Hour 1 - Tampa Turmoil

Ben Maller talks about an MLB investigation into Tampa Bay Ray's Wander Franco amid some disturbing allegations online, the excitement surrounding Derek Carr in New Orleans, MLB Pick'em, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number one hour one of
a brand new week of the Ben Malers Show back
in the radio dojo, and a reminder before we tell
you what's coming up here in hour number one. Hopefully
had a chance to hear the Fifth Hour podcast. We
had original standalone podcast all weekend long, new content, new

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audio content for you can't find it anywhere else, only
available here in the podcast format. And on Friday we
talked to a very interesting character, TJ. Simer's columnist for
the Los Angeles Times for many years. He sued the
LA Times, beat them in court multiple times, and one
of the really great columnists out there as far as

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legitimate criticism. A lot of these columnists serve cotton candy,
but not TJ. Simers. So if you want to hear that,
you can hear that. That's on the Friday Fifth Hour. Saturday,
we went to the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, chatted
with our buddy Turch Stevens who used to work here
as up date anchor, and also on Sunday, The Great

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Sports with Coleman made an appearance as well, who he's
been on Fox Sports Radio in the past. Baltimore Legend
does a podcast with Adam Jones, the old Oriole as well,
so all that content available as far as our number one,
we start out with the developing story out of Tampa,
the Rays having a good year. But how do you
see this wander Franco story working out amid the MLB

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investigation of social media posts making some outrageous claims against
wander Franco. Baseball is investigating the Rays havevan alyst that
Franco will not be traveling on their upcoming road trip.
We'll give you the latest inside skinny on that. Also,
we'll move to football. What did you think of the
excitement and the Bayou for Derek Carr in Nolans and

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his Trey Lance still in the Niners doghouse. We'll talk
about all that and more Right now here it is
our number. Is it something or nothing? We'll soon find out. Well.
Come in the beginning of a brand new week of

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should be a very eventful few days for me. But
back in the mothership here, thanks to everyone that came
out last minute in the great state of Maine. Was
hanging out in Maine for a day last week and
we have a lot of listeners there. Many people said
they were going to show up, a few did, but

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thank you. It's great to see everyone that did show
up there. And hopefully I'll be back at some point
down the line when I have no idea. I was
not even planning on going this time. Something came up
that caused me to make that trip. But here we
are beginning a brand new week. And if you had
told me when I went to bed on Saturday night

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that you will be starting out the new work week
here at Fox Sports Radio talking Tampa Bay Rays baseball,
I would have said, you are a loser. You don't
know what you're talking about, Jamara On. But here we are.
Of course, it takes a scandal for us to lead
off the program in this world. We have a developing

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story is he's a developing story coming out of Tampa
And if you have been away from the sporting news world,
you might have not seen this. Maybe you missed it,
and so we'll get you caught up to speed. Here.
We have learned that Major League Baseball has cracked open
their investigative staff. The same investigative staff that investigated the

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Astros for cheating, found nothing, found nothing while they were cheating.
That same investigative staff a Major League Baseball investigating now
Tampa Bay Ray's infielder, Wander Franco. Yeah, that guy, Now
he's the forever Tampa Bay Ray player. We found out

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there's an ongoing investigation, that news breaking over the weekend.
On Sunday, he did not play in the game against Cleveland,
a nine to two loss for Tampa Bay. If you're
into such things, there was a promotion at the trop
you could get a hat a that back Wander Franco

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had all fans fourteen and under. That's an important part
of this story. All fans fourteen and under get one
of those hats. That The Rays issued a prepared statement
Franco was at the ballpark. He was seen in the dugout.
He left around the fifth inning. The Rays issued a
statement saying, during today's game, we were made aware of

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the social media post that are circulated regarding Wander Franco.
We take the situation seriously, are in close contact with
Major League Baseballs. It conducts its due diligence close quote.
Tampa Bay did not detail the nature of the social
media post. Many news outlets have also decided not to

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report what is being accused, which is always fascinating to me,
and I'll tell you why. It's the same concept of
when a fan runs out on the field during the
fourth quarter of an NFL game and they don't show
it on television because they say they don't want to
encourage people to do it. So what does everyone do.
They run to social media and within about five minutes

