September 11, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller discusses if the Cubs should retire Anthony Rizzo's number after he retired as a Cub this week, reports that the Angels are being tied to Albert Pujols or a return of Mike Scioscia as manager, Mike Trout's collapse in Anaheim, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball. It's our numb bird two, our number two, and
we go to the Windy City and the retirement announcement
is in people wondering should the Cubs end up retiring
Anthony Rizzo's number. We'll discuss that. Have an honest conversation
about Anthony Rizzo and number retirement. Also, how do you
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digest the report that the Angels are being tied to
Albert poulhos as a manager. The assumption is that Ron
Washington won't be coming back, or they could even bring
back Mike Soosha as the Skipper. Will discuss that. What
do you make of Mike Trout and his epic collapse
in Anaheim. He's got a career long homerless streak which
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is in progress at the Big A. We'll talk about
all that and more here. It is our number two,
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So all lead this hour with us some baseball. I
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thought this was interesting. These kind of debates always drive
me nuts, and since I have the bully pulpit here,
I thought, why not just to have some fun with this.
So we go to Dateline Chicago and it's all she
wrote for a franchise legend in the Windy City. If
you have not heard by now, maybe not Anthony Rizzo
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done now we saw Rizzo. He is a Yankee game
the other night he played with the Yankees, his last
big league team. Rizzo, though, was drinking a beer in
the stands in the news came out. He is going
to officially retire as a member of the Cups, one
of those ceremonial retirement ceremony thing of a jigs that
I love so much. And he's going to join the
organization as a team ambassador. All right. So Rizzo, thirty six,
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spent ten of his fourteen big league seasons in Chicago.
He has fully vested in the Major League Baseball pension program.
So he's set gonna get big fat checks, you know,
as long as he lives. And those are really nice checks,
really sexy checks that you're gonna get. And so he
helped them win the World Series in twenty sixteen. Y'all
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told me that the Cubs are gonna become a dynasty,
and they pretty much snunk ever since then. And so
the issue here is this debate that has popped up
now that Rizzo's announced his retirement. Is he going to
get the ultimate honor from the Chicago National League Baseball team?
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So let's discuss That's a good jumping off points. So
the question should the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number? Should
they retire his number? So I've got ring around the
Rosie turtle, wax and Superman, and we'll combine all of
the ingredients together. We're gonna make Babushka's favorite potato lacas
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is what we're gonna make, all right, So number, I
said number? My answer, Should the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number?
It's a hard no, not a soft no. It's a
hard no. We are against Jersey retirements as a rule
of thumb. This thing's gotten way out of hand, way
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out of hand. These uniform funerals are the corporate version
of taking your grandma's photo album and then charging you
twenty dollars or thirty dollars for the privilege of looking
at them. Hey remember twenty sixteen, Boy, that was a
long time ago. Remember the curse, the Curse of the
Billy Goat. Yeah, somebody let Doc Mike know the Billy
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Goat curses over because he's still dropping goat heads off
at Wriglely Feel. But it's Wrigleyville marketing oxygen right now,
I understand. We got great cub fans tree in Chicago.
Wonderfully give me a good gift package from the Cubs,
which is where kind and all the other guys that
we've met over the years in chicag so Eugene in Chicago,
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a lot of guys can't name them, g manje. I'm
gonna try, though, No Phase, he always gets upset. Who
you said? My name? My name's Phase.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I did meet him in a cup game actually, ironically enough.
But the whole point of this is to say, no,
Rizzo was a fine member of the Cubs organization. Congratulations.
But the whole marketing thing was like, come breathe the
air of twenty sixteen. Well, no, it's twenty twenty five.
I don't want to brethe the air of twenty I
don't want to breathe the air of twenty sixteen. It's
twenty twenty five. And while the Cubs are playing the
violin in the background, that sappy violin music, as they
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roll out the highlight reel, the fluff piece, and they're
essentially selling bottled air from twenty sixteen. That's what this is.
It's all about the heartstrings and the people saying, well,
retire's number, retire's number, and you know, just keep the
cash register Hummond and Memory Lane, all that good stuff.
But you need an Anthony Rizzo ice bucket to the face.
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Reality check here. If you look at the precedent, and
I'm against retiring anyone's number, I think the whole thing's lame.
But if you are in the camp of retiring numbers,
there have to be some standards. You can't be like
the Yankees and retire everyone's number, right, it's embarrassing, or
the Celtics, the Lakers so embarrassing. But the Cubs have
a president, Ernie Banks, mister Baseball, Ryan Sandberg who just
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passed away not that long ago, Greg Maddox, Ron Santo,
Fergie Jenkins, Billy Williams. That's it. That's the list. Those
all of them are Hall of famers. Most of them
are hardball immortals. And Andre Dawson, who is a better Cub,
didn't play as long as you gotta go, a better
cub than Anthony Rizzo. Dawson doesn't have his number retired,
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and I believe he's a Hall of Famer. He actually
works in the same business now. Andre Dawson, if you're old,
you know who is? You played baseball a long time ago?
For he played so long ago a team called the
Montreal Expos when he played. But Andre Dawson now as
an undertaker. He has the job that our friend Hayes
has in Minnesota. Not quite the same exact job, but
he works at a mortuary. So anyway, this whole thing
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is the riglely Ivy effect your wrapper. You know, anything
in ivy you put a retro font on it, and
the cub fan will eat it up. They will eat
it up.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It comes.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Actually don't have a bad team this year. They don't
here to have a championship team and they're not a
bad team. And you know, everyone seems to have a
playoff shot that comes are right there on that big
mix in the in the playoff field. But they'll sell
you the same old walk down Clark Street there and
the yellow brick road. It's a brilliant business model. And
so it's not really so much selling baseball. You're selling
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the nostalgia with stuff like this. And as far as
the whole number retirement thing, I know that most teams
are obsessed with this and just will retire numbers because
they can't help themselves. They have no control. It's out
and it's it's off the hook. To me, though, you
should try to pee like the Dallas. Well, I would
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just say the Cowboys. The Cowboys have never retired a number.
They have never retired number. They have a ring of honor,
and the malord advice, unsolicited malle advice. How about ring
around the rosie or in this case, ring around the
ivy and just put a ring of honor around Wrigley
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Field and say, all right, we have a haul, we
have the number retirement. We're done doing that, and so
from now on we're gonna have a ring of honor. Boom.
And you can even put it outside the stadium on
one of those rooftops which the Cubs bought, and give
Rizzo a plaque and have a bobblehead day and there
you go. Problem solve just like that, all right now
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page two to Anaheim, we go, Yes, Anaheim, I saw this. Oh,
you gotta be kidding me. So a report out from
the baseball insider crowd that it is most likely not
going to be a return to Ron Washington next season. Now,
there's still a Chancey comes back, but more likely than not,
Ron Washington will be elevated. He had a major heart
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major bypass surgery. I believe, and so most likely he
will just get an advisor role and that's it, And
so the Angels will have a new manager next year.
So how do you digest the report that the Halos
are being tied to Albert Pulhos, Yes, that Albert Poohos
who played for the team and really stole money from
the team for years and was terrible. And the possibility
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that they will go back to Mike Soshia remember him,
He's been out of baseball for several years. But they
could turn back to Mike sosher the guy that was
the skipper when they finally won the World Series back
in the day. So how do I digest this? It
is the theater of the absurd in Anaheim, the Los
Angeles Angels, of Disneyland, of Truros, of eternal irrelevance, all
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of that, and we don't talk about this guy because
the Angels are irrelevant. We have apathy. But Artie Marino
is doing cosplay as Jerry Jones and failing miserably. He's
chasing headlines. A lot of the moves the Angels maker
to chase headlines, and he's like addicted to the shiny
object and he's running the Angels like a bad Vegas
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lounge act. And he even did the fake head fake
thing where he's like, I'm gonna sell the team. Psych
I'm not selling the team bringing back Mike Soosha, though,
why not go get a shovel, dig up gene Autry.
