Hour 2 - A Pirate's Life for Me

Ben Maller talks about if the Pirates could deal ace Paul Skenes, if Pirates GM Ben Cherington is lying to protect leverage or if Skenes is really untouchable, if Juan Soto's departure was part of a "master plan" for the Yankees, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
We go Welcome it's our dumb ber to our number
two and a happy happy Friday to you. It's the
twenty third day of May and the rare and appropriate
baseball monologue talking Bay's ball in the month of May,
we go to Pittsburgh. A lot of stories popping up
recently about the Pirates trading away their franchise Pitcher. Could

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the Pirates deal Paul Skins right? Is Pirates DM ben
Cherrington lying about not considering a trade to protect leverage?
Or is Paul Skins really untouchable? And should Pittsburgh fans
even believe anything their front office says at this particular point.
We'll discuss that was One Soto's departure from the Yankees

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really part of some master plan. There's a quote out
from an anonymous Yankee staffer who says basically that the
Yankees are better off without Sodo. So if the Yankees
are better off, why did they pursue One Soto so
aggressively in the first place. We'll tackle all that. Don't
forget fifth Hour podcast today, new episode, never before told stories.

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We'll also address the Komodo Dragon of the room, the
US government getting rid of the penny, how does that
affect Benny versus the penny. We'll talk about all that
and more right now here. It is our number two.
It's a pirate's life for me, but maybe not that long.
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lose and they got run off the court in the
second half. So go to the burd A pirate's life
for me. A pirate's life for me, that'd be Pittsburgh.
And this is not about the Steelers. We actually have
some Steeler content later, but instead we will head to
the Iron City, where Paul Skeene's name has come up prominently.

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The last couple of days on the trading block his
name has been mentioned shiver me Timbers. So you haven't
been following it, perhaps not the Pirates general manager Ben Charrington,
who briefly was in Boston and got run out of there.
So Ben Charrington was asked about the chatter that the

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Vultures are out they would like to poach Paul Skeins.
Paul Skeenes is the only player on the Pirates worth watching.
Everyone else is a minor league player. So the rumor
has been bouncing. It's like, well, the Pirates blow and
they've got one guy that's halfway decent, and so that's
trade the guy, right, they have nobody else. You spend

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any money to watch one guy? So is that under consideration?
So Ben Charrington said, quote no, it's not part of
the conversation at all. Close quote Okay, then, so let's
drill down on this one. The question for the esteem panel,
which you, by the way, are part of. So congratulations,

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is Pirates GM Ben Charrington lying to protect leverage? Or
is Paul Skin's truly untouchable? Is you really untouchable? So
my observations here, I've got corporate jargon, devil c and
Dradel and we'll combine all of these things together and

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try to avoid a tongue twister and have the Great
Perogi Race. I like that. Many teams have copied the
Milwaukee Brewers, who for years and years have had that
sausage race, and then over the years the Diamondbacks have
a race with former player costumes. The Nationals and the
Pirates have the Great Parrogia Race, and the Mets have

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that like the sub the Borough race. The Mets have that,
all right, So Number I said number not get off
all right? So my first thought here Ben Cherrington saying
it's not part of the conversation all what else was
he supposed to say? Serious question like could you imagine

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the world where Charrington came out and said, yeah, we
would love to trade Paul Skins. We realize he's a
major league player. We're a minor league team. You shouldn't
have one major league player when you're a minor league team.
We're not trying to win. We're a joke of an organization.
Our ushers will attack fans who are drunk. We'll have
fans get drunk, under age, fall out of the crowd.

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We'll take down tributes dead baseball players that are historic
in our town to put up an alcohol add that's
the pirates, right. So imagine if he had said, Ben Charrington,
we're gonna have a silent auction and the bidding ends
right of the trade deadline. Holy canoly. That would have
been created a tinderbox. It would have been baseball malpractice.
So instead he's using corporate jargon. Corporate jargon. Now you

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have to listen between the words. You have to listen
between the words. So Charington said no. Regarding the possibility
of Paul Schimes the Phenom picture being traded, he said, no,
it's not part of the conversation at all. Well quote, so, conversation,
as you know, because you've paid attention, conversation means oral communication.

