August 29, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Mookie Betts passing Ronald Acuna Jr. with the best odds to win NL MVP, why Brian Cashman is so loyal to Aaron Boone as Yankees manager, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb or one, our one,
tons of fun. We talk baseball here in our one.
Mookie Betts zooming up the charts. Has he passed Ronald
Acudo Junior by of the Braves in the National League
MVP race? You believe it or not? Also, why is
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Brian Cashman being so loyal to Aaron Boone for the
last place Yankee Skipper? And how do you explain the
rash of young Dodgers starting pitchers who have gone snap,
crackle pop and need the Tommy John surgery. We discussed
that as well. It's all coming your way right now.
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Give it up for our number one. You can bet
on it, well, I mean, if you want or bets
on it, I think would be the better way to
phrase that. Welcome. In the begetting of another edition of
the Ben Maler Show. We are in the air everywhere
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you there, me here, as we are your friendly neighborhood.
Gas bags coast, duck coast, border, the border and beyond.
On the mast and unrelentingly powerful microphones of fs are
emmating live dood live from under the moonlight as we
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are camouflaged by the darkness, Oh the darkness. Of it all,
and here we are. We've survived another day, and we
can spend all night barking at the clouds if there
are any howling at the moon. However, you're right, yes
there's actual sound of previous endeavors. But our lead this
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hour coming from base ball. Why not at the Dodger
Diamond And I think I've seen every one of Jason
Hayward's home runs he had. Another one is the Dodgers
play home run derby and beat the Diamondbacks have a
thirteen game lead, and they have a shot to catch
the Atlanta Braves to the top record in baseball. Those
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teams will play each other this weekend in a made
for television extravagant But it's not about that per se.
It's about a story which has been bouncing around in
baseball this week, involving Mookie Betts. Say, what so, our
first stop is actually technically the sportsbook, if you will,
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and they've updated, they've updated the odds that have been
posted for the MVP race in the National League. And
if you keep tracking this, if you might know, but
I'm assuming that you probably don't, and so you're unaware
of this. But the odds have been updated. If you
didn't see it, the wings of change are blowing, Otherwise
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I wouldn't be mentioning it. But we are now told
that the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder slash infielder Mookie Bets
has leapfrogged from a long shot a couple of weeks
ago in the National League MVP race to now the
betting favorite to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award.
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And when you say this is a massive adjustment. As
of August seventeenth, Mookie Bets was listed at thirty five
to one. He is now minus one thirty five and
Ronald Loacuna Junior of the Braves at plus one point twenty.
Freddie Freeman is also third on the list mookie Bets teammates.
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So let's discuss Mookie Bets passing the Atlanta Braves star
Ronald Locuna Junior. And that's the lead. Now Bets leading
the Braves outfielder in the MVP race. Do you believe
leave it or not? So I am going to go
first here. I not a believer on this one. I've
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got Churchill Downs, the Nurnberg defense, and Eureka and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make cracker jacks. Why not?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So the first thing here on this side of the microphone,
I am not sold. I'm a skeptic that Mookie Bets
has truly passed the Braves outfield of Ronal Kuna buy
in terms of the MVP rays. Now, I do believe
that what Mookie Betts has been able to do here
is obviously close the gap. I'm not naive to that.
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He's probably great the last couple of weeks with the Dodgers,
he's coming up on the outside. So think of this
like thoroughbred racing. Just imagine the most famous race track
of them all Churchill Downs, And you're at the starting gate,
you start the race, You're going around the track and
around the track and all that stuff, and the stretch. Wait,
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they come down the stretch, they come that famous line. Uh.
The horse racing broadcasters say. So at this point, the
way I look at the field, it's neck and neck.
It's gonna be a photo finish. And from this point forward,
if the Dodgers and Mookie Bets play better than the
Braves and Ronald Lacuna, then the Dodgers' Mookie Bets will
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win the MVP. If not, well, then it'll go the
other way. But we have about thirty games a little
over thirty games to go in the baseball regular season.
The gambling market, now, I've been a big advocate behind
these microphones of the years. The gambling market is a
great indicator of these type of situations. However, it's also
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very reactionary. But perception is often reality. Mookie Bets leads
baseball and hits in batting average OPS since August seventeenth.
The main reason that we have them even is because
there was such a gap ahead. And by the way,
heading into Monday, Ronaldacuna Junior was batting two sixty three
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with ten hits since in that same stretch, So Mookie's
got twelve more hits than Ronald does over the last
couple of weeks. But the other thing here is the
voter bias. You gotta factor the voter bias in and
there is a distinct competitive advantage that the Atlanta Braves
have as compared to the Dodgers, and that would be
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the East Coast bias. The Braves are in the sweet
spot of the time zone, and everyone of Mookie betts
games starts at well, not every one of them, but
most of them start at ten o'clock on the East coast.
So that's just the way it is now, Page two wheel,
Let's go to the Bronx, because I love a good kerfluffle,
and we've got that involving the Yankees, who are bad
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to the bone. The Yankees el stinko, but they're good
at feeding us content, and that's really all that matters here.
And so what is the latest in Yankee Land? Hearing
reports out of Gotham that the Pinstripers have already decided
they will not fire Aaron Boone unless unless the spawn
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of George by George hal Steinbrenner, unless hal Steinberder overrules
Brian Cashman. This is the way it's being reported there,
and that the Baseball Ops Department, as Goose Gossage called them,
the parade of nerds, they all love Aaron bone and
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they want him to continue as the manager. So let
us discuss here, why is Brian Cashman being so loyal
to Aaron Boone? Be very easy to fire Aaron Boone
and bring in some other slub to manage the Yankees.
It used to happen all the time in a different
generation where the Yankees would cycle through manager. So why
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not now, because here's why Aaron Boone is the quintessential
Yankee manager. For Brian Cashman, it's wonderful Aaron Boone. He's
got an ego, but not a massive ego like Joe
Torre had a huge ego when he managed the Yankees.
And you look at a guy like Cashman and he
wants a guy that's just gonna follow what he tells
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the manager, and by all accounts, that's exactly what Aaron
Boone does. And so he can use the Nuremberg defense
if you will. He's just following orders in the Yankee dougout,
that's all. He's doing whatever he's told. He's pretty good
at dealing with the media. He's got the gift to
gab with the media, Boone, and he's good at massaging egos,
and the Yankees have a fair amount of egos on
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that team. So he's doing what he's being told to
do in that three ring binder in the Yankee dougout there.
And so to rephrase it, if you're Brian Cashman, why
would you recommend the departure of Aaron Boone If you're
just gonna hire another sock pigeon to be your manager.
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So what's the point? All right, final stop here, Let's
go to Los Angeles, go back to LA. The Dodgers
made a roster move and they put Tony Gonsolin on
the extended injured list. He will undergo Tommy John surgery.
Hey gone, The operations gonna happen at the end of
this week on Friday, we are told. So Tony Gonsolin
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will be out until twenty twenty five. That is the
projection there. He is now the third, the third prize
Los Angeles Dodger pitcher that has needed ligament replacement surgery,
the Tommy John operation. In a very short span of time,
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Tony Gonsolin can hang out with Dustin May who's had
these operations multiple times, and Walker Bueller in the Dodgers infirmary.
