyway,

(02:17:56):
they have referees, they go over and look at the
replay and all that. The study claim and that the
results of the replay it self, more specifically, whether it
hurt or help one's preferred team impacted the perceptions. As
we said, I mean, otherwise you should tell, if you're
an advertiser, tell the network not to put your commercials
on right after a replay if you're concerned about such things.

(02:18:19):
Let's Cowboy up on the Ben Mallers Show. Cowboy John
brad and Windsor, Ontario south of Detroit is next. Hello Cowboy,
Hello everybody. And those are the fiftieth anniversary of that
three day gathering at max Yasker's farm in Bethel, New York.
And there's eighty four years ago today. Will Rogers and
his pilot Wiley Posts were killed on the plane crash

(02:18:43):
in Alaska. By the way, my buddy Jamie Wabston's paternal grandfather,
James Taylor, he was the former Will Rogers ranch. You
know their own Cherokees, by the way, And okay, Edwin
Jackson's pitch really well for the Tigers, those two starts
he's worked as averaged down to about nine. And Ronaldo's

(02:19:03):
knife that John Eisley from John Boy and Billy are
sixty three today and never heard partner Billy James will
be sixty two on the thirty third, and that World
War Two ended seventy four years ago yesterday, when women
in Japan surrendered and the Beatles dismissed their original drummer,
Pete best bagas fourteenth, nineteen sixty two. But for the

(02:19:25):
life of me, I can't remember the name of his replacement. Oh,
and Tim Tebow was thirty two yesterday, Hey play Timmy
flip baseball you blow fifty three yesterday. David Crosbie seventy
eight to Steve Barton seventy four and Danielle Steele seventy two.
And Susan Olsen, who was Simmy Brady on the Brady Bunch,

(02:19:46):
was fifty eight long Cold beers never broke my heart
like diamond rings and Detroit sports teams, that tylers all
by your part like a Neandre yourself away. That guitar

(02:20:11):
is a complete, a complete. I don't know. I don't
know if the message reached wins Her Ontario Cowboy, But yeah,
Tebow is done right playing baseball this year. He's he's out.
He's not gonna play again this year, which conveniently happens
to give him a little time for vacation before he
starts his college football broadcasting. So I'm not saying these

(02:20:33):
things are related at all, But you're talking about a
blown opportunity. If Tebo had just been okay in Syracuse
playing Triple A ball in the International League, he would
have ended up with the Mets as a September call up.
But he had one sixty three this year, one sixty three,
and he had four home runs in seventy seven minor

(02:20:56):
league games. His slugging percentage was two fifty five for
the Syracuse Minor League team. There a debacle. I'll take
that for data. Fox Sports Radio has the best sports
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(02:21:16):
app search f SR to listen live. I mean, I
don't know if Coop saw this, he might be interested
in this, but oh, make sure it's not one of
his stories coming up in Factor Fishing, because he will
blow a gas. He's an MMA story, Coop. You any
MMA stories in there app? Is it about Nick Diaz? Oh? Okay?
Oh no, no, no, no, okay? So Nick Diaz is
MMA fighter. I've heard of him. I don't. I don't

(02:21:36):
really know if he's any good or not. I suppose
so he's got a fight coming up. He had like
an open workout with the fans and media there in
the Anaheim, Beautiful, California, the center. Apparently he's gonna be fighting, uh,
And he was puffing on a joint. Yeah, as he
walked around, Um, much to the surprise of a lot
of people. He then passing the joint around to the
fans that were there and told them to enjoy themselves.

(02:21:59):
Now he's said, kind of him, that's very generous. It's nice.
He said afterwards that he was smoking something called cbd uh,
which apparently does not have THHC, which is the component
that is you know well as it would be drug tested.
But apparently he claims that this is this was not

(02:22:20):
something that is against that is banned by Uh. Yeah,
I saw the clipping and walking out and illegal to
smoke and that was at the pond. Was that at
the arena of the Ducks play at I believe so, yes,
you can't smoke inside there. Bat you violated the code,
be arrested. But it's nice of him, was a generous
one sharing whatever he had. Is he like an investor?