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How about digital communication? How about a text chain? How
about an internal email chain? Bandied about on trading the picture?
How about that it's not really conversation. Technically, You're not wrong.
You have plausible deniability, you have plausible belity because you said, oh,
I didn't. It wasn't a conversation. Was It was a
text and that's not a conversation. It's a digital thing,
but it's not a conversation. So yeah, if you rummaged

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through my text messages, okay, but I didn't say it.
All right now, Page two? Should the seven Pirate fans left?
Should these seven seven Pirate fans remaining believe anything their
front office says at this particular point, And again, we're
outsiders on this. We don't have any skin in the game.

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I've been to the Pirates ballpark years ago. It was beautiful,
much better than any of the players they've had in
that town since they opened that new ballpark, which is
not even new anymore. It's really old to answer the question,
should the pirate fans even believe anything anything that their
front office says at this point only if you live
in the township called Suckersville. If you live in Suckersville, okay.

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But Pittsburgh Baseball is literally and figuratively lost a drift
on the Devil's see. It's a pirate ghost ship, devoid
of life at this particular point, floating into the abyss,
untouched by time or tide. And they have drifted unmanned
for decades, that pirate ghost ship for decades. So there's

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zero confidence that they know what they're doing, which is
why you can't believe them. It's also why you should
hope they don't trade Paul Skins because they don't know
how to pick good players. So why would you trade
him to get a package of players when you're you
don't know who's good and who's bad.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
And you know, there's a lot of talking about trying
to build something sustainable, but it's just words. It's all
it is is words. And my evidence is the track wreck.
Now that tells you what has happened, not what's going
to happen in the future. And all these glowing reports
of oh, you get a bounty of prizes for Paul
Skins and all the riches of Solomon, do you realize

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every every halfway decent player, every halfway decent player that
has passed through Pittsburgh every once in a while, yea,
the blind nutt blind squirrel finds a nut right, every
once in a while, they figured things out, like Andrew
McCutcheon was an MVP in Pittsburgh. Traded, Garrett Cole, young
Pitcher showed some signs of promise, traded like those type players.

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They get them every once in a while. They passed
through Western Pennsylvania and they're repackaged and they get quantity
over quality every single time. And as the results come in,
the results are poppycock. Poppycock. That's the results. And so
what's the bottom line? If the Pirates trade Paul Skins,
it would be a sporty war crime. There should be

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a tribunal here against Pittsburgh by all seven Pirate fans.
You don't trade a generational arm that you don't have
to trade for years to come. Who's not even in
his athletic prime yet and at this point, considering how
pathetic the Pirates are, Paul Skins is not just a
player at this point, he is the avatar of the pirates, right,

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he is the face of the pirates. You trade Paul
Skins and you're telling the fans without telling the fans,
we don't care. You shouldn't care, don't support us. We're
never gonna be serious. We're a joke, all right, now,
turning the fins, all right. So the final part is
we're gonna go to the Big Apple where the big

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showcase series this weekend, the Dowyers and the Mets. The
Dodgers not playing that well recently, the Mets also not
playing that well recently. But they're gonna lock horns here
and wrangle over the weekend. And if I'm not mistaken,
every one of those games is on a different channel.
Every one of those games is on a different channel
as Baseball has sliced up their television agreement. So get

(10:55):
to the point, please, With Juan Soto being a Jag
out of Jacksonville, Jag just a guy at this point
one Soto is just a guy. So with that going on,
his early season problems, struggles, what we want to say,
and in the team that he left the Yankees playing

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pretty well. Someone that works for the Pinstripers, off the record,
of course, believes that losing one Soto last offseason worked
out better for the Bronx Bombers. Now, this is per
the New York Post, a shady tabloid, so take it
for what it's worth. But they said an anonymous Yankee

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staff member said they meaning the Yankees are quote definitely
better without Sodo. All right, So that's the money quote,
as we like to say, that's the money quote powder
keg of a situation. So we'll frame it this way.
Was one Soto's departure from the Bronx over to Queens?