You can't do that. Bring back the ghost of gene Autry.
Trot his ass out there on opening day twenty twenty six,
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and he can sarenade Mike Soosha as he gets back
into the dugout back in the saddle again, and the
Angels they might as well just tire my guy, Kawhi Leonard.
We know Kawhi loves no show jobs. Managing the Angels
is a no show job. You're a mascot in a hoodie.
You're a Walmart greeter with a lineup card. In fact,
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I don't understand why they have another The Angel should
get Turtle White as a sponsor. The manager should have
a patch that says Turtle Wax right on the uniform there,
because when you're managing the Angels, you spend about six
months of the year polishing turds. That's what you're doing.
That's it. It's the organizational philosophy, and they Mike Trout
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and show Ootani in the same lineup to Hall of
Famers for multiple seasons, and they managed to be irrelevant
by Labor Day every single year. It's fascinating that is
not a bug in the system. That is an entire
operating error, is what that is. That's a software issue.
There's a trojan horse in the software. And hiring Albert
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Pools or bringing back Mike Sosher or I don't know,
go find Joe Madden somewhere in Margaritaville somewhere. None of
it matters. It's like asking a quod Don Blue chef
to cook an award winning meal and the ingredients are
kibbles and bits and catnip. The Angels at this point
they don't even need a manager. They don't they need
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an exorcism, is what they need. Get some holy water,
some garlic, clothes, all of it. Until then, as the
Great Donnie Brasco said, forget about it, right, remember this,
the Angels could hire. I'm convinced they could hire the
Pope as the manager. The Dali Lama could be the
third base coach, and the tooth Fairy could be the
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hitting coach and they'd still finish in fourth place in
the American League West. That's the way they are now,
one final final point while I'm at it. So I
saw this and I thought it was worthy of a
mention staying at the Big A. This guy was the
biggest deal in baseball. Who didn't want to be the
biggest deal in baseball? Mike Trout. Remember, Mike Trout was
the top player in baseball, and he hated He's like
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an intro over it. Didn't want to deal with the media,
didn't want and didn't want to do interviews. So Mike
Trout has gone. Based on the Angels Twins game, which
took place on Wednesday, Mike Trout has now gone. I
believe that math is right on this. One hundred and
twenty three plate appearances, eight games without hitting home run.
He's sitting on three ninety eight. His previous longest drought
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was one hundred and seventeen played appearances. That was a
decade ago. So question, what do you make of Mike
Trout and his collapse in Anaheim. So it's kind of
like watching Superman walk around and he's got a neck
brace and he's limping it. It's kind of like that like,
this is brutal. Mike Trout has been locked in since
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August sixth, over a month now, on that same home
run total. And we know he's got that rare like
it's a spinal tap spinal condition thing there. He's basically
the world's most expensive day to day player. He's on
that twelve year contract for four hundred million dollars and
I believe he's got five years left. He will be
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thirty eight, Mike Trout, and he's already a shell of
what he was and his salad days. And the Angels
are handcuffed. They're handcuffed Mike Trout. Now, they are really
nice handcuffs, like a Rolex pair of solid gold handcuffs,
really solid, really good handcuffs. Right.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
They also have a ball and chain which it's got
the Angel logo on it. So it's okay, they've got
the Angel logo. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. It's
pretty exciting. So they've got that going for him. But
they're they're stuck. They're stuck, and you can you cannot
build around Mike Trout anymore. You cannot depend on Mike
Trout anymore. He's played actually a lot of games this
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year by Mike Trout standards. And here's where things get interesting,
right where the rubber meets the road. Ardy Marino cannot
cannot quit these guys. He can't. I and people said, well,
they're gonna trade Trout because he's not a lead guy.
He can be a good number three guy, like you
have two stars, he's your third star. You can be
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pretty good. But they had Otani. Everyone knew that Otani
was gonna leave the Angels because they were they don't
know what they were doing. And instead of trading Otani
and saying we'll get some for him, they just kept
Otani because they got all that Japanese advertising, which the
Dodgers are obsessed with, by the way, Oh my god,
they are sucking every dollar they can out of the
Japanese economy. But and I don't blame him. I do
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the same thing. But anyway, Otani left as a free agent,
and that means that based on that, Mike Trout is
not going anywhere, like even if teams called the ends up,
like Marino is going to already, Marino is going to
have to eat a bunch of money just to get
Trout out there. And he's I don't think he's gonna
do it. I can't see him doing it, even though
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the Halos could absolutely get offers, and they could entice
the Philadelphia Phillies to bite on Trout from Jersey, but
you know, in the Philadelphia part of Jersey, Southern Jersey,
so I believe he grew up a Phillies fan. And
then the Yankees are always there. They love falling Stars,
they can't get enough of them. They're ready for the
falling Stars challenge and all that. So you find a
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sucker who still believes that Mike Trout's got enough star
dust to justify acquiring him. And then the Phillies are
chasing rainbows and they're at a weird point now if
they don't win this year. They've got an older team,
a bunch of players that are gonna leave in free
agency or could leave in free agency. So they got
to sign Schber he's going to be a free agent.
They've got Bryce Harper, he's getting older now. And so
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if you can put Trout out there with those guys
and Castellanos leaves, for example, that would make some sense
that the Yankees, they would be trying to resurrect Mike
Trout like their doctor Frankenstein, if he went to the Bronx,
and you look at the comps on this, if you
take the name away, if you take the Mike Trout
name away, and did the blind Pepsi challenge, the blind
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Soda challenge, Mike Trout his production offensively this season is
on the same level with Isaac Parides of the Astros
and Jonathan Arnda of the Tampa Bay Race, who exactly
these are not household names. They make chicken feed compared
to what Mike Trout makes. He's being fed like a whale.
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He's being fed like a whale. And they're being fed
like a crab on the beach, a little sand crab.
And the Halos. Listen, we not to flog a dead Halo.
But they're deep in a deep dark place and they're
not good. They're not bad. They're just stuck on this
treadmill of mediocrity and more probably they're irrelevant, while the
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Dodgers are in this golden era where they make the
playoffs every year, and if they know, I can't imagine
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Loop at a Bronco fan ferg Dog says, Ben, keep
that same energy up. When Mike Trout and the Angels
turned it around next season, you better come at them
with that same energy. Halo Honk for life. Ferg Dog says.
Ryan says, the Angel's problem has been the inability to
have competence starting pitching in thirteen to fifteen years. Why
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because they haven't had a good general manager since the
great Bill Stoneman. And they have in pulse signings like
Albert Poohos, Anthony Rendon and Josh Hamilton, who those are
three of the worst signings my god ever heard of.
