December 4, 2025 • 42 mins
Ben Maller talks about reports that the Cincinnati Reds have an interest in signing Ohio-native Kyle Schwarber, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts supporting an MLB salary cap and a salary floor, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball. It's our number two, our number two, as we
guzzle it down here on the Ben Maler Show podcast,
Happy Thursday to you. Don't forget Benny Versus the Penny.
It's available today. There'll be two episodes. You got the
Thursday night game Lions and the Cowboys, the appetizer for
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episode of Benny Versus the Penny. My picks against the
spread on every big matchup in the NFL, So take
a bite out of that. But here we're talking baseball.
Thumbs up or thumbs down? Are the Cincinnata Reds a
legitimate contender for Kyle Schwarber? Also, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts
said he supports an MLB salarycap and a salary floor.
(00:45):
He did that in a recent TV appearance. Do you
believe that would fix baseball? Do they even need to
be fixed? And how do you read Mets reliever Devin
Williams big free agent pickup already this offseason, busting the
chops of the Yankee fan base will go there as well.
And it's high faluting fun here in our number two
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In the Hotstow League.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
So our lead this hour is from the speculation machine
in baseball, as we have the winter meetings upcoming and
there's a big build up and things get quiet over
Christmas and New Years, and normally what happens in recent
years is there's always like three or four players and
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for whatever reason don't sign, and then they go right
into spring training and have to sign in mid February.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So you normally want to get that money right away.
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It's a little different this year because it's expected that
there will be a work stoppage upcoming in baseball, so
that'll change things a bit, and so the money, will
it be harder? You would assume you can't go in
there expecting you can get the full We'll see what
that brings. Getting bonkers in baseball speing a bonkers. I
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saw this, I was like, I thought, well, this must
be satire. This must be satire. Story out of Cincinnati,
the Reds, the Red Legs are interested in making a
run to the top of the free agency board and
they want to Kyle Schwarber bomb a Schwarz bomb Kyle Schwarber.
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That's the guy that hit a bunch of home runs
for the Phillies last year. Of course, the Phillies have
more money. Generally, if you have deeper pockets that can
hold more money, you get the player. So I don't
see if you saw this in now. So Schwarber is
from the outskirts of Cincinnati. He's from Ohio, about thirty
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five forty miles or so from Cincinnati proper from Middletown, Ohio. Middletown, Ohio,
so he's in the suburbs of Cincinnati. In the story
goes that he's interested in a possible homecoming and Reds
would give him a chance to play near all his
friends and family all the time, and they have Terry
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Francona and his championship pedigree and all that stuff, and
played the Dodgers and the playoffs, got smoked in the
wildcard round, although it was hardly anything that wildcard rounds
really for Gayzy. So the problem, of course is that
if it does come down to money, it's being polite here.
The Reds have no chance. So that's a good jumping
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off point. Now, then they could always just raise money
from Justin and Cincinnati and just Josh and some of
our other great Ohio listeners and could throw them in
and do that. But the question thumbs up or thumbs down?
Thumbs up or thumbs down, are the Reds a legitimate
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contender for Kyle Schwarber, the hometown kid. So my observations,
I've got ward Daddy, household, has this waist and DreamWorks,
and we will throw all of these things together and
we are going to run the gamut, is what we're
going to do. So Number one, this is baseball Kabooki
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theater at its finest. The Cincinnati Reds, bless their frugal
little hearts, They're out there playing pretend that they can
match up with the big boys of baseball. In that cute.
In that cute, they're upside down, upside down, putting on
their Sunday best the church clothes and acting like they're
ready to run with the big dogs. Run with the
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big dogs. Of course, in reality, to use the dog
pound lingo, the Cincinnati Reds are like a little Yorkie,
a little Yorky yapping, very loud, little Yorkie behind the fence,
while the Philadelphia Phillies casually and arrogantly stroll by like
a pack of rott water. So I'm gonna go thumbs down.
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Thumbs down is what I'm doing here. The Reds know
exactly what's going on, and we see this every so
often and been around the block a couple of times.
And I'm a talk show host, so I don't mind
my own beeswax and all that stuff. So here's what
this is, until proven otherwise.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And this is a.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Dirty little trick that professional sports teams do. You probably
it depends what team you like, but your team's probably
done this. So you make a token offer. Okay, you
make a token offer to the big free agent, and
the good faith handshake the like this would be like, hey, Kyle,
we know you're from here. We'd love d have you
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come home. Give the whole speech. You talk about how
your family can come watch you play, your high school buddies,
your elementary school teachers can come watch it play.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You know, just lay it on really.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Thick, just thick and like a thick malt, and knowing
full well that Schwarber is gonna stiff arm you and
go right to the highest bidder. He's gonna push you
into the nearest cornfield. But for the low information fan,
that the casual that doesn't really pay attention, say boom,
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the Reds tried, they tried the just don't have enough body,
They tried, you know, optics marketing, all of that stuff,
season ticket sugar coating. Meanwhile, schwarbs, who's on the hunt
for that last Glory Road payday And he's at the intersection,
Kyle Schwarbert of Glory Road and the Yellow Brick Road
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paved with Benjamin Franklin's that's what he wants. He's right there,
Glory Road converses with Yellow Brick Road. The man Monster
mashed fifty six homers. That's a lot of dingers stinging, ding,
ding ding. That's a lot of dingers drove in one
hundred and thirty two runs for the Fighting Phills. You'd
don't slap a discount sticker after a season like that.
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That is a war daddy performance by Kyle Schwarber. He
was ooey gooey baseball goodness is what he was. That's
s'mores level. Now I'm not a big smores guy. Everyone
saw you go out camping. You feel like it's a
right of passage. If you go camping, you gotta have
some smores and all that. Get that chalk that the marshmallows,
the Graham crackers, all that delicious, but only once in
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a while if you need it too much, it's like
not so good. But Cincinnati is not a real contender.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
They're the window shopper, not the buyers what they are.
The Phillies will simply drop the bag. They'll nod politely
and say hey, and they'll walk away, uh with with
Schwarber like they're picking up their dry cleaning. You know,
I've got my I need my Can I get my jacket?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well I got to jack.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
What my wife's got a dress? Can we get that?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Shure? We'll get you that as well. Keep an eye
on the red Sox. Also the Texas Rangers seems like
that the they spent a lot of money. I don't
know about the Padres. I've heard the Padres mentioned. I
feel like they're gonna down grade and get rid of
some guys this offseason. All right, now, page two to
la the raining back to back champions of Major League
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Baseball talking baseball. Yeah, so the Dodgers, big.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Money, big money, big money. No emmy, no ways stop. Yeah,
big money, big money.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Al Right.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So the Dodgers manager, who I have fired no less
than twelve times over the years, Dave Roberts, is now
endorsing the draconian salarycap. Did you see this? Yeah, the
guy said, we're gonna go out and ruin baseball Dave Roberts.
So the question Dodgers managed. Dave Roberts said he supports
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a Major League Baseball plan for a salary cap and
a salary floor. He did this in a recent television interview.
Do you believe that this would be the magic plussebo
to fix baseball? All right? So this let me explain this.
And I've talked about this in the past and previous
episodes of the show, and I don't want to lose
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my mind on this again. I don't need to do that.
I'm sure we're talking about this issue more as we
go for just soar on the same page. But my position,
the thumbnail recap of this, this will fix baseball the
same way if you have a sinkhole, you just put
some duct tape together and you'll fix the sinkhole. Everything
will be fine. Just well, it's a big fole. I know,
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it's a big hole. But we've got some really good
We've got some duct tape and you know what, I'll
throw in some gorilla glue. So we'll get the duct
tape and the gorilla glue and then we'll be good.