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Was this really part of a grander master plan? Or
are the Yankees just trying to save face after losing
out to the Mets. So the arrow here is pointing
directly towards the drado DRADL DRADL dreddl as in spin
the dradle. This is emotional damage control, is what it is. Now,

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Riddle me this, batman. If the Yankees are better off, okay,
forget all the stats and all the the Yankees are
better off then why on God's green Earth did they
aggressively pursue Juan Soto in the first place, Like why
didn't they just say, listen, we thank you and have
a nice day, we're out. But they offered him a

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contract which was just a few million behind the Mets.
They didn't throw in as many perks other than that
they were right there, so they must sweep that under
the rug. Now, there are absolutely concerns. I don't know.
You can get it now if you want, but the money.
The only way these contracts work out is if you

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win a World Series, and even then, eventually you're gonna
get stuck with an albatross every one of those big
contracts at the end of the contract. It is horrific.
I was told one time by a baseball executive that
these ten year contracts, you have to look at them
like five year contracts, that you have to win a

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lot in the first five years, and then anything you
get after year five, year, six, seven, eight, it's gonna
be mostly rags. It's riches to rags, And so you
look at it. If you look at it like a
five year contract, even though it's being paid out over
ten years, you can justify the big money. The Yankees
also will have for now long term flexibility and all that,

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the early returns for Juan Soto have not been particularly good. Nevertheless,
I believe this is a damage control situation. It's spin, spin, spin,
as we said, the pr spin and it's delusion masquerading
is some kind of brilliant strategy. And it's like, Okay,

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it's like going to gamble in Vegas and you're playing
roulette and you put the wrong bet in. You wanted
to bet on like black twenty, and you ended up
betting on Red seven and you end up winning, and
you're like, oh, I meant to do that. You know,
you screwed up. For some reason, it worked out, but
you affed up. Now, let's see what Cody Bellinger and

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Golby Paul Goldschmidt do when we get down to October.
Bellinger's not hitting for a great average. Last I checked
Goldschmidt's he's old. So we'll see if they break down
before the season. And that said, of the players the
Yankees picked up with money that could have gone and
would have gone and would have been allotted to the

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bonehead there, mister Soto, Max free does look to be
the real deal. Now there is a conspiracy, and I
do embrace many of these conspiracies. So this is the conspiracy,
is that it's a ploy. The quote, of course, off
the record, the quote is to mess with Juan Soto's head.

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So he goes down the tubes even more, knowing that
he's a delicate little flower, and he reads all of
the media coverage. He's aware of all the media coverage,
and it's tormenting him that people aren't kissing his ass
all the time. And and so he's like, oh man,
this is terrible. And now the Yankees are this called
the dog pile where you pile on top, and that's

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Uh yeah, what easy mistake.

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Well, it's all those Vancouver's are the same. Yeah, all
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I am going to kick the Laker lapdog. That's what
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He says, Coops Anthony Davis is a Hall of Famer.
He says, no way. Well, well he had. I mean,
it's one of those things like in a real Hall
of Fame, he wouldn't be. He's got no championships, he's

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been hurt all the time. He's an underachiever. So from
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It's it's pretty bad. The bar is not that high

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to get in the pro Bouncy Ball Hall of Fame.
And just the way it is, ayes go the phones
and let's say hello Eenie, Meanie, miney Moe. Let's go
to Mexico, Mike. It says, here for some hot pirate talk.
Hello Mexican, So Mike, hot pirates?

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yes what, I love the baseball monologue.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
But when you're the Pittsburgh Pirates and you're that bad,
you can't believe anything their front office says.

Speaker 1 (21:14):
Well, even if they're even if they're good, you don't
believe them. Look at the Dallas Mat. I'll give me Sam,
the Mavericks. They were not great this year, but they
weren't terrible at the time. They made the trade. They traded, well,
they didn't trade. They gave away their franchise. And if
you would, you would ask them, are you going to
trade Luca? No, We're never gonna trade Luca.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
And they did.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
So it doesn't matter what these guys say. No one's
on trade. Anyone can be traded.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
Well, of course, but with Pittsburgh they shouldn't. Even you
could get rid of the Pirates for measure League Baseball,
and the only people that would miss them are their
seven fans that you mentioned, and the twenty nineteens are
going to play them that know they're going to get
a win ninety percent of the time.

