June 2, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the weekend series between the Dodgers and the Yankees and what it says about the two teams, what this Corbin Burnes injury means, the word that describes the 2025 Rockies, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, it's our number one, our number one. After a
great weekend sojourn to Vancouver, all coda back in the
US of a breaking it all down the weekend that was.
And what does this weekend showdown say about how Aaron
boonez Yankees match up with the Dodgers who won the
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series without Mookie Betts. Can you also put into context
what this Corbin Burns injury means for the Diamondbacks as
he's facing an MRI. And what's the word that describes
the twenty twenty five Rockies, who are the first team
in baseball history to lose fifty before they won ten.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We'll talk about that and more right now here.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It is give it up for our number one. They
showdown weekend Baseball style. Welcome in not beat Ginning.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Week of the Ben Malors Show.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
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crafted quality.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You can hear unless you can't hear, and then you're
not listening. So who cares?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
From the Fox Sports Radio studios as approved by Nico
Enzo and all the great listeners in Vancouver that came out,
had a wonderful time last week the Mallard Meet and
Greet and spent the weekend there in Vancouver, so big
thanks to Nico who made that happen. We'll have some
more stories throughout and then hopefully I'll catch up with
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Nego at some point on the on the pod and
we'll have full in depth team coverage of the weekend
that was around Vancouver. But our lead this hour, it's
all about sporty mixed sport and the big game on Sunday,
the big weekend showdown, must see, must see the baseball game.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
As we head into the month of June.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Now the June second show here as the calendar flipped over.
The weekend at Chavez Ravine, the final matchup of the
regular season and the only played three games, the Bronx
Bombers and the Boys in Blue the Doyers as they
wrapped up the weekend series.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
An Island game in Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Night Baseball and I don't know if you're watching this
or not, maybe not. I had it on in the
background and a former Dodger Ryan Yarborough limiting the Dodger offense,
and we had four hits against him over six innings.
And Ben Rice, oh so nice. He had a big
bomb to center field, tie breaking two run homer, and
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the Yankees salvage a game. They got their ass kicked
by the Dodgers this weekend, but they didn't win a
game seven to three. They avoid getting sweeped or swept
out of Dodgers Stadium. Now the Dodgers their top pitcher
this year, the only one that's not hurt. Last I
checked Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the ace of the current Dodgers. He
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got lit off. He had a clunker against the Yankees
in that game. But you got to look at the
big picture. So Yarborough, who cares about He's not going
to pitch any big games for the Yankees in the playoffs.
Let's be honest about that. So you push that aside.
And he pitched fine. He was a reliever on the Dodgers,
so memorable. You didn't even know he was on the
team in twenty twenty four when they won the World Series.
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And he got a ring over the weekend, and so
there you go. But the whole weekend. Three games.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
We have three games to judge the Dodgers versus the
Yankees at this point. So let us discuss the question
what does this weekend showdown series say about Aaron Boone's
Yankees and how they match up with the Dodgers because
they did lose the series. They might have won the
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game on Sunday, but they lost the series. So I've
got atomic high mileage and moon landings, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are gonna
make the Baba Ganoosh is what we're gonna make with
a side of poutine.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
All right. So a now I realize that it is June.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I have been reminded it is June, and we know
people are going to say, ah, it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's June baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But I look at it like horse racing, and these
teams will be much different by the time we get
down to the end of the regular season in October
and all that stuff. But it's like you're watching the
Kentucky Derby and at the quarter pole march you look
to see who's in the lead. Now, it doesn't mean
that that horse who's in the lead is going to win,
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but it gives you a pretty good indication at that
point in the race that horse is doing very well
in the race. We do the show today, right, we
do the show today, and so today at this moment,
the New York Yankees have some explaining to do. Yeah,
they got some catching up here. And it was a
much bigger series. I think every man, woman and child
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can agree, much bigger series for Aaron Judge and the Yankees.
And you know he had some all muns over Willim,
but a much bigger deal for the Yankees at this
point to get a little bit of payback and just
to let everyone know, hey, the Yankees are high for
looting team and all this stuff, and it's not gonna
be the same situation as last year when Aaron Judge
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futched around in center field and one of my favorite
defensive plays I've ever seen in posting people talk about
Bill Buckner and his boner at first place for the
Red Sox back in the day, Aaron Judge misplaying a
routine ball in centate field chef's kiss in my humble analysis,
So how did the series go for the Yankees? So
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they went on Sunday, But if you look at the
first two games of the series instead of payback, a
battered roster for the Doyers, a battle scarred unit that
they sent out there. Pitching staff completely flea bitten, the
lineup weather bitten as well, and they outscored the Yankees
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the first two games of the series twenty six to seven.
They put up eighteen runs on Saturday. And the big one, though,
was on Friday. And that's the one that is a
kick to the nuts for the Yankees. They went out
and they lost Juan Soto, and they got Max Freed,
and they got Max Freed for big games against teams
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like the Dodgers. And Max Freed had tight took his
syndrome against the Dodgers in that game on Friday, and
it was glorious to see. And it's embarrassing for the
Yankees be considered Mookie Betts. He supposedly hurt himself his
tootsie at his house. I'm skeptical. I always think there's
more to those stories. When I hear baseball players getting
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injured like that, I always say there's something else going on.
Was he the karate kid? Was he kicking something? I
don't know, But anyway, overall, for the Yankees. This was
the atomic wedgie for them to come in here, and
they had kicked ass. I think they swept the Angels.
They played very well, won their last couple of series
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in dominating fashion. And they go into Dodger State and
they were strutting in there like a peacock. They had
their feeds off, and they just got punched the first
two days bludgeoned. And so Brian Cashman, who's the nerd emeritus,
Brian Cashman and his roster of players hand picked players
because of the analytics against the Dodgers players and their analytics.
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The overall great Again, we're looking at the overall grade here,
Dodgers and Yankees. You look at the overall grade here,
and you're like, hey, wait a minute, they've the players
were standing around there and they looked a little bit
confused on Friday, and certainly on Saturday, they were gobsmacked,
like they just walked into some kind of algebra exam
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and they'd forgotten to study.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
For most of the weekend, they didn't do any studying.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And again, the Max Freed debacle was the big one.
I mean, the Dodger line up without Mookie Betts and
they really roughed up Freed in that game, and so
then the Yankee apologists will be, ah, everything's fine, don't
worry about this, Okay, we'll get him in October. I
don't know about that, but at least you have those
VHS tapes of the great Yankee dynasty of the nineties
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and can go back and watch those old VHS tapes. Now. Meanwhile,
to Arizona, we go a snap, crackle, pop goes, let's ease,
and well, not.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yet, but it's looking that way.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The big free agent pitching move of the offseason not
exactly working out that well right now for the team
that calls themselves the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
If you did not see.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
This, Corbin Burns, mister Burns of Arizona set for the
dreaded MRI on his tender elbow. He left to start
on Sunday after seventy pitches. So question, can you put
into context what this Corbin Burns injury means in Arizona?
