Hour 2 - Don't Call it a Comeback

Ben Maller talks about the chances that Nick Saban returns to the football sidelines, where are some potential college landing spots for Saban, which NFL job makes  the most sense for Saban, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding dong. It's our number too. Our number two is
ready for you out of the audio oven. And here
in hour number two. What are the chances that Nick Saban? Yes,
that Nick Saban returns to the football sidelines. Some chatter
that Saban considering a comeback. Also, where are some landing

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spots for Nick Saban in college football? Will take a
look at that, and which NFL jobs make the most
sense for Nick Saban? Will have all things Saban right now.
Buckle up for our number two. Don't call it a comeback.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben

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a one off. But they didn't do it, so we'll
change it up this hour. And college football, what are
you talking about it? Totally July, while you're talking about
college football, you loser. It's the rare, inappropriate, rare in
appropriate Malard monologue on college football. We have a humdinger
of a developing story, not that unpredictablely developing story, but

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a humdinger nonetheless. So, former Crimson Tide quarterback by the
name of Greg McElroy, can you say game manager? I
knew you could. So Greg McElroy has started a bit
of a wildfire in the Southeastern Conference's Southern Fried football.

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You have not heard yet, You're about to hear the
rest of the story. So Greg McElroy said that he
has heard, always loved when somebody says I heard through
the grapevine. So he has heard from a quote person
very much in the know, person, very much in the know,

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that his former coach, Nick Saban, is not done yet.
Do do do Do Do Do do do do do yep.
Now Nick Saban, now he famously quit Alabama couldn't handle
the changing landscape and college football, so he said no

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moss Nick Saban and ran off to the boob tube
to put makeup on and act like a fool. So
Nick Saban, who quit last year, he was on college
game Day and he was the guy. When he started talking,
you took a nap, and he was not not at
the SEC network, the propaganda arm of the Southeastern Conference

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panel of analysts at the Southeastern Conference Media Day event
this year, which has been taking place, so he wasn't there. Now.
Greg McElroy, his former quarterback, pointed out that it was notable.
It was notable. The person that gave him this information
was notable. So who's notable? What makes someone notable? And

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said they think Saban is not necessarily done coaching. In fact,
said the person was adamant, adamant that Nick Saban would
return to the sideline. So let us discuss the question
for the esteem panel, which you're part of. The question
is what are the chances? What are the chances that

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the old Alabama football coach Nick Saban returns to the sidelines.
So I've got Wall Street, Wikipedia, and original Cup of Noodles,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make some chicken soup for the soul.

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Not just chicken soup, but chicken soup for the soul.
So number, I said number. So I'm gonna set the
Malord Sportsbook odds on this at plus one fifty. I'm
sending the odds at plus one fifty. So if you're

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not good with math, that implies a forty percent chance
that we activate Saban Watch. Saban Watch activated. That's right.
I know this big, big news, big news. So we

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think that's actually pretty good forty percent if you look
at all the different variables involving Nick Saban. He's going
to turn seventy four on Halloween. Spookcky. Now, as a
rule of thumb, the R word retirement, which again this
is kind of a flimsy retirement, college football and just

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sports in general. I learned it at an early age.
I used to be a big boxing fan, and as
soon as I'm retired, that's it. In really any form
of entertainment, whether it's like how many bands have retired,
so this is the last tour because they got to
sell tickets and then they take a year off or two,
and then they come back and they go on tour again,

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and they say, now this is really the last tour.
This is it. The same thing happens in sports, right,
It's a coach who's been good, who steps aside and
says I ain't coming back. That's it. It's about as
final as a person dying in a soap opera. You
know those soap opera desks. Well, of a sudden, they

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show up a couple of episodes later, well, and one
minute the villain has exited stage left, see you later,
And the next the villain returns right sipping gatorade in
this case and calling blitzes on the sidelines with a
scowl on their face. And Nick Saban, I know he

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won some kind of award, but if you watch them
on television, pretty bad at television. No entertainment value by
Nick Saban, just a hard oh on television. I don't
know anyone that thought Saban was good at TV other
than those that are sucking the toes of Nick Saban.
Some of those people liked him, but for people that
are just looking to get entertained, Nick Saban not very entertaining.

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So he was bad at television. But he got the
job because he had the resume. And that's how that work.
You get those jobs because of your resume, and it's
who you know and all that stuff, and people get
all excited because your resume, and you know, speaking riddles
and coach speak and all that gibberish and all that nonsense.