But it's a sinkhole, I know, But just go with it.
Why not so? Dave Roberts knows it's not happy the
union and he was part of that as a player.
The Union would turn this thing into a civil war
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followed by a nuclear winter. You would need a hazmat
suit just to attend the bargaining sessions.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
If that would happen.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And the very notion that a salary floor, magically, it's
like magically delicious. It will create this competitive balance that
all you people want pollaise this has already been debunked.
It has already been debunked only the unsophisticated rubes by
that nonsense. Right, So let me use some malord math
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on this. I'll give you some other man. So, the
salary cap floor, whatever it is, whatever the salary cap
floor is, does not build contenders. What it does is
it builds toxic waste uh depots, if you will, for
bad contracts like we've seen the We've seen this, We've
read the book. We've read the book before. For example,
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I'll give you an example. Let's say the Red Sox, the
Boston Red Sox, about they signed a guy a picture.
It turns out, you know, it's good for a couple
of years. Then he gets hurt. He's by the time
he's got like three or four years left in the contract,
he's a thirty four year old pitcher with a ucl
stitched together like a quilt and a contract fatter than
a buffet back when they used to have good buffets
(12:57):
in Vegas, Like really big contract, right, tommyjo A couple
of times, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You ship them off to Pittsburgh? Or how about the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Say the Dodgers have a thirty seven year old slugger
who's hitting a buck sixty with four home runs in
the batspeed of a rotary phone. What are you gonna do?
You send him to West Sacramento, to the Athletics and
West Sacramento and they will gladly take him. And the
reason those teams will take them is because they need
to reach the floor. You've got to reach. The floor
is lava. You have to reach the floor. They'll become
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the household, the teams like the A's and the Pirates
and Marlins and Tampa Bay, these type of teams will
become the household hazardous waste collection center of Major League Baseball.
Bring your expired meds and your useless veterans and we'll
take them all. A cap doesn't fix baseball, it does not,
and a floor does not fix it. It just makes
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tanking easier. The problem is the lack of ambition. And
it's a dirty little secret that everyone kind of knows about.
It's an open secret that you don't really have to
try to make money. You don't have to sell tickets
to make money. You don't even have to get people
to watch your games on TV to make money. It's
it's the kind of a business where just by owning
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it you're going to make money. Now, the way that
a lot of these teams are complaining they're not making
enough money is the oldest trick in the book is like,
well we made Let's take a random team and we
use of course, this is for entertainment purposes only, but
let's take a team the Cleveland the Indian slash Guardians,
I guess called the Guardians now because you Wokesters. But
the team in Cleveland, let's say in twenty twenty four,
(14:35):
they made a profit. Out of all the expenses and
all that that's said, they cleared forty five million dollars. Okay,
it's a lot of money, not maybe as much as say,
but let's just say forty five million just for the
purposes of this demonstration.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
So forty five million.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And then you pivot to twenty twenty five and they
made they only made this year, they made.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Twenty five million.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So then the ownership in Cleveland said, well, we lost
twenty million dollars. This is not sustainable. You still made
twenty five million, numb nuts, but yeah, but we made
forty five the year before who we lost twenty No,
you didn't lose twenty million dollars. Dumb, dumb. But the
main issue is teams that just don't really care. They
just don't care, and they're just kind of hanging out
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and they're malingering, is what they are now. Final point
to New York City. We go and after agreeing to
a ridonculous deal with the New York Metropolitans, where leaf
pitcher Devin Williams decided, Hey, I'm a Met, now let
me take a swipe at the Yankee fan. He did
this on the gram Instagram. Uh yeah, he did it
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on Instagram. Williams posted quote for a bunch of people
that didn't want me back on your team, y'all sure
are mad in the DMS. It's highlighting Devin Williams and
frustration with the inconsistent fans support by the kiddos in
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the Bronx. So the question how do you read Mets
reliever Devin Williams busting the chops of Yankee fans on
social media? So on this one, Devin Williams has officially
entered Based on a minute long deliberation by The Ben
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Mather Show, Devin Williams has officially entered his DreamWorks Animation Era.
The guy leaves the Bronx and immediately stars in Trolls three.
The queen's addition, yes, cannot help yourself, cannot do it,
No chance can I do It's classic Internet malpractice. Classic
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Internet malpractice. You'd think after years in Milwaukee and a
cup of coffee with the Yankees, like five minutes, his
biggest contribution with the Yankees is they thought he was
so good that they changed their facial hair policy to
coddle Devin Williams so he could go out there and
have an ERA of almost five. If they had known
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he was going to pitch like that, they'd still have
the facial hair policy in the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
But nonetheless, listen.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
The rule number one. Rule number one is of the Internet.
You don't You don't feed the trolls. Feeding the trolls
only creates more trolls. You don't do it. And most
of the trolls are not real anyway, They're all bought
farms in Moldova. And so instead, my man, my pots
and pans, my man Devin Williams. He dives in head
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first like he's bobbing for apples at a frat party,
and in the Yankee fans.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Now they should be thrilled.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
This guy's gone. He's the poster boy if somebody can't
handle pressure in Yankee Stadium. His era was four to
seventy nine. The dude goes out post a four to
seventy nine era, which in baseball terms, if you're a
shutdown closer, means you sucked precisely when you're not allowed
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to suck. That is a felony as a closer and
in the Bronx. And his punishment is that he goes
across to the Mets and they cut him a check
for fifty one minute.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I think E Dog is the one that cut him
that check there. I believe E Dog on Long Island.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I took care of him. But you talk about falling
upward like this guy's got anti gravity boots strapped on,
like he's training for NASA, And now he's chirping at
the Yankee fans and his DMS and all that stuff,
and you'll save the inspirational speech is big fella. Okay,
the trolls are the only reason anyone's talking about you.
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And it is December, But welcome to Queens, Devin. You
might want to bring a helmet there because the Mets
fans will be doing the same thing by about May first.
By about May first, they'll be doing the same thing.
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Your comments can and we'll be used against you in
the court of sports radio, So please act accordingly. We
began with a baseball heavy mall of monologue as the
Cincinnati Reds are said to be interested in Kyle Schwarber,
a hometown kid. Dave Roberts is like, I support a
salarycap in the salary floor, even though he knows that's
(22:57):
not happening. And and Devin Willilliams getting into it with
the Yankee fan coming up later this hour when the
blooper is rewarded, Say what Yeah, when the blooper is rewarded.
We'll get to that coming up in a couple of minutes.
And let's see what do we have here on the
X machine with all the amazing witty comments that are
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coming in here and see page down. Ferg Dog says,
Cowboy Killer wanted me to let you know there's a
package on its way.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It might already be there.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Well, thank you, Ferg Dog. I will well look in
the mail room late night. Drug Tester says, you forgot
to mention that Dick from Dayton would put on a
musical telethon in order to get Kyle Schwward to Ohio.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Give me a little taste of that Dick.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Unfortunately, Dick and Dayton has let me know he sent
me a message versus actually came versus via pigeon carrier Pigeon.
Dick and Dayton let me know that his favorite Cincinnati
Red of all time is Pete Rose and Pete's dead.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
So that that's it right there. What else do we have?
Let's see page Siria.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Sean is working at a freezer in somewhere in an
Amazon facility and he's freezing his ass.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Off right now.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
He wanted us to all know that as he's working
in the frozen section right there. What else do we have?
Let's see page Some of these are not that great.
Let's go to the phones. The phones will never let
me down. Let's say hello, eenie meenie miney mall. Let's
say hello to Domingo in San Diego. Hello, Domingo, welcome,
what's up man?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
This is Domingo from San Diego. I'm at a Pacific
beach right now. There's a little cold over here.
