May 21, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Mets manager saying Juan Soto will be fine because he's Juan Soto, Alex Cora missing a Red Sox game for his daughter's graduation, where the Pope's fandom ranks among celebrity sports allegiances, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Knock, knock, who's there? That's our number to our number two.
And someone not getting a lot of knocks this year,
that would be Juan Soto. And a evolving position out
of Queen's where do you stand on the Mets manager
now saying that Juan Soto will be fine because he's
(00:20):
Juan Soto, and as long as you won Sodo, you're.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Going to be okay. Just show up, you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Also, what does Alex Cora and his decision say about
his priorities with the Red Sox Cora missing a Red
Sox game, not for a graduation, for a graduation dinner.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The graduation was in the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Also, where does the Pope's fandom rank among celebrity sports allegiances.
Is it a bigger deal than President Obama's White Sox support.
We'll talk about that. And the White Sox are leaning
heavily into Pope Land.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We'll go there as well.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Right now here, it is our two a curveball in Metland.
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We're back at it again. If you're still hanging.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Out, you're loitering, and you want to yap about the
Western Finals, We're not gonna say no to that. However,
while that game was not good talk radios, Oklahoma City
pulled away in the second half and blew the doors
off Minnesota. There is great talk radio fodder coming out
of a team with high expectations that had been living
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up to those expectations lately not so much. And the
epicenter of the baseball world not Chavez Ravine, not Dodge
a stadium no, no, it's over in Queens in New York.
That's where the drama is. The Mets Traveling road Show,
still hanging out in Boston at Finnway Park.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And another game, another loss.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The Red Sox pitcher Walker Bueler got a he left
in like the third inning and the Mets still lost
the game. That sucks. But the buzz, that's what it
sounds like. This actual sound of buzz.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Just like that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
The buzz continues around the highest paid baseball player of
all time. And if you have not been following, we
did a Mallard monologue in a previous episode of the show.
There are some new developments, so consider this a no
sweat situation.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We've got you covered. We update the story.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Metropolitans manager Carlos Mendoza has provided a status update, status
update on one Soto after his lack of effort and
poor decisions on and off the field. All right, so
what's the latest on this. Mendoza got out a very
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small violin, a very small violin, and started seeing a
song a sob story for Mendoz or mendoz are four Soto?
He said, quote, he's human, He's twenty six man. The
Mets manager said he's going to be fine. He's one Soto.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That came just a few days after he was called
out by the manager. Juan Soto called out, described by
some as being miserable with the Mets that the only
time he smiled recently is when he was playing grab
ass with Aaron Judge during batting practice and futson around
with Aaron Boone during BP. He was also called out
(04:37):
for being an absolute dog not hustling and then said
he was hustling when there's video of him not hustling
and the Mets manager said he's not hustling. So again,
just to recap, you have, in the span of a
day and a half, the Mets manager calling out the player.
You now have the Mets manager massaging the player. So
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you have both sides of the mouth covered, both sides
of the mouth covered. So let us discuss the question
where do you stand? Where do you stand on the
Mets manager saying that both one Soto is not hustling, right,
and they were gonna have little chit chat and now
saying one Soto is going to be fine because he's
(05:22):
one Sodo all right. So I've got rubber stamping iverson
and winery, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we're gonna make a dirty water dog, is what
we're gonna make. Because the Mets have just been dirty water.
They haven't been the dog. But well, I guess wan
Soto's been playing like a dog, not hustling. All right,
(05:43):
So number, what number? Can I get a number?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
W alright?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So talk about a quick about face? Holy canoi my man?
So in the span of a day and a half again,
I'd say less than forty eight hours, less than forty
eight hours, the Mets manager went from the arsonist to
the firefighter.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He had the flamethrower out and he was making sure
the flames got everywhere. And then he came back with
a fire truck, like a water not even a fire truck.
He had a water dropping helicopter throwing water down on
the fire. So he went from the gasoline on top
to the nice water. And so Soto a day and
a half ago was a laggert was floating on an
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inner tube on the lazy river. And then after that
he took out a fire hose to put out the fire.
The Mets manager, in the span of a day and
a half, I think I got all that right. That's
how I understand it anyway, So make it make sense,
all right, Carlos Mendoza, It is rather clear to this
particular gas bag that the Mets manager was called into
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the principal's office. It's a coloaqu wheel term. It was
a text message, might have been a text message, could
have been a tap on the shoulder. And someone who's
in a position higher up the food chain there with
the Mets said ix nay on the talkie, A no negativity, No,
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we must put.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
The kebash on that.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And so he went from tough love manager admitting his
players lazy, which everyone saw, even our blindlisters realized he
was lazy. You went from that, and then all of
a sudden you pulled out the rubber stamp and you
rubber stamp a love note with little love stickers, those
puffy stickers that smell in the love note, and you
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rubber stamped all that and you sent that out there.
And Thoza are saying that Juan Soto cares a lot.
He cares a lot amid the criticism and the guy's competing.
He's competing, Okay, that is capital o optimistic, capital o
optimistic now assuming that because one so has a strong brand,
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the Mets believe in that brand. They gave him half
of Lower Manhattan to get him there, so they believe
in the brand. They loved the track record of the
player and all that, so they think he's equipped to
handle the challenges. Sounds like though he's not equipped with
thick skin. If the span of two days, the manager
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of the Mets must have been called out right, the
only reason you would walk back on what you said
when everyone saw the player not being, not hustling and
being lazy and then you're like trying to unring the bell.
You don't do that unless somebody contacted you, and you
don't do that at that point unless somebody realizes Juan
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Soto is a mister softy and he can't handle the criticism.
So okay, and now they're all of a sudden giving
him the benefit of doubt. The Soto had I believe
he had a hit in the game last night at Finway,
and he is still on pay for twenty six home
runs and sixty six RBIs you could have gotten a
guy out of the Mexican League did twenty six home
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runs and drive in sixty six runs.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So I l stinko for Juan Soto. Now page two.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So while the Mets are dealing with that hullabaloo, the
Red Sox, even though they've won a couple games in
a row. Now the Red Sox have their own issues.
An interesting story here. The manager of the Boston baseball
team has a shovel trying to dig himself out of
a hole.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Say what, so Alex Cora.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Who was one of the masterminds behind the cheating Astros.
So Alex Cora standing by his decision? What was his decision?
