June 3, 2025 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about people being upset with Joe Flacco for saying he's 'not a mentor' in the Browns' QB competition, T.J. Watt having a big contract offer from the Steelers on the table, but no deal yet, Barkley being the cover-boy for Madden 26, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka, Laca, it's our number to our number two.
And why why it's a football hour? Why are people
so upset with Joe Flacco for saying he is quote
not a mentor to the Browns young quarterbacks who are
in the competition for the starting job. Also, TJ. Watt
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is said to be getting an extension in Pittsburgh. He
has a big offer on the table from the Steelers,
but no deal as of yet. What's going on with this?
And running back Sequon Barkley is the cover boy for
Madden NFL twenty six. Should Eagles fans be concerned about
the hecks, we'll talk about that as well. All of
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it's coming your way right now. Settle in, buckle up
for our number two. Call him Joe Cool, not that
he's actually cool, but he doesn't care. He's not worried
about your hot takes Welca in the beginning of another
hour of the Ben Malar Show. We are in the
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from football. There's no football, Well it's actually from Cleveland
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where they haven't had football since Jim Brown played. Well
maybe Bernie Kozar, good old Bernie back in the but
it's been a while. It's been a while. So the
Browns are bad. They're not boring. Though, you can be
bad as long as you're interesting, and so the Browns
are bad interesting as a posed to bad and boring
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the Killer Bees. You can't be both. So to prove
my point, take a look at the burgeoning quarterback Battle Royale,
which for my purposes is picture perfect. Now we know
whoever wins. The job is going to suck as the
Browns quarterback. We know that to be true. But Cleveland's
got a very crowded, very busy quarterback room. Now Here
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are the actors. You've got Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and
rookie Shooter Sanders. Also Dylan Gabriel, another rookie. And so
those guys are the new actors, Kenny Pickett, Gabriel, and Sanders.
Now Flacco was there, he had left and now he's back,
so they're all kind of new. They're all kind of new,
but somewhere old and all that. Now one storyline stands
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out head and shoulders above all the rest, which is
really good talk radio and really good talk radio. So
that would be I believe he's forty now. Joe Flacco
elite quarterback. Joe flaccom ever in sports talk radio conversation
back in the day, is Joe Flacco an elite quarterback?
Well he was for a month and a half, and
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that's all he had to beat to get a big contract.
He was elite for a month and a half. Jump
Ball Joe used to call him. Jump ball Joe just
throw the ball up and let the receiver jump get
that pass interference call first down for the old ball
Timore Ravens. So. Forty year old Joe Flacco is by
far the oldest of the quarterback room those that are
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in the competition. But he does not, he will not.
He wants nothing to do with the very thought that
he is going to go in there and mentor the
young quarterbacks for the Cleveland football team. Flacco, you see this, No,
you didn't see this. So Flacco has said this in
the past, but he doubled down on it yet again.
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Flacco made it perfectly clear at the Browns OTAs that's
organized team activities that he is solely focused on winning
the starting job for the Browns and that he's not
worried about helping anyone out and make them a better
player and all that stuff. Now, this, as you might imagine,
has not gone over well. There is nothing that upsets
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a high percentage of sports blowhards and gas bags than
a quarterback saying I am not going to help some
other young quarterback. I am not going to be a mentor.
I am not going to teach them all of my secrets.
This drives people nuts. In the media. You get very upset.
So let's discuss the question on this one. We're gonna
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frame it like this. Why we'll get to the white
Why are people so upset with Joe Flacco for saying
he is not a mentor in the Browns quarterback competition.
So I've got Mickey Mouse, cliff notes, and bubble wrap,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make a tissue so we can
clean out those I buggers. You know when you sleep,
eat that dried mucus and clean that out, all right?
So number I said number on my theory as to
why people have been worked into a lather because Joe
Flacco is not willing to give his wisdom away to
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someone else, It's because many generations of sports fans have
been indoctrinated. It's kind of like the NCUBA. They would say, hey,
it's a student athlete, which was a term they made
up to get out of paying a worker's comp claim.
So they just cooked up the term as a weasel
term student athlete. They were never athletes or never students.
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They were athletes. They were the top football and basketball players.
So they came up with that and they just kept
using it in all the marketing and dumb people say, oh,
they should it. It must be true. They're student athletes. Well,
over the years, as observers of sports, we have been taught,
we've been indoctrinated. If you're an older player, you have
to give away all your secrets, all your secrets to
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someone younger than you. That's the way it works. And
so Flacco, he has been called, among other things, tone deaf,
tone deaf, joe, outdated, boomer, old head, embarrassing, all those things.
These dopes who believe that mentoring is part of the job.
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They believe that mentoring is part of the job, whether
you like it or not, period, end of story. There's
a lot of people that believe that. And we say,
we have an unpopular opinion. Not so fast, my friend,
unpopular opinion alert Joe Flacco and I went back and
I checked. When he agreed to return to the Browns,
Joe Flacco was not was not hired as a camp counselor.
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He was not a career counselor. When he was hired,
he was brought back to Cleveland as wait for it,
a quarterback, a contingency plan, not a muse for Shader Sanders.
And so the people that are flustered, they're bedraggled that
Joe Flacco would dare say this. I love his honesty,
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that's my first I love his honesty my first thought.
And the people that are really upset, they're projecting this
into some kind of hokey Disney movie where you know,
it's a Mickey Mouse idea. It's a Mickey Mouse idea
that the veteran has to do this. You're romanticizing and
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you're not living in reality. Like, in what other business
does that happen? Is there another business that that happened?
I don't know one, and you don't owe anyone mentorship. Now,
if Joe Flacco decides he wants to do it, that's fine.
That's on him. And if he doesn't want to do it,
that's also perfect. Finef Cleveland wants to hire Joe Flacco
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as a quarterback coach and pay him an extra salary
as a quarterback coach, and he's okay with it. He's
fine with it. Oh fine, otherwise, forget about it. Forget
about it, right, Joe Flacco, he said the quiet part
out loud, and he's just keeping it real. Now, speaking
of keeping it real, lot of noise coming out of Pittsburgh.
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Not about Aaron Rodgers. This is not an Aaron Rodgers monologue.
Notice not. However, it is about another big name and
more reporting over the last few hours here that there's
an expectation the team that sells terrible towels, the Petsburg Steelers.
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The Pittsburgh a rival, I say rival of the Browns,
but the Browns lose to the Steelers all the time,
so not really much of a rival. And when the
Browns win once every couple of years, they celebrate like
they've won the Super Bowl, like they did remember the
snow game in Cleveland. Yeah, anyway, So the expectation is
that linebacker t J. Watt will have a new contract
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agreement with the Black and Yellow Black and Yellow, Black
and Yellow prior to the start of the regular season.
That's going to happen. So now TJ. Watt, we know
there is a big money off for big money, big money,
big money, no way may stop. So there's big money
off on the table from the Pittsburgh Steelers, but no
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deal yet. There is no deal yet. So what is
going on with this situation? You got reports saying it's
gonna happen, It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
Much like the Aaron Rodgers story. There's an offer, there's
big money, but no deal. But we're focusing in on TJ. Watts,
So what is going on here? So it's rather clear
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on this one that the offer is big and you
know that came from the Steelers. That didn't come from TJ.
