August 15, 2023 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Ezekiel Elliott signing with the New England Patriots and Dalvin Cook going to the New York Jets, what this means for Rhamondre Stevenson with the Patriots, MLB Pick'em, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number per one hour one
of the podcast from the Overnight Show, recorded while you slept.
Unless you were awake all night, which is rather odd
you'd be listening to it again, but we thank you
if that's the case. And here in our number one,
some big moving and shaking in the NFL. Put a
letter grade on Zeke Elliott's deal with the Patriots and
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Dalvin Cook going to fly around on a jumbo jet
roster with the Jets. Also what does this do for
the New England incumbent back Ramandre Stevenson. Also, how do
the scorecards read in the Zach Martin agreement with the
Cowboys as he ends his stalemate with Jerry Jones. We'll
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talk about all that and more right now in our
number one. Here it is a relocation situation. Welcome, in
the beginning of another edition of the Ben Malor Show.
We are in the end everywhere, hanging out, coming out,
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news of the day, Guilty or not Guilty, and what
a wonderful day it is. In our production meeting, Chris said, boy,
there's a lot of stuff going on, and I said, hey,
we gotta do the show no matter what, doesn't matter.
It's more fun when there's interesting things to talk about.
But we good lie, we can talk about canned soup.
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I think we've all proven, those of us that have
been around for a while here Fox Sports Radio, that
we will not sink. There's no lull we can't sink
to if you listen to us. During the pandemic a
couple years ago, I was doing full mallon monologues about
marble racing and that was my bosses didn't care. At
that point. I could have done anything. They didn't care.
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They just wanted me to keep talking. Keep the vu
meters moving, which is generally a rule that you need
to follow. I mean, that's pretty much the only rule.
Just make sure there's no dead air, because if there's
dead air, there's a problem. And anyway, our lead this
hour coming from as one of my old mentors back
in the day would say, the highest speed sports wire,
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which they used to have a high speed sports wire.
They haven't had that in a long time, this thing
called the Internet. But anyway, the long national nightmare has ended.
Ezekiel Elliott has found gameful employment and Dalvin Cook will
be taking his utensils to a new kitchen. And so
that coming down back to back and belly to belly.
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If you were not paying attention because you actually have
a job and you don't obsess about all this crap,
let me feel you it so if you missed it.
The first chess piece to move across the board was
Ezekiel Elliott, fired by the Dallas Cowboys months ago, and
he has landed in a very patriotic location as he
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gets a one year contract worth up to six million dollars.
Up to the greatest weasel term humans ever came up with.
It is all right. We use it in sports. We
use your shopping online up to fifty percent off. You're
lucky if you get five percent off, but up to
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six million dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Shortly after Zeke agreed to travel to the Commonwealth and
hang out there playing for the Patriots out there in
the boondocks in Foxborough, Dalvin Cook said, Hey, what about me?
I would like to play in that division as well.
He had flirted with the Dolphins and the Jets and
the Patriots to some degree. But it turns out Dalvin
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Cook will be a traveling chef. His new assignment is
on a jumbo jet as he is joining the highly
hyped up New York Jets. That never goes wrong, right,
the Jets. They never screw this up. I'm sure this
will be wonderful and we'll be celebrating the genius of
the Jets, how amazing all this is. But his deal
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is worth up to eight point six million, supposedly with
Gang Green. I'd like that up to part that would
be very numbers. Yeah, they definitely pump these things up.
So let us discuss the question on these two big
roster moves in the NFL least name value wise, big
big names. We've heard of these people, so that's kind
of cool. When you've heard of somebody, it's more fun
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than person you've never heard of, and who wants to
talk about them anyway? So put a letter grade on
Zeke Elliott's deal with the Patriots and Dalvin Cook going
to the Jets. We open up the Malor report Card,
a scientifical analysis of all transactions in the NFL and
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the Malord report card on this, I'm giving the Patriots
a C minus for Zeke coming to Foxboro, and the
Jets get a B plus on the Malor report cards.
So those are the grades we have. I'll explain how
I got to those grades here right now. I've got Budweiser,
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double bubble and blinkers, and we will combine all of
these random things together and we will make a thirty
yard touchdown run, something that Zeke Elliott has not done
in a long time. Anyway. Yeah, oh, you can feel
the excitement. We are just weeks away from the start
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of real NFL football, not this fake ripoff crap that's
available now. No, no, no, no, no. I am annoyed
when I hear from people say, well, you know, you're
not a real football guy because you don't pay attention
to the exhibition games, And I say, bull crap. I've
got a few emails like that, Why are you not
breaking down when happened in the exhibition games? And because
I'm not I'm not a newbie, that would be why.
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But as far as these two moves, We'll start with
Ezekiel Elliott going to the new England Patriots, and that'll
be where we begin. It is a weird fit. That
was my initial take it. It's a weird fit Elliott. Immediately,
this is how embarrassing the Patriots roster is. You talk
about being devoid of name brand players. Zeke Elliott, who
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was last good roughly three or four years ago, becomes
the top of the marquee name for the Patriots. Think
about that. Bill Belichick's team has a bunch of nobodies.
But that's the case. They're devoid of name brand talent.
And so who else you got? Juju Smith, Schuster, a
TikTok star? Is he the biggest name? And now it's
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a Zeke Elliott who's still gonna ride that after glow.
He's got a high Q rating from his time with
the Dallas Cows. Now, unfortunately, the way the report card
breaks down based on performance, I gave Zeke a D.
I gave him a D. That's the way I scored
it on the Malley report card based on actual performance.
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But there's other variables. It's a little D too, by
the way, not big D litt D. And I'm being
very generous and I'll tell you why, because this guy
has not been able to get her done in a
good amount of time. And you watch Zeke at this point,
he should become a brand ambassador for Budweiser. He should,
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he should become a pitch man for Budweiser, because early on,
when he first got to the NFL, this guy ran
like a thoroughbred and oh Man, greatest running back in
football for two years, and then after that the slow decline,
and now he has become one of those Budweiser Clydesdales.
That's his running style. He's a plodding back and that's
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what he brings. There's a little gust though. He runs
like an old school fullback. If you're old enough to
remember when everyone had fullbacks. Is he all of a
sudden going to change? Probably not. Now, what is my evidence.
Let's go to the numbers, the eyeball test and the
actual numbers. An amazing factoid, Zeke Elliott has not scored
a touchdown outside the red zone if you're unfamiliar, that's
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within the twenty yard line. Zeke has not scored a
touchdown outside the red zone since twenty nineteen. Now, that
seems like it was not that long ago. But we're
getting to the four year mark since he last scored
a touchdown. And he's a high volume player and he
has been a high volume player. And so as for
the Jets, you take a look at the Jets, suck, suck, suck.
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And I gave the Jets an A for Dalvin Cook's
resume on field resume, and then I went B plus
for his performance. And so the overall grade is a
B plus because it's a low A. It's not a
high A, so B plus on the Mallet report card,
which is the only report card that matters. Yeah, it's
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not quite right, but anyway, only one, only one emoji
for crossing the rubicon. It's a big emoji. It's a
red flag emoji for Dalvin Cook. And I think this
guy will be pretty good. The Vikings, though, did get
the hebgbis. They got the hebgb's after Cook went past
the fifteen hundred career threshold for carries and touches and
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all that. And he's barely over that point of demarcation.
But it doesn't matter, right, The NFL snobs believe the
nerds that once you get past that point, you fall
into a demon hole. Once you cross fifteen hundred touches,
and so that's going to happen for Dalvin Cook and
it's going to be a hot mess and all this
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plus the other thing that does give you a concern
is Dalvin did not seem like he really wanted to
play for the Jets. Now, it doesn't matter. There's a
lot of these guys in the NFL it don't even
like football. They just happen to be good at it
and they make a lot of money. So I'm not
gonna get all worked up under that. But if he
had his druthers, he would have gone Dalvin to the
Miami Dolphins. But he got a little more money out
of the Jets, and so he'll play in Miami's guaranteed
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to play there at least once a year, but the
level of interest not that great. Now, the second part
of this, what does this Zeke signing do to the
new England incumbent running back Ramandre Stevenson, who was a
high volume player last season. So it is a demerit.
