July 16, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the NL beating the AL in a swing-off at the All-Star Game in Atlanta, Shohei Ohtani & Aaron Judge not taking part in the festivities, the overall ASG presentation, reports that Ohtani rakes in over $90M more than Aaron Judge per season in endorsements, and more!
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the National League beat the American League in a swing off.
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That's right, not a home run derby a swing off
at the All Star Game in suburban Atlanta last night.
Thumbs up or thumbs down to the All Star Game
being decided by a swing off? Also, would it have
killed Aaron Judge and Show hal Tani to have stayed
at the game and taken part in the shindig? And
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what did you make of the overall All Star Game presentation? Now,
speaking of the All Star Game, I was reading that
show hal Tani makes over ninety million dollars more than
Aaron Judge per season in endorsement revenue. How does that
compute with you?
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We'll talk about all of that and more right now
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We will walk it off. Well, not quite a lock off,
but tie. You can't tie in baseball, there was no tie.
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I'd be so our lead this hour is don't bear
the lead, ma Man from the All Star festivities in
hot Atlanta, the atl Truest Park out in the suburbs there.
That is where the scene was for the ninety fifth
Midsummer Classic, the Cream of the Crop. We were told
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from the National League and the All American League All Stars.
They're wrangling on a humid night in the South, and
it was on Fox. Did you watch?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Were you?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Were you watching Joe Davis and John Smoltz as they
were the Chatterbox the soundtrack to the All Star Game
on television? Maybe not, Maybe he didn't watch it. Perhaps
you had something else to do. I was texting a
couple of friends of mine during the All Star Game
with snarky comments and they responded, not watching. These are
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people that work in the media, and I'm not watching.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So that kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Defeated the whole purpose of the snarky messages that I
was sending. But it was a historical night and it ended,
I assume you know by now in a couple hours back.
Maybe not, though the fighting Phils Kyle Schwarber did not
get a hit in the real portion of the All
Star Game, but yet he wrote his name in the
book a Legends as he was the first person to
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do something in baseball history. Kyle Schwarbert three swings, three
bombs in the All Star Games first ever swing off,
not a derby, not a derby, a swing off, and
that gave the National.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
League the lead. They won four to three in.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The swing off, so the official final score is seven
to six. The actual All Star Game traditional baseball was
a six to six tie, but Baseball's calling this a
seven to six win for the National League All Stars,
as the NL blew a six to nothing lead. It's
always nice to see Dave Roberts mismanage a bullpen in
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a big game. There he was for the Dodgers. This
is baseball's equivalent. Remember they announced this a couple of
years ago, and we did monologues about it, then we
forgot about it. But baseball's equivalent to the penalty kick
shootout in soccer Olaya. Just like soccer, so game decided
by having three batters that supposedly were selected before the game,
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three batters for each team, and each league took three swings,
and if you didn't hit all run, it was an out,
and you only get three swings, and it came down
to the bitter end. That was agreed to back in
twenty twenty twos, twenty twenty two, so three years ago,
and I said, we will never have ties again. We
do not want to worry about running out of pitchers,
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so we'll just change the way the game is played.
That's what we're gonna do, all right, So let us discuss.
We got something new, something new to talk about. We
don't often get new things to talk about, so we
have something new to talk about. The question thumbs up
or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down on the
All Star Game being decided by a swing off? All right,
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So I've got Rob Parker, WWE and Amazon, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make the Gabba gool. We're gonna make the
Gabba Gool. So a as far as thumbs up thumbs
down on the All Star swing off, I will be
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not Benny Brightside, but I'm not gonna be Benny the downer.
I am going to go sideways thumb. I'm going sideways thumb.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And here's why.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Let me make my argument for this year. I didn't
love the swing off. I didn't it was fine. I
didn't love it. I hear a lot of.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
People saying, Oh, it was the greatest thing ever. It
was like, oh, gasmick.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I didn't have that reaction. I feel like people are
overreacting to what they watched because it's a shiny new object,
and everyone loves the shiny new object. My temperature on
this is lukewarm. That's where I am. It's like room temperature.
And here's why when you think about what we actually
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watched or listened to if you're blind. The American League
was down by one home run. They needed at least
one home runner tie to to win the final round
of the swing off, not a not a.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Derby swing off.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The game hinged with everyone watching who stayed up late
because it was late on the East Coast. That we're
late night people, so for us didn't matter, but for
those people who worked the dreaded day shift, it matters.
So somebody named Jonathan Aranda from Tampa Bay was in
the batter's box. The three Swings needed one home run
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to tie two to win. Who it's never a good
sign when you have to google, just google it the
name of the person who has the All Star Game
on their shoulders and you have no idea.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You didn't even know they were on the team. So
Aranda stepped.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
In and we right off of milk carton into the
batter's box there for the American League All Stars. And
on the last swing Solwing batter came up short, hollow ending,
hollow ending. You know I'm right. You might not would
admit it, But you know, I'm right, it was a
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hollow ending. Don't bury the lead, my man times too,
don't bury the lead.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So would it have killed? Would it have.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Killed Aaron Judge and show Hail Tani to have taken
part in this historical shindig? Would it have been the
worst thing in the world to have the two biggest
stars in baseball take part in the swing off at
the first ever edition in an All Star Game? And
the answer is yes, it would have killed both Aaron
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Judge and sho Hal Tani because they were not in
the building.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, you can't do something.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
If you're out of the building and you're thirty thousand
feet in the air because you're on a plane leaving Atlanta,
or I don't know, it's possible that Otani and Aaron
Judge went down to Magic City with Rob Parker and
we're having those lemon pepper wings and having a grand
time because they didn't want to risk out of an
abundance of caution. If Aaron Judge and Otani had batted,
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they might have messed up.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Their swing in the swing off.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Who knows, maybe they would have stepped on a booby
trap in the batter's box there and suffered spontaneous human combustion.
They would have burned up right there in the batter's box,
and they didn't want that.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But they were long gone.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And to those of us that watched the entire game,
you're a bunch of suckers. They were out of there, baby,
they were on vacation, and it gave me vibes. I
talked about this the other day, the All Star Game
in Milwaukee years ago, over twenty years ago, when it
ended in a tie, and that famous shot of then
commissioner Bud Selik that used car salesman with a shrug.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I don't know what to do now, I don't know
what to do. This was a missed.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Opportunity of epic proportions, and they're doing damage control major
League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
They're like, oh, it's not that big a deal. It's okay.
Oh there they are.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Bull crap right, bull crap, swing and miss a wingman.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Ah so.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, and so deserves a big, giant fat fail stamped
right across.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It that Otani and Judge were not part of this thing.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The biggest boppers in baseball tapped out to get on
a Delta Airlines flight from the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. Of course,
these guys public played private, private is what they do.
So instead we got, Now, there were a couple of
big names in this thing, but we also, let me
check my notes here, we had someone named Kyle Stowers
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of the Marlins and then the aforementioned Jonathan Rand of
the Rays in a swing off.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
What the damn do?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yes, such a bad look for baseball, Such a bad
look on a night where this was their night.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
They had the whole night, nothing else going on.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Nobody watches the WNBA. This was the only thing going on,
and you screwed it up.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Now, Pete Alonzo did not hit he was supposed to hit.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The National League did not need to have because they'd
already won before. Alonzo was supposed to step in, and
Kyle Schwarber's stepping up and he wins the MVP, and
pretty good odds on that. If you bet on Kyle Schwarber.
