August 1, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Carlos Correa going back to the Astros in a deadline deal, advice to Twins fans on how to deal with this epic fire sale, why the Correa trade is a head-scratcher for Houston, and much more!
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the cheater Carlos Correa going back to the cheaters in Houston?
So why is the career trade a head scratcher for
the cheating as holes? And any advice to those Twins
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fans on how to deal with the epic fire sale
at the trade deadline as they traded away about forty
percent of their big league roster for nothing. We'll get
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be so our lead. This hour is from the Swap Meet.
It did not disappoint. We did have a lot of
huge names traded. We had a lot of trades. It
was much like my diet back in the day when
I was going for it and I just ate everything.
It was quantity over quality. So it was deadline day,
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a historic day, deadline day for the volume of trades
in Major League Baseball. And we have all night to
slice and dice and go brick by brick and all
that stuff. But let's start with a normal target, the dirty,
rotten scoundrels of baseball, the land of no morals. If
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you didn't see what they did, maybe not on brand.
The cheating Astros reacquired disgraced infield. They're Carlos Correa and
a deal. It some say is surprising, some say is surprising,
comes over from the Minnesota Twins. The Twins, by the way,
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announced after the trade deadline they'll be joining the Pacific
Coast League for the rest of the season. But Carlos Carrea,
he goes to Houston and the Astros, well, they sent
some minor league player back to Minnesota. Now Korea waived
his no trade clause in order to make that happened.
He has also agreed to change positions as he goes
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back to the Cheaters. He'll play third base, so he'll
be on the left side of the infield with the
guy that usurped him at shortstop. Jeremy Pine for the cheaters.
So let us discuss the question, what is your perspective
on Carlos Corea, the cheater going back to join the
other cheaters in Houston. So I've got True Crime, rubber Maid,
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and four Seasons, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna make some movie theater buttered popcorn,
not just your normal buttered popcorn. But it's just a
little bit better. It's a little worse for you. It
fills up when you're little movie theater, right, Not that
many people do anymore, but you go there and it
fills up your gut and your arteries. The Holy all right.
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So A, this Carlos Carrea deal is just dripping with irony.
Capitalize right, the Twins. Now they're paying thirty three million
dollars to make Carlos Korea go away. Think about that.
I would love for someone to pay me thirty three
million dollars to go away. I promise you I will
go away. You will never hear about me again. You'll
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never hear me again, You'll never see me again. But
think about that. Carlos Correa, who signed the biggest contract
in Twins history, and a couple years later, they're like,
we got to get rid of this guy. And on
the other side, Korea chose to return to the place
where he cheated his way to a championship. It's like
some kind of twisted redemption tour. So using some patented
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overnight sports radio psycho babble, what this is. After a
minutes long deliberation, Korea signing off on the note trade
to go back to Houston is straight up true crime behavior.
If you ever watch those true crime shows, you've seen this.
You've even if you haven't, you've heard over the years
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of the criminal mind. The way the criminal mind works,
the criminal always returns to the scene the crime. Enter
Carlos Korea, Right, He's not just going back to Houston
because he liked the weather there. This is textbook narcissist stuff, right, Korea,
who must be emotionally aroused, I would imagine by the
trash can banging buzzer, wearing World Series trophies, stealing franchise,
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and so he wants to go back there and get
some more validation there. He needs reassurance Korea that all
that cheating he was a part of, that it wasn't
just okay. It was just okay, it was heroic. And
this is a guy who has built his entire identity,
is a big league ballplayer on being a schmuck, an
a hole, someone you cheer against, and being part of
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the dirtiest team in baseball history, the as one one
thousand and two, one thousand holes. So it's his happy place.
That's the line, right, the one park, the one place
where no one boos him, there's no moral outrage. The
whole fan base has embraced the trash can mantra. Right,
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He'll go back in there like a conquering hero. He
might even be wearing a trash can, right, hugs confetti,
They might give him a special golden trash can as
he returns there. But he'll be back in the warm,
embraced Korea of the franchise that he helped become a
national laughing stock and embarrassment and the face of cheating
an American sport. Correa never really left mentally, he did it.
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You know, probably spent the whole time in Minnesota. Every
time he saw trash can, he was whispering sweet nothings, right,
just just kind of flirting with the trash can. So
Korea's back in age town, and the Astros just welcomed
home there for Digital Punk. He's back in town, right.
They deserve each other now, Page two on this as
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we break it down. So why is the Carlos Korea
trade the ultimate head scratcher for the cheating Astros is
It's kind of clear here if you follow this story
at all, if you pay any attention, and maybe you don't,
maybe you don't, but if you do, you know what
I'm about to say. So the team in Houston let
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Correa walk four years ago because hello, they did not
think he was going to age twell. They didn't think
that the player would be able to live up to
the long term contract. They had somebody else younger. They
could have kept Korea and moved him to another position
if they thought he would be all right. So by
bringing him back, the Astros are admitting that they were
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wrong to let him go. But here's here's the shocking thing.
They weren't wrong to let him go. He's cooked, all right.
Correa's cooked. It's like they're trying to revive Blockbuster video.
It's not coming back. And while he's listed at age thirty,
he often plays Korea like he's fifty at least he
did in Minnesota. Watching him run, it's like watching someone
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try to run through a sprint in the cement. It's
kind of wet there, and it's just kind of messed up.
He's in the bottom percentile according to the NERD stats
in barrel percentage. He's got no range defensively, and I'm
pretty sure you could plant corn in the gaps he
leaves on defense. Thus they're going to try to hide
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him at the hot corner, care at third base. But
what an emasculating move. What an emasculating move. This isn't
just about the analytics and all that stuff. You had
to remember the astro said, we don't think we can
we can bring you back. We don't think you're gonna
live up to the contract we could give you. The
Mets signed him to a deal or came close, backed out,
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The Giants agreed to a deal. Both then saw the
medical record and ran for the hills. They said, you
know what, We're good, Carlos, We're good here. Thanks, but
no thanks. And he goes to Minnesota and sucks. And
so he's not just declining this season, he's nose diving
and now here come the a holes crawling back like
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that X who seems to be convinced that they can
fix it. Oh yeah, I can fix this guy. Yeah yeah.
What are they gonna dip him in the holy water
of a rubber made trash can somewhere in the suburbs
of Houston and boom, it's gonna be hitting like he
was in twenty seventeen. Right, all you have to do,
deck Torrea, get him the buzzer. If that doesn't work,
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try a whistle, right, maybe a trash can lid instead
of a hat, right, full service. Hey. In fact, the
equipment guy when he gets back to Houston, Korea, the
equipment Guy's gonna say, hey, Carlos, you want your buzzer
in medium or large? I know you've gained a little ways,
it still a medium or do you need a large buzzer?
It's a waste management right, Houston style? And what do
we always say, what do we always say on the show?
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We say, don't let a falling star fall on you. Well,
guess what they not only did that, they traded for
a falling star, right, They went out and they caught
a falling star. So they're like, all right, we want
that all right now, we must go to the other
part of this trade. We must go to the other
part of the trade. Everyone in baseball is like, what
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are they doing when I say they we're going to
the Upper Midwest now the last word, and that would
be the other side of this transaction. Do you have
any advice to those Twins fans on how to deal
with what some are saying is the single most embarrassing
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day in baseball history for a franchise giving up And
that's where Minnesota Twins of twenty twenty five. So do
you have anything an advice for the Twins on how
to deal with an epic day of transactions as they
unloaded the big league roster at the trade deadline. So
my advice would be, you know, the cover I think
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this was like a cover band for the four seasons,
right this is the fifth season, we'll call it and
this season, and this is my advice to you in
Minnesota is apathy. It's apathy season. No more Minnesota and Ice.
