March 20, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Dodgers defeating the Cubs in Game 2 of their Tokyo series and the record number of viewers that tuned-in in Japan, the Angels instituting a no cell phone rule for their players, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number to our number two,
the original Recipe Podcast, and a happy happy Thursday to you,
a sizzling hot hour number two. What is your takeaway
from the Dodgers and the Cubs with record television viewers
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in the Tokyo series. Also that other team in Southern California,
the Angels have instituted a controversial new rule this season
with players not being allowed to be on their cell
phones at lockers. What's the core of that story? We'll
talk about that. And a famous cheater, Jose Altuvey, who
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has been terrible in the outfield. However, the cheating Astros
say that he's going to be their primary left fielder
in twenty twenty five. Do you feel bad for Altuve
that he he's just a shell of back in his
salad cheating days, his buzzer and whistle days and trash
can days. We'll talk about all that and more right
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now here. It is our number two, making it rain down, yen?
What welc come? In the beginning of another hour of
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Speaker 1 (02:16):
So our lead this hour is from baseball. We are
allowed to talk baseball. The season is underway, two games
in and now they'll take a week off before they
play more real baseball. But our lead this hour is
from Japan, the two games soft launch of Baseball twenty
twenty five as the export export Baseball to Japan.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
So I know you saw any this. It was perfect
for us.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
We did the show and then I get to listen
to it on the way home and then watched it
a little bit and that was good. I enjoyed that.
Very convenient for my schedule. So Showotani hit a fan
assistant homer. It didn't look like home run to me,
but they call it a home run, and you can't
take a home run away from Otani in Japan and
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it'd be an uprising. So Tani hit home run, Dodgers,
Tommy Edmund hit one key k Hernandez, Dodgers beat the Cubs,
and so they win again.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Dodgers two and oh, Cubs oh and two.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Cubs on pace to go owen one hundred and sixty two,
Dodgers on pace to be the greatest team of all time.
But it's all part of a more wider angle photo
here the story within the story, but you look at
the wide angle on this. So let's discuss the question
what is your team now's over? What is your takeaway
(03:39):
from the Dodgers and Cubs and the Tokyo series which
has been completed. So I've got Warner Brothers, Dinner Table,
and Santa's and we will combine all of these things
together and we're going to make some Neon orange nacho cheese.
Is what we're gonna make the list Neon orange nacho cheese. Now,
(04:01):
I like nachos at the ballpark. The problem you gotta
eat them pretty fast. You gotta be speed racer, because
if you don't even fast, they get all soggy and disgusting.
And it's a dance with a devil, is what it
is when you're trying to eat those soggy nachos. So anyway,
n burr, no, no, no, see it's number it's no
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no nice number one, number one. There we go, all right,
mission accomplished. Mission a comp that My first thought, which
is number one, is mission accomplished? There it is again
Major League Baseball. They went there for one reason, and
one reason only, to grow the brand. That's why they
(04:47):
gave Opening Day away. And in return, they ended up
laughing all the way to the bank. Major League Baseball
barn storming for bucks is what I call it. They
were milking the cow, the cash cow, the Shoho Tani
cash cow, and watching these two games and listening to them,
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but watching them as well from from Tokyo. It was
like a Warner Brothers movie. It was a remake of
Ocean's eleven. It was like a casino heist for Major
League Baseball. Every game in Tokyo was sold out, tickets
going for thousands of dollars and the highest ticket price
was like twenty thousand dollars. I don't know what kind
of loser it would tay twenty thousand dollars for that,
(05:28):
But anyway, merchandise sales. There were people lined up around
the building. It was long, there were people lined up.
It reminded me the photos in the video I saw online.
It was like back during the pandemic when people were
lined up to buy toilet paper and water. Very similar,
in an effort to move more product. Just to show
(05:49):
you that this was only about the marketing. It wasn't
about getting in the Dodgers and Cubs over there to
give them good baseball and what about that.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
It was about what's fine, Just to call it like.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It is, the marketing weasels at Major League Baseball. These
were two Cub games home games.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
They were not. It wasn't one one. I thought it
was one to one.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Dodgers gave up a home game, Cubs gave up a
home game. No, the Cubs gave up two home games.
Dodgers gave up no home games. So the Dodgers were
the road team in both games. But yet if you
saw a game two, the Dodgers wore their home Dodgers
Stadium white uniforms and the Cubs wore their road grace
even though they were the home team.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Do you know why they did that?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know, you know, you do know one? Okay, you do, well,
maybe you don't. The players were display case mannequins. Major
League Baseball's marketing arm, as I understand, it mandated that
the Dodgers had to wear their home uniforms in one
of the games because they wanted to sell to the
good people of Japan those two hundred and fifty dollars
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Dodger jerseys, the white Otani jersey. They showed off the
gray one, but they wanted to sell the white one
as well.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
And this is all of this work.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The Tokyo series shattered the viewership record. The numbers on
this are insane to the membrane. In fact, the number
that's been bragged about by Baseball. This is just for
Game one. Twenty five million men, women and children watch
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in Japan, the Tokyo game Game one. I wonder how
many people watched in America. I bet it wasn't many.
I bet it wasn't many. I was watching, but I'm
pretty sure not a lot of people on the East
Coast at six in the morning, or in Chicago at
five in the morning. Certainly in the West Coast in
La at three in the morning, are going to change
(07:47):
their whole body clock around to watch a regular season
baseball game.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I'd love to. I don't have that number in front
of me.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I have to look that up. The number, the rating
in America. You know it wasn't good. We know it
wasn't good because Major League Baseball was bragging about how
many people were watching in Japan. They weren't bragging about
how many people were watching in America. They said it
was the largest audience for any American baseball game in
Japan since Game seven of the World Series, the team
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cheated from Houston in twenty twenty seventeen. So to rephrase
how big a number that twenty five million is. That
is roughly twenty percent of the entire population of Japan
was watching the Dodgers and the Cubs. Okay, twenty percent
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of the country was watching. That is why Major League
Baseball went there. Now they can't go there next year
because they've got that Fugazi World Baseball Classic, But they'll
be back. I mean, I would not be shocked if
the Dodgers, pretty much every other year, open up in Japan,
or pick your country somewhere far far away, in that
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part of the world.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Now page two, So we flip the script a.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Little bit and we go to Anaheim, a very depressing
place not far from Fullerton, which is not depressing, but Fullerton,
Siberia with ferg Dog and Alf the ALIENI Pinter's Nemesis,
and all the characters that live there.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
So now they explain why.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'm going Anaheim. I'm not going to Anaheim talking about
good baseball. No, because that's bad baseball. The Angels. That's
a baseball team, not a good one. The Angels, they
did something that got our attention. The Angels, we are told,
have mandated a new set of rules for the clubhouse,
and it's a new year, new rules.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
But there's one rule.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That stands out more than all the others.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
The players in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Five are not allowed to be on their cell phones
at their lockers. No bueno, no go. So Mike Trout
he came out and said that he thinks it's worked
really well so far. They haven't even played a regular
season game yet. So the Angels, let me sum this
(10:08):
up for you this way. The Angels have instituted a
new rule this season with the players in the clubhouse.