He skipped a work assignment. He skipped a game Alex
corap against the New York Mets to attend a celebratory
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dinner for his daughter's graduation from Boston College. Okay, so this, this,
I guess, has been the local. So several of you
sent this to me with some of our guys that
listened to the Ben Male show on the sports up
out of the Boston area. And did you did you
see what that's going on here? Okay, so you said it,
I mean, okay, that's fine. So Alex Cora said, I quote,
(10:17):
I made the best decision for my daughter.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We all know what the word best me.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So what does here's the question, what does Alex Corra's
decision to skip a game to go to a dinner
for his daughter, uh talk about his priorities when it
comes to the Red Sox, the team that he's plausibly
working for. So clearly Cora is a work life balance guy.
(10:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's that's that's his mantra.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I guess it's the mantra of the Red Sox as
I understand it, though, And and several of you mentioned
this to me, Well.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Two people, I say several. Two. That's that's not several,
that's two.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You said that the story is that Cora's daughter graduated
in the morning from Boston College and the game was
not until nighttime, and he still chose not to show
up because they had a dinner.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Now, I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's what you were telling me, that that's what happened.
So I'm getting that second hand. I was not there,
I was not invited. But we're going to assume that's true.
Because two people who I believe were not related. I
don't think they don't have the same last name. So
unless I'm getting punked, they're not related. So he skipped
out on a work thing for.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
A celebratory feast.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And so in my head listening to Alice Korra talk about, well,
I made the best decision for my daughter. Right, that's
known as playing the kid card from the bottom of
the deck. Right, you play the kid card. You can't
question that. Well, you can because it wasn't the graduation,
it was the dinner. And then in my head I
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think of al Korra being like Alan Iverson and we're
sitting in here. I'm supposed to be the manager of
the Red Sox and we in here talking about a
family graduation dinner. I mean, listen, We're talking about a
family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation, not an actual graduation,
not an actual graduation. We're in here talking about a
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family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation. So okay, uh,
Cora makes eight million, and uh, you know, could have
done like a brunch. That's kind of cool, like a
graduation brunch. That sounds pretty good, right, go ahead and
eat all day. And the great thing about being manager
is you don't really have to show up to batting practice.
You can show up. They'll give you a solid show up, right,
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before the game, nobody will care. You know, it's not
it's not crucial that you're there from batting practice, but
the game somewhat important and all that. And that's again
it's it's all about mindset, and the mindset is is
it important to you to do it?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
But can you do both?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And you show your players they're supposed to be the
leader and all that stuff, and you have to make sacrifices. Again,
this is I know, I'm dating myself. Oh you're an
old boomer.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Man.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I'm not a boomer, but I'm getting old.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Like I was taught, like you have to sacrifice things
for the job, and if you really love the job,
that's what you.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Got to do.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
And you know, of course done in a long time. So
I burned out. You know, it's just like just kind
of I've got the contract. I'm making eight million dollars
a year. I guess he doesn't get enough time off
in the off season when this, you know, the Red
Sox I don't normally make the playoffs anymore. So you
got October, November, December, and January.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It seems pretty good.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Four months nothing spring training in February, you lay back
there in Florida for a month and then part of March,
and then at the end of March you start the baseball.
It seems like a pretty good life. But I guess
he needs more time off. I got it, and you're
getting it. Good for you, Good for you. And that's
you know, you're the example. And so when your players
do the same thing, you can't complain, know any it's
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I'm told it was not the graduation.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You're telling me that it was the dinner. The graduation
was in the morning. The dinner. Was it that?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
So?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Okay? All right?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Final point to the Windy City we go where the
Chicago White Sox. It's something they don't normally do. They
won a game, but we're not going to talk about that,
because why on God's green there we talked about the
Chicago White Sox. There's no reason I don't. I don't
think Tree wants us to talk about the Chicago White Sox.
He's driving around Chicago. No, dude, bed No, I won't.
But the White Sox have given a rather unique tribute
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to their most sacred fun boy, the Pope Pope Leo.
The team in their corporately named stadium, which used to
be called Kmiski Park. The Chicago White Sox put up
a like a mural graphic mural type thing with a
photo of the Pontiff and they've got the Chicago skyline
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in the background. It's essentially for Instagram. It's really just
for the Internet, like you do this stuff for the Internet,
so people take photos.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And so it's in the section appropriately enough where Pope
Leo when he was a civilian before.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
He became the Pontiff.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Pope Leo sat when he was just a mere mortal,
and he was at the World Series twenty years ago
when the White Sox ended an eighty eight year World
Series drive back in five. So give me your reaction
to the White Sox fully embracing all immersive the Pope
(15:40):
Leo fandom, all right, So I saw this, and this
does count as an official blessing for the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
The product is unwatchable.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
That the Mariners lost the one the Mariners should That'd
be seven losses for the Mariners to lose the White
Socks in that game. But this is not about that,
all right. Having the Pope, having the Pope support your
team is it's like going to the winery and turning
water into wine is essentially what is it? It's a
PR miracle. It is an absolute PR miracle. Somebody asked
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the question. I think this was on one of the
other social medias, but somebody sent me the questions, what
is the more impressive fan for the White Sox? Like
where the rankage of the fan here? And you know,
is it a bigger deal that the president president? Because
Obama claimed to be a White Sox fan, but people
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question whether it was actually a White Sox fan or not. Anyway,
so what's bigger having a president or having the pope?
And the answer is clearly the kind of close it's
the Pope. Come on, get out the pope wobile right now,
it's obviously the Pope. Now America, last I checked, there's
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about three hundred and forty something million people they they
being the powers that we live in the America, the
United States, three hundred and forty million. That is split
down party lines. So at any time, whoever the president is,
half the people don't like the president.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
In theory, now, most people.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Are a political they don't give a crap about politics,
and so they don't really have a strong opinion. But
for those that are politically engaged. Half the people hate
the president at any time the Pope and I am
certainly not Catholic, but as I understand it, the Pope
that is the leader of one point four billion Catholics worldwide,
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So it's not even close President on one side Pope
on the other. It's obviously the Pope and the White
Sox are leaning heavily into this. And you cannot blame
the White Sox because there's not a single player on
that team that is worthy of your money to watch
play baseball. They all suck and the ones that don't
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suck blow. They're terrible, right, their garbage to White Sox.
So the Pope, who's living in the Vatican right that
is just that he might maybe watch a game is
more interesting than anything in the White Sox are putting
on the field here. And they even have set up
and this is smart. They figured out what seat. Imagine
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trying to find out what seat somebody sat in twenty
years ago at a baseball game. The White Sox claim
that they know the exact seat the Pontiff sat. His
Holy tukis on the seat, like they know the seat.
