July 17, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Tennessee Titans signing DeAndre Hopkins and gives grades to both parties, why Hopkins rejected the Patriots, which WRs are left in free agency, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Ben Mahler Show, Old Reliable, we look at the transaction
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wire and put a grade on the DeAndre Hopkins signing
for the Titans. Also, why did Hopkins reject New England?
And what's left among receivers for the Patriots and Chiefs
to dig over as they look to improve their depth chart.
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the transaction wire. Who does not enjoy a nice transaction?
So for several months we have had regular Mallard monologues
about the life and times of a certain free agent receiver.
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Consider this likely our final, final obligatory Mallard monologue about
the job status of the Andre Hopkins who was fired
by the Arizona Cardinals. They no longer needed his services.
He was available to whoever wanted him, and not many did.
Not many did. If you've not heard over the weekend,
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it came down the pike the announcement that DeAndre Hopkins
had made his selection. And I know you're excited. You
have not heard yet. Oh my god, this is so exciting,
unless it's not. But we have learned that dere Hopkins
has agreed to terms on a contract with the Titans.
He's gonna have cowboy boots and a cowboy He's gonna
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hang out with Klay Travis at Titan games. Our old
buddy used to work here. They'll all schmooze together. And
he's taken his talents to the Music City. Good luck,
good luck on that Hopkins picked the Flameheads instead of
the Patriots. Could have gone played for the Pats, said no,
I don't want to be a Patsy. I'd rather go
hang out in Nashville. So he's doing that. Also, this
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debunks the long standing rumor that DeAndre Hopkins was merely
waiting for Kansas City to open up salary cap space
and he was gonna slide on him to hang out
with Patrick Mahomes. That clearly was not the case. And
so how much are we talking about? Well, I know
you're very concerned about DeAndre Hopkins and his finances. A
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little birdie says that he gets a two year deal
which could be worth up to fifteen million dollars in
the first year based on incentives. So fifteen million dollars
based on incentives. Of course, that's weasel terminology because rarely,
if ever, has a player ever hit all of the incentives.
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So factor that in. So your analysis, let us discuss
the question. Put a grade on it. You gotta put
a grade on it. DeAndre Hopkins goes to the Titans.
It is all done now. So what is the grade
for Hopkins and the Titans on the malor report card?
DeAndre Hopkins gets a capital D. He's getting the D,
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and the Tennessee Titans they end up getting us. See whoo,
that's it. That's the report card. So I've got cronyism, allergies,
and dragon breath, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a headache,
which is what many Patriot fans, apparently they have this headache.
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These Patriot fans are upset and they're annoyed by this,
but the Titans get the player. Are my friends listening
to Nashville giddy with excitement? Now? Are Nashville guys all
fired up?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
They think they're going to win a playoff berth because
DeAndre Hopkins is there? So ay, listen. DeAndre Hopkins has
been what he has been twisting in the wind is
what he has been doing. He's been twisting in the
wind over the last couple of months.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's just the way it is. The story's played out. Hopkins.
He is not getting what he wants. He is settling.
DeAndre Hopkins is settling. And he did not want to
play for either the Patriots or the but they're the
only ones that were knocking on his door, and they
were the ones texting and calling, and they didn't even
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call that much, they didn't text that much. And so
his squad was trying to facilitate interest from Kansas City
or somebody else who's better or at least supposed to
be better than the Patriots and the Titans. Obviously that
did not happen, and so here we are at a
crossroads and they were unable to speak it into reality,
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and so it did not work. And now DeAndre Hopkins
taking his talents to the Titans, and so that's why
he gets the D because this is not a great situation.
He goes to a team that is a contender, but
only a contender because of the division they're in. Jacksonville's
not a guarantee to have a great team again, and
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Houston blows his old team, and the Colts will be
lucky if they can tie their shoes and not trip
over their shoes, not tie them together as they get
out on the field. So by the elimination, Tennessee is
a contender, but they're really a full contender because they're
in the AFC. And you and I both know you
look around the AFC got the big three, Kansas City,
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who's out in front by several lengths, then Cincinnati, and
then after that a couple of lengths behind the Bengals,
you have the Buffalo Bills. So that's the top three,
and then you got a bunch of other teams in
the AFC that are pretty pretty good, and the Titans
are not on there, but you also have in Tennessee.
If you're DeAndre Hopkins. A team that is not built
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around the passing offense. They are built around who the
super nova, Dereck Henry, Oh Henry. It's all about that.
That's that's the offense. Everything filters through the running game,
and Hopkins will catch some strays that he's the biggest
name receiver you've got there. There's nobody else of any
real value as far as name brand recognition is concerned
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in Tennessee. And the other downside is you have Ryan
Tannehill throwing you the duke chucking the ball at you.
Tennessee has been trying to replace this cat for the
last two years. They've drafted quarterbacks each of the last
two years, and Ryan Tannehill, like a cocker roach, continues
on there in Tennessee. So far, they are zero for one.
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We'll see if this year Will Levis is a success.
They drafted him. Of course, not in the first round
because he wasn't picked in the first round. But anyway,
the Titans get a c. On the other side, why
did the Titans get to see because they were able
to use cronyism to get the player. That's really what
this comes down to. Hopkins had a long standing relationship
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with this guy named Tim Kelly, the offensive coordinat. He
also knew Mike Rabel. They were together in tennis in
Houston rather before those guys went to Tennessee, and so
they knew each other. It's again not what you know too,
you know the secret to life, it's just knowing a
lot of different people, and they'd worked together. Now Part
two of this, why did DeAndre Hopkins reject New England?
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Simply make more sense for him to go to New
England in terms of high profile games, in terms of
lack of an elite player on the offense anywhere around.
So from a career standpoint, the Pats definitely would have
been better. This is a mistake by DeAndre Hopkins. I
hope he enjoys the food and all the nice people
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of Nashville because this will likely be the last we
hear of Hopkins. Now, there's no guarantev he gone in
New England it would have been any better, But it's
certainly set up better with the Patriots because there is
no alpha dog. It's an ensemble group. It's an ensemble
cast there in New England, and you've got more high
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profile games AFC East matchups of Patriots versus the Bills twice,
the Jets and Aaron Rodgers twice, the Dolphins twice. All
of those games will get a little extra juice, a
little extra buzz. And the Titans match up. Their big
games are in the division against the Colts. Who cares Texan,
let me know who won. Maybe I'll be interested in Jacksonville.
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But you can't get up for a Jacksonville, Tennessee game.
You just can't get too excited about that. It doesn't
really move the needle. And that's where you are. They're
lacking juice. There's not a lot of juice in those
particular matchhows. Plus Bill Belichick the other factor here, the
reason he didn't go to the Patriots, you would think
is the dogmatic nature of Bill Belichick and the Patriots,
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the principles, the Patriot principles, if you will. Has New
England ever been a pursuer of free agents where they
really go out and spend a lot of money. Now
they're at arm's length pretty much.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
If you want to play in Foxborough, you have to
be motivated as a player. Furthermore, you have to actually
practice regularly. That appears to be a problem for DeAndre
Hopkins that he's not interested in doing that, and that
becomes problematic. Allergies get in the way. This is an
allergy situation. Mean by that Hopkins has been allergic to
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putting in extra work. With the Cardinals. Of course they
let him get away with that. Cliff Kingsbury the enabler
there in Arizona. What a dumb coach he turned out
to be for Arizona. We knew when he was having
social media breaks during team meetings that this was not
likely going to go all that Well it has not,
and that's why he is now back at the college
level at sc Cliff Kingsbury trying to rework his magic
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as a coach. But you look around there and Hopkins
does not apparently like to practice all that much. And
the last thing here, so now that DeAndre Hopkins is
off the board, hey go, there's still teams that need
help at the wide receiver position. We got to update
our scorecards now, So you update the scorecard. You look
around the question here on this one what is left
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for the Patriots and the Chiefs looking to upgrade the
receiver position. So if you look around here and you
scan what you need to know do first you go
to go down to like CBS Walgreens and get some mouthwashed,
because all of the available receivers have dragon breath, all
of them. Right, Julio Jones is available, he's done, he's
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no longer an effective NFL receiver and he makes no
impact at age thirty four. Don't let a falling star
fall on you. We saw that in Tampa last year.