They are not allowed to be on their cell phones
at their locker. So what is the core of this
score story? What is the core of this story? The
Angels banning the smartphone usage at the locker. So, for me,
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the core of the story is Ron Washington. Yes, Ron Washington,
longtime baseball man, is the manager, and he is from
the Old Country. He's about to turn seventy three years old.
He made his Major League baseball debut for the Dodgers
in nineteen seventy seven. It's been a minute so for him,
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he'd much rather read the Yellow Pages than wikipedie. And
he's old school, right, He's in the Old Country. He
wants face to face, not TikTok. He wants face to
face talk, not TikTok. So Ron Washington, the manager in Anaheim,
is looking to artificially cultivate team camaraderie. Washington's a smart
enough man to know the team blows. It's a bad
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baseball team. They got crap bag players, stiffs like well,
Anthony Rendaut's not even playing this year, but he's he's
kind of on that and not team upset, is he?
I mean, all he does is sit as a locker.
He's not supposed to be on his phone. So anyway,
he knows that you're not going to win based on
talent with the Angels, so you might as well try
to make up some ground there and be a tight
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knit unit, but.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Protecting the sanctity of the clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Kind of like the dinner table, you got to limit
the brain rot and a lot of families have rules
no smartphone at the dinner table.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
You band the cell phone, and you're supposed to improve.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Those connections at bond, right, you reclaim time and this
digital agent. So Ron Washington and his figure, Hey, and
we're not gonna win games because on talent, because we're
not very good the Angels, So you know why not?
We might as well just be friendly with each other
and interact with each other and there'll be some kind
of weird bond. Now. I am skeptical. I am skeptical
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that this is going to work. And here's why. I
would estimate that most people consume dinner anywhere from thirty
to sixty minutes. That's a normal time to have a meal,
and I would say it's closer to thirty than sixty,
I would hope, depending on how much you just keep talking.
But most of the time. It's a thirty to sixty
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minute experience when you have dinner, Am I correct on that?
When you have dinners it thirty probably is right. You're
with other people, with your friends and your family whatever,
thirty sixty minutes. Major League Baseball players are in the
clubhouse now. Normally the home team gets there around two
o'clock in the afternoon for a night game, and they're
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there all the way up off and on off and
on games about two and a half hours. Now. There's
some batting practice, but they're in their locker area for
about half the time. I would say so from two
o'clock till ten o'clock half the time they're there. So
here's what I want to do. I want I want
to take out a little yellow, yellow posted note. All right,
(13:22):
I'm gonna make Ron Washington happy. Otherwise i'd tell you
to just put a note on your phone. But because
Ron's antiphone, the Angels manager. So take out a yellow
posted note. Let's file this one away. Let's check back
on the posted note on June first, when the Angels
are ten to fourteen games back in the American League West,
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which is gonna be hard to do. It's gonna be
hard to be that far back in the American League
West because the cheating a holes who we're gonna get
to in a minute, they're not as good. Seattle always
finds a way to f things up. And then you've
got the Sacramento As that have Sacramento dysmorphia. They're so
embarrassed by being in Sacramento they don't want to admit
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they're in Sacramento, even though there is a halfway house
before they get to Vegas. So it's a it's a
fugazy situation there, all right. So it's hard. It's hard
for that to really fall that far behind because the
division sucks so much. But methinks it will backfire, all right.
Final point, Well we just mentioned it. Let's go to Houston,
the den of iniquity, where their manager Joe ah Spada
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confirmed that longtime infielder and convicted cheater Jose al boovey
Jose Alboo. So this dope is going to open the
season as the cheating as one one thousand and two,
one thousand and three, one thousand holes primary left fielder.
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Now this comes as al Tuve back to back spring
training games dropped routine little league style flyballs, little league
style flyballs. Dropskis back to back days in spring training,
he dropped fly balls, routine flyballs with runner on third
(15:08):
base less than two outs, and Altub was anticipating the
play that he had to catch the ball, had to
secure the catch and throw the ball to home plate,
and he failed to secure the catch.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Now Altuve convicted.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
With blood on his hands, blood on his hands, and
a buzzer under his uniform. Allegedly he has made all
all of his defensive start seventeen and forty nine across
fourteen dirty major League Baseball seasons at second base.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
But not anymore, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Altub was last season the second worst defensive second baseman
in baseball last year, and so Jose Altub. He has
been absolutely terrible this spring in the outfield. However, the
Ast say they are going to use Altuve Albouve as
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their primary left fielder this season. Do you feel bad
for al Tube? So absolutely not. Did you expect me
to say yes, You must be new to the show.
You've got to be new to these parts. If you
expected me to say yes, Altub is forever on Santa's
naughty List, and I am enjoying shotenfreude. I am enjoying
(16:26):
shotenfreude since Major League Baseball didn't have the balls to
punish Altuve, in fact, they protected him. I love the
fact that this cheating fraud Altuve is embarrassing himself on
his way out of baseball, that he's been demoted. He
has been demoted. Don't let a falling star fall on you.
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It is the little league walker shame. It is the
little league walker shame. You put your crappiest player out
left field. Get out there in left field. Altuve is
covered with the cooties. He's got the cooties. You hate
to see it unless you love to see it, and
then you're not that upset about it. Right, I need
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a sizzle reel of Altuve dropping balls in the outfield.
That's what I need, and I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
But the scouting report when you play the cheating Astros
will be to hit the ball in the left field.
Make al Boubay make a play, Make al boub make
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Speaker 5 (19:13):
Next hour right now. Though, back to the.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Nonsense we go, Well, that's true, and we began with
a spicy hot baseball monologue as the Dodgers and Cubs
beginning the baseball season in Tokyo and a couple of
games and twenty five million people watching that, and also
the Angels Ron Washington banning the smartphone from the locker room.
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And yes, that's why the Angels have the longest playoff
drought in baseball because they haven't been able to use
the smartphone. But now that that's because they have used
the smartphone. Now they won't be able to use the smartphone,
so they're in good shape. Late Night Drug Tester writes
in he says, if League Baseball is happy with all
the Dodger merch that sold in Japan, wait until October
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when the run on Royal's jerseys explodes when they win
the American League pennant. We'll be waiting. Ferg Dog writes
and says banning cell phones is a brilliant move by
Ron Washington. Players should pay more attention to the game
and then flappy Bird on their phones. Don't be surprised
if the Angels make some noise in April. What kind
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of noise are they gonna make? Coopion? What is it?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
The noise the sound of like a lobster dying?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Is it gonna be? I mean, my god, that's it there.
You gotta be proud. Are you now you still boycotting
the Angels? Coop or you done? You are? Okay?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
So no no interest at all, nothing.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Very little interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I mean just because yeah, uh, you know, out of boredom,
I may turn on a game on the TV.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well maybe you need to go to sleep or something
like that, right right right exactly like nap time.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Sure, but I'm not going to be going to any games,
not an Angel Stadium anyway. Maybe if I'm traveling and
they happen to be there, so you might.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah. Maybe if you're in you know, pick a state
and the Angels happened to be playing like the Cleveland
Guardians or the Old Indians, you might you might show
up there, got you, but no merch and no trips
to Angel Stadium none. Okay, how many Angel everyday players.
