Hour 1 - Do the Hustle!

Ben Maller talks about Rob Manfred deciding to reinstate Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and other deceased players back into baseball, where the Pete Rose Hall of Fame movement goes from here, what this means for guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number one. And here
in our one of the original recipe podcast, the rare
and appropriate baseball monologue to begin the overnight show, which
is repackaged here in the podcast. So here in our
number one, how do you dissect Rob Manford's decision to

(00:23):
let Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson back into baseball.
Where does the Pete Rose Hall of Fame movement go
now he's still not in the Hall of Fame, although
he's now eligible to come back to the Hall of Fame.
And what does Pete Rose being given reinstatement to baseball
do for guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, the

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steroid stars of the early two thousands and the nineties
who were not not currently in the Hall of Fame.
We'll talk about all of that and more right now
as we howl at the moon in our number one.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
You gotta do the hustle, You must do the hustle. Well, come,
in the beginning of another night of the Ben Mallor Show.

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is from baseball. That's right, baseball. What you didn't start
with an NBA game? What's wrong with you? All my guys?

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The playoffs?

Speaker 3 (02:20):
You know?

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Like basketball? Shut up? So I made an editorial decision.
I made an editor editorial decision. And normally we start
with basketball, and I'd rant, and somebody'd be in the
vomit comment and that would be that, and I'd move
on and then we take calls, and that's normally how
it goes. But this night different than all other nights.
Why is this night different than all other nights. Well,

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I've made an editorial decision. It's not every day that
lifetime bands are over done and players are welcome back.
And this is a story that has kind of followed me,
if you will, since I got into the talk radio
world when I was a young lad, back in the day.

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So I thought it was an interesting story, and I
think it's worth some conversation here at the start, and
we'll get into the basketball games. We've got four hours
of nonsense. That's a long time to talk. That's a
lot of talk, so plenty of time to get to everything.
But I want to start with the baseball And I
assume you've heard by now, but possibly you live in
a box and you have not heard. We really love

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people that live in shoeboxes. It's good for us. So anyway,
Major League Baseball, if you missed it, major League Baseball's commissioner.
We like to call him Rob Manfraud, But Rob Manford
has removed Pete Rose from the ineligible list. He's back.

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He's also dead. Also welcome back, Shoeless Joe Jackson also dead.
There's a theme if you're dead and your band Rob
Manford likes you. Welcome back, Welcome back. Now you're dead,
but you're back the permanent ineligible list of Major League Baseball.
You've got a bunch of deceased players, but the headline

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Joe Jackson. There were movies made many years ago, and
I don't know how many people today even though who
Joe Jackson was shoeless Joe Jackson, but Pete Rose, shoeless
Joe Jackson. Couple of figures in Baseball's past that have
been welcome back now as a result, and you don't
bury the lead, my man. All right, I'm not gonna
bear the lead. So as a result, here it's really

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about Pete Rose. Pete Rose, major League Baseball's all time
hit leader. He's now eligible, as it is shoeless Joe Jackson,
eligible for election to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Keep
in mind that President Trump helped get this done. The
President met with Rob Manford recently, and all of a sudden,

(04:55):
shortly after that, wonder what kind of deal they worked out? Hey,
let Pete back in. We'll let to continue to screw
fans over with the nickel and dime major League Baseball
TV package. Who knows, but either way, Rob Manford has
done it. He has removed Pete Rose from the ineligible list.
So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.

(05:17):
How do you dissect Rob Manford's decision to let Pete
Rose and these other dead players, including shoeless Joe Jackson
back into baseball. So I've got profit, I've got blue
ribbon and home depot, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're going to make a line

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drive base it up the middle. That's what we're gonna make,
all right. So the word I have for this I
didn't ask for a word, But the word I have
for this move by Rob Manford to allow Pete Rose
back in baseball, my word is cosmetic. That is my
word is a cosmetic move by Rob Manford. Now I

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mentioned this is a nostalgia's story. That's why I'm starting
to show with it. So when I started in radio,
I was a young lad. I was a teenager, and
I walked into the radio station in San Diego, the
mighty six ninety man. I thought this was the big leagues, right,
This is seventy seven thousand watt radio station in San Diego.
It was a border blaster station. The transmitter was actually