You had Hamilton snort and Coke Rendon who hates baseball,
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and pool host who played like he was seventy. What
a great what a great move? Those all turned out
to be holy crap. Yeah, they had quite the quite
the lineup there, absolutely quite the lineup. Mark the full
name guy is hiding behind his smart device there in Oregon,
and he's taking shots at the Dodgers. Funny enough, he's
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not talking about the uh the other teams that he likes,
because they they all sucked. They all suck. Let's go
back to the phones, and let's go down to a
man cashing a golden ticket. Andrew that great country western
town of Bakersfield. Hello, Andrew, what's up?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Ben? I just thought I'd cashing the golden ticket where
Cooper and nine destroyed you in the game. By the way,
remember that anyway, no.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
One remembers that it was. It was terrible radio, It
was horrible.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
So on the night where the Dodgers officially clinched a
winning season, I thought I'd call in and did.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You are you really? Are you really calling to celebrate
the Dodgers, who have all the stars of baseball clinching
a winning season that you think that is an accomplishment?
Are you really? Are you seriously calling up to celebrate
the fact that a team that has underachieved all season
has guaranteed a winning record?
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Really?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
You're that guy?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Well, I thought we should microwave the take where you
were criticizing Dave Roberts and Rookie Betts And how did
Muky Vetts do tonight?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I was wondering, Okay, so he played the Now, who's
the worst team in baseball? Can you help me out
on that? Do you know who the worst team in
baseball is? Who's that?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Who?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Would that be?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Rockies?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah? That's right? Who did the Dodgers play? Who they play?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Though?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Who they play? That played the Rockies? That's right?
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
All right, So so you you think that somehow I
should I should be upset that I that Mookie Bets too?
How many much did he take a three months of
the baseball season? That that's okay with you? Like, seriously,
you're okay with that? So you you're okay with the
guy stealing money. Mookie Betts was stealing money from the Dodgers,
all right. He was playing like a freaking demon, not
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a good kind of demon. And you think I'm supposed
to sit here every night while he's flailing away at
home plate, and well, just give him time, he'll be okay.
Come on, I told you, I told you, Okay, all right,
And I'm sure you'll call up when Mookie bats two
hundred in the playoffs and makes four errors and you'll say, well,
you'll do that, right, I'm sure you'll call up.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Yes, maybe we'll see.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
We'll see. You'll hide like all these other clowns. I
know how it works. You'll run and hide, just like
there was that dope in Minnesota that used to call
the show and I was a coward. Doesn't call anymore
because all the Minnesota teams suck. The guy that worked
at the walmart, Remember that guy. It was a terrible caller. Yeah,
that guy.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Are you a Dodgers fan.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, yeah, I'm a real fan. I'm a better fan
than you. You're a fanboy. I'm a fan, you're a fanboy.
Do you understand the difference? A fanboy? Is we enthusiastic? Oh,
it's so great, everything's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
A real fan is a critic. A real fan is
willing to bad mouth the team. Right, you're you're not
a real fan, You're a fanboy. There's a difference. There's
a difference between a fan and a fanboy. And it's
not semantics. It's not trivial details and all that. It's
more than that.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Just I just wanted to remind you that I said
it was only a matter of time. Tell MOOKI the story.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah so again. May I, man, we
all have you as our boss where we will take
three months of the year off and get paid every
week our salary and it doesn't matter. May we all
have a boss like you? All Right, I go away,
I'm done with you. Let's go to Let's go to
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dog or or the boss dog is. I wondered what
happened to this guy. This guy calls up for like
a couple of days, a couple days in a row
and then he vanishes like he's a ghost. I don't
know what. I don't know where Dog goes. I don't know.
It's a There's this weird thing with E Dog and
Steven Manhattan. Are you guys related to each other? You
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don't know Steven Manhattan?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Do you that Theatre of the Well?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It's Steve s T E V E. I believe is that?
I believe?
Speaker 7 (26:20):
That's that's how I am the great Listen, man, I'm
the greatest caller that there ever was.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
How does one quantify that? How does one determine.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
I'm in the mood for a niche? But I want
to tell you the truth, though, Get who I'm back
in touch with and guess.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
All right, so this scene we're trying to guess here,
E Dog, I'm gonna go Joe Dogg.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Definitely not tonight, Not Joe Dog.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Okay, that girl that you were you broke up with
that one? What's your name?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Melissa?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Are you back with Melissa?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Love is in the air. I guess Eat Dog and Melissa.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
You're not gonna believe this, But I was going to
a treatment center and I really did. I'm not going
to tell you why but I really didn't partake, and
you know and the people that I that I go
there for. But she got me set up for an
orientation soon and uh pretels for a dollar and she
promises me she'll never cheat on me again. But I
(27:28):
don't believe it. But I don't care, you know, I'm right.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, so she cheated on you. Who who she hooked
up with?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
I think this guy James, you know, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Really can't do you. You don't care about that. I
got you well, usually most of most people would care
about that, But that's fine.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
What okay? How about shoever for the m v P.
What do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
And not going to happen on? Tony's gonna win the
m v P again, you're a Doger fan?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yes? Are you a Phillies fan?
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Definitely not?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well okay, then why would you want Swarb to win the.
Speaker 8 (28:06):
M v P.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Well, I think he's gonna win it. I'm not saying
are you talking?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Are you really trying to talk sports here? By the way,
is that what you're trying to do?
Speaker 7 (28:15):
You're trying to Yeah, now here's the question, Lorena. Yes,
I want you to answer this question to see if
you get it right. It's called a stump arena and
stump ben Nola.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Okay, well that's quite the game. I'm excited about this game.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
What jersey do I have? I'm not going to tell
you what swort? But he was drafted number one and
and I have his jersey? Can you pick him?
Speaker 8 (28:44):
He was drafted number one.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
You're not going to tell this is the worst game ever.
You're not going to say what's sport?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
No, because if I told you what you'd get it
right away?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Man, how would we get it? There are number one
picks every single year would.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
Be plus and I still wouldn't get it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'm gonna go because I know you're you're you know
you live out on Long Island, right he dog, but
you're really a tough guy. I'm gonna go with that
old school Alan Iverson Sixers Jersey. That's what I'm going.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
I'm gonna go with Lebron James Jersey.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
No, that's a that's a good one. Okay, do we
go again? Do we guess again?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's just the game? Okay, I'm gonna go all.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
I'm gonna go with Luca Mavericks Jersey.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Definitely not so far.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
You guys go for five, We're not oh for five.
It's like, we're excuse me, we're we're not ben I'm
done with this game. I don't like this game. You say,
who cares? Who is it?
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Anthony Hardaway? Who Hardaway for the magic?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Tenny Hallway?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
That's also have him with this guy.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
I was somewhere and he was.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
You know, I've noticed you're so good at calling because
you don't you don't shut up. I was ready to
end the call and just keep talking like you talk.
I have other people that want to get on the air.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
I understand. But last thing, okay, say it, okay. There
was this guy. I was talking to him.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Man, I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
All right, I'm done. I gotta thank you. All right,
go back to rehab. Let's go to Tree in Chicago.
What's going on? Tree? My guy? Tree? Hello, Tree, that
was a good call.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (30:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
That was not a good call. Tree, No, that was
not that. We don't want to encourage that kind of
a call. Tree, We do not want to.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Encourage that shut out shout out to do. But uh,
I was calling in. I was coming in to trying
to say I was against you. Man. But I think
you're right man. The whole president thing. You're right, man,
You're right, the dusted thing, that's, uh, you knocked me.
He knocked me out with that one.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Man.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Rizzo is the man got the iconic moment caught caught
the ball for the last out. Him and Chris Brian
was going back and forth to the MVP that year
twenty sixteen. But uh, I think you're right man. Okay,
that's the record.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Show Coop said that out on x I a lifelong
Chicago cub fantry who lives in the belly of the
beast there in Chicago, and he agreed that Rizzo should
not have his number retires. See that's you're a good fan.
