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December 11, 2024 • 40 mins

Ben Maller talks about his reaction to Max Fried signing a 215m contract from the Yankees, why the Yankees gave Fried EIGHT years, the Red Sox are said to be split on Alex Bregman in free agency, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Wel, it's another night, another day of the Ben Maler
Show podcast, the original recipe podcast. You have stumbled onto
it here on this Wednesday, Happy hump Day, the eleventh
day of December. In our number one, what is your
reaction to the big news in baseball? Max Freed two

(00:23):
hundred and fifteen million dollar contract he gets from the
Yankees late of the Atlanta Braves. Why did the Yankees
give Max Freed an eight year contract?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
An eight year contract?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
He's thirty years old, and the Red Sox are said
to be split on whether or not they want cheating
asshole Alex Bregman.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
We can say that it's a podcast.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
In free agency. How should they handle this? We'll get
to all of that and much more right now.

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Speaker 3 (02:00):
So our lead this hour.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Is from Big D, well indirectly the Bronx, but we'll
go to Big D the site of Major League Baseball's
off season garage sale. Now this is not your normal
Saturday morning garage sale where you're trying to get rid
of those old books and those old VHS tapes and
the other crap that you found your house. This is
the Winter Meetings of Major League Baseball circa twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
An oh, myle mine.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Now things got started a couple of days ago with
a neutron bomb of adal Jan Soto going nine point
nine miles from the Yankees to the Mets, and that
caused a lot of angst among the Bronx bombers and
they had to shoot their shot.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Well, now they have and if you have not heard the.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
News yet, because you actually have a life and you
don't obsess about all these moves. Well, the news is
out Max Freed, who later they had Lamborys. Max Freed
is making his talents to the New York Yankees, and
he's doing it for some real chump change. Here eight years,
two hundred and eighteen million dollars contract that is said

(03:12):
to be the largest guarantee for a left handed pitcher
in the history of baseball. It is the twelfth contract
of at least one hundred million dead presidents the Yankees
have given out. That breaks a tie in the history
of the Yankees with the Dodgers, the most of any
team in baseball. I know you're keeping score as you

(03:36):
listen to this show. So Max Freed is thirty years old,
He's a two time All Star, and over the last
five seasons in Atlanta an urn run average of two
point eight one, and that is tops in the major
leagues over the last five years, just ahead.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Of fellow free agent Corbin mister.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Burns, late of the Orioles among all Major League Baseball
starting pitchers in that time.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
I'm frayed.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
So this is a big dealt with a lot of
money and certainly worthy of some conversation. So let us
discuss the question, what is your reaction to Max Freed
getting the over two hundred and fifteen million WUS round numbers,
over two hundred fifteen million, two hundred eighteen to big
sac contract from the Yankees. So I've got edible arrangements

(04:21):
Enron and Congress, and we will combine all of these
things together and we are going to make a nice portfolio,
because Max Freed is going to have an awesome portfolio
of investments, little crypto, little Wall Street, little real estate.
And to change a change, you ching, because the key

(04:43):
to making money is to have money.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
When you have money, you make money. And when you
have a lot of money, you make a lot more money.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
You are set up generations of the Max Freed family
set up now compliments of the Steinbrenner family.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
So a you knew something big go down, You don't
know what.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Was going to happen, but you knew the Yankees were embarrassed, rightfully.
So this is very unbecoming of the Yankees to lose
a player like Juan Soto who they wanted and to.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Be spurred spurned, a spurned.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Left at the altar and have him go across New
York to another Burrough over there the Queens. That's that's
a kick to the nuts. And so they needed to
do something. And it's Newton's third law of motion, which
states that for every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction.
So Juan Soto goes to the Mets, and the opposite

(05:37):
reaction by the Yankees is, oh my god, oh my god,
oh my god, oh my we got to signe somebody.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Oh my god, a Max Freid.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
We need you Max, all right, So they did. They
signed Max Freed. Now, my advice to Max Freed is
he should send an edible arrangements gift over to Juan
Soto and Scott Boris, because without Soto leaving the Yankees
to go to the Met's, Max Freed would have gotten
a lot of money. He would have never gotten over

