Hour 1 - Extended Mediocrity

Ben Maller talks about LeBron James signing a 2-year $97 million extension with the Lakers, why he would do that, and what it means for playing with his son. Also, MLB Pick'em and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name, bar One, our number
one of our radio program, and we go to pro
bouncy ball. Why why would Lebron James extend himself with
a non playoff Laker team? Looking at that roster, what

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are the Lakers doing on the other side? Why give
Lebron the extension? He's gonna be forty years old by
the time this is done. And what does this deal
mean for Lebron playing with his son Bronnie in the NBA.
We take it and look at those angles and a
whole lot more right now, it is our number one

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man here, it is sign on the dotted line. Welcome.
In the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mathers Show.
We are in the air everywhere, eyeball to eyeball, as
we do not bite the hand that feeds us coast
stuck coast, border, the border and beyond on the vast

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and unrelentingly powerful microphones of fs are emanating live from
the world. It's a small world, after all, the box
sports radio studios inside whatever magical device you're listening to,
far far away in the Northwoods. So I lead this
hour coming from the NBA. Why why not? Why not.

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That's where the story of the day is, with reports
of tension palace intrigue between the front office and the
star player. Lebron James has done the unimaginable, the unthinkable.
Did you hear maybe not? Lebron James has taken the

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bag of paper and run a bank heist in La
La Land, Lebron agreeing to a two year, ninety seven
point one million dollar contract extension with the team that
is the second rate in LA, the second best team
at LA, the Lakers, with a third year option for

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the twenty four twenty five season, which will be here
before you know it. So this will give Lebron the
most career earnings. It will most likely garrolte barring a
colossal snap crackle pop situation, that Lebron will pass Kareem
Abdul Jabbar as the all time leading scorer in NBA history,

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and he will do it wearing the ugly purple and gold.
So let us discuss the question why why, With all
the consternation being tossed around, why would Lebron James extend
his time on a non playoff Laker team. So I've
got sponge malfeasance and puppeteer, and we will tie all

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of these things together and we are going to make
a donkey is what we're going to make. Why not?
All right now? A Lebron James agreeing to hunker and
bunker down in la It is surprising, This is surprising.
This is not what was supposed to happen. It is

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also a tell, and we always like when things like
this happened, but makes our job easier. And so if
you are analyzing and dissecting Lebron and his career choices,
this is what's known as a dead give away. It
is a dead deal way. Lebron is done chasing the rings.

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He is content to hang out with the movie moguls,
enjoy those Hollywood nights. Lebron his goal is to pass
Kareem Abdul Jabbar's the NBA is all time leading scorer.
Is gonna happen soon enough. Winning if it happens, okay,
but otherwise, forget about it right throwing the sponge, throw

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it away, there goes this month. You don't double down
with brittle Anthony Davis, the guy that doesn't pick up
a basketball and try to get better in the offseason
for months or the Freemason Russell Westbrook. If you're looking
to win, it is all about pushing yourself as the
stat band deeto, and Lebron will certainly accomplish that. He

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will put up great numbers. I imagine for a player
his age, you'll you'll break all of the the comps
that were before him. He'll put up numbers which will
be deemed empty numbers because the Lakers at best or
a mid level contender for years to come in the
Western Conference. Now, page two, what what about the Lakers sets?

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What are the Lakers doing with the Lebron's games extension? Well,
as much as Lebron is giving away his intentions, so
are the Lakers. Say cautionary tell here and they tell
you in Live FOOMI once, Shame on you, foolmy twice.
Shame on the Lakers. Right, they're making the same mistake

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that they made years ago. You hate to see it
unless you don't, and they handed you might recall a
long in the tooth Kobe Bryant from a playing perspective,
crazy extension. Kobe could not get or done anymore as
a basketball player. He was the word is washed, and
the Lakers gave him the Golden parachute contract, and people said,

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what are you doing? And then they were a lottery
team and they were a joke. And now they have
decided to say, oh, you know what, I would like
the mouthfeasance sequel, and they've gotten it. Lebron to the
naked eye, to the uneducated fan, he looks great. When
you pull back the curtain, you see the hairline receding,

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You see the hairline cracks. Bunkering down with an aging athlete.
Don't let a falling star fall on you. Lebron has
not played an entire season since the twenty seventeen twenty
eighteen campaign. He has not won a playoff series as
a Laker outside of an amusement park in Florida. That's true.

