July 7, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Aaron Judge being asked if the Yankees recent struggles have taken a toll on the clubhouse, Pirates P Paul Skenes having a 1.84 ERA over his last 12 starts but only having a 1-5 record to show for it, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball. It's our Naber two and a happy Monday to you,
the seventh day of July. As we settle in today,
and it's all about the New York Yankees. They won
on Sunday, but the bleeding continues. When asked recently if
the Yankees losing is taking a toll on the clubhouse,
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Aaron Judge said simply, quote no. How did this response
work for the electorate in the Bronx. Also, Paul Skens
over his last twelve starts for the Yankees as a
one point eight four ERA and a one loss record
of one in five. What does that signify to you?
We'll talk about that. Also, third basement, Gino Suarez is
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grabbing the most attention before the Major League Baseball trade deadline.
Twenty eight home runs, seventy three RBIs for Arizona. He's
supposedly coveted by the Mariners and the Yankees. How does
all that sound to you? We'll talk about it right now.
Give it up for our number two. Even when winning,
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it still ends up being a Bronx blooper kind of
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is from the Big Apple. July fourth weekend has now
come and gone, and Baseball trying to take ownership of
the weekend. It was not must see TV for me.
Were you enchanted? Were you enchanted by Major League Baseball?
They made that a mandate. They go, Well, the NFL
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and the NBA can fight over Thanksgiving and over Christmas,
but July fourth, Baby, There's no NFL games on July fourth,
there's no NBA games on July fourth. It's all about
the baseball, right, So they made it a big deal,
and to me, the big deal was the hot dog
eating contest. We mentioned that in the fifth hour podcast
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The dog Father. The greatest athlete in our lifetimes, the
Great Joey Chestnutt doing it yet again in Brooklyn over
the weekend, but over in Queen's not that far away there.
The Mets and Yankees wrapped up the weekend series on Sunday,
so if you were not watching this, you might have
missed it. Aaron Judge a Judge Tonian thirty third home
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run and Cody Bellinger, a one time MVP who's now
a vagabond outfielder bouncing from team to team. He started
a key double play. The Yankees got some help from
the umpires, and they needed it to stop a six
game losing streak. They did for the moment, stop the bleeding,
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beat the Mets six to four on Sunday, All star
Max Freed. It's amazing a guy signs a big contract,
actually shows up in pitches and plays well. Max Freed,
unlike Blake Snell broy playing as I got mon Bro
Blake Snet well, Max Freed went out there risking his life.
Apparently he's eleven and two. And more importantly, the definition
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of a big time starter is someone where you're losing
and you put that guy in the mound, you automatically win.
So Max Freed in twelve starts after the Yankees had
lost the game, he's nine and one, nine and one,
couple of non decisions and that. So let us discuss
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The key question here is not so much from the
Yankees winning on Sunday, but it's more about the commentary
recently of the face of the New York Yankees when
asked about the recent stretch of futility. Even with that
win on Sunday, it's been a bad month for the Yankees.
Going back to the early part of June, when asked
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if the recent struggles are taking a toll on the
Yankee Clubhouse, Aaron Judge simply said, no is what he said.
So how did his response? How did his response work
for the electorate in the Bronx. So I've got Trump,
National Michelin, star chef and Vegan pot luck, and we
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will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some popcorn freshly made buttered popcorn. Wonderful.
All right, So number one, Aaron Judge, mister big man
on campus there, this was cringe worthy. He gets the badge,
the Scouts badge for cringe. Aaron Judge does here, mister
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el Capitan, the captain of the Yankees, the face of
the franchise, six foot seven lumberjack, a human billboard for
the Bronx Bombers and all that. But he said the
thing you can't say at the time, you can't say it.
And it's not so much about one quote. It's not
so much about that. It's about what that particular quote represents.
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It's about the tone. It's about being aware. Situational awareness,
very important, situational awareness. Now you don't have to be
a Navy seal, but you should have situational awareness to
know that that is not the time nor the place
to say what Aaron Judge said over the weekend. It's
about understanding the moment, understanding the fan base, understanding the customers,
all of that. And Aaron Judge just looked out of place,
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looked out of place. Don't want to deal with it.
So he's gonna kind of run away from the heat
a little bit. Oh no, no, we're fine. Everything is
fine here, absolutely So he's reading off a Q card
at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in a submarine.
But if you're honest, even with the win against the
Mets on Sunday, the Yankees continue to be a hot
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mess and the one win does not change things here.
The Yankees over their last twenty two games have lost
sixteen of their last twenty two games. Now, I didn't
play in the major leagues. I just hosted overnight talked show.
That sucks. Okay where I sit there, she blows, as
they say in pirate Land. So sixteen losses in the
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last twenty two games for the Yankees, and you are
what your record says you are, and of late, that
is not a good baseball team. And they're playing like
a team going through the motions. You see a lot
of the time teams that are eliminated from playoff consideration
and they just kind of lolly gag around like the
whole thing. It's been a boondoggle for the Yankees lately.
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And you don't want to hear when you're going through
a rough patch like this, everything's fine. You don't want
to hear it, right, that's not leadership. That's not accountability
by Aaron Judge. And it's not even reality is It's
just not it's not anything. You're the captain of the
New York Yankees. You're not playing for the Toledo mud Hens.
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You're not so the Yankees the mighty in New York. Yeah,
you have the brag off Yankee baseball, this, that and
the other thing. So you don't just get to strug off,
shrug off with a wink and a nod, a bad
mud of baseball like it's a bad round of golf
at the Trump National and you just said, well, it
was just not my day and my clubs were not
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we're not working the right way. No, you don't get
to do that. And you know you got to at
least pretend like you're upset. Right, you're the captain of
the Yankees. Again, when teams losing, the fans are booing
and they're unhappy. You don't get to act like it's
business as usual when you're the captain of the yank
and you just can't can't be doing it. You're supposed
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to set the tone. I think that's that's where to go.
You carry the weight and you can't say no to that.
When asked if the team's unrappling, it's obviously unraveling, and
you know, he said, well, you can say a lot
of different cliches. That's not the one to say, though.
He said, well, it's frustrating. We'll be better. We got
to be better, blacking all those kinds of things, but
you gotta show some kind of pulse, some kind of
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pulse and h right now and Judge seem tone death,
seem tone death, and it's like he's more worried about
his next commercial shoot then he is. The Yankees who
have fallen behind the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League.
Eastendies now page two to Pittsburgh, PA. We go well,
actually Seattle, where the Pirates were about as far away
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from Pittsburgh as they can get over the weekend and
the old sweeperoo bupkis zip bow and zero for the
Pittsburgh Pirates. After shutting out the Cardinals for three games
in a row, they got shut out for three games
in a row. So that continues a recent stretch of
stinkage for the Pirates, including the game on Sunday started
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by Paul Skeins. His last twelve starts. His last twelve
starts for the Pirates, he has an earned run average.
Paul Skeins, the phenom of phenoms, has an earn run
average of one point eighty four. We are told, Yet
his one loss record in his last twelve starts one
win and five losses the buckoes record in those twelve starts.
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So what does that signify to you? What does that
signify to you? That's the question. So for me, the
er right, the king of earned run average and domination
situation and all this stuff. The a's the record says, hey,
this guy is an ace, but right now, when he's pitching,
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it's like ace Ventura. For the rest of the Pirates
there it's not going so well there. And it's not misleading,
it's insulting when this guy's pitching and you've only won
one of he's only won one of the twelve starts,
and yet he's got an ERA under two and the buckos.
When you have a pitcher this good, right, it's like
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you've given a Michelin Star check. You're not apparently not
able to eat at Michelin Star restaurants, courting and people
I work with, But the Michelin Star chef. You give
the chef a microwave and you say, make it work, right,
just make it work. Put in the microwave, heat it up.
