January 11, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Carlos Correa now heading back to the Minnesota Twins and losing out on $150 million, if the Giants & Mets will regret not getting a deal done, and much more!
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the festivities here talking some baseball big news there, Carlos
Correa headed to the Minnesota Twins. What is your initial
Reactron there? Carlos Correa losing out on one hundred and
fifty million. That's how much he lost going from the
original contract with the Giants to the Minnesota Twins. We
will also give the Mallard report card on the scale
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of one to ten. How humiliating is this entire situation
for Correa. Will the Giants and Mets regret not getting
the Carrea deal done? We'll talk about that as well
right now in our number one here it is a
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lead this hour coming from the Hot Stove League. As
things heating up on a gloom me early January data peers,
we have a resolution to the long national hardball nightmare.
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If you have not been paying attention, the convicted cheater
Carlos Correa has landed another free agent contract. Where we
heard this before as Correa patched up his differences with
the New York Mets. No, so if you didn't see
this for the third time in less than a month,
Carlos Correa has agreed to a free agent contract. He
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ain't going back to the Giants. He ain't going the Mets.
The mystery team is the Minas Soda Twins ding Ning
Ning ning Ning. The Minnesota Twins a reported six year
contract for two hundred million guaranteed. There's some other funny
language in that contract, but as always, as always, the
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deal is pinning a physical. But there are some late
night messages being passed Thaw to us that it is
a fatal complain, that it's going to happen, that Correa
will officially sign the contract later on on Wednesday, and
he will be a Minnesota Twin. That used to be
just a mere formality. In the case of Carlos Correa,
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the physical, as we know, is the main event. So
forget the mats, forget the Giants. Carlos will be chilling
in the Twin Cities. He'll be hanging out there for
at least the next three years until he demands a trade.
So let us discuss the question, what was your initial
reaction to Carlos Correa losing out on a hundred and
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fifty million dollars. Remember, the original contract with the Giants
was three hundred and fifty The Twins contract is for
two hundred million, So this cat lost one hundred and
fifty millions. So I've got master card education and FTX,
and we will tie all of these things together and
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we're going to make some juicy Lucy's, because that's the
home of the modern interpretation of the juicy Lucy, the
Twin Cities. So at least Correa will be able to
eat that, and he's got that to look forward to.
So ay, we'll start with the Malor report card. Carlos
Correa gets in F in F the Minnesota Twins. They
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get in f everybody loses. It's a lose lose situation
except for the fan. This is a great day for
the fan. I'll tell you why. Because Scott boris the
super agent who never loses. He lost. Carlos Correa, the player,
the cheater, he lost, right. Wonderful? What this is A
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wonder could not happen to a nicer guy. Carlos Correa
has been serving up snake venom for years, and now
he gets a spoonful of that snake venom right from
a python in his face. There and how the mighty
have fallen in the span of twenty eight days, less
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than a calendar month, Carlos Korea went from the three
hundred fifty million dollar man the toast of the Bay
Area with the Higantes to the East Coast guy, three
hundred fifteen million dollars from the Metropolitans, and now here
we are two hundred million dollars with the twins. What
a loser? What a loser now? All because of a
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bum leg and a rotten attitude, those two things in
play here. It's a master card commercial playing out in
front of us, right, traveling the country from west coast
to east coast with your super Asian getting two three
hundred million dollars contracts, watching them unravel, then being forced
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to go back to Minnesota while losing one hundred and
fifty million dollars. Priceless, right, absolutely priceless. We had a
feline like reaction here. We had a feline like reaction
as a gigantic cheshire catch smile from ear to ear.
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Right there we were so happy. What a wonderful thing.
Great mitzvah. When you wish upon a star type stuff
just deserts. What a dope, Carlos Correa, I love it now.
On a scale of one to ten, how humiliating is
this situation for Carlos Correa on the Mallar scale of shame?
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Mallar scale of shame one to ten, with ten being ridunculous.
This is an eight point five eight point five, As
the old song goes, every rose has its thorn, Easy come,
easy go. His damaged leg and bad mojo cost him
doing this is an education, right, Carlos Korez getting an
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education on the school of hard knocks. Bo Hello. That
is a business in which the business of baseball, which
you are judged your value is solely on your contract.
It's a status thing, right, It's a status thing. And
for a guy like Correa, who's got that fish eating grin, egotistical,
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thin skinned, the typical mama Luke, Carlos Correa was in
rarefied air originally when he knocked it out of the
park with the Hagantes. Right, Oh my god, it's so good.
It turns out he didn't leave his heart in San Francisco.
We know that. But for three hundred fifty million, he
could certainly pretend like he cared about the Golden Gate,
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bid Bridge and the Bay Bridge and all that. So
then the giants got cold feet, and he was offended,
of course, and within the span of a couple of
hours he high tailed it, got a deal done with
the Mets and He ended up taking a thirty five
million dollar hit on that. But it's okay, right, bright lights,
big city. If you can make it there, you'll make
it anywhere. It's up to new you, New York, New York,
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right a Sinatra saying back in the days he crooned, well,
New York pumped the brakes. It was all a hallucination,
a mirage, day dreamy night thinking. And now, with his
tail firmly planted between his legs, Carlos Carea does the
walk of shame back to Minnesota, a team that was
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below him that he didn't want to go to last offseason,
and he only went there for one year with no
intention of ever making that a permanent locale, and he
got two hundred million. Right, oh, wonderful. We right, take
a ride around reality ranch, Carlos. That sounds like a
ton of dough. Thirty seven percent federal tax rate, so
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he trimmed that off the top, plus the agent, plus
the Minnesota taxes. But he doesn't want to be there,
That's the most important thing. He'd never wanted to be there,
and he was all excited when the Mets came in there.
He really want to play for the Mets more than anybody.
And the Twinkies. I gave them an F on the
Mallard report cards. They look absolutely terrible. They look so bad, right,
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just used and abused, Like this is a guy that
do you want to play for the team He left
for the first big offer he got with the Giants.
He want to playing the West Coast either, but it's like, oh,
I'll go to the Giants, I'll toss the Twins aside.
Then the Giants get cold feet, he goes to the Mets.
Then he gets rejected to them by the Mets. And
now the Twins get sloppy. Thirds is what they get, right,
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and he's off the gride in the baseball world. The
Twins don't matter. They don't and it's it's below him
unless it's not. And this also means big picture, wide
angle lanes that in the eyes of baseball, Carlos Cray
is not in the same categories Mike Trout, Mookie Bets,
and Aaron Judge. He's more in line with Brandon Nimbo.
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You're the Nimo Carlos Carrea Nimo sided deal. He sided
deal with the Mets for one hundred and sixty two million,
which my computer like brain tells me it's a lot
closer to two hundred million than it is to three
hundred and fifty million, which is what Correa originally thought
he was getting. And finally, bravo, Finally major League Baseball
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punishing a cheating as stro right, the ass one one thousand,
two one thousand holes, Finally have somebody punished, and it's
Carlos Correa. Could not happen to a nicer fellow, all right,
last word here, So will the Giants and the Mets
have regrets for not getting the Carlos Carea deal done?
