July 15, 2026 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about what stood out about the 2026 MLB All-Star Game with the AL defeating the NL 4-0, how the latest features played out for this year's ASG, if John Smoltz had other motives with his end of All-Star messaging, and more!
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Bibbity boppity. It's our number one, our one of the
Ben Mahlor Show, and the podcast is right here on
this Wednesday, July fifteenth, or as we like to say,
the day before the Malor Palooza twenty twenty six. It'll
be here on the next edition of the show. In
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the meantime, here in our number one on this fifteenth
of July, it's all about the All Star Game. Give
me the thumbnail recap on what stood out about a
shutout pitching performance from the American League All Stars in
the Midsummer Classic. Also your thoughts on the twenty twenty
six All Star Games added features. If you enjoy interviews
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more than the game, you were very happy with what
happened at the All Star Game? Major League Baseball marketing
department working overtime the Muckety MUCKs to give you everything
but the baseball Also did John Smoltz have alternative motives
with his end of All Star Game messaging. It seemed
like he took a not so subtle shot at some
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of the biggest stars in baseball who decided to go
to Cabo rather than the All Star Game in Philadelphia.
We'll get to all of this and more. Here we go.
It's our number one, an All.
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night before the curtain goes up. There's a lot of
excitement to craft Services was in here setting some things up.
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We've got some balloon people that are showing up later.
Big night. The Red, White and Blue bunting will be
out for the Benny Awards. It's going to be massive,
the greatest night of the summer now, not tonight. This
is not gonna be a bad show. It's just not
gonna be as good as the Benny Faciitis. There the
Mallard Palooza which will take over tomorrow, the twenty six
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edition of the Mallard Palooza, which is going to be epic,
absolutely epic. That is not our story right now. We'll
talk more about that as we go through the night.
And I think we're pretty much full. There might be
one or two slots left. I think pretty much everything.
A lot of people the last minute here trying to
get on this. We may add an extra wrinkle to
it where we're sen some discussions. We've had some meetings
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about that. We'll tell you about that as we go
through the overnight. Our lead this hour, though, don't bear
the lead, my man, We're not. We go to the
city at broly Loff. They played the ninety sixth edition
of the Midsummer Classic. Now, for many years they played
two All Star Games a year. Do you imagine if
they tried to play two All Star games? Now, these
players bitch and complain so much. Oh my god. Back then,
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players thought, well, it's great opportunity to promote the game
of baseball. Now it's really fascinating to see how this
has all played out. Anyway, the Midsummer Classic took place
on Tuesday night. It was on Fox. Did you watch?
Perhaps not? Well, we watched so you would not have to.
The American League All Stars soundly defeated the National League
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All Stars four nothing. Now, if you were looking for drama,
if you were looking for excitement, heroics, you got that
in the home run derby. You did not get that
in the twenty twenty six MLB All Star Game. As
the al picks up the win. Now they have dominated
over the years. They had not won since way back
in twenty twenty four. I can't believe I barely remember that.
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I was a little child back in twenty twenty four.
So it was all about the pitching. Was good pitching
bad hitting, Toronto's Dylan Cease setting the tone. The Lidlifters
strikeout one, two, three, there you go, strike out three,
scoreless first inning, and the AL staff took the baton
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and completed the shutout. The Nationally All Stars getting Bupkus
Squad Douche and the pitching staff for the American League
combining for an All Star Game record fifteen strikeouts and
allowing just three hits. Holy Bob Gibson batman. Now. The
only additional scoring came in the eighth inning when someone
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named Miguel Vargas we're told he plays for the White
Sox crushed a four hundred and thirty three foot home
run a moonshot to extend the al to the final score,
which was four nothing. So that is a good jumping
on point. Let us discuss the question for the esteem panel,
and here it is. Give me the thumbnail recap. What
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stood out? What are you gonna remember about the twenty
twenty six MLB All Star Game in Philly. So I've
got Princess Cruises, bud Light, and Hallmark card and we'll
put all of these things together and we are going
to do the Hogy Pogy. I don't even know what
that is. It just sounds like a rhyme. So the
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Hogy pogy. All right. Now a the All Star Game,
which my favorite parts of the All Star Game are
the mascot photo and that's done prior to the game.
And then I also enjoy the introductions when the players
come out and they're wearing their uniforms, and it's nice
that Baseball decided to actually go back to that as
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they had gotten away with it. They were playing soft
they were wearing rather softball uniforms for a good amount
of time, and they've gone back to the traditional uniforms
in the All Star Game. As far as the game itself,
this All Star Game, it was the National League All
Stars provided a syllabus on how to provide a disaster class.
This was a fest. It was a snooze fest. I mean,
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you don't have to sugarcoat it. We're not a daytime show.
We're on overnight. We can tell the truth. It sucked,
all right. This was not just a loss for the
National League. It was a total Philly flop. You know
how that Philly Special in the Super Bowl against the Patriots. Well,
this was the Philly flop. It began with starter Christopher
Sanchez who ran into some early command issues, shall we say,
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And by the time the first thing was over, he
had gotten tattooed so bad. How badly it was so
badly that the mound should have come with a yellow
and black parental advisory sticker they could have put right
there on the man. The American League effectively decided the
game in the top of the first inning. They hung
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a three spot crooked number up courtesy of Ben Rice
who sucked in the home run derby a ribby signal here,
and then a two run knock by former Dodger and
current Yankee Cody Bellinger, and that was it. And he
rode that that opening swing. Bellinger was the All Star
Game MVP, rather lackluster MVP.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Know.
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The reason he was the MVP is they could not
slice up the trophy to give every single pitcher for
the American League a piece of the trophy, And then
they had to figure out the math on that does
everyone get the MVP bonus? So they just said, well,
give it to Bellinger. That's it. Now. As for the
other thing that I jotted, regarding the game itself, on
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the notes app that I have the Philadelphia delegation led
by Christopher Sanchez. If this was a political rally, that
was a total crash course on failure. So Sanchez got
lit up. Kyle Schwarber got beat the other night in
the home run derby at the Buzzer by Jordan Walker,
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the Redbird, So that began the thing. He had Schwarber,
Bryce Harper, and Brandon marsh who got five at bats
went zero for five with four strikeouts. I didn't play
in the All Star Game. I'm told that's not good.
It was an emasculating performance. These hometown heroes went full
princess cruises. They wanted to escape completely and enjoy the
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freedom of a nice, relaxing cruise. Unfortunately they were playing
baseball and that was a blueprint for failure. Is this
a preview of coming attractions for the Philadelphia Phillies if
they were to make the playoffs down the line? Is
this what we're going to get from Schwarber and Harper
and Sanchez in the postseason? Stay tuned. It was amusing
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yet again as most of the people who were on
camera in the crowd were decked out in Philadelphia, Philly paraphernalia.
And they didn't seem too police, They did not seem
too please. Now, page two, the broadcast for the All
Star Game was not received very well. It was heavily criticized. Now,
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Major League Baseball made it a point of emphasis in
this All sum you didn't see it or hear about it.