Speaker 11 (24:41):
But anyway, what.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Are you doing? What are you doing at Pacific Beach?
What are you doing over there?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Oh? You know made that hours?
Speaker 10 (24:47):
You know Navericks.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Avericks.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
You know there's Naverick, there's Pep short clubs.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
You know the sell bars over here.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
You know you can do it late night, late night,
maybe skinny dipping.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Skinny skinny dipping in Pacific be I like that.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Here you go get arrested.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh only think only you.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, but you swim.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Out to international waters and you're good.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Oh yeah, I was in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Just swim down to Mexico. You got nothing to worry
about it.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
No, no worry about don't worry about anything, orry about anything.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I want to talk about my boy.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Did you who's your boy? Who's your boy? Who's your boy?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Oh? My boy, Luca, your boy, my boy?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Hookah, Luca, Luca.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
Look at Luca Dominica.
Speaker 12 (25:43):
You know.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
Anyways, I was like, I'm trying to figure out if
I want to pay my drive up from San Diego
from Pacific Beach to the Lakers to watch the game.
I don't know, man, it is a birthday to spend
three hundred dollars on these on these guys.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
My my ice, and you should never take advice from
overnight talk radio is to find the game. The Lakers
play against a really bad team kind of during the
week when there's not a lot of interest in going
to the game, and then waiting and buying the tickets
on the secondary market right before. It's risky. But if
it's well, it's risky in disrespect. I mean you might
(26:19):
not be able to do it, but if you wait
until the last minute, you could probably get in pretty cheap.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You just gotta wait, you gotta yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
But you gotta buy it last minute, buy like buy
like on a Wednesday when they're playing Charlotte or something,
you know, something take a bad team. I don't know.
I don't even.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I think he's hurt. Anyway, Well, good luck.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I hope you.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I hope you enjoy your skinny dipping and uh, you know,
pick up beautiful people.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
All right, Man Domingo.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Guys out there that's called you know, there's multitasking guys
out there picking up people and at the clubs, and
he's calling talk radio. That's two for one right there. Loraina,
do you know when? Do you know when international waters start? Now?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
About that mile?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I do not. What do you think? Let's play let's
play a little game with Loraina. How many I don't know.
Coop's probably googling me already, but how many to get
to international waters? All right? How many miles out do
you have to go to get the international waters?
Speaker 9 (27:26):
I'm gonna say, ah, fifteen miles.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Bad, fifteen miles.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
All right, very good, Coop. Did you google this already?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Did you?
Speaker 13 (27:38):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay, you want to play the game.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
We're playing the game here with all the great oceans
of the world there, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean,
all the other oceans out there, how far out do
you have to go to get to international waters?
Speaker 13 (27:51):
I'm gonna go, and.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
These are known as the high seas. Coop, International waters
are known as the high seas.
Speaker 13 (27:57):
Are trying to throw me off. I'm to go five miles?
Speaker 9 (28:02):
Then, yes, I do mile.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I ought to say.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I have been on a cruise ship before, and on
the last day they usually dock you off of the
land where you can still gamble, and it has to
be far enough.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
That's never happened to where it is international waters.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Okay, all right, so well that's.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Why I'm like, okay, it can't be too far.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Well, Lorena, you are the closest, but you went over
so Coop does money, it's it's twelve nautical miles. I
would have been right miles.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
My second guess was on the dot money, I would I.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Would assume a nautical mile is longer than a regular mile, right,
wouldn't that be, I would think, right, I don't know
the maritime it is rules. Yeah, so twelve miles and
yeah there's a that's your fun fact of the hour.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Of the baby.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
We nautical miles is equal to fifteen.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
Regularly nautical mile is slightly longer than a land.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
I bet it is fifteen regular land miles then, which
means I'm probably even more.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
Now it's not. I don't know, well at one.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It's now.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
When I was a kid, I remember, I think it
was one of my grandfathers. One of my grandfathers was
kind of a shady guy, and during Prohibition they had
gambling uh and and and boats with alcohol and they'd
go out to international waters so they could drink and gamble.
Speaker 14 (29:27):
So it doesn't necessarily have to be international waters though, right,
because they've got I mean, how does that work with
like the riverboat casinos like in the like in the
Ozarks they have.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But that's not how does that work?
Speaker 13 (29:41):
Is that is that on? Is that technically on Indian
Indian waters?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
You're it's I don't know. I mean, I'm not sure
how that works.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I just know that I remember hearing stories about and
like when they try to get rid of alcohol and
stuff that people would get take these boat trips and
gamble and all kinds of debauchery. Uh you know they
in and yeah, anyway, all right, it is the pen
Mall Show. Let's go to E Dog.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Who's on Long Island?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Hello, E Dog, welcome the great Hello Ben?
Speaker 11 (30:11):
What how are you doing tonight or to this morning?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
How's it going? Well?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
If I was any better, I would be sleeping, But
here I am talking to the Great Dog.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
How lucky am I to talk to dog?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Not many people get to talk to dog. I'm one
of the few that get to chat with the Dog.
I consider myself very lucky that E Dog is one
of my radio friends.
Speaker 11 (30:30):
Mellitsa likes me too.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
By the way, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
But I thought you had a new girlfriend. I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
There's a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Hey, I'm naming miss Kay and I'm named Melissa.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
But you're such a baller. You're a baller.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
You know what. The pick of the week this year?
This week I got the Eagles going beating the Chargers
by like seven.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I'm gonna be of that game.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It's a Monday night.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
A game starts on Monday night, So.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, it's gonna be a good game. Also, I got
a bone to stick with. Uh with what's his name,
the late night drug tester?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
What's wrong with I thought you liked the late night
drug tester.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Why would you have a did?
Speaker 11 (31:13):
But he said Milwaukee can't. Milwaukee can't. He said, Milwaukee
can't go to the Knicks, And I disagree.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I think we can't go to the next m Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Also, are you hold on tim out? Are you willing
to offer some money so the Knicks can afford Giannis?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Are you willing to pay them some money?
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Well, you know what my dad says.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Well, of course, me and your dad are good friends.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
We talk all the time.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Well, he said, instead of going to the polls to
bet on to get a go to the polls to
get the vote from the president. Instead of that, he
could save his money on gas and get and play
the lottery.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
That's reasonable.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah, you know, you know your dad. Your dad told
me that you're a mensch.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's what he told me.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
I'm a good guy.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
That's right. Also, when the nixt start off in the
in the front court, they should start they should start
at the half court. They should start at the front
court to the offense.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You know what I'm saying that that's a non sequitor.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
What does that mean? I'm trying to mention my language.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, yeah, well it's interesting you don't know what that is,
because you are the definition of non sequitar man, like
I should call you e Dog the non sequitary man.
That should be your name on the show. And most
people don't know what that Lorenda, do you know what
a non sequitor is? Lauren?
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Yeah, it's the thing that it doesn't really have to
do with what you're talking.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
About, right, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It's it's not like we're having a conversation.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Exactly. Yeah, you go off the reservation.
Speaker 9 (32:58):
You know, I'm smart.
Speaker 13 (32:59):
She didn't even google that.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
Of the smartest people I ever met or talked teaching
kids in college and you only know two people, but
she's very small.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yes, that is correct.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
This quick this answer. You know what akering college? No,
I'm not, you're not familiar university? And thinking about that?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Is that on Long Island?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Is that on Long Island?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
That's in Ohio?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Of course it is.
