July 31, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about The Mariners agreeing on a deal to reacquire 3B Eugenio Suárez from the Diamondbacks, the Giants dealing right-handed reliever Trevor Rodgers to the Mets, the Angels becoming buyers at the deadline, and more!
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Ding dong. We got a homer, well a trade home run.
Wel come in. It's the beginning of our number what
hour one of the podcast the original Recipe Ben Malers
Show podcast. We do thank you for being a loyal
minion a p one of the show. So here in
our number one the Mariners. The Seattle Mariners have agreed
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to a deal to reacquire third baseman A Johannio Suarez
from the Diamondbacks. The Big Bopper headed back to the
Pacific Northwest. What's your knee jerk reaction to that late
night trade? Also, what do you make of the Giants
dealing right handed reliever Trevor Rodgers to the Mets, This
trade coming about a month or so after they made
the all in move the San Francisco Baseball team to
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get Raffi Devers and Halo's owner Arti Marino is being
blasted for adding a couple of relievers rather than holding
a going out of business sale at the trade deadline.
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So our lead this hour is from the Pacific Northwest.
It is trade deadline day in baseball, and we had
a little late night razzle dazzle, which I'm happy about.
As you know, I like to complain. I'm a talk
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show host. That's what we do. We complain, and I've
complained in recent years. It's been a number of years now,
but when I started doing the overnights, we always had
the trade deadline that was midnight Eastern, and sometimes there'll
be extensions and it would spill into the overnight show.
And then this redheaded woman named Rachel Nichols complained in
the NBA and then they changed it to the afternoon.
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Then everyone else followed. So the trade deadline in baseball
is on here Thursday evening, six o'clock eastern, three o'clock
in the West. So that is the lead in, and
we've had some activity here in the trade that came
down here in the nighttime hours. The Mariners. The Mariners. Yes,
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I know, they've never been to the World Series. The
Mariners have agreed to a deal to reacquire a player
they traded in twenty twenty three, a Johanio Suarez from
the Diamondbacks. Now the deal is pending medical review. We're
not official yet on what Arizona's getting. It's gonna be
a gaggle of suspects going to the Valley of the Sun,
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so let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
The Mariners have agreed to a deal to acquire a
Uhaniosaurus from the Diamondbacks. What's your knee jerk reaction. So
my thoughts on this, I've got clarendon garlic fries and
mind virus, and we will combine all of these things
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together and we are gonna make delicious cupcakes. Because often
the Mariners turn into cupcakes and big games, it just
doesn't go very well. But the moment we are talking
right now, the Rangers and Mariners are tied for the
final wildcard spot in the American League as we are
at the trade deadline, and they actually have a four
game series that begins in Seattle here on Thursday night.
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But that my first thought on the trade, the transaction
for Auhannio Suarez the GM in Seattle, Jerry Depodo has
apparently finally woken up from hibernation. Right he wiped the
crust of the spreadsheet out of his eyes there and
he is actually making a move and it does move
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the needle. Now this is not a full needle blast,
but it moves the needle. Didn't think they had it
in him. I did not. This counts as a big bopper.
It is a big bopper. You're talking about a guy
who this season can consistently hit the ball four forty
feet with a smile, a little swagger, and so it's
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out of character, that's my thought. It's out of character
for Seattle to make this trade. So I'm determined, after
a minute long Mallord investigation, as endorsed by Robbie the
Mariner fan and Crying Craig, that the m's front office
took some ardy right and they've cleared things up here
because normally they're allergic to taking any kind of risk.
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And the quote, which is infamous, We've talked about it here,
one of the great embarrassing moments in recent baseball history.
A couple of years back, Jerry Depoto, the GM of
the Mariners, announced the quiet part out loud. He said,
the goal of the Mariners is to win fifty four
percent of their games. It is not to win the
World Series. It is not to go all in. It
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is just to win enough. So you have the illusion
of contention and you're playing a mathematical equation that if
you just win fifty four percent of your games, eventually
you're actually gonna win. Now we know that's meaning win
the World Series, but that's loser talk right well, not
right now. This summer Seattle, right in this moment, we
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do the show. Today, Seattle goes out and they get
a dude who has been monster mashing this year. Suarez
has turned back to clock and he's got all the
nerd porn, exit v low launch angle, all that stuff
the nerds get all horny for. And so assuming that
he doesn't get to Seattle and forget how a hit
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he'll he'll be hitting dingers Suarez into Puget Sound again
and yeah it's a rental whoop pe damn do. He'll
be a free agent after the season. He won't be
back in Seattle. But regardless of that, if you look
around the landscape. I don't know if you've done inventory
in the American League, but it is softer than a
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marshmallow and a sauna. The Yankees, even though they won
on a walk off there, they've been leaking oil the
last couple of months. The Tigers completely fell off the schneide.
And don't even get me started on the cheating a
one one thousand and two, one thousand holes. It's wide open,
it's wide open. Get in, it's wide open. And Seattle's
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pitching for the most part, and not that they're perfect,
but they seemingly could go toe to toe with just
about anybody. And they've got that Brian Whoo in the
American League. All they needed was a little thumpty thump
in the middle of the lineup. And you know, in theory,
of course, you have to actually do it in the moment.
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But Suarez gives them that. The Mariners, so finally they
actually act like a grown up. They actually act like
they have a pulse. So on the Malor report card,
I'm gonna give the Mariners an A. I'm giving the
Mariners an eight. The Poto gets a gold star for
actually doing something bold for once, and you got a shot.
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You take it now, the d Backs they got a
package of suspects. I can only give them a sea
That's it. I can only give them a seae. At
some point I'll do a Mallard monologue about what a
scam the Major League Baseball pipeline is. But I will
not do that right now. I will not bore you
with my rant old man radio. Those pipeline it was terrible. Now,
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speaking of stunners, as we get to the trade deadline
to San Francisco we go, and what do you make
of the Giants dealing right handed reliever Trevor Rodgers to
the Mets. So you might say, on the surface, well,
who cares about that? Is just a relief picture. It's
not their closer. I don't understand why you're bringing that up. Well,
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the reason this is an interesting story. It's a whirling dervish,
is what it is. Okay. Just a few weeks ago,
I was sitting next to Marlin's man at Dodgers Dantam
Giants were playing the Dodgers, and about thirty minutes before
the game, it was announced that the San Francisco Baseball
team had made a trade with the Boston baseball team
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for Rafael Devers, right, amazing big deal. Blew the budget
out of the water there, tossed it out of the ballpark,
out of the bray bridge there, and they said, hey,
we're one piece away. We need a cornerstone, middle of
the lineup player, a classic middle of the lineup hitter,
Raphael Devers. They got him. They had him for a
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month or so, and right now they say, uh, turn
out the Lights's the parties over sending Trevor Rodgers to
New York. So they went, and this is why it's
a whirling dervish. They went, the giants from chasing the
penthouse to now folding up the tent and going down
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to the soup kitchen. They saw the standings, they felt
the heat, and they said, we're out. We are out
of here. One minute you're acting like, hey, we're buyers.
We're gonna take down the Dodgers and the Mats and
these other teams, and the next you're unloading the longest
tenured player and Buster Posey sitting in the catbird seat
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there in San Francisco, and he asked the question which
we like to ask in sports radio, contender or pretender.