Kenny Galladay, who was good with the Lions a couple
years ago, he can be yours if you want. He's
still out there. He's falling on hard times. Last two
years with the Giants, he had just one touchdown combined
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the last Yesday led the NFL in touchdowns with the
Lions back in the day a couple years ago. And
then you look and say, like Nikhil Harry, who was
a first round pick of the Patriots, I'm sure the
Patriots will bring him back with open arms unless they wouldn't.
And I see Sammy Watkins who has yet to land anywhere,
Jarvis Landry, guys like that that can be yours at
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the prices, right. So again I go back to dragon breath.
That's what's out there. And DeAndre Hopkins, there's no guarantee
if I was betting, if you gave me one thousand
dollars a house money that DeAndre Hopkins is going to
have a career renaissance in Nashville, or DeAndre Hopkins is
going to cause issues and not be all that productive
and likely get hurt. My money's on the ladder. That's
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
And we started with a DeAndre Hopkins Mallard monologue. As
we begin the week, djjd of Born to DJ Wright Sinces.
I missed the entire opening Mallard monologue. But I'm going
to give you an eight point five out of tenm
will thank you, and that deserved at least an eight
point five out of ten, so we appreciate it. Pete
the Machinist rites in from Parts Unknown, He says, DeAndre
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Hopkins going to the Titans will work out just fine,
just like it did with Antonio Brown going to the Raiders,
Patriots and the Buccaneers. I worked out great. Were the
Buccaneers He had the most amazing sign off in the
history of the NFL. Hopkins or not Hopkins, rather Antonio
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Brown against the Jets. Remember when he died the jumping
jacks in the end zone. As he exited the field,
tossed his shoulder pads into the crowd. That was wonderful.
I think Kat comic book Guy right. Since says nobody
wants to catch passes for Mac Jones or Bailey Zappy, Well,
I agree with you on that. I don't disagree with
that point. But have you seen Ryan Tannehill? Have you
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seen Ryan Tannhill? And again, as long as Derrick Henry's
there and healthy, the Tennessee Titans are a run first team,
which means they're going to be paying Hopkins a lot
of money to block, and I'm sure he's excited about that.
I'm sure he is loving, absolutely loving, Yeah, absolutely loving
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that for sure. All Right, let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Tosh, not Josh. It says
Tosh in Oregon. Hello, Tosh.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
If I was any better, i'd be sleeping. But I'm not.
I'm here.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I'm just getting off work, so I should be sleeping too.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
But all right, what kind of work do you do?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I work at the juvenile facility in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I'm always up as a Kids call you a lot.
They cause you a lot of problems over there.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I've been called some names, but I've been called probably
worse as some sporting events. Yeah, I got tough skins.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
All right. They don't throw anything at you, beat you
up or anything like that. It's just verbal abuse. Is
that what most of it is?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Just verbal exactly?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
That's good? Okay, very good. Well what's on your mind?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
So, DeAndre Hopkins? I mean, I'm a Patriots fan. I'm
originally from Cape Cod Mass But why why go to Tennessee?
You know Mike Rabral, I know he's a great coach
he learned under Bill Belichick. But come on, you want
to revitalize your career, maybe get a bigger contract down
the road, go to New England where you can prove
something it's been done before. You know, you're going under
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Bill Belichick. What's I don't I don't know. I don't
understand his his thought process on that. I don't know
what the Patriots are offering him.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But come on, well, funny you bring that up here, Tosh,
because DeAndre Hopkins stoked the flames. We tease this stoking
the flames here. But Hopkins seemingly giving out advice to
people like yourself because he was getting a lot of
trash talk from Patriot fans. DeAndre on social media, the
socials they were attacking the Patriots, is like, what are
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you doing? You dope? You should have gone to the Patriots?
Why do you go to the Titans? Was wrong with you?
And he sent out a message he has now deleted
it said you were at work, so he didn't see
it toash, but he sent a message out that said
that sports experts and analysts should be mad at your management,
not me. He said, oh, so there he's blaming the
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Patriots he's blaming the Patriots, And then somebody pointed out
the Patriots are on track to be either the least
aggressive team and it comes to dollars and cents or
next to last in terms of money low is spending
teams over the next several years. This year the Patriots
are projected to be thirty first and money spent, and
next year thirty first. Twenty twenty five, they're gonna be
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thirty second as of now in money shout, so they
don't spend a lot of.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
They went on they went on a spending spree. What
last year, two years ago, Johnny Smith has done nothing?
What maybe a couple of touchdowns and they gave him
fifty million. I want to say, stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
They could have given me some of that money. I
would have done. Okay, you know at least.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
No, I think you'd be throwing up better numbers than
Johnny Smith.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Well, I don't know about that, but my finances wouldn't
be better if that's the case. So well, Robert, you know,
Robert Crafts got that place in the Hamptons, He's got
the place in Florida. Those homes are expensive. What do
you want him to do? Spend money? Come on, what's
wrong with you? Yeah, shame on.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
You, I know, but you know, I mean, Bill's on
the hot seat. Go up to Robert's office, say hey,
you know, let's sign him. Let's try something out, and
who knows, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Here's what Bill does. He goes. He kind of grunts,
you man like that. It moves on and looks at
a war documentary or something like that, like some World
War two documentary. Yeah, okay, but.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
He's Hey, he's a Hall of Fame coach for a.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Reason, you know, well, of course he is. Yes, he's
a reason. He played coach Tom Brady. All right, thank you,
I gotta go. Yes, let's go to on in the Commonwealth.
Even though he's from New Jersey, he's lived in the
Commonwealth for a long time. What's going on, Andre?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Not too much, Ben. I appreciate the shout out to
the Garden State, great state of New Jersey, but currently
I'm here in the Commonwealth, so we have to This
is a big hit, frankly, in terms of what DeAndre
Hopkins did and not coming to the Patriots and.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Not that big a hit. Let's not get carried away.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Listen, listen, Ben, we gave DeVante Parker here a three
year contract extension. He's the Golden Child, even though statistics
have him as last in the NFL in separation. And
yet you extend this man for three years. Okay, who
are the weapons for mac jos? Listen, it's last call
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for Bill Belichick and this idea of him being an
all time great coach. What do we have in the
billboard here? The owl is not so wise without his goat.
That's a billboard. As you're going over.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
To you, wait wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, Andre,
what if I told you that I'd rather have the
Patriot wide receiver room than the Titan wide receiver room,
even with DeAndre Hopkins in Nashville, I'd rather have the
Patriot wide receivers. How about that for a hot take.
That's a hot ta. That's a real hottun.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
It's like surface of the sun.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Hot.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
No, but it's true, but it's true. Listen, Devonte Parker
is an average receiver. Kendrick Bourne, average receiver, Juju Smith Schuster,
average NFL receives. They got three average receivers. DeAndre Hopkins
at this point, until proven otherwise, is an average receiver.
Treylon Burks and somebody named Nick Westbrook something else. He's
got a conjoint name. I don't even know who that is.
