July 20, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Saquon Barkley publicly mulling a Le'Veon Bell style hold-out, Leonard Fournette working out for Belichick and the Patriots, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nab bur one, our one,
as we say it out loud, the Ben Mahler Show podcast.
We thank you for finding the podcast, for downloading the podcast,
and now for actually listening to the podcast. God bless you.
That means a lot so football hour here. Do you
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think that Saquon Barkley would really say f you to
the Giants? Thumbs up or thumbs down? On Leonard Fournette
being a good fit with the Patriots. He hasn't signed
with the Patriots, hasn't agreed in principle, but he did
work out for Bill Belichick. And what do you make
of NFL teams getting three hundred and seventy four million
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each in national television revenue before they sell a ticket,
a hot dog, nachos, popcorn, any of that stuff. We'll
go over all of the finances as well, that and
much more, including a surprise caller two here it is
our number one. You know what, maybe I just won't
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this hour, coming from the Gripes and Grievance's department. There
is one thing we do very well in sports chatter,
and that is flog a dead horse, or in this case,
a dead running back. As the world turns for running backs,
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What a great story, What a great mitzvah. This has
been for those of us that are looking for marginal
content to talk about. All week, it has been one
bluster after another bluster of hot air from random people
around the NFL making a big stink about the running
back salaries and this. I don't know how you can
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go on with your life not being able to help
your running back out your favorite running back anyway. Saquon Barkley,
Sakwon Barkley is pushing back in the Big Apple. If
you did not hear what he had to say maybe not.
We actoually play some audio here in a second. But
Saekwon Barkley dismissing the very notion that he has limited leverage.
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Most people that understand the dynamic of the player versus
the team and how that works and your value realize
that there's not much that can happen here for mister
Barkley with his contract standoff with the Giants. But he
talked about his options during a guest spot on something
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called The Money Matters podcast. Obviously money does not matter
for me because I don't know what that is. But
I think we have the audio, so as Warner Wolf
would say, let's go to the audio tape. Here is
sa Quon Barkley commenting on leverage.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I have no worry about going on a football field
and knowing that I'm not playing for my work or
saying if I have to play under it, because that's
this is my leverage. My leverage is I could say
few to the Giants. I'd say to my teammates and
be like, you want me show you my work. You
want to show you how much how valuable I am
to the team. I won't show up, I won't play
it down that's the play I can use. Anybody knows
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me knows that's not something I want to do, but
like it's something that has something that crossed my mind.
It's like I never thought I would ever do that,
but like now I'm at a point where it's like Jesus,
like I might have to take it to this level,
and like am I willing? Am I prepared to take
it to the level?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I don't know. Oh, I don't know. See I say
that all the time with the company I work for.
I could just say f you to Fox, and I
could say f you to my my teammates, the Benatts.
You know, Dan Patrick's got the dan Ats. I've got
the Bennetts here, and I could just do that. But anyway,
that's the money quote. I could just say F you
to the Giants. So the question on this, as we
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discussed the question, do you think that Sakwan Barkley would
really say F you and take his ball and go
home away from the Giants. So I am shaking my head. No,
I am shaking my head. Now I've got Paradox, Anheuser
Bush Brewing Company, and doctor Pimple Popper, and we will
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tie all of these things together into a nice, neat
package is what we're gonna do, and then we'll sell
it on the internet and we'll make some real money.
So a Sakwon Barkley is an absolute alligator. On the
he will take a bite out of defenses, but when
it comes to making a compelling argument over leverage in
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a contract negotiation, he is a toothless alligator, is what
he is. Barkley. You just heard the sound bite, the
money sound bite. Not very convincing to me? Was he
convincing to you? Now? Didn't sound very convincing. Now he
could go the nuclear option, and I recommend if you
do that, go to Miami, get some jet skis, and
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chase pretty girls around Miami drinking cocktails. It worked very
well for the last NFL running back. You did that.
What could possibly go wrong? Of course, financially, that would
not be the smartest thing to do. You've got over
ten million zillion dollars plus all the endorsement money that
has your name on it, and you don't get that
money back. You know I'm gonna get more money. That's
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not quite how it works. And so Barkley's situation with
the Giants, here's the real rub on this Saquon Barkley
situation is a paradox. He is simultaneously very valuable and
also at the same time unessential to the Giants. Both
these things are true, meaning that when Barkley has played,
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he has been a dynamic super nova as a running back.
We all know that those of us that have a
passion for pigs game. But at the same time, he's
unessential because the Giants could simply pivot and sign Dalvin
Cook or some random dude from Hoboken to play in
the backfield, and they would keep the parade going. And
maybe they wouldn't be quite as great on running the football,
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but they'd be okay as long as the person blocks
and doesn't screw up and run the wrong route or root,
they'd be okay. Now turning the paget. Speaking of running backs,
the Patriots, we talked about this in a previous episode
of the show. The Patriots believed to be the favorite,
at least according to DraftKings as of yesterday, to sign
Dalvin Cook, the aforementioned Dalvin Cook. But the Peers the
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Patriots have a wondering eye. They are doing their due diligence.
I love that term due diligence on the other available players.
Now we have learned that former Buccaneer running back Leonard
Fournette and an old I am Darryl Henderson, both worked
out in the Commonwealth in New England. There the bigger
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name is the one we will talk about, So sorry
to the Henderson family. That would be Leonard Fournette, the
ex buck who's now looking for work. Now thumbs up
or thumbs down on Leonard Fournette being a good fit
with the Patriots. So I am going to go two
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thumbs down. I got two thumbs down on this. And
here's why. Leonard Fournette is like a car that looked
pretty good. You wanted the car a while ago. You
thought that's my car. I love that car. But then
you didn't get the car. And now you have a
chance to buy the car. But it's got engine problems.
There's some chips on the paint. That was essentially Fournette
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last season with the Buccaneers. The word to describe his
performance unreliable. Now running back apologists, there are many of them.
I've learned this week. We'll say it was not his
fault that the hodgepodge of an offensive line for the
Buccaneers was to blame. But using the car analogy to
the next level, you want to make sure you have
a tow truck near your Fournette in seven games last
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season had thirty five or fewer rushing yards seven. You
know how many hundred yard games he had for the Buccaneers.
That would be one one, and that was in the
opener when the Bucks played the Cowboy to begin last
last campaign. At this point, Leonard Fournette should be working
for the Anheuser Busch Brewing Company and he can hang
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out with those Budweiser Clydesdale's. He does not appear to
have the after burners. He's not past the expiration date.
He's twenty eight. Running backs normally die at age thirty.
That's the point of no return. He's getting close because
he's right around that fifteen hundred touch threshold. Remember we
told you the nerds had decided that once you cross
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fifteen hundred combined rushes and catches, that you are now toxic.
There's high levels of toxicity in your body. At that
particular point, he's fifty six touches away, fifty six from
Leonard Fournette crossing the rubicon, which would be what week
four if he is in every down player or close
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to an every down player in the NFL. Now a
positive note, Bill Belichick apparently has the hots for for Nette.