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Is it a big demerit? No, it's not a huge demerit,
but it is a demerit because Bill Belichick actions, as
we learned when we were kids, actions speak louder than words,
and the actions of the Patriots is that of, hey,
we don't think that Remandre Stevenson can be the bell
cow back this season, so we're gonna have to split
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it up. And you brought in a reclamation project in Zeke,
and Belichick loves these kind of guys. Most of the
time they don't work out, but Belichick has been a
big supporter of that type of player with a big resume,
fell falling on hard times and his genius, his former genius,
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will polish up Zeke Elliott and watch out. Oh it's
going to be so good. Oh my god. But the
Patriot did work Ramondre Stevenson a ton last year and
the running backs. I don't know if the term is
in pulse purchase at the checkout stand, but it does
feel like this is you're planning on buying something else
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and you're like, you know what that that double bubble
bubble gum looks really good, and I'll get some of
that and I'll put that in my in my basket
and then I'll put that on the conveyor belt and
I'll just chew away. We've all done that, right. There's
certain products that there's a guy when I worked in
radio did some stuff in Boston. There was a guy
that worked there that was a lollipop salesman and he said,
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he told me he also moonlight in a radio by
the way, but he told me the guy is a
good guy. He said, yeah, he said, most of the
sales of lollipops happened at the cash register. That you know,
people aren't planning to buy lollipops, but you're at Walmart
or Target or Sam's Club or not so much Costco.
I don't need they have the lollipops at Cosco, but
you're you're there, and you're like, okay, I'll go and
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get there. And I wanted so grab a pack and
chew it up, blow a bubble, spin it out. And Stevenson, though,
is much more the prototypical traditional Belichick back he's a
Juco guy back in the day before he went to Oklahoma,
so he was a Juco guy, fourth round pick, scratching
claw type. And you know, Zeke is the antithesis of
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that because he's an Ohio State Buckeye and this guy
was a blue chip going to college. He was a
top five pick, which will likely never happen again. Anytime
soon in the NFL in twenty sixteen and Spoiled, Spoiled
in Jerry's World. Now the last part of speaking of
Jerry's world, we moved the running back room and let's
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take a trip now to the fat guys. Tubby Tubby Tubby. Yeah,
that would be the offensive line. So if you pay
attention to this guy. So we talked about it a
few times. I don't think we did a full Mallard
monologue about Jerry Jones tossed a lot of heat out
about the All Pro guard Zach Martin. Jerry had a
lot to say about Zach Martin and his situation, and
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we're gonna move on. Let's just pretend like he broke
his leg I'm paraphrasing, and we don't need this guy anymore.
But surprise, surprise, surprise, what did the Cowboys do? They said,
you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna rework Jerry
Jones said, I'm gonna rework that contract, and I'm gonna
bring this guy. He's the captain of the FN Cowboys.
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We're gonna bring him in. So the deal will pay
Zach Martin eighteen million in each of the next two seasons.
So how did his scorecards read on this the Zach
Martin holdout ending in agreement with the Cowboys. So it
is if you look at the scorecard on this, Jerry
Jones turned on his blinkers. He flinched, is what he did.
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He absolutely flinched. And if you look at the Malor math,
it's not a total universal win for Zach Martin. I'll
tell you why, because Zach has missed all of training
camp through Monday. So if you do the math on this,
now he does get more money. But if you look
at the arithmetic, and we use Malar math, which is
really close to good math. We call it Malor math,
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and Jerry flinch. But if you look at the Malor
math and the way it breaks down, Martin is gonna
get twenty seven and a half million if my math
is correct here in the next couple of years total.
And he was looking at twenty seven and a half
million over the next couple of years. But now he's
gonna get thirty six million. And he was fined fifty
thousand dollars a day for twenty one days. That works
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out to over one million dollars. And spoiler alert, the
Cowboys can't rescind those fines. So Zach Martin, even though
he's getting more money, he's going to end up paying
a nice donation to Jerry Jones. So all that bluster
from Jerry and we're gonna move on. I was just,
you know, he's lying. He was trying to be the
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tough guy and it didn't turn out to be the
tough guy. So instead of an extra eight and a
half roughly million, Zach Martin is gonna get seven and
a half. I think he'll be okay. I don't know
that we need to do a wellness check. I don't
think he'll be eating oodles and noodles with Marcel in Brooklyn,
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So a sports legend. One of the biggest names in
sports over the last generation has been accused of a
culture crime. We'll explain, we'll get to that, and we
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Speaker 1 (17:20):
Chris and des Moines writes in he says, with Dalvin
Cook going to the Jets, does that mean Hard Knocks
will have to spend more than thirty seconds on a
player besides Aaron Rodgers. No, the only thing the producers
at NFL Films want is Aaron Rodgers. If they could,
they could just follow Rogers around and he takes a deuce.
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They put that on the show. You know, he goes
out to have a cup of tea. That ayahuasca stuff,
he put that out there. Whatever he's doing, the most
interesting guy in the world. Just ask TV people and
they will tell you. Malard prop guy says, you guys
sound a little bit under the weather. I hope you're
all right. Yeah, travel will travel situation, you come back
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and you end up getting a little head thing, butving
will be fine in a couple of days. Matt the
Warrior Raider fan says, you sound like you've been sucking
on garlic today. That would be accurate. I says, your
voice is not as booming as usual. Well, the key
is to massage the voice right. The voice is the
only ability that I have. I have no other ability.
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I am not the smartest guy in playing in the NFL.
I have no skill other than a voice. So if
I lose the voice, I of course will keep working.
I've done it many times. I've had laryngitis. The great
thing about doing the show is no one listens from management,
So I could do the show with laryngitis and they
will not complain. Also, I famously burned my tongue eating
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pizza too fast. I sounded like Lou Holtz, the old
Notre Dame coach. For a couple of days I had
a lisp, but I kept doing the show. So this
is nothing, right, This is nothing. And you travel, you
spend many hours on a plane. This is what happened.
A news writes in he's wearing his Jets onesie. As
he writes in, he says D minus on a classic
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Ben Mahler player hating monologue. Cook makes the Jets much
much better? What does that even mean? Much much? Jets?
It's like these people just I understand you're excited you
got a new player. I get it. But the fact
that we are in the second week of exhibition football
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games and Dalvin Cook and Zeke Elliott were still we're
still hanging out looking for gameful employment not particularly a
great sign Reek in the Twin Cities. So let me
guess Andre is the first in line to comment on
Dalvin Cook and the Jets. That would be accurate. I
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see Andres, I see Andre's name on the top of
the board there, So you are not wrong. Congratulations, But
it's not hard to predict that in Andre in terms
of consistency. This guy Andre man, he brings it and
he's got he's got to get all his calls in
because he's got to go back to the classroom.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Just not with the picks. He doesn't bring it with
the picks.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
No, No, that's Poppy. That's picking with Poppy. Oh okay, yeah, sorry,
my brain is still out. You cross the streams there, Chris. Yeah. Yeah.
Andre is a hot take artist and Poppy is a
guy that gives out bad picks but thinks he has
given out God's gift the gambling.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
So that is Listen. I love Andre, I love any
color from the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You're a fan, all right, Jason in Kansas City says
nine out of ten on the mount of monologue, ben
Zeke is turning into passed backs like Chris Brown or
Jerome Bennis, who can only run over players because of
their lack of speed. So he says, right now, the
culture crime, the crime against culture. Derek Jeter, l Capitan,
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Derek Jeter has been accused of violating a crime against art.