So it got me thinking. Here, I got me thinking,
how do you explain the rash of Dodger pitchers, premium
Dodger pitchers needing Tommy John surgery. And my theory on
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this it's because the smartest guys in the room got
it wrong and they don't want to admit it. They
do not want to admit it at some point there
has to be changed. No, that's not just the Dodgers.
There's a bunch of teams that are going through this.
And because every team in baseball is doing almost the
same exact thing, consider this a Eureka moment. It should
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be a come to Jesus situation for the people that
run these baseball teams. We'd like to think that someone's
gonna have an epiphany here and realize, like, what are
we doing? What are we doing? The Dodgers have been
serving their pictures, their young pitchers peas and carrots. Peas
and carrots is what the Dodger pitchers have gotten for
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several years. They've been babying, babying the young pictures for
the Dodgers. They limit the number of innings, they limit
the appearances, they limit the pitches thrown, all in an
effort to avoid Tommy John surgery. Hello, you think it's working,
because I don't think it's working. And all this out
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of an abundance of caution. And remember that the famous
line kersher idea and those selfish goals when they took
him out of a perfect game opportunity against the Minnesota
Twins a couple of years ago. But the obvious thing,
it's right between your eyes here. None of this is working.
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Your young pitchers are in shambles, shamble unless you're just
trying to promote the Tommy John operation. If that's your goal, congratulations,
accomplished that. But now three promising starting pitchers have all
popped at tire and they're gone. So my advice here,
unsolicited advice. Hold an intervention. Someone needs to hold an
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intervention here. Try the Marshall plan. As in Mike Marshall
passed away a couple of years ago. He won the
Cy Young back in the seventies, pitched in over one
hundred games out of bullpen, and people thought he was
a looney tune. But he advocated pitching more, not less.
You look at some of the old school generation guys,
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Nolan Ryan, the all time strikeouts King, another guy that
said you gotta throw more, not less. And what do
the nerds do? What are the Ivy League, big academia
people do. They say, Oh, you doubt know what you're
talking about. We know better than you. And I would
say ninety percent of these morons have never picked up
a baseball in their life, and they're the ones that
are deciding how much to pitch not to pitch it up.
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And it's it's mind boggling that this is continued. And
you wonder how many more pitchers have to have their
arm blown out. And if your pitchers are gonna have
their arm blown out anyway, why not just have them
pitch extended innings and white, I mean, you baby these
pictures and they still end up getting hurt. And Mike Marshall,
the guy that won the cy Young Award back in
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the seventies, I mean he claimed that pitchers, you know,
before he passed away, I was a couple years ago,
but he had written about this extensively, about how he
figured that there are ways pitchers could avoid certain injuries.
And but you throw less now than forty years ago.
That we keep hearing about how every athlete is better,
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and you know, the evolution of human beings and everyone's
getting stronger and bigger and faster and all that. Yet
the pitchers in baseball got a baby, and then you
baby them, and then they can't they can't handle that,
and they end up getting these these major operations. It
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And a couple of people went to very extreme measures,
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Speaker 1 (15:39):
It's a bad job by you, Eddie. You didn't get
the memo no Little League Baseball mentions. Bad job by you. Di, Well,
that was yesterday.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I would have mentioned it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Would you have let off every update with it playing
off every update?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Would yeoud you have.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Played a two minute highlight of Carl ravits Hitty calling
the home run? Would you play that every half hour?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I would not. Then you're not gonna somebody do this.
I will not name names, Eddie. I will just say
there was a rumor that someone someone loves twelve year
olds playing baseball and might or might not have been
in your chair the other night. That's all. No, definitely
not that guy. Is definitely definitely not him. Guaranteed I
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would have mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I would have been Parker, probably would not have let
off that, probably.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Would not have played it to the entire night.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
I would have mentioned it. Would you have done.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Two scores in an update for most of the night
just too? Would you have done that because that also
happened a lot.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
You know, No, I think I would have given more
than two scores unless there was just two baseball games yesterday,
which I'm guessing there weren't.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, usually on Sunday everyone's playing.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Yeah, it's been my experience.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
It's amazing. I don't need much and I already know
here you're actually talking about.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I'm not naming any names here because you know I'm
a good I'm a good guy. I don't name names.
I just I just for some reason, it's stuck in
my head that you know, Eddie didn't mention Little League
base ball, and you know somebody in the building might
or might not have said that was a big story.
You know, I just want to point that out.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Sorry, without not being here yesterday, I had a little
miscommunication with an event I was taking part in.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So you know, this is not a goolag. You don't
have to be here every day. I don't fit. It's
not well, I'm look at the check. It might be fair,
but no, I'm kidding. But no, that's fine. Whatever we survived.
I needed some anxiety and medication. Coop had to talk
me off the ledge a couple of times. Almost jumped,
But but I'm good. You know I'm here, So it's
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all good. Don't exactly, it's all it's all good. Uh
So we began here ranting about baseball. Mookie Bets now
the favorite for the m v P in the National League.
He's passed the brave star Ronald Acuno Jr.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
In that rale to find Dodger propaganda. There an our
one good job by you.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
No, what are you talking about? I ripped the Dodgers
at the end of that that they're they're there babying
of pitchers at a three Dodgers start. You're smiling because
you know I'm You're wrong. Tony Gonsolin, Tommy John, Dustin May, exactly,
Dustin May, Tommy John Walker, builder, Tommy John. Oh no,
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they might as well bring back the actual Tommy johnn
He lives in Palm Springs. Bring him back.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So they baby these pictures to save them out of
an abundance of caution, and these guys are socked. It's ridiculous.
Pit chob ptchum petchup. Pit chump, pet job.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
That's what I say, pitch early in often to be clear,
the word are you using there is pitch?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
What did you think I said? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
But people don't confuse the things that Ben said. No, never,
especially about old pictures. They know we're talking about confusion.
They never call the complaint that I said something I
didn't say.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Let's go to Allen, who's in Seattle where the Mariners
have taken off by the way as well, the Seattle
Mariners on a nice little run. Hello, Alan, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh man?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I wanted to talk a little Dodger talk here.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh hot Dodger talk. See that Dodger talk right here.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Yeah, but it's kind of inchent Dodger talk. If you
don't mind that you mentioned Mike Marshall, the great reliever.
I had an encounter with the mediocre outfielder by the
same name.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh yes, Mike. Now, Mike Marshall, number five in your program,
the outfielder but not number one in your heart, kind
of a grumpy guy. It was supposed to be really
good until he actually had to play and then yeah, okay,
what happened? We love old baseball stories. Now, before you
tell the story here. Alan, We have no idea who
you are, and we have no way of confirming the story,
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but I hope whatever you say is true, So go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Wasn't he going out with Belinda Carlisle? Also, you know,
the lead singer of the Go Gos.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I have no idea. We'd have to check, we'd have
to check with the Boston Hater, but he's not around anymore,
so I don't know.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Well, anyway, I was down on Redondo Beach and ran
into him, and and he had he and his friends
wanted to play some sand flag football or actually touched football,
and he got the ball in and he came in
my direction, and I don't know what happened. I was
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probably not thinking at all. I tackled him and it
just made him embarrassed, and because he.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Okay, But the other thing is now, for those that
know Mike Marshall his nickname, and I love old baseball,
Mike Marshall last played a Major League baseball game in
nineteen ninety one, and we're getting a fresh Mike marsh.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Mike Marshall, I remember, I don't remember the pitcher.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, but Mike Marshall, you know what His nickname was
Eddie was a jar head, no moose. They called him
the moose because he was chose. He was as big
as a moose, and he ran like a moose when
he was running around. I think he finished in Japan.
