November 7, 2024 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about Tampa Bay emerging as a suitor for Juan Soto, agent Scott Boras' latest comments about Blake Snell and Pete Alonso in free agency, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number two talking baseball
from the GM meetings in San Antonio. The big news
this hour all about the Tampa Bay baseball team, who
was emerged as a suitor for one Soto the Magic
wan Should they be taken seriously? I think you know
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the answer to that. Also, what did you make of
Scott Morris and his state of his client's address, calling,
among others, Blake Snell Snelling Salts saying Pete's sake, for
Pete's sake and whatnot. There we'll talk about all that.
And Diamondbacks, the Arizona Diamondbacks, their GM had a meeting
with Jordan Montgomery after the owner Ken Kendrick called the
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pitcher's contract a horrible, horrible decision. How do you think
that conversation went. We'll get to all that and more
right now here. It is our number two. They call
them one and is he a out gone out of
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But our lead this hour from the GM meetings in
San Antonio, and as anticipated, we got the State of
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the Union address from Scott Boris as he waxed the
poetic about the free agents. He has the biggest free
agents in baseball. Some interesting developments though about the big ragoul,
if you will, in free agency, the player that is
the center of the wheel. And I'm talking to Buddy
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Might who was a Hollywood writers that you when you
do a TV show or a movie, you have the
the main stars are the center, the main star, two stars,
and then everything else is a spoke on the wheel.
But for the wheel to work, you have to have
that main main star. And I bring that up because
we are now told there are not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, not six, how about seven?
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Seven teams that have shown interest in one Soto of
the loser Yankees they lost to the Doyers in the
World Series, including and here's where it gets interesting, including
Tampa Bay. They have been mentioned. All the reports coming
out of the Alamos say, well, Tampa Bay, the Razor interesting,
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the Razor interest. Now, the other six teams that are
said to be interested are all big money, big money,
big market teams, usual suspects. Now word is they're supposing
this is this is great. There are going to be
two other small, the middle market teams, mystery teams that
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are interested. Oh the mystery of it all, Soto, if
you're a little slow, here is looking to get seven
hundred million dead presidents. Now there's a lot of noise,
including one report that said that Soto is going to
play for the Mets. He's going to leave the Yankees,
stay in the Big Apple and go over to Flushing
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to play for the team that will want the world.
Serious since nineteen eighty six. But the Mets, and so
that's one report out now Scott Boris, as we said,
we'll get to his comments the wide angle lens on
what Scott Boris had to say in general coming up
in a little bit. But Boris says that Juan Soto
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is going to soak up all the attention essentially and
la la la la, la la la, that he's in
no rush to sign a deal, which is rather odd
when you consider the fact that the last couple of years,
most of the big name free agents that Scott Boris
has had have either failed to get the contracts that
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they thought they were going to get or waited and
then had to scramble and still got less than they
thought they were going to get. So let us discuss
the question. Let's focus in on Tampa Bay. This is fast.
So Tampa Bay, who always cries poverty, Tampa Bay has
emerged as a suitor for one Soto. Should they be
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taken seriously? Should they be taken seriously? So my observations,
I've got BMW dealership, novel and confectionery, and we will
combine all of these things together. And we were going
a vacation to Yellowstone is what we're going to do,
all right, so na burn all right, Hey, listen. In
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terms of the question, Tampa Bay showing interest in want Soto,
I give this sidey is what I do. Right, It's comical.
Nobody takes this seriously. There were rumors last year that
the Rays were in I think it was on Yamamoto
last year in free agency. This is a kin. If
you understand anything about the Rays franchise, they're a pest.
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They're annoying. Right. But here's the thing. It is the
equivalent of walking into a BMW dealership and saying I'd
like to buy that red Beamer and they say, okay,
why don't we finance that? I say, you know, I'm
gonna pay for it. How are you gonna pay for it?
You don't want to finance it. I'm gonna use my
EBT card is what I'm gonna use. That's the Tampa
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Bay Rays. Right. The math, the math is not mathing.
It's not h and Tampa unless I miss something. We
had that massive storm, Hurricane Milton not that long ago
that came through Florida and destroyed the ballpark. They play
in Tropicana fields. So the Raids are planning. I'm playing
in a minor league ballpark. They're a essentially a homeless
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baseball team. They're orphans at this point in time. And
as for the mystery teams, I say this every year
and I'm never wrong. The mystery team in free agency
is a plant. Ninety nine point nine percent of the time.
It's a plan. And the reason it's for Gayzy, let
me explain this. It's fake news because the whole point
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of this exercise, the whole point of going after free
agents and trying to sign people, is goodwill publicity. You're
showing your customers that you're trying to improve the team.
You're creating some artificial excitement. Even if you don't sign
the player, you let everyone know you're in on it.
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You excite the base, right, you excite the base and
let them daydream or in our case, dream at night
about adding their savior and your name brand player and
all that. Very excited about that. Now, if you're a
mystery team, unless I'm mistaken, if you're a mystery team,
you get none of that, right, none of that. It
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is a pointless exercise. So it's just something the agent
makes up and the the useful idiots. The baseball writers
will repeat anything they are told by an agent. They
will never say, wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense. Now,
a lot of times what happens is you get teams
that will make a token offer they know will not
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be accepted, but will get them some good publicity. So
like the Red Sox have done this a lot to
the last couple years with the Red Sox are it's
kind of known in baseball. The Red Sox the last
couple years haven't really wanted to sign guys to big
contracts who are outside the Red Sox organization. So they'll
make these offers, but they're not real offers. They know
that it's not the highest offer and the player won't accept.
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And all that Now Page two from the GM meetings,
we continue there where Scott Borris did do what we
thought he was going to do. He got on his
soapbox and he waxed about the state of his players,
his guys in free agency. Now among his gems here
he said, of Juan Soto, he called them the magic
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wand is what he called them, Blake Snell, bra, I'm
risking my life, bra, Blake Snell. He said, there's no
doubt these Snelling salts created a lot of whiffs, he said,
and the market has definitely awakened snelling salts. The part
of that now, Pete Alonzo, all these guys are tied
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to Scott Boris now, he said, of Peter Alonzo, Scott Boris,
he said, there's been a lot of talk about a
bear market for first basemen, but for Pete's Sake, it's
the polar opposite. So let us discuss the question what
do you make of the commentary by Scott Boris? Here
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the Snelling salts, the magic wand and the Pete Sake
lines about these players in free agency? So what do
I think that Scott Boris does not disappoint? He does not.
He's the son of a a dairy farmer from Sacramento.
He is the king of cornball. He is. I am
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convinced that before the GM meetings every year, Scott bor
Us on the plane ride from his compound in Newport Beach,
and then when he travels to these random cities for
the jammings. On the plane, probably a private plane, he
is reading the novel The Big Book of Puns, a
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mix of witty wordplay and much like Jim Harbaugh, Dad jokes,
a lot of dad jokes. Right final point. We go
now to Arizona, a lot of people talking about what
happened with the Diamondbacks. The GM there had have a
pow wow, a sit down with Jordan Montgomery. Now why
and Jordan Montgomery is one of these guys that didn't
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get a big contract last year, signed to the last
minute with Arizona. The owner Ken Kendrick sounds like a
weather guy or a traffic guy. On TV, Kendrick called
the twenty five million dollar deal with Jordan Montgomery for
the Arizona baseball team a horrible decision. He said, a
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horrible decision. So how do you how do you think
that conversation went between the GM of the Diamondbacks and
Jordan Montgomery. So I look at it like this. It
was like going down to your local confectionery. You want
some ice cream, and rather than get a nice, delicious
vanilla bean ice cream smooth, he said, I don't want that.