I'm sure there's some dudes in the Delaware Valley that
are smiling right now because they had a couple of
bucks on Schwarber to win the MVP.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
All right, now, Page two, So what did you make
of the overall.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
All Star presentation from a viewer standpoint a consumer, you're
the consumer.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
What did you make of it?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So if you tuned in the truest part for the
baseball and you just wanted to see the baseball, you
just want to see the ball, right, and that was
a showcase of raw talent, that's what you wanted. That's
just what you wanted. You got a lot more than
you're bargained for if that's what you were planning on. Instead,
what you got was what I would describe as a
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Broadway production, in this case off Broadway, because it was
in Atlanta, off Broadway, and it like the people behind
Baseball thought they had the Tony Award in the bag
for best choreography. And this is one of the things
you can't just let it breathe. You have to plan
everything out. Now, Am I ball humbug guy on this?
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I don't think I am.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Oh, but you're so negative, Okay, I'm just telling you
my experience watching.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's possible you had a different experience.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But the Major League Baseball scriptwriters worked overtime to plan
all this out, and what we got the result of
that was an absolute spectacle that felt less like a
game for the balance of the game and more like
some kind of reality TV episode, desperate for quote moments,
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clothes quote.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I just got that.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
The thing is they were These were not organic moments,
but that's what they wanted, right. They were more concerned
about going viral, becoming a trending topic on social media. Now,
for reference, why don't we start with Clayton Kershaw. He
was taken out in the second inning, the Dodgers left
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hander who didn't really really want to go to the
All Star Game. They dragged him as the commissioner's pick
at age thirty seven. He was miked up. He played
some grab ass like he's trying to get a podcast there,
but he's playing grab ass with John Smoltz. And then
with two outs in the second Dave Roberts bops out
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of the dugout there and pulls him out of the game. Now,
why did Dave Roberts do that with two outs in
that in? Was it because Kershaw was gas? I think
he hit from like twenty pitches? Is that too many?
Is you know he's an old man?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Was his arm about to fall off?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Did he feel a twinge? No, that did not happen.
It was scripted. Hello, it was scripted, is what it was.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It was time for him to exit, because that's what
baseball wanted, perfectly.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Time for the fans in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oue Clayton Kershaw whoo, and he leaves the field. He
tips his cap to the applause, a standing ovation, a
tear jerking molmut made for television.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And that was not the only one, all right, that
was not the only one.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Then there was Freddie Freeman, another Dodger, but always in Atlanta.
Brey right, more brave than a Dodger, even though he
had one of the great home runs in World Series,
his history as a Dodger. But Freddie Freeman, the Dodger
first baseman who's been pretty terrible the last month. Freddie
Freeman a darling of Braves teams gone by. So he
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got the full WWE treatment. It's like a Monday night
Raw broadcast on a Tuesday because before the game, before
the Alstar Game even started, you had the TV cameras
zooming in on Freddie Freeman, like right in the dugout
or just outside the dugout there with Ken Rosenthal prodding
him about his Atlanta homecoming. It was so emotional Freeman
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of course played along. It's got a little misty eye there.
Oh Man talked about his glory days with the Atlanta
Braves and he still loves Atlanta and the fans.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And really just can't get enough. And then cue the violins, right,
just que the violins. The crowd goes wild. Oh my god,
because they played in the stadium. So the crowd went wild.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And he was introduced, and I could hear the producers
probably on television, and a truck whispering. Perfect, we got
the shot. That's fade to the commercial. Fade to the commercial.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Later in the fourth inning, Freddy Freeman singleed. He then
took a bow about Chickawawwow, he took a little bow.
There a curtain call, and he was removed. Freeman was
removed for Pete Alonzo with two outs in the third inning,
giving the fans another chance to go wild and give
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Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
A big ovation. Of course, everyone ate it up. Made
for television moment. Why not?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Cameras lingered on Freddie Freeman there like they were filming
Titanic the remake.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And was any of this spontaneous? Of course?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Not police you know, it was not spontaneous. It was choreographed.
It was like a boy band dance routine back in
the day, Right, it was choreographed. It was a soap
opera like production. And Major League Baseball the puppet masters
who go to that board.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Meeting in Manhattan. I how can we get some vinyl moments? Sir?
What do we need to do?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
All right, Let's have Kershaw step out, take them out early.
We'll have Freeman come out early. We'll do a tribute
to Hank. Aaron, we'll do that later. I mean, there's
certain things that were in this thing that were just
done for. They were done for the moment, right, done
for the moment. Even the home run derby at the end,
which was not a derby, it was a swing off.
Same concert, right, same same concept and all. Now the
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last word here, which I think is appropriate. On the
night that Freddie and Freddie Freeman left the All Star
Game early and he was not alone. Right, We talked
about this at the beginning of this monologue, and that
Shoeiltani and Aaron Judge were Gonzo the biggest stars in
the game left before the game was over because they
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had plane to catch or they had to go down
to Magic City and get those lemon pepper chicken was
brought park, so they were gone and the did I
do that?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, So the faces of the Dodgers and the Yankees
there side by side and they did a side by
side call the challenge leading up to the All Star Game.
And it's not even close in one area. It's not
even close in one area. Endorsement dollars. Now, I was
reading this earlier. I just saw this, but Shoeiltani is
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making how much more than Aaron Judge per per season
in endorsements? This is just based on five endorsement revenue.
Otani is making over ninety million dollars more than Aaron
Judge in off field earnings. So how do you compute.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
How does that compute with you and the.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Amount of money the revenue between discrepancy between Otani and
Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So it's not surprising.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
In fact, if you go down to Walmart, you go
down to Walmart and you buy my new book Branding
for Dummies, you will find out why.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
There is such a disparity.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Right. While Otani and Judge both have high end companies
that they have partnerships with, they are brand ambassadors blue
chip companies Hugo Boss New Balance. Otani is in bed
with the people over at Epic Games. There he was
a first player ever featured in Fortnite, first baseball player
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ever featured in Fortnite, So that was kind of a
big deal. But a Jotani makes a hundred million dollars
a year from endorsements, Aaron Judge, Now, I think he'll
be okay, but he's at eight million. So using my
computer like brain, that's a ninety two million dollar gap.
And the reason again, it's in my book. You can
get it at Walmart. It's called Branding for Dummies, Benny's
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Branding for Dummies, and it's it's got a global icon
on one side and a domestic boss on the other.
Advantage global icon Otani is the yokozuna of merch in Japan.
