August 17, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the NY Jets offensive line being their weak spot, if there's more to the Jonathan Taylor story than we're being told, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our number one
of the Ben Malers Show. It's the original. Do not
settle for a cheap ripoff version of this show. And
we begin with the big news in the NFL. People
freaking out why the Jets offensive line not protecting Aaron Rodgers.
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So what is your position on the Jets offensive line
being the weak spot for Gage Green? Also, is there
more to this Jonathan Taylor's story than we are being
told out of Indianapolis? And thumbs up or thumbs down?
Does this Micah Parsons punch or a couple of punches
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at Cowboy training camp? Does it rise above the normal
training camp scuffle in Jerry's world. We'll talk about all
of that and everything else that's on the board right
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Speaker 2 (02:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
All right, well maybe you saw this, maybe not, but
there are some easily manipulated types that are freaking out.
Why are they freaking out? They're freaking out because the
Jets offensive line has popped one of their tires. In
reports coming out of the Jets training camp that the
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offensive line has been doing the Matador blocking olay ole,
that's how they've been going there. Now, Aaron Rodgers asked
about this. Now, before we tell you what Rogers had
to say, Robert Salah, the coach of the Jets, he
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had said some comments that were recorded for the posterity
of Hard Knocks critical of the Jets offensive line. Rogers
in the follow up said that the offensive line is
quote a work in progress. We weren't we all? They
work in progress, However, the seasoned quarterback Rogers attempting to
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calm the stormy waters there. Everything will be okay. I'm paraphrasing,
but everything'll be okay.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I don't know if he said aahuasca or not. Maybe
he did. Maybe they just have to go on the
Joe Rogan podcast or something. I don't know. Anyway, here's
Aaron Rodgers give you a little taste of what Rogers
was yapping about.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I thought we played a lot better up front today,
so misson Dwayne obviously liking in practice today. We had
Joe at doing some center stuff yesterday, so it's a
work in progress. I felt like it was rich. Maybe
asked a question about the continuity of the guys playing together,
and I was thinking, maybe we'd start to figure some
stuff out. See, it hasn't happened yet. There's jobs up
for grabs. So that's the beauty in camp, and also
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the struggles in talking with, you know, a couple of guys.
We just need some continuity at some point so guys
can feel comfortable playing together. Maybe that's in the next week.
Maybe it's the week that we have in between the
season in the last preseason game. But jobs up for grabs.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Okay, jobs up for grabs. So let us discuss the question,
what is your position on the Jets offensive line being
the weak spot? So I have medieval degree, patternicity and meditation,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to split them apart like an atom.
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Is what we're going to do. Now, A, I am
not buying what the New York media is selling in
these over the top headlines. Here it's the same old
cookbook it is. You're balancing the hope and the fear. Now,
I admit it is a good storyline because people are
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gullible and they fall for this kind of stuff, and
so I understand why it's out there. But if the
Jets the way this works, if the Jets go out
and just or a bag of suck on offense, you've
got a fall guy, or in this case, a fat guy,
a bunch of fat guys on the offensive line. Now,
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should they succeed, then you can build the fairy tale
around number eight under center. Now, my seventy five cents
on this, not twenty five. It's gone up or ten cents.
This is all part of the ebb and flow of
this time on the calendar, and I have no skin
in the game here as an outsider, the level of
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concern for the Jets offensive line is minuscule. And I'll
tell you why. Gain Green has a medieval degree from
the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And I guess
I'm sucking the toes of this guy. But Aaron Rodgers,
and we've seen these top not scorers. Now, Rogers did
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not play as well last year, but even should the
Jets offensive line come out and be a disheveled, disorganized mess,
Rogers has been around. It's not his first rodeo. He's
been around. He knows all the short cuts, shortcuts, all
the tricks and all that. So you make adjustments. You
tweaked the game plan, You run shorter routes at your
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receiver positions, and you make quicker throws. And the offensive
line being the kryptonite, which is what the storyline is
setting up to be, it doesn't really fly when you
think about just a couple of years ago, Joe Burrow
and the Bengals had the most sacks, their offensive line
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gave up the most sacks, and they were within striking
distance in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl against
the Rams with a total cheese ball offensive line. But
that's the whole point of the sports, right, Successful teams
understand the weaknesses that the coaching staff, the star players
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understand the weaknesses of the players on their own team,
and they're able to hide them. And the whole point
on the other side is to take advantage of the
weaknesses on the other side. But what do I know,
I just do the overnight show. Now the second part
of this, let's go to Indy. Not the lead story,
but is it a drama orama? Continuing there for the horseshes.
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Now we have learned that Jonathan Taylor, here's our running back,
Jonathan Taylor is once again away from the Colts training camp. Now,
you probably aren't a Colts fan. I know we're on
in Indianapolis. We do have some Colts fans or an
Indy in it, but the vast majority of people not
Colts fans. So the reason this is interesting is because
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it's background music that's playing. Is the contract stalemate between
Taylor and the team. Now the Colts have said, hey, listen,
this is an excuse situation. It's a personal matter. But
is there more to this Jonathan Taylor's story than we
are being told so without any insider information, I am
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nodding my head. Yes, now, it is certainly possible. This
is all just a quinkie dink and totally benign. I
am going with patternicity. That's what I'm going with. It's
a human weakness and I'm falling for it right now. Patternicity.
I'm looking at a pattern here, and the pattern's kind
of clear. Taylor reported a training camp in late July.
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Four days later, he requested a trade. He wanted to
enter the transfer portal. He then had a very famous
meeting with Jim Irsay inside a RV and in that meeting,
Ersay and Taylor went back and forth. Taylor eligible for
a big contract extension as a third year player, but
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Ersay said, no, I'm not gonna do that. And since
then the ring of fire has burn, maybe burn much hotter.
And so the Colts they considered putting Taylor's entire salary
on hold because they were gonna put him on the
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non football injury list. That did not happen. How Taylor's
agent famously said that he does not believe that the
relationship can be salvage very dramatic, and Jim irsay talk
about dramatic. He talked about how unimportant he is and
how unimportant Jonathan Taylor is in the big picture that
if they dropped dead, if they drop dead in the
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middle of the night, the NFL would go on and
that would be that, all right. So that's the t
other story for not last word here. Let's go to
Jerry's world where things got chippy Chip Chip Chip Kippi
at Cowboys straining came now multiple altercations breaking out in
beautiful Oxnard, California, on your way to Santa Barbie you
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drive through Oxnard from LA anyway. One one of those,
actually it was two of them, involved Pro Bowl linebacker
Micah Parsons, who decided he wanted to go old school
video game Mike Tyson punch out, body blow, body blow.
He punched one of the Cowboy offensive linemen, Tyler biadash Bam.