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I want something else, right, I want something else, And
you pick the handcrafted Rocky Road filled with chocolate ice
cream and the nuts and the marshmallows diced up and
all that. But it's not a smoothie, right and guaranteed. Now,
does anyone feel bad? Does anyone feel bad for Jordan
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Montgomery that his owner said his signing was a horrible decision.
And the answer to that is no, right, The answer
to that is absolutely not. Imagine having an ERA of
over six. That's what Jordan Montgomery did over six. You're
in the bottom percentile in every key category for pitchers.
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And by opting in Jordan Montgomery will get around another
twenty five million or so, give or take for the
upcoming season, So that will smooth over the rough edges.
Getting that kind of money Montgomery was, I would argue
a good decision at the time he signed the contract
in Arizona that became an abject failure. Was not only
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a pitcher, he was horrible, right, And that was all
based on performance. It was all based on performance. You
win some, you lose some. And I love the fact
that Montgomery stayed because he knows no one else is
going to be done on at his age with that
performance to give him that kind of money. So the
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move here would be to work out an agreement and
trade Jordan Montgomery somewhere else, which we're pretty sure Arizona
would be happy to do and Montgomery would be happy
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It's Ben Mallor, got some royalty in the hallway here
at Yeah, Big Big Star Manuel from Guardina. Here is Pal.
They're hanging out Buck Sandwiches. Jeremiah's his friend, Yeah Jeremiah,
And I'm waiting to eat the sandwich till after shows.
You know, it's not proper to eat while doing the show.
(15:08):
Of course, I don't think that stopped any of you
from eating, but I have to talk a lot, so
waiting on that. So it's in the fridge. I put
it in the fridge. And this is like the legendary
sandwich shop. You had some of yours edite, yet you
have not see you're following the teachings to not eat
because you have to talk, and you know, you want
to make sure everything's good. To go on that. Yeah,
but it looks delicious.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I can tell you how delicious it is with a
mouthful of the sandwich if you want.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I don't know that you're not supposed to eat on
the air those Yes, that's bad etiquette.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
You know, actually as Mr specializes in eating on the air.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Ben, is that right?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Is that right? You're not gonna eat that whole sandwich?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Right?
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's huge.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Coop was carrying it like a baby, like.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
A little baby, a little little baby. So, man, well's here,
we'll maybe put it in at some point here along
the way.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He wanted to play a game, but then we unfortunately
broke the news to him that we don't have a
game tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Really right, Well, he brought that up to me and
I thought, well, okay, I'm trying to think of my head.
I was like, well, maybe he wants to play Factor Fiction,
but that's not really a game. It's it's game, but
it's not a game. You know, it's a game not
a game and all that. And then maybe he wants
to be part of ask Ben where he can answer questions.
Do you think we should have him do that? That's
not really a game either.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The game.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, not a game, he said he'd tomorrow. I'd call them.
He likes playing the games.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
That's arguably a more I like, probably the most special.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
What's that? Ask Ben?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
If you are somebody that's getting asked questions? And asked
Ben a guest.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Oh man on a panel that we don't do guests,
but you know a friend of the show, right, friend
of the show paid his way in with sandwiches delicious
and chips. We haven't done that before. Actually, I don't
think so.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I thought maybe like Inka Terror somebody maybe possibly possibly. Anyway,
we'll go to the phones and let's see who do
we have any meaning mine? Let's say hello to Kyle,
who's in the Lost Wages Nevada. Hello Kyle, welcome?
Speaker 5 (17:07):
What up? What up? Before we get started? Hey, the
last song was really really paying attention to y'all. Y'all's
coming up with funny radio names for y'all self. So
I got something for you. Ben, you are now the
benefits man, Eddie your DJ ed Lightenment, or you could
be the editor and Lorena you're the lore cool.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Nothing for look at that?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Nah? No, I mean he has the best name ever.
Coop de Loop.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I don't know. This is the greatest name, man.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I mean, Ben, you can also be Hey, Ben, you
can also be the engineer.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I mean, like that engineer. It's better than the other one. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
So look, I've been listening to your show for about
almost eight nine years now, and this is probably the
second time that I've ever gotten through. So I want
to take the oath. I love the show, I love
the calf. I listened to you nightly, I mean, although
I don't get a chance to listen to you all
four hours. Yeah, I do listen to you.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that. And then you didn't
come out to the Mallard mean greet though we.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Were in Honestly, I actually I did.
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Did.
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You were on top of TOWNA and Maryland Parkway out here, yeah,
And I went over there and you had just barely
left by the time I got in the door.
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Well, you know, as I I had my security with me,
so I had.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
To be We were there for like two hours, you know,
we were there for a while.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, we stayed a while.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I get it. But you know, brother got to work now,
which does actually sound pretty tasty right about now? What
kind of sandwich is it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well, I have a turkey sandwich, but I don't know
what these people. I have the classic torpedo. Yeah, what
is a torpedo? What is that?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Is? There?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Is there an actual torpedo in the sandwich. It's Scott's Eddie.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
It's got Italian mortadella, the drysalami, the gobba gul.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
The turkey sound would sounded perfect.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Geeze that another toddler. That's my god, Kyles in we
have good palettes, me and you, Kyle. We enjoy proper foods. Absolutely. Yes,
all right, well let's do the oath. I only do
it once a show. This is from our friend Skeeter
in Montana. He said, I want to be part of
the Malla militia. I said, skater, you're part of the Malamuch.
He says, no, I need to be part of it.
And so we came up with the oath. We ripped
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it off from the military. Are you ready?
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I am. Hey, and listen, Lorena, you ain't gonta dump
me because the last person that did it.
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You have to end.
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They call because they cuss. Don't worry.
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Okay, you don't sound very intoxicated. I have faith in you.
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I'm elevated.
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There we go. Yeah, oh yeah, here we go. I
state your name, I God do solemnly swear, solemnly swear
that I will support and defend the Ben Malor Show,
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Support and defend the Bingineer.
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And the Ben Mahlor Show against all enemies foreign and domestic.
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Against all enemies foreign and domestic.
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And then I will obey orders.
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And I will obey orders to peacefully fight back, to
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Here we go. Here's the hard part, against hostile attacks
from rival sports, gas bags and blowhards.
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We again, rival gas bags, radio hosts and diehards. All right,
I fed it backwards, prosthetic.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You lest some words out? Is that we okay with that, Eddie?
And I'm okay with it all right, So help me, God,
So help me God. Congratulations. Do not take this lightly, Kyle.
We are a peaceful organization, but in times of conflict,
we choose cyber warfare to defend the honor of the show.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I got a question. Since I gave you all nicknames,
you gotta give me one.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, you gotta call more often, Kyle. You can't just
call it a wild Kyle. And if you call a
little bit Yeah, we gotta know what makes you tick? Kyle?