Watts camp. That came from the Steelers. They use their
useful idiots in the media to get that message out.
It's a big offer. It's not big enough. And now
how do I know that? Well, I am a distant
relative of Nostre Damis and friend of no Strudinis. He
lives in Seattle, although it did not come to the
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meet and greet in Vancouver, which is just a relative
short drive from Seattle. So not a big friend of
mine anymore because he did not make the trip. But anyway,
that aside, all right, as a relative of Nostradamis and
friend of Nostradina's the offer not big enough because nothing
has been signed. There's no docu sign, not a crickets.
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It's a we'll see situation. It's a we'll see what's
going on? Situation now? What is following the outline to
a t the cliff notes on how to let the
world know you are not happy and you're belly aching.
You want more money, you want to weaponize the fan
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base to attack the team. And he's following all of
the key points. He's checking all the boxes. What are
the boxes? Skip OTAs, check dropping cryptic Instagram posts that
can be interpreted multiple ways. Check check. Deputizing his brother
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a relative in this case, JJ Watt to publicly nudge
the team to get a bigger offer, which is akin
to pouring gas on the fire. Check check check. But wait,
there's more. You've now created a media circus. Check check,
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check check. That's four checks, so we get it. TJ.
Watt has been the last several years in Pittsburgh. He's
not just your normal generic brand player. He has been
a game changer. In fact, you would argue he is
the most famous player on the Steelers, and it's really
not even close. They don't have anyone that's that famous
on all offense down. They could get Aaron Rodgers, they
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likely will, but Rogers is old. He's washed up. He's
more worried about where his next dose of ayahuasca is
coming from than his next big win. And so you
got a guy, here's a game shit big time players,
we said, and the identity of that team and someone
that it would appear wakes up in the morning and
he does not eat a normal breakfast. He just like
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eats offensive lineman for breakfast. Offensive tackles. He just enjoys that.
And the only reason, the only reason that there would
be any kind of hesitation for the Pittsburgh Steelers here
is because of the age. TJ. Watt is thirty. He's
had a lot of injuries because he's a football player,
a lot of bumps and bruises. It's like, well, he's
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only gonna get hurt more. There's a lot of money,
but you can't not sign him because if you have, boy,
you're screwed either way. You're damned if you do, and
you're damned if you don't. All right, final point, we
stay in the Keystone State, but we go all the
way across and I've made that drive. I've made I've
made the drive from Philly to Pittsburgh. Beautiful country, beautiful forest,
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not a lot in between, not like one big city
in between. That's it. Anyway. So running back, Sequon Barkley,
the cover boy for Madden NFL twenty six, that report
was announced that Sequon Barkley he's got a deal. So question,
should the marching and shouter society of the Eagle fan base,
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the Neanderthal fan base of the Philadelphia Eagles be concerned
about the hecks? Should they be concerned about the hecks?
So I'll answer this by nodding my head aggressively. You
can't see me unless you're watching on the YouTube. I'm yes,
I'm nodding my head aggressively. Yes, because what they have
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done is put the Voodoo Bugaloo right on top of
Sequon Barkley and also the Lombardi Trophy. You might as
well bubble wrap Barkley right now. Put Sequon in bubble wrap.
Why the double whammy? You've got the double whammy. Now,
let's start with the time tested in Madden cover jins.
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He said, well, it's only happened a few times. So
if you look at the data and you go back
in the modern era of the Madden game, we have
a lot of data that confirms this is not just
urban legend, this is not just folklore. There's a there there.
There's a Bermuda triangle situation here, and if you you
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do the math on it, since nineteen ninety nine, that's
a long time. That's a generation. So the last generation
with the Madden game, that's twenty six years a little
over generation. Since nineteen ninety nine, what percentage of the
Madden cover athlete has suffered a serious injury the season
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they appeared on the cover the following season? You have
You have a guess. Is it you think it's A
thirty percent, B ten percent or C five percent or
D none of the above? All right? Since night lock?
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Your answer, don't cheat? Do not cheat? All right? Everybody
says D none of the above. The answer sixty point
seven percent. Sixty seven percent. You just said, if if
I told you to invest in something that paid back
sixty percent dividends, Holy crap, you'd be rich. Sixty a
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six hundred batting average sixty point seven percent of Madden
cover athletes since nineteen ninety nine, there have been twenty
eight seventeen out of the twenty eight set because a
couple of years they had more than one. Seventeen out
of the twenty eight have suffered injuries the season following
the cover appearance. Most recently Christian McCaffrey, and I remember
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doing this very monologue last year. Christian McCaffrey found himself
wouldn't hurt anymore over the Niners. McCaffrey the latest. He
missed forty nine er games, multiple games in the twenty
twenty four season. He missed the first game because of
an achilles' injury and then missed the last several games
of the regular season with knees brands. But even when
he was playing, he had multiple injuries and missed chunks
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of games. You want hundred, so you mix in the
fact now I mentioned the double whammy, so you've got
the time tested and Madden Jinx the Voodoo Bugaloo. So
you've got that. But then also you have the fact
that Sakwan Barkley went out last season and let's just
call it like it is. He painted the starry Night
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last season in Philadelphia. It was a work of art.
It was a masterpiece that he put together and wasn't
all him. Was the offensive line hurts. It was a
cacophony of amazing plays in the backfield. So what happens
after you paint your starry night and the next couple
of paintings not that good, so expect a regression to
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the mean. A regression to mean extreme outcomes are followed
by more moderate ones. Yeah, so that is code for
the data evens out, which means Barkley is going to
go down. His performance will not be as good. And
then you've got the self fulfilling prophecy of the Madden
Hex the jinx that has been put on. We'd also
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like to alert all the affiliates that every TV in
the building is updating. There is new software, So every
monitor that we have here is updating downloading software. Please wait,
do not interrupt. So I'm glad they're doing it. Why
don't they do that during the day. Why do they
only do it at night? I don't understand. The computers
they always have to update when we're here, and even
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the TVs. Okay, just one time, I'd like to see
them do this at noon, like, hey, let's do a
noon update, and everyone lose their mind. All those daytime people,
it lose their fricking mind. They wouldn't know what to
do anyway. All right is the Ben Mahler Show, and
we will press on here. We'll take your calls at
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big names there lined up in the queue, and we
loved Anthony from Louisiana. A new caller Shock not a
new by night, but we had a new caller last
Nar was great, although he mostly just wanted to flirt
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A well known sports star who's completely entangled in a
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Sports talk Radio. Back to it all right, and don't
forget it is I been. You can check out on
Facebook and Instagram. Some food. I had a bunch of
poutine and it was it was wonderful, had a great
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time in Vancouver. Some some photo, some more photo later today.
But if you want to see what the poutine, it
seems like a lot of people don't even know what
that is. I don't know how you would not know that.
But it's just fries with gravy and cheese curds. And
so I went to the couple of top places there
in Vancouver head he had a fine time. And I
know my pal's not for everyone, but I enjoyed. I
enjoyed what I ate anyway. Just go to the phones.