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Needed four months vacation before the NBA playoffs to get
that blowpop ring. You went on holiday, the most bogus
title in the history of that sport. And last season
people say, well, if only Lebron had stayed healthy, the
Lakers would have been okay. Lebron played fifty six games,
the Lakers had a losing record. They were twenty five

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and thirty one, four forty six winning percentage with Lebron
on the court. And but wait, there's more. We Lebron's
gonna be thirty eight years old about midway through the season,
a little before midway point there in December, late December.
What could possibly go wrong? Nothing? Right? Oh, it'll be

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a storybook situation, all right? Last word here? So what
does the deal mean? I know you're dying to know.
Will Lebron get his wish to play with Bronnie in
the NBA? Oh, that would be a basketball porn for
the assembled reporters and whatnot. So in terms of that,

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this contract is spam. It's filler. Lebron is hanging on
as he chases the records, and the contract allows him
a little more time. It buys him a little time
before Bronnie James is eligible for the NBA. Hallelujah, right,

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and Bronnie, it's good to have that family and having
the Lebron James as your dad. And scouts some of
these scouting reports, they'll they'll tell you that he's really
not that good as a ball player. He's not a
top prospect, but he's got the right name and his
father's famous, and so he will ride that surname all

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the way to the Association before he gets there, he'll
have some sweetheart nil deals. It would appear regardless. Bronnie James,
based on what we know today, is garantee of making
it at least to an NBA training camp and as
a backup fringe guy. It's it's the family business, if

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you will. And as far as Lebron taking the contract
and just chasing Kareem abdul Jabbar and for the next
couple of years and all that, Lebron in this is
the puppet master. Okay, he's the one pulling the strings here.
He structured the deal with the Lakers in such a
way to give him the wig a wig a wig.
He's got a little wiggle room in this contract. The

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timeline of the deal lines up so that Lebron can
be a free agent in either twenty twenty four twenty
twenty five, which happens to be when Bronnie will be
welcomed with open arms to the NBA fraternity. And he
would of course prefer Lebron if Bronnie would join him

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with the Lakers, but the Lakers don't have any picture
if Bronnie is not drafted, and he's supposedly not very
good compared to the other top basketball prospects. So if
he is not drafted, there's only two rounds of the
NBA draft, and that would work out well. He could
be an undrafted free agent and sign with the Lakers.
But expect him to speak that into existence some way,

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come hell or high water, that his kid ends up
on the Lakers and beggars can't be choosers Lebron. He
does have the latitude as the puppet master to escape
the Lakers when the time is right and there is
a trade kicker. So it's conceivable if Lebron gets bored
with what's going on with the Lakers, he could force
his way outbound to some other location, some other locale

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out in the backwoods. And so everything is on track
for Lebron. He's got paid a lot of money, as
much as you can get conceivably and this salary cap
world of the NBA, and he's still got the father's
son confab that is in line for a couple of
years down the line. And immediately after Lebron agrees to

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this contract, the Toady's that are in the basketball media
who are desperately trying to get the Lakers to be
good again, and they are throwing out all kinds of
scenarios that there are actually teams who are dumb enough
that will now trade for Russell Westbrick because of the

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Lebron extension Indiana or San Antonio. They'll just the Lakers
will be able to dump Russell Westbrook because there's a
sucker out there that will take him with all of
that terrible basketball that he played a year ago. But
we'll wait and see on that. I am a skeptical
unless the Lakers will throw in a couple of old

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rusty trophies, they can throw those in to complete the trade.
All right, It is the Ben Maller Show. If you
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Maller and be part of the show. That way, we'll
take some calls. Also, straight ahead the Slide of Doom,
we'll get to that end. An NBA star randomly slam
in the NFL world will go there as well, and
we will do it next moona whoa hey, hey, hey

