April 14, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about how worried the Red Sox should be that their $170M ace Garrett Crochet gave up 11 runs and looked completely lost, eight straight losses for the Astros, if Colorado should be worried that the "Prime Time" brand isn't drawing crowds anymore, and more!
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Playball. It's our number one, ready to go here on
the Ben Malers Show. Happy Tuesday to you. It is
the fourteenth day of April. As we are back at
it again in the audio dojo, and here in our
number one Major League Baseball we start with how worried
should the Red Sox be with their one hundred and
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seventy million dollar race? Garrett Crochet, who had one of
the all time worst performances in baseball history. You have
eleven runs and did not make it out of the
second an. He looked completely lost on the mound. Also,
eight straight losses now in Houston. Is this in Astro's
slump or the beginning of a full blown baseball apocalypse?
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I'm deep in the heart of Texas. Also some college football.
Should Colorado be worried that the prime time brand is
not drawing crowds anymore? The spring attendance down over six
sixty percent. We'll talk about all of that and more
right now here it is on this Tuesday. It's our
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we are back at it, and let's start with some baseball.
We'll change it up here a little bit. Talk some baseball.
It's never too early to have a sky is falling
baseball heavy Mallard monologue. We'll start with that. So our
lead from the diamond. We're going to start out in Minnesota.
Not every day that a headline top five pitcher turns
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into a pinata. That took place on a random Monday
night in the Twin Cities. Here, the twin killing of
the Ace of the Socks no longer, at least not
in that night. Wow. Now, I don't know if you
saw this or not. You probably weren't watching it. I'm
a glutton for punishment. I was flipping around to the
different baseball games. So the Red Sox if you missed it,
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the Red Sox Ace the savior of Boston, pitching for
years and years to come. Garrett Crochet, let's just say
they would have been better off with someone actually doing
Crochet on the mound, making some kind of blanket. Would
have been better off. Crochet was ambushed. He gave up
a nine hits, eleven runs, ten of them earned, and
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three walks and a partridge into par tree, all of
that in one and two thirds innings pitch the worst
start of his career, a career that has gotten him
to the point where he's making ridunculous amounts of money
there in Boston. It's not even really close. It was
just horrific, Like the kind of thing that they got
somebody out of the crowd and said, hey, how would
you like to pitch with the Red Sox. Okay, I
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don't know how to pitch. That's fine, we'll give you
a glove. Go out there. Just look like you know
what you do. Okay, I'll look like I know what
I'm doing. And that's what happened. And so immediately, when
anytime a good pitcher sucks at a time you cannot suck,
and immediately the defaul position as well, tippin' pitches, tippin'
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pitches now years ago, when I was doing stuff before
the Dodgers won all the time, and you know, back
when they were mediocre and I was around the team
a lot. I remember we were in Arizona one time
and the guys were convinced that there was some serious
stealing of signs that was going on from the center
field camera at the ballpark there in Phoenix. They were
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convinced of it. But that's kind of the baseball culture. Anybody.
Anytime somebody has a bad performance, so well, it can't
be just they were bad. There has to be something
else going on. It's all a good jumping off point.
So let us discuss the question how worried should the
Red Sox be that they're one hundred and seventy million
dollar ace. Garrett Crochet gave up eleven runs to the Twins,
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Holy Kirby Pucket batman and looked completely lost while he
was out there. So I've got nonverb, well, my thoughts nonverbal,
Bonnie Tyler and Booby trapped, and we will combine all
of these things together. And it is a race a
mile a minute. We're going a mile a minute around here,
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So a to We always go by the scale panic
at the disco, the panic at the disco cl scale.
So the answer, I'm not quite there yet. We'll see
what happens in the next twenty four hours. However, these
speakers are starting to crack a lacle. The speakers crack alacle,
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just a little bit of that. Garret Crochet underwent a
metamorphosis on the mound there for the Red Sox. He
went from the ace to a short ordered cook and
all the twins got a nice smash burger and they
smashed those pitches from Garrett Crochet there. It was like
he was working the night shift at Steak and Shake
and he was just you get a smash burger. You
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get a smash burger. Eleven runs that is being vaporized.
That is the absolutely vap It's like one thing for
Miles Migelos or whatever his name is again from the Nationals,
who was at the end of his career. He's pitching
for Washington. He got smoked in a game. This is
a guy in the prime of his career, got the
big money and it doesn't seem like it's a hiccup.
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It's more of an inferno. For Garrett Crochet, now I'm
never as you know, my style is not to be
this sky's falling guy, unless it is. When you peel
back the onion. On the recent performance of the Ace
of the Red Sox, it gets worse the velocity dip.
Crochet his velocity went that people lose their mind, the
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nerd class, the dorks, Dorksville usay, they lose their mind.
Velocity is down nearly two miles from his early season average,
his four seamer ninety four point nine miles an hour
compared to ninety six point one. I can give you
all kinds of numbers, but you won't recall any of
them because it's radio and all I have is my
spoken word, and so I'll just tell you that all
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of the numbers are trending the wrong direction in terms
of velocity. So that's a red flag. Also, while Crochet
a good opening start for the Red Sox is two starts.
Prior to this, he had an ERA of four point seven.
I just do the overnight show. I'm told that it's
not good though, when you have that era or your
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two previous starts and then you go out and get
lit up. So that's a yellow flag. That is a
yellow flag. And you stack all of these things together
and you line them up, and now you've got the
caution tape wrapped around the pictures room there at Finway.
And this also the other thing here is the non
verbal communication. Now we're very into verbal communication because that's
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all we have here. I could do sign language what
you can't see. So we do nonverbal communication, and we
understand the body language. One of my nicknames Benny body language.
So if you look at the body language here, it's screamed.
It didn't whisper, it's screamed for Garrett to share the
red sox. You had shoulder shrugs, you had that thousand
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yard stare. You ever seen that? You ever done that
thousand yards stare where you're just staring off to the
wild blue yonder and you're contemplating the time space continuum
and how you were here and why you were here
and how did that happen and all that. And he
had no answers, no answers. And that's not just an
off night and off nights. I gave up five runs.