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We'll say hello to eat Dog in New York? What's
going on? Eat Dog in a Long Island?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
What I'm home a long time. I'm gonna have that cope,
cope with zimming against you, but I'll let it go.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Do you want to go back on hold? I can
put you back on hold of you? Why you want
to go back on home?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I'm right by the way. Who answers the phones? Is
that guy Bill Miller answers the phones?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
No, Bill doesn't answer that. He didn't answer the phone.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Who answers the phones?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Why are you worried about that?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Because on the who am I game I had, I
went to my other phone and I got Victor Martina
is right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well, we don't take calls on the who am ikey? Yeah,
it's only are you on X? Are you on Twitter?
What used to be X? Or what is X? But
used to be Twitter? Are you on there?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Who?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Also? I'm gonna joke for you.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You didn't answer my question?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
What's the question?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I just say? Are you on social media? Is e
Dog on social media?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You're not? Okay? Why not soon not to be? You're smart?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Thank you? I'm very smart. I'm a smart man.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I don't mean like books smart. I mean it's it's
if I didn't have this job, I don't know that
would be on social media.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
But yeah, so anyway, I I know, listen of it
took all right?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Hello, I'm listening.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Okay, take my wife please, that's so good. Anyway?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Wait wait wait wait was that the joke?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah? It was like my girlfriend please.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Any any lady up there? You got rid of? Was
it Melissa? You got rid of Melissa? You were dating Melissa? Right?
Wasn't Melissa? I don't want to no, law Okay, I'm
sure she's devastated. Uh and have you found anyone else?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Christa is on the horizon?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Christa interesting, very pretty girl.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
We went to the dinner last week.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You went to a nice diner. Did you pay?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Not? Okay?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Awesome one.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Golfers wear two pairs of.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
What's that? Why do girlfriends wear two pairs of pants?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
What you said? What are golfers with golfers? I thought
it's gonna be odd. Girlfriend. Why do golfers wear two
pairs of pants? I don't know?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Gets to get a home one? Now you heard of
brutal college?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Do you have kids. That's a great dad joke. Do
you have children?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I might have kids, but it's inappropriate if I don't.
If I said, how I can't have the kids, but it's.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Inappropriate something I something chopped off back when you were
younger or something.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
No, definitely not okay. I can't. I can't cider on
the and was I really can't say it, but it's
okay anyway. Blue College is u c l A. You
know why? Why because it's the university corn black as
the avenue. And also always at the supermarket the other.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Day, congratulating, congratulations. I was always exciting. I always write
down when I go to the supermarket. I always remember.
I tell my friends I'm at the I'm at we
call it the grocery store.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Sometimes tell supermarket Steve about this.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Well, he yeah, I'll tell Well, what do you want
me to pass on to supermarket Steve? What's your question?
Because this guy's supermarket Steve's an a hole. I don't
know if you want him to comment.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I don't want to talk about supermency. But I was
at the supermarket day and I was wearing my bull
hat and a Miller jersey, and the guy comes up
to me, and he goes, how you doing good? He
goes to a high five, So I go, why, he goes,
just give me a high power. So I gave my
high five. And when I gave my high five, So
what happened was he was wearing a Chicago hat, and
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I thought he was giving me a high phi because
I was wearing a Miller jersey. But it was because
I was wearing a Bulls hat.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Okay, and which Miller has been multiple Millers for the
Chicago Bulls. Reggie Regi, Well, he didn't play for the Bulls.
You were wearing a Pacer.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
No, he played for the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You had a Pacers jersey?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Hu, yeah, regiemail, why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
That's a fan code violation. You can't do a fan
code violation.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
They play in the same the same conference, in the
same the same division, Indiana and Chicago rivals, so you
can't wear that other teams you're not allowed to do.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And I know this.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Listen, listen, Larry. You know I can do what I want, okay,
And I'm telling you that's right now. The Bulls won't
win it. You know, if the Bulls win two more championships.
They're gonna be sponsored.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know my who I'm pot to say it.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
They're gonna, they're gonna if they went to they went
two more games too, was uh championships. That means they
win eight championship games.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Okay, all right, can I go? You been on the air, lone,
I've had other people are on. You're bow guarding all
the time. Why are you bow guarding all the time.
You're you're you're a hawserd. Shame on, you're shuck.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Come on, give me a break.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
But all right, I'll give you a break. All right,
thank you, go away. Let's saylo do Sugar White Mic,
who's in South Beach? Hello Sugar White? Mic?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:53):
No, Ben, I got people calling my phone. You know,
I hope you have the same energy that you did
for the Edmonton Oledge like last year, like.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You did this.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Shear, here we go, Oilers, here we go, Here we go, Oilers.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Keep that same energy.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'll be there. I'll be celebrating with my friends in Canada.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
And you do that because when we win it all
again this year, they're gonna change the Stanley Cup to FPI,
which stands for Florida panthers irritational and Ben, can you
please stop using my famous phrase the voo doo boogaaloo.
I'm the originator, the creator of that phrase. I know
you love using it. It's okay, just plug my name
every now and days.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
So whenever I say voodoo boogaloo, I gotta throw sugar
white mic in there. And if not, I gonna have
I'm gonna have proms.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I got people calling me from
South Beach. You know it's a little rainy now, you
know we can't party like we is because, you know,
because then we're gonna go to Los Olas to party.
Los Solas is the southeast version of Fort Lauderdale, So
you know, we're getting ready for this back to back parade,
you know, kind of make David kind of who cares?
Speaker 6 (27:57):
I buy?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
So you're going to Edmonton for the break. The pres
gonna be in Edmonton, so you're gonna make the trip.
That's a long flight from from South Florida to Edmonton.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I don't even want to spell Edmonton Edmonton. How did
they get through the western count it's the what's the
conference that week? You're in that part of the country.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yes, I represent the entire western part of the United States. Absolutely,
sugar White Mike, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Yes, gosh, that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You know what's embarrassing. I watched the Marlin Rockies game
and there were thirteen people in the crowd. That's embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Believe you, I will not argue with that. You will
not get it, Okay, for I am trying to get
to the move. But I don't understand how they signed
a thirty five year least, which is about me.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
They built a new stead they were building. I remember
when they I went to the Marlins games. They play
in the old state, and they said, oh, we get
a new state game.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Don't say that on national Act.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
She won the World Series when I was there, and
years ago. I can't say which year they won the
World Series because I'll date myself with and three. There
you go. In ninety seven, I was there, Boom they
won the World too. And he beat a team that
doesn't exist anywhere, the Cleveland Indians in Game seven, and
it went extra headings and the place was packed. It
was wild.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
You're talking, you're talking seventy thousand there that night.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
It was insane, man, and people were running around with
the Marlins gear the Cuban flag. There was a celebration and.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
You remember Ben when they were doing the fish.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I remember the old That was one of my most
first time I ever saw the World Series of the Morris.
Fans go crazy. All right, I gotta go. I'm gonna
give you the voodoo boogaloo, Sugar White, Mike, Okay, thank you, sir,
go away. All right, there you go, all right, very nice.
I say hello to Enie. Let's go with San Florida.
We go from South Florida to Central Florida, a real
Mickey mouse town. And Raphael is in Orlando. What's going on? Rafael?