But you've got a generational arm, like once in a
generation the guy comes along like Paul Skins and you're
essentially backing him with a super soaker water gun, is
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what you're doing on offense. And then the Buckos are
looking at Picasso and they're using a Picasso. They bought
a Picasso and they're using it as a coaster on
the end table. It's a nice Pocasta. We'll put it
down here, we'll put a drink on it, and that's it.
And you keep hanging ls and he's pitching great, he's
pitching amazingly. And you know, Paul Skins is everything he
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was supposed to be in terms of the hype and
all that. And usually these guys don't live up to
the hype. And we've ranted about a prospect as a
suspect until proven otherwise, and he's done it. And yet
the pirates are also living up to the hype. Everything
we thought the Pirates were, they are when Paul Skins
is on the mount. So this stretch, its signifies cut
to the chase. It signifies that if he keeps us up,
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he is going to need some therapy, a trade. Both
all of the above, all of that and the Pirates
who have been given not because if they did any good,
you get Paul Skins, because you're bad and you have
a top pick in the draft, and they had a
high pick and they got Paul Skins. They've been given
this great pitcher and they're gonna blow it the flets
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it away and then eventually he'll be pitching for the Dodgers,
of the Yankees, of the Red Sox, and they'll get
a bag of suspects. All right, now, final point, So
flipping the page, we mentioned the trade deadline we talked
about last hour. Brian Reynolds of the Pirates. He's got
one hundred million dollars contract, he's not particularly great, and
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he's got a no trade list. So the Dodgers who
would like to acquire his services cannot trade for him
unless he approves the trade because he has them on
their no trade list. So I mentioned that because another
player who is likely going to be traded uh Eugenio Suarez,
the third basem Gino swore As of the diamond back.
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He is grabbing a lot of attention here before the
trade deadline, and he's got now twenty eight home runs,
seventy three RBIs, and the Yankees and the Seattle Mariners,
along with the Detroit Tigers and some other teams all
said to be knocking on the door there saying, hey,
can we get our hands on this guy? So how
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does all of that sound to you? How does all
of that sound to you? So to me, Gino swore
as the third baseman of the diamery right now. He's
not just the flavor of the month here. That's one
thing about the trade deadline. There's always got to be
that flavor, that popular person for popular people. But he's
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pretty much the entire tasting menu if you look at
who's likely going to be traded, and there was always
the surprise. The great thing about sports is anyone can
be traded at any time. If you don't believe me,
ask Luka Doncik about that. The Mavericks just handed him
away to the Lakers. So anything is possible in any sport.
But here's a guy who's like a silver slugger candidate,
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and he's out there and it's you know, it's like, hey,
this guy could be moved like a bowl of chili
at a cookoff. Just get rid of this guy. That's it.
And now the trade deadline looming, it's like a bad
hangover for a lot of these teams.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Here.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
The vultures are out circling around. And so of course
the Yankees, who need a third basement, would say, all right,
this guy Suarez, let's see we can get him. And
it's like the last stake at a vegan pot luck.
If you're the Yankees. They want to move Jazz Chisholm
full time to second base and DJ Lemayhew to the
bench or to the broadcast booth on the S network
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and just put him out there and have him do
his thing. So there is that. And now the Mariners,
that's that's the perfect Marin move. They had him, they
traded him. He was in Seattle, came over from Cincinnati.
They traded him to Arizona. So now they're like, well,
maybe we'll get him back. It's like we got that
item on Amazon. We returned it, but now we're going
to buy it again. We already had it, but no,
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I know we won't. We we didn't appreciate it. But
now we want it. We want to buy the item again,
so we'll just do that. And now they're trying to
undo the damage. So maybe I'll have a reunion tour.
And there's some other teams mentioned. You know, it's like
the Mariners, though, would be perfect. He's such a great
classic Mariner move where they trade for a guy that
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it's like breaking up with your ex and then you
watch the X go on and do some really good
things and you're like, all right, well, let's see if
we can get that get back together with the X.
And the bottom line, though, he is a rental at
the trade downline, which is why these big market teams
likely won. And he's also thirty three years old, so
he's at the end of his athletic prime and not
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hitting for much of an average, but that's a that's
a boomer stat, that's an old head stat. That batting average,
twenty eight home runs, and the numbers all indicate that
he's still uber productive, still one of the better offensive
power hitters in baseball, and the kind of a player
that in a playoff run could play well for a
couple of weeks in October and all of a sudden
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Back to it all, right, back to it we go,
and Josh in Nebraska says, Paul Schemes will become a Cub,
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he says, and haunt the Pirates twenty games a year. Well,
he's not gonna start twenty games against the Chicago Cubs.
Maybe three at the most, says. The Cubs are winning
the twenty twenty five World Series. Want to bet on that, Josh, Yeah,
let's bet on that. Billy from Florida right since, says
June and July have just been the seeing the best
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baseball being played in New York. I just haven't seen
the best baseball being played in New York. The Mets
have bounced back. Find the Yankees are hitting the wall.
I saw coming, says Billy as he points that wee
let's say the June gloom, but now it's July, so
it's no longer the June gloom. What else do we have?
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Page down, Jill says, you are literally the only human
being that speaks negatively about Aaron Judge. Well, I guess
I'm on the right side. Everyone else is just a
boot licker. Joe. You probably like those boot lickers more
than me right, because it's your guy Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
There.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, I can't say anything bad about him. That was
a tone deaf comment thought by Aaron Judge. It's a
bad job by him. I just go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome,
good evening.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Ben, nice to be with you to start a new week.
Starting off talking about situation with the Houston Astros.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Okay, you didn't say you didn't You didn't. You didn't
say that properly. You misspoke.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I didn't misspoke emotion.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You're supposed to say the cheating asstros.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
They are cheated astros right.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Like they got a Scarlett letter in terms of what
the inn that they can't they can't get away from it.
But for me, yes, they did sweep the Dodgers, you know,
so they're walking tall for the time being. Even though
the Dodgers are defending champions, I think they're no overall
the better team.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
So you're strutting and you know, feeling yourself at the moment,
but we've got to push past it. There needs to
be some sort of catharist with the app.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Okay, I'll make a deal with you, all right, I
agree with you, all right. So jose Al tub is
banned from baseball for life, Alex Bregman is banned from
baseball for life. Let's see who else you sind the
twenty seventeen World Series trophy. You void that, then I'll
be good. I will never call them the cheating a
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holes again. How about that deal? That's all I ask,
that's all, that's all, that's all I want those three things. Now.
I'm willing to exchange maybe Bregman for George Springer, who
was the I believe, the MVP of that World Series.
But all of them should be banned for life. How
about that? That seems fair?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Right, Ben? I know you're you're a learned individual. It
seems like you just got finished reading Crime and Punishment.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
By Well, you said you want me to move past this.
So for me to move past what the a holes
did they you first take away? It's just a hunk
of metal. Corder Rob Manford, the gutless, spineless commissioner Major
League Baseball. So you take the trophy away, that's easy.
That should be no problems, just a hunk of metal.
Who cares? And then you know you've been l two
A for life. You rescind the MVP award from twenty
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seventeen because that doesn't count because he was gee and
you get rid of George Springer and Bregman and every
single member of that team boom done. That seems fair
And I promise you, I promise I will absolutely move on.
That's all I asked. That's what is not to like
about that? Andre? What's what? What is incorrect?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Goodness, that's like three strikes here. We're going back to
the eighties. That sounds like the Rocketfeller lost in me
very hard.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well what what what?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
What?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
What?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
What do you recommend?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
So first of all, MVP trophy, we got to take
that away, MVP trophy.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Then there's got to be some sort of there's got
to be some sort of asterisk with the what the world?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
There's no as you just take it away. That's it.
There's no asterisk. You just take it away. You just
make advantage it doesn't you just don't put no championship.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
You know what I think that I'm looking for for
me personally, Okay, because we learned this, you know from Seinfeld.
