August 18, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Dodgers waking up from their slumber and sweeping the Padres over the weekend, if the Dodgers can just turn it on in October like flipping a switch, Marlins OF Dane Myers having a heckling Red Sox fan removed, and more!
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Welcome, it's our number one, and a happy Monday to
you the eighteenth day of August. If you missed any
of the Fifth Hour podcast over the weekend, a wild
and wacky weekend of podcasting, So you're gonna want to
go back and listen to those Fifth Hour podcasts with
me and Danny g Radio. But here in our number one,
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the mother you were wrong? Does this weekend sweep prove
the Dave Roberts Dodgers are on track? We will discuss
their domination of San Diego. Also, can the Dodgers just
turn it on in October like flipping a light switch?
And how does Marlin's outfielder Dane Myers have a heckling
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Red Sox fan removed sitting a sit with you. We
had two fans actually removed Dane Myers. We'll talk about
that as well. Right now here it is our number one.
Waking up from the hybernation situation. Welcome in the beginning
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leave this hour is from Los Angeles and that is
where the showdown, which looked like a mismatch coming into
the weekend, the NL West Showdown the pod Squad in
the catbird seat leading the nationally West at the start
of the weekend, taking on the Dodgers, who had been floundering,
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seemingly not giving a rats ass about competing in Major
League Baseball since the start of July. The Big Bad Dodgers,
who were just bad, bad to the bone, and taking
on the Pottery. So they've matched up this weekend. I
assume you know what happened by now, but maybe not.
Perhaps you were not paying attention. Bad job by you,
So Mookie back. Mookie Bets, who'd been stealing money for
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four months from the Dodgers, hit a tie breaking solo
home run, and the Dodgers, who blew a four run
lead on Sunday, but that eighth inning home run enough,
and the Dodgers end up beating the Potters five to four,
and they now sweep that series. They have a two
game lead, just like that, go from down one to
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up to in the division. Freddie Freeman started the offense earlier.
The Dodgers jumped all over you, darbish at the beginning
of the game. Freddy Freeman eate a two strike, three
run dinger, and then Andy Piez also hit home run
for the Dodgers early on, but they blew that lead.
Tyler Glass now unable to complete the mission and just
nurse the lead not able to get that done. So
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the Dodgers opened the series again trailing by a game.
They end up sweeping the Padres and outscored them by
eight runs over the weekend. So they get the victory
and are in first place. The Dodgers out hitting the Podres.
The Potterys, who had the Potteris actually had more hits.
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I should say than that. I don't always said that right.
The Dodgers had more hits than the the The Potters
had more hits than the Dodgers. The problem, if the
man could speak that way up. The problem for San
Diego was they could not get hits with runners in
scoring position. They had twenty opportunities over the weekend, three
for twenty. That's say, one to fifty batting average for
the team from Sandygo, nineteen runners in scoring position over
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the weekend. So we'll talk about this and the storyline
going into it, and what the storyline is coming out
of it here and immediately, of course, my inbox filled
up with messages varying degrees of rage. I tried to
tell you, Mallard, tried to tell you. You didn't listen.
You're just being a shock Jock, that's why you're doing
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overnights because you ripped the Dodgers. They didn't deserve to
be ripped. Bad job by you, Right, it's all the
puffing the chest out because the Dodgers swept the Podrays.
C Ben, I told you the Dodgers are fine, Dave
Roberts is a great manager, and they're okay, and you
don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, okay, you just overreacted.
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Blah blah blah blah blah blah bla. It was that.
I'm paraphrasing some of that, but it was the gist
of the conversation. So let us discuss the question. Does
the weekends sweep by the Dodgers prove that Dave Roberts
and the boys are fine? Everything's great here. They swept
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the Podreys and they're on track. Does it prove all that?
So that is the question. I've got bay Watch, chicken legs,
and Neon sign and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna put the biscuit in the basket.
All right, We're gonna put the biscuit in the basket.
So to answer the question, does the weekend sweep of
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the padres By the Dodgers proved that Dave robertson company,
they're on track, everything is good to go, and that
all this outrage, all this anger was misguided. Uh and
I'm shaking my head. No, absolutely not. Are you kidding me?
Are you dumb? I mean, if anything, if you take
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a couple of steps back and look at the landscape
and look at what happened, If anything, this proves the
exact opposite that the hypothesis was spot on, that what
I saw was proof that the way the Dodgers had
performed the last two much they were mailing it in.
They were mailing it. That's an indictment on Dave Roberts
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and the Dodgers. I think mailed it in like it
was an America Online back in the nineties, baby, slow
and clunky, and that's it might as well charged by
the hour. It's ridiculous dial up internet. That's the way
they were playing for the last two months. And so
this weekend shows you you watch the way they play,
shows you that they have been floating along la la
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la la, floating along some kind of an episode of
of Baywatch back in the day. And they're they're waiting
for Pamela Anderson to come out there and blow the
whistle and drag them out of the surf. And in
this case, they woke up and beat up the Podres.
And now they play the Rockies, which are a minor
league team, and then they played the Padres again. So
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we'll see how things go this week. But they've clearly
been coasting the other injuries. Oh yeah, okay, the deepest
team of all time. Yeah, they've had injuries. Backups are
playing and spoiler alert, they're not playing well. Uh and
so uh, I stand by, I stand by tough love
Malard monologues I do when it comes to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
They've been on the inner tube, floating on the lazy River,
having a cocktail on the lazy River for the last
couple of months, just drifting along la la la la
la la la la la la la la la sandbagging,
if you will, in the month of July and the
month of August, which is unbecoming. It is unbecoming is
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the word I will use here. And you pick up
bad habits, bad habits which are not easy to break.
They're not now page two. Can the Doyers just turn
it on in October. Imagine they'll go back and lose
a game or two against the Rockies, and they'll go
back to their losing ways here before the end of
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the regular season. So I asked the question, can the
Dodgers just turn it on in October and like they're
flipping some kind of light switch and that's it? So
can they? Sure they can, But generally speak, generally speaking,
it doesn't happen maybe one out of one thousand, one
out of five thousand. It doesn't happen all that often.
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It's just that Dodger hubris, which I don't like. I
do not like that, and they don't care what I think.
But the Dodgers the way they've been approaching this season,
they got off to a good start and then they
played bad for about a month, and then they played okay,
and then they've been back in the doldrums and all
that stuff. But it's it's kind of like showing up
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to run a marathon. Can see the ball you're gonna
run the Boston Marathon, and you're like, I am not
going to train to run the Boston Marathon. I don't
need to train, and I'll just jog around the block
A couple of times, and I'll carbloaded and then I'm
going to run the marathon and that'll work out for
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a while. Then eventually, at some point you're gonna hit
Heartbreak Hill and your heart will break, you'll die, that'll
be that. But you'll be puking on the sidewalk somewhere,
and that's what's gonna be happy. And so that's the
way it goes. The Dinners have so much more talent.
Everyone says that, oh, there's so much more talented than
anyone else in the National League. And yet you compare
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and contrast the way they approach the games to the
Milwaukee Brewers, who did lose on Sunday. But what a
juxtaposition between the brew crew and the Dodgers there, and
again they got a bunch of guys that are floaters
on that team. And you don't want the floaters, right,
They just coasting along and Dave Roberts out there acting
like the the lifeguard on break, if you will, and
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sitting in his chair kind of twirling you know, the whistle.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
There.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
All will be fun, everything's all right, everything will be okay, yeah, okay,
we'll swim when it matters. We will swim when it matters.