Try because you agree with me. You're a good fan clearly.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
So I get that one. And I'm with a e dog.
Though he was tripping as far as the overall call,
the car was hilarious. I think people should look at
swarps man, but I get it. I think his bad
average is a little low, but fifty home runs for
one hundred and twenty three.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, and because of the pitching thing to even though
the Dodgers he hasn't really pitched that great exactly. It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, I know, first place in the East, the first place, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
They're in the first place. They just kicked They've been
kicking the Mets ass this week. The Phillies. They've won.
I think that one game left. They won every game
against the Mets.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
So well, all right, he might have been right about that,
but that was that was a good call.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
All right, Tree, all right, man, thank you, buddy, the
great Tree in Chicago, we met him. He came in,
very nice guy, came in studio, hung out with us
for a night. Let's say hello, or for a little bit.
Let's go to D in North Carolina. What's going on?
D welcome d.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
Hey Ben.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I'm gonna follow up the Tree with about Anthony Riz.
By the way, I saw a guy wandering around with
a kitty Hardaway jersey the other day. I wonder if
it was eat. But anyway, uh, I grew up listening
to Harry Carey watching Sanberg Dalton.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
And another Cups first base and.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That actually led some decades and hits, double sack of
fight flies and his number. He wasn't even welcomed back
to Wrigley until about ten or fifteen years later. He,
along with Pete Rose, are the only ones not in
the Hall of Fame that led their decade and hits
from nineteen hundred out.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I know who that is. I'm familiar with his game.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Here he he the Reft Chicago. He won a World
Series with the airs of a time back and yeah, yeah,
great park great and yeah Chris.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Who, by the way, went to saddle Back College Mark Grace.
Fun fact, there you go, fun fact where I went
to school. He went to my my college there malor
fun fact. Absolutely, I have no problem Mark Race led
that he led the nineteen nineties in hits right, the
decade of the nineties, I believe.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the first time he was voted
to see if he was a Hall of Famer or not.
He didn't get enough, but Tote even get a second chance.
But yeah, Chris Brownt was wearing number seventeen years after
Grace retired. I don't see how Anthony Rizzay is up
there with.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Bryan said, all right, don't agree. I'm two for two.
I made my compelling argument and I got two cub fans,
Tree and D and they agree with me. And it
rhymes thank you, D, thank you for listening, and I'm guessing.
I'm guessing you grew up watching the Cubs on the superstation.
You probably around my age and I did the same thing. Anyway,
(34:19):
Thank you. All right, It is the Ben mahlerd Show.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Time.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Now for the Insta trivia, we have Mallard of the
third degree. Here's the answer trivia. Pittsburgh Paul Skeens has
a one ninety four career earn run average that is
the lowest in a pitcher's first fifty three career starts
in the live ball era. He bested Blank's previous record.
That's the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it
(34:44):
and we will do it next.
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the third degree. Here's the instant trivia question. Paul Skeens.
That's a pitcher. He's a good one on a bad team.
Pittsburgh's Paul Skeens has a one ninety four earn run
average in his career. That's the lowest in a pitcher's
first fifty three career starts in the live ball era.
Goes back over one hundred years, besting Blank who had
the previous record. All right, that's the question. What's the
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answer that sees anyone know the answer? We go to
the great unwashed here Bobby in Florida, says former Fox
Sports radio host Rob Dibble. Dibble was doing radio in Hartford,
Connecticut last I heard. I don't know if he still is.
I have no idea. Who else do we have page down?
Grover Cleveland Alexander from The Grill Sergeant, that's an interesting name.
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Sean in the Valley of the Sun. Billy Chappell, That
guy was good for the Tigers from Doug. Boog Powell
from j T the Wingman. I think JT. The Women
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kind of looks like boog Powell a little bit. I
think he does. Who else do we have? Sandy Kofax
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Andy and Lionel makes Bob Gibson from William Jay and
Silent Bob from Milkman Mike in Colorado, The American Dream Ron,
Dusty Rhodes from Rob in Vegas. Who else Femi's going with?
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Ferg Dog Sydney Ponson, the Prince from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
The daff Man, Oh Yeah from King Rory? Who else?
Sudden Sam mcdaugas by Alf the Alien opiner. Lorena, what
say you, Lorena, I'm gonna say, David Spade, David Spade,
all right, No, it's increct. The correct answer Vita blue.
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Vita blue sounds like the color of a crayon, Vita blue.
Here we go, all right, Sam Aller, how about that?
To the third degree?
Speaker 4 (37:45):
This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Now.
Speaker 8 (37:50):
I know it's only been one week, Ben, but it's
being reported that kickoff returns are way up so far
this season thanks to the new rule moving touchbacks to
the thirty five yard line. Is the NFL finally fixed kickoffs?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
A small sample sized, Coop, small sample size. It was,
let's put it this way, week one. It was not
a useless play and for several years in the end,
actually more than several years, like you just didn't need
to watch kickoffs because it just nothing ever happened. So
that's the time to go get snacks. That's not a
time to pay attention. But now, yeah, it's one week,
(38:23):
so at this point we do the show today, Coop.
So I'm gonna go.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (38:26):
Next, the Toronto Blue Jays are only a few games
ahead of the Yankees in the Al East, and they
just had to put their star shortstop Bobachette.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
On the il.
Speaker 8 (38:36):
Do you think they'll be able to hold off the
Bronx Bombers.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Well, if you've seen the way the Yankees have played
this week, getting just destroyed by the Detroit Talger, the
Yankees are a flawed baseball team. So Toronto's not great either.
But based on side by side, the Yankees, all they
do is hit home runs. If they don't hit home runs,
they really don't win very often at all. They showed
some weaknesses in their bullpen here, So yeah, oh Cada
(39:04):
next A.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Roldis Chapman has been on an insane run for the
Boston Red Sox. He was till yesterday, well before that,
it was seventeen straight appearances without allowing a hit, only
won run last thirty seven games.
Speaker 7 (39:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:18):
Do you think chapman success this year secures him a spot.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
In the Hall?
Speaker 7 (39:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
No, he's got a lot of baggage and he you know,
he's he's one of those borderline guys. He's got some
Hall of Fame numbers. Now, if the Red Sox going
to run in the playoffs and he's lights out, then
you can revisit this but he's still borderline Hall of
Fame even with this renaissance, and he's been great. He
already signed for next year. The Red Sox already signed
Chapman to an extension. All right there, it is Mallor
(39:44):
to the third degree. He got lit up by the
A's And how did we do pass?
Speaker 5 (39:49):
This edition is again take that Justin and Cincinnati. I won.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Justin
Playball. It's our numb bird two, our number two, and
we go to the Windy City and the retirement announcement
is in people wondering should the Cubs end up retiring
Anthony Rizzo's number. We'll discuss that. Have an honest conversation
about Anthony Rizzo and number retirement. Also, how do you
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digest the report that the Angels are being tied to
Albert poulhos as a manager. The assumption is that Ron
Washington won't be coming back, or they could even bring
back Mike Soosha as the Skipper. Will discuss that. What
do you make of Mike Trout and his epic collapse
in Anaheim. He's got a career long homerless streak which
(00:42):
is in progress at the Big A. We'll talk about
all that and more here. It is our number two,
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thought this was interesting. These kind of debates always drive
me nuts, and since I have the bully pulpit here,
I thought, why not just to have some fun with this.