Now I've not been to Japan, but I have been
told by those that have been there, some of the
people that were part of the Dodger traveling party, that
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Otani's ugly mug is on every other building in Tokyo,
that it's all.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Otani all the time, and so they pay big money on.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
That ninety two million dollars a year gap or ninety
two million total. But the gap is insane, right, Otani,
You're getting that kind of money, getting that kind of money,
and you can defer six hundred and seventy million dollars
to avoid paying the People's Republic of California taxes.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All the other suckers that live in California. You have
to pay those taxes.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But Otani's like, ah, I'm gonna take that deferred money
and I'm out, clater losers.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I'm gone.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So I don't think we need a bake sale for
Aaron Judgy. He does have a three hundred and sixty
million dollar contract and that's separate from the eight million
dollars a year, and so he'll be able to handle
those hard scrabble streets of the Bronx. It is the
Ben Malor Show. If you would like to comment on
any of the things we just talked about, your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Where are you at?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'm on sideways thumb thumbs up, thumbs down on the
swing off to decide the home run derby, And do
you agree with me that this is a really nasty
look for baseball, that this is the first ever swing
off chance to win the All Star Game? And Otani
and judge are at the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport or Magic City,
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but they're not in the ballpark.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
They're gone and they're all alone. A bunch of others
took off bag. I gotta get out of here, Bay.
I'm on vacation.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Screw you, you losers, you morons. You care who wins
the All Star Game? You're a bunch of idiots. Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
nine six six three sixty nine.
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of Hearts. We'll have password, the word, Game of the Stars,
all that throughout the overnight straight ahead. Though it was
sirk do solet with cleats huh. We'll get to that
and we will do it next.
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Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, yeah, there's some language in there which I think
is shiny. They're trying to get it taken out. I
don't know why I was in there in the first place.
I'm sure some activist group put it in there, but
I would imagine that's how that works.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
And then these it's kind of like school.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
None of the people who vote on these things in Congress,
or they don't pay attention to it.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
They just vote yay or nay. They don't read the
whole thing.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
M Can you imagine how much contributions will be made
to get that taken out.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Oh yeah, no, you're right, and it's just gonna be
a gold mine for the politicians exactly.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
That's probably why they put it.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You put stuff in there, and you know the lobbyists,
they'll pay you a lot of money to get rid
of it. Of course, keep in mind, the lobbyists in
gambling have not been able to pay enough money to
get them to raise the rate when you get taxed
when you win at a casino, they have the same
I think it hasn't been raised since like the seventies,
(27:07):
even though the value of money is a lot less
now than it was in the nineteen seventies, right, the
dollar is not worth nearly as much as it was
back then. But they have not raised the amount you
get taxed on. They've not lowered the minimum.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
So for your listeners who don't know, under this new provision,
if you win one hundred thousand and then lose one
hundred thousand in the same year, you only get to
deduct ninety percent of your loss. So in effect, you're
getting taxed for nothing ten thousand dollars worth that you
didn't make. They're still going to charge you income tax, yeah,
(27:45):
which is obscene, but like, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
How much do you gamble?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
There?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You big gambler, Dave, you go to the casino.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
I am not a big gambler. I knew you were.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And well, I'm not betting one hundred thousand dollars. If
I worked a daytime show, I might.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
But I work at a gambling But I hear you
know it is an issue.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And uh, in my dreams of quitting this and becoming
a professional gambler, I guess are on hold unless they
fix that.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
That's by the way, I heard something last week on
your show. It really was. It was alarming. It was
Tammy was throwing shade at Lorena. Uh, I get did
you notice that? I mean, it's only natural those two
would fight over me. Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I don't. We're in such a catch, bro, I can't. Yes,
David Houston a manly man day.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Yeah, a lot of these guys. I know Loraina gets
a lot of blandish months and gifts from people. But
I just want to say, Lorena, once you get with me,
you'll never want to have sex again.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
There you go, all right, that's thank you, all right,
we'll be disgusted. Well, I think that's the That's what
it was getting at. Mark the full name guys in Medford, Oregon. Hello,
Marked the full name.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Guy, Hellovan mal Or Actually I'm Inland, Oregon.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Okay, nobody knows where that is either, Okay, I do.
I'm trying to help you out.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Okay, I could just say, mark the full name guy
from Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Is that is that?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Where? I think I actually know? Here's a fun fact?
You ready for a fun fact? Mark the full name guy?
Speaker 9 (29:27):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Fun fact? If I am not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
The legendary magic duo of Penn and Teller I believe
started in Ashland or one of the early gigs was
in Achland, Oregon, at that event years ago. How about
you don't know who Penn and Teller are. I they've
only been on doing magic for like fifty years or whatever.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
My god, oh I still who they are?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Who?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Bad pop culture knowledge by you? Mark the full.
Speaker 10 (30:02):
Anyway, Ben Mel, I like that when you're.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Changing your when you're all I said all, I said,
wait wait wait waitte. I like the fact when you
change takes. You just played the harmonica. Are you going
to be in the malaplusa? Mark the full name guy,
will you be entering the Malapalooza on Sunday night in
the Monday morning.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
That sounds like a request?
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Sure, why not?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
All right, Mark's in there, Mark the full name guy?
And what what is your actor to be marked? What
will your act be marked? The full name guy? All right?
Of course?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Arm I do you are you know saying like take
me out to the ball game or something sporty or
just whatever you want?
Speaker 10 (30:40):
I could yeah, okay, anyway, Ben Meller, I'm surprised that
you're so disappointed in the all starting.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
He's a little work. Yes, what, Well, I don't I
wasn't disappointed. I just I don't. Disappoint is the right word.
It just was a missed opportunity.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
And I'm not as excited as everyone else, because if
you're gonna have a swing off, you should have.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Aaron Judge and Showyl Tony. Those are the all stars
of all Stars.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
And instead you had a guy from the Marlins versus
a guy from the Rays who were both in there.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
That should not have been the way it went down.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Well, but Kyle Schwarber did not disappoint. That was fantastic.
Now it may not be as famous a home run
as the one your Kirk Gibson hit against the Oaklan age.
But that was pretty darn good.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You're talking about Schwarber.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah, you do?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
You do?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You're doing that?
Speaker 10 (31:47):
That was pretty good? You do?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
You do understand the picture was not trying to get
him out. The picture was trying to allow him to
hit a home run. You do understand that?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Why I mean, I'm saying it's not like the most
amazing feet ever done in baseball diamond, but it was
a pretty good way for the National League.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
To win the All Star I should have been in there,
mark the four. I should have been there marked the
full name guy, Benny the bopper Man. Back in the day,
I would have dominated that Benny the bopper Well.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I should have been there at the hot corner like
Brooks to Robinson the American League and they would have
won that.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
You're dating yourself with the Brooks Robinson there.
Speaker 9 (32:28):
No, but his name is Brooks, you know, like Brooklyn Brooks.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
No, I know who Brooks Robers guys.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
I know who.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
He was a vacuum cleaner at third base. I know, yes,
I hear you.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
You know what I do apologize to Blind Scott and
you for anything inappropriate I might have said. Especially want
to apologize to blind Scott because he didn't deserve the
brush off. I gave him a couple of nights ago,
and he doesn't need my opinions in an election year
about some.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Stupid All right, hold, you know, so you know what
you're on your meds. I love that you're the good mood.