Say why, yeah, so this guy that used to own
the Marlins. You don't know who the guy is, likely
because why would you know the owner of the Marlins.
People in Miami don't know the owner. That's the Yeah,
that's the guy. Jeffrey Laurier. He owned If you remember Corrithty,
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he owned the If I remember Crithy, he owned the Expos.
They did a trade, He did a trade to get
the Marlins, and then the Expos move they were taken
over by Major League Baseball and he ended up moving
to that team became the Washington Nationals. Anyway, so Jeffrey Laurier,
the old owner, took a shot at Derek Jeter, and
this is a war crime. We need to have a
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war tribunal. When you take shots at Derek Jeter, he's
God's gift to sports. Of course, he did this in
a new book from the front Row, Reflections of Major
League Baseball. A Major League Baseball owner and modern modern
art dealer. That must be mad.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I really want that for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
A way to go there, Although if we were into art,
we could make a lot of money. That art basil,
that thing in Miami they have every year. That's like
a big, big money thing. A lot of whales come
in there. Anyway, So Jeffrey Laurie made a lot of
money in the art game. And he took potshots at
Derek Jeter for running the Marlins into the ground from
twenty seventeen to twenty twenty two, and he said the
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biggest crime of them all, according to the old Marlins owner,
that Derek Jeter destroyed the ballpark. He destroyed that new
monstrosity of a ballpark. Now, if you remember when that
place opened up, it had a different name. But behind
the center field wall, they had this massive I don't
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even know how to describe it. It was ridiculous. It was
over the top. They entraption. Yeah, I mean like step
it was like going to the Carnival, Yeah, Carnival.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Home run and to activate the marlin would fly around.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, I think carnivals about the best description you can
put on it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Thank you. Yes, it's a carnival type thing.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
But it was, you know, a mash up of the
Merry Go Round and the Ferriss Wheel and all kinds
of different stuff.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yeah, I'll be honest, I'm probably with Lauria on this one.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'm not That thing was ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
But it's Miami. It's not a hollowed ballpark.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
So it had fake palm trees in the front. I
hadn't seen it in a while. I guess they moved
it out to the concourse at the stadium. They had
they had they have. Of course, everything's fake, so you can't,
I guess you can't put real flamingos in center field.
So they had the flamingos that would dance around, the
palm trees would move. They had a son, of course,
there was a marlin that would swim around when somebody
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hit a home run. The good news is nobody hits
home runs for the Marlins, so they didn't have to
use it very well. But anyway, yeah, no, but anyways,
so according to Jeffrey Laurier, this is really a crime
against culture. He's very upset, very angry with with that,
and I disagree. I would think that's the only good
thing that Derek Jeter did. And my buddy Marlin Man,
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he who well he's the biggest celebrity fan in all
of sports, Marlins Man and friend of the show.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
He doesn't really like the Marlins though.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Interesting well, he likes good baseball, so that's that's his deal.
But he he was there in Miami, told me the
whole story when actually was our guy from our affiliate
in Miami that tracked down that the Marlins under Derek
Jeter had a sham address on an island far away
to save tax money. And Laurie didn't bring that up
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because that's called good business. When you're a billionaire, that's
what you're supposed to do anyway, So Jeter under attack there.
I also saw Jeter is going to be going to
the Old Timers game for the first time at Yankee Stadium,
so El Capitan will be hanging out schmoozing and he'll
be having an amazing time. They're at Old Timers game.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Is there a certain amount of time, you know, in
the Hall of Fame, you got to be retired for
a certain amount of time, a certain amount of time
that you have to be retired before you can be
asked to play in the Old Timers.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
As far as I know, No, he just didn't do
it for the last ten years, and now he's decided
this year. I guess he's not with the Marlins. He's
just doing the Fox things. So he'll show up and
smile and shake hands and kiss babies and all that.
I rememb when we were kids, Eddie, they had like
Joe DiMaggio would show up to you. He's old Timers game,
mister Coffee.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Also, does Alex Rodriguez show up for this Old Timers
game as well?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I don't know. I don't know that he's on the list.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
He's not on the list.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He's on the list. I don't think he made the list,
that's the problem.
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Speaker 4 (26:14):
I don't believe that this is drawn the tension of
a Mallar Monologue's bring it out. James Harden was hanging
out in China.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh yeah, we will get to that later. We'll talk
about it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
He's a big fan of big fan of China. And
there was a group of people there and he had
a microphone. He decided to say, Hey, everybody, just want
to let you know that Darryl Moray is a liar
and I will never be part of an organization that
he's a part of it. And then he repeated it
just in case the people didn't hear what he said. Uh,
(26:44):
he said it again, liar, not going to be a
part of the organization. So, yeah, James Harden apparently is
doing what he can to try and we could trade,
but then again he didn't. They this is not news, right,
I mean he's wanted to be traded the whole time.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Well, this is news because he's now gone score to Earth.
And when you think of a guy that has principles
and ethics and morals, you think of James Harden as
a legend. You know, you only strippers have gone through
college because of James Harden.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
He's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, he's helping on ladies down on the lock. They
retired his number in Houston.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
It's very nice to him.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Yeah, there isn't anyone who's done more for James Harden
than Darryl Morey, like fighting to get him to both
Houston and to the Sixers. And now he's gonna do
Morey like this.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
It's not personal, it's just business. And once Harden gets created, well,
once hard and gets traded, he'll be like, you know, it.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Becomes a Clipper, Right, Do I really need that?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I don't think the Clippers. The Clippers have enough guys
to vanish in the playoffs. They don't need another guy
that you find argus.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
What they do though, come on, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. And imagine Harden if he's playing in
l A. He's an l A guy. I mean, that's
that next level this guy. The party is where James
Harden's at. Good for him, and he's been able to
pull it off where some of those guys they can't
do it. But he's been able the party hardy and produce.
But as you get older, that generally is harder to do.
(28:06):
So we'll see what happens with That is the Ben
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(28:32):
not going to be playing baseball anytime soon. He's out.
The Star, the franchise player for the Tampa Bay Rays,
is under multiple investigations. Major League Baseball investigating, and we
are told now that the authorities in the Dominican Republic
are investigating Wander Franco and his love of the minor leagues,
(28:55):
and we don't know many details other than some photos
that are bouncing around the innert and some wild claims
that Wander Franco was wandering away from where he was
supposed to be hanging out with certain people who were
like legal And here's the thing, though, if this happened,
I don't know the laws in the Dominican Republic, so
I'm not sure. I assume you're not allowed to date
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a fourteen year old in the Dominican Republic, but I
don't know. I don't know what the laws are. I
don't know what the punishment would be if he's proven guilty,
and who knows if this even happened in the Dominican Republic.
I mean, there was one report that said he's investigating
he being investigated by authorities in the Dominican that they're
looking into this, whether he was with an underage girl
who posted photos of him and her and his jewelry
(29:40):
and all that. In Major League Baseball gave him the
Trevor Bauer treatment. He was put on the restricted list,
which means at some point he'll be playing in Japan
or Korea. I think that's how that goes let's go
to the phones and Andre by request in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Oh,
I don't know. I can't bare you here, Andre, what happened? Andre?
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Can you hear me now?
Speaker 9 (30:04):
Now?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, it's like a cell phone commercially. Yeah, I can
hear you. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Okay, So we got to get this cell phone checked out.
I got I got an iPhone five. You know, I'm
you know, that's.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
A classic that's valuable on iPhone five that's so old.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
I can't do it. I can't part with it. You know,
my friend, it's been like a ten fifteen updates. I said,
you know, it's getting the job then, but the memory
is a little bit low. You know what kind of
tough one one?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, the worst thing about the iPhone I have an
iPhone is the battery that dies and you end up
having to keep the charger. It's gotta be on the
charger all the time. It's a pain in the ass,
but you can't. It's cheaper just to get a new
battery than it is to buy a new phone.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Obviously, to get a new point. I got charges all
over the place in the car, you know, class room,
at the house, all the rest of that stuff. Listen,
this sports earth strategy by James Harden is no surprise
given his fickle nature. But as you were alluding to
individual that's done more it was Daryl Morey who said
who gave the acts to Kevin McHale. We remember the
(31:01):
Clippers were supposed to move on and win a championship.