Speaker 11 (33:28):
And the thing about this is if if I don't
know what I'm saying, I gotta.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Go Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
See that's it. He's non secretary man. That's exactly. That's
an example being non secretary man. Okay, thank you, oh God,
let's go to Let's go to Emmett real quick. Is
it is this Emmett the blind Seahawks man? Is he there? Hello?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Emmett? Real quick? What's got? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Emmett? Hello?
Speaker 8 (33:54):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (33:55):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
If I was.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Any better, I would be a Seahawks, but not a
Seattle Seahawk because they're not going to win the championship
with Sam Darnold and all that.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
So defense went championships, Ben, That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I mean, that was before you were alive in your lifetime.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That's not true.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
I mean, look a look at the Eagles last year,
though they absolutely stuffed Mahomes and they won. I mean, look,
it's just one of those things. Yeah, I gotta get
to break, so I'll be quick with this. Chris Paul Man,
I get that. Obviously, Chris Paul's probably washed now. Like
the dude is very old. I mean, the younger people
will call him unk. But I just think that this
(34:33):
is a petty move because the Clippers, unfortunately are not
on pace to be what they should be, and you
know what, maybe we thought they were going to be
and Chris Paul was trying to hold these guys accountable
and Kylee didn't like that. And I think that I
feel bad for Chris Paul because he clearly wanted to
end his career here and he wanted to play a
full season, you know, go back to home. He obviously
(34:54):
his family's there. I mean, the reports are coming out
that Chris Paul is gonna sign with Koop de Loops Lakers,
like that's if he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I hope, I hope he goes to the Lakers, because
he can't.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
I hope he's not coming to the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I pray, I pray that he goes.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I'm gonna pray to Jesus he goes, like I want
to see that. I want to I want to see
him play forty minutes a game is what I want
to see too.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
Oh wow, Hey, maybe maybe maybe he'll have like a
little redemption tour with the Lakers. I mean, maybe they'll
just bring it out.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And maybe maybe I'll be named the governor of California.
Maybe that will happen.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Also, could I.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
Mean probably better on you'll have now, But I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
If you look at you. That's a third rail, mom
man third.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
Yeah, that was that was a little while.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Listen, California leads the country in taxes.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
And homeless people.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
So we're doing very well. Thank you. I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
There you go?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Is is our guy right there?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Emmett, the blind Seahawk fan who believes everything, every piece
of Chris Paul propaganda he believes he does. So the blooper.
The blooper rewarded.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I can't believe this happened. Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Remember he dropped the game tying two point conversion in
the divisional round for the Ravens against Buffalo in Buffalo.
The Bills won the game twenty seven to twenty five,
so I thought Mark Andrews would be done. Apparently he's
the only guy that Lamar Jackson still likes to throw to,
and so the Ravens have agreed to a deal. Mark
Andrews gets a thirty nine million dollar extension, twenty six
(36:25):
million guaranteed. I'm that's I'm surprised by it. I know
he's the all time leader and all these numbers because
he's been there a long time for the Ravens, but
he's older, and I thought about that would be the
kill shot, and they're keeping him around. He's like the
mascot there in Baltimore. He got to keep Mark Andrews around.
Time now for the Insta trivia and Mallard of the
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third degree with eight receptions this weekend, which likely won't happen,
but if he does get there, Vikings wide receiver Justin
Jefferson can surpass Blank for the most receptions by a
player in his first six seasons. Again with eight receptions
in the Vikings game this weekending. As Washington wide receiver,
Justin Jefferson can surpass Blank for the most receptions by
(37:07):
a player in his first six seasons.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
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The thirty gree Here is the instant trivia and here
we go. Here we go with eight receptions. That's most
likely not going to happen the way the Vikings offenses.
But with eight receptions this weekend, Vikings wide receiver Justin
Jefferson can surpass Blank for the most receptions by a
player in his first six seasons.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
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Speaker 1 (39:07):
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the Alien o Pinter, the Double Mint Twins from Bobby
and Florida.
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on Fire, Paxton Lynch from Doc dan Our Buddy o
Cho Texto, Keith from Houston's Going.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
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Who else do we have Mike Mike Evans also from
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from Rob the goat Man, Dominican Mike from Shane in
Des Moines, The Great Dominican Mike, Lauren London, who is
forty one today Late Night drug Tester, big fan of
her work. Do you have an answer, Lorraine.
Speaker 9 (39:47):
I'm thinking the Monopoly Man.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
No, it's Jarvis Landry, Jarvis Lane first six years, Jarvis
Landry at five hundred and sixty four receptions.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
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we go.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
About This is one gets grilled cool.
Speaker 12 (40:08):
The Lions have not won back to back game since
Week five, and on Tuesday, Dan Campbell said that the
team's margin for ERA is small. Then do you think
that the Lions could miss out on the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (40:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Absolutely, I mean they're not in the playoffs now, and
then they got the Cowboys tonight, they got the Rams.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
They gotta still play.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
They gotta play the Bears. Although they absolutely smoked the
Bears the last time they played him, So, yeah, he's legit.
They've already lost five games. Yeah, they don't have a
lot of margin. Bearer, They don't feel like a playoff
team the way they play. They feel like a like
a Steeler team, a five hundred type team.
Speaker 12 (40:41):
Next the Giant Joe Shane Ye, Joe Shane the Giants GM.
Joe Shane told the media this week that quote, the
pieces are there for the Giants and that he has
confidence that they will find the right coach to lead
the organization. Ben, do you think the Giants are the
right head coach away from it all clicking?
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Well, here's what's gonna happen. I saw a little bit
of that Joe Shane news commerce we didn't talk about
it on the show. Joe Shane's gonna be fired at
the end of the year. Total debacle. He did not
handle that. Well, he won't be there, so he won't
be hiring the coach. Yeah, if you hire a good coach,
you can win. The Rams suck for years. They hired
Sean McVay. But if you hire a coach that knows
what they're doing and get halfway decent players, it's not
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that hard.
Speaker 12 (41:25):
Next, it was important Tuesday that UNC has committed to
Bill Belichick quote for at least one more year. Ben,
do you think that Belichick will actually last another year
at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Well, Belichick is trying to move them outains to get
an NFL head coaching job. He's working back channels, he's
using all his buddies to try to massage owners to
get a job. If you can get a job in
the NFL is gone. I don't think he's gonna be
able to get a job. I would like to see
him in the NFL, the chances are very low, so
I think therefore he goes back to North Carolina and
there it is malin a third degree. How dead weight?
Speaker 13 (41:56):
Now you pass this edition That
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Is a pod Alpha joun bos alone again
Playball. It's our number two, our number two, as we
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Happy Thursday to you. Don't forget Benny Versus the Penny.
It's available today. There'll be two episodes. You got the
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episode of Benny Versus the Penny. My picks against the
spread on every big matchup in the NFL, So take
a bite out of that. But here we're talking baseball.
Thumbs up or thumbs down? Are the Cincinnata Reds a
legitimate contender for Kyle Schwarber? Also, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts
said he supports an MLB salarycap and a salary floor.
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He did that in a recent TV appearance. Do you
believe that would fix baseball? Do they even need to
be fixed? And how do you read Mets reliever Devin
Williams big free agent pickup already this offseason, busting the
chops of the Yankee fan base will go there as well.