(06:05):
two hundred and fifteen million dollars. That deal does not
happen without Juan Soto. Part of the arithmetic on this one. Now,
we like the player. I'm gonna be completely transparent with you.
Why else would I be any other way? But if
you know the history of this show, one of the
most important nights in the history of this show, Max

(06:27):
Freed was a part of Now am I a fan
of the Atlanta Braves.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
No, I am not a fan of the Atlanta Braves.
You know that. I don't like the Atlanta Braves.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
I don't hate them. I just don't like them. I'm
not a Braves fan, Sam I am. But for one
week I was an Atlanta Brave fan. Let's go back
a few years ago the World Series. It was a
close out game, and oh what a gutty performance it was,
showing massive amounts of machismo against the cheating Astros. Max

(06:58):
Freed went out there in a closeout game and was brilliant,
brilliant as Atlanta exterminated the cheating a holes out of
the plast was a glorious night, and for that I
am grateful. So I'm happy for Max Freed. He's battle tested,
at least in that particular game. You can look at
some of his other playoff numbers and say, what's going on.
But it's a wacky amount of money. It's cartoon money,

(07:19):
it's fake money. It's not real world money. It's it's
just the world of the baseball universe. And good for
Max Free. Now part two of this, please do not
take a cat nap. Why did the Yankees give Max
Freed eight years? The money is one thing, but eight
years it's a long time. So this part of the

(07:41):
story is some classic finagling of the books Enron level
account If you don't remember Enron, look it up, google it.
Max Free is thirty years old. The athletic prime is
over at thirty two, maybe thirty three. So he said
a thirty year old to an eight year contract. You

(08:03):
know the man, he's locked up till he's thirty eight.
Generally speaking, that is bad business, right, That is not
good business. That would be on the negative side of
the business equation unless you're using Enron like accounting. It's
all about the luxury tax. And now, as we understand it,

(08:24):
let me explain this to you as I understand it,
and I'm explaining to you like your child. So Max
Freed's average annual value the AAVY, the AAVY twenty seven
point twenty five million, that's what he's.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
Gonna get on average. That is thirty seventh all time.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
To give you some perspective, he's just below Tyler Glasstow,
the guy that's made out of glass, who the Dodgers
got last offseason of course, he was nowhere to be
seen when the playoffs came around, because he's made out
of glass and glass shatters by October. But the smart
money stay focused. The smart money says that the Yankees
ended the deal for Max Freed eight years as a

(09:04):
way to again, I'll go back to the word finagel
the luxury tax to get a lower luxury tax hit,
because that system that Major League Baseball put in is
based on aav average annual value, So knowing that Freed
will be washed up way before he's thirty eight years old.

(09:25):
In fact, reality is this is a two hundred and
eighteen million dollar contract over four years, but it's being
laid out over eight years.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Knowing that if you get anything out of Max Freed.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
Past the age of thirty four, so thirty five thirty
is actually seven thirty eight, that's all gravy that you
don't expect the getting out of him. He's a back
of the rotation guy. He'll pitch half the season, that
kind of guy. You're just moving some numbers around on
on an accounting page to stay out of the luxury
tax purgatory. At least give you more wiggle room in

(09:59):
that department you understand very good.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
All right.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Now, last word, we go to Boston where the Red
Sox were trying to get Max freed. Shockingly they did not,
continuing another off season of futility, which is not over yet.
But things have mostly been quiet for the Finway faithful.
There a lot of noise that something big is coming
around the mountain. When it comes, something big, okay, believe

(10:25):
that when it happens now there has been a lot
of noise that that's something big.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
Will be cheating.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
A one one thousand and two one thousand oh free
agent third baseman Alex Bregman, who has been prominently mentioned.
There are reports coming out of the Winter meetings that
the Red Sox have made proposals to Alex Bregman. However,
it is a house divided, a house divided in the