I wanted to sign him a couple years ago. Plus,
we all know the sweet melody to the Patriots is affordable,
the frugal Pats. So there's a shit, there's a shot.
There's a chance there between Dalvin Cook, Leonard Fournette, Darryl
Henderson and a host of other running backs that are
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also available and can be yours if the price is
not right now the last Warriors. So let's go to
green Bay. The Frozen Tundrad did a Mallard meet and
greet last year in green Bay. I was actually an Appleton,
which is the next city over there from green Bay.
But the Packers have reported a profit from the operations
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of the team of sixty eight point six million dollars
during the fiscal year of twenty twenty three. The CEO
Mark Murphy laying out all of the numbers, opening the books,
the financial picture. Why the annual shareholders meeting that to
take place at Lamb Field coming up on Monday, and
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the Packers collected almost three hundred and seventy five million dollars,
which is one thirty second share of the national revenue
from Fox and NBCCBS and ESPN three hundred and seventy
four million. So you do the math on that. That
means the NFL teams broke up a pie of twelve
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billion between the various teams. So what do you make
of NFL team's getting three hundred and seventy four million
dollars in television revenue each And that does not even
include the merchandise revenue, which goes even higher. So it
shows you what a sweetheart set up the packers had
not for the NFL. It's wonderful to get a glimpse
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behind the curtain. We talk about this every year and
the same conversation takes place, and every year like, whoa,
that's a lot of money, man. We get to see
just how much cake is in the bakery. And you
can thank a person named Joseph Carr for us knowing
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all of the finances of the NFL. You might not
know who Joseph Carr is. You probably don't, and if
you do, you're a loser. Joseph Carr was the NFL
commissioner in the nineteen twenties. It was a much different
time one hundred years ago, and Green Bay was set
up as a publicly traded operation. The reason that happened
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was the NFL never imagined in their wildest dreams that
they would be any more than a recreational activity that
raised a few bocks. But college football was big. Think
a hundred years ago, college football, boxing, horse racing were
the most popular sports in America, and so the NFL
was like, people will watch a little bit, maybe we'll
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make a couple bucks, but you got to bring back
doctor pimple Popper is what you have to do here,
because this is a one hundred year old giant cyst
that continues to ooze out a confidential financial data for
the NFL every season. It will never go away unless
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something drastic takes place right, which you don't see on
the horizon there. But the big takeaway here, when this
story comes out over you you look at the packers' shareholders,
the people that purchase stock in the Green Bay Packers,
and you realize, what a hustle the packers have pulled
off here, what a scam. That stock is just a novelty.
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We know that, but in the real world. If you
buy stock in a company that turns a operating profit
of sixty eight million dollars, you're likely going to get
as a shareholder a nice dividend out of that. But
if you own packer stock, you have a certificate you
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can put on your wall, which is kind of cool,
but you don't get a check every year because the
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after tax billions and billions, and yeah, imagine that billion dollars. Craziness,
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absolutely craziness. Good luck to who ever won that. I hope
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like to be part. We had an NFL heavy beginning
to the festivities. The Russian kid driving around Ohio rights
and he says, Ben, did you know running backs are
kind of like dogs? One running back year to one
and a half human years. However, the NFL devalued running
backs altogether. At least give them guaranteed bonuses for reaching
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X amount of yards and touchdowns. Eh, I can say
the same thing about overnight talk shows. You want to
play that game? To Russian kid, I think, well, you know,
we hit certain monologue thresholds, we should get extra money.
Jason The Diamond Man rights and says, I am not
going to cry for NFL players. You get paid if
you're the franchise back ten point one million dollars. Best
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of luck trying to get that in the real world.
That malar log is a ten point two on a
scale of one to ten, so I got over ten,
which I did not know was possible. The Burner account
writes and says, please, please, no more, no Moss. I
can't take it anymore. All day, all week, every sports
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station talking about this topic. Nobody wants to hear about
millionaires complaining about making millions. I'd rather hear about Rob
Parker breakdown the all time great Yankees who shots fired. Yeah. Well,
here's the problem, Burner account. This is your sense of
this story is wrong. Now this is a good story, okay,
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because you're right. Every running back is in the NFL.
The minimum salary in the NFL, as far as I'm concerned,
means you're rich if you're making the minimum salary. So
I understand the NFL does very well. We just talked
about the Green Bay Packers how much money they've got,
and that's just a sliver of how much money's bouncing
around the NFL. I get that, but the fact that
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these people are having such a public meltdown and that
they think anything is going to change, like they think
they're going to game the robber barons who are running
the NFL, and that somehow there's going to be an
intervention that takes place. My favorite part is the veteran
players that are no longer playing and some of the
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players that are headline players today that are throwing out
all kinds of ridonculous advice. It is so wonderful, it
is so delicious. It just just great. Let's go to
the phones and let's say hello to Andre in the Commonwealth,
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a fan favorite. Several callers say, give me more Andre,
while other callers say no. That means Andre is doing
something right as a caller, Hello, Andre.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
How are you doing?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
First of all, it was good to see that we
had a newbie night yesterday. I actually called in just
to confirm. It was the first time I heard that,
And you know, giving folks an opportunity to kind of
go back and forth if you bringing more people into
the mal or militia. So I took one night off
glad to see folks getting in there showing what talents
that they have. But but but I'm back and there.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
What did you do Andre on your night off? What
did you did you go to bed? Did yeah? Clean
the house a little bit? Did you do laundry? What
did you do?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
All those things take place. I actually I got to
go downstairs and put the clothes from the wash into
the dryer, make sure they're ready for tomorrow. We clean
up some stuff. I'm a night Outlanis obviously, you know,
being a part of the militious going over my you know,
my paperwork. But the fact that the matter resists the giant,
so they they don't stirred up some trouble, you know,
in terms of really alienating a good soldier in Saint
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kuon Bark, you know, what do they say? You know,
you got to be careful. Obviously we know that Ben
Maller deserves the super Max deal in terms of what
he's doing. You know, in terms of in the overnight
keeping you deserve. Whoever your agent is, he needs to
push for event because you've got a movement going on
here late night. You got people like myself that are
proud members of a malor Militsia.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
We're ready to go to bat for this.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Okay, come on, I need a better agent. Yeah right, but.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
But but but how are you going to give your
your one B player secure the bag? Daniel Jones gives
him thirty forty million dollars and then you want a
penny pinch with your one A player Tae Kwon Barkley,
who makes Daniel Jones go. I'm not backing down on this.
I don't care how much of an offensive genius Brian
Dabole is. He showed it in Buffalo, showed it his
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first year in New York. What we know here in
New England has been you need players. It's players over system.
That's why the Patriots, I don't know. They look like
they're going to be at the bottom of the AFC
East this year. Tough division. New York's in trouble because
Saquan who's been a good soldier coming from the Penn
State tradition. Yeah, he was probably overdrafted at numbers at
second overall, but Daniel Jones was over overdrafted at number
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six overall. He's not a number one quarterback. He's a
system quarterback dependent on Brian dabol and Sae Kwon Barkley.
