Hour 1 - Brainstorm

Ben Maller talks about reports that the NFL's top running backs have started a private group chat to brainstorm on improving salaries, the idea that CeeDee Lamb is the top market WR next year, MLB Pick'em, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our one of
the radio show. We love a good drama, o rama,
and we're getting that playing out in real time in
the NFL as training camps gets started. What is your
position on a running back group text chain to brainstorm

(00:23):
on improving salaries? That's really going on. It's a thing.
We're talking about it right now. Also buy or sell
c D. Lamb of the Cowboys being a top market
wide receiver, top of the market wide receiver in his
next contract. And former Falcon star Julio Jones, who's been

(00:44):
a journeyman in the last couple of years. He has
now been lenked a linked to the Patriots. Is this
something or nothing? We're talking about that and much more.
Buckle up for our number one of the Ben Mather Show.
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come from the NFL, and oh what a story it is.
I might be the only one that's fascinated by this.
Maybe I am. I don't know, but I continue to
love the we'll call it the back squash if you will,

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from the franchised tagged running backs not getting paid and
the hissy fit which has been going on by certain
members of the media and the running back community. If
you've not heard the latest on this story, perhaps not.
We've now learned that there is a group of veteran

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running backs so upset. How upset are they? They're so
upset that they have organized a group text chain. Let
me tell you something. When you go to a text chain,
you mean business, right, We all know that when you
go to a text chain, my god, holy canoli. And
so they are commiserating. They are working together, side by side, Titans, giants, raiders, me,

(03:52):
oh MYI all working incohoots to try to figure out
how to navigate through a depressing, gloomy financial situation, the
running back position. Let me tell you someth We do
the same thing in radio. Yeah. Oh, we all text. Yeah,
we have group texts. Absolutely, yeah. And it's worked out well,

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unless it hasn't. But they're trying to improve their situation, right,
trying to improve their situation. They're brainstorming and all that
they're using the social media channels the matrix. They're using
the matrix to attempt to curry favor and also friendly
faces ex jocks that are now in the football media,

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and they are deputizing them to put pressure on ownership.
So let us discuss the question, what is your position
on the running backs forming a confab to get together
here and a text chain the running backs forming a
text chain to brainstorm on improving salary. We've got sardines,

(05:02):
Chris Kringle, and squatty potty, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make tomatoes.
Why because the NFL running backs would like to take
those tomatoes and throw them at ownership. They're that upset,
all right. So a pretty sure without being inside the

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text chain, I'm pretty sure the text chain is filled
with a lot of memes and a lot of jokes,
probably fart jokes, a lot of that going on. I
don't think this is an intense situation. That's just my
take on what's going on here. Yeah, they're texting each other.
There's probably a lot of grab ass going on as well.

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And why wouldn't there be Why wouldn't there be a
lot of grab asks. You got to keep things light
as you were efforting to synchronize the message, the same
talking points and all of that, the battle plan, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. And while factions of the pig
skin media has mentioned some former players are picking up

(06:09):
the cause here and taking this as their cause and
demanding no justice, no peace for the running backs and
all that, it's just wild. It's just absolutely wild, like
this is some kind of big thing that should stop
the NFL and its tracks because the running backs are

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not getting paid a lot of money. I have not
lost any sleep over this. Am I a bad person
because I've not lost any I've not.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
I have not.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
I have nothing to do with running backs making money.
If they make a lot of to me, they make
a lot of money. Anyway. I think they already make
a lot of money, So that's good for them. I'm
happy with it. They want more money, more and more
and more and more and more and more and more.
But it's at this point if you take a couple
of steps back and you look across the serengetti, and

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you look at the landscape, and you look the running
back position, and you say Okay, this whole hullabaloo is
one of those things that sounds better in theory than
in reality. It's all sizzle and no steak. It's a
futile act. Now, hey, I understand why they're doing it,

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and that's great. Knock yourself out. Uh take take up Congress.
Maybe you get some Congress people to get involved in this.
But the reason it doesn't have legs if you look out,
NFL management does not see a problem. The fans don't
see a problem. So that's a big stumbling block. I

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no fans will care about this. There's some hardos that
maybe do, but the vast majority do not care. You care,
You got your own problems. You've got your own finances
to worry about. You gotta pay your own bills. You
worry about some running back for the Tennessee Titans or
the Giants or the Dolphins. You don't care. Who cares
if they get paid a great They already get paid

(08:01):
a lot of money compared to what the common person
makes anyway. And the other situation is that there's a
cornacopia of available running backs. That's called supply side economics.
And we talked about this in previous episodes of the show.
I guess we'll give a refresher course right now. But
increased supply versus lack of demand, not that there's no demand.