Can you name right now? How many could you?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You want to play the game real quick, don't Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
All right? There are of the projected opening day lineup.
We'll do this versus right handed pitching right, because I
mean you can do left at right hand, but this
is against right handed pitching. So there are nine position
players and there is one obviously designated hitter project to
be in the starting lineup. Now, Marry, you want to
guess how many Coop used to be an Angel fan? Marry,
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you want to guess how many of these names Coop
can get? Right? There are ten possible answers, ten possible answers.
So how many do you think Coop will know as
a fledgling Angel fan.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Mmm, I'm not gonna lie. I want to get like
four four?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Okay, that would be about half. That'd be about half. Well,
there's there's the way I look at it. There's two
or three that you should get. That's it. The other
ones I mean I'd be impressed with. There's one that's
an obvious one that you're gonna get right away, and
then other than that, I know a couple that could
go either.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Way, like I'm like blanking right out.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
God, let's let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
So the Why don't we start with the obvious one?
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Mike Trout?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, all right, Mike Trout. And he what position is
he gonna play this year?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Coop is gonna play right field?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
That is correct?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
All right?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You're one for one. You want to stop now?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I know I know at least one more.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Okay, what other play do.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You logan o'hoppy?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
That is correct? What position does he play?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
He's the catcher, that is correct?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh? Happy? You two for two? You know you love
the Angels, mister angel base me like an angel in
the outfield. Two for two?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
All right, starting left fielder for.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
The Angel I think you should get this one. I
think I think you should get this one. Really, starting
left fielder for the Angels projected. I think he's gonna
batt lead off I think yeah, I think he's a
leadoff inter this year. Alight? Nothing, Okay, Taylor Ward I.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Should have got that right.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
The last fantasy baseball team I had was was named
Our Warden Savior.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Okay, so you're two for three. Oh you knew that
was the name of your team. You get him?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Okay, Starting center fielder.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
For the Angels center fielder, no idea.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Okay, you see you're gonna say these names and I'm
gonna know.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Them, but I'm just Joe Adele.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh really starting off the season.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Projected to be the starting centerfielder. So you're two, you're
fifty percent right now, you're two for four. Let's see here.
Now it's gonna get well. This one. This was their
their big pickup this offseason. He's a designated hitter. He's
gonna back clean up for the Angels that you were playing?
How many how many Angels can coop name game in
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honor of Opening Day next week? Yeah, big signing.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I remember hour hitter.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
This guy was one of my favorite players in baseball.
One year had a big home run in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
If I remember correctly, he's one of your favorite players.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Well for one one year, because he Yeah, for one
year he was.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I'm pretty sure. Is he a big guy? Here's a big,
bigger guy, designated hitter. He's been around for a while.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Nothing is it Miguelson? O?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
No, that was last year, right, that was He's he's gone. No,
it's a Jorge Cilaire didn't need a big home run
for the Braves against the cheating Astros.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah, I think it was. He had something big for
the Cubs too.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Right, maybe I remember the Braves hitting a big, world
serious home run.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
So your two for five, Coop.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I'm so screwed.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, yeah, no, you're not screwed, Coop. No, no, no,
We're gonna keep playing the game. This is a fun game,
all right, Starting first baseman for the Angels. Now, the
Angels have had some great first basement over the years. Fence,
how far you go back? Wally Joiner, they signed Mo Vaughn,
they had him, Eddie Murray played in Anaheim for a while,
Rod Carew there been some legendary first basement for the
Angels franchise and Cooper Loop Can you name the starting
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first baseman for the Angels in twenty twenty five? And then.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Mark Trumbo?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Right Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You wish? Uh? No, that would be uh. I don't
even know this guy. Nolan Seanuell, seany Wells Nuell.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Okay, all right, yeah, I know the name. All right,
your two for six, Coop.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
We will keep going.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
There are four more possibilities here, if my math is correct.
You uh, let's see starting third basement for the Angels.
What do you got starting third basement for the Ange?
This guy's been around. He was a can't miss suspect
for the Red Sox and then he didn't make it.
So he's on the Angels now. Yeah, and I think
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you're two for seven? Actually right?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, this is bad.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Uh, that's kind of fun for me. I'm enjoying it.
Scot that's a good name. No, Johann Mancata.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Johann had no idea he's.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Projected to be the starting third basement. He was the
guy the Red Sox traded to the White Sox for
Chris Sale years ago, and and people were like, oh,
this guy is going to be an All Star every year,
and the guy blows and all right, last one. I
don't even know this guy, so I can't imagine. Yeah,
the shortstop for the Angels. There's no chance you're two
for eight right now? Coop? Uh? Go ahead? Eric Ibar,
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Eric Ibar, good name? Uh? No, Dick Schofield, No, the
correct answer is Newman Newman, Kevin Newman. I have no
idea who that is, but Kevin Newman. That's apparently the
shortstop for the end. Well, Coop, you got too right,
and so congratulations.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Out of night, shout out to me.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I won Angels baseball? Right there, Mary Matt, how many
can you name the opening day picture coop for the Angels? Uh?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
It's you see the guy that.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The Mariners, or he used to be on the Mariners.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Anyway, he was on the Astros and the Blue Jays
last year. He's bounced around. So yeah, there you go.
That's so you know you're going well when you have
a thirty three year old journeyman pitcher in your opening days.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
That's so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And Kyle Hendrix, who's been done for like two years,
is in the rotation for the angel and he was
Witney on the Cubs in the World Series. He's still
a right, he's in his mid thirties. He can't pitch anymore.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
I mean, you can't pitch.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You go to Anaheim. That's what you do. You go
out there to the Big A and you get a paycheck.
It's like a golden parachute and you just knock yourself
out and have a fine time. Well, that was a
fun game. I didn't plan on playing that game. That
was just kind of a spur of the moment thing.
But it's a fun game. Nonetheless, let's go to the
phones and we'll say hello to Andrea. She's the astrology
lady Virgo in service on X and she is in Berkeley.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
She's in her compound right now. Hello Andrea, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Hello Ben, how are you?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
If I was any better, I'd be a Rogers, But
not Aaron Rodgers. I probably would be. He's probably some
exotic location right now, on vacation somewhere.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Oh yeah, I just love to travel. He's a sagittarius,
he's a free spirit. And it's the spring equinox, so
day and light or of equal length. So happy spring equinox.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
All right, how were we supposed to celebrate that? What
do we do?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yes? Well, you know we how much we like the
Farmer's Almanac. So it's a spring equinox, so it's perfect timing.
It's actually at two oh one am, will be up.
So take time to nurture yourself, be in nature when
you get a chance. And it's just nice to have
that balance and equilibrium back of day and night, you know,
(29:33):
yin yang, and just a nice energy portal, and you know,
new beginnings. I love how it coincides with baseball season
and the green grass, and the only thing is mercury
is retrograde, so do take time and double check all
travel plans and allow extra time. And that's March fourteen
(29:55):
to April seventh. So we had mercury retrograde the same day,
right around the Spring equinox, and venus is retrograde as well.
This is quite unusual. The planets that rules relationships, love money,
and that's going on a little bit longer for about
another month. So just take some deep breaths and just
(30:19):
bring yourself into life with greater balance and be more centered,
connect with your higher self. So it's just really nice
to have that balance. And the days are getting longer.