So they're in a situation where they can't pay him.
Now he has to be locked into the franchise tag.
He's obviously worth more than the franch tag.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
So what do you do?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
How do you kind of proceed forward? They got it,
They're gonna have to do.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
It's New York.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
It's the economic and political capital of the world. So
he got smart people there. They're gonna have to make
up some magic to put something together where he feels
that he's getting his value and he's on the seals
because the Giants are looking at a sophomore something. But
they don't do it period in the store, they won't
be successful.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
We can go back, well, I would challenge it. They're
not gonna be successful anyway. Even if Sakuon Barkley was
a good soldier and shows up and plays and all that,
there's going to be a regression to the mean. The
Giants overachieved last year. They weren't as good as they played,
and as you pointed out, it is astonished. I'm right
there with you. It is absolutely breathtaking that the people
running the New York Giants gave Danny Dimes the contract
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that they gave an I know it's not as overwhelming
the money as some of the other quarterbacks. But he
was so media even last year when the Giants won
all those games. It had nothing to do with the
passing offense. He was not exceptional. He was not tremendous.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Last year.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
He was slightly better than he had been and he
ended up getting paid. He had to give a tutorial
on how he was able to get that kind of
money from the Giants. Daniel Jones, it's embarrassed.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
They better talk to They better talk to Steve Cohen.
As far as I'm concerned, he's a financial wizard, okay,
in terms of you know, the money he's made in
running the Mets. They're gonna have to pull some magic
out of a hat to make Saquon bring him back
onto the reservation because at this extent ended a regular
season hurts my heart beat from the great State of
New Jersey. Giants are in for a major regression year.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Thanks taking the call.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
There he goes Andre from the Commonwealth straight ahead. The
worst advice I have heard in a long time, if
not ever, by someone giving guidance to athletes. And we
did have a trade. By the way, Denzel Mims, this
is quite the story so Denzel Mims. All day, the
story was the Jets were going to release this guy.
He was a second round pick a couple of years ago.
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And you know how it goes. These guys get drafted
in the first or second round. Oh, they're so good,
they're all gonna be great. Well, first of all, he
wasn't great. Secondly, the Jets announced via the media they
were gonna release him, and they were. Then they said, well,
we're gonna try to trade him. They found somebody to
take him, the Lions, and I want you to know
right now now, they didn't. The Lions Detroit didn't give
up much to get Danzel Mims. It's a flyer. They
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give up a twenty twenty five low draft pick. Whatever.
But did you know that you and I you listening
and myself we both have the same number of career
receiving touchdowns as Denzel Mims. Zero bumpkis all right, we'll
get to that. Fake it till you make it, what
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advice that is and much more. Right now, though, let's
get you caught up on everything going on in the overnight,
and we say hello to the merman Eddie Garcia, and.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
We have exciting news to pass along Ben because we've
got golf action, Yo, live action.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
This is not just everything's already in the can every No, no,
we got live action right across the ocean.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
It is the Open Championship. So called the British Open,
but we've been extracting it is the Open Championship.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I called the British Open.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I'm old school Royal Liverpool underway. I don't care, just
getting things going.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I like pools, but I don't like liver Liverpool. Get
the name Liverpool.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I'm guessing it's somebody's name.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Somebody's like somebody dropped a bunch of livers into a pool,
and so let's call the time.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I'm going to say, no, I'm but I don't know
that for a fact. Maybe we can do some research
on that. But we currently have a very early on
in the opening round of the Open Championship, we have
a three way time for the lead between three players
that I've never heard of. We've got Matthew Jordan, Richie
Ramsey and Ryan Fox. Yes, yes they're all at one
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under par Richie Ramsey from Scotland. Fan of the Scottish
golf there well.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I was a fan of Richie rich when I was
a kid.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It wasn't golf invented in Scotland.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yes, yeah, just watch and they'll tell you every ten
minutes a ticker. They have to tell you every ten
minutes when you watch the Open Championship.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Yeah, so there you go. Early on, we'll keep you
updated on the leaderboard the opening round of the Open Championship.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Your toes, Eddy Liverpool, You gotta be on your toes
for this. Eddie is actually live sporting event.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
It doesn't happen often on this shift, but it's going.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Normally only get people dying or arrested. Ye, yes, those
kind of things. The name comes from the Old English
liver meaning thick or muddy water, and pull meaning a
pool or creek.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
There you go, not only entertaining but educational here.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I'll bet you you learn the history of Liverpool by
listening to an overnight sports radio show. But now you know.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Now that's why we're so good.
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Absolutely, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Mellor Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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Speaker 4 (28:30):
I don't know if this will be a mallor monologue,
but friend of the show Tim mcdarby has tweeted out
this distressing news. According to sources, Commissioner Rob Man Fraud
as he has called on this show, Yes, is expected
to be re elected as Commissioner of Baseball in a
vote next Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
It's really bad news, but it's news that we expected.
So please no, no, WHOA. We're not going to do
a monologue on that. Well, we'll talk about it. I'm
sure there's some more dirt will come out next week.
Because what I want to know is it a unanimous vote?
Were there any teams that voted against Rob Manford. Will
that get out? Will that be leaked that there were
(29:12):
certain teams that did not approve Manford. All he had
to do was get a majority vote, so he only
needed to get if you do the math on, there's
thirty teams, So he did get sixteen votes out of
the thirty teams. So conceivably fourteen teams could have said
we do not approve. Although I guess the vote hasn't
even actually really happened yet. But yeah, next week, next week,
but we'll find out. All right, It is the Ben
(29:33):
Mallor Show, and I'd like to learn all the affiliates
that a big name celebrity caller that we have not
talked to in a long time is online right now.
This is going to the ratings are going to spike up.
The podcast downloads are going to go through the roof
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have heard it, fake it till you make it. Let's
just fake it till you make it. And that applies
(30:18):
to a lot of other people that kind of fake things.
They get jobs, maybe they're not qualified for the job,
and they kind of hang out long enough, kind of
fake it till they figure it out. I bring this
up because a person who played in the NFL and
now has a role advising NFL players on how to
(30:40):
navigate their way through the running back market. For example,
former Cleveland brown offensive lineman said, one of the most
crazy things that I have heard, and we're talking about
j C. Treder, I believe is the the gentleman's name here.
(31:00):
You probably don't know who that is because he played
for the Browns and he was an offensive lineman, so
not exactly a household name. But these NFLPA president and
he has given advice he's encouraged. Now in a recent interview,
he encouraged running backs to try to create leverage. How
to create leverage. He hinted that they should fake injuries
(31:25):
to gain leverage. Yeah, that's the advice that just go
out there and just pretend, oh my aching back I'm
my back and maybe they'll give you more money. Yeah,
what could possibly go wrong? Although I do know some
people that worked in the radio business, and that's how
I relate to this, that they took a lot of
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time off and it didn't seem to affect him. They
took a lot of Fridays and Saturday, Fridays and Mondays off,
those four day weekends. It didn't seem to affect him
very much. But that's quite the advice. So just become
a malingerer. That's the union old union guy there. Just
become a malingerer. That'll help you out. Let's go to
the phones right now. Here we go, big name, big name.