(10:51):
luxury suite the Red Sox have at the Winter meetings
when it comes to whether or not they actually want
to put pen to paper on the cheating a hole
Alex Bregman fellow cheating a whole. Alex Korr, the manager,
and Slimy team president Sam Kennedy are all in. Why
wouldn't they be, But Craig Breslo, the general manager is

(11:12):
said to be reluctant, as in, he's not interested. Wink wink, no,
not so the Red Sox somemming up like this. The
Red Sox are said to be split on Alex Bregman
in free agency.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
How should they handle this? So my advice to the Socks.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
My advice is to act like you are a member
of Congress abstaining from.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
The vote on Bregman. Just say no, Just say though.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
Boston signed Rafie Oldvers for three hundred and thirty one
million to play third base? Was that not within the
last year three hundred thirty one million Bregman last I checked?
Maybe I'm wrong on this.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
I just did the Overnight show.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Who knows Bregman is a third baseman and would not
be as good at another position that devs can move
somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
But he just paid him.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
He's not that old yet, you only wait several more
years to move a guy. You're worth more at third
base than you would be at another position. But the
fact that Bregman's covered in cooties, playground koties and for
the rest of his career is tarnished. He's tainted. He's
got the scarlet letter. Why would you want to do
business now? Of course, the obvious, the obvious variable, if

(12:29):
you will, is that Alex Korra is the manager and
he's a happy cheater there in Boston, and the Red
Sox no only got rid of him, they brought him
back knowing what they know about him. So that does
complicate the situation. But there's only one place that makes
sense for Alex pregnant. There's only one that makes sense,

(12:50):
and that is staying put in the den in iniquity
and staying right there the as.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
One and two one thousand holes. They're the outlaws at
base ball.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
Bregman and that little cheat Albouve, the guy that did
a strip tease like he was, you know, public nudity
in San Diego, showed us all his ugly, disgusting toes
and his little foot, his little foot there in San
Diego and never got punished for that was disgusting.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
It makes me want to barf.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Those two should stay there the rest of their careers,
and the answers are gonna suck, and I can't.

Speaker 3 (13:23):
Wait for them to really get down and the real suck.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Like they're not quite at that level of suck, but
they're not that far away from that level of suck.
Bregman's getting older, Alboub's getting older. I don't care how
many buzzers and whistles they use, so hey, I'm all
for it, man, sign me up. Let those guys stay
there and let's see the let's see full circle a
couple hundred lost seasons.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Down the line for the a holes.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
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Now, straight ahead, we know that mad Max is headed
to the New York Yankees on an eight year contract.
He is not the only pitcher on the move in baseball.
He just got the most money, so we talked about him.
But what other pitching moves are happening? There are moves
going into the night. Here we get to the latest
on where players are headed. I know you're very concerned

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about where they're relocating around baseball. The game of musical
Chairs is well underway. We'll get to all of that,
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He's either that one or one in Pittsburgh.

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But anyway, Chip in the Que says a plus on
the Mallard monologue. As long as Max can stay on
the field, I am happy the Yankees got him.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
He is a Yankee fan ship of the Cues. He's
an obvious upgrade to their pitching staff.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Well yeah, yeah, sure, you know. We'll see how this
plays out. And it's not my money, it's the Steinbreinner money.
They got that Yankee money. For a few years.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
It'll should be all good.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Max Freed has already had Tommy John surgery, which it's
a birthright. Everyone's got that right. I think I've even
had Tommy John surgery here. I don't even pitch. Ferg
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Yeah? Lrraina. Would you like to do a hockey segment
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Oh yeah, I love talking about pucks.

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And yeah yeah, it would be a puckin good time,
would it not. You could drive a zamboni. The zamboni, Yeah.

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The zamboni is invented in southern California. Fun factor. Zamboni
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Fun fact.

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being a weather man would be the ultimate job. You
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If you're wrong, you say, well, the weather change. That's it.