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in Mexico and it blasted all over and at that time,
before the interweb, it was a big deal. And I
remember I was an intern for this guy, Lee Hacksaw Hamilton,
who was like my mentor, one of my mentors in radio.
And at that time it had only been a few years.
I'm dating myself, but it had only been a few
years since Pete Rose had been banned from baseball. And
I learned quickly from observation that when you had a

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slow day, I was a young whipper snapper, but when
you had a slow day in sports radio and you
wanted to stir things up, what you did is you said, hey,
Pete Rose, did he bet on baseball? Should he be
banned from baseball? Sure, they removed the band, and then
you give out the number, and the phones light up

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like a Christmas tree. And it was for years. It
was the go to conversation. It was the go to conversation,
and everything would light up and people had very strong
opinions and both ways, both ways on that. So I
look at this as cosmetic now, because yeah, Rob Manford
will get some brownie points, He'll get some brownie points

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for this reinstating Pete Rose at this point, if you
do the calculus on this using the Mallard man, it's
a pr win for baseball. Yeah, there are some people
complaining and ranting and saying, you know, Peteza scumbag and
shouldn't be welcome back and all that stuff. But yeah,
the old timers, the old timers, and I still occasionally

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get a call it Pete Roseville Hall of Fame. I
mentioned Dick and Dayton's name here earlier, and that's the
number one Pete Rose fan. I know the number one there.
But for me, the idea of putting Pete Rose back
on the eligible list is a fruitless endeavor. It's a
fruitless endeavor. And here's why they have both left this

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Pete Rose and shoeless Joe Jackson have left this mortal coil.
They're dead. And it always, it's always annoyed me when
you celebrate, like the Hall of Fame, when they put
people in who are like they're dead. You know, it's like, Okay,
celebrate people while they're alive. I'm a big celebrate people

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while they're alive person. Pete Rose died seven months ago
in September of last year, shoeless Joe Jackson, he has
been dead for seventy three years. He died in nineteen
fifty one. Okay, so he's been gone for a while.
And Pete Rose the whole Charlie Hustle thing and all that,
and they're generation of fans, but that worship Pete Rose

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played forever, and while Pete is known as Charlie Hustle,
he gets another nickname and death Pete the Prophet. Now
we mentioned this in a previous episode of the show.
Is it true that Pete Rose, in what could have
been his final interview, his final interview before he died,
mentioned this very thing happening, mentioned this very outcome well,

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ten days before Pete Rose left this world that we
all share. Pete Rose said, just ten days before he died,
that he wouldn't make the Baseball Hall of Fame until
after he died. He said it. He said it ten
days before he left us, and Rose was spitting mad.

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He said, if I'm gone, it don't matter. Pete Rose said,
who the f wants to go in when you're dead?
Ding ding ding ding ding. That's a good hot take
by Pete and I agree with him. I absolutely agree.
I had heard early on that the world of baseball
was never going to allow Pete back while he was alive,

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because the generations were upset. They felt he played a
role in the death of Bart Giamani, who had been
the commissioner for a very short time, even though Bart
was overweight and had all kinds of problems. But anyway,
so fine, So there you go. Pete Rose, the prophet,
Pete the Prophet predicted this. And as far as Joe

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Jackson and Pete Rose, there were movies made about both
and documentaries, books written about all this stuff. And I
know in the early days of Fox Sports Radio, there's
a restaurant. We're at the corner of Venturrence of Palvity
here in the valley, and right across the street there
was an Italian restaurant. And when I started at this company,

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every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday you could find Pete
Rose holding court at the bar at this Italian restaurant.
Everyone knew it. If you want to see Pete, go
over there. Pete'll be over there. He'll be having drinks
and a bunch of other old ballplayers would be hanging
out from his era in the sixties and the seventies.
They'd be hanging out with Pete and they just tell

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old war stories while they had cocktails and appetizer. And
then Pete eventually just moved to Vegas because he was
making so much money he's selling autographs. He just moved
there full time. But for years he lived right you know,
live right here and was right across the street. Now,
where does the Pete Rose Hall of Fame movement go?
Now there's there's something. Well, he's in the Hall of Fame.
You know, he's not in the Hall of Fame. He

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hasn't been put in the Hall of Fame. So where
Pete Rose in death goes in terms of the campaign
for the Hall of fame? Red tape bureaucracy. Those are
words you can use, red tape bureaucracy. There is no
sense of urgency and why would there But he's dead,
you're not coming back. So Pete Rose was banned from
baseball in nineteen eighty nine. It's been a minute for

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gambling on the Cincinnati Reds. And while he was managing
the team, and the legend when he didn't bet on
the Reds, that let everyone know who was taking the bets,
that he didn't think they were gonna win. Blah blah
blah blah blah. But the National Baseball Hall of Fame
in Cooperstown, York made him ineligible from induction, and that

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was in nineteen ninety one. That was his first year
eligible because he was a player manager in Cincinnati. And
as we understand it, again trying to keep up on
all the details on us. As we understand it, the
rank and file baseball scribes and our buddies like Rob
Parker and the baseball writers who love to have that
ballot and vote, they will not get the vote on this.