(32:08):
We now go to the mean streets of Los Angeles.
Did this guy just win the one billion dollars? He's
called in right now we say hello to helmet man.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
For the mornings.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Helmet Man. Did you win the billion dollars? Helmet Man?
Have you won the billion dollars? Helmet Man?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Yeah, you know what, the the Orioles had to win
one of those games, but the first place.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Now the man's focused on his topics of conversation.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, he's not gonna buy the Orioles with this with
his winnings. Yeah, imagine helmet Man is the owner of
the Orioles. That'd be outstanding the owner's box. He's got
that that baseball helmet on right.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Uniform, he's got the jersey, he's got the full uniform.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Yeah, but that's not the reason call.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Okay, well why did you call Helmet Man?
Speaker 7 (33:04):
I called because, uh, you know, I haven't been on
the air for a while, because I had to phone trouble.
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
No, I was wondering what happened. We were like, what
happened to Helmet Man? I know you you moved many
months ago. Are you still in Inglewood? You're still hanging
out down your Sofi stadium in l A.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Oh, I'm still out there in Inglewood. But I'm in
Anaheim tonight.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Oh you're in Anaheim.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Look at you. He's merchandise.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Oh you you outside hawking stuff outside the Big A.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
No. I came late. I got here late. I got here.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
You know you got there after the the Angel game ended.
The get The game was an early game. It was
like a four o'clock Pacific start. Yankees and Angels.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
I didn't know it. Yeah, I thought they were playing
seven o'clock, but they played late.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
One thing what I was telling people that Brady would
not have survived if he played in the era of
Joeln Taylor, even out Way and Moan, because when he
got there to the NFL, the league.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Was soft phone protection to protect the quarterback, and the
quarterbacks knew when the hits hits were coming.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
But the opposite guys like uh John Alway, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, yeah, helmer Man on the bus right now, I
know that's what it sounds like. He's either at a
bus stationaries are you on the bus?
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Yeah, oh you're no, But they knew when the hits were.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Yeah, of course, hot take, hot take.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Listen, helmer Man. I gotta go, but you got to
call me more often, helmet Man. We miss you. We
need your part of the show. Gotta make it a
habit again. We missed you on the show. And we'll
go out and see I told Eddie when the Chargers
and Rams start playing, we'll have to go out and
see it. So far one of these days.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
Yeah, but Brady, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Okay, that's a man who's dying on his take. Eddy.
He loves to take so much. He does not want
small talk. Okay, thank you, all right.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Say hello to all the people on the bus for us.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
I fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
That's some great helmet man sound. And if you're new
to the show, helmet Man is one of our favorites.
Quite the character. I've run into him many times over
the years. He's been a listener for probably twenty years
and a helmet man. Last night when one of the
last times I saw him was outside what used to
be called Staples Center, and he had a full Baltimore
Orioles uniform on. And I am not kidding. He had
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the helmet, the jersey, he had the gloves, he had
the whole thing pants. It was insane. All right, It
is the Ben Maler Show. Thanks to helming Man. Great
to hear his voice. Glad he's doing all right, except
he screwed up the schedule for the Angel Yankee game.
Here's the who am I game? And we'll have the
MLB pick him. Here's the Whomi game. At one point
I was an All Star. I was a silver slugger
(36:14):
and a batting champ. However, this season I'm batting around
two twenty and seventy six percent of the time I've
hit the ball on the ground the highest percentage of
ground balls in baseball. Who am I the answer? Next,
I'm actually on the live air. Yes, you're on.
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Larry D says, Hey, Ben, you should hire Lamar Jackson's
mother to be your agent. Worked out for Lamar. That's true,
the matriarch of the Jackson family. That's where I should
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And here it is. UH. At one point I was
(37:54):
an All Star Silver slugger and batting champ. However, this
season I'm batting around two twenty and seventy six percent
of the time. I've hit the ball on the ground,
the highest percentage of ground balls in baseball this season.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Paul Sorrento Yes by Chris in Des Moines. That is good.
(38:16):
Pat O'Brien, pob guess by the Cowboy Killer Page down,
Alan Trammel from Rob in Minnesota. Jeff Cirillo from Fields
of Green Donkey Sausage going with Billy Ripkin as his answer.
Page down, page down, Carlos Correa the Cheating a Hole
of the Twins guest by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Our
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buddy Mark in Santa Monica says the answer is Lou
Garrick Al Horboski guess by courtesy Flusher. Who else do
we have? Page down? Hanley Frius from Sean in the
Valley of the Sun. Benito says the answers, am I
on the live air that that is the answer? DiAngelo
(38:57):
Menez guest by Jonathan that's his answer. Bryce Harper from
Johnny Q. Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie? It's
very important?
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Is Bryce Harper?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Bryce Harper is at your answer? Eddie? I guess so,
uh No, it is not. It is not Bryce Harper. Eddy,
sorry to tell you the correct answer. From the Chicago
White Sox, Tim Anderson of the White Sox, who's also
got no home runs this season. Here we go, MLB pick.
I'm Sam Somehow You're up first? Quickly, Spencer Streiner pitcher. Okay,
(39:29):
I will take Marcus Stroman a pitcher, go ahead, Coop
Blake Snell, Eddie Back, I'll take Zach Gallon and O Coop,
Kyle Schwarmer, Cody Bellinger, Sam Nolan Ernatto, one more, J P. Crufford,
Ronald the Cooner Junior. We got it in. I got
my picks and that's all I care about. I did.
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I got all free Pixon.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
You forfeit bad clock management No.
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That means a lot so football hour here. Do you
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think that Saquon Barkley would really say f you to
the Giants? Thumbs up or thumbs down? On Leonard Fournette
being a good fit with the Patriots. He hasn't signed
with the Patriots, hasn't agreed in principle, but he did
work out for Bill Belichick. And what do you make
of NFL teams getting three hundred and seventy four million
(00:43):
each in national television revenue before they sell a ticket,
a hot dog, nachos, popcorn, any of that stuff. We'll
go over all of the finances as well, that and
much more, including a surprise caller two here it is
our number one. You know what, maybe I just won't
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com the way tire buying sho be so our lead
this hour, coming from the Gripes and Grievance's department. There
is one thing we do very well in sports chatter,
and that is flog a dead horse, or in this case,
a dead running back. As the world turns for running backs,
(02:20):
What a great story, What a great mitzvah. This has
been for those of us that are looking for marginal
content to talk about. All week, it has been one
bluster after another bluster of hot air from random people
around the NFL making a big stink about the running
back salaries and this. I don't know how you can
(02:42):
go on with your life not being able to help
your running back out your favorite running back anyway. Saquon Barkley,
Sakwon Barkley is pushing back in the Big Apple. If
you did not hear what he had to say maybe not.