I know ostro Jant was watching every pitch, but for
those of you that weren't, they made a point of
emphasis of having what I believe is a new record
for bits. As my program director years ago would say,
stick stick a lot, a lot of bits, a lot
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of bits kibbles and bits kibbles and bits during the
game there as the theory was, they were trying to
showcase the personality of the stars of baseball with endless
end game interviews, skits and other stuff. It was literally
everywhere during the broadcast. So the question give me your
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thoughts on the mic up players and all the other stuff.
The twenty twenty six All Star Game added features the
add ons to the All Star Games. So this came.
People are gonna blame Fox and TV and all that.
I promise you I know a little bit how they
make the sausage. This came from two forty five Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan.
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Two forty five Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan. Those little weasels, Yeah,
little weasels in my head and I know I'm gonna
date myself. But there used to be these great commercials
from bud Light back in the day, and I thought
of that commercial thing when I was watching the All
Star Game. Back in the day, they had these real
men of genius, and it would be like, if we
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were to make a commercial be like today, We salute you,
mister Marketer turned the All Stars into twitch streamer guy morphing,
the game into the unholy love child of a Saturday
night live episode on a corporate Ted Talk. One star
simply played baseball, but you asked, what if we turned
them into YouTube influencers while they were playing baseball? You
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gave us NonStop sketches and forced fun like Toronto's Dylan
Cease and as catcher Shay Langaliers looking miserable as they
were miked up while going against Juan Soto. He got
so bad that Sea's actually quizzed. John Smoltz, the broadcaster
for Advice Mid count who could forget Kyle Schwarber's earpiece
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falling out three times while he was trying to hit
in the All Star Game. Or Bryce Harper looking visibly
disgusted during the direct interview while he was trying to hit.
And then you had for some of this very odd
roundtable where you had Justin Verlander, Cam Schlitzler and the Miz.
It looked like they were doing a zoom call during
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the pandemic while the game was going on. And now
the Mizz and Schlitler didn't seem to please. Verlander was
seemingly angling for some kind of broadcasting job. He seemed
like he was kind of into it. So crack open
a cold bud light, Oh great Sultan of simultaneous content.
And you traditionalists out there, you just wanted to clean game,
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just want to watch the game. But you knew that
Major League Baseball Marketing knows today's audiences that aren't even
watching the All Star Game, they crave live stream reaction videos.
And that is exactly what they got, all right now,
last word, So the very end of the broadcast with
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the announcers, I noticed something and I want to run
this by you because in my head, this is something
I don't know if you agree with me or not.
So John Smoltz, the Fox commator, at the very end
of the game, he thanked all the All Stars who
bothered to show up to the game all right, and
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those that participated in their little shtick on the broadcast.
So the question did John Smoltz have alternative motives with
the end of All Star message? So it sounded to
me the tone was what we'd like to call a
dead John Smoltz was not just dropping a little polite hint.
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He was throwing a wicked curveball, like he was back
with the Atlanta Braves years ago and had some serious attitude.
It was a masterpiece of passive aggressive snark. That's what
it sounded like. I could drive by wrapped in a
Hallmark card and to an old school guy, skipping the
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Midsummer Classic, which is a great honor, is total sacrilege.
And so it sounded just a tone. You know, It's
like when he aggressively praised the guys who actually had
the decency, the common courtesy to show up and take
part in the dumb bits they were doing. The subtext
was deafening. It seemed like he was firing heavy artillery,
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throwing mortars directly at the two biggest stars in baseball
who I don't think were there, Aaron Judge and sho
Hey Otani and those guys got and the others. There
were others that were not part of this this game
and treated it like it was a root canal, and
Smoltz I got the vibe and again I'm using some
psychobabble here that Smolt's real message was dripping an acid.
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It's like, hey, congratulations to the players who didn't treat
this showcase like a painful dentist appointment. And again that's
how it sounded on my TV. We also had the
the near miss heard round the world, the near miss
herd around the world. Well, what is that? That would
be Junior Camanero, the Tampa Bay Rays third baseman who
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was knocked out of the All Star Game, and the
incident happened. It was in the third inning. He got
hit by a pitch and he immediately ran off the
field and went in for x rays. Got hit on
the hand and the X rays were negative. He's I
think fourth in baseball, got twenty eight dingers this year.
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And it is baseball, though, so even if you don't
have a broken bone. It is possible as a baseball player,
Junior Camonaro could be out for a while. Baseball players
generally do not have toughness. They generally speaking, are down
for the count quite often when things like this happen.
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So we'll see if he's out for any period of time,
but at least not broken. So it would appear that
if Junior Camonaro is out for a bit, so be it.
I did get into a little text thing with some
friends of mine in the in the media world. We
were all going back and forth, Well, we did the
what if or I guess what about is what if?
You know? That's that whole thing? What about if Otani
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was playing and he got hit, would this be the
end of the All Star Game? Would they get rid
of it? And we were we were in agreement. We
were kind of in agreement that yeah, there would be
if Otani or Judge got hurt in the All Star
Game got hit by a pitch, they'd make it like
the NFL and just have tic tac toe and and
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volleyball and the other bull crap they do in the
NFL and get really the All Star Game. Junior Camanero, though,
even though he's a good player, not a big enough
star for that. I mean, it turns out he's okay.
It turns out he's okay. All right is the Ban
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people scalping tickets for the Mallard Palooza. There are no
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purchase tickets to the Mallard Palooza, you have been hornswoggled.
Don't do it. Don't do it. You can't buy ticket.
They're not available. They are not available. Yeah, uh, that's
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your calls comments on X at Ben Malor, that's at
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Ben Mahler. A rather large fellow just nonchalantly just hey,
I'm at the All Star Game. Here I am. Look
at me now, Look at me now I'm at the
All Star Well you're kind of a big name. What
are you doing at the All Star Game. We'll get
to that and we'll take your calls, comments, the whole thing,
and we will do it next.
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There is chatter that Marcel in Brooklyn has submitted a
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Will he add to his award case? Got a lot
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What do you think of the All Star Game? Will
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Sean writes him, My buddy, Sean, he's friends with the
iconic nineteen eighties NBA player Benoit Benjamin. Only one of
the kind, Benoit Benjamin. He says, So, I thought tonight
was the mallor Palooza. I got everything ready to go,
even got Benoit on the phone. Bad job by me.
Turns out tonight is the Bill Miller Palooza. Yeah, why
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is that worthy of winning? You can get a celebrity
like Benoit Benjamin nineteen eighties NBA center Benoit Benjamin from
Creighton on the show. That's gotta be extra points. That's
gotta be big, big points on the scoring for the show.
Michael Tulsa writes, and he says, great opening monologue, ben
Which was better the All Star Game or the home
run Derby? A friend of mine who doesn't give an
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f about these fugazy made for TV things masquerading his baseball,
wants to know. Well, in terms of it's obvious, Michael, listen,
in terms of pure drama, it's not even close the
home run Derby the show that was put on at
the very end there. That was great. If you watched
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the first inning of the All Star Game, that was it.
It was one other runs scored after the first inning.
King Roy writes in from Wisconsin. He says, the MLB
All Star Game is too dangerous. This is not nineteen seventy.