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So I've got I'll keep it simple, right. This is
a not a body blow. It's a gut punch, is
what this is. And the Diamondbacks were in the World
Series a couple of years ago. They still think of
themselves as this darling of October baseball, that all they
have to do is get in and then they've got
the kind of team, a bunch of pesky hitters that
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they can make this big run. And if you look
at Burns, though, his velocity was down, which is generally.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Known as a dead way, a dead new way. There
are some serious issues.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The thing of a jig and the watch you McCall
it are not exactly working right there. And Burns this
is kind of a big deal. He signed a six
year contract for two hundred and ten million this offseason
for the Diamondbacks, and everyone was like, what are you
doing when they signed with that contract. This is a
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guy that had shown signs with the orioles of decline.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
There were some red flags.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We had mentioned them in previous Mallard monologues about Burns
showing some signs of being a ticking time bomb and
tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tic tic tic ticking,
and well, this is not officially kaboom, It's down. Kaboom
Highway is what it is, and we'll see Tory Lavello,
the manager of the Dimonbacks, says he's quote more than
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minimally concerned. Okay, no kidding, thank you very much. This
is not just some kind of blip on the radar here.
This is a potential iceberg, and you very rarely see
icebergs in the Greater Phoenix area, especially as we go
into June and July and all that stuff. But the
Diamondbacks are floundering. They're a sub five hundred team at
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this point, struggling to stay afloat in a division with
the Doyers and the Padres and the Giants who've been okay,
not as good as they were at the beginning of
the art. Now, last word, you know that this show
is built on losers. The Ben Mahlor show. We love losers,
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and there is no bigger loser story than in Colorado.
I said in New York. But this series was in
New York or Queens Flushing, but involves the Colorado Rockies,
the team in Colorado who got swept by the Metropolitans.
Now that's not surprising. What is surprising. It is now official.
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It has been rubber stamped. It is a done deal.
The Rockies have played fifty nine games and they have
lost fifty That is the worst record in the history
of professional baseball since nineteen oh one. That's one hundred
and twenty plus years of baseball, and no one has
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reached the level of suckage as the twenty twenty five
Colorado Rockies. This is the era for teams that blow.
You had the White Sox last year, now you've got
the Rockies. But the Rockies the first team ever to
lose fifty before they won ten. Do you realize how
hard that is to lose fifty before you win ten?
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You know, just showing up and going about as a professional,
you're gonna win roughly, as the old line goes, the
great late Tommy Lesorda used to preach, and I heard
this many times from Lasorda, every team's gonna win fifty games.
They're gonna lose fifty, or win sixty and lose sixty.
It's what you do with the other games, that's what matters. Okay,
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So the Rockies have been swept ten times in twenty series.
They've been swept ten times. That is tied for the
most sweeps in twenty series with the nineteen sixty two
Mets and the nineteen seventy Milwaukee Brewers. Not a team
that is very memorable unless you're I guess in Wisconsin
and the nineteen ninety four what used to be called
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the Oakland Athletics back when Oakland had a team, but
now they're just a nomad team that doesn't exist in Sacramento.
But you can allow to say that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So what is the word?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
What is the word that describes the twenty twenty five Rockies. So,
after a thorough review of all possible words, the word
I will use is the H word helpless. They are
absolutely see. The thing that's wild is you talk to
old school baseball people. They romanticize suck like the Mets,
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the nineteen sixty two Mets with Casey Stangele romanticized.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
This is a magical thing.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
They've been books written about them, documentaries about them.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It was a magical bad team.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
There's nothing redeeming about the twenty twenty five Rockies. They're
not entertaining in a bad way. They're not entertaining in
a good way. They're just garbage. That's what they are.
It's wild. You'd think you're so bad at nine to
fifty that there's something where you feel empathy for them,
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But that nine fifty a baseball record, It's like that's
a cry for an intervention is what that is. It's
like a basketball record that you're trying to take for
the top pick. I mean, my god, since nineteen oh one,
think about thisineteen oh.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
One, we've had multiple world wars.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
We've had moon landings, the Internet has been invented, television
and radio.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Have been invented, and.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Not once since nineteen oh one has anyone in Major
League Baseball been so pathetic after fifty nine games as
the twenty twenty five Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
The the Rockies said, hey, hold my course life. Of
course they said hold my course light, and then of
course you drop it as they handed it to you,
and just another error for the flotsam and the jetsam
here as man like they're auditioning for some kind of
reboot of they're not trying to leave Colorado Major League
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maybe Bad News Bear Major League. They'd be trying to
go to somewhere where it's sunny and get out of Colorado.
It's not that, it's just they're just they're just bad,
and they're not really rebuilding. I don't believe in rebuilding anyway.
They're not they're not intentionally being bad. They're just bad,
which is a special kind of bad. It's on the
spectrum of bad. It's beyond bad because if you're trying
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to be bad, like the White Sox are trying to
be bad and they bad, the Rockies are, They're like
somewhere stuck in the middle. It's very bizarre what's going on.
And we somewhere the owner of the Rockies is sipping
a cocktail and you know, hanging out in some luxury
box and we're watching these games, having a grand time.
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As the team rolls out, Die Die Die, already on
the field, no plan, no vision, and no reason to
go if you're gonna watch, if you're in Colorado, like,
why would you go to the game? Maybe to see
the other team. There really needs to be some kind
of sustained the boycott. It does work. If nobody's going up,
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that gets people's attention. Nobody's watching the games on TV,
and people aren't going to the games, you do get attention.
The Rockies years ago actually led baseball in attendance. Of course,
I think at that time they played if I remember,
they played in the old Broncos Stadium, But they led
baseball in attends for years they had actually entertaining teams,
and that damn Hubidor. It's the humidor that ruined it.
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I'm blaming the humidor that and an owner who doesn't
know what he's doing. Rich guy, why'd you buy a
baseball team? The whole point of buying a baseball team?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Rich guy? I would think would be to flex.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And to brag, and you make money, but she can
make money doing other stuff. You don't have to own
a sports team, So why would you buy it and
then just have a floundering, pathetic roster not even put
any effort to do It's it's wild to me anyway.
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A baseball heavy Malamont. Well's Yankee apologists out there? Where
are they at? I don't know where they are.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Well they won on Sunday, Okay, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I want to thank Nico and everyone that showed up
in Vancouver over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Had a fine time. Was great to be there. Really
enjoyed Vancouver.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I didn't know what to expect, never been there before, and
it was a beautiful city, great skyline, a big skyline guy,
but it combined the best of the great outdoors, wonderful park.