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you have roughly seventeen different camera angles of the fan
running on the field in high depth, but you can't
show it because you don't want encourage people with So anyway,
we'll just cut to the chats, will tell you what's
out there. Some of this stuff has already been deleted.
There are photos that have not been deleted photos of
Wander Franco that seem certainly to be incriminating photos. But

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the story is the unverified post claiming that Franco hooked
up with a minor, a girl who is, according to
the Internet, said to be fourteen years old. That's what
the Internet social media is saying. There are some photos
of him with someone who looks pretty young. They have
their clothes on. In one of the photos, the female

(06:56):
was wearing the gold the chain, the jewelry that Wander
Franco has. That take that for what it's I don't know.
They can photoshop things and like that stuff like that.
But anyway, so let us discuss the questions very early on.
And this story is going to be hanging around, we
would think, at least for the next couple of days,

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and if it's legit, it'll be hanging around for years,
the Wander Franco story. So let us discuss the question,
how do you see the Wander Franco story working itself out?
So I've got legal ease, horn swoggled, and flea bath
and we will combine all of these things together and

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we are going to make the Baba Ganoosh is what
we're going to make which I don't know that you
can get if you go to jail. I don't know
if they have Baba Ganush in jail, but I don't know,
all right, So hey, listen, wander Franco, let's start with this.
Wander Franco has not even been charged with the crime.
There's no criminal situation at this point. There's nothing. There's

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just photos that are out there, the story continuing to unfold.
At this point, Baseball is now snooping around out of
an abundance of caution. They're looking into this, and there
are always three sides to a story. I believe in this,
there's going to be Wander Franco's version. There's going to

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be the other version, which is, I guess the female here,
the underage female, if that is indeed what happened. And
then there's actually the truth, which is somewhere else. And
there's all kinds of spin going on. I was reading
some of the some of the latest speculative reports that
this was a consensual thing, and there was all kinds
of chatter that it's not what it seems. Okay, I

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don't know, Oh, I know, I saw some photos. A
bunch of you idiots have been sending me different links
from I've use like Google Translate, from social media accounts
based on the Dominican Republic, and I'm trying to piece
me all all this stuff together to try to figure
out what is actually going on and who the hell knows.
I just saw the photos, That's all I know. I

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know it's been tossed around there and the photos are,
as we said, bouncing around all over the place. Not
hard to find. The photos of the young female wearing
the iced out chain of wander Franco, the same chain
that he wears during games. Maybe that's fake. I don't know.
There's no context other than that, you know, some claims

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on some other feeds about who she is, how old
is she? Really? Is it really exactly what it appears
to be. So all of that will be unpacked in
the coming days here in due time, And there's a
whole lot of money on the line. This is another
one of those examples of it depends how much cash

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you got and how important you are, and it's rather
a simple thing here. If Wander Franco was a fringe
major league player who didn't do much and was not
part of the core of the franchise. He would have
already been released, even just the mere speculation, they would
have released his ass. But they can't do that in Tampa,

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not right now. They can't do that because he has
a forever contract. Wander Franco signed a one hundred and
eighty two million dollar contract that could conceivably be worth
even more. There's an option in that contract that would
be in jeopardy, that is absolutely in jeopardy if he
is charged with a crime, and if he ends up

(10:34):
being convicted, it takes some kind of plea deal, then
you obviously have his freedom at risk. There's that part
of it. But we imagine if it gets to that point,
then he will feign weise he's gonna faind ignorance. That'll
be the defense. I didn't know, she said she was older.
I have no idea, you know, blah blah blah blah

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blah blah blah. And even if not convicted, here's the
thing where it gets a little dice. Even if not
convicted of a crime, as we have seen in other
cases in Major League Baseball, becomes a question of interpretation
of the legal ease. And I have seen and it's online.
You can find it this standard boiler plate contract of

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Major League Baseball. They have a morals clause in every contract,
and as such, a wander is bound by the provision
in the contract. The legal ease, so moral clauses over
the years have been upheld in the court system. The
first ever morals clause. Here's a random fun factoid. I

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believe I have this right. There was an actor in
early Hollywood named Fatty Arbuckle, and a Fatty Arbuckle was
involved in like a murder and the studio, the movie
studio is like, wait a minute, and well, he had
no morals clause in his contract. So at that point
the movie studio said, wait, wait a minute, we got
to put a morals clause in there. And they're standard

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for all people that work in the public life. I
have one, believe it or not. Who am I am? Nobody?
But I have one, and Wander Franco's got one. Major
League Baseball players have them, and the moral clause provides
rather obvious It provides the team the right to terminate
the contract or otherwise sanction punish a player who has
engaged in criminal or unseemly behavior an a moral society.

