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July 15, 2025 • 41 mins

Ben Maller talks about the conspiracy theory that MLB took care of Cal Raleigh to help him win the HR Derby, MLB handing out a $1M prize package for winning, if Mariners fans should be paranoid about Cal Raleigh going into a slump because of the HR Derby jinx, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, It's our number what our one of the original
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all Star Tuesday, the fifteenth day of July, and the
home run Derby was last night.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Do you buy.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
In to the conspiracy theory that Major League Baseball took
care of cal Rally to help him advance and eventually
win the home run derby? Some funny business by Rob
Manford's Major League Baseball? Also, where are you at on
Baseball handing a one million dollar oversized cartoon check to
the person winning the home run Derby? Who oh, by

(00:41):
the way, also has one hundred million dollar contract and
thumbs up or thumbs down? Should Mariner fans be paranoid
because cal Rally is going to go into a slump
now because of the home run derby? Jinks will go
there as well. Right now here, it is our number one.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Now it's not just your normal run of the mill
home run derby.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
No, on on on all we.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Gotta crak it up a couple of notches for the
big Dumper. Welcome, in the beginning of another night of
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Speaker 2 (02:55):
I remember when the Braves were leaving Turner Field going
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Speaker 1 (03:08):
Experience that people that have been there. I love it.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Tommy in Atlanta, who's not allowed to call it show
anymore because he's evil for Cony and Boss does not
allow him to call while he drives his truck around
Atlanta at night, and he's a pan of the show.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I'm sure he loves it. Everyone loves it. But they
was all.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Star Monday Night, Way all Star Monday Night, which means,
for our purposes, the twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Five home run derby.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
And good bye, mister baseball, see you later now. I
don't know if you watched this or not.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
He usually does pretty well in the television ratings, but
everything's watered down. Everything's watered down these days. So maybe not.
But we watched so you would not have to. And
the reason we watched there was nothing else on.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
If there had been something else on, we probably would
have watched it, but there were it really wasn't. So
I assume you know by now that great night for
the Seattle Mariners. Congratulations the Mariners. Now I don't get
to the World Series. They've never been, but this is
their event back in the day. I remember, I'm old enough.
I remember Ken Griffy Jr. Dominating the derby with his

(04:18):
hat on backwards. And now another Mariner legend, the big Dumper,
cal Raley getting it done. It was a family affairy.
His daddy had his brother out there. Cal Raley the
first catcher ever to win the All Star Home Run Derby.
Holy Mike Piazza and Pud Rodriguez and all other catchers

(04:40):
have gone years gone by, as cal Raley outlasted the
player that many thought was going to win this from
Tampa Bay, Junior Caminero. Good name, and he's got big
things ahead once he leaves Tampa Bay and goes to
a different team. But the final round of the Home
Run derby as cal Ray hit not one, two, not three,

(05:00):
not four, not five out six eighteen dangers for cal
Raley and cam and Narrow had fifteen, and so he'll
have to center for a smaller check for Major League Baseball.
More on that in a minute, but cal Rawley does
join Ken Griffy Junior the Hall of Famer, the only
two Mariners to win that particular event. And the thing

(05:22):
that I love about this as a talk show host
is that this was a rig deal. There was controversy,
how do you rig the home mun derby?

Speaker 1 (05:34):
How does one do that? Well? I don't have rigged
is the right word.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
But cal Raley was almost eliminated, should have, could have
would have been eliminated in the very first round of
the derby. He would have been eliminated by the Athletics
Brent Rooker. Now let me explain if you did not
watch and you have not been paying attention here. So
at the end of round one, cal Raley and Brent

(06:00):
Rooker from West Sacramento's A's not just Sacramento, it's West Sacramento.
So they the same amount of home run as they
were tied with seventeen home runs. However, Major League Baseball said, well,
the tiebreaker, the tiebreaker goes to cal Raley by the
slimmest of slim margins, by the hair on my chinny

(06:21):
chin chin, And I'm not kidding. Major League Baseball claimed
that the longest home run by cal Raley traveled four
hundred and seventy point six y one feet. They said
that Brent Rooker of the A's his longest home rent
went four hundred and seventy feet point five to three.