It's if you go to the White Sox game. It's
Section one, forty row nineteen, seat two. So they're thinking
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they can get certain percentage of the one point four
billion Catholics to make a pilgrimage to the South side
of Chicago, the baddest part of town and go to
a White Sox game so they can look at the
seat the Pope sat in twenty years ago when he
wasn't the Pope and probably didn't think he was gonna
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ever become the Pope, But there you go. I'm also
I'm informed via video that on the Pope the first
day that Pope Leo got in the popemobile, he always
remembers your first time in the popemobile. That must be man,
who is the first pope with a popemobile?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Do we know?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
We don't know anyway, So the Pope, Pope Leo got
in the popemobile, he's writing at the Vatican, so they're
recording this because you know, it's the Pope and the
somebody in the crowd. I don't know if you've seen
this or not have heard it. So somebody in the
crowd while the Pope's going through there, you know, doing
his pope things, waving at the people, somebody says, Hey,
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I'm from Chicago. White Sox go white Sox, like heckling
the Pope about the white Sox nigger anyway. All right,
so the highest the eleventh, we are told, the first popemobile.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Now, William Taft to William Howard Taft, the first president
with the presidential car about that, and the last president
with the presidential cow.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But the Pope the.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Eleventh, he said, there was the pope highest, the elefth highest,
the eleventh are anyway, sades benz.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Oh bens Oh interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I like the thing where they stand up though. It's
like a golf cart type thing.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
You can wave and all that.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
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back to it we go, some cheesy raige. We'll get
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to that coming up in a minute. I'll get to
that straight ahead and ferg dog right, since says, like
the White Sox, have the Dodgers marked any of the
seats you've sat in over the years, I'd be a
true honor to sit in the same seat that the
Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope once did. Well, you
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have to call the Dodger pr staff over there, and
I ask them if they saved the seat that I
used to sit in there. I did sit in the
same seat on a regular basis. King Roy says, which
hour will you cover you winning another Sports Emmy? Or
did you get snubbed again? Well, you'll have to keep
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let's King Roy, you never know. Supermarcus Steve says, all
I know about the South Side of Chicago is that
when you go there, you better just be aware of
a man named Leroy Brown.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
He says, all right, now, thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Nature boy says, and now he can watch the Bears
from the popemobile.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Boom.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, Okay, we'll.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Go to the phones and let's say hello to Royal Flush,
Charlie the Dallas Dumper.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Hello, Charlie, hey Ben, that famous hey Ben. It's like
hey mona, hey Ben.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
The thunder boom in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Just like that, they go boom, and just like that,
the Wolves are scared away.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
They go back from local Oklahoma City all the way
back to home Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
They say goodbye, just like that. You think they'll give up.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You might. They were so bad in the second half,
they might stop playing basketball and get a real job.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's how bad they were.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh now, Charlie, you do realize they don't actually go
back to Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
They have like they have to stay there for another
couple of days.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yes, I do, okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Was just saying you were doing fat for comedic purposes.
You were doing that, yes, of course, because you're very
entertaining your comedian. Yes, Anthony, hold on a second, hot take?
Hot take coming inbound? Hot take? Go ahead, Charlie, what's
your hot take?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Anthony Edwards shocked.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Man, nobody else has that take?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Is that your you came up with that, that's your
original take, that's your proprietary blend take.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yes, yes, okay, amazing, our minds are blown.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
That's here and an unexpected five to two a kill
by the Panthers over the Hurricanes. I don't know how
it happened. I thought that Carolina was supposed to have
a good defense as wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's what you get for thinking.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, the key to life is to not think. That's
the key to life, because once you think, you know,
it becomes problematic and wants to think. Lorena she used
to think all the time, and then she woke up
one morning said I'm no longer thinking, and her life
has improved tremendously.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So much better.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
You got to use that brain sometimes, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Oh, it's overrated.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
All right, Charlie, you amazing yet again?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You are?
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Where is Charlie from Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You're not in Minnesota, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
No, you want to talk to the other Charlie. Yeah,
he's in Wisconsin. You know that's a different state than Minnesota. Yeah,
he's near he's near Minnesota, but he's in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
But he's not he's not on hold. I can't. What
do you want me to do? You want to talk
to James. You can talk to James. He's in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You don't want to talk to James. It's pretty Oh
you think that's fake. You don't think that's real? Wow, Hey, hey, James,
this guy Charlie thinks you're a frauds So you're faking?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Is that music's listening like, oh, does he stop snoring? No?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Okay, all right, Well it turns out, Charlie that James
is still what he only did it.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
When he said that it's clearly fake.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
James is are you Charlie says you're faking mm snore
right now? Snore James, If you're faking snore right now,
hollering James, go.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Ahead, snore. That was cough. Charlie, your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I think I've just proven my trick case.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Are you saying are you saying the prosecution rest? Is
that what you're saying? Yes, Okay, go to bed, Charlie, Yah, school,
come on, you gotta go to bed. All right, thank you, Charlie.
All right, it's Charlie in Dallas, the Dallas Dumper, the
Royal Flush. Let's go down to him. Man, he just
got out of jail. He was throwing trash at Pacer
fans at to the Knicks advance to the conference finals,
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and now he's back. Eat dog not Joe dog dog?
Are Okay?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Here's my question. How was one team able to get
into a triple play without the defense touching the ball?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I don't know how?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
All right, words on first and second and feel that,
and field and field what was in effect? The guy
in first pances a game second and then gets hit
by the well knowing of the third. Also, you like
that one Ben.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Dog. That's a non secretary. What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
What's a non secretary?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I felt nobody?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
How come nobody knows what a non sequary is?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Nobody?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I mean, Eric is the greatest dog. I should say, Oh.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You said your night. He said his name. It's like
taking Oh my god, it's like seeing Mickey Mouse smoking
a cigarette. I'm on the Vegas trip. Oh my god,
let me ask you a question. You just revealed your name.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
No, the the jiggers up.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Where have you been? By the way, I thought you'd
be calling every night with the Knicks in the conference final?
You don't even want to talk about the Knicks. You
want to talk about a triple play. No, you don't
love the next you're a fake Nick fan.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I'll tell you what them in the books.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
I like the nause.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You're a Bulls fan. You're not a Knicks fan. You're
a Bulls fan, right, And then I like, no, you can't,
you can't. They were they were rivals when you were
when you were young. They were rivals.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
He dog, I know I had to root for both
teams because.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You can't root for both. That's the worst thing you
can You cannot root for both teams.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
I said, I can't. That's unconstitutional for you to say that.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That's a violation of the Fan Code of Conduct. You
committed a violation. You're going to fan jail.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I was never in jail.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I was in I was in a holding cell for a.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Minute, but that was it was that a forty eight
hour mental health hold.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Mi's ameanor. But I'm healthy now and I don't I
don't break the wall. But listen, now, listen when when
when the manager schedules a left handed, left handed pitcher
to pitch and then at the last minute brings in
a right hander? Is that fooling the defense? So are
they allowed to do that?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Or is it okay? Or is it not?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
O kids, Vegas, we should study your mind, e dog,
I'd like to study your mind.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Like what's going on there?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
There's a guy here who has brain cancer in my house. Yeah,
I feel bad for him.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Okay, well, how does that? I don't understand, Like, what
do you what do you also?