They're like, okay, you don't tell me about the regular seasons,
doesn't matter, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah. But the Dodgers in anyways,
like the kid who gets straight a's on the homework
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and then cannot complete the final. You know, you all
know that person. Of course, it's changed now with chat
GPT now it's changed a lot, but it's it's like
they've in no way to look at it, like they've
been skipping leg day because they don't want to do
the leg day there and their upper body is big
and beefy and they've big roster they can flex and
all that stuff. And then when you need your legs
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in crunch time, you got that chicken leg thing. You
got that chicken leg and chicken legs never a good thing,
never a good thing in that situation. So you just
can't support the weight and you come crumbling down, down, down,
down under pressure. So I don't want to hear. Well,
they proved it, they proved it.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You were wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
No, again, the Dodgers proved I was right that they
had this in them, and they didn't approach it the
right way. They approach it the right way this weekend
and they beat up the Podreys and congratulations, And they
didn't prove they're fine because they're capable of coasting along
yet again and losing to inferior opponents. What it proved
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is that Dave Roberts has done a bad job. The
team is too comfortable. There's no edge to this team.
They're too casual and they're too content. That again, I
go back to the word arrogance, that they are are
so sure of themselves that the regular season they just
being cruise control. And that's it. That is not championship behavior.
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It is not. That is not the way that you
have success in October. It's not. That is puke in
your mouth baseball. It's sandbagging nonsense. All right, I'm gonna
turn the page on that. We're gonna go now. Last
where we go to Boston. We had a fan player
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brew haha. That took place on a lazy Sunday afternoon
at Finnway, that is where the Marlins right field. There's
someone named Dane Myers. I have no idea who it is,
but Dane Myers apparently he's an outfielder for the Marlins,
which is like barely a major league team. It's like
a minor league slash major league team. So Dane Myers
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hit a tying home run in the ninth inning and
Miami rallied past the sacks to get the win. Myers
got into it though, with a couple of fans that
were hackling out, heckling him out in the bleachers in
right field, and then that began in the eighth inning.
The Red Sox led three to two at that point,
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we were told that continued in the ninth he Homer
then Jacob Marcy, the guy that lit up the Cleveland
Former Indians last week. Marcy followed. He had a two
out or two run shot that put the Marlins ahead
in that game. So Wyamy ended up winning the game.
But the story here is the interaction between the player
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in this case, Dane Myers, and the Red Sox fan
and fans in this case because the Gestapo there, the
police of Finway kicking multiple fans out of their seats,
out of their seats because of words. Now, Myers would
not get into specifics. He did not say exactly what
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was said. Although he engaged the fans, he got into
it with the fans, he said. The only thing he
said was that the fans were drinking too more. I'm
paraphrasing some of this, but they had too many beers,
and that he said he needs to handle this more
like a pro and just be a little bit better,
which sounds like something that came from the Marlins PR department,
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that he was just parroting what the PR people told
him to say. So, how does the Marlins outfielder Dane
Meyers having a multiple multiple Red Sox fans were moved
heckling Red Sox fans? How does that sit with you?
All right? So on this one, it sits rotten. Rotten,
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is what it says. Because here's the thing you can't
be and this is the way I approached And we've
had a lot of these instances that have taken place,
all right, these fan player situations that pop up. But
you can't be the big, strong chisel professional athlete living
the dream right and then get rattled by a middle
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aged dude or dudes in cargo shorts who are multiple
Sam Adams past the wind, you know, beer belly, yelling
at you you stink or worse from ten feet away
because you're the one. The minimum salary in baseball is
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an absurd amount of money. You're laughing all the way
to the bank here. You are financially in great shape here,
and you sit there and you close out your mind.
You don't worry about what is being said, and you
think about all that money you're making. Well, these people
are paying money to watch you play, right, it's like
these interactions, these and I don't know this. And this
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is a soft generation. I got it. I understand. They're
all soft. We got you, I understand. But still, at
some point, don't these guys have to realize, like what
are we doing here? Like it's like Superman calling the
cops because oh my god, Lex Luthor gave me a
dirty look. I'm calling the cops. We know you're Superman.
What are you doing. You're not supposed to do that.
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It's a bad job by you. And again it goes back.
So we have to start this and at a young age,
Dixon Stones may bake my bones, but names will never
hurt me. And just go with that nursery rhyme. And
that's it, that old dusty nursery rhyme, which has passed
the test of time. Generation generation, et cetera. Instead, Instead,
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what you have done, and this happens universally when you
when you end up having fans remove from their seats
because of heckling, what you have done is handed out
the troll playbook. You've given every drunk, everyone who aspires
to be a troll. You have given them the green light,
and you say, Okay, this guy can't handle it, mister softy.
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It's a mister softy. And then boom, you can get
in this guy's head right in that and it's like
you're you're in traffic and somebody cuts you off, and
instead of just honking your horn or what I do
is I give these subtle under the dashboard bird. They
can't see it, the other car can't see that. I'm
giving them the number one sign. They can't see them,
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but I'm giving them the universal sign under the dashboard.
And I hawked my horn. And that's it where I've
done with it. But none of this is like, hey,
I'm not gonna move on. What I am going to
do is I am going to follow that person home
wherever they're going, I'm gonna follow them home, and I'm
gonna argue about it and I'm gonna escalate the situation.
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You've lost the game within the game. There is an
art to it. There is an art to it. And
Dame Myers, this guy had no name for the Miami Marlins,
because everyone on the Marlins is a no name. So
Dame Myers didn't just hit a home run. He gave
birth to an army, a full on freakin' army of heckler's.
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And he might as well just put a neon sign
around his neck. Please heckle me. And those that study
the art of heckling, they said, well, who cares about
a guy on the Marlins? And that's true, But if
you know someone on his thin skinned and they have
that salamander skin, then you will. You will find them.
And rather than compartmentalize, you just go and you can
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buy some noise canceling headphones, ear muffs, something along those
line lines, and no, instead you end up interacting, you engage.
These two people got removed from their seats. It is
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back to it we go. Start it with some hot
baseball talk. That's right, little hot baseball for you, mister
Irrigation says Deep in the heart of Texas and Houston says,
here's another future Dodger, Ben that'll also mail it in,
especially in the postseason. Spend spend, spend, spend, spend spend
on average player. It appears to be referring to Kyle Tucker,
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who is hitting I believe he's hitting two sixty something
for the Cubs this year. And before the season, the
projections from Kyle Tucker's agent, of course, who else but
Kyle Tucker's agent, it was like, well, this guy's gonna
get five hundred million dollars. He's gonna be the next
five hundred million dollar guy. Things have not gone particularly
well for Kyle Tucker. You don't need me to tell
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you that. So if you go back and not that
I want to do a deep dive on Kyle Tucker,
but if you go back to the last let's see
last forty one games hitting two oh seven, two oh
seven for your Chicago Cubs, who have watched the Milwaukee
Brewers zoom past them and play like the way the
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Cubs were supposed to be playing. Who else do we
Let's see page Dan nature Boy, answering the call to
Little Wild, says, the big news. Big news is that
this is the anniversary of the vass A wipeout in Milwaukee.