(06:43):
I'm not making any of this up. I am not
I'm not making this up. So let us discuss the question,
do you buy the conspiracy theories that have popped up
on the interweb that Major League Baseball took care of
cal Raley to make sure that he was not eliminated
in the first round of the home run derby? Did

(07:05):
the deep state of Major League Baseball pull some shenanigans
to help push cal Raley along? So on this one,
I've got quantum physics, slum dog millionaire, and sasquatch, and
we will combine all of these things together and we
are gonna make a hot pastrami sandwich. Now now a

(07:25):
cold pastrami sandwich, A hot pastrami sandwich. I'm on a
HOGI roll. That is what we're gonna make. So a
to answer the question do you buy into the conspiracy? Now,
I would assume that you listen occasionally show and you
know that I am selective. I do not totally dismiss conspiracy.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
I have a collection as alf the alien opiner can
prove of tinfoil hats. In fact, I have been immortalized
on the Internet for my tinfoil hat love.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
On this one, I'm in.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
I am absolutely in, in, in in right. So let
me let me go through this. I'm nodding my head. Yes,
you can't see me because it's trade. If you can,
you're a stalker. I'm calling the cops. So guilty as charged,
Guilty as charged of this. In a same world, the
world that I like to think that I'm part of,

(08:15):
you would think, if there's a tie, what do you do?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
What do you do? You go to a swing off?
That's what you do.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Two hitters tied swing off, And that was originally See
this is the thing that buys into the conspiracy. If
you were watching the broadcast originally, who's the guy with
the hairpiece? Carl Ravage, Karl Ravitch. He was on TV
there Sanna. He thought there was going to be a
swing off on the TV broadcast. They were talking about
a swing off. Then the plot thicken.

Speaker 4 (08:47):
Do do Do Do doo? They changed their story. Big
brother got involved. Yep, they changed their story.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Baseball decided they were gonna get cute Kizy.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
They got Kilzi.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
They pulled out the stack cast ruler.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Cal Raley advances, because of the nerds makes you wonder.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Right now, I'm not saying for sure that Major League
Baseball rigged the home run Derby because I don't want
to get sued.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
However, the evidence is there.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
You can decide for yourself whether or not the home
run Derby was rigged like a slot machine in Vegas
back when the mob ran Vegas and they didn't have
resort fees and charged for parking, and it was a
great town back in the day.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
However, here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
When you're telling me, you're telling me that cal Raleigh
squeaked past Brent Rooker.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
By, let me check the math on this.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
Zero point zero eight feet less than an inch. Now,
I know that every inch matters, I've heard that before,
but less than an inch, let me repeat that for
those even the back of the room that are a
little intoxicated, less than an inch does that not raise
an eyebrow? It does for me. It does for me,

(10:10):
It it does. We're talking about baseball. This is not
supposed to be quantum physics. I know the nerds a
baseball got a chubby that they got. They got to
decide this based on the stat cast allegedly, So we're measuring.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Moonshots right to the moon.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
We're measuring this and it comes down to the width
of the width of a NAT's eyelash decides who advances
in round one of the home run derby, and the
conspiracy part of it when you toss in. Originally on
the television broadcast, they assumed there would be a swing off,
they said on the broadcast. And so here we are

(10:47):
with the bigger name player. We can all agree on that.
Every man woman in Chili can agree the bigger name
player in this between Brent Rooker and cal Rawley is
cal Rawley. Cal Rawley's not gonna win the MVP, but
he's had an MVP season, switch hitting catch, a great nickname,
the big Dumper.

Speaker 1 (11:05):
What's not to like?

Speaker 4 (11:06):
Right?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
He's in the MVP ways with Aaron Judge and he
advances to the second round.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Originally, uh, it was what do you advanced?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
He advances, He ends up going on and winning the
home run derby crown by a razor thin march.