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Welcome, big props, Sugar White, mic Man. I look forward
to seeing him at the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
The Pacers are.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Going to be the champions. They are going to win
the NBA Final.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well, you sound very confident. You also sound very tough tired.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I am very tired of been on hold for a
long time.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Now you're complaining. Why would you complain?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
You?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
I am Pacers are going to win this thing.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I want.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
This was my hot take a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
That's your hot take. Now now it's like a lukewarm
a hot take. But now it's a lukewarm takes. You'd
admit that's a lukewarm take, now, not a hot take.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
The Panthers are also going to take the championship as well.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Are you are you really?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Are you really?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Are you really an Indiana Pacer fan or you're just
jumping on the bandwagon?
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I am? I am a Chicago Bulls fan? What Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Why would you pull for the Pacers if you're a
Bulls fan?
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I'm a I'm what you call a a fan of
Michael Jordan. I am a guy I grew up in
the eighties. We don't have a fan where we're orphans you.
We don't have an actual team. The Pacers are going
to win.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
This, okay, all right, all right, we've got we've established
that take. That take is now established. Any other takes
you'd like to throw out, because I have to go
any other takes you want to establish?
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Yes, the Panthers are gonna win, and.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
If they don't, I'm gonna hunt you down. All right,
Go to bed, All right, go to bed. That's a
terrible call. Go to bed, Thank you night. God. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mathers Show, and briefly briefly, remember
that story where the Tampa Bay Rays they were giving
(31:40):
some promotional item away for Wander Franco, their star they
had signed for this big contract. Well, he ended up
in some legal trouble back in his native land, and
it turns out that he had been canoodling I guess
more than cannodling with an underage girl and the family.
(32:00):
He went to the authorities and all that, and the
Rays put him on the knotty list, the suspended list.
So he's been stuck in this weird spy was not
He's not suspended. He's not playing suspended animation, I guess
is the way that it would be described. Anyway. We
have an update the Great Hector gold Masim of the
(32:22):
great baseball reporters out there. He reports the latest update.
Wander Franco, the father of the minor who he allegedly
was stooping. The father has formally withdrawn the complaint against him,
claiming it was all a matter of a misunderstanding and manipulation.
(32:44):
And this was in a preliminary hearing in court yesterday.
So hello, and everyone's wondering how much money did he
have to pay and does it even matter? Like you
paid the money. How Ever, it's not like baseball is
going to allow you back. Trevor Bauer was never charged
with the crime. He's he's been sent to Siberia and
(33:09):
he won a cy young. Nobody will touch Trevor Bauer
and he was not convicted or even charged with any crime.
This guy's been accused, he's in court, and yet the
I even though it was possible the father of the
minor girl who was sleeping with Wander Franco according to
the legal case, withdrew the complaints. It was all a misunderstanding. Okay, anyway,
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it is the Bean Mahler Show. We will pass on
got mallard of the third degree. Here's the Insta Tribune.
Yankees captain Aaron Judge has become the first player to
have a three to ninety batting averager better and an
OPS of twelve forty eight or better through the first
fifty eight games of a season since blank. That is
the Insta tribuat the answer. We'll get to it. We'll
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Speaker 1 (34:35):
All right, let's get back to it, and here is
the Insta trivia. Yankees captain Aaron Judge became the first
player to have a three to ninety batting average or
better a twelve forty eight ops or better through the
first fifty eight games of a season since blank. That
is the question, and what is the answer. Let's see
(34:59):
who who knows the answer? Dick Trickle guest by Mister Irrigation,
Eddie Goodell from Donkey Sausage, jose Albouvey who did that
strip tease and didn't get punished for it? From Alf
the Alien Opiner, Wally Pipp from I forty Ian Paige
(35:19):
Dad Iowa Sam guessed by Sheen into Mourning. That's about
what he looks like. Who else do we have? Actor
Lewis Hoffman, who is twenty eight today from the Late
Night Drug Tester King Roy is going with President Trump
as his answer. Mario Mendoza from William Miggi Cabrera guess
by Eke and Roseville, Minnesota, and a former Big leaguer
(35:41):
FP Santangelo, the very handsy former Big leaguer that is
from Bay City, Tony Andrew Jones guests by Robbie the
Mariner fan Tila Tequila. Well, whatever happened to her? That's
from That's a name for the past from Trucker Joe Man.
Where did she she's still She's still pretty cute. I
(36:02):
don't know, man, that's a name. I have not heard
that name in a long time. Roberto Luongo from JT
the Wingman. Yeah, she had some mileage back in the day.
Big Reagan Iowa not to be I did neither. Big
Reagan Iowa says the hot Tub Jacuzzi Ben Mally looking
at the hot tub Jacuzzie bo Jackson from Robin, Minnesota.
(36:23):
Cal Raley Baseball's MVP from Kelly in Des Moines. Luis
Gonzalez guests by Slim tim It says, answer Fred Flintstone
from Mark and Santa Monica. All right, there you go,
Bill says, thanks for putting the krem the cream of
the crop. Pacer fan on and he got all upset. Anyway,
do you have an answer of the ring? I'm going
with Matra Ben, Okay, that is wrong. The correct answer
(36:47):
A fine Canadian lad Larry Walker with the Colorado Rockies
back in the day nineteen ninety seven. It's how about
that to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
This is one big then gets grail all.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Right, thirty three? Time here cool.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
The Arizona Cardinals took a step forward as a team
last year, winning eight games, but still were not able
to make the playoffs. Ben, the over underwin total in
Vegas for the Cardinals is set to eight and a half.
Does Arizona take another step forward?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
No, and they don't because they don't have a quarterback.
Alligator arms, Murray, you know what you're gonna get. Alligator arms.
Murray falls apart. He's good for about seven or eight weeks,
and then the last part of the year his body
falls apart. He's not productive. It's happened year after year.
So they'll be a middling team until they get a
real quarterback, not a fun sized quarterback.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Next, yesterday you talked about how the Knicks overachieved to
get as far as they did in these playoffs.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Now, Ben, what moves do they need to make in
order to get to the next level. Well, the obvious
one would be to get Yiannis, and there's rumors that
New York. We talked about Toronto, but the NBA would
like Giannis to play with the Knickerbockers. The problem is,
the whole dynamic is Jalen Brunson. He is the head
of the pyramid and he's not gonna want to take
a back seat to giannisident to Kombo. So they're gonna
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have to find other support players that don't vanish, like
og and Enobi and some of these other guys that
at times just disappeared. Next.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Now, the Basketball Hall of Fame seems to let everyone in,
but apparently not. Robert or TMZ caught up with Ori
this past weekend, who told him that he belongs in there,
does he, Ben.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Well, he does only because it's the Basketball Hall of Fame.
If it was the Baseball Hall of Fame, you'd say
absolutely not. But in basketball, you look at who's in there.
In fact, I think alf the Alien Opiner was inducted
a couple of years ago and nobody noticed. But yeah, Robert,
Robert Orri had seven or eight of the biggest shots
in his era of the NBA. Absolutely, how did we
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know he passes on board? That's so rare. I won Poppy.
I won Poppy.
Boom, shaka, Laca, it's our number to our number two.
And why why it's a football hour? Why are people
so upset with Joe Flacco for saying he is quote
not a mentor to the Browns young quarterbacks who are
in the competition for the starting job. Also, TJ. Watt
(00:22):
is said to be getting an extension in Pittsburgh. He
has a big offer on the table from the Steelers,
but no deal as of yet. What's going on with this?