I believe he got they couldn't find a job in baseball.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
He got tackled by this guy.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, yeah, Are you a big guy, Allen? Are you
a big guy?
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
No, No, I'm only about five to seven then, and
I probably was a lot, way a lot less back
then too. But I wanted to ask you about did
you ever meet Billybarkowitz?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
All right, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
All Right, great call.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'm so glad we took that call. What a way
to start the you know, the night here. Yeah, just
amazing Eddie. Uh that and some hot little league talk
for sure. Well, how about this story from Major League
Baseball speaking of tackling people in Colorado the Atlanta Braves
playing the Rockies. And we had a couple of dudes
that said, you know what, I want a photo with
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Ronald Lacuna of the Bravest, A photo of that star
player exactly, big name player. Why not? Twenty five five
years old. This guy's on top of the baseball world
right now. He's wonderful. And so these guys decided that
they would like to go out and during the seventh
inning stretch, they decided to run out on the field
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couple of guys and get a photo with the Braves outfielder.
And it did not go well. Yeah, so the one
guy wanted a photo and then security came kind of
pushed him away, and then whoa, there comes another guy
and he's running in. And then the second guy made
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some contact with the Braves outfielder and the videos had
gone viral. Here people freaking out. But this is as
old as baseball, Like people running on the field doing
stupid stuff. It's like people are outraged. I can't believe that.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
What happened kind of reminded me of the old Tom
Gamboa thing. Although these guys apparently were nice. They were
not trying to beat up.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
One was a little uh. One had like four guys
trying to tackle him, and he was pushing like four
guys away. He had Tom Gamboa, the coach of the Royals,
was one of the great couple of losers. Some white
trash in Chicago tried to tackle the guy. Remember the
famous story from old school baseball, like the nineteen hundreds,
Ty Cobbs supposedly beat up a disabled guy.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Yeah, he went into the stands to beat him up too.
He left the field play for that.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, allegedly done that. There was an outfielder for the
Angels and White Sockx named Tony Phillips who supposedly went
in the crowd in Milwaukee at the Old County Stadium
to guy was heckling him.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Here, your boy, Chad Cruder choked out a cup fail.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh that's right. That was when I was doing stuff
with the Dodgers. We had they did extra police on
hand when we came back to Chicago because yeah, there
were like fifteen guys in the crowd. The Dodgers bullpen
went in the crowd. I was at a game one
time that the Braves had a picture named John Rocker,
remember John Rocker, of course, and some guy ran out
in the field and pulled his pants down and moon
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John right second base. He was very upset with.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Now did anyone for the for Ronald Kunya, Did anyone
for the Braves for the radio or the TV? Did
they have a call like Kevin Harland does when a
guy gets on a field during an NFL game.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
No, but they there was a TV call, but it
was very over the top. A lot of TVs like
they they insist, you can't show it on TV. We
can't show the people running in the field.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
The Braves TV channel did not show. They showed a
wide angle. But the guys were doing play by play
on what was going on, and of course they were like,
this kind of happen. Of course it can't happen, but
it does happen. You Yeah, that the Rockies play at
a ballpark named after a beer? Do you what do
you think people are doing when they're going to There's
no other reason to go to a Rockies game. I
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would get hammered. The team blows, uh, so you're gonna
go out there, You're gonna drink for three hours and
then you're gonna, you know, run around and do whatever
you're gonna do. And so they anyway, so the video
has gone viral and shocking outragers. I can't believe it.
But the security was there and they separated the fans
and all that, and I'm mad.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Yeah, so aren't you a little surprised? None of his
teammates came to his aid.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
There, yeah, you're on your own. You know, every man
for himself, you know, come on.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Throw high, throw high fastball, and both bullpens him.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
The two guys gone in there like Bobby Wagon.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Two guys jump and go after one of your teammates,
and they're just standing there and watch. Wow, what are
those guys.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Doing now, Ronald said, quote after Gaves. I was a
little scared at first, but I think the fans were
out there and asking for a picture, he said. But
security was able to get there, and so I think
everything's okay, he said, So there you go. Now, when
fans used to be like a shooting gallery at baseball games,
and fans because they once the cell phone thing took over,
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everyone's on their phone, so people are dying getting hit
in the head and crap at baseball games. So they
put these giant nets up at baseball stadiums. So now
if more fans run out in the field, are they
going to put like a moat around the field like
with alligators, and they can have a drawbridge for the
players to walk out on field. They could have a
nice raw bridge they.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Like the Astros had a hill. But now We've just
got moats everywhere.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, just have a moat instead of a warning track.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Just have a moat and then be funny seeing a
guy fall seeing off for a ball, falling into a
moat get eat by an alligator.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
If you want to rob a home run, you have
to jump and latch onto the wall to prevent yourself
from falling into the moat.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You have to be like Spider Man. You have to
use your spidy like senses and hold onto the wall
and if you fall, you will be eaten by an
angry gator. Or it's more like Indiana Jones. You're probably
jumping on the heads of those alligators to go get
the ball. You gotta navigate the or you get.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Your leg bitten off and then you and your brothers
actually kill the allexy eat it and.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Then you can call overnight talk radio as the man
with the most testosterone in the country, like Van the
One Legged Bama Man.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
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We got news from the NFL the Arizona Cardinals. Of
course they have.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Cardinals are going going ahead horseman.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I don't need a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
They got your little guy, Kyler Murray on the all
he's going to be out for. I believe that he's
mandatory got to miss the first four games.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
He's going to miss at least half the season and
by the time he's able to come back, the Cardinals
will be like one win and so they won't even
bring him back.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
So many thought that veteran Colt McCoy, who was bounced around,
would be the starter at the beginning of the year. No,
he has been released. Goodbye. Colt McCoy is on the
unemployment line. Recently acquired Josh Dobbs, who's bounced around former
Tennessee Quarterbacks Steelers uh.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Last year, remember the end of the year Titans. The
Titans picked him up at the end of the year,
started like the most important game of the year for Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
He's got the most NFL experience on the on the roster.
Apparently he's gonna battle it out with someone named Clayton
toone to. Yeah. I had to look it up to
be honest with you. He's host that's right, former Houston
Cougar starting quarterback, fifth round pick of the team this year.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
So my favorite part of this whole story is this dope,
Jonathan Gannon, the coach of the Cardinals. I had to
look up his name now. So he said said he
did not want to name the Cardinals starting for competitive reason. Sure, sure,
I understand Washington is favored by about thirty five points.
They should be favored about thirty five the favorite by
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a touchdown, but still that's a touchdown is a big
number because Washington's not that good. They're an average NFL team,
and Arizona's that bad thing about when Arizona plays the
good teams, when they play like the Niners and some
of those other teams, what the points spread is going
to be wacky? All right? Is that it go Redbirds out,
you go Redbirds the other redbirds. It is the Ben
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phones we go. We'll get to the poisoned Apple. But
right now, let's say hello to Robert, who is in Oregon.