That Dodgers suck up. David vass that guy who, oh,
(23:12):
by the way, might I said, took a shot at
us to the little shot when I promoted, I sent out,
finally sent out on social media. The promotion, it's you
like that, you're a fan of the art. There the
little art, little cartoon art. Lorrainer approves of the art,
but you can check it out. I screwed up the
date on Twitter, but it's it's right. It is right
on X or not on X on the on Instagram
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and Facebook and all that stuff. So there's a little
art and the Mallard meet and greeting. Vessay took a
shot at us, and what did he say? Well, I
don't know whether I need to activate the Mallard militia
or not, but I sent out. He said come out,
and I said who, what, where? When? Why? And all
that stuff? Hang out with us? And Vassay said two words,
hard pass. What he said hard pass? And I of
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course responded because I know what he's up to, and
I know on Saturday, I know his schedule. Saturday, Blake
Snell needs breakfast in bed and he needs his laundry
get picked up from the dry cleaner. So I response to, well,
you can't make it because Blake Snell needs his dry
cleaning picked up that afternoon, so you can't. You can't
attend Release the Hounds, all right, listen. If you guys
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want to, you know how to track down that Vassay's
the guy. Vassay's the guy in Milwaukee that was was
knocked out by a slide a child's slide playground toy. Yes,
he's such a tough guyssay that a freaking slide A
mascot slides down seven times a night and Vassay had
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to go on the injured list because of that. And
he's a Dodger suck off. He's a houseman for the Dodgers.
So if you want to listen, just want to say
hello to him, Remind him, as nature Boy says that
this is the anniversary that this is the date thatss
famously broke his arm running down a slide. Just let
him know. But we are said, the Mallar Meet is
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going to be a lot of fun Saturday. We're getting
some more more RSVPs, some legends planning on attending. Also,
some people are self incriminating themselves, which I always get
a kick out of it. What do you mean, well,
they said, well, this is the first life of it.
I don't understand. Why did you not tell me about
this prior?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Oh so they haven't been listening to the show for
the past.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Two weeks exactly. They've not been listening for the last
the better part almost a month now. We've been promoting
the Mallar Meet in Vegas. Now, we were a little
late putting it on social media, but it's not like
we hid the fact like that Bill Miller, that loser
Bill Miller. How many times has Bill Miller been saying, Hey, Malard,
meet and greet Vegas, malle meat and greed.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Right, Apparently we need to say it more like once
every fifteen minutes in case people come in and out
of listening.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I understand people don't pay attention to everything.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
But that's not our fault.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Exactly. We have done the promotion. We have done the promote.
It's not official Fox Sports Radio event because that would
require them spending money. So this is just us on
our all. We're going to Vegas, we're gonna hang out
with you, and it's listener, it's crowdsource, it's a grassroots movement.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
You and I have both promoted it on our page.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
We have that we have promoted it, and there's some
great art there if you want to see a little
cartoon drawing there of the big meet and Greek coming
up on Saturday this Saturday, and so we'll be there.
But hey, we'll have a good time. Whoever's there, we'll
be there. Ryan writes in from southern California. He says,
I am so over baseball. Ryan says he's in San Diego.
(26:27):
Says he's not a pottery famous I'm over baseball. I
guess an Angel family says thanks again, Ardi Marino. What
the hell is going on with Matthew Stafford or? Ryan says, well,
it is interesting to note there are conflicting reports about
Matthew Stafford, and there are some rumblings, unconfirmed rumblings that
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something big is going to happen on Monday with Matthew Stafford. Now,
I tried to get my fingers on this. I tried
to figure out exactly what's going on. I failed you.
I have failed you. I will tell you though. It
is interesting to note that over the weekend the Rams
played an exhibition game against the Chargers, and there was
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some chatter, very odd chatter about Matthew Stafford. Now Stafford
hasn't practiced all exhibition season, and on Saturday there was
a chatter he was going to work out. He was
expected to work out after he had a setback in
his oh my aching back situation, and the Rams were
(27:32):
asked to comment on whether Stafford worked out on Saturday,
and a spokes hack for the Rams declined to comment
on whether or not Matthew Stafford actually worked out for
the La Rams. Now, why would you decline to comment
on that? A because it didn't happen. B because it
did happen and something terrible happened, there was a setback,
(27:54):
or what would the other option be. I'm trying to
work through this and do a little workshop on this,
So why would you not just say he worked out
or he didn't work out. So the chatter is there's
something else going on with Matthew Stafford and there'll be
some kind of announcement to take because it very easy to say, well,
he worked out, he was fine, We'll see how he recovers,
how his body bounces back and all that stuff. But
they didn't do that, a spokesman, deferring comment to Sean McVay.
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McVeigh will meet with reporters later today. There is all
kinds of chatter that the Rams will also engage in
acquiring another quarterback if Stafford is going to be out
for an extended period of time, that the Rams will
go out and acquire one of these available quarterbacks like
Kirk Cousins, someone like that, and just slide slide them in.
Chipping the cues rights. In regarding the top of the
(28:41):
hour mouth of the monologue, he says a plus on
the mal monologue. Players on other teams should understand that collectively,
the Red Sox fan base are very low brow. So
just ignore them, says Chip and the cues. What else
do we have? Let's see page down. Mister irrigation is
obsessed with male cheereerleaders in the NFL. It does seem
(29:02):
like that is a an effort, a concerdered effort by
the NFL. He has many male cheerleaders in the NFL.
I don't know then wanted that, but that's what we got.
A g man in Chicago says great monologue, mister Ben,
I think the stench you were smelling is either that
of the Mary Jeane, your coworker's smoke, or its lead
to lapse stench that is from g mane in Chicago. Well,
(29:25):
whatever it is, it suppears to have gone away. I
do not smell said stench, which tells me it was
something that was in the air. Fergdog says, Please tell
me you aren't going to follow up your Dodger Mallard
monologue with one on the Angels losing two out of
three to the homeless Oakland Sacramento Athletics. I don't think
(29:47):
my weak heart could take it. Yeah, Firg, you don't
have to worry about that. Not on the agenda.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
I could have put my life savings down that after
sweeping the Dodgers, the Angels were gonna was this series
to the A's.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I was so confident in that. You should have gone
to bet your money on the on the A's. You
should have gone to you bet your money? What a
joke of it. You could have made some money. They
do get up play the Dodgers, though the Angels coop.
They get fired up to play those they do. They
can't get enough cool. By the way, guys, yes, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Next time you decide to coordinate and match outfits, can
you just like let me know so that I can
also match and wear a teal like you?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
You guys so dark. I can't. I can't see what
he's wearing. I have no idea that it's not intentional.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Speaking of which are we gonna match for this meeting?
I need to know what to win?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
No, no, what do you do? No? We did that
in Canada. We did.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
We think Canadian textedos for Canada, so so here we
would have poker suits.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
No, we would have to do sequence. I'm good y,
I did the suit. No, we did the that was
that was only for Vancouver. When in Canada you wear
the Canadian tuxedo.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Like, I mean, okay, well whatever I wear then.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Well, yeah, it's fine. You know. Then where's something. There'd
be a lot of photos I'll be taking. I'm sure
we'll be hanging out and uh and Big Los already planning.
And I said this on my podcast over the weekend,
but Big Lou reached out, he's gonna take some p
one's there's a UNLV game that afternoon, UNV football game
against We talked. I think we mentioned here too.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Are you going to go Ben?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
No, god, no, hell no. But there's a game in
the afternoon and then some of the some of the
guys are gonna be out there hanging out and then
they're gonna that's like the pregame show. Ye'll have fun
with that, and then they're gonna go to the meet
and greet in the afternoon late at meet and greets
late afternoon, So the the logistics don't really work. This
UNLV game starts at like one thirty and are things
(31:41):
at three football games last three hours minimum three hours,
So if you do the math on that, you'd have
to leave maybe at halftime, but then you'd still miss
the beginning of the meet and greet. And you really
want to be there at the start of the meet
and greek. You don't want to be late to the
meet and greet. I mean people do come late, but you.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
And then you miss the party and everyone's five drinks.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I'll probably be sleeping right up until two pm. Yeah,
I uh, we're efforting. I might be doing the show
from from Vegas. Join you what sure if you want?