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And I go, absolutely not, absolutely not. I look at
Correa kind of like crypto, you know how these crypto
guys are con artists. Think of him like FTX, which,
by the way, major League Baseball was in bed with FTX.
They had, but there's no intrinsic value for Carlo's career.
It's kind of like that Larry David when he had
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that smirk in the FTX commercial and he said, I
don't think so, and I'm never wrong about this stuff,
never right. And people are like, oh, the fear of
missing out for the Mets of the Giants. To the
untrained eye, it seemed like what the Mets really screwed up.
The Giants screwed up. But the Giants and Mets what
they did, and I would give him credit. They did
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their proper oversight and they were not hornswaggled here by
Scott Boris and the shiny object like the Minnesota Twins
were Korea. This all goes back to an injury he
suffered in twenty fourteen. He broke his right fibula while
an astro minor leaguer and he hasn't missed any time
with it. But according to what I've been hearing, and
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I don't know if you've heard the same thing, but
I've been getting people saying, well, the doctors believe that
he's got the A word arthritis, that he's showing signs
of arthritis. I know that my mom had arthritis. It's
a terrible thing. And once you get arthritis, you're there's
some medications, but it's uh, it's something that's gonna gonna
screw you up pretty good, especially as a professional athlete.
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That's what I've heard. Has not been confirmed, but that's
the little birdie chirping in my ear. But the twins
are suckers, right, because whether or not the man has
arthritis or not that I don't I'm not a doctor.
I just what I've heard. But the Twins, they're the
ones also worrying the dunskap here because even if he's
perfectly healthy, even if Correa plays for the next six years,
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this guy is as bestis and anything the Twins accomplished
we will not take. Uh well, we'll not get him credit.
Just like there's no champion in Baseball Circle of the
Year twenty twenty two. The championship is void because the
Stros we're not punished, and the players were still the
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face of the franchise there and so anything Karea accomplished,
any team accomplishment, does not count. And you don't want
to breathe in those microscopic fibers. That will just leave
you in a really bad ship. Your lungs will be
all messed up when you hang out with somebody like
Carlos Correa. So a bad job by the Twins, and
now we can just eliminate the Twins for the next
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however many years, care is actually gonna be. That's the
guy you want to you want to cheer for that guy.
You want to spend your money buying hot dog and
popcorn order and nachos for that guy, Well, good luck
to you. I'm not gonna do that cheating ass. Oh
I can't see it. I'm bummed out too, because I
was like, I want to see a Twins game, but
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now I'm not gonna do it. And I was like, well,
let me see what. Let me We're hoping to go
to Minnesota to hang out with some fans of the
show in the Twin Cities here later this year, and
I was like, well, maybe I'll go to a Twins game,
but now after this, I'm like, I'm not going. I'll
have to go check the schedule, see when the Saint
Paul Saints, the minor league team there. I'll go run
the m games one of those games. That's that's where
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I hang out. But I'm not going to Twins game.
I can't support this guy. So that's it. I'm done.
No Twins game for me. I'm out, all right. Is
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funny to see the guy los one hundred and fifty
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There you go, all right, is the Ben Mallers Show.
As we continue on here, bad day for the Twins,
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bad day for Carlos Garreya, good day for truth justice
in the sports talk radio way. We got a bunch
of new cars. This is exciting. It's a newbie night,
and let's go right to the newby night, and we'll
start with let's go to Ellis, who's in the Eugene. Hello, Ellis, welcome,
Good evening, sir, good evening and good afternoon all of
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those and happy Swans or whatever they said. Yeah, I
moved off here almost nine years ago, and you were
only on like a Sunday nights. They had some other
syndicated guy that was a delayed thing, and then thank
god they brought you on. I've enjoyed the show, and
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I hear your nuanced tributes to Jim Healey, and I
just wonder why you don't are you allowed to use
a few more of his riffs. Not to you guys
got your own thing going. I understand that, but are
you well No, I loved one of my influences to
get in radio. Else. I've talked about it before, and
I was growing up in La Jim Healy had a
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half hour radio show every day. He just goofed on
on sports and it was it was wonderful and uh
and I loved it, and it was one of my
influences to get into business. And I try to honor
Jim by using some of his lines. But obviously a
lot of stuff is is long, you know, in the
past and whatnot. But we have our own stuff. And
but we do, you know, pay tribute? Is it true?
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Is it Jim Healey line that he used to use
quite a bit? And uh? Absolutely, And so I give
these little tributes as in homage to Jim Healey and
his radio show. But and I will tell you you'll
get a kick out of this else because you're you're
an old timer. You remember that that show. So when
I got into the business, I was nineteen years old, right,
and I'd listened to that at old Jim Healey show
all the time. One of the guys who used to
goof on was Stu Nahan, who was a big sportscaster
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in LA exactly right. So the first this is you'll
love this story. So so he used to goof on.
Stu was a freeloader, and I Stu was a very
nice man, and I knew him, but when I was nineteen,
I didn't know him. And I showed up to the
press box at Dodger Stadium, right, that's like rarefied air.
I walk in there and the first thing I see,
a hand to God is student a hand eating a
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free meal in the in the press box. And I thought, well,
that's perfect, that's absolutely and uh and it was. It
was funny. So yeah, so that's it. So that's the
dull ellis. But thank you for listening, man, I appreciate it.
You gotta I'll call you once a month. And talked
about Jim. Is that cool anytime? I love talking about that.
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I was one of my my heroes in radio. So
we'll talk to old Jim Healey stories. And there's still
there's still some sound bites on YouTube, there's some videos.
I think there's a website that's still has some of
the old sound bites from his Uh, never heard of them.
You search around the dark web, you want to learn
about that if you. Well, you know, now I'm sounding
like a boomer here, but you know what, that's fine.
I'll deal with it, all right. So how about this one?
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At least at least the chili is good dateline Cincinnati
on this one, Dion Sanders, the coach at Colorado. What
does this have to do with Cincinnati? So Dion doing
a round of radio and television interviews to hype up
the Buffaloes of Colorado. And in one of the interviews
with Pat McAfee on YouTube, Dion was rifting about random
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things and in the conversation it came up that he
loved he says as a quote from Deon Sanders, He
said he loved playing baseball in Cincinnati, and Cincinnati Deon's
old so when he played for the Reds and they
were good every year for the most part, and so
Deon Sanders said he loved his experience living in Cincinnati.
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He said that he wanted to live in that city forever.
That he was such a great fan of leaving the
whole Bible. No, no, no, no, no no, he gets
even better, right, So Dion's like, oh, yeah, I wanted
to live there forever. I loved it, man about it
was great, and so he he claims he called the
Bengals trying to get a gig so he could play
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year round in Cincinnati, or I just played for the
Reds and then go play for the Bengals who had
played it at that time they played in the same stadium.