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Eddie Garcia, your humble sidekicking your voice of reason. You're
announcer Guy. I'm at Eddie on Fox. No plea for

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mister g And in the final hour of the show,
I'll have the Hockey Report. It's called Puck the world.
Ben named it. It's an interesting name. And I'll lie
from the Fox Sports Radio studios. It's Ben Maller. We
began the night with a Lebron themed Mallard monologue. He's
agreed to extend his time with the Lakers. One of

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the great failures of a star player. Most star players
go to Lakers and succeed. Lebron has not, missing the
playoffs twice first round exit once four month vacation than
a Mickey Mouse ice Cream Championship. Robin Vegas right since,
says A plus on the Mallard monologue, Mister Mallard, I

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love this contract extension for the King a Hole. It's
pretty much guarantees three more years of suckage in the
land of Purple and Gold. Next up the contract extension
for Russell west Brick because why not? Yeah, what a loser.
Late Night Drug tester says, very noble of the Lakers

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taking care of the elderly players in the NBA. Unfortunately,
taking that shot at Kobe may cost you a win.
Later in Mallard of the third Degree, I said at
the time, wait is the Burner account writes in from
Parts Unknown, he says, Oh, Benjamin, I was counting on
a breakdown of Geno Smith's stats in practice, I've got

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some pasos on him this year, and you chose old
man Lebron James contracts signing. That's a bad job by you.
The Burner account reprimands me, what are you skip bayliss
or something I'm going to as C minus on the monologue,

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I am not skip Bayless, although I do, I haven't
been told our show gets covered up on satellite radio
the last half hour by Skip Bayliss. So I don't
know when that started, but somebody told me that's the case.
Who else do we have to see? Page down here,
page down? Anthony and Anaheim, who is scheduled to attend
the Mallard meet in Greet a week from Friday in

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southern California, says, oh, Laker fans. He says he can
hear Arnie now, the stinking genius Arnie Spaniard, fird Dog
points out. He says, the great news been Lebron's two
year extension all but guarantees the Clipper takeover of La
he points out. Then he sends some best wishes along. Well,

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that's actually the story I wanted to get to right
now and share with you if you've not seen it.
The slide of Doome happened during the Dodger Milwaukee Brewers game,
which ended a few hours back. The Dodgers winning that
game could do a rant. How that's the first time
all season that Craig Kimberrell has successfully completed a one

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run save opportunity. And we're in mid August. But I
will I will digress, I will digress. Because during that game,
David Vasse, a guy who I used to work with
back in the He often covers us up here on
our flagship in Los Angeles, AM five seventy. He's the
Dodger cub reporter and he does the postgame Dodger Talk show,

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which often covers us up when the Dodgers play on
the West Coast. But they're in the Midwest today, so
that's not the case. And my man Vase here, he
was doing television and he wanted to slide down Bernie
Brewers slide. If you've been if you've ever been to
a Brewers game or watched one on TV, you know

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they've got the slide and Bernie Brewer, the mascot will
go down there. It's it's the very top of the
stadium of the Dome there in Milwaukee, and they've they've
had that for as long as the stadium's been around,
and it's the thing and all that, and so the
mascot goes down the slides. So you wanted to go
down the slide, and so he did it. Of course,

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because he was doing television, they let TV people do it.
If he was just doing Raydeo, they would not allow
him to do it, so he goes down the slide.
The video has gone viral for several reasons. Okay, there's
several u The play by play voice of the Dodgers,
Joe Davis and no Ma Garciaparra, who is doing television

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for this particular game. They they absolutely deadpanned it, right.
They introduced the segment. They said, all right, here's our guy,
David vs. A Dodger broadcaster, is going to slide down
the slide. He's wanted to do this for a long time.
And so they show the video and Vasse goes down
the slide and he tumbles, He tumbles over and let