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Now ask yourself, ask yourself this question. What does a
football lifer coaching football since he was a young lad,
what does he do in the spotlight dims like what
do you do? You go out in garden? You a
home and garden action in there. You play a little
church bingo on a Friday night, try to win big money,
big money, big money. Yeah, golf. What do you fish?

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Is that what you did? You go fishing in a
lake somewhere? Yeah. Nick Saban about his version of fishing
is reeling in some five star recruit and pantsing a rival.
That's his move. Now this story is bouncing around, bounce bounce, bounce,
bounce by, and it's going all over the echo chamber,

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kind of like a pinball machine. The echo chambers gets
in there and starts bouncing all over the place, and
there's some he hits some buzzer. You win like a
couple extra points on that. And so I imagine that
the whispers, which do have some credibility because it's one
of Saban's former players. It was one of his former
quarterbacks that's tossing that out into the to the ether.

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Who's saying that. But you imagine just that alone, just
the mere speculation behind closed doors, not on the record,
but off the record. You have athletic directors and big
time boosters at down in the luck football programs or
even those that think they're not down on the lock,

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you know, from East Lansling to College Station and everywhere
in between. Son, wait a minute, you're saying there's a chance.
You're saying there's a chance there. Nick Saban's not dead.
He's just bored. He's just bored. And if you want
to get technical, Nick Saban did not take retirement. They retire.

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He took a TV job. He went on hiatus, is
what he did. And in many ways he escaped. And
so that's the part of the story where you're like, well,
Nick Saban innerly retire. He just was tired of the
bull crap. You get to a certain age, whatever your
job is. I've learned this from my older relatives when
I was younger. You just get to a point in
life where you just tired of the bull crap. You're

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tired of people not doing their job. You're tired of
people you know, not doing the things they're supposed to do,
and you're tired of the rules to get put in there,
and you just like shut it down. That's it. And
so Nick Saban slipped through the back door of college football.
He just went to television, and I didn't want to

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be part of it. He did not want to be
part of what was going on the nil. No, Nick
Saban liked when he was the guy that was given
out money and he was the one handing out envelopes
with cash, that's what like. He didn't like when everyone's
doing it. And the transfer portal, what is wrong with you?
The transfer portal? Have you lost your bloody mind? My god?

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Transfer port and revenue sharing? What is that? Nonsense? Nonsense?
Nick Saban said. So Saban saw what was happening, this
metamorphosis as college turning into some kind of Wall Street
like internship thing mixed in with some other crap. And
so they say, hey, I'm a septugineer in I'm out.

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I'm out. As we turned the page to page two,
here where are some of the college landing spots? Let
me kind of hold your hand walk you through this.
So where are some of the college landing spots for
Nick Saban? If Nick Saban were to come back in
the multiverse, so Saban he can have any job that

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he wants. Can we agree on that? To any job
that Saban wants outside of like maybe three there's maybe
three jobs Saban can't have. But outside of that, any
job he wants, he's got the Q score, he's got
the awards. On his Wikipedia page, there's a lot of
chess candy, a lot of chess candy there. And so

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now I don't buy that he's necessarily going back to
college football. That's not the play here. That's not the play. However,
for the purposes of this Malard monologue, to engage in
this hyper hypothetical conversation, and we will embrace the reality
that in the multiverse, there is a dimension where Nick

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Saban does return to college football that he decides I
had my little temper tantrum, I had my conniption fit,
I had my hissy fit, and I want back in.
So if Saban did return, there's only two conferences he
can go back to. You've got the varsity and the
junior varsity. The varsity of the Big Ten in the
Southeastern Conference. The junior of our city is everyone else.

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It's everyone else. So you've got either Southeastern Conference or
the Big Ten. And do not discount Nick Saban walking
right back into Tuscaloosa and saying, Hey, I want my
old gigback, or going up to Batol Rouge Louisiana and saying, hey,
I used to be here. I wouldn't mind coming back.