Speaker 1 (11:21):
We are talking again. Less than an inch Okay, less
than an inch like a paper cut is what we're
talking about here. Uh and uh and that ended up
being the thing that that descended it.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
And so all things being equal, if we agree, this
is a television show.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Okay, it's a TV show.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
And the story is cal Raley that this is his
magical career year. He's put it all together. He'll never
play as good as this for Seattle, and this is
his career here. You don't have two career years. You
had one career year. So that's the case. And then
you look at Brent Rooker, who's also a good player,

(12:06):
and he's had solid numbers. He's got a nice contract,
making a lot of money. But the baseball mantra is
anybody advances not wearing an Athletics jersey. Do you understand
the Athletics are the shame.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Of the family of Major League Baseball. They're an embarrassment.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
Okay, they play in a minor league ballpark in a
town that baseball is so embarrassed about they won't even
say the name. That's how little major League Baseball thinks
of Sacramento. They're so shamed by Sacramento. It is such
a ward on their ass that they will not say
Sacramento Athletics. You're not allowed to say it. They're just

(12:46):
the Athletics. But where do they play? They're just athletics.
It's so shameful, and so is it beyond the realm
of possibility that Major League Baseball said, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
Nobody will question it. Nobody ever questions the that cast numbers.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
Ever, so you've got the ugly, redheaded step children in
the Athletics. Brent Rooker plays for them, who are baseball
orphans until eventually they get to get to Vegas and
so cal No, I'm not gonna hear it say Seattle
is a mecca of baseball. We like to use the
line that came from Cowboy coach Jimmy Johnson back in

(13:23):
the day, where he famously said of Seattle at Southern
Alaska when he had to go up there for an
NFC championship game. However, side by side. If you put
cal Raleigh and Brent Rooker side by side, right, you
put them side by side, cal Rawley's like Taylor Swift.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Okay, It's just that's the case there. So that's where
we are now.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
The other thing, and this has been going on for
a little bit, but we were reminded of it. We
forget about it once the derby comes and goes. But
where are you at on Major League Baseball handing cal
Raley the winner of the home run derby a one
million dollar cartoon size check and they win. The winner
of the home run derby won one million dollars in

(14:11):
this case cal Raley, So where are you at on that?
They also had the championship belt and the chain which
you got to tell you, cal Raley didn't look that
cool with the with the chain of they were hoping
for cool, they didn't. Cal Raley didn't look that cool.
He didn't anyway. So this is the million dollar prize

(14:33):
from Major League Baseball. This is the people over there
in New York who run Major League Baseball, who think
they are marketing geniuses. Yet again, Hey, you know what,
at NBA they give out more money for the dunk contest.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Why don't we take a page out of their playbook.
And then you got the the wrestling people seem to
like that a lot.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
They have the belt and people like bling blinge. So
let's put a chain, will have a big thing, and
that'll be the way we do it. We'll get We're
gonna make that derby cool again. We're gonna make the
home run Derby cool again. So get the bags of dog,
get the jewelry out, and it's on. Put some fireworks
in there for the home run derby. Give out some

(15:15):
oversized gloves to fans, and we're in. So we're at
the point now in the story where you need now
need to bribe players to get them to take part
in the All Star Game festivities.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
So again, it's just baseball trying to be like basketball.
They're trying to be cool. They're not cool. Baseball is
never cool. I like baseball, but they're never cool. It's
gonna be really cool as a baseball player.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
And trying to be a little flashy with the jewelry,
trying to get that in there. And but the thing
about this is, and maybe I'm wrong on this, you
can correct me if I am, I'll give it the
number a little bit, but it's like Major League Baseball
selling the Home Run Derby as slum dog millionaire, like
giving the illusion this is it's gonna be a rags
to riches story. Like in their head, the marketing people