And he says the Bengals didn't even call him back
on the all time great athletes of his generation, the
Bengals weren't even called back. Now, it's possible I guess
that the Bengals maybe thought it was a goof Maybe
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they thought it was a prank call, right, and that
was the deal on that. But don't you still gotta
kind of investigate to make sure you're not getting goofed
on that. Maybe maybe it is actually Deon Sanders or
somebody representing Deon Sanders. Be sure to catch live editions
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He's something NFL and perhaps exciting news for our executive producer,
Justin Cooper. Did you see the Denver Broncos had an
interview for their head coaching vagancy Michigan's interview Dan Reeve
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Michigan's Jim Harbaugh. Jim Harball. He got Dan Reeves is
dead Michigan Jim Mark. I wish we could have video
for the job, but he's unavailable. Yeah, yeah, like Jim Harball, Coop, Yeah,
I'll take him, Mark Payton him or Peyton Peyton Manning.
Sean Payton about Peyton Manning? Yeah, all right, Well they
go Jim Harbaugh, he's desperate to leave Wuldball. How do
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you go back to Michigan after you gave up fifty
one points to TCU who then went out and got
absolutely smoked char broiled by by Georgia. That's a tough one.
So I gotta think he's leaving for the NFL. I
thought he was even years ago. I think now everything's
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indicating he's gone to one of these jobs. All right,
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It's a newbie night nouby Nubynubyuby Night. Eugene is in
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the great state of Michigan and he is next on
Fox Sports Radio. Hello Eugene, Hi there, m what's up, Eugene?
What's going on? What do you just turned twenty one?
Didn't you uh fifty some years ago? Yeah? Okay, there
you go. Well how are you doing? But welcome to
the show. Yeah I'm calling. I called to see if
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Tom Looney and if you ever seen him, and if
he's so alive? And who the great Tom loonydos tomily? Yes?
Tom is doing believe it or not news Radio. I
talked to Tom semi regularly. We're still friends. We worked
together for many years on that NFL show on the weekends.
I've known Tom for a long time. I don't want
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to say how long because I'll date myself, Eugene, but
we go way back and we are good friends. And
he's part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association now.
And he was at the holiday party. It was at
the what the Honka? Not the Honoko? Is it the
Halloween party? At these stupid parties, yeah, Ugly Sweater. It
was always at the Ugly Sweater one. Oh yeah, I
don't even remember which one he was at. I have
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no idea, but he was there. So he was hanging
out at one of the hcause I used to listen
to you when you and him work days. Oh yeah, yeah,
we had we had a great time when that. We
used to have fund that. They forced these big NFL
on Fox people to do interviews with us, and they
really didn't want to do it, but they did it,
and it was It was a lot of fun. All right,
Thank you, Eugene. Look at that. Back to back newbies, unbelievad.
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Let's keep it going. Anthony is in southern California on
a newby Night. Hello Anthony, welcome, Hey man, how are you? Man?
If I was any better, i'd be an Anthony, but
not you Anthony and Anaheim because he's in Iowa right now.
I don't know what he's doing, all right, I remember that. Yeah,
So I'm a newbie on newby Night. Um, it was exciting.
I think I've been. I've been listening for the past
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couple of years. I think. Well, my most different memory
of the show in the beginning was the great voices
of a half Pint of Good Chicken Byan. Yeah, that
was a fun time. They were quite the characters on
the show for a while. They were hilarious. Yeah they were.
They were back in the day. They were a good time.
But yeah, I just want to give you a shout
out to your clippers. It finally broke the six game
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busing street kills. Kind of good for a mid team. Oh,
you sound like a Laker fanboy. You're a Laker Laker guy.
I'm gonna fifth what happened to Laker. They lost in
the Nuggets, So for that. Yeah, honestly, I haven't watching.
I haven't really paid attention to the last like ten years.
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To give it, take it. You've taken ten years off.
I've only only Eddie's taken thirty years off. So but
I've only taken like this year. I'm not really painted.
I Like, I'll flip around occasionally see what's going on
for a minute here and there, but I'm not I'm
not into yeah exactly, I'm just not feeling a vibe
right now because they're not into it right Like, if
they I would watch, if they tried, if these guys
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didn't take nights off for injury management, now, i'd totally
be into it. I'd watch, But I'm not. I'm not
interested in that. They're not. They'll be interested when the
playoffs come around. I'll watch when the playoffs come, right,
because they'll actually playing yeah, one hundred percent band. But yeah,
my main point is, uh, I give Usa. You know,
I hate that guy, obviously a big god your fan
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grow up in southern California. Hate Krea, hate to twenty seventeen,
the whole, the whole Astrons team. Hate those guys, every
single one of them. Right, um, yeah, but I'd love
to you know, this is a good thing for Karea
because he got what he deserves last money, because he's
a bum, like you said, yeah, yeah, No, it's wonderful.
And it's embarrassing for him too because he was all man.
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Remember those quotes in Minnesota the end of last year
about how you know, if you want to you want
a luxury item, you gotta pay for it, right, and
he's I think he said, Dior, if you want to
go back from you gotta pay for it. Well, I
guess major League Baseball didn't want to pay for that bag.
They got it at a discount store. They went to
they have the Ross dress for lesson, got it for
a little cheaper. So damage kids. One hundred percent. All right,
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thank you, Anthony. You don't I have to just call
anuby night. You can call anytime, my boy. This is
what an amazing night. Nuby nights. So good. All right,
let's go to Raza in Houston. What's going on, Rosa? Welcome?
Who hey, how you doing that? Welcome Rosie. It's a
nube night, Rosa. How exciting is this? Uh So? I
was just calling because, uh So, back in the day,
(30:20):
when I was in middle school, I used to always
read your rumors on Fox sports dot com. Back in
the day. Oh my god, you're in middle school now
you're all growing up. Yeah. I did that for many
many I did for like ten years of my life.
I ran a rumor website. Yeah. So I wanted the cool, right, Like,
I'll come home to the school every day read them,
and then I have something to talk about with my
friends that they didn't they didn't know. Those are the
(30:40):
cool that you know. I just turned on my local
affiliate one night and we'll ast yourself. So wow, Well,
thank you, Rosie. I loved I love doing that website.
And then, uh once Twitter came around, I kind of
ruined my my gig. But for the days before Twitter,
I ruled the gossip pages. Man. That was that was
a blast. Man, that's so much fun. And back in
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those days, man, I had Adam Schefter was a writer
in Denver. He was sending me Star Hayman was a
writer at Newsday. He was sending me h Ken Rosen.
All these guys are like big insiders, national guys now,
but they were like local writers back and when I
was days. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean they were trying
to make their mark. And now like so many of
(31:22):
those guys that used to send me stories like hey,
I got something for you, and now they're like big
stars in sports media. So it's pretty cool. Hey, it's okay,
you're still big star too. Well, in the middle of
the night, just one one thing, I needed one thing.
I need to run about you all this career I hate. Yeah,
if the Dodgers actually find him, would I hate from
the Dodgers fans still be there? Well, I would not
(31:43):
be a Dodger fan anymore. Rising do you understand, like
I'm not and I would. I said that. People thought
I was kidding, but I'm not kidding. I would be
done as long as he's on the as if he
was signed with the Dodgers. As long as he's on
the team. I was the reason why the Dodgers ever
try to sign him. Yeah, like it is. It is legitimate,
like there is. The players on the team might not care,
and the players have changed, and the management might not care.
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It's all a game and all that, and it's all fun.