The Stanley Park in Vancouver was awesome and we got
to explore that a little bit. And the meet and
greet went really well on Thursday, and had a great
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meal on Saturday, hanging out with our pal Nico and
the listeners that were fetching around Vancouver.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So I'd had a wonderful time.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So thanks to everyone that showed up, and hopefully we'll
be back in.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Canada at some point.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
We got some more Malord meet and greets coming up
later in the year. Ferg Dog says, welcome home, Ben.
I heard you waved old glory in front of every
Canadian stupid face. You made us proud. Yeah, no, I
don't know that that actually happened, but thank you, Shane
and to Mornin writs and says Ben. Would the NBA
rather have Pacers versus thunder go to game seven or
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seven games of Ernie Kenny Charles and Shack and Gunner.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
If Gunner's in there then no. And I'm pretty confident
that the NBA Finals will be a speak easy addition,
a speakeasy addition.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
So and we'll talk about it, because you know, it's
a talk show, and we'll talk about it's basketball game,
plausibly a sports show.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Enzo, who was at the meet and greet, says a
shout out to Nico for setting up the whole. A
big meet and greet there deserves kudos. Was an awesome time,
a lot of fun. Props to the mallor crew for
being there, a show of the people.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Thank you. Enzo's good to meet you. Anzel used to
call the show.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Now he's all growing up with kids and all that stuff,
But he used to call the show back in the
day and we had a good range of people now.
Devin writes in he says, Malor you call the rock
call for a Rockies boycott. Only problem is those going
to Coors Field are to see the visiting team. Major
League Baseball must force Dick Montfort out as owner. He
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does not care about the product. Just collecting that money
from visiting fan bases. Well, it's it's a bad situation.
And you've got a commissioner that doesn't know what he's doing,
rob manfraud who's just worried about putting clocks in and
all these gadgets and AI and all that crap into baseball.
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And you've got some teams that are an absolute embarrassment
that aren't even trying.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And this is we actually this came up at the
meet and greet.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
We're talking about this, and a couple different people brought
up the fact, well, in the European Soccer League they
have relegation. They never do it in American sports. We've
ranted about this many times over the years, but they
wouldn't do it because that would potentially cost.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Them a fair amount of money.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Because if you your team got relegated, you'd go from
a team worth a couple billion dollars at the bottom
end to a team where who knows how much because
you get relegated too, do you lose your job? And
the Winnipeg Blue Bombers coming. I was proud to say
that one of the guys that showed up to the
meet and greet he told me back in his younger days,
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he was a ball boy for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers,
the team that I always mentioned when I referenced the
Canadian Football League, my favorite team in the Canadian Football
League because.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Of their name, the Blue Bombers.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Supermarket Steve says, I wonder if Bud Black really wanted
to get fired.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I imagine him walking into.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
The owner GM's office, flipping him off, calling them morons
and telling them that their wives are ugly and their
mothers are fat. Until they fired him. Tonio Russo couldn't
get these bums to win. Well, they lost that game
on a Saturday night. I got by twenty runs or
something like that. It's wild. And then he was fired
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after the next day. They actually won the next day,
I believe, and then they whacked him. It's a mess.
I usually can name a couple guys on every team,
at least. If you put a gun to my head
and said you got to name somebody or you dead, I'm.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Dead, start digging a hole. That's old. I couldn't. I couldn't.
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I mean, I've watched the Rockies and I still can't
name uh name them? Uh Aaron Rights, it says Mallard.
The Colorado Rockies have one redeeming quality. One of their
few wins was versus the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
There you go. Can they hang a banner?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The late Jim Rsey would have hung a banner in
Indianapolis that we only won nine games, but we beat
the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
There you go? That's it.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Aileen Wright say says, if the San Francisco Giants get
any offense going, they'll be good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I wouldn't hold on that. I wouldn't worry about that
too much. I don't think that's gonna have been.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Eugene. I don't know how. I don't know how you
hit her, you left handed or right handed?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Island. Maybe you can go help the Giants out be
a designated hitter. Eugene rights in from Chicago, says been
the w NBA gets no ratings without Caitlin Clark and
now the players beginning to understand her importance to the
w NBA.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
No, they're not. I don't believe it, Eugene. I don't
believe it. I don't buy it. Bill Wright sin says
Rob Manford wears underwear with blank in them. Bill, I
can't say that, Bill, What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Eeny meaniemighty Mall. Let's go to Johnny who's in minnesot
He don't want to talk baseball, none of Yeah, yeah,
he either care about baseball.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
He must have talked.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
About basketball, but not his team, which will not be
in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Finds definitely not. They didn't play good enough.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That's a fair, fair analysis. Are you on TNT? That's
good analysis.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I'm on TNT. I wish there was me and Bernie
would have been sorted of having a conversation, you and Bernie. Anyway, anyways,
I agree with Indiana team analogy. They ball real good
Oklahoma City and they do it from Canada.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
What's his name, He's known as the dude, Justin Bieber,
the dude from Canada. They call him the dude. That's
his name, the dude.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, okay, I love you guys. Anyways, have a good night.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Okay, that's a terrible way to start. My god, that's
a horrible phone call. Holy craft? Did that suck?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Why did we take that call? Why did you call?
He must have he must be he must have been
at work and somebody must have come over and around.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
All right, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So he just wanted to be on the air. You
really have much to say, and there you go.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Okay, wow that was that was terrible terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible,
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for a team called the Cleveland Indians, but then the
Wolksh's got upset they had to cancel the name of
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the team, so now they're named after Bridge the Guardians. Anyway,
Francisco Lindor has now passed El Capitan Derek Jeter in
total home runs for a shortstop.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Lindor ahead of Derek Jeter.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Now you're not supposed to say anything bad about Derek Jeter,
because if you say anything negative about Derek Jeter, then
alarm bells will sound and the Yankee Army will form
a wall of fire and they will hunt you down.
Can I do it now?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Lindor ends up with more home runs.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
However, the legend of Derek Jeter in the gift basket
and the cell phone basket in the foyer at his
mansion in Tampa, If only did he had that?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
If only did he?
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I guess did he might have had that? There's no
real video of did he doing his thing at the
freak offs there? I guess, But there are many many
people that believe they know what happened there. Don't think
there's any video that's gotten now, maybe there is. I
don't have them really really watching the traba Jeter he
had a stable of beautiful women that were dating him
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in in the rule no cell phone, Lindor, I was married.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
This is part of the deal.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Larry D writes and says Ben Maler's new nickname Canadian
Ben can Ben, You went to Canada to promote them
as the new fifty first state. No, I just went
to Canada have a good time. We had a fine time.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
It was wondering. It was so beautiful there, Ben, it
is It was a magical place. I love that Stanley Park,
so I didn't even know that existed. I had no
idea that that was even the thing. It's it.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I've been to Central Park many times in New York.