Let's go about blind Scott. You've been apologized to by
Mark the full name God. You accept the apology, Blind Scott?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Yeah, I do accept that.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
It was great to hear from Mark that night. So
but when Mark said that he brought in some people
like there are people that are mad at me because
of what Mark said. I accept the apology, but now
I have to fend off haters from New Hampshire rednecks.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
All right, hold on a seck, Mark, any advice you have.
Mark to Blind Scott, he says he asks to now
fight off haters in New Hampshire.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Oh for a shifting my apology because.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
They hate me.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
What I represent to him.
Speaker 10 (33:45):
Well, you know what, I'm actually a lot more tolerant
than you think I am.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
After all, I lived at San Francisco for decades, so
I've seen a lot of stuff then now, and you
know what, that stuff really doesn't bother me if it
hadn't been an election here and it's all the crazy
things that happened.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
You know, the assassination, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Have been You were very worked up. You were worked
up into it, Tissey. It's true. And I've known you
me and you. Go and listen, Mark, Mark, listen, we
go way back. You used to live in the Tenderloin.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
District of San Francisco, the worst part of San Francisco.
It is literally in the Bible as Sodom and Gomorra.
It's in the Bible right there, the Tenderloin district of
San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Horrible.
Speaker 10 (34:27):
It is pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, all right, all right, oh.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I say, Scott, any other final points before I hang
up on Mark the full name Guy, Blind Scott.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
I have no idea why this is being discussed, so like,
I love it. I love talking to Mark, but he's outing.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
And me in my lifestyle with all right, do you
feel like you're you're outing, Blind Scott. Do you feel
like you're doing that? Marked the full name Guy. You
retract that though, so you're not doing that.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay, all right, all right, I look forward to hearing
you in the Malapalooza. This is very exciting.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Now what time should I be.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I'll put you on hold. I'll put you on hold,
Jess at a time with coop Coop, pick up the
line line five. We'll pick that up.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Very exciting. We have the play of the day though.
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Speaker 1 (35:30):
That center huge for the bastion of the league.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
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Speaker 1 (35:37):
He said, if he could get it on his first swing,
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Speaker 2 (35:48):
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Speaker 1 (35:49):
That is MVP material. If he gets the third one
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Speaker 2 (35:59):
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Speaker 1 (36:03):
League text lay FLA three There you go.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
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the who Am I?
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Dave Roberts managed his fourth National League All Star Game
for the Doyers. The only people to manage more National
League All Star Games are Walter Allston and me.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Again.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Dave Roberts, representing the Dodgers, managed his fourth NL All
Star Game. The only people to manage more are Walter
Allston and this is for any buddy in the Nation League.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Walter Alston and me. Who am I? The answer? We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
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And now back to it.
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Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Go and here is the who am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
So Dave Roberts managed. That's a guy managed with Dodgers.
I really liked him in that spot. So Dave Roberts
managed the Dodgers. He also managed his fourth National League.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
The only people to manage more are Walter Alston, another
Dodger legend, and me.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Andrew in the Bay Area is going with the random
art Howe that's his answer. Bobby and Florida, says Zelia
Banks is the way to go. Red shandis there shandy stuff?
From ekeon Rosevil, Minnesota. Who else do we have? Boots
Day from Atomic Asphalt Femi in Minnesota going with Mike
(38:52):
Zimmer as his answer see Firkdock, says Dave Roberts, who
got his first win as an All Star, says Ferg
Dog Will Ferrell, who is fifty eight today from the
Late Night Drug Tester El Choppo guest by Alf the
Alien Opiner mal a prop guy says Lemon James is
(39:13):
the hour of Lebron right around the corner.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Who else you have?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Whitey Herzog from Milkman Mike in Colorado, Ford in Dallas
Listener Ford in Dallas guests by Shane in Des Moines.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Paige Don Scrooge in the Bear says my man Jerry Jones,
who loves him some gloryhole. That's the answer, Paige Dan.
Mister Irrigation says Dino. Ebel is the way to go.
Wally Backman from Sean in the Valley of the Sun,
Ya Feeme going with John Rocker on the seven train.
(39:50):
Nick the Wendy's Guy, who's having a better day today
at a boring day, but he's having a better day,
he says, Casey Stangele.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Who else we have?
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Celine Dion from truck Stop Longest Pop Fisher, my favorite
manager from Steve the misplaced San Diegan.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Who else? Do we have? A Fat Daddy?
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Going with Coops Lost Poker Chips JJ going with former
Fox Sports radio personality Brian Cox who hated me when
he worked here, Sweet lout Williams from the Nature Boy.
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Lorrain? Yes, I'm gonna go with Jack Dawson.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Okay, is it Jack Dawson? Is that anyone else named Dawson? No,
the correct answer is Bobby Cox. Bobby Cox is the
correct answer. Not Brian Cox. Bobby Cox. Bobby Cox of
the Atlanta Bradze and he's in very poor health. Bobby Cox.
He had to shrow a couple of years back. He's
(40:44):
like paralyzed socks. But Bobby Cox is the correct answer
for Well, I'm not, but Bobby's you know, he's had
a tough few years there, the longtime manager of the
Atlanta Bridge. And also, if you're really old, the Toronto
Blue Jay, Old cadaa
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the National League beat the American League in a swing off.
(00:21):
That's right, not a home run derby a swing off
at the All Star Game in suburban Atlanta last night.
Thumbs up or thumbs down to the All Star Game
being decided by a swing off? Also, would it have
killed Aaron Judge and Show hal Tani to have stayed
at the game and taken part in the shindig? And
(00:42):
what did you make of the overall All Star Game presentation? Now,
speaking of the All Star Game, I was reading that
show hal Tani makes over ninety million dollars more than
Aaron Judge per season in endorsement revenue. How does that
compute with you?
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We'll talk about all of that and more right now
here it is.
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We will walk it off. Well, not quite a lock off,
but tie. You can't tie in baseball, there was no tie.
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I'd be so our lead this hour is don't bear
the lead, ma Man from the All Star festivities in
hot Atlanta, the atl Truest Park out in the suburbs there.
That is where the scene was for the ninety fifth
Midsummer Classic, the Cream of the Crop. We were told
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from the National League and the All American League All Stars.
They're wrangling on a humid night in the South, and
it was on Fox. Did you watch?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Were you?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Were you watching Joe Davis and John Smoltz as they
were the Chatterbox the soundtrack to the All Star Game
on television? Maybe not, Maybe he didn't watch it. Perhaps
you had something else to do. I was texting a
couple of friends of mine during the All Star Game
with snarky comments and they responded, not watching. These are
(03:23):
people that work in the media, and I'm not watching.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
So that kind of.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Defeated the whole purpose of the snarky messages that I
was sending. But it was a historical night and it ended,
I assume you know by now in a couple hours back.