We got baseball. I'm a night out. I watched some
of the Dodgers came. So if anyone would like a
free Spring Equinox newsletter, please let the astrology lady know.
(30:41):
It has all the mercury retrograde dates, the full moons,
the eclipses, you know, all that timely stuff that it
behooves people to be in touch with.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah, for sure, we know when the full moon's happened
because we find out from the people that call the show.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And I always connect with my higher self.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
You do you should maybe connect with the angels box
score once in a while, connected with that kid, because
I can.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
But that's nice. It's a time to have faith, pray, meditate,
follow your heart and intuition, and I know what you
mean about your higher self. That could work too, yeah,
humor through all of.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It as well. We definitely connected with that for many,
many years. He's an expert in that area for sure. Yes,
all right, well, very good, Andrea. So people want to
reach out to you. You can find you on ex Virgo
in Service and you have a little chart of the
what you need to know this time of the year,
right this time of the year.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Yes, body, mind, heart and soul what you need to know?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
All right, well, thank you, thank you, all right, you too.
There she goes our friend Andrea in Berkeley, and she's
the astrology lady on this show all the star Charts,
all that stuff. She's gonna go take a bath right now,
and she's gonna wait for you to send her a
message and then she'll reach out to you if you're
interested in that, and send you some some pamphlet thing
(32:06):
or something like that. If it's online. It's online, all right, anyway.
It is the ban Ma. It is a shrine. It
is a shrine in Japan and Tokyo. They showed during
the Dodger cub game a literal shrine to show Hao Tani,
who's still very much alive. In that museum shrine, they
(32:28):
had a golden replica of Sho Hao Tani's hand, so
you could go shake Otani's hand. It's like shaking God's hand.
You could go shake Otani's That's a little creepy, just
a little bit. The thing that it reminded me of,
and I alway saw a little clip of it, so
maybe I'm exaggerating, but the clip that I saw reminded
(32:48):
me of some photos of Stefan Marbury in China has
a museum. There's a Stefan Marbury museum in China because
he went over in the NBA and he went over
there and the he was like a huge deal in
Chinese basketball, and so they gave him his own museum,
which is very bizarre. And Otani the one some big
(33:13):
company in Japan bought the fiftieth stolen based baseball. I
think it was the stolen based baseball that wild game
he had in Miami where he became the fifty to
fifty guy, and they bought the ball, and it's displayed,
of course, at the I think it's at the stadium.
Is like a museum thing in the stadium. And I'm
not sure whether this was a pop up or this
is always there. I'm not sure about that, but it
(33:35):
was there for the at least the last week or
so as the Dodgers and Cubs got together in Tokyo.
It is the Ben Malo Show. Now, today is a
big day for a number of reasons. For many, it's
the start of college basket ball. Right, Oh, that's a
big deal. And let me watching all day, not the
(33:56):
early games because I'll be sleeping, But once I wake up,
I'll be actually doing double duty today. I'm doing a
day night doubleheader. I'll be on locally in the Los
Angeles filling in for Fred Rogan and Rodney Pete. Rodney Pete,
who became a viral story for pulling a Bartman during
the Dodger Cub game. He was in Japan and Rodney Pete,
(34:18):
the former NFL quarterback, took a ball away from Max Munsey.
He had a glove. He was sitting down the third
base line in the bottom of the sixth inning. Cubs
were at bad obviously, and he took the ball from
Max Munsey like Bartman style, while wearing a Dodger sweater.
It was very awkward, but I'll be doing that. I'll
be watching the college basketball, so I guess it. We'll
(34:40):
be up relatively early watching the college basketball. But like basketball,
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Blank has the lowest plus minus rating in NBA history,
meaning he's the worst player according to plus minus in
NBA history.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
That is the question.
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The answer.
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have Mallard of the third degree. But here's the insta trivia.
(36:41):
Blank has the lowest plus minus rating in NBA history, meaning,
based on that statistic, this is the worst player in
NBA history, meaning his team has been outscored by the
most points all time of any one player in NBA history.
So that is the question. What is the answer. Let's
see does anyone know the answer? We go to the
(37:05):
great Unwashed and give a few answers here, then we'll
pay it off. Let's see here Page down inca terror
guess by Malard prop Guy alf the alien o Pinter
says Megan Fox and Courtney Kardashian. Interesting, interesting work by them.
Manny Fresh who is fifty six today by Late Night
Drug tester Cherokee Parks from Eke in Rosevio, Minnesota. Robbie
(37:27):
the Mariner fan guess by Big Greg in Iowa. George
Knox from Scrooge the Big Show from King Rory. Let's
see here, Leemu the Emu from JT the Wingman, Joe
and Okanawa. Guess by Shane in Des Moines, Montrez Harrold
from Robin, Minnesota. The former Mariner pitcher Dick Pole from
(37:51):
Mark in Santa Monica. All right, Mary, what do you
say quickly?
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Mary Miles Bridges? All right, No, the court answer is
Sharif abduor right he.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
Player.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
He's the worst plus minus in every history. Here we go,
here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go. Here we maller?
Speaker 5 (38:08):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (38:09):
To the third degree, This is one big event.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Gets grilled googolo.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
George Pickens took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a
picture of himself standing on the field with Tom Brady,
and it's got people speculating that Pickens is hinting at
wanting to play for the Raiders. Ben, is this picture
a big deal, a little deal or no deal?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
So it's it's a little deal. It just tells you
that George Pickens needed attention. He's an attention whore and
he wanted people to talk about George Pixen Pickens, so
he set out a vague photo.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
So we all took debit.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
No, I mean, he can't leave until next year, so
he's just trying to get attention.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Next Draymond Green has now joined a growing contingent of
NBA fans and writers that think that Nikolay Jokic and
Shay gilgets Alexander should be co MVPs. Ben, do you
see any chance of that actually happening?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Well, that's disrespect to Shay Yogas Alexander Kyogas. Alexander's your MVP.
The former Clippers going to win the award, and there's
voter fatigue for Jokic and all that. S GA is
your MVP, so stop with the Jokic stuff. Nice performance
by Jokic against your Lakers, by the way, in that
game last night.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Next on Monday, the Timberwolves play by play announcer got
sent held during the broadcast when he said Jamie Bickerstaff
had been fined one hundred thousand dollars by the NBA.
But have you ever been fooled into talking about a
fake report in the air?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I have come close, but I have never actually done it.
The one thing that I have done no one's perfect.
I did talk about his story as a news story
that was like ten years old, but I didn't check
the date on it. Somebody sent it to me and
I didn't check the date, which was embarrassing. But I've
never done that. How did we do?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
He passed.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah. I have worked with people that have been senteled,
though embarrassing
Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number to our number two,
the original Recipe Podcast, and a happy happy Thursday to you,
a sizzling hot hour number two. What is your takeaway
from the Dodgers and the Cubs with record television viewers
(00:21):
in the Tokyo series. Also that other team in Southern California,
the Angels have instituted a controversial new rule this season
with players not being allowed to be on their cell
phones at lockers. What's the core of that story? We'll
talk about that. And a famous cheater, Jose Altuvey, who
(00:45):
has been terrible in the outfield. However, the cheating Astros
say that he's going to be their primary left fielder
in twenty twenty five. Do you feel bad for Altuve
that he he's just a shell of back in his
salad cheating days, his buzzer and whistle days and trash
can days. We'll talk about all that and more right
(01:07):
now here. It is our number two, making it rain down, yen?