And running back Sequon Barkley is the cover boy for
Madden NFL twenty six. Should Eagles fans be concerned about
the hecks, we'll talk about that as well. All of
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it's coming your way right now. Settle in, buckle up
for our number two. Call him Joe Cool, not that
he's actually cool, but he doesn't care. He's not worried
about your hot takes Welca in the beginning of another
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that tire buying show. So our lead this hour is
from football. There's no football, Well it's actually from Cleveland
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where they haven't had football since Jim Brown played. Well
maybe Bernie Kozar, good old Bernie back in the but
it's been a while. It's been a while. So the
Browns are bad. They're not boring. Though, you can be
bad as long as you're interesting, and so the Browns
are bad interesting as a posed to bad and boring
(02:37):
the Killer Bees. You can't be both. So to prove
my point, take a look at the burgeoning quarterback Battle Royale,
which for my purposes is picture perfect. Now we know
whoever wins. The job is going to suck as the
Browns quarterback. We know that to be true. But Cleveland's
got a very crowded, very busy quarterback room. Now Here
(03:03):
are the actors. You've got Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and
rookie Shooter Sanders. Also Dylan Gabriel, another rookie. And so
those guys are the new actors, Kenny Pickett, Gabriel, and Sanders.
Now Flacco was there, he had left and now he's back,
so they're all kind of new. They're all kind of new,
but somewhere old and all that. Now one storyline stands
(03:27):
out head and shoulders above all the rest, which is
really good talk radio and really good talk radio. So
that would be I believe he's forty now. Joe Flacco
elite quarterback. Joe flaccom ever in sports talk radio conversation
back in the day, is Joe Flacco an elite quarterback?
Well he was for a month and a half, and
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that's all he had to beat to get a big contract.
He was elite for a month and a half. Jump
Ball Joe used to call him. Jump ball Joe just
throw the ball up and let the receiver jump get
that pass interference call first down for the old ball
Timore Ravens. So. Forty year old Joe Flacco is by
far the oldest of the quarterback room those that are
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in the competition. But he does not, he will not.
He wants nothing to do with the very thought that
he is going to go in there and mentor the
young quarterbacks for the Cleveland football team. Flacco, you see this, No,
you didn't see this. So Flacco has said this in
the past, but he doubled down on it yet again.
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Flacco made it perfectly clear at the Browns OTAs that's
organized team activities that he is solely focused on winning
the starting job for the Browns and that he's not
worried about helping anyone out and make them a better
player and all that stuff. Now, this, as you might imagine,
has not gone over well. There is nothing that upsets
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a high percentage of sports blowhards and gas bags than
a quarterback saying I am not going to help some
other young quarterback. I am not going to be a mentor.
I am not going to teach them all of my secrets.
This drives people nuts. In the media. You get very upset.
So let's discuss the question on this one. We're gonna
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frame it like this. Why we'll get to the white
Why are people so upset with Joe Flacco for saying
he is not a mentor in the Browns quarterback competition.
So I've got Mickey Mouse, cliff notes, and bubble wrap,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make a tissue so we can
clean out those I buggers. You know when you sleep,
eat that dried mucus and clean that out, all right?
So number I said number on my theory as to
why people have been worked into a lather because Joe
Flacco is not willing to give his wisdom away to
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someone else, It's because many generations of sports fans have
been indoctrinated. It's kind of like the NCUBA. They would say, hey,
it's a student athlete, which was a term they made
up to get out of paying a worker's comp claim.
So they just cooked up the term as a weasel
term student athlete. They were never athletes or never students.
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They were athletes. They were the top football and basketball players.
So they came up with that and they just kept
using it in all the marketing and dumb people say, oh,
they should it. It must be true. They're student athletes. Well,
over the years, as observers of sports, we have been taught,
we've been indoctrinated. If you're an older player, you have
to give away all your secrets, all your secrets to
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someone younger than you. That's the way it works. And
so Flacco, he has been called, among other things, tone deaf,
tone deaf, joe, outdated, boomer, old head, embarrassing, all those things.
These dopes who believe that mentoring is part of the job.
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They believe that mentoring is part of the job, whether
you like it or not, period, end of story. There's
a lot of people that believe that. And we say,
we have an unpopular opinion. Not so fast, my friend,
unpopular opinion alert Joe Flacco and I went back and
I checked. When he agreed to return to the Browns,
Joe Flacco was not was not hired as a camp counselor.
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He was not a career counselor. When he was hired,
he was brought back to Cleveland as wait for it,
a quarterback, a contingency plan, not a muse for Shader Sanders.
And so the people that are flustered, they're bedraggled that
Joe Flacco would dare say this. I love his honesty,
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that's my first I love his honesty my first thought.
And the people that are really upset, they're projecting this
into some kind of hokey Disney movie where you know,
it's a Mickey Mouse idea. It's a Mickey Mouse idea
that the veteran has to do this. You're romanticizing and
(08:14):
you're not living in reality. Like, in what other business
does that happen? Is there another business that that happened?
I don't know one, and you don't owe anyone mentorship. Now,
if Joe Flacco decides he wants to do it, that's fine.
That's on him. And if he doesn't want to do it,
that's also perfect. Finef Cleveland wants to hire Joe Flacco
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as a quarterback coach and pay him an extra salary
as a quarterback coach, and he's okay with it. He's
fine with it. Oh fine, otherwise, forget about it. Forget
about it, right, Joe Flacco, he said the quiet part
out loud, and he's just keeping it real. Now, speaking
of keeping it real, lot of noise coming out of Pittsburgh.
(08:59):
Not about Aaron Rodgers. This is not an Aaron Rodgers monologue.
Notice not. However, it is about another big name and
more reporting over the last few hours here that there's
an expectation the team that sells terrible towels, the Petsburg Steelers.
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The Pittsburgh a rival, I say rival of the Browns,
but the Browns lose to the Steelers all the time,
so not really much of a rival. And when the
Browns win once every couple of years, they celebrate like
they've won the Super Bowl, like they did remember the
snow game in Cleveland. Yeah, anyway, So the expectation is
that linebacker t J. Watt will have a new contract
(09:44):
agreement with the Black and Yellow Black and Yellow, Black
and Yellow prior to the start of the regular season.
That's going to happen. So now TJ. Watt, we know
there is a big money off for big money, big money,
big money, no way may stop. So there's big money
off on the table from the Pittsburgh Steelers, but no
(10:04):
deal yet. There is no deal yet. So what is
going on with this situation? You got reports saying it's
gonna happen, It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. It's gonna happen.
Much like the Aaron Rodgers story. There's an offer, there's
big money, but no deal. But we're focusing in on TJ. Watts,
So what is going on here? So it's rather clear
(10:26):
on this one that the offer is big and you
know that came from the Steelers. That didn't come from TJ.
Watts camp. That came from the Steelers. They use their
useful idiots in the media to get that message out.
It's a big offer. It's not big enough. And now
how do I know that? Well, I am a distant
relative of Nostre Damis and friend of no Strudinis. He
lives in Seattle, although it did not come to the
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meet and greet in Vancouver, which is just a relative
short drive from Seattle. So not a big friend of
mine anymore because he did not make the trip. But anyway,
that aside, all right, as a relative of Nostradamis and
friend of Nostradina's the offer not big enough because nothing
has been signed. There's no docu sign, not a crickets.