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At the the weather, at the weather report at the time.
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Page down, King Roy says, is it a coincidence that
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I think not?

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Late Night Drug Tester, right, since this always seems unfair
that people named.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Max are always mad. It's too bad.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
I can't be meek Max or miserable Max or marvelous Max.

Speaker 3 (20:40):
It's always mad Max. Yeah.

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Remember there was a guy named Max Kellerman and he
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remember correctly. Don't hold me to this. The night I
was on, Jason Whitlock was on, and we've gone different directions.

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He's like a political pundit now Whitlock Wow. And I
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And we've been.

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Able to do that.

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Yeah, we're good on that.

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Max Freed goes to the Yankees eight years, two hundred
and eighteen million, leaving the Atlanta Braves.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
He's an LA kid. He wanted to play for the Dodgers.
Remember their video.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
There was video of him celebrating with the Dodgers after
they won the World Series. Like partying with the Dodgers
I'll be partying with the Yankees now. And Dylan Cees
he's he's next up? Where's Dylan Sez going? I know
you're dying to know that. Dylan sees the trade market

(22:52):
for him. A lot of people interested in acquiring his services.
Why because he has an arm and and he's available.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
He's available.

Speaker 2 (23:03):
The Red Sox are interested in trading for the Padres
starting pitcher Dylan Cease. And he's gonna get a ton
of money as well.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
Why not.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
They're all gonna get a lot of money. It will
turn twenty nine later this month, just before the new year.
He's pitched six seasons in the major leagues, mostly for
the White Sox. Pitched last year for the San Diego Padres.
And the reason he is likely available the Padres owner

(23:33):
that spent all the money he unfortunately died. I think
it was about a year ago or so, and as
a result, the good time, free spending Podreys, likely dun
Skis and Dylan Cees is going to get one of
those massive one hundred and eighty two hundred million dollar

(23:54):
contracts conceivably, and the Podreys will not be giving him
that contract, so.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
He is likely going to be moved.

Speaker 2 (24:03):
Yeah, the good times have slowly come to an end
there in San Diego, so we'll keep an eye that
there's a bunch of teams that are said to be interested,
if you believe the gossip. The Red Sox interested though,
because they didn't get Max Freed and they wanted him
and Nathan of Aaldi playoff hero for multiple teams in
the last ten years. Nathan Evalde he's agreed to a

(24:24):
new contract. He was a free agent. He was late
of the Texas Rangers and of Aaldi has agreed to
a contract with. No, he's not going to the Mets,
he's not going to the Braves. He's staying with the Rangers.
So yeah, I know you're shocked by it. Wait a minute,
Nathan Evalde, he agreed to a new contract with the Ranger.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
He didn't leave to go to a different team. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:47):
Well, he was a key part of that glorious twenty
twenty three run. I know Eden Arlington has fond memories
of that twenty three, but he's a caller. Edon Arlington
twenty twenty World Series run for the Rangers, and of all,
the gets a three year contract for seventy five million.
Did you ever think we would live in a world
where a pitcher signing a three year contract for seventy

(25:09):
five million seems like a reasonable contract.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
Seems like a reasonable contract.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
He had declined, of all, he's a right handed pitcher,
so if he was left handed, he would have got
one hundred and fifty, but a three year, seventy five
million dollar contract. He had declined a vesting option for
twenty million. My right hand was getting a workout, Well,
his hand was getting a workout, turning that down, so
he turned down twenty million.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
He got an extra fifty five.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
Million and an extra two years, but he was getting
interest from the Mats and the Braves and the Orioles,
but instead decides to go back to the Texas Rangers
to do it over again. As far as I know,
unless I miss something, Bruce Bochi's still managing the Rangers,
so I would assume. I'm assuming they're going to make
at least one more run there in Arlington to try

(25:56):
to get.