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That was an off night. This is a guy searching
for the emergency exit and I gotta get out of here.
I got off the road. And here's the reality. The
Red Sox obviously did not cut the one hundred and
seventy million dollar check for a jag. They don't want
to jag. This is supposed to be a no assembly required,
just roll them out to the mound and to ching,
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ch ching, ching chi ching. Supposed to be the auto
pilot that number one started. You start him thirty times, yeah, right,
these days twenty seven times, twenty five times. But you
win the vast majority, right, you know, it's not supposed
to be a weekly episode of unsolved Mysteries. So how worried?
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On the Mallord scale of panic? We are at a
medium high grade on the Malard scale of panic. Not
def con one. We're not going deaf con one here
on Gary Crochet. We give up eleven runs to the
mediocre twins. Uh. The velocity, the Velo is the nerd safe.
The Villo stays down. You have to cue the deep
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state illuminati conspiracy that he's hurt. Nobody's talking about it.
We're gonna send him back to Boston to have an MRI.
We're gonna have that. We're gonna have a second opinion.
He's gonna, you know, skip him in the rotation. Alex
kro will announce that kind of thing, right. Meanwhile, we
go to Seattle and it's not necessarily about the Mariners,
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but Josh Naylor hitting a couple of Bazukas into the
crowd there first two home runs of the year, drove
in five runs, and Kirby on the mount, George Kirby
on the mound allowed two runs, pitched very well into
the eighth inning, deep into the eighth inning there, and
the Mariners complete the four games sweep of the cheating
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a one one thousand and two one thousand o yep
swept them. Game was an afternoon game on Monday. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room. The
reason I bring this up is jose Alboove. I haven't
forgotten and the Cheaters have now lost eight straight, eight
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straight losses. How efen great is that they suck? They
haven't sucked this much since twenty thirteen. I was a
child in twenty thirty. Did you understand this? This is
redefining suckage, and I love it. I love it. Of course,
the excuse makers are crawling out like cockroaches behind the refrigerators. Well, uh, listen,
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they got three starters out, They got a couple of
relief pitchers that are dinged up, and this guy's hurt,
that guy's are well. If Hunter Brown comes back and
Christian Javier, they're set. They're in the injury deech and
even the shortstop Jeremy Panya the hammy went whammy and
all of that. So the question, though, eight losses in
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a row. Here's the question. Is this an astro slump
or is this the beginning of a return to normalcy
and a full blown baseball apocalypse in Houston? Holy orbit, Batman.
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So this is not just a slump. It gets late early,
as Yogi Bear famously said back in the day, said,
well that's mid April. Who the hell cares? He start
getting buried, and that mountain to climb up comes higher
and higher. So good luck on that eighth straight losses
is not a rough patch. That is the Bonnie Tyler
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crank to the max. Total eclipse, total eclipse, not of
the heart of the baseball team. Lights out, good night, Irene.
I don't know what else you want me to say.
That's the point, So spare me the injury excuses, drives
me bunkers. Tell me you're a loser without telling me
you're a loser. Oh, it's all the injuries. Yeah, Okay,
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this just didn't Good teams are able to survive injuries,
it happens. Great teams are able to weaponize that as
a rallying cry. And Houston, they've essentially so far this
season gotten stuffed in a locker and given a wedgie
and said, thank you, Can I have another wedgie? Is
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essentially what they've done here. This was predictable. The core
of this team, the dirty, rotten scoundrels like Alboove and
that punk Carlos Korea. These guys are aging like milk okay,
and the pitching staff is shredded. Pomersana is what that is.
The farm system is a barren wasteland apparently when it
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comes to this, and so the if you look at
the ERA and the Whippity Whip, the Whip, the combo meal,
they are dead last, not second to last, dead last,
worst in baseball and urn run average and whip. Now
that's not bad luck. That is bad to the bone
baseball in Houston. And they're back to being picked your
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poison here, the Astros, the Dizastros, and I like this
because of the way they are in the standings the
last stros. That's right, they're in last place, bringing up
the Tukas of the American League West for right now,
So take your pick. Could not happen to a more
deserving bunch of scoundrels who were never punished. Now they're
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putting somebody's in the Hall of fame like that Beltron
and what a joke that is urinating all over the
Hall of Fame, and that pip squeak cheater jose Albouve. Okay,
this guy, full circle theater for this guy, he debuted
when he came up years ago. One hundred losses, one
hundred losses the first couple of years. And now at
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this moment we do the show today, we worry about
today's show, and the Astros at this moment are on
pace to lose over one hundred games. So never too
early to celebrate and enjoy some shotenfreude, which we are
so old corps again, thin arms, empty pipeline. And this
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is not just a slump. This does certainly give you
the feeling that it's the beginning of the end. And
so remember if this is the end for the Astros
rather than pour one out for Houston. Make sure to
bang on a trash can bang bang? Or why don't
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you hey zap the buzzer? Hey up checking for the buzzer,
that kind of thing, just for old time sake, all right. Meanwhile,
last word, we go to college football? Why are you
talking about coch Oh? My god? Yeah, I know the
natives will be wrested, but I thought this was a
good story. And since I have editorial control, truck Stop
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Fungus and all the other supermarket Steve can go Pound
sand So, Boulder, Colorado. Dion Sanders coach Prime Now I
remember we got to Colorado. The attendance was amazing. Everyone
was all fired up. The initial hype. Well, turns out
the spring football game. This has gone viral here the
last couple of days the spring football game and Boulder
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did not go so well. The spring game attendance went
from forty seven thousand plus in twenty twenty three when
Dion arrived on the scene to seventeen thousand and five
hundred this past weekend in Boulder, Colorado. So the question
should the University of Colorado be worried that the Prime
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Time brand is not drawing crowds anymore. Should Colorado be
concerned that this is not working? So the answer is
rather obvious. It's a rhetorical question. Absolutely, you absolutely have
to be. This is the hangover for the hype party,
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and it was quite the hooton and Nanny. It was
a lot of fun. We all bought in to Dion Sanders,
the blueprint that Dion provided, the flash, the swag, all
of that, the idea that he'd flipped the script overnight.