He's already ready to talk. I don't even have to
say anything more. He's ready to go.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Here.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Look at this guy.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
Yeah, I'm so excited because I listen to you guys
every night, and I get you through five seventy over
the internet, oh.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
On the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
God bless you right, And you know what, I'm so
glad you brought this thing up about the Dodgers, because
I've been calling down to the local channel down there
all summer and every time I get in, I tell
him the same thing. It's like that scene in Moneyball
where they say, if he's such a good hitter, why
can't he hit right?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (30:38):
And this is like, if this regulating and protecting pictures
work so well, why doesn't that work? And these guys
they can't give me an answers. They always say, what's
the money?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And you know, but how many how many Dodgers? How
many pictures have to have this same thing go wrong?
You've been babying. You've been babying, that's the thing, Rob,
I mean me. You watch the Dodge. How many times
have they been in situations where they needed a guy
to go extra inning and they didn't do it to
save them and then they stood up getting hurt.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
Well, look, I've been a fan since I was seventy
years old, my first darger cap. I'm seventy.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Now you sound very good, by the way, man, you
were ready to go. Look what are you doing? What's
your diet?
Speaker 11 (31:16):
I don't sleep, so that helps?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh that see, then I'll live forever too. I'm gonna
live forever, just like you, Robert. I don't sleep either,
don't There you go.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
But Dale never took a break. If he can pitch
two games if they needed him, and and those guys
arms held well.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
There are legendary stories about Lesorda having Fernando Valezuela throw
like two hundred and thirty pitches in the game, exactly
things that the certain people these days, Robert would their
eyeballs would pop out of their head if you told them.
Or Levon Hernandez pitching uh in a game where you know,
there were almost three hundred pitches, which legendary, right, because.
Speaker 11 (31:57):
It's so obvious that they don't they can't see it
because otherwise somebody's you know, it's the new clothes.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah, you know what it is. Robert's like, you know,
some people are the smartest people, and yet in certain
areas they're dumb. You know. It's like it's like I
love magic and I've I've talked a few magicians over
the years, and some of the brightest minds in politics
and in business get completely fooled by magicians. Oh sure,
and but yeah, they're very smart in other areas. But
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there are morons when you know, they just have a
blind spot.
Speaker 11 (32:27):
Well it's like they're all protecting somebody in that line
of you know, that that chain of command, because even
the guys on the radio will protect.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
That that idea.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Well, yeah, there is there is some of that. I mean,
they are employed by the team. So we'll leave it there.
But Robert, a good call. We don't get a lot
of those, so please call more offense. Since you can't
sleep anyway, you have no excuse. All right, thank you
our new friend Robert from Oregon. We will press on.
We have the m LB pick and here's who am
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I game. Speaking of the Doyers, Freddie Freeman reached fifty
doubles in one hundred and twenty nine games this season.
That is the fastest a player has reached fifty doubles
in a season since me again, Freddie Freeman. We'll concern
this guy coming over, how's he going to do after
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he's getting a little older there from the Braves, But
he's been great as a Dodger. Freddie Freeman fifty doubles
and one hundred and twenty nine games this season. That
is the fastest a player has reached fifty doubles in
a season since me. Who am I? The answer? We'll
get to it. We will do it NEXTO hoh who
am I?
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Speaker 1 (34:15):
And here's the who am I? Game? Freddie Freeman got
the fifty doubles and one hundred and twenty nine games
this season. That is the fastest the player has gotten
to fifty doubles in a season since me? Who am I?
That is the question and what is the answer? The
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Midnight Walker from Syracuse says the road Runner Ralph Carr
is the way to go Terrell Davis guessed by Cowboy
Killer Alex Trebek. He hits daily doubles every day. There
it's K C. Carr Holler. Who else do we have?
Nicole Byer who is thirty seven today from The Late
Night Drug Tester Frankie guests by Alf the Alien, O Piner,
(35:02):
Eddie Goodell from John Adrian Beltrey the Hall of Fame
that got away from Art Puffin. Who else do you have?
Mitch Webster, great Old Montreal Expo and briefly a Dodger
from Chris in Des Moines. Who else we have? Don
Rickles guests by Pauli b Who else Page Down, Bob
(35:25):
Yucker from Johnny Ray, Chuck Knoblock tossed out by Calligan
Tim in Michigan. Who else we have? Scottie Pott Sednik
from Fields of Green, Pete Maravich, that great baseball player
for LSU back in the day from Willie the Mess,
Mark Grace, the former saddleback Gauchow who led all of
baseball in hits in the nineteen nineties, Mark Grace There
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from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Shan is going with the
man who I believe still has the record highest paid
Chicago's sports talk radio host of all time, the great
Mike North As his answer Alboo Bay from Shane. We
don't need to join Wesley Walls guessed by Big Lou
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He's on number two. Uh, do you have an answer?
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 4 (36:14):
I'm gonna go with former Texas Ranger legend Steve Bouschell.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Steve Bouchell's it's Steve Bouchell. Is that the correct answer?
That's the wrong number? I said, not correct, Eddy, fine effort,
though there might be somebody who was in your chair
last night who would even give an effort on that,
but I will not name names. The correct answer is
Todd Helton. Todd Helton back with the Colorado Rockies in
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two thousand, twenty three years ago. Todd Helton, I for
my time, of course, was not around for that. So
the poisoned Apple comes out of Gotham, the Texas Rangers
and the New York Metropolitans getting together, and so the
Mets thought it would be nice to put a little
video vignette up on the scoreboard as Max Scherzer returned
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to City Field for the first time since he was
traded from the Mets. And so they put up a
video tribute. And what do you think the Mets fans?
Did you want to take a guest with the gun?
There's a chorus of booze raining down, cascading across the
stadium there and the Mets fans. Why would you do
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a video? Mex Sureser was a Met for about a
year and a half. Is there a rule you have
to do a video anytime somebody passed through the team? Like,
what is that?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Okay, let me stop you right there.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
The Mets are a bunch of Mets summies. I mean,
what do you Max sures You don't think of him
as a Met anyway. Yeah, we've got to get to this.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Hit that button right there. It is time now for
the m LB pick'em. Coope, you're going first. We are
tied yet again, You're going down. I'm gonna go with
Clayton Kershaw. It's a terrible pick. I will go with
Athenie Meenie, Miney Moe Corbin Burns.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Eddie, give me Matt Olsen.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Okay, you got him, you can have him.
Speaker 9 (38:08):
Chris the back to back, Chris Spencer, Torkelson and Luis Ariez.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Back to you at eight, back to you bets. I'll
take Marcel Ozuna. No Mortals, don't use my material, Coop.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
I'm gonna go with Adam Duval okay, and on braves
here Ti Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
And I'm gonna take the leader in the MVP race
in the National League, Mookie bets. Eddie already picked him, Okay,
Freddie Freeman, good, I'll take him instead.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Wait, I actually get time to pick a third player.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
George Kirby.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
George Kirby, Sorry because Eddie paused there.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Be pick my guy.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Well, what's wrong with that? We can share him.
Speaker 11 (38:49):
No,
Hello and welcome. It's our numb or one, our one,
tons of fun. We talk baseball here in our one.
Mookie Betts zooming up the charts. Has he passed Ronald
Acudo Junior by of the Braves in the National League
MVP race? You believe it or not? Also, why is
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Brian Cashman being so loyal to Aaron Boone for the
last place Yankee Skipper? And how do you explain the
rash of young Dodgers starting pitchers who have gone snap,
crackle pop and need the Tommy John surgery. We discussed
that as well. It's all coming your way right now.