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hot Stove Lake. Hot's getting hot in here. It's getting
hot in here. Not our first voyage, not our maiden voyage.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
In the Hotstow League.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
So our lead this hour is from the speculation machine
in baseball, as we have the winter meetings upcoming and
there's a big build up and things get quiet over
Christmas and New Years, and normally what happens in recent
years is there's always like three or four players and
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for whatever reason don't sign, and then they go right
into spring training and have to sign in mid February.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
So you normally want to get that money right away.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's a little different this year because it's expected that
there will be a work stoppage upcoming in baseball, so
that'll change things a bit, and so the money, will
it be harder? You would assume you can't go in
there expecting you can get the full We'll see what
that brings. Getting bonkers in baseball speing a bonkers. I
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saw this, I was like, I thought, well, this must
be satire. This must be satire. Story out of Cincinnati,
the Reds, the Red Legs are interested in making a
run to the top of the free agency board and
they want to Kyle Schwarber bomb a Schwarz bomb Kyle Schwarber.
(04:28):
That's the guy that hit a bunch of home runs
for the Phillies last year. Of course, the Phillies have
more money. Generally, if you have deeper pockets that can
hold more money, you get the player. So I don't
see if you saw this in now. So Schwarber is
from the outskirts of Cincinnati. He's from Ohio, about thirty
(04:48):
five forty miles or so from Cincinnati proper from Middletown, Ohio. Middletown, Ohio,
so he's in the suburbs of Cincinnati. In the story
goes that he's interested in a possible homecoming and Reds
would give him a chance to play near all his
friends and family all the time, and they have Terry
(05:09):
Francona and his championship pedigree and all that stuff, and
played the Dodgers and the playoffs, got smoked in the
wildcard round, although it was hardly anything that wildcard rounds
really for Gayzy. So the problem, of course is that
if it does come down to money, it's being polite here.
The Reds have no chance. So that's a good jumping
(05:31):
off point. Now, then they could always just raise money
from Justin and Cincinnati and just Josh and some of
our other great Ohio listeners and could throw them in
and do that. But the question thumbs up or thumbs down?
Thumbs up or thumbs down, are the Reds a legitimate
(05:52):
contender for Kyle Schwarber, the hometown kid. So my observations,
I've got ward Daddy, household, has this waist and DreamWorks,
and we will throw all of these things together and
we are going to run the gamut, is what we're
going to do. So Number one, this is baseball Kabooki
(06:17):
theater at its finest. The Cincinnati Reds, bless their frugal
little hearts, They're out there playing pretend that they can
match up with the big boys of baseball. In that cute.
In that cute, they're upside down, upside down, putting on
their Sunday best the church clothes and acting like they're
ready to run with the big dogs. Run with the
(06:41):
big dogs. Of course, in reality, to use the dog
pound lingo, the Cincinnati Reds are like a little Yorkie,
a little Yorky yapping, very loud, little Yorkie behind the fence,
while the Philadelphia Phillies casually and arrogantly stroll by like
a pack of rott water. So I'm gonna go thumbs down.
(07:04):
Thumbs down is what I'm doing here. The Reds know
exactly what's going on, and we see this every so
often and been around the block a couple of times.
And I'm a talk show host, so I don't mind
my own beeswax and all that stuff. So here's what
this is, until proven otherwise.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
And this is a.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Dirty little trick that professional sports teams do. You probably
it depends what team you like, but your team's probably
done this. So you make a token offer. Okay, you
make a token offer to the big free agent, and
the good faith handshake the like this would be like, hey, Kyle,
we know you're from here. We'd love d have you
(07:47):
come home. Give the whole speech. You talk about how
your family can come watch you play, your high school buddies,
your elementary school teachers can come watch it play.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You know, just lay it on really.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
Thick, just thick and like a thick malt, and knowing
full well that Schwarber is gonna stiff arm you and
go right to the highest bidder. He's gonna push you
into the nearest cornfield. But for the low information fan,
that the casual that doesn't really pay attention, say boom,
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the Reds tried, they tried the just don't have enough body,
They tried, you know, optics marketing, all of that stuff,
season ticket sugar coating. Meanwhile, schwarbs, who's on the hunt
for that last Glory Road payday And he's at the intersection,
Kyle Schwarbert of Glory Road and the Yellow Brick Road
(08:42):
paved with Benjamin Franklin's that's what he wants. He's right there,
Glory Road converses with Yellow Brick Road. The man Monster
mashed fifty six homers. That's a lot of dingers stinging, ding,
ding ding. That's a lot of dingers drove in one
hundred and thirty two runs for the Fighting Phills. You'd
don't slap a discount sticker after a season like that.
(09:04):
That is a war daddy performance by Kyle Schwarber. He
was ooey gooey baseball goodness is what he was. That's
s'mores level. Now I'm not a big smores guy. Everyone
saw you go out camping. You feel like it's a
right of passage. If you go camping, you gotta have
some smores and all that. Get that chalk that the marshmallows,
the Graham crackers, all that delicious, but only once in
(09:26):
a while if you need it too much, it's like
not so good. But Cincinnati is not a real contender.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
They're the window shopper, not the buyers what they are.
The Phillies will simply drop the bag. They'll nod politely
and say hey, and they'll walk away, uh with with
Schwarber like they're picking up their dry cleaning. You know,
I've got my I need my Can I get my jacket?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Well I got to jack.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
What my wife's got a dress? Can we get that?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Shure? We'll get you that as well. Keep an eye
on the red Sox. Also the Texas Rangers seems like
that the they spent a lot of money. I don't
know about the Padres. I've heard the Padres mentioned. I
feel like they're gonna down grade and get rid of
some guys this offseason. All right, now, page two to
la the raining back to back champions of Major League
(10:14):
Baseball talking baseball. Yeah, so the Dodgers, big.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Money, big money, big money. No emmy, no ways stop. Yeah,
big money, big money.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Al Right.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
So the Dodgers manager, who I have fired no less
than twelve times over the years, Dave Roberts, is now
endorsing the draconian salarycap. Did you see this? Yeah, the
guy said, we're gonna go out and ruin baseball Dave Roberts.
So the question Dodgers managed. Dave Roberts said he supports
(10:45):
a Major League Baseball plan for a salary cap and
a salary floor. He did this in a recent television interview.
Do you believe that this would be the magic plussebo
to fix baseball? All right? So this let me explain this.
And I've talked about this in the past and previous
episodes of the show, and I don't want to lose
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my mind on this again. I don't need to do that.
I'm sure we're talking about this issue more as we
go for just soar on the same page. But my position,
the thumbnail recap of this, this will fix baseball the
same way if you have a sinkhole, you just put
some duct tape together and you'll fix the sinkhole. Everything
will be fine. Just well, it's a big fole. I know,
(11:26):
it's a big hole. But we've got some really good
We've got some duct tape and you know what, I'll
throw in some gorilla glue. So we'll get the duct
tape and the gorilla glue and then we'll be good.
But it's a sinkhole, I know, But just go with it.
Why not so? Dave Roberts knows it's not happy the
union and he was part of that as a player.
The Union would turn this thing into a civil war
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followed by a nuclear winter. You would need a hazmat
suit just to attend the bargaining sessions.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
If that would happen.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
And the very notion that a salary floor, magically, it's
like magically delicious. It will create this competitive balance that
all you people want pollaise this has already been debunked.
It has already been debunked only the unsophisticated rubes by
that nonsense. Right, So let me use some malord math
(12:15):
on this. I'll give you some other man. So, the
salary cap floor, whatever it is, whatever the salary cap
floor is, does not build contenders. What it does is
it builds toxic waste uh depots, if you will, for
bad contracts like we've seen the We've seen this, We've
read the book. We've read the book before. For example,
(12:36):
I'll give you an example. Let's say the Red Sox, the
Boston Red Sox, about they signed a guy a picture.