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Pete Rose's future for the Hall of Fame ultimately will
be decided by a handpicked blue ribbon panel. You know,
I love blue ribbon panels. I love a good blue
ribbon panel. So that will consist of ten to twelve reps,
hand picked that will decide the Historical Overview Committee. That

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just sounds like bureaucracy. The Historical Overview Committee will develop
a ballot of eight names. We assume Pete Rose will
be on there. The Classic Baseball Era Committee will evaluate
the candidates and those that had the greatest impact on
the game before nineteen eighty and no vote though will

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take place before December of twenty twenty seven, which means
the earliest Pete Rose would have there'll be a ceremony
to honor he's dead, but to honor Pete would be
in the summer of twenty twenty eight. So here we
are in twenty twenty five in May, so you got
to get through the rest of this year twenty six,
twenty seven, So we're looking at over three years, and

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that's the quickest as I understand it, this could happen.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Now.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Is Pete Rose guaranteed of being elected to the Hall
of Fame. No, he's not. Even with this, he's not.
There are sure to be some that will hold grudges.
I've already seen some hot take artists out there, the
artisan of the hot take, that have said no, no, no, no, no,
Pete Rose is a scumbag, he's a dope, He's a loser.
That's the counter argument. It's hard to fight that Pete

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was a shady guy, and so that's it's not you know,
I don't really care about the tax return thing. There
was an incident in twenty seventeen he was actually doing
TV stuff and he was accused of statutory rape. There
was a counter earlier. There's no to my nods, there
was no criminal charger. There was an accusation that was made,

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So do that with what you want. And now the
last word here. So, assuming this does go the way
it's going, and Pete ultimately wind up into the Hall
of Fame at some point here even though he's dead,
what does Pete Rose being given reinstatement. Let's focus on
this being given reinstatement to Major League Baseball do for

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the guys like Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens, the steroid
people of Baseball who are also not in the Hall
of Fame. Even though there are steroid players in the
Hall of Fame, players that we are relatively confident did
steroids but are allowed in there are not on the
naughty list, but Barry Bonds is on the natty list,
and Roger Clemens and several other of these cats. So

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on the surface, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation on
the Ben Maler Show, we have determined that this does
bupkus for Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, that vintage
of player now Barry Bonds and his steroid brethren of
that era, the issues. They're not banned from baseball. They're

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not banned. It's just done on the down low. It's
on the DL right, the down low, and their persona
non grata for the Hall of Fame. However, here's the
interesting wrinkle to this. What this Pete Rose update does
do for Barry Bonds and the other steroid players, the

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other pd pals, is it provides them a road map
on how to get into Cooperstown and without being Macab,
which means I'm going to be Macab. Barry Bonds and
these other cats need to go down to Home Depot
and buy a bucket. And at some point we know

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the endgame on life. We know how it ends. We
don't know when it's going to end. We know how
it's going to so at some point Barry Bonds and
everyone else, once they kick the bucket, then all of
a sudden, well we're going to panel together. We'll put
these guys in the Hall of Fame. But you got
to kick the bucket. So go get bucket at Home Depot,
kick the bucket. There you go. It is the Ben
Mallor Show. If you would like to be part, you

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can join us right now and give us your reaction.
There are people very upset. I don't understand like upset
that Pete Rowe was allowed. But he's dead. He's not
gonna do anything more to embarrass anyone. He's gone. Uh So,
I just think he's kind of pointless to put him
in now. And as Pete said himself ten days before
he died, who wants to go in the Hall of

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Fame when they're dead? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine, nine, six six three six
nine of Where the People Put It Out. Pete made
a lot of money because of his notoriety, his infamy
from being banned from baseball, a lot of autographs and
did the gambling commercials and all that stuff. So he
certainly profited quite a bit from his reputation as a

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dirty actor. Eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
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The four hundred million dollar arms Race. We'll get to
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Speaker 3 (18:28):
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Speaker 1 (18:37):
That's right, it's all about Pete Rose. Pete Rose being
reinstated by Rob Manford. Not in the Hall of Fame. No, no,
no no, it's still got to wait another three years,
even though he's dead, so he's not really waiting, but
that three years minimum until he will be thrown into
the Hall of Fame. Milkman Mike in Colorado says Hall
of Fame level opening monologue to kick off hump Day.