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Now that punch leg to a major scuffle. It was
on like Donkey Kong right on the So people freaking
out about this. Of course, people freak about everything. So
thumbs up or thumbs down? Does this Micah Parson's punch
rise above the normal training camp brew ha ha for
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the Cowboys. So I'm gonna go thumbs up on this.
Now I'm the guy that always says I it doesn't
really matter training camp interceptions. I'll do another rant about
that later because that's in the headlines again. But on
this one, I'm going thumbs up because Micah Parsons is
not only a holy terror on the football field, but
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appears to be a bit of a ticking timebo and
the Cowboys They've got some name brand players on that defense.
And I certainly don't have the Cowboys as a top
line super Bowl team because why would you. But if
they are going to overcome the low expectations that people
like me have, Micah Parsons is clearly going to be
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one of the central figures in that he brings the
fear factor the issue for Jerry Jones as the GM
not just the owner he liked the team so much
he bought it, but the g controlling the raide And
how about some transcendental meditation. How about that little hot
yoga There's a hot yoga studio right across the courtyard
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from the Fox Sports radio studios if you're interested in that.
But Jerry, he's got to figure out how to get
Micah Parsons to compartmentalize the raw emotion. But if you're
punching your own offensive lineman, I'm gonna go out in
a limit, say, the offensive lineman for the Giants and
the Commanders and also the Eagles are going to be like, Okay,
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this's this guy's a soft this guy's got a weak spot.
We can get in his head and the real issue here.
In the old school it wouldn't matter. But we live
in a soft serve world where major corporations like the
NFL freak out because of some losers on social media
and bots and algorithms and all that. So if you
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throw a punch in a regular season and if it's
bad enough, you'll not only get kicked out of that
game if you're mic At Parsons, but it's not your
daddy's NFL anymore, you'll also get suspended for another game.
And think about it this way, Parsons. Let's say he
throws a haymaker and he he hits the bullseye during
a game against the Rams in week eight. He's out
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the following week nine against the Eagles. Hello, yeah, you
see the problem there, But am I just being dramatic here.
I guess you'll have to decide. It is the Ben
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we're doing a Mallord meet and greet. We're gonna hang
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It's gonna be a lot of fun. We're looking forward
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We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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And also in the final hour of this show, if
you stick around, you'll be treated to puck the world.
It's my weekly NHL report. We didn't have it last week, so,
oh my god, two weeks of high hockey news to
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give you. It's a special, special night.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I wouldn't hear last week. Why Why did you not
do it last week? You were in charge?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Because I wanted to for you, Ben, for you.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Should have done like a whole like three hours on
hockey and then we could have taken again.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I wanted. I wanted to do the show again at
some point, so that's why I chose not to do that.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Look at you, Eddie. Oh you're using my material now there.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Well, I mean, I love hockey, but I'm not an idiot.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Okay, are you sure about that?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Who do you think has the highest IQ on the show?
Is IQ test Coop? That's a douche move.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
I don't know, Coop. Just why why would you say that? Coop? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
What else? What else am I supposed to answer to
that question?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Okay, I don't know. Well, I don't know. I've never
had my i Q tested, so it's not that hard.
But I mean beat his coop, I don't know, But
I mean.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Does it.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
But that's true. He has killed a lot of brain cells,
So there's that. I mean, I always Sam, I don't
know we have, but he's not been around long enough.
I didn't notice that I was saying, apparently got a haircut.
He does. It's not fear of the fro anymore, no,
I guess.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
So, yeah, no, no haircut. I just combed my hair
back a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You're groomed, so.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
It's like, uh, a puffy dog that has a bath.
It's like, uh, looks a lot, you know.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I just it'll get puffy later.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Well we look forward to seeing it get all puffy
later on.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And then you have a date or something. Sam, And
it took a shower, the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
I just combed my hair, that's all. Wow, that's amazing
how you can look so different from just a comb.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You'd be a good criminal there, Sam, you can change
your appearance. You're like a chameleon. You can change your
your ways anyway. So we began this hour ranting about
the Jets offensive line, because why not, What the hell
else are we going to do here? Wonderful, glorious. Uh now,
we'll take some calls, but we we have a bunch
of people that are ranting and raving on the Twitter
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machine or the X machine or whatever the hell it is.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
We really do need to come to some kind of Consensusonet.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Know what it is. I know, I'm not ready to
call it.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Let's just pick something on Twitter. Twitter, call it Twitter Twitter.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's not Twitter, you go to if you go to
X dot com, it'll it'll take you. Well, it takes
you to Twitter dot com, but it's x dot com.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
But we all know it's Twitter.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah. Yeah, they say in marketing, once somebody decides the
name of a product or a products value, that's it.
Once the mind is made up, the mind does not change.
Late night drug tester says, it's just wondering where training
camp fights rank on Big Ben's Big board of Evergreen stories.
I'm guessing between last minute holiday shopping and final day
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to turn in your taxes, yeah, late night drug tester.
I've been doing this a few years and and I
think I'm in the hundreds on training camp fight stories, Yeah,
all the time.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
What's your favorite all time training camp fight story?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Oh, well, we've there have been a few. Remember Aaron
Donald just was it last year or the year before
he did the helmet toss? Remember that? I don't, actually
you don't. He did the same thing Miles Garrett did,
but Miles Garrett did against your Steelers, and well it
wasn't exactly the same, but yeah, and he didn't get
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in trouble for it because they said the NFL said
it happened in training camp, so it's the team had.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
This was was Stephen Davis, Michael Westbrook? Was that training
camp or was that just during the season, because he
actually heard.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
Him, right, I think that might have been during the
mine is when Bill Romanaski shattered the guy's eye socket?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
His his teammate, right?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Who was that training camp? That was it training Was
that in the nineties or the early two thousands?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Really hard to believe that Romanowski would do something like that.
What a stand up guy. I think it was the
rage at all.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I'm sure I think it was the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
All right, by the way, big news here Eddie. Rebecca,
long time listening to the show, says she may make
an appearance at the mall or meet and greet.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
This is going to sound like a douche move. But
I don't know that there's anyone that's going to be
there to see me specifically. But if you want to
see me, you'll have to come in the first hour
because I have something I have to do later on.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So Eddie's doing wrong only there for the first hour.
Everybody's the rock star. You're doing the rock star, Eddie.
But that's fine. I'll be there for the full the
full monthy whop.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Will be there for the last ten minutes, the full
two hours.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Well, we agreed to two hours. He put three hours
in the thing, but I think we're good for two
two and a half. I might stay. I don't know.
I got nothing else going on, you know, like our
one day off a week. But what the hell? But yeah,
Rebecca says she might make it there. So be love
to love to meet you. But it's all Rebecca. It's
all there on the Twitter or the X or whatever again,
and the information it is this Saturday, August nineteenth, two pm.
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It's listed two to five. Eddy will be there two
to three. Coop will be there two to one thirty
or two to two to three thirty. What what's that, Coop?