Don't even bother getting mad. Don't get worked into a ladder.
The pole Ad family that owns the team, they obviously
don't care. They're not building a winner, They're just clearing debt,
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and it's just a line item on a spreadsheet. They're
trying to get rid of debt to sell the team.
So they're trimming the fat like a chef that's got
that big knife there and trying to trim away the fat.
And so they're trying to get the books right, as
I understand it, to sell the team and then they
can buy another yacht with all the money. Do you
think they care about you the fan? You think the
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Minnesota Twins care about you the fan? They showed you.
They gave you the middle finger with these trays, right,
And so I got no skin in the game, but
I am sick of earing well. I mean, look at
the hall they got back. They're smart. They weren't gonna
win anyway. Look at all the minor league players they
got enough. Tommy, you're a maron. This was a competitive
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team that granted they were going the wrong direction. But
everyone's a fringe playoff content these days because they keep
adding wild card teams. And I've just not been raised
that way. I know a lot of you are losers
and you've been raised that way, but I was taught
not to just quit, not to give up on purpose,
and that's exactly what I saw from the Minnesota Twins.
Oh but we got prospects. Oh that's great. Why don't
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you make out with your prospects? Right, wonderful. It's the
currency of the coward. Prospects. Oh, they're gonna be so good.
It's so funny to me how many people are just
complete morons when it comes to prospects. I give you
an example. Team I liked the Dodgers a couple of
years ago. The other guy named Trevor May, who was
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a top prospect. Oh, he's a great prospect. The guy sucks.
The Dodgers gave him to the Red Sox. He's terrible.
They had another top prospect a couple years back named
James Outman, who also blows. By the way, he's going
to the Twins. So congratulating, but he was a top prospect. Oh, man,
look at the prospect all you losers, you guys, look
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at these prospects. You pull your pants down. You're so excited.
It's embarrassing, right, embarrassing. So I mean they traded they
had a decent to good bullpen. They traded their bullpen,
the entire bullpen, half your roster, and you got and
maybe that'll be good. I mean that maybe that guy
would be good. I don't know. Give me a break,
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all right. Anyway, you do what you want. My advice
would be not to spend a dime and make that
stadium like it was COVID in Minnesota, beautiful ballpark. But
maybe like COVID was no one there. Go rent a
boat and enjoy Lake Minnetonka instead. But for the twins,
I mean my not one dime, all right. You don't
go to the ballpark, You don't buy a hat, a bobblehead,
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you don't even you don't comment on social media because
that means you care. Force them to win your trust
back because they just violated the bubble of trust. So
force them to earn your trust back because they deserve it.
This is apathy season. That is my advice, pure cold
blooded Minnesota winter weather grade apathy. Right, And you don't yell,
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you don't scream, You just kind of walk away, because
it's all about the emotion, and the emotion means you're
still engaged. The emotion means that you still care. You
give a damn. Apathy means you're not a customer anymore.
You don't care about their product. And if they're playing
in front of you, you're not gonna even look, You're
gonna turn your back and go the other way. They've
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lost you. And that's the way you have to approach you.
You have to and that's what the Twins earned. Every
action has a reaction, and that should be the reaction.
And nothing you get, absolutely nothing. That would be my advice. Now,
is that gonna happen? Do I know? There's always the
fanboys no matter what. Ah, we love the prospects. Oh,
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I'm so excited. This is such a great you know,
there's always those losers. Got to hate those people. They're
always out there. Right, Oh, this is going to be
great now five years from now. It is really the
ultimate hustle for a couple of reason. And I'm not
going to rant about that. I will rant at some
point in the future about my belief that the Major
League Baseball pipeline is one of the all time great
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scams ever put in the world of sports. So I'll
do that another day. I just will sum this up
by pointing out how absurd it is to sell five
years from now. Right, Does any other business get away
with that when they have a shareholders meeting an Apple,
do they say, Hey, these iPhones are going to absolutely
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stink for the next four years, but in year five,
I think we'll have a good one, right, I think
we'll be pretty good there in year five. Like in
the car business, when they're making automobiles, do the people
at Toyota say, well, you know, we don't really have
any good cars, and I don't think we have any
for the next couple of years. But if you check
back with this in five or six years, I think
that one of these cars that were thinking about the prototypes,
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I think they might be pretty good. But yet in
sports you're able to get away with it. It's like, why
is that? Why are they allowed to get away with that?
I just don't I don't understand that mindset. I was
not raised that way watching sports. But hey, these throw
it anyway if you would like to be part the
balance of power. I don't think the balance of power
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shifted with any of these trades. There were a lot
of trades. I just like that we can tell who
actually is trying to win and who's not trying to win.
And oh, by the way, the Dodgers are on that
we're not trying to win. List my Dodgers. I mean, hey,
I thought was Fred Claire back as the GM there?
My god, I thought it was like the eighties. Take
a nap of the trade deadline. Holy crap eight seven
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Big news, big news there on today's episode of the
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Twins have gone out of business and Kirby Puckets rolling
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over in his grave and harmon Killerbrew on the other side,
there is punching a wall behind the pearly gates the
once proud Minnesota Twins. What a joke, and the cheating
Astros also a joke. Anyway, if you want to be
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That's right me part of the program. Say a little Lorena,
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I don't know what she's eating tonight, but sure we'll
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find out later. And Coop at Bill don't talk to me.
And the Coop's got the a Bronco fan handle. Yeah.
Back to it, Yeah, back to it, Yeah, back to.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
What we go? Bill?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Who's your Bill? I think we should change his name
to hammered Bill. Bill says the Minnesota Twins should move
to Mexico City or Montreal. Know what they should do
is stay in Minnesota, but have the attendance of the
Montreal Expos. The last couple of years when they'd played
Olympic Stadium and there'd be seventeen people there, Chip and
the Queues, it was friends and family. Chip in the
que he was right, since says eight plus on the
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Male of monologue. Maybe Carlos Carea didn't work out in
Minnesota because the Twins wouldn't let him cheat. Since we
all know the Asstros will allow him to do that,
don't be surprised if he starts putting up stats again.
All right, Brock off topic says, I said Jim Harball
will make a starting quarterback out of Trey Lance. The
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process has begun. Yeah, well we'll get to that. I yeah,
I had a feeling that was gonna be a storyline.
My god, what are we doing? What else do we have?
Filler up? Phil says the Twins stadium be like thanks
for nothing. Yeah, Spock's weed writes in from the Oregon Trail,
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he says, there's a great gem there, and then the
Mala monologue. Major League Baseball needs to create an award
called the Golden trash Can for the most shady player
or team of the year. If a Major League Baseball
won't do it, we should. It's a great idea.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Jbo writes in, says you're spot on, Ben. The Twins'
owners just suck. Most fans are sick of their penny
pinching waists. You suck. There's still some pull, lad pocket
protectors that will argue it was worth it. Yeah. Jbo says,
I wanted to see a game at some point this season,
but I am not spending my money there. Yeah, just
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go down there. I was when I was in Minneso
a while back. We went to the stadium. We didn't
go to a game. We walked around just to hang out.
There's got the Rod Caruz statue, the Kirby status, a
bunch of statues, so you can go take some photos there.