You know, there has to be some sort of apology. Okay,
if you go on that line, okay, and you act
and inappropriately as George did, no soup for you, okay,
and it's understood, and you want to so to the astros,
I need some short no.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
No, we're we're past that. It's it's twenty twenty five.
We're past that. We're done.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
No, no word, no and no work.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
We're good and we're good. Ban Altuve for life.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
But he had that run today. He's a good hitter.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It's hard. It's hard for him to hit home run
of his band for life.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Hardclus I just feel like, you know, for all the
verdictally challenged people, you know what I mean, because you
got all this stuff out.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh so you're you like him because he's a little
fella al to you like size, like you everybody. I'm
not sick. I'm not six. I'm not six for I
am not.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
You tower over done over this.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I know, I look right up here. Okay, I know
all right.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
So so so here's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Here's my fine.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I need.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
I need an apology.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
The MVP trophy can go. I need an asterisk on
the World series Okay, and then I need they need
to need need to be some sort of financial No.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I don't care about the I don't care about the finances.
I don't care now the finances. I don't care about it.
Just panel touve have him pay back the salary he's
made since twenty seventeen, and then we will be good.
How about that.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
He's an issue with al Tube, then I think there's
a Napoleon issue with you and l Tub. He has
an Napoleon comedy.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
The Man, the Man. The man cheated in the World Series,
and he was wearing a buzzer, in my opinion, during
the American League Championship Series, and that's why they wouldn't
allow him to take his jersey off. He would not
allow that because he had a buzzer on. You do
understand andre like Baseball did a shoddy investigation. The only
reason Baseball, by the way, I want to point out,
they investigated while they were cheating. In twenty seventeen, the
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Athletics and some other teams in baseball contacted Major League
Baseball and said, hey, these guys, they're doing something. They're cheating.
Baseball investigated said where everything's good, We're all kosher. Nothing's
wrong here. Everything's all right while they were doing it.
It was only after a member of the team said,
is that Andre? Is that your dog? Andre? Willis picking
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up what.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
You're putting down, Ben, And you waited Willis, as far
as I'm concerning, all right, he's on your side. For me,
I think I'm against the Lifetime band because baseball did
it with Pete Roseen and they finally walked it back
post humously.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, listen went now is dead. He can come back
in baseball. I've got that done. We'll let him back here.
He died in a year.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Band, You've got to go for a year.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But we needed we Well I would have been okay
with a year and when it was announced, like twenty
nineteen or whenever the thing came out, the story came out.
But it's been too long, so we moved on. Now
it's time lifetime.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
My last conclusion al has short king energy. So it's
a year band, I'm saying. You're saying lifetime. I'm saying
a year so we can come back and hit the
jacks and give everybody under six feet some confidence for
me and Willis. Ben, it's good to.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Be with you.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
All right, there's Andre where he goes. Only he knows
the one and only Andre. Later hour, we do have
Mallard third degree. That'll be coming up a little bit
later in the hour. The fatherly shout. So some video
has made the rounds on the interweb, and I've seen it,
and it claims to show Yankee shortstop Anthony Volpi's father
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going at it with a Mets fan, the daddy, the
dad of Anthony Volpi at the Mets Yankees game on Sunday,
a very annoying Mets fan. Do you even have to
say annoying Mets fan? Is there a Mets fan that
is not annoying? Anyway, this Mets fan was talking some
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trash about the kid Volpi and the dad was sitting
a couple of rows behind him and wearing his Yankee
hat and had enough and so he got into it
with the Mets fan and it was all captured on
grainy cell phone footage. There was no physical viose. It
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was more of a profanity situation between the father of
Anthony Volpey. Now Anthony Volpi though, is not what he
was supposed to be. And we talk about prospect being
a suspect until proven otherwise, But Anthony Volpi, who was
going to be the next great Yankee shortstop and all
that stuff. He's got a lot of clunkers. Can I
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watch a fair amount of baseball every day, and when
I'm watching the Yankees, there's a lot of clunky baseball
from Anthony Volpi. Who you know. The overall numbers, I
guess it depends what you look at. He's batting average
ank great, that's an old stat. Batting average, he's got
ten home runs, just seems pretty run of the mill.
(27:39):
He doesn't seem like he's all that great. You know,
he's just kind of there and you could do better
than Anthony Volpi. And the numbers are just kind of eh.
And he plays at a little league ballpark. It's a
joke of a ballpark, Yankee Stadium. It's not a real
ballpark with those dimensions they have at Yankee Stadium. So
he's on pace to hit eighteen home runs, thirty eight
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doubles and all that, and that's great. He's also on
pace to strike out one hundred and sixty two times.
It doesn't matter. Strikedowns don't matter, and all that. Anyway's
go back to the falls. Let's say hello to Jerome
in Charleston. Bring it home, Jerome.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Hello Jerome, So so you saw my name and you
decided to bring up the incongruity of Yankee Stadium along
with other baseball.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Stadiums in America, the people playing with the two hundred
and ninety five foot right field. Hey, what about the
Dodger Statey? He saw the guy comes forty your little
home run the other day, and their right field corner
ain't much banner once are like two hundred and twenty
three after oh one, jevany one got a home one
because they.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
First of all, you're you might be drinking too much
if you think Dodger Stadium is anywhere close to Yankee
Stadium in terms.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Of people right field corner.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's like three thirty three or three four or something
like that.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
A lot. They're allot the mansion for you, retell you
what's ter ration would look like? How they get away
with that? Hey? By the way, I was looking to
some of your people on h on Fox Sports Radio talking.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Not my They're not my people. I don't I don't
want hire them, I do. I'm only responsible. I'm responsible
for four hours of talk radio to day. I am
not responsible for these comments made by anything.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
I know you're not going I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I don't hire them, I don't pay them. I don't
even know most of the people that work here.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Yes, what, but I got to talk to you because
they don't take phone calls.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
All right, Well say, of course they don't take phone call.
Why would they take phone calls because you'll call up.
That's why they don't take phone calls.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Yeah, they won't talk to people like me from Charleston.
He don't know anything anyway, Still aggression and king about
hersh heise and there's three thousand strikeouts, but I'm Kerry
shouts that's not her.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I mean.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
If playoff against the Age a couple of years ago
where he was like two and on one on one
e all a, I don't think he's uh saw his
favorite Clayer because he called him bulldog.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That was not a few years ago. That was almost
forty years ago. I know it was more than a
few few years ago. That was a long time ago.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
I was still brings back memories, man, because I have
I haven't seen anything like that for the long time. One.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Well, that's not even your way. Wait wait, hold on,
what I hate to do this because he's an evil Giant,
but Madison Bumgardner was. It was similar for the Giants.
In a couple of playoff runs. He was insane for
the San Francisco Giants. That was, in my bum Gardner
consistently the greatest postseason pitcher I've seen. And Hershizer for
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that one year was awesome for the Dodgers, but mad.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
Bum went against the as one of the most dynamic
teams in baseball history. They won one hundred and four games,
two and all. What a one ear and over fifty
something straight innings without a run scored with him.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
All right, we're gonna break We're not breaking down the
nineteen eighty eight World Series, and next hour we're gonna
break down the nineteen eighty four Detroit Tigers. We'll talk
about sweet Little Whitaker and Alan.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
One thing deal with people trying to get dive bonds
in the Hall of fam Dive bonds will never get
in the Hall of tam And as far as Sammy,
he looks like a.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
White guy now so well, no, he went back to
being a black guy. Now. I saw it, and the
Cubs had him in a game he looked like I
saw him at Wrigley feel he's back to being the
old Sam know this blah, that's right, that's the great
la Matt used to call the show back in the day.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
And I was looking at some stuff because one of
the things that can do to you is deal with
your skin pigmentation. Why would you no.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Come on? So, so he admitted he was taking stuff
to whiteen his skin. He said that there's stories where
we talked about it, like he's that's why he was
doing that. I don't know why he was doing but
doesn't want to do something. I don't know. You'd have
to ask him. I'm not doing it. He was the
one doing it. I don't know why I did it.