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I know you hired Brian Kelly, but I want back.
Or let's go back to Michigan and I want to
make East Lancing great again and go back to East
Lansing and all that good. You can always sell if
you're Nick Saban unfinished business at any of those schools.
He can say, listen, I won at Alabama, I had

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some success. I did win at LSU, but I didn't
win enough, and I had Michigan State. I did not
get to the peak of my superpowers that came later.
So you can sell that. And it's obviously not about
the money because he's loaded. Have you seen the photos
of Nick Saban's home, and he's got multiple homes. But

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this guy's absolutely stacked. He's got enough dough to live
the life of Riley and for multiple reincarnations of Nick
Saban for the rest of his days and then days
after that. Now the NFL is much more likely. No,
it's not, he's too old. I'll tell you why. I
believe the NFL is more likely for Nick Saban because

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Saban sucked at a time you cannot suck with the Dolphins.
And we were on these microphones at Fox Sports Radio
when that was going on, and it was a major
blot and remains a major blot on the resume of
Nick Saban. Not to mention the fact when the rumors
were he was going to go coach at Alabama, and

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Saban lied to the media in Miami about taking the
job at Alabama while the private plane was warming up
at the airport to take him to Alabama to sign
the paperwork to become the coach of the Crimson Tide.
So the NFL chewed up Nick Saban, there's no other

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way to say. It couldn't handle it, made bad decisions
with personnel, and of course he spent all of his
years at Alabama. Whenever the NFL comes up, he always
blames the training staff in Miami. He never takes accountability
that he was a failed NFL coach, doesn't do it.
He always well, I wanted Drew Brees and I couldn't
get Drew Brees, and so that's why I had to

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settle for Dante Culpepper, and he sucked. And it's not
my coaching and anything, and it's I didn't pick the
wrong players. It's the training staff there in Miami. That's
the reason I wasn't good. But he ran out of Miami.
He ran out of Miami like the building was on fire.
You cannot wait to get out of here. And that
relationship with the Dolphins back in the early part of

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the two thousands, right, he left there and it was
like quicker than somebody finishing a Netflix night of binge watching.
I mean, he's gone, I'm out see you later. And
two seasons, two seasons. I believe Nick Saban lasted, if
I remember correctly, with the Dolphins, and then he went
back to college and never looked back. He only talked

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about it every once in a while. Somebody would bring
it up and he'd he'd come up with his normal
excuses and say, well, it was not my fault, ain't
my fault. That guy's the problem, right, And so going
back to the NFL would, as the the intellectuals like
to say, close the circle. So final point, which NFL
job makes the most sense for Nick Saban? If my

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hypothesis is correct, that the NFL would be the place
to go for Nick Saban, because that is the one
flaw that is the turd in the punch bowl for
Nick Saban. So which NFL job? So you look at Saban.
Here the shopping list. What's on Nick Saban's shopping list?
He wants to buy the groceries. He wants the right chestboard.

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He wants that chessboard to be perfectly set off, the
right pieces in place, right, everything lined up in a row,
pre assemble. He does not want to go to Ikea
and have to build the thing by himself. Does not
want that. Nobody wants that, right, Nobody wants that. So
think of it like one of those NFL jobs. That's

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like the original cup of noodles. You just add water.
That's it. Just add water, warming up a little bit.
You're in good shape. An established quarterback is a must.
An established quarterback is a must. Gotta have it. So,
by the process of elimination for Nick Saban, there's one
job that is obvious for Nick Saban in the NFL.

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You ready for it, you figured it out. Here we go, Buffalo,
Here we go, Buffo Low who says no, the Buffalo
Bills have just entered the chat. Let me make my
elevator pitch. Why if Nick Saban does come back, the
Buffalo bills make the most sense. Here's why. All right, now,

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I know for some of you it sounds like bananas. Well,
that's why the guy's doing the Overnight show. Let me explain.
It would be like if you were to go into
a bar in Rochester and see George Clooney working as
a bartender. That makes those Why would you go to Rochester?
Why would Nick Saban go to Buffalo? Let me make
my case. Saban has never been a guy that needs

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La or New York. He does not need that. He's
from the old country. He doesn't need that crap. That's
not what he is, right, and he mostly coached in
relatively small college towns Tuscaloosa where the biggest man in
Tuscaloosa is Van the one leg at Bama man So Tuscaloosa,

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and East Lansing, Michigan, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Those are the places.
So you've got that. Then you look at the bills
and whether you think Nick Saban's in line for that
job or not, we can all come to the conclusion
that Sean McDermott is not long for the bills. He's
on the endangered species list for coaches. The bills have