I like the Bear mascot statue. You can do that
and knock yourself out. Jill Wrights And says, everyone called
in to k Fan today in Minnesota there and said
the Twins would be lucky to sell out the field
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where the Saint Paul Saints play ten thousand fans. I
live in the Twin Cities. My Yankees didn't do much either.
The Bednar move was pretty good, and the Yankees did
more than the Dodgers. I thought the Yankees were okay,
like Bednar's nasty, although all those relief pitchers are ticking
time bombs. Earlier this summer, Bednar was so messed up
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in the head the Pirates sent him to the minor leagues.
And now at the trade deadline, they end up trading
him to the Yankees. Sean in the Valley of the
Sun says great monologue Ben I worked at a I
worked at Bank One Ballpark, Chase Field for twenty two years.
I didn't know that Shawn's been a contributor to the
show for many many years. I did not know that
he worked at Chase Field there for them many years.
I bought many tickets, went to a couple hundred games
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on off days. Now the Diamondbacks are giving up. I
said it earlier today. No emotion, just walking away there
you go, looking forward to the Dodgers and the podresh
Man Podres's. That's some trading there. That's how you do
a trade deadline, kids, you just trade the entire minor
league system. Eh. Absolutely. Scrooge rights in from Northern California says,
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after all these trade deadline day, trade deadline d did
anyone else from the Mallond militia get traded for a
bag of nothing? Yeah? Well, we actually did trade hollering James,
and we traded him to the Twins. But the Twins
traded him back, and so unfortunately James is back in
the Mallard Militia Late Night Drug tester says, I will
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say this about the Twins. Nobody has fielded a bigger
group of miners since Jeffrey Epstein. Wow, well, lame jokes
are actually coming up in a couple hours, so I
don't know. That's like a premature lame joke. Andy, and
Lino lakes right, since he says ten ten out of
ten on the Mallard monologue, the pole Ad family one
of the richest owners in baseball. I have not been
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to a game or spent a diamond ten years on
that team. I'm tired of the way they run the franchise,
sell the team already. It's an embarrassment to Minnesota, he says.
And Brian, a Twinkies fan, says, Ben, I just listened
to your rant about the Twins, and thank you for
coming down hard on the pathetic organization. The pole Ads
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are one of the worst ownership groups I've seen in
any sport. And yes, it's time for fans to completely
stop buying tickets merch After the bird was shown to
the fans there, it's really the only shot you got.
It's the only in his dice. It's not a guarantee,
and it has worked. It has worked a few times.
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The most famous example that was in Los Angeles when
the Dodgers had this guy who was kind of like
the pole aage Frank McCourt, who owned the team, and
his idea of the big pickup was he stopped Choi.
That was his big move there when he owned the Dodgers,
and the fans just stopped going. They stopped supporting the team,
and major League Baseball freaked out, and that's how they
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got the deal where the Dodgers now have this group
that it usually goes for it. They didn't go for
it this year at the trade deadline, but they normally
go for it, and the stadium's packed. They have a
huge television deal, all that stuff, and so it's a
It was about twenty years the Dodgers were run like
the Minnesota Twins for a while.
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There.
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There you go. Let's hear uh super Marcus Steve's asking
for details on Benny versus the Penny. You're gonna have
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Shanon Moyes says, the Hall of Fame game will go
down as a game that was played. C minus on
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the game, A plus on the opening monologue. Well, thank you, sir.
I did enjoy seeing Brent Musburger for nostalgic reasons. There,
the great Brent Musburger. It was wonderful. Let's go to
the phones. Let's see who do we have here? Eenie
meenie miny moe. Let's go down to the Ambassador of Bakersfield, California. Well,
we had one of the legendary mallor meet and greets
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on a night chamber of rod It was a chamber
of commerce night, right, Rob, the ambassador of Vegersfield there was.
It was only two hundred and seventeen degrees that night,
and we had a great time, and we forced Bakersfield
to lose their minor league baseball team, which they had
for one hundred years. So we a lot was accomplished
that night.
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Rod Man, you are absolutely perfect. Thing better are you
kidding me? With the fastball?
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Well, actually there's kind of a lob in there, and
it was an off speed pitch and had the ball
game singing.
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Then yeah, I mean, come on, I mean that was
one of the greatest moments in my life because it
was with the great Man.
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Now, wow, look at that a ringing endorsement. Rod Man
robs the Ribman. Lorraino robs the Ribman. He's brought ribs
many times over the years here and then yeah the bone.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yeah, well, I've got to bring you down a rib
because you are a rib from me?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Right, Oh that's yeah, right now?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Are you not made from a rib for me? I mean,
I'm I.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Don't know specifically, no, okay, I am.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Oh, you don't like my ribs anyway? Hey, now, come on,
justin tell tell me all my ribs, good or not.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
They're fantastic, thank you very much. Just don't don't bring
any don't bring any friends, don't bring.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
No, no, no, no, no no. I almost left him
on the grapevine, okay, and I am I swear to god.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Oh well, I don't know. You don't need to not
talk to him. But Brod came with a buddy and
the buddy was really enjoying himself that night and was
a little unhinged.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So yeah, he's a complete idiot, but very good. Anyway.
I had surgery today, man, on my left elbow. I
had a golf ball sitting in my elbow.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Oh man, oh the.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Sith and so that was done. So now so now
next week I get to go get my cataracts taken
out of my eyes, and then after that I get
my left shoulder done. Okay, what do you like?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
You? You're like an NBA player? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Well? Well pretty much? But no, man, my wife's getting
ready to retire, so the good and insurance are running out,
so I got to get this crap done.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, all right, All these are called grown up problems.
These are grown up problems. Rod, these are grown up.
Are you heavily medicated right now? I feel like you're
heavily medicated?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Here?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
You are you still coming off the high of the operator.
You're not?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Not? No, I'm not. When I've got out of surgery.
I got back home at five o'clock, okay, and they
told me don't smoke and don't drink. So the first
thing I did was come home and have a bow
pole and the Jack Daniels. That's what I guess what.
I'm on my patio right now. My wife's sleeping and
(30:39):
I'm probably waking Europe with this phone call. Give it damn,
because uh fucking hurt?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, buddy,
and well I won't remember this, but well it helped
the numbers on the podcast, right, that will certainly get
more downloads on the podcast. I hope he's feeling good
right now.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Education and then you know, a little faded.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah that's good. You know, doctor says, listen, listen to
my advice. I'm your doctor. Do not do not drink.
You know, yes, science, medicine is imperfect. Right, otherwise we'd
live forever, right, we'd all live forever. They knew exactly
what they were talking about, so you know, it said, yeah,
oh boy, all right, do we have the play of
the d Is there a player that I don't even
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a man. Now. We lost Haul Cogan recently, but he's
getting his own day. The Governor of Florida, Ron De Santis,
honoring Hulk Hogan with Hulk Hogan Day, which is today.
This is our Friday show. Today is in Florida. The
honor is here. So yeah, you know what to do.
(33:20):
Take your vitamins, man, Haul Cogan, the governor said. To
commemorate his life and legacies, he said, I hereby declare
August one, twenty twenty five, that's Hulk Hogan Day in Florida.
How about this? He directed the flags of the United
States and the state of Florida to be flown at
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half staff at the state Capitol in Tallahassee and all
the local state buildings institutions around Florida from sunrise to sunset.
