December 10, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Edwin Diaz signing with the Dodgers and fans threatening to boycott MLB in 2026 over the signing, agent Scott Boras' latest rant at the Winter Meetings, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you do.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numbberd two, our number two, and crank up
the trumpet, says Edwin Diaz. The big news in baseball?
Does this Edwin Diaz signing with the Dodgers as he
leaves the Mets. Budge the needle for you. Also, what
do you say to baseball fans threatening to boycott the
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twenty twenty six season because it's not fair that Edwin
Diaz is going to the Dodgers. And how did Scott
Boris's latest rant at the Winter Meetings do on the judges'
scorecard as he was puns of fun.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We'll get to that and more right now here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It is our number two, not only a closer a bulldozer.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Welmeme.
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Crown is yours, So I leave this hour from the
Winter meetings in Orlando.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
They have gone Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That's normally where during pandemics they hand out Mickey Mouse
Championship rings. In Orlando, Baseball GM's getting there so their
families can all go to Disney World on the company
dime and they can pretend to be working. Now, there
was some news out of the Winter meetings of the
Mets closer Edwin Diaz, a free agent, has decided to
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say bye bye to the New York Mats. He has
found a new home. The news coming out. If you
have not heard yet, this is rocking the baseball universe.
People upset. They're annoyed because Edwin Diaz is taking his
talents to the Dodgers. D oh d ge e rs
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The Dodger is a three year deal for sixty nine million.
Insert your own dirty joke right there. La gets the
top closer on the market and takes away a valuable
piece of the New York Mats bullpen. But don't worry
Mets fans. You have Devin Williams who will poop his
pants by May that DZ a three time All Star,
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eight time All Star, and are of under two I'm
told that's good and converted twenty eight of thirty one saves.
I'm told that's also good for the Mets this past season.
He's got the nasty combo dish, a lot of speed.
There's a need for speed, high velocity, and a vicious slider.
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Just like when I pitch. Now, I have the lollipop pitch,
which it gets people out. It doesn't matter how you
get them out. It's just getting hitters out. And that's
the case. Diz thirty one has posted throughout his career
big strikeout numbers. And that's why the nerds get all
horny when they talk about Edwin Diaz, and that's why
he's getting paid. So that's a good jumping off point.
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Let us discuss the question, does this Edwin Diaz signing
with the Dodgers does it budge the needle?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Does it budge the needle?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So I've got stock market mustache and three course meal,
and we will combine all of these things together.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And we are going to play connect three is what
we're going to do. So number this number stop.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
This does not just budge the needle. Okay, it does
not just budge the needle. This thing is spinning round.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And round and round and round.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And like a damn wheel of misfortune, which is what
often these signings turn out to be. Okay, listen, the
Dodgers yet again, they didn't do this when I was
doing postgame Dodger talk back in the day, they signed stiffs.
Now I'm not doing that. I haven't done that years.
And the Dodgers going out there, They're going to Beverly
Hills where Dalo drive and you know, signing every year
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they sign one of the top players in baseball every
fricking year.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Okay, it's insane.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
They came home with a cologne wrenched closer of their dreams.
At least in theory, that's the key part. In theory,
Diez is just what the doctor ordered.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, are you talking about the Dodgers wore in the
World Series. They don't need edwin is okay? Yeah, okay, yeah,
they won the World Series.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
They had a bullpen this past year that was stuff
with underachievers, has bins and never wors.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That was the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yah stiffs like Kirby Yates who had a good career
but was washed up, and a bullpen that if you
look at it from just any reasonable analysis. The bullpen
that forced the analytical nerds that run the Dodgers, not
Dave Roberts, the analytical nerds. Every game was like Benny
versus the Penny, where they were flipping a coin up
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in the air trying to improvise what they were going
to do in the month of October, and they put
out a bunch of starters and they would duct tape
their open together and it worked. Then when Diaz is
the kremda krem is what he is, and so he
comes in there and you cue up the hype and
that means, I guess, Timmy Trumpet, we got it?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Where is he part of the true Do we have
Timmy Trumpet not coming?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Never?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It is like this teeter rule the organist at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's called Narco.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I'm gonna add that to my music on my phone
now because he's a Dodger, so I to play that
unless he sucks and I'll delete it.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But there it is.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
There, Edwin Diaz who that famous intro where that Timmy
Trumpet song Narka. I don't know who that guy was
before this, and that went viral and became a top
song and all that. So that's part of the deal
coming to Dodger Stadium. However, the issue I have being
the voice of reason unless I'm not. But Diaz has kryptonite,
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and the kryptonite is as a reliever. The every reliever
comes with the fine print.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There's a warning label on every relief pitcher.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It's relief pitchers go up, they go down, they go sideways.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's like the stock market.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's like you can invest in a fortune five hundred
blue chip stock, which is there's no guarantee in anyway reasonably.
You know, you're not gonna lose a lot of money,
might make a little bit of money, might lose a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You're not gonna lose that much.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And then there's the highly volatile stock, which is often
medical companies or power companies, things like that. If you
play a stock market, and that's what every relief pitcher is,
even the good ones are a highly volatile stock. And
that's the problem. Right, the Dodgers have already lived this life.
They have lived this life, this sitcom. That was Tanner Scott,
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who signed a seventy two million dollar contract last offseason.
He was a top reliever on the market last offseason.
Seventy two million bucks, and he became the infomercial pitch
man for the product that you only see late at night,
the barfl Mattic, and he was out there and he
was selling the bar from Mattic Tanner Scott. He set
the Dodger record for most blown saves in the season
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after signing a seventy two million dollars countract.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
He was so bad. How bad was he?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
He was so bad that the Dodgers didn't even pitch
him in the playoffs. Playoffs, Yeah, didn't even now My
problem with this. When I was a young lad, I.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Was coming up in radio. I was working in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
At the mighty sixth ninety which is now like a
Mexican Formatch State whatever. It was a border blaster station,
and the padres at the time had a GM named
Kevin Towers. Now he's long gone, Rest in peace, Kevin Towers.
But Kevin Towers was the maestro of building a bullpen.
And I've always gone by the gospel of Kevin Towers
his mantra way before the nerdation of baseball. And everyone's
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been brought in here and indoctrinated in the nerd ball.
But Kevin towers. Back in the day with the padres,
he knew that relievers were volati tile as we've talked
about of all tile stock, and that they were terrible investments.
And the piers didn't spend a lot of money in
those days. They stilln't spend it. I guess they spent
a lot now, but back then they didn't. So relief
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pitcher's bad investment. And really there's a lot of year
to year, there's lady luck involved in it, there's workload,
there's mechanical quirks, and relief pitchers often like offensive linemen
in football, the equivalent would be the comp would be
offensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That you can take offensive linemen.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And take them on a team that's terrible, and then
they go to a team that has a quarterback that
doesn't hold the ball that long. Suddenly they're thought of
as great offensive linemen because the nerds don't know how
to great offensive linemen, so they think it's all on
the fat guys. Because the nerds are skinny. It'd like
to blame fat people. They fat shame. So it's's usually
the quarterback that holds the ball too long that leads
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to pressures and things like that. But in baseball that
we're talking about baseball here with Edwin Diaz and all that.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It's it's it's year to year.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It's a it's a little little issue with your fingernail
that causes a problem and your confidence is boned. So
the Das deal, this is a luxury purchase, you know,
it's it is.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, that's where it pure and simple that went out.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
And why would z want to come to the Dodgers
when the Dodgers they don't necessarily don't necessarily uh you
look at the picture. They need bullpen help, but they
don't necessarily have to know and when they can get
other people and they can save some money. But he
wanted to go there because they have all the creature comforts.
