April 18, 2023 • 42 mins
Ben Maller talks about the MLB shot clock and reacts to Juan Soto’s comments to the clock rules. He questions if Juan is being dramatic or if the MLB really needs to make a change and make the clock longer for the hitters/pitchers. Another segment of Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bird to our two
of our radio program as we make a splash in
the deep end of the pool. The clock still a thing.
People upset, it's early in the baseball season, including one
of the young stars of the game, One Soto, complaining
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about the pitch clock and blaming that for his slow
start in San Diego. Do you have empathy for one
Soto's struggle to adjust to the clock? And how is
one Soto unable to adjust when seemingly everyone's got to
go through this, Why is he having such a hard
time adjusting? And what are the chances major League Baseball
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adds time to adjust the clock rules. We'll get to
all of that and much more. Don't forget the fifth
Hour podcast over the weekend. If you missed any of that,
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comes from baseball. We'll get back to the basketball conversation
and people buzzing whether Draymond Green will be suspended or not.
The Warriors right now suck. They blow a loss to
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Sacramento again and they are now early on on the
ropes as they lose both games on the road, and
now I have to come back home. But they have
They've been a terrible road team. They have been horrible
all year, one of the worst of the worst among
the teams that were actually supposed to be good. They
are the worst on the road. And but now they
get some home cooking for a couple of games and
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then right back up a couple hours away in Sacramento
after that. So our lead though coming from baseball. A
headliner in Major League Baseball is not happy. A podre
star is a grumbling Now, if you you didn't see this,
and maybe not, Patter is lost to the Atlanta Braves.
They were shut out by the brav He had again,
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just six hits for San Diego on offense, and the
Big Stars Manny Machado was zero for four in that game.
Juan Soto oh for three, And that's where the story is.
If you didn't see this, maybe not Juan Soto, who's
on the brink of one of those four hundred and
fifty five hundred million dollar contracts with the hand out
all the time now in big time sports. The San
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Diego outfielder Juan Soto not a fan of wait for it,
wait for it, the pitchclock. Now. How do we know that?
We know that because he said it multiple times. Soto
is having a tough time adjusting to the new rules,
and he is not backing down from the criticism. In fact,
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he's doubling down on his comments. We have some audio
we're gonna play for you. As Warner Wolf would say,
let's go to the audio tape. Here is one Soto
who is upset over his routine being messed up. All right,
we have a fill in producer here, so unfortunately we
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don't have the audio. But trust me, he said Soto,
he was bothered by it. He also said that he
has no time now to play mind games. He says,
there's no time at all, blah blah blah. Just trust me.
We had it, but we don't have it. All right,
So let us discuss the question do you have any
empathy for the sound that you didn't hear? Do you
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have any empathy for one Soto and his struggle? So
I am shaking my head no on this. I've got
the buttercup, improv and kittens, and we will combine all
of these things together and we're going to try to
survive what has been already been a terrible beginning to
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this malle of monologue.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So number one, number one soto first piece of advice
here is get over yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Okay. I understand that change is hard, and I'm not
gung ho for the pitch clock and all that, but
the world is not out to get Juan Soda. It's
not nobody is picking on him individually, or the Podrais
for that matter. I do not share a level of
grief that this is a terrible situation that it's impossible
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to overcome. And does he realize, Juan Soto, how pathetic
that he sounds. I mean, it's one of these situations
you're like, well, suck it up, Buttercup, here you deal
with it. Toughen up a little bit and get your
crap together. Keep in mind that Juan Soto struggled down
the stretch of last season. He's not been the guy
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that he had been with the Nationals. He hasn't carried
that natitude to San Diego said, wait a minute, weren't
the Podreys in the National League Championship Series? Yes? But
was that because of Juan Soto? No? No, and there
was no clock. Then the numbers are alarming. One Soto
batted two oh five over the final thirty eight games
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of last regular season last year with no pitch clock.