It's much better than Central Park. And they are their
own country in Canada, that's right. And they gave us
the poutine and we're grateful. How many poutines did you have,
ben I ate poutine? Well, we had at the meet
and greet.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Right, So that was one.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
That was the one, and then we had three separate,
different meals outside of that, so there was four total.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Poutine and you had a poutine at every meal.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
And that was so Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and we actually
flew back early on Sunday, so Sunday didn't really count.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I had poutine Sunday morning for breakfast six am. You
had poutine at six in the morning. Where at the
airport they sold it at the airport. It was a
little cafe. No, you got to go to tim Horton.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
I got them.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Did you go to tim Horton? We were told not
to go to tim Horton. I went to tim Horton twice.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
I did.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I didn't see poutine but I went during breakfast hour,
so maybe that's that's why.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Well, I had a late Saturday night, so I did not,
you know, do this. I'm so fat, so I'm trying
to keep my girlers figure. So I did not partake
in any food at the airport. But I did see
the Tim Hortons. There was a line wrapped around the
Vancouver Airport there. People loved their Tim moy.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
How did the Costco poutine rank? Pretty good? Not bad?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
The chicken figures highly disappointing. Oh yeah, I got the
because you know, I look good on a little ad there.
But it's great sod they have. The Costco in downtown
Vancouver is literally across one street from the CFL stadium,
actually from the hockey Arena, And the CFL Stadium is
like the next building over, so you can just go
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there and eat your Costco food and then go watch
the game and save a bunch of money. They must
lose so much money, the Canucks and the Canadian Football
League team, the Lion's.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
There as Costco's right next door. It's right across the street.
Man buy a seven dollar hot dog when you can
have one for two ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, Well that and the poutine was reasonable and you
get a massive portion and all that. And Nico was
telling us they lined up when there's games there, they're
lined up for the Costco foods. So anyway, it was
it was a good time, and some of you have
reached out via email and all that, so.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
We we thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
What yes, very very very nice, Larry says, any any
more phone calls like that and we will have to
dig up Alexander Graham Bell and beat the crap out
of his corpse for inventing the telephone.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It's rather extreme there, Larry. But that was a terrible
way to start the week. I feel like the week's
going to be terrible now. The first call sets the
tone years and I need some mouthwashed. I think to
your we're suffering from halaposis. That was not what we
were looking for to start the festivities.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
But here we are. We'll try to survive. Time now
for the who am I?
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Game?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
And here it is. Here's the who am I?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Game?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Framburgh Valdez. That's a picture for the cheating Asstros.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I know you could cool them. Why not?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Framber Valdez of the Cheating Asstros became the first major
league baseball lefty to toss a complete game in which
he had fewer than a dozen pitches in every inning
since me again, and we'll play off that other story
as well, the clip and save story. But Franber Valdez,
the cheating Astros, became the first major league baseball lefty
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to toss a complete game in which he had fewer
than a dozen pitches in every inning since me?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
That is the question the answer. We'll get to it,
and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
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You'll never miss the very best Malard monologues and Fox
Sports Radio videos on the YouTube. Back to it, back
to it we go, and time before we get to
the who am I game? We have the play of
the day. And I know somewhere in the Pacific Northwest,
Robbie the Mariner fan a little giddy, a little giddy
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because of plays like this from Randy Rosa Rana getting
it done in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
One one time, bottom of the ninth inning. Let's stretch
the two to one pitch, swinging to grab bowl up
the middle base set the Marinis what it? Randy Arosa
right now jumps on first base. Oh, walk up, single
wholio score and the Mariners win it two to one
over the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, Mariners and the questionable call, But that's fine.
That was the tire i Raq play thanks to the
Mariners radio. I believe it sounds like a TV call,
but I think it was Mariner's ready anyway. Tire Iraq,
they made that possible to play the day. For over
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Speaker 2 (35:35):
Sure be Cal Raley another home run twenty third of
the year in that one, and then Randy Rose Arena
the game winning hit for the Mariners. And don't look now,
do not look at your Major League Baseball standings here
on the second day of June, because you will not
believe that the Seattle Mariners are in the penthouse in
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the American League West at this point.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
All right ton out four. The who am I?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else a's
We call it the who am I?
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And here it is so.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Frember Valdez the cheating Astros, became the first Major League
Baseball lefty over the weekend to toss a complete game
in which he had fewer than a dozen pitches in
every inning since me, who am I?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
That is the question?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
What is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
Eileen that says airport poutine is the answer? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I generally try to avoid eating at airports because I
thought it was really good.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I try to avoid it, and my wife always eats
at airports and I'm like, nah, no, just get better
food outside the airport.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
But you know good, But how should it cost you?
Lorena twelve dollars. That's that's too expensive.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
COSTCO much cheaper, Nature Boy says early prints into Okay,
what else do we have? The million dollar man Ted
DEBIASI from our friend Rob in Vegas. Hopeful we'll see
Rob at the Mala meet and greet we do down
the line in Vegas. Alfi alien Opino says, Pedro Pascal
is the answer.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Joey Chestnut, the world record holder for poutine eating he
ate twenty eight pounds in twenty nineteen from I forty
eight delicious cheese curds twenty eight pounds.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Wow. Now who else do we have? Page down? Tino
Martinez for mister nice guy.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Okay, I see with the Calgary Cannons horn swoggle from
King Rory. That's his answer. Frank Viola sweet music from
Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. Mister Irrigation says the Bambino
Babe oath eighty three pitches. That's from Mister Irrigation and
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the Belly of the Beast. Jerry Royce from Malibu, Rubin
Bozo the District Attorney, guests by Sheen in Des Moines.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Whitey Ford from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Vita Blue guests
by Rob in Minnesota, Maple Leaf, mallor Oh from Mallor proper. Yeah,
they'll give me all these Canadian nicknames now because I
spent a few.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Days any of the big ball getter, I guess it.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
I love.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
I thought Canada was great. I mean, you know, there
was a few things in Vancouver I would have changed,
but overall I thought it was. It was a good time.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Enzo, says Travis Lulay, the ninety ninth Gray Cup MVP
BC former BC Lione quarterback.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
All right, Lorenda, you have an answer. You met him
Benett's law dog.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Is it law?
Speaker 6 (38:39):
No, it is Tom Glavin of the milanam Rice is
back in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Tom Glavin
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome, it's our number one, our number one. After a
great weekend sojourn to Vancouver, all coda back in the
US of a breaking it all down the weekend that was.