Speaker 3 (25:56):
Another World Series here, squeeze in another the World.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Series out, and the Rangers bracing for some other losses
that I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
They get that upset about Max.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
Schurzer, who's done skis and he's he's gonna change teams.
Andrew Heeney, former Dodger, also likely to go somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
So the Rangers are gonna have to bring some new
people in.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
But they have Jacob de Grom was good for like
eight starts a year, right, He's solid eight starts to
Grob's amazing, and he's still there.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
And John Gray's an average major league pitcher.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
And I guess some other guys you've never heard of,
and they're there, And so that's how that's gonna go,
all right, is the Ben Malors Show, Let's go to
the falls. We'll start out in the Sunshine State. In
the leadoff chair, we say hello to Kevin in Florida.
Hello Kevin, Welcome, Heyton.

Speaker 7 (26:46):
Now everyway, this is a great team to talk to
you just jumping off my favorite team, which I know
you're you're not much of a fan, but who would
have tuk We've got is gone. But I'm sure those
guys up in the front office will do something right

(27:07):
with the team. But i gotta tell you though, this weather,
this weather's crazy.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Well, you are talking to someone who now hold us second. Now,
I'm not a weather man, but I can't talk. I
am not a weather man, Kevin, but I will. I
will talk weather if you want. I can talk weather.

Speaker 7 (27:23):
Yet I turned weatherman on you, and I'm not going
to steal away your commercials. But my daughter is a
true She's done it already at thirty two years old.
She's literally in Antarctica at this very moment, and she
jumped into the sub freezing water and sent a video

(27:43):
up to us up here in Florida, which is insane,
you might think, but I'm thinking, you know, I've showed
it to my friends in AA and they thought it
was really cool.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
So yeah, well that's a unique experience.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Not everyone obviously gets to do that. How many you know,
how thick a like a wet.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Suit did she have on to jump into that freezing water?

Speaker 7 (28:06):
No, this is incredible. She had long sleeves, kind of
a wet suit, but a swimming suit only covering her
butt and she dove dove into the water. Now granted, okay,
I was surprised, but then I realized when they described
it on Google that that water is seawater, right, so

(28:27):
it doesn't free freeze, you know. Now there are some
there are some ice formations, and I've got pictures of
her with the penguins and the walruses, and it's just amazing.

Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's that's a cool thing for her to do that.
Our colleague here, Rob Parker, I believe visited there. Was
it last year or two years ago.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
It all runs together, but that be not very few
people get to go there. So that's a that's a
cool thing for sure.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
And the problem with jumping in the water, there's two
problems with jumping the water in my analysis.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
The first problem, yes, the water is cold. The second
problem is at some point you're gonna have to get
out of the water. And then it's cold, and then
so that's the other problem, and then that's yeah, it's
an issue.

Speaker 7 (29:12):
Are you still there?

Speaker 3 (29:13):
No, I went out for a smoke.

Speaker 7 (29:15):
Okay, thank you. Then yeah, And you know, I'm getting better.
I'm doing better without Casey here. But you know, I
believe even heaven. We've talked about that. He passed on
your birthday. And my younger son, Derek, has his own business.
He's got this business called East Coast Pressure Washing LLC.

(29:38):
And he's so busy. He he flips cars, he flips trucks,
and he flips golf carts to a lot of golf
carts down here. You know, we're in Florida this time
of the year. He's busy not only doing pressure washing,
but he's doing lights for these rich people.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
And that's a solid yeah, man, he made a lot
of money doing that.

Speaker 1 (30:00):
Easy.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
That's an easy money hustle. Put them up and take
him down, big money. All right, Kevin. I'm glad you're
you're doing well.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
My man.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
And that's great, the great story.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Maybe you'll go up there and jump in the water
with your daughter next time you can jump in the
frozen water and how amazing will that be? All right,
it is the Ben Mahlor Show as we are navigating
our way through the early morning hours of the of
the program.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
And yes, Chip of the Que says, the Pittsburgh meet
and greet was the first one and the Syracuse one
was the second. How do I remember that for sure?