He was hideous, and then in the playoffs he had
limited impact. He batted two thirty nine. He was not
hitting home runs all over the place. He didn't go bonkers,
he wasn't mister October and he ended up with a
deflating performance. Even though the Potters got far, there were
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other people that were secondary actors for San Diego that
played better than Juan Soto. Now, page number two, So
how do you adjust? At this point, another ballplayer complaining
about the clock? So how can Juan Soto adjust his
game for the pitch clock? So the obviously answer is
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less is more. I would advise you to stop wallowing
in victimhood. It is rather unbecoming. You'd say, Soto's been
around for five years now. He broke in when he
was nineteen years old. He's a five year veteran in
the major leagues. It's not like he's in his late
thirties or early forties. And he's been playing in the
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major league level so long that he just cannot change
his ways. And he's been exposed here as a routine guy,
and now he's got the perfect fall guy, and so
he's yes, it's not my fault, ain't my fault. It's
the fact that they put the clocket, and so he
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has to pivot. You've got a new improv. It's open
Mike Night at the end prov and you got to
let your natural instincts take over and It's like all
great athletes are able to read and react at some point,
and you have to rely on your ability to hit
the ball. And if you cannot adapt, if you do
not have adaptability, it's still April for God says, if
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you do not have adaptability, then that's on you. And
he's you'd say he's costing himself a lot of money,
but we'll address that in a minute. I don't think
he is. I mean, I want to just that right now.
Is Juan Soto off to a poor start for the potter?
In fact, after the game on Monday's hitting one sixty four,
Is this in the danger zone of affecting him down
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the line? And I would say no, because he was
still going into play on Monday. Juan Soto was on
pace at twenty nine home runs and he was gonna
walk one hundred and fifty two times and say, yeah,
he's not hitting for average, but he's still hitting home
runs and he'll figure it out. And there was a
million miles to go. It's mile one of the long
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baseball marathon. But the early results are dreadful, right, And
this is supposed to be the year that you go
out and you fatten up your stats on a padre
team that is high profile and a team that's spending
money like the Yankees, the Dodgers and these big money
teams and the Potters are now two games under five
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hundred at this early point in the season. But it's
never too early to panic. So the final thought on this,
what are the chances we'll revisit this yet again? What
are the chances that Major League Baseball decides to add time?
Add time to the clock. So I continue to maintain,
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do not hold your breath. There'll be some fine tuning
here and there, but baseball has been empowered.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
This is the.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
First time I can remember in the last ten years
that Major League Baseball's gotten positive media attention. You think
about how dark baseball is. You've had the cheating Astros,
the greatest scan of all time unpunished by the Weasley
commissioner Rob Manford. In the last ten years, you had
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a brief labor stoppage, a very brief labor stoppage that
went back and forth between the union and the players.
And so now finally they find something baseball that gets
universal praise. They're not taking it back. I'm not just
now the doomsday scenario would be in the playoffs if
something happens, and at that I maintain I've maintained this
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from the beginning. If something happens in a World Series game,
that becomes a different game changing situation. But as far
as the regular season is concerned, the only people that
are unhappy, the only people who are belly aching are
the beer salesmen right TV executives are kittens. They're smitten
kittens right now because this is what they want. The
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ones that we're pulling the string, we're not Rob Manford.
The people at baseball, they were reactive. They were not proactive.
The people that are giving out the TV contracts were like, hey,
wait a minute, these games are too long and there's
not enough going on. We need to tighten things up.
And so now the games are zooming by and no
more five hour games. You don't have to worry about
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any of that. The games are being played at a
quicker pace, which is great. I guess if you're into
that kind of thing. If I never really minded, I don't.
I never mind. The longest some of those Yankee red
sock games were ridiculous because it was just it was
ridunculously boring at times, because of all the time that
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was wasted. But for the most part during the regular season,
it's like, ah whatever, But here we are. They made
the change in guys like Juan Soto freaking out like
it's not fair in all this complaining and whining and
the whole, the whole deal. It is the Ben Malord
Show as we continue on, and we will take your
calls at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox if
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at Ben Mallard. That's at Ben Mallard. We've had a
lot of fun over the years pointing out the frailties
of certain athletes, for example, Anthony Davis, Kawhi Leonard. We
bring up these guys quite a bit. Well. In baseball,
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there's a guy by the name of gian Carlos Stanton
who is made out of class. And if you missed
the news over the recent days here, gian Carlos Stanton
has gone on what we used to call the disabled list,
but now they call it something else. They changed the
name on that because that's offensive. But giohn Carlos Stanton,
the Yankee Star who it's these moonshots is going to
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be out over a month at minimum, its a month,
likely a month and a half. And you always bet
the over a Grade two left hamstring strain for Gen
Carlos Stanton, who's gonna miss about thirty games minimum. For
the New York Yankees, who are also one of these teams.