I don't care. I don't know what this. I don't
know if that's been confirmed enough. There might be doing
the show. It's it's being efforted. It's being efforted, which
means it will not happen. Every time the company says
(32:21):
something's being efforted, it does not happen. But no, on
a Thursday night and a Friday, suppose I'll be getting
to Vegas a little early there for some pregame festivities
from the will that be from the iHeart building there
in Vegas right now, all the homeless people in Vegas.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
I hope so we can go live and show at
homeless people.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
We'll do it live. It'll be amazing and we'll find
we haven't heard from Mouthwash Mike. He's not called in recently,
So Mouthwashed Mike, let us know what's going on. Hopefully
you'll be there. I can only hope I'll go. I'll
make a deal. If Mouthwash Mike calls up, I will
go buy the Walmart and buy some.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
I was just about to say, somebody offers to buy
him a drink, he'll be he'll be there.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Not the good kind of mouthwash, the green kind. I'll
buy him the kind that is. The likes the yellow kind, right,
he likes the yellow mouthwash. Yeah, well, he's he can't
stop drinking though, he said it reminds me of beer drinking.
Brian back in the day. You just got to keep going.
Your liver's so fed up. Let's go now we have
more on this vass A store. Let's go to Tony
(33:20):
in the Bay Area. Boots on the ground. Hello, Tony,
welcome Tony.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Hey man, what do you call it when Davids whistles?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I don't know the quef? Thanks man, Okay, thank you.
I assume they did not make the air.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Right, I just I you know, I don't know if
it could, but I didn't.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I didn't. I dumped it. Yeah, well I learned at
iHeart University, went in dowt throw it out. I mean, yeah,
that's Tony and that's he's gonna help.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
He can say where is that rhyme with that word?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah he could. There was a basketball player for the
Atlanta Hawks, Adam Adam Keith played for the Hawks back
in the nineties. Back to back then.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
Oh my gosh, RBS has really good roast beef.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Is that right? Is that interesting? All right? You know what?
It grows on trees? What's that?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Okay, I got you there? You go, so Tony the bay.
Very thank you for that, Tony, very nice contribution to
the show. Nature Boy says, fear the Halo, accept accept
the a's uh he says uh fsr Crank Shuttle says
David blank blank blank is what he said? Just josh
(34:28):
as Coop says release the hounds just doesn't carry the
same weight as when Eddie would say it, and it
needs more feeling. He's coming in the middle the hounds
outshore f and uh, you gotta say it again, Coop,
because you recovered up release the hounds. There you go.
That was a loud Natron writes and says, rs VP,
(34:49):
my wife And how about that? Natron and his wife
will be attending the meet and greet. Yes, he says,
I'm the guy that presented you the thunder eggs at
the last meet and greet. I'm next to you in
the orange hat. I still in the group photo. Can
I make an admission? What's that?
Speaker 8 (35:06):
I love when wives show up to the meet and
greet because because they're just they're they're kind of like,
what am I doing here?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
It is the It is the greatest. I have so
many stories from doing these things over the years, women
that were dragged against. I mean, they hate they hate me.
They can't stand I've had women can play all right,
try to sleep, and your stupid vices on the freaking radio,
you moro on you would shut up, you know, And
why are you so loud? It's the middle of the night.
What is wrong with you. Oh it's he gets so upset,
(35:36):
you know, he GE's so.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Your husband have some headphones.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Ladies, Oh it's so good. The poor women, they get
so upset and everyone from super market Steve's wife who
brings the Tara massou she's forced to listen down. Uh,
I'm in Kansas City. The one I did in Kansas City.
There we had several women show up with their husbands
who look like they had been dragged as hostages.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
And it was. It was the funniest thing. Anyway. It
is the Ben Mahlor Show. So the diva discount that
would be none other than All Star second baseman could
tell Marte, pretty good ballplayer for the Arizona Diamondbacks. However,
it is an open secret. It is an open secret
that the Diamondbacks are going to say bye bye to
(36:24):
all Star second basement to tell Marte why in the offseason,
because despite being one of the top talented defensive players
and offensive players as well all round player second basement
there for Arizona, he is a diva with a capital
D in the clubhouse and said to be agitating his
teammates and the coaching staff. Oh the drama. So the
(36:47):
DIVA discount. That means it'll end up with what Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers,
Mike probably Dodgers because they're in the division. Anyway, It
is the Ben Mahler Show. Time for the who am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
then you have to answer the question at Ben Mahler
on X. Seattle pitcher Brian who has gone six plus
(37:11):
innings in twenty four consecutive starts this season. It's the
first time that has happened in baseball since me. Again,
Seattle's Brian Whooo has gone six plus innings in twenty
four consecutive starts this season, for the first time that's
happened in baseball since me. Who am I? That is
the question, the answer, We'll get to it. We'll do
it next.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
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Here every night, even on the weekends. The fifth hour
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come out hang out with us. Malard meet and greet
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Our buddy slug hosting the event from three to five
(38:41):
on Saturday. Check it out. Right back to what we
go and before we get to the payoff on the
who Am I Game? We had a streak buster, a
streek buster on Sunday the Milwaukee Brewers. Would they ever
lose again? Would the Milwaukee Brewers ever lose again? Well,
it turns out then they would. In the Cincinnati Reds
(39:02):
had other ideas. Take a listen to the play of
the day, bitch scrip, that's a base on the left field.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Wow, the Reds have come off the mat and they
are finally, finally beating the Brewers a three two final
score and they will mob Austin Hayes at first base.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Sounds like Jeff Brantley their Reds radio as the Cincinnati Reds.
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Seattle's Brian Whoo has gone six plus innings in twenty
four consecutive starts this season, first time that's happened in
baseball since me Who am I? Late night drug tester says,
(40:07):
you are Jeremy Shockey, who is forty five today? Who else?
Joe Orselac? A good name by mister nice guy old
Oriole and apparently a pirate stuck in Sacramento says, who
is wait for it, something about the a's Who the
hell cares I know? Mickey Lolitch guessed by Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
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Who else do we have? Steve the misplaced San Diego
going with the athletics logo as the answer, hollering James
from Mala prop guy. That is a good image of James.
That's what he looks like in person. Bob Forsche from
Alf the Alien old Piter another good name. Who else
we have? Nuke Laloush who mister irrigation in Houston? Just
(40:52):
Josh going with Killer of Giants? Ozzy, do you have
an answer the right now?
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Lend me mcleeen.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
No, it's Zach Granke back in twenty twenty fifteen, ten
years ago. Zach Grenke
We go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome, it's our number one, and a happy Monday to
you the eighteenth day of August. If you missed any
of the Fifth Hour podcast over the weekend, a wild
and wacky weekend of podcasting, So you're gonna want to
go back and listen to those Fifth Hour podcasts with
me and Danny g Radio. But here in our number one,
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the mother you were wrong? Does this weekend sweep prove
the Dave Roberts Dodgers are on track? We will discuss
their domination of San Diego. Also, can the Dodgers just
turn it on in October like flipping a light switch?
And how does Marlin's outfielder Dane Myers have a heckling
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Red Sox fan removed sitting a sit with you. We
had two fans actually removed Dane Myers. We'll talk about
that as well. Right now here it is our number one.