And what does this weekend showdown say about how Aaron
boonez Yankees match up with the Dodgers who won the
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series without Mookie Betts. Can you also put into context
what this Corbin Burns injury means for the Diamondbacks as
he's facing an MRI. And what's the word that describes
the twenty twenty five Rockies, who are the first team
in baseball history to lose fifty before they won ten.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We'll talk about that and more right now here.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
It is give it up for our number one. They
showdown weekend Baseball style. Welcome in not beat Ginning.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Week of the Ben Malors Show.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
We are in the air awhere, cohorts, as we are
the pulse of the people coast, the coast, border, the
order and beyond on the vast and talkatively powerful microphones
of fsre am monating live from the craft, the hand
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crafted quality.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You can hear unless you can't hear, and then you're
not listening. So who cares?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
From the Fox Sports Radio studios as approved by Nico
Enzo and all the great listeners in Vancouver that came out,
had a wonderful time last week the Mallard Meet and
Greet and spent the weekend there in Vancouver, so big
thanks to Nico who made that happen. We'll have some
more stories throughout and then hopefully I'll catch up with
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Nego at some point on the on the pod and
we'll have full in depth team coverage of the weekend
that was around Vancouver. But our lead this hour, it's
all about sporty mixed sport and the big game on Sunday,
the big weekend showdown, must see, must see the baseball game.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
As we head into the month of June.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Now the June second show here as the calendar flipped over.
The weekend at Chavez Ravine, the final matchup of the
regular season and the only played three games, the Bronx
Bombers and the Boys in Blue the Doyers as they
wrapped up the weekend series.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
An Island game in Sunday.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Night Baseball and I don't know if you're watching this
or not, maybe not. I had it on in the
background and a former Dodger Ryan Yarborough limiting the Dodger offense,
and we had four hits against him over six innings.
And Ben Rice, oh so nice. He had a big
bomb to center field, tie breaking two run homer, and
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the Yankees salvage a game. They got their ass kicked
by the Dodgers this weekend, but they didn't win a
game seven to three. They avoid getting sweeped or swept
out of Dodgers Stadium. Now the Dodgers their top pitcher
this year, the only one that's not hurt. Last I
checked Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the ace of the current Dodgers. He
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got lit off. He had a clunker against the Yankees
in that game. But you got to look at the
big picture. So Yarborough, who cares about He's not going
to pitch any big games for the Yankees in the playoffs.
Let's be honest about that. So you push that aside.
And he pitched fine. He was a reliever on the Dodgers,
so memorable. You didn't even know he was on the
team in twenty twenty four when they won the World Series.
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And he got a ring over the weekend, and so
there you go. But the whole weekend. Three games.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
We have three games to judge the Dodgers versus the
Yankees at this point. So let us discuss the question
what does this weekend showdown series say about Aaron Boone's
Yankees and how they match up with the Dodgers because
they did lose the series. They might have won the
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game on Sunday, but they lost the series. So I've
got atomic high mileage and moon landings, and we will
combine all of these things together and we are gonna
make the Baba Ganoosh is what we're gonna make with
a side of poutine.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
All right. So a now I realize that it is June.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I have been reminded it is June, and we know
people are going to say, ah, it doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's June baseball.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
But I look at it like horse racing, and these
teams will be much different by the time we get
down to the end of the regular season in October
and all that stuff. But it's like you're watching the
Kentucky Derby and at the quarter pole march you look
to see who's in the lead. Now, it doesn't mean
that that horse who's in the lead is going to win,
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but it gives you a pretty good indication at that
point in the race that horse is doing very well
in the race. We do the show today, right, we
do the show today, and so today at this moment,
the New York Yankees have some explaining to do. Yeah,
they got some catching up here. And it was a
much bigger series. I think every man, woman and child
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can agree, much bigger series for Aaron Judge and the Yankees.
And you know he had some all muns over Willim,
but a much bigger deal for the Yankees at this
point to get a little bit of payback and just
to let everyone know, hey, the Yankees are high for
looting team and all this stuff, and it's not gonna
be the same situation as last year when Aaron Judge
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futched around in center field and one of my favorite
defensive plays I've ever seen in posting people talk about
Bill Buckner and his boner at first place for the
Red Sox back in the day, Aaron Judge misplaying a
routine ball in centate field chef's kiss in my humble analysis,
So how did the series go for the Yankees? So
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they went on Sunday, But if you look at the
first two games of the series instead of payback, a
battered roster for the Doyers, a battle scarred unit that
they sent out there. Pitching staff completely flea bitten, the
lineup weather bitten as well, and they outscored the Yankees
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the first two games of the series twenty six to seven.
They put up eighteen runs on Saturday. And the big one, though,
was on Friday. And that's the one that is a
kick to the nuts for the Yankees. They went out
and they lost Juan Soto, and they got Max Freed,
and they got Max Freed for big games against teams
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like the Dodgers. And Max Freed had tight took his
syndrome against the Dodgers in that game on Friday, and
it was glorious to see. And it's embarrassing for the
Yankees be considered Mookie Betts. He supposedly hurt himself his
tootsie at his house. I'm skeptical. I always think there's
more to those stories. When I hear baseball players getting
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injured like that, I always say there's something else going on.
Was he the karate kid? Was he kicking something? I
don't know, But anyway, overall, for the Yankees. This was
the atomic wedgie for them to come in here, and
they had kicked ass. I think they swept the Angels.
They played very well, won their last couple of series
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in dominating fashion. And they go into Dodger State and
they were strutting in there like a peacock. They had
their feeds off, and they just got punched the first
two days bludgeoned. And so Brian Cashman, who's the nerd emeritus,
Brian Cashman and his roster of players hand picked players
because of the analytics against the Dodgers players and their analytics.
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The overall great Again, we're looking at the overall grade here,
Dodgers and Yankees. You look at the overall grade here,
and you're like, hey, wait a minute, they've the players
were standing around there and they looked a little bit
confused on Friday, and certainly on Saturday, they were gobsmacked,
like they just walked into some kind of algebra exam
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and they'd forgotten to study.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
For most of the weekend, they didn't do any studying.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
And again, the Max Freed debacle was the big one.
I mean, the Dodger line up without Mookie Betts and
they really roughed up Freed in that game, and so
then the Yankee apologists will be, ah, everything's fine, don't
worry about this, Okay, we'll get him in October. I
don't know about that, but at least you have those
VHS tapes of the great Yankee dynasty of the nineties
(08:49):
and can go back and watch those old VHS tapes. Now. Meanwhile,
to Arizona, we go a snap, crackle, pop goes, let's ease,
and well, not.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yet, but it's looking that way.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
The big free agent pitching move of the offseason not
exactly working out that well right now for the team
that calls themselves the Diamondbacks.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
If you did not see.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
This, Corbin Burns, mister Burns of Arizona set for the
dreaded MRI on his tender elbow. He left to start
on Sunday after seventy pitches. So question, can you put
into context what this Corbin Burns injury means in Arizona?