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been hovering close to being a really good team, and
they always find a new way to screw it up.
And a lot of it is the decision making by
Sean McDermott and his decisions on the sidelines. Not all,
but a lot. So Sean McDermott's on the hot seat.
Buffalo has an NFL MVP quarterback Josh Allen. They checked

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that box. What's in the box? They checked the box.
So they've got that and they've been just inches away
like Brent Rooker was in the home run derby with
Cal Rowley, just an inch away, just an inch away
from greatness. And the downside obviously, listen, the Lake effect
blizzards are no joke, right The amount out of snow

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that they get at that stadium is insane. It makes
Siberia look like a day at the riviera right when
you're when you're watching these games, and there's a it's
like a snow globe when they're playing these games. So, uh,
you know, one or two a year it's a it's
like a Blizzard snow globe game and all that stuff,
and so, but that actually works is in advance, you

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don't have the distractions you had in Miami, or you'd
have in La or New York where or Vegas where
people actually want to go out and live their life
and party it up. You don't have to worry about that, right,
So Buffalo makes a lot of sense. Now. The only
other possibility, and I'm sure this we talked about even
though it's not going to happen the Dallas Cowboys, because
Jerry Jones will find a way to grab headlines by saying, well,

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what about the Cowboys. They don't have a coach, that
Schottenheimer guy. I mean, it's the worst coach in the NFL.
What a joke that higher was total placeholder, higher, total
seat filler, And Jerry Jones might wake up on this.
I need some headlines. Let me get the Cowboys and
the news here and uh yeah, I'll start selling next Saban.

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Has announced he's going to bed, So sweet dreams. Does
any does anyone like Cowhard know, Hey Colin, I'm going
to work. I'm uh, does anyone call it? Hey? Dan Patrick?
I I can't listen to any long, you know. I
like people have to let us know when they're going.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
To be kind of sweet bend. Is it okay hanging
out with you?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
They are hanging out with me? They are, but you
don't have to announce your departure or your arrival.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
What did they call that an Irish goodbye?

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah? Just exactly. I like the Irish goodbye. And my
wife wants to we go to an event. She has
to say goodbye to everybody so hugs, and I have
to I tell I know, I tell her, like an
hour before we're about to leave, I said, now we
need to go, because it takes about an hour to
say hello to say goodbye to everybody where. If it's me,
I'll be in the car. And I learned this from

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television's Tom Looney that you just you make a big introduction,
like you show up like you're You're like Vince McMahon
walking down the catwalk. You're doing your pimp walk when
you walk in there and then when you leave, just
that's it. You just walk out the door. You don't
know Jay Scoop who is re entering. He remember he

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is a Jay Scoop went to Ukraine, helped out there
and he's back and he's married.

Speaker 3 (25:10):
Now.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Jay Scoop said, uh, he'll be he'll be in the Mallapusa.
We all know that you are a multi sport legend,
Ben the great moneyball Maller, Benny the bopper on the
diamond as mentioned last hour, But what was your football nickname?
From Jaysco? But I wonder if I've used it before.
I wonder if anyone can name I remember my football
nickname that I've I've mentioned.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
A few times, Jenny the Basher.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
There you go. Jeremy writes and says Nick Saban job list.
He's got Oklahoma, Texas and Maryland Maryland. Why Maryland? What'd
you put Maryland there? What's going on with Maryland? Why'd
you put Maryland on there? I don't get that. I Gokhoma.
Actually that's not a bad one. The Texas one he'd
be fing over coach Sark. Remember Steve Starkeisan was an

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alcoholic at usc and then he went to the drinking
thing and he went to Alabama. He went to Nick
Saban's coaching rehab clinic there in Tuscaloosa, and then went
to Texas and got that job. He also says Notre Dame.
I think Notre Dame's okay. I mean they didn't the
end things. They're not going well for Notre Dame last year,
but it seems like they're in pretty good shape. Let's

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go to the falls and we'll say hello to Tony
in the Bay area. What's going on, Tony? Welcome?

Speaker 6 (26:29):
What a crowd? What a crowd? As I look at
Ben's smiling face, I think, Oive Inkaterra, you look like
a jolly good cello. Roberto Flores and Iowa Sam both
played great music. And don't remind me of my baby mama.
I used to say, real men with blue and orange,
but then I met Cooke. Denver Broncos gets your own

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eff and colors. Denver Broncos gets your own eff and colors.
Denver Broncos gets your own earth and colors.