Good story. Ratings were huge. Colorado was getting on television
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every possible chance. The networks were fighting to put Colorado
football on. However, the thing ofm a jig is not
working like it was supposed to. No, the prime effect
of Coach Prime went from can't miss TV to why
is this even on TV? Like? How did this happen? Down?
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The attendance of the spring game down? I did the
Malard math here. I believe the attendance is down sixty
three percent from when Dion arrived on the scene. That's
not a dip, you know what that is. That is
a booby trapped door opening up and falling into a
pit of perata is what that is. That's what that is.
And so this is what happens when you don't win
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enough and the razzle dazzle turns the fizzle, And that's
where we are in the story arc of Dion Sanders. Now,
will there be a redemption right now? This is a
novelty act that had a shelf life and we've reached
the expiration date on that shelf. Like Colorado sitting with
Dion Sanders, I believe they have like a four point
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thirty winning percentag or something like that. They're five games
under five hundred since he took over, and I know
they had a terrible record before he got there and
all that. But with the portal and the nil stuff,
you're supposed to be mister turnaround person and all that.
So under Dion, the story of stories here is you
can win the news conference, and Dion has been very
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good with the press conferences, and you can dominate the
TikTok t talk tik talk. He's done that eventually, though.
You need the ws wawwww a lot of ws and
those aren't there. So the Mallard theory on this, the
Malord theory is that the fan base in Colorado, most
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of them were not real Colorado Buffalo fans. They just
wanted to be part of the cool kids club. So
that's why they showed up. That's the first thing. And
those that did show up, the fan base got drunk
on social media, the sugar high from social media, and
now they're waking up. They got a headache, they're like
a little hungover, like what was that, dude, I don't
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know what that that was. And the social media sugar
high has crashed down, down, down, down, down, down down,
and no more empty calories. Now they actually want substance.
And that's the problem. That is the problem. A couple
of years ago, we were talking about Deon Sanders going
to the NFL. Now we're talking about Deon Sanders going
to television because this is not working out so well.
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and greet at a miniature golf. Course that could be
kind of, cool and that is the Miniature golf, capital
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i don't know the crowd we've got. There know what
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that's what we should. Do that's the real AUTHENTIC i
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jason's going to The Mets dodgers game On tuesday. Night he's,
like he's a Big mets, fan and they you Know yamamoto's.
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going well for The. Mets we'll see, though that's why
they play the games late. Night Drug tester, Says i'm
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loving the nickname rundown of the cheaters From. Houston just
wish we could have more of that. Content oh, wait
what about your? Nicknames, well, okay, listen you KNOW i
haven't done the nickname thing as much since the company Whacked,
eddie and so that used to be Because eddie would
get really annoyed WHEN i do the nicknawn nickname thing
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be in honor though of and the listeners always, right
the consumers are. Right so late night drug tester he
wants to hear some of the. Nicknames, NO i. Have
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not all of, Them but that's all we have time.
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For we now move ahead in the. Broadcast you talking about,
There Just josh, says no need TO. Rsvp you're in my. Backyard.
Ben we will be there in force and in, wait
that's a shot at. ROB a group photo will be
around four. Pm don't be a Todd. Monkin, yeah the
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plan is to have the team. Photo you like to
do a team photo at like four pm on That,
saturday with all the, militia all the beautiful. People and
let me tell you, something this audience is so freaking good.
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there beautiful people. Act let me tell you, something this'd
be the hottest event in all all the beautiful people
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In kentucky And ohio and other. States you, know there's
a rumor and one of the Guys i'm playing solitary
Against supposedly you can drive over From. Nashville it's like
a four hour. Drive he's going to drive over there
to hang. Out so that's. Dedication let's go to the
phones and we'll say hello To Eenie Meani Miney. Mode
let's say hello To, stacey who's In. Dallas, Hello, stacy, Welcome.
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You what are you? Driving you you're driving right? Now
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Driving i'm returning home from a meeting yesterday AND i
didn't want to spend another night in a. Hotel so.
OKAY i wanted to ask your thoughts On Aaron rodgers
second year in a row and maybe he did this
with the chants as, well where he hasn't answered whether
he wants to or intends to retire or come. BACK
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i know why he does. IT i GUESS i don't
know Why pittsburgh will miss the whip it at this. Point,
yeah the draft coming, up and once again they're what
held hostage until, yeah, hey they're supposed to start to
just find out are.
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about all this. Stuff so let me make me. So
so my theory, here let me run this by, Here
i'm Gonna i'm gonna give you my elevator. Pitch so
my theory is that even Though Aaron rodgers claims he
doesn't pay attention to the media and all, that he
does pay attention to the, media and the moment he
signs that, contract he's expected to show up to all
the offseason workouts and all that. Stuff So I'm i'm
(29:57):
gonna go on the assumption that he's already told The
steelers he's going to. Play he just doesn't want to
announce it until after the draft or even like a
month after the, draft because he wants to enjoy his
off time hanging, out you, know going around on journeys
to different countries around the world and all that. Stuff
and as you, Know stacey's a married man now ALLEGEDLY
i heard, it, yes, yes, yeah, yeah of, course you're
(30:21):
more real than than than his wife. Is but that's
that's a different. Conversation but, Yeah so my theory is
he's already decided he's going to play The. Steelers, no
he's going to. Play he just wants to hold off
because he doesn't want to deal with the reaction of people, saying,
well you're not really committed to The steelers because you're
not showing up to The OTA's and all that other.
Stuff so that's my.
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CONSWER i had not thought on, it so thank, you,
because AS i, SAID i couldn't figure out, why you,
know the owners when they announced That Mike tomlin stepped
down or you know whatever. Happened you, know they basically
said the same thing That Robert kraft. Did what we've
had really hasn't been good. Enough so they seem no,
Nonsense so that makes some.
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that's my my mind working overtime on. That And rogers
did look like he should retire the way he played
in the playoff game against The texans see at the
end of the. Year my, god, yeah horrific.
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keeps his. Job he had been playing so.
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Fad, well he better play. Well he better play well this, Year,
stacey or he's not going to get. Paid so he's
got that fifth year. OPTION i guess he's going to
be back anyway under. Contract but, hey we'll see what.