Speaker 5 (30:46):
You know, Melissa, I gave her a boy? Did I
dumb her? Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah? Why did? I mean?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You're such a catchy dog. I'm sure she's devastated. How's
she going to go on with her life without having
the dog in her life?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
That's right, Yeah, exactly. That's what else?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Is new Man? What he got for me?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
No, that's not how the show. No, that's not how
the show works. That's what that dope in Houston said yesterday.
You know, I got a question with you, Ben.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
I have a Reggie Miller jersey and have a Knick jersey.
What should I wear where every team wins?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, just wait till after the game and then put
it on. That's it, you know what. That's called a
front runner. And as we used to have this guy,
we used to have this guy named there was this
guy named Blair in Man that used to call show.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
He was a band wagner is what he would say.
Band wagner. That is what he was saying.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Did you ever have a Peter Rocky?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I gotta go thank you all. I'm hanging up on you.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Thank you anything going to add James.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Thank you for that? Okay, man, we are we're doing well.
Things are out here on the Ben Mallain. Yeah we
got a snore. Oh yeah, there was a time way
before you worked on the show that were in it.
And even Coop wasn't on the show that we had
three callers in a row that all were sleeping. What
(32:13):
three in a row? That's called the perfect show. That's
a perfect talk show. You do call and talk radio.
Three callers in a row all sleeping, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
That's almost like hitting on you know when you go
to the thing ees and you do the slot machines
and you hit thingy.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah, when you when you do the thing easy, I
would be like picking the exact lottery numbers without using
you know, just you're randomly picking numbers and they are right,
highly unlikely, improbable.
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somewhat popular instt trivia.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
And here here we go. Here's the Insta Tribua.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
So Philidelphia Philly Monster masher Kyle Schwarber broke Blank's MLB
record for the fewest hits needed to get to three
hundred career home runs. Again Kyle Schwarber of the Phil's
former cub back in the day, Kyle Schwarber broke Blank's
Major League Baseball record for the fewest hits needed to
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reach three hundred career home runs.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
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All right, Let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
We have Mallardly third degree time now four the Insta trivia,
Phillies Monster Masher, Kyle Schwarber broke blanks major League Baseball
record for the fewest hits needed to reach three hundred
career home runs. That is the Insta trivia. And what
(35:50):
is the answer. Let's see Scrooge is going with Fergi's
mom as the answer weekends Now you got the photo
and video of Fergie's mom, Sandy Guest by Sheen in
Des Moines, alf the Alien opine A going with the
greatest batting practice baseball player of all time, Willie Mopena,
William o'pena, and Billy Ashley batting practice legends.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Charlie in Dallas' grandfather, Eugene Gene Larkin from Rob in Minnesota.
That's a good name by Rob. Kendrick Perkins from Justin
good photo of Kendrick lost A will wait there looking good?
Mister T, who is seventy three today. I have a
great mister T story, but I can't tell it right now.
That's a late night drug tester. Lineman Bostock, the former
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Twin and Angel from Andy in Lionel lakes a grilled
cheese sandwich guest by King Rory. Greg says insert NBA
big Greg and Iowa insert NBA WNBA player.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
He says, chew chewed.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Charlie from BP A lot of love for Charlie, Minnie
Minoso from Eke and Rosewelt Minnesota. Do you have an answer,
the writer.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
It's obviously Tony the Tiger, Beck Odie the Tiger prific. No,
that is incorrect, the corrected.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
The correct answer is none other than Mark McGuire, Mark
McGuire squarber, breaking McGuire's rerector fewest games, the three hundred
home runs. Here we go anyway, Gat Smeller, how about
that job?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Gets grill Goodloe.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
It was reported on Monday that the Browns coaching staff
is planning a four way quarterback competition that will give
all four quarterbacks Flacco, Picket, Dylan Gabriel, and Shoulder Sanders
a fair chance to earn the starting job. Ben, who
do you think is under center? Week one?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
So the good news is this is not the most
depressing quarterback room in the NFL. That's the New Orleans States.
So you're you're not the worst, all right? The Saints
are worse than the Browns. It's going to beat Joe
Flacco unless there's owner interference. Unless the meddling owner comes in,
Joe Flacco's the safe Choicekenny Pickett blows he can't play.
If the owner steps in, it will be Shoulder Sanders.
(37:59):
I don't see how Dylan Gabriel fits into this at all.
All rightn't Isn't that the guy that complained about cold
weather and all? I like, hello, it's Cleveland next.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Trevor Lawrence spoke with the media Monday and said that
he really likes the direction that the team is headed.
He went on to say that he loves the people
that they have there now. He loves the staff, the
guys that they brought in, and the guys that were
already there.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
How much of an improvement do you expect for the
Jaguars next season.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
I think they'll be where they have been recently. They'll
be mediocre to bad. And if I was making the
kind of money that Trevor Lawrence is making, I would
say the same exact thing that he is saying. So
I don't see they're gonna be much better at all.
I think he's got a tour of seventy five million
dollar contract next.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
Ben, where are you on the thought that Julius Randall
has successfully rewritten the narrative of his career?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
No, he has.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I mean the game last night's a great example.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
He played really well in the first half and then
he didn't do much in the second half. He's helped it,
but he hasn't rewritten it. It's still a work in progress.
How do we go?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
You pass the session?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Say way a bar wait, I will the right.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
I thank you little.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
She's clapping for me. I appreciate that. You don't need
to clap. It's very kind. I appreciate that, very nice
of you.
Knock, knock, who's there? That's our number to our number two.
And someone not getting a lot of knocks this year,
that would be Juan Soto. And a evolving position out
of Queen's where do you stand on the Mets manager
now saying that Juan Soto will be fine because he's
(00:20):
Juan Soto, and as long as you won Sodo, you're.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Going to be okay. Just show up, you'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Also, what does Alex Cora and his decision say about
his priorities with the Red Sox Cora missing a Red
Sox game, not for a graduation, for a graduation dinner.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
The graduation was in the morning.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Also, where does the Pope's fandom rank among celebrity sports allegiances.
Is it a bigger deal than President Obama's White Sox support.