Speaker 1 (26:57):
Thanks Ben, Thank you? Was that his audition for the
Mallor Palosa. Was that his like poetry? You enjoyed that,
you thought that was entertaining. It was like spot poetry, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well we have a poetry in the Malor Palooza. If
you want to do poetry, you can do it.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I love poetry.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Who's your favorite poet? Do you have a favorite poet?

Speaker 2 (27:18):
I am My favorite.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
Roses are red, vilest blue, and I can do poetry
better than you. Is that? Thank you? I appreciate that
you are. You like a Robert Frost fan, Doctor seussila
fan Doctor Seuss A fine fine point. I grew up
with doctor Seuss. That was my original poetry.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
One fish to fish, doctor Fish.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Green eggs and ham sam I am, yes.

Speaker 2 (27:39):
Eat them here or there, I will eat them everywhere.

Speaker 1 (27:42):
A legend. Didn't he get canceled though by the Wolkesters.
Didn't they cancel doctor Seuss? I want him. He's not
canceled for me. I support doctor Seuss.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
Green eggs and ham for all.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Yes, exactly and all the other great quotes. Let's go
back to the phones.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
The Broncos shades of blue and orange are much better
than the barrishades.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
Of Lu and Orange.

Speaker 5 (28:01):
I'm just gonna say that.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
You do realize you're playing with fire and you do
not want to mess with that. Man Tony in the
Bay Area, Okay, you don't want to go there. You
don't want to do that. Uh, let's say hello to
Oscar in La La, land in La. What's going on? Oscar? Welcome?

Speaker 8 (28:18):
What's up?

Speaker 9 (28:19):
What's up matter?

Speaker 8 (28:20):
I'm always listening to you.

Speaker 6 (28:21):
I never get to call it.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh my god, dreams have come true. You need to
dream about winning the lottery and then that's gonna happen.

Speaker 8 (28:28):
Oh man, that's be awesome.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
Talking about pitching, Oh, I'm the bullpen blows chunks. What
are you talking about? Do you think about I think
of the pitching. The bullpen's over used. Uh, the the
big pickup, the two big pickups of the bullpen. I
don't trust either one of them in a playoff game.
This guy Scott has been terrible. He's got the most
blown saves in baseball. I'm concerned they got to make

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some moves. Did Dodgers have to improve that bullpen? That's
not a championship bullpen.

Speaker 6 (28:56):
Just came and killed it.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
After having a terrible week last week.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Well, yeah, he'd suck him Milwaukee. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, I'm
a motor. I trust on the mount. I think he'll
be fine in the playoffs, But don't do I trust
Blake Snell. No, I don't trust Blake Snell because he'll
be hurt again by the time the playoffs come around.
But I'm most concerned about the bullpen because Dave Roberts
and the people running the Dodgers do not allow starting
pitchers to go third time through the lineup. They get

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to eighty five ninety pitches, they take him out of
the game. So they've already burned through their bullpen because
of the way the pitching has been so far this year.
So they gotta they gotta get some reinforcements. It's they
get there.

Speaker 9 (29:32):
Yeah, we'll get it.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
The money, they definitely have the money. They got a
lot of doll over there. They got a printing press
under Dodger Stadium. It would also.

Speaker 9 (29:41):
Helps to ripping you to cracking up, dude.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
Well, listen, just the facts, as you know, Oscar, just
the facts there.

Speaker 6 (29:52):
I like to listen to you because you know, I'll
listen to uh.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Ruggin and Rodney over here.

Speaker 8 (29:58):
You know, Yeah, they speak good things. But then when
I hear you coming home from work all late.

Speaker 9 (30:03):
And I hear you ripping my Dodgers.

Speaker 8 (30:05):
But like, I like hearing both sides, like the good
and the.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
Pam you understand, Oscar, I come from a place of
tough love. I actually like the Dodgers. I I want
to see the Dodgers win. People don't think they think
I'm like a Dodger hater or something. I'm not. I
like the Dodgers. I always thought you were no.