They spoil their players more than anyone. They're the only
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team in the industrial complex of North American sport that
has two planes. They have one plane just for the players.
They're so spoiled. There's such spoiled babies. They need one plane.
And everyone else, all the supports staff, they have to
go on a different plane because they're the unwashed, they're
the hoy poloy. They go on a different plane. That's
how much the Dodgers spoil these guys. Okay, they're they're
like royalty with the Dodgers, and so you want to
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go there, and they pay great money and all. So,
but the Dodgers are rolling the dice on this, make
no mistake, and they're hoping that the trumpet, timmy trumpet
doesn't turn into Timmy kazoo.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
We don't want to we on a trumpet. What if
it's a kazoo? I don't know, all right now, Page two.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So the Dodgers move to add Edwin Diaz has led
to an angry response, an uprising, a social media uprising.
The mob is not happy, not Andrew and Bakersfield. I'm
talking about the mob, and there's it's not fair boo hooooo,
A bad for baseball.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
My favorite is I'm not watching baseball. I love that.
I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I am not watching baseball because the Dodgers signed a
relief pitcher. Okay, So question to the angry uprising, what
do you say to the alleged baseball fans in air
quotes threatening to boycott the twenty twenty six baseball season
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because the Dodgers have added Edwin Diaz and they're upset
by that. So first of all, stop the madness, right
stop them. This is another reminder that social media is
the funhouse of mirrors in society.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
It just is.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Everything is distorted in social media, everything is overcooked. Everything
is a primal scream and a world that needs a whisper.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It just is. And baseball is a weak link sport.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
We used to talk about all the time when we
had the guy Roberto on the show Who's the Now
bus Driver?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
But Roberto, We used to discuss this.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The problem with baseball is you can have the super
team and it likely doesn't matter. And the Dodgers this
year winning the World Series a great example. In Game
seven of the World Series, the Toronto Blue Jays were
on the brink of winning the championship, bringing it back
to Canada, and a absolute stiff, a guy that sucks
named Miguel Rojas hit one of the biggest home runs
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in Dodger history to tie the game up, and then
Will Smith ended up winning the game later on, But
Miguel Ross. The Dodgers have Otani and Mookie Betts and
Freddie Freeman and all these studs, and it was Miguel
Rojas who, by any measurement sucks and hit the biggest
home run the Dodgers had before Will.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Smith hit the game win. That's the point.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's the players on the fringes that often decide. People
get so worked up about the big stars and everything.
It's not the billboard stars that often decide these things.
And let's be real here, the Dodgers have become the
dastardly whiplash of professional sports. They are the full mustache
twirling villains of Major League Baseball. And they're just laughing
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evilly like a cartoon villain.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Wood.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
They're playing with a knife. I don't know why they're
doing that. They're kicking your dog. And they've gone to
the dark side. And I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So listen. They keep winning, you know, not around there anymore.
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Dave Roberts they've embraced, and Dave Roberts is just the figurehead.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It's the nerds, but they've embraced.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
The bad guy cape wearing. You know, I'm just doing
business and business is booming. Business is booming, and that's
the thing I'm not gonna watch.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
The ratings were through the roof.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You had a Canadian team versus the Dodgers, an American team,
a West Coast team, and they set a record for
ratings in the World Series. And the reason they sent
the record for ratings is because the Dodgers have proven.
It's been proven not wait before the dog. The villain
is where it's at. Click any click, you can't help yourself.
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You need villains. And the twenty twenty six Dodgers, just
like twenty twenty five and years before that, the Dodgers
again will lead baseball in buzz because even the haters,
when they're drinking the hater raid will tune in for
the shot in freuda, hoping the Dodgers lose, and then
if the Dodgers win, they'll be who's not fair?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Dog player? Unfair? Which is the ultimate look.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
If you're one of those people, you're such a bad fan,
it's so embarrassing. It's like, well, every underdog story, this
can blow you. Every underdog story needs a bad guy,
a villain, a can't beat them story that makes the
underdog dummies?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
What final point to the Winter Meetings at Large? At Large?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
At the Winter Meetings, so Scott Boris held court in
Orlando at the resort there, and he waxed loquacious to
a bunch of baseball scribes running up their expense accounts.
He waxed loquacious Scott Boris about his clients in the
classic cornball style that only Scott Borros can do. Among those,
he talked about the center fielder Cody Bellinger. He said,
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I haven't met a team that dodges a five tool player.
See what he did is and he mentioned the Angels.
He mentioned like four or five teams. He mentioned the
Giants and the Reds, which is a dead giveaway that
those teams are the teams that want Cody Bellinger. He
talked about Tiger's pitcher Treak Schoob. He said, quote, He's
(17:10):
truly a saber proof Tiger.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
See what I did? Why he did it? I didn't
do it.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
If you want to look at the tail of the
Tiger without Scoobs, there's a mystery machine. He talked about
Philly's starting pitcher, free agent Ranger Suarez. He said, in
the postseason, when you add a sores, you're armed and rangerous.
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All right, question, how did Scott Boris his latest rant
from the Winter Meetings due on the judges scorecard? All right,
we'll go to the judges scorecard.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
In a minute.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It is a reminder before we get to the judge scorecard.
The Scott Boris rant is a reminder there are three seasons,
not four seasons. There are three seasons on the baseball counter.
There's the regular season, there's the off season, and then
there's Scott Boris season. I'm not even forget about the
postseason because most teams don't make the postseason. So you've
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got the regular season, the offseason, and Scott Boris season.
That is where Scott Boris emerges from a cave in
Newport Beach and he comes out of his layer and
he unleashes a corn maze of conversation that is so
thick when Scott is talking here that you need a
machete and a Dakota ring to.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Get through it.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Now, his latest rant, it was like something Iowa Sam
used to do when he was on the show for
two minutes before he quit the show. That would be
puns of fun. Puns of fun would be what that
is and a linguistic amusement park. And Boris and his
team of gifted, well paid advisors from their Newport Coast compound,
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they handcraft this bull crap. They do I enjoy it?
I think it's so dumb. Enjoy it I do. It's
like artists in work, is what it is. Scott Boris
going on these rants and stuff, and each line is
carved out of pure hocum, pure hocum. And just let
the man cook. Let Scott Morris cook. At the winter
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meetings and the General Manager meetings, we look forward to
it every year. Scott Borris served a three course meal
of malarkey.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It was moy.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
The first course was the appetizer. That was a salad
that was a word salad tossed in cornball dressing. Yum
yum to my tum.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Dumb.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Course number two was a course of grammar gumbo with
a mystery meat metaphor side. That's the second course. That's
the main course. Now, the dessert was candy coded nonsense.
And so you got that that candy coded nonsense is
so sweet it will literally rot your brain, that's how
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sweet it is. And so the only thing missing was
the wardrobe. That was it and Boris should have walked
in wearing the riddler's green suit. That would have been perp.
We said this at the GM meetings too. Just come
in there, with the Riddler's green suit, question marks in
the air everywhere. Just do it, Just do it. You
get that custom leather green mask, the whole shebang.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
All of it. And he's the mastermind of free agency.
He is.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
It's a little subtle nod to the Zodiac Killer. It's
cryptic rambling much like the Zodiac. Right put the doss together.