Waking up from the hybernation situation. Welcome in the beginning
of another week of the Ben Malor Shaw. We are
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leave this hour is from Los Angeles and that is
where the showdown, which looked like a mismatch coming into
the weekend, the NL West Showdown the pod Squad in
the catbird seat leading the nationally West at the start
of the weekend, taking on the Dodgers, who had been floundering,
(02:40):
seemingly not giving a rats ass about competing in Major
League Baseball since the start of July. The Big Bad Dodgers,
who were just bad, bad to the bone, and taking
on the Pottery. So they've matched up this weekend. I
assume you know what happened by now, but maybe not.
Perhaps you were not paying attention. Bad job by you,
So Mookie back. Mookie Bets, who'd been stealing money for
(03:03):
four months from the Dodgers, hit a tie breaking solo
home run, and the Dodgers, who blew a four run
lead on Sunday, but that eighth inning home run enough,
and the Dodgers end up beating the Potters five to four,
and they now sweep that series. They have a two
game lead, just like that, go from down one to
(03:26):
up to in the division. Freddie Freeman started the offense earlier.
The Dodgers jumped all over you, darbish at the beginning
of the game. Freddy Freeman eate a two strike, three
run dinger, and then Andy Piez also hit home run
for the Dodgers early on, but they blew that lead.
Tyler Glass now unable to complete the mission and just
nurse the lead not able to get that done. So
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the Dodgers opened the series again trailing by a game.
They end up sweeping the Padres and outscored them by
eight runs over the weekend. So they get the victory
and are in first place. The Dodgers out hitting the Podres.
The Potterys, who had the Potteris actually had more hits.
(04:11):
I should say than that. I don't always said that right.
The Dodgers had more hits than the the The Potters
had more hits than the Dodgers. The problem, if the
man could speak that way up. The problem for San
Diego was they could not get hits with runners in
scoring position. They had twenty opportunities over the weekend, three
for twenty. That's say, one to fifty batting average for
the team from Sandygo, nineteen runners in scoring position over
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the weekend. So we'll talk about this and the storyline
going into it, and what the storyline is coming out
of it here and immediately, of course, my inbox filled
up with messages varying degrees of rage. I tried to
tell you, Mallard, tried to tell you. You didn't listen.
You're just being a shock Jock, that's why you're doing
(04:55):
overnights because you ripped the Dodgers. They didn't deserve to
be ripped. Bad job by you, Right, it's all the
puffing the chest out because the Dodgers swept the Podrays.
C Ben, I told you the Dodgers are fine, Dave
Roberts is a great manager, and they're okay, and you
don't know what you're talking about. Yeah, okay, you just overreacted.
(05:17):
Blah blah blah blah blah blah bla. It was that.
I'm paraphrasing some of that, but it was the gist
of the conversation. So let us discuss the question. Does
the weekends sweep by the Dodgers prove that Dave Roberts
and the boys are fine? Everything's great here. They swept
(05:38):
the Podreys and they're on track. Does it prove all that?
So that is the question. I've got bay Watch, chicken legs,
and Neon sign and we will combine all of these
things together and we're gonna put the biscuit in the basket.
All right, We're gonna put the biscuit in the basket.
So to answer the question, does the weekend sweep of
(06:00):
the padres By the Dodgers proved that Dave robertson company,
they're on track, everything is good to go, and that
all this outrage, all this anger was misguided. Uh and
I'm shaking my head. No, absolutely not. Are you kidding me?
Are you dumb? I mean, if anything, if you take
(06:20):
a couple of steps back and look at the landscape
and look at what happened, If anything, this proves the
exact opposite that the hypothesis was spot on, that what
I saw was proof that the way the Dodgers had
performed the last two much they were mailing it in.
They were mailing it. That's an indictment on Dave Roberts
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and the Dodgers. I think mailed it in like it
was an America Online back in the nineties, baby, slow
and clunky, and that's it might as well charged by
the hour. It's ridiculous dial up internet. That's the way
they were playing for the last two months. And so
this weekend shows you you watch the way they play,
shows you that they have been floating along la la
(07:04):
la la, floating along some kind of an episode of
of Baywatch back in the day. And they're they're waiting
for Pamela Anderson to come out there and blow the
whistle and drag them out of the surf. And in
this case, they woke up and beat up the Podres.
And now they play the Rockies, which are a minor
league team, and then they played the Padres again. So
(07:24):
we'll see how things go this week. But they've clearly
been coasting the other injuries. Oh yeah, okay, the deepest
team of all time. Yeah, they've had injuries. Backups are
playing and spoiler alert, they're not playing well. Uh and
so uh, I stand by, I stand by tough love
Malard monologues I do when it comes to the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
They've been on the inner tube, floating on the lazy River,
having a cocktail on the lazy River for the last
couple of months, just drifting along la la la la
la la la la la la la la la sandbagging,
if you will, in the month of July and the
month of August, which is unbecoming. It is unbecoming is
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the word I will use here. And you pick up
bad habits, bad habits which are not easy to break.
They're not now page two. Can the Doyers just turn
it on in October. Imagine they'll go back and lose
a game or two against the Rockies, and they'll go
back to their losing ways here before the end of
(08:28):
the regular season. So I asked the question, can the
Dodgers just turn it on in October and like they're
flipping some kind of light switch and that's it? So
can they? Sure they can, But generally speak, generally speaking,
it doesn't happen maybe one out of one thousand, one
out of five thousand. It doesn't happen all that often.
(08:49):
It's just that Dodger hubris, which I don't like. I
do not like that, and they don't care what I think.
But the Dodgers the way they've been approaching this season,
they got off to a good start and then they
played bad for about a month, and then they played okay,
and then they've been back in the doldrums and all
that stuff. But it's it's kind of like showing up
(09:11):
to run a marathon. Can see the ball you're gonna
run the Boston Marathon, and you're like, I am not
going to train to run the Boston Marathon. I don't
need to train, and I'll just jog around the block
A couple of times, and I'll carbloaded and then I'm
going to run the marathon and that'll work out for
(09:32):
a while. Then eventually, at some point you're gonna hit
Heartbreak Hill and your heart will break, you'll die, that'll
be that. But you'll be puking on the sidewalk somewhere,
and that's what's gonna be happy. And so that's the
way it goes. The Dinners have so much more talent.
Everyone says that, oh, there's so much more talented than
anyone else in the National League. And yet you compare
(09:53):
and contrast the way they approach the games to the
Milwaukee Brewers, who did lose on Sunday. But what a
juxtaposition between the brew crew and the Dodgers there, and
again they got a bunch of guys that are floaters
on that team. And you don't want the floaters, right,
They just coasting along and Dave Roberts out there acting
like the the lifeguard on break, if you will, and
(10:17):
sitting in his chair kind of twirling you know, the whistle.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
There.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
All will be fun, everything's all right, everything will be okay, yeah, okay,
we'll swim when it matters. We will swim when it matters.
They're like, okay, you don't tell me about the regular seasons,
doesn't matter, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah. But the Dodgers in anyways,
like the kid who gets straight a's on the homework
(10:42):
and then cannot complete the final. You know, you all
know that person. Of course, it's changed now with chat
GPT now it's changed a lot, but it's it's like
they've in no way to look at it, like they've
been skipping leg day because they don't want to do
the leg day there and their upper body is big
and beefy and they've big roster they can flex and
all that stuff. And then when you need your legs
(11:05):
in crunch time, you got that chicken leg thing. You
got that chicken leg and chicken legs never a good thing,
never a good thing in that situation. So you just
can't support the weight and you come crumbling down, down, down,
down under pressure. So I don't want to hear. Well,
they proved it, they proved it.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
You were wrong.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
No, again, the Dodgers proved I was right that they
had this in them, and they didn't approach it the
right way. They approach it the right way this weekend
and they beat up the Podreys and congratulations, And they
didn't prove they're fine because they're capable of coasting along
yet again and losing to inferior opponents. What it proved
(11:46):
is that Dave Roberts has done a bad job. The
team is too comfortable. There's no edge to this team.