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Well, you're you're estimating wrong. If anything, if anything, I'm
gonna be there late.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You'll be late. You will not be there at too. Okay,
well that's good. See that would actually work better if yes,
Eddie leaves at three and then you show up at three,
then that'll work perfect.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Like tag team. Yes, yeah, Tip, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, there you go and you can replace him. And
then I was Sam's not available, so he's not He's
gonna be there. But I just.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Normally I normally I wake up at two thirty, so
it's gonna be oh you do?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, Well I don't normally wake up that early either,
so I'm gonna have to and I got I got
a much longer drive than you have, Coop, so I will.
I will definitely be getting up early and be sitting
in terrible traffic, which I cannot wait to do. I'm
so excited about that. But we'll hang out with and
comic book guy. What's that?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Shouldn't be the traffic shouldn't be that bad.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Saturday is really bad in La Man, people got doing stuff.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
It's not the COVID time anymore. But but Rebecca, it
is at Andy the Comic book guy store. It's at
Brave New World Comics is the name of the shop.
So that's where we're going to be hanging out.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
And when was the last time you were in a
comic book shop, Ben oh Man?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I was probably, like, I don't know, ten years old
or something, a long time ago. But there was a
place I would go like comic books and baseball cards.
It was Combo and Andy has some sports stuff. It's
mostly like comic book stuff. So a fer cat rights
and says, I disagree with Cooper Loop. I think Ben
has the highest IQ on the show. He says, I'm
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pretty sure Ben's IQ is higher than everyone at FSR. Well,
thank you for a cat. It's very kind of you
maybe to say that, I don't.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Know, it's a very unferred cat.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Say that, I don't know, I don't know what you're
talking about. GM Maine, GM Man's from Chicago, says a
great monologue, Ben, as usual, Please don't let Andre from
the Commonwealth on there. The Rome call. Is he a
Jim Rome caller? Does Andre Culture? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Jim Rome still on the radio?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Yes he is.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Wow, look good for him.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You thought T. J. Simer's was dead. You thought Rome
was off the radio.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
I believe Rome's on CBS Sports.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You want to you want to plug? Well, what time
he's on? To IOWA saying you want to do that?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
You want to give on his phone information here?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I mean, my god, what do you just tell people
to go listen to Jim Rome? Do you think Rome's
gonna say, hey, listen to Ben Mahler on Fox Overnight?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
God said, competing shows. He's on the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I had a casual relationship with Jim. But my favorite,
my favorite Jim Rome story is when Jim was in
his you know, mid to late forties and he pretty
much said, I ain't doing this for another you know,
you know, fifteen twenty years old and he's still doing it,
and I just want on the record, I will keep
doing it until they rip the microphone out of my hands.
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I am not quitting this. Why would you ever quit this?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
So, it just it's kind of kind of a funny thing.
Shane from the Morning says Poppy knows less about picks
than Marcel does about fine dining. Wow, guys are very angry,
very very testy.
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Speaker 5 (25:04):
And the Brave shut out the Yankees to nothing. Charlie
Morton's six shotout innings struck out ten. He gets his
twelfth win of the year. He and three really was
combining on a three at shutout and for the New
York Yankees now under five hundred sixty and sixty one
on the sea.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
We have a shot here, Eddie, not a great shot.
We have a shot of having both the Yankees and
Mets finish at the very bottom. Yeah, seeing apple, New
York City baseball teams have a shot, not a great shot,
because the Nationals are pretty bad, but the Mets are
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only one game ahead of the Nationals, so it's actually
not that outrageous. It seems like the Nationals are much
worse than the Mets. But the Mets have sixty six
losses the Nationals that natitude, they've got sixty seven they're
not even trying. And the Yankees are three and a
half games behind the Red Sox, buried in last place
in the American League East. So man, we got to
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pull for the Nationals to win and pull for the
Mets to lose.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Is that what we're doing?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, be more fun. People in New York freak out
when these teams blow.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
But you know, we have to hear angry Bill calling
and wying about the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And he just makes perverted jokes. That's all he does.
Oh yeah, so I told you so, I told you,
I knew you didn't know. I'm friends with Rob Manford.
All right, thank you, Eddie. It is the Bain Malord Show.
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to see this, George W. Bush, former President of these
United States, has joined a campaign to convince the power
brokers in the ACC to welcome SMU to their conference.
(27:46):
Say why, yeah, that's what's going on right now because
everyone's scrambling trying its survival of the fittest in college football,
big time college football. But former President George W. Bush,
and he's not alone. The former Secretary of State Conda
Liza Rice, but at one point, according to Adam Schefter,
was gonna be the Cleveland Browns head coach. But Conneal,
(28:07):
Liza Rice and George W. Bush they're lobbying the ACC. Now,
Condy Rice lobbying on behalf of Stanford. Couldn't they get
like Tiger Woods to lobby instead of I don't know.
I guess politicians political hacks do better in that world
of academia than athletes. I think. I don't know, but
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the report says that Rise, I guess she's a professor
at Stanford who knew. And George Bush, the former president
There's wife attended SMU. So they're efforting to get in
the ACC for those two schools. Good luck and even
the ACC at this point. If you look at the
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map and you look at the college football landscape right now,
it's big ten sec and then after that you got
the ACC and the big twelve. But that it's really
the power too, is what it is at this particular point. Anyway,
We'll go to the phones and eenie meenie miney Moore,
let's say all to Mark the full name guy, and
(29:11):
we haven't heard from him in a while. And this
does coincide with the implosion of the Giants and the
rise of the Dodger waves. So maybe that those two things,
it's just a coincidence. Hello, Marked, the full name guy
in Medford.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Yeah, that Giant winning streak, he's overtaking your Dodgers there
and they're way out in front.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
It was right pressive. That's hard. It's hard to imagine
the Giants would fade away in the dog days of
the baseball.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Seam stuck, you know, the way they've been playing the.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
Last several years, even with that one and seven win season,
they to be driving their fans away. Yeah, I don't
know how much to that sticky icky they'll be smoking,
you know, they'll keep him coming to a ballpark.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
You know. Maybe they're selling it under the stands there
they have in the outfield.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yes, actually they have. They have they have a boat mark.
They have a boat out in McCovey Cove where they're
selling the sticky at you can't get that. And then
they realize if they sell it for cheat that people
will buy the garlic fries and all the other stuff
there in the ballpark.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Oh, there's a little cage beneath the stands where they
let people walk in. You don't have to pay, and
you can only walk in maybe about twenty feet. There's
a fence there and you can actually see the entire.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Field from this key.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Yeah, them both like twenty feet behind you.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
No, No, I've been there. I've been to the ballpark before. Yeah,
I've seen it.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
Yeah, it's a great ballparks.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It's one of the greatest. It's of the aside from
like Finway and Wrigley Field, which are historically great. Although Finway,
I mean you've got to be about five foot one
and one hundred pounds to fit in the seats. But
the new ballparks of the last like thirty forty years,
Pittsburgh and San Francisco are by far the tops.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
Yeah, it is a beautiful ballpark. It's a nice area.