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It's a we'll see situation. It's a we'll see what's
going on? Situation now? What is following the outline to
a t the cliff notes on how to let the
world know you are not happy and you're belly aching.
You want more money, you want to weaponize the fan
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base to attack the team. And he's following all of
the key points. He's checking all the boxes. What are
the boxes? Skip OTAs, check dropping cryptic Instagram posts that
can be interpreted multiple ways. Check check. Deputizing his brother
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a relative in this case, JJ Watt to publicly nudge
the team to get a bigger offer, which is akin
to pouring gas on the fire. Check check check. But wait,
there's more. You've now created a media circus. Check check,
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check check. That's four checks, so we get it. TJ.
Watt has been the last several years in Pittsburgh. He's
not just your normal generic brand player. He has been
a game changer. In fact, you would argue he is
the most famous player on the Steelers, and it's really
not even close. They don't have anyone that's that famous
on all offense down. They could get Aaron Rodgers, they
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likely will, but Rogers is old. He's washed up. He's
more worried about where his next dose of ayahuasca is
coming from than his next big win. And so you
got a guy, here's a game shit big time players,
we said, and the identity of that team and someone
that it would appear wakes up in the morning and
he does not eat a normal breakfast. He just like
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eats offensive lineman for breakfast. Offensive tackles. He just enjoys that.
And the only reason, the only reason that there would
be any kind of hesitation for the Pittsburgh Steelers here
is because of the age. TJ. Watt is thirty. He's
had a lot of injuries because he's a football player,
a lot of bumps and bruises. It's like, well, he's
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only gonna get hurt more. There's a lot of money,
but you can't not sign him because if you have, boy,
you're screwed either way. You're damned if you do, and
you're damned if you don't. All right, final point, we
stay in the Keystone State, but we go all the
way across and I've made that drive. I've made I've
made the drive from Philly to Pittsburgh. Beautiful country, beautiful forest,
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not a lot in between, not like one big city
in between. That's it. Anyway. So running back, Sequon Barkley,
the cover boy for Madden NFL twenty six, that report
was announced that Sequon Barkley he's got a deal. So question,
should the marching and shouter society of the Eagle fan base,
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the Neanderthal fan base of the Philadelphia Eagles be concerned
about the hecks? Should they be concerned about the hecks?
So I'll answer this by nodding my head aggressively. You
can't see me unless you're watching on the YouTube. I'm yes,
I'm nodding my head aggressively. Yes, because what they have
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done is put the Voodoo Bugaloo right on top of
Sequon Barkley and also the Lombardi Trophy. You might as
well bubble wrap Barkley right now. Put Sequon in bubble wrap.
Why the double whammy? You've got the double whammy. Now,
let's start with the time tested in Madden cover jins.
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He said, well, it's only happened a few times. So
if you look at the data and you go back
in the modern era of the Madden game, we have
a lot of data that confirms this is not just
urban legend, this is not just folklore. There's a there there.
There's a Bermuda triangle situation here, and if you you
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do the math on it, since nineteen ninety nine, that's
a long time. That's a generation. So the last generation
with the Madden game, that's twenty six years a little
over generation. Since nineteen ninety nine, what percentage of the
Madden cover athlete has suffered a serious injury the season
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they appeared on the cover the following season? You have
You have a guess. Is it you think it's A
thirty percent, B ten percent or C five percent or
D none of the above? All right? Since night lock?
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Your answer, don't cheat? Do not cheat? All right? Everybody
says D none of the above. The answer sixty point
seven percent. Sixty seven percent. You just said, if if
I told you to invest in something that paid back
sixty percent dividends, Holy crap, you'd be rich. Sixty a
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six hundred batting average sixty point seven percent of Madden
cover athletes since nineteen ninety nine, there have been twenty
eight seventeen out of the twenty eight set because a
couple of years they had more than one. Seventeen out
of the twenty eight have suffered injuries the season following
the cover appearance. Most recently Christian McCaffrey, and I remember
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doing this very monologue last year. Christian McCaffrey found himself
wouldn't hurt anymore over the Niners. McCaffrey the latest. He
missed forty nine er games, multiple games in the twenty
twenty four season. He missed the first game because of
an achilles' injury and then missed the last several games
of the regular season with knees brands. But even when
he was playing, he had multiple injuries and missed chunks
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of games. You want hundred, so you mix in the
fact now I mentioned the double whammy, so you've got
the time tested and Madden Jinx the Voodoo Bugaloo. So
you've got that. But then also you have the fact
that Sakwan Barkley went out last season and let's just
call it like it is. He painted the starry Night
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last season in Philadelphia. It was a work of art.
It was a masterpiece that he put together and wasn't
all him. Was the offensive line hurts. It was a
cacophony of amazing plays in the backfield. So what happens
after you paint your starry night and the next couple
of paintings not that good, so expect a regression to
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the mean. A regression to mean extreme outcomes are followed
by more moderate ones. Yeah, so that is code for
the data evens out, which means Barkley is going to
go down. His performance will not be as good. And
then you've got the self fulfilling prophecy of the Madden
Hex the jinx that has been put on. We'd also
(18:17):
like to alert all the affiliates that every TV in
the building is updating. There is new software, So every
monitor that we have here is updating downloading software. Please wait,
do not interrupt. So I'm glad they're doing it. Why
don't they do that during the day. Why do they
only do it at night? I don't understand. The computers
they always have to update when we're here, and even
(18:38):
the TVs. Okay, just one time, I'd like to see
them do this at noon, like, hey, let's do a
noon update, and everyone lose their mind. All those daytime people,
it lose their fricking mind. They wouldn't know what to
do anyway. All right is the Ben Mahler Show, and
we will press on here. We'll take your calls at
eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. I see some
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big names there lined up in the queue, and we
loved Anthony from Louisiana. A new caller Shock not a
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Nar was great, although he mostly just wanted to flirt
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poutine and it was it was wonderful, had a great
(20:57):
time in Vancouver. Some some photo, some more photo later today.
But if you want to see what the poutine, it
seems like a lot of people don't even know what
that is. I don't know how you would not know that.
But it's just fries with gravy and cheese curds. And
so I went to the couple of top places there
in Vancouver head he had a fine time. And I
know my pal's not for everyone, but I enjoyed. I
enjoyed what I ate anyway. Just go to the phones.
(21:19):
We'll say hello to eat Dog in New York? What's
going on? Eat Dog in a Long Island?
Speaker 4 (21:27):
What I'm home a long time. I'm gonna have that cope,
cope with zimming against you, but I'll let it go.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Do you want to go back on hold? I can
put you back on hold of you? Why you want
to go back on home?
Speaker 4 (21:39):
I'm right by the way. Who answers the phones? Is
that guy Bill Miller answers the phones?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
No, Bill doesn't answer that. He didn't answer the phone.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Who answers the phones?
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Why are you worried about that?
Speaker 4 (21:51):
Because on the who am I game I had, I
went to my other phone and I got Victor Martina
is right.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Well, we don't take calls on the who am ikey? Yeah,
it's only are you on X? Are you on Twitter?
What used to be X? Or what is X? But
used to be Twitter? Are you on there?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Who?
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Also? I'm gonna joke for you.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
You didn't answer my question?
Speaker 4 (22:16):
What's the question?