The MLBPA should request the All Star Game be replaced
with a t ball game with whiffle balls and plastic
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bats in the next CBA. What they should do is
just make it like it was the late nineties, early
two thousands, go back to thirty years and cork the baseballs,
cork the bats, cork the players. Everyone's corked. Cork cork, cork, cork, cork, cork,
cork cork. Yeah, exactly, Well, there you go. Late night
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drug tester says, no All Star Game. I look forward
to the dizzy bat race, slip and slide on the
infield tarp, and the bubble gum blowing contest. It's a
great idea. Those can They can have that on TV
and it'll go well on social media. And that's really
all they care about. It's all about the social media.
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It is all about the social media. Eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox is the number that's eight seven
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Palooza we're very excited about. That let's go to the
phones and we'll say hello To Andre Andre andre who's
in The commonwealth and in the leadoff Share Hello, Andre.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Well.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
How you.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Doing, ben good to be with, You thanks for taking
a call of, course goodness Gracious samalapalooza coming up, tomorrow
you know WHAT i. Mean so we got to get
our ducks in a. Row myself And willis we we
we can't allow for it to be any sort of
sot more. Slump there is a bit of, pressure a
couple of things going on in The commonwealth. Tomorrow got to.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Keep more official sign. Up, yeah he's gonna meet, it
he'll be in.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
It, yeah, Okay i'll be in the, mix you.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Know but another that's another big, Name, coop that's another
big name that's going to be part of. THIS i,
mean we are lining. Up this is bigger than any
other award. Show it is going to be. Insane the
level of talent that that we have here is. All
it's in, fact we also HAVE i believe we Have
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eric From kansas who also is in, it so we
can add. Him i'm hearing of some some Blind scott.
Rumors no, really YEAH i thought. HE i thought he
retired from the. Show is that? Right might just show
up for the town? Show oh my, goodness all, right
this is isn't that? Exciting? Andre, okay it's up Roryus.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Ben and then we've got people. Coming we got people
coming out of retirement for for. This there shindig and
no time like the. President, okay summertime and the living is,
good all, Right but needless to say.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Myself you, know well as he's out there, trumping you,
know on a.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Bone that's why he's a little bit. Quiet you, know
he's Got, lily got his snackeroo that that he's working.
On but we're gonna we're gonna be locked. In you,
know we got the eye of The tiger that we're
gonna have in the background. Playing But, ben speaking of
such the home run, Derby, ben was that not sports
at its? Greatest? Okay we we had two champions in the, arena,
right it's it's the person in the. Area it's not
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the critic that, counts it's the men who are in the.
Arena schwarber goes out, there eleven gingers, right eleven jacks
to set the stage, right and Young jordan comes right behind.
Him he's down in the, count he's down the one
out and he he hit six straight gingers to take
it on the road with that effortless. Swing AND i
know BECAUSE i got family in the city of brotherly, luck,
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okay And rocky Balt bo is near and dear to my,
heart you, know SO i know The philly fan it
can be. Tough it's a, tough blue, collar working class.
City so people were. Dejected you know he hit that last.
Day you saw people immediately had into the, stands head
and out of the. Building they wasn't waiting for the
speech in the pro that it was. Gone you, know
they were, hurt, okay AND i get, that and they
would be getting, booed but it was all. Respectful but
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that was a great spectacle for the game at a,
Time ben Major League baseball needs. This we got some
labor strife on the, horizon a lot of things going
on in the, world you know WHAT i. Mean we
need our sports to bring us together and give us
a sense of what's. Possible so, baseball you, know they
got some labor. Issues obviously it's not going to be
a salary cap because they have a serious union and
they're not going to have any of that tom. Foolery
but they got to get some things worked. Up but
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the game isn't a very good. Spot the game to
night was. Good you, know it is against the. Celebration you,
know one, side you, know kind of took it, overwhelmingly
but it was everybody got a. Chance the guys were
out there high. Five then you, know it's a good collegial.
Atmosphere it's been a Good All star For Major League
baseball along with The World. Cup you know WHAT i.
Mean my heart goes out. There folks In, France, spain
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it was their point of.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Fact Is malipalooza.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Tomorrow it's a part of. It then sports is just
going towards the. Genus myself And will is going to
be part of The malapaluza that's participating in. It but
specific to, baseball they're in a good place and let's
keep this. Rolling, okay they.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Won't they'll screw it, up but they're gonna screw it.
Up you know. It, WELL i guarantee they'll f it,
up and they'll blame each, other and there'll be no off,
season which, really who cares about? That and then although
that's often more exciting than most of the regular, season
and then it'll go to the right before opening, day
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there'll be all these. Deadlines i've seen this. Before i've
seen this before the time they missed The WORLD i
was just beginning my career in radio the time they
missed The World. Series and then they had replacement players
in spring training the following, year and then they just
before that, season they ended up.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Very.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Early they ended that and then they had the real.
Players all, right thank, You Andrey. Andre we'll hear him
again in The Mallard. Palooza if you're A Mallard plus,
subscriber you already know what's coming up here in a little,
bit SO i don't need to tell. You if you're
a malapluse, Guy, scrooge who's now in the older, demo,
says do we have to dress up again for The?
MALAPALOOZA i really hate wearing a. Tie, well as you, Know,
(29:41):
scrooge this is a live television. Show wink, wink. Nod
not so we want to look good ON. Tv so
wear your church, clothes wear your temple, clothes wear. Whatever
it just put some nice clothes. On Ferg dog rights
in from The Winter wonderland Of. Fullerton he, Says Cody
bellinger winning The All Star GAME mvp is a. Joke
(30:03):
it should have gone to the guy who started the
first inning rally by getting struck out The millville meteor,
Himself Mike. Trout it's from The great Fergdo. Well speaking
Of Mike, trout was that a recruiting. Pitch Is Ferg
dog worried or the other angel apologies Like Big daddy
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concerned that The philadelphia fandom there they were Serenading Mike
trout with. Cheers was that an effort to bring him to,
town to convince him to waive his no trade clause
and be traded to The Philadelphia, phillies his local. Team
stay tuned on. That let's go To anthony In. Louisiana
(30:47):
who's up? Next on The Ben Malay. Show Hello, Anthony.
Welcome IF i was any, Better i'd be A, philly
but not A Philadelphia. Philly they did not have a good.
Week they did not have a good week here at
The All Star.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Game, yeah the other guy, going uh, Uh Jordan, Watsam.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, yeah the other. Guy, yeah he's the other that's
what they call. Him, actually his nickname is the other. Guy.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah then read THE tv you would do? Next watch?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It? YEAH i Got well you watched. It that's pretty.
Impressive i'm impressed that you.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
WANTED i couldn't watch.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It, oh the Home Run derby was but The All
Star game was On, fox so you could check that.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Out you Know homo used to be ON.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Espe, well, yeah that's also a pay. Channel you realize
that it's just done cable as opposed to like. Streaming
you don't do. Streaming you're not a streaming.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Guy, no not.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
REALLY i got. YOU i got.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You it's good to hear From, hey, hey, cuz good.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Morning, yeah how's? Apartment oh my, gosh.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
It was so.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
GOOD i love going to the. Dentist and my dentist
said that my teeth looked.