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Every team in the NFL has a running back. There's
certainly demand for it, but it's not increased demand. And
rushers are like sardines. We've used this analogy before, we
believe it fits, and so we'll stick with it. That
the quarterback is salmon. Salmon is expensive. Sardines are not expensive.

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Why because there are an abundant amount of sardines. They
are not hard to get, and the number of sardines
it exceeds the level of demand. So it's a simple kiss.
You look at you look at the oceans, and you said,
there's a lot of sardines there. But there's no correlation

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between paying ball carriers and winning. That's another strike, another
demerit against the running backs in the NFL. And in
the last fifteen years, so not a generation, but getting
close to a generation. The last fifteen years, no Super
Bowl winning team has had a running back whose salary

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cap hit exceeded two point four million. The last team
to win a Super Bowl with a premier running back
was the Seattle Seahawks back in twenty thirteen, I believe
it was. And they won because of their defense, not
necessarily because their running back. But that's how I give
go about a decade the last time that happened, and

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Kansas City just won the Super Bowl. They had two
running backs that played in the game against Philadelphia, Isaiah Pacheco,
a seventh round draft pick, and Jerck McKinnon, who's bounced
around the NFL. And so that's that's how that went,
all right. Now, turning the page on the running back issues,
we go to Dallas where Cede Lamb is under contract

(10:12):
through the twenty twenty four season. But if you're looking
for somebody that's gonna get paid a ton of money,
I know, so upset the running backs Cede Lamb supposed
to that guy. I was just reading about this that
Lamb is next in line for the next wave to
cash in those big bonanza contract extensions, and a report

(10:33):
saying he's gonna be the top of the market guy
and he's gonna make his very low by NFL standards
base salary CD Lamb in Dallas this year. I know
you're concerned about that. And then you've got the fifth
year option where his contract's gonna jump up, up and away.
The chatter has Jerry Jones looking to hand over more

(10:58):
cash to Cede Lamb, So, by your cell, buy or
sell the Cowboys. Cede Lamb being a top of the
market guy at the receiver position when he gets the
new contract. So I'm gonna buy this one. I'll be
Benny Brightside, I buy it. I'm not a huge Cede
Lamb guy. I think he's good. I don't think he's great.
I don't have him in the rarefied air of NFL receivers.

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He's a second tier receiver in terms of the top
guys being Cooper cup Tyreek Hill, you go to Jamar
Chase of Cincinnati, Justin Jefferson, Stefon Diggs when he's not
a looney tone, Davonte Adams. Those are the top guy.
And then you've got that second wave with AJ Brown

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in Philadelphia, Deebo Samuel with the Niners, who's a Swiss
army knife guy, Mike Evans, and then DK Metcalf. So
he's kind of in that group, which is not a
bad group. It's not a bad group. It's a nice group.
They eat well, people like them, so they're in Grishet.
But regardless of that, Jerry Jones in this little equation,
I'm being Benny Brightside because Jerry Jones is the Chris

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Kringle in Dallas, and CD is on Santa's Nice List,
and Jerry takes care of people that are on the
nice list. And so each year, each year Jerry says
who's been naughty and who's been nice? And Cedee Lamb,
assuming he doesn't go out there and puke all over
the field this year, he'll be in line for the

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Cowboys to possibly tear up that fifth year option and
line something up. But you look around and with DeAndre
Hopkins agent going to a run first team in Tennessee
and he's going to fall off the map, Amari Cooper
likely will follow off the map. And so they moved
down and then the Ceedee Lamb moves on up to