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Give it up for our number one. You can bet
on it, well, I mean, if you want or bets
on it, I think would be the better way to
phrase that. Welcome. In the begetting of another edition of
the Ben Maler Show. We are in the air everywhere
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you there, me here, as we are your friendly neighborhood.
Gas bags coast, duck coast, border, the border and beyond.
On the mast and unrelentingly powerful microphones of fs are
emmating live dood live from under the moonlight as we
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are camouflaged by the darkness, Oh the darkness. Of it all,
and here we are. We've survived another day, and we
can spend all night barking at the clouds if there
are any howling at the moon. However, you're right, yes
there's actual sound of previous endeavors. But our lead this
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hour coming from base ball. Why not at the Dodger
Diamond And I think I've seen every one of Jason
Hayward's home runs he had. Another one is the Dodgers
play home run derby and beat the Diamondbacks have a
thirteen game lead, and they have a shot to catch
the Atlanta Braves to the top record in baseball. Those
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teams will play each other this weekend in a made
for television extravagant But it's not about that per se.
It's about a story which has been bouncing around in
baseball this week, involving Mookie Betts. Say, what so, our
first stop is actually technically the sportsbook, if you will,
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and they've updated, they've updated the odds that have been
posted for the MVP race in the National League. And
if you keep tracking this, if you might know, but
I'm assuming that you probably don't, and so you're unaware
of this. But the odds have been updated. If you
didn't see it, the wings of change are blowing, Otherwise
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I wouldn't be mentioning it. But we are now told
that the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder slash infielder Mookie Bets
has leapfrogged from a long shot a couple of weeks
ago in the National League MVP race to now the
betting favorite to win the National League Most Valuable Player Award.
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And when you say this is a massive adjustment. As
of August seventeenth, Mookie Bets was listed at thirty five
to one. He is now minus one thirty five and
Ronald Loacuna Junior of the Braves at plus one point twenty.
Freddie Freeman is also third on the list mookie Bets teammates.
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So let's discuss Mookie Bets passing the Atlanta Braves star
Ronald Locuna Junior. And that's the lead. Now Bets leading
the Braves outfielder in the MVP race. Do you believe
leave it or not? So I am going to go
first here. I not a believer on this one. I've
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got Churchill Downs, the Nurnberg defense, and Eureka and we
will combine all of these things together, and we are
going to make cracker jacks. Why not?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
All right?
Speaker 1 (04:19):
So the first thing here on this side of the microphone,
I am not sold. I'm a skeptic that Mookie Bets
has truly passed the Braves outfield of Ronal Kuna buy
in terms of the MVP rays. Now, I do believe
that what Mookie Betts has been able to do here
is obviously close the gap. I'm not naive to that.
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He's probably great the last couple of weeks with the Dodgers,
he's coming up on the outside. So think of this
like thoroughbred racing. Just imagine the most famous race track
of them all Churchill Downs, And you're at the starting gate,
you start the race, You're going around the track and
around the track and all that stuff, and the stretch. Wait,
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they come down the stretch, they come that famous line. Uh.
The horse racing broadcasters say. So at this point, the
way I look at the field, it's neck and neck.
It's gonna be a photo finish. And from this point forward,
if the Dodgers and Mookie Bets play better than the
Braves and Ronald Lacuna, then the Dodgers' Mookie Bets will
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win the MVP. If not, well, then it'll go the
other way. But we have about thirty games a little
over thirty games to go in the baseball regular season.
The gambling market, now, I've been a big advocate behind
these microphones of the years. The gambling market is a
great indicator of these type of situations. However, it's also
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very reactionary. But perception is often reality. Mookie Bets leads
baseball and hits in batting average OPS since August seventeenth.
The main reason that we have them even is because
there was such a gap ahead. And by the way,
heading into Monday, Ronaldacuna Junior was batting two sixty three
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with ten hits since in that same stretch, So Mookie's
got twelve more hits than Ronald does over the last
couple of weeks. But the other thing here is the
voter bias. You gotta factor the voter bias in and
there is a distinct competitive advantage that the Atlanta Braves
have as compared to the Dodgers, and that would be
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the East Coast bias. The Braves are in the sweet
spot of the time zone, and everyone of Mookie betts
games starts at well, not every one of them, but
most of them start at ten o'clock on the East coast.
So that's just the way it is now, Page two wheel,
Let's go to the Bronx, because I love a good kerfluffle,
and we've got that involving the Yankees, who are bad
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to the bone. The Yankees el stinko, but they're good
at feeding us content, and that's really all that matters here.
And so what is the latest in Yankee Land? Hearing
reports out of Gotham that the Pinstripers have already decided
they will not fire Aaron Boone unless unless the spawn
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of George by George hal Steinbrenner, unless hal Steinberder overrules
Brian Cashman. This is the way it's being reported there,
and that the Baseball Ops Department, as Goose Gossage called them,
the parade of nerds, they all love Aaron bone and
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they want him to continue as the manager. So let
us discuss here, why is Brian Cashman being so loyal
to Aaron Boone? Be very easy to fire Aaron Boone
and bring in some other slub to manage the Yankees.
It used to happen all the time in a different
generation where the Yankees would cycle through manager. So why
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not now, because here's why Aaron Boone is the quintessential
Yankee manager. For Brian Cashman, it's wonderful Aaron Boone. He's
got an ego, but not a massive ego like Joe
Torre had a huge ego when he managed the Yankees.
And you look at a guy like Cashman and he
wants a guy that's just gonna follow what he tells
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the manager, and by all accounts, that's exactly what Aaron
Boone does. And so he can use the Nuremberg defense
if you will. He's just following orders in the Yankee dougout,
that's all. He's doing whatever he's told. He's pretty good
at dealing with the media. He's got the gift to
gab with the media, Boone, and he's good at massaging egos,
and the Yankees have a fair amount of egos on
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that team. So he's doing what he's being told to
do in that three ring binder in the Yankee dougout there.
And so to rephrase it, if you're Brian Cashman, why
would you recommend the departure of Aaron Boone If you're
just gonna hire another sock pigeon to be your manager.
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So what's the point? All right, final stop here, Let's
go to Los Angeles, go back to LA. The Dodgers
made a roster move and they put Tony Gonsolin on
the extended injured list. He will undergo Tommy John surgery.
Hey gone, The operations gonna happen at the end of
this week on Friday, we are told. So Tony Gonsolin
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will be out until twenty twenty five. That is the
projection there. He is now the third, the third prize
Los Angeles Dodger pitcher that has needed ligament replacement surgery,
the Tommy John operation. In a very short span of time,
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Tony Gonsolin can hang out with Dustin May who's had
these operations multiple times, and Walker Bueller in the Dodgers infirmary.
So it got me thinking. Here, I got me thinking,
how do you explain the rash of Dodger pitchers, premium
Dodger pitchers needing Tommy John surgery. And my theory on
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this it's because the smartest guys in the room got
it wrong and they don't want to admit it. They
do not want to admit it at some point there
has to be changed. No, that's not just the Dodgers.
There's a bunch of teams that are going through this.