(02:22:42):
Is that like I believe. So yeah, yeah, I believe.
It's like when Connor McGregor showed up when you had
the booze he was selling, you know, the same, the
same kind of Do you know about CBD joints? Yes? Okay,
what's the what's the difference that? Just just what I said,
it doesn't have the does it still have the qualities
of getting you you high? End? So no, no, because
THHC is the chemical that gets you high. Um. CBD

(02:23:05):
is kind of the more medicinal components of marijuana. So
like smoking a CBD joint would be good if you have, like,
you know, joint pain or a Oh. So he's just
dealing with his joint pain, Nick Diaz, That's what he
was doing there. It was treating his joint pain. How's
your with the joint? How's your weed stock doing? Coop? You? Okay? There,
I don't have any weed stock. You don't know. I
have some, but I got killed. Man. A bad day

(02:23:29):
on the old Yeah, it was a it was a
bad day for every I don't have many investments, but
everything was down. Everything, literally, I don't how often is
that literally? Everything? Oh no? We shock again? Oh no?
And I looked at the you know, the markets aren't

(02:23:49):
opening it, but the after hours it's down again. What's
up with that? Trump wants to be elected? You better
for quick there get that going on. It is the
the Ben Mall Show coming even the guy Fox Sports
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for a free rate quote. Right now, back to Eddie

(02:24:11):
we go and let's find out this hockey season somewhere.
It's actually coming up hockey season before you know it.
And here is Eddie do enlighten you with offseason hockey chatter?
What are we thirty days away or something like that
from hockey and training camps. September sixteenth, I think is
the first exhibition game, so like a little over a
month history for the Florida Panthers. Day announced for the

(02:24:34):
first time in their franchise system, they're gonna try to
be good again. Actually yes, okay, but they're also retiring
a number of a of a player for the first time.
That would be the number one of Roberto Luongo, the
recently retired goaltender. We'll have his number one jersey raised
to the rafters of the B B and T Center.

(02:24:54):
I believe it is there in Sunrise, Florida. Bacon Lettuce
to mat yeah, March seventh against the Montreal Canadians. He
grew up in Montreal. He has four hundred and eighty
nine career victories, third all time behind Hall of famers
martenbro During Patrick Waw and is the Florida Panthers leader
in virtually every category for a goaltender. The Panthers have

(02:25:15):
actually a retired two numbers, but not of players. They
retired the number thirty seven for Wayne Heyzinga, their their
inaugural owner, who was born in nineteen thirty seven, and
also the number ninety three for Bill Tory, who was
their first president. And ninety three was the year that
did they retire number twenty fund? Did they do number

(02:25:36):
twenty three like the Well, that's what the Heat did
for they retired Michael Jordan's number twenty three the Miami.
I didn't know that. Yeah. The Carolina Panthers resigned their
president and GM, Don Woodel to a multi year extension.
He had been the interim GM about a year ago.
They gave him the full time job this year and
they made the playoffs the first time in ten years.
A matter of fact, they went all the way to

(02:25:56):
the Eastern Conference Finals. He was apparently being courted by
the Minnesota Wild. They vacant GM job and so they decided, well,
we'd better sign him to a contract extension. New Chicago
Blackhawks goalie Robin Leonard twittered out a picture of his
Masterton Trophy that he won this past season. That goes
to that, that goes to the player. It's basically comeback
Player of the Year best exemplifies the qualities of cursor variance,

(02:26:17):
sportsmanship and dedication awards. Nobody knows what they are people
heart the heart Awar was the MV. Now well, he
had mental health issues and substance abuse problems and his
career was, you know, being derailed, and he got his
act together and had a great year. Good for him,
But the trophy, said Robin Lennard, New York Rangers, except

(02:26:37):
for he plays for the New York Islanders. At least
he did when he won the award. He now is
with the Blackhawks. Speaking of the Islanders, the New York
State Board responsible for Economic Development approved a one point
three building on our project to build a nineteen thousand
seat arena in Belmont Park that includes shops, restaurants, and hotels.
So the New York colleges will be getting a new
arena here in the near future. And finally, a pair

(02:27:00):
are former brothers in law went to court in Montreal
over some shared Primo season tickets for the Montreal Canadians. Yeah,
the two men had shared the season tickets for nineteen
years until there was a divorce and the two were
no longer related by marriage. So the tickets were in
the name of one of the guys and they said, well,
that's they're my tickets. Yeah, kind of disinvited the other guy.

(02:27:21):
A judge says, nope, those tickets belong to both of you,
and awarded the other guy forty five thousand dollars in
damages and apparently they will now have to reshare the
tickets again. I'm sure that'll be a pleasant relationship. I
have no doubt about that. That's your puck the world
a point. All right. Did you see the NHL team
in Seattle. They said they're going to announce a name

(02:27:41):
they believe early next year. I think that's what I read.
Early next year a nickname for the Seattle I hope
they don't do a dumb nickname. I hope they don't
do it. We had enough dumb nick You didn't like
the Golden Knights. I don't like the gold It seemed
to work out for him, Yeah, they said early twenty
Ron Frances said early twenty two one. There I have
a nickname for the Seattle expansion. You have some like

(02:28:03):
north thing. They have some wacky ideas. The totems is
one of them. Yeah, it's dumb. You like the cracking
to you like that? That's yeah, they're cracking them cracking
that ass. Yeah, sure, it sounds like a good one.
Did you see that the Palm I read somewhere. I
don't know how this came up, but the Seattle team,