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a penthouse on the Upper east Side. Now last word here,
So former Falcon wide receiver Julio Jones, who played for
Tennessee last year, was in tomp A Bay with the
Buccaneers there. How did that work out? Not good? But
there's a story bouncing around that that he is drawing
interest from a team that just flopped trying to get

(13:10):
a wide receiver. So former Falcon receiver Julio Jones' name
has popped up. It's been linked to the Patriots. Is
that something or nothing? So that would be nothing, that
would be well, it's obviously we're talking about it, but
it's still nothing. Do not let a falling star fall
on yout. DeAndre Hopkins spurned the Patriots for the Titans,

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and the Patriots, you're looking around. They need to do something.
They needed something, so they're looking around. The coveroards are
bare right now, there's nothing there. It's like after the pandemic,
when you tried to get toilet paper, you tried to
get bottled water. You couldn't get that because it was
all gone. People were buying it, they were hoarding it.
So they're looking for help. And Julio Jones. If you

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if you think of Julio Jones in his in terms
of where he's at in his career, he's like a
beached whale. H And at one point was a beautiful
way right out there swimming through the Atlantic, just amazing,
beautiful whale. And now he's laying there and you're just
waiting for the whale to explode. You're waiting for the
gas and that it's gonna be kaboom, kaboom, kaboom. He's

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washed up, but big name, Hall of fame career, big
name at this point, little game, and for the Patriots,
Julio Jones would be akin to a not a squatty potty,
but the squatty potty spray. You know, they still that
spray when you drop a douce. It'll make it smell good. Yeah,
that they try to smell up because the name's great.

(14:35):
People like the name, and there's a lot of low
information fans that see a name like that. They're like,
oh man, this guy's great, got that nice floral scent
to it and all that. Trying to mask the smell
coming out in terms of raw talent from the Patriot
locker room. Just one spray, that's it, just one spray.
His last impactful season was way back in twenty nineteen.

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Since the pandemic, he has been a bus writer Julio Jones,
not a bus driver. But hey, is that a great career.
I don't think that's that's likely. It happened. It is
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I mean Jayscoop, not a newbie. We've had Jayscoop in here.

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He says. I always get excited, and I feel a
bit nostalgia, A bit of nostalgia, says on Newby Night.
Since it was a Newby Night when I made my
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on such a night. Let's go newbies. I was nervous,
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up the ranks as a brigadier general from the Mallain Militia.

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You've been in studio. We've invited you in to hang
out with us, and we've had a few listeners to
come in. Now that that whole COVID thing's over, we're
gonna have people back in the studio and it's a
lot of fun. Jordan from Ohio Rights and he says
a rare a plus plus plus plus Mallard monologue, and
it says mobile quarterbacks are an emphasis of offensive schemes
and have taken away from the usefulness of running backs.

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While they are a higher in supply, a higher than
the supply than ever before. They need to evolve, learn to throw,
be a true number two receiver and an elite blocker.
The running position. Running back position is out, daddy. Now
you know what killed the running back position. Todd Gurley. Todd.
The Rams paid Todd Gurley, and before the ink even

(19:03):
dried on Todd Gurley's contract, he started having an arthritic
knee and the Rams gave him the contract because he
was the focus of the Rams offense. They gave him
the money and his body fell apart in Dallas. Zeke
Elliott got paid bunch of money. How did that work out? Disaster?
That was the last wave of running backs that got paid.

(19:24):
And you can throw Leveon Bell in there with the
Jets also will toss him in there. But that group
of running backs that got paid and it was a debacle.
Midnight Walker from the Queues rites and says the running
backs they're going insane, and now they've started a new
text chain. These poor running backs, they're climbing the walls.
But the owners have them right by the balls, say poet,

(19:50):
and he doesn't even know it. You can chime in
on Twitter at Ben malar Fergdog Rights in says, I
am tired of all these whiny running backs. I get
rid of them and go back to pounding the rock
with even more underpaid full backs like the good old days.
Bring back Tom Rathman and the full back position. That's

(20:13):
what we need to bring back.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
There's only like Lorenzo O'Neil, Lorenzo o nil.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, he worked here briefly back in the day.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
I went to school with him.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
You want a cookie?