What are you doing Vegas? Tell me a little bit.
Go behind the phone there. What do you got going
on in Vegas?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
First time I called you? The first time I called you,
I told you I used to work for the Prince
Brunei and that I listened to you on Bernie Frattos
every weekend.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But you don't do that anymore though, You're not you know,
not anymore.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I can't listen to Bernie no more. You're not my
best friend.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's right, because you took the oath. You see that about?
How about best friend? Kyle? Are you working for another
oligarch some other?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
No? Actually, I do a convention setup, so I do.
I work for the Las Vegas. Uh convention?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh yeah, there's never any conventions in Vegas. They never
never never never never.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Never interesting people to meet here, I'm mean, although I
just miss just met Reggie Bush probably about a month ago.
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Nice have you done now? Oh? Shakira, get that, Shakurira, Shakira, Shakira, Shakira, Shakira.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
And me and her Shad the same birthday, Ben, Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Congratulations, And what happens to what happened to the astrology lady.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
She don't even call you no more.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well, she had to calls often. She's still calls. She
was on yesterday. She still calls. But yeah, that's she is,
the astrology lady. Lorraine's question, she wanted to know if
you've set up for the porn Awards. She wanted to know.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
That was exactly my question the ABA.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
No, not yet.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, I think you'd rather set that up than clean
up after they're done. I think you'd probably rather do
the setup than the teardown, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
No, but next time with Khalifa comes here uh to
promote one of his things, you guys should all come
because it is very fun. And from what I've heard,
where in a you like edibles around?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Oh yes, the fruit kind with the chocolate on top.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
That's what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Something like that?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Is that edible arrangements something like that.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
All right, well, listen, thank you very much, Kyle. It's
been a pleasure. I'm going to hang up on you
that you've taken a lot of air time. Thank you.
All right, there's Kyle in Vegas checking in with us.
He's now sworn in.
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Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
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And I always loved these early season games because you
see schools and you are like, who in the hell
is that Indiana beat a school called s.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I U E?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
S i US? Is that Southern Indiana? What's the other?
What's the s I s i U E? Southern Indiana
University at Edmonton? You're close?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Southern Illinois University.
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Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Edwardsville. Always I have a cousin lives in Chicago.
Always visit there.
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You bet news from the NFL where Sanrans school Fortnite
is running back Christian maccafrey limited and practice Wednesday, but
feeling no pain as he comes act from achilles injury,
looking to make his season debut Sunday against the Buccaneers
in Tampa.
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And we're of course here at Fox Sports Radio, our
colleague Doug Gottlie, but we can't wait. They the Green
Bay team plays again. Believe later on on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I think, did you see the picture of him putting
in work on the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, man, he's a man, He's wow, he is he
working hard on the sideline there they play Green Bay
plays Saint Thomas. Oh St Thomas? Is that from the Bahamas?
That Saint Thomas? I don't know. I doubt it. Where's
another Saint Thomas? Maybe it's Fro Minnesota's kind of a St. Thomas.
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I have no idea, but that's the matchup. Will Gottlieb
get his first win in that Sint Paul Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
He?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Well?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
St oh my gosh, I almost thought I went to
Saint Paul Lutheran Church when I was younger.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Thank you for the Saint Thomas. Tommy's the Tommy's the
Tommy's very similar to the Bahamas. Is uh, that's an
offensive name though. That's they're named after the Tommy gun
So that's an offensive name. It's not right? All right?
This guy Gunner said he was gonna call up, and
we warned everyone, and now he's called up. Hello Gunner
(25:14):
in Minnesota, Hello Gunner from the from the Walmart in Minnesota.
Great this year? Huh?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
This year?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Well, they won the last couple of games the Clippers.
What do you think Kawhi Leonard decides to play?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Isn't good?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Well, they've actually now won there, they've won their their
last two games at home. But thanks for keeping track.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
The Clippers.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You called, you called up dum. You called up dummy
to talk about him, So I mean that's on you.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Yeah, you're attracting the pastors. I attract your clippers.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Oh you got me? Oh man, this is this is heated, Eddie.
We're gonna step out. So let's go outside of the
street right now, gun I'll kick your ass. How about that?
Oh yeah, So you're backing down, Gunner because you know
I'm right. You know I'm right, Gunner. You're backing down.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
No I'm not. You're not right. You come up so
you'll freeze outside.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
So I got a freeze. It's not that cold yet,
February January. That's not cold nothing.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
It's not for me at least.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
All right, Gunner here, I'm glad you're alive. Anything else,
that's it. You just want to call up you try
to talk trash. That didn't work out. You're you're still
a Timberwolves Hank guess.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Way better?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah? They both and they both have, by the way,
ended up in the one final four in recent years.
Clippers and Wolves, even even Stephen both in the final four.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
That's all yeah, man, Well, and Guardina has reminded me
that he's no longer allowed to go by gunner.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's sling shot. Oh yeah, you're sling shot now, gunner,
sling shot, slang shot, sling shot, sling shot. How come
you want to go by gunner? Your name is slang shot? Huh?
Come on, put that in your pipe and smokey. What
do you have to say to man? Weell in Guardina?
He's listening what he said. He sucks. He sucks. Very
(27:30):
clever retort. You shuck quite a wordsman there, Gunner, Okay,
all right, all right, he's got those delays. No, when
Gottlieb is doing his radio show, does you sweat as
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much as he does coaching? I don't know. I've never
worked with him. No idea. If he sweated like that
working here, they should put like a shower in the
building so you can go shower in between segments. Right,
got pretty wild? You know they should do Green Bay.
I don't know if they do promotions or whatever the university.
(28:13):
They should have a Gottlieb giveaway and it can be
like a Gottlieb sponge where you squeeze it water comes
out way. Would that be great?
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Wondering if he was going to wring out his T
shirt and like put into little jars or something and
sell it to people.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, I'm a sweat or too. Like I sweat also,
so I shouldn't be ripping. God, but even I don't
think I sweat that much like you should, Like I don't.
I do the TV thing. I do sweat a lot,
but we turned the temperature down. It's like an ice
box in there, so I make sure I don't.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
See I don't sweat at all. Ever, I don't sweat.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
And so the first time, how do you know you're humans?
Are you a lizard person? Are you a lizard person?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I don't sweat.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well, that's what women are always very unhealthy.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Men are always hot, women are always cold.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Really sweat. I was like, oh my god, it's like
dripping from your face.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's disgusting, how horrible. Yeah, now that was not flop sweat.
That was just natural sweat.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Flop sweat is when.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Is that from a workout?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Like flop sweat is no like nerve nervousness. Yeah, when
you've failed, like you're an actor and you forgot your lines,
Oh sweat. Let's say, let's mean a flop sweat. Angry
Bill is in Florida. He'll be on for about two seconds,
say something offensive, and then they'll hang up on him.
That's usually it works. Hello, angry Bill.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
It works that way because it's your system. Well, Lorena,
let me promise you something on my mother's grave. I
can make you sweat.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He's gonna take you to the sauna. He's gonna take
you that hot yo that hot yoga place over there,
that's da.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Sauna is a nice place to do it.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Jesus.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Yeah, yeah, Saana' is a great place to learn how
to sweat. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's went about as well as we thought it would go.