So we go to Dateline Chicago and it's all she
wrote for a franchise legend in the Windy City. If
you have not heard by now, maybe not Anthony Rizzo
(02:35):
done now we saw Rizzo. He is a Yankee game
the other night he played with the Yankees, his last
big league team. Rizzo, though, was drinking a beer in
the stands in the news came out. He is going
to officially retire as a member of the Cups, one
of those ceremonial retirement ceremony thing of a jigs that
I love so much. And he's going to join the
organization as a team ambassador. All right. So Rizzo, thirty six,
(03:01):
spent ten of his fourteen big league seasons in Chicago.
He has fully vested in the Major League Baseball pension program.
So he's set gonna get big fat checks, you know,
as long as he lives. And those are really nice checks,
really sexy checks that you're gonna get. And so he
helped them win the World Series in twenty sixteen. Y'all
(03:22):
told me that the Cubs are gonna become a dynasty,
and they pretty much snunk ever since then. And so
the issue here is this debate that has popped up
now that Rizzo's announced his retirement. Is he going to
get the ultimate honor from the Chicago National League Baseball team?
(03:42):
So let's discuss That's a good jumping off points. So
the question should the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number? Should
they retire his number? So I've got ring around the
Rosie turtle, wax and Superman, and we'll combine all of
the ingredients together. We're gonna make Babushka's favorite potato lacas
(04:03):
is what we're gonna make, all right, So number, I
said number? My answer, Should the Cubs retire Anthony Rizzo's number?
It's a hard no, not a soft no. It's a
hard no. We are against Jersey retirements as a rule
of thumb. This thing's gotten way out of hand, way
(04:25):
out of hand. These uniform funerals are the corporate version
of taking your grandma's photo album and then charging you
twenty dollars or thirty dollars for the privilege of looking
at them. Hey remember twenty sixteen, Boy, that was a
long time ago. Remember the curse, the Curse of the
Billy Goat. Yeah, somebody let Doc Mike know the Billy
(04:45):
Goat curses over because he's still dropping goat heads off
at Wriglely Feel. But it's Wrigleyville marketing oxygen right now,
I understand. We got great cub fans tree in Chicago.
Wonderfully give me a good gift package from the Cubs,
which is where kind and all the other guys that
we've met over the years in chicag so Eugene in Chicago,
(05:07):
a lot of guys can't name them, g manje. I'm
gonna try, though, No Phase, he always gets upset. Who
you said? My name? My name's Phase.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Eh.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
I did meet him in a cup game actually, ironically enough.
But the whole point of this is to say, no,
Rizzo was a fine member of the Cubs organization. Congratulations.
But the whole marketing thing was like, come breathe the
air of twenty sixteen. Well, no, it's twenty twenty five.
I don't want to brethe the air of twenty I
don't want to breathe the air of twenty sixteen. It's
twenty twenty five. And while the Cubs are playing the
violin in the background, that sappy violin music, as they
(05:40):
roll out the highlight reel, the fluff piece, and they're
essentially selling bottled air from twenty sixteen. That's what this is.
It's all about the heartstrings and the people saying, well,
retire's number, retire's number, and you know, just keep the
cash register Hummond and Memory Lane, all that good stuff.
But you need an Anthony Rizzo ice bucket to the face.
(06:02):
Reality check here. If you look at the precedent, and
I'm against retiring anyone's number, I think the whole thing's lame.
But if you are in the camp of retiring numbers,
there have to be some standards. You can't be like
the Yankees and retire everyone's number, right, it's embarrassing, or
the Celtics, the Lakers so embarrassing. But the Cubs have
a president, Ernie Banks, mister Baseball, Ryan Sandberg who just
(06:26):
passed away not that long ago, Greg Maddox, Ron Santo,
Fergie Jenkins, Billy Williams. That's it. That's the list. Those
all of them are Hall of famers. Most of them
are hardball immortals. And Andre Dawson, who is a better Cub,
didn't play as long as you gotta go, a better
cub than Anthony Rizzo. Dawson doesn't have his number retired,
(06:48):
and I believe he's a Hall of Famer. He actually
works in the same business now. Andre Dawson, if you're old,
you know who is? You played baseball a long time ago?
For he played so long ago a team called the
Montreal Expos when he played. But Andre Dawson now as
an undertaker. He has the job that our friend Hayes
has in Minnesota. Not quite the same exact job, but
he works at a mortuary. So anyway, this whole thing
(07:09):
is the riglely Ivy effect your wrapper. You know, anything
in ivy you put a retro font on it, and
the cub fan will eat it up. They will eat
it up.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It comes.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Actually don't have a bad team this year. They don't
here to have a championship team and they're not a
bad team. And you know, everyone seems to have a
playoff shot that comes are right there on that big
mix in the in the playoff field. But they'll sell
you the same old walk down Clark Street there and
the yellow brick road. It's a brilliant business model. And
so it's not really so much selling baseball. You're selling
(07:40):
the nostalgia with stuff like this. And as far as
the whole number retirement thing, I know that most teams
are obsessed with this and just will retire numbers because
they can't help themselves. They have no control. It's out
and it's it's off the hook. To me, though, you
should try to pee like the Dallas. Well, I would
(08:01):
just say the Cowboys. The Cowboys have never retired a number.
They have never retired number. They have a ring of honor,
and the malord advice, unsolicited malle advice. How about ring
around the rosie or in this case, ring around the
ivy and just put a ring of honor around Wrigley
(08:21):
Field and say, all right, we have a haul, we
have the number retirement. We're done doing that, and so
from now on we're gonna have a ring of honor. Boom.
And you can even put it outside the stadium on
one of those rooftops which the Cubs bought, and give
Rizzo a plaque and have a bobblehead day and there
you go. Problem solve just like that, all right now
(08:44):
page two to Anaheim, we go, Yes, Anaheim, I saw this. Oh,
you gotta be kidding me. So a report out from
the baseball insider crowd that it is most likely not
going to be a return to Ron Washington next season. Now,
there's still a Chancey comes back, but more likely than not,
Ron Washington will be elevated. He had a major heart
(09:05):
major bypass surgery. I believe, and so most likely he
will just get an advisor role and that's it, And
so the Angels will have a new manager next year.
So how do you digest the report that the Halos
are being tied to Albert Pulhos, Yes, that Albert Poohos
who played for the team and really stole money from
the team for years and was terrible. And the possibility
(09:28):
that they will go back to Mike Soshia remember him,
He's been out of baseball for several years. But they
could turn back to Mike sosher the guy that was
the skipper when they finally won the World Series back
in the day. So how do I digest this? It
is the theater of the absurd in Anaheim, the Los
Angeles Angels, of Disneyland, of Truros, of eternal irrelevance, all
(09:53):
of that, and we don't talk about this guy because
the Angels are irrelevant. We have apathy. But Artie Marino
is doing cosplay as Jerry Jones and failing miserably. He's
chasing headlines. A lot of the moves the Angels maker
to chase headlines, and he's like addicted to the shiny
object and he's running the Angels like a bad Vegas
(10:13):
lounge act. And he even did the fake head fake
thing where he's like, I'm gonna sell the team. Psych
I'm not selling the team bringing back Mike Soosha, though,
why not go get a shovel, dig up gene Autry.
You can't do that. Bring back the ghost of gene Autry.
Trot his ass out there on opening day twenty twenty six,
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and he can sarenade Mike Soosha as he gets back
into the dugout back in the saddle again, and the
Angels they might as well just tire my guy, Kawhi Leonard.