It feels good when you're out there.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Know if it's a nice area.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Crimer right, Yeah it is.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
They've only built.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Up the entire No, but I'm saying the crime in
that park. I mean, you get your car broken into
if you park in a certain lot there around the
Giants Ballpark.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Well, it's San Francisco, what do you expect.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
That's how they welcome them. They actually when you drive,
when you drive in Mark and you know this because
you live there for a long time. You live in
the Tenderloin district, when you drive into San Francisco, they
welcome you by shanking the side of your car. They
break the window on your car, is what they do,
just to welcome you.
Speaker 9 (31:47):
Yeah, when the windows smash.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Train and Golden Gate Park, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Mean I went to park near actually near Golden Gate Park.
I went to park there last time, one of the
last time, San Francisco, and I drove by two cars
in the parking lot that had their windows smashed, and
I said, okay, We're gonna go to a different parking lot.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
We're not all it must be all the New Yorkers there,
LEVI San Francisco, with the extemption of yours truly.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Of course, of course, No, you're the one New Yorker
that's not a schmuck unless you are. Yeah, all right, By.
Speaker 9 (32:25):
The way, did Coop tell you?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Coop tell me what what?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I sent you a gift and got it from the
mail room.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Oh he did. Okay, I've not I've not seen. We'll
have the big reveal here. I'll have to we'll have
to do well. Thank you, Mark. It's very kind. Is
it ticking? Is it ticking? It's not ticking, it's ticking.
All right, all right, it's not a it's not a
Urino cake, is it.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
No, it's not you love.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Okay, all right, I gotta go. Thank you, all right,
the great Mark, the full name guy show egend. We've
had an interesting relationship over the years. Interesting.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Yeah, you could say that.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, we're on good terms now. You know, it's like
a brotherhood. You know, you fight with your family, but
you know, anyway, here's the who am I game? And
here we go New York, last place. New York. Yankee
pitcher Luis Severrino has a fourteen point seven ERA in
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the first inning. He's been terrible in the first inning
of games, giving up an average is ERA per first
inning is over fourteen, and that is the second worst
mark behind me since Major League Baseball earned run tracking
began back in nineteen thirteen. So again, Yankees starting pitcher
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Luis Severrino has an ERA of over fourteen in the
first inning of games that season. That is the second
worst mark behind me since Baseball began tracking er in
nineteen thirteen. Who Ami. That is the question. The answer,
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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fourteen point seventy nine in the first inning of games
this season. That is the second worst mark all time
behind me that since Baseball started tracking that earn run
number since nineteen thirteen. And who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? And who do we
(35:41):
have here? Hedeci Ruby's And you spelled the last name
wrong there, that's how you spelled it. John Candeleera Candelaria,
the candy Man, guessed by Ryan Joe Blanton. That's a
good name from Rob in Minnesota. Who else do we have?
Jimmy Fromaine, says Eddie the Hockey Puck Garcia, Steve Sachs
(36:03):
from Sean in Portland, El Choppo from the Garcia Burner account,
Ian Anderson guests by Polly D. Sidney Ponson. That's another
good name from Eke Barry Zito from Nick in Wisconsin.
The Goat, Jake Paul from Benito, the Long Suffering Cowboy fan,
(36:23):
Bobby Oheita from Miguel on Fire Happy, Bert Houghton from
Art Puffin. That's his answer. Salmahyek from Alf the Alien Opiner,
the k C. Car Haller going with fifty cent the
Iron Cheek from Rob back in Vegas. Is he no
(36:45):
longer moving to Michigan? Says Rob back in Back in Vegas.
Who else you have? Page down, bad Ratke. There you go,
the Great brad Radkey from Arik in Minnesota. Johnny Damon
guests by Shane from Des Moines. Fields of Green from
Parts unknown, says Esteban Eliza. He's listening right now. He
(37:05):
has nothing else to do. He's in jail. Who else
do we have? Can't read that? Bill goober Zuber from
the ferg Cat account, Mariner Legend, Jim Beatty from Matt
the Warrior Raider fan. All right, Eddie, do you know
the answer? Does not Captain Kangaroo guessed by the Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
No, that's a ridiculous answer. I'm gonna say it's former
longtime Big league pitcher I think, famously traded for John Smoltz.
Doyle Alexander Doyle, good old Doyle.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
That is Doyle rule. But a good name. It's a
good name. It's incorrect. This is a rather obscure pitcher
from the nineteen nineties. Do you remember the name Jim Bullinger?
Jim Bullinger. Yeah, he was a starting pitcher for the
Chicago Cubs, among other teams, and in nineteen ninety six,
he had an ERA in the first inning games of
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over fifteen fifteen point seven to six in the first sitting,
and that is the only one worse than Luis Severino
this season. Here we go, time now for the m
l B Pickum will each pick a starting pitcher and
two two position players. Who ever gets the most Fantasy
(38:16):
points will be declared the winner. Eddie, you apparently won
the other day, So go ahead.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
All right, Let's go with Zach Gallon.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
It's a terrible pick. Cooble Lou.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
I'm gonna go with Chris Sale.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
That's another bad pick. Give me George Kirby of the Mariner,
Sam Xavian Curry. All right, I don't know who that is.
One more.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
Fred Giant Teeth Freeman.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Oh, you should have gone Fred Flintstone, the Giant Teeth.
I'm gonna take the Great Mookie Betts of the Big
Blue Wrecking Crew. Cooblo, Raphael Devers, Eddie the back to
back Eddie.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Let's go with Pete Alonzo and let's I don't know,
Oh my god, Coope.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
Let's go with JP Chopz. Is he still yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
He retired. I'll go somebody named Carrie Carpenter The Tigers.
How about that pick.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
Are you name Masataka Yoshita?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Oh okay, that's real.
Hello and welcome. It's our number one, our number one
of the Ben Malers Show. It's the original. Do not
settle for a cheap ripoff version of this show. And
we begin with the big news in the NFL. People
freaking out why the Jets offensive line not protecting Aaron Rodgers.
(00:27):
So what is your position on the Jets offensive line
being the weak spot for Gage Green? Also, is there
more to this Jonathan Taylor's story than we are being
told out of Indianapolis? And thumbs up or thumbs down?
Does this Micah Parsons punch or a couple of punches
(00:48):
at Cowboy training camp? Does it rise above the normal
training camp scuffle in Jerry's world. We'll talk about all
of that and everything else that's on the board right
now here. It is our number one, going a hog wild,
if you will welcome in the beginning of another edition
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should be in our lead this hour, coming from the
trenches of the Gridiron high anxiety in Gotham. Am I
doing that right?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
All right, well maybe you saw this, maybe not, but
there are some easily manipulated types that are freaking out.