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me let me do the playby. I'll do the blow by.
Belong this all right, So they introduced him, right, They
got serious looks on their face and they tossed to
the video of my guy Vasse there going down the slide.
He's on a towel, so he gets a little bit
of speed and he goes down. He's like, oh crap,
He's going all crap. You know, he can't curse because

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it's being recorded, and then bam, he hits the wall.
He slams into the wall, and there's Patty it's not
like he slid into a concrete wall. But he made
the mistake of when he was when he was crashing
into the wall. Here for those of you that are
only listening on radio and not watching the TV feed,

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here he goes crashing into the wall, and he's a
he's a stumbled bumm. He's so disheveled with the slide
that his arm ends up, his right arm ends up
behind his buttocks, and bad crap, that's him, that's him,

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all right. Yeah, they went back to the play by play.
But he that David has said, did you see have
you seen the video ed of this? If you check
this out? All right? And I did text vassay he
has not. Apparently he did not like what I sent him.
I sent him the video of a child going down

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a slide. I don't think you like that. But he suffered, Eddie,
not only a broken wrist, but also he is said
to have fractured not one, not two, not three, not four,
not five, but six ribs. He fatard. He fractally like
he's in a car accident. And I mean, right, and

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that's a bad look. We're all we're all in radio, Eddie.
This is a bad look for radio athletic people. We're
a bunch of pussy willows here. I'll tell you what
right now, next time I'm in Milwaukee, when I'm in Wisconsin,
isitly my brother, if the Brewers will invite me, I
will garon fantee you. I'm not gonna break any bones
going on that slide. I don't know about that. No, no,

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I will not, Eddie, because I know the proper tech physics.
Try not breaking your breaking your slide with your hand. No, no,
I won't. It's it's kind of like boxing. You know
how they teach you we throw a punch. They tell
you can't put your thumb underneath your fingers right when
you you know, you make a fish. You can't do
that because if you do that, you're gonna end up

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breaking your thumb. Right, it's bad. It's a rookie mistake.
People making boxing. And when you're going down a slide, listen,
I picked down a lot of slides when in my
young day slide No, I mean it doesn't matter. You know,
it's like riding a bike. Okay, I'm I'm a slide
expert baseball. No, No, I'm listen, slide expert Eddie, doubt

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I would have gone. I would have pushed my feet
into the wall seas idea. No, no no, no, no, no
no no no no, no, no, no no, no, Eddie, I
would no. It's padded, Eddie, Come on, padded. Now you'd
be you'd be cooking down that slide with all your weight.
You kidding me. I will give Essay credit though, because
my old, my old, he was my producer back in

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the day. But I'll give him credit because he did.
He actually did the game. He didn't like say, oh
I'm in too much pain. Oh I gotta I gotta
take the night. No, the show must go on it
he did. He did the show. But yeah, well bad
enough that he broke all those ribs. He had to
do the game. I mean, you can't gotta show up, No,
you gotta do it. This is like his This is

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the most famous he's I know, he's done some TV
stuff at MLB network, but this thing's been seeing hundreds
of thousands at times, so it was like a trending
topic on social media that he went bamn, right. I'm
watching it over and over again on a loop de loop,
and it gets hilarious every time. It's it's uh, just
outstanding old. Yeah. Yeah, he should try to He should

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try to have some some milk is what he needs.
He needs a little milk there, chocolate milk, strawberry milk.
He just needs to the bones a little brittle apparently,
you know. Anyway, I was the Slide of Doom. Watch
out for the Slide of Doom. I do recommend watching
the video. It's pretty pretty amusing. Anyway, we will press on.

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We'll take some calls here at eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. That's eight seven seven nine nine six
six three six nine. Also on Twitter at Bean Maller.
A buddy of mine who is a radio television personality.
We were talking. We were texting about Fassay breaking six
ribs at his risk, our friend at the Brewers game,

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and we were debating whether or not he should file
a lawsuit. But I don't think he will it. I
don't think he you know, if we live in a
very litigious society. But the guy was talking to oh, yeah,
he'd get he'd get some money. I would like to
see Bernie Brewer on the stand, yeah, just kind of
moving his arms and head around because he can't speak.
You know, you think they made him sign a waiver
before he went down the slide. They handed him a paper.