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Well that's not ninety percent, it's like seventy five percent
of the time they get a win. But ye know,
I hear. Yeah. And beautiful ballpark though, it's just magnificent.
I mean that is maybe you can make that. How
about they make that a park. That'd be a nice park.
You have a picnic lunch and you can watch you
look at the boats on the water there and look
at the skyline of Pittsburgh. Wonderful ballpark. Really that would
be terrible.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, that would be much better than playing baseball there.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Yeah, just making a community park and it can be
like a state park of Pennsylvania and get rid of
the baseball team. Perfect. Yeah, okay, Gay, all right, thank you?

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Hey, will well love it?

Speaker 1 (22:30):
What then you love the show? He's all right? Bye?

Speaker 5 (22:32):
All right.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Let's go to Ryan, who's on the Oregon Trail. Hello, Ryan, welcome, How.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
You doing a fourth time? Long time? Four ten seventy five.
So I'm a fifty member like you just now and
I just want to say it's Bob Nutting's it's blame
Bob Nutting, by the way, for the Pirates' failures and
the difference between schemes. And he's not going to be there.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
You know.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
It's just like Garrett Cole. They're gonna they're gonna ship
him off really quick. Here. He can't even win. His
e r is two four four. That's in state. They
can't even splore a run for it plays in baseball.
Right now, you don't, I know, you don't want me
to go into that. He's still there, by the way.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
No I slept. I stepped down. I thought, I that's
a nice that's a nice night. I want to look
at the moon, you know, the moon. I love this.
This guy sounds like a talker. I'll let this guy talk. Yeah,
I said, this guy's a talker, and you want to
he wants to talk about his kid. You know you
want I know you want to say your kid's name.
I know you want to do it. You want to

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do it.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
I'm gonna say, yeah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
He said it. Boopy said it. He said his kid's name.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
They're second in state, their second in state.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Okay, why would I hang up on you? Listen? Uh,
there was a guy. I'll tell you a funny story.
There was one of our old morning guys. We've had
like fifty morning shows since I've been in Fox Sports Radio. Right,
the morning show. They actually care about that, so they
change it all the time. So one of all morning guys,
he was a talk shows out of Indianapolis, right, and

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and he he used to send me. We were like
kind of pen pals for a little bit, and he'd
send me stories about his kid. He was like a
high high school, top high school kid in Indianapolis, and
he was drafted out of high school and he didn't
didn't sign. He went to Stanford and the guy ended
up as a closer in the major leagues for the
Washington Nationals.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
It was wild.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
I knew about the kid when he was in high
school because his dad was like, you know, proud of him,
and he was bragging about him.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
That's awesome. Who is I know all your trivia questions
By the way, I'm like, I'm a nut bag when
it comes to sports trivia.

Speaker 1 (24:38):
I don't really you have all the answers, yeah, yeah,
do you not? Do you not have a life? You
gotta have a life.

Speaker 5 (24:46):
Yeah, I don't have a lie well, I do, but
I don't you know, you know how it goes. I
was married, but I'm divorced, so now I have more
time on my hand.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
I understand you. No sports trivia. You can either get
married or no sports trivia. You can't be married. You
don't know everyone. I know that, no sports trivia and
not married. If you're married, no time for sports trivia. Yeah. Anyway,
all right, listen, I like you call it call a
fifth time. It calls a fifth time. All right, I
gotta go. Pirates. By the way, the pitcher we've been

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talking about Paul Skins. He has started ten games this season.
The Pirates are three and seven in the games he
started three and seven. And this guy has been lights
out all the nerd stats. They're like, they're all, you know,
they got a woody. They're so excited about the nerd stats.
And he in three and seven with him on the

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mountain like the top guy for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal, brutal.
All right, it is the Ben Mahler Show. We'll keep
going on the phones because it's a call in show.
And who do we have next? Let's say Hello, any
meaning mind, Let's go to Chris. Chris is in Maryland
and he is up next, representing the entire state of Maryland.