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Great you tell your daughter to, say, HEY i.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Will yeah the, way don't forget to tell.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Them my joke about the sale.
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Is a, joke snail. Joke it's a dad. Joke it's
a dad, joke, Right, anthony no. Joke it's good to hear.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
From all, right.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
All, right which he's on, Hold, Andrea anthony is a
big fan of your work In, Louisiana, Greenville. Louisian all,
right thank You, GREENWOOD i said Green bob was. CLOSE
i just made that. Up we need to find Out anthony's, Birthday,
anthony do you have Your october? Nineteenth? Alright all, right bye,
(32:41):
bye all, right thank you marked that Down october, nineteenth
and we'll Have andrea on a Few Blind scott appears
to be on. HOLD i don't know what that's. ABOUT
i thought he retired from the. Show hello Blind, Scott, oh.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Hey, ben how are you? Doing you know one THING
i found interesting recently when you were talking about HOW
i used to prepare for the show at, Games LIKE
i used to go there with your laptop and stuff
and write all the the layout for the. Show, Dude,
LIKE i haven't contacted you in like six days on social.
Media it's good to be back on the. Show the
taller ships are In boston right. Now there's fifty of them.
(33:20):
Here they're at a fan here In Black south The.
TERMINAL i didn't understand that the tall ships were like
military ships from from other countries that like. Tour but
like at eight point thirty On saturday, MORNING i was
sitting here and they had this military plane from THE
uk fly over my. House it was called like a red,
something a red heron. Maybe But boston has been it's
(33:41):
been an unbelievable run since you've come To, Boston, ben
you really kicked it, off so like when then came To.
Boston you, KNOW i was unhappy about the TIME i
got to spend with the. Show you know. It Really
i'm over it, Now i'm finally.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Over what do you? Wait? Whatity? Wait wait wait wait
wait wait time on? Time and you got more time than.
Anybody you got an added, meeting you got.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
IT i WANT i would have gone to like sailing
with you guys in The Red sox, game LIKE i
want to go, there like you, know we met up,
before but it was more like. Radio it was more
like radio, related Like i'm here to do radio. Content that's.
It i'm not here to fight with any, listeners you.
Know and If Danny DeVito had the problem with, me
probably makes more, Money like Like i'm Not i'm not
(34:20):
trying to take a dig at. Anybody but, Dude Danny
defino's probably like just got at a prison and got
that garbage job because he's a. Criminal you, know don't
talk trash about calling.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Him you're calling him a. Criminal that's a strong accusation
to make, That Blind, scott you.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Know, NO i booked it up on the. Internet. Bro
that guy's a. Criminal, bro he's the poll.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Right thank, You. Scott my goal is not get sued.
Today that's Blind scott making that claim that has not been.
Verified that is in the head of Blind. Scott so
there's a lot of things up. There there's a lot going.
On there's a lot of moving, parts a lot of moving.
PARTS i looked at My bingo card here it says
(35:03):
do not have listeners make accusations unverified about other listeners
that could lead to legal. Action SO i wrote. That
that's on My bengo card right. There so it Wasn't
when did you think that on? There when did you add?
THAT i WHEN i heard that Blind scott was back
on the, SHOW i just added that right. NOW i
just added that as you broke. Down, yeah, yeah, yeah
(35:24):
just the WAY i did. It, So, hey you're kind
of a tall, guy who what are You what are
you doing? There so at The All Star game In, Phildelphi,
pa rather non chalantley just popping in and want to
watch some. Ball Joel. Embiid Joel Embiid philadelphia seventy Six.
(35:45):
Ers trust the process that's really worked out well for
The sixers all those, championships And joel embi just just
happened to make his way, there just casually in the.
Crowd had a toothpick going on the, process was watching The,
phillies AND i wonder if he had a hit or
had a good inning on the, mound because if he,
did he did better than any of The Philadelphia phillies
(36:06):
who did not do. Well it was not. Good there
are reports That Jaylen brown And Joel embiid are not
on the same, page WHICH i take with the grain
of sault because it's Mid, july SO i take that
with a cran of. Salt. Time now for the who
AM i game in? Here it Is dodger Starter Justin
(36:27):
robleski becoming the first guy to pitch more than one
inning in The All Star game since me in this
age of soft baseball. Pitchers dodger Starter Justin robleski becoming
the first guy to pitch more than one inning in
The All Star game since, me who AM? I that
(36:49):
is the question the. Answer we'll get to it and
we will do it.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
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we pretend to be somebody else A's we call it
the WHO Mi? Game dodger, starter although he was a
reliever in The All Star, Game Justin robleski becoming the
first guy to pitch more than one inning in An
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you don't know Who Rafael bornegal is from the, Nineties dodgers.
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Hello you were in a couple of years. Ago manuel
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scott FROM femi In. MINNESOTA i can't read that on the, Art,
loraina do you have an? Answer, Lorraine i'm gonna go
With Max, Munsey max munch about one of the great
(40:03):
pitchers of all, Time Max, munsey you really know your.
Baseball they're good baseball. Knowledge you're. Welcome, no that is.
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Out dodger started Justin robleski the first guy to pitch
more than one inning in The All Star game since,
me and that would be none other Than Corbin. Burns
(40:26):
Mister burns's in the twenty twenty One All Star. Game
that was a long time. AGO i made twenty twenty. One.
Schick that's that's an old timer that is. In Corbin.
BURNS i think has been hurt ever since. Then and
it must be because he pitched a little extra in
The All Star. Game and that's one thing that has
(40:46):
changed in my. Lifetime the iron horse pitcher no longer.
Exists with all the better training and medical, people they
have gotten softy mixed soft on the mound in. BASEBALL
i do love talking the old time. Guys they're dying.
Off but the old time guys they lose their. Mind
when you ask them about these guys today and how
soft they, are they do they lose their. Mind, yeah
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of July, it's all about the All Star Game. Give
me the thumbnail recap on what stood out about a
shutout pitching performance from the American League All Stars in
the Midsummer Classic. Also your thoughts on the twenty twenty
six All Star Games added features. If you enjoy interviews
(00:45):
more than the game, you were very happy with what
happened at the All Star Game? Major League Baseball marketing
department working overtime the Muckety MUCKs to give you everything
but the baseball Also did John Smoltz have alternative motives
with his end of All Star Game messaging. It seemed
like he took a not so subtle shot at some
(01:05):
of the biggest stars in baseball who decided to go
to Cabo rather than the All Star Game in Philadelphia.
We'll get to all of this and more. Here we go.
It's our number one, an All.
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night before the curtain goes up. There's a lot of
excitement to craft Services was in here setting some things up.
(04:32):
We've got some balloon people that are showing up later.
Big night. The Red, White and Blue bunting will be
out for the Benny Awards. It's going to be massive,
the greatest night of the summer now, not tonight. This
is not gonna be a bad show. It's just not
gonna be as good as the Benny Faciitis. There the
Mallard Palooza which will take over tomorrow, the twenty six
(04:54):
edition of the Mallard Palooza, which is going to be epic,
absolutely epic. That is not our story right now. We'll
talk more about that as we go through the night.