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They probably should have, but I don't know if they
did all right. I guess they figured, what's the worst
it can happen. It's just a slide. Nobody slide worst
gappy breaks six ribs and a risk. That's the worst
thing that can happen. The worst part about it, that
is the rist because you use your hand, you know
the text and all that he's got like a soft
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We started with the NBA, well we'll finish with the NBA.
I was amused by this headline. The San Antonio Spurs
announced that sixty five thousand fans will be allowed to
attend their game at the Alamo Dome on January the thirteenth.
The NBA record for attendance today regular season game is
sixty two thousand and forty six fans. Uh that that's

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the record. So they could theoretically set a record if,
of course they could somehow, Why would why would sixty
five thousand people? Well they won't. Uh, there's no way
in hell unless they're giving away free tickets to this game.
The bit that hey, we'll set a records, yes, like, oh, yes,
I believe that is what the bit is. Yes, okay,

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that's the that's the gimmick. I don't even know if
they would do this giving away free tickets. Yeah, that's
a I mean about the I'm great from guessing they're not.
We're talking about the pirates. We're gonna talk more about
your pirates later, Eddie, because that's the topic of the
day here, the Pirates and Dennis Eckersley and his rant
about the Pirates. He used the great language there, the

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hodgepodge of nothingness. You could also say that about the
San Antonio Spurs and their roster, that that is the
hodgepodge of nothings nothing. But again, the fans will be
allowed to attend allowed, It's great all a spock Sweed
writes in he says, let's start a go fund me

(25:32):
to get Mallard to Milwaukee, a sap to do the slide. Hey,
I'm fine the brew We got a month and a
half or so in the baseball season, give or take,
so I'm good with that in the regular season for
the Bruke crew. Well, what's the fallout now from this?
Are they going to allow media people to do this now?
I mean, I don't know. Yeah, it could be the end.

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He may have ruined it for everyone. What a schmuck.
Ferg Doug says in David vasse defense. You should see
the damage he inflicted on the barricade. The man is
a rock, all right, Supermarcus Steve says, does this mean
there will be no more Dodger talk? Anymore for the
rest of the season. I fractured three of my ribs
one time, and it was so painful to talk for

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long periods of time. Yeah understand, Malard, prop guy writes,
and he says, hey, hey, Ben, we understand that you
would like to go down Bernie Brewer's slide next time
you're in Milwaukee. Would we also convince you to do
a to also participate in the sausage race and at

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the end remove your head and reveal a Deshaun mask.
He he says that, well, the sausage race, I have
I've never done that. I have been in the room
with the sausages though, the costumes for the sausages. But
that was years ago at the Old County Stadium and

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mascot in a minor league game, and everyone is going
to be shocked to know that you cheated to win
that game. No, I did not cheat. The mascot actually cheat.
We had an agreement. There was a confab with the mascot.
The agreement, and I was at a game in Lancaster
and the High Desert team does not exist anymore, But
there was an agreement that the way the race would
be run. It was. It was choreograph. That's what they do,

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and so you'll get out to a lead, the mascot
will take the lead, and then you'll get the lead,
and then you'll win the race. That f and mascot
decided he wanted to win the race, and he broke
the confab. He broke the agreement, and so I had
to I had to take justice into my own hands
and I had to shove the mascot. It had to

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be done. But Malapropot, I was in a room. And
the reason I don't really want to do the saucer race.
It's probably better now because they're in a dome in Milwaukee,
but in the outdoor stadium it was like the one
week where it was really hot in Milwaukee and it
was a day game, and I went into the room
where they kept the sausage costumes and they smelled like, uh,

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what can I say here on the radio, I'm sure
to think here that they smelled like your took us
when you haven't showered in a couple of days. It
was a terrible It's a horrible smell, the smell of death. Yeah,
A riek in Minnesota says A plus for the Vassa
or whatever, his name is. Who needs that loser from
Hawaii for stunts? What happened to that guy? What happened