Speaker 6 (25:59):
Hello, Chris, No, not the entire state, but anyway, what
would do? What would happen if it was Paul Stein's
traded to the Mets because one Soda is not doing
so well? Would that even be a consideration?

Speaker 1 (26:16):
Are you? Are you calling for one Soda to be
traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates? Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 6 (26:22):
No, well, I'm not. What is work? What if you
were if you were the GM of the Mets or
the GM of the Pirates, you know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Listen, if you gave me, well, hold, say, if you
gave me one thousand dollars and said, where is Paul
Stein's going to ultimately end up? And you gave me
four teams? All right, you can have everyone else. I'll
take four teams. I've got Dodgers, I've got Yankees, I've
got Red Sox. I'll throw the Cubs in there. You

(26:54):
can have everyone else, and I'll be right. I'll be right.

Speaker 6 (26:58):
One of those teams, okay, but but not the Met.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
I don't think he's going to go to the Mets.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
What I'm saying is is what if you all right,
you have the first draft pick, and then you got
to consider their contracts and their value at this point
in time. If you had to pick one Soda or
Paul Skins right now, first pick, you get the pick first,
go ahead, who are you picking?

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Well, what I would take? I would take one Soda
because he's an everyday player and he's playing terribly right
now at the moment, But if you look at his
all time performance, if you figure at some point he's
going to play better and say this is I'm enjoying.
I'm enjoying ripping him. Don't get me wrong, Like I
like the fact he sucks right now and I can
goof on him and get monologues out of it. But

(27:43):
at some point he's going to end up being better.
And so uh yeah, I mean we.

Speaker 6 (27:48):
But they got it, but also considered the contract you
you got, he's got seven hundred and sixty five. I mean,
I don't think Schemes is going to get that kind
of task by doing no.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
Because he's a pitcher and he pitched. You know, he
wants we know the deal once every five days and
all that stuff.

Speaker 6 (28:02):
Anyway, I love the baseball monologue obviously. That's why I
called thank you. Shout out lorraina shout out to Cooper
Loop quick thinking Onop and the Lakers. I love the
Clippers more than the Lakers too, but god, they're smart.

Speaker 1 (28:15):
Man. Well listen, Coop. You know he's used to people
kissing his ass and he needs talkolog he is. You know,
that's that's the reality of the situation. So thank you.
Look at it. Everyone loves the baseball. I need more baseball.
I have to do more baseball monologues that I know.
I told you. I told Coop, I say yeah. The

(28:38):
other night, I said, yeah, the Angels one again. He
asked me if I was do a monologue and the
Angels as probably not. And then you asked me what
it would take to get a monologue on the Angels,
and I believe I told you Coop that it was
five more wins, But now it's how many? Two more wins,
three more, three more? Who do they play? Who do
they playing next to? Marls? No? Man, Wow, the Halos

(29:03):
break up the Halos? Baby? Is that right? They're gonna
They're gonna do it. They're playing well right now. On
Washington Man. They got something going there. Wow, that's pretty wild.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
I'm trying not to get too excited.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
But you know, you gave up the Angels for lent,
then you give up the Angels back. You know, many
years ago you gave up.

Speaker 4 (29:24):
The I'm still boycotting the team as and I'm not
going to games. I'm not buying merch but you know, yeah,
I'll watched them round.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yeah. By the way, the player that I mentioned that,
I guess I didn't mention his name, but Drew Storin.
He was the closer. He had like two good, really
good years. I don't even know if he was an
all I think he was an All Star, might not
have been, but I had two really good years for
the Washington Nationals. This is about ten maybe fifteen years
ago now, and I'm dating myself, but his dad worked here,

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was the morning guy, and then I knew about him.
He was at high school in the Indian Apples area
and then went to Stanford and then that was like
a first round pick and played. I can't believe he
hasn't played in like almost ten years now. Wow. Time flies.
Time flies when you're having fun, even when you're not
having fun. It flies, it does. How expensive is there?