He did drop that saberproof tiger line. That was Chef's
kiss is what that was. That's the Ohio State marching band,
dotting the eye is what that was. There mallards scorecard
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in terms of punnery, ten out of ten for the punnery,
ten out of ten for the punnury, zero out of
ten on clarity, and I'd say one hundred for utter nonsense.
And that's how the scorecard reads. It is. The Ben
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H Some believe they're gonna spend some money this offseason.
I don't think they've spent any yet. It's uh.
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Trade with the Red Sox though, they got Marquise Grissom's kids,
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Tickets there and big big move. Who Marquise Grissom's kid
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I don't even know. Oh it's what is his name here?
It's Vaughan Grissom. You've got g Vaughan Grissom. Cool, that's
big move. It's a big trade at the winter meetings.
And and the Angels gave up outfield prospect Isaiah Jackson.
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Big move.
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I just it's funny, how like I don't know the juxtaposis,
that's not even the right word, but comparing like the Angels.
I've gotten calls from sales reps like trying to get
me to get season tickets come back to the Halo.
I've been on the Denver Broncos season ticket wait list
for eleven years now.
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How's that looking? Not good?
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I called like last week to see what my updated
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Uh huh, it's like thirty thousand.
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Thirty thousands. So a lot of people have to die
and give up their tickets for you.
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To Yeah, I probably won't get selected to buy season
tickets until I'm like sixty.
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Will you still be interested in doing that when you're sixty?
Yeah you will.
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Okay, there you go. And the big news in the building.
People coming up so many. They spent seventy dollars to
have a package delivered to Lorraine.
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Do you hear about this coup?
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Seventy bucks for a Just send me the seventy But
I mean it was seventy dollars, LORRAINO. What was in
the box? Was it something good? Jumbo squishmellow, Jumbo squishmellow?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Is how much do those cost? Are these seventy dollars?
I don't think so.
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No, Okay, I mean that's I mean that's a lot.
Did you get a box coop in the mill? Did
you get No? No, just just from Cowboy Killer. Cowboy
Killer the other day, hooked U up. Yeah, I'm wearing the hat.
By the way, this is the hat I'm wearing some
Cowboy Killers.
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Is the hattie. You send me a nice Dodger cap.
I get that on today. I got a Broncos poncho.
Very cool. I have a Cowboys jersey, but it's upside down.
How is it upside down?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Why?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Why is it the name Cowboys is upside down on
the jersey?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That was okay? That was a Is a user error
or is that designed that way? I don't. I can't
because aren't people wearing I see people wearing hats. See
that's the logo.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
That's what I was telling the Raina that it's a
trend now. But I think it was a manufacturer.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, got it on sale discount rack, you know something
like that. Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Let's say hello to legally blind Christopher, who's on the
international line in London. Hello, legally blind Christopher.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
I can't wait to see my roaming charges on this bill.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Well, you know it's well you want.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You won't actually be able to see it, so.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Right, that's right, that's no problem.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
That's why I'm sending you guys things in brails because
everyone says I can't see anyhow. But that's okay, mister Maller.
I need to know that you've got your lovely gift
for the new year and your extended holiday coming up.
I want to know, since I can't understand cricket whatsoever,
one of my hopes of being able to sign my
best picture in my lifetime, I have one decent Christmas
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presence this year.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Okay, so you know, for those who don't know, we
know the whole story here legally blind Christopher. He's an
ex pat. He lives in London, he was living in
the North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
His heart is in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
He's a long suffering Detroit Tiger fan and he worships
at the altar of Trek schoobl the pitcher. So I
would say, the chances of school Well signing an extension
with the Tigers, I'm going to go fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Fifteen percent.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Great.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Nice, We'll go back and watch the Seven Days of Cricket.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Hey wait a minute, fifteen but that's one to fifty
hitter in baseball. That's like Miguel Rojas who did hit
a home run the World Series. So you got there's
a chance.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
No, no, no chance, mister Maller, You've ruined my Christmas
yet again. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Yes, my important thing is you have your Happyhonica gifts.
You have yet another reliever that will I'll wear you
another World series while I'm sitting watching cricket for days
sports force to be Hey, I'll have a great holiday.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Thank you all right, sir, thank you the great legally
blind Christopherus. I'm somewhere in the Greater London area checking in,
not anywhere near Terry who.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I haven't heard from Terry. I know what he's up to.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
But Terry Who's in England, but he's far away from London.
He's out out in the stakes. Let's go to e
dog or dog is on Long Island. Hello, eat Dog, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Hello mister Ben. How you doing today?
Speaker 9 (29:17):
Dog?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
If I was any better, I'd be a met, But
not a New York Met because they just lost Edwin
Diaz to the.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Dodgers, he thinks. Anyway, Anyway, what I got to say
is this, did you ever try sailor? Mins?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Did I try?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I don't believe I have sailors. Sounds like a deli.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
No, it's like a chocolate Uh, you know a chocolate thing.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well, you're really selling it. It's a chocolate thing. Well,
what kind of Is it a chocolate candy bar or
is it something else?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
No, it's like it's like a chocolate I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I don't explain it though, Well why did you bring
it up?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Somebody you can eat that it's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I don't. It's called what he said Sdermans, Yes, mince.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Centers. Yes, I believe that.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You're intentionally mispronouncing it. You're just making this.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Up anyway, Ben, I just want to say I once
again to the late night drug tester who likes me
a lot, and I appreciate that there is a.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Rumor that you are actually the late night drug Tester,
that that you have been revealed here that you are
pretending to not know the late night drug tester and
this is all a ruse and you are actually Well
that wouldn't that be something that you would say.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It was a zero.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
You're saying that he is late night drug tester. Yeah, no,
no chance, no, because late night drug Tester actually has
good content on x.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh Eat Dog. He just took a shot at you
Eat dog.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
It's okay, It's okay, miss Cay is my I'm not
being secular here, but I got k I'm a nice
pizza tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
And what kind of pizza does she like? You like?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Sheese pizza? Is she like garlic onion? I like garlic onion,
Bell pepper, that's my go to pizza.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
What she like? Uh? She likes onion and I like
on you we have something in coming and she says,
e dog dog. She goes my name and I go
what's my name? And she goes egos.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
That's quite a what a what a romance that is?
That's what a catch what a catchy? So you're dating
a woman who yells your name? That's amazing. Right, Yeah,
what if she calls you? What if she calls you
Joe dog?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Will you dumper?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
She won't call me that she knows better. Okay, but
I'm definitely that. I'm definitely not the drug tester. I'm
definitely not him.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
No, but you do you enjoy drugs?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Not at all. I'm so the twenty eight years twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
You look at this unbelievable and you're only twenty five
years old. You've been sober twenty three years before you
were alive.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You were sober. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I'm fifty four years old now.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
No, you're not I don't believe you more nineteen seventy one,
No way, Yes, Nate got that youthful energy right there.
What a what an amazing you've at age fifty four,
you've become a celebrity overnight talk radio caller.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
What a what a life?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
What a great goal in life to be a celebrity
overnight talk radio caller.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
My last name is not Markel, but it's Markel.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You don't need to say your last name, you dog.
There's no need to say your last name.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I was just kidding.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Anyway, I'm doing good hanging in them with I didn't
ask how you were doing.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Can you give me a trivia question? Play a game?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Okay, I'll give you a triviation. I'll give it your
trivia question.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Since nineteen seventy only one quarterback, only one quarterback.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Has made the Hall of Fame without being an All Pro?