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to Garbage? Wasn't gonna do it? But the guy, just
like Dissipinity twice is I'm gonna do it. I get
the whole thing set up here and then he just
goes away. What's up with that? That's not cool anyway,
Let's go to the phones. Speaking of not cool, Blind
Scott is in the North End of Boston and he

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is up next on Fox Sports Radio. Hello Blind Scott,
Hello Scott. Where did you go? Scott? Oh? Hey, they didn't.
They didn't put me up on their air right away.
I'm right here. Hey. One time in Boston I saw
down seven flights of stairs this last November. Um they

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were they were all concrete stairs. When I first got Dylan,
he had this thing where he would bring me. He
loves taking the trains. He brings me to the top
of the staircase and I didn't realize it and I
couldn't figure why he stopped, and I threw myself down.
It was way worse than that. But wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,
holdless seven flights of stairs, seven flights of stairs, in
the row. They don't break them up at all. Come on, no,

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because you got to go way down in the ground
into the underground subway, you know what I mean. And
I saw down all seven flights rolled down. I didn't
break any race to riffs because I'm an unbelievable shape.
But it was painful when I almost passed out after
I tried to stand up after a security guide had
to help me up and everything. But uh, um, I
think this is great for radio radio people taking beatings.

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Maybe Eddie should go like throw himself down a hill
or something right now during the show. Um, you know,
I like that. And Eddie, would you like to do
a stunt for the show? Eddie, would you like to
go out and roll down a hill? There's no Why
don't you go up the hill, up the mountain where
from where the studios are and rolled down the hill? No? Yeah,
he could sled down the stairs and like one of
those plastic sleds. That would be good doing the I

(30:21):
High radio studios, you know what I mean. Yeah, Well,
you could do like a spider Man thing and climb
up the side of the building. That'd be fun. Yeah,
you cant wear one of those star Wars costumes that
he likes. With the light, he could have his light
saver out while he does it. You know, it showed
me it showing me your freak eddie. You know, hey, hey,
one other thing. Have you ever seen people in Los
Angeles fight over parking spaces? I almost saw our pitch

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fight out front today. I guess I almost heard it.
You know, two guys trying to get in the same spot.
It's pretty it's pretty intense. You know, I'm not looking
forward to football season. We have to talk football. I
kind of like talking about this stuff better, you know,
goofy things that happened, and I like it. When on
Ray and that other guy with the funny Southern actually
called Scratchman or whatever, you know what I mean. Yeah,

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but you're a big fan of sir scratch I know,
I know. Thank you, Blind Scott, go go away. All right,
I'll say a lot to Mike, who's in Vegas. What's
going on? Mike? You are next on Fox Sports Radio.
So the bend Man tell a friend, Hello, Mike. Yes,
I'm ready. I had to wait for a while. I'm ready.
You want to get on the air. Oh yes, let's

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get Roberto. Can we get this man on the air play. Yeah, yeah,
let's do it all right. Let's go to Stand in Vegas. Hello,
stand welcome, I am Mike and Vegas over again. They
changed my screen here. I apologize. Okay, okay, very hard

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in a second. Let's you want to you want to
do that over? Yeah? Yeah, the boys want to do
that over. I'm sorry about that. That's fine. Hold on,
hold on a sack here. Yeah, he punched this up here.
All right, let's go to uh, Michael law in Vegas?
What's going on? Michael A welcome? Yes, it is a

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great to be part of the show. The reason why
I called. I'd like to say to Shaun Watson is
not only a grace to the human race, he's as
grace to the NFL. He should not only get a
year suspension, he should probably be suspended for a couple
of years. And also he's as grace. I think we
should send him to the Ukraine. What do you think

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of Russia? How about that? What have we traded him
for Brittany Griner? Would you make that deal? Yes? Because
compared to Brittany Deshaun Watson just abused twenty plus women
or more. He's a He's a meal show of astig
that doesn't respect women at all. Now, what do you