We actoually play some audio here in a second. But
Saekwon Barkley dismissing the very notion that he has limited leverage.
(03:04):
Most people that understand the dynamic of the player versus
the team and how that works and your value realize
that there's not much that can happen here for mister
Barkley with his contract standoff with the Giants. But he
talked about his options during a guest spot on something
(03:25):
called The Money Matters podcast. Obviously money does not matter
for me because I don't know what that is. But
I think we have the audio, so as Warner Wolf
would say, let's go to the audio tape. Here is
sa Quon Barkley commenting on leverage.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
I have no worry about going on a football field
and knowing that I'm not playing for my work or
saying if I have to play under it, because that's
this is my leverage. My leverage is I could say
few to the Giants. I'd say to my teammates and
be like, you want me show you my work. You
want to show you how much how valuable I am
to the team. I won't show up, I won't play
it down that's the play I can use. Anybody knows
(04:01):
me knows that's not something I want to do, but
like it's something that has something that crossed my mind.
It's like I never thought I would ever do that,
but like now I'm at a point where it's like Jesus,
like I might have to take it to this level,
and like am I willing? Am I prepared to take
it to the level?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I don't know. Oh, I don't know. See I say
that all the time with the company I work for.
I could just say f you to Fox, and I
could say f you to my my teammates, the Benatts.
You know, Dan Patrick's got the dan Ats. I've got
the Bennetts here, and I could just do that. But anyway,
that's the money quote. I could just say F you
to the Giants. So the question on this, as we
(04:41):
discussed the question, do you think that Sakwan Barkley would
really say F you and take his ball and go
home away from the Giants. So I am shaking my head. No,
I am shaking my head. Now I've got Paradox, Anheuser
Bush Brewing Company, and doctor Pimple Popper, and we will
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tie all of these things together into a nice, neat
package is what we're gonna do, and then we'll sell
it on the internet and we'll make some real money.
So a Sakwon Barkley is an absolute alligator. On the
he will take a bite out of defenses, but when
it comes to making a compelling argument over leverage in
(05:24):
a contract negotiation, he is a toothless alligator, is what
he is. Barkley. You just heard the sound bite, the
money sound bite. Not very convincing to me? Was he
convincing to you? Now? Didn't sound very convincing. Now he
could go the nuclear option, and I recommend if you
do that, go to Miami, get some jet skis, and
(05:46):
chase pretty girls around Miami drinking cocktails. It worked very
well for the last NFL running back. You did that.
What could possibly go wrong? Of course, financially, that would
not be the smartest thing to do. You've got over
ten million zillion dollars plus all the endorsement money that
has your name on it, and you don't get that
money back. You know I'm gonna get more money. That's
(06:08):
not quite how it works. And so Barkley's situation with
the Giants, here's the real rub on this Saquon Barkley
situation is a paradox. He is simultaneously very valuable and
also at the same time unessential to the Giants. Both
these things are true, meaning that when Barkley has played,
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he has been a dynamic super nova as a running back.
We all know that those of us that have a
passion for pigs game. But at the same time, he's
unessential because the Giants could simply pivot and sign Dalvin
Cook or some random dude from Hoboken to play in
the backfield, and they would keep the parade going. And
maybe they wouldn't be quite as great on running the football,
(06:53):
but they'd be okay as long as the person blocks
and doesn't screw up and run the wrong route or root,
they'd be okay. Now turning the paget. Speaking of running backs,
the Patriots, we talked about this in a previous episode
of the show. The Patriots believed to be the favorite,
at least according to DraftKings as of yesterday, to sign
Dalvin Cook, the aforementioned Dalvin Cook. But the Peers the
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Patriots have a wondering eye. They are doing their due diligence.
I love that term due diligence on the other available players.
Now we have learned that former Buccaneer running back Leonard
Fournette and an old I am Darryl Henderson, both worked
out in the Commonwealth in New England. There the bigger
(07:40):
name is the one we will talk about, So sorry
to the Henderson family. That would be Leonard Fournette, the
ex buck who's now looking for work. Now thumbs up
or thumbs down on Leonard Fournette being a good fit
with the Patriots. So I am going to go two
(08:00):
thumbs down. I got two thumbs down on this. And
here's why. Leonard Fournette is like a car that looked
pretty good. You wanted the car a while ago. You
thought that's my car. I love that car. But then
you didn't get the car. And now you have a
chance to buy the car. But it's got engine problems.
There's some chips on the paint. That was essentially Fournette
(08:22):
last season with the Buccaneers. The word to describe his
performance unreliable. Now running back apologists, there are many of them.
I've learned this week. We'll say it was not his
fault that the hodgepodge of an offensive line for the
Buccaneers was to blame. But using the car analogy to
the next level, you want to make sure you have
a tow truck near your Fournette in seven games last
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season had thirty five or fewer rushing yards seven. You
know how many hundred yard games he had for the Buccaneers.
That would be one one, and that was in the
opener when the Bucks played the Cowboy to begin last
last campaign. At this point, Leonard Fournette should be working
for the Anheuser Busch Brewing Company and he can hang
(09:11):
out with those Budweiser Clydesdale's. He does not appear to
have the after burners. He's not past the expiration date.
He's twenty eight. Running backs normally die at age thirty.
That's the point of no return. He's getting close because
he's right around that fifteen hundred touch threshold. Remember we
told you the nerds had decided that once you cross
(09:33):
fifteen hundred combined rushes and catches, that you are now toxic.
There's high levels of toxicity in your body. At that
particular point, he's fifty six touches away, fifty six from
Leonard Fournette crossing the rubicon, which would be what week
four if he is in every down player or close
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to an every down player in the NFL. Now a
positive note, Bill Belichick apparently has the hots for for Nette.
I wanted to sign him a couple years ago. Plus,
we all know the sweet melody to the Patriots is affordable,
the frugal Pats. So there's a shit, there's a shot.
There's a chance there between Dalvin Cook, Leonard Fournette, Darryl
Henderson and a host of other running backs that are
(10:17):
also available and can be yours if the price is
not right now the last Warriors. So let's go to
green Bay. The Frozen Tundrad did a Mallard meet and
greet last year in green Bay. I was actually an Appleton,
which is the next city over there from green Bay.