But I'm telling you the fan base, oh, it would
have not one thing though, thank you. Yeah, well, yeah
you can enjoy it. That's fun than Rosa. Look he's
all grown up now. I started reading my website back
in the day when I gotta give myself round of applause,
(32:26):
I said, Carlos Berger, it's always wrong. Yes, yes, you
are correct. You last night last well, there were reports
that Career was gonna go to the Twins by Erga
then said, hey, he's close to a deal with the Mets,
and we were confused. But you said, Berger's not right.
But people people give him credit that he's right, but
(32:46):
because he gets a few things right, but a lot
of things wrong right, it's like, yeah, more wrong. He's
likeas nostredam Now I'm a distant relative. Nostre Damas just
made a bunch of predictions and they were all vague
enough that you can interpret them to fit whatever you want, right,
I mean, that's the beauty of predictions. If you make
(33:06):
them vague enough, and then you know, human beings will
then twist that into their own reality. You know what
I'm saying, Yeah, yeah, all right, it is the Ben
Maller Show. As we continue on a wonderful start to
Nubie and I look at this. We need to do
this more. I say this all the time. We need
to do this more often for two reasons. I like
(33:28):
to hear new people, and it's really annoying our regulars.
They're getting very upset on social media. They're ripping all
of these people that are calling up. They're very upset
some of the other baseball gossip. As I did run
a rumor website back in the day. Remember Gary Sanchez
was going to be the next big thing for the Yankees.
He was supposed to be Aaron Judge, not Aaron Judge.
Originally didn't quite work out for Gary Sanchez with the Yankees.
(33:51):
He went to the Twins and now supposedly the Higantes,
the San Francisco Giants who don't have a they don't
have a catch. But Gary Sanchez is not really a
kesher right defensive disaster. The Higantes are interested in him.
I hope he enjoys that. Just keep Joey part. I
(34:12):
hope that Gary Sanchez, who he hit some long home runs,
but I hope he enjoys that thick air in San
Francisco when he played those games there. Yeah, that'll a
lot'll go well there in the mccubby cove and the
Mets hot and heavy. They they're interested in Zach Britton,
who at one point was like a top five relief
pitcher in baseball, but not anymore. Back when he's with
the Orioles and he's with the Yankees. He's guys been
(34:34):
injured a few times. Yeah, he's damaged goods, but Buck
Showalter knows him. It's a little nepotism there. So the
Mets are interested in him, and podres getting all in
with the steroid guys. They got the tease steroid guy.
Now they're they're talking to Nelson Cruz, a steroid cheat,
about joining the Pod squads. So he all of ten
(34:55):
home runs last year and he could be a potter.
What is he seventy five years old? Now? Yeah, I
believe he is, so yeah, all right, good for him.
All right, it is the Bennet Maller Show. Time now
for the who Am I Game? A rare college football?
Who am I? Game? And here it is so George's
Stetson Bennett, back to back champ for the Georgia Bulldogs.
(35:18):
Stetson Bennett became the third quarterback to have multiple rushing
touchdowns in a BCS or College Football Playoff championship game.
He joined Vince Young and me, who am I the answer?
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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pretend to be somebody else, you go and figure it out.
On a Newbie night, Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett just became
the third QB to have multiple rushing touchdown. He had
six touchdowns, but two rushing touchdowns, but he became a
third QB to have multiple rushing touchdowns and a BCS
College Football Championship game. He joined Vince Young and me,
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who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
And let's see does anyone know the answer? Carrie, who
has erectile dysfunction, says Steve Yeager is the answer. Shane
in Des Moines is going with Jody Whittaker, the female doctor.
(37:04):
Who's his random answer? Who else do we have? Page
down here? Page down? Can't read that? On the air?
Real Martin at the airport in Denver's going with Jack
the Ripper groundskeeper. Willie from Tortilla Man Tony, that's his answer.
Antoine Randall l from Sean in the Valley of the Sun,
(37:26):
Miguel on Fire going with former Notre Dame star Brady Quinn.
Our Fox Sports radio colleague Justin in Cincinnati says it's
Justin Herbert that that is the answer. Big Lou from
the LBC going with the iconic Pillsbury throwboy Jared Lorenzen
as his answer. Sean in Portland says, Burt Reynolds, that's
(37:46):
a relevant name. Timmy Chang from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
alf the alienor Pineer says, Elmo's Friend, a friend of
Dickon Dayton is the answer. Elmo the night Stocker A milkman, Mike,
that's his answer? Cardale Jones guess by just Josh, one
of the Cincinnati Bros. Who else do we have? Space ghost?
(38:10):
Tossed out by Mark Mann the Bronco fan. Jason in
denverss coach Prime's favorite Buffalo, Darian Hagan is the correct answer?
Page down, page down. Mallardtown Podcast says it is Big
Ben Mallard. Well, that's that looks just like me, but
that's unfortunately who the correct dame? Well Benny the Baller. Eddie,
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do you have an answer? Eddie? Please? I need an answer?
I do I do? It is the original University of
Georgia championship quarterback Buck Baloo. Wow, Buck Baloo? How do
you do? No? Eddie's didn't correct the correct answer. It
is an Ohio State Buckeye from twenty one years ago.
Remember Craig Krenzel, You remember that's the guy. Actually, he
(38:54):
played briefly in the NFL, but he was a good
college player,
Hello and welcome. It's our name Barro. One hour one
of our podcast from the terrestrial radio show. It's a
special night. It's a newby night, Neuby Nuby Nuby. It's
a newbie night on the show, and we take all
new callers throughout this hour and every hour will begin
(00:20):
the festivities here talking some baseball big news there, Carlos
Correa headed to the Minnesota Twins. What is your initial
Reactron there? Carlos Correa losing out on one hundred and
fifty million. That's how much he lost going from the
original contract with the Giants to the Minnesota Twins. We
will also give the Mallard report card on the scale
(00:41):
of one to ten. How humiliating is this entire situation
for Correa. Will the Giants and Mets regret not getting
the Carrea deal done? We'll talk about that as well
right now in our number one here it is a
twin killing. If you will welcome in the beginning of
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it's gonna be a special night on the show, unlike
most other nights on the show. We'll explain what that's
all about coming up in a little bit. But our
lead this hour coming from the Hot Stove League. As
things heating up on a gloom me early January data peers,
we have a resolution to the long national hardball nightmare.
(02:10):
If you have not been paying attention, the convicted cheater
Carlos Correa has landed another free agent contract. Where we
heard this before as Correa patched up his differences with
the New York Mets. No, so if you didn't see
this for the third time in less than a month,
Carlos Correa has agreed to a free agent contract. He
(02:34):
ain't going back to the Giants. He ain't going the Mets.
The mystery team is the Minas Soda Twins ding Ning
Ning ning Ning. The Minnesota Twins a reported six year
contract for two hundred million guaranteed. There's some other funny
language in that contract, but as always, as always, the
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deal is pinning a physical. But there are some late
night messages being passed Thaw to us that it is
a fatal complain, that it's going to happen, that Correa
will officially sign the contract later on on Wednesday, and
he will be a Minnesota Twin. That used to be
just a mere formality. In the case of Carlos Correa,
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the physical, as we know, is the main event. So
forget the mats, forget the Giants. Carlos will be chilling
in the Twin Cities. He'll be hanging out there for
at least the next three years until he demands a trade.