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But he's the other receiver on the depth chart for
the Titans. That's not good, that's terrible.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Not good, terrible.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
But who plays running back but the Titans? Ben versus
who plays running back for the New England Patriots. We're
over here in an offensive driven NFL. Every NFL team
that is excelling is going offense first, offensive coach with
a bunch of weapons. We're here in the Stone Age,
and the Patriots wanting to go defense with an offense
with a punch of social receivers and in an alleged
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run game without Derrick Henry as your feature best. Here's
what it comes down to, Ben, Patriot's about to miss
the playoffs this year. That's what's coming down.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, they did that last year, so that's not a
new take. They already missed the playoffs exactly.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
And but here's the new take, Ben Okay, mister Owl,
mister greatest football coach of all time? Four years after
the goat leaves, where are you no better than where
you were when you went to freaking Cleveland? After leaving
those two championships, in New York. Back to my New
Jersey route. Shout out to Bill Parcells, okay, because he
did a great job for those New York Giants teams.
I don't know what's going on here in New England. Ben,
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I'm gonna total line. I'm believing I've been here through
the dynasty years in Bill Belichick. But again, you're going
with system over players. All right, there's players out there.
The Patriots are passing on them for this Bill Belichick
system that hasn't been paying dividends since Tom Brady left.
This is gonna be This is the definitive year for
Bill Belichick's coaching career. This narrative will go straight through AFC.
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We got Buffalo on the fence, you know, but can
they still go ahead? Miami is looking to surge and
the Jets have a marquee lineup. Where do the Patriots
fit in here? They could be dead last out of
the playoffs, and then it's over all the credit for
the seven chap. We'll have hover many championships go with
the Brady. Bill Belichick was just along for the ride.
If he doesn't get it done, we could have used
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DeAndre Hopkins. Thanks taking the call, Beck all right, there
you go.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well, here's the thing. Twenty seven's the magic number, and
nothing's gonna change for the Patriots until Belichick gets the
number twenty seven. He has to get twenty seven more
wins to pass Don Schulebyez the all time winnings coach
in NFL history. Now, if you do the math on this,
if the Patriots only win seven or eight games, this
is gonna take a long time to get to the
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number twenty seven. They got to mix in their ten
to eleven win season to make the math work better.
Otherwise Belichick will be coaching until he's eighty with the Pats.
The way this is going right now, and so that's
just the way the way it is. It is the
Band Matter Show. If you'd like to be part eight
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nine nine six six three six nine. Wash your mouth
out with soap and water. We'll get to that. We'll
take some more of these calls right now. Though, let's
get you caught up on everything going on in the overnight.
I can't make out what hat he's wearing. It's very dark.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
And the other rule I'm gonna say the same for
you Is that a Saint Paul Saints hat?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yes, yes, this is the same. I cannot even see
the logo. It's so dark Fresno State hat. It just
looks like a black hat with it's not even black,
it's dark blue. Oh well, because the lighting is so
poor in that room. Really, yeah, it's bad lighting.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Shame on you. By the way, Eddy, cookies are in here.
No cookie for you. Okay, you guys want cookies, come
in here. You're gonna have your cookie right here. I
gotta give you two, two each. How about that? Yeah, right,
cookie right here? Chocolate chip homemade chocolate chip cookie. That
is the number one cookie in America. It started at
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the toll House Inn in Massachusetts. That's where they created
the chocolate chip cookie. Do you know that I did?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
That's a fun fact. Yeah, well it was actually it
was like a diner and it was like a hotel.
I think the toll House in and then if I've.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Heard of the toll House cookies, Yeah, very interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Thank you. You will not be having one.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Okay, I'll try and try and get by without it.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Okay. Coop's already walking over here. Look at this. He's
not wasting any time. He's already left his post.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
It's not really a surprise.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
He's a walking I did see some donuts in the.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yeah, I think those were here from early on.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
In the how do you leave Donuts by? Coop is
now opening the container of cookies. He's now selecting which
cookie he wanted to mean, hold on, Eddie, hold on.
He's looking at the three. There's three on top there.
He's looking at which one. Oh, he took the one
the upper right, upper left, upper left, upper left. That's
the one he selected.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
It's great play by play, Thank you cookie selection.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
He's now closing the container. He's now exiting the room.
He's not eating the cookie yet. Now he's Oh, he's
been in the cookie.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
And he'd been a cookie in the hall. He'd been
in a cookie. Unreal.
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Speaker 5 (27:03):
I did see, we didn't. This used to be a
really big deal here on the network Bend the uh
the uh celebrity golf tournament in Tahoe.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, they used to send people to this.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Yeah, and they'd get all these interviews to these these
big stars that were there playing in the celebrity tournament.
Steph Curry, or winner of this event, made an eighteen
foot birdie eagle, not pretty eagle, putt on the final
hole to win.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I gotta tell you, I can't get into this anymore.
The the jock sniffing that goes on at this thing
is just too much. I can't handle it, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
I guess he had a hole in one the other
day too, from what I understand, So good for him.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, so he's got a lot of money playing basketball,
he likes the golf, maybe a lot of free time.
He'll never have to have a real job in his life.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
You didn't watch the video of his hole in one?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I didn't, but I you know, is it worth checking out?
I'll watch it. I'll look on Twitter or so interesting?
Speaker 8 (27:51):
I mean, I just it made me wonder because I
don't watch a lot of golf. It just made me
wonder if any like professional golfers have reacted like he did.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
After the home in one.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
What do you do?
Speaker 8 (28:01):
I think he ran the entirety of the hole with
his arms in the air, like.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
The entire Yes, I'll have to check this out now,
I'll have to look.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
At this now. Okay, he ran around, he was excited.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
The entirety of the whole. Now I'm guessing that no, uh,
no professionals have reacted.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It ain't cheated. You think they had like some kind
of magnet in the golf ball to go into the hole. Possibly,
that's an interesting theory. Possible, Who knows that have to
be a pretty powerful magnet. If Rob Manford was running
as the commissioner of the golf thing, he allowed them
to do it. You know to say, it's part of
the game. It's just as just a little golf tournament.
Who cares a honk of metal? That's it? Yeah, all right?
(28:40):
Is that it?
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
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deadline is coming up. We're gonna talk more to a
male monologue in a little bit about the trade deadline.
The latest done show. Hey Otani. The Angels over the
weekend played the A Holes from Houston three games and
lost two of the three to the A Holes. And
so now what do you do with that? The Angels
had a seven to three lead in the eighth inning
(29:23):
and they blew it and Tani ended up hitting a
home run for the Angels in that game in the
ninth inning, but they end up losing to the A
Holes from Houston. And so now the Angels continue to
look around. They are one of those typical faux contenders.
There's a lot of faux contenders to the playoffs because
Baseball has added a bunch of wild card teams with
(29:44):
the Angels at this particular point. If you look at
your wild card standings in the American League, the Angels
find themselves now six games out, two games under five hundred. So, hey,
what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
What do you? What do you?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
What do you you? What are you?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
What are you laughing at here? Coop? What is so funny?
Coops laughing like a hyena in there?
Speaker 8 (30:05):
Just how pathetic this franchise is? Yeah, God, did you
I actually watched some of this game. They had a three?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Was it there? Three? Nothing? I think it was.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
I turned it on because I was watching I was
watching the World Series of Poker Personal Table, But I
turned it on at the top of the ninth inning
just in time to watch them blow it.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, that was impressive too. They the Angels are being
punished because they lowered the home run at the Big
A in this game. They got punished. I know this
a while ago, but they used to have to hit
the ball into the stands for it to be a
home run, But now they lowered it, even though they
have a high fence and right field and back to
back ahole batters hit home runs that would have not
(30:51):
been home runs. It would have been doubles or maybe
even less than that if they had the old ground
rules of the Big A. But they they changed it up.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Reaching like.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
You know, like Cleveland Brown's nah, like Detroit Lions status.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Are you sure he just have won the World Series
in your lifetime? Yeah, but I mean do that. The
Browns have never been to the World tiars, Lions have
never been to the Browns. I have never been to
the World Series. That's true. They've been been to the
Super Bowl and either of the Lions.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
So yeah, I guess, but I mean it was it
was once, and it was twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
They were running Periwinkle, that Periwinkle, and then It's the
Curse of mo Vaughn. Right after that, they brought Mauvaughn
in from the Red Sox and then the opening night
he fell into the dugout and hurt himself his first
game as an Angel and they've never recovered from that.