Happens be saying thank, You. Stacy look at that call any.
Time all right, there look at. That it's the new, Caller.
Stacy you're in the running right, now just being the
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i've not done that. Well Scott borris got a pink.
Slip that doesn't happen very. Often the most powerful man
in baseball was given the boot by an all star
client of. His Alex, baum the third baseman of The Philadelphia,
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phillies has said bye bye To Scott. Morris Now Alex
baum going through through some tough things here in life
as he has switch. Agencies he's in a high profile legal.
Dispute he's suing his parents claiming that they took a
bunch of his. Money there was a lawsuit filed a
little while back his parents misused millions of dollars of
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his money from accounts they managed on his, behalf and
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happen very often he loses a, client but it has
happened here time now for the who AM? I? Game
so where we tend to be somebody? Else so it
was a historically bad start for one of the top
pitchers of. Baseball there have only been ten games In
Major League baseball history in which a starting pitcher is
allowed eleven or more runs without completing the second. Inning,
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Now Garrett crochet did it for The Red sox On.
MONDAY i was the last pitcher to turn the trick
prior To Garrett. Crochet who AM i the? Answer we'll
get in to. It we will do it.
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should the Red Sox be with their one hundred and
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seventy million dollar race? Garrett Crochet, who had one of
the all time worst performances in baseball history. You have
eleven runs and did not make it out of the
second an. He looked completely lost on the mound. Also,
eight straight losses now in Houston. Is this in Astro's
slump or the beginning of a full blown baseball apocalypse?
(00:47):
I'm deep in the heart of Texas. Also some college football.
Should Colorado be worried that the prime time brand is
not drawing crowds anymore? The spring attendance down over six
sixty percent. We'll talk about all of that and more
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we are back at it, and let's start with some baseball.
We'll change it up here a little bit. Talk some baseball.
It's never too early to have a sky is falling
baseball heavy Mallard monologue. We'll start with that. So our
lead from the diamond. We're going to start out in Minnesota.
Not every day that a headline top five pitcher turns
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into a pinata. That took place on a random Monday
night in the Twin Cities. Here, the twin killing of
the Ace of the Socks no longer, at least not
in that night. Wow. Now, I don't know if you
saw this or not. You probably weren't watching it. I'm
a glutton for punishment. I was flipping around to the
different baseball games. So the Red Sox if you missed it,
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the Red Sox Ace the savior of Boston, pitching for
years and years to come. Garrett Crochet, let's just say
they would have been better off with someone actually doing
Crochet on the mound, making some kind of blanket. Would
have been better off. Crochet was ambushed. He gave up
a nine hits, eleven runs, ten of them earned, and
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three walks and a partridge into par tree, all of
that in one and two thirds innings pitch the worst
start of his career, a career that has gotten him
to the point where he's making ridunculous amounts of money
there in Boston. It's not even really close. It was
just horrific, Like the kind of thing that they got
somebody out of the crowd and said, hey, how would
you like to pitch with the Red Sox. Okay, I
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don't know how to pitch. That's fine, we'll give you
a glove. Go out there. Just look like you know
what you do. Okay, I'll look like I know what
I'm doing. And that's what happened. And so immediately, when
anytime a good pitcher sucks at a time you cannot suck,
and immediately the defaul position as well, tippin' pitches, tippin'
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pitches now years ago, when I was doing stuff before
the Dodgers won all the time, and you know, back
when they were mediocre and I was around the team
a lot. I remember we were in Arizona one time
and the guys were convinced that there was some serious
stealing of signs that was going on from the center
field camera at the ballpark there in Phoenix. They were
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convinced of it. But that's kind of the baseball culture. Anybody.
Anytime somebody has a bad performance, so well, it can't
be just they were bad. There has to be something
else going on. It's all a good jumping off point.
So let us discuss the question how worried should the
Red Sox be that they're one hundred and seventy million
dollar ace. Garrett Crochet gave up eleven runs to the Twins,
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Holy Kirby Pucket batman and looked completely lost while he
was out there. So I've got nonverb, well, my thoughts nonverbal,
Bonnie Tyler and Booby trapped, and we will combine all
of these things together. And it is a race a
mile a minute. We're going a mile a minute around here,
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So a to We always go by the scale panic
at the disco, the panic at the disco cl scale.
So the answer, I'm not quite there yet. We'll see
what happens in the next twenty four hours. However, these
speakers are starting to crack a lacle. The speakers crack alacle,
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just a little bit of that. Garret Crochet underwent a
metamorphosis on the mound there for the Red Sox. He
went from the ace to a short ordered cook and
all the twins got a nice smash burger and they
smashed those pitches from Garrett Crochet there. It was like
he was working the night shift at Steak and Shake
and he was just you get a smash burger. You
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get a smash burger. Eleven runs that is being vaporized.
That is the absolutely vap It's like one thing for
Miles Migelos or whatever his name is again from the Nationals,
who was at the end of his career. He's pitching
for Washington. He got smoked in a game. This is
a guy in the prime of his career, got the
big money and it doesn't seem like it's a hiccup.
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It's more of an inferno. For Garrett Crochet, now I'm
never as you know, my style is not to be
this sky's falling guy, unless it is. When you peel
back the onion. On the recent performance of the Ace
of the Red Sox, it gets worse the velocity dip.
Crochet his velocity went that people lose their mind, the
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nerd class, the dorks, Dorksville usay, they lose their mind.
Velocity is down nearly two miles from his early season average,
his four seamer ninety four point nine miles an hour
compared to ninety six point one. I can give you
all kinds of numbers, but you won't recall any of
them because it's radio and all I have is my
spoken word, and so I'll just tell you that all
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of the numbers are trending the wrong direction in terms
of velocity. So that's a red flag. Also, while Crochet
a good opening start for the Red Sox is two starts.
Prior to this, he had an ERA of four point seven.
I just do the overnight show. I'm told that it's
not good though, when you have that era or your
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two previous starts and then you go out and get
lit up. So that's a yellow flag. That is a
yellow flag. And you stack all of these things together
and you line them up, and now you've got the
caution tape wrapped around the pictures room there at Finway.