So let us discuss the question, what was your initial
reaction to Carlos Correa losing out on a hundred and
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fifty million dollars. Remember, the original contract with the Giants
was three hundred and fifty The Twins contract is for
two hundred million, So this cat lost one hundred and
fifty millions. So I've got master card education and FTX,
and we will tie all of these things together and
(04:03):
we're going to make some juicy Lucy's, because that's the
home of the modern interpretation of the juicy Lucy, the
Twin Cities. So at least Correa will be able to
eat that, and he's got that to look forward to.
So ay, we'll start with the Malor report card. Carlos
Correa gets in F in F the Minnesota Twins. They
(04:26):
get in f everybody loses. It's a lose lose situation
except for the fan. This is a great day for
the fan. I'll tell you why. Because Scott boris the
super agent who never loses. He lost. Carlos Correa, the player,
the cheater, he lost, right. Wonderful? What this is A
(04:48):
wonder could not happen to a nicer guy. Carlos Correa
has been serving up snake venom for years, and now
he gets a spoonful of that snake venom right from
a python in his face. There and how the mighty
have fallen in the span of twenty eight days, less
(05:08):
than a calendar month, Carlos Korea went from the three
hundred fifty million dollar man the toast of the Bay
Area with the Higantes to the East Coast guy, three
hundred fifteen million dollars from the Metropolitans, and now here
we are two hundred million dollars with the twins. What
a loser? What a loser now? All because of a
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bum leg and a rotten attitude, those two things in
play here. It's a master card commercial playing out in
front of us, right, traveling the country from west coast
to east coast with your super Asian getting two three
hundred million dollars contracts, watching them unravel, then being forced
(05:55):
to go back to Minnesota while losing one hundred and
fifty million dollars. Priceless, right, absolutely priceless. We had a
feline like reaction here. We had a feline like reaction
as a gigantic cheshire catch smile from ear to ear.
(06:16):
Right there we were so happy. What a wonderful thing.
Great mitzvah. When you wish upon a star type stuff
just deserts. What a dope, Carlos Correa, I love it now.
On a scale of one to ten, how humiliating is
this situation for Carlos Correa on the Mallar scale of shame?
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Mallar scale of shame one to ten, with ten being ridunculous.
This is an eight point five eight point five, As
the old song goes, every rose has its thorn, Easy come,
easy go. His damaged leg and bad mojo cost him
doing this is an education, right, Carlos Korez getting an
(07:03):
education on the school of hard knocks. Bo Hello. That
is a business in which the business of baseball, which
you are judged your value is solely on your contract.
It's a status thing, right, It's a status thing. And
for a guy like Correa, who's got that fish eating grin, egotistical,
(07:23):
thin skinned, the typical mama Luke, Carlos Correa was in
rarefied air originally when he knocked it out of the
park with the Hagantes. Right, Oh my god, it's so good.
It turns out he didn't leave his heart in San Francisco.
We know that. But for three hundred fifty million, he
could certainly pretend like he cared about the Golden Gate,
(07:44):
bid Bridge and the Bay Bridge and all that. So
then the giants got cold feet, and he was offended,
of course, and within the span of a couple of
hours he high tailed it, got a deal done with
the Mets and He ended up taking a thirty five
million dollar hit on that. But it's okay, right, bright lights,
big city. If you can make it there, you'll make
it anywhere. It's up to new you, New York, New York,
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right a Sinatra saying back in the days he crooned, well,
New York pumped the brakes. It was all a hallucination,
a mirage, day dreamy night thinking. And now, with his
tail firmly planted between his legs, Carlos Carea does the
walk of shame back to Minnesota, a team that was
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below him that he didn't want to go to last offseason,
and he only went there for one year with no
intention of ever making that a permanent locale, and he
got two hundred million. Right, oh, wonderful. We right, take
a ride around reality ranch, Carlos. That sounds like a
ton of dough. Thirty seven percent federal tax rate, so
(08:49):
he trimmed that off the top, plus the agent, plus
the Minnesota taxes. But he doesn't want to be there,
That's the most important thing. He'd never wanted to be there,
and he was all excited when the Mets came in there.
He really want to play for the Mets more than anybody.
And the Twinkies. I gave them an F on the
Mallard report cards. They look absolutely terrible. They look so bad, right,
(09:10):
just used and abused, Like this is a guy that
do you want to play for the team He left
for the first big offer he got with the Giants.
He want to playing the West Coast either, but it's like, oh,
I'll go to the Giants, I'll toss the Twins aside.
Then the Giants get cold feet, he goes to the Mets.
Then he gets rejected to them by the Mets. And
now the Twins get sloppy. Thirds is what they get, right,
(09:33):
and he's off the gride in the baseball world. The
Twins don't matter. They don't and it's it's below him
unless it's not. And this also means big picture, wide
angle lanes that in the eyes of baseball, Carlos Cray
is not in the same categories Mike Trout, Mookie Bets,
and Aaron Judge. He's more in line with Brandon Nimbo.
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You're the Nimo Carlos Carrea Nimo sided deal. He sided
deal with the Mets for one hundred and sixty two million,
which my computer like brain tells me it's a lot
closer to two hundred million than it is to three
hundred and fifty million, which is what Correa originally thought
he was getting. And finally, bravo, Finally major League Baseball
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punishing a cheating as stro right, the ass one one thousand,
two one thousand holes, Finally have somebody punished, and it's
Carlos Correa. Could not happen to a nicer fellow, all right,
last word here, So will the Giants and the Mets
have regrets for not getting the Carlos Carea deal done?
(10:45):
And I go, absolutely not, absolutely not. I look at
Correa kind of like crypto, you know how these crypto
guys are con artists. Think of him like FTX, which,
by the way, major League Baseball was in bed with FTX.
They had, but there's no intrinsic value for Carlo's career.
It's kind of like that Larry David when he had
(11:06):
that smirk in the FTX commercial and he said, I
don't think so, and I'm never wrong about this stuff,
never right. And people are like, oh, the fear of
missing out for the Mets of the Giants. To the
untrained eye, it seemed like what the Mets really screwed up.
The Giants screwed up. But the Giants and Mets what
they did, and I would give him credit. They did
(11:29):
their proper oversight and they were not hornswaggled here by
Scott Boris and the shiny object like the Minnesota Twins
were Korea. This all goes back to an injury he
suffered in twenty fourteen. He broke his right fibula while
an astro minor leaguer and he hasn't missed any time
with it. But according to what I've been hearing, and
(11:51):
I don't know if you've heard the same thing, but
I've been getting people saying, well, the doctors believe that
he's got the A word arthritis, that he's showing signs
of arthritis. I know that my mom had arthritis. It's
a terrible thing. And once you get arthritis, you're there's
some medications, but it's uh, it's something that's gonna gonna
screw you up pretty good, especially as a professional athlete.
(12:11):
That's what I've heard. Has not been confirmed, but that's
the little birdie chirping in my ear. But the twins
are suckers, right, because whether or not the man has
arthritis or not that I don't I'm not a doctor.