And then Josh Hamilton fell back in love with the coke.
(31:48):
You had that Albert poolhost was about eighty years old
by the time the Angel signed him. So yeah, good times,
good times. But I the Angels are in a pickle
here because Otani. They're not gonna trade with the Dodgers.
There's no way Ardie Mario is gonna trade o. I
don't care if the Dodgers offer the greatest package and where.
The Angels are not gonna trade Otani to the Dodgers,
(32:08):
So forget about that. But he seemingly don't want to
play for the Yankees or back East. So what do
you do with that?
Speaker 8 (32:16):
And it's all kinds of I'm not gonna trade him.
They're gonna get absolutely nothing for him.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, but they'll have him win the MVP as an
Angel for that last time, and yeah, that'll be exciting.
And they can hang that in their little Hall of
Fame thing they have at the Big A. They can
put that right next to the other MVPs and knock
themselves out. It is the band Maller show. Let's go
to Let's go to Jim who's in southern California and
he has a hot Otani. Take Hello, Jim, Jim. There's
(32:44):
a lot of ambient noise. Jim, pick pick up, the phone, Jim,
How are you?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Jim?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
If I was any better, i'd be Otani. But I'm
not because he's gonna be ridiculously rich and I'm not. Well.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
The first question is where are you still working at night?
Because you belong on a jay?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Wow, you're very kind, How God bless you give?
Speaker 9 (33:03):
You give ROMEI a good run for his money for
how funny you are?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
But oh, thank you, we're good that.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
Where do you think that's gonna go?
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Man?
Speaker 9 (33:09):
Because I got people saying Dodgers and.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Giants, so ultimately I believe he ends up with the
Dodgers short term. I'm going Mariners Giants boom? How about that?
Mariners are giants short term?
Speaker 9 (33:26):
That's a hot No, I'm hoping for the Giants.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You doing it? Oh, well, that's your problem. You've got issues.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
But I know, I know Friedman cleared some space so
they have the money, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
No, they've been free agency. Otani's not gonna get this
close to free agency. What's the point You might as
well just.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
Well, right, don't you think it makes more sense?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Is it best?
Speaker 9 (33:45):
The trade deadline? I'm not even keeping truck right now?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
The trade headline is August first. It's Tuesday, August first,
so we have fifteen days to go.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Well, the Angel's got to move him now because Truck
got hurt.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Like they have to Truck get hurts. He gets hurt
every year, that's what he does.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Well, he's on because he's on steroids, and he has
to be because oh, look.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
At this, this guy's inside information. How about that, Jim,
do you know this guy is steroid guy? Is that
what you're saying that, Jim?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I don't.
Speaker 9 (34:11):
I'm very smart for as dumb as I can be.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Okay, he's got to change it up, get on a
different kind of steroids. Then if he's on the.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
Wrong, well, I mean he's got he's had some issues
with his neck, so he has to be on it.
And he's a great player and people get him crap
for being on it, and I don't like that because
he is an amazing baseball player.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
And what it what he who's given Mike trout craft
for being on steroids?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Just in the it's all the talk in the OC.
You don't live in the OC, but everyone in the
OC talks. Okay, all right, they talk a lot a
lot of chatter in the oc behind the orange curtain. There, yes,
all right, hang up on yourself. Thank you, Jim, go away.
All right, there you go. It is the Band Malor Show.
As we continue on, we'll have the m l B
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Speaker 9 (34:55):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I am a big league catcher who caught two hundred
and fifty called strikes on first half pitches that were
deemed out of the strike zone. And there's nobody even
close to me. Again, big league catcher. I'm looking for
the name of this. I'm a big league catcher, got
two hundred and fifty nine called strikes on first half
pitches that were out of the strike zone. There's no
one else even close to me in that category? Who
(35:19):
am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We'll do
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Our friend, Femi writes in from the Twin Cities, says,
listening on the iHeart app broadcast late a few minutes,
I heard Andre from the Commonwealth call up. He's the
best caller of the last five years. Wow, that's high
praise from Femi. He says, that's the top caller since
he's been listening, and he says haters can take a cookie.
(36:16):
No cookies for the haters. CJ says, tell Andre from
the Commonwealth that Bill has blown chunks of projectile since
Tom Brady had retired. The kids he teaches might do
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catcher who has caught two hundred and fifty nine called
strikes on first half pitches that were actually out of
the strike zone. And there's nobody else even close. Who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
(36:57):
Sean and Portland going with Steve Lake as his answer.
Who else you have? Benito the Cowboy fan says Mike
Steroids Trout Jack Fimple from Sean in the Valley of
the Son, Jake Taylor guests by Justin in Cincinnati, Kathy
in Actually that's not Justin in since and that's a
(37:20):
different Justin. Who else? Kathy in Madison, going with Cookie
Monster as his answer. Who else do you have? Page down?
Adley Rushman from Malar prop Guy, Tim Cruz guests by
Calligan Tim in Michigan, Alf the Alien Opiner says Ron
karkaweis is the way to go? Manny's San Gian from
(37:42):
Rob in Minnesota The Cause, Bill Cosby from the Eddie
Garcia Burner account, Tony Pania from Miguel on Fire, Chad
Cruder the Man that Broke My Laptop A true story
at Dodge Stadium back they got from Chris in Des Moines.
Who else you have? Page down? A page? Dawn weird
al Yankovic. I guess by Cowboy Killer. That's his answer.
(38:06):
Whoopee Pie Blair from Marcello in Parts Unknown. Eddie, do
you have an answer? Is not Darren Dalton? Not Dutch
Dalton guessed by Marvin the Michigan Man.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Was it Johnny Bench?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Johnny? Johnny's in the news. Interesting hanging out with Justin
and Cincinnati too much. I know the correct answer jonah
Heim of the Texas Rangers. Jonaheim of the Rangers. That's
an all star catcher. Jonahih time Na for the m
LB Pickham and I do not see the order, so
(38:38):
therefore I will go first. The order is not up,
and so that's the way it works. Now it's there. Well,
wasn't there a minute ago? Why was it not there?
A minute to go? It's gotta be up there early.
Bull crap, bull crap? All right, Go ahead, Eddie, hurry up,
Chop Chop. I'll take Tony the batter, Okay, Cooper Loop,
I will take uh orright, Donny Gray, that's a terrible
(39:02):
pick you should have taken Shane mcclana of the Tampa
Bay Raisers. Going against the Ranger doesn't matter. Go ahead,
Mark Chilie Davis Solid Chili one more, uh, Derrek Bell. Okay,
So I'm gonna take Hooky Bets, Coop Patrick Wisdom, No
wisdom for you, Addie back to back.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Quickly, Dane Dunning and O'donllas Garcia.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Cope h Taylor Ward. I'll take Freddy Freeman two Dodgers,
go ahead, Mark mix that Cliff ah Old Cub Glory
Days eighty eighties Cubs. There you go.
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So for several months we have had regular Mallard monologues
about the life and times of a certain free agent receiver.
(02:41):
Consider this likely our final, final obligatory Mallard monologue about
the job status of the Andre Hopkins who was fired
by the Arizona Cardinals. They no longer needed his services.
He was available to whoever wanted him, and not many did.
Not many did. If you've not heard over the weekend,
(03:03):
it came down the pike the announcement that DeAndre Hopkins
had made his selection. And I know you're excited. You
have not heard yet. Oh my god, this is so exciting,
unless it's not. But we have learned that dere Hopkins
has agreed to terms on a contract with the Titans.