And this also the other thing here is the non
verbal communication. Now we're very into verbal communication because that's
(08:43):
all we have here. I could do sign language what
you can't see. So we do nonverbal communication, and we
understand the body language. One of my nicknames Benny body language.
So if you look at the body language here, it's screamed.
It didn't whisper, it's screamed for Garrett to share the
red sox. You had shoulder shrugs, you had that thousand
(09:04):
yard stare. You ever seen that? You ever done that
thousand yards stare where you're just staring off to the
wild blue yonder and you're contemplating the time space continuum
and how you were here and why you were here
and how did that happen and all that. And he
had no answers, no answers. And that's not just an
off night and off nights. I gave up five runs.
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That was an off night. This is a guy searching
for the emergency exit and I gotta get out of here.
I got off the road. And here's the reality. The
Red Sox obviously did not cut the one hundred and
seventy million dollar check for a jag. They don't want
to jag. This is supposed to be a no assembly required,
just roll them out to the mound and to ching,
(09:49):
ch ching, ching chi ching. Supposed to be the auto
pilot that number one started. You start him thirty times, yeah, right,
these days twenty seven times, twenty five times. But you
win the vast majority, right, you know, it's not supposed
to be a weekly episode of unsolved Mysteries. So how worried?
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On the Mallord scale of panic? We are at a
medium high grade on the Malard scale of panic. Not
def con one. We're not going deaf con one here
on Gary Crochet. We give up eleven runs to the
mediocre twins. Uh. The velocity, the Velo is the nerd safe.
The Villo stays down. You have to cue the deep
(10:32):
state illuminati conspiracy that he's hurt. Nobody's talking about it.
We're gonna send him back to Boston to have an MRI.
We're gonna have that. We're gonna have a second opinion.
He's gonna, you know, skip him in the rotation. Alex
kro will announce that kind of thing, right. Meanwhile, we
go to Seattle and it's not necessarily about the Mariners,
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but Josh Naylor hitting a couple of Bazukas into the
crowd there first two home runs of the year, drove
in five runs, and Kirby on the mount, George Kirby
on the mound allowed two runs, pitched very well into
the eighth inning, deep into the eighth inning there, and
the Mariners complete the four games sweep of the cheating
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a one one thousand and two one thousand o yep
swept them. Game was an afternoon game on Monday. Now,
the better story is in the losing locker room. The
reason I bring this up is jose Alboove. I haven't
forgotten and the Cheaters have now lost eight straight, eight
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straight losses. How efen great is that they suck? They
haven't sucked this much since twenty thirteen. I was a
child in twenty thirty. Did you understand this? This is
redefining suckage, and I love it. I love it. Of course,
the excuse makers are crawling out like cockroaches behind the refrigerators. Well, uh, listen,
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they got three starters out, They got a couple of
relief pitchers that are dinged up, and this guy's hurt,
that guy's are well. If Hunter Brown comes back and
Christian Javier, they're set. They're in the injury deech and
even the shortstop Jeremy Panya the hammy went whammy and
all of that. So the question, though, eight losses in
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a row. Here's the question. Is this an astro slump
or is this the beginning of a return to normalcy
and a full blown baseball apocalypse in Houston? Holy orbit, Batman.
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So this is not just a slump. It gets late early,
as Yogi Bear famously said back in the day, said,
well that's mid April. Who the hell cares? He start
getting buried, and that mountain to climb up comes higher
and higher. So good luck on that eighth straight losses
is not a rough patch. That is the Bonnie Tyler
(13:08):
crank to the max. Total eclipse, total eclipse, not of
the heart of the baseball team. Lights out, good night, Irene.
I don't know what else you want me to say.
That's the point, So spare me the injury excuses, drives
me bunkers. Tell me you're a loser without telling me
you're a loser. Oh, it's all the injuries. Yeah, Okay,
(13:32):
this just didn't Good teams are able to survive injuries,
it happens. Great teams are able to weaponize that as
a rallying cry. And Houston, they've essentially so far this
season gotten stuffed in a locker and given a wedgie
and said, thank you, Can I have another wedgie? Is
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essentially what they've done here. This was predictable. The core
of this team, the dirty, rotten scoundrels like Alboove and
that punk Carlos Korea. These guys are aging like milk okay,
and the pitching staff is shredded. Pomersana is what that is.
The farm system is a barren wasteland apparently when it
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comes to this, and so the if you look at
the ERA and the Whippity Whip, the Whip, the combo meal,
they are dead last, not second to last, dead last,
worst in baseball and urn run average and whip. Now
that's not bad luck. That is bad to the bone
baseball in Houston. And they're back to being picked your
(14:37):
poison here, the Astros, the Dizastros, and I like this
because of the way they are in the standings the
last stros. That's right, they're in last place, bringing up
the Tukas of the American League West for right now,
So take your pick. Could not happen to a more
deserving bunch of scoundrels who were never punished. Now they're
(14:59):
putting somebody's in the Hall of fame like that Beltron
and what a joke that is urinating all over the
Hall of Fame, and that pip squeak cheater jose Albouve. Okay,
this guy, full circle theater for this guy, he debuted
when he came up years ago. One hundred losses, one
hundred losses the first couple of years. And now at
(15:21):
this moment we do the show today, we worry about
today's show, and the Astros at this moment are on
pace to lose over one hundred games. So never too
early to celebrate and enjoy some shotenfreude, which we are
so old corps again, thin arms, empty pipeline. And this
(15:42):
is not just a slump. This does certainly give you
the feeling that it's the beginning of the end. And
so remember if this is the end for the Astros
rather than pour one out for Houston. Make sure to
bang on a trash can bang bang? Or why don't
(16:03):
you hey zap the buzzer? Hey up checking for the buzzer,
that kind of thing, just for old time sake, all right. Meanwhile,
last word, we go to college football? Why are you
talking about coch Oh? My god? Yeah, I know the
natives will be wrested, but I thought this was a
good story. And since I have editorial control, truck Stop
(16:23):
Fungus and all the other supermarket Steve can go Pound
sand So, Boulder, Colorado. Dion Sanders coach Prime Now I
remember we got to Colorado. The attendance was amazing. Everyone
was all fired up. The initial hype. Well, turns out
the spring football game. This has gone viral here the
last couple of days the spring football game and Boulder
(16:45):
did not go so well. The spring game attendance went
from forty seven thousand plus in twenty twenty three when
Dion arrived on the scene to seventeen thousand and five
hundred this past weekend in Boulder, Colorado. So the question
should the University of Colorado be worried that the Prime
(17:10):
Time brand is not drawing crowds anymore. Should Colorado be
concerned that this is not working? So the answer is
rather obvious. It's a rhetorical question. Absolutely, you absolutely have
to be. This is the hangover for the hype party,
(17:31):
and it was quite the hooton and Nanny. It was
a lot of fun. We all bought in to Dion Sanders,
the blueprint that Dion provided, the flash, the swag, all
of that, the idea that he'd flipped the script overnight.