He did it. But I don't know why I did it.
He did it. But but by the way, at your home,
(32:05):
you do realize there are players in the Hall of
Fame that were doing steroids, Like so, why would you
eliminate Bonds and Sosa when there are guys in there
that are steroid guys? So what's the point keeping the
comments and clements made.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
I know the comment was made to well Barr should
be because everybody was doing it. What a damn line.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
No, no, no, My my argument my argument. You're home
at the time, and I said this for you. We
used to fight. There was a guy who worked at MLB.
He was like a houseman for baseball. I forget the
guy's name. Used to be our insider here at Fox
Sports Radio, and we would fight with him all. I
would fight with the mall Toney's all He's go. I say,
don't let any of them in. But I there are
people in multiple players that were I believe in my opinion.
You can't assume it's my opinion. We're steroid guys who
(32:49):
were in the Hall of Fame. So why are you
gonna deprive of Barry Bonds of being a hall of
fame when you've already opened the doors of Cooperstown to
steroid cheats. So let them in. Let them ally, all right,
my opinion, David Ortiz and Mike Piazza are in the
Hall of Fame. Jeff Bagwell's another one. Yeah, yeah, okay,
(33:12):
so they're in the Hall of Fame my opinion. You
can't say it's my opinion.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Has an awful relationship with the media, definitely.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Well, yes, he's an a hole. Berry. I dealt with
him back in those days. He was a schmock. He is,
He's aid, you know, he's a just a I can't
say what I want to say, but he's not a
good dude. You know, he treats people.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Like crapping Buddy Tom.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Then the Boston Red Sox. He's an ambassador for the
Boston Red Sox. He's on the payroll with He's on
the payroll the Boston Red Sox. He is in fact,
remember remember the David Ortiz was he was texting Raphael
Devers and ignored him because, you know, Devers realizes that
(33:58):
David Ortiz works for the Red Soie. So he's inside
by the wait, the.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Managers for the afters of that time they were a chieving.
Guess where he met.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I know I said that early. Yes, I know he's
with Detroit. Yeah, all right, are you done? I feel
like you're bullguarding the show. Are a You had to think?
Go away? All right? Go? Thank you? All right? Very
long call from Jerome in Charleston. So wonderful. Absolutely, So
here's an odd choice. Major League Baseball has ended their
(34:31):
television contract with ESPN, although they are renegotiating. They hit
the eject button from that contract. So on Sunday, ESPN
decided while the All Star Selection Show was going on,
what did they show on ESPN instead? We are told
I did not see this because I was watching something else.
(34:52):
But they apparently showed cornhole instead of the All Star
Selection show. Nice game of corner, like the kind of
game that you would play at a Fourth of July barbecue,
And they said, let's see what we got going on.
It was the corn Hole Championship and I guess it
(35:13):
went long or something like that. I think that's what happened.
The start of the All Star Selection show was delayed
for at least ten minutes because of some competitive cornhole
and when it's close, it's nail bidding time. And the
show was supposed to begin at five o'clock Eastern time,
but it was preempted by not amateur, but professional corn
(35:37):
hole and there you go. So they say, that's it.
People are pointing out, what are you doing? I tuned in.
I want to watch this and we had to delay
it because of the nice cornhole game. A right, it
is the Ben Mal Show. Well that sure that'll be
brought up and baseball negotiats. I've heard some varying rumors.
(35:57):
My TV friends telling me that NBC involved, that they
might everyone wants to get baseball on their streaming package,
but baseball wants to be on regular cable television. So
there's like, what are we gonna do? How they gonna
divide the games? Up time? Now for the Insta Trivia,
and here it is the Phillies. Zach Wheeler, a All
(36:18):
Star pitcher. Zach Wheeler of the Fighting phils has joined
Blank as the only pitchers in Major League Baseball history
to have a complete game featuring zero walks, twelve or
more strikeouts and have the only hit surrendered be a
home run. Again, Zach Wheeler of the Philadelphia Phillies joining
Blank as the only pitchers in baseball history to have
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a complete game featuring zero walks, twelve or more strikeouts
and have the only hit surrendered be a home run.
That is the Insta Trivia. The answer. We'll get to
it and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (36:54):
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time now for the Insta Trivia And here is today's question.
The Philly Zach Wheeler joining blank is the only pitchers
in baseball history to have a complete game featuring no walks,
twelve or more strikeouts and have the only hit surrendered
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be a home run? That is the question. What is
the answer. Let's see does anyone know the answer? We
go to the Great Unwashed here to see Kenny Rodgers
guests by Ike and Roseveld Minnesota. Alf going with Alf
the Alien o Pinter says Gilligan Marge shot from Bobby
(38:34):
bring it Home, Jerome from malor Palooza, Seat Filler Mallard
prop Guy, that's about what Jerome probably looks like. Who
else have Smokey Joe Wood from I forty Ian Karan
Butler guests by Shane in Des Moines, Mark Langston Mariner
legend also guest, who else do we have a page?
(38:54):
Dan can't read that on the air? Mad Bumgardner's girlfriend
Madison Bumgardner guests by Josh and Nebraska the Great Booth
Bondser from j T. The Wingman in Knoxville, Jennifer Lawrence
from Ozzie Waz in Western Australia, Brad Radke from Ben.
There's a good name the legend Joey Chestnut the Godfather
(39:18):
or the Dogfather rather from Joe the Ghost Unner. All right, Lorraina,
do you have an answerer? I'm gonna go with Daffy
Duck today. Ben, all right, No, that is correct. The
answer is Pedro Martinez in nineteen ninety nine for the
Boston Red Socks. It' smeller. How about that?
Speaker 3 (39:37):
To the third degree, This is one, Big Ben gets great?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
All right, cooler.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
The Miami Dolphins had one of the top offensives in
the NFL in twenty twenty three, but missed the playoffs
last year. The summer saying the team is teetering on
the edge of a franchise reset. But do you think
the jobs of Tula and McDaniel are on the line
next season?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Well, as you heard last week, I know you weren't here,
but I know you listen to the show because you're producing.
So I did a full Mallar monologue about this particular topic.
And as I pointed out in that Mallar monologue's available
on the podcast down load, absolutely to and Mike McDaniel
and the GM there, all of them. This is it.
This is the last chance saloon there for the Dolphins.
(40:17):
Even Stevin Meatballs can see that.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Next cal Raley has reached new career high in home
runs for a single season and we haven't even reached
the All Star break. In fact, he's tied Ken Griffy
Junior's Mariners record for most dingers before the break. Do
you think the al MVP is the big numbers to lose?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
No, Because the Mariners are a playoff team. They're a
wild kid team, so are the Yankees. But Aaron Judge
is in the lead and he's It would be a
monumental upset if Aaron Judge does not win the MVP
Award in the Americanly and Cal Rawley's been great and
wonderful and all that, but he plays in Seattle. That's
going to hurt him.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Next, the Sons gave Devin Booker another extension. He's gonna
be signed with them through twenty thirty. With Durant now
in Houston, the Sons are in rebuild mode. Do you
think that Booker is a player worth building around?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Well, they can try. They were in the finals against Milwaukee.
They couldn't get it done. They're not gonna win with
Devin Booker as their headliner. It's not gonna work. How
do we do it is that's a win? Put on
the ball.
Playball. It's our Naber two and a happy Monday to you,
the seventh day of July. As we settle in today,
and it's all about the New York Yankees. They won
on Sunday, but the bleeding continues. When asked recently if
the Yankees losing is taking a toll on the clubhouse,
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Aaron Judge said simply, quote no. How did this response
work for the electorate in the Bronx. Also, Paul Skens
over his last twelve starts for the Yankees as a
one point eight four ERA and a one loss record
of one in five. What does that signify to you?