I just what I've heard. But the Twins, they're the
ones also worrying the dunskap here because even if he's
perfectly healthy, even if Correa plays for the next six years,
(12:32):
this guy is as bestis and anything the Twins accomplished
we will not take. Uh well, we'll not get him credit.
Just like there's no champion in Baseball Circle of the
Year twenty twenty two. The championship is void because the
Stros we're not punished, and the players were still the
(12:54):
face of the franchise there and so anything Karea accomplished,
any team accomplishment, does not count. And you don't want
to breathe in those microscopic fibers. That will just leave
you in a really bad ship. Your lungs will be
all messed up when you hang out with somebody like
Carlos Correa. So a bad job by the Twins, and
now we can just eliminate the Twins for the next
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however many years, care is actually gonna be. That's the
guy you want to you want to cheer for that guy.
You want to spend your money buying hot dog and
popcorn order and nachos for that guy, Well, good luck
to you. I'm not gonna do that cheating ass. Oh
I can't see it. I'm bummed out too, because I
was like, I want to see a Twins game, but
(13:34):
now I'm not gonna do it. And I was like, well,
let me see what. Let me We're hoping to go
to Minnesota to hang out with some fans of the
show in the Twin Cities here later this year, and
I was like, well, maybe I'll go to a Twins game,
but now after this, I'm like, I'm not going. I'll
have to go check the schedule, see when the Saint
Paul Saints, the minor league team there. I'll go run
the m games one of those games. That's that's where
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I hang out. But I'm not going to Twins game.
I can't support this guy. So that's it. I'm done.
No Twins game for me. I'm out, all right. Is
the Bannet Mallers Show. If you would like to be
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Why is it this night different than all of the nights?
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It's nuby night. Oh my god, it nub knight night,
nub knuby night. I know you're excited now. I have
been criticized over the years for having these same five
people call the show every night. I don't disagree with that.
The same five people call every single night, and they're
friends of the show, and we talk to them every night.
We learn all about them, you know, everything that goes
on in their lives. It's amazing here. They're like our family,
(14:39):
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We want to grow the family. Were not a closed circle.
We open everyone, anyone and everyone to be part of
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(15:01):
brought to my attention by a certain radio listener in
des Moines that we really don't have a lot of newbies,
Like there's not a lot of rookies. We have an
awards show we do coming up in a few months
here and typically we have a Rookie of the Year.
And Shane and des Moines pointed out to me. So
(15:23):
you know, nobody there's no really good rookies and so
as we got to improve that. And how do we
cultivate the next generation of sports talk radio superstars, overnight superstars.
We gotta do a newbie night. So if you're intimidating,
I hear this all the time for peoples. Ah, you
know I want to call in, but how can I
compete with Angry Bill? You know you got Rob Banks?
(15:45):
How can I compete with that? And we we'd love
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It's Ben Maller. Ferg Doger writes, and he says, as
somebody who joined the Mallard Militia last year, I'd like
to sure the nobody's that they'll be welcome with open arms,
as long as they don't like Brian Finley. He points
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newby Night on the Mallard Show. Off to send that.
Robin Vegas says, Ben, you always talk about being the
number one radio show for the blind listeners. Why don't
you ever mention that you also are number one in
the deaf community. Feels like you're slapping all the deaf
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militia members right in the face. Well, yeah, I see
you jokesters out there. I saw that. I saw Elizabeth,
who wrote in says I'm sure you're number one overnight
for the death listeners as well. No, the only people
I talked to management years ago, this different management, not
the people that run Fox Sports Radio now, but the
old management. Actually it's like three bosses ago, and they said,
you know, if you want to take shots at the
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deaf community and the Amish community, you can do that
because if they're really Amish or really death they're not listing,
so it's impossible. Now. Jed, who fled who's one of
our five regular callers, is upset. He says it's both
a friend of Oscar the Grouch and being poor white
trash myself. Jed writes in Neubie Night belongs in a Landfill.
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He points out, all right, what else do we have?
Page down here, page down? I can't read that on
the air. Matt the Warrior Raider as fan says nine
out of ten on the mat of monologue. I know
it's difficult to have too much shot in freude over
a guy about to get life changing money, but if
it's still a pretty damn funny, it's still Britty's damn
(18:38):
funny to see the guy los one hundred and fifty
million dollars, F Korea, F Bregman, FL twove A, and
F the racist Julie Guriel absolutely correct, though it a
one hundred percent, one hundred and one hundred percent for sure.
There you go, all right, is the Ben Mallers Show.
As we continue on here, bad day for the Twins,
(18:59):
bad day for Carlos Garreya, good day for truth justice
in the sports talk radio way. We got a bunch
of new cars. This is exciting. It's a newbie night,
and let's go right to the newby night, and we'll
start with let's go to Ellis, who's in the Eugene. Hello, Ellis, welcome,
Good evening, sir, good evening and good afternoon all of
(19:24):
those and happy Swans or whatever they said. Yeah, I
moved off here almost nine years ago, and you were
only on like a Sunday nights. They had some other
syndicated guy that was a delayed thing, and then thank
god they brought you on. I've enjoyed the show, and
(19:47):
I hear your nuanced tributes to Jim Healey, and I
just wonder why you don't are you allowed to use
a few more of his riffs. Not to you guys
got your own thing going. I understand that, but are
you well No, I loved one of my influences to
get in radio. Else. I've talked about it before, and
I was growing up in La Jim Healy had a
(20:09):
half hour radio show every day. He just goofed on
on sports and it was it was wonderful and uh
and I loved it, and it was one of my
influences to get into business. And I try to honor
Jim by using some of his lines. But obviously a
lot of stuff is is long, you know, in the
past and whatnot. But we have our own stuff. And
but we do, you know, pay tribute? Is it true?
(20:31):
Is it Jim Healey line that he used to use
quite a bit? And uh? Absolutely, And so I give
these little tributes as in homage to Jim Healey and
his radio show. But and I will tell you you'll
get a kick out of this else because you're you're
an old timer. You remember that that show. So when
I got into the business, I was nineteen years old, right,
and I'd listened to that at old Jim Healey show
all the time. One of the guys who used to
goof on was Stu Nahan, who was a big sportscaster
(20:54):
in LA exactly right. So the first this is you'll
love this story. So so he used to goof on.
Stu was a freeloader, and I Stu was a very
nice man, and I knew him, but when I was nineteen,
I didn't know him. And I showed up to the
press box at Dodger Stadium, right, that's like rarefied air.
I walk in there and the first thing I see,
a hand to God is student a hand eating a
(21:16):
free meal in the in the press box. And I thought, well,
that's perfect, that's absolutely and uh and it was. It
was funny. So yeah, so that's it. So that's the
dull ellis. But thank you for listening, man, I appreciate it.
You gotta I'll call you once a month. And talked
about Jim. Is that cool anytime? I love talking about that.
(21:38):
I was one of my my heroes in radio. So
we'll talk to old Jim Healey stories. And there's still
there's still some sound bites on YouTube, there's some videos.
I think there's a website that's still has some of
the old sound bites from his Uh, never heard of them.
You search around the dark web, you want to learn
about that if you. Well, you know, now I'm sounding
like a boomer here, but you know what, that's fine.