And then there's Angry Bill. This contribution to the show.
So we have Angry though, we have a follow up.
We have a follow up to the viral video the
Dawyers won the World Series. Remember that that that Chap
went out there with the firecracker and blow his hand off.
(30:30):
Well we now know that he ended up losing two
fingers at this point, possibly more. He said three operations,
he lost his pointer finger and his middle finger and
all of the meaty part of the hand around that area.
He is gone. It's just completely gone.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
I was curious if it was just a nub of
an arm left because it looked like it was just.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
No, so he's got like chunks, he's got the thumb,
so I think he's not that he's in good shape.
But if you if you have the thumb, like, couldn't
you still grab stuff with your thumb and you're too
small thing? Well, it is kind of a claw, but
you at least like conceivably, if he has movement, he
can still grab stuff with his thumb. Because no, I
was like, I have a relative that lost part of
(31:14):
their toe and like the big toe, like the big toe,
that's the that's the one that part of it. Okay,
well yeah something fell on it and it came up.
But if you have like the big toe and the thumb,
like that's the main deal in your hand, right, if
you look at your hand, like, the thumb's the big thing.
The other fingers are important, but the thumbs the star
of the show. The thumb is the key to the hand,
(31:37):
like to grab things the thumb because if you think
about there's animals that don't have the thumb and they
can't really grab stuff right like a like a dog,
My dog Moxie does not have a thumb. It's a paw.
It's got like a little it looks like kind of
little fingers.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Have you seen a scary movie?
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Uh No, the guy with the hand and he puts
his hand into the pie and he goes, he.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Didn't see it. It's just telling me. He's going to
describe what she's said.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, I'm going to find it for you. Bet all right,
Well that's fine, that's just what I saying. But so, anyway,
the surgeon saw the video that operated us. Guys said,
they don't understand how he was able to walk away.
He actually protected though ninety He protected ninety percent of
his face. He does have some burns. The Dodger fan
that set the fire cracker off, he has burns on
his face. He also has hearing damage all that. And
(32:30):
it's not like he lost that for the doctor. They
already won. They already won the world He was doing
that to celebrate the World series. Anyway, Well, good luck
to that guy. He's only twenty five years old. To man,
young guy, that's a what an idiot. I know, that's
a tough that's a tough decision to make.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
And you can tell he had hearing problems because in
the video, that guy who's filming is like, sit down, bro,
sit down, sit down, Yeah, and he's just he's just
shaking his hand like he's gonna just.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
The blood steep, the blood's dripping off.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
What else are you gonna do when you just exploded
your hand. I'm not gonna sit down. I'm gonna wave
it around in the air.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
The funniest is the guy recording is on a phone
saying go call nine one one Yeah, better friends, brouh yeah,
thank you for that. Oh man, all right, we have
Mallard of the third degree. Here's the Insta trivia. Here
we go. Blank is the player, the only player since
at least nineteen eighty two with a triple double, no
(33:31):
missshots from the floor, and no turnovers. Again, Blank is
the only NBA player since at least nineteen eighty two
you have a triple double, miss no shots from the
floor or the line, and have no turnovers. That's the
Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do
(33:52):
it next.
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Speaker 1 (34:30):
Time. Now for the Insta Trivia and we will have
coming up Momentelli Mallard of a third degree. But blank
the only player in the NBA since at least nineteen
eighty two to have a triple double with no misshots
from the field or the floor and zero turnovers. You
(34:51):
could say that's the perfect triple double. But who is
that player? Let's see if anybody knows the answer, and
who do we a your page down? We've got Washington
Bullets forward Kevin Greevy from Bay City, Tony. That's his answer.
The Skipper from alf the Alien, O Piner, perfect pitcher
(35:13):
from O g art puffin Who else do we have?
Adam Devine, who's forty one today? From Late Night drug
tester Masshole Mickey says, Danny Ferry is the answer. Dude,
Well he was he didn't want to play for the Clippers.
What a loser? The joker from Milkman, Mike in Colorado,
Kendrick Perkins tossed out by Justin and Cincinnati. Rolando Blackman
(35:37):
from Dante that's a Maverick legend. Tom Borwinkle from Eke
and Roseville, Minnesota, great name. Who else do you have?
Spacoli's going with Clipper legend Clipper Darryl as his answer?
Who else? Bronnie James from Johnny Q the Ultimate Concessions
flag or you know whatever? Uh? When he gets in
(35:58):
the games over, either the Lakers are ahead or their
did they lose? I think they lost to Memphis? Well
Chili Davis guest by Slim Tim Tom Chambers from our
friend Barbicueing lend Willie Burton, there's a good name from
Rob in Minnesota. All right, Lrada, do you have an answer?
Lorader to the year is the tribute? All right?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I do?
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Actually I think it's Airbud Ben Air.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Bud all Right, that's a relevant guess, is it Air? No,
that's wrong. The correct to answer the player the only
player since at least nineteen eighty two with a triple
double no misshots from the floor of the field, from
the floor of the line, rather than zero turnovers, Demontes
Sabonis of Shaq, here.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
We go, Here we go, Here we go, Smeller, how
about that?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
To the third degree?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
On Tuesday, DeAndre Hopkins shared a picture on social media
of Tom Brady's celebrating a touchdown with Randy Moss, the
implication being that he and Mahomes have a similar connection
and do you think Hopkins is gonna have the same
impact as Moss did.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Well, it's an odd situation because Moss did not win
a Super Bowl with Tom Brady, So what are you doing?
It's an odd position for DeAndre Hopkins. They were zero
for two in the Super Bowl, Moss and Brady Son,
they can they lose the Super Bowl? Yes?
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Next, the Cleveland Cavaliers are off to their best start
in nearly fifty years. Ben, Do you think these guys
are a serious threat to the Celtics in the East.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
No, No, it's November by the time we get down
of the playoffs. I don't trust Cleveland. They'll win a
bunch of games, they'll have a great record. I do
not trust them against the Celtics. Sam, I am next.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Trent Williams talk to the media about Christian McCaffrey's anticipated
return this week and mentioned how the forty nine ers
offense is Taylor.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Made to him and how he will be a tremendous
lift to the team.
Speaker 7 (37:45):
Yeah, ben Well, mcaffrey's are turned propelled the Niners back
to the top of the NFC.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
No, no, because you can ram it all day and
you can ram it all night. Baby. The La Rams
own the West. He failed this edition. That is a
win by me, thank you very much. I the game.
That is a win. I win the game.
Here we go. Welcome, it's our number two talking baseball
from the GM meetings in San Antonio. The big news
this hour all about the Tampa Bay baseball team, who
was emerged as a suitor for one Soto the Magic
wan Should they be taken seriously? I think you know
(00:22):
the answer to that. Also, what did you make of
Scott Morris and his state of his client's address, calling,
among others, Blake Snell Snelling Salts saying Pete's sake, for
Pete's sake and whatnot. There we'll talk about all that.
And Diamondbacks, the Arizona Diamondbacks, their GM had a meeting
with Jordan Montgomery after the owner Ken Kendrick called the
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pitcher's contract a horrible, horrible decision. How do you think
that conversation went. We'll get to all that and more
right now here. It is our number two. They call
them one and is he a out gone out of
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over the years, so he's a big fan of that.