We'll talk about that. Also, third basement, Gino Suarez is
(00:41):
grabbing the most attention before the Major League Baseball trade deadline.
Twenty eight home runs, seventy three RBIs for Arizona. He's
supposedly coveted by the Mariners and the Yankees. How does
all that sound to you? We'll talk about it right now.
Give it up for our number two. Even when winning,
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it still ends up being a Bronx blooper kind of
a weekend. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
the Ben Malar Show. We are in the air everywhere,
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way tire buying should be, so our lead. This hour
is from the Big Apple. July fourth weekend has now
come and gone, and Baseball trying to take ownership of
the weekend. It was not must see TV for me.
Were you enchanted? Were you enchanted by Major League Baseball?
They made that a mandate. They go, Well, the NFL
(02:31):
and the NBA can fight over Thanksgiving and over Christmas,
but July fourth, Baby, There's no NFL games on July fourth,
there's no NBA games on July fourth. It's all about
the baseball, right, So they made it a big deal,
and to me, the big deal was the hot dog
eating contest. We mentioned that in the fifth hour podcast
(02:53):
The dog Father. The greatest athlete in our lifetimes, the
Great Joey Chestnutt doing it yet again in Brooklyn over
the weekend, but over in Queen's not that far away there.
The Mets and Yankees wrapped up the weekend series on Sunday,
so if you were not watching this, you might have
missed it. Aaron Judge a Judge Tonian thirty third home
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run and Cody Bellinger, a one time MVP who's now
a vagabond outfielder bouncing from team to team. He started
a key double play. The Yankees got some help from
the umpires, and they needed it to stop a six
game losing streak. They did for the moment, stop the bleeding,
(03:39):
beat the Mets six to four on Sunday, All star
Max Freed. It's amazing a guy signs a big contract,
actually shows up in pitches and plays well. Max Freed,
unlike Blake Snell broy playing as I got mon Bro
Blake Snet well, Max Freed went out there risking his life.
Apparently he's eleven and two. And more importantly, the definition
(04:01):
of a big time starter is someone where you're losing
and you put that guy in the mound, you automatically win.
So Max Freed in twelve starts after the Yankees had
lost the game, he's nine and one, nine and one,
couple of non decisions and that. So let us discuss
(04:22):
The key question here is not so much from the
Yankees winning on Sunday, but it's more about the commentary
recently of the face of the New York Yankees when
asked about the recent stretch of futility. Even with that
win on Sunday, it's been a bad month for the Yankees.
Going back to the early part of June, when asked
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if the recent struggles are taking a toll on the
Yankee Clubhouse, Aaron Judge simply said, no is what he said.
So how did his response? How did his response work
for the electorate in the Bronx. So I've got Trump,
National Michelin, star chef and Vegan pot luck, and we
(05:10):
will combine all of these things together and we are
going to make some popcorn freshly made buttered popcorn. Wonderful.
All right, So number one, Aaron Judge, mister big man
on campus there, this was cringe worthy. He gets the badge,
the Scouts badge for cringe. Aaron Judge does here, mister
(05:34):
el Capitan, the captain of the Yankees, the face of
the franchise, six foot seven lumberjack, a human billboard for
the Bronx Bombers and all that. But he said the
thing you can't say at the time, you can't say it.
And it's not so much about one quote. It's not
so much about that. It's about what that particular quote represents.
(05:57):
It's about the tone. It's about being aware. Situational awareness,
very important, situational awareness. Now you don't have to be
a Navy seal, but you should have situational awareness to
know that that is not the time nor the place
to say what Aaron Judge said over the weekend. It's
about understanding the moment, understanding the fan base, understanding the customers,
all of that. And Aaron Judge just looked out of place,
(06:21):
looked out of place. Don't want to deal with it.
So he's gonna kind of run away from the heat
a little bit. Oh no, no, we're fine. Everything is
fine here, absolutely So he's reading off a Q card
at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in a submarine.
But if you're honest, even with the win against the
Mets on Sunday, the Yankees continue to be a hot
(06:43):
mess and the one win does not change things here.
The Yankees over their last twenty two games have lost
sixteen of their last twenty two games. Now, I didn't
play in the major leagues. I just hosted overnight talked show.
That sucks. Okay where I sit there, she blows, as
they say in pirate Land. So sixteen losses in the
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last twenty two games for the Yankees, and you are
what your record says you are, and of late, that
is not a good baseball team. And they're playing like
a team going through the motions. You see a lot
of the time teams that are eliminated from playoff consideration
and they just kind of lolly gag around like the
whole thing. It's been a boondoggle for the Yankees lately.
(07:26):
And you don't want to hear when you're going through
a rough patch like this, everything's fine. You don't want
to hear it, right, that's not leadership. That's not accountability
by Aaron Judge. And it's not even reality is It's
just not it's not anything. You're the captain of the
New York Yankees. You're not playing for the Toledo mud Hens.
(07:47):
You're not so the Yankees the mighty in New York. Yeah,
you have the brag off Yankee baseball, this, that and
the other thing. So you don't just get to strug off,
shrug off with a wink and a nod, a bad
mud of baseball like it's a bad round of golf
at the Trump National and you just said, well, it
was just not my day and my clubs were not
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we're not working the right way. No, you don't get
to do that. And you know you got to at
least pretend like you're upset. Right, you're the captain of
the Yankees. Again, when teams losing, the fans are booing
and they're unhappy. You don't get to act like it's
business as usual when you're the captain of the yank
and you just can't can't be doing it. You're supposed
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to set the tone. I think that's that's where to go.
You carry the weight and you can't say no to that.
When asked if the team's unrappling, it's obviously unraveling, and
you know, he said, well, you can say a lot
of different cliches. That's not the one to say, though.
He said, well, it's frustrating. We'll be better. We got
to be better, blacking all those kinds of things, but
you gotta show some kind of pulse, some kind of
(08:51):
pulse and h right now and Judge seem tone death,
seem tone death, and it's like he's more worried about
his next commercial shoot then he is. The Yankees who
have fallen behind the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League.
Eastendies now page two to Pittsburgh, PA. We go well,
actually Seattle, where the Pirates were about as far away
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from Pittsburgh as they can get over the weekend and
the old sweeperoo bupkis zip bow and zero for the
Pittsburgh Pirates. After shutting out the Cardinals for three games
in a row, they got shut out for three games
in a row. So that continues a recent stretch of
stinkage for the Pirates, including the game on Sunday started
(09:37):
by Paul Skeins. His last twelve starts. His last twelve
starts for the Pirates, he has an earned run average.
Paul Skeins, the phenom of phenoms, has an earn run
average of one point eighty four. We are told, Yet
his one loss record in his last twelve starts one
win and five losses the buckoes record in those twelve starts.
(10:01):
So what does that signify to you? What does that
signify to you? That's the question. So for me, the
er right, the king of earned run average and domination
situation and all this stuff. The a's the record says, hey,
this guy is an ace, but right now, when he's pitching,
(10:22):
it's like ace Ventura. For the rest of the Pirates
there it's not going so well there. And it's not misleading,
it's insulting when this guy's pitching and you've only won
one of he's only won one of the twelve starts,
and yet he's got an ERA under two and the buckos.
When you have a pitcher this good, right, it's like
(10:46):
you've given a Michelin Star check. You're not apparently not
able to eat at Michelin Star restaurants, courting and people
I work with, But the Michelin Star chef. You give
the chef a microwave and you say, make it work, right,
just make it work. Put in the microwave, heat it up.
But you've got a generational arm, like once in a
generation the guy comes along like Paul Skins and you're
essentially backing him with a super soaker water gun, is
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what you're doing on offense. And then the Buckos are
looking at Picasso and they're using a Picasso. They bought
a Picasso and they're using it as a coaster on
the end table. It's a nice Pocasta. We'll put it
down here, we'll put a drink on it, and that's it.