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So I've got I'll keep it simple, right. This is
a not a body blow. It's a gut punch, is
what this is. And the Diamondbacks were in the World
Series a couple of years ago. They still think of
themselves as this darling of October baseball, that all they
have to do is get in and then they've got
the kind of team, a bunch of pesky hitters that
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they can make this big run. And if you look
at Burns, though, his velocity was down, which is generally.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Known as a dead way, a dead new way. There
are some serious issues.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
The thing of a jig and the watch you McCall
it are not exactly working right there. And Burns this
is kind of a big deal. He signed a six
year contract for two hundred and ten million this offseason
for the Diamondbacks, and everyone was like, what are you
doing when they signed with that contract. This is a
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guy that had shown signs with the orioles of decline.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
There were some red flags.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
We had mentioned them in previous Mallard monologues about Burns
showing some signs of being a ticking time bomb and
tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tic tic tic ticking,
and well, this is not officially kaboom, It's down. Kaboom
Highway is what it is, and we'll see Tory Lavello,
the manager of the Dimonbacks, says he's quote more than
(11:03):
minimally concerned. Okay, no kidding, thank you very much. This
is not just some kind of blip on the radar here.
This is a potential iceberg, and you very rarely see
icebergs in the Greater Phoenix area, especially as we go
into June and July and all that stuff. But the
Diamondbacks are floundering. They're a sub five hundred team at
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this point, struggling to stay afloat in a division with
the Doyers and the Padres and the Giants who've been okay,
not as good as they were at the beginning of
the art. Now, last word, you know that this show
is built on losers. The Ben Mahlor show. We love losers,
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and there is no bigger loser story than in Colorado.
I said in New York. But this series was in
New York or Queens Flushing, but involves the Colorado Rockies,
the team in Colorado who got swept by the Metropolitans.
Now that's not surprising. What is surprising. It is now official.
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It has been rubber stamped. It is a done deal.
The Rockies have played fifty nine games and they have
lost fifty That is the worst record in the history
of professional baseball since nineteen oh one. That's one hundred
and twenty plus years of baseball, and no one has
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reached the level of suckage as the twenty twenty five
Colorado Rockies. This is the era for teams that blow.
You had the White Sox last year, now you've got
the Rockies. But the Rockies the first team ever to
lose fifty before they won ten. Do you realize how
hard that is to lose fifty before you win ten?
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You know, just showing up and going about as a professional,
you're gonna win roughly, as the old line goes, the
great late Tommy Lesorda used to preach, and I heard
this many times from Lasorda, every team's gonna win fifty games.
They're gonna lose fifty, or win sixty and lose sixty.
It's what you do with the other games, that's what matters. Okay,
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So the Rockies have been swept ten times in twenty series.
They've been swept ten times. That is tied for the
most sweeps in twenty series with the nineteen sixty two
Mets and the nineteen seventy Milwaukee Brewers. Not a team
that is very memorable unless you're I guess in Wisconsin
and the nineteen ninety four what used to be called
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the Oakland Athletics back when Oakland had a team, but
now they're just a nomad team that doesn't exist in Sacramento.
But you can allow to say that.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
So what is the word?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
What is the word that describes the twenty twenty five Rockies. So,
after a thorough review of all possible words, the word
I will use is the H word helpless. They are
absolutely see. The thing that's wild is you talk to
old school baseball people. They romanticize suck like the Mets,
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the nineteen sixty two Mets with Casey Stangele romanticized.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
This is a magical thing.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
They've been books written about them, documentaries about them.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
It was a magical bad team.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
There's nothing redeeming about the twenty twenty five Rockies. They're
not entertaining in a bad way. They're not entertaining in
a good way. They're just garbage. That's what they are.
It's wild. You'd think you're so bad at nine to
fifty that there's something where you feel empathy for them,
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But that nine fifty a baseball record, It's like that's
a cry for an intervention is what that is. It's
like a basketball record that you're trying to take for
the top pick. I mean, my god, since nineteen oh one,
think about thisineteen oh.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
One, we've had multiple world wars.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
We've had moon landings, the Internet has been invented, television
and radio.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Have been invented, and.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Not once since nineteen oh one has anyone in Major
League Baseball been so pathetic after fifty nine games as
the twenty twenty five Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
And spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
The the Rockies said, hey, hold my course life. Of
course they said hold my course light, and then of
course you drop it as they handed it to you,
and just another error for the flotsam and the jetsam
here as man like they're auditioning for some kind of
reboot of they're not trying to leave Colorado Major League
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maybe Bad News Bear Major League. They'd be trying to
go to somewhere where it's sunny and get out of Colorado.
It's not that, it's just they're just they're just bad,
and they're not really rebuilding. I don't believe in rebuilding anyway.
They're not they're not intentionally being bad. They're just bad,
which is a special kind of bad. It's on the
spectrum of bad. It's beyond bad because if you're trying
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to be bad, like the White Sox are trying to
be bad and they bad, the Rockies are, They're like
somewhere stuck in the middle. It's very bizarre what's going on.
And we somewhere the owner of the Rockies is sipping
a cocktail and you know, hanging out in some luxury
box and we're watching these games, having a grand time.
(16:37):
As the team rolls out, Die Die Die, already on
the field, no plan, no vision, and no reason to
go if you're gonna watch, if you're in Colorado, like,
why would you go to the game? Maybe to see
the other team. There really needs to be some kind
of sustained the boycott. It does work. If nobody's going up,
(17:01):
that gets people's attention. Nobody's watching the games on TV,
and people aren't going to the games, you do get attention.
The Rockies years ago actually led baseball in attendance. Of course,
I think at that time they played if I remember,
they played in the old Broncos Stadium, But they led
baseball in attends for years they had actually entertaining teams,
and that damn Hubidor. It's the humidor that ruined it.
(17:23):
I'm blaming the humidor that and an owner who doesn't
know what he's doing. Rich guy, why'd you buy a
baseball team? The whole point of buying a baseball team?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Are you?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Rich guy? I would think would be to flex.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
And to brag, and you make money, but she can
make money doing other stuff. You don't have to own
a sports team, So why would you buy it and
then just have a floundering, pathetic roster not even put
any effort to do It's it's wild to me anyway.
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We'll get to that coming up in a little bit.
A baseball heavy Malamont. Well's Yankee apologists out there? Where
are they at? I don't know where they are.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Well they won on Sunday, Okay, congratulations.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I want to thank Nico and everyone that showed up
in Vancouver over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Had a fine time. Was great to be there. Really
enjoyed Vancouver.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
I didn't know what to expect, never been there before, and
it was a beautiful city, great skyline, a big skyline guy,
but it combined the best of the great outdoors, wonderful park.