Who is it? That's a good one. I like that.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Thank you, Danny White, E dog, I just gave the
answer forty minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
You were on hold.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I don't really sorry about it.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
How about those next baby.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
It's Jim Kelly is the I did watch. I did
watch the next game because there was nothing else to
watch on on Amazon. I'm not feeling the Amazon the way.
It's as good as TNT. That's fine, it's not bad.
It just doesn't it feel like they're trying too hard
on Amazon, you know what I mean. It's like it's
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just I don't know, it's not good.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Then I'm not sure going to change the subject. But
I was a great fact player.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I was a soccer referee for a couple of games.
I wore the uniform.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Actually we protested the game one day when yeah, you
play a y O. No, it wasn't that great. I
could have made Division.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
One and said, how could you have made Division one?
If you got a name? Again? This is Dog is
a non mister, non sequitor, is what he is.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
That's right, That's all me. So I want to hear
it from the late night.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Okay, all right, you've been on the air way too long.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
People are yelling at me to take you off the
air We're only supposed to nut for three minutes.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
You've been on longer than that.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Alf By the way, alf says Alfred, and says, Dog
gives all people, all of us people born in nineteen.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Seventy one, a bad name.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
That's ridiculous, Bill.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Who's your bill rights in proud Indiana? Indiana Indiana guy says,
odds that dog smells like garlic.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I'm really getting these people getting rude over here.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I know why they're being rude. He seemed like a
nice guy. I don't know why they would be rude
to you.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Oh yeah, Joe Dog says hell, Oh, tell Joe Dog
to call in.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
We can and people don't know that. You and me
go way back. It was he Dog and Joe dogg
as kids twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You guys used to call me up. Well, you were
selling your thirties, but you used to call me up. Yeah, Keisha,
I don't remember, Keisha.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Didn't it look like two minutes ago?
Speaker 9 (35:15):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh that's right. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I gotta go, okay, thank you going. There's e dog,
so on layaway. It is true that Dodgers and Edwin Diaz.
Now not only did they sign him, he got the
standard Dodger contract where there is money deferred. In fact,
four and a half million dollars annually will be deferred
(35:37):
for luxury tax purposes. So roughly twenty one million of
the little over twenty one million of the sixty nine
million will be deferred.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I would love to deferred. Money is great.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I would love now they tell you financially, it's not
good because money's the value of money goes down, it
doesn't go up. So you're better off getting the money now,
just having that income and not having to worry about it.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I would love that. Of course I'm not getting that deal.
Here's the answer, trivia. Here we go. You got Mallard
of the third of here. Here's the answer trivia.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Colts quarterback Philip Rivers is set to join Blank as
the only grandfathers ever to play in the NFL. There's
only been one so far. Colts quarterback Philip Rivers is
set to join Blank as the only grandfathers to ever
play in the NFL. That's the instad trivia.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (37:29):
Be part of this shows. How do you do that?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Well?
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You do it by the calling up at eight seven
Sevenox were hitting us up on social media. You can
also follow the show and listen on iHeart have that
on your phone the iHeartRadio app, especially on the West
Coast those late NBA games or late NFL games, and
we get covered up sometimes at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
So you'll never get covered up.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
You always hear the show no matter where you are,
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make the Ben Malor Show the fifth podcast, and also
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Speaker 1 (38:05):
Right. I use the iHeart app all the time and
I work here and it would sucked.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I wouldn't use it, but I do use it. So
check it out all right time. Now for the payoff
on the Insta tribute. So Philip Rivers I've heard him,
Colts quarterback is set to join Blank as the only
grandfathers ever to play in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
That is the question. What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Eloy from Compton says, a future Hall of Famer Shader
Sanders is the answer. George bland Up from Rob the
goat Man.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Who else we have? Eli Manning?
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Maybe corn Pop from just Josh uh Phage down, Methuselah
from Eileen in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oh, looking pretty good there, Bear Bryant from Shane in
Des Moines. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Page Dan, Larry Johnson, Grandmama from Alf the Alien Opineer,
Grandpa Simpson from ferg Dog, Meg White who's fifty one?
From Night Drug Tester or e Dog? Aaron Rodgers from
King Roy?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
What say you rain up?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Kevin Height no recorrect answer for the Minnesota Vikings in
twenty ten, Brett Farve Brett Farves answer.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
To here we got Scylar, Here we got him, Here we.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Got this is one big fan gets grilled Koblu.
Speaker 7 (39:23):
During yesterday's monologue, you talked about the Baltimore Ravens and
how Lamar Jackson's decline is more than just a drop off.
Given that Jackson is a two time MVP and Sill
only twenty eight, Baltimore will probably stick with him for
a little while. However, do you think John Harbaugh could
be on the hot seat?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
What could he be on the hot seat is? I
don't believe he is on the hot seat. And there
are some Mike Tomlin like vibes. Though, when you look
at the Ravens, they won the Super Bowl back in
twenty twelve, it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
It's been a minute. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
with stability in Baltimore. So he's not.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
But if you do judge him by the body of
his work, they're a good regular season team. They haven't
really made any real run in the playoffs in a
number of years.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Next, after the Saints win over the Bucks on Sunday,
Saints linebacker to Mario Davis said that quarterback Tyler Shuck
has shown that he has the it factor.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Has he done that bad?
Speaker 2 (40:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Absolutely not. What he talked me, Come on, what are
we doing here?
Speaker 2 (40:20):
He just has an occasional good performance. It's I'm not no,
I don't see that. And let's Tampa Bay didn't play
that well. You know, if the other team doesn't play
while he's fighting.
Speaker 7 (40:32):
Next, a report surfaced on Monday that the Steelers could
pursue Kyler Murray to be their quarterback in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah, could you see that happening?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Well, here's the problem, Coup. It's kind of like the coaching.
There's not enough coaches available that are good for the
amount of teams that want to change coaches.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
There's not enough quarterbacks. So it's musical chairs. You're gonna move.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Kyler Murray is gonna get a chance to start. The
one problem, he's got two problems. The one problem he
has that's bigger than anything is the fact that he's little.
The other problem is he's not interesting and playing football.
He'd rather be a video gamer. So why bother?
Speaker 1 (41:03):
How do we do? Cubble hop? You pass? That's the
way I fought again.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Oh my god, hollering James, I won, James, Hollering James
who
How do you do.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our numbberd two, our number two, and crank up
the trumpet, says Edwin Diaz. The big news in baseball?
Does this Edwin Diaz signing with the Dodgers as he
leaves the Mets. Budge the needle for you. Also, what
do you say to baseball fans threatening to boycott the
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twenty twenty six season because it's not fair that Edwin
Diaz is going to the Dodgers. And how did Scott
Boris's latest rant at the Winter Meetings do on the judges'
scorecard as he was puns of fun.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
We'll get to that and more right now here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It is our number two, not only a closer a bulldozer.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Welmeme.
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Crown is yours, So I leave this hour from the
Winter meetings in Orlando.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
They have gone Mickey Mouse.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That's normally where during pandemics they hand out Mickey Mouse
Championship rings. In Orlando, Baseball GM's getting there so their
families can all go to Disney World on the company
dime and they can pretend to be working. Now, there
was some news out of the Winter meetings of the
Mets closer Edwin Diaz, a free agent, has decided to
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say bye bye to the New York Mats. He has
found a new home. The news coming out. If you
have not heard yet, this is rocking the baseball universe.