Why are they freaking out? They're freaking out because the
Jets offensive line has popped one of their tires. In
reports coming out of the Jets training camp that the
(02:38):
offensive line has been doing the Matador blocking olay ole,
that's how they've been going there. Now, Aaron Rodgers asked
about this. Now, before we tell you what Rogers had
to say, Robert Salah, the coach of the Jets, he
(02:59):
had said some comments that were recorded for the posterity
of Hard Knocks critical of the Jets offensive line. Rogers
in the follow up said that the offensive line is
quote a work in progress. We weren't we all? They
work in progress, However, the seasoned quarterback Rogers attempting to
(03:23):
calm the stormy waters there. Everything will be okay. I'm paraphrasing,
but everything'll be okay.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I don't know if he said aahuasca or not. Maybe
he did. Maybe they just have to go on the
Joe Rogan podcast or something. I don't know. Anyway, here's
Aaron Rodgers give you a little taste of what Rogers
was yapping about.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I thought we played a lot better up front today,
so misson Dwayne obviously liking in practice today. We had
Joe at doing some center stuff yesterday, so it's a
work in progress. I felt like it was rich. Maybe
asked a question about the continuity of the guys playing together,
and I was thinking, maybe we'd start to figure some
stuff out. See, it hasn't happened yet. There's jobs up
for grabs. So that's the beauty in camp, and also
(04:06):
the struggles in talking with, you know, a couple of guys.
We just need some continuity at some point so guys
can feel comfortable playing together. Maybe that's in the next week.
Maybe it's the week that we have in between the
season in the last preseason game. But jobs up for grabs.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Okay, jobs up for grabs. So let us discuss the question,
what is your position on the Jets offensive line being
the weak spot? So I have medieval degree, patternicity and meditation,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to split them apart like an atom.
(04:45):
Is what we're going to do. Now, A, I am
not buying what the New York media is selling in
these over the top headlines. Here it's the same old
cookbook it is. You're balancing the hope and the fear. Now,
I admit it is a good storyline because people are
(05:06):
gullible and they fall for this kind of stuff, and
so I understand why it's out there. But if the
Jets the way this works, if the Jets go out
and just or a bag of suck on offense, you've
got a fall guy, or in this case, a fat guy,
a bunch of fat guys on the offensive line. Now,
(05:26):
should they succeed, then you can build the fairy tale
around number eight under center. Now, my seventy five cents
on this, not twenty five. It's gone up or ten cents.
This is all part of the ebb and flow of
this time on the calendar, and I have no skin
in the game here as an outsider, the level of
(05:47):
concern for the Jets offensive line is minuscule. And I'll
tell you why. Gain Green has a medieval degree from
the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And I guess
I'm sucking the toes of this guy. But Aaron Rodgers,
and we've seen these top not scorers. Now, Rogers did
(06:09):
not play as well last year, but even should the
Jets offensive line come out and be a disheveled, disorganized mess,
Rogers has been around. It's not his first rodeo. He's
been around. He knows all the short cuts, shortcuts, all
the tricks and all that. So you make adjustments. You
tweaked the game plan, You run shorter routes at your
(06:32):
receiver positions, and you make quicker throws. And the offensive
line being the kryptonite, which is what the storyline is
setting up to be, it doesn't really fly when you
think about just a couple of years ago, Joe Burrow
and the Bengals had the most sacks, their offensive line
(06:53):
gave up the most sacks, and they were within striking
distance in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl against
the Rams with a total cheese ball offensive line. But
that's the whole point of the sports, right, Successful teams
understand the weaknesses that the coaching staff, the star players
(07:16):
understand the weaknesses of the players on their own team,
and they're able to hide them. And the whole point
on the other side is to take advantage of the
weaknesses on the other side. But what do I know,
I just do the overnight show. Now the second part
of this, let's go to Indy. Not the lead story,
but is it a drama orama? Continuing there for the horseshes.
(07:41):
Now we have learned that Jonathan Taylor, here's our running back,
Jonathan Taylor is once again away from the Colts training camp. Now,
you probably aren't a Colts fan. I know we're on
in Indianapolis. We do have some Colts fans or an
Indy in it, but the vast majority of people not
Colts fans. So the reason this is interesting is because
(08:02):
it's background music that's playing. Is the contract stalemate between
Taylor and the team. Now the Colts have said, hey, listen,
this is an excuse situation. It's a personal matter. But
is there more to this Jonathan Taylor's story than we
are being told so without any insider information, I am
(08:25):
nodding my head. Yes, now, it is certainly possible. This
is all just a quinkie dink and totally benign. I
am going with patternicity. That's what I'm going with. It's
a human weakness and I'm falling for it right now. Patternicity.
I'm looking at a pattern here, and the pattern's kind
of clear. Taylor reported a training camp in late July.
(08:48):
Four days later, he requested a trade. He wanted to
enter the transfer portal. He then had a very famous
meeting with Jim Irsay inside a RV and in that meeting,
Ersay and Taylor went back and forth. Taylor eligible for
a big contract extension as a third year player, but
(09:08):
Ersay said, no, I'm not gonna do that. And since
then the ring of fire has burn, maybe burn much hotter.
And so the Colts they considered putting Taylor's entire salary
on hold because they were gonna put him on the
(09:30):
non football injury list. That did not happen. How Taylor's
agent famously said that he does not believe that the
relationship can be salvage very dramatic, and Jim irsay talk
about dramatic. He talked about how unimportant he is and
how unimportant Jonathan Taylor is in the big picture that
if they dropped dead, if they drop dead in the
(09:54):
middle of the night, the NFL would go on and
that would be that, all right. So that's the t
other story for not last word here. Let's go to
Jerry's world where things got chippy Chip Chip Chip Kippi
at Cowboys straining came now multiple altercations breaking out in
beautiful Oxnard, California, on your way to Santa Barbie you
(10:18):
drive through Oxnard from LA anyway. One one of those,
actually it was two of them, involved Pro Bowl linebacker
Micah Parsons, who decided he wanted to go old school
video game Mike Tyson punch out, body blow, body blow.
He punched one of the Cowboy offensive linemen, Tyler biadash Bam.
(10:44):
Now that punch leg to a major scuffle. It was
on like Donkey Kong right on the So people freaking
out about this. Of course, people freak about everything. So
thumbs up or thumbs down? Does this Micah Parson's punch
rise above the normal training camp brew ha ha for
(11:05):
the Cowboys. So I'm gonna go thumbs up on this.
Now I'm the guy that always says I it doesn't
really matter training camp interceptions. I'll do another rant about
that later because that's in the headlines again. But on
this one, I'm going thumbs up because Micah Parsons is
not only a holy terror on the football field, but
(11:26):
appears to be a bit of a ticking timebo and
the Cowboys They've got some name brand players on that defense.