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think of that guy, Andre who calls up every other
day and praises to Shaun Watson? How do you feel
about that guy? This guy has no respect for women
and doesn't have common sense and shows no appreciation for women.
I got all right, Well, thank you, I must move
on there. But about that, the guy answered to Mike Keller,

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I had no idea. I thought that would not work.
It did work anyway. Time now for the who am I? Game?
May blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer. So the other day, at thirty five years
of age and two hundred and seven days old, Brandon
Crawford became the oldest Giant player with a walk off
home run since me. Again, at thirty five years and

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two hundred and seven days old, Brandon Crawford recently became
the oldest Giants player when they walk off home run
since me? Who am I? The answer? And the MLB Peckham.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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and we'll get to the MLB Pick Him that'll be
coming up for you. Also the who am I? Game?
So at thirty five years in two hundred and seven
days old, Brandon Crawford recently became the oldest Giant player

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with a walk off home run since me? Who am I?
That is the question? What is the answer? With the
MLB Pickham coming up here? Momentarily, the Sawman says Andre
the Giant was the correct answer. Who else do we have?
Big lou In The LBC's going with bass player Wymon

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Tisdale as his answer. Doyle Alexander from Sean in the
Valley of the Son Terry in England says, is it
blind Scott's lying attention seeking? Although he misspelled blind Scott,
he was in such a hurry to send that out.
Terry in England, who else do we have? Douchebag Jerkson

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pro far from Marcello, that's his answer, and Cowboy Killer
says it has to be Saul Goodman. He claims, who
else do we have? Page down, page down? Tom from
Fullerton in Social says it's blind Scott's incredibly fit body
rolling down seven flights of stairs. Milkman Mike going with

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Marcel and Blair heading to the club as his selection.
Ferd Dog says it's Sean Wootton ed Norton. Guests by
the Late Night Drug Tester j see the Body Ventura
from our buddy Rob Over in Vegas, Double Oh, Mexican
in San Diego. He's going with Kevin Mitchell as his selection.

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Humble Dick, he hasn't called the show in a while.
He's going with Barry Bonds as his answer. I think
Coop chased him away. Holly Madison from the Dixter parody account,
Kyler Murray in an A's Uniform guests by money Line.
Mikey from Vegas ozzywas the guy attacked by the kangaroo,

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says Poopy. The flip flopper is the answer. Jim mcqus
going with Willie Mays. Eddie, do you have an answer, Eddie? Please?
I need an answer. Yes, it's former Giant slugger Greg Linton.
Oh there's a good name, no, Eddie. If I tell
you what this guy was known for, you probably would
get it right away. He did not wear he did

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not wear batting gloves. Eddie. Oh. He was also in
the outfield for the Cubs when Bartman did not help Lubs.
That Moisse, yes, Moiseilu is correct ed. He oh, six
oh six. He was forty years old eighty five days,
boises Alu is the answer, and that leads us into

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the MLB. Pick him pitcher and two position players, and Eddie,
you have the first pick. Oh boy. Uh well, I'm glad.
I'm prepared. Then uh let's go. Let's keep it with
the giants and go with the logan web my god, Eddie,
thank you all right, I'm gonna take Jacob deGrom thank you. Uh, Coop,

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go ahead, cool, that's a dangerous matchup. But I'll go
with Corvin Burns. I got by you Roberto. Uh, let's
see here. I'll go with hurry up, go here, hurry
us one more? Wasn't hurry I'll go with Reino. I

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was gonna pick Into past Palino or whatever is Alex
Bregman rookie sensation. Go ahead? Would you pick Alex Bregman?
All right? I hate him, I hope he sucks, but
Manny Machado has been playing great. Go ahead, Eddie Eron
Judge gotta break out him this at some point, right, Yeah,
maybe Vladimir grow Jr. All right, I'll take Nolan, Nolan

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Aaron out of Coope, Paul Goldschmidt. All right, we've got
it in. Not Roberto's got one more? What's no? Roberto's done?
He's he got a pig. Let's go with Rafael Devers.
What Devers a sock, a red sock? You pick the
sock Rafael? Oh, all right,