He's gonna have cowboy boots and a cowboy He's gonna
(03:24):
hang out with Klay Travis at Titan games. Our old
buddy used to work here. They'll all schmooze together. And
he's taken his talents to the Music City. Good luck,
good luck on that Hopkins picked the Flameheads instead of
the Patriots. Could have gone played for the Pats, said no,
I don't want to be a Patsy. I'd rather go
hang out in Nashville. So he's doing that. Also, this
(03:47):
debunks the long standing rumor that DeAndre Hopkins was merely
waiting for Kansas City to open up salary cap space
and he was gonna slide on him to hang out
with Patrick Mahomes. That clearly was not the case. And
so how much are we talking about? Well, I know
you're very concerned about DeAndre Hopkins and his finances. A
(04:09):
little birdie says that he gets a two year deal
which could be worth up to fifteen million dollars in
the first year based on incentives. So fifteen million dollars
based on incentives. Of course, that's weasel terminology because rarely,
if ever, has a player ever hit all of the incentives.
(04:32):
So factor that in. So your analysis, let us discuss
the question. Put a grade on it. You gotta put
a grade on it. DeAndre Hopkins goes to the Titans.
It is all done now. So what is the grade
for Hopkins and the Titans on the malor report card?
DeAndre Hopkins gets a capital D. He's getting the D,
(04:56):
and the Tennessee Titans they end up getting us. See whoo,
that's it. That's the report card. So I've got cronyism, allergies,
and dragon breath, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a headache,
which is what many Patriot fans, apparently they have this headache.
(05:17):
These Patriot fans are upset and they're annoyed by this,
but the Titans get the player. Are my friends listening
to Nashville giddy with excitement? Now? Are Nashville guys all
fired up?
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Now?
Speaker 1 (05:29):
They think they're going to win a playoff berth because
DeAndre Hopkins is there? So ay, listen. DeAndre Hopkins has
been what he has been twisting in the wind is
what he has been doing. He's been twisting in the
wind over the last couple of months.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Here.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
That's just the way it is. The story's played out. Hopkins.
He is not getting what he wants. He is settling.
DeAndre Hopkins is settling. And he did not want to
play for either the Patriots or the but they're the
only ones that were knocking on his door, and they
were the ones texting and calling, and they didn't even
(06:06):
call that much, they didn't text that much. And so
his squad was trying to facilitate interest from Kansas City
or somebody else who's better or at least supposed to
be better than the Patriots and the Titans. Obviously that
did not happen, and so here we are at a
crossroads and they were unable to speak it into reality,
(06:27):
and so it did not work. And now DeAndre Hopkins
taking his talents to the Titans, and so that's why
he gets the D because this is not a great situation.
He goes to a team that is a contender, but
only a contender because of the division they're in. Jacksonville's
not a guarantee to have a great team again, and
(06:47):
Houston blows his old team, and the Colts will be
lucky if they can tie their shoes and not trip
over their shoes, not tie them together as they get
out on the field. So by the elimination, Tennessee is
a contender, but they're really a full contender because they're
in the AFC. And you and I both know you
look around the AFC got the big three, Kansas City,
(07:09):
who's out in front by several lengths, then Cincinnati, and
then after that a couple of lengths behind the Bengals,
you have the Buffalo Bills. So that's the top three,
and then you got a bunch of other teams in
the AFC that are pretty pretty good, and the Titans
are not on there, but you also have in Tennessee.
If you're DeAndre Hopkins. A team that is not built
(07:30):
around the passing offense. They are built around who the
super nova, Dereck Henry, Oh Henry. It's all about that.
That's that's the offense. Everything filters through the running game,
and Hopkins will catch some strays that he's the biggest
name receiver you've got there. There's nobody else of any
real value as far as name brand recognition is concerned
(07:50):
in Tennessee. And the other downside is you have Ryan
Tannehill throwing you the duke chucking the ball at you.
Tennessee has been trying to replace this cat for the
last two years. They've drafted quarterbacks each of the last
two years, and Ryan Tannehill, like a cocker roach, continues
on there in Tennessee. So far, they are zero for one.
(08:12):
We'll see if this year Will Levis is a success.
They drafted him. Of course, not in the first round
because he wasn't picked in the first round. But anyway,
the Titans get a c. On the other side, why
did the Titans get to see because they were able
to use cronyism to get the player. That's really what
this comes down to. Hopkins had a long standing relationship
(08:34):
with this guy named Tim Kelly, the offensive coordinat. He
also knew Mike Rabel. They were together in tennis in
Houston rather before those guys went to Tennessee, and so
they knew each other. It's again not what you know too,
you know the secret to life, it's just knowing a
lot of different people, and they'd worked together. Now Part
two of this, why did DeAndre Hopkins reject New England?
(08:59):
Simply make more sense for him to go to New
England in terms of high profile games, in terms of
lack of an elite player on the offense anywhere around.
So from a career standpoint, the Pats definitely would have
been better. This is a mistake by DeAndre Hopkins. I
hope he enjoys the food and all the nice people
(09:21):
of Nashville because this will likely be the last we
hear of Hopkins. Now, there's no guarantev he gone in
New England it would have been any better, But it's
certainly set up better with the Patriots because there is
no alpha dog. It's an ensemble group. It's an ensemble
cast there in New England, and you've got more high
(09:41):
profile games AFC East matchups of Patriots versus the Bills twice,
the Jets and Aaron Rodgers twice, the Dolphins twice. All
of those games will get a little extra juice, a
little extra buzz. And the Titans match up. Their big
games are in the division against the Colts. Who cares Texan,
let me know who won. Maybe I'll be interested in Jacksonville.
(10:03):
But you can't get up for a Jacksonville, Tennessee game.
You just can't get too excited about that. It doesn't
really move the needle. And that's where you are. They're
lacking juice. There's not a lot of juice in those
particular matchhows. Plus Bill Belichick the other factor here, the
reason he didn't go to the Patriots, you would think
is the dogmatic nature of Bill Belichick and the Patriots,
(10:26):
the principles, the Patriot principles, if you will. Has New
England ever been a pursuer of free agents where they
really go out and spend a lot of money. Now
they're at arm's length pretty much.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
If you want to play in Foxborough, you have to
be motivated as a player. Furthermore, you have to actually
practice regularly. That appears to be a problem for DeAndre
Hopkins that he's not interested in doing that, and that
becomes problematic. Allergies get in the way. This is an
allergy situation. Mean by that Hopkins has been allergic to
(11:04):
putting in extra work. With the Cardinals. Of course they
let him get away with that. Cliff Kingsbury the enabler
there in Arizona. What a dumb coach he turned out
to be for Arizona. We knew when he was having
social media breaks during team meetings that this was not
likely going to go all that Well it has not,
and that's why he is now back at the college
level at sc Cliff Kingsbury trying to rework his magic
(11:28):
as a coach. But you look around there and Hopkins
does not apparently like to practice all that much. And
the last thing here, so now that DeAndre Hopkins is
off the board, hey go, there's still teams that need
help at the wide receiver position. We got to update
our scorecards now, So you update the scorecard. You look
around the question here on this one what is left
(11:51):
for the Patriots and the Chiefs looking to upgrade the
receiver position. So if you look around here and you
scan what you need to know do first you go
to go down to like CBS Walgreens and get some mouthwashed,
because all of the available receivers have dragon breath, all
of them. Right, Julio Jones is available, he's done, he's
(12:16):
no longer an effective NFL receiver and he makes no
impact at age thirty four. Don't let a falling star
fall on you. We saw that in Tampa last year.
Kenny Galladay, who was good with the Lions a couple
years ago, he can be yours if you want. He's
still out there. He's falling on hard times. Last two
years with the Giants, he had just one touchdown combined
(12:39):
the last Yesday led the NFL in touchdowns with the
Lions back in the day a couple years ago. And
then you look and say, like Nikhil Harry, who was
a first round pick of the Patriots, I'm sure the
Patriots will bring him back with open arms unless they wouldn't.