And I think we're pretty much full. There might be
one or two slots left. I think pretty much everything.
A lot of people the last minute here trying to
get on this. We may add an extra wrinkle to
it where we're sen some discussions. We've had some meetings
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about that. We'll tell you about that as we go
through the overnight. Our lead this hour, though, don't bear
the lead, my man, We're not. We go to the
city at broly Loff. They played the ninety sixth edition
of the Midsummer Classic. Now, for many years they played
two All Star Games a year. Do you imagine if
they tried to play two All Star games? Now, these
players bitch and complain so much. Oh my god. Back then,
(05:39):
players thought, well, it's great opportunity to promote the game
of baseball. Now it's really fascinating to see how this
has all played out. Anyway, the Midsummer Classic took place
on Tuesday night. It was on Fox. Did you watch?
Perhaps not? Well, we watched so you would not have to.
The American League All Stars soundly defeated the National League
(06:00):
All Stars four nothing. Now, if you were looking for drama,
if you were looking for excitement, heroics, you got that
in the home run derby. You did not get that
in the twenty twenty six MLB All Star Game. As
the al picks up the win. Now they have dominated
over the years. They had not won since way back
in twenty twenty four. I can't believe I barely remember that.
(06:22):
I was a little child back in twenty twenty four.
So it was all about the pitching. Was good pitching
bad hitting, Toronto's Dylan Cease setting the tone. The Lidlifters
strikeout one, two, three, there you go, strike out three,
scoreless first inning, and the AL staff took the baton
(06:43):
and completed the shutout. The Nationally All Stars getting Bupkus
Squad Douche and the pitching staff for the American League
combining for an All Star Game record fifteen strikeouts and
allowing just three hits. Holy Bob Gibson batman. Now. The
only additional scoring came in the eighth inning when someone
(07:06):
named Miguel Vargas we're told he plays for the White
Sox crushed a four hundred and thirty three foot home
run a moonshot to extend the al to the final score,
which was four nothing. So that is a good jumping
on point. Let us discuss the question for the esteem panel,
and here it is. Give me the thumbnail recap. What
(07:27):
stood out? What are you gonna remember about the twenty
twenty six MLB All Star Game in Philly. So I've
got Princess Cruises, bud Light, and Hallmark card and we'll
put all of these things together and we are going
to do the Hogy Pogy. I don't even know what
that is. It just sounds like a rhyme. So the
(07:49):
Hogy pogy. All right. Now a the All Star Game,
which my favorite parts of the All Star Game are
the mascot photo and that's done prior to the game.
And then I also enjoy the introductions when the players
come out and they're wearing their uniforms, and it's nice
that Baseball decided to actually go back to that as
(08:09):
they had gotten away with it. They were playing soft
they were wearing rather softball uniforms for a good amount
of time, and they've gone back to the traditional uniforms
in the All Star Game. As far as the game itself,
this All Star Game, it was the National League All
Stars provided a syllabus on how to provide a disaster class.
This was a fest. It was a snooze fest. I mean,
(08:32):
you don't have to sugarcoat it. We're not a daytime show.
We're on overnight. We can tell the truth. It sucked,
all right. This was not just a loss for the
National League. It was a total Philly flop. You know
how that Philly Special in the Super Bowl against the Patriots. Well,
this was the Philly flop. It began with starter Christopher
Sanchez who ran into some early command issues, shall we say,
(08:56):
And by the time the first thing was over, he
had gotten tattooed so bad. How badly it was so
badly that the mound should have come with a yellow
and black parental advisory sticker they could have put right
there on the man. The American League effectively decided the
game in the top of the first inning. They hung
(09:18):
a three spot crooked number up courtesy of Ben Rice
who sucked in the home run derby a ribby signal here,
and then a two run knock by former Dodger and
current Yankee Cody Bellinger, and that was it. And he
rode that that opening swing. Bellinger was the All Star
Game MVP, rather lackluster MVP.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Know.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
The reason he was the MVP is they could not
slice up the trophy to give every single pitcher for
the American League a piece of the trophy, And then
they had to figure out the math on that does
everyone get the MVP bonus? So they just said, well,
give it to Bellinger. That's it. Now. As for the
other thing that I jotted, regarding the game itself, on
(10:01):
the notes app that I have the Philadelphia delegation led
by Christopher Sanchez. If this was a political rally, that
was a total crash course on failure. So Sanchez got
lit up. Kyle Schwarber got beat the other night in
the home run derby at the Buzzer by Jordan Walker,
(10:22):
the Redbird, So that began the thing. He had Schwarber,
Bryce Harper, and Brandon marsh who got five at bats
went zero for five with four strikeouts. I didn't play
in the All Star Game. I'm told that's not good.
It was an emasculating performance. These hometown heroes went full
princess cruises. They wanted to escape completely and enjoy the
(10:45):
freedom of a nice, relaxing cruise. Unfortunately they were playing
baseball and that was a blueprint for failure. Is this
a preview of coming attractions for the Philadelphia Phillies if
they were to make the playoffs down the line? Is
this what we're going to get from Schwarber and Harper
and Sanchez in the postseason? Stay tuned. It was amusing
(11:05):
yet again as most of the people who were on
camera in the crowd were decked out in Philadelphia, Philly paraphernalia.
And they didn't seem too police, They did not seem
too please. Now, page two, the broadcast for the All
Star Game was not received very well. It was heavily criticized. Now,
(11:28):
Major League Baseball made it a point of emphasis in
this All sum you didn't see it or hear about it.
I know ostro Jant was watching every pitch, but for
those of you that weren't, they made a point of
emphasis of having what I believe is a new record
for bits. As my program director years ago would say,
stick stick a lot, a lot of bits, a lot
(11:51):
of bits kibbles and bits kibbles and bits during the
game there as the theory was, they were trying to
showcase the personality of the stars of baseball with endless
end game interviews, skits and other stuff. It was literally
everywhere during the broadcast. So the question give me your
(12:14):
thoughts on the mic up players and all the other stuff.
The twenty twenty six All Star Game added features the
add ons to the All Star Games. So this came.
People are gonna blame Fox and TV and all that.
I promise you I know a little bit how they
make the sausage. This came from two forty five Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan.
(12:36):
Two forty five Park Avenue, Midtown, Manhattan. Those little weasels, Yeah,
little weasels in my head and I know I'm gonna
date myself. But there used to be these great commercials
from bud Light back in the day, and I thought
of that commercial thing when I was watching the All
Star Game. Back in the day, they had these real
men of genius, and it would be like, if we
(12:57):
were to make a commercial be like today, We salute you,
mister Marketer turned the All Stars into twitch streamer guy morphing,
the game into the unholy love child of a Saturday
night live episode on a corporate Ted Talk. One star
simply played baseball, but you asked, what if we turned
them into YouTube influencers while they were playing baseball? You
(13:19):
gave us NonStop sketches and forced fun like Toronto's Dylan
Cease and as catcher Shay Langaliers looking miserable as they
were miked up while going against Juan Soto. He got
so bad that Sea's actually quizzed. John Smoltz, the broadcaster
for Advice Mid count who could forget Kyle Schwarber's earpiece
(13:40):
falling out three times while he was trying to hit
in the All Star Game. Or Bryce Harper looking visibly
disgusted during the direct interview while he was trying to hit.