You look, you look around, you like, the Rays had
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that really great start in the historic start. They tied
the record to begin the season for wins, and you
look at the the Yankees are above five hundred. They're fine,
they're not they're not a losing record. They have one
of the better records, but they don't seem like they're
playing all that great. But here they are four games
above five hundred, and you look around the teams that
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are really off to the slow start here, the Dodgers
and the Padres. Those two teams are head and shoulders
above the rest among the teams that we're supposed to
be get with. I guess I wink at a nod
to the cheaters and the cheating Astros. They got to
pull out the trash cans because they also have a
losing record. As we are sitting here after almost almost
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twenty games, they're the fifteen to twenty game range. Most
teams have played over fifteen games. And as we continue
on eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, the number
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If you would like to be part and it's crumbling,
they're all crumbling. We'll get to that and we will
do it.
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Justin locked In and the Enchanted Forest Rights in We
began this hour with a Juan Soto Mallard monologue. We
were reacting to get some things wrong, Juan Soto said,
but trust me, he did say them. I wasn't making
them up. Justin in the in the Enchanted Forests, the
reds are another one of those great teams. Off to
a slow start, but after the night, not even the
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owner's halfwit son can stop us. Now, he says, the
Philly rob Tribute account is bothered by my trip to Vegas. Again.
I was I was planning on doing the show from Vegas,
but it was the powers out of my control would
not allow that to happen. Maverick writes in and says,
get a straw and suck it up. Wan Sotel, try
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to earn some of that money you're going to get, so,
he says, we'll take your calls eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Before we get there, though, crumbling, crumbling, crumbling,
crumbling all around. And we mentioned the injury to the
star of the New York Yankees, that Gen Carlos Stanton's
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gonna be out four to six weeks. But not one,
but two headline starters in baseball. We're both walking off
the mound gingerly on Monday night. Stop me if you've
heard this before, Jacob de Gram of your Texas Rangers. Yeah,
Jacob de Gram, who was a walking injury with the
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New York Metropolitans. But for reasons beyond the realm of reality.
The Rangers decide, you know what, we know that you're
almost never available, but you did win a couple of
cy young, so we'll give you a ton of money. Come,
we're desperate. We need to pitch for us. And so
the Rangers gave him a ton of money, and de
Gram went out and played against one of the worst
teams in baseball, the Royals, and he was fine. He
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pitched four no hit innings and then the team announced
that he had been removed from the game in Kansas
City as a precaution because of a risk situation. But
not just the risk. No, no, there's reports that the
risk is all messed up. There might be some other
stuff going on there as well, but it was all
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a precaution. All the precaution. He threw fifty eight pitches.
That's it, fifty eight pitches and he had to come
out of the game. Good luck to Bruce Bochie, the
Texas manager, and he's said, he said, there's concern anytime
you take a picture out. Of course he didn't add on,
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especially when it's Jacob de Grom. So he got hurt.
But wait, there's another ace that also got hurt. Mister Burns,
the Milwaukee Brewers. Ace also knocked out as Corbyn Burns
came out of the game against the Mariners in Seattle
in the sixth inning a pectoral strain, and the Brewers
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are like, well, we think he just overstretched everything. He'll
be okay, the Ace of the brew crew. But you
look up that timeline that even if it's a mild strain,
that's usually about a month, about a month if you
pull a chest muscle. So if you go by that timeline,
he's going to end up out for at least several weeks,
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Corbyn Burns, he'll be out of the lineup. Let's go
to the phones. We'll take your calls and we'll say
hello to Eenie Meenie mine. Well, let's sayllo to Regina.