They were up sixteen points against the.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Houston n You don't need to bring that. You don't
need to bring that up. Okay, to bring that up?
Bye bye way. Harden did not play a minute in
the fourth quarter of that game when the Rockets came
back and Corey Brewer and Corey Brewer and Josh Smith,
two random NBA players. I will never forget the names
of Corey Brewer and Josh Smith because they destroyed the
(31:27):
great ear of Lob City.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
It was.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It was all because those two knuckleheads, indeed.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
And Kevin McHale, you know, kind of making the decision,
Kevin mchail saying listen, you're not gonna give me this.
Kevin mchell actually coached James Harden, and his reward for that,
i e. Daryl Morey was to be banished to Siberia.
He brings in Mike D'Antoni, who has the innovation, who
figured it out. Nobody else played that James Harden's a
point guard rather than a shooting guard. Put him to
the one. They combine the analytics, and the rest is history.
(31:54):
We all remember James Harden hitched the game winning shot.
They go to the pan of the bench. Is anybody cheering? Absolute?
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Not?
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Okay? So the person who's been in James Harden's corner
the most and from the beginning, and this guy was
on the verge of being a Stefan Marberry kind of
almost feeling like out of it because nobody liked him.
Darryl Moury had the vision and then he combined that
with the analytics. Daryl Mourray a champion of this loan
analytics conference here in Boston. People thought he was out
of his mind ten years ago with the team, was
doing all kinds of things. He mining two K games
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and talking about analytics. It was basically Billy being, now,
what's everybody doing copying Darryl Moury. So it's no surprise
with Harden that he you know, he's the type of
a player and this is kind of what gets me,
you know, we had the Hall of Fame. People talk
about all time great because you pile up all of
these empty calorie statistics and you just start calling people
all time greats. Winning at the end of the day,
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for every era is what makes it. And James Harden
is just flat out not a winner. He's never going
to be a winner. He's a soloist.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
He's gonna be in the Hall of Fame. But the
standard is a little different in the pro bouncy ball
Hall of Fame than some of the other hall of fame.
He's got He's accomplished some great individual statistics, so he's
he's gonna be in the in the Hall of Fame.
But and Andrew, this is a major upset. I did
not have. I posted the odds on what your topic
would be when you called up, and I was sure
it was going to be Dalvin Cook to the Jets
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or Zeke Elliott to the Patriots. So you gave a
curveball here, just off the side of the plate there,
and you give us a take on James Harden. That's
impressing to do.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
I had to do it with the Jets, a near
and gear to my heart. But in terms of again,
people Darryl Moury effectively made James Harden, just like David
Stern made Mark Cuban believe in him and nobody else did.
And the way that he puts the stab in the back,
I e brutus. You know what I mean? You know
a blue change.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Listen, they'll hang out when this is all done. Then
they'll say, no, it's just I had to do that
because I wanted to be traded. The only way, the
only way to get traded, I had to be an
a hole. So I was an a hole. But I
actually like Maury and there's other reasons we'll get into later.
I'll do a monologue about that. But thank you Andre
from the Commonwealth. It is the Bane Malors Show. As
we can take you on about the MLB pick him?
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Here's the who am I?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I was the very first MLB player born outside the
United States or Canada to make an All Star Game.
And baseball started in the late eighteen hundreds, but I
was the first MLB player born outside the United States
or Canada to make an All Star Game? Who Am I?
The answer? And the MLB pick him? We'll get to it.
(34:25):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
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Speaker 1 (35:07):
We'll have the MLB pick him coming up. Here's the
who Am I? Game? And we'll try to squeeze a
call in. I was the first MLB player born outside
the United States or Canada to make an All Star game?
Who Am I? Late Night Drug Tester says, you are
Jennifer Lawrence, who is thirty three years old today, Ray
Wally of Wally World from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Matt
(35:29):
the Warrior Raider as fan cheated, he got it right.
Polly b going with Pedro Serrano as his answer. A
Little Foot from Fergcat. He loves dinosaurs. He's a big fan.
A Riek in Minnesota say, is one of my favorite
twins of all time. Tony Oliva my favorite twins jersey. Yeah,
(35:50):
that's a good looking jersey. He's got it the powder blues,
but no buttons. The powder blues like the softball jersey.
That's a good look. Who else do we have? Paid
down go ball pitcher? Freddy Krueger from Big Lou? What
can Big Lou do for you? Who else do we have?
Tortiao Antoni says, my wife's massage therapist is the answer.
(36:12):
Hank Greenberg from Shawn in Portland and Eli Jemstone from
the Eddie Garcia Berner account. Luis Tiant from Larry that's
his answer, Guy Smallly from the American Therapist. And who
else you have? Ton Knee arm Ass from Oscar that's
his selection. Roscoe P. Coltrane from Art Puffin. That's his answer.
(36:37):
The Big Whale Jay Christiansen from Jimmy from Maine. Wow,
shots at the Jay there, it's unloading there from Jimmy
from Maine. Caesar Sedaniel from Ryan in San Diego. Jackie
Robinson from Fame. Wow, that's an interesting answer. Terrible answer, Eddie.
Do you have an answer, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Yeah, let's go with former Indian and White Sox Mini Minoso.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Many me No, so is that correct this time? No?
Speaker 5 (37:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
This guy is known for one thing, and one thing only,
the shot heard round the world, and that would be
Bobby Thompson of the Giants, the New York Giants. Where
was he born? He was born in Scotland. Yeah, there's
a fun fact. Let's take a call. Let's say hello
to David, who's in Salem. Hello, David, what's going on?
Speaker 9 (37:23):
Hey Ben, It's good to be back with you. I
have a question. I know you've talked about drugs and sports,
and I was heard somewhere viagra had been used as
a sports enhancing drug, and I wanted to know if
you'd heard, what type of sport was it? Football, baseball,
hockey or sports?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
So you want to break down, well, I would think
porn would be one sport where it helps you out
a lot. Uh, just off the top of my head,
I would think if you're an actor in that, that
would keep you in the game for longer. Baseball you
think baseball Coop, you think baseball there? Yeah, extra to
(38:05):
get it up. Yeah, that's a great question, David. I'm
so glad you called. You're calling the show again, David.
It's well.
Speaker 9 (38:12):
I was sincere about my question then because I'd heard
that it really was used beyond at entertainment, but was actually.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Well, it wasn't. You can't hit a home run with
the limp back. Yeah, all right, we gotta leave it.
I don't know, David, call up again. I don't know
what to tell you an expert on that, but here
we go. Time now for the MLB pick, and we
got a fly. Coop, You've got the first pick. Go ahead.
Oh crap, I wasn't ready for what I'm gonna go with,
Bryce Elder, Eddie matt Olsen. I will take Zach Wheeler,
(38:45):
Chris back to back.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
All right, give me Ezekiel Elliott and Brown, right, Freddie.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Freeman, Eddie Cool back to back, Garcia one more and
Manny Machado. All right, Eddie Michael walka walk a walk
a while. I'll take Dan's Bey Swanson. Is we got
it in? Good job, boys, We got it
Hello and welcome. It's our number per one hour one
of the podcast from the Overnight Show, recorded while you slept.