Maybe not, though the fighting Phils Kyle Schwarber did not
get a hit in the real portion of the All
Star Game, but yet he wrote his name in the
book a Legends as he was the first person to
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do something in baseball history. Kyle Schwarbert three swings, three
bombs in the All Star Games first ever swing off,
not a derby, not a derby, a swing off, and
that gave the National.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
League the lead. They won four to three in.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The swing off, so the official final score is seven
to six. The actual All Star Game traditional baseball was
a six to six tie, but Baseball's calling this a
seven to six win for the National League All Stars,
as the NL blew a six to nothing lead. It's
always nice to see Dave Roberts mismanage a bullpen in
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a big game. There he was for the Dodgers. This
is baseball's equivalent. Remember they announced this a couple of
years ago, and we did monologues about it, then we
forgot about it. But baseball's equivalent to the penalty kick
shootout in soccer Olaya. Just like soccer, so game decided
by having three batters that supposedly were selected before the game,
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three batters for each team, and each league took three swings,
and if you didn't hit all run, it was an out,
and you only get three swings, and it came down
to the bitter end. That was agreed to back in
twenty twenty twos, twenty twenty two, so three years ago,
and I said, we will never have ties again. We
do not want to worry about running out of pitchers,
(05:16):
so we'll just change the way the game is played.
That's what we're gonna do, all right, So let us discuss.
We got something new, something new to talk about. We
don't often get new things to talk about, so we
have something new to talk about. The question thumbs up
or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down on the
All Star Game being decided by a swing off? All right,
(05:38):
So I've got Rob Parker, WWE and Amazon, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make the Gabba gool. We're gonna make the
Gabba Gool. So a as far as thumbs up thumbs
down on the All Star swing off, I will be
(06:00):
not Benny Brightside, but I'm not gonna be Benny the downer.
I am going to go sideways thumb. I'm going sideways thumb.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
And here's why.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Let me make my argument for this year. I didn't
love the swing off. I didn't it was fine. I
didn't love it. I hear a lot of.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
People saying, Oh, it was the greatest thing ever. It
was like, oh, gasmick.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I didn't have that reaction. I feel like people are
overreacting to what they watched because it's a shiny new object,
and everyone loves the shiny new object. My temperature on
this is lukewarm. That's where I am. It's like room temperature.
And here's why when you think about what we actually
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watched or listened to if you're blind. The American League
was down by one home run. They needed at least
one home runner tie to to win the final round
of the swing off, not a not a.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Derby swing off.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
The game hinged with everyone watching who stayed up late
because it was late on the East Coast. That we're
late night people, so for us didn't matter, but for
those people who worked the dreaded day shift, it matters.
So somebody named Jonathan Aranda from Tampa Bay was in
the batter's box. The three Swings needed one home run
(07:20):
to tie two to win. Who it's never a good
sign when you have to google, just google it the
name of the person who has the All Star Game
on their shoulders and you have no idea.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You didn't even know they were on the team. So
Aranda stepped.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
In and we right off of milk carton into the
batter's box there for the American League All Stars. And
on the last swing Solwing batter came up short, hollow ending,
hollow ending. You know I'm right. You might not would
admit it, But you know, I'm right, it was a
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hollow ending. Don't bury the lead, my man times too,
don't bury the lead.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
So would it have killed? Would it have.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Killed Aaron Judge and show Hail Tani to have taken
part in this historical shindig? Would it have been the
worst thing in the world to have the two biggest
stars in baseball take part in the swing off at
the first ever edition in an All Star Game? And
the answer is yes, it would have killed both Aaron
(08:30):
Judge and sho Hal Tani because they were not in
the building.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, you can't do something.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
If you're out of the building and you're thirty thousand
feet in the air because you're on a plane leaving Atlanta,
or I don't know, it's possible that Otani and Aaron
Judge went down to Magic City with Rob Parker and
we're having those lemon pepper wings and having a grand
time because they didn't want to risk out of an
abundance of caution. If Aaron Judge and Otani had batted,
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they might have messed up.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Their swing in the swing off.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Who knows, maybe they would have stepped on a booby
trap in the batter's box there and suffered spontaneous human combustion.
They would have burned up right there in the batter's box,
and they didn't want that.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But they were long gone.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
And to those of us that watched the entire game,
you're a bunch of suckers. They were out of there, baby,
they were on vacation, and it gave me vibes. I
talked about this the other day, the All Star Game
in Milwaukee years ago, over twenty years ago, when it
ended in a tie, and that famous shot of then
commissioner Bud Selik that used car salesman with a shrug.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I don't know what to do now, I don't know
what to do. This was a missed.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Opportunity of epic proportions, and they're doing damage control major
League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
They're like, oh, it's not that big a deal. It's okay.
Oh there they are.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Bull crap right, bull crap, swing and miss a wingman.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Ah so.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, and so deserves a big, giant fat fail stamped
right across.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It that Otani and Judge were not part of this thing.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
The biggest boppers in baseball tapped out to get on
a Delta Airlines flight from the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. Of course,
these guys public played private, private is what they do.
So instead we got, Now, there were a couple of
big names in this thing, but we also, let me
check my notes here, we had someone named Kyle Stowers
(10:31):
of the Marlins and then the aforementioned Jonathan Rand of
the Rays in a swing off.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
What the damn do?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yes, such a bad look for baseball, Such a bad
look on a night where this was their night.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
They had the whole night, nothing else going on.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Nobody watches the WNBA. This was the only thing going on,
and you screwed it up.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Now, Pete Alonzo did not hit he was supposed to hit.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
The National League did not need to have because they'd
already won before. Alonzo was supposed to step in, and
Kyle Schwarber's stepping up and he wins the MVP, and
pretty good odds on that. If you bet on Kyle Schwarber.
I'm sure there's some dudes in the Delaware Valley that
are smiling right now because they had a couple of
bucks on Schwarber to win the MVP.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
All right, now, Page two, So what did you make
of the overall.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
All Star presentation from a viewer standpoint a consumer, you're
the consumer.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
What did you make of it?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So if you tuned in the truest part for the
baseball and you just wanted to see the baseball, you
just want to see the ball, right, and that was
a showcase of raw talent, that's what you wanted. That's
just what you wanted. You got a lot more than
you're bargained for if that's what you were planning on. Instead,
what you got was what I would describe as a
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Broadway production, in this case off Broadway, because it was
in Atlanta, off Broadway, and it like the people behind
Baseball thought they had the Tony Award in the bag
for best choreography. And this is one of the things
you can't just let it breathe. You have to plan
everything out. Now, Am I ball humbug guy on this?
(12:16):
I don't think I am.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Oh, but you're so negative, Okay, I'm just telling you
my experience watching.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's possible you had a different experience.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
But the Major League Baseball scriptwriters worked overtime to plan
all this out, and what we got the result of
that was an absolute spectacle that felt less like a
game for the balance of the game and more like
some kind of reality TV episode, desperate for quote moments,
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clothes quote.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
I just got that.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
The thing is they were These were not organic moments,
but that's what they wanted, right. They were more concerned
about going viral, becoming a trending topic on social media. Now,
for reference, why don't we start with Clayton Kershaw. He
was taken out in the second inning, the Dodgers left
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hander who didn't really really want to go to the
All Star Game. They dragged him as the commissioner's pick
at age thirty seven. He was miked up. He played
some grab ass like he's trying to get a podcast there,
but he's playing grab ass with John Smoltz. And then
with two outs in the second Dave Roberts bops out
(13:31):
of the dugout there and pulls him out of the game. Now,
why did Dave Roberts do that with two outs in
that in? Was it because Kershaw was gas? I think
he hit from like twenty pitches? Is that too many?