The Stanley Park in Vancouver was awesome and we got
to explore that a little bit. And the meet and
greet went really well on Thursday, and had a great
(21:21):
meal on Saturday, hanging out with our pal Nico and
the listeners that were fetching around Vancouver.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So I'd had a wonderful time.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
So thanks to everyone that showed up, and hopefully we'll
be back in.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Canada at some point.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
We got some more Malord meet and greets coming up
later in the year. Ferg Dog says, welcome home, Ben.
I heard you waved old glory in front of every
Canadian stupid face. You made us proud. Yeah, no, I
don't know that that actually happened, but thank you, Shane
and to Mornin writs and says Ben. Would the NBA
rather have Pacers versus thunder go to game seven or
(21:57):
seven games of Ernie Kenny Charles and Shack and Gunner.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
If Gunner's in there then no. And I'm pretty confident
that the NBA Finals will be a speak easy addition,
a speakeasy addition.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
So and we'll talk about it, because you know, it's
a talk show, and we'll talk about it's basketball game,
plausibly a sports show.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Enzo, who was at the meet and greet, says a
shout out to Nico for setting up the whole. A
big meet and greet there deserves kudos. Was an awesome time,
a lot of fun. Props to the mallor crew for
being there, a show of the people.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Thank you. Enzo's good to meet you. Anzel used to
call the show.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Now he's all growing up with kids and all that stuff,
But he used to call the show back in the
day and we had a good range of people now.
Devin writes in he says, Malor you call the rock
call for a Rockies boycott. Only problem is those going
to Coors Field are to see the visiting team. Major
League Baseball must force Dick Montfort out as owner. He
(23:03):
does not care about the product. Just collecting that money
from visiting fan bases. Well, it's it's a bad situation.
And you've got a commissioner that doesn't know what he's doing,
rob manfraud who's just worried about putting clocks in and
all these gadgets and AI and all that crap into baseball.
(23:23):
And you've got some teams that are an absolute embarrassment
that aren't even trying.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
And this is we actually this came up at the
meet and greet.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
We're talking about this, and a couple different people brought
up the fact, well, in the European Soccer League they
have relegation. They never do it in American sports. We've
ranted about this many times over the years, but they
wouldn't do it because that would potentially cost.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Them a fair amount of money.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Because if you your team got relegated, you'd go from
a team worth a couple billion dollars at the bottom
end to a team where who knows how much because
you get relegated too, do you lose your job? And
the Winnipeg Blue Bombers coming. I was proud to say
that one of the guys that showed up to the
meet and greet he told me back in his younger days,
(24:09):
he was a ball boy for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers,
the team that I always mentioned when I referenced the
Canadian Football League, my favorite team in the Canadian Football
League because.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Of their name, the Blue Bombers.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Supermarket Steve says, I wonder if Bud Black really wanted
to get fired.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
I imagine him walking into.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
The owner GM's office, flipping him off, calling them morons
and telling them that their wives are ugly and their
mothers are fat. Until they fired him. Tonio Russo couldn't
get these bums to win. Well, they lost that game
on a Saturday night. I got by twenty runs or
something like that. It's wild. And then he was fired
(24:49):
after the next day. They actually won the next day,
I believe, and then they whacked him. It's a mess.
I usually can name a couple guys on every team,
at least. If you put a gun to my head
and said you got to name somebody or you dead, I'm.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
Dead, start digging a hole. That's old. I couldn't. I couldn't.
I couldn't do it.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I mean, I've watched the Rockies and I still can't
name uh name them? Uh Aaron Rights, it says Mallard.
The Colorado Rockies have one redeeming quality. One of their
few wins was versus the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
There you go. Can they hang a banner?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
The late Jim Rsey would have hung a banner in
Indianapolis that we only won nine games, but we beat
the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
There you go? That's it.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Aileen Wright say says, if the San Francisco Giants get
any offense going, they'll be good. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I wouldn't hold on that. I wouldn't worry about that
too much. I don't think that's gonna have been.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Eugene. I don't know how. I don't know how you
hit her, you left handed or right handed?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Island. Maybe you can go help the Giants out be
a designated hitter. Eugene rights in from Chicago, says been
the w NBA gets no ratings without Caitlin Clark and
now the players beginning to understand her importance to the
w NBA.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
No, they're not. I don't believe it, Eugene. I don't
believe it. I don't buy it. Bill Wright sin says
Rob Manford wears underwear with blank in them. Bill, I
can't say that, Bill, What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Eeny meaniemighty Mall. Let's go to Johnny who's in minnesot
He don't want to talk baseball, none of Yeah, yeah,
he either care about baseball.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
He must have talked.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
About basketball, but not his team, which will not be
in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Finds definitely not. They didn't play good enough.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
That's a fair, fair analysis. Are you on TNT? That's
good analysis.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
I'm on TNT. I wish there was me and Bernie
would have been sorted of having a conversation, you and Bernie. Anyway, anyways,
I agree with Indiana team analogy. They ball real good
Oklahoma City and they do it from Canada.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
What's his name, He's known as the dude, Justin Bieber,
the dude from Canada. They call him the dude. That's
his name, the dude.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
Yeah, okay, I love you guys. Anyways, have a good night.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Okay, that's a terrible way to start. My god, that's
a horrible phone call. Holy craft? Did that suck?
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Like?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Why did we take that call? Why did you call?
He must have he must be he must have been
at work and somebody must have come over and around.
Speaker 5 (27:27):
All right, I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So he just wanted to be on the air. You
really have much to say, and there you go.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
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the team, so now they're named after Bridge the Guardians. Anyway,
Francisco Lindor has now passed El Capitan Derek Jeter in
total home runs for a shortstop.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Lindor ahead of Derek Jeter.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Now you're not supposed to say anything bad about Derek Jeter,
because if you say anything negative about Derek Jeter, then
alarm bells will sound and the Yankee Army will form
a wall of fire and they will hunt you down.
Can I do it now?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Lindor ends up with more home runs.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
However, the legend of Derek Jeter in the gift basket
and the cell phone basket in the foyer at his
mansion in Tampa, If only did he had that?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Right?
Speaker 1 (29:09):
If only did he?
Speaker 4 (29:10):
Well?
Speaker 2 (29:10):
I guess did he might have had that? There's no
real video of did he doing his thing at the
freak offs there? I guess, But there are many many
people that believe they know what happened there. Don't think
there's any video that's gotten now, maybe there is. I
don't have them really really watching the traba Jeter he
had a stable of beautiful women that were dating him
(29:31):
in in the rule no cell phone, Lindor, I was married.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
This is part of the deal.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Larry D writes and says Ben Maler's new nickname Canadian
Ben can Ben, You went to Canada to promote them
as the new fifty first state. No, I just went
to Canada have a good time. We had a fine time.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
It was wondering. It was so beautiful there, Ben, it
is It was a magical place. I love that Stanley Park,
so I didn't even know that existed. I had no
idea that that was even the thing. It's it.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
I've been to Central Park many times in New York.