But our lead this hour from the GM meetings in
San Antonio, and as anticipated, we got the State of
(02:14):
the Union address from Scott Boris as he waxed the
poetic about the free agents. He has the biggest free
agents in baseball. Some interesting developments though about the big ragoul,
if you will, in free agency, the player that is
the center of the wheel. And I'm talking to Buddy
(02:37):
Might who was a Hollywood writers that you when you
do a TV show or a movie, you have the
the main stars are the center, the main star, two stars,
and then everything else is a spoke on the wheel.
But for the wheel to work, you have to have
that main main star. And I bring that up because
we are now told there are not one, not two,
not three, not four, not five, not six, how about seven?
(03:00):
Seven teams that have shown interest in one Soto of
the loser Yankees they lost to the Doyers in the
World Series, including and here's where it gets interesting, including
Tampa Bay. They have been mentioned. All the reports coming
out of the Alamos say, well, Tampa Bay, the Razor interesting,
(03:22):
the Razor interest. Now, the other six teams that are
said to be interested are all big money, big money,
big market teams, usual suspects. Now word is they're supposing
this is this is great. There are going to be
two other small, the middle market teams, mystery teams that
(03:44):
are interested. Oh the mystery of it all, Soto, if
you're a little slow, here is looking to get seven
hundred million dead presidents. Now there's a lot of noise,
including one report that said that Soto is going to
play for the Mets. He's going to leave the Yankees,
stay in the Big Apple and go over to Flushing
(04:05):
to play for the team that will want the world.
Serious since nineteen eighty six. But the Mets, and so
that's one report out now Scott Boris, as we said,
we'll get to his comments the wide angle lens on
what Scott Boris had to say in general coming up
in a little bit. But Boris says that Juan Soto
(04:25):
is going to soak up all the attention essentially and
la la la la, la la la, that he's in
no rush to sign a deal, which is rather odd
when you consider the fact that the last couple of years,
most of the big name free agents that Scott Boris
has had have either failed to get the contracts that
(04:46):
they thought they were going to get or waited and
then had to scramble and still got less than they
thought they were going to get. So let us discuss
the question. Let's focus in on Tampa Bay. This is fast.
So Tampa Bay, who always cries poverty, Tampa Bay has
emerged as a suitor for one Soto. Should they be
(05:10):
taken seriously? Should they be taken seriously? So my observations,
I've got BMW dealership, novel and confectionery, and we will
combine all of these things together. And we were going
a vacation to Yellowstone is what we're going to do,
all right, so na burn all right, Hey, listen. In
(05:36):
terms of the question, Tampa Bay showing interest in want Soto,
I give this sidey is what I do. Right, It's comical.
Nobody takes this seriously. There were rumors last year that
the Rays were in I think it was on Yamamoto
last year in free agency. This is a kin. If
you understand anything about the Rays franchise, they're a pest.
(06:01):
They're annoying. Right. But here's the thing. It is the
equivalent of walking into a BMW dealership and saying I'd
like to buy that red Beamer and they say, okay,
why don't we finance that? I say, you know, I'm
gonna pay for it. How are you gonna pay for it?
You don't want to finance it. I'm gonna use my
EBT card is what I'm gonna use. That's the Tampa
(06:24):
Bay Rays. Right. The math, the math is not mathing.
It's not h and Tampa unless I miss something. We
had that massive storm, Hurricane Milton not that long ago
that came through Florida and destroyed the ballpark. They play
in Tropicana fields. So the Raids are planning. I'm playing
in a minor league ballpark. They're a essentially a homeless
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baseball team. They're orphans at this point in time. And
as for the mystery teams, I say this every year
and I'm never wrong. The mystery team in free agency
is a plant. Ninety nine point nine percent of the time.
It's a plan. And the reason it's for Gayzy, let
me explain this. It's fake news because the whole point
(07:14):
of this exercise, the whole point of going after free
agents and trying to sign people, is goodwill publicity. You're
showing your customers that you're trying to improve the team.
You're creating some artificial excitement. Even if you don't sign
the player, you let everyone know you're in on it.
(07:34):
You excite the base, right, you excite the base and
let them daydream or in our case, dream at night
about adding their savior and your name brand player and
all that. Very excited about that. Now, if you're a
mystery team, unless I'm mistaken, if you're a mystery team,
you get none of that, right, none of that. It
(07:54):
is a pointless exercise. So it's just something the agent
makes up and the the useful idiots. The baseball writers
will repeat anything they are told by an agent. They
will never say, wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense. Now,
a lot of times what happens is you get teams
that will make a token offer they know will not
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be accepted, but will get them some good publicity. So
like the Red Sox have done this a lot to
the last couple years with the Red Sox are it's
kind of known in baseball. The Red Sox the last
couple years haven't really wanted to sign guys to big
contracts who are outside the Red Sox organization. So they'll
make these offers, but they're not real offers. They know
that it's not the highest offer and the player won't accept.
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And all that Now Page two from the GM meetings,
we continue there where Scott Borris did do what we
thought he was going to do. He got on his
soapbox and he waxed about the state of his players,
his guys in free agency. Now among his gems here
he said, of Juan Soto, he called them the magic
(09:02):
wand is what he called them, Blake Snell, bra, I'm
risking my life, bra, Blake Snell. He said, there's no
doubt these Snelling salts created a lot of whiffs, he said,
and the market has definitely awakened snelling salts. The part
of that now, Pete Alonzo, all these guys are tied
(09:23):
to Scott Boris now, he said, of Peter Alonzo, Scott Boris,
he said, there's been a lot of talk about a
bear market for first basemen, but for Pete's Sake, it's
the polar opposite. So let us discuss the question what
do you make of the commentary by Scott Boris? Here
(09:44):
the Snelling salts, the magic wand and the Pete Sake
lines about these players in free agency? So what do
I think that Scott Boris does not disappoint? He does not.
He's the son of a a dairy farmer from Sacramento.
He is the king of cornball. He is. I am
(10:07):
convinced that before the GM meetings every year, Scott bor
Us on the plane ride from his compound in Newport Beach,
and then when he travels to these random cities for
the jammings. On the plane, probably a private plane, he
is reading the novel The Big Book of Puns, a
(10:30):
mix of witty wordplay and much like Jim Harbaugh, Dad jokes,
a lot of dad jokes. Right final point. We go
now to Arizona, a lot of people talking about what
happened with the Diamondbacks. The GM there had have a
pow wow, a sit down with Jordan Montgomery. Now why
and Jordan Montgomery is one of these guys that didn't
(10:51):
get a big contract last year, signed to the last
minute with Arizona. The owner Ken Kendrick sounds like a
weather guy or a traffic guy. On TV, Kendrick called
the twenty five million dollar deal with Jordan Montgomery for
the Arizona baseball team a horrible decision. He said, a
(11:11):
horrible decision. So how do you how do you think
that conversation went between the GM of the Diamondbacks and
Jordan Montgomery. So I look at it like this. It
was like going down to your local confectionery. You want
some ice cream, and rather than get a nice, delicious
vanilla bean ice cream smooth, he said, I don't want that.