(16:03):
at Major lea the Baseball was like, oh, listen, somebody
who's like on a rookie contract.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Is gonna win the Derby and they're gonna make.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
More money for winning the derby than they make playing
for whatever team they play for. Spoiler alert, it did
not work. It did not work, and it wouldn't have
worked anyway. Like if somebody they thought was going to win,
one of these guys on the rookie contract would have won,
it still would not have worked.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Right.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
The rags to richest thing doesn't work. Now, I'm old enough.
When I was a kid, there were still baseball players
that got jobs in the offseason selling cars or I
don't think they cleaned toilets, but they had jobs in
the offseason, some of them did. But now everyone's loaded.
Everyone's rich that plays baseball. There's no poor people that

(16:48):
play Major League Baseball doesn't exist, right, do you know
the minimum salary in Major League Baseball this season.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
Is seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars. If I knew
somebody that made seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars, I'd say,
holy crap, what's it like to be rich? My god?

Speaker 2 (17:10):
And so baseball's so out of touch, they're so obtuse
to people at marketing and Major League Baseball, Like, did
they really think that Joe Schmoe sitting on their ass
eating eating bond bonds, watching the home run derby on
their sofa was gonna think? Well, I really feel good
this rags to riches story. Here is a poor, helpless

(17:32):
baseball player only making seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars,
and now they got a million dollars. And of course
it backfired. It was ruled because cal Raley, let me
check my notes, here, seventeen and a half million dollar salary,
one hundred million dollar contract, and he won the home
run derby. Yeah, so I just gave the check to
his younger brothers, said here go buy some stock, buy

(17:54):
some stock with dividends. Knock yourself out, all right, now,
last word, all right, last word, So cal Rally, big.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Win there, big win.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Now this has created I already got a couple of
emails from our friends that listen to the Great Pacific
Northwest here, because there's nothing quite like a Mariner fan. Now,
you might not know Marion fans because you might live
far away from Seattle with the Marina fan is already
pacing around their apartment, biting their nails, wondering whether or
not Yes, cal Raley is going to now start sucking

(18:26):
and ride the vomit comet. You know, Robbie, the Mariner
fans freaking, Oh my god, he swung through the fences.
He's gonna fit the jinks? What about the jinks? The
so called Derby jinks? Right that that's a thing? People,
and I spooke Mariner fans, Oh my god, we can't
have nice things. Cal Rawley's gonna blow because of the
Derby Jinks. So thumbs up, thumbs down. Should Mariner fans

(18:51):
be paranoid about cal Raley going into slump City because
of the home run Derby jinks? So I'm going thumbs
down on this. I'm gonna go thumbs down on this. Now,
this is an old wise tale that has been passed
down from previous generations about the home run Derby, and

(19:12):
the theory is that the players that participate in the
home Run Derby, the All Star Slugfest. Right, the people
that are out there, they come back cursed that they
have home run PTSD and it just messes with their mind.
Theirs swings are in shambles, and their timing is off,
and their stands go.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
Down, down, down, down down. That's how it goes.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
But let me help my brothers and sisters in the
great Pacific Northwest. Here, I will put on my shrink cap.
I will be Benny the Shrink, and I will help
you out.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do I'm gonna cut
through the psychobabble. If you take a deep breath, you
can do it.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
You take take a deep breath, You put the anti
acids down, you put the bottle there, You.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Stop buying the Hogwatch, just stop.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
The jinx is about as real as next time you
go out to Safego Field, Sasquatch, an actual Sasquatch throws
out the first pitch at America Game. There's a better
chance of Sasquatch. Hey, I'm not talking about a mascot.
I'm talking about the real Sasquatch coming out. Bigfoot throwing
out of the first pitch. There's a better chance of that,

(20:25):
right now, I get it. People love a good story, right,
Stories are the greatest Everyone we learned from stories.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
We all learn from stories. It doesn't matter where you
come from. But the idea that the derby, that the
MLB Home run Derby is going to screw up cal
Raley so much that he's going to be terrible.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
And I know why this has been the thing because
there were players years ago that had bad second half, right,
But the correlation ain't causation on this one, and the
numbers back it up.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
The actual data, now, if you go.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
We have a long home run Derby history year, and
not just some internet chatter, but actual data has shown
there's no consistent drop off in performance by those that
are in the home run Derby. Now, are there players
that go into a prolonged slump? Yes, there are, absolutely.
There's others though, like Pete Alonzo, a regular in the