But the Packers have reported a profit from the operations
(10:39):
of the team of sixty eight point six million dollars
during the fiscal year of twenty twenty three. The CEO
Mark Murphy laying out all of the numbers, opening the books,
the financial picture. Why the annual shareholders meeting that to
take place at Lamb Field coming up on Monday, and
(11:01):
the Packers collected almost three hundred and seventy five million dollars,
which is one thirty second share of the national revenue
from Fox and NBCCBS and ESPN three hundred and seventy
four million. So you do the math on that. That
means the NFL teams broke up a pie of twelve
(11:26):
billion between the various teams. So what do you make
of NFL team's getting three hundred and seventy four million
dollars in television revenue each And that does not even
include the merchandise revenue, which goes even higher. So it
shows you what a sweetheart set up the packers had
not for the NFL. It's wonderful to get a glimpse
(11:48):
behind the curtain. We talk about this every year and
the same conversation takes place, and every year like, whoa,
that's a lot of money, man. We get to see
just how much cake is in the bakery. And you
can thank a person named Joseph Carr for us knowing
(12:09):
all of the finances of the NFL. You might not
know who Joseph Carr is. You probably don't, and if
you do, you're a loser. Joseph Carr was the NFL
commissioner in the nineteen twenties. It was a much different
time one hundred years ago, and Green Bay was set
up as a publicly traded operation. The reason that happened
(12:33):
was the NFL never imagined in their wildest dreams that
they would be any more than a recreational activity that
raised a few bocks. But college football was big. Think
a hundred years ago, college football, boxing, horse racing were
the most popular sports in America, and so the NFL
was like, people will watch a little bit, maybe we'll
(12:54):
make a couple bucks, but you got to bring back
doctor pimple Popper is what you have to do here,
because this is a one hundred year old giant cyst
that continues to ooze out a confidential financial data for
the NFL every season. It will never go away unless
(13:14):
something drastic takes place right, which you don't see on
the horizon there. But the big takeaway here, when this
story comes out over you you look at the packers' shareholders,
the people that purchase stock in the Green Bay Packers,
and you realize, what a hustle the packers have pulled
off here, what a scam. That stock is just a novelty.
(13:38):
We know that, but in the real world. If you
buy stock in a company that turns a operating profit
of sixty eight million dollars, you're likely going to get
as a shareholder a nice dividend out of that. But
if you own packer stock, you have a certificate you
(13:59):
can put on your wall, which is kind of cool,
but you don't get a check every year because the
business is booming in northern Wisconsin. It is the Ben
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It was a Newbie Night yesterday, not a newby Night tonight,
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(14:20):
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and thank you for that, and we'll have another newby Night.
We'll try to do one of these every single month.
That's the goal, and then we'll forget and we'll go
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lottery ticket at a mini market in downtown Los Angeles
and it has as the number seven, ten, eleven, thirteen,
twenty four and the powerball number of twenty four, we
would we would really like to talk to you. And yeah,
you see that the billion dollar power ball ticket was
(17:17):
sold in downtown Los Angeles. So there's somebody out there
walking around right now who's well, they don't really have
a billion dollars because after taxes federal and state taxes,
maybe that's like fifty bucks, but it's still fifty bucks
after tax billions and billions, and yeah, imagine that billion dollars. Craziness,
(17:41):
absolutely craziness. Good luck to who ever won that. I hope
it's somebody really down on their luck and not some
guy in a Tesla that pulled up to a mini
market in downtown LA and just happened to like roll
in there and get the dough. I hope that is
not not the case. Eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox is the number, by the way, if you would
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like to be part. We had an NFL heavy beginning
to the festivities. The Russian kid driving around Ohio rights
and he says, Ben, did you know running backs are
kind of like dogs? One running back year to one
and a half human years. However, the NFL devalued running
backs altogether. At least give them guaranteed bonuses for reaching
(18:26):
X amount of yards and touchdowns. Eh, I can say
the same thing about overnight talk shows. You want to
play that game? To Russian kid, I think, well, you know,
we hit certain monologue thresholds, we should get extra money.
Jason The Diamond Man rights and says, I am not
going to cry for NFL players. You get paid if
you're the franchise back ten point one million dollars. Best
(18:47):
of luck trying to get that in the real world.
That malar log is a ten point two on a
scale of one to ten, so I got over ten,
which I did not know was possible. The Burner account
writes and says, please, please, no more, no Moss. I
can't take it anymore. All day, all week, every sports
(19:09):
station talking about this topic. Nobody wants to hear about
millionaires complaining about making millions. I'd rather hear about Rob
Parker breakdown the all time great Yankees who shots fired. Yeah. Well,
here's the problem, Burner account. This is your sense of
this story is wrong. Now this is a good story, okay,
(19:30):
because you're right. Every running back is in the NFL.
The minimum salary in the NFL, as far as I'm concerned,
means you're rich if you're making the minimum salary. So
I understand the NFL does very well. We just talked
about the Green Bay Packers how much money they've got,
and that's just a sliver of how much money's bouncing
around the NFL. I get that, but the fact that
(19:51):
these people are having such a public meltdown and that
they think anything is going to change, like they think
they're going to game the robber barons who are running
the NFL, and that somehow there's going to be an
intervention that takes place. My favorite part is the veteran
players that are no longer playing and some of the
(20:13):
players that are headline players today that are throwing out
all kinds of ridonculous advice. It is so wonderful, it
is so delicious. It just just great. Let's go to
the phones and let's say hello to Andre in the Commonwealth,
(20:35):
a fan favorite. Several callers say, give me more Andre,
while other callers say no. That means Andre is doing
something right as a caller, Hello, Andre.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
How are you doing?
Speaker 6 (20:46):
First of all, it was good to see that we
had a newbie night yesterday. I actually called in just
to confirm. It was the first time I heard that,
And you know, giving folks an opportunity to kind of
go back and forth if you bringing more people into
the mal or militia. So I took one night off
glad to see folks getting in there showing what talents
that they have. But but but I'm back and there.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
What did you do Andre on your night off? What
did you did you go to bed? Did yeah? Clean
the house a little bit? Did you do laundry? What
did you do?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (21:15):
All those things take place. I actually I got to
go downstairs and put the clothes from the wash into
the dryer, make sure they're ready for tomorrow. We clean
up some stuff. I'm a night Outlanis obviously, you know,
being a part of the militious going over my you know,
my paperwork. But the fact that the matter resists the giant,
so they they don't stirred up some trouble, you know,
in terms of really alienating a good soldier in Saint
(21:37):
kuon Bark, you know, what do they say? You know,
you got to be careful. Obviously we know that Ben
Maller deserves the super Max deal in terms of what
he's doing. You know, in terms of in the overnight
keeping you deserve. Whoever your agent is, he needs to
push for event because you've got a movement going on
here late night. You got people like myself that are
proud members of a malor Militsia.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
We're ready to go to bat for this.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Okay, come on, I need a better agent. Yeah right, but.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
But but but how are you going to give your
your one B player secure the bag? Daniel Jones gives
him thirty forty million dollars and then you want a
penny pinch with your one A player Tae Kwon Barkley,
who makes Daniel Jones go. I'm not backing down on this.
I don't care how much of an offensive genius Brian
Dabole is. He showed it in Buffalo, showed it his
(22:22):
first year in New York. What we know here in
New England has been you need players. It's players over system.
That's why the Patriots, I don't know. They look like
they're going to be at the bottom of the AFC
East this year. Tough division. New York's in trouble because
Saquan who's been a good soldier coming from the Penn
State tradition. Yeah, he was probably overdrafted at numbers at
second overall, but Daniel Jones was over overdrafted at number
(22:45):
six overall. He's not a number one quarterback. He's a
system quarterback dependent on Brian dabol and Sae Kwon Barkley.
So they're in a situation where they can't pay him.