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So we'll see what happens with that? All? Right? Now
turning the page, let's go a completely different direction. We
go to the NFL some exhibition action on Sunday. I
say that loosely. I don't know who's watching these games.
I'm sure there are people that enjoy them. I do not.
I gain nothing. I like to bet on football. There
is nothing to be gained from watching exhibition games. I've

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learned that over the years, so I don't even waste
my time. The only thing that I pay attention to
is who gets hurt, who plays well. I don't give
a ratsass who plays poorly. I don't normally care that much.
But speaking of that, the Norland Saints rolled out Derek Car.
As he played, he attempted eight passes, completed six of them.
He had seventy yards passing and a touchdown, and when

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he left, the Saints were leading Kansas City seven to
nothing in a practice game. They would end up winning
that game, and that brief appearance, that brief appearance there
has created some buzz in the Bayou for Derek Carr.
Raised expectations, according to glowing reports about how effective Derek

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Carr was against the reigning Super Bowl champions backups. So
the question on this one, what do you think of
the raised excitement for Derek Carr after a few passes
in an exhibition game. So this storyline is predictable. It
is a time tested tradition. NFL fans, low information fans,

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I should say not the smart fans. Low information fans
end up getting hornswaggled by these small sample size and
with your heart you want these players. Oh, this guy's
gonna be the savior. And any you grasp on anything,
you grasp on anything. And Derek Carr, we know what
Derek Carr is. He's an open book at this point.
He's played enough with Oakland and then they moved to

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Las Vegas and we've seen Derek Carr. And if you
want to know the book on Derek Carr, ask a
real Raider fan what you're gonna get with Derek Carr.
They'll be very transparent, They'll be very honest with you.
He's a guy that you like and there's not a
lot of customer satisfaction though. Based on the actual performance
of Derek Carr, a car will perform at a above

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average level for several games this season for New Orleans.
He will tease you into thinking that he has figured
everything out. At some point, usually around week five or six,
the bottom will fall out. There's a trap door that
will open up for Derek Carr and he will fall
into the pit of hell, the absolute pit of hell,

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he will fall into, and then he'll pick it up
a little bit. The NFC South is such a sewer.
It is such a sewer. It may not matter. It
may not matter. Now the last word here. So let's
go to San Francisco. The forty Niners were blown to
smithereens in an exhibition game against the Raiders. The backup

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quarterback battle getting a lot of attention though for the Niners.
Is Trey Lance still in the doghouse arf? Yes, nodding
my head, Yes, he is absolutely Trey Lance in the
very back of the doghouse right there. He's being trashed

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and bashed. I did not watch this game. I did
see a sizzle reel of Trey Lance and Trey Lance
ten of fifteen. The numbers don't look all that bad
at ten to fifteen, one hundred and fifteen yards a touchdown,
but you gotta dig a little deeper when you actually
break down what he did. He needs a flea bath
in the back of that doghouse, big flea bath, extra soap,

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the whole thing there. Man Trey Lance. He had four sacks,
two passes that should have would have been interception intercepted
by a competent defense, including one that literally went through
and off a Raider defender, and he was credited with
a touchdown. Trey Lance is still unrefined crude oil at

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this point. And the guy was the Niners. We know
the story trader a bunch of picks to the Dolphins
to get Trey Lance. He was going to be the
next big thing for the Niners, and then he couldn't
play because he got hurt or somebody better than him.
Only eight games and the future as a distant relative