(02:28:24):
their minor league affiliate could be in Palm Springs. The
AHL affiliate could be the Palm Springs Firebirds. Oh is
that what they're calling them? Yeah? So would you here's
the question, and if you offered a job in Palm Springs,
would you go to Palm Springs to be the play
by play voice of the Palm Springs Firebirds? Depends on
what they're gonna pay me. I suppose, well, you are

(02:28:46):
a season ticket order for the Ontario rain right right, yeah, yeah,
when's that start a couple of months. That's a pretty cool. Yeah.
I've been there, Yeah, then there too. But you want
season tickets right for I want them at the fan
appreciation for the LA Kings. They liked you so much.
They wanted you to go to their games in the
minor leagues and not the major leagues, the NHL. They

(02:29:07):
wanted you to go. I can already go to those
games anyway with you media pass, mister big stuff. Look
at this guy, mister big chest. All right, it is
the Ben Maller Show. As we press on. So the
medical advice, this involves Andrew Luck. Ocho Cinco, remember him,

(02:29:27):
the old Bengals receiver, Chad Ocho Sinko. He has chimed
in and thrown Yeah, he has thrown his advice out
to Andrew Luck. On He's got some kind of malady
with his ankle or his foot, and so Chad Johnson
has a home remedy. It involves according to Chad warm Urine.

(02:29:49):
That that that's what Chad Johnson said that warm Urine
will help Andrew Luck and he wants this past along
to Andrew Luck. So if anybody knows Andrew Luck. We're
on in Indianapolis chat. Josinka wants Andrew Luck to know
that warm urine will help him get on the field
for the Colts. Is that like Jorge Posada with the

(02:30:11):
in moises a lout, these old baseball players that would
would use a certain bodily fluid on their hands to
toughen up the skin because they didn't wear batting gloves.
Is there anyone in the major leagues that doesn't wear
batting gloves right now? Is there anybody at all in
the Major league doesn't use batting Matt Carpenter. Matt Carpenter
the Cardinals. Yeah, okay, the only guy that that I

(02:30:33):
know of. It's a good call on that. Yeah, I
don't know if anybody. Off the top of my head,
I watched base I'm flipping around to a million games.
I'm not focused on any you know, not long enough
to catch that. But anyway, we'll press on. We are
going to have in its entirety fact or fiction, and
we have a slot open if you want to be
one of our judges here. We have a celebrity panel

(02:30:53):
in everyone a hole that you will have an opportunity
to be a judge. We're gonna get to that eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox Actor fiction in its entirety.
We get to it. We'll do it next number four.
Turn on the radio up so when Rachel sings the
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(02:31:13):
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(02:31:34):
the middle of the nights. Now live from the Guico
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Is it fact for fiction? Let's face some row facts
on The Ben Maller Show, and it is factor fiction.

(02:31:54):
Brought to you by Discovered Card. We treat you like
you'd treat you, so we'll give you three store. They
all sound kind of true and kind of ridiculous at
the same time. Two of them are true. You have
to separate fiction from facts. Meet our celebrity panel of
judges will say, hello, everybody. We've got Leslie the power
couple with Jack the Judge, still hanging out on Long Island.

(02:32:18):
What's going on, Leslie? Ben You don't sound good? Do
you have a cold? Leading? Yeah, A look cool. I'm
I'm doing. Don't worry. I'm using garlic and chicken soup,
so I'll be I'll be all right. Yeah, it's not
your chicken soup, Leslie, but yeah, it's it's well. Yeah,
So when when do the kids go back to school? Leslie?
When are you leave in Long Island? Labor Day? So

(02:32:40):
you have a little time left, but it's coming up quick,
very quick, coming up quick. Yeah, in California, the in
some California, some of the kids are back in school
right now. As Sam in Florida. It's crazy. Yeah. Man,
when I was a kid, I thought summer lasted forever,
But it's not that long. Actually, they don't have that
much time to go run amuck. No, yeah too, yeah,

(02:33:01):
but that's less time for you to hang out with
him though, right, Leslie, bro Bro, I got you all right?
Hold on of second, Leslie, be good, thank you. Hold
on this. She goes our friend Leslie with Jack the judge.
We've got Rod the ambassador of Bakersfield. Hello, Rod, Hey,
let's go down and start mushing. I have been called
that since I was single back in the day. It's
very kind of you to say that. Rod. Well, well, yeah,

(02:33:25):
of course. Yeah. When do you come and hang out
with us again? Rod? We haven't had you down here
in while, Come buy sometime. Well, I was good to
come down us this next week, but we're gonna shutdown
coming up, so I can't get out of here, all right,
So we're gonna head down or unfortunately part of the
when mister Darcy is overseats. Yeah, that's all right, more
food for us. I don't care. That's fine, let him go.
I don't care. Let me do the whole thing. Yeah,