It turns out, you know, it's good for a couple
of years. Then he gets hurt. He's by the time
he's got like three or four years left in the contract,
he's a thirty four year old pitcher with a ucl
stitched together like a quilt and a contract fatter than
a buffet back when they used to have good buffets
(12:57):
in Vegas, Like really big contract, right, tommyjo A couple
of times, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
You ship them off to Pittsburgh? Or how about the Dodgers.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Say the Dodgers have a thirty seven year old slugger
who's hitting a buck sixty with four home runs in
the batspeed of a rotary phone. What are you gonna do?
You send him to West Sacramento, to the Athletics and
West Sacramento and they will gladly take him. And the
reason those teams will take them is because they need
to reach the floor. You've got to reach. The floor
is lava. You have to reach the floor. They'll become
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the household, the teams like the A's and the Pirates
and Marlins and Tampa Bay, these type of teams will
become the household hazardous waste collection center of Major League Baseball.
Bring your expired meds and your useless veterans and we'll
take them all. A cap doesn't fix baseball, it does not,
and a floor does not fix it. It just makes
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tanking easier. The problem is the lack of ambition. And
it's a dirty little secret that everyone kind of knows about.
It's an open secret that you don't really have to
try to make money. You don't have to sell tickets
to make money. You don't even have to get people
to watch your games on TV to make money. It's
it's the kind of a business where just by owning
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it you're going to make money. Now, the way that
a lot of these teams are complaining they're not making
enough money is the oldest trick in the book is like,
well we made Let's take a random team and we
use of course, this is for entertainment purposes only, but
let's take a team the Cleveland the Indian slash Guardians,
I guess called the Guardians now because you Wokesters. But
the team in Cleveland, let's say in twenty twenty four,
(14:35):
they made a profit. Out of all the expenses and
all that that's said, they cleared forty five million dollars. Okay,
it's a lot of money, not maybe as much as say,
but let's just say forty five million just for the
purposes of this demonstration.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
So forty five million.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
And then you pivot to twenty twenty five and they
made they only made this year, they made.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Twenty five million.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
So then the ownership in Cleveland said, well, we lost
twenty million dollars. This is not sustainable. You still made
twenty five million, numb nuts, but yeah, but we made
forty five the year before who we lost twenty No,
you didn't lose twenty million dollars. Dumb, dumb. But the
main issue is teams that just don't really care. They
just don't care, and they're just kind of hanging out
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and they're malingering, is what they are now. Final point
to New York City. We go and after agreeing to
a ridonculous deal with the New York Metropolitans, where leaf
pitcher Devin Williams decided, Hey, I'm a Met, now let
me take a swipe at the Yankee fan. He did
this on the gram Instagram. Uh yeah, he did it
(15:46):
on Instagram. Williams posted quote for a bunch of people
that didn't want me back on your team, y'all sure
are mad in the DMS. It's highlighting Devin Williams and
frustration with the inconsistent fans support by the kiddos in
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the Bronx. So the question how do you read Mets
reliever Devin Williams busting the chops of Yankee fans on
social media? So on this one, Devin Williams has officially
entered Based on a minute long deliberation by The Ben
(16:27):
Mather Show, Devin Williams has officially entered his DreamWorks Animation Era.
The guy leaves the Bronx and immediately stars in Trolls three.
The queen's addition, yes, cannot help yourself, cannot do it,
No chance can I do It's classic Internet malpractice. Classic
(16:48):
Internet malpractice. You'd think after years in Milwaukee and a
cup of coffee with the Yankees, like five minutes, his
biggest contribution with the Yankees is they thought he was
so good that they changed their facial hair policy to
coddle Devin Williams so he could go out there and
have an ERA of almost five. If they had known
(17:10):
he was going to pitch like that, they'd still have
the facial hair policy in the Bronx.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
But nonetheless, listen.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
The rule number one. Rule number one is of the Internet.
You don't You don't feed the trolls. Feeding the trolls
only creates more trolls. You don't do it. And most
of the trolls are not real anyway, They're all bought
farms in Moldova. And so instead, my man, my pots
and pans, my man Devin Williams. He dives in head
(17:39):
first like he's bobbing for apples at a frat party,
and in the Yankee fans.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Now they should be thrilled.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
This guy's gone. He's the poster boy if somebody can't
handle pressure in Yankee Stadium. His era was four to
seventy nine. The dude goes out post a four to
seventy nine era, which in baseball terms, if you're a
shutdown closer, means you sucked precisely when you're not allowed
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to suck. That is a felony as a closer and
in the Bronx. And his punishment is that he goes
across to the Mets and they cut him a check
for fifty one minute.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
I think E Dog is the one that cut him
that check there. I believe E Dog on Long Island.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
I took care of him. But you talk about falling
upward like this guy's got anti gravity boots strapped on,
like he's training for NASA, And now he's chirping at
the Yankee fans and his DMS and all that stuff,
and you'll save the inspirational speech is big fella. Okay,
the trolls are the only reason anyone's talking about you.
(18:47):
And it is December, But welcome to Queens, Devin. You
might want to bring a helmet there because the Mets
fans will be doing the same thing by about May first.
By about May first, they'll be doing the same thing.
Mark my words, Mark my words. It is the Ben
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He knows Van you're away, he knows that you then that.
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Speaker 2 (21:47):
Of the Malard Militia.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
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Your comments can and we'll be used against you in
the court of sports radio, So please act accordingly. We
began with a baseball heavy mall of monologue as the
Cincinnati Reds are said to be interested in Kyle Schwarber,
a hometown kid. Dave Roberts is like, I support a
salarycap in the salary floor, even though he knows that's
(22:57):
not happening. And and Devin Willilliams getting into it with
the Yankee fan coming up later this hour when the
blooper is rewarded, Say what Yeah, when the blooper is rewarded.
We'll get to that coming up in a couple of minutes.
And let's see what do we have here on the
X machine with all the amazing witty comments that are
(23:21):
coming in here and see page down. Ferg Dog says,
Cowboy Killer wanted me to let you know there's a
package on its way.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It might already be there.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Well, thank you, Ferg Dog. I will well look in
the mail room late night. Drug Tester says, you forgot
to mention that Dick from Dayton would put on a
musical telethon in order to get Kyle Schwward to Ohio.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Give me a little taste of that Dick.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
Unfortunately, Dick and Dayton has let me know he sent
me a message versus actually came versus via pigeon carrier Pigeon.
Dick and Dayton let me know that his favorite Cincinnati
Red of all time is Pete Rose and Pete's dead.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
So that that's it right there. What else do we have?
Let's see page Siria.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Sean is working at a freezer in somewhere in an
Amazon facility and he's freezing his ass.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Off right now.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
He wanted us to all know that as he's working
in the frozen section right there. What else do we have?
Let's see page Some of these are not that great.
Let's go to the phones. The phones will never let
me down. Let's say hello, eenie meenie miney mall. Let's
say hello to Domingo in San Diego. Hello, Domingo, welcome,
what's up man?
Speaker 10 (24:34):
This is Domingo from San Diego. I'm at a Pacific
beach right now. There's a little cold over here.
Speaker 11 (24:41):
But anyway, what.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Are you doing? What are you doing at Pacific Beach?
What are you doing over there?
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Oh? You know made that hours?
Speaker 10 (24:47):
You know Navericks.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Avericks.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
You know there's Naverick, there's Pep short clubs.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
You know the sell bars over here.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
You know you can do it late night, late night,
maybe skinny dipping.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
Skinny skinny dipping in Pacific be I like that.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
Here you go get arrested.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Oh only think only you.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
Yeah, but you swim.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Out to international waters and you're good.
Speaker 4 (25:19):
Oh yeah, I was in Mexico.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Just swim down to Mexico. You got nothing to worry
about it.
Speaker 10 (25:25):
No, no worry about don't worry about anything, orry about anything.