And then you had for some of this very odd
roundtable where you had Justin Verlander, Cam Schlitzler and the Miz.
It looked like they were doing a zoom call during
(14:02):
the pandemic while the game was going on. And now
the Mizz and Schlitler didn't seem to please. Verlander was
seemingly angling for some kind of broadcasting job. He seemed
like he was kind of into it. So crack open
a cold bud light, Oh great Sultan of simultaneous content.
And you traditionalists out there, you just wanted to clean game,
(14:24):
just want to watch the game. But you knew that
Major League Baseball Marketing knows today's audiences that aren't even
watching the All Star Game, they crave live stream reaction videos.
And that is exactly what they got, all right now,
last word, So the very end of the broadcast with
(14:45):
the announcers, I noticed something and I want to run
this by you because in my head, this is something
I don't know if you agree with me or not.
So John Smoltz, the Fox commator, at the very end
of the game, he thanked all the All Stars who
bothered to show up to the game all right, and
(15:09):
those that participated in their little shtick on the broadcast.
So the question did John Smoltz have alternative motives with
the end of All Star message? So it sounded to
me the tone was what we'd like to call a
dead John Smoltz was not just dropping a little polite hint.
(15:36):
He was throwing a wicked curveball, like he was back
with the Atlanta Braves years ago and had some serious attitude.
It was a masterpiece of passive aggressive snark. That's what
it sounded like. I could drive by wrapped in a
Hallmark card and to an old school guy, skipping the
(15:57):
Midsummer Classic, which is a great honor, is total sacrilege.
And so it sounded just a tone. You know, It's
like when he aggressively praised the guys who actually had
the decency, the common courtesy to show up and take
part in the dumb bits they were doing. The subtext
was deafening. It seemed like he was firing heavy artillery,
(16:22):
throwing mortars directly at the two biggest stars in baseball
who I don't think were there, Aaron Judge and sho
Hey Otani and those guys got and the others. There
were others that were not part of this this game
and treated it like it was a root canal, and
Smoltz I got the vibe and again I'm using some
psychobabble here that Smolt's real message was dripping an acid.
(16:44):
It's like, hey, congratulations to the players who didn't treat
this showcase like a painful dentist appointment. And again that's
how it sounded on my TV. We also had the
the near miss heard round the world, the near miss
herd around the world. Well, what is that? That would
be Junior Camanero, the Tampa Bay Rays third baseman who
(17:08):
was knocked out of the All Star Game, and the
incident happened. It was in the third inning. He got
hit by a pitch and he immediately ran off the
field and went in for x rays. Got hit on
the hand and the X rays were negative. He's I
think fourth in baseball, got twenty eight dingers this year.
(17:32):
And it is baseball, though, so even if you don't
have a broken bone. It is possible as a baseball player,
Junior Camonaro could be out for a while. Baseball players
generally do not have toughness. They generally speaking, are down
for the count quite often when things like this happen.
(17:54):
So we'll see if he's out for any period of time,
but at least not broken. So it would appear that
if Junior Camonaro is out for a bit, so be it.
I did get into a little text thing with some
friends of mine in the in the media world. We
were all going back and forth, Well, we did the
what if or I guess what about is what if?
You know? That's that whole thing? What about if Otani
(18:17):
was playing and he got hit, would this be the
end of the All Star Game? Would they get rid
of it? And we were we were in agreement. We
were kind of in agreement that yeah, there would be
if Otani or Judge got hurt in the All Star
Game got hit by a pitch, they'd make it like
the NFL and just have tic tac toe and and
(18:39):
volleyball and the other bull crap they do in the
NFL and get really the All Star Game. Junior Camanero, though,
even though he's a good player, not a big enough
star for that. I mean, it turns out he's okay.
It turns out he's okay. All right is the Ban
Mallor Show And if you would like to be part,
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Ben Mahler. A rather large fellow just nonchalantly just hey,
I'm at the All Star Game. Here I am. Look
at me now, Look at me now I'm at the
All Star Well you're kind of a big name. What
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Kicks off on tomorrow's show All Night Entertainment Fun you
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There is chatter that Marcel in Brooklyn has submitted a
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Will he add to his award case? Got a lot
of trophies, A lot of trophies, Marcel in Brooklyn? If
you want to be part of the show eight seven
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What do you think of the All Star Game? Will
you entertained? Were you not entertained? On X at Ben
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We'll be used against you in the court of sports radio. Lorraine,
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All right? What do we got?
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Hear? She?
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Sean writes him, My buddy, Sean, he's friends with the
iconic nineteen eighties NBA player Benoit Benjamin. Only one of
the kind, Benoit Benjamin. He says, So, I thought tonight
was the mallor Palooza. I got everything ready to go,
even got Benoit on the phone. Bad job by me.
Turns out tonight is the Bill Miller Palooza. Yeah, why
(22:45):
is that worthy of winning? You can get a celebrity
like Benoit Benjamin nineteen eighties NBA center Benoit Benjamin from
Creighton on the show. That's gotta be extra points. That's
gotta be big, big points on the scoring for the show.
Michael Tulsa writes, and he says, great opening monologue, ben
Which was better the All Star Game or the home
run Derby? A friend of mine who doesn't give an
(23:07):
f about these fugazy made for TV things masquerading his baseball,
wants to know. Well, in terms of it's obvious, Michael, listen,
in terms of pure drama, it's not even close the
home run Derby the show that was put on at
the very end there. That was great. If you watched
(23:29):
the first inning of the All Star Game, that was it.
It was one other runs scored after the first inning.
King Roy writes in from Wisconsin. He says, the MLB
All Star Game is too dangerous. This is not nineteen seventy.
The MLBPA should request the All Star Game be replaced
with a t ball game with whiffle balls and plastic
(23:52):
bats in the next CBA. What they should do is
just make it like it was the late nineties, early
two thousands, go back to thirty years and cork the baseballs,
cork the bats, cork the players. Everyone's corked. Cork cork, cork, cork, cork, cork,
cork cork. Yeah, exactly, Well, there you go. Late night
(24:13):
drug tester says, no All Star Game. I look forward
to the dizzy bat race, slip and slide on the
infield tarp, and the bubble gum blowing contest. It's a
great idea. Those can They can have that on TV
and it'll go well on social media. And that's really
all they care about. It's all about the social media.
(24:34):
It is all about the social media. Eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox is the number that's eight seven
seven nine nine six six three six' nine if you'd
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Mallard palooza is coming up. Tomorrow tomorrow is The Mallard.