Unless you were awake all night, which is rather odd
you'd be listening to it again, but we thank you
if that's the case. And here in our number one,
some big moving and shaking in the NFL. Put a
letter grade on Zeke Elliott's deal with the Patriots and
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Dalvin Cook going to fly around on a jumbo jet
roster with the Jets. Also what does this do for
the New England incumbent back Ramandre Stevenson. Also, how do
the scorecards read in the Zach Martin agreement with the
Cowboys as he ends his stalemate with Jerry Jones. We'll
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talk about all that and more right now in our
number one. Here it is a relocation situation. Welcome, in
the beginning of another edition of the Ben Malor Show.
We are in the end everywhere, hanging out, coming out,
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swinging as we provide less bluster and more thruster coast
to coast, border the border and beyond. All the mast
and universally powerful microphones of fs are amminating live from
the room, the jury room, where we deliberate the sporting
(01:26):
news of the day, Guilty or not Guilty, and what
a wonderful day it is. In our production meeting, Chris said, boy,
there's a lot of stuff going on, and I said, hey,
we gotta do the show no matter what, doesn't matter.
It's more fun when there's interesting things to talk about.
But we good lie, we can talk about canned soup.
(01:48):
I think we've all proven, those of us that have
been around for a while here Fox Sports Radio, that
we will not sink. There's no lull we can't sink
to if you listen to us. During the pandemic a
couple years ago, I was doing full mallon monologues about
marble racing and that was my bosses didn't care. At
that point. I could have done anything. They didn't care.
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They just wanted me to keep talking. Keep the vu
meters moving, which is generally a rule that you need
to follow. I mean, that's pretty much the only rule.
Just make sure there's no dead air, because if there's
dead air, there's a problem. And anyway, our lead this
hour coming from as one of my old mentors back
in the day would say, the highest speed sports wire,
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which they used to have a high speed sports wire.
They haven't had that in a long time, this thing
called the Internet. But anyway, the long national nightmare has ended.
Ezekiel Elliott has found gameful employment and Dalvin Cook will
be taking his utensils to a new kitchen. And so
that coming down back to back and belly to belly.
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If you were not paying attention because you actually have
a job and you don't obsess about all this crap,
let me feel you it so if you missed it.
The first chess piece to move across the board was
Ezekiel Elliott, fired by the Dallas Cowboys months ago, and
he has landed in a very patriotic location as he
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gets a one year contract worth up to six million dollars.
Up to the greatest weasel term humans ever came up with.
It is all right. We use it in sports. We
use your shopping online up to fifty percent off. You're
lucky if you get five percent off, but up to
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six million dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Now.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Shortly after Zeke agreed to travel to the Commonwealth and
hang out there playing for the Patriots out there in
the boondocks in Foxborough, Dalvin Cook said, Hey, what about me?
I would like to play in that division as well.
He had flirted with the Dolphins and the Jets and
the Patriots to some degree. But it turns out Dalvin
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Cook will be a traveling chef. His new assignment is
on a jumbo jet as he is joining the highly
hyped up New York Jets. That never goes wrong, right,
the Jets. They never screw this up. I'm sure this
will be wonderful and we'll be celebrating the genius of
the Jets, how amazing all this is. But his deal
(04:19):
is worth up to eight point six million, supposedly with
Gang Green. I'd like that up to part that would
be very numbers. Yeah, they definitely pump these things up.
So let us discuss the question on these two big
roster moves in the NFL least name value wise, big
big names. We've heard of these people, so that's kind
of cool. When you've heard of somebody, it's more fun
(04:40):
than person you've never heard of, and who wants to
talk about them anyway? So put a letter grade on
Zeke Elliott's deal with the Patriots and Dalvin Cook going
to the Jets. We open up the Malor report Card,
a scientifical analysis of all transactions in the NFL and
(05:01):
the Malord report card on this, I'm giving the Patriots
a C minus for Zeke coming to Foxboro, and the
Jets get a B plus on the Malor report cards.
So those are the grades we have. I'll explain how
I got to those grades here right now. I've got Budweiser,
(05:22):
double bubble and blinkers, and we will combine all of
these random things together and we will make a thirty
yard touchdown run, something that Zeke Elliott has not done
in a long time. Anyway. Yeah, oh, you can feel
the excitement. We are just weeks away from the start
(05:44):
of real NFL football, not this fake ripoff crap that's
available now. No, no, no, no, no. I am annoyed
when I hear from people say, well, you know, you're
not a real football guy because you don't pay attention
to the exhibition games, And I say, bull crap. I've
got a few emails like that, Why are you not
breaking down when happened in the exhibition games? And because
I'm not I'm not a newbie, that would be why.
(06:06):
But as far as these two moves, We'll start with
Ezekiel Elliott going to the new England Patriots, and that'll
be where we begin. It is a weird fit. That
was my initial take it. It's a weird fit Elliott. Immediately,
this is how embarrassing the Patriots roster is. You talk
about being devoid of name brand players. Zeke Elliott, who
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was last good roughly three or four years ago, becomes
the top of the marquee name for the Patriots. Think
about that. Bill Belichick's team has a bunch of nobodies.
But that's the case. They're devoid of name brand talent.
And so who else you got? Juju Smith, Schuster, a
TikTok star? Is he the biggest name? And now it's
(06:55):
a Zeke Elliott who's still gonna ride that after glow.
He's got a high Q rating from his time with
the Dallas Cows. Now, unfortunately, the way the report card
breaks down based on performance, I gave Zeke a D.
I gave him a D. That's the way I scored
it on the Malley report card based on actual performance.
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But there's other variables. It's a little D too, by
the way, not big D litt D. And I'm being
very generous and I'll tell you why, because this guy
has not been able to get her done in a
good amount of time. And you watch Zeke at this point,
he should become a brand ambassador for Budweiser. He should,
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he should become a pitch man for Budweiser, because early on,
when he first got to the NFL, this guy ran
like a thoroughbred and oh Man, greatest running back in
football for two years, and then after that the slow decline,
and now he has become one of those Budweiser Clydesdales.
That's his running style. He's a plodding back and that's
(08:02):
what he brings. There's a little gust though. He runs
like an old school fullback. If you're old enough to
remember when everyone had fullbacks. Is he all of a
sudden going to change? Probably not. Now, what is my evidence.
Let's go to the numbers, the eyeball test and the
actual numbers. An amazing factoid, Zeke Elliott has not scored
a touchdown outside the red zone if you're unfamiliar, that's
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within the twenty yard line. Zeke has not scored a
touchdown outside the red zone since twenty nineteen. Now, that
seems like it was not that long ago. But we're
getting to the four year mark since he last scored
a touchdown. And he's a high volume player and he
has been a high volume player. And so as for
the Jets, you take a look at the Jets, suck, suck, suck.
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And I gave the Jets an A for Dalvin Cook's
resume on field resume, and then I went B plus
for his performance. And so the overall grade is a
B plus because it's a low A. It's not a
high A, so B plus on the Mallet report card,
which is the only report card that matters. Yeah, it's
(09:12):
not quite right, but anyway, only one, only one emoji
for crossing the rubicon. It's a big emoji. It's a
red flag emoji for Dalvin Cook. And I think this
guy will be pretty good. The Vikings, though, did get
the hebgbis. They got the hebgb's after Cook went past
the fifteen hundred career threshold for carries and touches and
(09:37):
all that. And he's barely over that point of demarcation.
But it doesn't matter, right, The NFL snobs believe the
nerds that once you get past that point, you fall
into a demon hole. Once you cross fifteen hundred touches,
and so that's going to happen for Dalvin Cook and
it's going to be a hot mess and all this
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plus the other thing that does give you a concern
is Dalvin did not seem like he really wanted to
play for the Jets. Now, it doesn't matter. There's a
lot of these guys in the NFL it don't even
like football. They just happen to be good at it
and they make a lot of money. So I'm not
gonna get all worked up under that. But if he
had his druthers, he would have gone Dalvin to the
Miami Dolphins. But he got a little more money out
of the Jets, and so he'll play in Miami's guaranteed
(10:21):
to play there at least once a year, but the
level of interest not that great. Now, the second part
of this, what does this Zeke signing do to the
new England incumbent running back Ramandre Stevenson, who was a
high volume player last season. So it is a demerit.