The classic duck test was used and if it looks
like a duck, it walks like a duck, and it
sounds like a duck, it's a duck. In this case,
if it looks like a fraud, plays like a fraud,
it is a fraud. And so we have our answer
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from Buster Posey. The Giants are a pretender. They are
a team that was apparently vampires. And we know there's
a lot of garlic the Great Garlic Fries there, and
so the vampires were exposed to those garlic fries. They
could not hang with the big boys, came apart the seams.
So they've decided that the smart move is to cash out,
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and they've traded their longest tenured player, Rogers. He walks
away and yeah, good look, that is a retreat. The
Giants waved the flag, they threw in the sponge. They said,
that's it, so long, thanks for the quirky submarine delivery,
and there you go. So they sold you some snake oil.
And now they're back to where we thought the Giants
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would be this year, mediocre, and now they're confused. Now
they're stuck with the malcontent. Raphael Devers good luck on that.
He's not exactly enjoying life outside Fenway Park. It has
not gone that well. All right, last word to Anaheim
we go. That's right, Anaheim, where the Angels made a
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very minor move. There's a reason I'm bringing this up.
So the Angels added to their roster here at the
trade deadline. They acquired a couple of relievers, Andrew Chaffin,
who is thirty five, and Luis Garcia. This will be
his third time with the Angels. He is the ultimate
vagabond baseball plays thirty eight. So those guys came over
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from the Nationals, and the Angels traded a left hander
and some minor league first baseman. So it's a very
minor trade, but it rises to the level, nevertheless of
a malad monologue. And here's why. So the Halo's owner,
Artie Marino is being blasted that the Angels have added
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to their roster, that they've added someone rather than holding
a garage sale outside the Big A at the trade deadline.
So how do you rule on this? So I really
got a kick out of this because there some people
at least are pretending like they're really worked into a
lather over this. And I don't understand why you would
think that the Angels owner Arti Marino committed a war
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crime based on how some of these nerds are reacting. Now,
I stand with Arty. I think Artie's a terrible owner.
I think he don't know what he's doing, but I
stand with him on this. Right. Hey, listen, the Halos
never go anywhere. They have the longest drought without a
playoff appearance. But so what, Arty, Mario's seventy eight years old.
You think he's signing up for a seven year rebuild
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and just study Baseball America and that's it. Play the
minor league game. He already showed you his hands, Arty,
Morino showed you his hands, right. You remember he had Otani,
the great Otani disaster. Everyone said he's not going to
come back to Anaheim trade, He's gonna go somewhere else.
And what did he do? He kept Otani the deadline.
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Everyone said he was nuts, and he said, I'm going
for it anyway. That tells you everything you need to know. So,
for better or worse, Artie Marino is not and I
actually think this is for better. He is not infected
with the loser virus that you are, and those other
idiots over there are infected with that has gone around
the league, this contaminant. It's a mind virus. Just tank.
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I need prospects, just hope for the best. Right, what
do the Pirates have to show for that? What are
the Marlins? What do the athletics have to show for that? Squad? Douche? Right?
This trade for the Angels. It's obviously not an all
in move. It's not even an all in chip. It's
just a flyer. It's a depth move. And the Angels
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got a couple of guys who will probably just eat
innings and that's it. It's not a big deal. And
you want to bury ARTI Marino, Oh, come on, if
you're gonna bear him, do it for the right reasons.
Do it that the fact that he got upset with
a sportswriter of the late great T. J. Simers, who
was a buddy of mine, and move the press box
down near the Pearly gates to screw the media. Get
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upset with him. I'm so upset with him over that.
But you don't blast him for trying to continue to
put a competitive team on the field. Now, the Angels
have been just average. But I stand with already on
this one. He didn't light the deadline on fire, and
who knows, maybe in the hours to come today the
Angels will make some more trades and they'll trade ken
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Lee Jansen or someone like that. But he didn't at
this point, as we're doing the show right now, the
Angels did not sell the lawn furniture. It's just a
blip on the radar. It's not a blunder. It's not
a blunder. And actually like it. It's to me, it's refreshing. Oh,
you're just an old guy. But it's refreshing that they
didn't wave the white flag and just give up like
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half the league does at the trade deadline. God forbid
a team competes. That's such a that's such an old guy.
Take Oh my god, what about the pipeline A prospect?
You gotta get the prospect. Shut up your stupid prospects.
Shove him up your tuckers. Anyway, all right, I'm sorry,
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it is the Ben Mahlor Show. I just have seen
way too many. I've been scanning trying to things, you know,
find things to the act with you about, and it's oh,
this this guy is the number seventeen prospect in the
Major League Baseball pipeline. Blow up the pipeline anyway. All right,
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of Major League Baseball's top young pitchers has been held
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The great thing about this show is even when you die,
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We honor you forever and ever and ever. So have
been a bunch of trades in baseball. But the biggin,
the biggin on the horizon.
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Is it true?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Is it true that one of the top most coveted
young pitchers in baseball is about to be traded? Is
it also true that that young pitcher was held out,
held out of a game on Wednesday night because a
trade is pending at today's deadline? Developing hot? Well, that
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picture from the orphans of Major League Baseball. A team
so embarrassed they play in Sacramento. They don't want anyone
to know they play in Sacramento. That would be the closer.
Mason Miller, Free Mason, Free Mason. The Athletics manager Mark
Kotze announced that Mason Miller was unavailable for the game
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on Wednesday night, a game that the Athletics would win
beat the Mariners five to four. Miguel Andrew Harr had
a couple of home runs in that game, but Mason
Miller did not pitch in the ninth inning. He was
not injured, and there are some reports bouncing around the
echo chamber here in the overnight that Mason Miller is
headed to the Padres. Why yeah, the Padres closing in
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on a deal for Mason Miller, and we'll see what
they end up having to give up. And that would
I would assume that would mean they would move their closer,
Robert Suarez, who's not very good at least I don't
trust him in big games. So some developing baseball news
there as we head into the overnight, and there was
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a trade. The Dodgers made a trade. And normally I
would lead with the Dodger trade. I don't even know
who these people are. There's three team trade, the Dodgers,
the Tampa Bay Rays, and the Cincinnati Reds. Dodgers in
Southern Ohio lost that game last night. Oh Tani came
out of that game. But the Dodgers received a prospect.
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We know a prospect is a suspect Adam Sarahanowski from
the Reds and the relief pitcher Paul Gervais. And he's
related to Ricky Gervais. I know Ricky Gervasis and catcher
Ben Rotfeed from Tampa Bay. I have no idea who
these people are. The Rays received a catcher from the dogs.
I don't know who that guy is. And the name
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I've heard of is Zach Little from Tampa Bay, but
he went to the Cincinnati Reds. I believe he has
a big beard. I think if he's the guy I
think he is, he's got like a big red beard. Yeah,
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Banana split blizzards are my favorite, by the way. Yeah,
we were commenting that cotton candy is a second. That's
a very close second. The interesting thing about the dairy Queen,
and we do the show from LA and then you
know you have to drive out a bit to get
a dairy queen. We're in other places I've been to.
There's a lot of dairy.