Spin Cycle. Regina is in the Twin Cities. Hello, spin
cycle Regina.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
If I was any better, Regina, I would be sleeping,
but I'm not. I'm here, think away.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Well, that's gonna happen when we work overnights.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But you're not working overnights anymore, right, Virginia. You moved
to the day shift for a while. You've been away
from the overnight vibe.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I have been wait from the overnights for a little bit,
but I'm still kind of pulling all the lake work
for the overnights because I'm trying so hard to get
this confirmation of what I want this whole envisioned meet
and Greek to be.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, that's true. Now for those who don't know, for
those that have not been paying attention, May twentieth is
the date. So we're a little over a month away
the Minnesota mallord meet and greet, and you, Regina, are
trying to find a venue. I have some backup plans
if this doesn't work out, but we do have to
pick something here relatively soon, here, Regina, because you gotta
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let people know. We'll got people traveling from California, from Florida,
possibly some other places far away to come hanging out
with us.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Yeah, that would be wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And I'm trying
to secure this one specific venue and I don't even
know if we're allowed to say it or not, but
well do we wait.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I don't I don't want to jinx it, Regina, So
I don't want to jink.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I know, I know, I know. I'm waiting till tomorrow
morning to find out from the directors senior person. And
I'm just like, oh my gosh, I just.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
This is big. These are these are very important people
and more all the more reason Eddie Garcia should show up, right, Regina,
that Eddie should make a track in Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
And he said, I don't think that we can. I'm like, what.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Exactly, It's very disappointing. I want to if there was
a charger, if there was a charger game there, Eddie
would be there. But there's no charging game. That's the problem.
Just don't play the Viking exactly so it does not happen,
all right? And there's something else that is it true?
There's some other big event being played there Regina at
this Mallard meet and great? Is that accurate?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yes? We are wondering if semester of paramonny is still
legal and documented?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Am I am I legal? And I believe I am
legal and documented. I believe I have my paperwork. I
think racist I think I have it. I don't know.
Maybe I'll get kicked out though, I don't know. Do
you need special papers to get to Minnesota? Do you
have to have special paperwork.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
To get in there.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I just out of the state.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
No, I'm gonna try not to. But if you do it,
you import me to Canada.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Though.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Don't send me to Wisconsin. My brother lives there, So
send me to Canada, all right, or send me south.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Toronto, Toronto beautiful tuntle's great.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, well it's a bit of a drive from Minnesota.
But but I got you all right. Well, very good, Regina.
So well we'll see what happens, but thank you, all right,
spin cycle Regina the hostess with the mostest and she
is trying to put some fishing touches on that. We've
had other people that have worked behind the scenes have
been getting email from people saying, hey, I got I
got this venue lined up. We've had some people that
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run different bars in Minnesota that would like to host
the event. So we'll get something squared away as as
soon as she humanly possible. Mallard prop guy writes in
he says, I have been thinking that the pitch clock
may have time added in the future for the reasons
you cited. Also, it's mind blowing that the time for
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your ephas pitch to leave your hand to get to
the catcher's mitt is fifteen seconds, and he says, well,
that's because I was ahead of my time. I'm actually
a time traveler, Mallard prop guy, and I knew the
pitch clock time based on when a runner would be
on base or not on base, and that it's really
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not an ephis pitch. It's a bugs bunny curveball. The
bugs bunny curveball the most lethal pitch. And there are
video clips if you go to YouTube of professional hitters,
Hall of Fame hitters being hornswoggled by the lollipop Bugs
bunny curveball, unable to hit it, unable to get her done.
That's a fact, all right, straight ahead, straight ahead for
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us a starting quarterback in the NFL, sounding like he's
not very optimistic his health will allow him to perform
in the twenty twenty three season, at least at the
beginning of the twenty twenty three season. We'll get to that,
but right now, let's get over to these sports news
desk and games of note. Garcia right over there, here's.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Eddy, all right, thank you, Ben. We'll start with the
NBA playoffs. We had a couple of game twos, including
the Kings knocking off the defending champion Warriors one fourteen
to two one zero six to grab a two zero
series advantage. Tiaron Fox and Demanto Sibonas each had twenty
four points for Sacramento and the win. Speaking of Sabonas,
he also got mixed up with Draymond Green of the Warriors.