Speaker 9 (30:23):
No.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
In fact, years ago. I don't know how old are you,
by the way, Oscar. Oh you're thirty five, right, so, yeah,
you were years ago. I actually hosted postgame. I had
Vessey's job. I did the Dodger postgame show years ago
before I started working here. So and it was very
as you might imagine, Oscar, was very tough for me
because when you have that job, you can only say
positive things. You can't say negative things, which is very

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difficult for me to only do positive I don't do
that very well. So anyway, well, thanks for listen, man,
you listen all day and all night. That's wonderful. God
bless you, thank you, you're the man. All right, thank
you man, I ever get some sleep. The Oscar listens
when Rodney Pete's on Magic Johnson's yacht and they called

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me to fill in over there. I want a yacht
you want now, you just don't want a yacht. You
want one hundred million dollar mega yacht. You don't want
some piece of crap yacht. You want a big time yacht.
You know.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
To be honest, Ben, I don't want a yacht. I
want to be on someone else's yacht.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
That's right, That's right. It's like, what's the line you want?
You want to hang on babysit someone else's kids, but
not your own kids.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Exactly. I don't want the maintenance, Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Let's go to Let's go to Andre and his dog Willis.
Will Andre be in the malor palooza? What's going on? Andre?
In the Commonwealth?

Speaker 8 (31:41):
What's going on?

Speaker 9 (31:42):
Ben? I am in the Commonwealth right now?

Speaker 8 (31:46):
Or what Willis is here with me?

Speaker 1 (31:48):
Man?

Speaker 8 (31:48):
I gotta tell you, I'm a little bit flustered. We're
seeing a trend now in Major League Baseball. Okay, with
the participation trophy situations we got going on on gifting
people awards. Mister cal Rawley here and did he really
earn the victory or is MLB again looking for that

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looking for that headline. We talked about this previously in
terms of putting folks in the All Star Game. I
didn't otherwise belong there. What's going on here, Ben, Well.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah, you're referring to it. Does cal Raley won the
home run derby? The question is should he have been
allowed to get to the next round because of the
first round? He tied at the end of the first
round and they went to some stat cast nerd thing
and said that in less than an inch his home
run was further when they should have just had Brenton
Rooker and cal Raleigh have a home run contest, the

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first one to hit, you know, most home runs whatever,
swing off, and that's how they should have done it.
It's so stupid they did it.

Speaker 8 (32:49):
The way they did it, exactly, Ben, Okay, in the
olden times that you did when you met right in
the town square. Okay, mano Imano, you know what I mean.
Ballot a buster's trucks, shout out to the Cohen brother
and you had a throw down, right, That's what That's
what should have happened.

Speaker 9 (33:02):
And again, Baseball, why are you hyper sensitive about the
time of the game, and we all got to watch
an attention span. If the product is good, if it's exciting,
if it's engaging, it's if it's you know, if it's
in bigger rating, people are going to tune in. So
back to your points, Ben, go ahead and have it
to have a throw down.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 8 (33:19):
We don't end the.

Speaker 9 (33:20):
Game in a tie. What are we talking about here?

Speaker 8 (33:23):
Okay, tie, get out?

Speaker 1 (33:24):
There's no ties in baseball.

Speaker 9 (33:27):
It's Jimmy Dougan in here, so we can.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
That's right there, you go.

Speaker 9 (33:31):
It's an overall trend. Man that I'm that I'm.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Not like more more important, more important, I forget that.
Who cares about that? Will Will Willis be in the
mallor paloozer. I know you don't want to be You
don't want to be it, and you're a professional. You
have hot takes. You're not about that action. But Willis.
If we could somehow get Willis in here and have
an actual pet in the mallor pollute? Do we have

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any pets in the malapulus? Any pets agreed to be
in the MALAPLUSI had any animals? Do we have nothing
on the sign up. She no animals have yet, so
you Willis would have the chance to win in the
animal category.

Speaker 8 (34:08):
Willis is locked in right now, and I'm getting essentially
Benny's picking up what you're putting down, all right, So
sign Willis up.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Our first dog in the Malor Palooza. Willis is going
to enter. Now, you got to You have a couple
of days here, Andre to come up with an act. Now,
remember we can't see you, we can only hear you,
so it has to be something audible and if you
can train. You have a couple of days here to
train Willis and get the Scooby snacks out and come
up with an act.

Speaker 9 (34:38):
He's a little bit to date right now, but he
I think he's just processing all of this.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
Can you ask Willis what hour he would like to
perform his act?

Speaker 1 (34:47):
Yeah, we're trying to book this. It's very important here.
In fact, that will be limited small Mallard monologues and
all the other bits go away on that show. It's
all acts unless we don't have enough acts, and then
all the bits will still regularly be in.