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of Nostra Damas and friend of Nostra denis the future
for this guy, Trey Lance is the Saskatchewan rough Riders
or the Montreal Alouettes that appears to be the future.
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Speaker 1 (18:17):
From Parts Unknowns. It's good to have you back, Big Ben.
Thank you Fergcat says, welcome back, Ben. Are you surprised
the studio didn't burn down in your absence? Also, are
you going to tell us what your big trip was
all about? Are you going to make a sweat a
little longer? No, I am not going to tell you
what the trip is about, but I will tell you
when I'm allowed to. But nothing to talk about right now,

(18:38):
but hopefully something soon and I'll let you know because
it's not like a secret, but it is a secret,
but it's not going to be a secret. Jill writes
in says, I thought you would like this, the all
MLB prison, prison, all prison starting nine and let's see
I'm looking at this. H Yeah, those are yeah. Some

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of those guys did did do a little time. I
think although you could do old school if you went
back like old school Joe, you could put like Chad
Curtis on there. There was a guy Mel Hall that
used to play for the Yankees back in the old days.
I think Luis Polonia another guy outfielder got in some trouble.

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There was a guy was a guy, oh my guy,
Raoul Mondesi had some legal issues with politics and stuff.
Shane from Des Moines says, great first monologue of the week. Sir,
I'm giving extra credit for that model. I will thank you.
I appreciate that. Just Josh in Cincinnati, one of the
Cincinnati Bros. Rights in starting off the week with a

(19:41):
little bit of wander lust. When you've got Kyler Murray
running around the practice field and a crop top, I
know it's low hanging fruit. We will address the Kyler
Murray fashion faux Paul. We'll get to that coming up
later on. It is going to be on the show
at some point. Be on the show. But you can
just up on the Twitter machine at Bain mallor if

(20:03):
you'd like, also available all over the place on the
phones at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Phones
Full Let's go to Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome,
what's going on?

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Ben, Good to be talking with you again. It was
nice that you made a trip to New England. I
saw you were up there in the North Country. It
was up in Maine getting a bit of that fresh air,
and you came or it came down the Commonwealth. You
were in Boston, so it was good to see. I'm
not gonna you know, you will explain in terms of
the specifics of your trip to the to the Commonwealth.
I mean, you're an intelligent guide, Ben, you know. But

(20:38):
we're known for research and developments here in Massachusetts. So
I think you come here, you know, you kind of
rub Elbows College Town, USA folks are getting ready to
head back to the university. I think you fit in.
You fit in pretty good into there, you know.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
And the weather was perfect. I cannot have had better. Well,
actually it did rain a ton one night, but other
than that it was it was pretty good there. Andre.
I did see when I was driving down the highway there,
I saw I could have turned off to go to
the Cape where you hang out, Andre, but I did
I did not end up going there. I did not
have not been to the Cape.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
No, no, no, didn't You know. It's good because I
would have liked to take you to a Cape League game,
and a Cape League wrapped up. Shout out to the
Borne Braves. They want a championship, but maybe for future,
for future reference. But you're somebody whose future is in question.
That's mister Trey Lanceton. Okay, and these how do we
say pedantic, you know, middling preseason performances. Guys like Trey

(21:29):
Lance and Jack Wilson, who was supposed to be the
stars of tomorrow and seem to have missed their boat.
If they don't show out in the preseason, what's their
trade value going to be of? What use will they
be to the Jets and to the form.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Now, there's always a sucker. There's always a sucker Andre
and there's some scout this says, Ah, this guy was
so good coming out of college and he just needs
to change of scenery and everything will be okay. And
just give him another opportunity. Just need to put once
he puts our laundry on this magical laundry, that everything
will change. He won't he won't suck and be a

(22:03):
bag of puke. He'll actually be an effective NFL player.
But Trey Lance, I mean, he hardly played in college
at the end because of the COVID stuff, and he
hasn't played in the NFL, and when he's played, he's
gotten hurt. I don't know what to do with that guy,
Trey Lance.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
I know what to do. I know what to do
with him. What it's gonna be the next quarterback on
this Netflix special. That's where he's headed. That that that's
where he's headed.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
You know, he might be working on the production team
for Netflix, not not starring in the show there. That
might be his gig.