He said, rest in peace, brother brother Aul Cogan. That
all right, well, unexpected, but but good Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I'm still getting emails.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
We we ranted about Hulk passing the night that he
passed away. We find out about it, and I'm still
getting emails from guys.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
He touched so many people's lives that we're all middle
aged people now. Most of us. But man, Hulk Hogan. Uh,
he really touched so many lives when he was when
he was doing his thing back in the day in
professional wrestling. So you enjoy Hulk Hogan day. What do
you do? Some vitamins? Do some steroids? What's the move there?
I don't know. Rip your shirt off? You gotta rip
(34:35):
your shirt off like Hulk. I want to try the
ripping of the shirt. Okay, Well, I think a lot
of people would like that. If you put it on
the internet, they probably like that a lot. Triple H.
Here's a here's a wrestling relator. So Triple I guess
he was. They had a ceremony at the White House.
They're bringing back the presidential test. You know, this used
(34:55):
to when I was a kid. This was the thing.
They got rid of it fifteen years ago or something
like that. So they had some ceremony the White House
to announce to bring this back. But Triple H was there,
and it was the President announced they're going to have
this fitness test now for kids in school, which was
what they had it for years and then they got
rid of it. The only reason I'm bringing this up
is because Triple H did his signature water spit entrance
(35:20):
at the White House, which is just you can't make
this stuff up. I mean, it's just outstanding. The fountains
out of the mouth. Well you see the video, you'll
know what I'm what I'm talking about there. But yeah,
he was at the meeting and he was a film
(35:40):
doing his signature spit. I was technically outside the White House,
but I believe it was still on White House ground.
So he did at least walk out of the White
House proper, and he was, of course recorded. He took
the drink, he had a bottle of water. He was
wearing the suit triple eight at h rather and then
he he did the signature move there and put his
(36:03):
arms out extended there and spit and one of the
great moments in American history right there. Anyway, think about it,
legendary presidents, and you think of Lincoln, you think of Washington,
you think you know, the all time greats, and then
you got this. That's outstanding triple h man. You got
to keep it real. Gott to keep it real all
right time. Now for the who am I game? And
(36:24):
this is where I pretend to be somebody else and
you have to try to answer it on at Ben Maller. So,
I am a major League Baseball starting pitcher. This season,
I have allowed a one to eleven batting average that's
second best in all of baseball, a one eleven batting
average against my four seamer. Yet the league is batting
(36:45):
five to twenty, second worst than all of baseball against
my cutter this season. Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer. We'll get to it and we
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The who am I? Game? I am a starting pitcher
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in Major League Baseball. I have allowed a one to
eleven batting average against my four seamer. Yet the league
is also batting five twenty. That's like softball against my cutter.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Post?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Does anyone know the answer? Bobby and Florida going with
Judge Wapner is his answer page Dan Dick butkis from Scrooge,
Garrett Crochet tossed out by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Mister
nice guy going with Danny Heap and A and Mets legend.
Oscar the Grouch is the answer, Andy says. In honor
(38:33):
of the trash cans in Houston, Milkman Mike in Colorado
says the Eugene of the Ben Mathers Show. Briand Scott,
Now we already we have a Eugene Eugene in Chicago.
We have that. Not a burner, says Doc Mike and R.
Kelly's favorite song Friends of p is the answer. Late
(38:56):
night drug tester says, you are Scottie Barnes, who is
twenty for today, Scottie Barnes, face of the NBA. It
is a complete crap. Scottie Barnes, Sam Walton guest by
King Rory. I don't have much money that Walton family
is really hurting Strip Club. John from Shane in Des Moines,
(39:16):
Eric Shaw from Sean in the Valley of the Sun.
Pete Rose big fan of Eric show back in the Day.
Ryan is going with Dodger legend Trevor Bauer, who's been
outlawed from Major League Baseball and the cheating astros allowed
in Baseball. Steve the misplays San Diego. Going with Doug
(39:37):
Desinces is his answer as the the Orioles, Doug the Sinces.
Who else? Yeah, Paige down Supermarke. Steve wants to know
when the mallor meet and greet is going to be. Well,
you'll have we have? Do we are? We already announced that.
By the way, we're not ready to announce name. Next hour.
I think we're ready. Yeah, my next hour, we'll announce
when the meet and greet is gonna be a jet
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who fled guests by not a burner. That's his his answer.
Mister Smee from Eileen and I think she's in Northern California.
Who else do we have? Holy Molly from Hoosier Bill
Floyd Yeomans. There's a solid name expo player back in
the day, Floyd Yeomans, Jacob de Gram from Andrew in
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the Bay Area, Ricky Vaughan from Kirby, and it's his answer.
Who else you have? Candy Maldonado, solid name from Rob
in Minnesota. The Great Rob met him at the Mala Meeting.
Great Chris Rock from Gil in San Diego. Jesse, you're
a fan of, uh, Chris Rocket. Chris Candy Maldonado. Maybe
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you were a fan of It's a good name, right,
Candy Maldonado just really flows Jesse. The body Ventura from
Donkey Sausage who was in the Fox Sports Radio studios
years ago, but not for Fox Rahio. Jesse. The body
was there for the Steve Harvey Show JJ. The most
Delusional person on Earth, Angel Reese is the answer. Brian
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Woo from Johnny Q. That's the answer there, all right,
Who else do we have? All Right? That's enough, Lorraine
not do you have an answer? It's not Tony Zendehaus
guessed by the Great mad Jack, who will also be
hosting a Mallard meat greet at some point. Do you
have an answer, Lorrain? Yeah, this one came to me
in a dream, Ben Oh a dream. Yeah, Taylor Swift,
(41:25):
Oh man, look at that. Yes, really you are a
sports person. She's a sporty girl. No, that is incorrect. Unfortunately,
the correct answer is Dustin May, the newest member of
the Boston Red Sox. The league is hitting five twenty
against his cutter, the second highest mark in all of
Major League Baseball this season. He just got lit up
(41:46):
at Finway over the weekend and now the Red Sox
acquired him. Good luck on that working out.
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recipe in our number one, what is your perspective on
the cheater Carlos Correa going back to the cheaters in Houston?
So why is the career trade a head scratcher for
the cheating as holes? And any advice to those Twins
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fans on how to deal with the epic fire sale
at the trade deadline as they traded away about forty
percent of their big league roster for nothing. We'll get
to all of that right now here. It is our
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be so our lead. This hour is from the Swap Meet.
It did not disappoint. We did have a lot of
huge names traded. We had a lot of trades. It
was much like my diet back in the day when
I was going for it and I just ate everything.
It was quantity over quality. So it was deadline day,
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a historic day, deadline day for the volume of trades
in Major League Baseball. And we have all night to
slice and dice and go brick by brick and all
that stuff. But let's start with a normal target, the dirty,
rotten scoundrels of baseball, the land of no morals. If
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you didn't see what they did, maybe not on brand.
The cheating Astros reacquired disgraced infield. They're Carlos Correa and
a deal. It some say is surprising, some say is surprising,
comes over from the Minnesota Twins. The Twins, by the way,
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announced after the trade deadline they'll be joining the Pacific
Coast League for the rest of the season. But Carlos Carrea,
he goes to Houston and the Astros, well, they sent
some minor league player back to Minnesota. Now Korea waived
his no trade clause in order to make that happened.
He has also agreed to change positions as he goes
(04:05):
back to the Cheaters. He'll play third base, so he'll
be on the left side of the infield with the
guy that usurped him at shortstop. Jeremy Pine for the cheaters.