(10:41):
Is it a big demerit? No, it's not a huge demerit,
but it is a demerit because Bill Belichick actions, as
we learned when we were kids, actions speak louder than words,
and the actions of the Patriots is that of, hey,
we don't think that Remandre Stevenson can be the bell
cow back this season, so we're gonna have to split
(11:02):
it up. And you brought in a reclamation project in Zeke,
and Belichick loves these kind of guys. Most of the
time they don't work out, but Belichick has been a
big supporter of that type of player with a big resume,
fell falling on hard times and his genius, his former genius,
(11:23):
will polish up Zeke Elliott and watch out. Oh it's
going to be so good. Oh my god. But the
Patriot did work Ramondre Stevenson a ton last year and
the running backs. I don't know if the term is
in pulse purchase at the checkout stand, but it does
feel like this is you're planning on buying something else
(11:44):
and you're like, you know what that that double bubble
bubble gum looks really good, and I'll get some of
that and I'll put that in my in my basket
and then I'll put that on the conveyor belt and
I'll just chew away. We've all done that, right. There's
certain products that there's a guy when I worked in
radio did some stuff in Boston. There was a guy
that worked there that was a lollipop salesman and he said,
(12:07):
he told me he also moonlight in a radio by
the way, but he told me the guy is a
good guy. He said, yeah, he said, most of the
sales of lollipops happened at the cash register. That you know,
people aren't planning to buy lollipops, but you're at Walmart
or Target or Sam's Club or not so much Costco.
I don't need they have the lollipops at Cosco, but
you're you're there, and you're like, okay, I'll go and
(12:28):
get there. And I wanted so grab a pack and
chew it up, blow a bubble, spin it out. And Stevenson, though,
is much more the prototypical traditional Belichick back he's a
Juco guy back in the day before he went to Oklahoma,
so he was a Juco guy, fourth round pick, scratching
claw type. And you know, Zeke is the antithesis of
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that because he's an Ohio State Buckeye and this guy
was a blue chip going to college. He was a
top five pick, which will likely never happen again. Anytime
soon in the NFL in twenty sixteen and Spoiled, Spoiled
in Jerry's World. Now the last part of speaking of
Jerry's world, we moved the running back room and let's
(13:11):
take a trip now to the fat guys. Tubby Tubby Tubby. Yeah,
that would be the offensive line. So if you pay
attention to this guy. So we talked about it a
few times. I don't think we did a full Mallard
monologue about Jerry Jones tossed a lot of heat out
about the All Pro guard Zach Martin. Jerry had a
lot to say about Zach Martin and his situation, and
(13:33):
we're gonna move on. Let's just pretend like he broke
his leg I'm paraphrasing, and we don't need this guy anymore.
But surprise, surprise, surprise, what did the Cowboys do? They said,
you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna rework Jerry
Jones said, I'm gonna rework that contract, and I'm gonna
bring this guy. He's the captain of the FN Cowboys.
(13:54):
We're gonna bring him in. So the deal will pay
Zach Martin eighteen million in each of the next two seasons.
So how did his scorecards read on this the Zach
Martin holdout ending in agreement with the Cowboys. So it
is if you look at the scorecard on this, Jerry
Jones turned on his blinkers. He flinched, is what he did.
(14:16):
He absolutely flinched. And if you look at the Malor math,
it's not a total universal win for Zach Martin. I'll
tell you why, because Zach has missed all of training
camp through Monday. So if you do the math on this,
now he does get more money. But if you look
at the arithmetic, and we use Malar math, which is
really close to good math. We call it Malor math,
(14:38):
and Jerry flinch. But if you look at the Malor
math and the way it breaks down, Martin is gonna
get twenty seven and a half million if my math
is correct here in the next couple of years total.
And he was looking at twenty seven and a half
million over the next couple of years. But now he's
gonna get thirty six million. And he was fined fifty
thousand dollars a day for twenty one days. That works
(15:00):
out to over one million dollars. And spoiler alert, the
Cowboys can't rescind those fines. So Zach Martin, even though
he's getting more money, he's going to end up paying
a nice donation to Jerry Jones. So all that bluster
from Jerry and we're gonna move on. I was just,
you know, he's lying. He was trying to be the
(15:20):
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Speaker 1 (17:20):
Chris and des Moines writes in he says, with Dalvin
Cook going to the Jets, does that mean Hard Knocks
will have to spend more than thirty seconds on a
player besides Aaron Rodgers. No, the only thing the producers
at NFL Films want is Aaron Rodgers. If they could,
they could just follow Rogers around and he takes a deuce.
(17:41):
They put that on the show. You know, he goes
out to have a cup of tea. That ayahuasca stuff,
he put that out there. Whatever he's doing, the most
interesting guy in the world. Just ask TV people and
they will tell you. Malard prop guy says, you guys
sound a little bit under the weather. I hope you're
all right. Yeah, travel will travel situation, you come back
(18:03):
and you end up getting a little head thing, butving
will be fine in a couple of days. Matt the
Warrior Raider fan says, you sound like you've been sucking
on garlic today. That would be accurate. I says, your
voice is not as booming as usual. Well, the key
is to massage the voice right. The voice is the
only ability that I have. I have no other ability.
(18:24):
I am not the smartest guy in playing in the NFL.
I have no skill other than a voice. So if
I lose the voice, I of course will keep working.
I've done it many times. I've had laryngitis. The great
thing about doing the show is no one listens from management,
So I could do the show with laryngitis and they
will not complain. Also, I famously burned my tongue eating
(18:44):
pizza too fast. I sounded like Lou Holtz, the old
Notre Dame coach. For a couple of days I had
a lisp, but I kept doing the show. So this
is nothing, right, This is nothing. And you travel, you
spend many hours on a plane. This is what happened.
A news writes in he's wearing his Jets onesie. As
he writes in, he says D minus on a classic
(19:05):
Ben Mahler player hating monologue. Cook makes the Jets much
much better? What does that even mean? Much much? Jets?
It's like these people just I understand you're excited you
got a new player. I get it. But the fact
that we are in the second week of exhibition football
(19:29):
games and Dalvin Cook and Zeke Elliott were still we're
still hanging out looking for gameful employment not particularly a
great sign Reek in the Twin Cities. So let me
guess Andre is the first in line to comment on
Dalvin Cook and the Jets. That would be accurate. I
(19:52):
see Andres, I see Andre's name on the top of
the board there, So you are not wrong. Congratulations, But
it's not hard to predict that in Andre in terms
of consistency. This guy Andre man, he brings it and
he's got he's got to get all his calls in
because he's got to go back to the classroom.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
Just not with the picks. He doesn't bring it with
the picks.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
No, No, that's Poppy. That's picking with Poppy. Oh okay, yeah, sorry,
my brain is still out. You cross the streams there, Chris. Yeah. Yeah.
Andre is a hot take artist and Poppy is a
guy that gives out bad picks but thinks he has
given out God's gift the gambling.
Speaker 5 (20:32):
So that is Listen. I love Andre, I love any
color from the Commonwealth.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
You're a fan, all right, Jason in Kansas City says
nine out of ten on the mount of monologue, ben
Zeke is turning into passed backs like Chris Brown or
Jerome Bennis, who can only run over players because of
their lack of speed. So he says, right now, the
culture crime, the crime against culture. Derek Jeter, l Capitan,
(21:01):
Derek Jeter has been accused of violating a crime against art.
Say why, yeah, so this guy that used to own
the Marlins. You don't know who the guy is, likely
because why would you know the owner of the Marlins.
People in Miami don't know the owner. That's the Yeah,
that's the guy. Jeffrey Laurier. He owned If you remember Corrithty,
(21:23):
he owned the If I remember Crithy, he owned the Expos.