Speaker 11 (25:29):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I want to talk about my boy.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Did you who's your boy? Who's your boy? Who's your boy?
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Oh? My boy, Luca, your boy, my boy?
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Hookah, Luca, Luca.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
Look at Luca Dominica.
Speaker 12 (25:43):
You know.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
Anyways, I was like, I'm trying to figure out if
I want to pay my drive up from San Diego
from Pacific Beach to the Lakers to watch the game.
I don't know, man, it is a birthday to spend
three hundred dollars on these on these guys.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
My my ice, and you should never take advice from
overnight talk radio is to find the game. The Lakers
play against a really bad team kind of during the
week when there's not a lot of interest in going
to the game, and then waiting and buying the tickets
on the secondary market right before. It's risky. But if
it's well, it's risky in disrespect. I mean you might
(26:19):
not be able to do it, but if you wait
until the last minute, you could probably get in pretty cheap.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You just gotta wait, you gotta yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
But you gotta buy it last minute, buy like buy
like on a Wednesday when they're playing Charlotte or something,
you know, something take a bad team. I don't know.
I don't even.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I think he's hurt. Anyway, Well, good luck.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
I hope you.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
I hope you enjoy your skinny dipping and uh, you know,
pick up beautiful people.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
All right, Man Domingo.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Guys out there that's called you know, there's multitasking guys
out there picking up people and at the clubs, and
he's calling talk radio. That's two for one right there. Loraina,
do you know when? Do you know when international waters start? Now?
Speaker 2 (27:08):
About that mile?
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I do not. What do you think? Let's play let's
play a little game with Loraina. How many I don't know.
Coop's probably googling me already, but how many to get
to international waters? All right? How many miles out do
you have to go to get the international waters?
Speaker 9 (27:26):
I'm gonna say, ah, fifteen miles.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
Bad, fifteen miles.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
All right, very good, Coop. Did you google this already?
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Did you?
Speaker 13 (27:38):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Okay, you want to play the game.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
We're playing the game here with all the great oceans
of the world there, the Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean,
all the other oceans out there, how far out do
you have to go to get to international waters?
Speaker 13 (27:51):
I'm gonna go, and.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
These are known as the high seas. Coop, International waters
are known as the high seas.
Speaker 13 (27:57):
Are trying to throw me off. I'm to go five miles?
Speaker 9 (28:02):
Then, yes, I do mile.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I ought to say.
Speaker 9 (28:05):
I have been on a cruise ship before, and on
the last day they usually dock you off of the
land where you can still gamble, and it has to
be far enough.
Speaker 13 (28:15):
That's never happened to where it is international waters.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Okay, all right, so well that's.
Speaker 9 (28:20):
Why I'm like, okay, it can't be too far.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Well, Lorena, you are the closest, but you went over
so Coop does money, it's it's twelve nautical miles. I
would have been right miles.
Speaker 9 (28:32):
My second guess was on the dot money, I would I.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Would assume a nautical mile is longer than a regular mile, right,
wouldn't that be, I would think, right, I don't know
the maritime it is rules. Yeah, so twelve miles and
yeah there's a that's your fun fact of the hour.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Of the baby.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
We nautical miles is equal to fifteen.
Speaker 13 (28:53):
Regularly nautical mile is slightly longer than a land.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
I bet it is fifteen regular land miles then, which
means I'm probably even more.
Speaker 13 (28:59):
Now it's not. I don't know, well at one.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
It's now.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
When I was a kid, I remember, I think it
was one of my grandfathers. One of my grandfathers was
kind of a shady guy, and during Prohibition they had
gambling uh and and and boats with alcohol and they'd
go out to international waters so they could drink and gamble.
Speaker 14 (29:27):
So it doesn't necessarily have to be international waters though, right,
because they've got I mean, how does that work with
like the riverboat casinos like in the like in the
Ozarks they have.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
But that's not how does that work?
Speaker 13 (29:41):
Is that is that on? Is that technically on Indian
Indian waters?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
You're it's I don't know. I mean, I'm not sure
how that works.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I just know that I remember hearing stories about and
like when they try to get rid of alcohol and
stuff that people would get take these boat trips and
gamble and all kinds of debauchery. Uh you know they
in and yeah, anyway, all right, it is the pen
Mall Show. Let's go to E Dog.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Who's on Long Island?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Hello, E Dog, welcome the great Hello Ben?
Speaker 11 (30:11):
What how are you doing tonight or to this morning?
Speaker 4 (30:13):
How's it going? Well?
Speaker 1 (30:15):
If I was any better, I would be sleeping, But
here I am talking to the Great Dog.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
How lucky am I to talk to dog?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Not many people get to talk to dog. I'm one
of the few that get to chat with the Dog.
I consider myself very lucky that E Dog is one
of my radio friends.
Speaker 11 (30:30):
Mellitsa likes me too.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
By the way, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
But I thought you had a new girlfriend. I'm confused.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
There's a lot going on.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Hey, I'm naming miss Kay and I'm named Melissa.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
But you're such a baller. You're a baller.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
You know what. The pick of the week this year?
This week I got the Eagles going beating the Chargers
by like seven.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
I'm gonna be of that game.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It's a Monday night.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
A game starts on Monday night, So.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, it's gonna be a good game. Also, I got
a bone to stick with. Uh with what's his name,
the late night drug tester?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
What's wrong with I thought you liked the late night
drug tester.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Why would you have a did?
Speaker 11 (31:13):
But he said Milwaukee can't. Milwaukee can't. He said, Milwaukee
can't go to the Knicks, And I disagree.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I think we can't go to the next m Yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
Also, are you hold on tim out? Are you willing
to offer some money so the Knicks can afford Giannis?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Are you willing to pay them some money?
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Well, you know what my dad says.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Well, of course, me and your dad are good friends.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
We talk all the time.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Well, he said, instead of going to the polls to
bet on to get a go to the polls to
get the vote from the president. Instead of that, he
could save his money on gas and get and play
the lottery.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
That's reasonable.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yeah, you know, you know your dad. Your dad told
me that you're a mensch.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
That's what he told me.
Speaker 11 (32:03):
I'm a good guy.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
That's right. Also, when the nixt start off in the
in the front court, they should start they should start
at the half court. They should start at the front
court to the offense.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
You know what I'm saying that that's a non sequitor.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
What does that mean? I'm trying to mention my language.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, yeah, well it's interesting you don't know what that is,
because you are the definition of non sequitar man, like
I should call you e Dog the non sequitary man.
That should be your name on the show. And most
people don't know what that Lorenda, do you know what
a non sequitor is? Lauren?
Speaker 9 (32:44):
Yeah, it's the thing that it doesn't really have to
do with what you're talking.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
About, right, yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
It's it's not like we're having a conversation.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
Exactly. Yeah, you go off the reservation.
Speaker 9 (32:58):
You know, I'm smart.
Speaker 13 (32:59):
She didn't even google that.
Speaker 9 (33:01):
Of the smartest people I ever met or talked teaching
kids in college and you only know two people, but
she's very small.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yes, that is correct.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
This quick this answer. You know what akering college? No,
I'm not, you're not familiar university? And thinking about that?
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Is that on Long Island?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Is that on Long Island?
Speaker 4 (33:24):
That's in Ohio?
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Of course it is.
Speaker 11 (33:28):
And the thing about this is if if I don't
know what I'm saying, I gotta.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
Go Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
See that's it. He's non secretary man. That's exactly. That's
an example being non secretary man. Okay, thank you, oh God,
let's go to Let's go to Emmett real quick. Is
it is this Emmett the blind Seahawks man? Is he there? Hello?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Emmett? Real quick? What's got? What's going on?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Emmett? Hello?