We know Kawhi loves no show jobs. Managing the Angels
is a no show job. You're a mascot in a hoodie.
You're a Walmart greeter with a lineup card. In fact,
(10:56):
I don't understand why they have another The Angel should
get Turtle White as a sponsor. The manager should have
a patch that says Turtle Wax right on the uniform there,
because when you're managing the Angels, you spend about six
months of the year polishing turds. That's what you're doing.
That's it. It's the organizational philosophy, and they Mike Trout
(11:18):
and show Ootani in the same lineup to Hall of
Famers for multiple seasons, and they managed to be irrelevant
by Labor Day every single year. It's fascinating that is
not a bug in the system. That is an entire
operating error, is what that is. That's a software issue.
There's a trojan horse in the software. And hiring Albert
(11:41):
Pools or bringing back Mike Sosher or I don't know,
go find Joe Madden somewhere in Margaritaville somewhere. None of
it matters. It's like asking a quod Don Blue chef
to cook an award winning meal and the ingredients are
kibbles and bits and catnip. The Angels at this point
they don't even need a manager. They don't they need
(12:01):
an exorcism, is what they need. Get some holy water,
some garlic, clothes, all of it. Until then, as the
Great Donnie Brasco said, forget about it, right, remember this,
the Angels could hire. I'm convinced they could hire the
Pope as the manager. The Dali Lama could be the
third base coach, and the tooth Fairy could be the
(12:23):
hitting coach and they'd still finish in fourth place in
the American League West. That's the way they are now,
one final final point while I'm at it. So I
saw this and I thought it was worthy of a
mention staying at the Big A. This guy was the
biggest deal in baseball. Who didn't want to be the
biggest deal in baseball? Mike Trout. Remember, Mike Trout was
the top player in baseball, and he hated He's like
(12:45):
an intro over it. Didn't want to deal with the media,
didn't want and didn't want to do interviews. So Mike
Trout has gone. Based on the Angels Twins game, which
took place on Wednesday, Mike Trout has now gone. I
believe that math is right on this. One hundred and
twenty three plate appearances, eight games without hitting home run.
He's sitting on three ninety eight. His previous longest drought
(13:07):
was one hundred and seventeen played appearances. That was a
decade ago. So question, what do you make of Mike
Trout and his collapse in Anaheim. So it's kind of
like watching Superman walk around and he's got a neck
brace and he's limping it. It's kind of like that like,
this is brutal. Mike Trout has been locked in since
(13:32):
August sixth, over a month now, on that same home
run total. And we know he's got that rare like
it's a spinal tap spinal condition thing there. He's basically
the world's most expensive day to day player. He's on
that twelve year contract for four hundred million dollars and
I believe he's got five years left. He will be
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thirty eight, Mike Trout, and he's already a shell of
what he was and his salad days. And the Angels
are handcuffed. They're handcuffed Mike Trout. Now, they are really
nice handcuffs, like a Rolex pair of solid gold handcuffs,
really solid, really good handcuffs. Right.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
They also have a ball and chain which it's got
the Angel logo on it. So it's okay, they've got
the Angel logo. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. It's
pretty exciting. So they've got that going for him. But
they're they're stuck. They're stuck, and you can you cannot
build around Mike Trout anymore. You cannot depend on Mike
Trout anymore. He's played actually a lot of games this
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year by Mike Trout standards. And here's where things get interesting,
right where the rubber meets the road. Ardy Marino cannot
cannot quit these guys. He can't. I and people said, well,
they're gonna trade Trout because he's not a lead guy.
He can be a good number three guy, like you
have two stars, he's your third star. You can be
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pretty good. But they had Otani. Everyone knew that Otani
was gonna leave the Angels because they were they don't
know what they were doing. And instead of trading Otani
and saying we'll get some for him, they just kept
Otani because they got all that Japanese advertising, which the
Dodgers are obsessed with, by the way, Oh my god,
they are sucking every dollar they can out of the
Japanese economy. But and I don't blame him. I do
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the same thing. But anyway, Otani left as a free agent,
and that means that based on that, Mike Trout is
not going anywhere, like even if teams called the ends up,
like Marino is going to already, Marino is going to
have to eat a bunch of money just to get
Trout out there. And he's I don't think he's gonna
do it. I can't see him doing it, even though
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the Halos could absolutely get offers, and they could entice
the Philadelphia Phillies to bite on Trout from Jersey, but
you know, in the Philadelphia part of Jersey, Southern Jersey,
so I believe he grew up a Phillies fan. And
then the Yankees are always there. They love falling Stars,
they can't get enough of them. They're ready for the
falling Stars challenge and all that. So you find a
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sucker who still believes that Mike Trout's got enough star
dust to justify acquiring him. And then the Phillies are
chasing rainbows and they're at a weird point now if
they don't win this year. They've got an older team,
a bunch of players that are gonna leave in free
agency or could leave in free agency. So they got
to sign Schber he's going to be a free agent.
They've got Bryce Harper, he's getting older now. And so
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if you can put Trout out there with those guys
and Castellanos leaves, for example, that would make some sense
that the Yankees, they would be trying to resurrect Mike
Trout like their doctor Frankenstein, if he went to the Bronx,
and you look at the comps on this, if you
take the name away, if you take the Mike Trout
name away, and did the blind Pepsi challenge, the blind
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Soda challenge, Mike Trout his production offensively this season is
on the same level with Isaac Parides of the Astros
and Jonathan Arnda of the Tampa Bay Race, who exactly
these are not household names. They make chicken feed compared
to what Mike Trout makes. He's being fed like a whale.
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He's being fed like a whale. And they're being fed
like a crab on the beach, a little sand crab.
And the Halos. Listen, we not to flog a dead Halo.
But they're deep in a deep dark place and they're
not good. They're not bad. They're just stuck on this
treadmill of mediocrity and more probably they're irrelevant, while the
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Loop at a Bronco fan ferg Dog says, Ben, keep
that same energy up. When Mike Trout and the Angels
turned it around next season, you better come at them
with that same energy. Halo Honk for life. Ferg Dog says.
Ryan says, the Angel's problem has been the inability to
have competence starting pitching in thirteen to fifteen years. Why
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because they haven't had a good general manager since the
great Bill Stoneman. And they have in pulse signings like
Albert Poohos, Anthony Rendon and Josh Hamilton, who those are
three of the worst signings my god ever heard of.
You had Hamilton snort and Coke Rendon who hates baseball,
(21:40):
and pool host who played like he was seventy. What
a great what a great move? Those all turned out
to be holy crap. Yeah, they had quite the quite
the lineup there, absolutely quite the lineup. Mark the full
name guy is hiding behind his smart device there in Oregon,
and he's taking shots at the Dodgers. Funny enough, he's
(22:03):
not talking about the uh the other teams that he likes,
because they they all sucked. They all suck. Let's go
back to the phones, and let's go down to a
man cashing a golden ticket. Andrew that great country western
town of Bakersfield. Hello, Andrew, what's up?
Speaker 6 (22:25):
Ben? I just thought I'd cashing the golden ticket where
Cooper and nine destroyed you in the game. By the way,
remember that anyway, no.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
One remembers that it was. It was terrible radio, It
was horrible.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
So on the night where the Dodgers officially clinched a
winning season, I thought I'd call in and did.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
You are you really? Are you really calling to celebrate
the Dodgers, who have all the stars of baseball clinching
a winning season that you think that is an accomplishment?