They did a trade, He did a trade to get
the Marlins, and then the Expos move they were taken
over by Major League Baseball and he ended up moving
to that team became the Washington Nationals. Anyway, so Jeffrey Laurier,
the old owner, took a shot at Derek Jeter, and
this is a war crime. We need to have a
(21:44):
war tribunal. When you take shots at Derek Jeter, he's
God's gift to sports. Of course, he did this in
a new book from the front Row, Reflections of Major
League Baseball. A Major League Baseball owner and modern modern
art dealer. That must be mad.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I really want that for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (22:04):
A way to go there, Although if we were into art,
we could make a lot of money. That art basil,
that thing in Miami they have every year. That's like
a big, big money thing. A lot of whales come
in there. Anyway, So Jeffrey Laurie made a lot of
money in the art game. And he took potshots at
Derek Jeter for running the Marlins into the ground from
twenty seventeen to twenty twenty two, and he said the
(22:26):
biggest crime of them all, according to the old Marlins owner,
that Derek Jeter destroyed the ballpark. He destroyed that new
monstrosity of a ballpark. Now, if you remember when that
place opened up, it had a different name. But behind
the center field wall, they had this massive I don't
(22:47):
even know how to describe it. It was ridiculous. It was
over the top. They entraption. Yeah, I mean like step
it was like going to the Carnival, Yeah, Carnival.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
Home run and to activate the marlin would fly around.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
Yeah, I think carnivals about the best description you can
put on it.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Thank you. Yes, it's a carnival type thing.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
But it was, you know, a mash up of the
Merry Go Round and the Ferriss Wheel and all kinds
of different stuff.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
Yeah, I'll be honest, I'm probably with Lauria on this one.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I'm not That thing was ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
But it's Miami. It's not a hollowed ballpark.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
So it had fake palm trees in the front. I
hadn't seen it in a while. I guess they moved
it out to the concourse at the stadium. They had
they had they have. Of course, everything's fake, so you can't,
I guess you can't put real flamingos in center field.
So they had the flamingos that would dance around, the
palm trees would move. They had a son, of course,
there was a marlin that would swim around when somebody
(23:39):
hit a home run. The good news is nobody hits
home runs for the Marlins, so they didn't have to
use it very well. But anyway, yeah, no, but anyways,
so according to Jeffrey Laurier, this is really a crime
against culture. He's very upset, very angry with with that,
and I disagree. I would think that's the only good
thing that Derek Jeter did. And my buddy Marlin Man,
(24:01):
he who well he's the biggest celebrity fan in all
of sports, Marlins Man and friend of the show.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
He doesn't really like the Marlins though.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
Interesting well, he likes good baseball, so that's that's his deal.
But he he was there in Miami, told me the
whole story when actually was our guy from our affiliate
in Miami that tracked down that the Marlins under Derek
Jeter had a sham address on an island far away
to save tax money. And Laurie didn't bring that up
(24:29):
because that's called good business. When you're a billionaire, that's
what you're supposed to do anyway, So Jeter under attack there.
I also saw Jeter is going to be going to
the Old Timers game for the first time at Yankee Stadium,
so El Capitan will be hanging out schmoozing and he'll
be having an amazing time. They're at Old Timers game.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Is there a certain amount of time, you know, in
the Hall of Fame, you got to be retired for
a certain amount of time, a certain amount of time
that you have to be retired before you can be
asked to play in the Old Timers.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
As far as I know, No, he just didn't do
it for the last ten years, and now he's decided
this year. I guess he's not with the Marlins. He's
just doing the Fox things. So he'll show up and
smile and shake hands and kiss babies and all that.
I rememb when we were kids, Eddie, they had like
Joe DiMaggio would show up to you. He's old Timers game,
mister Coffee.
Speaker 6 (25:18):
Also, does Alex Rodriguez show up for this Old Timers
game as well?
Speaker 1 (25:22):
I don't know. I don't know that he's on the list.
Speaker 5 (25:25):
He's not on the list.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
He's on the list. I don't think he made the list,
that's the problem.
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Speaker 4 (26:14):
I don't believe that this is drawn the tension of
a Mallar Monologue's bring it out. James Harden was hanging
out in China.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Oh yeah, we will get to that later. We'll talk
about it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
He's a big fan of big fan of China. And
there was a group of people there and he had
a microphone. He decided to say, Hey, everybody, just want
to let you know that Darryl Moray is a liar
and I will never be part of an organization that
he's a part of it. And then he repeated it
just in case the people didn't hear what he said. Uh,
(26:44):
he said it again, liar, not going to be a
part of the organization. So, yeah, James Harden apparently is
doing what he can to try and we could trade,
but then again he didn't. They this is not news, right,
I mean he's wanted to be traded the whole time.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Well, this is news because he's now gone score to Earth.
And when you think of a guy that has principles
and ethics and morals, you think of James Harden as
a legend. You know, you only strippers have gone through
college because of James Harden.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
He's a great guy.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, he's helping on ladies down on the lock. They
retired his number in Houston.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
It's very nice to him.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
Yeah, there isn't anyone who's done more for James Harden
than Darryl Morey, like fighting to get him to both
Houston and to the Sixers. And now he's gonna do
Morey like this.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
It's not personal, it's just business. And once Harden gets created, well,
once hard and gets traded, he'll be like, you know, it.
Speaker 4 (27:33):
Becomes a Clipper, Right, Do I really need that?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I don't think the Clippers. The Clippers have enough guys
to vanish in the playoffs. They don't need another guy
that you find argus.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
What they do though, come on, it's.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. And imagine Harden if he's playing in
l A. He's an l A guy. I mean, that's
that next level this guy. The party is where James
Harden's at. Good for him, and he's been able to
pull it off where some of those guys they can't
do it. But he's been able the party hardy and produce.
But as you get older, that generally is harder to do.
(28:06):
So we'll see what happens with That is the Ben
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(28:32):
not going to be playing baseball anytime soon. He's out.
The Star, the franchise player for the Tampa Bay Rays,
is under multiple investigations. Major League Baseball investigating, and we
are told now that the authorities in the Dominican Republic
are investigating Wander Franco and his love of the minor leagues,
(28:55):
and we don't know many details other than some photos
that are bouncing around the innert and some wild claims
that Wander Franco was wandering away from where he was
supposed to be hanging out with certain people who were
like legal And here's the thing, though, if this happened,
I don't know the laws in the Dominican Republic, so
I'm not sure. I assume you're not allowed to date
(29:16):
a fourteen year old in the Dominican Republic, but I
don't know. I don't know what the laws are. I
don't know what the punishment would be if he's proven guilty,
and who knows if this even happened in the Dominican Republic.
I mean, there was one report that said he's investigating
he being investigated by authorities in the Dominican that they're
looking into this, whether he was with an underage girl
who posted photos of him and her and his jewelry
(29:40):
and all that. In Major League Baseball gave him the
Trevor Bauer treatment. He was put on the restricted list,
which means at some point he'll be playing in Japan
or Korea. I think that's how that goes let's go
to the phones and Andre by request in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Oh,
I don't know. I can't bare you here, Andre, what happened? Andre?
Speaker 8 (30:04):
Can you hear me now?
Speaker 9 (30:04):
Now?
Speaker 1 (30:05):
Yeah, it's like a cell phone commercially. Yeah, I can
hear you. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (30:08):
Okay, So we got to get this cell phone checked out.
I got I got an iPhone five. You know, I'm
you know, that's.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
A classic that's valuable on iPhone five that's so old.
Speaker 8 (30:17):
I can't do it. I can't part with it. You know,
my friend, it's been like a ten fifteen updates. I said,
you know, it's getting the job then, but the memory
is a little bit low. You know what kind of
tough one one?
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Well, the worst thing about the iPhone I have an
iPhone is the battery that dies and you end up
having to keep the charger. It's gotta be on the
charger all the time. It's a pain in the ass,
but you can't. It's cheaper just to get a new
battery than it is to buy a new phone.