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Once again, the fraud proves how disconnected he is from reality.
Most of these men on the band list have turned
to dust, and he claims that their band has been satisfied,
have another shot you goof there you go, Eileen says,
if only Pete Rose could have caused the death of

(19:20):
more Yale University presidents like he did bart g money.
That is a low bro, Eileen, how dare you? How
dare you all right? What else? Do we have? A
page down? Stuck in Sacramento is up with us as
man Fraud is such a weak joke that he makes
me sick. First, he thinks the a's in Sacramento at

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a T ball field is a good idea. Now he's
making cheats eligible for the Hall. While he did let
the cheating Astros keep their little World Series hunk of metal.
Enough said, what a dirt bag that right, there is
a event that should keep man Fraud out of the

(20:05):
Hall of Fame. They like to put these commissioners in
the Hall of Fame, and I was like, ah, wait
to go, We're in the Hall of Fame. Manford should
never be allowed in the Hall of Fame. After that
he ran interference for the Astro he ripped the World
Series trophy. It is ridiculous, Femi rights and says Ben,

(20:27):
the Astros better be aware that President Trump might just
call the Commissioner on your behalf and strip them of
their twenty seventeen championship.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
So sheeted Astros.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Black.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Listener Mason and Honey Beastes, Hey, Ben, you know anyone
at Netflix or one of those places. The Pete Rose
saga from back in the day would make a good
mini series for casting. I would like Paul Giamani to
play his dad. Yeah, Paul GIMMONI went on became a
big star in Hollywood. Late Night Drug Tester and I
don't know anyone Netflix. I mean I have Netflix, but

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I don't mean I pay the bill. It's I wish
we didn't, but we did, Late Night Drug Tester says,
And now that the band of Pete Rose is lifted,
what is the next lazy sports topic for radio hosts
that don't prepare to get taken off the list? It's
a good question. Well, the evergreen topic, says you know,
Late Night Drug Tester. Over the holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

(21:24):
The sign yet your favorite talk show host doesn't know
what they're doing is at Thanksgiving? Who are you thankful for?
In sports? Right? What are you thankful for? Who do
you want to have over at Thanksgiving dinner? That's always
a staple of lazy talk radio. And at Christmas, what
are you going to get your favorite sports star for Christmas?
Or hanukha or whatever? You know, that's always a lazy one.

(21:46):
That's a sign you have not prepared for your talk show.
That's a dead give what, dead give what. I think
those are fun topics. Bet, that's my point, Larena, that's
my you're making my point for me.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Also, it's like Christmas music.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
It only comes around every now and then it comes
around every year. I've heard every Christmas song, every song
every year front two months again played in a damp
the station. But what if people want to know what
you every year? If you if you're if you're a musician,
just make a Christmas song. It'll be played for the
rest of eternity. In fact, the human race will leave

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and whatever species is on the planet will play Christmas music. Then, Also,
you come staying a close. No, let it small, Let
it small, that it's small, Let it snow. Yeah, okay,
humbug Ben, I'm just giving I'm giving real, real advice.
Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
any meenie money moe. Let's go to Seth in Cansah City. Hello, Seth, welcome.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 6 (22:48):
Man, I'm really happy to see the Pete Rose thing with.
I know it's kind of a dead topic at this moment,
but uh. One of the biggest clothing companies in Kama
City is called Charlie Hustle.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Everybody, Yes, I've been there. I've actually purchased some good stuff.
That's a good store.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Everybody knows that he played baseball. He had four twenty
six hits and nobody's really come close. The guy was
the guy and he has to die and do sketches
commercials for him to get even possibly inducted into Hall
of Fame. I think it's bizarre. He's one of the
greatest hitters in baseball, and it bothers me it took
this long for him to even question to be inducted

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into the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Well, I mean it was a big scandal in the
you know, in the I don't know how old.