Are you really? Are you seriously calling up to celebrate
the fact that a team that has underachieved all season
has guaranteed a winning record?
Speaker 7 (23:12):
Really?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
You're that guy?
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Well, I thought we should microwave the take where you
were criticizing Dave Roberts and Rookie Betts And how did
Muky Vetts do tonight?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
I was wondering, Okay, so he played the Now, who's
the worst team in baseball? Can you help me out
on that? Do you know who the worst team in
baseball is? Who's that?
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Who?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Would that be?
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Rockies?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah? That's right? Who did the Dodgers play? Who they play?
Speaker 6 (23:40):
Though?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Who they play? That played the Rockies? That's right?
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (23:43):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
All right, So so you you think that somehow I
should I should be upset that I that Mookie Bets too?
How many much did he take a three months of
the baseball season? That that's okay with you? Like, seriously,
you're okay with that? So you you're okay with the
guy stealing money. Mookie Betts was stealing money from the Dodgers,
all right. He was playing like a freaking demon, not
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a good kind of demon. And you think I'm supposed
to sit here every night while he's flailing away at
home plate, and well, just give him time, he'll be okay.
Come on, I told you, I told you, Okay, all right,
And I'm sure you'll call up when Mookie bats two
hundred in the playoffs and makes four errors and you'll say, well,
you'll do that, right, I'm sure you'll call up.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Yes, maybe we'll see.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
We'll see. You'll hide like all these other clowns. I
know how it works. You'll run and hide, just like
there was that dope in Minnesota that used to call
the show and I was a coward. Doesn't call anymore
because all the Minnesota teams suck. The guy that worked
at the walmart, Remember that guy. It was a terrible caller. Yeah,
that guy.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Are you a Dodgers fan.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Yeah, yeah, I'm a real fan. I'm a better fan
than you. You're a fanboy. I'm a fan, you're a fanboy.
Do you understand the difference? A fanboy? Is we enthusiastic? Oh,
it's so great, everything's wonderful.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
A real fan is a critic. A real fan is
willing to bad mouth the team. Right, you're you're not
a real fan, You're a fanboy. There's a difference. There's
a difference between a fan and a fanboy. And it's
not semantics. It's not trivial details and all that. It's
more than that.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Just I just wanted to remind you that I said
it was only a matter of time. Tell MOOKI the story.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yes, yes, yes, yeah so again. May I, man, we
all have you as our boss where we will take
three months of the year off and get paid every
week our salary and it doesn't matter. May we all
have a boss like you? All Right, I go away,
I'm done with you. Let's go to Let's go to
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dog or or the boss dog is. I wondered what
happened to this guy. This guy calls up for like
a couple of days, a couple days in a row
and then he vanishes like he's a ghost. I don't
know what. I don't know where Dog goes. I don't know.
It's a There's this weird thing with E Dog and
Steven Manhattan. Are you guys related to each other? You
(26:11):
don't know Steven Manhattan?
Speaker 7 (26:12):
Do you that Theatre of the Well?
Speaker 1 (26:17):
It's Steve s T E V E. I believe is that?
I believe?
Speaker 7 (26:20):
That's that's how I am the great Listen, man, I'm
the greatest caller that there ever was.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
How does one quantify that? How does one determine.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
I'm in the mood for a niche? But I want
to tell you the truth, though, Get who I'm back
in touch with and guess.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
All right, so this scene we're trying to guess here,
E Dog, I'm gonna go Joe Dogg.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Definitely not tonight, Not Joe Dog.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Okay, that girl that you were you broke up with
that one? What's your name?
Speaker 7 (26:55):
Melissa?
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Are you back with Melissa?
Speaker 7 (26:59):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Love is in the air. I guess Eat Dog and Melissa.
Speaker 7 (27:07):
You're not gonna believe this, But I was going to
a treatment center and I really did. I'm not going
to tell you why but I really didn't partake, and
you know and the people that I that I go
there for. But she got me set up for an
orientation soon and uh pretels for a dollar and she
promises me she'll never cheat on me again. But I
(27:28):
don't believe it. But I don't care, you know, I'm right.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Well, so she cheated on you. Who who she hooked
up with?
Speaker 4 (27:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (27:37):
I think this guy James, you know, but I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Really can't do you. You don't care about that. I
got you well, usually most of most people would care
about that, But that's fine.
Speaker 7 (27:47):
What okay? How about shoever for the m v P.
What do you think about that?
Speaker 1 (27:52):
And not going to happen on? Tony's gonna win the
m v P again, you're a Doger fan?
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yes? Are you a Phillies fan?
Speaker 7 (28:03):
Definitely not?
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Well okay, then why would you want Swarb to win the.
Speaker 8 (28:06):
M v P.
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Well, I think he's gonna win it. I'm not saying
are you talking?
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Are you really trying to talk sports here? By the way,
is that what you're trying to do?
Speaker 7 (28:15):
You're trying to Yeah, now here's the question, Lorena. Yes,
I want you to answer this question to see if
you get it right. It's called a stump arena and
stump ben Nola.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Okay, well that's quite the game. I'm excited about this game.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
What jersey do I have? I'm not going to tell
you what swort? But he was drafted number one and
and I have his jersey? Can you pick him?
Speaker 8 (28:44):
He was drafted number one.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
You're not going to tell this is the worst game ever.
You're not going to say what's sport?
Speaker 7 (28:50):
No, because if I told you what you'd get it
right away?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Man, how would we get it? There are number one
picks every single year would.
Speaker 8 (28:58):
Be plus and I still wouldn't get it.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
I'm gonna go because I know you're you're you know
you live out on Long Island, right he dog, but
you're really a tough guy. I'm gonna go with that
old school Alan Iverson Sixers Jersey. That's what I'm going.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
I'm gonna go with Lebron James Jersey.
Speaker 1 (29:17):
No, that's a that's a good one. Okay, do we
go again? Do we guess again?
Speaker 6 (29:20):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's just the game? Okay, I'm gonna go all.
Speaker 8 (29:26):
I'm gonna go with Luca Mavericks Jersey.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Definitely not so far.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
You guys go for five, We're not oh for five.
It's like, we're excuse me, we're we're not ben I'm
done with this game. I don't like this game. You say,
who cares? Who is it?
Speaker 7 (29:50):
Anthony Hardaway? Who Hardaway for the magic?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Tenny Hallway?
Speaker 2 (29:59):
That's also have him with this guy.
Speaker 7 (30:02):
I was somewhere and he was.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
You know, I've noticed you're so good at calling because
you don't you don't shut up. I was ready to
end the call and just keep talking like you talk.
I have other people that want to get on the air.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
I understand. But last thing, okay, say it, okay. There
was this guy. I was talking to him.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Man, I'm talking.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
All right, I'm done. I gotta thank you. All right,
go back to rehab. Let's go to Tree in Chicago.
What's going on? Tree? My guy? Tree? Hello, Tree, that
was a good call.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
What's up?
Speaker 5 (30:39):
No?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
That was not a good call. Tree, No, that was
not that. We don't want to encourage that kind of
a call. Tree, We do not want to.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Encourage that shut out shout out to do. But uh,
I was calling in. I was coming in to trying
to say I was against you. Man. But I think
you're right man. The whole president thing. You're right, man,
You're right, the dusted thing, that's, uh, you knocked me.