So let us discuss the question, what is your perspective
on Carlos Corea, the cheater going back to join the
other cheaters in Houston. So I've got True Crime, rubber Maid,
(04:30):
and four Seasons, and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna make some movie theater buttered popcorn,
not just your normal buttered popcorn. But it's just a
little bit better. It's a little worse for you. It
fills up when you're little movie theater, right, Not that
many people do anymore, but you go there and it
fills up your gut and your arteries. The Holy all right.
(04:51):
So A, this Carlos Carrea deal is just dripping with irony.
Capitalize right, the Twins. Now they're paying thirty three million
dollars to make Carlos Korea go away. Think about that.
I would love for someone to pay me thirty three
million dollars to go away. I promise you I will
go away. You will never hear about me again. You'll
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never hear me again, You'll never see me again. But
think about that. Carlos Correa, who signed the biggest contract
in Twins history, and a couple years later, they're like,
we got to get rid of this guy. And on
the other side, Korea chose to return to the place
where he cheated his way to a championship. It's like
some kind of twisted redemption tour. So using some patented
(05:34):
overnight sports radio psycho babble, what this is. After a
minutes long deliberation, Korea signing off on the note trade
to go back to Houston is straight up true crime behavior.
If you ever watch those true crime shows, you've seen this.
You've even if you haven't, you've heard over the years
(05:55):
of the criminal mind. The way the criminal mind works,
the criminal always returns to the scene the crime. Enter
Carlos Korea, Right, He's not just going back to Houston
because he liked the weather there. This is textbook narcissist stuff, right, Korea,
who must be emotionally aroused, I would imagine by the
trash can banging buzzer, wearing World Series trophies, stealing franchise,
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and so he wants to go back there and get
some more validation there. He needs reassurance Korea that all
that cheating he was a part of, that it wasn't
just okay. It was just okay, it was heroic. And
this is a guy who has built his entire identity,
is a big league ballplayer on being a schmuck, an
a hole, someone you cheer against, and being part of
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the dirtiest team in baseball history, the as one one
thousand and two, one thousand holes. So it's his happy place.
That's the line, right, the one park, the one place
where no one boos him, there's no moral outrage. The
whole fan base has embraced the trash can mantra. Right,
(07:04):
He'll go back in there like a conquering hero. He
might even be wearing a trash can, right, hugs confetti,
They might give him a special golden trash can as
he returns there. But he'll be back in the warm,
embraced Korea of the franchise that he helped become a
national laughing stock and embarrassment and the face of cheating
an American sport. Correa never really left mentally, he did it.
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You know, probably spent the whole time in Minnesota. Every
time he saw trash can, he was whispering sweet nothings, right,
just just kind of flirting with the trash can. So
Korea's back in age town, and the Astros just welcomed
home there for Digital Punk. He's back in town, right.
They deserve each other now, Page two on this as
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we break it down. So why is the Carlos Korea
trade the ultimate head scratcher for the cheating Astros is
It's kind of clear here if you follow this story
at all, if you pay any attention, and maybe you don't,
maybe you don't, but if you do, you know what
I'm about to say. So the team in Houston let
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Correa walk four years ago because hello, they did not
think he was going to age twell. They didn't think
that the player would be able to live up to
the long term contract. They had somebody else younger. They
could have kept Korea and moved him to another position
if they thought he would be all right. So by
bringing him back, the Astros are admitting that they were
(08:33):
wrong to let him go. But here's here's the shocking thing.
They weren't wrong to let him go. He's cooked, all right.
Correa's cooked. It's like they're trying to revive Blockbuster video.
It's not coming back. And while he's listed at age thirty,
he often plays Korea like he's fifty at least he
did in Minnesota. Watching him run, it's like watching someone
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try to run through a sprint in the cement. It's
kind of wet there, and it's just kind of messed up.
He's in the bottom percentile according to the NERD stats
in barrel percentage. He's got no range defensively, and I'm
pretty sure you could plant corn in the gaps he
leaves on defense. Thus they're going to try to hide
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him at the hot corner, care at third base. But
what an emasculating move. What an emasculating move. This isn't
just about the analytics and all that stuff. You had
to remember the astro said, we don't think we can
we can bring you back. We don't think you're gonna
live up to the contract we could give you. The
Mets signed him to a deal or came close, backed out,
(09:40):
The Giants agreed to a deal. Both then saw the
medical record and ran for the hills. They said, you
know what, We're good, Carlos, We're good here. Thanks, but
no thanks. And he goes to Minnesota and sucks. And
so he's not just declining this season, he's nose diving
and now here come the a holes crawling back like
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that X who seems to be convinced that they can
fix it. Oh yeah, I can fix this guy. Yeah yeah.
What are they gonna dip him in the holy water
of a rubber made trash can somewhere in the suburbs
of Houston and boom, it's gonna be hitting like he
was in twenty seventeen. Right, all you have to do,
deck Torrea, get him the buzzer. If that doesn't work,
(10:22):
try a whistle, right, maybe a trash can lid instead
of a hat, right, full service. Hey. In fact, the
equipment guy when he gets back to Houston, Korea, the
equipment Guy's gonna say, hey, Carlos, you want your buzzer
in medium or large? I know you've gained a little ways,
it still a medium or do you need a large buzzer?
It's a waste management right, Houston style? And what do
we always say, what do we always say on the show?
(10:45):
We say, don't let a falling star fall on you. Well,
guess what they not only did that, they traded for
a falling star, right, They went out and they caught
a falling star. So they're like, all right, we want
that all right now, we must go to the other
part of this trade. We must go to the other
part of the trade. Everyone in baseball is like, what
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are they doing when I say they we're going to
the Upper Midwest now the last word, and that would
be the other side of this transaction. Do you have
any advice to those Twins fans on how to deal
with what some are saying is the single most embarrassing
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day in baseball history for a franchise giving up And
that's where Minnesota Twins of twenty twenty five. So do
you have anything an advice for the Twins on how
to deal with an epic day of transactions as they
unloaded the big league roster at the trade deadline. So
my advice would be, you know, the cover I think
(11:47):
this was like a cover band for the four seasons,
right this is the fifth season, we'll call it and
this season, and this is my advice to you in
Minnesota is apathy. It's apathy season. No more Minnesota and Ice.
Don't even bother getting mad. Don't get worked into a ladder.
The pole Ad family that owns the team, they obviously
don't care. They're not building a winner, They're just clearing debt,
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and it's just a line item on a spreadsheet. They're
trying to get rid of debt to sell the team.
So they're trimming the fat like a chef that's got
that big knife there and trying to trim away the fat.
And so they're trying to get the books right, as
I understand it, to sell the team and then they
can buy another yacht with all the money. Do you
think they care about you the fan? You think the
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Minnesota Twins care about you the fan? They showed you.
They gave you the middle finger with these trays, right,
And so I got no skin in the game, but
I am sick of earing well. I mean, look at
the hall they got back. They're smart. They weren't gonna
win anyway. Look at all the minor league players they
got enough. Tommy, you're a maron. This was a competitive
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team that granted they were going the wrong direction. But
everyone's a fringe playoff content these days because they keep
adding wild card teams. And I've just not been raised
that way. I know a lot of you are losers
and you've been raised that way, but I was taught
not to just quit, not to give up on purpose,
and that's exactly what I saw from the Minnesota Twins.
Oh but we got prospects. Oh that's great. Why don't
(13:17):
you make out with your prospects? Right, wonderful. It's the
currency of the coward. Prospects. Oh, they're gonna be so good.