Speaker 6 (23:33):
You are, but yeah, but he bet he bet on
his team to win, as anybuddy in the world would do.
That's my little Docs and bark in the background.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
I know, what's your Docs's name?

Speaker 6 (23:42):
Oh my god, my dog is name maybe after the
character from the rest of development.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Hey, that's great. And does the dog? Does the dog
need food? Maybe the dog is the dog upset because
you're not giving the dog attention. Does the dog need food?
Maybe the dog needs water? How about what she?

Speaker 6 (23:57):
I just worked all night? But man like, I saw
the news today that like Pete and Trueleiss Joe Jackson
were eligible to be inducted, and I'm like, that's huge news.
Man like that is?

Speaker 1 (24:07):
I agree. I think it's a massive story. It's a
I remember years ago seeing the movie Eight Men Out.
There was a book that became the movie Eight Men Out.
I guess it's eight Men in. Now they got to
change the movie, they got to follow up movie.

Speaker 6 (24:18):
Now, Like Bobby Witt is the baseball version of Patrick Mahomes,
I do believe that he might win in VP.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Oh, now you go. Now you're going full Chiefs propaganda.
How dare you for full Royals propaganda? Kansas City propaganda?

Speaker 6 (24:30):
Now, baseball baseball's a romantics I like baseball more than
football in Kansas City. That's really hard to say. I'm
a big Bobby Wood guy over Mahomes. I really am.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Wow, you're the You're the only one on that island, sir,
that's a that's an island of one, right there. Part yeah, yeah, yeah, listen, listen, listen,
go give you dogs some attention, give him a dog
snack or something like that. Okay, and you're good. You
called in and enjoy the rest of your night. How
about that, hey.

Speaker 6 (24:56):
Man, Ben, I listened to you all the time, brother,
I love you.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
God bless you can tear it up, all right, I
may I should bet on one of the gambling absence,
thank you. All right. There's our buddy from Kansas City
with his dog. Maybe the dog me what a name
for Hey?

Speaker 5 (25:12):
Maybe?

Speaker 1 (25:13):
Maybe maybe come here? Maybe? Maybe? Maybe Hey? Maybe? Kind
of sounds like baby from Hey maybe? Yeah, you know
what else? Kind of sounds weird? I new tickpic ad hmm,
don't if I've heard that one.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
You haven't heard it yet.

Speaker 1 (25:28):
I don't know. I'm trying to think like it doesn't
tickpic promos. Oh I don't know. Oh yeah, okay, okay,
oh yeah yeah, okay, okay, all right, all right, it
took me a second. Okay, all right, I got you.
All right, let's keep it going on the phones. Let's
go to Chris in Maryland. Who's next. Pete Rose reinstated,
but he's not in the Hall of Fame yet. It's
gonna have to wait probably three years. He's dead anyway,

(25:50):
what's going on, Chris welcome, Hey, thank you?

Speaker 4 (25:54):
After having lost Willie Mays here the greatest living baseball
player leftist Johnny Bench in some people's opinion, and he
hasn't the comments.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
That would I would say worthy.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Of any comments concerning Pete Rose as a baseball player.
Myself not a professional necessarily, but I wouldn't have wanted
or entertained any sort of compromised by a fellow teammate.
So that's well.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
I'll leave that.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
I'm confused.

Speaker 4 (26:27):
What do you In other words, I know, I know
I don't want anybody who played next to me who
was betting on my games or a gain.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Oh so you don't think he should be reinstated.

Speaker 5 (26:38):
I know that that's a whole different thing.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
I'm asking your opinion. I don't care about Johnny Bench's opinion.
I'm talking to you, So what's your opinion.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
I think I.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
Think it's it would be dishonorable to guys like Hank
Aaron and Jackie Robinson and Babe Ruth and yeah that
people who kind of compromised the game. That's the same
as the steroid dudes.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
I just don't But there are there are steroid guys
in the Hall of Fame. You know that.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
I know, I know Druggery, I know.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
I know.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
I didn't name it. You named him. I didn't name him.
You didn't name You didn't name I didn't name Plud
Rodrigos and Mike Piazzard, Bagwell or anything. I didn't name them.
You you named one them. I didn't name any of them.

Speaker 5 (27:18):
Okay, I got a tribute question for you. What Okay,
there are two cities and in uh.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Mayor, I'm going back to the like the seventh early
seventies when the ABA joined the NBA, when baseball you know, uh.