And because every team in baseball is doing almost the
same exact thing, consider this a Eureka moment. It should
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be a come to Jesus situation for the people that
run these baseball teams. We'd like to think that someone's
gonna have an epiphany here and realize, like, what are
we doing? What are we doing? The Dodgers have been
serving their pictures, their young pitchers peas and carrots. Peas
and carrots is what the Dodger pitchers have gotten for
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several years. They've been babying, babying the young pictures for
the Dodgers. They limit the number of innings, they limit
the appearances, they limit the pitches thrown, all in an
effort to avoid Tommy John surgery. Hello, you think it's working,
because I don't think it's working. And all this out
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of an abundance of caution. And remember that the famous
line kersher idea and those selfish goals when they took
him out of a perfect game opportunity against the Minnesota
Twins a couple of years ago. But the obvious thing,
it's right between your eyes here. None of this is working.
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Your young pitchers are in shambles, shamble unless you're just
trying to promote the Tommy John operation. If that's your goal, congratulations,
accomplished that. But now three promising starting pitchers have all
popped at tire and they're gone. So my advice here,
unsolicited advice. Hold an intervention. Someone needs to hold an
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intervention here. Try the Marshall plan. As in Mike Marshall
passed away a couple of years ago. He won the
Cy Young back in the seventies, pitched in over one
hundred games out of bullpen, and people thought he was
a looney tune. But he advocated pitching more, not less.
You look at some of the old school generation guys,
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Nolan Ryan, the all time strikeouts King, another guy that
said you gotta throw more, not less. And what do
the nerds do? What are the Ivy League, big academia
people do. They say, Oh, you doubt know what you're
talking about. We know better than you. And I would
say ninety percent of these morons have never picked up
a baseball in their life, and they're the ones that
are deciding how much to pitch not to pitch it up.
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And it's it's mind boggling that this is continued. And
you wonder how many more pitchers have to have their
arm blown out. And if your pitchers are gonna have
their arm blown out anyway, why not just have them
pitch extended innings and white, I mean, you baby these
pictures and they still end up getting hurt. And Mike Marshall,
the guy that won the cy Young Award back in
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the seventies, I mean he claimed that pitchers, you know,
before he passed away, I was a couple years ago,
but he had written about this extensively, about how he
figured that there are ways pitchers could avoid certain injuries.
And but you throw less now than forty years ago.
That we keep hearing about how every athlete is better,
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and you know, the evolution of human beings and everyone's
getting stronger and bigger and faster and all that. Yet
the pitchers in baseball got a baby, and then you
baby them, and then they can't they can't handle that,
and they end up getting these these major operations. It
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And a couple of people went to very extreme measures,
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Speaker 1 (15:39):
It's a bad job by you, Eddie. You didn't get
the memo no Little League Baseball mentions. Bad job by you. Di, Well,
that was yesterday.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
I would have mentioned it yesterday.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Would you have let off every update with it playing
off every update?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
Would yeoud you have.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Played a two minute highlight of Carl ravits Hitty calling
the home run? Would you play that every half hour?
Speaker 4 (16:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
I would not. Then you're not gonna somebody do this.
I will not name names, Eddie. I will just say
there was a rumor that someone someone loves twelve year
olds playing baseball and might or might not have been
in your chair the other night. That's all. No, definitely
not that guy. Is definitely definitely not him. Guaranteed I
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would have mentioned it.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
I would have been Parker, probably would not have let
off that, probably.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Would not have played it to the entire night.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
I would have mentioned it. Would you have done.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Two scores in an update for most of the night
just too? Would you have done that because that also
happened a lot.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
You know, No, I think I would have given more
than two scores unless there was just two baseball games yesterday,
which I'm guessing there weren't.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Well, usually on Sunday everyone's playing.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Yeah, it's been my experience.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
It's amazing. I don't need much and I already know
here you're actually talking about.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
I'm not naming any names here because you know I'm
a good I'm a good guy. I don't name names.
I just I just for some reason, it's stuck in
my head that you know, Eddie didn't mention Little League
base ball, and you know somebody in the building might
or might not have said that was a big story.
You know, I just want to point that out.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Sorry, without not being here yesterday, I had a little
miscommunication with an event I was taking part in.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So you know, this is not a goolag. You don't
have to be here every day. I don't fit. It's
not well, I'm look at the check. It might be fair,
but no, I'm kidding. But no, that's fine. Whatever we survived.
I needed some anxiety and medication. Coop had to talk
me off the ledge a couple of times. Almost jumped,
But but I'm good. You know I'm here, So it's
(17:34):
all good. Don't exactly, it's all it's all good. Uh
So we began here ranting about baseball. Mookie Bets now
the favorite for the m v P in the National League.
He's passed the brave star Ronald Acuno Jr.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
In that rale to find Dodger propaganda. There an our
one good job by you.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
No, what are you talking about? I ripped the Dodgers
at the end of that that they're they're there babying
of pitchers at a three Dodgers start. You're smiling because
you know I'm You're wrong. Tony Gonsolin, Tommy John, Dustin May, exactly,
Dustin May, Tommy John Walker, builder, Tommy John. Oh no,
(18:11):
they might as well bring back the actual Tommy johnn
He lives in Palm Springs. Bring him back.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
So they baby these pictures to save them out of
an abundance of caution, and these guys are socked. It's ridiculous.
Pit chob ptchum petchup. Pit chump, pet job.
Speaker 5 (18:31):
That's what I say, pitch early in often to be clear,
the word are you using there is pitch?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
What did you think I said? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
But people don't confuse the things that Ben said. No, never,
especially about old pictures. They know we're talking about confusion.
They never call the complaint that I said something I
didn't say.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Let's go to Allen, who's in Seattle where the Mariners
have taken off by the way as well, the Seattle
Mariners on a nice little run. Hello, Alan, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Oh man?
Speaker 6 (19:07):
I wanted to talk a little Dodger talk here.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh hot Dodger talk. See that Dodger talk right here.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Yeah, but it's kind of inchent Dodger talk. If you
don't mind that you mentioned Mike Marshall, the great reliever.
I had an encounter with the mediocre outfielder by the
same name.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
Oh yes, Mike. Now, Mike Marshall, number five in your program,
the outfielder but not number one in your heart, kind
of a grumpy guy. It was supposed to be really
good until he actually had to play and then yeah, okay,
what happened? We love old baseball stories. Now, before you
tell the story here. Alan, We have no idea who
you are, and we have no way of confirming the story,
(19:48):
but I hope whatever you say is true, So go ahead, Okay.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Wasn't he going out with Belinda Carlisle? Also, you know,
the lead singer of the Go Gos.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
I have no idea. We'd have to check, we'd have
to check with the Boston Hater, but he's not around anymore,
so I don't know.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Well, anyway, I was down on Redondo Beach and ran
into him, and and he had he and his friends
wanted to play some sand flag football or actually touched football,
and he got the ball in and he came in
my direction, and I don't know what happened. I was
(20:27):
probably not thinking at all. I tackled him and it
just made him embarrassed, and because he.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Okay, But the other thing is now, for those that
know Mike Marshall his nickname, and I love old baseball,
Mike Marshall last played a Major League baseball game in
nineteen ninety one, and we're getting a fresh Mike marsh.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
Mike Marshall, I remember, I don't remember the pitcher.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Yeah, but Mike Marshall, you know what His nickname was
Eddie was a jar head, no moose. They called him
the moose because he was chose. He was as big
as a moose, and he ran like a moose when
he was running around. I think he finished in Japan.
I believe he got they couldn't find a job in baseball.
Speaker 4 (21:04):
He got tackled by this guy.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Yeah, yeah, Are you a big guy, Allen? Are you
a big guy?