Is you know he's an old man?
Speaker 5 (13:42):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Was his arm about to fall off?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Did he feel a twinge? No, that did not happen.
It was scripted. Hello, it was scripted, is what it was.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Right.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It was time for him to exit, because that's what
baseball wanted, perfectly.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Time for the fans in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Oue Clayton Kershaw whoo, and he leaves the field. He
tips his cap to the applause, a standing ovation, a
tear jerking molmut made for television.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
And that was not the only one, all right, that
was not the only one.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Then there was Freddie Freeman, another Dodger, but always in Atlanta.
Brey right, more brave than a Dodger, even though he
had one of the great home runs in World Series,
his history as a Dodger. But Freddie Freeman, the Dodger
first baseman who's been pretty terrible the last month. Freddie
Freeman a darling of Braves teams gone by. So he
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got the full WWE treatment. It's like a Monday night
Raw broadcast on a Tuesday because before the game, before
the Alstar Game even started, you had the TV cameras
zooming in on Freddie Freeman, like right in the dugout
or just outside the dugout there with Ken Rosenthal prodding
him about his Atlanta homecoming. It was so emotional Freeman
(15:04):
of course played along. It's got a little misty eye there.
Oh Man talked about his glory days with the Atlanta
Braves and he still loves Atlanta and the fans.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
And really just can't get enough. And then cue the violins, right,
just que the violins. The crowd goes wild. Oh my god,
because they played in the stadium. So the crowd went wild.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
And he was introduced, and I could hear the producers
probably on television, and a truck whispering. Perfect, we got
the shot. That's fade to the commercial. Fade to the commercial.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Later in the fourth inning, Freddy Freeman singleed. He then
took a bow about Chickawawwow, he took a little bow.
There a curtain call, and he was removed. Freeman was
removed for Pete Alonzo with two outs in the third inning,
giving the fans another chance to go wild and give
(15:59):
Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
A big ovation. Of course, everyone ate it up. Made
for television moment. Why not?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Cameras lingered on Freddie Freeman there like they were filming
Titanic the remake.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And was any of this spontaneous? Of course?
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Not police you know, it was not spontaneous. It was choreographed.
It was like a boy band dance routine back in
the day, Right, it was choreographed. It was a soap
opera like production. And Major League Baseball the puppet masters
who go to that board.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Meeting in Manhattan. I how can we get some vinyl moments? Sir?
What do we need to do?
Speaker 2 (16:38):
All right, Let's have Kershaw step out, take them out early.
We'll have Freeman come out early. We'll do a tribute
to Hank. Aaron, we'll do that later. I mean, there's
certain things that were in this thing that were just
done for. They were done for the moment, right, done
for the moment. Even the home run derby at the end,
which was not a derby, it was a swing off.
Same concert, right, same same concept and all. Now the
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last word here, which I think is appropriate. On the
night that Freddie and Freddie Freeman left the All Star
Game early and he was not alone. Right, We talked
about this at the beginning of this monologue, and that
Shoeiltani and Aaron Judge were Gonzo the biggest stars in
the game left before the game was over because they
(17:23):
had plane to catch or they had to go down
to Magic City and get those lemon pepper chicken was
brought park, so they were gone and the did I
do that?
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Yeah, So the faces of the Dodgers and the Yankees
there side by side and they did a side by
side call the challenge leading up to the All Star Game.
And it's not even close in one area. It's not
even close in one area. Endorsement dollars. Now, I was
reading this earlier. I just saw this, but Shoeiltani is
(17:53):
making how much more than Aaron Judge per per season
in endorsements? This is just based on five endorsement revenue.
Otani is making over ninety million dollars more than Aaron
Judge in off field earnings. So how do you compute.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
That?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
How does that compute with you and the.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Amount of money the revenue between discrepancy between Otani and
Aaron Judge.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
So it's not surprising.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
In fact, if you go down to Walmart, you go
down to Walmart and you buy my new book Branding
for Dummies, you will find out why.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
There is such a disparity.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Right. While Otani and Judge both have high end companies
that they have partnerships with, they are brand ambassadors blue
chip companies Hugo Boss New Balance. Otani is in bed
with the people over at Epic Games. There he was
a first player ever featured in Fortnite, first baseball player
(18:56):
ever featured in Fortnite, So that was kind of a
big deal. But a Jotani makes a hundred million dollars
a year from endorsements, Aaron Judge, Now, I think he'll
be okay, but he's at eight million. So using my
computer like brain, that's a ninety two million dollar gap.
And the reason again, it's in my book. You can
get it at Walmart. It's called Branding for Dummies, Benny's
(19:19):
Branding for Dummies, and it's it's got a global icon
on one side and a domestic boss on the other.
Advantage global icon Otani is the yokozuna of merch in Japan.
Now I've not been to Japan, but I have been
told by those that have been there, some of the
people that were part of the Dodger traveling party, that
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Otani's ugly mug is on every other building in Tokyo,
that it's all.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Otani all the time, and so they pay big money on.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
That ninety two million dollars a year gap or ninety
two million total. But the gap is insane, right, Otani,
You're getting that kind of money, getting that kind of money,
and you can defer six hundred and seventy million dollars
to avoid paying the People's Republic of California taxes.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
All the other suckers that live in California. You have
to pay those taxes.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
But Otani's like, ah, I'm gonna take that deferred money
and I'm out, clater losers.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I'm gone.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
So I don't think we need a bake sale for
Aaron Judgy. He does have a three hundred and sixty
million dollar contract and that's separate from the eight million
dollars a year, and so he'll be able to handle
those hard scrabble streets of the Bronx. It is the
Ben Malor Show. If you would like to comment on
any of the things we just talked about, your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Where are you at?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'm on sideways thumb thumbs up, thumbs down on the
swing off to decide the home run derby, And do
you agree with me that this is a really nasty
look for baseball, that this is the first ever swing
off chance to win the All Star Game? And Otani
and judge are at the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport or Magic City,
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but they're not in the ballpark.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
They're gone and they're all alone. A bunch of others
took off bag. I gotta get out of here, Bay.
I'm on vacation.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Screw you, you losers, you morons. You care who wins
the All Star Game? You're a bunch of idiots. Eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
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Speaker 2 (22:29):
You that's right, the sports radio with chick music. Yeah, absolutely,
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Speaker 2 (22:45):
Bad singing, bad comedy, bad music, like this barnyard impersonations.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
We have it all.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
In years past, we had the famous Boston berber. You
never know who's gonna make an appearance. It's the bizarre,
it's the beautiful, it's this Sunday night in the Monday morning. Wow,
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Lorena who picks the crappy music FSR Tech Queen and
(23:39):
Classic Band and Cooper loop over there at a Bronco
fan back to it all right, So I can I
know based on the music Loraino plays, I can I
can expect to get angry email. Hey Ben, you're on
a mail driven format. You do sports talk radio.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Your Titanic in your monologue. Not asked you know, I did.