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Queen I have to drive at least twenty to thirty
five minutes to get to one.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah, of course that's only a couple of miles in LA.
But yeah, are solid point. Yeah, Nostredinis writes in from
the Belly of the Beast, Mariners make the big trade
that was the lead on the show, says, Unfortunately, having
lived through the entirety of the Seattle Mariners existence, I
have more confidence in the SuperSonics getting to the finals
before of the Mariners seeing a World Series. Yeah. Yeah,
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Seattle will get an NBA team back and they will.
They will win before the Mariners. Mariners do. Now, the
Mariners will have to go back to the Kingdome to
figure it out. Who's your bill? Hitting the mini bar?
Early rights In says, Commenting on the Angels and their trade,
says the Angels will be relocating to Mexico City in
twenty twenty seven. Yeah, there you go, Aileen writes, and
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she says buster Ponti's Buster Posey's sick of the Giant's
awful offense, foul ups, bleeps and blunders on defense and
litter league base running, and will hold a fire sale
later later on today. According to Eileen, late night, Drug
tester says, I'm not sure what is the bigger shocks
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starting the show with a Mariner's monologue, or to eat
all the blizzards you want and it's going to a
good cause. Yeah, no, no, I mean seriously, In fact,
I don't know this for sure. It's just my opinion.
You can't assume me from my opinion. Since they're having
this deal at Dairy Queen, the cavaries probably don't count
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because you're doing a good thing for the valid point, right, Yeah,
it is. It's likely the calaries just don't matter. Called
karma calories exactly. You're you're helping out. Yapimi in Chicago says, Hey,
Malar a plus and some Gabba gul on the opening
Mallar monologue. I agree with your take on prospects that
they are expendable. Andre is a prospect for the worst
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sports radio caller in history. Wow, that is very harsh.
Can we trade him for a better caller from one
of the other shows? Well, I know most of the
other shows don't take calls. They're afraid of the calls.
So yeah, Tacoma Drill writes and says, pinch me, I
must be sleeping. Did my Mariners actually shove all their
chips into the center of the table. Now we just
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need a little sodo mojo A plus plus. Well, all
the chips, let's not go all the chips. I'm not
going that far. I'm gonna say all the chips, absolutely not.
What else do we have? Let's see here page down,
Let's see some ask ben questions here for later on.
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And I'm getting carpet bombed or timeline bombed by Hoo's
Your Bill. So I'm sorry those of you that are
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is from Hoo's your Bill. Anyway, we'll take your calls.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine nine six six three six nine lot as the
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big transaction of the day so far, the third basement
of the Arizona Diamondbacks now sending him back to a
team he played for Seattle A JOHANNEO. Suarez goes from
the Diamondbacks to the Mariners. So there is that. And
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what kind of year is he having? Well, what is
tell me? He is having a well, not an MVP
season because he's been on a mediocre Diamondback team. However,
if you look at the power numbers, and everyone loves
the long ball, right, everyone lives for the long ball.
It's all about the long ball. This guy is insane
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to the membrane this year. And now you're like, there's
only a couple months to go in the baseball season.
They can't There's no way he's not going to all
of a sudden bat to ten with like three home
runs the rest of the way, right, that's not no,
there's no way. But Arizona's seven games under five hundred.
They're twelve games behind the Dodgers, who's lead. By the way,
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the Dodgers' lead in the Nationally West is down to
three games. And I love the fact these a holes
have been futzing around all year. They got guys. The
injury room is like a country club over there, these guys,
there's no accountability. No, it's just embarrassing. It's an absolute embarrassment.
And yeah, I said, well we'll be fine. Yeah, yeah,
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you only have a three game lead, and the Padreys
apparently are going for it. They're trying to get this
Mason Miller. But just to finish up the point on
the third basement, surez, he is on pace. I love
on pace, he's got thirty six home runs right now,
he's on pace to finish with fifty four home runs
and one hundred and twenty nine rbs. Now, my computer
like brain using malar math, tells me that that would
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mean that with Seattle, if he's got thirty six home
runs at the trade deadline and now he's going to
play for the Mariners, that means he's going to hit
eighteen home runs and drive in see do the man
forty two runs over the final two months. So that's
nine home runs, twenty runs batted in a little over
twenty runs batter in over the final couple of months
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of the season by the bing boy, the boom. There
you go. Right, let's go to the phones and we'll
say hello to Eenie Meanie Miney Mole. Let's go to
Andrea in Berkeley and she's got her star chart out.
She is the astrology insider. We don't need some baseball insider.
We have the astrology insider to find out what's in
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the stars.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yes, hello, Ben, how are you?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
If I was any better, I would be a Miller,
But not Mason Miller. Well maybe I would be. I
think he's got to be pleased to get If he
is traded here to get out of the A's situation
and go to a team that's trying to win, that'd
be good, right.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
You know, I'm glad you mentioned it. I was just
on a'scast talking about Mason Miller fellow Virgo August Let's
see Mason Miller, let me get it right, August twenty fourth,
nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Now, did you say how did you say? How do
I guy? Chris Townsend? Did you say, hello, Oh yeah,
I sure did, old old radio guy.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Yeah, yeah, he was on, and actually so is Chris Carrey.
So they did the show together. Mason Miller. Here's the thing.
Check it out. Your Rawness, which is a planet of
expect the unexpected, is squaring his son in Virgo. So
when you have that kind of transit of expect the unexpected,
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it can actually work in your favor because it's about
freeing yourself from any sort of limitations that you're having.
So it brings unpredictable changes, but it's also breaking you
free from obligations that are no longer for your highest good.
So check this out. This aspect can bring sudden shifts,
(30:36):
unexpected events, and a push to break free from limitations
signifies the need to adapt redirect energy, leading to personal
growth and a reevaluation of one's direction in life. So
significant change and upheaval. So basically that's kind of read
between the lines that could be. I mean, wherever you go,
(30:57):
there you are, you'll have the transit know it uses
you or you use it. But it's really interesting timing
that all the trade talk is happening and he didn't pitch.
I watched the game. He didn't pitch tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, well no, we said that he didn't pitch, and
Kostsee said that they held him out but he wasn't hurt,
so they're right.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
He was kind of coy about it, but Sagittarius Kostse,
you know they're gonna be honest. So yeah, I think
that it could be a time for him.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But Miller Miller this year, his eer a is not great,
but he's got fifty nine strikeouts and eighteen walks and
he's uh, he throws bullets and all the nerds love him.
So whether you're a nerd or not, you know, I've
seen him pitch a few times and he's good. You know,
the guy's good. So you want people like that in
your team. And he's also I think he's under team control,
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which is a big deal for a number of years.
So I mean, listen, the A's, the A's, it's this
weird science project because the A's they're just gonna trade that.
They're gonna trade all these young players until they got
a time it to when they get to Vegas, right
whenever that is, so, who knows they'll be. They'll be
delays because those people building the stadium want to get
(32:05):
more money, so they'll delay everything in the contract Vegas.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
That's right, that'll be interesting. On a high note, Lawrence Butler,
great Cats and three run homer.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
A couple of years I saw that I was watching
this game. He took that short fence out there, right,
you're talking about that play where he took the home
run away, Yes.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Exactly right, Yeah, like ten two thousand and I gotta
tell you.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I'm watching those days games and they keep showing, they
keep showing. I don't watch all of them, but I
was watching the game for some there wasn't much on
late you know, either that or the the Angel Ranger game.