And I see Sammy Watkins who has yet to land anywhere,
Jarvis Landry, guys like that that can be yours at
(12:59):
the prices, right. So again I go back to dragon breath.
That's what's out there. And DeAndre Hopkins, there's no guarantee
if I was betting, if you gave me one thousand
dollars a house money that DeAndre Hopkins is going to
have a career renaissance in Nashville, or DeAndre Hopkins is
going to cause issues and not be all that productive
and likely get hurt. My money's on the ladder. That's
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Speaker 1 (15:07):
And we started with a DeAndre Hopkins Mallard monologue. As
we begin the week, djjd of Born to DJ Wright Sinces.
I missed the entire opening Mallard monologue. But I'm going
to give you an eight point five out of tenm
will thank you, and that deserved at least an eight
point five out of ten, so we appreciate it. Pete
the Machinist rites in from Parts Unknown, He says, DeAndre
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Hopkins going to the Titans will work out just fine,
just like it did with Antonio Brown going to the Raiders,
Patriots and the Buccaneers. I worked out great. Were the
Buccaneers He had the most amazing sign off in the
history of the NFL. Hopkins or not Hopkins, rather Antonio
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Brown against the Jets. Remember when he died the jumping
jacks in the end zone. As he exited the field,
tossed his shoulder pads into the crowd. That was wonderful.
I think Kat comic book Guy right. Since says nobody
wants to catch passes for Mac Jones or Bailey Zappy, Well,
I agree with you on that. I don't disagree with
that point. But have you seen Ryan Tannehill? Have you
(16:12):
seen Ryan Tannhill? And again, as long as Derrick Henry's
there and healthy, the Tennessee Titans are a run first team,
which means they're going to be paying Hopkins a lot
of money to block, and I'm sure he's excited about that.
I'm sure he is loving, absolutely loving, Yeah, absolutely loving
(16:33):
that for sure. All Right, let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Tosh, not Josh. It says
Tosh in Oregon. Hello, Tosh.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Hey, how you doing?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
If I was any better, i'd be sleeping. But I'm not.
I'm here.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I'm just getting off work, so I should be sleeping too.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
But all right, what kind of work do you do?
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I work at the juvenile facility in Oregon.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I'm always up as a Kids call you a lot.
They cause you a lot of problems over there.
Speaker 6 (17:07):
I've been called some names, but I've been called probably
worse as some sporting events. Yeah, I got tough skins.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
All right. They don't throw anything at you, beat you
up or anything like that. It's just verbal abuse. Is
that what most of it is?
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Just verbal exactly?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
That's good? Okay, very good. Well what's on your mind?
Speaker 6 (17:23):
So, DeAndre Hopkins? I mean, I'm a Patriots fan. I'm
originally from Cape Cod Mass But why why go to Tennessee?
You know Mike Rabral, I know he's a great coach
he learned under Bill Belichick. But come on, you want
to revitalize your career, maybe get a bigger contract down
the road, go to New England where you can prove
something it's been done before. You know, you're going under
(17:45):
Bill Belichick. What's I don't I don't know. I don't
understand his his thought process on that. I don't know
what the Patriots are offering him.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
But come on, well, funny you bring that up here, Tosh,
because DeAndre Hopkins stoked the flames. We tease this stoking
the flames here. But Hopkins seemingly giving out advice to
people like yourself because he was getting a lot of
trash talk from Patriot fans. DeAndre on social media, the
socials they were attacking the Patriots, is like, what are
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you doing? You dope? You should have gone to the Patriots?
Why do you go to the Titans? Was wrong with you?
And he sent out a message he has now deleted
it said you were at work, so he didn't see
it toash, but he sent a message out that said
that sports experts and analysts should be mad at your management,
not me. He said, oh, so there he's blaming the
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Patriots he's blaming the Patriots, And then somebody pointed out
the Patriots are on track to be either the least
aggressive team and it comes to dollars and cents or
next to last in terms of money low is spending
teams over the next several years. This year the Patriots
are projected to be thirty first and money spent, and
next year thirty first. Twenty twenty five, they're gonna be
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thirty second as of now in money shout, so they
don't spend a lot of.
Speaker 6 (18:59):
They went on they went on a spending spree. What
last year, two years ago, Johnny Smith has done nothing?
What maybe a couple of touchdowns and they gave him
fifty million. I want to say, stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
They could have given me some of that money. I
would have done. Okay, you know at least.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
No, I think you'd be throwing up better numbers than
Johnny Smith.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Well, I don't know about that, but my finances wouldn't
be better if that's the case. So well, Robert, you know,
Robert Crafts got that place in the Hamptons, He's got
the place in Florida. Those homes are expensive. What do
you want him to do? Spend money? Come on, what's
wrong with you? Yeah, shame on.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
You, I know, but you know, I mean, Bill's on
the hot seat. Go up to Robert's office, say hey,
you know, let's sign him. Let's try something out, and
who knows, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Here's what Bill does. He goes. He kind of grunts,
you man like that. It moves on and looks at
a war documentary or something like that, like some World
War two documentary. Yeah, okay, but.
Speaker 6 (19:51):
He's Hey, he's a Hall of Fame coach for a.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Reason, you know, well, of course he is. Yes, he's
a reason. He played coach Tom Brady. All right, thank you,
I gotta go. Yes, let's go to on in the Commonwealth.
Even though he's from New Jersey, he's lived in the
Commonwealth for a long time. What's going on, Andre?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Not too much, Ben. I appreciate the shout out to
the Garden State, great state of New Jersey, but currently
I'm here in the Commonwealth, so we have to This
is a big hit, frankly, in terms of what DeAndre
Hopkins did and not coming to the Patriots and.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Not that big a hit. Let's not get carried away.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Listen, listen, Ben, we gave DeVante Parker here a three
year contract extension. He's the Golden Child, even though statistics
have him as last in the NFL in separation. And
yet you extend this man for three years. Okay, who
are the weapons for mac jos? Listen, it's last call
(20:48):
for Bill Belichick and this idea of him being an
all time great coach. What do we have in the
billboard here? The owl is not so wise without his goat.
That's a billboard. As you're going over.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
To you, wait wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, Andre,
what if I told you that I'd rather have the
Patriot wide receiver room than the Titan wide receiver room,
even with DeAndre Hopkins in Nashville, I'd rather have the
Patriot wide receivers. How about that for a hot take.
That's a hot ta. That's a real hottun.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
It's like surface of the sun.
Speaker 5 (21:19):
Hot.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
No, but it's true, but it's true. Listen, Devonte Parker
is an average receiver. Kendrick Bourne, average receiver, Juju Smith Schuster,
average NFL receives. They got three average receivers. DeAndre Hopkins
at this point, until proven otherwise, is an average receiver.
Treylon Burks and somebody named Nick Westbrook something else. He's
got a conjoint name. I don't even know who that is.
(21:40):
But he's the other receiver on the depth chart for
the Titans. That's not good, that's terrible.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
Not good, terrible.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
But who plays running back but the Titans? Ben versus
who plays running back for the New England Patriots. We're
over here in an offensive driven NFL. Every NFL team
that is excelling is going offense first, offensive coach with
a bunch of weapons. We're here in the Stone Age,
and the Patriots wanting to go defense with an offense
with a punch of social receivers and in an alleged
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run game without Derrick Henry as your feature best. Here's
what it comes down to, Ben, Patriot's about to miss
the playoffs this year. That's what's coming down.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, they did that last year, so that's not a
new take. They already missed the playoffs exactly.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
And but here's the new take, Ben Okay, mister Owl,
mister greatest football coach of all time? Four years after
the goat leaves, where are you no better than where
you were when you went to freaking Cleveland? After leaving
those two championships, in New York. Back to my New
Jersey route. Shout out to Bill Parcells, okay, because he
did a great job for those New York Giants teams.