(30:18):
We have information? Now this is from the interweb, so
it could be true, it might not be true, so
we'll take this with a grain of salt. The report
out on how much NBC is paying Michael Jordan as
a NBA commentator, but not a full time commentator, a
part time commentator, a special contributor to their basketball coverage.

(30:42):
His next season, NBC will return as an NBA broadcaster.
Let's do let's go around the room. We'll do little
round robin and whoever goes closest without going over, whoever
goes closest without going over, will be declared the win.
So I have the total contract value. I'm not sure

(31:03):
how long the contract is, so factor that in, but
the number, there's a dollar amount that is said to
be out there. I assume this is per year, but
possibly not. Lorena Michael Jordan. Do you know who that is?
Michael Jordan? Yeah, yeah, Michael Jordan. Uh huh the actor, right,
very famous actor. No, no, no, no, no, no, isn't
Michael Jordan the actor? Right? Been a bunch of movies, coop.

(31:25):
Michael Jordan the actor, right?

Speaker 4 (31:27):
Yeah, he was in Black Panther Michael b Jordan creed.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Well, me and Coop just call him Michael Jordan. Okay,
well yeah, okay, is that who?

Speaker 4 (31:37):
All right?

Speaker 1 (31:38):
So Michael Jordan, NBC commentator, NBA basketball, Lorena. How much?
What's the contract total value? Twenty eight million dollars. That's
a lot of money, all right, Cooper Loop, where are
you gonna go here?

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Coop m j Michael Jordan doesn't get out of bed
for twenty eight million dollars?

Speaker 5 (32:00):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Well, see this is tough because you said you don't
know like the length of the contract. But I'm gonna
put it. Let's I'm going to assume it's one year. Okay,
let's go fifty mil.

Speaker 1 (32:15):
All right, Well, showcase, showdown rules and you go over.
You lose Lorreina Wings. It is reported that Michael Jordan
as a forty million dollars. Oh that was closer. You
went over.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
You were stupid rules. This isn't this isn't the price
is right, This is the is right.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
When I was at a college radio conference, Bob Barker,
the iconic original host of The Prices Right, spoke at
my college radio conference. I met the great Bob Barker,
Bob Barney Bob was great and he was right in
the vie. We were real good friends. It was. It
was so funny because this is like, I mean, I
was in college before the internet, really and I'm a dinosaur.
But Bob was there and the tabloids. He was in

(32:57):
a scandal with one of those women on the show
that you know that that the models on the show,
and he showed up, pulled up like total boss, total
Hollywood bo. Bob Barker showed up in like a Benz
and he got out there. He had a nice shirt on,
unbuttoned at the top.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
There.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
He didn't have that little he didn't have that needle
you know what mic that he the needle.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
That I've ever compared him to that.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Well, the microphone he had was a very specific mic.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
It was a little tiny, uh yeah, very.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
Thin, you know, like Dick and Dayton would appreciate it,
you know, it was it was a needle thing anyway. Yeah,
so you want to overcoop and Loraina wins the showcase.
Give me a little taste of that, Dick.

Speaker 4 (33:43):
Please.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
It's a classy show. It's a very classy. We have
mallardly third degree. Mallard of the third degree that is
moments away. And here's the insta trivia. We'll go to
football for the insta trivia, and here it is. The
biggest improvement in quarterback performance per drop back in the
regular season to the playoffs over the last ten years

(34:05):
is by Nick Foles. That's rather obvious. However, blank has
had the second biggest bump from regular season play to
playoff performance. That is the insta trivia. The answer. We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.