And I certainly don't have the Cowboys as a top
line super Bowl team because why would you. But if
they are going to overcome the low expectations that people
like me have, Micah Parsons is clearly going to be
(11:49):
one of the central figures in that he brings the
fear factor the issue for Jerry Jones as the GM
not just the owner he liked the team so much
he bought it, but the g controlling the raide And
how about some transcendental meditation. How about that little hot
yoga There's a hot yoga studio right across the courtyard
(12:13):
from the Fox Sports radio studios if you're interested in that.
But Jerry, he's got to figure out how to get
Micah Parsons to compartmentalize the raw emotion. But if you're
punching your own offensive lineman, I'm gonna go out in
a limit, say, the offensive lineman for the Giants and
the Commanders and also the Eagles are going to be like, Okay,
(12:36):
this's this guy's a soft this guy's got a weak spot.
We can get in his head and the real issue here.
In the old school it wouldn't matter. But we live
in a soft serve world where major corporations like the
NFL freak out because of some losers on social media
and bots and algorithms and all that. So if you
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throw a punch in a regular season and if it's
bad enough, you'll not only get kicked out of that
game if you're mic At Parsons, but it's not your
daddy's NFL anymore, you'll also get suspended for another game.
And think about it this way, Parsons. Let's say he
throws a haymaker and he he hits the bullseye during
a game against the Rams in week eight. He's out
(13:22):
the following week nine against the Eagles. Hello, yeah, you
see the problem there, But am I just being dramatic here.
I guess you'll have to decide. It is the Ben
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And also in the final hour of this show, if
you stick around, you'll be treated to puck the world.
It's my weekly NHL report. We didn't have it last week, so,
oh my god, two weeks of high hockey news to
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give you. It's a special, special night.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
I wouldn't hear last week. Why Why did you not
do it last week? You were in charge?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Because I wanted to for you, Ben, for you.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Should have done like a whole like three hours on
hockey and then we could have taken again.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
I wanted. I wanted to do the show again at
some point, so that's why I chose not to do that.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Look at you, Eddie. Oh you're using my material now there.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
Well, I mean, I love hockey, but I'm not an idiot.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Okay, are you sure about that?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Who do you think has the highest IQ on the show?
Is IQ test Coop? That's a douche move.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
I don't know, Coop. Just why why would you say that? Coop? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (16:45):
What else? What else am I supposed to answer to
that question?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Okay, I don't know. Well, I don't know. I've never
had my i Q tested, so it's not that hard.
But I mean beat his coop, I don't know, But
I mean.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Does it.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
But that's true. He has killed a lot of brain cells,
So there's that. I mean, I always Sam, I don't
know we have, but he's not been around long enough.
I didn't notice that I was saying, apparently got a haircut.
He does. It's not fear of the fro anymore, no,
I guess.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
So, yeah, no, no haircut. I just combed my hair
back a little bit.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
You're groomed, so.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
It's like, uh, a puffy dog that has a bath.
It's like, uh, looks a lot, you know.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I just it'll get puffy later.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
Well we look forward to seeing it get all puffy
later on.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
And then you have a date or something. Sam, And
it took a shower, the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
I just combed my hair, that's all. Wow, that's amazing
how you can look so different from just a comb.
That's it.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You'd be a good criminal there, Sam, you can change
your appearance. You're like a chameleon. You can change your
your ways anyway. So we began this hour ranting about
the Jets offensive line, because why not, What the hell
else are we going to do here? Wonderful, glorious. Uh now,
we'll take some calls, but we we have a bunch
of people that are ranting and raving on the Twitter
(18:10):
machine or the X machine or whatever the hell it is.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
We really do need to come to some kind of Consensusonet.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Know what it is. I know, I'm not ready to
call it.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Let's just pick something on Twitter. Twitter, call it Twitter Twitter.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
That's not Twitter, you go to if you go to
X dot com, it'll it'll take you. Well, it takes
you to Twitter dot com, but it's x dot com.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
But we all know it's Twitter.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah. Yeah, they say in marketing, once somebody decides the
name of a product or a products value, that's it.
Once the mind is made up, the mind does not change.
Late night drug tester says, it's just wondering where training
camp fights rank on Big Ben's Big board of Evergreen stories.
I'm guessing between last minute holiday shopping and final day
(18:55):
to turn in your taxes, yeah, late night drug tester.
I've been doing this a few years and and I
think I'm in the hundreds on training camp fight stories, Yeah,
all the time.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
What's your favorite all time training camp fight story?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Oh, well, we've there have been a few. Remember Aaron
Donald just was it last year or the year before
he did the helmet toss? Remember that? I don't, actually
you don't. He did the same thing Miles Garrett did,
but Miles Garrett did against your Steelers, and well it
wasn't exactly the same, but yeah, and he didn't get
(19:32):
in trouble for it because they said the NFL said
it happened in training camp, so it's the team had.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
This was was Stephen Davis, Michael Westbrook? Was that training
camp or was that just during the season, because he
actually heard.
Speaker 7 (19:45):
Him, right, I think that might have been during the
mine is when Bill Romanaski shattered the guy's eye socket?
Speaker 6 (19:52):
His his teammate, right?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Who was that training camp? That was it training Was
that in the nineties or the early two thousands?
Speaker 5 (20:01):
Really hard to believe that Romanowski would do something like that.
What a stand up guy. I think it was the
rage at all.
Speaker 6 (20:07):
I'm sure I think it was the early two thousands.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
All right, by the way, big news here Eddie. Rebecca,
long time listening to the show, says she may make
an appearance at the mall or meet and greet.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
This is going to sound like a douche move. But
I don't know that there's anyone that's going to be
there to see me specifically. But if you want to
see me, you'll have to come in the first hour
because I have something I have to do later on.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
So Eddie's doing wrong only there for the first hour.
Everybody's the rock star. You're doing the rock star, Eddie.
But that's fine. I'll be there for the full the
full monthy whop.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Will be there for the last ten minutes, the full
two hours.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Well, we agreed to two hours. He put three hours
in the thing, but I think we're good for two
two and a half. I might stay. I don't know.
I got nothing else going on, you know, like our
one day off a week. But what the hell? But yeah,
Rebecca says she might make it there. So be love
to love to meet you. But it's all Rebecca. It's
all there on the Twitter or the X or whatever again,
and the information it is this Saturday, August nineteenth, two pm.
(21:13):
It's listed two to five. Eddy will be there two
to three. Coop will be there two to one thirty
or two to two to three thirty. What what's that, Coop?
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Well, you're you're estimating wrong. If anything, if anything, I'm
gonna be there late.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
You'll be late. You will not be there at too. Okay,
well that's good. See that would actually work better if yes,
Eddie leaves at three and then you show up at three,
then that'll work perfect.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Like tag team. Yes, yeah, Tip, all right.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Yeah, there you go and you can replace him. And
then I was Sam's not available, so he's not He's
gonna be there. But I just.