And you keep hanging ls and he's pitching great, he's
pitching amazingly. And you know, Paul Skins is everything he
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was supposed to be in terms of the hype and
all that. And usually these guys don't live up to
the hype. And we've ranted about a prospect as a
suspect until proven otherwise, and he's done it. And yet
the pirates are also living up to the hype. Everything
we thought the Pirates were, they are when Paul Skins
is on the mount. So this stretch, its signifies cut
to the chase. It signifies that if he keeps us up,
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he is going to need some therapy, a trade. Both
all of the above, all of that and the Pirates
who have been given not because if they did any good,
you get Paul Skins, because you're bad and you have
a top pick in the draft, and they had a
high pick and they got Paul Skins. They've been given
this great pitcher and they're gonna blow it the flets
(12:17):
it away and then eventually he'll be pitching for the Dodgers,
of the Yankees, of the Red Sox, and they'll get
a bag of suspects. All right, now, final point, So
flipping the page, we mentioned the trade deadline we talked
about last hour. Brian Reynolds of the Pirates. He's got
one hundred million dollars contract, he's not particularly great, and
(12:39):
he's got a no trade list. So the Dodgers who
would like to acquire his services cannot trade for him
unless he approves the trade because he has them on
their no trade list. So I mentioned that because another
player who is likely going to be traded uh Eugenio Suarez,
the third basem Gino swore As of the diamond back.
(13:00):
He is grabbing a lot of attention here before the
trade deadline, and he's got now twenty eight home runs,
seventy three RBIs, and the Yankees and the Seattle Mariners,
along with the Detroit Tigers and some other teams all
said to be knocking on the door there saying, hey,
can we get our hands on this guy? So how
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does all of that sound to you? How does all
of that sound to you? So to me, Gino swore
as the third baseman of the diamery right now. He's
not just the flavor of the month here. That's one
thing about the trade deadline. There's always got to be
that flavor, that popular person for popular people. But he's
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pretty much the entire tasting menu if you look at
who's likely going to be traded, and there was always
the surprise. The great thing about sports is anyone can
be traded at any time. If you don't believe me,
ask Luka Doncik about that. The Mavericks just handed him
away to the Lakers. So anything is possible in any sport.
But here's a guy who's like a silver slugger candidate,
(14:02):
and he's out there and it's you know, it's like, hey,
this guy could be moved like a bowl of chili
at a cookoff. Just get rid of this guy. That's it.
And now the trade deadline looming, it's like a bad
hangover for a lot of these teams.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Here.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
The vultures are out circling around. And so of course
the Yankees, who need a third basement, would say, all right,
this guy Suarez, let's see we can get him. And
it's like the last stake at a vegan pot luck.
If you're the Yankees. They want to move Jazz Chisholm
full time to second base and DJ Lemayhew to the
bench or to the broadcast booth on the S network
(14:39):
and just put him out there and have him do
his thing. So there is that. And now the Mariners,
that's that's the perfect Marin move. They had him, they
traded him. He was in Seattle, came over from Cincinnati.
They traded him to Arizona. So now they're like, well,
maybe we'll get him back. It's like we got that
item on Amazon. We returned it, but now we're going
to buy it again. We already had it, but no,
(15:02):
I know we won't. We we didn't appreciate it. But
now we want it. We want to buy the item again,
so we'll just do that. And now they're trying to
undo the damage. So maybe I'll have a reunion tour.
And there's some other teams mentioned. You know, it's like
the Mariners, though, would be perfect. He's such a great
classic Mariner move where they trade for a guy that
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it's like breaking up with your ex and then you
watch the X go on and do some really good
things and you're like, all right, well, let's see if
we can get that get back together with the X.
And the bottom line, though, he is a rental at
the trade downline, which is why these big market teams
likely won. And he's also thirty three years old, so
he's at the end of his athletic prime and not
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hitting for much of an average, but that's a that's
a boomer stat, that's an old head stat. That batting average,
twenty eight home runs, and the numbers all indicate that
he's still uber productive, still one of the better offensive
power hitters in baseball, and the kind of a player
that in a playoff run could play well for a
couple of weeks in October and all of a sudden
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We'll get to it. And a rap rather odd programming choice,
a rather odd programming choice. We'll go there as well,
and we will do it next.
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Back to it all, right, back to it we go,
and Josh in Nebraska says, Paul Schemes will become a Cub,
(18:45):
he says, and haunt the Pirates twenty games a year. Well,
he's not gonna start twenty games against the Chicago Cubs.
Maybe three at the most, says. The Cubs are winning
the twenty twenty five World Series. Want to bet on that, Josh, Yeah,
let's bet on that. Billy from Florida right since, says
June and July have just been the seeing the best
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baseball being played in New York. I just haven't seen
the best baseball being played in New York. The Mets
have bounced back. Find the Yankees are hitting the wall.
I saw coming, says Billy as he points that wee
let's say the June gloom, but now it's July, so
it's no longer the June gloom. What else do we have?
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Page down, Jill says, you are literally the only human
being that speaks negatively about Aaron Judge. Well, I guess
I'm on the right side. Everyone else is just a
boot licker. Joe. You probably like those boot lickers more
than me right, because it's your guy Aaron Judge.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
There.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah, I can't say anything bad about him. That was
a tone deaf comment thought by Aaron Judge. It's a
bad job by him. I just go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Welcome,
good evening.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Ben, nice to be with you to start a new week.
Starting off talking about situation with the Houston Astros.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Okay, you didn't say you didn't You didn't. You didn't
say that properly. You misspoke.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
I didn't misspoke emotion.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
You're supposed to say the cheating asstros.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Yeah they are.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
They are cheated astros right.
Speaker 5 (20:27):
Like they got a Scarlett letter in terms of what
the inn that they can't they can't get away from it.
But for me, yes, they did sweep the Dodgers, you know,
so they're walking tall for the time being. Even though
the Dodgers are defending champions, I think they're no overall
the better team.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
So you're strutting and you know, feeling yourself at the moment,
but we've got to push past it. There needs to
be some sort of catharist with the app.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
Okay, I'll make a deal with you, all right, I
agree with you, all right. So jose Al tub is
banned from baseball for life, Alex Bregman is banned from
baseball for life. Let's see who else you sind the
twenty seventeen World Series trophy. You void that, then I'll
be good. I will never call them the cheating a
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holes again. How about that deal? That's all I ask,
that's all, that's all, that's all I want those three things. Now.
I'm willing to exchange maybe Bregman for George Springer, who
was the I believe, the MVP of that World Series.
But all of them should be banned for life. How
about that? That seems fair?
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Right, Ben? I know you're you're a learned individual. It
seems like you just got finished reading Crime and Punishment.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
By Well, you said you want me to move past this.
So for me to move past what the a holes
did they you first take away? It's just a hunk
of metal. Corder Rob Manford, the gutless, spineless commissioner Major
League Baseball. So you take the trophy away, that's easy.
That should be no problems, just a hunk of metal.
Who cares? And then you know you've been l two
A for life. You rescind the MVP award from twenty
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seventeen because that doesn't count because he was gee and
you get rid of George Springer and Bregman and every
single member of that team boom done. That seems fair
And I promise you, I promise I will absolutely move on.
That's all I asked. That's what is not to like
about that? Andre? What's what? What is incorrect?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Goodness, that's like three strikes here. We're going back to
the eighties. That sounds like the Rocketfeller lost in me
very hard.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well what what what?
Speaker 7 (22:24):
What?
Speaker 5 (22:25):
What?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
What do you recommend?
Speaker 7 (22:27):
Okay?
Speaker 5 (22:27):
So first of all, MVP trophy, we got to take
that away, MVP trophy.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
Then there's got to be some sort of there's got
to be some sort of asterisk with the what the world?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
There's no as you just take it away. That's it.
There's no asterisk. You just take it away. You just
make advantage it doesn't you just don't put no championship.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
You know what I think that I'm looking for for
me personally, Okay, because we learned this, you know from Seinfeld.