(24:54):
Palooza we're very excited about. That let's go to the
phones and we'll say hello To Andre Andre andre who's
in The commonwealth and in the leadoff Share Hello, Andre.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Well.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
How you.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Doing, ben good to be with, You thanks for taking
a call of, course goodness Gracious samalapalooza coming up, tomorrow
you know WHAT i. Mean so we got to get
our ducks in a. Row myself And willis we we
we can't allow for it to be any sort of
sot more. Slump there is a bit of, pressure a
couple of things going on in The commonwealth. Tomorrow got to.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Keep more official sign. Up, yeah he's gonna meet, it
he'll be in.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
It, yeah, Okay i'll be in the, mix you.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Know but another that's another big, Name, coop that's another
big name that's going to be part of. THIS i,
mean we are lining. Up this is bigger than any
other award. Show it is going to be. Insane the
level of talent that that we have here is. All
it's in, fact we also HAVE i believe we Have
(26:01):
eric From kansas who also is in, it so we
can add. Him i'm hearing of some some Blind scott.
Rumors no, really YEAH i thought. HE i thought he
retired from the. Show is that? Right might just show
up for the town? Show oh my, goodness all, right
this is isn't that? Exciting? Andre, okay it's up Roryus.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Ben and then we've got people. Coming we got people
coming out of retirement for for. This there shindig and
no time like the. President, okay summertime and the living is,
good all, Right but needless to say.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Myself you, know well as he's out there, trumping you,
know on a.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Bone that's why he's a little bit. Quiet you, know
he's Got, lily got his snackeroo that that he's working.
On but we're gonna we're gonna be locked. In you,
know we got the eye of The tiger that we're
gonna have in the background. Playing But, ben speaking of
such the home run, Derby, ben was that not sports
at its? Greatest? Okay we we had two champions in the, arena,
right it's it's the person in the. Area it's not
(26:55):
the critic that, counts it's the men who are in the.
Arena schwarber goes out, there eleven gingers, right eleven jacks
to set the stage, right and Young jordan comes right behind.
Him he's down in the, count he's down the one
out and he he hit six straight gingers to take
it on the road with that effortless. Swing AND i
know BECAUSE i got family in the city of brotherly, luck,
(27:17):
okay And rocky Balt bo is near and dear to my,
heart you, know SO i know The philly fan it
can be. Tough it's a, tough blue, collar working class.
City so people were. Dejected you know he hit that last.
Day you saw people immediately had into the, stands head
and out of the. Building they wasn't waiting for the
speech in the pro that it was. Gone you, know
they were, hurt, okay AND i get, that and they
would be getting, booed but it was all. Respectful but
(27:38):
that was a great spectacle for the game at a,
Time ben Major League baseball needs. This we got some
labor strife on the, horizon a lot of things going
on in the, world you know WHAT i. Mean we
need our sports to bring us together and give us
a sense of what's. Possible so, baseball you, know they
got some labor. Issues obviously it's not going to be
a salary cap because they have a serious union and
they're not going to have any of that tom. Foolery
but they got to get some things worked. Up but
(27:58):
the game isn't a very good. Spot the game to
night was. Good you, know it is against the. Celebration you,
know one, side you, know kind of took it, overwhelmingly
but it was everybody got a. Chance the guys were
out there high. Five then you, know it's a good collegial.
Atmosphere it's been a Good All star For Major League
baseball along with The World. Cup you know WHAT i.
Mean my heart goes out. There folks In, France, spain
(28:21):
it was their point of.
Speaker 5 (28:22):
Fact Is malipalooza.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Tomorrow it's a part of. It then sports is just
going towards the. Genus myself And will is going to
be part of The malapaluza that's participating in. It but
specific to, baseball they're in a good place and let's
keep this. Rolling, okay they.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Won't they'll screw it, up but they're gonna screw it.
Up you know. It, WELL i guarantee they'll f it,
up and they'll blame each, other and there'll be no off,
season which, really who cares about? That and then although
that's often more exciting than most of the regular, season
and then it'll go to the right before opening, day
(28:57):
there'll be all these. Deadlines i've seen this. Before i've
seen this before the time they missed The WORLD i
was just beginning my career in radio the time they
missed The World. Series and then they had replacement players
in spring training the following, year and then they just
before that, season they ended up.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Very.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Early they ended that and then they had the real.
Players all, right thank, You Andrey. Andre we'll hear him
again in The Mallard. Palooza if you're A Mallard plus,
subscriber you already know what's coming up here in a little,
bit SO i don't need to tell. You if you're
a malapluse, Guy, scrooge who's now in the older, demo,
says do we have to dress up again for The?
MALAPALOOZA i really hate wearing a. Tie, well as you, Know,
(29:41):
scrooge this is a live television. Show wink, wink. Nod
not so we want to look good ON. Tv so
wear your church, clothes wear your temple, clothes wear. Whatever
it just put some nice clothes. On Ferg dog rights
in from The Winter wonderland Of. Fullerton he, Says Cody
bellinger winning The All Star GAME mvp is a. Joke
(30:03):
it should have gone to the guy who started the
first inning rally by getting struck out The millville meteor,
Himself Mike. Trout it's from The great Fergdo. Well speaking
Of Mike, trout was that a recruiting. Pitch Is Ferg
dog worried or the other angel apologies Like Big daddy
(30:23):
concerned that The philadelphia fandom there they were Serenading Mike
trout with. Cheers was that an effort to bring him to,
town to convince him to waive his no trade clause
and be traded to The Philadelphia, phillies his local. Team
stay tuned on. That let's go To anthony In. Louisiana
(30:47):
who's up? Next on The Ben Malay. Show Hello, Anthony.
Welcome IF i was any, Better i'd be A, philly
but not A Philadelphia. Philly they did not have a good.
Week they did not have a good week here at
The All Star.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Game, yeah the other guy, going uh, Uh Jordan, Watsam.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, yeah the other. Guy, yeah he's the other that's
what they call. Him, actually his nickname is the other. Guy.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah then read THE tv you would do? Next watch?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
It? YEAH i Got well you watched. It that's pretty.
Impressive i'm impressed that you.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
WANTED i couldn't watch.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It, oh the Home Run derby was but The All
Star game was On, fox so you could check that.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Out you Know homo used to be ON.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Espe, well, yeah that's also a pay. Channel you realize
that it's just done cable as opposed to like. Streaming
you don't do. Streaming you're not a streaming.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Guy, no not.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
REALLY i got. YOU i got.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
You it's good to hear From, hey, hey, cuz good.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Morning, yeah how's? Apartment oh my, gosh.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
It was so.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
GOOD i love going to the. Dentist and my dentist
said that my teeth looked.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Great you tell your daughter to, say, HEY i.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
Will yeah the, way don't forget to tell.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Them my joke about the sale.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Is a, joke snail. Joke it's a dad. Joke it's
a dad, joke, Right, anthony no. Joke it's good to hear.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
From all, right.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
All, right which he's on, Hold, Andrea anthony is a
big fan of your work In, Louisiana, Greenville. Louisian all,
right thank You, GREENWOOD i said Green bob was. CLOSE
i just made that. Up we need to find Out anthony's, Birthday,
anthony do you have Your october? Nineteenth? Alright all, right bye,
(32:41):
bye all, right thank you marked that Down october, nineteenth
and we'll Have andrea on a Few Blind scott appears
to be on. HOLD i don't know what that's. ABOUT
i thought he retired from the. Show hello Blind, Scott, oh.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Hey, ben how are you? Doing you know one THING
i found interesting recently when you were talking about HOW
i used to prepare for the show at, Games LIKE
i used to go there with your laptop and stuff
and write all the the layout for the. Show, Dude,
LIKE i haven't contacted you in like six days on social.