It's so funny to me how many people are just
complete morons when it comes to prospects. I give you
an example. Team I liked the Dodgers a couple of
years ago. The other guy named Trevor May, who was
(13:38):
a top prospect. Oh, he's a great prospect. The guy sucks.
The Dodgers gave him to the Red Sox. He's terrible.
They had another top prospect a couple years back named
James Outman, who also blows. By the way, he's going
to the Twins. So congratulating, but he was a top prospect. Oh, man,
look at the prospect all you losers, you guys, look
(13:59):
at these prospects. You pull your pants down. You're so excited.
It's embarrassing, right, embarrassing. So I mean they traded they
had a decent to good bullpen. They traded their bullpen,
the entire bullpen, half your roster, and you got and
maybe that'll be good. I mean that maybe that guy
would be good. I don't know. Give me a break,
(14:20):
all right. Anyway, you do what you want. My advice
would be not to spend a dime and make that
stadium like it was COVID in Minnesota, beautiful ballpark. But
maybe like COVID was no one there. Go rent a
boat and enjoy Lake Minnetonka instead. But for the twins,
I mean my not one dime, all right. You don't
go to the ballpark, You don't buy a hat, a bobblehead,
(14:42):
you don't even you don't comment on social media because
that means you care. Force them to win your trust
back because they just violated the bubble of trust. So
force them to earn your trust back because they deserve it.
This is apathy season. That is my advice, pure cold
blooded Minnesota winter weather grade apathy. Right, And you don't yell,
(15:08):
you don't scream, You just kind of walk away, because
it's all about the emotion, and the emotion means you're
still engaged. The emotion means that you still care. You
give a damn. Apathy means you're not a customer anymore.
You don't care about their product. And if they're playing
in front of you, you're not gonna even look, You're
gonna turn your back and go the other way. They've
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lost you. And that's the way you have to approach you.
You have to and that's what the Twins earned. Every
action has a reaction, and that should be the reaction.
And nothing you get, absolutely nothing. That would be my advice. Now,
is that gonna happen? Do I know? There's always the
fanboys no matter what. Ah, we love the prospects. Oh,
(15:53):
I'm so excited. This is such a great you know,
there's always those losers. Got to hate those people. They're
always out there. Right, Oh, this is going to be
great now five years from now. It is really the
ultimate hustle for a couple of reason. And I'm not
going to rant about that. I will rant at some
point in the future about my belief that the Major
League Baseball pipeline is one of the all time great
(16:15):
scams ever put in the world of sports. So I'll
do that another day. I just will sum this up
by pointing out how absurd it is to sell five
years from now. Right, Does any other business get away
with that when they have a shareholders meeting an Apple,
do they say, Hey, these iPhones are going to absolutely
(16:38):
stink for the next four years, but in year five,
I think we'll have a good one, right, I think
we'll be pretty good there in year five. Like in
the car business, when they're making automobiles, do the people
at Toyota say, well, you know, we don't really have
any good cars, and I don't think we have any
for the next couple of years. But if you check
back with this in five or six years, I think
that one of these cars that were thinking about the prototypes,
(17:01):
I think they might be pretty good. But yet in
sports you're able to get away with it. It's like, why
is that? Why are they allowed to get away with that?
I just don't I don't understand that mindset. I was
not raised that way watching sports. But hey, these throw
it anyway if you would like to be part the
balance of power. I don't think the balance of power
(17:23):
shifted with any of these trades. There were a lot
of trades. I just like that we can tell who
actually is trying to win and who's not trying to win.
And oh, by the way, the Dodgers are on that
we're not trying to win. List my Dodgers. I mean, hey,
I thought was Fred Claire back as the GM there?
My god, I thought it was like the eighties. Take
a nap of the trade deadline. Holy crap eight seven
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had an exhibition football game which was as painful as
you might imagine. The Chargers and Lions played practice football
there in Kent, Ohio. That must not see TV, is
what that is? Holy crap. Later on, while Big Ben's
lame Jokes of the week, that'll be coming up in
hour three. Also in hour four of the Coop Scoop,
and we'll have Sports Jeopardy. But that's all common knowledge,
(18:29):
that's all common knowledge, a sporting legend getting his own day,
his own day. We'll get to that, and as well,
the one that didn't get away, the one that didn't
get away, we'll go there. In addition, we get to
all of that, and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (19:58):
Bill Miller and it is the Ben Mahler Show, up
all night every night, just beginning the red eye flight
and some big news later today the Fifth Hour Podcast
with Ben Maler and Danny G'll be up and that
will be the big reveal podcast on Benny Versus the Penny.
So you're gonna want to listen to that. If you're
(20:20):
a p one of this show. We're saving that for
the Fifth Hour Podcast. You're not gonna want to miss it.
Big news, big news there on today's episode of the
Fifth Hour Podcast. But we're doing this right now. We're
doing it live, doing late night radio as the Minnesota
Twins have gone out of business and Kirby Puckets rolling
(20:42):
over in his grave and harmon Killerbrew on the other side,
there is punching a wall behind the pearly gates the
once proud Minnesota Twins. What a joke, and the cheating
Astros also a joke. Anyway, if you want to be
part eight seven have it ninety nine on Fox eight
(21:02):
seven seven nine, nine, six sixty three sixty nine. Also
on the X Machine at Ben Malor that's at Ben Mountain.
That's right me part of the program. Say a little Lorena,
the FSR Tech queen hitting all over buttons over there.
I don't know what she's eating tonight, but sure we'll
(21:24):
find out later. And Coop at Bill don't talk to me.
And the Coop's got the a Bronco fan handle. Yeah.
Back to it, Yeah, back to it, Yeah, back to.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
What we go? Bill?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Who's your Bill? I think we should change his name
to hammered Bill. Bill says the Minnesota Twins should move
to Mexico City or Montreal. Know what they should do
is stay in Minnesota, but have the attendance of the
Montreal Expos. The last couple of years when they'd played
Olympic Stadium and there'd be seventeen people there, Chip and
the Queues, it was friends and family. Chip in the
que he was right, since says eight plus on the
(22:01):
Male of monologue. Maybe Carlos Carea didn't work out in
Minnesota because the Twins wouldn't let him cheat. Since we
all know the Asstros will allow him to do that,
don't be surprised if he starts putting up stats again.
All right, Brock off topic says, I said Jim Harball
will make a starting quarterback out of Trey Lance. The
(22:22):
process has begun. Yeah, well we'll get to that. I yeah,
I had a feeling that was gonna be a storyline.
My god, what are we doing? What else do we have?
Filler up? Phil says the Twins stadium be like thanks
for nothing. Yeah, Spock's weed writes in from the Oregon Trail,
(22:42):
he says, there's a great gem there, and then the
Mala monologue. Major League Baseball needs to create an award
called the Golden trash Can for the most shady player
or team of the year. If a Major League Baseball
won't do it, we should. It's a great idea.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Jbo writes in, says you're spot on, Ben. The Twins'
owners just suck. Most fans are sick of their penny
pinching waists. You suck. There's still some pull, lad pocket
protectors that will argue it was worth it. Yeah. Jbo says,
I wanted to see a game at some point this season,
but I am not spending my money there. Yeah, just
(23:21):
go down there. I was when I was in Minneso
a while back. We went to the stadium. We didn't
go to a game. We walked around just to hang out.
There's got the Rod Caruz statue, the Kirby status, a
bunch of statues, so you can go take some photos there.
I like the Bear mascot statue. You can do that
and knock yourself out. Jill Wrights And says, everyone called
in to k Fan today in Minnesota there and said
the Twins would be lucky to sell out the field
(23:46):
where the Saint Paul Saints play ten thousand fans. I
live in the Twin Cities. My Yankees didn't do much either.