(11:35):
I want something else, right, I want something else, And
you pick the handcrafted Rocky Road filled with chocolate ice
cream and the nuts and the marshmallows diced up and
all that. But it's not a smoothie, right and guaranteed. Now,
does anyone feel bad? Does anyone feel bad for Jordan
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Montgomery that his owner said his signing was a horrible decision.
And the answer to that is no, right, The answer
to that is absolutely not. Imagine having an ERA of
over six. That's what Jordan Montgomery did over six. You're
in the bottom percentile in every key category for pitchers.
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And by opting in Jordan Montgomery will get around another
twenty five million or so, give or take for the
upcoming season, So that will smooth over the rough edges.
Getting that kind of money Montgomery was, I would argue
a good decision at the time he signed the contract
in Arizona that became an abject failure. Was not only
(12:43):
a pitcher, he was horrible, right, And that was all
based on performance. It was all based on performance. You
win some, you lose some. And I love the fact
that Montgomery stayed because he knows no one else is
going to be done on at his age with that
performance to give him that kind of money. So the
(13:04):
move here would be to work out an agreement and
trade Jordan Montgomery somewhere else, which we're pretty sure Arizona
would be happy to do and Montgomery would be happy
to pack up his stuff. It is the Ben Mahlor
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teams that you like to win a title? Explain why
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It's Ben Mallor, got some royalty in the hallway here
at Yeah, Big Big Star Manuel from Guardina. Here is Pal.
They're hanging out Buck Sandwiches. Jeremiah's his friend, Yeah Jeremiah,
And I'm waiting to eat the sandwich till after shows.
You know, it's not proper to eat while doing the show.
(15:08):
Of course, I don't think that stopped any of you
from eating, but I have to talk a lot, so
waiting on that. So it's in the fridge. I put
it in the fridge. And this is like the legendary
sandwich shop. You had some of yours edite, yet you
have not see you're following the teachings to not eat
because you have to talk, and you know, you want
to make sure everything's good. To go on that. Yeah,
but it looks delicious.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
I can tell you how delicious it is with a
mouthful of the sandwich if you want.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
I don't know that you're not supposed to eat on
the air those Yes, that's bad etiquette.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
You know, actually as Mr specializes in eating on the air.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Ben, is that right?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Is that right? You're not gonna eat that whole sandwich?
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Right?
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Absolutely not.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
It's huge.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
Coop was carrying it like a baby, like.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
A little baby, a little little baby. So, man, well's here,
we'll maybe put it in at some point here along
the way.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
He wanted to play a game, but then we unfortunately
broke the news to him that we don't have a
game tonight.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Really right, Well, he brought that up to me and
I thought, well, okay, I'm trying to think of my head.
I was like, well, maybe he wants to play Factor Fiction,
but that's not really a game. It's it's game, but
it's not a game. You know, it's a game not
a game and all that. And then maybe he wants
to be part of ask Ben where he can answer questions.
Do you think we should have him do that? That's
not really a game either.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
The game.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, not a game, he said he'd tomorrow. I'd call them.
He likes playing the games.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
That's arguably a more I like, probably the most special.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
What's that? Ask Ben?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
If you are somebody that's getting asked questions? And asked
Ben a guest.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
Oh man on a panel that we don't do guests,
but you know a friend of the show, right, friend
of the show paid his way in with sandwiches delicious
and chips. We haven't done that before. Actually, I don't
think so.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
I thought maybe like Inka Terror somebody maybe possibly possibly. Anyway,
we'll go to the phones and let's see who do
we have any meaning mine? Let's say hello to Kyle,
who's in the Lost Wages Nevada. Hello Kyle, welcome?
Speaker 5 (17:07):
What up? What up? Before we get started? Hey, the
last song was really really paying attention to y'all. Y'all's
coming up with funny radio names for y'all self. So
I got something for you. Ben, you are now the
benefits man, Eddie your DJ ed Lightenment, or you could
be the editor and Lorena you're the lore cool.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Nothing for look at that?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Nah? No, I mean he has the best name ever.
Coop de Loop.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I don't know. This is the greatest name, man.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
I mean, Ben, you can also be Hey, Ben, you
can also be the engineer.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I mean, like that engineer. It's better than the other one. Yeah,
that's right.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
So look, I've been listening to your show for about
almost eight nine years now, and this is probably the
second time that I've ever gotten through. So I want
to take the oath. I love the show, I love
the calf. I listened to you nightly, I mean, although
I don't get a chance to listen to you all
four hours. Yeah, I do listen to you.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Well, thank you. I appreciate that. And then you didn't
come out to the Mallard mean greet though we.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
Were in Honestly, I actually I did.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Did.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
You were on top of TOWNA and Maryland Parkway out here, yeah,
And I went over there and you had just barely
left by the time I got in the door.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Well, you know, as I I had my security with me,
so I had.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
To be We were there for like two hours, you know,
we were there for a while.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, we stayed a while.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
I get it. But you know, brother got to work now,
which does actually sound pretty tasty right about now? What
kind of sandwich is it.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well, I have a turkey sandwich, but I don't know
what these people. I have the classic torpedo. Yeah, what
is a torpedo? What is that?
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Is? There?
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Is there an actual torpedo in the sandwich. It's Scott's Eddie.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
It's got Italian mortadella, the drysalami, the gobba gul.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
The turkey sound would sounded perfect.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Geeze that another toddler. That's my god, Kyles in we
have good palettes, me and you, Kyle. We enjoy proper foods. Absolutely. Yes,
all right, well let's do the oath. I only do
it once a show. This is from our friend Skeeter
in Montana. He said, I want to be part of
the Malla militia. I said, skater, you're part of the Malamuch.
He says, no, I need to be part of it.
And so we came up with the oath. We ripped
(19:39):
it off from the military. Are you ready?
Speaker 5 (19:42):
I am. Hey, and listen, Lorena, you ain't gonta dump
me because the last person that did it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
You have to end.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
They call because they cuss. Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Okay, you don't sound very intoxicated. I have faith in you.
Speaker 5 (19:53):
I'm elevated.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
There we go. Yeah, oh yeah, here we go. I
state your name, I God do solemnly swear, solemnly swear
that I will support and defend the Ben Malor Show,
that I will.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Support and defend the Bingineer.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
And the Ben Mahlor Show against all enemies foreign and domestic.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
Against all enemies foreign and domestic.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And then I will obey orders.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
And I will obey orders to peacefully fight back, to
peacefully fight back.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Here we go. Here's the hard part, against hostile attacks
from rival sports, gas bags and blowhards.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
We again, rival gas bags, radio hosts and diehards. All right,
I fed it backwards, prosthetic.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
You lest some words out? Is that we okay with that, Eddie?
And I'm okay with it all right, So help me, God,
So help me God. Congratulations. Do not take this lightly, Kyle.
We are a peaceful organization, but in times of conflict,
we choose cyber warfare to defend the honor of the show.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I got a question. Since I gave you all nicknames,
you gotta give me one.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Well, you gotta call more often, Kyle. You can't just
call it a wild Kyle. And if you call a
little bit Yeah, we gotta know what makes you tick? Kyle?