(21:20):
home run Derby, wasn't in this year, or Aaron Judge
who keep Monster Mushing even though they were in the
hor ern Derby. So it's essentially a coin flip, not
a curse. It's a coin flip. And if the big
dumper comes out and takes a dump for the Seattle
Mariners there on the field in late July and August
and all that stuff. It's not because of some mythical

(21:43):
derby voodoo. It's not because of that. It's because baseball
is a grime. We get into those dog days of
summer and it's brutal, all right. It is the Ben
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it we go, and Nick, the Wendy's Guy calls in.
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well today. Let's just say I've become friends with a
porcelain throne. Ew it happens, Nick, it happens. Ben.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
Do you ever pray to the toilet gods while you're
thrown up? And being like, Hi, I will never do
it again if I'm never sick ever again.

Speaker 2 (24:39):
You know, I haven't really had many issues throwing up.
I've only thrown up a few times. My issues are more,
how can I describe it? Chocolate like a chocolate milk
situation like I've had that.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
I've had food poisoning, I've had well, I'm not getting
chocolate ice cream right now.

Speaker 2 (24:58):
When I had my gallbladder out, it took me a
while to adjust to my new situation. Like there's a
timing issue and you have your gallbladder out, like you
have a certain window, you eat certain foods, and you
have to be within a certain distance to the throne,
and if you don't make it there, your body's not
gonna wait. No, it's just gonna unload. And yeah, I

(25:23):
really damaged a few toilets in my time because I
not quite make it in time, which was bad for me,
but it was good for the downloads on the podcast.
I saved that for the fifth hour because you really
talk Pooh. You can talk not Poor Richardson, but you
can talk Pooh on the fifth hour. You know, Poor
Richardson is No, it's not Winny of the Pooh right, No, no.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
He used to work here as a basketball player, and
Poor Richardson was a talk shows here and there was
a drop that I used praising his work as a
talk shows and that was immortalized, I think by it
was Danny g or Roberto, one of those idiots were
saved it in the system. Then it was in honor
of talk shows. I was following him on like a

(26:06):
Sunday night, and that was that. We're starting out with
the home run derby just Josh in Cincin, and I says,
give the nerds an inch and it'll take you for
a mile every single time.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I'm pretty sure Robbie.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
The Mariner fans celebrated the feat by lighting a scented
candle after a healthy number two Shane and de Moine says,
the players in the home run derby showed up and
showed out, as the saying goes, but all could have been,
all could have used. Hitting coach Ben Mauth, Well, I

(26:39):
am Benny the Bopper, and we have that somewhere in
the system. But I am Benny the Bopper, and don't
you forget that, Fargo Pete, I'm still looking for the
other all right.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
I know there's a lot of sound, Fargo Pete.

Speaker 2 (26:49):
I've been here a long time, Fargo Pete, right since
says hey, Ben, did you just use these phrases less
than an inch and a nerds chubby in the same sense, well,
not exactly the same scent as you did far Go Pete,
you took your creative license to the next level.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
Bill, who's your bill rights? In?

Speaker 2 (27:06):
Said Mariner talk. I thought they got traded to Oklahoma City?
Who knew, he says, complaining about that chip and the
Q says he plus on the opening moutha monologue. What
you said about the home run Derby is true. I
just shrugged my shoulders, he says, I shrugged my shoulders.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
After all, a few years down the road.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
How many people will actually remember who won the contest?

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I know I won't. Well, you can say that about
pretty much anything, ship like, are you really gonna remember
the minutia about, for example, basketball Oklahoma City winning the championship? No. Now,
if you're Kyrie and OKC and our listeners, you'll remember everything.
But for the rest of us, I think the Oklahoma won.
What year did they win?