Speaker 2 (30:37):
Because unlike Syracuse, members of the malad militia of those
Pennsylvania cheepos did not pick up the dinner check.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
That is correct.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
I was with Pete and Pittsburgh and the bread Man
and and the dough boy.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
We were all.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Hanging out there at the Primani Brothers in Pittsburgh, and yeah,
we ended.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Up paying for the fame for the tab. Give me
a little taste of that dick.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
No, I don't know what you're talking about. That's an
out of context audio. Was talking to a listener. That
was a private conversation the great Dick and Dayton, who
everyone loves. I don't know anyone that doesn't enjoy his
calls at all.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
Give me a little taste of that dick.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, all right, toy, my name is Lorena and I
have a little dropping playing with the toy on the show,
your little drop on the show, and.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
To make more drops, ben I did I love well,
not those kind of drops.

Speaker 4 (31:31):
No, no, no, I am just so glad that it
got in before the New Year, because that's that's got
to be an immediate favorite for a drop.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
Of the year.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
No, no, no, give me a little taste of that. No, no, please,
all right? That was that was that was I forget
what I know. There was a reason I said it
that way because he was he was saying he was
talking about a song that he he oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
It was a holiday so see, I was trying to
get a hold and he did sing it was like
jingle bells or something.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Right, you realize he gave taste. Uh well, listen, you
guys can go for me all you want, but we're
gonna have one of the great events in the history
of the show when we do it, when we play
Ohio for the Malor Meet and greet next year. It's
gonna be off the hook, okay. And I want to

(32:27):
have my in my head. I have like a throne
where Dick and Dayton walks in with and we had
he's the star of the show, not me, and Dick
and Dayton's got like a king's cap on. I got
a crown, and he's got a robe and he has
a big throne and he sits down there.

Speaker 7 (32:43):
And we just force him to play.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah, I just have him entertain us.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
And Uh my plan maybe we'll like do a live
podcast or so the record a podcast and then have
Dick in between the different parts of the podcast perform.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Uh, well we have we have a bar actually that
in Ohio? There? Where were you? What are you getting at, Loraina?
What do you do?

Speaker 1 (33:05):
You want to?

Speaker 3 (33:05):
You have a joke there? You want to? You can't
do it now, You're not gonna do it? All right,
You're not gonna go there? Fair enough? I got you,
all right. It is the Ben Mallord Show.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
There is some other baseball stuff the Hour of Baseball here.

Speaker 3 (33:21):
And every once in a while someone dies that you
thought probably died a while ago, and you're like, well,
how's that guy still alive? I remember when we had
Eddie on the show.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
There was God it was an old NFL player that
passed away that we had thought had died years earlier.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
It was a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
I'm trying to I don't remember the guy's name now,
but he was still alive, and we were like both
amazed because we had thought he had passed away a
while ago. Here's another one of those names, Rocky Colavito.
If you're an old school baseball fan, that is a
famous name in.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
Baseball, Rocky Colavito.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
And he died at the age of ninety one on Tuesday.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
Played for the Cleveland Indians back when that was cool.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Of course now there now they're the Guardians and all that.
But he played way back, way back in the day,
in the nineteen fifties. But I remember hearing stories about
him when I was a kid, Rocky Colorvido and some
of the things that he accomplished in his career. He
played for a bunch of teams, most known for his
time with the Cleveland Indians. I know that is inappropriate

(34:30):
to say that. That's very offensive to say, and I
hope you're not offended.

Speaker 3 (34:34):
But he did play for the man, you racist Cleveland Indians. Yes,
all right, anyway, it is the Ben Malors show. Rest
in peace.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
There a life, well full life ninety one. That's a
good run, Rocky Colordo. All right, straight ahead, we have
the who am I Game? And here it is go
to football for the who am I?