I did not ask you to play. I'm gonna go
with the theme. Okay. So I just mentioned like h
or hip hop or something, So you play.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
That play a hip hop?
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Oh my god, No, you say no, no, no, I
get more. I want to deal.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
I mean, I don't want to deal with the idiots.
They get so upset when they hear that chick music.
They can't stand it. They hated they love they know
they don't.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
They complained to me Lorena the way they sent meeting
nasty emails. I was like, I liked your show, but
the music I can't listen now for suck. Let me
point out something now, I have long been I don't
understand why someone would be either so into a show
(24:43):
based on bumper music or against the show because of
bumper music. We do spoken word radio now. I used
to There was a guy who worked with years ago
in in radio.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
With like forty five seconds of music. Guys, no, I understand,
that's why. That's my point.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But there was a guy I used to work with,
this guy name Lee, who was a talk show host,
and he would he would obsess about the music. He
would play right, and people would call up and they
never wanted to talk sports with him and say, oh, man,
I really loved your bumper music.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And I was like, what is the point.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I don't want anyone to call up and say I
love your bumper music. I also don't want to say
you hate it.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I don't care.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I score the phones. Let's say hello to Aeny Meeni
miney Moe. Let's say hello Dave who is in Houston
and put him on hold. That's the other guy, Dave
in Houston.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Hold on? Was that the I think that was the
harmonica guy. We'll go back to him. David Houston what's
going on, Dave Man?
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Oh, this is the former transgender Dave here, this is
the Yeah, Dave, go ahead, Dave.
Speaker 9 (25:41):
I don't know if you justin said you and he
knew about this latest gambling provision in the so called
Big Beautiful Bill, or if some some have called it
the Codex of Satan.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Oh you're talking. You're so you don't want to talk
about the All Star.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You want to talk about the the bill, which would
essentially and professional gambling.
Speaker 9 (26:02):
Basically, it would. Yeah, and you're a long time to
generate gam Yes, I am. You need to know about this,
but your listeners might not know.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Well, yeah, there's some language in there which I think
is shiny. They're trying to get it taken out. I
don't know why I was in there in the first place.
I'm sure some activist group put it in there, but
I would imagine that's how that works.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
And then these it's kind of like school.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
None of the people who vote on these things in Congress,
or they don't pay attention to it.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
They just vote yay or nay. They don't read the
whole thing.
Speaker 9 (26:32):
M Can you imagine how much contributions will be made
to get that taken out.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Oh yeah, no, you're right, and it's just gonna be
a gold mine for the politicians exactly.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
That's probably why they put it.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
You put stuff in there, and you know the lobbyists,
they'll pay you a lot of money to get rid
of it. Of course, keep in mind, the lobbyists in
gambling have not been able to pay enough money to
get them to raise the rate when you get taxed
when you win at a casino, they have the same
I think it hasn't been raised since like the seventies,
(27:07):
even though the value of money is a lot less
now than it was in the nineteen seventies, right, the
dollar is not worth nearly as much as it was
back then. But they have not raised the amount you
get taxed on. They've not lowered the minimum.
Speaker 9 (27:23):
So for your listeners who don't know, under this new provision,
if you win one hundred thousand and then lose one
hundred thousand in the same year, you only get to
deduct ninety percent of your loss. So in effect, you're
getting taxed for nothing ten thousand dollars worth that you
didn't make. They're still going to charge you income tax, yeah,
(27:45):
which is obscene, but like, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
How much do you gamble?
Speaker 4 (27:50):
There?
Speaker 1 (27:50):
You big gambler, Dave, you go to the casino.
Speaker 9 (27:54):
I am not a big gambler. I knew you were.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
And well, I'm not betting one hundred thousand dollars. If
I worked a daytime show, I might.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
But I work at a gambling But I hear you
know it is an issue.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And uh, in my dreams of quitting this and becoming
a professional gambler, I guess are on hold unless they
fix that.
Speaker 9 (28:13):
That's by the way, I heard something last week on
your show. It really was. It was alarming. It was
Tammy was throwing shade at Lorena. Uh, I get did
you notice that? I mean, it's only natural those two
would fight over me. Uh.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
I don't. We're in such a catch, bro, I can't. Yes,
David Houston a manly man day.
Speaker 9 (28:38):
Yeah, a lot of these guys. I know Loraina gets
a lot of blandish months and gifts from people. But
I just want to say, Lorena, once you get with me,
you'll never want to have sex again.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
There you go, all right, that's thank you, all right,
we'll be disgusted. Well, I think that's the That's what
it was getting at. Mark the full name guys in Medford, Oregon. Hello,
Marked the full name.
Speaker 5 (29:03):
Guy, Hellovan mal Or Actually I'm Inland, Oregon.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Okay, nobody knows where that is either, Okay, I do.
I'm trying to help you out.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Okay, I could just say, mark the full name guy
from Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Is that is that?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Where? I think I actually know? Here's a fun fact?
You ready for a fun fact? Mark the full name guy?
Speaker 9 (29:27):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Fun fact? If I am not mistaken.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
The legendary magic duo of Penn and Teller I believe
started in Ashland or one of the early gigs was
in Achland, Oregon, at that event years ago. How about
you don't know who Penn and Teller are. I they've
only been on doing magic for like fifty years or whatever.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
My god, oh I still who they are?
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Who?
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Bad pop culture knowledge by you? Mark the full.
Speaker 10 (30:02):
Anyway, Ben Mel, I like that when you're.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Changing your when you're all I said all, I said,
wait wait wait waitte. I like the fact when you
change takes. You just played the harmonica. Are you going
to be in the malaplusa? Mark the full name guy,
will you be entering the Malapalooza on Sunday night in
the Monday morning.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
That sounds like a request?
Speaker 5 (30:22):
Sure, why not?
Speaker 1 (30:23):
All right, Mark's in there, Mark the full name guy?
And what what is your actor to be marked? What
will your act be marked? The full name guy? All right?
Of course?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Arm I do you are you know saying like take
me out to the ball game or something sporty or
just whatever you want?
Speaker 10 (30:40):
I could yeah, okay, anyway, Ben Meller, I'm surprised that
you're so disappointed in the all starting.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
He's a little work. Yes, what, Well, I don't I
wasn't disappointed. I just I don't. Disappoint is the right word.
It just was a missed opportunity.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
And I'm not as excited as everyone else, because if
you're gonna have a swing off, you should have.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Aaron Judge and Showyl Tony. Those are the all stars
of all Stars.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
And instead you had a guy from the Marlins versus
a guy from the Rays who were both in there.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
That should not have been the way it went down.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Well, but Kyle Schwarber did not disappoint. That was fantastic.
Now it may not be as famous a home run
as the one your Kirk Gibson hit against the Oaklan age.
But that was pretty darn good.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
You're talking about Schwarber.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
Yeah, you do?
Speaker 4 (31:45):
You do?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
You're doing that?
Speaker 10 (31:47):
That was pretty good? You do?
Speaker 2 (31:49):
You do understand the picture was not trying to get
him out. The picture was trying to allow him to
hit a home run. You do understand that?