Speaker 1 (22:17):
I just say? Are you on social media? Is e
Dog on social media?
Speaker 5 (22:22):
No?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
You're not? Okay? Why not soon not to be? You're smart?
Speaker 4 (22:30):
Thank you? I'm very smart. I'm a smart man.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
I don't mean like books smart. I mean it's it's
if I didn't have this job, I don't know that
would be on social media.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
But yeah, so anyway, I I know, listen of it
took all right?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Hello, I'm listening.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Okay, take my wife please, that's so good. Anyway?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Wait wait wait wait was that the joke?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Yeah? It was like my girlfriend please.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Any any lady up there? You got rid of? Was
it Melissa? You got rid of Melissa? You were dating Melissa? Right?
Wasn't Melissa? I don't want to no, law Okay, I'm
sure she's devastated. Uh and have you found anyone else?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Christa is on the horizon?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Christa interesting, very pretty girl.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
We went to the dinner last week.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
You went to a nice diner. Did you pay?
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Of course?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Not? Okay?
Speaker 6 (23:33):
Awesome one.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Golfers wear two pairs of.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
What's that? Why do girlfriends wear two pairs of pants?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
That?
Speaker 1 (23:42):
What you said? What are golfers with golfers? I thought
it's gonna be odd. Girlfriend. Why do golfers wear two
pairs of pants? I don't know?
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Gets to get a home one? Now you heard of
brutal college?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Do you have kids. That's a great dad joke. Do
you have children?
Speaker 4 (23:59):
I might have kids, but it's inappropriate if I don't.
If I said, how I can't have the kids, but it's.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Inappropriate something I something chopped off back when you were
younger or something.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
No, definitely not okay. I can't. I can't cider on
the and was I really can't say it, but it's
okay anyway. Blue College is u c l A. You
know why? Why because it's the university corn black as
the avenue. And also always at the supermarket the other.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Day, congratulating, congratulations. I was always exciting. I always write
down when I go to the supermarket. I always remember.
I tell my friends I'm at the I'm at we
call it the grocery store.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Sometimes tell supermarket Steve about this.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Well, he yeah, I'll tell Well, what do you want
me to pass on to supermarket Steve? What's your question?
Because this guy's supermarket Steve's an a hole. I don't
know if you want him to comment.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
I don't want to talk about supermency. But I was
at the supermarket day and I was wearing my bull
hat and a Miller jersey, and the guy comes up
to me, and he goes, how you doing good? He
goes to a high five, So I go, why, he goes,
just give me a high power. So I gave my
high five. And when I gave my high five, So
what happened was he was wearing a Chicago hat, and
(25:20):
I thought he was giving me a high phi because
I was wearing a Miller jersey. But it was because
I was wearing a Bulls hat.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Okay, and which Miller has been multiple Millers for the
Chicago Bulls. Reggie Regi, Well, he didn't play for the Bulls.
You were wearing a Pacer.
Speaker 4 (25:36):
No, he played for the Pacers.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You had a Pacers jersey?
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Hu, yeah, regiemail, why would you do that?
Speaker 1 (25:42):
That's a fan code violation. You can't do a fan
code violation.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
What the hell does that mean?
Speaker 1 (25:49):
They play in the same the same conference, in the
same the same division, Indiana and Chicago rivals, so you
can't wear that other teams you're not allowed to do.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
And I know this.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
Listen, listen, Larry. You know I can do what I want, okay,
And I'm telling you that's right now. The Bulls won't
win it. You know, if the Bulls win two more championships.
They're gonna be sponsored.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
You know my who I'm pot to say it.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
They're gonna, they're gonna if they went to they went
two more games too, was uh championships. That means they
win eight championship games.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Okay, all right, can I go? You been on the air, lone,
I've had other people are on. You're bow guarding all
the time. Why are you bow guarding all the time.
You're you're you're a hawserd. Shame on, you're shuck.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Come on, give me a break.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
But all right, I'll give you a break. All right,
thank you, go away. Let's saylo do Sugar White Mic,
who's in South Beach? Hello Sugar White? Mic?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (26:53):
No, Ben, I got people calling my phone. You know,
I hope you have the same energy that you did
for the Edmonton Oledge like last year, like.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
You did this.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Shear, here we go, Oilers, here we go, Here we go, Oilers.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Here we go.
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Keep that same energy.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I'll be there. I'll be celebrating with my friends in Canada.
Speaker 5 (27:15):
And you do that because when we win it all
again this year, they're gonna change the Stanley Cup to FPI,
which stands for Florida panthers irritational and Ben, can you
please stop using my famous phrase the voo doo boogaaloo.
I'm the originator, the creator of that phrase. I know
you love using it. It's okay, just plug my name
every now and days.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
So whenever I say voodoo boogaloo, I gotta throw sugar
white mic in there. And if not, I gonna have
I'm gonna have proms.
Speaker 5 (27:40):
Yeah, yeah, you know, I got people calling me from
South Beach. You know it's a little rainy now, you
know we can't party like we is because, you know,
because then we're gonna go to Los Olas to party.
Los Solas is the southeast version of Fort Lauderdale, So
you know, we're getting ready for this back to back parade,
you know, kind of make David kind of who cares?
Speaker 6 (27:57):
I buy?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
So you're going to Edmonton for the break. The pres
gonna be in Edmonton, so you're gonna make the trip.
That's a long flight from from South Florida to Edmonton.
Speaker 5 (28:05):
I don't even want to spell Edmonton Edmonton. How did
they get through the western count it's the what's the
conference that week? You're in that part of the country.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yes, I represent the entire western part of the United States. Absolutely,
sugar White Mike, one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Yes, gosh, that's embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
You know what's embarrassing. I watched the Marlin Rockies game
and there were thirteen people in the crowd. That's embarrassing.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
Believe you, I will not argue with that. You will
not get it, Okay, for I am trying to get
to the move. But I don't understand how they signed
a thirty five year least, which is about me.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
They built a new stead they were building. I remember
when they I went to the Marlins games. They play
in the old state, and they said, oh, we get
a new state game.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Don't say that on national Act.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
She won the World Series when I was there, and
years ago. I can't say which year they won the
World Series because I'll date myself with and three. There
you go. In ninety seven, I was there, Boom they
won the World too. And he beat a team that
doesn't exist anywhere, the Cleveland Indians in Game seven, and
it went extra headings and the place was packed. It
was wild.
Speaker 5 (29:02):
You're talking, you're talking seventy thousand there that night.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
It was insane, man, and people were running around with
the Marlins gear the Cuban flag. There was a celebration and.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
You remember Ben when they were doing the fish.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I remember the old That was one of my most
first time I ever saw the World Series of the Morris.
Fans go crazy. All right, I gotta go. I'm gonna
give you the voodoo boogaloo, Sugar White, Mike, Okay, thank you, sir,
go away. All right, there you go, all right, very nice.
I say hello to Enie. Let's go with San Florida.
We go from South Florida to Central Florida, a real
Mickey mouse town. And Raphael is in Orlando. What's going on? Rafael?
Speaker 6 (29:38):
Welcome, big props, Sugar White, mic Man. I look forward
to seeing him at the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
The Pacers are.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Going to be the champions. They are going to win
the NBA Final.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well, you sound very confident. You also sound very tough tired.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
I am very tired of been on hold for a
long time.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Now you're complaining. Why would you complain?