The Bednar move was pretty good, and the Yankees did
more than the Dodgers. I thought the Yankees were okay,
like Bednar's nasty, although all those relief pitchers are ticking
time bombs. Earlier this summer, Bednar was so messed up
(24:08):
in the head the Pirates sent him to the minor leagues.
And now at the trade deadline, they end up trading
him to the Yankees. Sean in the Valley of the
Sun says great monologue Ben I worked at a I
worked at Bank One Ballpark, Chase Field for twenty two years.
I didn't know that Shawn's been a contributor to the
show for many many years. I did not know that
he worked at Chase Field there for them many years.
I bought many tickets, went to a couple hundred games
(24:31):
on off days. Now the Diamondbacks are giving up. I
said it earlier today. No emotion, just walking away there
you go, looking forward to the Dodgers and the podresh
Man Podres's. That's some trading there. That's how you do
a trade deadline, kids, you just trade the entire minor
league system. Eh. Absolutely. Scrooge rights in from Northern California says,
(24:55):
after all these trade deadline day, trade deadline d did
anyone else from the Mallond militia get traded for a
bag of nothing? Yeah? Well, we actually did trade hollering James,
and we traded him to the Twins. But the Twins
traded him back, and so unfortunately James is back in
the Mallard Militia Late Night Drug tester says, I will
(25:16):
say this about the Twins. Nobody has fielded a bigger
group of miners since Jeffrey Epstein. Wow, well, lame jokes
are actually coming up in a couple hours, so I
don't know. That's like a premature lame joke. Andy, and
Lino lakes right, since he says ten ten out of
ten on the Mallard monologue, the pole Ad family one
of the richest owners in baseball. I have not been
(25:39):
to a game or spent a diamond ten years on
that team. I'm tired of the way they run the franchise,
sell the team already. It's an embarrassment to Minnesota, he says.
And Brian, a Twinkies fan, says, Ben, I just listened
to your rant about the Twins, and thank you for
coming down hard on the pathetic organization. The pole Ads
(25:59):
are one of the worst ownership groups I've seen in
any sport. And yes, it's time for fans to completely
stop buying tickets merch After the bird was shown to
the fans there, it's really the only shot you got.
It's the only in his dice. It's not a guarantee,
and it has worked. It has worked a few times.
(26:22):
The most famous example that was in Los Angeles when
the Dodgers had this guy who was kind of like
the pole aage Frank McCourt, who owned the team, and
his idea of the big pickup was he stopped Choi.
That was his big move there when he owned the Dodgers,
and the fans just stopped going. They stopped supporting the team,
and major League Baseball freaked out, and that's how they
(26:43):
got the deal where the Dodgers now have this group
that it usually goes for it. They didn't go for
it this year at the trade deadline, but they normally
go for it, and the stadium's packed. They have a
huge television deal, all that stuff, and so it's a
It was about twenty years the Dodgers were run like
the Minnesota Twins for a while.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
There.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
There you go. Let's hear uh super Marcus Steve's asking
for details on Benny versus the Penny. You're gonna have
to listen to the Fifth Hour podcast. You're just gonna
have to listen to that. It's all on the podcast.
Shanon Moyes says, the Hall of Fame game will go
down as a game that was played. C minus on
(27:22):
the game, A plus on the opening monologue. Well, thank you, sir.
I did enjoy seeing Brent Musburger for nostalgic reasons. There,
the great Brent Musburger. It was wonderful. Let's go to
the phones. Let's see who do we have here? Eenie
meenie miny moe. Let's go down to the Ambassador of Bakersfield, California. Well,
we had one of the legendary mallor meet and greets
(27:44):
on a night chamber of rod It was a chamber
of commerce night, right, Rob, the ambassador of Vegersfield there was.
It was only two hundred and seventeen degrees that night,
and we had a great time, and we forced Bakersfield
to lose their minor league baseball team, which they had
for one hundred years. So we a lot was accomplished
that night.
Speaker 5 (28:02):
Rod Man, you are absolutely perfect. Thing better are you
kidding me? With the fastball?
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Well, actually there's kind of a lob in there, and
it was an off speed pitch and had the ball
game singing.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
Then yeah, I mean, come on, I mean that was
one of the greatest moments in my life because it
was with the great Man.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Now, wow, look at that a ringing endorsement. Rod Man
robs the Ribman. Lorraino robs the Ribman. He's brought ribs
many times over the years here and then yeah the bone.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
Yeah, well, I've got to bring you down a rib
because you are a rib from me?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Right, Oh that's yeah, right now?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
Are you not made from a rib for me? I mean,
I'm I.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Don't know specifically, no, okay, I am.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
Oh, you don't like my ribs anyway? Hey, now, come on,
justin tell tell me all my ribs, good or not.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
They're fantastic, thank you very much. Just don't don't bring
any don't bring any friends, don't bring.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
No, no, no, no, no no. I almost left him
on the grapevine, okay, and I am I swear to god.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Oh well, I don't know. You don't need to not
talk to him. But Brod came with a buddy and
the buddy was really enjoying himself that night and was
a little unhinged.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So yeah, he's a complete idiot, but very good. Anyway.
I had surgery today, man, on my left elbow. I
had a golf ball sitting in my elbow.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Oh man, oh the.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
Sith and so that was done. So now so now
next week I get to go get my cataracts taken
out of my eyes, and then after that I get
my left shoulder done. Okay, what do you like?
Speaker 1 (29:52):
You? You're like an NBA player? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Well? Well pretty much? But no, man, my wife's getting
ready to retire, so the good and insurance are running out,
so I got to get this crap done.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, all right, All these are called grown up problems.
These are grown up problems. Rod, these are grown up.
Are you heavily medicated right now? I feel like you're
heavily medicated?
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Here?
Speaker 1 (30:14):
You are you still coming off the high of the operator.
You're not?
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Not? No, I'm not. When I've got out of surgery.
I got back home at five o'clock, okay, and they
told me don't smoke and don't drink. So the first
thing I did was come home and have a bow
pole and the Jack Daniels. That's what I guess what.
I'm on my patio right now. My wife's sleeping and
(30:39):
I'm probably waking Europe with this phone call. Give it damn,
because uh fucking hurt?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, buddy,
and well I won't remember this, but well it helped
the numbers on the podcast, right, that will certainly get
more downloads on the podcast. I hope he's feeling good
right now.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Education and then you know, a little faded.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah that's good. You know, doctor says, listen, listen to
my advice. I'm your doctor. Do not do not drink.
You know, yes, science, medicine is imperfect. Right, otherwise we'd
live forever, right, we'd all live forever. They knew exactly
what they were talking about, so you know, it said, yeah,
oh boy, all right, do we have the play of
the d Is there a player that I don't even
(31:28):
know we have? We have a play of the day.
All right, we have a play of the day. So
let's get to that right now. This is the not
just any player of the day. It's the tire Rack
play of the day. Here's the pitching coal swinging a
high drive deep the rafll Garcia going back to the
one he track to the wall. Goodbye baseball. More history
for Town Raleigh. His forty second home run of the year.
(31:52):
He has now hit more home runs by a switch
any testuer in Major League history, the iconic voice of
Rick Riz, longtime Seattle Mariner broadcaster, and so much better.
The TV guys for the Manners are freaking terrible. My god,
they suck. There's not a lot of great baseball broadcasters.