He was on the ground, got kind of tangled up
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in Green's legs, and Green decided to stop on his
chest as he was heading down the court.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
That got him a flagrant foul and an ejection and
was with seven h three to playing with Golden State
down four. That didn't help their efforts in coming back
to try and get the win, and for Green he
could see a suspension going forward. The seventy six ers
beat the Nets ninety six to eighty four tyres actually
thirty three points for Philadelphia as they grabbed a two
ozh series advantage. News round the NBA where a Milwaukee
Buck star Giannis and the Coopo had an MRI on
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a xedrid back came back clean. According head coach Mike Budenholzer,
the team's optimistic he can play in Game two against
the Heat coming up on Wednesday. Opening nine of the
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, we had two games go beyond regulation.
The Wild beat the Stars in Dallas three to two
in double overtime. Ryan Hartman the overtime game winner from
Minnesota and the Kings rally with three in the third.
They scored the game time goal of seventeen seconds left
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that alex I follow wins it in overtime. In the
Power played four three Kings over the Oilers. Bruins beat
the Panthers three to one. Was the Hurricanes getting by
the Islanders two to one. Into baseball games a note,
we had the Brave shutting out the Padres two out
of the Atlanta now thirteen and four in the season.
They won seven in a row. They're on top of
the NL East. The Dodgers beat excuse me, the Mets
beat the Dodgers eight to six. New York is eleven
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and six. They won five in a row. Brewers lead
the NL Central with a twelve and five record. They
beat the Mariners in Seattle seven to three. Was the
Reds over the Rays eight to one after starting thirteen
to o. Tampa Bays loss three or four, but they're
still on top in the AL East. The Rangers beat
the Royals for nothing, Texas leading the Al West. Jacob
Durram got the start. As you were talking about Ben.
He had two relievers combined to one hit Kansas City
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and the Diamondbacks down.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The card left with an injury though he kind of
buried the leader.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah, well you just mentioned that. I didn't need to
say it.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I think people are listening the whole time.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Oh they're listening to you the me. Yeah, Diamondbacks beat
the Cardinals six three. Arizona on top of the NLST.
Peven Smith a Grand Slam home run for Arizona. Paven Smith,
Peven Smith, Peven Smith. You never heard of Peven Smith.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Smithy peven That's interesting. First thing his way through life.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
All look at you, thank you, look at you.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I'll be here all night.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I knew some the NFL. The Eagles have reached an
agreement on a contract extension with quarterback Jalen Hurts with
up to two hundred and fifty five million dollars over.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
How FID is this? All you need is one good year?
All I need is one good year in radio, get
paid the big money, just like it.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
We're still waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It's gonna happen one of these days.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Yeah, one of.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
These days is gonna happen. And Eddie, it's gonna take place.
Are you ready for my fun factor?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
The already it can't possibly as good as the other
the fun This is a from last hour, not possible.
This is a fun.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's not gonna be a letdown. This is so much fun.
So we are seventeen games into the baseball season for
the team in the Pacific Northwest of the Mariners, and
they are so desperate to find a designated hitter that
they're going to sign Robbie the Mariner fan our listener.
The Seattle Mariners do not have a run batted in
from their designated hitter position after seventeen games. The combined
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this is supposed to be the hitter that's a professional hitter.
You're designatedor the Seattle Mariners designated hitters are five for
fifty six. They're hitting eighty nine this season after seventeen games.
Where have you gone, Alvin Davis? Where have you gone?
Hack Man? Jeffrey Leonard, the Seattle Mayor, Edgar Martinez. Edgar
(27:57):
Martin is the greatest DH of them all. That's right,
see Mariner back in the day with the Mariners eighty
nine their designator. They got to bring back the picture.