He knocked me out with that one.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Man.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Rizzo is the man got the iconic moment caught caught
the ball for the last out. Him and Chris Brian
was going back and forth to the MVP that year
twenty sixteen. But uh, I think you're right man. Okay,
that's the record.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Show Coop said that out on x I a lifelong
Chicago cub fantry who lives in the belly of the
beast there in Chicago, and he agreed that Rizzo should
not have his number retires. See that's you're a good fan.
Try because you agree with me. You're a good fan clearly.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
So I get that one. And I'm with a e dog.
Though he was tripping as far as the overall call,
the car was hilarious. I think people should look at
swarps man, but I get it. I think his bad
average is a little low, but fifty home runs for
one hundred and twenty three.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Yeah, and because of the pitching thing to even though
the Dodgers he hasn't really pitched that great exactly. It doesn't.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Yeah, I know, first place in the East, the first place, right, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
They're in the first place. They just kicked They've been
kicking the Mets ass this week. The Phillies. They've won.
I think that one game left. They won every game
against the Mets.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
So well, all right, he might have been right about that,
but that was that was a good call.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
All right, Tree, all right, man, thank you, buddy, the
great Tree in Chicago, we met him. He came in,
very nice guy, came in studio, hung out with us
for a night. Let's say hello, or for a little bit.
Let's go to D in North Carolina. What's going on?
D welcome d.
Speaker 7 (32:32):
Hey Ben.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
I'm gonna follow up the Tree with about Anthony Riz.
By the way, I saw a guy wandering around with
a kitty Hardaway jersey the other day. I wonder if
it was eat. But anyway, uh, I grew up listening
to Harry Carey watching Sanberg Dalton.
Speaker 7 (32:47):
And another Cups first base and.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That actually led some decades and hits, double sack of
fight flies and his number. He wasn't even welcomed back
to Wrigley until about ten or fifteen years later. He,
along with Pete Rose, are the only ones not in
the Hall of Fame that led their decade and hits
from nineteen hundred out.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
I know who that is. I'm familiar with his game.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Here he he the Reft Chicago. He won a World
Series with the airs of a time back and yeah, yeah,
great park great and yeah Chris.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Who, by the way, went to saddle Back College Mark Grace.
Fun fact, there you go, fun fact where I went
to school. He went to my my college there malor
fun fact. Absolutely, I have no problem Mark Race led
that he led the nineteen nineties in hits right, the
decade of the nineties, I believe.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's the first time he was voted
to see if he was a Hall of Famer or not.
He didn't get enough, but Tote even get a second chance.
But yeah, Chris Brownt was wearing number seventeen years after
Grace retired. I don't see how Anthony Rizzay is up
there with.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Bryan said, all right, don't agree. I'm two for two.
I made my compelling argument and I got two cub fans,
Tree and D and they agree with me. And it
rhymes thank you, D, thank you for listening, and I'm guessing.
I'm guessing you grew up watching the Cubs on the superstation.
You probably around my age and I did the same thing. Anyway,
(34:19):
Thank you. All right, It is the Ben mahlerd Show.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Time.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Now for the Insta trivia, we have Mallard of the
third degree. Here's the answer trivia. Pittsburgh Paul Skeens has
a one ninety four career earn run average that is
the lowest in a pitcher's first fifty three career starts
in the live ball era. He bested Blank's previous record.
That's the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it
(34:44):
and we will do it next.
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the third degree. Here's the instant trivia question. Paul Skeens.
That's a pitcher. He's a good one on a bad team.
Pittsburgh's Paul Skeens has a one ninety four earn run
average in his career. That's the lowest in a pitcher's
first fifty three career starts in the live ball era.
Goes back over one hundred years, besting Blank who had
the previous record. All right, that's the question. What's the
(36:06):
answer that sees anyone know the answer? We go to
the great unwashed here Bobby in Florida, says former Fox
Sports radio host Rob Dibble. Dibble was doing radio in Hartford,
Connecticut last I heard. I don't know if he still is.
I have no idea. Who else do we have page down?
Grover Cleveland Alexander from The Grill Sergeant, that's an interesting name.
(36:29):
Sally Struthers from Manuel and Gardeina dating himself with that.
Who else do we have? Page down? Rick Sutcliffe from
Ryan That's a good name. Arthur Roade, solid name from
Sean in the Valley of the Sun. Billy Chappell, That
guy was good for the Tigers from Doug. Boog Powell
from j T the Wingman. I think JT. The Women
(36:51):
kind of looks like boog Powell a little bit. I
think he does. Who else do we have? Sandy Kofax
from Robbie the Mariner, Fan e Dogg's Therapist guessed by
Andy and Lionel makes Bob Gibson from William Jay and
Silent Bob from Milkman Mike in Colorado, The American Dream Ron,
Dusty Rhodes from Rob in Vegas. Who else Femi's going with?
(37:12):
Ferg Dog Sydney Ponson, the Prince from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
The daff Man, Oh Yeah from King Rory? Who else?
Sudden Sam mcdaugas by Alf the Alien opiner. Lorena, what
say you, Lorena, I'm gonna say, David Spade, David Spade,
all right, No, it's increct. The correct answer Vita blue.
(37:33):
Vita blue sounds like the color of a crayon, Vita blue.
Here we go, all right, Sam Aller, how about that?
To the third degree?
Speaker 4 (37:45):
This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Now.
Speaker 8 (37:50):
I know it's only been one week, Ben, but it's
being reported that kickoff returns are way up so far
this season thanks to the new rule moving touchbacks to
the thirty five yard line. Is the NFL finally fixed kickoffs?
Speaker 1 (38:02):
A small sample sized, Coop, small sample size. It was,
let's put it this way, week one. It was not
a useless play and for several years in the end,
actually more than several years, like you just didn't need
to watch kickoffs because it just nothing ever happened. So
that's the time to go get snacks. That's not a
time to pay attention. But now, yeah, it's one week,
(38:23):
so at this point we do the show today, Coop.
So I'm gonna go.
Speaker 6 (38:26):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (38:26):
Next, the Toronto Blue Jays are only a few games
ahead of the Yankees in the Al East, and they
just had to put their star shortstop Bobachette.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
On the il.
Speaker 8 (38:36):
Do you think they'll be able to hold off the
Bronx Bombers.
Speaker 1 (38:40):
Well, if you've seen the way the Yankees have played
this week, getting just destroyed by the Detroit Talger, the
Yankees are a flawed baseball team. So Toronto's not great either.
But based on side by side, the Yankees, all they
do is hit home runs. If they don't hit home runs,
they really don't win very often at all. They showed
some weaknesses in their bullpen here, So yeah, oh Cada
(39:04):
next A.
Speaker 8 (39:05):
Roldis Chapman has been on an insane run for the
Boston Red Sox. He was till yesterday, well before that,
it was seventeen straight appearances without allowing a hit, only
won run last thirty seven games.
Speaker 7 (39:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (39:18):
Do you think chapman success this year secures him a spot.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
In the Hall?
Speaker 7 (39:23):
No?
Speaker 1 (39:23):
No, he's got a lot of baggage and he you know,
he's he's one of those borderline guys. He's got some
Hall of Fame numbers. Now, if the Red Sox going
to run in the playoffs and he's lights out, then
you can revisit this but he's still borderline Hall of
Fame even with this renaissance, and he's been great. He
already signed for next year. The Red Sox already signed
Chapman to an extension. All right there, it is Mallor
(39:44):
to the third degree. He got lit up by the
A's And how did we do pass?
Speaker 5 (39:49):
This edition is again take that Justin and Cincinnati. I won.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Justin
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