People upset. They're annoyed because Edwin Diaz is taking his
talents to the Dodgers. D oh d ge e rs
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The Dodger is a three year deal for sixty nine million.
Insert your own dirty joke right there. La gets the
top closer on the market and takes away a valuable
piece of the New York Mats bullpen. But don't worry
Mets fans. You have Devin Williams who will poop his
pants by May that DZ a three time All Star,
(04:04):
eight time All Star, and are of under two I'm
told that's good and converted twenty eight of thirty one saves.
I'm told that's also good for the Mets this past season.
He's got the nasty combo dish, a lot of speed.
There's a need for speed, high velocity, and a vicious slider.
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Just like when I pitch. Now, I have the lollipop pitch,
which it gets people out. It doesn't matter how you
get them out. It's just getting hitters out. And that's
the case. Diz thirty one has posted throughout his career
big strikeout numbers. And that's why the nerds get all
horny when they talk about Edwin Diaz, and that's why
he's getting paid. So that's a good jumping off point.
(04:46):
Let us discuss the question, does this Edwin Diaz signing
with the Dodgers does it budge the needle?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Does it budge the needle?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So I've got stock market mustache and three course meal,
and we will combine all of these things together.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And we are going to play connect three is what
we're going to do. So number this number stop.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
This does not just budge the needle. Okay, it does
not just budge the needle. This thing is spinning round.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
And round and round and round.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
And like a damn wheel of misfortune, which is what
often these signings turn out to be. Okay, listen, the
Dodgers yet again, they didn't do this when I was
doing postgame Dodger talk back in the day, they signed stiffs.
Now I'm not doing that. I haven't done that years.
And the Dodgers going out there, They're going to Beverly
Hills where Dalo drive and you know, signing every year
(05:50):
they sign one of the top players in baseball every
fricking year.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Okay, it's insane.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
They came home with a cologne wrenched closer of their dreams.
At least in theory, that's the key part. In theory,
Diez is just what the doctor ordered.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Well, are you talking about the Dodgers wore in the
World Series. They don't need edwin is okay? Yeah, okay, yeah,
they won the World Series.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
They had a bullpen this past year that was stuff
with underachievers, has bins and never wors.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
That was the Dodger bullpen.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yah stiffs like Kirby Yates who had a good career
but was washed up, and a bullpen that if you
look at it from just any reasonable analysis. The bullpen
that forced the analytical nerds that run the Dodgers, not
Dave Roberts, the analytical nerds. Every game was like Benny
versus the Penny, where they were flipping a coin up
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in the air trying to improvise what they were going
to do in the month of October, and they put
out a bunch of starters and they would duct tape
their open together and it worked. Then when Diaz is
the kremda krem is what he is, and so he
comes in there and you cue up the hype and
that means, I guess, Timmy Trumpet, we got it?
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Where is he part of the true Do we have
Timmy Trumpet not coming?
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Never?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
It is like this teeter rule the organist at Dodger Stadium.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
It's called Narco.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
I'm gonna add that to my music on my phone
now because he's a Dodger, so I to play that
unless he sucks and I'll delete it.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
But there it is.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
There, Edwin Diaz who that famous intro where that Timmy
Trumpet song Narka. I don't know who that guy was
before this, and that went viral and became a top
song and all that. So that's part of the deal
coming to Dodger Stadium. However, the issue I have being
the voice of reason unless I'm not. But Diaz has kryptonite,
(07:54):
and the kryptonite is as a reliever. The every reliever
comes with the fine print.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
There's a warning label on every relief pitcher.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
It's relief pitchers go up, they go down, they go sideways.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
It's like the stock market.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
It's like you can invest in a fortune five hundred
blue chip stock, which is there's no guarantee in anyway reasonably.
You know, you're not gonna lose a lot of money,
might make a little bit of money, might lose a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
You're not gonna lose that much.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
And then there's the highly volatile stock, which is often
medical companies or power companies, things like that. If you
play a stock market, and that's what every relief pitcher is,
even the good ones are a highly volatile stock. And
that's the problem. Right, the Dodgers have already lived this life.
They have lived this life, this sitcom. That was Tanner Scott,
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who signed a seventy two million dollar contract last offseason.
He was a top reliever on the market last offseason.
Seventy two million bucks, and he became the infomercial pitch
man for the product that you only see late at night,
the barfl Mattic, and he was out there and he
was selling the bar from Mattic Tanner Scott. He set
the Dodger record for most blown saves in the season
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after signing a seventy two million dollars countract.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
He was so bad. How bad was he?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
He was so bad that the Dodgers didn't even pitch
him in the playoffs. Playoffs, Yeah, didn't even now My
problem with this. When I was a young lad, I.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Was coming up in radio. I was working in San Diego.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
At the mighty sixth ninety which is now like a
Mexican Formatch State whatever. It was a border blaster station,
and the padres at the time had a GM named
Kevin Towers. Now he's long gone, Rest in peace, Kevin Towers.
But Kevin Towers was the maestro of building a bullpen.
And I've always gone by the gospel of Kevin Towers
his mantra way before the nerdation of baseball. And everyone's
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been brought in here and indoctrinated in the nerd ball.
But Kevin towers. Back in the day with the padres,
he knew that relievers were volati tile as we've talked
about of all tile stock, and that they were terrible investments.
And the piers didn't spend a lot of money in
those days. They stilln't spend it. I guess they spent
a lot now, but back then they didn't. So relief
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pitcher's bad investment. And really there's a lot of year
to year, there's lady luck involved in it, there's workload,
there's mechanical quirks, and relief pitchers often like offensive linemen
in football, the equivalent would be the comp would be
offensive lineman.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
That you can take offensive linemen.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
And take them on a team that's terrible, and then
they go to a team that has a quarterback that
doesn't hold the ball that long. Suddenly they're thought of
as great offensive linemen because the nerds don't know how
to great offensive linemen, so they think it's all on
the fat guys. Because the nerds are skinny. It'd like
to blame fat people. They fat shame. So it's's usually
the quarterback that holds the ball too long that leads
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to pressures and things like that. But in baseball that
we're talking about baseball here with Edwin Diaz and all that.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
It's it's it's year to year.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It's a it's a little little issue with your fingernail
that causes a problem and your confidence is boned. So
the Das deal, this is a luxury purchase, you know,
it's it is.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I mean, that's where it pure and simple that went out.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
And why would z want to come to the Dodgers
when the Dodgers they don't necessarily don't necessarily uh you
look at the picture. They need bullpen help, but they
don't necessarily have to know and when they can get
other people and they can save some money. But he
wanted to go there because they have all the creature comforts.
They spoil their players more than anyone. They're the only
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team in the industrial complex of North American sport that
has two planes. They have one plane just for the players.
They're so spoiled. There's such spoiled babies. They need one plane.
And everyone else, all the supports staff, they have to
go on a different plane because they're the unwashed, they're
the hoy poloy. They go on a different plane. That's
how much the Dodgers spoil these guys. Okay, they're they're
like royalty with the Dodgers, and so you want to
(11:58):
go there, and they pay great money and all. So,
but the Dodgers are rolling the dice on this, make
no mistake, and they're hoping that the trumpet, timmy trumpet
doesn't turn into Timmy kazoo.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
We don't want to we on a trumpet. What if
it's a kazoo? I don't know, all right now, Page two.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
So the Dodgers move to add Edwin Diaz has led
to an angry response, an uprising, a social media uprising.