What welc come? In the beginning of another hour of
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Speaker 2 (01:24):
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Speaker 1 (02:16):
So our lead this hour is from baseball. We are
allowed to talk baseball. The season is underway, two games
in and now they'll take a week off before they
play more real baseball. But our lead this hour is
from Japan, the two games soft launch of Baseball twenty
twenty five as the export export Baseball to Japan.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
So I know you saw any this. It was perfect
for us.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
We did the show and then I get to listen
to it on the way home and then watched it
a little bit and that was good. I enjoyed that.
Very convenient for my schedule. So Showotani hit a fan
assistant homer. It didn't look like home run to me,
but they call it a home run, and you can't
take a home run away from Otani in Japan and
(03:05):
it'd be an uprising. So Tani hit home run, Dodgers,
Tommy Edmund hit one key k Hernandez, Dodgers beat the Cubs,
and so they win again.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
Dodgers two and oh, Cubs oh and two.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Cubs on pace to go owen one hundred and sixty two,
Dodgers on pace to be the greatest team of all time.
But it's all part of a more wider angle photo
here the story within the story, but you look at
the wide angle on this. So let's discuss the question
what is your team now's over? What is your takeaway
(03:39):
from the Dodgers and Cubs and the Tokyo series which
has been completed. So I've got Warner Brothers, Dinner Table,
and Santa's and we will combine all of these things
together and we're going to make some Neon orange nacho cheese.
Is what we're gonna make the list Neon orange nacho cheese. Now,
(04:01):
I like nachos at the ballpark. The problem you gotta
eat them pretty fast. You gotta be speed racer, because
if you don't even fast, they get all soggy and disgusting.
And it's a dance with a devil, is what it
is when you're trying to eat those soggy nachos. So anyway,
n burr, no, no, no, see it's number it's no
(04:24):
no nice number one, number one. There we go, all right,
mission accomplished. Mission a comp that My first thought, which
is number one, is mission accomplished? There it is again
Major League Baseball. They went there for one reason, and
one reason only, to grow the brand. That's why they
(04:47):
gave Opening Day away. And in return, they ended up
laughing all the way to the bank. Major League Baseball
barn storming for bucks is what I call it. They
were milking the cow, the cash cow, the Shoho Tani
cash cow, and watching these two games and listening to them,
(05:08):
but watching them as well from from Tokyo. It was
like a Warner Brothers movie. It was a remake of
Ocean's eleven. It was like a casino heist for Major
League Baseball. Every game in Tokyo was sold out, tickets
going for thousands of dollars and the highest ticket price
was like twenty thousand dollars. I don't know what kind
of loser it would tay twenty thousand dollars for that,
(05:28):
But anyway, merchandise sales. There were people lined up around
the building. It was long, there were people lined up.
It reminded me the photos in the video I saw online.
It was like back during the pandemic when people were
lined up to buy toilet paper and water. Very similar,
in an effort to move more product. Just to show
(05:49):
you that this was only about the marketing. It wasn't
about getting in the Dodgers and Cubs over there to
give them good baseball and what about that.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
It was about what's fine, Just to call it like.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
It is, the marketing weasels at Major League Baseball. These
were two Cub games home games.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
They were not. It wasn't one one. I thought it
was one to one.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Dodgers gave up a home game, Cubs gave up a
home game. No, the Cubs gave up two home games.
Dodgers gave up no home games. So the Dodgers were
the road team in both games. But yet if you
saw a game two, the Dodgers wore their home Dodgers
Stadium white uniforms and the Cubs wore their road grace
even though they were the home team.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Do you know why they did that?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
You know, you know, you do know one? Okay, you do, well,
maybe you don't. The players were display case mannequins. Major
League Baseball's marketing arm, as I understand, it mandated that
the Dodgers had to wear their home uniforms in one
of the games because they wanted to sell to the
good people of Japan those two hundred and fifty dollars
(06:53):
Dodger jerseys, the white Otani jersey. They showed off the
gray one, but they wanted to sell the white one
as well.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
And this is all of this work.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
The Tokyo series shattered the viewership record. The numbers on
this are insane to the membrane. In fact, the number
that's been bragged about by Baseball. This is just for
Game one. Twenty five million men, women and children watch
(07:26):
in Japan, the Tokyo game Game one. I wonder how
many people watched in America. I bet it wasn't many.
I bet it wasn't many. I was watching, but I'm
pretty sure not a lot of people on the East
Coast at six in the morning, or in Chicago at
five in the morning. Certainly in the West Coast in
La at three in the morning, are going to change
(07:47):
their whole body clock around to watch a regular season
baseball game.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
I'd love to. I don't have that number in front
of me.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
I have to look that up. The number, the rating
in America. You know it wasn't good. We know it
wasn't good because Major League Baseball was bragging about how
many people were watching in Japan. They weren't bragging about
how many people were watching in America. They said it
was the largest audience for any American baseball game in
Japan since Game seven of the World Series, the team
(08:17):
cheated from Houston in twenty twenty seventeen. So to rephrase
how big a number that twenty five million is. That
is roughly twenty percent of the entire population of Japan
was watching the Dodgers and the Cubs. Okay, twenty percent
(08:38):
of the country was watching. That is why Major League
Baseball went there. Now they can't go there next year
because they've got that Fugazi World Baseball Classic, But they'll
be back. I mean, I would not be shocked if
the Dodgers, pretty much every other year, open up in Japan,
or pick your country somewhere far far away, in that
(08:59):
part of the world.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
Now page two, So we flip the script a.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Little bit and we go to Anaheim, a very depressing
place not far from Fullerton, which is not depressing, but Fullerton,
Siberia with ferg Dog and Alf the ALIENI Pinter's Nemesis,
and all the characters that live there.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
So now they explain why.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I'm going Anaheim. I'm not going to Anaheim talking about
good baseball. No, because that's bad baseball. The Angels. That's
a baseball team, not a good one. The Angels, they
did something that got our attention. The Angels, we are told,
have mandated a new set of rules for the clubhouse,
and it's a new year, new rules.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
But there's one rule.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
That stands out more than all the others.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
The players in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Five are not allowed to be on their cell phones
at their lockers. No bueno, no go. So Mike Trout
he came out and said that he thinks it's worked
really well so far. They haven't even played a regular
season game yet. So the Angels, let me sum this
(10:08):
up for you this way. The Angels have instituted a
new rule this season with the players in the clubhouse.
They are not allowed to be on their cell phones
at their locker. So what is the core of this
score story? What is the core of this story? The
Angels banning the smartphone usage at the locker. So, for me,
(10:33):
the core of the story is Ron Washington. Yes, Ron Washington,
longtime baseball man, is the manager, and he is from
the Old Country. He's about to turn seventy three years old.