Good story. Ratings were huge. Colorado was getting on television
(17:51):
every possible chance. The networks were fighting to put Colorado
football on. However, the thing ofm a jig is not
working like it was supposed to. No, the prime effect
of Coach Prime went from can't miss TV to why
is this even on TV? Like? How did this happen? Down?
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The attendance of the spring game down? I did the
Malard math here. I believe the attendance is down sixty
three percent from when Dion arrived on the scene. That's
not a dip, you know what that is. That is
a booby trapped door opening up and falling into a
pit of perata is what that is. That's what that is.
And so this is what happens when you don't win
(18:37):
enough and the razzle dazzle turns the fizzle, And that's
where we are in the story arc of Dion Sanders. Now,
will there be a redemption right now? This is a
novelty act that had a shelf life and we've reached
the expiration date on that shelf. Like Colorado sitting with
Dion Sanders, I believe they have like a four point
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thirty winning percentag or something like that. They're five games
under five hundred since he took over, and I know
they had a terrible record before he got there and
all that. But with the portal and the nil stuff,
you're supposed to be mister turnaround person and all that.
So under Dion, the story of stories here is you
can win the news conference, and Dion has been very
(19:18):
good with the press conferences, and you can dominate the
TikTok t talk tik talk. He's done that eventually, though.
You need the ws wawwww a lot of ws and
those aren't there. So the Mallard theory on this, the
Malord theory is that the fan base in Colorado, most
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of them were not real Colorado Buffalo fans. They just
wanted to be part of the cool kids club. So
that's why they showed up. That's the first thing. And
those that did show up, the fan base got drunk
on social media, the sugar high from social media, and
now they're waking up. They got a headache, they're like
a little hungover, like what was that, dude, I don't
(19:59):
know what that that was. And the social media sugar
high has crashed down, down, down, down, down, down down,
and no more empty calories. Now they actually want substance.
And that's the problem. That is the problem. A couple
of years ago, we were talking about Deon Sanders going
to the NFL. Now we're talking about Deon Sanders going
to television because this is not working out so well.
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gets whacked by a client. An all star level client
has said bye bye to the most powerful man in baseball.
What is that all about? We'll get to the bottom
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the Cincinnati area or it's somewhat geographically desirable, the first
Mallard Meet and gree to twenty twenty six will be
taking place a week from Saturday from two to five pm.
The spotlight shines you don't say on the Cincinnati area
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Mallard Meet and greet will be as Strong's Brick Oven Pizzaiover, Newport, Kentucky.
We're gonna get a passport for Dick and Dayton to
leave the state of Ohio, the sovereign state of Ohio.
The give me a little taste of that to see
if he can make it. He's supposed to be there
and you're not gonna want to miss it. We'll have
live music from the Dixter schedule to perform Ohio Al,
another legend in the Mallard religions. They will get just
(22:48):
josh On there who knows and so check that out
here in that area. You want to come out, hang on,
I'll be there. Just me, Just me, not Lorena or Koopa,
just me. There have a good time. Big names like
Queen Rocks Hands flying in supposedly and Robbie the Mariner.
Fan locals like just Josh and Justin in Cincinnati, Joe
the ghost Hunter, you name it, they'll all be there.
(23:10):
Check it out, Malard meet and we'd coming up April
twenty fifth, Saturday, two to five, Newport, Kentucky. Strong's brick
up in pizzeria. Looking forward to that. As for this show, pizza, Yeah,
we'll get a pizza and we get some the appetizers
look good. Big appetizer guy. Gotta have the apps. Gotta
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that's eight seven seven nine nine six six three six'.
Nine also on ex At Ben, mahlor that's At Ben.
Mahlor can be part of the. Show can solo To
loreina yet? Again another box in the mail? Room come
in here and people coming up to. Me what's in the.
Box it's Got lorena's. NAME i, say you, KNOW i worked.
HERE i remember back in THE i used to get
(23:55):
mail back in. Then BUT i don't get any. Meal
it's all About. Loraina she's the star of the. Show
Uh LORENA fsr box fs that's what she, SAID Fsr
tech queen And coople oop there at A bronco. Fan
that's A bronco fan and check out them and say.
Hello AND i can't take a. Call coop's going to
come in here and set the board up and we'll
(24:16):
take a call Random ryan In, carolina right since says
the lady AND i were In Myrtle beach last. Week
suggested spots for the future mallor meet and greet Include broadway,
casino boats In Little, river Or Medieval times there you,
go yes to the medieval. Town you Like Medieval? Times,
well you KNOW i have outfits for. That you're prepared for? That,
(24:39):
WELL i would like. To we've never done a meet
and greet at a miniature golf. Course that could be
kind of, cool and that is the Miniature golf, capital
AND i have some in laws that live not that
far From Myrtle, beach SO i could definitely make that.
HAPPEN i don't know what kind of turn out we'd.
Get you think we do well there In Myrtle. BEACH
i don't know the crowd we've got. There know what
we should do is go to like a waffle. House
(25:00):
that's what we should. Do that's the real AUTHENTIC i
do like you got to go to a waffle. House enjoy.