(02:33:46):
but we'll all right, all right, Rod, Thank you, buddy.
Rob's very kind. Rod's a friend. Because we had a
meal in Bakersfield with Rod. It's a fine restaurant, steak place.
There was really cool, all right. JJ in renting, Hello, JJ,
This Seahawks insider. JJ. Oh man, I'm not no Seahawks insider. Ben,
you know I just went to training camp. I'm going

(02:34:07):
to actually going to uh the Oakland Raider game on
the twenty ninth, so I could rub something in the
Raider Rob's face. Yeah, now, JJ, let me ask you this,
j my rumor. I started a rumor earlier that if
Mariota sucks for the Titans this year, he'll be the
backup to Russell Wilson next year. What do you think? No,
I like Paxson Winch. I told you that, I'll stop. Stop.

(02:34:32):
You're losing all credibility with that, you know that? Just
telling you the dude what six seven? Man? The dude
looked nice. You're gonna You're gonna trigger Cooper Loop's gonna scream?
Was tall JaMarcus Russell? Hey, man, hey, it's your Broncos
fault that they got rid of him. But you know,
maybe he needed a better quarterback coach. Yeah, I'm sure

(02:34:55):
that's it. I'm sure it's just the quarterback had a
quarterback period. Let's see Jeff in Indiana. Jeff, do you
want to be a judge? Jeff? Hey, been my second
day on the show. Yeah, I mean, this is as
a dream come true. Your life is changing in magical ways.
It's gonna be a great day, Jeff, because of this

(02:35:18):
awesome let's roll with the punt, all right. You're you're
working right now. I am actually on my way to
work right now, all right. And for those that don't
know what you do for living, like everybody in beaver
dam who's got the guy in beaver Dame, whos got
a friend in Punksatani who knows somebody somebody over in
Rancho Cucamano. What do you do for living there? Jeff?

(02:35:38):
I am what they call a lean manufacturing specialist. I
go in, I consolidate, and I allocate system. So a
lot of big words there. It sounds sounds very important.
All right. Hold on a second, and we have someone
that has seven toes, the seven toe drag Queen Flexus
and Rochester Hello Flexes, Hello Ben. You know cal went

(02:36:00):
from winstor I think crisis and also magic. Chuck Johnson's
birthday today, he turned sixty. How about that. That's one
of the great upsets of our time. The magic turn sixty.
That's good for magic? Right? What kind of cocktail of
drugs is he on every day? But it's working. It's amazing.
I remember, man, I was on I was on the
radio around that time Magic when he went out with

(02:36:22):
the HIV and then no, he'll never play again. He's
gonna die in two years. And here he's sixty years old.
Good for him? Yeah, all right, all right, hold on,
flexus there any here you go? All right? Three stories,
real quick. Story number one seeing double Lonzo Ball. Figure
out which of these is not true? Lonzo Ball making
some headlines this week with a tattoo Ball showing off
a full arm sleeve with incredible detailed portraits of African

(02:36:46):
American civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm
X Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and more. The portraits were
limited to leaders of the past, though the tattoo also
featured Yeah you'll be ready for this one, Colin Kaepernick, Yeah,
why not? Story number two Bozo buck Eyes. I mean,

(02:37:08):
I got the Ohio State inside. I used to call
the show you didn't call anymore. If you've ever watched
those those player introductions you know during Monday night football,
you know Ohio State alumni always emphasize the Ohio State
or the Ohio State. Well, Ohio State is attempting to
capitalize on the most commonly used word in the English language.

(02:37:28):
The brainy acts at Ohio State in Columbus of file
and application to trademark the word the all right story
Number three. Love and war Remember that Mma fighter war
machine a couple of years back. Yeah, he was convicted
of twenty nine fellon accounts life in prison, rape and
beating of his girlfriend nearly to death. Well, it turns

(02:37:49):
out that makes him more attractive to certain women, so
much so that war Machine got married this week in
prison to a prison penpal. Now there was no conjugal
visit there allowed, and he won't be eligible for parole
until seventy one years old. That's love, all right, real quick?
Leslie one two or three? Leslie alright one? Thank you? Rod,

(02:38:13):
one two or three. Rod. You gotta run too many fixes?
Number one, number one, j j what's the answer, JJ,
I'm taking number two, number two. Jeff one two or three.
Jeff definitely rolling with number two. Got number two, all right,
Jes says number two. Flexes one two or three, number three?
Nuts Number one was the fix. No Kaepernick on that

(02:38:34):
tattoo number one, Urt go some of you got it right,

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