He made his Major League baseball debut for the Dodgers
in nineteen seventy seven. It's been a minute so for him,
(10:55):
he'd much rather read the Yellow Pages than wikipedie. And
he's old school, right, He's in the Old Country. He
wants face to face, not TikTok. He wants face to
face talk, not TikTok. So Ron Washington, the manager in Anaheim,
is looking to artificially cultivate team camaraderie. Washington's a smart
enough man to know the team blows. It's a bad
(11:17):
baseball team. They got crap bag players, stiffs like well,
Anthony Rendaut's not even playing this year, but he's he's
kind of on that and not team upset, is he?
I mean, all he does is sit as a locker.
He's not supposed to be on his phone. So anyway,
he knows that you're not going to win based on
talent with the Angels, so you might as well try
to make up some ground there and be a tight
(11:39):
knit unit, but.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Protecting the sanctity of the clubhouse.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Kind of like the dinner table, you got to limit
the brain rot and a lot of families have rules
no smartphone at the dinner table.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
You band the cell phone, and you're supposed to improve.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Those connections at bond, right, you reclaim time and this
digital agent. So Ron Washington and his figure, Hey, and
we're not gonna win games because on talent, because we're
not very good the Angels, So you know why not?
We might as well just be friendly with each other
and interact with each other and there'll be some kind
of weird bond. Now. I am skeptical. I am skeptical
(12:16):
that this is going to work. And here's why. I
would estimate that most people consume dinner anywhere from thirty
to sixty minutes. That's a normal time to have a meal,
and I would say it's closer to thirty than sixty,
I would hope, depending on how much you just keep talking.
But most of the time. It's a thirty to sixty
(12:38):
minute experience when you have dinner, Am I correct on that?
When you have dinners it thirty probably is right. You're
with other people, with your friends and your family whatever,
thirty sixty minutes. Major League Baseball players are in the
clubhouse now. Normally the home team gets there around two
o'clock in the afternoon for a night game, and they're
(12:58):
there all the way up off and on off and
on games about two and a half hours. Now. There's
some batting practice, but they're in their locker area for
about half the time. I would say so from two
o'clock till ten o'clock half the time they're there. So
here's what I want to do. I want I want
to take out a little yellow, yellow posted note. All right,
(13:22):
I'm gonna make Ron Washington happy. Otherwise i'd tell you
to just put a note on your phone. But because
Ron's antiphone, the Angels manager. So take out a yellow
posted note. Let's file this one away. Let's check back
on the posted note on June first, when the Angels
are ten to fourteen games back in the American League West,
(13:44):
which is gonna be hard to do. It's gonna be
hard to be that far back in the American League
West because the cheating a holes who we're gonna get
to in a minute, they're not as good. Seattle always
finds a way to f things up. And then you've
got the Sacramento As that have Sacramento dysmorphia. They're so
embarrassed by being in Sacramento they don't want to admit
(14:04):
they're in Sacramento, even though there is a halfway house
before they get to Vegas. So it's a it's a
fugazy situation there, all right. So it's hard. It's hard
for that to really fall that far behind because the
division sucks so much. But methinks it will backfire, all right.
Final point, Well we just mentioned it. Let's go to Houston,
the den of iniquity, where their manager Joe ah Spada
(14:26):
confirmed that longtime infielder and convicted cheater Jose al boovey
Jose Alboo. So this dope is going to open the
season as the cheating as one one thousand and two,
one thousand and three, one thousand holes primary left fielder.
(14:47):
Now this comes as al Tuve back to back spring
training games dropped routine little league style flyballs, little league
style flyballs. Dropskis back to back days in spring training,
he dropped fly balls, routine flyballs with runner on third
(15:08):
base less than two outs, and Altub was anticipating the
play that he had to catch the ball, had to
secure the catch and throw the ball to home plate,
and he failed to secure the catch.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Now Altuve convicted.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
With blood on his hands, blood on his hands, and
a buzzer under his uniform. Allegedly he has made all
all of his defensive start seventeen and forty nine across
fourteen dirty major League Baseball seasons at second base.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
But not anymore, not anymore.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Altub was last season the second worst defensive second baseman
in baseball last year, and so Jose Altub. He has
been absolutely terrible this spring in the outfield. However, the
Ast say they are going to use Altuve Albouve as
(16:04):
their primary left fielder this season. Do you feel bad
for al Tube? So absolutely not. Did you expect me
to say yes, You must be new to the show.
You've got to be new to these parts. If you
expected me to say yes, Altub is forever on Santa's
naughty List, and I am enjoying shotenfreude. I am enjoying
(16:26):
shotenfreude since Major League Baseball didn't have the balls to
punish Altuve, in fact, they protected him. I love the
fact that this cheating fraud Altuve is embarrassing himself on
his way out of baseball, that he's been demoted. He
has been demoted. Don't let a falling star fall on you.
(16:51):
It is the little league walker shame. It is the
little league walker shame. You put your crappiest player out
left field. Get out there in left field. Altuve is
covered with the cooties. He's got the cooties. You hate
to see it unless you love to see it, and
then you're not that upset about it. Right, I need
(17:11):
a sizzle reel of Altuve dropping balls in the outfield.
That's what I need, and I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
I'm gonna get it.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
But the scouting report when you play the cheating Astros
will be to hit the ball in the left field.
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Next hour right now. Though, back to the.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Nonsense we go, Well, that's true, and we began with
a spicy hot baseball monologue as the Dodgers and Cubs
beginning the baseball season in Tokyo and a couple of
games and twenty five million people watching that, and also
the Angels Ron Washington banning the smartphone from the locker room.
(19:43):
And yes, that's why the Angels have the longest playoff
drought in baseball because they haven't been able to use
the smartphone. But now that that's because they have used
the smartphone. Now they won't be able to use the smartphone,
so they're in good shape. Late Night Drug Tester writes
in he says, if League Baseball is happy with all
the Dodger merch that sold in Japan, wait until October
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when the run on Royal's jerseys explodes when they win
the American League pennant. We'll be waiting. Ferg Dog writes
and says banning cell phones is a brilliant move by
Ron Washington. Players should pay more attention to the game
and then flappy Bird on their phones. Don't be surprised
if the Angels make some noise in April. What kind
(20:29):
of noise are they gonna make? Coopion? What is it?
Speaker 5 (20:34):
The noise the sound of like a lobster dying?
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Is it gonna be? I mean, my god, that's it there.
You gotta be proud. Are you now you still boycotting
the Angels? Coop or you done? You are? Okay?
Speaker 5 (20:50):
So no no interest at all, nothing.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Very little interesting.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
I mean just because yeah, uh, you know, out of boredom,
I may turn on a game on the TV.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well maybe you need to go to sleep or something
like that, right right right exactly like nap time.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
Sure, but I'm not going to be going to any games,
not an Angel Stadium anyway. Maybe if I'm traveling and
they happen to be there, so you might.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah. Maybe if you're in you know, pick a state
and the Angels happened to be playing like the Cleveland
Guardians or the Old Indians, you might you might show
up there, got you, but no merch and no trips
to Angel Stadium none. Okay, how many Angel everyday players.
Can you name right now? How many could you?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
That's a good question.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
You want to play the game real quick, don't Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (21:43):
All right? There are of the projected opening day lineup.