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Truck Stop Fungus Rights Sin says I stopped watching the
home run Derby years ago.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
It's just silly.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
I love a guy named truck Stop Fungus who thinks
the home run Derby is silly. Jason the Diamond Band
says I need to thank Mallor for watching the home
run Derby so I could watch the grass dry after
a thunderstorm.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Thank you go, very nice.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Mister Irrigation randomly says I think I found weed man,
a new roommate candidate. If he's looking now, he likes
his roommate now, he said. A guy works over at
Walmart they're they're having a good time, having a good time.
Femi rights and says, man, you said baseball isn't cool
and basketball is.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
So what's the coolest sports?

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Soccer? Hockey? Never mind, it's the NFL, says fem Well.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I think basketball is perceived as cooler than the NFL,
saying the cool if you look at the big board
of cool, not a list, Terry and England not a list.
Big board, basketball would be at the top. You don't
do lists. I don't you know. People that do list
are lazy talk shows.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Ferg Dog writes and says, why can't you let Robbie
the Mariner fan be happy for one span? The Big
Dumper wins the derby, first time he's been able to
celebrate in a long time. The Mariners suck, the Falcons
are a joke, and the Beaves got left to die
in the pack too, and Justin and Cincinnati always calls

(29:15):
him fat.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
That is true, That's all all part of the the
bromance there.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Supermarket Steam says, you would think that winning the home
run derby would help someone with momentum into the second
half of the season to tear it up. I guess
Ben is right. Momentum in sports really doesn't exist exactly, supermarket, Steve,
there you go. Now you're coming around, And I don't
even know why you should comment on this, because we're
the ones allowed to talk about the home run deerbery.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
You you're allowed to talk about the WNBA. I wish
you could just shut here.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
Yeah, go to the phone town. He says he's got
a golden ticket. I don't know how he got the
golden ticket. I think this is a counterfeit golden tickets.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
I said you gave him when I was done.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Holler and James, I did not give you a golden ticket. James,
you gave it to Tammy. Remember you won one, but
you gave it to Tammy. You can't use a counterfeit
golden ticket. I know why are you using it?

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Then? Every golden ticket I give it, you give it
to Tammy.

Speaker 6 (30:13):
I wanted jeans outside golden ticket to Tammy.

Speaker 1 (30:17):
But I'm waiting for the call in so I can
hear her beautiful voice. And I'll sit on hold all night. Okay,
all right, I'll put you on hold. Go away. All right, there,
you guys gonna.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Stay on, stay on hold. Who's your bill? Says Ben,
truck stop. Fungus has the best shrooms this side of
the Mighty Mississippi.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
You don't say so. He just did say. I mean
he typed it out. He said it typed it. So
that's what he said. Absolutely so bad. Jazz a story.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
That Major League Baseball does not want you to talk about.
A New York Yankee was in the home run Derby.
Jazz Chisholm Junior in the home run Derby. You probably
don't know that if you didn't watch it. Even if
you watched it, you might not know it because Jazz
Chism he had how many home runs in the derby?

Speaker 1 (31:07):
Let's see here in nonce, he have had.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Twenty fifteen no All star infielder for your New York Yankees.
Jazz Chism hit three home runs in the opening round
and was eliminated. He then pointed out that he was
just there for the vibes. He was just at the
home run Derby for the vibes, and he proved it.

(31:30):
He proved it with his performance.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
He was there. He looked good, He looked marvelous. It
looked absolutely marvelous. He was styling at the Jersey uniform
out there. The hat was on backwards. He looked like
he knew what he was doing, and then he had
to hit the ball. And that was the problem. That
was the problem.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Remember years ago when I was doing stuff with the Dodgers,
state this guy, you probably don't know who. His name
Mike Piazza. He was a big star, you know, thirty
years ago, and Piazza entered the home run Derby. I
think it was in like Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, somewhere like that.
I think I've been in Pittsburgh. And if I remember correctly,
Piazza did not hit a single home run in the
home run Derby and had his balls busted the rest

(32:11):
of the season, and I don't think he ever entered
the home run Derby again.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
That was it. He said, I'm out. I'm not going back.
Let's go back to the phones.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
Let's go down to Bennett the comedian, Will Bennett being
the malor Pealosa. Hello Bennett the comedian, Welcome, don't big
time Michelle, Please, no speakerphone.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Pick that phone up. I don't want a speakerphone. No
speaker phone.