Speaker 4 (22:32):
Okay, it's gonna be if it's gonna be a rack
to Richards, back to rag scenario. If these young folks
don't get going. So I don't understand it. Listen, is
Kyle Shanahan's proven It's not. It's not the quarterback okay.
Matt Ryan, the prior to Boston College, Boston College Eagle
MVP under Kyle Shanahan hasn't been heard from since. Okay,
so he's got the might as touch. You just happen

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to be in the right place in the right time.
And Trey, if you don't take advantage of us in
short order, we're gonna be comparing you to your market.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
Well he hasn't. He screwed it off. Listen now, Yeah, Shanahan.
Everyone wants to love on Shanahan and all that, which
is fine. But you know, Sam Donald could end up
playing regular season games. That's the ultimate litmus test for
the Shanahan Quarterback Guru title. If Sam Donald can be
an effective quarterback for the forty nine ers, I'll believe

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it when I see it.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Understood, then we're going into the season. I'm putting my
money on Kyle Shanahan. I'm going all in in terms
of these preseason futures.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
No that we went more importantly, when is when is
school starting there in the Commonwealth?

Speaker 4 (23:33):
Is it this week or it starts the twenty eight
To go back two days before, you know, we get
those two days out of the way before later, and
then that that helps us out with the snow days.
Now we got to get some snow going on. We
got out of school on June fourteenth last year, the
earliest we've been out because we haven't had too many cancelations.
But nonetheless we like it's good for you know, you
go back a couple of days, even though we're not
used to that in New England usually we go back

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after Labor Day, so a couple of weeks ago. I'm
looking forward to being part of Mallard militia. But then
we got to get back to business. But still I'm
testing myself. I got a call in at least once
a week standing they're taking the call.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
Benny. There he goes Andre from the Commonwealth. Not a
friendly fire or flyer or fire friendly flyer follow up
to the story. We started the show with the Wander
Franco scandal, which Major League Baseball is investigating. The Rays
head announced late Sunday night that Wander Franco, when doy

(24:29):
you sit this one out? Wander the Rays heading to
the West Coast. They've got games with the San Francisco
Higantas coming up and Wander will not be part of
the traveling party. Did not make the trip. The franchise
is announced that to Wander Franco did not travel on
the team plane to San Francisco. The Rays will start

(24:50):
a series with the Giants coming up here and Baseball
investigating concerning the social media post, no crime yet, no
charges or any criminal activity, but there are some photos
bouncing around the internet which indicate that Wander had had

(25:10):
some fun with somebody who was too young according to
the Internet, So who knows what's going to come of that.
But the Rays are not going to have Wander Franco fly,
so he will not be traveling, did not make the
trip with the team. We'll see what happens with that.
The Billionaire Boys Club has had a fallout. The Billionaire

(25:32):
Boys Club has had a fallout. We'll get to that,
but right now let's get you caught up on everything
going on in the overnight. And here's Eddie.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
So when you leave, I always get a bunch of
tweets about what you know. People are jumping to conclusion
is been leaving for another job. Now you're not helping
me when I try and put these fires out with
all this mysterious talk of secrets.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
I have a contract with Fox Sports Radio, so but
I know I was in the Northeast. It wasn't necessarily
to go to Maine. I just happened to have a
little extra time, so I went to Maine to hang
out because I said I would, and I did. And
I called Blair in Maine multiple times, Eddie. He had
his phone on voicemail, where I learned that this small

(26:18):
college in Maine is the greatest college of all time
according to Blair's voicemail. But he did not answer the
phone while I was in I said, Blair, I mean,
I'm literally right down the road for me, Like, he.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
Probably didn't want to pay you the twenty dollars though,
even though he didn't take the bat. Maybe he was
afraid he'd have to pay you twenty dollars.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah, no, And everyone was very nice and Mane, I
had a great time. It was really cool. I'd not
been there before and I hope to go back and stuff.
But yeah, so thanks for filling in last week, Eddie.
I appreciate it. So I heard everything went well. You
were happy, you were satisfied.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
I was hopefully the Mallard militia was happy. Seemed like
they were for the most part.

Speaker 1 (26:53):
Yes, they've already replaced me with you. So when I leave,
you've got the job. Ed he congratulate.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
If you do take that big job in New York
or whatever it, Yeah, we're gonna do. I guess you know.
There's an opportunity for me, but we prefer to have
you here.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Well, we'll see what happens. But I'm happy here. I
love working here. Good. Good.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
That's probably why we've both been here for.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
So Dan, that's right.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
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That's right, Dan.