But they keep showing that Bridge and Sacramento, which is
it's a fine bridge, but it doesn't compare to like
the bridges in Pittsburgh, you know. So it's like it's
like that's their bridge, and they keep showing that on
the b roll on the broadcast, but it's not. It's
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not as cool as like some of these other bridges,
like even in the like in San Francisco or the
Golden Gate of course the bridge exactly, those are like
those are great bridges. Doesn't this look like a starter
bridge to me? It looks like a little baby bridge,
you know. And they keeps showing it on the broadcast,
and I'm like, well, that's not a cool I mean,
it's fine, but it's not a great bridge, you know.
And I've been I've been to Sacramento many times. I
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don't even remember seeing the bridge. I don't remember. I
must not have gone to that part of Sacramento, but
I guess that's in West Sacramento. So maybe that's why
I don't think. I don't think i've been there. Yeah,
all right, Well, very good information. So thank you, Andrea,
and there you go, sun Son Squared, Virgo and service on.
Actually want to say a lo to Andrea and get
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some cosmic goodwill. Well cosmic goodwill going your way. Yes,
I know we should do that on the air. No,
we should do like a Halloween special. You could do
a Halloween special and yeah, you have like a seance
Justin and Cincinnati will jump off the curb if we
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do that. Nature Boy writes in answering the Call of
the Wild, and he says no worries. He says, the
Dodgers still have Kik if they need a relief pitcher. Well,
Dave Roberts really liked him in that spot, really liked
him in that spot. The Bills Monster writes and says
the trade deadline is voting like it's a Chicago precinc
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in the nineteen sixties. Vote early, often and with zero
regard for logic. GMS wheeling and dealing like they're playing
Major League Baseball. The show on Rookie Mode trade deadline chaos. Now,
let's see here. Mark from Queens says that E Dog
from Long Island is the worst. Now Mark is from
(34:38):
Queens via Arlington, Texas. But he says, E dog who.
I've noticed the guys in New York there must be
something because we have a group of people from the
boroughs of New York City that call the show, and
they're sporadic. They're very sporadic. Like you've got e Dog
who calls like every day for a week, and then
(35:01):
you've got Steven Manhattan who does the same thing. And
then our buddy Uncle Ma who's now over He's from Brooklyn,
but he's over in Jersey now and he's I believe,
working the dreaded day shift Uncle Mo. So he doesn't
call much at all unless his kid wakes up late
at night. He has nothing to do, so he calls
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the show, but other than that, not so much. Yeah, exactly,
it is the Ben Maler Show. Time now for the
who am I Game? And this is where we pretend
to be somebody else's home to who am I? Game?
So a Uhaneo Suarez thirty six home runs the most
by a player in a season prior to the mid
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season trade deadline in baseball history. The prior record for
most home runs and then being traded to the deadline
was held by me who again the newest member of
the Seattle Mariners who used to play for the Mariners.
Eu Haano Suarez six home runs the most by a
player in a season prior to a mid season trade.
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The record had been held by me. Who am I?
That is the question? The answer if you know what
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And here is the who am I? Game? A Johannio
Suarez thirty six home runs most by a player in
a season. Prior to a midseason trade, the record had
been and help by me? Who am I? Now? The
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radio legend, the Prince of Darkness, the original Prince of Darkness,
Lee Clin did get this right. He's up late listening,
so I obviously cheated. Clearly he's got some bumper music.
He's fusing around with Bobby and Florida is going with
Gary Shandling is his answer? I forty ian the Great
Jim Sunberg legend catcher JaMarcus Ware who is forty three
(38:26):
today from the Late night drug tester Marquis Grissom from
mister Niska. That's a good name. What a dynamic do.
At the top of the lineup, they had Marky's Grissom
and Deliner Deshields in Montreal and howd that work out?
Not good? One of the all time blunders. Delino Deshields
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traded for who Pedro Martinez Milkman. Mike in Colorado says
it's blind Scott chasing Mike the Leprechaun. Yeah, what a
what a couple? That is? A ferd dog, says Darryl Moury,
one hundred percent right. We will talk about that later
for dog, but more validation. I love hot take validation.
So do you ferg dog? Hot take validation? Coming up
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of Famer Palm Desert Rat is up with us. He's
going Big Mac as his answer. Caleb Williams, the NFL's
MVP from Yaphimi. Who else we have Senor Sprinkler aka
mister Irrigation going with the malar ring which looks really good,
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mo Vaughn is the is the answer? Who else do
you have? Paige down? Let's see, can't read that? Greg
Nettles from Robin, Minnesota. Andrew Harrisedanio guest by Bay City
Tony Paige down Britney Hicks from Nature Boy. Who Anthony Mason,
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the late great Anthony Mason one of those old school
nineties and forces from Big Lou He's on number two?
Who else Paige Dan He says it's a tie between
e Dogg and then somebody else. Always still complaining about
the college Babe Ruth or Super Dave guest by Spock's weed.
(40:14):
Justin in Cincinnati, said the racist astro player Julie Guriel.
That is an underrated story. The guy made a racist
gesture in the dugout during the World Series while the
Astros are cheating, and Rob Manford decided not to punish
him until the following year. You can't make this stuff up.
You cannot do it, Steve the misplay San Diegan's going
(40:36):
with Goldberg? Goldberg will do it. As his answer, JJ says,
I didn't technically cheat, but he did cheat El Choppo.
He obviously cheated. Insane clown Posse from Gil in San Diego.
Who else? Mike is going with Terry Kennedy. There's a
name I did not expect to see. Paige down Man
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Nature Voy says, by the way, Chris is still looking
for the foul ball from the other night. Yeah, at
least he admitted like, Hey, I'm a Nepo baby. You
kind of admit it late, and that's the way you
do it. You defuse the situation when you admit that
the only reason you have the job is because your
last name is Carrie. Anyway, again, here's the who am
I game? A Juhanio Suarez, who was traded from the
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Arizona baseball team to the Seattle baseball team in a
late night trade on Wednesday, thirty six on runs, the
most by a player at a season. Prior to the deadline,
the record had been held by me. All Right, Lorena,
who is it? I'm going with Jack Elliott Ben Okay,
very financier. Unless it's not. It is none other than
one of the Bash brothers, Mark McGuire. In nineteen ninety seven,
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I had thirty four home runs. Mark McGuire Staroids
Ding dong. We got a homer, well a trade home run.
Wel come in. It's the beginning of our number what
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our number one the Mariners. The Seattle Mariners have agreed
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to a deal to reacquire third baseman A Johannio Suarez
from the Diamondbacks. The Big Bopper headed back to the
Pacific Northwest. What's your knee jerk reaction to that late
night trade? Also, what do you make of the Giants
dealing right handed reliever Trevor Rodgers to the Mets, This
trade coming about a month or so after they made
the all in move the San Francisco Baseball team to
(00:43):
get Raffi Devers and Halo's owner Arti Marino is being
blasted for adding a couple of relievers rather than holding
a going out of business sale at the trade deadline.