I'll deal with it, all right. So how about this one?
(21:59):
At least at least the chili is good dateline Cincinnati
on this one, Dion Sanders, the coach at Colorado. What
does this have to do with Cincinnati? So Dion doing
a round of radio and television interviews to hype up
the Buffaloes of Colorado. And in one of the interviews
with Pat McAfee on YouTube, Dion was rifting about random
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things and in the conversation it came up that he
loved he says as a quote from Deon Sanders, He
said he loved playing baseball in Cincinnati, and Cincinnati Deon's
old so when he played for the Reds and they
were good every year for the most part, and so
Deon Sanders said he loved his experience living in Cincinnati.
(22:46):
He said that he wanted to live in that city forever.
That he was such a great fan of leaving the
whole Bible. No, no, no, no, no no, he gets
even better, right, So Dion's like, oh, yeah, I wanted
to live there forever. I loved it, man about it
was great, and so he he claims he called the
Bengals trying to get a gig so he could play
(23:08):
year round in Cincinnati, or I just played for the
Reds and then go play for the Bengals who had
played it at that time they played in the same stadium.
And he says the Bengals didn't even call him back
on the all time great athletes of his generation, the
Bengals weren't even called back. Now, it's possible I guess
that the Bengals maybe thought it was a goof Maybe
(23:29):
they thought it was a prank call, right, and that
was the deal on that. But don't you still gotta
kind of investigate to make sure you're not getting goofed
on that. Maybe maybe it is actually Deon Sanders or
somebody representing Deon Sanders. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
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(23:50):
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(24:12):
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He's something NFL and perhaps exciting news for our executive producer,
Justin Cooper. Did you see the Denver Broncos had an
interview for their head coaching vagancy Michigan's interview Dan Reeve
(24:35):
Michigan's Jim Harbaugh. Jim Harball. He got Dan Reeves is
dead Michigan Jim Mark. I wish we could have video
for the job, but he's unavailable. Yeah, yeah, like Jim Harball, Coop, Yeah,
I'll take him, Mark Payton him or Peyton Peyton Manning.
Sean Payton about Peyton Manning? Yeah, all right, Well they
go Jim Harbaugh, he's desperate to leave Wuldball. How do
(25:00):
you go back to Michigan after you gave up fifty
one points to TCU who then went out and got
absolutely smoked char broiled by by Georgia. That's a tough one.
So I gotta think he's leaving for the NFL. I
thought he was even years ago. I think now everything's
(25:21):
indicating he's gone to one of these jobs. All right,
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(25:41):
the fun there. Carry rights and says, hey, Ben, you
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It's a newbie night nouby Nubynubyuby Night. Eugene is in
(26:03):
the great state of Michigan and he is next on
Fox Sports Radio. Hello Eugene, Hi there, m what's up, Eugene?
What's going on? What do you just turned twenty one?
Didn't you uh fifty some years ago? Yeah? Okay, there
you go. Well how are you doing? But welcome to
the show. Yeah I'm calling. I called to see if
(26:24):
Tom Looney and if you ever seen him, and if
he's so alive? And who the great Tom loonydos tomily? Yes?
Tom is doing believe it or not news Radio. I
talked to Tom semi regularly. We're still friends. We worked
together for many years on that NFL show on the weekends.
I've known Tom for a long time. I don't want
(26:45):
to say how long because I'll date myself, Eugene, but
we go way back and we are good friends. And
he's part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association now.
And he was at the holiday party. It was at
the what the Honka? Not the Honoko? Is it the
Halloween party? At these stupid parties, yeah, Ugly Sweater. It
was always at the Ugly Sweater one. Oh yeah, I
don't even remember which one he was at. I have
(27:06):
no idea, but he was there. So he was hanging
out at one of the hcause I used to listen
to you when you and him work days. Oh yeah, yeah,
we had we had a great time when that. We
used to have fund that. They forced these big NFL
on Fox people to do interviews with us, and they
really didn't want to do it, but they did it,
and it was It was a lot of fun. All right,
Thank you, Eugene. Look at that. Back to back newbies, unbelievad.
(27:28):
Let's keep it going. Anthony is in southern California on
a newby Night. Hello Anthony, welcome, Hey man, how are you? Man?
If I was any better, i'd be an Anthony, but
not you Anthony and Anaheim because he's in Iowa right now.
I don't know what he's doing, all right, I remember that. Yeah,
So I'm a newbie on newby Night. Um, it was exciting.
I think I've been. I've been listening for the past
(27:50):
couple of years. I think. Well, my most different memory
of the show in the beginning was the great voices
of a half Pint of Good Chicken Byan. Yeah, that
was a fun time. They were quite the characters on
the show for a while. They were hilarious. Yeah they were.
They were back in the day. They were a good time.
But yeah, I just want to give you a shout
out to your clippers. It finally broke the six game
(28:11):
busing street kills. Kind of good for a mid team. Oh,
you sound like a Laker fanboy. You're a Laker Laker guy.
I'm gonna fifth what happened to Laker. They lost in
the Nuggets, So for that. Yeah, honestly, I haven't watching.
I haven't really paid attention to the last like ten years.
(28:32):
To give it, take it. You've taken ten years off.
I've only only Eddie's taken thirty years off. So but
I've only taken like this year. I'm not really painted.
I Like, I'll flip around occasionally see what's going on
for a minute here and there, but I'm not I'm
not into yeah exactly, I'm just not feeling a vibe
right now because they're not into it right Like, if
they I would watch, if they tried, if these guys
(28:53):
didn't take nights off for injury management, now, i'd totally
be into it. I'd watch, But I'm not. I'm not
interested in that. They're not. They'll be interested when the
playoffs come around. I'll watch when the playoffs come, right,
because they'll actually playing yeah, one hundred percent band. But yeah,
my main point is, uh, I give Usa. You know,
I hate that guy, obviously a big god your fan
(29:14):
grow up in southern California. Hate Krea, hate to twenty seventeen,
the whole, the whole Astrons team. Hate those guys, every
single one of them. Right, um, yeah, but I'd love
to you know, this is a good thing for Karea
because he got what he deserves last money, because he's
a bum, like you said, yeah, yeah, No, it's wonderful.
And it's embarrassing for him too because he was all man.
(29:36):
Remember those quotes in Minnesota the end of last year
about how you know, if you want to you want
a luxury item, you gotta pay for it, right, and
he's I think he said, Dior, if you want to
go back from you gotta pay for it. Well, I
guess major League Baseball didn't want to pay for that bag.
They got it at a discount store. They went to
they have the Ross dress for lesson, got it for
a little cheaper. So damage kids. One hundred percent. All right,
(29:58):
thank you, Anthony. You don't I have to just call
anuby night. You can call anytime, my boy. This is
what an amazing night. Nuby nights. So good. All right,
let's go to Raza in Houston. What's going on, Rosa? Welcome?
Who hey, how you doing that? Welcome Rosie. It's a
nube night, Rosa. How exciting is this? Uh So? I
was just calling because, uh So, back in the day,
(30:20):
when I was in middle school, I used to always
read your rumors on Fox sports dot com. Back in
the day. Oh my god, you're in middle school now
you're all growing up. Yeah. I did that for many
many I did for like ten years of my life.