Speaker 8 (21:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (21:09):
No, No, I'm only about five to seven then, and
I probably was a lot, way a lot less back
then too. But I wanted to ask you about did
you ever meet Billybarkowitz?
Speaker 1 (21:24):
All right, thank you, I appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
All Right, great call.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
I'm so glad we took that call. What a way
to start the you know, the night here. Yeah, just
amazing Eddie. Uh that and some hot little league talk
for sure. Well, how about this story from Major League
Baseball speaking of tackling people in Colorado the Atlanta Braves
playing the Rockies. And we had a couple of dudes
that said, you know what, I want a photo with
(21:52):
Ronald Lacuna of the Bravest, A photo of that star
player exactly, big name player. Why not? Twenty five five
years old. This guy's on top of the baseball world
right now. He's wonderful. And so these guys decided that
they would like to go out and during the seventh
inning stretch, they decided to run out on the field
(22:15):
couple of guys and get a photo with the Braves outfielder.
And it did not go well. Yeah, so the one
guy wanted a photo and then security came kind of
pushed him away, and then whoa, there comes another guy
and he's running in. And then the second guy made
(22:37):
some contact with the Braves outfielder and the videos had
gone viral. Here people freaking out. But this is as
old as baseball, Like people running on the field doing
stupid stuff. It's like people are outraged. I can't believe that.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
What happened kind of reminded me of the old Tom
Gamboa thing. Although these guys apparently were nice. They were
not trying to beat up.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
One was a little uh. One had like four guys
trying to tackle him, and he was pushing like four
guys away. He had Tom Gamboa, the coach of the Royals,
was one of the great couple of losers. Some white
trash in Chicago tried to tackle the guy. Remember the
famous story from old school baseball, like the nineteen hundreds,
Ty Cobbs supposedly beat up a disabled guy.
Speaker 5 (23:22):
Yeah, he went into the stands to beat him up too.
He left the field play for that.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, allegedly done that. There was an outfielder for the
Angels and White Sockx named Tony Phillips who supposedly went
in the crowd in Milwaukee at the Old County Stadium
to guy was heckling him.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Here, your boy, Chad Cruder choked out a cup fail.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh that's right. That was when I was doing stuff
with the Dodgers. We had they did extra police on
hand when we came back to Chicago because yeah, there
were like fifteen guys in the crowd. The Dodgers bullpen
went in the crowd. I was at a game one
time that the Braves had a picture named John Rocker,
remember John Rocker, of course, and some guy ran out
in the field and pulled his pants down and moon
(23:59):
John right second base. He was very upset with.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Now did anyone for the for Ronald Kunya, Did anyone
for the Braves for the radio or the TV? Did
they have a call like Kevin Harland does when a
guy gets on a field during an NFL game.
Speaker 9 (24:12):
No, but they there was a TV call, but it
was very over the top. A lot of TVs like
they they insist, you can't show it on TV. We
can't show the people running in the field.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
The Braves TV channel did not show. They showed a
wide angle. But the guys were doing play by play
on what was going on, and of course they were like,
this kind of happen. Of course it can't happen, but
it does happen. You Yeah, that the Rockies play at
a ballpark named after a beer? Do you what do
you think people are doing when they're going to There's
no other reason to go to a Rockies game. I
(24:43):
would get hammered. The team blows, uh, so you're gonna
go out there, You're gonna drink for three hours and
then you're gonna, you know, run around and do whatever
you're gonna do. And so they anyway, so the video
has gone viral and shocking outragers. I can't believe it.
But the security was there and they separated the fans
and all that, and I'm mad.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
Yeah, so aren't you a little surprised? None of his
teammates came to his aid.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
There, yeah, you're on your own. You know, every man
for himself, you know, come on.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Throw high, throw high fastball, and both bullpens him.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
The two guys gone in there like Bobby Wagon.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Two guys jump and go after one of your teammates,
and they're just standing there and watch. Wow, what are
those guys.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Doing now, Ronald said, quote after Gaves. I was a
little scared at first, but I think the fans were
out there and asking for a picture, he said. But
security was able to get there, and so I think
everything's okay, he said, So there you go. Now, when
fans used to be like a shooting gallery at baseball games,
and fans because they once the cell phone thing took over,
(25:42):
everyone's on their phone, so people are dying getting hit
in the head and crap at baseball games. So they
put these giant nets up at baseball stadiums. So now
if more fans run out in the field, are they
going to put like a moat around the field like
with alligators, and they can have a drawbridge for the
players to walk out on field. They could have a
nice raw bridge they.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Like the Astros had a hill. But now We've just
got moats everywhere.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Yeah, just have a moat instead of a warning track.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
Just have a moat and then be funny seeing a
guy fall seeing off for a ball, falling into a
moat get eat by an alligator.
Speaker 8 (26:12):
If you want to rob a home run, you have
to jump and latch onto the wall to prevent yourself
from falling into the moat.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You have to be like Spider Man. You have to
use your spidy like senses and hold onto the wall
and if you fall, you will be eaten by an
angry gator. Or it's more like Indiana Jones. You're probably
jumping on the heads of those alligators to go get
the ball. You gotta navigate the or you get.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Your leg bitten off and then you and your brothers
actually kill the allexy eat it and.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Then you can call overnight talk radio as the man
with the most testosterone in the country, like Van the
One Legged Bama Man.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
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Speaker 4 (27:51):
We got news from the NFL the Arizona Cardinals. Of
course they have.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Cardinals are going going ahead horseman.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
I don't need a quarterback.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
They got your little guy, Kyler Murray on the all
he's going to be out for. I believe that he's
mandatory got to miss the first four games.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
He's going to miss at least half the season and
by the time he's able to come back, the Cardinals
will be like one win and so they won't even
bring him back.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
So many thought that veteran Colt McCoy, who was bounced around,
would be the starter at the beginning of the year. No,
he has been released. Goodbye. Colt McCoy is on the
unemployment line. Recently acquired Josh Dobbs, who's bounced around former
Tennessee Quarterbacks Steelers uh.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Last year, remember the end of the year Titans. The
Titans picked him up at the end of the year,
started like the most important game of the year for Tennessee.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
He's got the most NFL experience on the on the roster.
Apparently he's gonna battle it out with someone named Clayton
toone to. Yeah. I had to look it up to
be honest with you. He's host that's right, former Houston
Cougar starting quarterback, fifth round pick of the team this year.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
So my favorite part of this whole story is this dope,
Jonathan Gannon, the coach of the Cardinals. I had to
look up his name now. So he said said he
did not want to name the Cardinals starting for competitive reason. Sure, sure,
I understand Washington is favored by about thirty five points.
They should be favored about thirty five the favorite by
(29:21):
a touchdown, but still that's a touchdown is a big
number because Washington's not that good. They're an average NFL team,
and Arizona's that bad thing about when Arizona plays the
good teams, when they play like the Niners and some
of those other teams, what the points spread is going
to be wacky? All right? Is that it go Redbirds out,
you go Redbirds the other redbirds. It is the Ben
(29:42):
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phones we go. We'll get to the poisoned Apple. But
right now, let's say hello to Robert, who is in Oregon.
He's already ready to talk. I don't even have to
say anything more. He's ready to go.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Here.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Look at this guy.