Speaker 8 (30:39):
Obviously, to get a new point. I got charges all
over the place in the car, you know, class room,
at the house, all the rest of that stuff. Listen,
this sports earth strategy by James Harden is no surprise
given his fickle nature. But as you were alluding to
individual that's done more it was Daryl Morey who said
who gave the acts to Kevin McHale. We remember the
(31:01):
Clippers were supposed to move on and win a championship.
They were up sixteen points against the.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Houston n You don't need to bring that. You don't
need to bring that up. Okay, to bring that up?
Bye bye way. Harden did not play a minute in
the fourth quarter of that game when the Rockets came
back and Corey Brewer and Corey Brewer and Josh Smith,
two random NBA players. I will never forget the names
of Corey Brewer and Josh Smith because they destroyed the
(31:27):
great ear of Lob City.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
It was.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
It was all because those two knuckleheads, indeed.
Speaker 8 (31:33):
And Kevin McHale, you know, kind of making the decision,
Kevin mchail saying listen, you're not gonna give me this.
Kevin mchell actually coached James Harden, and his reward for that,
i e. Daryl Morey was to be banished to Siberia.
He brings in Mike D'Antoni, who has the innovation, who
figured it out. Nobody else played that James Harden's a
point guard rather than a shooting guard. Put him to
the one. They combine the analytics, and the rest is history.
(31:54):
We all remember James Harden hitched the game winning shot.
They go to the pan of the bench. Is anybody cheering? Absolute?
Speaker 9 (32:00):
Not?
Speaker 8 (32:00):
Okay? So the person who's been in James Harden's corner
the most and from the beginning, and this guy was
on the verge of being a Stefan Marberry kind of
almost feeling like out of it because nobody liked him.
Darryl Moury had the vision and then he combined that
with the analytics. Daryl Mourray a champion of this loan
analytics conference here in Boston. People thought he was out
of his mind ten years ago with the team, was
doing all kinds of things. He mining two K games
(32:21):
and talking about analytics. It was basically Billy being, now,
what's everybody doing copying Darryl Moury. So it's no surprise
with Harden that he you know, he's the type of
a player and this is kind of what gets me,
you know, we had the Hall of Fame. People talk
about all time great because you pile up all of
these empty calorie statistics and you just start calling people
all time greats. Winning at the end of the day,
(32:43):
for every era is what makes it. And James Harden
is just flat out not a winner. He's never going
to be a winner. He's a soloist.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
He's gonna be in the Hall of Fame. But the
standard is a little different in the pro bouncy ball
Hall of Fame than some of the other hall of fame.
He's got He's accomplished some great individual statistics, so he's
he's gonna be in the in the Hall of Fame.
But and Andrew, this is a major upset. I did
not have. I posted the odds on what your topic
would be when you called up, and I was sure
it was going to be Dalvin Cook to the Jets
(33:11):
or Zeke Elliott to the Patriots. So you gave a
curveball here, just off the side of the plate there,
and you give us a take on James Harden. That's
impressing to do.
Speaker 8 (33:22):
I had to do it with the Jets, a near
and gear to my heart. But in terms of again,
people Darryl Moury effectively made James Harden, just like David
Stern made Mark Cuban believe in him and nobody else did.
And the way that he puts the stab in the back,
I e brutus. You know what I mean? You know
a blue change.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Listen, they'll hang out when this is all done. Then
they'll say, no, it's just I had to do that
because I wanted to be traded. The only way, the
only way to get traded, I had to be an
a hole. So I was an a hole. But I
actually like Maury and there's other reasons we'll get into later.
I'll do a monologue about that. But thank you Andre
from the Commonwealth. It is the Bane Malors Show. As
we can take you on about the MLB pick him?
(34:01):
Here's the who am I?
Speaker 4 (34:02):
Game?
Speaker 1 (34:03):
I was the very first MLB player born outside the
United States or Canada to make an All Star Game.
And baseball started in the late eighteen hundreds, but I
was the first MLB player born outside the United States
or Canada to make an All Star Game? Who Am I?
The answer? And the MLB pick him? We'll get to it.
(34:25):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
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Speaker 1 (35:07):
We'll have the MLB pick him coming up. Here's the
who Am I? Game? And we'll try to squeeze a
call in. I was the first MLB player born outside
the United States or Canada to make an All Star game?
Who Am I? Late Night Drug Tester says, you are
Jennifer Lawrence, who is thirty three years old today, Ray
Wally of Wally World from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Matt
(35:29):
the Warrior Raider as fan cheated, he got it right.
Polly b going with Pedro Serrano as his answer. A
Little Foot from Fergcat. He loves dinosaurs. He's a big fan.
A Riek in Minnesota say, is one of my favorite
twins of all time. Tony Oliva my favorite twins jersey. Yeah,
(35:50):
that's a good looking jersey. He's got it the powder blues,
but no buttons. The powder blues like the softball jersey.
That's a good look. Who else do we have? Paid
down go ball pitcher? Freddy Krueger from Big Lou? What
can Big Lou do for you? Who else do we have?
Tortiao Antoni says, my wife's massage therapist is the answer.
(36:12):
Hank Greenberg from Shawn in Portland and Eli Jemstone from
the Eddie Garcia Berner account. Luis Tiant from Larry that's
his answer, Guy Smallly from the American Therapist. And who
else you have? Ton Knee arm Ass from Oscar that's
his selection. Roscoe P. Coltrane from Art Puffin. That's his answer.
(36:37):
The Big Whale Jay Christiansen from Jimmy from Maine. Wow,
shots at the Jay there, it's unloading there from Jimmy
from Maine. Caesar Sedaniel from Ryan in San Diego. Jackie
Robinson from Fame. Wow, that's an interesting answer. Terrible answer, Eddie.
Do you have an answer, Eddie?
Speaker 4 (36:55):
Yeah, let's go with former Indian and White Sox Mini Minoso.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Many me No, so is that correct this time? No?
Speaker 5 (37:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
This guy is known for one thing, and one thing only,
the shot heard round the world, and that would be
Bobby Thompson of the Giants, the New York Giants. Where
was he born? He was born in Scotland. Yeah, there's
a fun fact. Let's take a call. Let's say hello
to David, who's in Salem. Hello, David, what's going on?
Speaker 9 (37:23):
Hey Ben, It's good to be back with you. I
have a question. I know you've talked about drugs and sports,
and I was heard somewhere viagra had been used as
a sports enhancing drug, and I wanted to know if
you'd heard, what type of sport was it? Football, baseball,
hockey or sports?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
So you want to break down, well, I would think
porn would be one sport where it helps you out
a lot. Uh, just off the top of my head,
I would think if you're an actor in that, that
would keep you in the game for longer. Baseball you
think baseball Coop, you think baseball there? Yeah, extra to
(38:05):
get it up. Yeah, that's a great question, David. I'm
so glad you called. You're calling the show again, David.
It's well.
Speaker 9 (38:12):
I was sincere about my question then because I'd heard
that it really was used beyond at entertainment, but was actually.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Well, it wasn't. You can't hit a home run with
the limp back. Yeah, all right, we gotta leave it.
I don't know, David, call up again. I don't know
what to tell you an expert on that, but here
we go. Time now for the MLB pick, and we
got a fly. Coop, You've got the first pick. Go ahead.
Oh crap, I wasn't ready for what I'm gonna go with,
Bryce Elder, Eddie matt Olsen. I will take Zach Wheeler,
(38:45):
Chris back to back.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
All right, give me Ezekiel Elliott and Brown, right, Freddie.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Freeman, Eddie Cool back to back, Garcia one more and
Manny Machado. All right, Eddie Michael walka walk a walk
a while. I'll take Dan's Bey Swanson. Is we got
it in? Good job, boys, We got it
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