Now he has to be locked into the franchise tag.
He's obviously worth more than the franch tag.
Speaker 7 (23:00):
So what do you do?
Speaker 6 (23:01):
How do you kind of proceed forward? They got it,
They're gonna have to do.
Speaker 7 (23:03):
It's New York.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
It's the economic and political capital of the world. So
he got smart people there. They're gonna have to make
up some magic to put something together where he feels
that he's getting his value and he's on the seals
because the Giants are looking at a sophomore something. But
they don't do it period in the store, they won't
be successful.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
We can go back, well, I would challenge it. They're
not gonna be successful anyway. Even if Sakuon Barkley was
a good soldier and shows up and plays and all that,
there's going to be a regression to the mean. The
Giants overachieved last year. They weren't as good as they played,
and as you pointed out, it is astonished. I'm right
there with you. It is absolutely breathtaking that the people
running the New York Giants gave Danny Dimes the contract
(23:44):
that they gave an I know it's not as overwhelming
the money as some of the other quarterbacks. But he
was so media even last year when the Giants won
all those games. It had nothing to do with the
passing offense. He was not exceptional. He was not tremendous.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Last year.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
He was slightly better than he had been and he
ended up getting paid. He had to give a tutorial
on how he was able to get that kind of
money from the Giants. Daniel Jones, it's embarrassed.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
They better talk to They better talk to Steve Cohen.
As far as I'm concerned, he's a financial wizard, okay,
in terms of you know, the money he's made in
running the Mets. They're gonna have to pull some magic
out of a hat to make Saquon bring him back
onto the reservation because at this extent ended a regular
season hurts my heart beat from the great State of
New Jersey. Giants are in for a major regression year.
Speaker 7 (24:27):
Thanks taking the call.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Ben.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
There he goes Andre from the Commonwealth straight ahead. The
worst advice I have heard in a long time, if
not ever, by someone giving guidance to athletes. And we
did have a trade. By the way, Denzel Mims, this
is quite the story so Denzel Mims. All day, the
story was the Jets were going to release this guy.
He was a second round pick a couple of years ago.
(24:51):
And you know how it goes. These guys get drafted
in the first or second round. Oh, they're so good,
they're all gonna be great. Well, first of all, he
wasn't great. Secondly, the Jets announced via the media they
were gonna release him, and they were. Then they said, well,
we're gonna try to trade him. They found somebody to
take him, the Lions, and I want you to know
right now now, they didn't. The Lions Detroit didn't give
up much to get Danzel Mims. It's a flyer. They
(25:12):
give up a twenty twenty five low draft pick. Whatever.
But did you know that you and I you listening
and myself we both have the same number of career
receiving touchdowns as Denzel Mims. Zero bumpkis all right, we'll
get to that. Fake it till you make it, what
(25:33):
advice that is and much more. Right now, though, let's
get you caught up on everything going on in the overnight,
and we say hello to the merman Eddie Garcia, and.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
We have exciting news to pass along Ben because we've
got golf action, Yo, live action.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
This is not just everything's already in the can every No, no,
we got live action right across the ocean.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
It is the Open Championship. So called the British Open,
but we've been extracting it is the Open Championship.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
I called the British Open.
Speaker 4 (26:03):
I'm old school Royal Liverpool underway. I don't care, just
getting things going.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I like pools, but I don't like liver Liverpool. Get
the name Liverpool.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I'm guessing it's somebody's name.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Somebody's like somebody dropped a bunch of livers into a pool,
and so let's call the time.
Speaker 4 (26:21):
I'm going to say, no, I'm but I don't know
that for a fact. Maybe we can do some research
on that. But we currently have a very early on
in the opening round of the Open Championship, we have
a three way time for the lead between three players
that I've never heard of. We've got Matthew Jordan, Richie
Ramsey and Ryan Fox. Yes, yes they're all at one
(26:43):
under par Richie Ramsey from Scotland. Fan of the Scottish
golf there well.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I was a fan of Richie rich when I was
a kid.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
It wasn't golf invented in Scotland.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
Yes, yeah, just watch and they'll tell you every ten
minutes a ticker. They have to tell you every ten
minutes when you watch the Open Championship.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Yeah, so there you go. Early on, we'll keep you
updated on the leaderboard the opening round of the Open Championship.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Your toes, Eddy Liverpool, You gotta be on your toes
for this. Eddie is actually live sporting event.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
It doesn't happen often on this shift, but it's going.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Normally only get people dying or arrested. Ye, yes, those
kind of things. The name comes from the Old English
liver meaning thick or muddy water, and pull meaning a
pool or creek.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
There you go, not only entertaining but educational here.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
I'll bet you you learn the history of Liverpool by
listening to an overnight sports radio show. But now you know.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Now that's why we're so good.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Absolutely, be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Mellor Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Hey, what's up everybody?
Speaker 8 (27:50):
It's me three time Pro Bowl of LeVar Arrington and
I couldn't be more excited to announce a podcast called
Up on Game.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
What is up on Game?
Speaker 8 (27:58):
You asked, along with my fellow pro bowler TJ. Hutschman,
Zada and Super Bowl champion. Yep, that's right, Plexico Burris.
You can only name a show with that type of
talent on it. Up on Game We're going to be
sharing our real life experiences loaded with teachable moments. Listen
to Up on Game with me LeVar Arrington, TJ. Huschman, Zada,
(28:21):
and Plexico Burrs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or
wherever you get your podcast from.
Speaker 4 (28:30):
I don't know if this will be a mallor monologue,
but friend of the show Tim mcdarby has tweeted out
this distressing news. According to sources, Commissioner Rob Man Fraud
as he has called on this show, Yes, is expected
to be re elected as Commissioner of Baseball in a
vote next Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
It's really bad news, but it's news that we expected.
So please no, no, WHOA. We're not going to do
a monologue on that. Well, we'll talk about it. I'm
sure there's some more dirt will come out next week.
Because what I want to know is it a unanimous vote?
Were there any teams that voted against Rob Manford. Will
that get out? Will that be leaked that there were
(29:12):
certain teams that did not approve Manford. All he had
to do was get a majority vote, so he only
needed to get if you do the math on, there's
thirty teams, So he did get sixteen votes out of
the thirty teams. So conceivably fourteen teams could have said
we do not approve. Although I guess the vote hasn't
even actually really happened yet. But yeah, next week, next week,
but we'll find out. All right, It is the Ben
(29:33):
Mallor Show, and I'd like to learn all the affiliates
that a big name celebrity caller that we have not
talked to in a long time is online right now.
This is going to the ratings are going to spike up.
The podcast downloads are going to go through the roof
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have heard it, fake it till you make it. Let's
just fake it till you make it. And that applies
(30:18):
to a lot of other people that kind of fake things.
They get jobs, maybe they're not qualified for the job,
and they kind of hang out long enough, kind of
fake it till they figure it out. I bring this
up because a person who played in the NFL and
now has a role advising NFL players on how to
(30:40):
navigate their way through the running back market. For example,
former Cleveland brown offensive lineman said, one of the most
crazy things that I have heard, and we're talking about
j C. Treder, I believe is the the gentleman's name here.