Speaker 1 (27:37):
All right, we're doing we're doing we're doing sports. We're
doing sports TV. Oh, here we go, here we go,
Here we go, sports trivy time. Here we go.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
Two cities that have had at least two of the
four major sports hockey, basketball, football, baseball. Okay, two cities
that ain't won the damn thing. Two cities have never
They've never won it at all.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
So none of the teams in that place have ever
won anything.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Even in iteration or incarnation of therefore otherwise.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
And I'll give you a hint. What a mass with
the Clippers?

Speaker 1 (28:16):
Oh okay, well that there you go. Well that's mean Buffalo.
That would be right, that's obvious Buffalo.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
They never went to San Diego.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Oh in San Diego, I was never Look at you
ripping San Diego and Buffalo at the same time. How
dare you there? You go? There are a bunch of losers,
never not in one, not in any Yeah, I got you,
all right, look at you?

Speaker 5 (28:40):
Thank you?

Speaker 1 (28:41):
All right, thank you go away. All right, there's a
Chris that's uh, keep it going. But we have the
play of the day here. Now, I know we're talking
Pete Rose here, but yes, squeeze in some hot NBA talk.
And I was watching. I'm not a Pacer fan. I
just like the way the Pacers play. Is that is
that I'm gonna go to like talk radio jail. I
enjoy watching the Pacers. They seem like a fun team

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to watch. They play basketball at the kind of a
way I mean, they should still shoot a bunch of
three point shot. They shot thirty five free point shots,
but they were down by nineteen points Indiana and a
chance to close out the Cavaliers, and then this happened.

Speaker 7 (29:16):
Haliburton against Mitchell Hunter shows a trap haliburt, he gets
rid of it.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
Sar corner turner girl three out of the corner and
all of the sudden. It's so its twitch has been thrown.
This place is like a live read. Can I hear
that again?

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Girl?

Speaker 1 (29:35):
I want to hear that again.

Speaker 7 (29:36):
Haliburton against Mitchell Hunter shows a trap, haliburt, he gets
rid of it, Sar.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Corner turner.

Speaker 7 (29:44):
Girl three out of the corner and all of the sudden,
that's three out of the corner.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Can we add that to the drop? I need that
as a drop. That's funny. That's the that's the play
of the day. That's a Miles Turner three point shot
here and is the tire Rack play the day. Pacers
came all the way back. They win one fourteen to
one oh five. They went from nineteen down They then
ended up leading by as many as twelve and they
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You can say it's the dagger, right, It's the dagger
is what it is. As the pacers have eliminated the cavaliers,
as TNT likes to say, the calves are going fishing.

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They are going fishing. They are out. Let's go back
to the phones. Brandon is in Cansa City. We got
a twenty share in Kansas City, home of the Ben
Mallard Chicken Fingers. By the way, Hello Brandon, welcome. That's right.
And you've had the Ben mallerch chicken fingers at the
landing there in Liberty, Missouri. Yeah, I have.

Speaker 7 (31:00):
I mean, and they are very superb. They are very superb.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Thank you. You know.

Speaker 7 (31:06):
Yeah, okay, Tink you bought that up real quick. I mean,
how did that come to be anyway?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
Well, the the the proprietors of the restaurant he actually
used to be called, but it was a different name before.
And one of the guys that runs the place, Michael,
is a big fan of the show. He used to
listen all the time, he still does, and so he
wanted to It actually started as a bit on the show.
There was a place in Syracuse that named food item

(31:33):
after me, and then they went out of business. So
I think, I as I remember, I complained and then
Michael's like, oh I like the show, I'll hook you up,
and uh it was great. And so it's been at
two different restaurants in Kansas City, so it's very cool.

Speaker 7 (31:48):
Hey man, not you complaining?

Speaker 1 (31:50):
No, no, I don't complain. I just talk. I have
a talk shows. I talk. That's it. I talk talk, talk,
talk talk talk.

Speaker 7 (31:57):
Yeah, you do, you do for sure? You know one
of the best. Do you want the bed?

Speaker 1 (32:00):
Thank you?

Speaker 7 (32:02):
But real quick, since we're on the topic of Pete Rose,
I just want to give you my two cents. I mean,
they just stick to my opinion. You know, everybody has
their own I get it, I respect it, but I
think it's downright disgusting that they waited. They waited until
the so the poor man was playing with the worms.
You know, that's that's I mean to me, it's disrespectful.