How do to your rule on that conversation? It's all
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So our lead this hour is from the Pacific Northwest.
It is trade deadline day in baseball, and we had
a little late night razzle dazzle, which I'm happy about.
As you know, I like to complain. I'm a talk
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show host. That's what we do. We complain, and I've
complained in recent years. It's been a number of years now,
but when I started doing the overnights, we always had
the trade deadline that was midnight Eastern, and sometimes there'll
be extensions and it would spill into the overnight show.
And then this redheaded woman named Rachel Nichols complained in
the NBA and then they changed it to the afternoon.
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Then everyone else followed. So the trade deadline in baseball
is on here Thursday evening, six o'clock eastern, three o'clock
in the West. So that is the lead in, and
we've had some activity here in the trade that came
down here in the nighttime hours. The Mariners. The Mariners. Yes,
(03:47):
I know, they've never been to the World Series. The
Mariners have agreed to a deal to reacquire a player
they traded in twenty twenty three, a Johanio Suarez from
the Diamondbacks. Now the deal is pending medical review. We're
not official yet on what Arizona's getting. It's gonna be
a gaggle of suspects going to the Valley of the Sun,
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so let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
The Mariners have agreed to a deal to acquire a
Uhaniosaurus from the Diamondbacks. What's your knee jerk reaction. So
my thoughts on this, I've got clarendon garlic fries and
mind virus, and we will combine all of these things
(04:34):
together and we are gonna make delicious cupcakes. Because often
the Mariners turn into cupcakes and big games, it just
doesn't go very well. But the moment we are talking
right now, the Rangers and Mariners are tied for the
final wildcard spot in the American League as we are
at the trade deadline, and they actually have a four
game series that begins in Seattle here on Thursday night.
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But that my first thought on the trade, the transaction
for Auhannio Suarez the GM in Seattle, Jerry Depodo has
apparently finally woken up from hibernation. Right he wiped the
crust of the spreadsheet out of his eyes there and
he is actually making a move and it does move
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the needle. Now this is not a full needle blast,
but it moves the needle. Didn't think they had it
in him. I did not. This counts as a big bopper.
It is a big bopper. You're talking about a guy
who this season can consistently hit the ball four forty
feet with a smile, a little swagger, and so it's
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out of character, that's my thought. It's out of character
for Seattle to make this trade. So I'm determined, after
a minute long Mallord investigation, as endorsed by Robbie the
Mariner fan and Crying Craig, that the m's front office
took some ardy right and they've cleared things up here
because normally they're allergic to taking any kind of risk.
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And the quote, which is infamous, We've talked about it here,
one of the great embarrassing moments in recent baseball history.
A couple of years back, Jerry Depoto, the GM of
the Mariners, announced the quiet part out loud. He said,
the goal of the Mariners is to win fifty four
percent of their games. It is not to win the
World Series. It is not to go all in. It
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is just to win enough. So you have the illusion
of contention and you're playing a mathematical equation that if
you just win fifty four percent of your games, eventually
you're actually gonna win. Now we know that's meaning win
the World Series, but that's loser talk right well, not
right now. This summer Seattle, right in this moment, we
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do the show. Today, Seattle goes out and they get
a dude who has been monster mashing this year. Suarez
has turned back to clock and he's got all the
nerd porn, exit v low launch angle, all that stuff
the nerds get all horny for. And so assuming that
he doesn't get to Seattle and forget how a hit
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he'll he'll be hitting dingers Suarez into Puget Sound again
and yeah it's a rental whoop pe damn do. He'll
be a free agent after the season. He won't be
back in Seattle. But regardless of that, if you look
around the landscape. I don't know if you've done inventory
in the American League, but it is softer than a
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marshmallow and a sauna. The Yankees, even though they won
on a walk off there, they've been leaking oil the
last couple of months. The Tigers completely fell off the schneide.
And don't even get me started on the cheating a
one one thousand and two, one thousand holes. It's wide open,
it's wide open. Get in, it's wide open. And Seattle's
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pitching for the most part, and not that they're perfect,
but they seemingly could go toe to toe with just
about anybody. And they've got that Brian Whoo in the
American League. All they needed was a little thumpty thump
in the middle of the lineup. And you know, in theory,
of course, you have to actually do it in the moment.
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But Suarez gives them that. The Mariners, so finally they
actually act like a grown up. They actually act like
they have a pulse. So on the Malor report card,
I'm gonna give the Mariners an A. I'm giving the
Mariners an eight. The Poto gets a gold star for
actually doing something bold for once, and you got a shot.
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You take it now, the d Backs they got a
package of suspects. I can only give them a sea
That's it. I can only give them a seae. At
some point I'll do a Mallard monologue about what a
scam the Major League Baseball pipeline is. But I will
not do that right now. I will not bore you
with my rant old man radio. Those pipeline it was terrible. Now,
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speaking of stunners, as we get to the trade deadline
to San Francisco we go, and what do you make
of the Giants dealing right handed reliever Trevor Rodgers to
the Mets. So you might say, on the surface, well,
who cares about that? Is just a relief picture. It's
not their closer. I don't understand why you're bringing that up. Well,
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the reason this is an interesting story. It's a whirling dervish,
is what it is. Okay. Just a few weeks ago,
I was sitting next to Marlin's man at Dodgers Dantam
Giants were playing the Dodgers, and about thirty minutes before
the game, it was announced that the San Francisco Baseball
team had made a trade with the Boston baseball team
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for Rafael Devers, right, amazing big deal. Blew the budget
out of the water there, tossed it out of the ballpark,
out of the bray bridge there, and they said, hey,
we're one piece away. We need a cornerstone, middle of
the lineup player, a classic middle of the lineup hitter,
Raphael Devers. They got him. They had him for a
(10:07):
month or so, and right now they say, uh, turn
out the Lights's the parties over sending Trevor Rodgers to
New York. So they went, and this is why it's
a whirling dervish. They went, the giants from chasing the
penthouse to now folding up the tent and going down
(10:28):
to the soup kitchen. They saw the standings, they felt
the heat, and they said, we're out. We are out
of here. One minute you're acting like, hey, we're buyers.
We're gonna take down the Dodgers and the Mats and
these other teams, and the next you're unloading the longest
tenured player and Buster Posey sitting in the catbird seat
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there in San Francisco, and he asked the question which
we like to ask in sports radio, contender or pretender.
The classic duck test was used and if it looks
like a duck, it walks like a duck, and it
sounds like a duck, it's a duck. In this case,
if it looks like a fraud, plays like a fraud,
it is a fraud. And so we have our answer
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from Buster Posey. The Giants are a pretender. They are
a team that was apparently vampires. And we know there's
a lot of garlic the Great Garlic Fries there, and
so the vampires were exposed to those garlic fries. They
could not hang with the big boys, came apart the seams.
So they've decided that the smart move is to cash out,
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and they've traded their longest tenured player, Rogers. He walks
away and yeah, good look, that is a retreat. The
Giants waved the flag, they threw in the sponge. They said,
that's it, so long, thanks for the quirky submarine delivery,
and there you go. So they sold you some snake oil.