They're too casual and they're too content. That again, I
go back to the word arrogance, that they are are
so sure of themselves that the regular season they just
being cruise control. And that's it. That is not championship behavior.
(12:09):
It is not. That is not the way that you
have success in October. It's not. That is puke in
your mouth baseball. It's sandbagging nonsense. All right, I'm gonna
turn the page on that. We're gonna go now. Last
where we go to Boston. We had a fan player
(12:30):
brew haha. That took place on a lazy Sunday afternoon
at Finnway, that is where the Marlins right field. There's
someone named Dane Myers. I have no idea who it is,
but Dane Myers apparently he's an outfielder for the Marlins,
which is like barely a major league team. It's like
a minor league slash major league team. So Dane Myers
(12:50):
hit a tying home run in the ninth inning and
Miami rallied past the sacks to get the win. Myers
got into it though, with a couple of fans that
were hackling out, heckling him out in the bleachers in
right field, and then that began in the eighth inning.
The Red Sox led three to two at that point,
(13:11):
we were told that continued in the ninth he Homer
then Jacob Marcy, the guy that lit up the Cleveland
Former Indians last week. Marcy followed. He had a two
out or two run shot that put the Marlins ahead
in that game. So Wyamy ended up winning the game.
But the story here is the interaction between the player
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in this case, Dane Myers, and the Red Sox fan
and fans in this case because the Gestapo there, the
police of Finway kicking multiple fans out of their seats,
out of their seats because of words. Now, Myers would
not get into specifics. He did not say exactly what
(13:51):
was said. Although he engaged the fans, he got into
it with the fans, he said. The only thing he
said was that the fans were drinking too more. I'm
paraphrasing some of this, but they had too many beers,
and that he said he needs to handle this more
like a pro and just be a little bit better,
which sounds like something that came from the Marlins PR department,
(14:13):
that he was just parroting what the PR people told
him to say. So, how does the Marlins outfielder Dane
Meyers having a multiple multiple Red Sox fans were moved
heckling Red Sox fans? How does that sit with you?
All right? So on this one, it sits rotten. Rotten,
(14:33):
is what it says. Because here's the thing you can't
be and this is the way I approached And we've
had a lot of these instances that have taken place,
all right, these fan player situations that pop up. But
you can't be the big, strong chisel professional athlete living
the dream right and then get rattled by a middle
(14:53):
aged dude or dudes in cargo shorts who are multiple
Sam Adams past the wind, you know, beer belly, yelling
at you you stink or worse from ten feet away
because you're the one. The minimum salary in baseball is
(15:14):
an absurd amount of money. You're laughing all the way
to the bank here. You are financially in great shape here,
and you sit there and you close out your mind.
You don't worry about what is being said, and you
think about all that money you're making. Well, these people
are paying money to watch you play, right, it's like
these interactions, these and I don't know this. And this
(15:36):
is a soft generation. I got it. I understand. They're
all soft. We got you, I understand. But still, at
some point, don't these guys have to realize, like what
are we doing here? Like it's like Superman calling the
cops because oh my god, Lex Luthor gave me a
dirty look. I'm calling the cops. We know you're Superman.
What are you doing. You're not supposed to do that.
(15:56):
It's a bad job by you. And again it goes back.
So we have to start this and at a young age,
Dixon Stones may bake my bones, but names will never
hurt me. And just go with that nursery rhyme. And
that's it, that old dusty nursery rhyme, which has passed
the test of time. Generation generation, et cetera. Instead, Instead,
(16:16):
what you have done, and this happens universally when you
when you end up having fans remove from their seats
because of heckling, what you have done is handed out
the troll playbook. You've given every drunk, everyone who aspires
to be a troll. You have given them the green light,
and you say, Okay, this guy can't handle it, mister softy.
(16:40):
It's a mister softy. And then boom, you can get
in this guy's head right in that and it's like
you're you're in traffic and somebody cuts you off, and
instead of just honking your horn or what I do
is I give these subtle under the dashboard bird. They
can't see it, the other car can't see that. I'm
giving them the number one sign. They can't see them,
(17:03):
but I'm giving them the universal sign under the dashboard.
And I hawked my horn. And that's it where I've
done with it. But none of this is like, hey,
I'm not gonna move on. What I am going to
do is I am going to follow that person home
wherever they're going, I'm gonna follow them home, and I'm
gonna argue about it and I'm gonna escalate the situation.
(17:25):
You've lost the game within the game. There is an
art to it. There is an art to it. And
Dame Myers, this guy had no name for the Miami Marlins,
because everyone on the Marlins is a no name. So
Dame Myers didn't just hit a home run. He gave
birth to an army, a full on freakin' army of heckler's.
(17:47):
And he might as well just put a neon sign
around his neck. Please heckle me. And those that study
the art of heckling, they said, well, who cares about
a guy on the Marlins? And that's true, But if
you know someone on his thin skinned and they have
that salamander skin, then you will. You will find them.
And rather than compartmentalize, you just go and you can
(18:11):
buy some noise canceling headphones, ear muffs, something along those
line lines, and no, instead you end up interacting, you engage.
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back to it we go. Start it with some hot
baseball talk. That's right, little hot baseball for you, mister
Irrigation says Deep in the heart of Texas and Houston says,
here's another future Dodger, Ben that'll also mail it in,
especially in the postseason. Spend spend, spend, spend, spend spend
on average player. It appears to be referring to Kyle Tucker,
(22:06):
who is hitting I believe he's hitting two sixty something
for the Cubs this year. And before the season, the
projections from Kyle Tucker's agent, of course, who else but
Kyle Tucker's agent, it was like, well, this guy's gonna
get five hundred million dollars. He's gonna be the next
five hundred million dollar guy. Things have not gone particularly
well for Kyle Tucker. You don't need me to tell
(22:28):
you that. So if you go back and not that
I want to do a deep dive on Kyle Tucker,
but if you go back to the last let's see
last forty one games hitting two oh seven, two oh
seven for your Chicago Cubs, who have watched the Milwaukee
Brewers zoom past them and play like the way the
(22:49):
Cubs were supposed to be playing. Who else do we
Let's see page Dan nature Boy, answering the call to
Little Wild, says, the big news. Big news is that
this is the anniversary of the vass A wipeout in Milwaukee.
That Dodgers suck up. David vass that guy who, oh,
(23:12):
by the way, might I said, took a shot at
us to the little shot when I promoted, I sent out,
finally sent out on social media. The promotion, it's you
like that, you're a fan of the art. There the
little art, little cartoon art. Lorrainer approves of the art,
but you can check it out. I screwed up the
date on Twitter, but it's it's right. It is right
on X or not on X on the on Instagram
(23:35):
and Facebook and all that stuff. So there's a little
art and the Mallard meet and greeting. Vessay took a
shot at us, and what did he say? Well, I
don't know whether I need to activate the Mallard militia
or not, but I sent out. He said come out,
and I said who, what, where? When? Why? And all
that stuff? Hang out with us? And Vassay said two words,
hard pass. What he said hard pass? And I of
(23:57):
course responded because I know what he's up to, and
I know on Saturday, I know his schedule. Saturday, Blake
Snell needs breakfast in bed and he needs his laundry
get picked up from the dry cleaner. So I response to, well,
you can't make it because Blake Snell needs his dry
cleaning picked up that afternoon, so you can't. You can't
attend Release the Hounds, all right, listen. If you guys
(24:17):
want to, you know how to track down that Vassay's
the guy. Vassay's the guy in Milwaukee that was was
knocked out by a slide a child's slide playground toy. Yes,
he's such a tough guyssay that a freaking slide A
mascot slides down seven times a night and Vassay had
(24:41):
to go on the injured list because of that. And
he's a Dodger suck off. He's a houseman for the Dodgers.