That Ferg dog writes and, SAYS i don't want to
take anything away from my Guy Justin robleski eight shutout,
Innings but how much do The mets suck right? NOW
i don't think they could hit off a t pee
you they? Stink that is from From. FERGDAL i ran
(25:28):
Into Jason, smith a fine talk show host here At
Fox Sports rad on his way out of the. Building
jason's going to The Mets dodgers game On tuesday. Night he's,
like he's a Big mets, fan and they you Know yamamoto's.
Pitcher you, know he's pretty. Good that's not. Bowling not
going well for The. Mets we'll see, though that's why
they play the games late. Night Drug tester, Says i'm
(25:50):
loving the nickname rundown of the cheaters From. Houston just
wish we could have more of that. Content oh, wait
what about your? Nicknames, well, okay, listen you KNOW i
haven't done the nickname thing as much since the company Whacked,
eddie and so that used to be Because eddie would
get really annoyed WHEN i do the nicknawn nickname thing
(26:11):
be in honor though of and the listeners always, right
the consumers are. Right so late night drug tester he
wants to hear some of the. Nicknames, NO i. Have
my claim to fame is not the highest. RATINGS i
certainly don't make the most money. HERE i don't do.
THAT i don't have the greatest. SCHEDULE i work. Overnights
the one THING i, have The mala militia has blessed.
Me they, oh they have given me the gift of.
(26:34):
Nicknames so among my, names can you give me the
move of the? Arrange do we have any music for?
This i'm among my, NICKNAMES i have The i've been
called the spin master of, misinformation the Bannering, broadcaster The
beethoven of, Bs Benny, bingo the curmudgeon of, commentary The
chasm of, sarcasm The tsar Of, zany the Dark knight
of week night sports, radio the mobile of, Mischief benny The,
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my baseball, Abilities benny The. Bopper that's, right back in the.
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shotenfreude the sensitive, sniffer jumping jack of, wisecrack In sight
of overnight, Medicine Man, mallard The nabob of, negativity The
(27:22):
sage of, outrage the pinnacle of, cynical The prince of,
preposterous professor of, Propaganda huzzar, hypermally the floating turd of
the spoken, word and the Mad hatter of sports. Chatter
some of my nicknames right, there not all of, them
not all of, Them but that's all we have time.
(27:43):
For we now move ahead in the. Broadcast you talking about,
There Just josh, says no need TO. Rsvp you're in my. Backyard.
Ben we will be there in force and in, wait
that's a shot at. ROB a group photo will be
around four. Pm don't be a Todd. Monkin, yeah the
(28:05):
plan is to have the team. Photo you like to
do a team photo at like four pm on That,
saturday with all the, militia all the beautiful. People and
let me tell you, something this audience is so freaking good.
Looking we're all. Models we should have a catwalk out,
there beautiful people. Act let me tell you, something this'd
be the hottest event in all all the beautiful people
(28:27):
In kentucky And ohio and other. States you, know there's
a rumor and one of the Guys i'm playing solitary
Against supposedly you can drive over From. Nashville it's like
a four hour. Drive he's going to drive over there
to hang. Out so that's. Dedication let's go to the
phones and we'll say hello To Eenie Meani Miney. Mode
let's say hello To, stacey who's In. Dallas, Hello, stacy, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (28:49):
Hi, ben thank you for taking my. CALL i love your,
show love, it love it, well thank, you thank.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
You what are you? Driving you you're driving right? Now
what are you doing driving around?
Speaker 2 (28:56):
THIS i am.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
Driving i'm returning home from a meeting yesterday AND i
didn't want to spend another night in a. Hotel so.
OKAY i wanted to ask your thoughts On Aaron rodgers
second year in a row and maybe he did this
with the chants as, well where he hasn't answered whether
he wants to or intends to retire or come. BACK
(29:18):
i know why he does. IT i GUESS i don't
know Why pittsburgh will miss the whip it at this. Point,
yeah the draft coming, up and once again they're what
held hostage until, yeah, hey they're supposed to start to
just find out are.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
You here or?
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Not have you thought about?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
It?
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Yeah are your? THOUGHTS i have no, LIFE i think
about all this. Stuff so let me make me. So
so my theory, here let me run this by, Here
i'm Gonna i'm gonna give you my elevator. Pitch so
my theory is that even Though Aaron rodgers claims he
doesn't pay attention to the media and all, that he
does pay attention to the, media and the moment he
signs that, contract he's expected to show up to all
the offseason workouts and all that. Stuff So I'm i'm
(29:57):
gonna go on the assumption that he's already told The
steelers he's going to. Play he just doesn't want to
announce it until after the draft or even like a
month after the, draft because he wants to enjoy his
off time hanging, out you, know going around on journeys
to different countries around the world and all that. Stuff
and as you, Know stacey's a married man now ALLEGEDLY
i heard, it, yes, yes, yeah, yeah of, course you're
(30:21):
more real than than than his wife. Is but that's
that's a different. Conversation but, Yeah so my theory is
he's already decided he's going to play The. Steelers, no
he's going to. Play he just wants to hold off
because he doesn't want to deal with the reaction of people, saying,
well you're not really committed to The steelers because you're
not showing up to The OTA's and all that other.
Stuff so that's my.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
CONSWER i had not thought on, it so thank, you,
because AS i, SAID i couldn't figure out, why you,
know the owners when they announced That Mike tomlin stepped
down or you know whatever. Happened you, know they basically
said the same thing That Robert kraft. Did what we've
had really hasn't been good. Enough so they seem no,
Nonsense so that makes some.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Sense i'm like, this, like, yeah well that's you, know
that's my my mind working overtime on. That And rogers
did look like he should retire the way he played
in the playoff game against The texans see at the
end of the. Year my, god, yeah horrific.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
GUY i, mean Becausej, Stroud i'm really surprised that he
keeps his. Job he had been playing so.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Fad, well he better play. Well he better play well this, Year,
stacey or he's not going to get. Paid so he's
got that fifth year. OPTION i guess he's going to
be back anyway under. Contract but, hey we'll see what.
Happens be saying thank, You. Stacy look at that call any.
Time all right, there look at. That it's the new, Caller.