And now they're back to where we thought the Giants
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would be this year, mediocre, and now they're confused. Now
they're stuck with the malcontent. Raphael Devers good luck on that.
He's not exactly enjoying life outside Fenway Park. It has
not gone that well. All right, last word to Anaheim
we go. That's right, Anaheim, where the Angels made a
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very minor move. There's a reason I'm bringing this up.
So the Angels added to their roster here at the
trade deadline. They acquired a couple of relievers, Andrew Chaffin,
who is thirty five, and Luis Garcia. This will be
his third time with the Angels. He is the ultimate
vagabond baseball plays thirty eight. So those guys came over
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from the Nationals, and the Angels traded a left hander
and some minor league first baseman. So it's a very
minor trade, but it rises to the level, nevertheless of
a malad monologue. And here's why. So the Halo's owner,
Artie Marino is being blasted that the Angels have added
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to their roster, that they've added someone rather than holding
a garage sale outside the Big A at the trade deadline.
So how do you rule on this? So I really
got a kick out of this because there some people
at least are pretending like they're really worked into a
lather over this. And I don't understand why you would
think that the Angels owner Arti Marino committed a war
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crime based on how some of these nerds are reacting. Now,
I stand with Arty. I think Artie's a terrible owner.
I think he don't know what he's doing, but I
stand with him on this. Right. Hey, listen, the Halos
never go anywhere. They have the longest drought without a
playoff appearance. But so what, Arty, Mario's seventy eight years old.
You think he's signing up for a seven year rebuild
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and just study Baseball America and that's it. Play the
minor league game. He already showed you his hands, Arty,
Morino showed you his hands, right. You remember he had Otani,
the great Otani disaster. Everyone said he's not going to
come back to Anaheim trade, He's gonna go somewhere else.
And what did he do? He kept Otani the deadline.
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Everyone said he was nuts, and he said, I'm going
for it anyway. That tells you everything you need to know. So,
for better or worse, Artie Marino is not and I
actually think this is for better. He is not infected
with the loser virus that you are, and those other
idiots over there are infected with that has gone around
the league, this contaminant. It's a mind virus. Just tank.
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I need prospects, just hope for the best. Right, what
do the Pirates have to show for that? What are
the Marlins? What do the athletics have to show for that? Squad? Douche? Right?
This trade for the Angels. It's obviously not an all
in move. It's not even an all in chip. It's
just a flyer. It's a depth move. And the Angels
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got a couple of guys who will probably just eat
innings and that's it. It's not a big deal. And
you want to bury ARTI Marino, Oh, come on, if
you're gonna bear him, do it for the right reasons.
Do it that the fact that he got upset with
a sportswriter of the late great T. J. Simers, who
was a buddy of mine, and move the press box
down near the Pearly gates to screw the media. Get
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upset with him. I'm so upset with him over that.
But you don't blast him for trying to continue to
put a competitive team on the field. Now, the Angels
have been just average. But I stand with already on
this one. He didn't light the deadline on fire, and
who knows, maybe in the hours to come today the
Angels will make some more trades and they'll trade ken
(15:34):
Lee Jansen or someone like that. But he didn't at
this point, as we're doing the show right now, the
Angels did not sell the lawn furniture. It's just a
blip on the radar. It's not a blunder. It's not
a blunder. And actually like it. It's to me, it's refreshing. Oh,
you're just an old guy. But it's refreshing that they
didn't wave the white flag and just give up like
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half the league does at the trade deadline. God forbid
a team competes. That's such a that's such an old guy.
Take Oh my god, what about the pipeline A prospect?
You gotta get the prospect. Shut up your stupid prospects.
Shove him up your tuckers. Anyway, all right, I'm sorry,
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it is the Ben Mahlor Show. I just have seen
way too many. I've been scanning trying to things, you know,
find things to the act with you about, and it's oh,
this this guy is the number seventeen prospect in the
Major League Baseball pipeline. Blow up the pipeline anyway. All right,
we'll take your calls if you'd like to be part
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. What do you
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think of all this? There's been a bunch of minor
trades that have taken place. We try to get you
caught up on that as well. Eight seven seven nine nine,
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A L l e R. If you don't know how
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to spell bend, you're an idiot, so don't contribute. One
of Major League Baseball's top young pitchers has been held
out of a game with a trade pending. The plot thickens.
Which picture is it? Where are they going? Developing store?
It's developing hot dot dot dot. We'll get to that
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and we will do it next.
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of that at a later point, but right now, back
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to it.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I have a satin Knight John on.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Oh is that right? Genie? The Ghost of Genie and Medford.
The great thing about this show is even when you die,
you don't really die. You're still with us on this show.
We honor you forever and ever and ever. So have
been a bunch of trades in baseball. But the biggin,
the biggin on the horizon.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Is it true?
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Is it true that one of the top most coveted
young pitchers in baseball is about to be traded? Is
it also true that that young pitcher was held out,
held out of a game on Wednesday night because a
trade is pending at today's deadline? Developing hot? Well, that
(20:37):
picture from the orphans of Major League Baseball. A team
so embarrassed they play in Sacramento. They don't want anyone
to know they play in Sacramento. That would be the closer.
Mason Miller, Free Mason, Free Mason. The Athletics manager Mark
Kotze announced that Mason Miller was unavailable for the game
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on Wednesday night, a game that the Athletics would win
beat the Mariners five to four. Miguel Andrew Harr had
a couple of home runs in that game, but Mason
Miller did not pitch in the ninth inning. He was
not injured, and there are some reports bouncing around the
echo chamber here in the overnight that Mason Miller is
headed to the Padres. Why yeah, the Padres closing in
(21:29):
on a deal for Mason Miller, and we'll see what
they end up having to give up. And that would
I would assume that would mean they would move their closer,
Robert Suarez, who's not very good at least I don't
trust him in big games. So some developing baseball news
there as we head into the overnight, and there was
(21:50):
a trade. The Dodgers made a trade. And normally I
would lead with the Dodger trade. I don't even know
who these people are. There's three team trade, the Dodgers,
the Tampa Bay Rays, and the Cincinnati Reds. Dodgers in
Southern Ohio lost that game last night. Oh Tani came
out of that game. But the Dodgers received a prospect.
(22:15):
We know a prospect is a suspect Adam Sarahanowski from
the Reds and the relief pitcher Paul Gervais. And he's
related to Ricky Gervais. I know Ricky Gervasis and catcher
Ben Rotfeed from Tampa Bay. I have no idea who
these people are. The Rays received a catcher from the dogs.
I don't know who that guy is. And the name
(22:36):
I've heard of is Zach Little from Tampa Bay, but
he went to the Cincinnati Reds. I believe he has
a big beard. I think if he's the guy I
think he is, he's got like a big red beard. Yeah,
like Chewbacca. He do you know? It's Miracle Treat Day
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See what the knuckleheads are saying on the X machine.
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Banana split blizzards are my favorite, by the way. Yeah,
we were commenting that cotton candy is a second. That's
a very close second. The interesting thing about the dairy Queen,
and we do the show from LA and then you
know you have to drive out a bit to get
a dairy queen. We're in other places I've been to.
There's a lot of dairy.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Queen I have to drive at least twenty to thirty
five minutes to get to one.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah, of course that's only a couple of miles in LA.