Speaker 7 (21:45):
Normally I normally I wake up at two thirty, so
it's gonna be oh you do?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Yeah, Well I don't normally wake up that early either,
so I'm gonna have to and I got I got
a much longer drive than you have, Coop, so I will.
I will definitely be getting up early and be sitting
in terrible traffic, which I cannot wait to do. I'm
so excited about that. But we'll hang out with and
comic book guy. What's that?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Shouldn't be the traffic shouldn't be that bad.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Saturday is really bad in La Man, people got doing stuff.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Now.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
It's not the COVID time anymore. But but Rebecca, it
is at Andy the Comic book guy store. It's at
Brave New World Comics is the name of the shop.
So that's where we're going to be hanging out.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
And when was the last time you were in a
comic book shop, Ben oh Man?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
I was probably, like, I don't know, ten years old
or something, a long time ago. But there was a
place I would go like comic books and baseball cards.
It was Combo and Andy has some sports stuff. It's
mostly like comic book stuff. So a fer cat rights
and says, I disagree with Cooper Loop. I think Ben
has the highest IQ on the show. He says, I'm
(22:49):
pretty sure Ben's IQ is higher than everyone at FSR. Well,
thank you for a cat. It's very kind of you
maybe to say that, I don't.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Know, it's a very unferred cat.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Say that, I don't know, I don't know what you're
talking about. GM Maine, GM Man's from Chicago, says a
great monologue, Ben, as usual, Please don't let Andre from
the Commonwealth on there. The Rome call. Is he a
Jim Rome caller? Does Andre Culture? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Jim Rome still on the radio?
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Yes he is.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
Wow, look good for him.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
You thought T. J. Simer's was dead. You thought Rome
was off the radio.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
I believe Rome's on CBS Sports.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You want to you want to plug? Well, what time
he's on? To IOWA saying you want to do that?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
You want to give on his phone information here?
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I mean, my god, what do you just tell people
to go listen to Jim Rome? Do you think Rome's
gonna say, hey, listen to Ben Mahler on Fox Overnight?
Speaker 6 (23:46):
God said, competing shows. He's on the end of the day.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
I had a casual relationship with Jim. But my favorite,
my favorite Jim Rome story is when Jim was in
his you know, mid to late forties and he pretty
much said, I ain't doing this for another you know,
you know, fifteen twenty years old and he's still doing it,
and I just want on the record, I will keep
doing it until they rip the microphone out of my hands.
(24:14):
I am not quitting this. Why would you ever quit this?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Right?
Speaker 1 (24:18):
So, it just it's kind of kind of a funny thing.
Shane from the Morning says Poppy knows less about picks
than Marcel does about fine dining. Wow, guys are very angry,
very very testy.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
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Speaker 1 (24:34):
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Speaker 5 (25:04):
And the Brave shut out the Yankees to nothing. Charlie
Morton's six shotout innings struck out ten. He gets his
twelfth win of the year. He and three really was
combining on a three at shutout and for the New
York Yankees now under five hundred sixty and sixty one
on the sea.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
We have a shot here, Eddie, not a great shot.
We have a shot of having both the Yankees and
Mets finish at the very bottom. Yeah, seeing apple, New
York City baseball teams have a shot, not a great shot,
because the Nationals are pretty bad, but the Mets are
(25:38):
only one game ahead of the Nationals, so it's actually
not that outrageous. It seems like the Nationals are much
worse than the Mets. But the Mets have sixty six
losses the Nationals that natitude, they've got sixty seven they're
not even trying. And the Yankees are three and a
half games behind the Red Sox, buried in last place
in the American League East. So man, we got to
(26:00):
pull for the Nationals to win and pull for the
Mets to lose.
Speaker 5 (26:04):
Is that what we're doing?
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Yeah, be more fun. People in New York freak out
when these teams blow.
Speaker 5 (26:11):
But you know, we have to hear angry Bill calling
and wying about the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
And he just makes perverted jokes. That's all he does.
Oh yeah, so I told you so, I told you,
I knew you didn't know. I'm friends with Rob Manford.
All right, thank you, Eddie. It is the Bain Malord Show.
As we continue on through these late night hours in
(26:37):
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land save at Progressive dot Com. Matt the Warrior Raider fan,
piggybacking off Iowa Sam says Jim Rome's number, and then
he gave out Jim Rose number. That'll be burned in
my brain for life. Rack me, yes, all right, we'll
rack you and make sure you grab a vine. I
don't know if there's any vines left because Iowa Sam
(27:19):
just took all the vines, I believe anyway. Presidential begging
to see this, George W. Bush, former President of these
United States, has joined a campaign to convince the power
brokers in the ACC to welcome SMU to their conference.
(27:46):
Say why, yeah, that's what's going on right now because
everyone's scrambling trying its survival of the fittest in college football,
big time college football. But former President George W. Bush,
and he's not alone. The former Secretary of State Conda
Liza Rice, but at one point, according to Adam Schefter,
was gonna be the Cleveland Browns head coach. But Conneal,
(28:07):
Liza Rice and George W. Bush they're lobbying the ACC. Now,
Condy Rice lobbying on behalf of Stanford. Couldn't they get
like Tiger Woods to lobby instead of I don't know.
I guess politicians political hacks do better in that world
of academia than athletes. I think. I don't know, but
(28:28):
the report says that Rise, I guess she's a professor
at Stanford who knew. And George Bush, the former president
There's wife attended SMU. So they're efforting to get in
the ACC for those two schools. Good luck and even
the ACC at this point. If you look at the
(28:48):
map and you look at the college football landscape right now,
it's big ten sec and then after that you got
the ACC and the big twelve. But that it's really
the power too, is what it is at this particular point. Anyway,
We'll go to the phones and eenie meenie miney Moore,
let's say all to Mark the full name guy, and
(29:11):
we haven't heard from him in a while. And this
does coincide with the implosion of the Giants and the
rise of the Dodger waves. So maybe that those two things,
it's just a coincidence. Hello, Marked, the full name guy
in Medford.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Yeah, that Giant winning streak, he's overtaking your Dodgers there
and they're way out in front.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
It was right pressive. That's hard. It's hard to imagine
the Giants would fade away in the dog days of
the baseball.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Seam stuck, you know, the way they've been playing the.
Speaker 9 (29:43):
Last several years, even with that one and seven win season,
they to be driving their fans away. Yeah, I don't
know how much to that sticky icky they'll be smoking,
you know, they'll keep him coming to a ballpark.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
You know. Maybe they're selling it under the stands there
they have in the outfield.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yes, actually they have. They have they have a boat mark.
They have a boat out in McCovey Cove where they're
selling the sticky at you can't get that. And then
they realize if they sell it for cheat that people
will buy the garlic fries and all the other stuff
there in the ballpark.