I don't know what's going on here in New England. Ben,
(22:42):
I'm gonna total line. I'm believing I've been here through
the dynasty years in Bill Belichick. But again, you're going
with system over players. All right, there's players out there.
The Patriots are passing on them for this Bill Belichick
system that hasn't been paying dividends since Tom Brady left.
This is gonna be This is the definitive year for
Bill Belichick's coaching career. This narrative will go straight through AFC.
(23:05):
We got Buffalo on the fence, you know, but can
they still go ahead? Miami is looking to surge and
the Jets have a marquee lineup. Where do the Patriots
fit in here? They could be dead last out of
the playoffs, and then it's over all the credit for
the seven chap. We'll have hover many championships go with
the Brady. Bill Belichick was just along for the ride.
If he doesn't get it done, we could have used
(23:25):
DeAndre Hopkins. Thanks taking the call, Beck all right, there
you go.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well, here's the thing. Twenty seven's the magic number, and
nothing's gonna change for the Patriots until Belichick gets the
number twenty seven. He has to get twenty seven more
wins to pass Don Schulebyez the all time winnings coach
in NFL history. Now, if you do the math on this,
if the Patriots only win seven or eight games, this
is gonna take a long time to get to the
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number twenty seven. They got to mix in their ten
to eleven win season to make the math work better.
Otherwise Belichick will be coaching until he's eighty with the Pats.
The way this is going right now, and so that's
just the way the way it is. It is the
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nine nine six six three six nine. Wash your mouth
out with soap and water. We'll get to that. We'll
take some more of these calls right now. Though, let's
get you caught up on everything going on in the overnight.
I can't make out what hat he's wearing. It's very dark.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
And the other rule I'm gonna say the same for
you Is that a Saint Paul Saints hat?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Yes, yes, this is the same. I cannot even see
the logo. It's so dark Fresno State hat. It just
looks like a black hat with it's not even black,
it's dark blue. Oh well, because the lighting is so
poor in that room. Really, yeah, it's bad lighting.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Shame on you. By the way, Eddy, cookies are in here.
No cookie for you. Okay, you guys want cookies, come
in here. You're gonna have your cookie right here. I
gotta give you two, two each. How about that? Yeah, right,
cookie right here? Chocolate chip homemade chocolate chip cookie. That
is the number one cookie in America. It started at
(25:06):
the toll House Inn in Massachusetts. That's where they created
the chocolate chip cookie. Do you know that I did?
Speaker 5 (25:12):
I did not know.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
That's a fun fact. Yeah, well it was actually it
was like a diner and it was like a hotel.
I think the toll House in and then if I've.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Heard of the toll House cookies, Yeah, very interesting.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Thank you. You will not be having one.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
Okay, I'll try and try and get by without it.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Okay. Coop's already walking over here. Look at this. He's
not wasting any time. He's already left his post.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
It's not really a surprise.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
He's a walking I did see some donuts in the.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yeah, I think those were here from early on.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
In the how do you leave Donuts by? Coop is
now opening the container of cookies. He's now selecting which
cookie he wanted to mean, hold on, Eddie, hold on.
He's looking at the three. There's three on top there.
He's looking at which one. Oh, he took the one
the upper right, upper left, upper left, upper left. That's
the one he selected.
Speaker 5 (26:01):
It's great play by play, Thank you cookie selection.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
He's now closing the container. He's now exiting the room.
He's not eating the cookie yet. Now he's Oh, he's
been in the cookie.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
And he'd been a cookie in the hall. He'd been
in a cookie. Unreal.
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Speaker 5 (27:03):
I did see, we didn't. This used to be a
really big deal here on the network Bend the uh
the uh celebrity golf tournament in Tahoe.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, they used to send people to this.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
Yeah, and they'd get all these interviews to these these
big stars that were there playing in the celebrity tournament.
Steph Curry, or winner of this event, made an eighteen
foot birdie eagle, not pretty eagle, putt on the final
hole to win.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
I gotta tell you, I can't get into this anymore.
The the jock sniffing that goes on at this thing
is just too much. I can't handle it, you know.
Speaker 5 (27:34):
I guess he had a hole in one the other
day too, from what I understand, So good for him.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
Yeah, so he's got a lot of money playing basketball,
he likes the golf, maybe a lot of free time.
He'll never have to have a real job in his life.
Speaker 8 (27:44):
You didn't watch the video of his hole in one?
Speaker 5 (27:46):
I didn't, but I you know, is it worth checking out?
I'll watch it. I'll look on Twitter or so interesting?
Speaker 8 (27:51):
I mean, I just it made me wonder because I
don't watch a lot of golf. It just made me
wonder if any like professional golfers have reacted like he did.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
After the home in one.
Speaker 5 (28:00):
What do you do?
Speaker 8 (28:01):
I think he ran the entirety of the hole with
his arms in the air, like.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
The entire Yes, I'll have to check this out now,
I'll have to look.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
At this now. Okay, he ran around, he was excited.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
The entirety of the whole. Now I'm guessing that no, uh,
no professionals have reacted.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
It ain't cheated. You think they had like some kind
of magnet in the golf ball to go into the hole. Possibly,
that's an interesting theory. Possible, Who knows that have to
be a pretty powerful magnet. If Rob Manford was running
as the commissioner of the golf thing, he allowed them
to do it. You know to say, it's part of
the game. It's just as just a little golf tournament.
Who cares a honk of metal? That's it? Yeah, all right?
(28:40):
Is that it?
Speaker 5 (28:40):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (28:40):
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(29:01):
deadline is coming up. We're gonna talk more to a
male monologue in a little bit about the trade deadline.
The latest done show. Hey Otani. The Angels over the
weekend played the A Holes from Houston three games and
lost two of the three to the A Holes. And
so now what do you do with that? The Angels
had a seven to three lead in the eighth inning
(29:23):
and they blew it and Tani ended up hitting a
home run for the Angels in that game in the
ninth inning, but they end up losing to the A
Holes from Houston. And so now the Angels continue to
look around. They are one of those typical faux contenders.
There's a lot of faux contenders to the playoffs because
Baseball has added a bunch of wild card teams with
(29:44):
the Angels at this particular point. If you look at
your wild card standings in the American League, the Angels
find themselves now six games out, two games under five hundred. So, hey,
what are you doing?
Speaker 5 (29:58):
Coop?
Speaker 1 (29:58):
What do you? What do you?
Speaker 5 (29:59):
What do you you? What are you?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
What are you laughing at here? Coop? What is so funny?
Coops laughing like a hyena in there?
Speaker 8 (30:05):
Just how pathetic this franchise is? Yeah, God, did you
I actually watched some of this game. They had a three?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Was it there? Three? Nothing? I think it was.
Speaker 8 (30:15):
I turned it on because I was watching I was
watching the World Series of Poker Personal Table, But I
turned it on at the top of the ninth inning
just in time to watch them blow it.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Yeah, that was impressive too. They the Angels are being
punished because they lowered the home run at the Big
A in this game. They got punished. I know this
a while ago, but they used to have to hit
the ball into the stands for it to be a
home run, But now they lowered it, even though they
have a high fence and right field and back to
back ahole batters hit home runs that would have not
(30:51):
been home runs. It would have been doubles or maybe
even less than that if they had the old ground
rules of the Big A. But they they changed it up.
Speaker 5 (31:00):
Reaching like.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
You know, like Cleveland Brown's nah, like Detroit Lions status.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Are you sure he just have won the World Series
in your lifetime? Yeah, but I mean do that. The
Browns have never been to the World tiars, Lions have
never been to the Browns. I have never been to
the World Series. That's true. They've been been to the
Super Bowl and either of the Lions.