We'll talk about that. And the White Sox are leaning
heavily into Pope Land.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We'll go there as well.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Right now here, it is our two a curveball in Metland.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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Speaker 2 (02:08):
We're back at it again. If you're still hanging.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Out, you're loitering, and you want to yap about the
Western Finals, We're not gonna say no to that. However,
while that game was not good talk radios, Oklahoma City
pulled away in the second half and blew the doors
off Minnesota. There is great talk radio fodder coming out
of a team with high expectations that had been living
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up to those expectations lately not so much. And the
epicenter of the baseball world not Chavez Ravine, not Dodge
a stadium no, no, it's over in Queens in New York.
That's where the drama is. The Mets Traveling road Show,
still hanging out in Boston at Finnway Park.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And another game, another loss.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
The Red Sox pitcher Walker Bueler got a he left
in like the third inning and the Mets still lost
the game. That sucks. But the buzz, that's what it
sounds like. This actual sound of buzz.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Just like that.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
The buzz continues around the highest paid baseball player of
all time. And if you have not been following, we
did a Mallard monologue in a previous episode of the show.
There are some new developments, so consider this a no
sweat situation.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
We've got you covered. We update the story.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Metropolitans manager Carlos Mendoza has provided a status update, status
update on one Soto after his lack of effort and
poor decisions on and off the field. All right, so
what's the latest on this. Mendoza got out a very
(03:55):
small violin, a very small violin, and started seeing a
song a sob story for Mendoz or mendoz are four Soto?
He said, quote, he's human, He's twenty six man. The
Mets manager said he's going to be fine. He's one Soto.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Now.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
That came just a few days after he was called
out by the manager. Juan Soto called out, described by
some as being miserable with the Mets that the only
time he smiled recently is when he was playing grab
ass with Aaron Judge during batting practice and futson around
with Aaron Boone during BP. He was also called out
(04:37):
for being an absolute dog not hustling and then said
he was hustling when there's video of him not hustling
and the Mets manager said he's not hustling. So again,
just to recap, you have, in the span of a
day and a half, the Mets manager calling out the player.
You now have the Mets manager massaging the player. So
(05:00):
you have both sides of the mouth covered, both sides
of the mouth covered. So let us discuss the question
where do you stand? Where do you stand on the
Mets manager saying that both one Soto is not hustling, right,
and they were gonna have little chit chat and now
saying one Soto is going to be fine because he's
(05:22):
one Sodo all right. So I've got rubber stamping iverson
and winery, and we will combine all of these things together,
and we're gonna make a dirty water dog, is what
we're gonna make. Because the Mets have just been dirty water.
They haven't been the dog. But well, I guess wan
Soto's been playing like a dog, not hustling. All right,
(05:43):
So number, what number? Can I get a number?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
W alright?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
So talk about a quick about face? Holy canoi my man?
So in the span of a day and a half again,
I'd say less than forty eight hours, less than forty
eight hours, the Mets manager went from the arsonist to
the firefighter.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He had the flamethrower out and he was making sure
the flames got everywhere. And then he came back with
a fire truck, like a water not even a fire truck.
He had a water dropping helicopter throwing water down on
the fire. So he went from the gasoline on top
to the nice water. And so Soto a day and
a half ago was a laggert was floating on an
(06:27):
inner tube on the lazy river. And then after that
he took out a fire hose to put out the fire.
The Mets manager, in the span of a day and
a half, I think I got all that right. That's
how I understand it anyway, So make it make sense,
all right, Carlos Mendoza, It is rather clear to this
particular gas bag that the Mets manager was called into
(06:52):
the principal's office. It's a coloaqu wheel term. It was
a text message, might have been a text message, could
have been a tap on the shoulder. And someone who's
in a position higher up the food chain there with
the Mets said ix nay on the talkie, A no negativity, No,
(07:13):
we must put.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
The kebash on that.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
And so he went from tough love manager admitting his
players lazy, which everyone saw, even our blindlisters realized he
was lazy. You went from that, and then all of
a sudden you pulled out the rubber stamp and you
rubber stamp a love note with little love stickers, those
puffy stickers that smell in the love note, and you
(07:38):
rubber stamped all that and you sent that out there.
And Thoza are saying that Juan Soto cares a lot.
He cares a lot amid the criticism and the guy's competing.
He's competing, Okay, that is capital o optimistic, capital o
optimistic now assuming that because one so has a strong brand,
(08:03):
the Mets believe in that brand. They gave him half
of Lower Manhattan to get him there, so they believe
in the brand. They loved the track record of the
player and all that, so they think he's equipped to
handle the challenges. Sounds like though he's not equipped with
thick skin. If the span of two days, the manager
(08:24):
of the Mets must have been called out right, the
only reason you would walk back on what you said
when everyone saw the player not being, not hustling and
being lazy and then you're like trying to unring the bell.
You don't do that unless somebody contacted you, and you
don't do that at that point unless somebody realizes Juan
(08:44):
Soto is a mister softy and he can't handle the criticism.
So okay, and now they're all of a sudden giving
him the benefit of doubt. The Soto had I believe
he had a hit in the game last night at Finway,
and he is still on pay for twenty six home
runs and sixty six RBIs you could have gotten a
guy out of the Mexican League did twenty six home
(09:06):
runs and drive in sixty six runs.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
So I l stinko for Juan Soto. Now page two.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So while the Mets are dealing with that hullabaloo, the
Red Sox, even though they've won a couple games in
a row. Now the Red Sox have their own issues.
An interesting story here. The manager of the Boston baseball
team has a shovel trying to dig himself out of
a hole.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Say what, so Alex Cora.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Who was one of the masterminds behind the cheating Astros.
So Alex Cora standing by his decision? What was his decision?
He skipped a work assignment. He skipped a game Alex
corap against the New York Mets to attend a celebratory
(09:54):
dinner for his daughter's graduation from Boston College. Okay, so this, this,
I guess, has been the local. So several of you
sent this to me with some of our guys that
listened to the Ben Male show on the sports up
out of the Boston area. And did you did you
see what that's going on here? Okay, so you said it,
I mean, okay, that's fine. So Alex Cora said, I quote,
(10:17):
I made the best decision for my daughter.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
We all know what the word best me.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So what does here's the question, what does Alex Corra's
decision to skip a game to go to a dinner
for his daughter, uh talk about his priorities when it
comes to the Red Sox, the team that he's plausibly
working for. So clearly Cora is a work life balance guy.
(10:46):
You know.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
That's that's that's his mantra.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
I guess it's the mantra of the Red Sox as
I understand it, though, And and several of you mentioned
this to me, Well.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Two people, I say several. Two. That's that's not several,
that's two.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You said that the story is that Cora's daughter graduated
in the morning from Boston College and the game was
not until nighttime, and he still chose not to show
up because they had a dinner.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Now, I don't know if that's true or not.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's what you were telling me, that that's what happened.