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Oh, there's a little cage beneath the stands where they
let people walk in. You don't have to pay, and
you can only walk in maybe about twenty feet. There's
a fence there and you can actually see the entire.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Field from this key.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
That's kind of cool.
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Yeah, them both like twenty feet behind you.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
No, No, I've been there. I've been to the ballpark before. Yeah,
I've seen it.
Speaker 9 (30:45):
Yeah, it's a great ballparks.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It's one of the greatest. It's of the aside from
like Finway and Wrigley Field, which are historically great. Although Finway,
I mean you've got to be about five foot one
and one hundred pounds to fit in the seats. But
the new ballparks of the last like thirty forty years,
Pittsburgh and San Francisco are by far the tops.
Speaker 9 (31:10):
Yeah, it is a beautiful ballpark. It's a nice area.
It feels good when you're out there.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
Know if it's a nice area.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Crimer right, Yeah it is.
Speaker 9 (31:20):
They've only built.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Up the entire No, but I'm saying the crime in
that park. I mean, you get your car broken into
if you park in a certain lot there around the
Giants Ballpark.
Speaker 9 (31:29):
Well, it's San Francisco, what do you expect.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
That's how they welcome them. They actually when you drive,
when you drive in Mark and you know this because
you live there for a long time. You live in
the Tenderloin district, when you drive into San Francisco, they
welcome you by shanking the side of your car. They
break the window on your car, is what they do,
just to welcome you.
Speaker 9 (31:47):
Yeah, when the windows smash.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Train and Golden Gate Park, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Mean I went to park near actually near Golden Gate Park.
I went to park there last time, one of the
last time, San Francisco, and I drove by two cars
in the parking lot that had their windows smashed, and
I said, okay, We're gonna go to a different parking lot.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
We're not all it must be all the New Yorkers there,
LEVI San Francisco, with the extemption of yours truly.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Of course, of course, No, you're the one New Yorker
that's not a schmuck unless you are. Yeah, all right, By.
Speaker 9 (32:25):
The way, did Coop tell you?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Coop tell me what what?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
I sent you a gift and got it from the
mail room.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
Oh he did. Okay, I've not I've not seen. We'll
have the big reveal here. I'll have to we'll have
to do well. Thank you, Mark. It's very kind. Is
it ticking? Is it ticking? It's not ticking, it's ticking.
All right, all right, it's not a it's not a
Urino cake, is it.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
No, it's not you love.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Okay, all right, I gotta go. Thank you, all right,
the great Mark, the full name guy show egend. We've
had an interesting relationship over the years. Interesting.
Speaker 6 (33:06):
Yeah, you could say that.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Yeah, we're on good terms now. You know, it's like
a brotherhood. You know, you fight with your family, but
you know, anyway, here's the who am I game? And
here we go New York, last place. New York. Yankee
pitcher Luis Severrino has a fourteen point seven ERA in
(33:30):
the first inning. He's been terrible in the first inning
of games, giving up an average is ERA per first
inning is over fourteen, and that is the second worst
mark behind me since Major League Baseball earned run tracking
began back in nineteen thirteen. So again, Yankees starting pitcher
(33:53):
Luis Severrino has an ERA of over fourteen in the
first inning of games that season. That is the second
worst mark behind me since Baseball began tracking er in
nineteen thirteen. Who Ami. That is the question. The answer,
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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(35:18):
fourteen point seventy nine in the first inning of games
this season. That is the second worst mark all time
behind me that since Baseball started tracking that earn run
number since nineteen thirteen. And who am I? That is
the question? What is the answer? And who do we
(35:41):
have here? Hedeci Ruby's And you spelled the last name
wrong there, that's how you spelled it. John Candeleera Candelaria,
the candy Man, guessed by Ryan Joe Blanton. That's a
good name from Rob in Minnesota. Who else do we have?
Jimmy Fromaine, says Eddie the Hockey Puck Garcia, Steve Sachs
(36:03):
from Sean in Portland, El Choppo from the Garcia Burner account,
Ian Anderson guests by Polly D. Sidney Ponson. That's another
good name from Eke Barry Zito from Nick in Wisconsin.
The Goat, Jake Paul from Benito, the Long Suffering Cowboy fan,
(36:23):
Bobby Oheita from Miguel on Fire Happy, Bert Houghton from
Art Puffin. That's his answer. Salmahyek from Alf the Alien Opiner,
the k C. Car Haller going with fifty cent the
Iron Cheek from Rob back in Vegas. Is he no
(36:45):
longer moving to Michigan? Says Rob back in Back in Vegas.
Who else you have? Page down, bad Ratke. There you go,
the Great brad Radkey from Arik in Minnesota. Johnny Damon
guests by Shane from Des Moines. Fields of Green from
Parts unknown, says Esteban Eliza. He's listening right now. He
(37:05):
has nothing else to do. He's in jail. Who else
do we have? Can't read that? Bill goober Zuber from
the ferg Cat account, Mariner Legend, Jim Beatty from Matt
the Warrior Raider fan. All right, Eddie, do you know
the answer? Does not Captain Kangaroo guessed by the Cowboy Killer.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
No, that's a ridiculous answer. I'm gonna say it's former
longtime Big league pitcher I think, famously traded for John Smoltz.
Doyle Alexander Doyle, good old Doyle.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
That is Doyle rule. But a good name. It's a
good name. It's incorrect. This is a rather obscure pitcher
from the nineteen nineties. Do you remember the name Jim Bullinger?
Jim Bullinger. Yeah, he was a starting pitcher for the
Chicago Cubs, among other teams, and in nineteen ninety six,
he had an ERA in the first inning games of
(37:56):
over fifteen fifteen point seven to six in the first sitting,
and that is the only one worse than Luis Severino
this season. Here we go, time now for the m
l B Pickum will each pick a starting pitcher and
two two position players. Who ever gets the most Fantasy
(38:16):
points will be declared the winner. Eddie, you apparently won
the other day, So go ahead.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
All right, Let's go with Zach Gallon.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
It's a terrible pick. Cooble Lou.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
I'm gonna go with Chris Sale.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
That's another bad pick. Give me George Kirby of the Mariner,
Sam Xavian Curry. All right, I don't know who that is.
One more.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
Fred Giant Teeth Freeman.
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Oh, you should have gone Fred Flintstone, the Giant Teeth.
I'm gonna take the Great Mookie Betts of the Big
Blue Wrecking Crew. Cooblo, Raphael Devers, Eddie the back to
back Eddie.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
Let's go with Pete Alonzo and let's I don't know,
Oh my god, Coope.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
Let's go with JP Chopz. Is he still yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
He retired. I'll go somebody named Carrie Carpenter The Tigers.
How about that pick.
Speaker 6 (39:16):
Are you name Masataka Yoshita?
Speaker 1 (39:19):
Oh okay, that's real.
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