I bet you the pictures would hit Oh eighty nine
if you brought the pictures back and allowed them to hit.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we continue on
through the overnight, this portion of the show brought to
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and save at Progressive dot com. So a lot of
injury stuff going on, maybe Mercury's in retrograde or something
along those lines. We'll have to check in with Andrea
get an update on that at some point. But an
(28:41):
NFL quarterback NFL quarterback popping up on the injury blotter,
if you will, and that quarterback is Brock perty I
remember Brock Purdy was injured in the NFC title game
that led the Philadelphia Eagles to have an easy time
against the forty nine er and advanced to the Super Bowl. Well,
(29:02):
Brock Purty, the breakout star mister Irrelevant, who then put
up a bunch of great performances coming out of nowhere
for the Niners and the surgery. The report initially, the
reporting was that brock Purty had avoided Tommy John surgery
and that everything was good here, that he would be
ready to go by early in training camp, and essentially
(29:25):
it was status quo. He would be the de facto starter,
health permitting, and Trey Lance was there just in case,
and they signed a third quarterback in Sam Darnold. But
the plan was brock Purty is going to going to play. Well,
now now that song is changing a little bit. The
tune is changing here, and brock Purty recently quoted as
(29:46):
saying that he is quote not sure, not sure if
he will play in twenty twenty three. Say what means
he had Tommy John? Then well, he recently admitted that
he's not really sure if he will play during the
upcoming season. He said, he obviously has reached out to
(30:10):
a bunch of people since the since the surgery, and
he was excited and all that, but apparently he's not
not come. I don't think he had the Tommy John
surgery though. But are we talked about this, Roberto. We're
baseball guys, right, and when you avoid Tommy john surgery.
It's only a temporary situation. Yeah, eventually you're going to
(30:31):
need it, so keep an eye. What if Sam Darnold
ends up starting for the for the forty nine ers.
Geez man, o man, what a what a debacle? What
a debacle. We'll see what happens with that. But the
UCL recovery and it's it's a mess. It's a mess.
(30:55):
We'll find out. We got a lot of long way
to go between now and when training camp.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
For a while, remember that people were doing that. Was
it that plasma in Richmond? They were doing what they
went to Europe? Yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, the Dodgers Chad
Billingsley tried doing something like that and then yeah, I
ended up getting hurt and have Tommy Johns. So it's unavoidably.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I think I think he's golfing at this point. She
had probably that's a long time ago. But he's done. Now.
Let's go to let's go to Chris in Cansauh City. Hello, Christopher,
you were on the Ben Mathers Show on Fox.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
Well, then are you there? Ben?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, I stepped out for a smoke.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
I'm still stuck what I'm still stuck in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, get how do we get you out of there?
Speaker 8 (31:43):
I don't know, I you know, I it all what
kind of down here? I got that final contract if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
You sound good though, you sound like I do.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
It was all an accident kind of but uh, I
just want to treeve on. I one only Doc Mike,
who is actually three years ago, predicted what was going
to happen to me?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Is that How did how did how did Doc Mike
predict what's going to happen?
Speaker 8 (32:14):
Well? He I was I was on steroids for years. Yeah,
and he predicted that this was eventually going to happen
to me. And the day we met in Kansas City,
he talked to me for a good hour and a
half and he he assigned me some stuff and he
looked at some stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And it's with all with all due respect, I mean
he's not you know, he's not really like a doctor.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
He's like, oh I.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
He says he.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Has to respect him because he's actually he was the
first one to tell me about this.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Is there anything they can do here, Chris? Is there
anything they can you can do?
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Well?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I'm not I'm not a doctor, but I've been drinking
about rope for twenty years. Is there anything that the
people who are advising you have they giving you any
any ray of hope here?
Speaker 8 (33:03):
They told you, Oh no, no, no, I'm in here
and I'm doing quite well. Kansas City is a quite
great town to get sick and right to tell you.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Okay, so you sound your voice sounds very strong. You
sound like I can only tell by the voice.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
I can't see you, so I know I've been up
all night listening to you.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
Yeah, it's just a matter of fact of you know,
getting things organized, because it's just the fact that you know,
when you get in here and you do all this stuff,
you never know what's going to happen to you. So
you get speck in these things. But then you sit
back and you think about what has happened, and it
all goes back to that one night at the bricks
(33:41):
Killer where he was saying, you know, and it's like, okay,
this may happen. So it did.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
So it's like okay, so he got he got one, right.
But uh, you you can control as much as you
can control at this point, right, Chris, So.