Speaker 8 (31:20):
So yeah, I guess, but I mean it was it
was once, and it was twenty years ago.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
They were running Periwinkle, that Periwinkle, and then It's the
Curse of mo Vaughn. Right after that, they brought Mauvaughn
in from the Red Sox and then the opening night
he fell into the dugout and hurt himself his first
game as an Angel and they've never recovered from that.
And then Josh Hamilton fell back in love with the coke.
(31:48):
You had that Albert poolhost was about eighty years old
by the time the Angel signed him. So yeah, good times,
good times. But I the Angels are in a pickle
here because Otani. They're not gonna trade with the Dodgers.
There's no way Ardie Mario is gonna trade o. I
don't care if the Dodgers offer the greatest package and where.
The Angels are not gonna trade Otani to the Dodgers,
(32:08):
So forget about that. But he seemingly don't want to
play for the Yankees or back East. So what do
you do with that?
Speaker 8 (32:16):
And it's all kinds of I'm not gonna trade him.
They're gonna get absolutely nothing for him.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, but they'll have him win the MVP as an
Angel for that last time, and yeah, that'll be exciting.
And they can hang that in their little Hall of
Fame thing they have at the Big A. They can
put that right next to the other MVPs and knock
themselves out. It is the band Maller show. Let's go
to Let's go to Jim who's in southern California and
he has a hot Otani. Take Hello, Jim, Jim. There's
(32:44):
a lot of ambient noise. Jim, pick pick up, the phone, Jim,
How are you?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Jim?
Speaker 1 (32:51):
If I was any better, i'd be Otani. But I'm
not because he's gonna be ridiculously rich and I'm not. Well.
Speaker 9 (32:56):
The first question is where are you still working at night?
Because you belong on a jay?
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Wow, you're very kind, How God bless you give?
Speaker 9 (33:03):
You give ROMEI a good run for his money for
how funny you are?
Speaker 1 (33:06):
But oh, thank you, we're good that.
Speaker 9 (33:07):
Where do you think that's gonna go?
Speaker 7 (33:09):
Man?
Speaker 9 (33:09):
Because I got people saying Dodgers and.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Giants, so ultimately I believe he ends up with the
Dodgers short term. I'm going Mariners Giants boom? How about that?
Mariners are giants short term?
Speaker 9 (33:26):
That's a hot No, I'm hoping for the Giants.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
You doing it? Oh, well, that's your problem. You've got issues.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
But I know, I know Friedman cleared some space so
they have the money, but I don't know.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
No, they've been free agency. Otani's not gonna get this
close to free agency. What's the point You might as
well just.
Speaker 9 (33:42):
Well, right, don't you think it makes more sense?
Speaker 4 (33:45):
Is it best?
Speaker 9 (33:45):
The trade deadline? I'm not even keeping truck right now?
Speaker 1 (33:48):
The trade headline is August first. It's Tuesday, August first,
so we have fifteen days to go.
Speaker 9 (33:53):
Well, the Angel's got to move him now because Truck
got hurt.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
Like they have to Truck get hurts. He gets hurt
every year, that's what he does.
Speaker 9 (34:00):
Well, he's on because he's on steroids, and he has
to be because oh, look.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
At this, this guy's inside information. How about that, Jim,
do you know this guy is steroid guy? Is that
what you're saying that, Jim?
Speaker 4 (34:11):
I don't.
Speaker 9 (34:11):
I'm very smart for as dumb as I can be.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Okay, he's got to change it up, get on a
different kind of steroids. Then if he's on the.
Speaker 9 (34:20):
Wrong, well, I mean he's got he's had some issues
with his neck, so he has to be on it.
And he's a great player and people get him crap
for being on it, and I don't like that because
he is an amazing baseball player.
Speaker 8 (34:30):
And what it what he who's given Mike trout craft
for being on steroids?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Just in the it's all the talk in the OC.
You don't live in the OC, but everyone in the
OC talks. Okay, all right, they talk a lot a
lot of chatter in the oc behind the orange curtain. There, yes,
all right, hang up on yourself. Thank you, Jim, go away.
All right, there you go. It is the Band Malor Show.
As we continue on, we'll have the m l B
pick him time. Now for the who am I?
Speaker 9 (34:55):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I am a big league catcher who caught two hundred
and fifty called strikes on first half pitches that were
deemed out of the strike zone. And there's nobody even
close to me. Again, big league catcher. I'm looking for
the name of this. I'm a big league catcher, got
two hundred and fifty nine called strikes on first half
pitches that were out of the strike zone. There's no
one else even close to me in that category? Who
(35:19):
am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We'll do
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It's Ben Maler.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Our friend, Femi writes in from the Twin Cities, says,
listening on the iHeart app broadcast late a few minutes,
I heard Andre from the Commonwealth call up. He's the
best caller of the last five years. Wow, that's high
praise from Femi. He says, that's the top caller since
he's been listening, and he says haters can take a cookie.
(36:16):
No cookies for the haters. CJ says, tell Andre from
the Commonwealth that Bill has blown chunks of projectile since
Tom Brady had retired. The kids he teaches might do
a better job coaching the Patriots. Time now for the
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catcher who has caught two hundred and fifty nine called
strikes on first half pitches that were actually out of
the strike zone. And there's nobody else even close. Who
am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
(36:57):
Sean and Portland going with Steve Lake as his answer.
Who else you have? Benito the Cowboy fan says Mike
Steroids Trout Jack Fimple from Sean in the Valley of
the Son, Jake Taylor guests by Justin in Cincinnati, Kathy
in Actually that's not Justin in since and that's a
(37:20):
different Justin. Who else? Kathy in Madison, going with Cookie
Monster as his answer. Who else do you have? Page down?
Adley Rushman from Malar prop Guy, Tim Cruz guests by
Calligan Tim in Michigan, Alf the Alien Opiner says Ron
karkaweis is the way to go? Manny's San Gian from
(37:42):
Rob in Minnesota The Cause, Bill Cosby from the Eddie
Garcia Burner account, Tony Pania from Miguel on Fire, Chad
Cruder the Man that Broke My Laptop A true story
at Dodge Stadium back they got from Chris in Des Moines.
Who else you have? Page down? A page? Dawn weird
al Yankovic. I guess by Cowboy Killer. That's his answer.
(38:06):
Whoopee Pie Blair from Marcello in Parts Unknown. Eddie, do
you have an answer? Is not Darren Dalton? Not Dutch
Dalton guessed by Marvin the Michigan Man.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Was it Johnny Bench?
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Johnny? Johnny's in the news. Interesting hanging out with Justin
and Cincinnati too much. I know the correct answer jonah
Heim of the Texas Rangers. Jonaheim of the Rangers. That's
an all star catcher. Jonahih time Na for the m
LB Pickham and I do not see the order, so
(38:38):
therefore I will go first. The order is not up,
and so that's the way it works. Now it's there. Well,
wasn't there a minute ago? Why was it not there?
A minute to go? It's gotta be up there early.
Bull crap, bull crap? All right, Go ahead, Eddie, hurry up,
Chop Chop. I'll take Tony the batter, Okay, Cooper Loop,
I will take uh orright, Donny Gray, that's a terrible
(39:02):
pick you should have taken Shane mcclana of the Tampa
Bay Raisers. Going against the Ranger doesn't matter. Go ahead,
Mark Chilie Davis Solid Chili one more, uh, Derrek Bell. Okay,
So I'm gonna take Hooky Bets, Coop Patrick Wisdom, No
wisdom for you, Addie back to back.
Speaker 5 (39:20):
Quickly, Dane Dunning and O'donllas Garcia.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Cope h Taylor Ward. I'll take Freddy Freeman two Dodgers,
go ahead, Mark mix that Cliff ah Old Cub Glory
Days eighty eighties Cubs. There you go.
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