Media it's good to be back on the. Show the
taller ships are In boston right. Now there's fifty of them.
(33:20):
Here they're at a fan here In Black south The.
TERMINAL i didn't understand that the tall ships were like
military ships from from other countries that like. Tour but
like at eight point thirty On saturday, MORNING i was
sitting here and they had this military plane from THE
uk fly over my. House it was called like a red,
something a red heron. Maybe But boston has been it's
(33:41):
been an unbelievable run since you've come To, Boston, ben
you really kicked it, off so like when then came To.
Boston you, KNOW i was unhappy about the TIME i
got to spend with the. Show you know. It Really
i'm over it, Now i'm finally.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Over what do you? Wait? Whatity? Wait wait wait wait
wait wait time on? Time and you got more time than.
Anybody you got an added, meeting you got.
Speaker 5 (33:59):
IT i WANT i would have gone to like sailing
with you guys in The Red sox, game LIKE i
want to go, there like you, know we met up,
before but it was more like. Radio it was more
like radio, related Like i'm here to do radio. Content that's.
It i'm not here to fight with any, listeners you.
Know and If Danny DeVito had the problem with, me
probably makes more, Money like Like i'm Not i'm not
(34:20):
trying to take a dig at. Anybody but, Dude Danny
defino's probably like just got at a prison and got
that garbage job because he's a. Criminal you, know don't
talk trash about calling.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Him you're calling him a. Criminal that's a strong accusation
to make, That Blind, scott you.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
Know, NO i booked it up on the. Internet. Bro
that guy's a. Criminal, bro he's the poll.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Right thank, You. Scott my goal is not get sued.
Today that's Blind scott making that claim that has not been.
Verified that is in the head of Blind. Scott so
there's a lot of things up. There there's a lot going.
On there's a lot of moving, parts a lot of moving.
PARTS i looked at My bingo card here it says
(35:03):
do not have listeners make accusations unverified about other listeners
that could lead to legal. Action SO i wrote. That
that's on My bengo card right. There so it Wasn't
when did you think that on? There when did you add?
THAT i WHEN i heard that Blind scott was back
on the, SHOW i just added that right. NOW i
just added that as you broke. Down, yeah, yeah, yeah
(35:24):
just the WAY i did. It, So, hey you're kind
of a tall, guy who what are You what are
you doing? There so at The All Star game In, Phildelphi,
pa rather non chalantley just popping in and want to
watch some. Ball Joel. Embiid Joel Embiid philadelphia seventy Six.
(35:45):
Ers trust the process that's really worked out well for
The sixers all those, championships And joel embi just just
happened to make his way, there just casually in the.
Crowd had a toothpick going on the, process was watching The,
phillies AND i wonder if he had a hit or
had a good inning on the, mound because if he,
did he did better than any of The Philadelphia phillies
(36:06):
who did not do. Well it was not. Good there
are reports That Jaylen brown And Joel embiid are not
on the same, page WHICH i take with the grain
of sault because it's Mid, july SO i take that
with a cran of. Salt. Time now for the who
AM i game in? Here it Is dodger Starter Justin
(36:27):
robleski becoming the first guy to pitch more than one
inning in The All Star game since me in this
age of soft baseball. Pitchers dodger Starter Justin robleski becoming
the first guy to pitch more than one inning in
The All Star game since, me who AM? I that
(36:49):
is the question the. Answer we'll get to it and
we will do it.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Next be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meler show, weekday he, said two Am eastern eleven Pm.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Pacific it is The Bane Malor. Show the night before
The Malor palooza twenty twenty, six the greatest night of
the summer will take place yet, again where champions will be,
Crowned Heartbreak hotel will take. Place we will have a new,
Winner the crown will be, passed mister or Missus Malor
(37:27):
palooza will be handed out and that'll be on tomorrows.
Show we look forward to. That in the, meantime this
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we'll get to all that and there you, go all
right back to it all right Time now for the
payoff on the Who AM? I? Game this is where
(38:09):
we pretend to be somebody else A's we call it
the WHO Mi? Game dodger, starter although he was a
reliever in The All Star, Game Justin robleski becoming the
first guy to pitch more than one inning in An
All Star game since? Me who AM? I that is the?
Question what is the? Answer Britt baker guessed By shane
(38:31):
in Des? Moines who else do we have to? See page?
Down we can't read That Grandma ma From Big. Lou
he's on number two in THE Lbc neil And Fall
River mask going with Al, nipper a nineteen Eighties Red
sox starting. Pitcher Donkey sausage checks in With Big Bubba
(38:55):
rodgers as his, Answer joe the Ghost hunter From. Ohio she, Says,
hey what about morgana The Kissing? Bandy why? Not H
Bay City tony goes with Iconic dodger who looked like
a substitute, Teacher Rafael. Bornegal those were some dark. Days
you don't know Who Rafael bornegal is from the, Nineties dodgers.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
COME i ever?
Speaker 1 (39:18):
HEARD i think it was the, nineties Died it might
have been in the early two. THOUSANDS i think it
was the. Nineties what else do we? Have michael And
tulsa's going With John smoltz as his. Answer malard Prop
guy Says Tom Needen fewer is the, answer by the,
way Is mallard prop? Guy is he going to be
back in studios a seat filler for The Mallard. PALOOZA
i don't know if he wants to come. In, Yeah Mallard,
(39:42):
Paluza you're more than welcome to come on. Down say.
Hello you were in a couple of years. Ago manuel
And guardina Says tug. McGraw is the correct, Answer Blind
scott FROM femi In. MINNESOTA i can't read that on the, Art,
loraina do you have an? Answer, Lorraine i'm gonna go
With Max, Munsey max munch about one of the great
(40:03):
pitchers of all, Time Max, munsey you really know your.
Baseball they're good baseball. Knowledge you're. Welcome, no that is.
Incorrect i'm unfortunately that is. Incorrect the correct answer turns
Out dodger started Justin robleski the first guy to pitch
more than one inning in The All Star game since,
me and that would be none other Than Corbin. Burns
(40:26):
Mister burns's in the twenty twenty One All Star. Game
that was a long time. AGO i made twenty twenty. One.
Schick that's that's an old timer that is. In Corbin.
BURNS i think has been hurt ever since. Then and
it must be because he pitched a little extra in
The All Star. Game and that's one thing that has
(40:46):
changed in my. Lifetime the iron horse pitcher no longer.
Exists with all the better training and medical, people they
have gotten softy mixed soft on the mound in. BASEBALL
i do love talking the old time. Guys they're dying.
Off but the old time guys they lose their. Mind
when you ask them about these guys today and how
soft they, are they do they lose their. Mind, yeah
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