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Do you have cookies? Okay, yes I do.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'm trying to get rid of I've been eating too
no self control cookies.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
I wouldn't know anything about that.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Well, no, I mean I'm fasting, but then when I eat,
I end up. Say I have a meal. I have
a couple of cookies with my meal.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Y gotta have dessert.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Come on, you know I'm gonna trying to get you
guys fat. That's why are you fast too late? Is
it religious or is it just for your own diet? Fasting?

Speaker 2 (20:50):
He's been doing this for a long time.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
I've been doing this for many years, I was saying, thanks,
thanks for listening. I slim down down. Yes, I lost
a lot of weight by not eating. But but crazy
yeah words. But the funny thing about it is in
my head, this is my michi gos, as my parents say,
because in my head, when I eat, I pretty much
eat what I want. But I just eat one meal

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a day. It's a hearty meal. So in my head,
I'm thinking full filled up. And I read some crap
online that said when human beings were evolving back in
the early days, you know, this is this myth that
people would go out hunting and they would always succeed.
They'd find to kill, and they most of the time
they didn't know the success rate hunting and foraging. They

(21:35):
were like at the Mendoza line, they were like maybe
twenty percent of the time they actually got a good
kill and got something to eat. Then you feast it. Yeah,
then they would feast a lot of times.

Speaker 2 (21:45):
You had to scrounge and yeah, exactly, gather, hunt, gather forage.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
And as you know, I'm a great hunter. I'm an outdoorsman.
You're good at hunting for blueberries.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
Right, strawberry, strawberry. I like to taste of blueberries, but
more of a strawberry guy. Oranges love orange, big orange
guy love orange pears.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
More of an apple guy than the pair. I know.
I'm not against the the pears, like the cousin of
the apple. I'm okay with the pear pears, all right.
Put some pair with some cheese.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
That's what I didn't have my first pair until very
late in life.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Wow, and you grew up in a in a place.
I guess they don't. They must not grow pears there.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
In the They grow everything there, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, more and more oranges, a lot of oranges.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yes, I've seen that in your which is the bread
basket of California. Central California farming does all the farming
takes place and smells constantly like horse farts or not
horse parts, cow farts, cowparts, got the wrong type of fart.
They're not horses cows. But anyway, well, we have newbies.
We take all all new calls. It's Tiger Woods story.

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They pay this off though, so report bouncing around here,
and you know it must be true because it was
in the New York Post. So Tiger Woods facing a
thirty million dollar lawsuit by his ex girlfriend. That must
have been fun. Well, it appears that that lawsuit has
met its end. The woman named eric Hermann suing Tiger

(23:15):
Woods thirty million dollars has dropped dropped her lawsuit against
the estate of Tiger Woods. She dropped the case penning
the results of her appeal of a judge's order to
throw out a different lawsuit she filed against Woods. And
so there's like, there's a lot of moving parts of this.

(23:35):
But the New York Post reporting that is an exclusive
report that Tiger Wood's ex girlfriend has dropped the thirty
million dollar lawsuit. So Tiger can put on his slippers
and his velvet pajamas and roll over in bed and
have a wonderful times personal Yeah. So this other case, though,

(23:56):
does remain. So there is that. And she origionally filed
the suit against Tiger Woods, claiming that he violated the
Landlord Tenant Act by tricking her into vacs or vacationing
vacationing and then broke up. So anyway, right, well that's
a mess.

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Speaker 2 (25:03):
This from college football, the unnamed former Northwestern football player
who played from twenty eighteen to twenty.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Twenty has Why is he not named?

Speaker 2 (25:10):
That's a good question. Actually, I was going to ask
you that as well. I guess filed the first, but
I'm sure not the last lawsuit against former head coach
Pat Fitzgerald and the school leadership over the hazing allegations,
and that I was gonna ask you, now, why do
you suppose he has not put his name on this?
Because there'd be plenty of people out there wanting to
name him as a hero.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
And there's also a lot of people that think he
is the opposite of that Eddie that breaking down.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Yeah, but they won't won't do that publicly though. They're
not going to say that publicly about this guy.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
I know.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
Yeah, didn't he hire a famous one of those guys
that Sun They always what's the guy's name, Crump? Is
that the guy's name? He's like, he's always on the
news channels because he's as high profile lawsuit.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
All I know is that guy from Houston that was
involved in the de Shaun Watson thing. That guy.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Yeah, once you get in in these like high profiles,
they just they you get you're on that list and
like people look at they look for you.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
Is it Rusty Harden I'm thinking of.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Uh it hardens the guy's name. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly so.
But remember in the in the old days, it was
always Gloria already was the that was the lawsuit. If
you're a woman suing, some of you go there. But
that's a long time. She's like kind of retired now.
So now there's a new crop of these celebrity lawyers.
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To try something different. I want to I want to
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Okay, well what do you want to try out for?