(32:26):
But I know a lot of people are gonna bounce
back and be like, well, he's done this, he'shing the
dead bess, you know.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
But you know, all the all the old school baseball head.

Speaker 7 (32:36):
I mean, I mean dang, I mean he he he
was around after baseball for a long time and they
just I think they just dragging their feet and there
was there.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
Was no there was no real I mean, Pete was
kind of not He wasn't in terrible health, but you
could tell, like the last couple of years, it thinks,
you know, he's getting older. It happens. You get older
and stuff starts breaking. That's what happens. So anyway, all right, well,
thank you, thank you, Brandon, You're the man, the great
b safe at all right? There he goes where he goes,
only he knows. All right, It is the Ben Mahler Show.

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As we are working our way through the overnight hours
in standing room only, the Los Angeles Dodgers lead Major
League Baseball in injured pitchers. The latest Roki Sazaki has
landed on the what you used we used to call
this disabled list. He's got a bum shoulder, he's lost
velocity in his fastball, and that means he is the

(33:32):
fifteenth Dodger pitcher on the injured list. He joins big
money pitchers Tyler Glass. Now Blake's bro I'm risk getting
my live Bra Blake's now that Punk Blake, Trinan, Bruce
dah Gadol, and a bunch of other pictures you've never
heard of. But they're all fifteen fifteen pitchers on the

(33:54):
injured list for the Dodgers. Wow. I remember reading a
story in the off Well, the Dodgers, they've reviewed everything.
They figured out, you know, they think they figured out
why all their pitchers get hurt. Maybe because they all
are so rich. They don't, you know, they don't. They
don't go through you know how sometimes if you don't
have a lot of money, you got to earn sing
for your supper. They don't have to sing for the supper.

(34:14):
He's like and he's not perfect. I ain't pitching all
right anyway? Time now for the who am fifteen fifteen
pictures the Dodgers? Anyway on the on the disableds? Who
am I?

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Who?

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Time for the who am I game? So call me
the Cardio Kid. I was the NBA's twenty twenty four
twenty twenty five minutes champion. I averaged thirty seven point
six minutes per game this season. I received a trophy
for my exercise, leading the NBA in minutes per game.
Who am I. That's the question. The answer, we'll get
to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Dah Girl, and that would be the d Girl. That's good.
I like that, solid drop Pacers A good play by
play guy, good radio. There's a lot of crappy radio
play by play guys now, but he's pretty good. I
don't know his name, but the Pacers guy solid outstanding,
almost as good as our friend Alan Horton, the voice

(35:13):
of the Timberwolves, who is riding high. Minnesota one win
away from me Western Finals, and if they can can
win it, it'd be fun to have Minnesota. If the
Celtics are out, how about Minnesota New York in the
NBA Finals. All right, we'll talk more about that because

(35:34):
they made the big trade. Karl Anthony Towns going back
the big good storyline. Aunt Edwards on the big stage.
Time now for the who am I? Game? And here
it is, call me the Cardio Kid. I was the
NBA's minutes champion this past season. I averaged thirty seven
point six minutes per game this season. I even received

(35:54):
a Trophy for my effort on the court? Who am I?
Marcus Buffo Bagwell from Rob in Vegas. Big Lu says,
supersonic pacer, Great dadlift shrimp and didn't he also play
for the Mavericks? I think he did? Who else you have?
Sam Cassell half Man, half Alien from alf the Alien

(36:17):
Opiner in Springfield, mass Miranda Cosgrove, who's thirty two today?
Oh my gosh, he's sold late night drug tester Rafael
Bellyard as a pirate. Good name by mister nice guy,
not a nice guy. He's in the bay Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
going with Bowl Bowl Milkman. Mike in Colorado says the
shot legend is the answer, Femi the number one uber

(36:38):
Each driver in Minnesota says Rob manfraud the King of
the Court, Elmo from Scrooge in Northern California, King Rory
going with Sleepy Joe as his answer. Very war word
from Rob in Minnesota. Timothy Mosga from The Nature Boy.
Do you have an answer, Lorraina, Yes, My answer is

(36:59):
Anthony Way and dead words. All right, Dad, know that
is wrong. It is Josh Hart of the Knickerbockers thirty
seven point six minutes per game. Josh, you gotta have heart.
You gotta have heart. You gotta have heart.