Speaker 8 (33:54):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (33:55):
How are you doing?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
If I was.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Any better, I would be a Seahawks, but not a
Seattle Seahawk because they're not going to win the championship
with Sam Darnold and all that.
Speaker 8 (34:04):
So defense went championships, Ben, That's all I'm gonna say.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
I mean, that was before you were alive in your lifetime.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
That's not true.
Speaker 8 (34:12):
I mean, look a look at the Eagles last year,
though they absolutely stuffed Mahomes and they won. I mean, look,
it's just one of those things. Yeah, I gotta get
to break, so I'll be quick with this. Chris Paul Man,
I get that. Obviously, Chris Paul's probably washed now. Like
the dude is very old. I mean, the younger people
will call him unk. But I just think that this
(34:33):
is a petty move because the Clippers, unfortunately are not
on pace to be what they should be, and you
know what, maybe we thought they were going to be
and Chris Paul was trying to hold these guys accountable
and Kylee didn't like that. And I think that I
feel bad for Chris Paul because he clearly wanted to
end his career here and he wanted to play a
full season, you know, go back to home. He obviously
(34:54):
his family's there. I mean, the reports are coming out
that Chris Paul is gonna sign with Koop de Loops Lakers,
like that's if he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I hope, I hope he goes to the Lakers, because
he can't.
Speaker 8 (35:06):
I hope he's not coming to the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
I pray, I pray that he goes.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I'm gonna pray to Jesus he goes, like I want
to see that. I want to I want to see
him play forty minutes a game is what I want
to see too.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
Oh wow, Hey, maybe maybe maybe he'll have like a
little redemption tour with the Lakers. I mean, maybe they'll
just bring it out.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And maybe maybe I'll be named the governor of California.
Maybe that will happen.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
Also, could I.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
Mean probably better on you'll have now, But I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
If you look at you. That's a third rail, mom
man third.
Speaker 8 (35:39):
Yeah, that was that was a little while.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Listen, California leads the country in taxes.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
And homeless people.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
So we're doing very well. Thank you. I gotta go.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
There you go?
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Is is our guy right there?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Emmett, the blind Seahawk fan who believes everything, every piece
of Chris Paul propaganda he believes he does. So the blooper.
The blooper rewarded.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
I can't believe this happened. Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
Remember he dropped the game tying two point conversion in
the divisional round for the Ravens against Buffalo in Buffalo.
The Bills won the game twenty seven to twenty five,
so I thought Mark Andrews would be done. Apparently he's
the only guy that Lamar Jackson still likes to throw to,
and so the Ravens have agreed to a deal. Mark
Andrews gets a thirty nine million dollar extension, twenty six
(36:25):
million guaranteed. I'm that's I'm surprised by it. I know
he's the all time leader and all these numbers because
he's been there a long time for the Ravens, but
he's older, and I thought about that would be the
kill shot, and they're keeping him around. He's like the
mascot there in Baltimore. He got to keep Mark Andrews around.
Time now for the Insta trivia and Mallard of the
(36:45):
third degree with eight receptions this weekend, which likely won't happen,
but if he does get there, Vikings wide receiver Justin
Jefferson can surpass Blank for the most receptions by a
player in his first six seasons. Again with eight receptions
in the Vikings game this weekending. As Washington wide receiver,
Justin Jefferson can surpass Blank for the most receptions by
(37:07):
a player in his first six seasons.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
That is the Insta trivia.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
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Speaker 9 (37:34):
Malicia.
Speaker 7 (37:36):
We'll tune in to listen. We be pot polish it.
Listen to you even to the best issue.
Speaker 13 (37:50):
On the mal.
Speaker 9 (37:56):
Alexis the seven track Queen.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Seven.
Speaker 8 (38:05):
Yeah, if you count the one background.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Hello, all right, is I Bill Miller? You're listening to
the Ben Maller Show, another classic Mallord holiday tuned. If
you'd like to submit a song, he even plays a
lot between now and the New Year the rest of
the month, even if you're able to do that. No, AI,
we don't want hey, I don't want real people like
professional musicians or even amateur musicians. We know Kathy and Madison.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
We play her music.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Send it care of Benmahler Show at gmail dot com.
It's Ben Malor Show at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Back to it week, all right, back to it and
you got it Mallard of.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
The thirty gree Here is the instant trivia and here
we go. Here we go with eight receptions. That's most
likely not going to happen the way the Vikings offenses.
But with eight receptions this weekend, Vikings wide receiver Justin
Jefferson can surpass Blank for the most receptions by a
player in his first six seasons.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
That is the question. What is the answer?
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Tony the Tiger from Kathy and Madison, the Rock from Alf,
the Alien o Pinter, the Double Mint Twins from Bobby
and Florida.
Speaker 2 (39:14):
They looked different than I remember.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Brett Farre's best friend, Mark Gastono very Funny from Miguel
on Fire, Paxton Lynch from Doc dan Our Buddy o
Cho Texto, Keith from Houston's Going.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
With Mike Evans.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Who else do we have Mike Mike Evans also from
Femi in Minnesota, Biff Tannon from Back to the Future
from Rob the goat Man, Dominican Mike from Shane in
Des Moines, The Great Dominican Mike, Lauren London, who is
forty one today Late Night drug Tester, big fan of
her work. Do you have an answer, Lorraine.
Speaker 9 (39:47):
I'm thinking the Monopoly Man.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
No, it's Jarvis Landry, Jarvis Lane first six years, Jarvis
Landry at five hundred and sixty four receptions.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
Here we go, Here we go, we go, Here we go,
we go.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
About This is one gets grilled cool.
Speaker 12 (40:08):
The Lions have not won back to back game since
Week five, and on Tuesday, Dan Campbell said that the
team's margin for ERA is small. Then do you think
that the Lions could miss out on the playoffs?
Speaker 5 (40:19):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (40:19):
Absolutely, I mean they're not in the playoffs now, and
then they got the Cowboys tonight, they got the Rams.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
They gotta still play.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
They gotta play the Bears. Although they absolutely smoked the
Bears the last time they played him, So, yeah, he's legit.
They've already lost five games. Yeah, they don't have a
lot of margin. Bearer, They don't feel like a playoff
team the way they play. They feel like a like
a Steeler team, a five hundred type team.
Speaker 12 (40:41):
Next the Giant Joe Shane Ye, Joe Shane the Giants GM.
Joe Shane told the media this week that quote, the
pieces are there for the Giants and that he has
confidence that they will find the right coach to lead
the organization. Ben, do you think the Giants are the
right head coach away from it all clicking?
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Well, here's what's gonna happen. I saw a little bit
of that Joe Shane news commerce we didn't talk about
it on the show. Joe Shane's gonna be fired at
the end of the year. Total debacle. He did not
handle that. Well, he won't be there, so he won't
be hiring the coach. Yeah, if you hire a good coach,
you can win. The Rams suck for years. They hired
Sean McVay. But if you hire a coach that knows
what they're doing and get halfway decent players, it's not
(41:24):
that hard.
Speaker 12 (41:25):
Next, it was important Tuesday that UNC has committed to
Bill Belichick quote for at least one more year. Ben,
do you think that Belichick will actually last another year
at North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Well, Belichick is trying to move them outains to get
an NFL head coaching job. He's working back channels, he's
using all his buddies to try to massage owners to
get a job. If you can get a job in
the NFL is gone. I don't think he's gonna be
able to get a job. I would like to see
him in the NFL, the chances are very low, so
I think therefore he goes back to North Carolina and
there it is malin a third degree. How dead weight?
Speaker 13 (41:56):
Now you pass this edition That
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Is a pod Alpha joun bos alone again
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