Speaker 11 (30:14):
Yeah, I'm so excited because I listen to you guys
every night, and I get you through five seventy over
the internet, oh.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
On the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 11 (30:21):
God bless you right, And you know what, I'm so
glad you brought this thing up about the Dodgers, because
I've been calling down to the local channel down there
all summer and every time I get in, I tell
him the same thing. It's like that scene in Moneyball
where they say, if he's such a good hitter, why
can't he hit right?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 11 (30:38):
And this is like, if this regulating and protecting pictures
work so well, why doesn't that work? And these guys
they can't give me an answers. They always say, what's
the money?
Speaker 1 (30:47):
And you know, but how many how many Dodgers? How
many pictures have to have this same thing go wrong?
You've been babying. You've been babying, that's the thing, Rob,
I mean me. You watch the Dodge. How many times
have they been in situations where they needed a guy
to go extra inning and they didn't do it to
save them and then they stood up getting hurt.
Speaker 11 (31:05):
Well, look, I've been a fan since I was seventy
years old, my first darger cap. I'm seventy.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Now you sound very good, by the way, man, you
were ready to go. Look what are you doing? What's
your diet?
Speaker 11 (31:16):
I don't sleep, so that helps?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
Oh that see, then I'll live forever too. I'm gonna
live forever, just like you, Robert. I don't sleep either,
don't There you go.
Speaker 11 (31:28):
But Dale never took a break. If he can pitch
two games if they needed him, and and those guys
arms held well.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
There are legendary stories about Lesorda having Fernando Valezuela throw
like two hundred and thirty pitches in the game, exactly
things that the certain people these days, Robert would their
eyeballs would pop out of their head if you told them.
Or Levon Hernandez pitching uh in a game where you know,
there were almost three hundred pitches, which legendary, right, because.
Speaker 11 (31:57):
It's so obvious that they don't they can't see it
because otherwise somebody's you know, it's the new clothes.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Yeah, you know what it is. Robert's like, you know,
some people are the smartest people, and yet in certain
areas they're dumb. You know. It's like it's like I
love magic and I've I've talked a few magicians over
the years, and some of the brightest minds in politics
and in business get completely fooled by magicians. Oh sure,
and but yeah, they're very smart in other areas. But
(32:25):
there are morons when you know, they just have a
blind spot.
Speaker 11 (32:27):
Well it's like they're all protecting somebody in that line
of you know, that that chain of command, because even
the guys on the radio will protect.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
That that idea.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Well, yeah, there is there is some of that. I mean,
they are employed by the team. So we'll leave it there.
But Robert, a good call. We don't get a lot
of those, so please call more offense. Since you can't
sleep anyway, you have no excuse. All right, thank you
our new friend Robert from Oregon. We will press on.
We have the m LB pick and here's who am
(32:57):
I game. Speaking of the Doyers, Freddie Freeman reached fifty
doubles in one hundred and twenty nine games this season.
That is the fastest a player has reached fifty doubles
in a season since me again, Freddie Freeman. We'll concern
this guy coming over, how's he going to do after
(33:17):
he's getting a little older there from the Braves, But
he's been great as a Dodger. Freddie Freeman fifty doubles
and one hundred and twenty nine games this season. That
is the fastest a player has reached fifty doubles in
a season since me. Who am I? The answer? We'll
get to it. We will do it NEXTO hoh who
am I?
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Speaker 1 (34:15):
And here's the who am I? Game? Freddie Freeman got
the fifty doubles and one hundred and twenty nine games
this season. That is the fastest the player has gotten
to fifty doubles in a season since me? Who am I?
That is the question and what is the answer? The
(34:36):
Midnight Walker from Syracuse says the road Runner Ralph Carr
is the way to go Terrell Davis guessed by Cowboy
Killer Alex Trebek. He hits daily doubles every day. There
it's K C. Carr Holler. Who else do we have?
Nicole Byer who is thirty seven today from The Late
Night Drug Tester Frankie guests by Alf the Alien, O Piner,
(35:02):
Eddie Goodell from John Adrian Beltrey the Hall of Fame
that got away from Art Puffin. Who else do you have?
Mitch Webster, great Old Montreal Expo and briefly a Dodger
from Chris in Des Moines. Who else we have? Don
Rickles guests by Pauli b Who else Page Down, Bob
(35:25):
Yucker from Johnny Ray, Chuck Knoblock tossed out by Calligan
Tim in Michigan. Who else we have? Scottie Pott Sednik
from Fields of Green, Pete Maravich, that great baseball player
for LSU back in the day from Willie the Mess,
Mark Grace, the former saddleback Gauchow who led all of
baseball in hits in the nineteen nineties, Mark Grace There
(35:47):
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Shan is going with the
man who I believe still has the record highest paid
Chicago's sports talk radio host of all time, the great
Mike North As his answer Alboo Bay from Shane. We
don't need to join Wesley Walls guessed by Big Lou
(36:10):
He's on number two. Uh, do you have an answer?
Speaker 4 (36:13):
Ready?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 4 (36:14):
I'm gonna go with former Texas Ranger legend Steve Bouschell.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Steve Bouchell's it's Steve Bouchell. Is that the correct answer?
That's the wrong number? I said, not correct, Eddy, fine effort,
though there might be somebody who was in your chair
last night who would even give an effort on that,
but I will not name names. The correct answer is
Todd Helton. Todd Helton back with the Colorado Rockies in
(36:41):
two thousand, twenty three years ago. Todd Helton, I for
my time, of course, was not around for that. So
the poisoned Apple comes out of Gotham, the Texas Rangers
and the New York Metropolitans getting together, and so the
Mets thought it would be nice to put a little
video vignette up on the scoreboard as Max Scherzer returned
(37:02):
to City Field for the first time since he was
traded from the Mets. And so they put up a
video tribute. And what do you think the Mets fans?
Did you want to take a guest with the gun?
There's a chorus of booze raining down, cascading across the
stadium there and the Mets fans. Why would you do
(37:26):
a video? Mex Sureser was a Met for about a
year and a half. Is there a rule you have
to do a video anytime somebody passed through the team? Like,
what is that?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Okay, let me stop you right there.
Speaker 1 (37:37):
The Mets are a bunch of Mets summies. I mean,
what do you Max sures You don't think of him
as a Met anyway. Yeah, we've got to get to this.
Speaker 6 (37:43):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Hit that button right there. It is time now for
the m LB pick'em. Coope, you're going first. We are
tied yet again, You're going down. I'm gonna go with
Clayton Kershaw. It's a terrible pick. I will go with
Athenie Meenie, Miney Moe Corbin Burns.
Speaker 4 (38:02):
Eddie, give me Matt Olsen.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Okay, you got him, you can have him.
Speaker 9 (38:08):
Chris the back to back, Chris Spencer, Torkelson and Luis Ariez.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Back to you at eight, back to you bets. I'll
take Marcel Ozuna. No Mortals, don't use my material, Coop.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
I'm gonna go with Adam Duval okay, and on braves
here Ti Oscar Hernandez.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
And I'm gonna take the leader in the MVP race
in the National League, Mookie bets. Eddie already picked him, Okay,
Freddie Freeman, good, I'll take him instead.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Wait, I actually get time to pick a third player.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
George Kirby.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
George Kirby, Sorry because Eddie paused there.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Be pick my guy.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Well, what's wrong with that? We can share him.
Speaker 11 (38:49):
No,
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