The mob is not happy, not Andrew and Bakersfield. I'm
talking about the mob, and there's it's not fair boo hooooo,
A bad for baseball.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
My favorite is I'm not watching baseball. I love that.
I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
I am not watching baseball because the Dodgers signed a
relief pitcher. Okay, So question to the angry uprising, what
do you say to the alleged baseball fans in air
quotes threatening to boycott the twenty twenty six baseball season
(12:59):
because the Dodgers have added Edwin Diaz and they're upset
by that. So first of all, stop the madness, right
stop them. This is another reminder that social media is
the funhouse of mirrors in society.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
It just is.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Everything is distorted in social media, everything is overcooked. Everything
is a primal scream and a world that needs a whisper.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It just is. And baseball is a weak link sport.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
We used to talk about all the time when we
had the guy Roberto on the show Who's the Now
bus Driver?
Speaker 1 (13:34):
But Roberto, We used to discuss this.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
The problem with baseball is you can have the super
team and it likely doesn't matter. And the Dodgers this
year winning the World Series a great example. In Game
seven of the World Series, the Toronto Blue Jays were
on the brink of winning the championship, bringing it back
to Canada, and a absolute stiff, a guy that sucks
named Miguel Rojas hit one of the biggest home runs
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in Dodger history to tie the game up, and then
Will Smith ended up winning the game later on, But
Miguel Ross. The Dodgers have Otani and Mookie Betts and
Freddie Freeman and all these studs, and it was Miguel
Rojas who, by any measurement sucks and hit the biggest
home run the Dodgers had before Will.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Smith hit the game win. That's the point.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
It's the players on the fringes that often decide. People
get so worked up about the big stars and everything.
It's not the billboard stars that often decide these things.
And let's be real here, the Dodgers have become the
dastardly whiplash of professional sports. They are the full mustache
twirling villains of Major League Baseball. And they're just laughing
(14:45):
evilly like a cartoon villain.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Wood.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
They're playing with a knife. I don't know why they're
doing that. They're kicking your dog. And they've gone to
the dark side. And I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
So listen. They keep winning, you know, not around there anymore.
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Dave Roberts they've embraced, and Dave Roberts is just the figurehead.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It's the nerds, but they've embraced.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
The bad guy cape wearing. You know, I'm just doing
business and business is booming. Business is booming, and that's
the thing I'm not gonna watch.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
The ratings were through the roof.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
You had a Canadian team versus the Dodgers, an American team,
a West Coast team, and they set a record for
ratings in the World Series. And the reason they sent
the record for ratings is because the Dodgers have proven.
It's been proven not wait before the dog. The villain
is where it's at. Click any click, you can't help yourself.
(15:37):
You need villains. And the twenty twenty six Dodgers, just
like twenty twenty five and years before that, the Dodgers
again will lead baseball in buzz because even the haters,
when they're drinking the hater raid will tune in for
the shot in freuda, hoping the Dodgers lose, and then
if the Dodgers win, they'll be who's not fair?
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Dog player? Unfair? Which is the ultimate look.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
If you're one of those people, you're such a bad fan,
it's so embarrassing. It's like, well, every underdog story, this
can blow you. Every underdog story needs a bad guy,
a villain, a can't beat them story that makes the
underdog dummies?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
All right?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
What final point to the Winter Meetings at Large? At Large?
Speaker 2 (16:26):
At the Winter Meetings, so Scott Boris held court in
Orlando at the resort there, and he waxed loquacious to
a bunch of baseball scribes running up their expense accounts.
He waxed loquacious Scott Boris about his clients in the
classic cornball style that only Scott Borros can do. Among those,
he talked about the center fielder Cody Bellinger. He said,
(16:49):
I haven't met a team that dodges a five tool player.
See what he did is and he mentioned the Angels.
He mentioned like four or five teams. He mentioned the
Giants and the Reds, which is a dead giveaway that
those teams are the teams that want Cody Bellinger. He
talked about Tiger's pitcher Treak Schoob. He said, quote, He's
(17:10):
truly a saber proof Tiger.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
See what I did? Why he did it? I didn't
do it.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
If you want to look at the tail of the
Tiger without Scoobs, there's a mystery machine. He talked about
Philly's starting pitcher, free agent Ranger Suarez. He said, in
the postseason, when you add a sores, you're armed and rangerous.
(17:39):
All right, question, how did Scott Boris his latest rant
from the Winter Meetings due on the judges scorecard? All right,
we'll go to the judges scorecard.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
In a minute.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
It is a reminder before we get to the judge scorecard.
The Scott Boris rant is a reminder there are three seasons,
not four seasons. There are three seasons on the baseball counter.
There's the regular season, there's the off season, and then
there's Scott Boris season. I'm not even forget about the
postseason because most teams don't make the postseason. So you've
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got the regular season, the offseason, and Scott Boris season.
That is where Scott Boris emerges from a cave in
Newport Beach and he comes out of his layer and
he unleashes a corn maze of conversation that is so
thick when Scott is talking here that you need a
machete and a Dakota ring to.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Get through it.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Now, his latest rant, it was like something Iowa Sam
used to do when he was on the show for
two minutes before he quit the show. That would be
puns of fun. Puns of fun would be what that
is and a linguistic amusement park. And Boris and his
team of gifted, well paid advisors from their Newport Coast compound,
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they handcraft this bull crap. They do I enjoy it?
I think it's so dumb. Enjoy it I do. It's
like artists in work, is what it is. Scott Boris
going on these rants and stuff, and each line is
carved out of pure hocum, pure hocum. And just let
the man cook. Let Scott Morris cook. At the winter
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meetings and the General Manager meetings, we look forward to
it every year. Scott Borris served a three course meal
of malarkey.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
It was moy.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
The first course was the appetizer. That was a salad
that was a word salad tossed in cornball dressing. Yum
yum to my tum.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Dumb.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Course number two was a course of grammar gumbo with
a mystery meat metaphor side. That's the second course. That's
the main course. Now, the dessert was candy coded nonsense.
And so you got that that candy coded nonsense is
so sweet it will literally rot your brain, that's how
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sweet it is. And so the only thing missing was
the wardrobe. That was it and Boris should have walked
in wearing the riddler's green suit. That would have been perp.
We said this at the GM meetings too. Just come
in there, with the Riddler's green suit, question marks in
the air everywhere. Just do it, Just do it. You
get that custom leather green mask, the whole shebang.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
All of it. And he's the mastermind of free agency.
He is.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
It's a little subtle nod to the Zodiac Killer. It's
cryptic rambling much like the Zodiac. Right put the doss together.
He did drop that saberproof tiger line. That was Chef's
kiss is what that was. That's the Ohio State marching band,
dotting the eye is what that was. There mallards scorecard
(20:48):
in terms of punnery, ten out of ten for the punnery,
ten out of ten for the punnury, zero out of
ten on clarity, and I'd say one hundred for utter nonsense.
And that's how the scorecard reads. It is. The Ben
Maler Show will take your calls. A couple of lines
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Speaker 3 (22:29):
Cromwell be a drinking Ryan. He believed.
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She's been snorting too much.
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Met Brian by do not go, but her.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Curlo it was.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
So she's stumbled out to go into the snow. Hey
it's Bill Miller.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
You're locked in on the Ben Malorshoy classic Mallord holiday
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Speaker 2 (23:43):
Back to it, back to where we go, and Alf
the Alien Opiner says, I'm here for all your hot
stove Malard monologues. Can I count on you to jump
on the YouTube for some live emergency monologues on your
upcoming company mandated days off. I don't want to miss
any signings like my socks picking up a backup utility infield.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
That's the Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
H Some believe they're gonna spend some money this offseason.