(31:00):
You probably don't know who that is because he played
for the Browns and he was an offensive lineman, so
not exactly a household name. But these NFLPA president and
he has given advice he's encouraged. Now in a recent interview,
he encouraged running backs to try to create leverage. How
to create leverage. He hinted that they should fake injuries
(31:25):
to gain leverage. Yeah, that's the advice that just go
out there and just pretend, oh my aching back I'm
my back and maybe they'll give you more money. Yeah,
what could possibly go wrong? Although I do know some
people that worked in the radio business, and that's how
I relate to this, that they took a lot of
(31:45):
time off and it didn't seem to affect him. They
took a lot of Fridays and Saturday, Fridays and Mondays off,
those four day weekends. It didn't seem to affect him
very much. But that's quite the advice. So just become
a malingerer. That's the union old union guy there. Just
become a malingerer. That'll help you out. Let's go to
the phones right now. Here we go, big name, big name.
(32:08):
We now go to the mean streets of Los Angeles.
Did this guy just win the one billion dollars? He's
called in right now we say hello to helmet man.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
For the mornings.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Helmet Man. Did you win the billion dollars? Helmet Man?
Have you won the billion dollars? Helmet Man?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Yeah, you know what, the the Orioles had to win
one of those games, but the first place.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Now the man's focused on his topics of conversation.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, he's not gonna buy the Orioles with this with
his winnings. Yeah, imagine helmet Man is the owner of
the Orioles. That'd be outstanding the owner's box. He's got
that that baseball helmet on right.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Uniform, he's got the jersey, he's got the full uniform.
Speaker 7 (32:56):
Yeah, but that's not the reason call.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Okay, well why did you call Helmet Man?
Speaker 7 (33:04):
I called because, uh, you know, I haven't been on
the air for a while, because I had to phone trouble.
That's wild.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
No, I was wondering what happened. We were like, what
happened to Helmet Man? I know you you moved many
months ago. Are you still in Inglewood? You're still hanging
out down your Sofi stadium in l A.
Speaker 7 (33:26):
Oh, I'm still out there in Inglewood. But I'm in
Anaheim tonight.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Oh you're in Anaheim.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Look at you. He's merchandise.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Oh you you outside hawking stuff outside the Big A.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
No. I came late. I got here late. I got here.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
You know you got there after the the Angel game ended.
The get The game was an early game. It was
like a four o'clock Pacific start. Yankees and Angels.
Speaker 6 (33:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:57):
I didn't know it. Yeah, I thought they were playing
seven o'clock, but they played late.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
One thing what I was telling people that Brady would
not have survived if he played in the era of
Joeln Taylor, even out Way and Moan, because when he
got there to the NFL, the league.
Speaker 7 (34:28):
Was soft phone protection to protect the quarterback, and the
quarterbacks knew when the hits hits were coming.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
But the opposite guys like uh John Alway, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
Yeah, yeah, helmer Man on the bus right now, I
know that's what it sounds like. He's either at a
bus stationaries are you on the bus?
Speaker 7 (34:50):
Yeah, oh you're no, But they knew when the hits were.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Yeah, of course, hot take, hot take.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Listen, helmer Man. I gotta go, but you got to
call me more often, helmet Man. We miss you. We
need your part of the show. Gotta make it a
habit again. We missed you on the show. And we'll
go out and see I told Eddie when the Chargers
and Rams start playing, we'll have to go out and
see it. So far one of these days.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
Yeah, but Brady, I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Okay, that's a man who's dying on his take. Eddy.
He loves to take so much. He does not want
small talk. Okay, thank you, all right.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Say hello to all the people on the bus for us.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
I fell asleep.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
That's some great helmet man sound. And if you're new
to the show, helmet Man is one of our favorites.
Quite the character. I've run into him many times over
the years. He's been a listener for probably twenty years
and a helmet man. Last night when one of the
last times I saw him was outside what used to
be called Staples Center, and he had a full Baltimore
Orioles uniform on. And I am not kidding. He had
(35:53):
the helmet, the jersey, he had the gloves, he had
the whole thing pants. It was insane. All right, It
is the Ben Maler Show. Thanks to helming Man. Great
to hear his voice. Glad he's doing all right, except
he screwed up the schedule for the Angel Yankee game.
Here's the who am I game? And we'll have the
MLB pick him. Here's the Whomi game. At one point
I was an All Star. I was a silver slugger
(36:14):
and a batting champ. However, this season I'm batting around
two twenty and seventy six percent of the time I've
hit the ball on the ground the highest percentage of
ground balls in baseball. Who am I the answer? Next,
I'm actually on the live air. Yes, you're on.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
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program and our live from the Tyrat dot com. Fox
(37:06):
Sports Radio Studios, It's Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Larry D says, Hey, Ben, you should hire Lamar Jackson's
mother to be your agent. Worked out for Lamar. That's true,
the matriarch of the Jackson family. That's where I should
have gone. It's bad job by me not calling up
Lamar's mom said, Hey, want some work here? Time now
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(37:34):
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And here it is. UH. At one point I was
(37:54):
an All Star Silver slugger and batting champ. However, this
season I'm batting around two twenty and seventy six percent
of the time. I've hit the ball on the ground,
the highest percentage of ground balls in baseball this season.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Paul Sorrento Yes by Chris in Des Moines. That is good.
(38:16):
Pat O'Brien, pob guess by the Cowboy Killer Page down,
Alan Trammel from Rob in Minnesota. Jeff Cirillo from Fields
of Green Donkey Sausage going with Billy Ripkin as his answer.
Page down, page down, Carlos Correa the Cheating a Hole
of the Twins guest by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Our
(38:37):
buddy Mark in Santa Monica says the answer is Lou
Garrick Al Horboski guess by courtesy Flusher. Who else do
we have? Page down? Hanley Frius from Sean in the
Valley of the Sun. Benito says the answers, am I
on the live air that that is the answer? DiAngelo
(38:57):
Menez guest by Jonathan that's his answer. Bryce Harper from
Johnny Q. Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie? It's
very important?
Speaker 4 (39:04):
Is Bryce Harper?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Bryce Harper is at your answer? Eddie? I guess so,
uh No, it is not. It is not Bryce Harper. Eddy,
sorry to tell you the correct answer. From the Chicago
White Sox, Tim Anderson of the White Sox, who's also
got no home runs this season. Here we go, MLB pick.
I'm Sam Somehow You're up first? Quickly, Spencer Streiner pitcher. Okay,
(39:29):
I will take Marcus Stroman a pitcher, go ahead, Coop
Blake Snell, Eddie Back, I'll take Zach Gallon and O Coop,
Kyle Schwarmer, Cody Bellinger, Sam Nolan Ernatto, one more, J P. Crufford,
Ronald the Cooner Junior. We got it in. I got
my picks and that's all I care about. I did.
(39:51):
I got all free Pixon.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
You forfeit bad clock management No.
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