So I'm getting that second hand. I was not there,
I was not invited. But we're going to assume that's true.
Because two people who I believe were not related. I
don't think they don't have the same last name. So
unless I'm getting punked, they're not related. So he skipped
out on a work thing for.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
A celebratory feast.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
And so in my head listening to Alice Korra talk about, well,
I made the best decision for my daughter. Right, that's
known as playing the kid card from the bottom of
the deck. Right, you play the kid card. You can't
question that. Well, you can because it wasn't the graduation,
it was the dinner. And then in my head I
(12:00):
think of al Korra being like Alan Iverson and we're
sitting in here. I'm supposed to be the manager of
the Red Sox and we in here talking about a
family graduation dinner. I mean, listen, We're talking about a
family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation, not an actual graduation,
not an actual graduation. We're in here talking about a
(12:22):
family graduation dinner, not an actual graduation. So okay, uh,
Cora makes eight million, and uh, you know, could have
done like a brunch. That's kind of cool, like a
graduation brunch. That sounds pretty good, right, go ahead and
eat all day. And the great thing about being manager
is you don't really have to show up to batting practice.
You can show up. They'll give you a solid show up, right,
(12:45):
before the game, nobody will care. You know, it's not
it's not crucial that you're there from batting practice, but
the game somewhat important and all that. And that's again
it's it's all about mindset, and the mindset is is
it important to you to do it?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
But can you do both?
Speaker 1 (13:01):
And you show your players they're supposed to be the
leader and all that stuff, and you have to make sacrifices. Again,
this is I know, I'm dating myself. Oh you're an
old boomer.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Man.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
I'm not a boomer, but I'm getting old.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Like I was taught, like you have to sacrifice things
for the job, and if you really love the job,
that's what you.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Got to do.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
And you know, of course done in a long time. So
I burned out. You know, it's just like just kind
of I've got the contract. I'm making eight million dollars
a year. I guess he doesn't get enough time off
in the off season when this, you know, the Red
Sox I don't normally make the playoffs anymore. So you
got October, November, December, and January.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
It seems pretty good.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Four months nothing spring training in February, you lay back
there in Florida for a month and then part of March,
and then at the end of March you start the baseball.
It seems like a pretty good life. But I guess
he needs more time off. I got it, and you're
getting it. Good for you, Good for you. And that's
you know, you're the example. And so when your players
do the same thing, you can't complain, know any it's
(14:01):
I'm told it was not the graduation.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
You're telling me that it was the dinner. The graduation
was in the morning. The dinner. Was it that?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
So?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Okay? All right?
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Final point to the Windy City we go where the
Chicago White Sox. It's something they don't normally do. They
won a game, but we're not going to talk about that,
because why on God's green there we talked about the
Chicago White Sox. There's no reason I don't. I don't
think Tree wants us to talk about the Chicago White Sox.
He's driving around Chicago. No, dude, bed No, I won't.
But the White Sox have given a rather unique tribute
(14:35):
to their most sacred fun boy, the Pope Pope Leo.
The team in their corporately named stadium, which used to
be called Kmiski Park. The Chicago White Sox put up
a like a mural graphic mural type thing with a
photo of the Pontiff and they've got the Chicago skyline
(15:00):
in the background. It's essentially for Instagram. It's really just
for the Internet, like you do this stuff for the Internet,
so people take photos.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And that's it.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
And so it's in the section appropriately enough where Pope
Leo when he was a civilian before.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
He became the Pontiff.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Pope Leo sat when he was just a mere mortal,
and he was at the World Series twenty years ago
when the White Sox ended an eighty eight year World
Series drive back in five. So give me your reaction
to the White Sox fully embracing all immersive the Pope
(15:40):
Leo fandom, all right, So I saw this, and this
does count as an official blessing for the Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
The product is unwatchable.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
That the Mariners lost the one the Mariners should That'd
be seven losses for the Mariners to lose the White
Socks in that game. But this is not about that,
all right. Having the Pope, having the Pope support your
team is it's like going to the winery and turning
water into wine is essentially what is it? It's a
PR miracle. It is an absolute PR miracle. Somebody asked
(16:16):
the question. I think this was on one of the
other social medias, but somebody sent me the questions, what
is the more impressive fan for the White Sox? Like
where the rankage of the fan here? And you know,
is it a bigger deal that the president president? Because
Obama claimed to be a White Sox fan, but people
(16:37):
question whether it was actually a White Sox fan or not. Anyway,
so what's bigger having a president or having the pope?
And the answer is clearly the kind of close it's
the Pope. Come on, get out the pope wobile right now,
it's obviously the Pope. Now America, last I checked, there's
(16:57):
about three hundred and forty something million people they they
being the powers that we live in the America, the
United States, three hundred and forty million. That is split
down party lines. So at any time, whoever the president is,
half the people don't like the president.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
In theory, now, most people.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Are a political they don't give a crap about politics,
and so they don't really have a strong opinion. But
for those that are politically engaged. Half the people hate
the president at any time the Pope and I am
certainly not Catholic, but as I understand it, the Pope
that is the leader of one point four billion Catholics worldwide,
(17:35):
So it's not even close President on one side Pope
on the other. It's obviously the Pope and the White
Sox are leaning heavily into this. And you cannot blame
the White Sox because there's not a single player on
that team that is worthy of your money to watch
play baseball. They all suck and the ones that don't
(17:57):
suck blow. They're terrible, right, their garbage to White Sox.
So the Pope, who's living in the Vatican right that
is just that he might maybe watch a game is
more interesting than anything in the White Sox are putting
on the field here. And they even have set up
and this is smart. They figured out what seat. Imagine
(18:20):
trying to find out what seat somebody sat in twenty
years ago at a baseball game. The White Sox claim
that they know the exact seat the Pontiff sat. His
Holy tukis on the seat, like they know the seat.
It's if you go to the White Sox game. It's
Section one, forty row nineteen, seat two. So they're thinking
(18:44):
they can get certain percentage of the one point four
billion Catholics to make a pilgrimage to the South side
of Chicago, the baddest part of town and go to
a White Sox game so they can look at the
seat the Pope sat in twenty years ago when he
wasn't the Pope and probably didn't think he was gonna
(19:06):
ever become the Pope, But there you go. I'm also
I'm informed via video that on the Pope the first
day that Pope Leo got in the popemobile, he always
remembers your first time in the popemobile. That must be man,
who is the first pope with a popemobile?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Do we know?