So if you want to listen, just want to say
hello to him, Remind him, as nature Boy says that
this is the anniversary that this is the date thatss
famously broke his arm running down a slide. Just let
him know. But we are said, the Mallar Meet is
(25:01):
going to be a lot of fun Saturday. We're getting
some more more RSVPs, some legends planning on attending. Also,
some people are self incriminating themselves, which I always get
a kick out of it. What do you mean, well,
they said, well, this is the first life of it.
I don't understand. Why did you not tell me about
this prior?
Speaker 6 (25:19):
Oh so they haven't been listening to the show for
the past.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Two weeks exactly. They've not been listening for the last
the better part almost a month now. We've been promoting
the Mallar Meet in Vegas. Now, we were a little
late putting it on social media, but it's not like
we hid the fact like that Bill Miller, that loser
Bill Miller. How many times has Bill Miller been saying, Hey, Malard,
meet and greet Vegas, malle meat and greed.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Right, Apparently we need to say it more like once
every fifteen minutes in case people come in and out
of listening.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I understand people don't pay attention to everything.
Speaker 6 (25:45):
But that's not our fault.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
Exactly. We have done the promotion. We have done the promote.
It's not official Fox Sports Radio event because that would
require them spending money. So this is just us on
our all. We're going to Vegas, we're gonna hang out
with you, and it's listener, it's crowdsource, it's a grassroots movement.
Speaker 6 (26:01):
You and I have both promoted it on our page.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
We have that we have promoted it, and there's some
great art there if you want to see a little
cartoon drawing there of the big meet and Greek coming
up on Saturday this Saturday, and so we'll be there.
But hey, we'll have a good time. Whoever's there, we'll
be there. Ryan writes in from southern California. He says,
I am so over baseball. Ryan says he's in San Diego.
(26:27):
Says he's not a pottery famous I'm over baseball. I
guess an Angel family says thanks again, Ardi Marino. What
the hell is going on with Matthew Stafford or? Ryan says, well,
it is interesting to note there are conflicting reports about
Matthew Stafford, and there are some rumblings, unconfirmed rumblings that
(26:48):
something big is going to happen on Monday with Matthew Stafford. Now,
I tried to get my fingers on this. I tried
to figure out exactly what's going on. I failed you.
I have failed you. I will tell you though. It
is interesting to note that over the weekend the Rams
played an exhibition game against the Chargers, and there was
(27:09):
some chatter, very odd chatter about Matthew Stafford. Now Stafford
hasn't practiced all exhibition season, and on Saturday there was
a chatter he was going to work out. He was
expected to work out after he had a setback in
his oh my aching back situation, and the Rams were
(27:32):
asked to comment on whether Stafford worked out on Saturday,
and a spokes hack for the Rams declined to comment
on whether or not Matthew Stafford actually worked out for
the La Rams. Now, why would you decline to comment
on that? A because it didn't happen. B because it
did happen and something terrible happened, there was a setback,
(27:54):
or what would the other option be. I'm trying to
work through this and do a little workshop on this,
So why would you not just say he worked out
or he didn't work out. So the chatter is there's
something else going on with Matthew Stafford and there'll be
some kind of announcement to take because it very easy to say, well,
he worked out, he was fine, We'll see how he recovers,
how his body bounces back and all that stuff. But
they didn't do that, a spokesman, deferring comment to Sean McVay.
(28:19):
McVeigh will meet with reporters later today. There is all
kinds of chatter that the Rams will also engage in
acquiring another quarterback if Stafford is going to be out
for an extended period of time, that the Rams will
go out and acquire one of these available quarterbacks like
Kirk Cousins, someone like that, and just slide slide them in.
Chipping the cues rights. In regarding the top of the
(28:41):
hour mouth of the monologue, he says a plus on
the mal monologue. Players on other teams should understand that collectively,
the Red Sox fan base are very low brow. So
just ignore them, says Chip and the cues. What else
do we have? Let's see page down. Mister irrigation is
obsessed with male cheereerleaders in the NFL. It does seem
(29:02):
like that is a an effort, a concerdered effort by
the NFL. He has many male cheerleaders in the NFL.
I don't know then wanted that, but that's what we got.
A g man in Chicago says great monologue, mister Ben,
I think the stench you were smelling is either that
of the Mary Jeane, your coworker's smoke, or its lead
to lapse stench that is from g mane in Chicago. Well,
(29:25):
whatever it is, it suppears to have gone away. I
do not smell said stench, which tells me it was
something that was in the air. Fergdog says, Please tell
me you aren't going to follow up your Dodger Mallard
monologue with one on the Angels losing two out of
three to the homeless Oakland Sacramento Athletics. I don't think
(29:47):
my weak heart could take it. Yeah, Firg, you don't
have to worry about that. Not on the agenda.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
I could have put my life savings down that after
sweeping the Dodgers, the Angels were gonna was this series
to the A's.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
I was so confident in that. You should have gone
to bet your money on the on the A's. You
should have gone to you bet your money? What a
joke of it. You could have made some money. They
do get up play the Dodgers, though the Angels coop.
They get fired up to play those they do. They
can't get enough cool. By the way, guys, yes, Lorena.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Next time you decide to coordinate and match outfits, can
you just like let me know so that I can
also match and wear a teal like you?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Guys?
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (30:27):
You guys so dark. I can't. I can't see what
he's wearing. I have no idea that it's not intentional.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Speaking of which are we gonna match for this meeting?
I need to know what to win?
Speaker 2 (30:37):
No, no, what do you do? No? We did that
in Canada. We did.
Speaker 8 (30:40):
We think Canadian textedos for Canada, so so here we
would have poker suits.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
No, we would have to do sequence. I'm good y,
I did the suit. No, we did the that was
that was only for Vancouver. When in Canada you wear
the Canadian tuxedo.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
Like, I mean, okay, well whatever I wear then.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Well, yeah, it's fine. You know. Then where's something. There'd
be a lot of photos I'll be taking. I'm sure
we'll be hanging out and uh and Big Los already planning.
And I said this on my podcast over the weekend,
but Big Lou reached out, he's gonna take some p
one's there's a UNLV game that afternoon, UNV football game
against We talked. I think we mentioned here too.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Are you going to go Ben?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
No, god, no, hell no. But there's a game in
the afternoon and then some of the some of the
guys are gonna be out there hanging out and then
they're gonna that's like the pregame show. Ye'll have fun
with that, and then they're gonna go to the meet
and greet in the afternoon late at meet and greets
late afternoon, So the the logistics don't really work. This
UNLV game starts at like one thirty and are things
(31:41):
at three football games last three hours minimum three hours,
So if you do the math on that, you'd have
to leave maybe at halftime, but then you'd still miss
the beginning of the meet and greet. And you really
want to be there at the start of the meet
and greek. You don't want to be late to the
meet and greet. I mean people do come late, but you.