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Gone first, Malar at the plate, whack home run, starting
off the week with a fresh, tasty baba ganoosh. This
says good job by you. Reque in Minnesota says, does
anyone love his voice more than Andre? And the Commonwealth.
I've never seen a guy with an opinion on everything. Well,
Andre is a hot take machine. This guy can do

(28:46):
any hot take you want on any topic. And we've
also found out he's got a lot of lukewarm takes.
We enjoy the hot takes, but Andre does mix in
an occasional lukewarm take. The one Raise fan that we
have other than Roscoe, the Parrots buddy there David in
winter Park, Florida, the other Rays fan. He says he's

(29:06):
very upset with us for starting the show with the
wander Franco story. That Baseball's investigating these social media posts.
We're making some claims against wander Franco. He says, get
your facts straight. Well, what exactly facts did I get wrong?
Supermarket Steve says Ben's contract must be coming on. Non

(29:27):
disclosing why he was really in Maine is like when
all those sports owners go flirt with other cities just
to make their currencity jealous to get a new stadium.
It was nothing like that, Supermarket Steve, you could not
be more incorrect about that. But as far as the
Billionaires Boys Club is concerned, is it off? The Mega

(29:50):
Mega MEGAMEGA celebrity m m a brew haha, The richest
power brokers and modern society in the West world. Mark
Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, well, they're big Internet dudes. They're nerds,
but they're cool. They think they're cool nerds because they
got a lot of money. Anyway, Mark Zuckerberg has announced

(30:12):
that the Elon Musk Mma fight that it's not gonna happen.
He says at Musk is not serious, not serious. I
thought it was all played out. I had read the
other day that they were gonna get together, Zuckerberg and
Elon Musk, and they've gone back and forth and they've
got it all lined up. They're gonna do it at

(30:32):
some old venue, and it's a thousand year old venue. Zuckerberg,
though claiming over the weekend that the concept of a
mega rich guy battle royale is not going to happen.
The idea has died. It's drowned. Quote. I think we

(30:53):
can all agree Elon isn't serious and it's time to
move on. According to Mark Zuckerberg, offered a real date.
Dana White offered to make this a legit competition for charity.
Always for charity. Yeah, how about charity. Let the people
watch it, don't charge him? How about that? Anyway, Elon
won't confirm a date, Zuckerberg moaned, then says he needs

(31:16):
surgery and now asked to do a practice round in
my backyard instead. The long winded Zuckerberg went on to say,
if Elon ever gets serious about a real date, an
official event, he knows how to reach me. Otherwise, tired
to move on, I'm going to focus on competing with
people who take the sports seriously close. Quote. Didn't Mark

(31:39):
Zuckerberg lose to a guy that works at a hospital,
like the in the cafeteria or yeah, something like that.
We talked about it on the show, some regular dude
that has a job. Zuckerberg lost that. So I think
this is still gonna happen. And Elon's just buying more
time because he's not yet ready for the fight. So

(32:01):
he's just kind of hanging out, waiting till he gets
into the proper physical condition to fight, and then at
that point he will be like, Okay, I'm in. This
is one of the worst takes. No, it's not one
of my worst takes. Cool, this is one of my
better takes. I'm very proud of this take.

Speaker 7 (32:17):
I think Zuckerberg is spot on. I think Elon was
never serious. He's never gonna fight him, and I think
Elon's made like, oh I might have to get surgery.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Nah. Nah.

Speaker 7 (32:28):
He's not backing out Elon. He doesn't want that smoke. Listen,
Elon doesn't want that meta smoke. Elon is crazy.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
The man has destroyed Twitter, so he the man's nuts
and those those kind of guys are dangerous. Okay, man
paid forty billion dollars to destroy a social media platform,
and I can only imagine what he would be willing
to do in the ring. And this is the typical
boxing bull crap. I know it's not boxing, it's it's
Brazilian jiu jitsu and all that, but it's the same

(32:57):
principles that apply. You go back to the the great
Showman of Muhammad Ali back in the day. Hyping up
a fight, you gotta there's a certain technique of dragged
things on for a little bit, get people buzzing about
a fight, and so that's what Elon Musk is doing.
He's just he's adding to the hype and Zuckerberg's falling
into the trap and they'll eventually go at it and

(33:18):
we'll all wish it hadn't happened. But it will happen,
It'll be terrible and we'll wish we hadn't wasted our time,
the most valuable thing that we have. We'd rather watch
ancient gladiators than the billionaire gladiators. But I believe it
will happen, but not anytime soon. It is the Ben
Mahlers show. Time for the MLB pick him up coming.