What are you doing Vegas? Tell me a little bit.
Go behind the phone there. What do you got going
on in Vegas?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
First time I called you? The first time I called you,
I told you I used to work for the Prince
Brunei and that I listened to you on Bernie Frattos
every weekend.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But you don't do that anymore though, You're not you know,
not anymore.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
I can't listen to Bernie no more. You're not my
best friend.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
That's right, because you took the oath. You see that about?
How about best friend? Kyle? Are you working for another
oligarch some other?
Speaker 5 (21:47):
No? Actually, I do a convention setup, so I do.
I work for the Las Vegas. Uh convention?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Oh yeah, there's never any conventions in Vegas. They never
never never never never.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Never interesting people to meet here, I'm mean, although I
just miss just met Reggie Bush probably about a month ago.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Nice have you done now? Oh? Shakira, get that, Shakurira, Shakira, Shakira, Shakira, Shakira.
Speaker 5 (22:12):
And me and her Shad the same birthday, Ben, Oh.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Congratulations, And what happens to what happened to the astrology lady.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
She don't even call you no more.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Well, she had to calls often. She's still calls. She
was on yesterday. She still calls. But yeah, that's she is,
the astrology lady. Lorraine's question, she wanted to know if
you've set up for the porn Awards. She wanted to know.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
That was exactly my question the ABA.
Speaker 5 (22:36):
No, not yet.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Yeah, I think you'd rather set that up than clean
up after they're done. I think you'd probably rather do
the setup than the teardown, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
No, but next time with Khalifa comes here uh to
promote one of his things, you guys should all come
because it is very fun. And from what I've heard,
where in a you like edibles around?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Oh yes, the fruit kind with the chocolate on top.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
That's what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Something like that?
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Is that edible arrangements something like that.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
All right, well, listen, thank you very much, Kyle. It's
been a pleasure. I'm going to hang up on you
that you've taken a lot of air time. Thank you.
All right, there's Kyle in Vegas checking in with us.
He's now sworn in.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
And I always loved these early season games because you
see schools and you are like, who in the hell
is that Indiana beat a school called s.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I U E?
Speaker 1 (23:32):
S i US? Is that Southern Indiana? What's the other?
What's the s I s i U E? Southern Indiana
University at Edmonton? You're close?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Southern Illinois University.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Edwardsville, Edwardsville, Edwardsville. Always I have a cousin lives in Chicago.
Always visit there.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
You bet news from the NFL where Sanrans school Fortnite
is running back Christian maccafrey limited and practice Wednesday, but
feeling no pain as he comes act from achilles injury,
looking to make his season debut Sunday against the Buccaneers
in Tampa.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
And we're of course here at Fox Sports Radio, our
colleague Doug Gottlie, but we can't wait. They the Green
Bay team plays again. Believe later on on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I think, did you see the picture of him putting
in work on the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Yeah, man, he's a man, He's wow, he is he
working hard on the sideline there they play Green Bay
plays Saint Thomas. Oh St Thomas? Is that from the Bahamas?
That Saint Thomas? I don't know. I doubt it. Where's
another Saint Thomas? Maybe it's Fro Minnesota's kind of a St. Thomas.
(24:43):
I have no idea, but that's the matchup. Will Gottlieb
get his first win in that Sint Paul Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (24:49):
He?
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Well?
Speaker 6 (24:50):
St oh my gosh, I almost thought I went to
Saint Paul Lutheran Church when I was younger.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Thank you for the Saint Thomas. Tommy's the Tommy's the
Tommy's very similar to the Bahamas. Is uh, that's an
offensive name though. That's they're named after the Tommy gun
So that's an offensive name. It's not right? All right?
This guy Gunner said he was gonna call up, and
we warned everyone, and now he's called up. Hello Gunner
(25:14):
in Minnesota, Hello Gunner from the from the Walmart in Minnesota.
Great this year? Huh?
Speaker 2 (25:30):
This year?
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Well, they won the last couple of games the Clippers.
What do you think Kawhi Leonard decides to play?
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Isn't good?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Well, they've actually now won there, they've won their their
last two games at home. But thanks for keeping track.
Speaker 5 (25:47):
The Clippers.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
You called, you called up dum. You called up dummy
to talk about him, So I mean that's on you.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Yeah, you're attracting the pastors. I attract your clippers.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Oh you got me? Oh man, this is this is heated, Eddie.
We're gonna step out. So let's go outside of the
street right now, gun I'll kick your ass. How about that?
Oh yeah, So you're backing down, Gunner because you know
I'm right. You know I'm right, Gunner. You're backing down.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
No I'm not. You're not right. You come up so
you'll freeze outside.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
So I got a freeze. It's not that cold yet,
February January. That's not cold nothing.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
It's not for me at least.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
All right, Gunner here, I'm glad you're alive. Anything else,
that's it. You just want to call up you try
to talk trash. That didn't work out. You're you're still
a Timberwolves Hank guess.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Way better?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah? They both and they both have, by the way,
ended up in the one final four in recent years.
Clippers and Wolves, even even Stephen both in the final four.
Speaker 7 (27:02):
That's all yeah, man, Well, and Guardina has reminded me
that he's no longer allowed to go by gunner.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's sling shot. Oh yeah, you're sling shot now, gunner,
sling shot, slang shot, sling shot, sling shot. How come
you want to go by gunner? Your name is slang shot? Huh?
Come on, put that in your pipe and smokey. What
do you have to say to man? Weell in Guardina?
He's listening what he said. He sucks. He sucks. Very
(27:30):
clever retort. You shuck quite a wordsman there, Gunner, Okay,
all right, all right, he's got those delays. No, when
Gottlieb is doing his radio show, does you sweat as
(27:51):
much as he does coaching? I don't know. I've never
worked with him. No idea. If he sweated like that
working here, they should put like a shower in the
building so you can go shower in between segments. Right,
got pretty wild? You know they should do Green Bay.
I don't know if they do promotions or whatever the university.
(28:13):
They should have a Gottlieb giveaway and it can be
like a Gottlieb sponge where you squeeze it water comes
out way. Would that be great?
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Wondering if he was going to wring out his T
shirt and like put into little jars or something and
sell it to people.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Yeah, I'm a sweat or too. Like I sweat also,
so I shouldn't be ripping. God, but even I don't
think I sweat that much like you should, Like I don't.
I do the TV thing. I do sweat a lot,
but we turned the temperature down. It's like an ice
box in there, so I make sure I don't.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
See I don't sweat at all. Ever, I don't sweat.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
And so the first time, how do you know you're humans?
Are you a lizard person? Are you a lizard person?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I don't sweat.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Well, that's what women are always very unhealthy.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Men are always hot, women are always cold.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Really sweat. I was like, oh my god, it's like
dripping from your face.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
It's disgusting, how horrible. Yeah, now that was not flop sweat.
That was just natural sweat.
Speaker 5 (29:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Flop sweat is when.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
Is that from a workout?
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Like flop sweat is no like nerve nervousness. Yeah, when
you've failed, like you're an actor and you forgot your lines,
Oh sweat. Let's say, let's mean a flop sweat. Angry
Bill is in Florida. He'll be on for about two seconds,
say something offensive, and then they'll hang up on him.