Speaker 6 (31:55):
And then you miss the party and everyone's five drinks.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
I'll probably be sleeping right up until two pm. Yeah,
I uh, we're efforting. I might be doing the show
from from Vegas. Join you what sure if you want?
I don't care. I don't know what this. I don't
know if that's been confirmed enough. There might be doing
the show. It's it's being efforted. It's being efforted, which
means it will not happen. Every time the company says
(32:21):
something's being efforted, it does not happen. But no, on
a Thursday night and a Friday, suppose I'll be getting
to Vegas a little early there for some pregame festivities
from the will that be from the iHeart building there
in Vegas right now, all the homeless people in Vegas.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
I hope so we can go live and show at
homeless people.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
We'll do it live. It'll be amazing and we'll find
we haven't heard from Mouthwash Mike. He's not called in recently,
So Mouthwashed Mike, let us know what's going on. Hopefully
you'll be there. I can only hope I'll go. I'll
make a deal. If Mouthwash Mike calls up, I will
go buy the Walmart and buy some.
Speaker 8 (32:56):
I was just about to say, somebody offers to buy
him a drink, he'll be he'll be there.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Not the good kind of mouthwash, the green kind. I'll
buy him the kind that is. The likes the yellow kind, right,
he likes the yellow mouthwash. Yeah, well, he's he can't
stop drinking though, he said it reminds me of beer drinking.
Brian back in the day. You just got to keep going.
Your liver's so fed up. Let's go now we have
more on this vass A store. Let's go to Tony
(33:20):
in the Bay Area. Boots on the ground. Hello, Tony,
welcome Tony.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Hey man, what do you call it when Davids whistles?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I don't know the quef? Thanks man, Okay, thank you.
I assume they did not make the air.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
Right, I just I you know, I don't know if
it could, but I didn't.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
I didn't. I dumped it. Yeah, well I learned at
iHeart University, went in dowt throw it out. I mean, yeah,
that's Tony and that's he's gonna help.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
He can say where is that rhyme with that word?
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Yeah he could. There was a basketball player for the
Atlanta Hawks, Adam Adam Keith played for the Hawks back
in the nineties. Back to back then.
Speaker 6 (34:01):
Oh my gosh, RBS has really good roast beef.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Is that right? Is that interesting? All right? You know what?
It grows on trees? What's that?
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (34:08):
Okay, I got you there? You go, so Tony the bay.
Very thank you for that, Tony, very nice contribution to
the show. Nature Boy says, fear the Halo, accept accept
the a's uh he says uh fsr Crank Shuttle says
David blank blank blank is what he said? Just josh
(34:28):
as Coop says release the hounds just doesn't carry the
same weight as when Eddie would say it, and it
needs more feeling. He's coming in the middle the hounds
outshore f and uh, you gotta say it again, Coop,
because you recovered up release the hounds. There you go.
That was a loud Natron writes and says, rs VP,
(34:49):
my wife And how about that? Natron and his wife
will be attending the meet and greet. Yes, he says,
I'm the guy that presented you the thunder eggs at
the last meet and greet. I'm next to you in
the orange hat. I still in the group photo. Can
I make an admission? What's that?
Speaker 8 (35:06):
I love when wives show up to the meet and
greet because because they're just they're they're kind of like,
what am I doing here?
Speaker 2 (35:14):
It is the It is the greatest. I have so
many stories from doing these things over the years, women
that were dragged against. I mean, they hate they hate me.
They can't stand I've had women can play all right,
try to sleep, and your stupid vices on the freaking radio,
you moro on you would shut up, you know, And
why are you so loud? It's the middle of the night.
What is wrong with you. Oh it's he gets so upset,
(35:36):
you know, he GE's so.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Your husband have some headphones.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Ladies, Oh it's so good. The poor women, they get
so upset and everyone from super market Steve's wife who
brings the Tara massou she's forced to listen down. Uh,
I'm in Kansas City. The one I did in Kansas City.
There we had several women show up with their husbands
who look like they had been dragged as hostages.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
And it was. It was the funniest thing. Anyway. It
is the Ben Mahlor Show. So the diva discount that
would be none other than All Star second baseman could
tell Marte, pretty good ballplayer for the Arizona Diamondbacks. However,
it is an open secret. It is an open secret
that the Diamondbacks are going to say bye bye to
(36:24):
all Star second basement to tell Marte why in the offseason,
because despite being one of the top talented defensive players
and offensive players as well all round player second basement
there for Arizona, he is a diva with a capital
D in the clubhouse and said to be agitating his
teammates and the coaching staff. Oh the drama. So the
(36:47):
DIVA discount. That means it'll end up with what Red Sox, Yankees, Dodgers,
Mike probably Dodgers because they're in the division. Anyway, It
is the Ben Mahler Show. Time for the who am I? Game?
This is where we pretend to be somebody else and
then you have to answer the question at Ben Mahler
on X. Seattle pitcher Brian who has gone six plus
(37:11):
innings in twenty four consecutive starts this season. It's the
first time that has happened in baseball since me. Again,
Seattle's Brian Whooo has gone six plus innings in twenty
four consecutive starts this season, for the first time that's
happened in baseball since me. Who am I? That is
the question, the answer, We'll get to it. We'll do
it next.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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Bell Miller and you. It is the Ben Maler Show.
Here every night, even on the weekends. The fifth hour
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We're here till Friday though, and then the weekends the
(37:58):
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(38:20):
come out hang out with us. Malard meet and greet
in Lost Wages Nevada either coming up Saturday. Details on
all the social media channels and you can hang out
with us. Find the location at the Steakeout Bar and Grill.
Our buddy slug hosting the event from three to five
(38:41):
on Saturday. Check it out. Right back to what we
go and before we get to the payoff on the
who Am I Game? We had a streak buster, a
streek buster on Sunday the Milwaukee Brewers. Would they ever
lose again? Would the Milwaukee Brewers ever lose again? Well,
it turns out then they would. In the Cincinnati Reds
(39:02):
had other ideas. Take a listen to the play of
the day, bitch scrip, that's a base on the left field.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Wow, the Reds have come off the mat and they
are finally, finally beating the Brewers a three two final
score and they will mob Austin Hayes at first base.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Sounds like Jeff Brantley their Reds radio as the Cincinnati Reds.
Mister hay is getting it done. And that is the
tire Iraq play of the day. The Brewers long winning
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tire installation ty raq dot com. The way tire bond
should be. That fourteen game winning streak is done. Skis
for the brew crew. Time now for the who Am I? Games?
Seattle's Brian Whoo has gone six plus innings in twenty
four consecutive starts this season, first time that's happened in
baseball since me Who am I? Late night drug tester says,
(40:07):
you are Jeremy Shockey, who is forty five today? Who else?
Joe Orselac? A good name by mister nice guy old
Oriole and apparently a pirate stuck in Sacramento says, who
is wait for it, something about the a's Who the
hell cares I know? Mickey Lolitch guessed by Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
(40:30):
Who else do we have? Steve the misplaced San Diego
going with the athletics logo as the answer, hollering James
from Mala prop guy. That is a good image of James.
That's what he looks like in person. Bob Forsche from
Alf the Alien old Piter another good name. Who else
we have? Nuke Laloush who mister irrigation in Houston? Just
(40:52):
Josh going with Killer of Giants? Ozzy, do you have
an answer the right now?
Speaker 6 (40:57):
Lend me mcleeen.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
No, it's Zach Granke back in twenty twenty fifteen, ten
years ago. Zach Grenke
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