We'll do this versus right handed pitching right, because I
mean you can do left at right hand, but this
is against right handed pitching. So there are nine position
players and there is one obviously designated hitter project to
be in the starting lineup. Now, Marry, you want to
guess how many Coop used to be an Angel fan? Marry,
(22:05):
you want to guess how many of these names Coop
can get? Right? There are ten possible answers, ten possible answers.
So how many do you think Coop will know as
a fledgling Angel fan.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
Mmm, I'm not gonna lie. I want to get like
four four?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Okay, that would be about half. That'd be about half. Well,
there's there's the way I look at it. There's two
or three that you should get. That's it. The other
ones I mean I'd be impressed with. There's one that's
an obvious one that you're gonna get right away, and
then other than that, I know a couple that could
go either.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Way, like I'm like blanking right out.
Speaker 5 (22:41):
God, let's let's go.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
So the Why don't we start with the obvious one?
All right?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Mike Trout?
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Yeah, all right, Mike Trout. And he what position is
he gonna play this year?
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Coop is gonna play right field?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
That is correct?
Speaker 1 (22:52):
All right?
Speaker 5 (22:52):
You're one for one. You want to stop now?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I know I know at least one more.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Okay, what other play do.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
You logan o'hoppy?
Speaker 5 (23:02):
That is correct? What position does he play?
Speaker 2 (23:03):
He's the catcher, that is correct?
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Oh? Happy? You two for two? You know you love
the Angels, mister angel base me like an angel in
the outfield. Two for two?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
All right, starting left fielder for.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
The Angel I think you should get this one. I
think I think you should get this one. Really, starting
left fielder for the Angels projected. I think he's gonna
batt lead off I think yeah, I think he's a
leadoff inter this year. Alight? Nothing, Okay, Taylor Ward I.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Should have got that right.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
The last fantasy baseball team I had was was named
Our Warden Savior.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Okay, so you're two for three. Oh you knew that
was the name of your team. You get him?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Okay, Starting center fielder.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
For the Angels center fielder, no idea.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Okay, you see you're gonna say these names and I'm
gonna know.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Them, but I'm just Joe Adele.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Oh really starting off the season.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Projected to be the starting centerfielder. So you're two, you're
fifty percent right now, you're two for four. Let's see here.
Now it's gonna get well. This one. This was their
their big pickup this offseason. He's a designated hitter. He's
gonna back clean up for the Angels that you were playing?
How many how many Angels can coop name game in
(24:22):
honor of Opening Day next week? Yeah, big signing.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
I remember hour hitter.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
This guy was one of my favorite players in baseball.
One year had a big home run in the World Series.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
If I remember correctly, he's one of your favorite players.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Well for one one year, because he Yeah, for one
year he was.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I'm pretty sure. Is he a big guy? Here's a big,
bigger guy, designated hitter. He's been around for a while.
Speaker 5 (24:44):
Nothing is it Miguelson? O?
Speaker 1 (24:47):
No, that was last year, right, that was He's he's gone. No,
it's a Jorge Cilaire didn't need a big home run
for the Braves against the cheating Astros.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Yeah, I think it was. He had something big for
the Cubs too.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Right, maybe I remember the Braves hitting a big, world
serious home run.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
So your two for five, Coop.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
I'm so screwed.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Okay, yeah, no, you're not screwed, Coop. No, no, no,
We're gonna keep playing the game. This is a fun game,
all right, Starting first baseman for the Angels. Now, the
Angels have had some great first basement over the years. Fence,
how far you go back? Wally Joiner, they signed Mo Vaughn,
they had him, Eddie Murray played in Anaheim for a while,
Rod Carew there been some legendary first basement for the
Angels franchise and Cooper Loop Can you name the starting
(25:34):
first baseman for the Angels in twenty twenty five? And then.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Mark Trumbo?
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Right Trump.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
You wish? Uh? No, that would be uh. I don't
even know this guy. Nolan Seanuell, seany Wells Nuell.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Something like that.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Okay, all right, yeah, I know the name. All right,
your two for six, Coop.
Speaker 5 (26:05):
We will keep going.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
There are four more possibilities here, if my math is correct.
You uh, let's see starting third basement for the Angels.
What do you got starting third basement for the Ange?
This guy's been around. He was a can't miss suspect
for the Red Sox and then he didn't make it.
So he's on the Angels now. Yeah, and I think
(26:29):
you're two for seven? Actually right?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Yeah, this is bad.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Uh, that's kind of fun for me. I'm enjoying it.
Scot that's a good name. No, Johann Mancata.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Johann had no idea he's.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
Projected to be the starting third basement. He was the
guy the Red Sox traded to the White Sox for
Chris Sale years ago, and and people were like, oh,
this guy is going to be an All Star every year,
and the guy blows and all right, last one. I
don't even know this guy, so I can't imagine. Yeah,
the shortstop for the Angels. There's no chance you're two
for eight right now? Coop? Uh? Go ahead? Eric Ibar,
(27:10):
Eric Ibar, good name? Uh? No, Dick Schofield, No, the
correct answer is Newman Newman, Kevin Newman. I have no
idea who that is, but Kevin Newman. That's apparently the
shortstop for the end. Well, Coop, you got too right,
and so congratulations.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Out of night, shout out to me.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I won Angels baseball? Right there, Mary Matt, how many
can you name the opening day picture coop for the Angels? Uh?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
It's you see the guy that.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
The Mariners, or he used to be on the Mariners.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Anyway, he was on the Astros and the Blue Jays
last year. He's bounced around. So yeah, there you go.
That's so you know you're going well when you have
a thirty three year old journeyman pitcher in your opening days.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
That's so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
And Kyle Hendrix, who's been done for like two years,
is in the rotation for the angel and he was
Witney on the Cubs in the World Series. He's still
a right, he's in his mid thirties. He can't pitch anymore.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
I mean, you can't pitch.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
You go to Anaheim. That's what you do. You go
out there to the Big A and you get a paycheck.
It's like a golden parachute and you just knock yourself
out and have a fine time. Well, that was a
fun game. I didn't plan on playing that game. That
was just kind of a spur of the moment thing.
But it's a fun game. Nonetheless, let's go to the
phones and we'll say hello to Andrea. She's the astrology
lady Virgo in service on X and she is in Berkeley.
Speaker 5 (28:40):
She's in her compound right now. Hello Andrea, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
Hello Ben, how are you?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
If I was any better, I'd be a Rogers, But
not Aaron Rodgers. I probably would be. He's probably some
exotic location right now, on vacation somewhere.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Oh yeah, I just love to travel. He's a sagittarius,
he's a free spirit. And it's the spring equinox, so
day and light or of equal length. So happy spring equinox.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
All right, how were we supposed to celebrate that? What
do we do?
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Yes? Well, you know we how much we like the
Farmer's Almanac. So it's a spring equinox, so it's perfect timing.
It's actually at two oh one am, will be up.
So take time to nurture yourself, be in nature when
you get a chance. And it's just nice to have
that balance and equilibrium back of day and night, you know,
(29:33):
yin yang, and just a nice energy portal, and you know,
new beginnings. I love how it coincides with baseball season
and the green grass, and the only thing is mercury
is retrograde, so do take time and double check all
travel plans and allow extra time. And that's March fourteen
(29:55):
to April seventh. So we had mercury retrograde the same day,
right around the Spring equinox, and venus is retrograde as well.