That's usually it works. Hello, angry Bill.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
It works that way because it's your system. Well, Lorena,
let me promise you something on my mother's grave. I
can make you sweat.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
He's gonna take you to the sauna. He's gonna take
you that hot yo that hot yoga place over there,
that's da.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
Sauna is a nice place to do it.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Jesus.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
Yeah, yeah, Saana' is a great place to learn how
to sweat. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
That's went about as well as we thought it would go.
And then there's Angry Bill. This contribution to the show.
So we have Angry though, we have a follow up.
We have a follow up to the viral video the
Dawyers won the World Series. Remember that that that Chap
went out there with the firecracker and blow his hand off.
(30:30):
Well we now know that he ended up losing two
fingers at this point, possibly more. He said three operations,
he lost his pointer finger and his middle finger and
all of the meaty part of the hand around that area.
He is gone. It's just completely gone.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
I was curious if it was just a nub of
an arm left because it looked like it was just.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
No, so he's got like chunks, he's got the thumb,
so I think he's not that he's in good shape.
But if you if you have the thumb, like, couldn't
you still grab stuff with your thumb and you're too
small thing? Well, it is kind of a claw, but
you at least like conceivably, if he has movement, he
can still grab stuff with his thumb. Because no, I
was like, I have a relative that lost part of
(31:14):
their toe and like the big toe, like the big toe,
that's the that's the one that part of it. Okay,
well yeah something fell on it and it came up.
But if you have like the big toe and the thumb,
like that's the main deal in your hand, right, if
you look at your hand, like, the thumb's the big thing.
The other fingers are important, but the thumbs the star
of the show. The thumb is the key to the hand,
(31:37):
like to grab things the thumb because if you think
about there's animals that don't have the thumb and they
can't really grab stuff right like a like a dog,
My dog Moxie does not have a thumb. It's a paw.
It's got like a little it looks like kind of
little fingers.
Speaker 4 (31:51):
Have you seen a scary movie?
Speaker 7 (31:53):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Uh No, the guy with the hand and he puts
his hand into the pie and he goes, he.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Didn't see it. It's just telling me. He's going to
describe what she's said.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
Yeah, I'm going to find it for you. Bet all right,
Well that's fine, that's just what I saying. But so, anyway,
the surgeon saw the video that operated us. Guys said,
they don't understand how he was able to walk away.
He actually protected though ninety He protected ninety percent of
his face. He does have some burns. The Dodger fan
that set the fire cracker off, he has burns on
his face. He also has hearing damage all that. And
(32:30):
it's not like he lost that for the doctor. They
already won. They already won the world He was doing
that to celebrate the World series. Anyway, Well, good luck
to that guy. He's only twenty five years old. To man,
young guy, that's a what an idiot. I know, that's
a tough that's a tough decision to make.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
And you can tell he had hearing problems because in
the video, that guy who's filming is like, sit down, bro,
sit down, sit down, Yeah, and he's just he's just
shaking his hand like he's gonna just.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
The blood steep, the blood's dripping off.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
What else are you gonna do when you just exploded
your hand. I'm not gonna sit down. I'm gonna wave
it around in the air.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
The funniest is the guy recording is on a phone
saying go call nine one one Yeah, better friends, brouh yeah,
thank you for that. Oh man, all right, we have
Mallard of the third degree. Here's the Insta trivia. Here
we go. Blank is the player, the only player since
at least nineteen eighty two with a triple double, no
(33:31):
missshots from the floor, and no turnovers. Again, Blank is
the only NBA player since at least nineteen eighty two
you have a triple double, miss no shots from the
floor or the line, and have no turnovers. That's the
Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to it. We'll do
(33:52):
it next.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
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Speaker 3 (34:05):
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we invite you to help promote our mom and pop program.
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Tell your friends and coworkers about our show and drop
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(34:25):
Ben Maller.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Time. Now for the Insta Trivia and we will have
coming up Momentelli Mallard of a third degree. But blank
the only player in the NBA since at least nineteen
eighty two to have a triple double with no misshots
from the field or the floor and zero turnovers. You
(34:51):
could say that's the perfect triple double. But who is
that player? Let's see if anybody knows the answer, and
who do we a your page down? We've got Washington
Bullets forward Kevin Greevy from Bay City, Tony. That's his answer.
The Skipper from alf the Alien, O Piner, perfect pitcher
(35:13):
from O g art puffin Who else do we have?
Adam Devine, who's forty one today? From Late Night drug
tester Masshole Mickey says, Danny Ferry is the answer. Dude,
Well he was he didn't want to play for the Clippers.
What a loser? The joker from Milkman, Mike in Colorado,
Kendrick Perkins tossed out by Justin and Cincinnati. Rolando Blackman
(35:37):
from Dante that's a Maverick legend. Tom Borwinkle from Eke
and Roseville, Minnesota, great name. Who else do you have?
Spacoli's going with Clipper legend Clipper Darryl as his answer?
Who else? Bronnie James from Johnny Q the Ultimate Concessions
flag or you know whatever? Uh? When he gets in
(35:58):
the games over, either the Lakers are ahead or their
did they lose? I think they lost to Memphis? Well
Chili Davis guest by Slim Tim Tom Chambers from our
friend Barbicueing lend Willie Burton, there's a good name from
Rob in Minnesota. All right, Lrada, do you have an answer?
Lorader to the year is the tribute? All right?
Speaker 2 (36:17):
I do?
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Actually I think it's Airbud Ben Air.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Bud all Right, that's a relevant guess, is it Air? No,
that's wrong. The correct to answer the player the only
player since at least nineteen eighty two with a triple
double no misshots from the floor of the field, from
the floor of the line, rather than zero turnovers, Demontes
Sabonis of Shaq, here.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
We go, Here we go, Here we go, Smeller, how
about that?
Speaker 1 (36:40):
To the third degree?
Speaker 2 (36:43):
This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
On Tuesday, DeAndre Hopkins shared a picture on social media
of Tom Brady's celebrating a touchdown with Randy Moss, the
implication being that he and Mahomes have a similar connection
and do you think Hopkins is gonna have the same
impact as Moss did.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Well, it's an odd situation because Moss did not win
a Super Bowl with Tom Brady, So what are you doing?
It's an odd position for DeAndre Hopkins. They were zero
for two in the Super Bowl, Moss and Brady Son,
they can they lose the Super Bowl? Yes?
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Next, the Cleveland Cavaliers are off to their best start
in nearly fifty years. Ben, Do you think these guys
are a serious threat to the Celtics in the East.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
No, No, it's November by the time we get down
of the playoffs. I don't trust Cleveland. They'll win a
bunch of games, they'll have a great record. I do
not trust them against the Celtics. Sam, I am next.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
Trent Williams talk to the media about Christian McCaffrey's anticipated
return this week and mentioned how the forty nine ers
offense is Taylor.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Made to him and how he will be a tremendous
lift to the team.
Speaker 7 (37:45):
Yeah, ben Well, mcaffrey's are turned propelled the Niners back
to the top of the NFC.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
No, no, because you can ram it all day and
you can ram it all night. Baby. The La Rams
own the West. He failed this edition. That is a
win by me, thank you very much. I the game.
That is a win. I win the game.
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