Speaker 7 (32:33):
Sorry about that.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Are you on the toilet right now? No, I'm not.

Speaker 7 (32:37):
I'm actually in my room. Paul laundering.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Okay, you're falling under See I thought you were honoring
the big dumper. I thought you were on the toilet.

Speaker 7 (32:46):
Very funny, but my head's gone five different directions because
he won the derby, the Mariners just swept the Tigers
and the Mallard paloozas on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
This is an amazing week for you. This coulange your
life in amazing ways. Ben at the Comedian. There's always
people listening. They're very powerful people. Someone could be listening
to your comedy set and then they might contact us
and say, hey, who's that guy, Ben at the Comedian.
And then the next thing you know, boom, you're discovered

(33:17):
and to the moon, to the moon there you go.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (33:22):
Well, actually, I'm trying to get my sister. She's nine.
She wants to come. She heard me on the paluza
last year and she's like, I want to get on there,
so we'll see.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Okay, now she able to stay up that late? It's
pretty late. Is she able to stay up that late?

Speaker 7 (33:36):
Well, she's got to talk mom and dad into that
way about that.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
I like, though, yes, good sibling bonding is what we'
providing a bonding experience for the brother and the daughter
there that they are going to be together, the brother
and sister rather, they're going to be together here on
the rad I think that's great.

Speaker 7 (33:52):
That's yeah, we're working on it. It's going to be
better than last year. So we're excited.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
Well, you're older now, right, you got those first your jitters,
you're no longer rookie, no rookie jinks, and now you're
ready to go right for sure?

Speaker 7 (34:07):
And the Mariners, uh, I'm not ready to make it
into the plass to win a world series.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
So you know, all right, and you're you're gonna wake
up after that and be like, hey, what happened?

Speaker 1 (34:16):
What kind of dream was that?

Speaker 7 (34:18):
I don't know, but I know that the Seattle SuperSonics
are going to come back. That's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
They are, yes, And how old are you get your
you're in high school?

Speaker 7 (34:26):
Right, it's almost seventeen.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
You're almost seventy everyone. That's I love. When you're under
a certain age, you always say almost to get to
the older age, and then yeah, tell a girl, don't
I well no, but when you get older, when you
get to my age, you'll say, I just barely turned whatever.
You know, I'm barely well, don't tell you how close
I am to the next number.

Speaker 2 (34:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So you know you're fine for another
at least twenty something years.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
So I think you're in good shape. Ok, yeah, I
think you're in when you get to about forty though.
At that point, you know, I'm kind of I'm just
barely in my forties.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
You know.

Speaker 7 (35:04):
Well, Ben, you're you're probably let me guess you're probably
about thirty five. And Lorraine as well.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Well, that's right, damn right. How did this guy know?
I started? Now, I started in radio when I was
ten years old. It was ten years old, and look
at me now. Unbelievable. All right, Well, good luck Bettett.
Hopefully your parents are cool with you being your sister
being in the comedy. Is she gonna do comedy with you?
She's gonna sing what you gonna do?

Speaker 7 (35:27):
It might it'll be singing her comedy. We're still trying to.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Figure that out.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
But now I am concerned though, because I think you
might be upset if she ends up doing better than you.
And then because you know, people love you know, you
feel little girls have this spngali effect on people, So
I'm you know, she does have a power that you
might not possess, and that could be troubling.

Speaker 7 (35:47):
We shall see about that.

Speaker 2 (35:49):
I don't know, but all right, well, I'm like, all right,
you better practice and make sure that laundry is folded properly.
I don't want your parents to be upset with you. Okay,
all right, all right, thank you, Margo, all right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
At the comedian trying to recruit his four nine year
old right, yeah, sister, a nine year old sister?