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I want to be the weed man. I live here
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couple of times. But uh, you know, I have all
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Speaker 2 (27:14):
You're very good, ben at spotting these imposts.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
This sounds I'm there though. Yeah, this does sound like
this is this is a fake call. This does not
sound You do not sound like you're legitimate, sir. You
sound like an impostor that's the deal.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
This is this is the part you talk here. This
is the I think he must be an imposter.

Speaker 2 (27:40):
Yeah, yeah, he got he was. He was caught and decided, Well,
you are fake. Well, just to hit the eject button.

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Let's do some old guy radio. Don in Denver on
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Speaker 7 (28:05):
Hey, we got to mention the galloping ghosts. Red Grange
in this running back era, he negotiated his own wage,
basically signed with Chicago and that's how the NFL began.
The guy was running loose when he got to borrow,
nobody could catch him, and he got paid for It
was the fourth back.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
In those days.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
I was just I was actually telling that I was
saying before the show, in our production meeting, I said,
I hope that Red Grange his name on the show.
And here we are. I mean, Don, are you spying
in our meeting?

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Are you not on the pulse of what I need,
the content I need.

Speaker 7 (28:43):
I've been listening for three years, but this is only
my second time calling in. I want to give a
tribute out to beer drinking Brian Man on the Newbie Night.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
A legend, one of the all time greats beer drinking Brian.
Some of the funniest calls we've ever had on this
show with him in half pint and their Shenanigans driving
around on tractors, and it was just wonderful radio back
in the day. Absolutely all right.

Speaker 7 (29:07):
The guy from Miami ain't gonna cut it with his
weed man.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
Nah, he wasn't from Miami. It was doing our regulars.
They called up here and it got away. He got
away right right away. You got on there. I don't
know how that happened. Heads are going to roll, do
I thank you? Go away? All right. Now let's go
to Groovy Greg on a Newbie Night, All new callers
all the time. Hello, Groovy Greg in Toledo.

Speaker 7 (29:31):
What's up? Ben?

Speaker 6 (29:31):
Your number one here in Toledo. It's the mud Hands
and Ben Meller.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
By the way, Greg, there's some serendipity right now, Eddie.
You see the hat I'm wearing right here? No way,
this is a Toledo mud Hens hat sent by one
of our listeners who lives in Toledo. A couple of
years ago, and it's in my rotation. Wow, this is
not the tradition. My favorite Toledo mud Hens hat is
the original old school hat, yeah, which is also in

(29:58):
my rotation. But this is more of their new age
hat that they that I'm wearing right here.

Speaker 6 (30:03):
They been mudd Hands started in nineteen sixty five and
I was at the first game there at the Old
Reds in Toledo, Ohio at the rec Center. And I'm
glad you got a mud in that because the worldwide
you don't have the mash with the Clinger and everybody
loves the mud Hens.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, And still what was going on there? What was
happening there?

Speaker 2 (30:23):
I think I thought he was with the chickens.

Speaker 7 (30:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
The chicks shouldn't be awake at this hour. Something must
be going on here. Wow. Yeah, all right, Greg, what's
on your mind? Though you didn't call about that, what's
on your mind?

Speaker 6 (30:37):
Okay? I was listening to the Cleveland Indian Game legendary
announcer Tom Hamilton. Had I thought about the legendary Tommy
if he got traded to say, like to the Marlins
or the National League of Marlins or eighty Garcias the Braves,
and he could he possibly win the MPPU, the American
League and and l at the least a team to

(30:59):
like the World Series. So the question bet but he
said that that's kind of weird.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
I say, whatever you want, but could he sure? Will
he know because Ronald Lacuno junr is way out in
front for the Atlanta Braves, and so Tony's got the
American League MVP all but rather up.