This is quite unusual. The planets that rules relationships, love money,
and that's going on a little bit longer for about
another month. So just take some deep breaths and just
(30:19):
bring yourself into life with greater balance and be more centered,
connect with your higher self. So it's just really nice
to have that balance. And the days are getting longer.
We got baseball. I'm a night out. I watched some
of the Dodgers came. So if anyone would like a
free Spring Equinox newsletter, please let the astrology lady know.
(30:41):
It has all the mercury retrograde dates, the full moons,
the eclipses, you know, all that timely stuff that it
behooves people to be in touch with.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yeah, for sure, we know when the full moon's happened
because we find out from the people that call the show.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
And I always connect with my higher self.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
You do you should maybe connect with the angels box
score once in a while, connected with that kid, because
I can.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
But that's nice. It's a time to have faith, pray, meditate,
follow your heart and intuition, and I know what you
mean about your higher self. That could work too, yeah,
humor through all of.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
It as well. We definitely connected with that for many,
many years. He's an expert in that area for sure. Yes,
all right, well, very good, Andrea. So people want to
reach out to you. You can find you on ex Virgo
in Service and you have a little chart of the
what you need to know this time of the year,
right this time of the year.
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Yes, body, mind, heart and soul what you need to know?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
All right, well, thank you, thank you, all right, you too.
There she goes our friend Andrea in Berkeley, and she's
the astrology lady on this show all the star Charts,
all that stuff. She's gonna go take a bath right now,
and she's gonna wait for you to send her a
message and then she'll reach out to you if you're
interested in that, and send you some some pamphlet thing
(32:06):
or something like that. If it's online. It's online, all right, anyway.
It is the ban Ma. It is a shrine. It
is a shrine in Japan and Tokyo. They showed during
the Dodger cub game a literal shrine to show Hao Tani,
who's still very much alive. In that museum shrine, they
(32:28):
had a golden replica of Sho Hao Tani's hand, so
you could go shake Otani's hand. It's like shaking God's hand.
You could go shake Otani's That's a little creepy, just
a little bit. The thing that it reminded me of,
and I alway saw a little clip of it, so
maybe I'm exaggerating, but the clip that I saw reminded
(32:48):
me of some photos of Stefan Marbury in China has
a museum. There's a Stefan Marbury museum in China because
he went over in the NBA and he went over
there and the he was like a huge deal in
Chinese basketball, and so they gave him his own museum,
which is very bizarre. And Otani the one some big
(33:13):
company in Japan bought the fiftieth stolen based baseball. I
think it was the stolen based baseball that wild game
he had in Miami where he became the fifty to
fifty guy, and they bought the ball, and it's displayed,
of course, at the I think it's at the stadium.
Is like a museum thing in the stadium. And I'm
not sure whether this was a pop up or this
is always there. I'm not sure about that, but it
(33:35):
was there for the at least the last week or
so as the Dodgers and Cubs got together in Tokyo.
It is the Ben Malo Show. Now, today is a
big day for a number of reasons. For many, it's
the start of college basket ball. Right, Oh, that's a
big deal. And let me watching all day, not the
(33:56):
early games because I'll be sleeping, But once I wake up,
I'll be actually doing double duty today. I'm doing a
day night doubleheader. I'll be on locally in the Los
Angeles filling in for Fred Rogan and Rodney Pete. Rodney Pete,
who became a viral story for pulling a Bartman during
the Dodger Cub game. He was in Japan and Rodney Pete,
(34:18):
the former NFL quarterback, took a ball away from Max Munsey.
He had a glove. He was sitting down the third
base line in the bottom of the sixth inning. Cubs
were at bad obviously, and he took the ball from
Max Munsey like Bartman style, while wearing a Dodger sweater.
It was very awkward, but I'll be doing that. I'll
be watching the college basketball, so I guess it. We'll
(34:40):
be up relatively early watching the college basketball. But like basketball,
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Blank has the lowest plus minus rating in NBA history,
meaning he's the worst player according to plus minus in
NBA history.
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That is the question.
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have Mallard of the third degree. But here's the insta trivia.
(36:41):
Blank has the lowest plus minus rating in NBA history, meaning,
based on that statistic, this is the worst player in
NBA history, meaning his team has been outscored by the
most points all time of any one player in NBA history.
So that is the question. What is the answer. Let's
see does anyone know the answer? We go to the
(37:05):
great Unwashed and give a few answers here, then we'll
pay it off. Let's see here Page down inca terror
guess by Malard prop Guy alf the alien o Pinter
says Megan Fox and Courtney Kardashian. Interesting, interesting work by them.
Manny Fresh who is fifty six today by Late Night
Drug tester Cherokee Parks from Eke in Rosevio, Minnesota. Robbie
(37:27):
the Mariner fan guess by Big Greg in Iowa. George
Knox from Scrooge the Big Show from King Rory. Let's
see here, Leemu the Emu from JT the Wingman, Joe
and Okanawa. Guess by Shane in Des Moines, Montrez Harrold
from Robin, Minnesota. The former Mariner pitcher Dick Pole from
(37:51):
Mark in Santa Monica. All right, Mary, what do you
say quickly?
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Mary Miles Bridges? All right, No, the court answer is
Sharif abduor right he.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
Player.
Speaker 1 (38:02):
He's the worst plus minus in every history. Here we go,
here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
we go, Here we go. Here we maller?
Speaker 5 (38:08):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (38:09):
To the third degree, This is one big event.
Speaker 1 (38:14):
Gets grilled googolo.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
George Pickens took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a
picture of himself standing on the field with Tom Brady,
and it's got people speculating that Pickens is hinting at
wanting to play for the Raiders. Ben, is this picture
a big deal, a little deal or no deal?
Speaker 1 (38:29):
So it's it's a little deal. It just tells you
that George Pickens needed attention. He's an attention whore and
he wanted people to talk about George Pixen Pickens, so
he set out a vague photo.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
So we all took debit.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
No, I mean, he can't leave until next year, so
he's just trying to get attention.
Speaker 3 (38:46):
Next Draymond Green has now joined a growing contingent of
NBA fans and writers that think that Nikolay Jokic and
Shay gilgets Alexander should be co MVPs. Ben, do you
see any chance of that actually happening?
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Well, that's disrespect to Shay Yogas Alexander Kyogas. Alexander's your MVP.
The former Clippers going to win the award, and there's
voter fatigue for Jokic and all that. S GA is
your MVP, so stop with the Jokic stuff. Nice performance
by Jokic against your Lakers, by the way, in that
game last night.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
Next on Monday, the Timberwolves play by play announcer got
sent held during the broadcast when he said Jamie Bickerstaff
had been fined one hundred thousand dollars by the NBA.
But have you ever been fooled into talking about a
fake report in the air?
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I have come close, but I have never actually done it.
The one thing that I have done no one's perfect.
I did talk about his story as a news story
that was like ten years old, but I didn't check
the date on it. Somebody sent it to me and
I didn't check the date, which was embarrassing. But I've
never done that. How did we do?
Speaker 2 (39:44):
He passed.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yeah. I have worked with people that have been senteled,
though embarrassing
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