Stacy you're in the running right, now just being the
(31:42):
having the right chromosomes and all. That you're you're in the.
Running boom, done there you. Go anthony is In. Louisiana
you know what that. Means Hello anthony And. Louisiana Welcome. Anthony,
well thanks for. Asking you know we actually were this
is My. Tuesday can you believe, That, anthony we do the.
Show did you know we do the Show sunday night
(32:04):
and The. Monday did you know? That? Yeah, okay so
you're asking me my Week so my weekend was. Okay
the beginning of the weekend was pretty. Good. UH i
went out a little bit on on A, friday and
Then saturday stuck, around did a lit little stuff around the,
house and, Uh sunday was not particularly, great but that
but that's. Fine but thanks for. Asking.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Anthony, hey, cuz what? Up how you?
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Doing oh my, GOSH i went to out back today
AND i thought about.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You you thought about?
Speaker 3 (32:33):
ME i?
Speaker 2 (32:34):
DID i love? You?
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Wow just Think. Anthony Anytime lorraina drives by and sees
a bloomin, onion she thinks of. You it's. Amazing it's
good to hear from. Y'all, yeah how's? Life everything all
right with? You what's going on with? You what's your?
Story you stay up all? Night you listen to? US
i know you listened To LeVar arrington And jonas on
those guys On Two pros and A cup Of joe
on that. Show?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Right, yeah tell the, Day, Hello, LORANA i Will.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Why CAN'T i? TELL i see? Him i'm, HERE i
see them when they come in. Here what CAN i say? That? Yeah,
oh here we. Go watch, Out, Stacy, stacy watch. Out
anthony's on the prow.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Man, yeah any any male callers you'd like to say hello?
To And, poppy, Oh poppy of all the, People, poppy
all the, People poppy of all the dudes in call? It,
yeah all, right thank, it bye? Bye there he. Goes
it's the person across from us at the restaurant had
a Bloom an. Onion and did you know that if
(33:39):
you sign up to be a member you get a
free bloomin E?
Speaker 3 (33:41):
O is that? Right?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah did you? Know fun fact? Here And i've not
tried this item, yet AND i am told that A
Trader joe's they have a like a rip off decoy
version of the bloomin. Onion you can make it, home,
yes just throw it in the. Oven i've Resume. AIRFRIAR
(34:02):
i Think. Airfriar i've not had the. Item i'd like
to have the. ITEM i can give a review of
the item ONCE i had said. Item i've not had
the item, yet SO i. CAN'T i can't do that.
Yet the plan will be to consume that at some.
Point jim In colorado, says don't forget the moo law
of motor mouth. THEORY i don't. Know is that an official?
(34:24):
NICKNAME i like that of motor. Mouthy that's not, Bad.
Jim i've not added a new nickname in a. While
i've not done that. Well Scott borris got a pink.
Slip that doesn't happen very. Often the most powerful man
in baseball was given the boot by an all star
client of. His Alex, baum the third baseman of The Philadelphia,
(34:44):
phillies has said bye bye To Scott. Morris Now Alex
baum going through through some tough things here in life
as he has switch. Agencies he's in a high profile legal.
Dispute he's suing his parents claiming that they took a
bunch of his. Money there was a lawsuit filed a
little while back his parents misused millions of dollars of
(35:08):
his money from accounts they managed on his, behalf and
So boris has filed a preliminary injunction seeking the return
of over five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars that
his parents supposedly withdrew from an. Account so it's it's
a lot of financial stuff That boris is. Out doesn't
(35:30):
happen very often he loses a, client but it has
happened here time now for the who AM? I? Game
so where we tend to be somebody? Else so it
was a historically bad start for one of the top
pitchers of. Baseball there have only been ten games In
Major League baseball history in which a starting pitcher is
allowed eleven or more runs without completing the second. Inning,
(35:53):
Now Garrett crochet did it for The Red sox On.
MONDAY i was the last pitcher to turn the trick
prior To Garrett. Crochet who AM i the? Answer we'll
get in to. It we will do it.
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channel back to. It time now for the play of the,
day not just any, play the Ti Iraq play the.
Day and we had home run derby between The angels
(37:17):
and The. Yankees so of course it ended not on
a home, run but.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
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down load gets away FROM o.
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Hockey walking room was Cam heero with the winning run
eleven ten Final yankees winning the five dame losing. String
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gives us time to let the who AM? I? Game
Breathe there have only ever been ten games In Major
League baseball history where a starting pitcher is allowed eleven
or more runs without completing the second. Inning, Now Garrett
crochet did that for The Red sox On monday Against.
(38:30):
MINNESOTA i was the last pitcher to have such a
god awful performance prior To Garrett. Crochet who AM?
Speaker 3 (38:38):
I that is the.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
Question what is the? Answer let's see does anyone know the?
Answer malord prop guy going with the iconic Delin Oder
shields who was traded For Pedro, Martinez Pascal perez legend
trying to find his way to the ballpark From Paul
mark From queens going With Paul skeens on Opening? Day
who else we? Have Poor Parley poppy From Milkman, Mike Parley,
(39:02):
POPPY i should Say Parley? Poppy what else do we?
Have that was From Milkman Mike In? Colorado scrooge is
going with the Iconic dennis Oil can. BOYD a lot
of people. DIDN'T i didn't know WHEN i was a
kid what that. MEANT i didn't realize baseball didn't realize
what that Oil can nickname. Meant otherwise they likely would
not have continued to call me to me you have,
(39:26):
Time i'll tell you. Later Johnny Knoxville guests By rob The,
Goatman Sammy. Stewart that's a good name from its baseball.
Card That's alf The Alien. Opiner he looked like a
comedian in the nineteen, eighties a big mustache and The burley,
Hair Wiley coyote From Keelin. Pie bobby And. Florida Scott
boris guests By femi The, uber Each, Driver Freddie pottuck
(39:47):
From Mister Nice, Guy Warren brusstarr From Bay, City Tony
Jay sherman From King. Roy that's a good name right.
There like that. Name analog album With Anthony peterson is his.
Answer do you have an, Ansle? Loraina, Yes i'm gonna
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