Speaker 9 (34:59):
So yeah, okay, Willis Is. The early indications is he's
saying three to fifteen all right, three fifteen three forty five.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Alright, all right, hold on, that's an off the air
company pick up buck coop. That's line line five. We'll
book Andre for a slot there and really do the
dog willis god? How exciting? So if your dog has
a talent, you can enter the malap loser. How amazing
is that? My god? How exciting? Time Now for the
Insta trivia. Blank is the only player in baseball history

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to have at least twenty home runs fifteen stolen bases
without getting caught stealing at the All Star break. That's
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your podcast. You'll find the latest episode best version posted
right after we get off the air. All right, back
to where we go and time now for the Insta trivia.
And here is the question of the night with Mallard
to the third degree, real quick, Blank is the only
player in baseball history to have at least twenty home
runs and fifteen stolen bases without being caught stealing at

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the All Star break. That is the question. What is
the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer? Mallard
prop guy going with Matthew Stafford as his answer. Could
photo find there? Martin Landau who died eight years ago
today from Donkey Sausage, Eke and Roseveld Minnesota, got it right,
bad job by him. Who else do we have? Minnie
Minoso guests by Manuel and Guardina, the greatest catcher in

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Major League Baseball history, Mike Piazza, I guess by Robbie
the Mariner fan. That's odd that he would guess that.
That's Domino from j T the wing Man. There's a
good name. Who else do we have? Willis will be
in the be the first dog in the mallor Paloos, well,
the first dog this year in the Maller. Pulu's all right, Larada,
do you have an answer?

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Larrada play I'm gonna go with Ted Williams.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Ben, Ted Williams, he's on ice. No, that is incorrect.
You correct answer from your Minnesota Twins Byron Buxton. Here's
the answer. Here we go, Here we go. He smaller?
How about that to the third degree? This is one
big Ben gets grilled cool.

Speaker 7 (37:41):
TMZ caught up with Randy Moss over the weekend in
mass said that he thinks Justin Jefferson is on pace
to be arguably the greatest ever. Ben.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
Do you think goat status isn't reach for Jefferson?

Speaker 1 (37:51):
Well, that shows you. Randy Moss, first of all, is
grown up. Right. The old Randy Moss was are you
bleeping kidding me? I'm Randy Effin Moss. I'm the greatest
of all time. But now Randy's older, right, had some
health problems, so now he's like, no, Justin Jefferson has
a chance. He is weasel turn Now in terms of
Viking history, all Justin Jefferson has to do is be
the top wide receiver on a Super Bowl winning Viking team,
and he zooms past Randy Moss does he have a chance, sure,

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but he's got to stay healthy, got to have longevity,
that whole thing, that's the problem.

Speaker 7 (38:18):
Next, suddenly, the Red Sox are on fire heading into
the All Star break. They're on a ten game win
streak and just three games behind the division leading Blue Jays.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
They're on a burner.

Speaker 5 (38:27):
Do you think they will be buyers at the deadline?

Speaker 1 (38:30):
The Red Sox should always be buyers at the deadline.
You play in Boston. Hello, you play in Boston. And
ever since they traded Rafael Devers, it's almost like he
was a tumor for that team. They got rid of
the tumor and the Red Sox have taken off. It
also helps if they played the Rockies and the White
Sox in this stretch of ten wins and all that.
But they look like a real team. He's young players.

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Some of these young guys are actually doing well. And
we're heading into the dog days. And if you're in
contention and you're a team like the Boston Red Sox,
you go out, you go to market and you add
players they need. I would think another starting pitching would
be the most pressing need for the Red Sox. Just
looking from Afar at their roster next.

Speaker 7 (39:09):
Terry Francona just became the thirteenth manager ever to reach
two thousand career wins. Bruce Bochi is the only active
manager with more ben How high up the list do
you think Francona can climb before calling it a career.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
So Francona right now is thirteenth in wins all time.
He's going to pass Leo de Rocher before the end
of the year, and as a shot to pass Walter
Alston like he's definitely he's eight behind Leo de Rocher,
forty behind Walter Alston, but realistically tenth where Joe McCarthy
is or Bucky Harris at number nine. He can finish

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number nine. Coop number nine? How did we do you pass?
This edition? There is that so little punn on that
bar putter on that barn I won the game blind
Scott I won the game