I don't think they've spent any yet. It's uh.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
The Angels made a big.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Trade with the Red Sox though, they got Marquise Grissom's kids,
so that's exciting for the Angels.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
So a lot of.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Tickets there and big big move. Who Marquise Grissom's kid
they got, didn't they in the trade with the Red Sox.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
What's his name? His last name is Grissom. I don't
even know.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I don't even know. Oh it's what is his name here?
It's Vaughan Grissom. You've got g Vaughan Grissom. Cool, that's
big move. It's a big trade at the winter meetings.
And and the Angels gave up outfield prospect Isaiah Jackson.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Big move.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
And season tickets are available, coop if you want to,
you want to get some season tickets? Yeah, even prove
your infield depth. Congratulations infield depth.
Speaker 7 (25:04):
I just it's funny, how like I don't know the juxtaposis,
that's not even the right word, but comparing like the Angels.
I've gotten calls from sales reps like trying to get
me to get season tickets come back to the Halo.
I've been on the Denver Broncos season ticket wait list
for eleven years now.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
How's that looking? Not good?
Speaker 7 (25:26):
I called like last week to see what my updated
place in line is.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Uh huh, it's like thirty thousand.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Thirty thousands. So a lot of people have to die
and give up their tickets for you.
Speaker 7 (25:36):
To Yeah, I probably won't get selected to buy season
tickets until I'm like sixty.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Will you still be interested in doing that when you're sixty?
Yeah you will.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Okay, there you go. And the big news in the building.
People coming up so many. They spent seventy dollars to
have a package delivered to Lorraine.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Do you hear about this coup?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
Seventy bucks for a Just send me the seventy But
I mean it was seventy dollars, LORRAINO. What was in
the box? Was it something good? Jumbo squishmellow, Jumbo squishmellow?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Is how much do those cost? Are these seventy dollars?
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
No, Okay, I mean that's I mean that's a lot.
Did you get a box coop in the mill? Did
you get No? No, just just from Cowboy Killer. Cowboy
Killer the other day, hooked U up. Yeah, I'm wearing the hat.
By the way, this is the hat I'm wearing some
Cowboy Killers.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Is the hattie. You send me a nice Dodger cap.
I get that on today. I got a Broncos poncho.
Very cool. I have a Cowboys jersey, but it's upside down.
How is it upside down?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Why?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Why is it the name Cowboys is upside down on
the jersey?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That was okay? That was a Is a user error
or is that designed that way? I don't. I can't
because aren't people wearing I see people wearing hats. See
that's the logo.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
That's what I was telling the Raina that it's a
trend now. But I think it was a manufacturer.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah, got it on sale discount rack, you know something
like that. Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Let's say hello to legally blind Christopher, who's on the
international line in London. Hello, legally blind Christopher.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
I can't wait to see my roaming charges on this bill.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Well, you know it's well you want.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
You won't actually be able to see it, so.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Right, that's right, that's no problem.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
That's why I'm sending you guys things in brails because
everyone says I can't see anyhow. But that's okay, mister Maller.
I need to know that you've got your lovely gift
for the new year and your extended holiday coming up.
I want to know, since I can't understand cricket whatsoever,
one of my hopes of being able to sign my
best picture in my lifetime, I have one decent Christmas
(27:50):
presence this year.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Okay, so you know, for those who don't know, we
know the whole story here legally blind Christopher. He's an
ex pat. He lives in London, he was living in
the North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
His heart is in Michigan.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
He's a long suffering Detroit Tiger fan and he worships
at the altar of Trek schoobl the pitcher. So I
would say, the chances of school Well signing an extension
with the Tigers, I'm going to go fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Fifteen percent.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Great.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
Nice, We'll go back and watch the Seven Days of Cricket.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Hey wait a minute, fifteen but that's one to fifty
hitter in baseball. That's like Miguel Rojas who did hit
a home run the World Series. So you got there's
a chance.
Speaker 8 (28:29):
No, no, no chance, mister Maller, You've ruined my Christmas
yet again. Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
I really appreciate that.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Yes, my important thing is you have your Happyhonica gifts.
You have yet another reliever that will I'll wear you
another World series while I'm sitting watching cricket for days
sports force to be Hey, I'll have a great holiday.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Thank you all right, sir, thank you the great legally
blind Christopherus. I'm somewhere in the Greater London area checking in,
not anywhere near Terry who.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I haven't heard from Terry. I know what he's up to.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
But Terry Who's in England, but he's far away from London.
He's out out in the stakes. Let's go to e
dog or dog is on Long Island. Hello, eat Dog, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Hello mister Ben. How you doing today?
Speaker 9 (29:17):
Dog?
Speaker 2 (29:17):
If I was any better, I'd be a met, But
not a New York Met because they just lost Edwin
Diaz to the.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Dodgers, he thinks. Anyway, Anyway, what I got to say
is this, did you ever try sailor? Mins?
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Did I try?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
No?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
I don't believe I have sailors. Sounds like a deli.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
No, it's like a chocolate Uh, you know a chocolate thing.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Well, you're really selling it. It's a chocolate thing. Well,
what kind of Is it a chocolate candy bar or
is it something else?
Speaker 3 (29:54):
No, it's like it's like a chocolate I don't know.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I don't explain it though, Well why did you bring
it up?
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Somebody you can eat that it's good stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I don't. It's called what he said Sdermans, Yes, mince.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Centers. Yes, I believe that.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
You're intentionally mispronouncing it. You're just making this.
Speaker 9 (30:24):
Up anyway, Ben, I just want to say I once
again to the late night drug tester who likes me
a lot, and I appreciate that there is a.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Rumor that you are actually the late night drug Tester,
that that you have been revealed here that you are
pretending to not know the late night drug tester and
this is all a ruse and you are actually Well
that wouldn't that be something that you would say.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
It was a zero.
Speaker 7 (30:50):
You're saying that he is late night drug tester. Yeah, no,
no chance, no, because late night drug Tester actually has
good content on x.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh Eat Dog. He just took a shot at you
Eat dog.
Speaker 9 (31:03):
It's okay, It's okay, miss Cay is my I'm not
being secular here, but I got k I'm a nice
pizza tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
And what kind of pizza does she like? You like?
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Sheese pizza? Is she like garlic onion? I like garlic onion,
Bell pepper, that's my go to pizza.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
What she like? Uh? She likes onion and I like
on you we have something in coming and she says,
e dog dog. She goes my name and I go
what's my name? And she goes egos.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
That's quite a what a what a romance that is?
That's what a catch what a catchy? So you're dating
a woman who yells your name? That's amazing. Right, Yeah,
what if she calls you? What if she calls you
Joe dog?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Will you dumper?
Speaker 3 (31:47):
She won't call me that she knows better. Okay, but
I'm definitely that. I'm definitely not the drug tester. I'm
definitely not him.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
No, but you do you enjoy drugs?
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Not at all. I'm so the twenty eight years twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
You look at this unbelievable and you're only twenty five
years old. You've been sober twenty three years before you
were alive.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You were sober. It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I'm fifty four years old now.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
No, you're not I don't believe you more nineteen seventy one,
No way, Yes, Nate got that youthful energy right there.