But yeah, are solid point. Yeah, Nostredinis writes in from
the Belly of the Beast, Mariners make the big trade
that was the lead on the show, says, Unfortunately, having
lived through the entirety of the Seattle Mariners existence, I
have more confidence in the SuperSonics getting to the finals
before of the Mariners seeing a World Series. Yeah. Yeah,
(24:04):
Seattle will get an NBA team back and they will.
They will win before the Mariners. Mariners do. Now, the
Mariners will have to go back to the Kingdome to
figure it out. Who's your bill? Hitting the mini bar?
Early rights In says, Commenting on the Angels and their trade,
says the Angels will be relocating to Mexico City in
twenty twenty seven. Yeah, there you go, Aileen writes, and
(24:30):
she says buster Ponti's Buster Posey's sick of the Giant's
awful offense, foul ups, bleeps and blunders on defense and
litter league base running, and will hold a fire sale
later later on today. According to Eileen, late night, Drug
tester says, I'm not sure what is the bigger shocks
(24:50):
starting the show with a Mariner's monologue, or to eat
all the blizzards you want and it's going to a
good cause. Yeah, no, no, I mean seriously, In fact,
I don't know this for sure. It's just my opinion.
You can't assume me from my opinion. Since they're having
this deal at Dairy Queen, the cavaries probably don't count
(25:11):
because you're doing a good thing for the valid point, right, Yeah,
it is. It's likely the calaries just don't matter. Called
karma calories exactly. You're you're helping out. Yapimi in Chicago says, Hey,
Malar a plus and some Gabba gul on the opening
Mallar monologue. I agree with your take on prospects that
they are expendable. Andre is a prospect for the worst
(25:35):
sports radio caller in history. Wow, that is very harsh.
Can we trade him for a better caller from one
of the other shows? Well, I know most of the
other shows don't take calls. They're afraid of the calls.
So yeah, Tacoma Drill writes and says, pinch me, I
must be sleeping. Did my Mariners actually shove all their
chips into the center of the table. Now we just
(25:56):
need a little sodo mojo A plus plus. Well, all
the chips, let's not go all the chips. I'm not
going that far. I'm gonna say all the chips, absolutely not.
What else do we have? Let's see here page down,
Let's see some ask ben questions here for later on.
(26:17):
And I'm getting carpet bombed or timeline bombed by Hoo's
Your Bill. So I'm sorry those of you that are
sending messages in It's pretty much everything I'm seeing here
is from Hoo's your Bill. Anyway, we'll take your calls.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven
nine nine six six three six nine lot as the
(26:39):
big transaction of the day so far, the third basement
of the Arizona Diamondbacks now sending him back to a
team he played for Seattle A JOHANNEO. Suarez goes from
the Diamondbacks to the Mariners. So there is that. And
(27:01):
what kind of year is he having? Well, what is
tell me? He is having a well, not an MVP
season because he's been on a mediocre Diamondback team. However,
if you look at the power numbers, and everyone loves
the long ball, right, everyone lives for the long ball.
It's all about the long ball. This guy is insane
(27:25):
to the membrane this year. And now you're like, there's
only a couple months to go in the baseball season.
They can't There's no way he's not going to all
of a sudden bat to ten with like three home
runs the rest of the way, right, that's not no,
there's no way. But Arizona's seven games under five hundred.
They're twelve games behind the Dodgers, who's lead. By the way,
(27:48):
the Dodgers' lead in the Nationally West is down to
three games. And I love the fact these a holes
have been futzing around all year. They got guys. The
injury room is like a country club over there, these guys,
there's no accountability. No, it's just embarrassing. It's an absolute embarrassment.
And yeah, I said, well we'll be fine. Yeah, yeah,
(28:09):
you only have a three game lead, and the Padreys
apparently are going for it. They're trying to get this
Mason Miller. But just to finish up the point on
the third basement, surez, he is on pace. I love
on pace, he's got thirty six home runs right now,
he's on pace to finish with fifty four home runs
and one hundred and twenty nine rbs. Now, my computer
like brain using malar math, tells me that that would
(28:32):
mean that with Seattle, if he's got thirty six home
runs at the trade deadline and now he's going to
play for the Mariners, that means he's going to hit
eighteen home runs and drive in see do the man
forty two runs over the final two months. So that's
nine home runs, twenty runs batted in a little over
twenty runs batter in over the final couple of months
(28:53):
of the season by the bing boy, the boom. There
you go. Right, let's go to the phones and we'll
say hello to Eenie Meanie Miney Mole. Let's go to
Andrea in Berkeley and she's got her star chart out.
She is the astrology insider. We don't need some baseball insider.
We have the astrology insider to find out what's in
(29:15):
the stars.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Yes, hello, Ben, how are you?
Speaker 1 (29:20):
If I was any better, I would be a Miller,
But not Mason Miller. Well maybe I would be. I
think he's got to be pleased to get If he
is traded here to get out of the A's situation
and go to a team that's trying to win, that'd
be good, right.
Speaker 5 (29:35):
You know, I'm glad you mentioned it. I was just
on a'scast talking about Mason Miller fellow Virgo August Let's
see Mason Miller, let me get it right, August twenty fourth,
nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Now, did you say how did you say? How do
I guy? Chris Townsend? Did you say, hello, Oh yeah,
I sure did, old old radio guy.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Yeah, yeah, he was on, and actually so is Chris Carrey.
So they did the show together. Mason Miller. Here's the thing.
Check it out. Your Rawness, which is a planet of
expect the unexpected, is squaring his son in Virgo. So
when you have that kind of transit of expect the unexpected,
(30:16):
it can actually work in your favor because it's about
freeing yourself from any sort of limitations that you're having.
So it brings unpredictable changes, but it's also breaking you
free from obligations that are no longer for your highest good.
So check this out. This aspect can bring sudden shifts,
(30:36):
unexpected events, and a push to break free from limitations
signifies the need to adapt redirect energy, leading to personal
growth and a reevaluation of one's direction in life. So
significant change and upheaval. So basically that's kind of read
between the lines that could be. I mean, wherever you go,
(30:57):
there you are, you'll have the transit know it uses
you or you use it. But it's really interesting timing
that all the trade talk is happening and he didn't pitch.
I watched the game. He didn't pitch tonight.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Yeah, well no, we said that he didn't pitch, and
Kostsee said that they held him out but he wasn't hurt,
so they're right.
Speaker 5 (31:15):
He was kind of coy about it, but Sagittarius Kostse,
you know they're gonna be honest. So yeah, I think
that it could be a time for him.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
But Miller Miller this year, his eer a is not great,
but he's got fifty nine strikeouts and eighteen walks and
he's uh, he throws bullets and all the nerds love him.
So whether you're a nerd or not, you know, I've
seen him pitch a few times and he's good. You know,
the guy's good. So you want people like that in
your team. And he's also I think he's under team control,
(31:44):
which is a big deal for a number of years.
So I mean, listen, the A's, the A's, it's this
weird science project because the A's they're just gonna trade that.