I ran a rumor website. Yeah. So I wanted the cool, right, Like,
I'll come home to the school every day read them,
and then I have something to talk about with my
friends that they didn't they didn't know. Those are the
(30:40):
cool that you know. I just turned on my local
affiliate one night and we'll ast yourself. So wow, Well,
thank you, Rosie. I loved I love doing that website.
And then, uh once Twitter came around, I kind of
ruined my my gig. But for the days before Twitter,
I ruled the gossip pages. Man. That was that was
a blast. Man, that's so much fun. And back in
(31:00):
those days, man, I had Adam Schefter was a writer
in Denver. He was sending me Star Hayman was a
writer at Newsday. He was sending me h Ken Rosen.
All these guys are like big insiders, national guys now,
but they were like local writers back and when I
was days. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean they were trying
to make their mark. And now like so many of
(31:22):
those guys that used to send me stories like hey,
I got something for you, and now they're like big
stars in sports media. So it's pretty cool. Hey, it's okay,
you're still big star too. Well, in the middle of
the night, just one one thing, I needed one thing.
I need to run about you all this career I hate. Yeah,
if the Dodgers actually find him, would I hate from
the Dodgers fans still be there? Well, I would not
(31:43):
be a Dodger fan anymore. Rising do you understand, like
I'm not and I would. I said that. People thought
I was kidding, but I'm not kidding. I would be
done as long as he's on the as if he
was signed with the Dodgers. As long as he's on
the team. I was the reason why the Dodgers ever
try to sign him. Yeah, like it is. It is legitimate,
like there is. The players on the team might not care,
and the players have changed, and the management might not care.
(32:04):
It's all a game and all that, and it's all fun.
But I'm telling you the fan base, oh, it would
have not one thing though, thank you. Yeah, well, yeah
you can enjoy it. That's fun than Rosa. Look he's
all grown up now. I started reading my website back
in the day when I gotta give myself round of applause,
(32:26):
I said, Carlos Berger, it's always wrong. Yes, yes, you
are correct. You last night last well, there were reports
that Career was gonna go to the Twins by Erga
then said, hey, he's close to a deal with the Mets,
and we were confused. But you said, Berger's not right.
But people people give him credit that he's right, but
(32:46):
because he gets a few things right, but a lot
of things wrong right, it's like, yeah, more wrong. He's
likeas nostredam Now I'm a distant relative. Nostre Damas just
made a bunch of predictions and they were all vague
enough that you can interpret them to fit whatever you want, right,
I mean, that's the beauty of predictions. If you make
(33:06):
them vague enough, and then you know, human beings will
then twist that into their own reality. You know what
I'm saying, Yeah, yeah, all right, it is the Ben
Maller Show. As we continue on a wonderful start to
Nubie and I look at this. We need to do
this more. I say this all the time. We need
to do this more often for two reasons. I like
(33:28):
to hear new people, and it's really annoying our regulars.
They're getting very upset on social media. They're ripping all
of these people that are calling up. They're very upset
some of the other baseball gossip. As I did run
a rumor website back in the day. Remember Gary Sanchez
was going to be the next big thing for the Yankees.
He was supposed to be Aaron Judge, not Aaron Judge.
Originally didn't quite work out for Gary Sanchez with the Yankees.
(33:51):
He went to the Twins and now supposedly the Higantes,
the San Francisco Giants who don't have a they don't
have a catch. But Gary Sanchez is not really a
kesher right defensive disaster. The Higantes are interested in him.
I hope he enjoys that. Just keep Joey part. I
(34:12):
hope that Gary Sanchez, who he hit some long home runs,
but I hope he enjoys that thick air in San
Francisco when he played those games there. Yeah, that'll a
lot'll go well there in the mccubby cove and the
Mets hot and heavy. They they're interested in Zach Britton,
who at one point was like a top five relief
pitcher in baseball, but not anymore. Back when he's with
the Orioles and he's with the Yankees. He's guys been
(34:34):
injured a few times. Yeah, he's damaged goods, but Buck
Showalter knows him. It's a little nepotism there. So the
Mets are interested in him, and podres getting all in
with the steroid guys. They got the tease steroid guy.
Now they're they're talking to Nelson Cruz, a steroid cheat,
about joining the Pod squads. So he all of ten
(34:55):
home runs last year and he could be a potter.
What is he seventy five years old? Now? Yeah, I
believe he is, so yeah, all right, good for him.
All right, it is the Bennet Maller Show. Time now
for the who Am I Game? A rare college football?
Who am I? Game? And here it is so George's
Stetson Bennett, back to back champ for the Georgia Bulldogs.
(35:18):
Stetson Bennett became the third quarterback to have multiple rushing
touchdowns in a BCS or College Football Playoff championship game.
He joined Vince Young and me, who am I the answer?
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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(35:40):
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Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller anytime. Now for
a riveting who Am I Game? This is where we
(36:23):
pretend to be somebody else, you go and figure it out.
On a Newbie night, Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett just became
the third QB to have multiple rushing touchdown. He had
six touchdowns, but two rushing touchdowns, but he became a
third QB to have multiple rushing touchdowns and a BCS
College Football Championship game. He joined Vince Young and me,
(36:43):
who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
And let's see does anyone know the answer? Carrie, who
has erectile dysfunction, says Steve Yeager is the answer. Shane
in Des Moines is going with Jody Whittaker, the female doctor.
(37:04):
Who's his random answer? Who else do we have? Page
down here? Page down? Can't read that? On the air?
Real Martin at the airport in Denver's going with Jack
the Ripper groundskeeper. Willie from Tortilla Man Tony, that's his answer.
Antoine Randall l from Sean in the Valley of the Sun,
(37:26):
Miguel on Fire going with former Notre Dame star Brady Quinn.
Our Fox Sports radio colleague Justin in Cincinnati says it's
Justin Herbert that that is the answer. Big Lou from
the LBC going with the iconic Pillsbury throwboy Jared Lorenzen
as his answer. Sean in Portland says, Burt Reynolds, that's
(37:46):
a relevant name. Timmy Chang from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
alf the alienor Pineer says, Elmo's Friend, a friend of
Dickon Dayton is the answer. Elmo the night Stocker A milkman, Mike,
that's his answer? Cardale Jones guess by just Josh, one
of the Cincinnati Bros. Who else do we have? Space ghost?
(38:10):
Tossed out by Mark Mann the Bronco fan. Jason in
denverss coach Prime's favorite Buffalo, Darian Hagan is the correct answer?
Page down, page down. Mallardtown Podcast says it is Big
Ben Mallard. Well, that's that looks just like me, but
that's unfortunately who the correct dame? Well Benny the Baller. Eddie,
(38:30):
do you have an answer? Eddie? Please? I need an answer?
I do I do? It is the original University of
Georgia championship quarterback Buck Baloo. Wow, Buck Baloo? How do
you do? No? Eddie's didn't correct the correct answer. It
is an Ohio State Buckeye from twenty one years ago.
Remember Craig Krenzel, You remember that's the guy. Actually, he
(38:54):
played briefly in the NFL, but he was a good
college player,
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