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Game? Who hits? My man played? Here's the one am I?
Give you an answer? This on x at Ben.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Malor, I was the first and only quarterback in NFL
history to this point anyway, to have at least forty
pass attempts, multiple touchdown passes, and no interceptions in three
consecutive games within a single season. Again, then we repeat
that for those of you standing in the back of
the class. I was the first and only quarterback in

(35:25):
NFL history to have at least forty pass attempts, multiple
touchdown passes, and no interceptions in three consecutive games within
a single season.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Who am I? That is the question the answer. We'll
get to it, and we will.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Do it.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Next.

Speaker 4 (35:47):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

Speaker 6 (35:52):
Yeah, go ahead, Ben, now the watch out, Ben Now,
don't cry Banalo down pouch. I'm telling you why the
left brock con is coming down. He's making y'all list
you checking it twice. He's gonna find out if Loreena

(36:16):
is nice. The lebro con is coming get down. He
called tranysh a d sleep things and coop. The Luke
takes up. He wants to play with Edy because Ben
will chase again.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
All right, that's enough, cut the leprecn off.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Please, it is I Bill Miller reminding you to help
promote the show and send better holiday music in so
we don't ever have to play that again. From the Leprechaun,
Lorena begs you. You can send holiday tunes to get
lots of airplay on six hundred radio state over six
hundred stations, satellite radio, you name it, streaming rate do

(37:00):
podcast goes everywhere, and you can interact with the show
that way via music, but also promote the show. Use
your powers, your power of your little world which is
together a big world, and you are the missing jigsaw
puzzle piece to unlock a larger audience for this show,
to keep the show a float, to spread the gospel

(37:23):
of the Malard Militia.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
And now we get back to the show.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
And thank you for the Internet.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
That's right, that's right, Bill.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
It's the Ben Mauser, not the Bill Miller Show. It's
the Ben Malers Show. A baseball heavy hour as money
is flying in the air everywhere time now though for
the who am I game.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
This is where we go to the world of football.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
I was the first and only first and only quarterback,
first and only quarterback in NFL history to have at
least forty pass attempts, multiple touchdown passes, and no intercepts
in three consecutive games within a single season.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
Who am I? Is the question? What is the answer?

Speaker 2 (38:10):
And let's see does anyone know the answer? We go
to the great Unwashed here dread Pie says.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Uh, well, he gave he gave no answer. He said,
I don't even know what that was. Four.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Matt Castle guessed by Nick there's an answer? Uh Page down. Benito,
the long suffering cowboy fan says is the baby daddy
Shane from des Moines? The answer Ricky Bonus from mister
nice guy.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Who else?

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Bonzi Wells guessed by the cowboy killer Robin Vegas going
with Diamond Dallas Page, who was part of the Big
Wrestling event with Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone back in
the day. Brett Brett the Hitman Heart or Bread as.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Alf called him. That's right, Starbucks called him that. Who else?
We have Samantho Ponder, who is thirty nine.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Today and famously blocked me on X because of jokes
that you made about her husband.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Christian ponder, why would you even ponder? Passing? Who else
do we have?

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Paige Dan Fergdog says it's Bill, Judy and Bobby Edwards,
the brilliant inventors behind the squatty potty. That that is
the answer, Dan Pastorini from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. I
forty Ian says Tony Conigliero, whom I always got confused
with Rocky Colorvido.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
Yeah, there's a slight difference in that.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Bobby portis from I from King Roy. That last one
was from I forty Ian. Who else do you have?
Page down Dick from Dayton's Public Library card guessed by random,
Ryan and Carolina Dante says Jay Schrader is the answer.

Speaker 3 (39:51):
Don Juan says Happy.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Crew, hump Day Manny would from Shane and Moy Lorraina,
what say you?

Speaker 3 (39:59):
Lorraina? What's say?

Speaker 6 (40:00):
I say?

Speaker 3 (40:00):
It is the very sexy Larry the Cable Guy.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Bet Larry the Cable Guy, of course, quarterback for Nebraska
back in the day.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
No, it's incorrect.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Correct answer from your Miami Dolphins Tua tongue.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
Mio are the first and only player.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
He's done it now, three consecutive games for the Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
They still suck, though, so it's all right.
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