Speaker 6 (31:19):
Yeah, fun that Abby Abby kind of a long shot,
but anything's possible. A Tani, he's been great.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
He's been in the numbers actually stack up, legitimately stack
up to Babe Ruth that he's putting up Babe Ruth.
He doesn't have the hype of Baby Ruth, obvious Toney. Yeah,
but he's been he's been great. And he never played
against the Toledo mud Hens, so you never got to
see him in Tledo unfortunately.

Speaker 6 (31:42):
Well, Bob Costas was the mud Hen manager for a
day back in the same now. I saw him back
in nineteen I think in nineteen seventy nine, the legendary
Bob Costa.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Bob Costas managed the Toledo mud Hens. Why did Bob
Costas manage the Toledo mud Hens for a day.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
He can't. He was at a special day from he
was the manager for one day. He downed the uniform.
He's real short guy, like five ft four. I got
his autograph. He's a great guy.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Favorite mud Hen player of all time is blank.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
Mike Cassman or play I saw l can I played
the affiliate. He was a money for a day.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
You know.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
Well that's a day though, But you got to play
there more than a day though. Mikesman, Mike Mike Kessman's
I got you all right? Well, thank you, groovy Greg.
You're very groovy, Greg, But I must move on. Thank you.
It is the Ban mald Show. As we continue here,
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(32:43):
Newbie night time, No for who am I game. Earlier
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Nick Pavetta, the Socks became the fifth player this week
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(33:06):
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Speaker 1 (33:55):
All new callers all night long. Have the MLB pick him.
Here's the who am I? Game? Name the socks. Nick
Pavetta the other night became the fifth He's a pitcher,
began the fifth pitcher ever to have thirteen or more
strikeouts in a single relief appearance the first player since me?
Who am I? That is the question? Who? And what

(34:16):
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(35:02):
by Chris in des Moine. Mister nice guy, continuing his
assault on random old baseball player, says Ron hasse is
the way to go? El Duke from Sean and Portland,
John Halama of the A's from the Late Night Drug
tester Robin Vegas going with the Undertaker as his answer.

(35:23):
Sir Scratchoff says the answer is newby Knight, He's not
a fan. Mike Maddox from Calligan, Tim in Michigan, Octavio
Dotel guest by Fields of Green, Phil Nicro of the
Atlanta Braves guests by Robbie the Mariner. Fantas says, that's
Eddie's favorite team. We learned that earlier. Mallard prop guy,

(35:44):
I wish they were and Mallard prop g I got
that right. Bad job by him, Troy the gambling Man.
That's old show knowledge by Alf the Elliot. O Pinter
used to drive a sweeper truck around Nashville. Troy the
gambling Man. Do you have an answer?

Speaker 2 (35:56):
Eddie Garcia, Ah, yes, I'm gonna go with Juan berengehir
one Berengear.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
Is that correct? No, that is not correct. The correct answer.
It's Randy Johnson. Randy Johnson on a technicality, because Kurt
Schillings started a game, the game was suspended and Randy
Johnson came in the next day, they picked up the
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(37:31):
go ahead, Eddie, what do you got?

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Let's go with Charlie Morton as my pitcher.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
A terrible pick.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, there were a lot of great pictures to choose.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
You should have taken Dwardo Rodriguez the Tigers. That's a
value pick. Go ahead, Iowa Sam, John Gray generic name.
One more, Iowa Sam, Please the Pride of Hoosierville Kyle Schwarber.
All right, I'll take the closest candidate other than the
Atlanta Bravestar for the MVP. I'll take Mookie Betts of

(37:58):
the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (37:59):
Go ahead, Eddie, Matt Olson, Cooper Lou I'll.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Take Aaron Savali. Alright, one more, hurry up and jomp job.
I guess Patrick wisdown.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
A Hodonllas Carcio.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Boh, b shit, No, that was my pick. We got
it in. We got it in. Thank you, good job.
Everybody got to fix it