(33:38):
Here's the who am I? Game? Over the weekend, the
pitcher George Kirby? Who? George Kirby joined me as the
only Mariners starters to pitch nine or more scoreless innings
not walk a batter in which Seattle did not win
the game. Yeah, it was Orioles Mariners game and George

(34:01):
Kirby bitched a great game but did not the Mariners
did not win. So over the weekend, George Kirby joined
me is the only Mariner started to pitch nine plus
scoreless innings not walk about it in a game Seattle
did not win. Who am I the answer? Next?

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(35:13):
I'm Matt the Warrior Raider. As fan says, Elon destroyed Twitter.
The only thing he destroyed is the blue check mark.
This app has never been better. Matt. You could not
be more wrong. He could not be more wrong. There's
a there's a great song lyric from Tom Petty the
last DJ song, which was a song he wrote. I
think it was about Jim Ladd. This great famous la

(35:34):
dj and he said, all the boys upstairs want to
see is how much you'll pay for what you used
to get for free. And you are a sucker because
you're buying right in Over the weekend, George Kirby joined me.
Is the only Mariners starters to pitch nine plus scoreless
innings not walk a batter in which Seattle did not
win the game. That is the question. What is the answer,

(35:59):
and let's does anyone know the answer? George the Animal
Steal from Rob Parts Unknown, Tony Caniglieiro from Mister Nice Guy,
Alf the Alien Opiner got it right, bad job by him.
Andre the Giant tossed out by Cowboy Killer. This is
not Andre from the Commonwealth, Elon Money Musk from Fergcat,

(36:21):
Jenny McCarthy tossed out by White Rob the First. Who
else do we have? Rick Honeycut from Matt the Warrior
Raider former A's fan, A guy who I own got
a hit offf Rick Honeycut, champion led the American League
in era with the Rangers. I got to hit off
him back in the day. Who else do we have?
Benito the Cowboy fan says, Chris Hansen is the answer.

(36:41):
Felix Hernandez from Johnny Q. Sewan Doolittle tossed out by
Robin Minnesota, Jared Washburn from Eke in Rosvild Minnesota. Dave
Steve from our Buddy Malibu Rubin sewn in Portland, going
with Jamie Moyer as his answer. Baby Billy Freeman from
the Eddie Garcia Berner count yun jin Ryu guessed by

(37:03):
Jonathan and Delaware. That's a good name. Dante Hall from
Big Lou. What can Big Lou do for you? Eddie?
Do you have an answer, Eddie? I do.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
It's former Mariners legend Scott Bankhead.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
Oh, that's a good name, remember him, Scott Banker. That's incorrect, though, Eddie.
The correct answer from the nineteen ninety Mariners, Eric Hanson,
one of the Hanson brothers, Eric Hanson. Yeah, all right,
here we go. Time now for the m LB Pickham
Daily Fantasy Baseball. And I am told I am going

(37:38):
first and with the first pick I will take. I'm
gonna take Logan Gilbert of the Mariners. Go ahead, Eddie,
I'm gonna go with hurry Off Chop Chop okay, Cooper
loop uh, Max Schurzer okay. Oh against your pitching against
your go ahead, Mark William McGee one, oh good, good

(37:59):
speed guy. One more. Sean Dunstan, oh solid good, shortstop.
Go ahead there, coop Ronald Jr. Oh Okay, Eddie, you're
gonna take Wander Franco, Matt Matt Olsen, all right, I'll
take Ozzie Albie's and Lars Newt Bar Eddie, I love
that name.

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Let's go Max Freed, Max Freed.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
We got it in, We got it in, got it in.