Speaker 2 (30:06):
You?
Speaker 6 (30:08):
I am Pacers are going to win this thing.
Speaker 5 (30:11):
I want.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
This was my hot take a long time.
Speaker 1 (30:13):
That's your hot take. Now now it's like a lukewarm
a hot take. But now it's a lukewarm takes. You'd
admit that's a lukewarm take, now, not a hot take.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
The Panthers are also going to take the championship as well.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Are you are you really?
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Are you really?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Are you really an Indiana Pacer fan or you're just
jumping on the bandwagon?
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I am? I am a Chicago Bulls fan? What Michael Jordan's.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Why would you pull for the Pacers if you're a
Bulls fan?
Speaker 6 (30:42):
I'm a I'm what you call a a fan of
Michael Jordan. I am a guy I grew up in
the eighties. We don't have a fan where we're orphans you.
We don't have an actual team. The Pacers are going
to win.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
This, okay, all right, all right, we've got we've established
that take. That take is now established. Any other takes
you'd like to throw out, because I have to go
any other takes you want to establish?
Speaker 6 (31:13):
Yes, the Panthers are gonna win, and.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
If they don't, I'm gonna hunt you down. All right,
Go to bed, All right, go to bed. That's a
terrible call. Go to bed, Thank you night. God. Anyway,
it is the Ben Mathers Show, and briefly briefly, remember
that story where the Tampa Bay Rays they were giving
(31:40):
some promotional item away for Wander Franco, their star they
had signed for this big contract. Well, he ended up
in some legal trouble back in his native land, and
it turns out that he had been canoodling I guess
more than cannodling with an underage girl and the family.
(32:00):
He went to the authorities and all that, and the
Rays put him on the knotty list, the suspended list.
So he's been stuck in this weird spy was not
He's not suspended. He's not playing suspended animation, I guess
is the way that it would be described. Anyway. We
have an update the Great Hector gold Masim of the
(32:22):
great baseball reporters out there. He reports the latest update.
Wander Franco, the father of the minor who he allegedly
was stooping. The father has formally withdrawn the complaint against him,
claiming it was all a matter of a misunderstanding and manipulation.
(32:44):
And this was in a preliminary hearing in court yesterday.
So hello, and everyone's wondering how much money did he
have to pay and does it even matter? Like you
paid the money. How Ever, it's not like baseball is
going to allow you back. Trevor Bauer was never charged
with the crime. He's he's been sent to Siberia and
(33:09):
he won a cy young. Nobody will touch Trevor Bauer
and he was not convicted or even charged with any crime.
This guy's been accused, he's in court, and yet the
I even though it was possible the father of the
minor girl who was sleeping with Wander Franco according to
the legal case, withdrew the complaints. It was all a misunderstanding. Okay, anyway,
(33:33):
it is the Bean Mahler Show. We will pass on
got mallard of the third degree. Here's the Insta Tribune.
Yankees captain Aaron Judge has become the first player to
have a three to ninety batting averager better and an
OPS of twelve forty eight or better through the first
fifty eight games of a season since blank. That is
the Insta tribuat the answer. We'll get to it. We'll
(33:55):
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Speaker 5 (34:34):
Thank God for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
All right, let's get back to it, and here is
the Insta trivia. Yankees captain Aaron Judge became the first
player to have a three to ninety batting average or
better a twelve forty eight ops or better through the
first fifty eight games of a season since blank. That
is the question, and what is the answer. Let's see
(34:59):
who who knows the answer? Dick Trickle guest by Mister Irrigation,
Eddie Goodell from Donkey Sausage, jose Albouvey who did that
strip tease and didn't get punished for it? From Alf
the Alien Opiner, Wally Pipp from I forty Ian Paige
(35:19):
Dad Iowa Sam guessed by Sheen into Mourning. That's about
what he looks like. Who else do we have? Actor
Lewis Hoffman, who is twenty eight today from the Late
Night Drug Tester King Roy is going with President Trump
as his answer. Mario Mendoza from William Miggi Cabrera guess
by Eke and Roseville, Minnesota, and a former Big leaguer
(35:41):
FP Santangelo, the very handsy former Big leaguer that is
from Bay City, Tony Andrew Jones guests by Robbie the
Mariner fan Tila Tequila. Well, whatever happened to her? That's
from That's a name for the past from Trucker Joe Man.
Where did she she's still She's still pretty cute. I
(36:02):
don't know, man, that's a name. I have not heard
that name in a long time. Roberto Luongo from JT
the Wingman. Yeah, she had some mileage back in the day.
Big Reagan Iowa not to be I did neither. Big
Reagan Iowa says the hot Tub Jacuzzi Ben Mally looking
at the hot tub Jacuzzie bo Jackson from Robin, Minnesota.
(36:23):
Cal Raley Baseball's MVP from Kelly in Des Moines. Luis
Gonzalez guests by Slim tim It says, answer Fred Flintstone
from Mark and Santa Monica. All right, there you go,
Bill says, thanks for putting the krem the cream of
the crop. Pacer fan on and he got all upset. Anyway,
do you have an answer of the ring? I'm going
with Matra Ben, Okay, that is wrong. The correct answer
(36:47):
A fine Canadian lad Larry Walker with the Colorado Rockies
back in the day nineteen ninety seven. It's how about
that to the third degree?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
This is one big then gets grail all.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Right, thirty three? Time here cool.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
The Arizona Cardinals took a step forward as a team
last year, winning eight games, but still were not able
to make the playoffs. Ben, the over underwin total in
Vegas for the Cardinals is set to eight and a half.
Does Arizona take another step forward?
Speaker 1 (37:21):
No, and they don't because they don't have a quarterback.
Alligator arms, Murray, you know what you're gonna get. Alligator arms.
Murray falls apart. He's good for about seven or eight weeks,
and then the last part of the year his body
falls apart. He's not productive. It's happened year after year.
So they'll be a middling team until they get a
real quarterback, not a fun sized quarterback.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
Next, yesterday you talked about how the Knicks overachieved to
get as far as they did in these playoffs.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
Now, Ben, what moves do they need to make in
order to get to the next level. Well, the obvious
one would be to get Yiannis, and there's rumors that
New York. We talked about Toronto, but the NBA would
like Giannis to play with the Knickerbockers. The problem is,
the whole dynamic is Jalen Brunson. He is the head
of the pyramid and he's not gonna want to take
a back seat to giannisident to Kombo. So they're gonna
(38:09):
have to find other support players that don't vanish, like
og and Enobi and some of these other guys that
at times just disappeared. Next.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Now, the Basketball Hall of Fame seems to let everyone in,
but apparently not. Robert or TMZ caught up with Ori
this past weekend, who told him that he belongs in there,
does he, Ben.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Well, he does only because it's the Basketball Hall of Fame.
If it was the Baseball Hall of Fame, you'd say
absolutely not. But in basketball, you look at who's in there.
In fact, I think alf the Alien Opiner was inducted
a couple of years ago and nobody noticed. But yeah, Robert,
Robert Orri had seven or eight of the biggest shots
in his era of the NBA. Absolutely, how did we
(38:50):
know he passes on board? That's so rare. I won Poppy.
I won Poppy.
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