Speaker 5 (31:55):
Why I mean, I'm saying it's not like the most
amazing feet ever done in baseball diamond, but it was
a pretty good way for the National League.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
To win the All Star I should have been in there,
mark the four. I should have been there marked the
full name guy, Benny the bopper Man. Back in the day,
I would have dominated that Benny the bopper Well.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I should have been there at the hot corner like
Brooks to Robinson the American League and they would have
won that.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
You're dating yourself with the Brooks Robinson there.
Speaker 9 (32:28):
No, but his name is Brooks, you know, like Brooklyn Brooks.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
No, I know who Brooks Robers guys.
Speaker 10 (32:34):
I know who.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
He was a vacuum cleaner at third base. I know, yes,
I hear you.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
You know what I do apologize to Blind Scott and
you for anything inappropriate I might have said. Especially want
to apologize to blind Scott because he didn't deserve the
brush off. I gave him a couple of nights ago,
and he doesn't need my opinions in an election year
about some.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Stupid All right, hold, you know, so you know what
you're on your meds. I love that you're the good mood.
Let's go about blind Scott. You've been apologized to by
Mark the full name God. You accept the apology, Blind Scott?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Yeah, I do accept that.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
It was great to hear from Mark that night. So
but when Mark said that he brought in some people
like there are people that are mad at me because
of what Mark said. I accept the apology, but now
I have to fend off haters from New Hampshire rednecks.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
All right, hold on a seck, Mark, any advice you have.
Mark to Blind Scott, he says he asks to now
fight off haters in New Hampshire.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Oh for a shifting my apology because.
Speaker 5 (33:41):
They hate me.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
What I represent to him.
Speaker 10 (33:45):
Well, you know what, I'm actually a lot more tolerant
than you think I am.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
After all, I lived at San Francisco for decades, so
I've seen a lot of stuff then now, and you
know what, that stuff really doesn't bother me if it
hadn't been an election here and it's all the crazy
things that happened.
Speaker 10 (34:03):
You know, the assassination, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Have been You were very worked up. You were worked
up into it, Tissey. It's true. And I've known you
me and you. Go and listen, Mark, Mark, listen, we
go way back. You used to live in the Tenderloin.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
District of San Francisco, the worst part of San Francisco.
It is literally in the Bible as Sodom and Gomorra.
It's in the Bible right there, the Tenderloin district of
San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Horrible.
Speaker 10 (34:27):
It is pretty bad.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Yeah, all right, all right, oh.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
I say, Scott, any other final points before I hang
up on Mark the full name Guy, Blind Scott.
Speaker 6 (34:35):
I have no idea why this is being discussed, so like,
I love it. I love talking to Mark, but he's outing.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
And me in my lifestyle with all right, do you
feel like you're you're outing, Blind Scott. Do you feel
like you're doing that? Marked the full name Guy. You
retract that though, so you're not doing that.
Speaker 9 (34:51):
I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Okay, all right, all right, I look forward to hearing
you in the Malapalooza. This is very exciting.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
Now what time should I be.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I'll put you on hold. I'll put you on hold,
Jess at a time with coop Coop, pick up the
line line five. We'll pick that up.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
Very exciting. We have the play of the day though.
Right now we have the play of the day. This
is the tire raqt play of the day and there's
only one person, one person that can be the tire
Rack play of the day. On the night of the
All Star Game, the first ever swing off of fighting
Field swarm in the air the center field heading towards
(35:28):
the wall.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
That center huge for the bastion of the league.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
They're within one, so there you go.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
He said, if he could get it on his first swing,
and he did, SoRs in the All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Tied it free.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
That is MVP material. If he gets the third one
right here, they rallied in the game, and now has
rallied in the swing.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Track lookout shop House National.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
League text lay FLA three There you go.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
That was on Fox, of course, as Kyle Schwarber three
for three NL would win the All Star Game. On
a swing off, not a home un derby, and that
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Com The Way Tire Buying Show be time now for
the who Am I?
Speaker 4 (36:36):
Game?
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Dave Roberts managed his fourth National League All Star Game
for the Doyers. The only people to manage more National
League All Star Games are Walter Allston and me.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
Again.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Dave Roberts, representing the Dodgers, managed his fourth NL All
Star Game. The only people to manage more are Walter
Allston and this is for any buddy in the Nation League.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Walter Alston and me. Who am I? The answer? We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 7 (37:08):
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Speaker 2 (37:33):
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Speaker 1 (37:57):
And now back to it.
Speaker 9 (37:58):
Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Go and here is the who am I? Game?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
So Dave Roberts managed. That's a guy managed with Dodgers.
I really liked him in that spot. So Dave Roberts
managed the Dodgers. He also managed his fourth National League.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
All Star Game.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
The only people to manage more are Walter Alston, another
Dodger legend, and me.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
Who am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (38:30):
Andrew in the Bay Area is going with the random
art Howe that's his answer. Bobby and Florida, says Zelia
Banks is the way to go. Red shandis there shandy stuff?
From ekeon Rosevil, Minnesota. Who else do we have? Boots
Day from Atomic Asphalt Femi in Minnesota going with Mike
(38:52):
Zimmer as his answer see Firkdock, says Dave Roberts, who
got his first win as an All Star, says Ferg
Dog Will Ferrell, who is fifty eight today from the
Late Night Drug Tester El Choppo guest by Alf the
Alien Opiner mal a prop guy says Lemon James is
(39:13):
the hour of Lebron right around the corner.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Who else you have?
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Whitey Herzog from Milkman Mike in Colorado, Ford in Dallas
Listener Ford in Dallas guests by Shane in Des Moines.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Paige Don Scrooge in the Bear says my man Jerry Jones,
who loves him some gloryhole. That's the answer, Paige Dan.
Mister Irrigation says Dino. Ebel is the way to go.
Wally Backman from Sean in the Valley of the Sun,
Ya Feeme going with John Rocker on the seven train.
(39:50):
Nick the Wendy's Guy, who's having a better day today
at a boring day, but he's having a better day,
he says, Casey Stangele.
Speaker 1 (39:57):
Who else we have?
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Celine Dion from truck Stop Longest Pop Fisher, my favorite
manager from Steve the misplaced San Diegan.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Who else? Do we have? A Fat Daddy?
Speaker 2 (40:08):
Going with Coops Lost Poker Chips JJ going with former
Fox Sports radio personality Brian Cox who hated me when
he worked here, Sweet lout Williams from the Nature Boy.
Do you have an answer?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
Lorrain? Yes, I'm gonna go with Jack Dawson.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Okay, is it Jack Dawson? Is that anyone else named Dawson? No,
the correct answer is Bobby Cox. Bobby Cox is the
correct answer. Not Brian Cox. Bobby Cox. Bobby Cox of
the Atlanta Bradze and he's in very poor health. Bobby Cox.
He had to shrow a couple of years back. He's
(40:44):
like paralyzed socks. But Bobby Cox is the correct answer
for Well, I'm not, but Bobby's you know, he's had
a tough few years there, the longtime manager of the
Atlanta Bridge. And also, if you're really old, the Toronto
Blue Jay, Old cadaa
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