You know, there has to be some sort of apology. Okay,
if you go on that line, okay, and you act
and inappropriately as George did, no soup for you, okay,
and it's understood, and you want to so to the astros,
I need some short no.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
No, we're we're past that. It's it's twenty twenty five.
We're past that. We're done.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
No, no word, no and no work.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
We're good and we're good. Ban Altuve for life.
Speaker 5 (23:17):
But he had that run today. He's a good hitter.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
It's hard. It's hard for him to hit home run
of his band for life.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Hardclus I just feel like, you know, for all the
verdictally challenged people, you know what I mean, because you
got all this stuff out.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh so you're you like him because he's a little
fella al to you like size, like you everybody. I'm
not sick. I'm not six. I'm not six for I
am not.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
You tower over done over this.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
I know, I look right up here. Okay, I know
all right.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
So so so here's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Here's my fine.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
I need.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
I need an apology.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
The MVP trophy can go. I need an asterisk on
the World series Okay, and then I need they need
to need need to be some sort of financial No.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
I don't care about the I don't care about the finances.
I don't care now the finances. I don't care about it.
Just panel touve have him pay back the salary he's
made since twenty seventeen, and then we will be good.
How about that.
Speaker 5 (24:13):
He's an issue with al Tube, then I think there's
a Napoleon issue with you and l Tub. He has
an Napoleon comedy.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
The Man, the Man. The man cheated in the World Series,
and he was wearing a buzzer, in my opinion, during
the American League Championship Series, and that's why they wouldn't
allow him to take his jersey off. He would not
allow that because he had a buzzer on. You do
understand andre like Baseball did a shoddy investigation. The only
reason Baseball, by the way, I want to point out,
they investigated while they were cheating. In twenty seventeen, the
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Athletics and some other teams in baseball contacted Major League
Baseball and said, hey, these guys, they're doing something. They're cheating.
Baseball investigated said where everything's good, We're all kosher. Nothing's
wrong here. Everything's all right while they were doing it.
It was only after a member of the team said,
is that Andre? Is that your dog? Andre? Willis picking
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up what.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
You're putting down, Ben, And you waited Willis, as far
as I'm concerning, all right, he's on your side. For me,
I think I'm against the Lifetime band because baseball did
it with Pete Roseen and they finally walked it back
post humously.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Well, listen went now is dead. He can come back
in baseball. I've got that done. We'll let him back here.
He died in a year.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Band, You've got to go for a year.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
But we needed we Well I would have been okay
with a year and when it was announced, like twenty
nineteen or whenever the thing came out, the story came out.
But it's been too long, so we moved on. Now
it's time lifetime.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
My last conclusion al has short king energy. So it's
a year band, I'm saying. You're saying lifetime. I'm saying
a year so we can come back and hit the
jacks and give everybody under six feet some confidence for
me and Willis. Ben, it's good to.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
Be with you.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
Okay, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
All right, there's Andre where he goes. Only he knows
the one and only Andre. Later hour, we do have
Mallard third degree. That'll be coming up a little bit
later in the hour. The fatherly shout. So some video
has made the rounds on the interweb, and I've seen it,
and it claims to show Yankee shortstop Anthony Volpi's father
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going at it with a Mets fan, the daddy, the
dad of Anthony Volpi at the Mets Yankees game on Sunday,
a very annoying Mets fan. Do you even have to
say annoying Mets fan? Is there a Mets fan that
is not annoying? Anyway, this Mets fan was talking some
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trash about the kid Volpi and the dad was sitting
a couple of rows behind him and wearing his Yankee
hat and had enough and so he got into it
with the Mets fan and it was all captured on
grainy cell phone footage. There was no physical viose. It
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was more of a profanity situation between the father of
Anthony Volpey. Now Anthony Volpi though, is not what he
was supposed to be. And we talk about prospect being
a suspect until proven otherwise, But Anthony Volpi, who was
going to be the next great Yankee shortstop and all
that stuff. He's got a lot of clunkers. Can I
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watch a fair amount of baseball every day, and when
I'm watching the Yankees, there's a lot of clunky baseball
from Anthony Volpi. Who you know. The overall numbers, I
guess it depends what you look at. He's batting average
ank great, that's an old stat. Batting average, he's got
ten home runs, just seems pretty run of the mill.
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He doesn't seem like he's all that great. You know,
he's just kind of there and you could do better
than Anthony Volpi. And the numbers are just kind of eh.
And he plays at a little league ballpark. It's a
joke of a ballpark, Yankee Stadium. It's not a real
ballpark with those dimensions they have at Yankee Stadium. So
he's on pace to hit eighteen home runs, thirty eight
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doubles and all that, and that's great. He's also on
pace to strike out one hundred and sixty two times.
It doesn't matter. Strikedowns don't matter, and all that. Anyway's
go back to the falls. Let's say hello to Jerome
in Charleston. Bring it home, Jerome.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
Hello Jerome, So so you saw my name and you
decided to bring up the incongruity of Yankee Stadium along
with other baseball.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Stadiums in America, the people playing with the two hundred
and ninety five foot right field. Hey, what about the
Dodger Statey? He saw the guy comes forty your little
home run the other day, and their right field corner
ain't much banner once are like two hundred and twenty
three after oh one, jevany one got a home one
because they.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
First of all, you're you might be drinking too much
if you think Dodger Stadium is anywhere close to Yankee
Stadium in terms.
Speaker 7 (28:49):
Of people right field corner.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's like three thirty three or three four or something
like that.
Speaker 7 (28:56):
A lot. They're allot the mansion for you, retell you
what's ter ration would look like? How they get away
with that? Hey? By the way, I was looking to
some of your people on h on Fox Sports Radio talking.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Not my They're not my people. I don't I don't
want hire them, I do. I'm only responsible. I'm responsible
for four hours of talk radio to day. I am
not responsible for these comments made by anything.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
I know you're not going I don't.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I don't hire them, I don't pay them. I don't
even know most of the people that work here.
Speaker 7 (29:25):
Yes, what, but I got to talk to you because
they don't take phone calls.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
All right, Well say, of course they don't take phone call.
Why would they take phone calls because you'll call up.
That's why they don't take phone calls.
Speaker 7 (29:35):
Yeah, they won't talk to people like me from Charleston.
He don't know anything anyway, Still aggression and king about
hersh heise and there's three thousand strikeouts, but I'm Kerry
shouts that's not her.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
I mean.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
If playoff against the Age a couple of years ago
where he was like two and on one on one
e all a, I don't think he's uh saw his
favorite Clayer because he called him bulldog.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
That was not a few years ago. That was almost
forty years ago. I know it was more than a
few few years ago. That was a long time ago.
Speaker 7 (30:11):
I was still brings back memories, man, because I have
I haven't seen anything like that for the long time. One.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Well, that's not even your way. Wait wait, hold on,
what I hate to do this because he's an evil Giant,
but Madison Bumgardner was. It was similar for the Giants.
In a couple of playoff runs. He was insane for
the San Francisco Giants. That was, in my bum Gardner
consistently the greatest postseason pitcher I've seen. And Hershizer for
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that one year was awesome for the Dodgers, but mad.
Speaker 7 (30:44):
Bum went against the as one of the most dynamic
teams in baseball history. They won one hundred and four games,
two and all. What a one ear and over fifty
something straight innings without a run scored with him.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
All right, we're gonna break We're not breaking down the
nineteen eighty eight World Series, and next hour we're gonna
break down the nineteen eighty four Detroit Tigers. We'll talk
about sweet Little Whitaker and Alan.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
One thing deal with people trying to get dive bonds
in the Hall of fam Dive bonds will never get
in the Hall of tam And as far as Sammy,
he looks like a.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
White guy now so well, no, he went back to
being a black guy. Now. I saw it, and the
Cubs had him in a game he looked like I
saw him at Wrigley feel he's back to being the
old Sam know this blah, that's right, that's the great
la Matt used to call the show back in the day.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
And I was looking at some stuff because one of
the things that can do to you is deal with
your skin pigmentation. Why would you no.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
Come on? So, so he admitted he was taking stuff
to whiteen his skin. He said that there's stories where
we talked about it, like he's that's why he was
doing that. I don't know why he was doing but
doesn't want to do something. I don't know. You'd have
to ask him. I'm not doing it. He was the
one doing it. I don't know why I did it.