It's much better than Central Park. And they are their
own country in Canada, that's right. And they gave us
the poutine and we're grateful. How many poutines did you have,
ben I ate poutine? Well, we had at the meet
and greet.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
Right, So that was one.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
That was the one, and then we had three separate,
different meals outside of that, so there was four total.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Poutine and you had a poutine at every meal.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
And that was so Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and we actually
flew back early on Sunday, so Sunday didn't really count.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I had poutine Sunday morning for breakfast six am. You
had poutine at six in the morning. Where at the
airport they sold it at the airport. It was a
little cafe. No, you got to go to tim Horton.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
I got them.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Did you go to tim Horton? We were told not
to go to tim Horton. I went to tim Horton twice.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
I did.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I didn't see poutine but I went during breakfast hour,
so maybe that's that's why.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Well, I had a late Saturday night, so I did not,
you know, do this. I'm so fat, so I'm trying
to keep my girlers figure. So I did not partake
in any food at the airport. But I did see
the Tim Hortons. There was a line wrapped around the
Vancouver Airport there. People loved their Tim moy.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
How did the Costco poutine rank? Pretty good? Not bad?
Speaker 2 (31:15):
The chicken figures highly disappointing. Oh yeah, I got the
because you know, I look good on a little ad there.
But it's great sod they have. The Costco in downtown
Vancouver is literally across one street from the CFL stadium,
actually from the hockey Arena, And the CFL Stadium is
like the next building over, so you can just go
(31:36):
there and eat your Costco food and then go watch
the game and save a bunch of money. They must
lose so much money, the Canucks and the Canadian Football
League team, the Lion's.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
There as Costco's right next door. It's right across the street.
Man buy a seven dollar hot dog when you can
have one for two ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, Well that and the poutine was reasonable and you
get a massive portion and all that. And Nico was
telling us they lined up when there's games there, they're
lined up for the Costco foods. So anyway, it was
it was a good time, and some of you have
reached out via email and all that, so.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
We we thank you.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
What yes, very very very nice, Larry says, any any
more phone calls like that and we will have to
dig up Alexander Graham Bell and beat the crap out
of his corpse for inventing the telephone.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
We'll see.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
It's rather extreme there, Larry. But that was a terrible
way to start the week. I feel like the week's
going to be terrible now. The first call sets the
tone years and I need some mouthwashed. I think to
your we're suffering from halaposis. That was not what we
were looking for to start the festivities.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
But here we are. We'll try to survive. Time now
for the who am I?
Speaker 6 (32:47):
Game?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
And here it is. Here's the who am I?
Speaker 4 (32:49):
Game?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Framburgh Valdez. That's a picture for the cheating Asstros.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
I know you could cool them. Why not?
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Framber Valdez of the Cheating Asstros became the first major
league baseball lefty to toss a complete game in which
he had fewer than a dozen pitches in every inning
since me again, and we'll play off that other story
as well, the clip and save story. But Franber Valdez,
the cheating Astros, became the first major league baseball lefty
(33:21):
to toss a complete game in which he had fewer
than a dozen pitches in every inning since me?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Who am I?
Speaker 1 (33:27):
That is the question the answer. We'll get to it,
and we will do it next.
Speaker 5 (33:35):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
It is the Ben Mahler Show up all night, every
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to it we go, and time before we get to
the who am I game? We have the play of
the day. And I know somewhere in the Pacific Northwest,
Robbie the Mariner fan a little giddy, a little giddy
(34:37):
because of plays like this from Randy Rosa Rana getting
it done in the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
One one time, bottom of the ninth inning. Let's stretch
the two to one pitch, swinging to grab bowl up
the middle base set the Marinis what it? Randy Arosa
right now jumps on first base. Oh, walk up, single
wholio score and the Mariners win it two to one
over the Minnesota Twins.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, Mariners and the questionable call, But that's fine.
That was the tire i Raq play thanks to the
Mariners radio. I believe it sounds like a TV call,
but I think it was Mariner's ready anyway. Tire Iraq,
they made that possible to play the day. For over
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Tire iraq dot com the way tire buying.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Sure be Cal Raley another home run twenty third of
the year in that one, and then Randy Rose Arena
the game winning hit for the Mariners. And don't look now,
do not look at your Major League Baseball standings here
on the second day of June, because you will not
believe that the Seattle Mariners are in the penthouse in
(35:58):
the American League West at this point.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
All right ton out four. The who am I?
Speaker 4 (36:03):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else a's
We call it the who am I?
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Game?
Speaker 1 (36:08):
And here it is so.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Frember Valdez the cheating Astros, became the first Major League
Baseball lefty over the weekend to toss a complete game
in which he had fewer than a dozen pitches in
every inning since me, who am I?
Speaker 1 (36:26):
That is the question?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
What is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
Eileen that says airport poutine is the answer? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
I generally try to avoid eating at airports because I
thought it was really good.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I try to avoid it, and my wife always eats
at airports and I'm like, nah, no, just get better
food outside the airport.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
But you know good, But how should it cost you?
Lorena twelve dollars. That's that's too expensive.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
COSTCO much cheaper, Nature Boy says early prints into Okay,
what else do we have? The million dollar man Ted
DEBIASI from our friend Rob in Vegas. Hopeful we'll see
Rob at the Mala meet and greet we do down
the line in Vegas. Alfi alien Opino says, Pedro Pascal
is the answer.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Who else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Joey Chestnut, the world record holder for poutine eating he
ate twenty eight pounds in twenty nineteen from I forty
eight delicious cheese curds twenty eight pounds.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Wow. Now who else do we have? Page down? Tino
Martinez for mister nice guy.
Speaker 6 (37:33):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Okay, I see with the Calgary Cannons horn swoggle from
King Rory. That's his answer. Frank Viola sweet music from
Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. Mister Irrigation says the Bambino
Babe oath eighty three pitches. That's from Mister Irrigation and
(37:55):
the Belly of the Beast. Jerry Royce from Malibu, Rubin
Bozo the District Attorney, guests by Sheen in Des Moines.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (38:05):
Whitey Ford from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Vita Blue guests
by Rob in Minnesota, Maple Leaf, mallor Oh from Mallor proper. Yeah,
they'll give me all these Canadian nicknames now because I
spent a few.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Days any of the big ball getter, I guess it.
Speaker 5 (38:20):
I love.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
I thought Canada was great. I mean, you know, there
was a few things in Vancouver I would have changed,
but overall I thought it was. It was a good time.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Enzo, says Travis Lulay, the ninety ninth Gray Cup MVP
BC former BC Lione quarterback.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
All right, Lorenda, you have an answer. You met him
Benett's law dog.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
Is it law?
Speaker 6 (38:39):
No, it is Tom Glavin of the milanam Rice is
back in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
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