Speaker 8 (33:57):
You've yeah, you've been through this. I take because I
follow with you for years, you know, with your mother.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
So there's there's different things you can come up with
in the nice Keep throwing haymakers is all you can do, right,
you can do.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
So I'm trying to get out of here.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Uh they won't. They won't let you out because you're
some tests or not right or something like that.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Here for twenty two days.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It's a long run. It's a long, long run.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
Yeah, a long run. But you know what's Uh, I'm
going to try to get up there to Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Okay, Well, we'd love to see you. See there's something
to look forward to. May twentieth, We got you got
a month.
Speaker 8 (34:33):
Right, right, So I'm not I'm definitely looking forward.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Well, and Doc Michael be there, and Doc will yell
at you when you show up.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
Yeah, right now, he'll be still.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I still got his beer beer, the Bloody I have
that too, the bloody Goat beer, the beer for losers
that Doc might be.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
So I was wondering if, as I say about going
up there, was the fact that, you know, getting up
there and staying up there. Yeah, and uh, just something
to look forward to.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Well, there you go. You see, I gotta leave it there,
but you got someone to look forward to, Chris and
feel better and keep us updated. Twenty two days is
a long time to spend in the hospital.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
They dropped the guillotine.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
On him, Yeah, they did. The hospital dropped the guillotine
on him. They will out of an abundance of caution.
They were waiting for him to get healthy and then
they'll let him out.
Speaker 9 (35:20):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I look forward to seeing you, Chris in Minnesota there
in about a month. It'll be a lot of fun.
We have Mallard of the third degree. That is up next.
Mallard of the third Degree. Here is the install trivia.
We'll go to football. I haven't done any football yet.
Here it is the Insta trivia. Blank holds the modern
day record for the as the as the oldest rookie
(35:42):
quarterback in NFL history. Again, Blank holds the modern day
record as the oldest rookie quarterback in NFL history. That
is the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to that
and Mallard of the third degree and we will do
it next.
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here's the instant trivia.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
We'll do some football with Mallard of the third degree
on deck, and here it is Blank holds the modern
day record as the oldest rookie quarterback in NFL history.
That is the question. What is the answer that? See
does anyone no set answer? And we go to the
Mallard militia on Twitter at Ben Mahler and see if
(37:24):
any of he's got it. Cowboy Killers going with Gordon
Bombay as his answer. Nick in Wisconsin says, Chris Wank
is the way to go. Maverick checks in with Barney Fife.
He's not a Dallas Maverick. He's just the Maverick. Late
night drug tester says it's Conan O'Brien, who is sixty
years old today. Johnny Utah from Just Josh, that's his answer.
(37:48):
Milkman Mike and Colorado says it's Mason and Poppy and
their crew at Coachella. That's kind of what I imagine them
looking like there. John kittn A tossed out by Rob
the goat Man from Iowa. Mister nice guy says, Dick
Tidrow is the way to go. Reggie Roby from Sean
(38:10):
in Portland justin in the enchanted forest going with Dante
Culpepper as his answer. Miguel on Fire says, Jake Plumber
is the answer. That actually looks more like Jake Plumber
to me that I know who it is, but it
looks to me like that is our our comedian friend,
Sir for Todd the comedian, That's what that looks like.
(38:32):
Brandon Wheden guests by Jeff in Oklahoma, Cecil Cooper from
Shane and Des Moines. Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Was it Drew Henson?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Drew Henson a fine answer, but that is incorrectly correct answer.
We gotta go way back. Diener Brock of the La Rams, a.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Canadian Football League.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yes, spent ten years in the CFL, and at age
thirty four years he made his debut with the Rams,
the La Rams, and they wish they had not signed
dieter Brock. What a debacle he turned out to be.
But here we go, it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (39:07):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
And we say hello to Ethan who's in for the
Kooper loop?
Speaker 4 (39:17):
All right?
Speaker 9 (39:18):
Clippers guard Russell Westbrook had a bold take about his
skill set. He said he's the top rebounding guard in
the NBA Ben did Russell Welsbrook hit the bullseye on
this one?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
All right? So first of all, you always sound like
a bit of a douche when you say that. Even
when when you say, humbly speaking that you're the best
at something, you sound like a moron. So that's the
golden rules. To let other people speak for you. It's
much more effective. It's more much more efficient when then,
like when Lebron says you're the greatest of all as Lebron,
(39:48):
he sounds stupid of Westbrook the same thing. But Russell
Westbrook's numbers. Here's my problem with Westbrook. As far as
a rebounder, he's a good rebound he's very good rebounder.