He did it. But I don't know why I did it.
He did it. But but by the way, at your home,
(32:05):
you do realize there are players in the Hall of
Fame that were doing steroids, Like so, why would you
eliminate Bonds and Sosa when there are guys in there
that are steroid guys? So what's the point keeping the
comments and clements made.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
I know the comment was made to well Barr should
be because everybody was doing it. What a damn line.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
No, no, no, My my argument my argument. You're home
at the time, and I said this for you. We
used to fight. There was a guy who worked at MLB.
He was like a houseman for baseball. I forget the
guy's name. Used to be our insider here at Fox
Sports Radio, and we would fight with him all. I
would fight with the mall Toney's all He's go. I say,
don't let any of them in. But I there are
people in multiple players that were I believe in my opinion.
You can't assume it's my opinion. We're steroid guys who
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were in the Hall of Fame. So why are you
gonna deprive of Barry Bonds of being a hall of
fame when you've already opened the doors of Cooperstown to
steroid cheats. So let them in. Let them ally, all right,
my opinion, David Ortiz and Mike Piazza are in the
Hall of Fame. Jeff Bagwell's another one. Yeah, yeah, okay,
(33:12):
so they're in the Hall of Fame my opinion. You
can't say it's my opinion.
Speaker 7 (33:18):
Has an awful relationship with the media, definitely.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Well, yes, he's an a hole. Berry. I dealt with
him back in those days. He was a schmock. He is,
He's aid, you know, he's a just a I can't
say what I want to say, but he's not a
good dude. You know, he treats people.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
Like crapping Buddy Tom.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
Then the Boston Red Sox. He's an ambassador for the
Boston Red Sox. He's on the payroll with He's on
the payroll the Boston Red Sox. He is in fact,
remember remember the David Ortiz was he was texting Raphael
Devers and ignored him because, you know, Devers realizes that
(33:58):
David Ortiz works for the Red Soie. So he's inside
by the wait, the.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Managers for the afters of that time they were a chieving.
Guess where he met.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I know I said that early. Yes, I know he's
with Detroit. Yeah, all right, are you done? I feel
like you're bullguarding the show. Are a You had to think?
Go away? All right? Go? Thank you? All right? Very
long call from Jerome in Charleston. So wonderful. Absolutely, So
here's an odd choice. Major League Baseball has ended their
(34:31):
television contract with ESPN, although they are renegotiating. They hit
the eject button from that contract. So on Sunday, ESPN
decided while the All Star Selection Show was going on,
what did they show on ESPN instead? We are told
I did not see this because I was watching something else.
(34:52):
But they apparently showed cornhole instead of the All Star
Selection show. Nice game of corner, like the kind of
game that you would play at a Fourth of July barbecue,
And they said, let's see what we got going on.
It was the corn Hole Championship and I guess it
(35:13):
went long or something like that. I think that's what happened.
The start of the All Star Selection show was delayed
for at least ten minutes because of some competitive cornhole
and when it's close, it's nail bidding time. And the
show was supposed to begin at five o'clock Eastern time,
but it was preempted by not amateur, but professional corn
(35:37):
hole and there you go. So they say, that's it.
People are pointing out, what are you doing? I tuned in.
I want to watch this and we had to delay
it because of the nice cornhole game. A right, it
is the Ben Mal Show. Well that sure that'll be
brought up and baseball negotiats. I've heard some varying rumors.
(35:57):
My TV friends telling me that NBC involved, that they
might everyone wants to get baseball on their streaming package,
but baseball wants to be on regular cable television. So
there's like, what are we gonna do? How they gonna
divide the games? Up time? Now for the Insta Trivia,
and here it is the Phillies. Zach Wheeler, a All
(36:18):
Star pitcher. Zach Wheeler of the Fighting phils has joined
Blank as the only pitchers in Major League Baseball history
to have a complete game featuring zero walks, twelve or
more strikeouts and have the only hit surrendered be a
home run. Again, Zach Wheeler of the Philadelphia Phillies joining
Blank as the only pitchers in baseball history to have
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a complete game featuring zero walks, twelve or more strikeouts
and have the only hit surrendered be a home run.
That is the Insta Trivia. The answer. We'll get to
it and we will do it next.
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time now for the Insta Trivia And here is today's question.
The Philly Zach Wheeler joining blank is the only pitchers
in baseball history to have a complete game featuring no walks,
twelve or more strikeouts and have the only hit surrendered
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be a home run? That is the question. What is
the answer. Let's see does anyone know the answer? We
go to the Great Unwashed here to see Kenny Rodgers
guests by Ike and Roseveld Minnesota. Alf going with Alf
the Alien o Pinter says Gilligan Marge shot from Bobby
(38:34):
bring it Home, Jerome from malor Palooza, Seat Filler Mallard
prop Guy, that's about what Jerome probably looks like. Who
else have Smokey Joe Wood from I forty Ian Karan
Butler guests by Shane in Des Moines, Mark Langston Mariner
legend also guest, who else do we have a page?
(38:54):
Dan can't read that on the air? Mad Bumgardner's girlfriend
Madison Bumgardner guests by Josh and Nebraska the Great Booth
Bondser from j T. The Wingman in Knoxville, Jennifer Lawrence
from Ozzie Waz in Western Australia, Brad Radke from Ben.
There's a good name the legend Joey Chestnut the Godfather
(39:18):
or the Dogfather rather from Joe the Ghost Unner. All right, Lorraina,
do you have an answerer? I'm gonna go with Daffy
Duck today. Ben, all right, No, that is correct. The
answer is Pedro Martinez in nineteen ninety nine for the
Boston Red Socks. It' smeller. How about that?
Speaker 3 (39:37):
To the third degree, This is one, Big Ben gets great?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
All right, cooler.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
The Miami Dolphins had one of the top offensives in
the NFL in twenty twenty three, but missed the playoffs
last year. The summer saying the team is teetering on
the edge of a franchise reset. But do you think
the jobs of Tula and McDaniel are on the line
next season?
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Well, as you heard last week, I know you weren't here,
but I know you listen to the show because you're producing.
So I did a full Mallar monologue about this particular topic.
And as I pointed out in that Mallar monologue's available
on the podcast down load, absolutely to and Mike McDaniel
and the GM there, all of them. This is it.
This is the last chance saloon there for the Dolphins.
(40:17):
Even Stevin Meatballs can see that.
Speaker 6 (40:19):
Next cal Raley has reached new career high in home
runs for a single season and we haven't even reached
the All Star break. In fact, he's tied Ken Griffy
Junior's Mariners record for most dingers before the break. Do
you think the al MVP is the big numbers to lose?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
No, Because the Mariners are a playoff team. They're a
wild kid team, so are the Yankees. But Aaron Judge
is in the lead and he's It would be a
monumental upset if Aaron Judge does not win the MVP
Award in the Americanly and Cal Rawley's been great and
wonderful and all that, but he plays in Seattle. That's
going to hurt him.
Speaker 6 (40:50):
Next, the Sons gave Devin Booker another extension. He's gonna
be signed with them through twenty thirty. With Durant now
in Houston, the Sons are in rebuild mode. Do you
think that Booker is a player worth building around?
Speaker 1 (41:00):
Well, they can try. They were in the finals against Milwaukee.
They couldn't get it done. They're not gonna win with
Devin Booker as their headliner. It's not gonna work. How
do we do it is that's a win? Put on
the ball.
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Ben Maller
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