Speaker 1 (19:28):
We don't know anyway, So the Pope, Pope Leo got
in the popemobile, he's writing at the Vatican, so they're
recording this because you know, it's the Pope and the
somebody in the crowd. I don't know if you've seen
this or not have heard it. So somebody in the
crowd while the Pope's going through there, you know, doing
his pope things, waving at the people, somebody says, Hey,
(19:51):
I'm from Chicago. White Sox go white Sox, like heckling
the Pope about the white Sox nigger anyway. All right,
so the highest the eleventh, we are told, the first popemobile.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Now, William Taft to William Howard Taft, the first president
with the presidential car about that, and the last president
with the presidential cow.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
But the Pope the.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Eleventh, he said, there was the pope highest, the elefth highest,
the eleventh are anyway, sades benz.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Oh bens Oh interesting. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
I like the thing where they stand up though. It's
like a golf cart type thing.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
You can wave and all that.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
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Speaker 2 (20:51):
I'm told we'll get to that and we will do
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Speaker 3 (20:58):
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She's on Instagram quite a bit. She does not give
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with Lorraino. That'll be coming up next hour. All right
back to it we go, some cheesy raige. We'll get
(22:18):
to that coming up in a minute. I'll get to
that straight ahead and ferg dog right, since says, like
the White Sox, have the Dodgers marked any of the
seats you've sat in over the years, I'd be a
true honor to sit in the same seat that the
Holy Pope of the Slippery Slope once did. Well, you
(22:39):
have to call the Dodger pr staff over there, and
I ask them if they saved the seat that I
used to sit in there. I did sit in the
same seat on a regular basis. King Roy says, which
hour will you cover you winning another Sports Emmy? Or
did you get snubbed again? Well, you'll have to keep
(22:59):
let's King Roy, you never know. Supermarcus Steve says, all
I know about the South Side of Chicago is that
when you go there, you better just be aware of
a man named Leroy Brown.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
He says, all right, now, thank you for that.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Nature boy says, and now he can watch the Bears
from the popemobile.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Boom.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Yeah, Okay, we'll.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Go to the phones and let's say hello to Royal Flush,
Charlie the Dallas Dumper.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Hello, Charlie, hey Ben, that famous hey Ben. It's like
hey mona, hey Ben.
Speaker 4 (23:40):
The thunder boom in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Just like that, they go boom, and just like that,
the Wolves are scared away.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
They go back from local Oklahoma City all the way
back to home Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
They say goodbye, just like that. You think they'll give up.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
You might. They were so bad in the second half,
they might stop playing basketball and get a real job.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
That's how bad they were.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Oh now, Charlie, you do realize they don't actually go
back to Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
They have like they have to stay there for another
couple of days.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
Yes, I do, okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
Was just saying you were doing fat for comedic purposes.
You were doing that, yes, of course, because you're very
entertaining your comedian. Yes, Anthony, hold on a second, hot take?
Hot take coming inbound? Hot take? Go ahead, Charlie, what's
your hot take?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Anthony Edwards shocked.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Man, nobody else has that take?
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Is that your you came up with that, that's your
original take, that's your proprietary blend take.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yes, yes, okay, amazing, our minds are blown.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
That's here and an unexpected five to two a kill
by the Panthers over the Hurricanes. I don't know how
it happened. I thought that Carolina was supposed to have
a good defense as wrong.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
That's what you get for thinking.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah, the key to life is to not think. That's
the key to life, because once you think, you know,
it becomes problematic and wants to think. Lorena she used
to think all the time, and then she woke up
one morning said I'm no longer thinking, and her life
has improved tremendously.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
So much better.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
You got to use that brain sometimes, you know.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
Oh, it's overrated.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
All right, Charlie, you amazing yet again?
Speaker 2 (25:54):
You are?
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Where is Charlie from Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You're not in Minnesota, Charlie.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
No, you want to talk to the other Charlie. Yeah,
he's in Wisconsin. You know that's a different state than Minnesota. Yeah,
he's near he's near Minnesota, but he's in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
But he's not he's not on hold. I can't. What
do you want me to do? You want to talk
to James. You can talk to James. He's in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
You don't want to talk to James. It's pretty Oh
you think that's fake. You don't think that's real? Wow, Hey, hey, James,
this guy Charlie thinks you're a frauds So you're faking?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Is that music's listening like, oh, does he stop snoring? No?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Okay, all right, Well it turns out, Charlie that James
is still what he only did it.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
When he said that it's clearly fake.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
James is are you Charlie says you're faking mm snore
right now? Snore James, If you're faking snore right now,
hollering James, go.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Ahead, snore. That was cough. Charlie, your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I think I've just proven my trick case.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Are you saying are you saying the prosecution rest? Is
that what you're saying? Yes, Okay, go to bed, Charlie, Yah, school,
come on, you gotta go to bed. All right, thank you, Charlie.
All right, it's Charlie in Dallas, the Dallas Dumper, the
Royal Flush. Let's go down to him. Man, he just
got out of jail. He was throwing trash at Pacer
fans at to the Knicks advance to the conference finals,
(28:02):
and now he's back. Eat dog not Joe dog dog?
Are Okay?
Speaker 5 (28:10):
Here's my question. How was one team able to get
into a triple play without the defense touching the ball?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
I don't know how?
Speaker 5 (28:24):
All right, words on first and second and feel that,
and field and field what was in effect? The guy
in first pances a game second and then gets hit
by the well knowing of the third. Also, you like
that one Ben.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Dog. That's a non secretary. What are you doing?
Speaker 5 (28:47):
What's a non secretary?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I felt nobody?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
How come nobody knows what a non sequary is?
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Nobody?
Speaker 5 (28:53):
I mean, Eric is the greatest dog. I should say, Oh.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
You said your night. He said his name. It's like
taking Oh my god, it's like seeing Mickey Mouse smoking
a cigarette. I'm on the Vegas trip. Oh my god,
let me ask you a question. You just revealed your name.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
No, the the jiggers up.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Where have you been? By the way, I thought you'd
be calling every night with the Knicks in the conference final?
You don't even want to talk about the Knicks. You
want to talk about a triple play. No, you don't
love the next you're a fake Nick fan.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
I'll tell you what them in the books.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
I like the nause.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
You're a Bulls fan. You're not a Knicks fan. You're
a Bulls fan, right, And then I like, no, you can't,
you can't. They were they were rivals when you were
when you were young. They were rivals.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
He dog, I know I had to root for both
teams because.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You can't root for both. That's the worst thing you
can You cannot root for both teams.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
I said, I can't. That's unconstitutional for you to say that.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
That's a violation of the Fan Code of Conduct. You
committed a violation. You're going to fan jail.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Listen.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
I was never in jail.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
I was in I was in a holding cell for a.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Minute, but that was it was that a forty eight
hour mental health hold.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Mi's ameanor. But I'm healthy now and I don't I
don't break the wall. But listen, now, listen when when
when the manager schedules a left handed, left handed pitcher
to pitch and then at the last minute brings in
a right hander? Is that fooling the defense? So are
they allowed to do that?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Or is it okay? Or is it not?