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(35:16):
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(35:40):
the instat trivia and we'll have Mallard the third Degree.
Here's the Answert trivia. The biggest improvement in quarterback performance
per drop back in the regular season of the playoffs
for the last decade is Nick Foles. Like you talk
about lightning in a bottle. Hello, so that happened. However,
Blank is second among all quarterbacks with the biggest up

(36:02):
in performance, biggest improvement from the regular season to the
postseason over the last ten years, and that is the
insta trivia. What is the answer, And let's go to
the goofy answers because if I don't read goofy answers,
I will get reprimanded. I will be sent to Malard
militia jail. And you don't want to go to Malard

(36:23):
militia jail. You want to avoid Malon militia jail at
all costs. Alexa Bliss guessed by Shane in Des Moines.
Sam ponder Why would you even ponder blocking? Someone, says
Eke and Roseveld Minnesota. Muppet McGraw from Fergnog who doesn't
belong anywhere near the Hall of Fame. Man the Nam
from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, JT the Wingman in Knoxville,

(36:47):
but his hearts in Wisconsin. Going with the iconic Johnny
Dick Shott. That's a former baseball player. Look him up, Paul,
don't google him. You might get something you don't want
to see. Paul Wrecking Crew from BP. That's his answer,
Pad Statford, who is that's the answer from Terry in England.

(37:07):
Keep listening, Terry, We'll have some hot rock party talk
for you because Brock later I'm thick. Who else do
we have? Bill Cullen, the original host of the price
is right from shipping the cues. Ben Coates from Slim Tim,
who's hanging out the proud shee said? Who else? We have?
Page down? Dak Prescott from Brian gave him a new nickname.

(37:30):
Firk Ducks is looking forward to the Angels monologue. Ben
cannot wait for that, Sir scratch Off's uncle from Eke
and Roseville, Minnesota. All right, Lorain, now do you have
an answer? Loray no, My answer is move fuss.

Speaker 5 (37:46):
No.

Speaker 1 (37:47):
Matt Ryan, Matt Ryan. That's according to EPA per drop
back regular season of playoffs. Matt Ryan second biggest pump
last ten years, Baker Mayfield's third. Here we go, here
we go to a third degree.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
This is one gets grilled cool.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
It was reported that there was no discussion of a
contract extension for Roger Goodell at the league meeting this week.
Goodell already has the second longest tenure as NFL commissioner,
going on his nineteenth year. Now, Ben, how much longer
do you expect Goodell to service commissioner? Can he match
Pete Rizzell's record of twenty nine years?

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Well, the NFL is making money hand over fist and they,
for some reason, the owners seem to think that Roger
Goodell is the reason that they're making that money, that
his ammen's leadership and all that. Why not, So Goodell
seems like he hasn't really aged, you know, you know,
like people come president and they get really old, really
fast when they become president. Well, you're the NFL commissioner,

(38:46):
You've got your vacation home in Maine, You've got your
weekend home in the Hamptons. You're living the great life.
And I look at Goodell, it doesn't seem like he
looks much older than he did before. He's currently how
was good sixty six? He could go another four years
or so at least, I would say. And it's a
great job. Why not, easy job, Easy job? Next?

Speaker 4 (39:07):
All right, So you know Tyre's Halliburton's dad was banned
from the playoff games after he taunted Giannis and Tenna Kompo.
Now Charles Barkley thinks that Halliburton's dad should be let
back in to the stadium to watch the games.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
Do you agree with conditions like he should have to sign,
he should stand out in front of the arena with
a sandwich board, saying I will not confront opposing players
and he should have to sit in the very top
of the arena, right the very top of the arena.
I did see the video. Do you see the video
where Tyre Salburn's dad recreated the Reggie Miller choke yester

(39:41):
after the comeback? So he's embracing it. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
Next, the NFL announce that they will be giving out
a new league award starting this upcoming season, the Protector
of the Year Award. It's for the best offensive lineman.
But if you could add your own award, no matter
how ridiculous, what would it be?

Speaker 1 (39:56):
How dumb is the offensive line award? By the way,
how dumb is that? I think? Best coach? Remember the
Rams said that guy with McVeigh, who would hold McVeigh back?
The coach that does that, how do we do a coop?
He passed? That is my past I passed, Lorraine again,
I don't I won. Oh my god, perfect week. I

(40:17):
think it was a perfect week. This week