Says Rick is pretty good. He's been around a long time.
(32:13):
And that is the tire Iraq play of the night.
As cal Raley moving on up the home run charts,
he's gonna have the all time record for home runs
by a catcher as he's only a few away from that,
and he's got all kinds of other accolades. And with
Aaron Judge, hurt cal Raley, cal Raley MVP right now
at this moment, he's your favorite for the American League MVP.
(32:35):
That changed with the injury to Aaron Judge. But that
is the tire Rack play of the night. For over
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The way tire buying show would be so a legend
(32:57):
getting his own day. That would be he's a mania
a man. Now. We lost Haul Cogan recently, but he's
getting his own day. The Governor of Florida, Ron De Santis,
honoring Hulk Hogan with Hulk Hogan Day, which is today.
This is our Friday show. Today is in Florida. The
honor is here. So yeah, you know what to do.
(33:20):
Take your vitamins, man, Haul Cogan, the governor said. To
commemorate his life and legacies, he said, I hereby declare
August one, twenty twenty five, that's Hulk Hogan Day in Florida.
How about this? He directed the flags of the United
States and the state of Florida to be flown at
(33:40):
half staff at the state Capitol in Tallahassee and all
the local state buildings institutions around Florida from sunrise to sunset.
He said, rest in peace, brother brother Aul Cogan. That
all right, well, unexpected, but but good Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
I'm still getting emails.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
We we ranted about Hulk passing the night that he
passed away. We find out about it, and I'm still
getting emails from guys.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
Man.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
He touched so many people's lives that we're all middle
aged people now. Most of us. But man, Hulk Hogan. Uh,
he really touched so many lives when he was when
he was doing his thing back in the day in
professional wrestling. So you enjoy Hulk Hogan day. What do
you do? Some vitamins? Do some steroids? What's the move there?
I don't know. Rip your shirt off? You gotta rip
(34:35):
your shirt off like Hulk. I want to try the
ripping of the shirt. Okay, Well, I think a lot
of people would like that. If you put it on
the internet, they probably like that a lot. Triple H.
Here's a here's a wrestling relator. So Triple I guess
he was. They had a ceremony at the White House.
They're bringing back the presidential test. You know, this used
(34:55):
to when I was a kid. This was the thing.
They got rid of it fifteen years ago or something
like that. So they had some ceremony the White House
to announce to bring this back. But Triple H was there,
and it was the President announced they're going to have
this fitness test now for kids in school, which was
what they had it for years and then they got
rid of it. The only reason I'm bringing this up
is because Triple H did his signature water spit entrance
(35:20):
at the White House, which is just you can't make
this stuff up. I mean, it's just outstanding. The fountains
out of the mouth. Well you see the video, you'll
know what I'm what I'm talking about there. But yeah,
he was at the meeting and he was a film
(35:40):
doing his signature spit. I was technically outside the White House,
but I believe it was still on White House ground.
So he did at least walk out of the White
House proper, and he was, of course recorded. He took
the drink, he had a bottle of water. He was
wearing the suit triple eight at h rather and then
he he did the signature move there and put his
(36:03):
arms out extended there and spit and one of the
great moments in American history right there. Anyway, think about it,
legendary presidents, and you think of Lincoln, you think of Washington,
you think you know, the all time greats, and then
you got this. That's outstanding triple h man. You got
to keep it real. Gott to keep it real all
right time. Now for the who am I game? And
(36:24):
this is where I pretend to be somebody else and
you have to try to answer it on at Ben Maller. So,
I am a major League Baseball starting pitcher. This season,
I have allowed a one to eleven batting average that's
second best in all of baseball, a one eleven batting
average against my four seamer. Yet the league is batting
(36:45):
five to twenty, second worst than all of baseball against
my cutter this season. Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer. We'll get to it and we
will do it.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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and now back to it all right ton, Now for
the who am I? Game? Payoff? This is what payoff?
The who am I? Game? I am a starting pitcher
(37:51):
in Major League Baseball. I have allowed a one to
eleven batting average against my four seamer. Yet the league
is also batting five twenty. That's like softball against my cutter.
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Speaker 5 (38:09):
Post?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Does anyone know the answer? Bobby and Florida going with
Judge Wapner is his answer page Dan Dick butkis from Scrooge,
Garrett Crochet tossed out by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota. Mister
nice guy going with Danny Heap and A and Mets legend.
Oscar the Grouch is the answer, Andy says. In honor
(38:33):
of the trash cans in Houston, Milkman Mike in Colorado
says the Eugene of the Ben Mathers Show. Briand Scott,
Now we already we have a Eugene Eugene in Chicago.
We have that. Not a burner, says Doc Mike and R.
Kelly's favorite song Friends of p is the answer. Late
(38:56):
night drug tester says, you are Scottie Barnes, who is
twenty for today, Scottie Barnes, face of the NBA. It
is a complete crap. Scottie Barnes, Sam Walton guest by
King Rory. I don't have much money that Walton family
is really hurting Strip Club. John from Shane in Des Moines,
(39:16):
Eric Shaw from Sean in the Valley of the Sun.
Pete Rose big fan of Eric show back in the Day.
Ryan is going with Dodger legend Trevor Bauer, who's been
outlawed from Major League Baseball and the cheating astros allowed
in Baseball. Steve the misplays San Diego. Going with Doug
(39:37):
Desinces is his answer as the the Orioles, Doug the Sinces.
Who else? Yeah, Paige down Supermarke. Steve wants to know
when the mallor meet and greet is going to be. Well,
you'll have we have? Do we are? We already announced that.
By the way, we're not ready to announce name. Next hour.
I think we're ready. Yeah, my next hour, we'll announce
when the meet and greet is gonna be a jet
(39:57):
who fled guests by not a burner. That's his his answer.
Mister Smee from Eileen and I think she's in Northern California.
Who else do we have? Holy Molly from Hoosier Bill
Floyd Yeomans. There's a solid name expo player back in
the day, Floyd Yeomans, Jacob de Gram from Andrew in
(40:19):
the Bay Area, Ricky Vaughan from Kirby, and it's his answer.
Who else you have? Candy Maldonado, solid name from Rob
in Minnesota. The Great Rob met him at the Mala Meeting.
Great Chris Rock from Gil in San Diego. Jesse, you're
a fan of, uh, Chris Rocket. Chris Candy Maldonado. Maybe
(40:42):
you were a fan of It's a good name, right,
Candy Maldonado just really flows Jesse. The body Ventura from
Donkey Sausage who was in the Fox Sports Radio studios
years ago, but not for Fox Rahio. Jesse. The body
was there for the Steve Harvey Show JJ. The most
Delusional person on Earth, Angel Reese is the answer. Brian
(41:04):
Woo from Johnny Q. That's the answer there, all right,
Who else do we have? All Right? That's enough, Lorraine
not do you have an answer? It's not Tony Zendehaus
guessed by the Great mad Jack, who will also be
hosting a Mallard meat greet at some point. Do you
have an answer, Lorrain? Yeah, this one came to me
in a dream, Ben Oh a dream. Yeah, Taylor Swift,
(41:25):
Oh man, look at that. Yes, really you are a
sports person. She's a sporty girl. No, that is incorrect. Unfortunately,
the correct answer is Dustin May, the newest member of
the Boston Red Sox. The league is hitting five twenty
against his cutter, the second highest mark in all of
Major League Baseball this season. He just got lit up
(41:46):
at Finway over the weekend and now the Red Sox
acquired him. Good luck on that working out.
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