They're gonna trade all these young players until they got
a time it to when they get to Vegas, right
whenever that is, so, who knows they'll be. They'll be
delays because those people building the stadium want to get
(32:05):
more money, so they'll delay everything in the contract Vegas.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
That's right, that'll be interesting. On a high note, Lawrence Butler,
great Cats and three run homer.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
A couple of years I saw that I was watching
this game. He took that short fence out there, right,
you're talking about that play where he took the home
run away, Yes.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
Exactly right, Yeah, like ten two thousand and I gotta
tell you.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I'm watching those days games and they keep showing, they
keep showing. I don't watch all of them, but I
was watching the game for some there wasn't much on
late you know, either that or the the Angel Ranger game.
But they keep showing that Bridge and Sacramento, which is
it's a fine bridge, but it doesn't compare to like
the bridges in Pittsburgh, you know. So it's like it's
like that's their bridge, and they keep showing that on
the b roll on the broadcast, but it's not. It's
(32:50):
not as cool as like some of these other bridges,
like even in the like in San Francisco or the
Golden Gate of course the bridge exactly, those are like
those are great bridges. Doesn't this look like a starter
bridge to me? It looks like a little baby bridge,
you know. And they keeps showing it on the broadcast,
and I'm like, well, that's not a cool I mean,
it's fine, but it's not a great bridge, you know.
And I've been I've been to Sacramento many times. I
(33:11):
don't even remember seeing the bridge. I don't remember. I
must not have gone to that part of Sacramento, but
I guess that's in West Sacramento. So maybe that's why
I don't think. I don't think i've been there. Yeah,
all right, Well, very good information. So thank you, Andrea,
and there you go, sun Son Squared, Virgo and service on.
Actually want to say a lo to Andrea and get
(33:32):
some cosmic goodwill. Well cosmic goodwill going your way. Yes,
I know we should do that on the air. No,
we should do like a Halloween special. You could do
a Halloween special and yeah, you have like a seance
Justin and Cincinnati will jump off the curb if we
(33:53):
do that. Nature Boy writes in answering the Call of
the Wild, and he says no worries. He says, the
Dodgers still have Kik if they need a relief pitcher. Well,
Dave Roberts really liked him in that spot, really liked
him in that spot. The Bills Monster writes and says
the trade deadline is voting like it's a Chicago precinc
(34:16):
in the nineteen sixties. Vote early, often and with zero
regard for logic. GMS wheeling and dealing like they're playing
Major League Baseball. The show on Rookie Mode trade deadline chaos. Now,
let's see here. Mark from Queens says that E Dog
from Long Island is the worst. Now Mark is from
(34:38):
Queens via Arlington, Texas. But he says, E dog who.
I've noticed the guys in New York there must be
something because we have a group of people from the
boroughs of New York City that call the show, and
they're sporadic. They're very sporadic. Like you've got e Dog
who calls like every day for a week, and then
(35:01):
you've got Steven Manhattan who does the same thing. And
then our buddy Uncle Ma who's now over He's from Brooklyn,
but he's over in Jersey now and he's I believe,
working the dreaded day shift Uncle Mo. So he doesn't
call much at all unless his kid wakes up late
at night. He has nothing to do, so he calls
(35:21):
the show, but other than that, not so much. Yeah, exactly,
it is the Ben Maler Show. Time now for the
who am I Game? And this is where we pretend
to be somebody else's home to who am I? Game?
So a Uhaneo Suarez thirty six home runs the most
by a player in a season prior to the mid
(35:42):
season trade deadline in baseball history. The prior record for
most home runs and then being traded to the deadline
was held by me who again the newest member of
the Seattle Mariners who used to play for the Mariners.
Eu Haano Suarez six home runs the most by a
player in a season prior to a mid season trade.
(36:05):
The record had been held by me. Who am I?
That is the question? The answer if you know what
on X at Ben Maller. We'll get to that. We'll
do it next.
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And here is the who am I? Game? A Johannio
Suarez thirty six home runs most by a player in
a season. Prior to a midseason trade, the record had
been and help by me? Who am I? Now? The
(38:03):
radio legend, the Prince of Darkness, the original Prince of Darkness,
Lee Clin did get this right. He's up late listening,
so I obviously cheated. Clearly he's got some bumper music.
He's fusing around with Bobby and Florida is going with
Gary Shandling is his answer? I forty ian the Great
Jim Sunberg legend catcher JaMarcus Ware who is forty three
(38:26):
today from the Late night drug tester Marquis Grissom from
mister Niska. That's a good name. What a dynamic do.
At the top of the lineup, they had Marky's Grissom
and Deliner Deshields in Montreal and howd that work out?
Not good? One of the all time blunders. Delino Deshields
(38:46):
traded for who Pedro Martinez Milkman. Mike in Colorado says
it's blind Scott chasing Mike the Leprechaun. Yeah, what a
what a couple? That is? A ferd dog, says Darryl Moury,
one hundred percent right. We will talk about that later
for dog, but more validation. I love hot take validation.
So do you ferg dog? Hot take validation? Coming up
(39:09):
in our three? King Rory says Sterling Sharp the Hall
of Famer Palm Desert Rat is up with us. He's
going Big Mac as his answer. Caleb Williams, the NFL's
MVP from Yaphimi. Who else we have Senor Sprinkler aka
mister Irrigation going with the malar ring which looks really good,
(39:29):
looks really really good. Andrew in the Bay Area says
mo Vaughn is the is the answer? Who else do
you have? Paige down? Let's see, can't read that? Greg
Nettles from Robin, Minnesota. Andrew Harrisedanio guest by Bay City
Tony Paige down Britney Hicks from Nature Boy. Who Anthony Mason,
(39:53):
the late great Anthony Mason one of those old school
nineties and forces from Big Lou He's on number two?
Who else Paige Dan He says it's a tie between
e Dogg and then somebody else. Always still complaining about
the college Babe Ruth or Super Dave guest by Spock's weed.
(40:14):
Justin in Cincinnati, said the racist astro player Julie Guriel.
That is an underrated story. The guy made a racist
gesture in the dugout during the World Series while the
Astros are cheating, and Rob Manford decided not to punish
him until the following year. You can't make this stuff up.
You cannot do it, Steve the misplay San Diegan's going
(40:36):
with Goldberg? Goldberg will do it. As his answer, JJ says,
I didn't technically cheat, but he did cheat El Choppo.
He obviously cheated. Insane clown Posse from Gil in San Diego.
Who else? Mike is going with Terry Kennedy. There's a
name I did not expect to see. Paige down Man
(40:58):
Nature Voy says, by the way, Chris is still looking
for the foul ball from the other night. Yeah, at
least he admitted like, Hey, I'm a Nepo baby. You
kind of admit it late, and that's the way you
do it. You defuse the situation when you admit that
the only reason you have the job is because your
last name is Carrie. Anyway, again, here's the who am
I game? A Juhanio Suarez, who was traded from the
(41:19):
Arizona baseball team to the Seattle baseball team in a
late night trade on Wednesday, thirty six on runs, the
most by a player at a season. Prior to the deadline,
the record had been held by me. All Right, Lorena,
who is it? I'm going with Jack Elliott Ben Okay,
very financier. Unless it's not. It is none other than
one of the Bash brothers, Mark McGuire. In nineteen ninety seven,
(41:41):
I had thirty four home runs. Mark McGuire Staroids
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