Speaker 2 (36:08):
And what about a nine year old girls that that
guy used to call the show angry Bill?

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, I would say, do you? Yeah, what happened? We
know what happened to me? Just kind of just disappear.
I don't, I haven't noue. I know he had some
medical problems. I'm not sure what. All right, time out
for the who am I? Game?

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Here it is we're pretend to somebody else. So cal
Rally became the second switch hitter who to win the
All Star Home Run derby joining me. Cal Raley the Mariners,
becoming the second switch hitter ever to win the home
run derby, He joined.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Me, Who am I? That is the question. The answer.
We'll get to it. We will do it.

Speaker 5 (36:48):
Next be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 8 (37:00):
I love it and my Nay live somewhere walking northwards
the show to the sleeper, and everyone hit the air
everywhere they got there.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
He got him, Get you. I didn't write what I
was doing. I want to steer and I'm gonna speak
on the line everything.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
Call me Mighty.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Ball, give me a slommy Summarine break, get the hard money,
Bill Miller, and you. It is the Ben Mather Show,
up all night, every single freaking my goodness, it does

(38:01):
not end. And you can stream this show and all
the other Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty four to seven.
If you want to approve iHeartRadio app, just search Fox
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(38:23):
to preset that Fox Sports Radio Ben Malor Show, Weekend
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God for the Internet.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Back to it back to it and do we have
now I think we have the tire rack play of
the day.

Speaker 1 (38:41):
Do we have that ready to go? Here we go,
Let's go the tire I raq. We do not have
the tire rack player today. Oh apparently we do not.
All right, I thought we did. I don't know who
it is. I have no idea.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
I mean, there could only be one. I mean, there's
a home run derby. There's nothing else that happened, so
it had to be from the home renerby. Anyway, we
will skip that and we will move ahead in the broadcast.
Now Here is the who am I?

Speaker 1 (39:05):
Game? Here is the who am I?

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Game?

Speaker 2 (39:07):
So cal Raley became the second switcher ever to win
the All Star home run derby, joining me?

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Who am I? That is the question?

Speaker 2 (39:18):
What is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
Milkman Mike in Colorado? Who is in the Mall of
Palooza this Sunday night into Monday morning? Going with Johnny Appleseed?

Speaker 1 (39:29):
Is his answer?

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Ocho Textos says it's America's favorite drag queen for Lexus
Charman Harmon says Lyman Bostock and old baseball player who
else we have marked the full name, Guy says, Groucho
March Marx is the answer. He calls himself Groucho Mark.
He calls himself Jay Scoop says, Benny the Bopper is

(39:53):
the answer. Boog Powell from William That's his answer, Bobby
said us and Ray he's a big fan of her work.
Mal prop Guy also went with Benny the Bopper. Who
else we have? Bob Ross from alf the Alien Opiner
the Legend, Mister Smithers. What a party animal from King
Rory Elon Musk tossed out by Femi the number one

(40:15):
Uber seats Driver's.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
In Minnesota, big fan of the show.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
He's spread the Malther gospel around the world in his
native country. Shane in the Mones says, Muggsy Bogues is
the correct answer. Brett Boone with one T. Brett Boone
with one T. Also, I guess who else? Do we
have a page Dan Bay City Tony, I'm not I
don't even know how to say that name.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Who else we have?

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Al Oliver from Manuel Inguardina, the real big Pooper, Ben.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
Bishop Die Die Diarrhea Guess by fergnog Ricky Martin from
JJ Caitlin Jenner tossed out by Jordan Carlos Beltron from
Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Mister Irrigation, says the iconic Liberaci. He lived apparently up
the hill from where we do the show from.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
He's dead, Lorena, Do you have an answer, Laurea Verry Bonds?
Bet Verry Bond's not a switch hitter.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
The correct answer none other than Rumyan Sierra of the
Texas Rangers in nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
Way back, way, way, way back back back back back
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