Speaker 1 (30:28):
O kids, Vegas, we should study your mind, e dog,
I'd like to study your mind.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Like what's going on there?
Speaker 5 (30:35):
There's a guy here who has brain cancer in my house. Yeah,
I feel bad for him.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Okay, well, how does that? I don't understand, Like, what
do you what do you also?
Speaker 5 (30:46):
You know, Melissa, I gave her a boy? Did I
dumb her? Oh?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Yeah? Why did? I mean?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
You're such a catchy dog. I'm sure she's devastated. How's
she going to go on with her life without having
the dog in her life?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
That's right, Yeah, exactly. That's what else?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Is new Man? What he got for me?
Speaker 2 (31:05):
No, that's not how the show. No, that's not how
the show works. That's what that dope in Houston said yesterday.
You know, I got a question with you, Ben.
Speaker 5 (31:13):
I have a Reggie Miller jersey and have a Knick jersey.
What should I wear where every team wins?
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:20):
Yeah, just wait till after the game and then put
it on. That's it, you know what. That's called a
front runner. And as we used to have this guy,
we used to have this guy named there was this
guy named Blair in Man that used to call show.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
He was a band wagner is what he would say.
Band wagner. That is what he was saying.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Did you ever have a Peter Rocky?
Speaker 2 (31:40):
I gotta go thank you all. I'm hanging up on you.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Thank you anything going to add James.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Thank you for that? Okay, man, we are we're doing well.
Things are out here on the Ben Mallain. Yeah we
got a snore. Oh yeah, there was a time way
before you worked on the show that were in it.
And even Coop wasn't on the show that we had
three callers in a row that all were sleeping. What
(32:13):
three in a row? That's called the perfect show. That's
a perfect talk show. You do call and talk radio.
Three callers in a row all sleeping, It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
That's almost like hitting on you know when you go
to the thing ees and you do the slot machines
and you hit thingy.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah, when you when you do the thing easy, I
would be like picking the exact lottery numbers without using
you know, just you're randomly picking numbers and they are right,
highly unlikely, improbable.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
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(33:04):
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Speaker 2 (33:20):
I have his number. I have met Pinto's one.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
The column Ben call him right now, wake his ass up?
Speaker 2 (33:27):
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(33:48):
It is the Ben Malor Show. Straight ahead. We're gonna
have mallardly third degree. But time now for the somewhat popular,
somewhat popular instt trivia.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
And here here we go. Here's the Insta Tribua.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
So Philidelphia Philly Monster masher Kyle Schwarber broke Blank's MLB
record for the fewest hits needed to get to three
hundred career home runs. Again Kyle Schwarber of the Phil's
former cub back in the day, Kyle Schwarber broke Blank's
Major League Baseball record for the fewest hits needed to
(34:24):
reach three hundred career home runs.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
That's the Insta Tributa the answer. Next.
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All right, Let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
We have Mallardly third degree time now four the Insta trivia,
Phillies Monster Masher, Kyle Schwarber broke blanks major League Baseball
record for the fewest hits needed to reach three hundred
career home runs. That is the Insta trivia. And what
(35:50):
is the answer. Let's see Scrooge is going with Fergi's
mom as the answer weekends Now you got the photo
and video of Fergie's mom, Sandy Guest by Sheen in
Des Moines, alf the Alien opine A going with the
greatest batting practice baseball player of all time, Willie Mopena,
William o'pena, and Billy Ashley batting practice legends.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Charlie in Dallas' grandfather, Eugene Gene Larkin from Rob in Minnesota.
That's a good name by Rob. Kendrick Perkins from Justin
good photo of Kendrick lost A will wait there looking good?
Mister T, who is seventy three today. I have a
great mister T story, but I can't tell it right now.
That's a late night drug tester. Lineman Bostock, the former
(36:34):
Twin and Angel from Andy in Lionel lakes a grilled
cheese sandwich guest by King Rory. Greg says insert NBA
big Greg and Iowa insert NBA WNBA player.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
He says, chew chewed.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Charlie from BP A lot of love for Charlie, Minnie
Minoso from Eke and Rosewelt Minnesota. Do you have an answer,
the writer.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
It's obviously Tony the Tiger, Beck Odie the Tiger prific. No,
that is incorrect, the corrected.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
The correct answer is none other than Mark McGuire, Mark
McGuire squarber, breaking McGuire's rerector fewest games, the three hundred
home runs. Here we go anyway, Gat Smeller, how about
that job?
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Gets grill Goodloe.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
It was reported on Monday that the Browns coaching staff
is planning a four way quarterback competition that will give
all four quarterbacks Flacco, Picket, Dylan Gabriel, and Shoulder Sanders
a fair chance to earn the starting job. Ben, who
do you think is under center? Week one?
Speaker 2 (37:37):
All right?
Speaker 1 (37:37):
So the good news is this is not the most
depressing quarterback room in the NFL. That's the New Orleans States.
So you're you're not the worst, all right? The Saints
are worse than the Browns. It's going to beat Joe
Flacco unless there's owner interference. Unless the meddling owner comes in,
Joe Flacco's the safe Choicekenny Pickett blows he can't play.
If the owner steps in, it will be Shoulder Sanders.
(37:59):
I don't see how Dylan Gabriel fits into this at all.
All rightn't Isn't that the guy that complained about cold
weather and all? I like, hello, it's Cleveland next.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Trevor Lawrence spoke with the media Monday and said that
he really likes the direction that the team is headed.
He went on to say that he loves the people
that they have there now. He loves the staff, the
guys that they brought in, and the guys that were
already there.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (38:18):
How much of an improvement do you expect for the
Jaguars next season.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
I think they'll be where they have been recently. They'll
be mediocre to bad. And if I was making the
kind of money that Trevor Lawrence is making, I would
say the same exact thing that he is saying. So
I don't see they're gonna be much better at all.
I think he's got a tour of seventy five million
dollar contract next.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
Ben, where are you on the thought that Julius Randall
has successfully rewritten the narrative of his career?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
No, he has.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
I mean the game last night's a great example.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
He played really well in the first half and then
he didn't do much in the second half. He's helped it,
but he hasn't rewritten it. It's still a work in progress.
How do we go?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
You pass the session?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Say way a bar wait, I will the right.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
I thank you little.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
She's clapping for me. I appreciate that. You don't need
to clap. It's very kind. I appreciate that, very nice
of you.
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