What a what an amazing you've at age fifty four,
you've become a celebrity overnight talk radio caller.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
What a what a life?
Speaker 2 (32:23):
What a great goal in life to be a celebrity
overnight talk radio caller.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
My last name is not Markel, but it's Markel.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
You don't need to say your last name, you dog.
There's no need to say your last name.
Speaker 7 (32:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
I was just kidding.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Anyway, I'm doing good hanging in them with I didn't
ask how you were doing.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Can you give me a trivia question? Play a game?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Okay, I'll give you a triviation. I'll give it your
trivia question.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Since nineteen seventy only one quarterback, only one quarterback.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Has made the Hall of Fame without being an All Pro?
Who is it? That's a good one. I like that.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Thank you, Danny White, E dog, I just gave the
answer forty minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
You were on hold.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I don't really sorry about it.
Speaker 9 (33:18):
How about those next baby.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
It's Jim Kelly is the I did watch. I did
watch the next game because there was nothing else to
watch on on Amazon. I'm not feeling the Amazon the way.
It's as good as TNT. That's fine, it's not bad.
It just doesn't it feel like they're trying too hard
on Amazon, you know what I mean. It's like it's
(33:42):
just I don't know, it's not good.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Then I'm not sure going to change the subject. But
I was a great fact player.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
Back in the day.
Speaker 1 (33:51):
I was a soccer referee for a couple of games.
I wore the uniform.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Actually we protested the game one day when yeah, you
play a y O. No, it wasn't that great. I
could have made Division.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
One and said, how could you have made Division one?
If you got a name? Again? This is Dog is
a non mister, non sequitor, is what he is.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
That's right, That's all me. So I want to hear
it from the late night.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Okay, all right, you've been on the air way too long.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
People are yelling at me to take you off the
air We're only supposed to nut for three minutes.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
You've been on longer than that.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
Alf By the way, alf says Alfred, and says, Dog
gives all people, all of us people born in nineteen.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Seventy one, a bad name.
Speaker 3 (34:37):
That's ridiculous, Bill.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Who's your bill rights in proud Indiana? Indiana Indiana guy says,
odds that dog smells like garlic.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
I'm really getting these people getting rude over here.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
I know why they're being rude. He seemed like a
nice guy. I don't know why they would be rude
to you.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Oh yeah, Joe Dog says hell, Oh, tell Joe Dog
to call in.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
We can and people don't know that. You and me
go way back. It was he Dog and Joe dogg
as kids twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You guys used to call me up. Well, you were
selling your thirties, but you used to call me up. Yeah, Keisha,
I don't remember, Keisha.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Didn't it look like two minutes ago?
Speaker 9 (35:15):
Now?
Speaker 1 (35:15):
Oh that's right. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I gotta go, okay, thank you going. There's e dog,
so on layaway. It is true that Dodgers and Edwin Diaz.
Now not only did they sign him, he got the
standard Dodger contract where there is money deferred. In fact,
four and a half million dollars annually will be deferred
(35:37):
for luxury tax purposes. So roughly twenty one million of
the little over twenty one million of the sixty nine
million will be deferred.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I would love to deferred. Money is great.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
I would love now they tell you financially, it's not
good because money's the value of money goes down, it
doesn't go up. So you're better off getting the money now,
just having that income and not having to worry about it.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
I would love that. Of course I'm not getting that deal.
Here's the answer, trivia. Here we go. You got Mallard
of the third of here. Here's the answer trivia.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Colts quarterback Philip Rivers is set to join Blank as
the only grandfathers ever to play in the NFL. There's
only been one so far. Colts quarterback Philip Rivers is
set to join Blank as the only grandfathers to ever
play in the NFL. That's the instad trivia.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
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Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, I'm Bill Miller, a classic Mallard holiday song from
years gone by, and you can.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Be part of this shows. How do you do that?
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Well?
Speaker 2 (37:33):
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Sevenox were hitting us up on social media. You can
also follow the show and listen on iHeart have that
on your phone the iHeartRadio app, especially on the West
Coast those late NBA games or late NFL games, and
we get covered up sometimes at the beginning of the show.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
So you'll never get covered up.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
You always hear the show no matter where you are,
whatever country you go to on the iHeartRadio app. So
make the Ben Malor Show the fifth podcast, and also
Fox Sports Radio presets and the pop up.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Right. I use the iHeart app all the time and
I work here and it would sucked.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
I wouldn't use it, but I do use it. So
check it out all right time. Now for the payoff
on the Insta tribute. So Philip Rivers I've heard him,
Colts quarterback is set to join Blank as the only
grandfathers ever to play in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
That is the question. What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Eloy from Compton says, a future Hall of Famer Shader
Sanders is the answer. George bland Up from Rob the
goat Man.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Who else we have? Eli Manning?
Speaker 2 (38:38):
Maybe corn Pop from just Josh uh Phage down, Methuselah
from Eileen in San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Oh, looking pretty good there, Bear Bryant from Shane in
Des Moines. Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Page Dan, Larry Johnson, Grandmama from Alf the Alien Opineer,
Grandpa Simpson from ferg Dog, Meg White who's fifty one?
From Night Drug Tester or e Dog? Aaron Rodgers from
King Roy?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
What say you rain up?
Speaker 2 (39:04):
Kevin Height no recorrect answer for the Minnesota Vikings in
twenty ten, Brett Farve Brett Farves answer.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
To here we got Scylar, Here we got him, Here we.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Got this is one big fan gets grilled Koblu.
Speaker 7 (39:23):
During yesterday's monologue, you talked about the Baltimore Ravens and
how Lamar Jackson's decline is more than just a drop off.
Given that Jackson is a two time MVP and Sill
only twenty eight, Baltimore will probably stick with him for
a little while. However, do you think John Harbaugh could
be on the hot seat?
Speaker 2 (39:37):
What could he be on the hot seat is? I
don't believe he is on the hot seat. And there
are some Mike Tomlin like vibes. Though, when you look
at the Ravens, they won the Super Bowl back in
twenty twelve, it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
It's been a minute. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go
with stability in Baltimore. So he's not.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
But if you do judge him by the body of
his work, they're a good regular season team. They haven't
really made any real run in the playoffs in a
number of years.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
Next, after the Saints win over the Bucks on Sunday,
Saints linebacker to Mario Davis said that quarterback Tyler Shuck
has shown that he has the it factor.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Has he done that bad?
Speaker 2 (40:15):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
Absolutely not. What he talked me, Come on, what are
we doing here?
Speaker 2 (40:20):
He just has an occasional good performance. It's I'm not no,
I don't see that. And let's Tampa Bay didn't play
that well. You know, if the other team doesn't play
while he's fighting.
Speaker 7 (40:32):
Next, a report surfaced on Monday that the Steelers could
pursue Kyler Murray to be their quarterback in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
Yeah, could you see that happening?
Speaker 2 (40:39):
Well, here's the problem, Coup. It's kind of like the coaching.
There's not enough coaches available that are good for the
amount of teams that want to change coaches.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
There's not enough quarterbacks. So it's musical chairs. You're gonna move.
Speaker 2 (40:50):
Kyler Murray is gonna get a chance to start. The
one problem, he's got two problems. The one problem he
has that's bigger than anything is the fact that he's little.
The other problem is he's not interesting and playing football.
He'd rather be a video gamer. So why bother?
Speaker 1 (41:03):
How do we do? Cubble hop? You pass? That's the
way I fought again.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
Oh my god, hollering James, I won, James, Hollering James
who
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