His numbers are inflated. I can't get past the stat
stuffing in OKC when guys would run away from rebounds
to allow Westbrook to fatten the stat sheet there. The
video is incriminating on the internet, but he is among
(40:11):
the all time top rebounding guards in NBA history. Even
with that as a demeriate, when you look at Jason Kidden,
Magic Johnson. Another guy from a different era was Vern
Fleming of the Pacers. He was very good rebounding guard,
for example. But yeah, he's in that conversation, but you
shouldn't be the guy saying it next, all right.
Speaker 9 (40:31):
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has proposed a rule change to
protect star players from getting hurt. Cuban wants to adjust
the charging rule by moving the circle further away from
the basket and add an extra foot.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Ben good idea or a bad idea. It is an
irrelevant idea. It is one of these things, number one.
It's one of these things that sounds like a solution,
but it's not going to make all that big a difference.
We should be encouraging rules that actually promote good effort
plays on both sides of the ball. This would try
to take away a lot of that on defense, and
(41:02):
you're gonna be punishing defensive players there by moving the
circle out a little bit further, and you're not going
to stop injuries from happening. The NBA player of today
is not built for a rugged game, any kind of physicality.
They're soft. That's the reality. The league has helped encourage that.
(41:24):
The players are not asked to play in every game,
they're asked to take days off and no rule change
is going to fix that mindset. And it's a product
of being coddled. And it actually starts way before the NBA.
But this is like, it's ridiculous. Mark Cuban, supposedly a
smart guy, thinks this is going to solve a lot
of the problems.
Speaker 9 (41:43):
Next, Blue Jay's pitcher Anthony Bass, ripped United Airlines for
making his wife clean up a mess his kids made. Ben,
what's your take on this disagreement?
Speaker 1 (41:52):
All right, So I saw this and I've never heard
of Anthony Bass. He's a nobody. He's actually been in
the major leagues for twelve seasons, which blew me away
as a bullpen extra arm in the bullpen guy. But
he sounds so entitled. Listen, if your kids make a mess,
I don't care. If you're your prey, you gotta clean
up the mess. It's not United Airlines problem. How do
we go? It's as I want. That's a pass, a pass,
(42:17):
seeze get degrees. That's a win. I wanted to get.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Too late.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Now I want I beat the clock.
Hello and welcome. It's our name Bird to our two
of our radio program as we make a splash in
the deep end of the pool. The clock still a thing.
People upset, it's early in the baseball season, including one
of the young stars of the game, One Soto, complaining
(00:23):
about the pitch clock and blaming that for his slow
start in San Diego. Do you have empathy for one
Soto's struggle to adjust to the clock? And how is
one Soto unable to adjust when seemingly everyone's got to
go through this, Why is he having such a hard
time adjusting? And what are the chances major League Baseball
(00:45):
adds time to adjust the clock rules. We'll get to
all of that and much more. Don't forget the fifth
Hour podcast over the weekend. If you missed any of that,
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and people buzzing whether Draymond Green will be suspended or not.
The Warriors right now suck. They blow a loss to
(02:18):
Sacramento again and they are now early on on the
ropes as they lose both games on the road, and
now I have to come back home. But they have
They've been a terrible road team. They have been horrible
all year, one of the worst of the worst among
the teams that were actually supposed to be good. They
are the worst on the road. And but now they
get some home cooking for a couple of games and
(02:39):
then right back up a couple hours away in Sacramento
after that. So our lead though coming from baseball. A
headliner in Major League Baseball is not happy. A podre
star is a grumbling Now, if you you didn't see this,
and maybe not, Patter is lost to the Atlanta Braves.
They were shut out by the brav He had again,
(03:01):
just six hits for San Diego on offense, and the
Big Stars Manny Machado was zero for four in that game.
Juan Soto oh for three, And that's where the story is.
If you didn't see this, maybe not Juan Soto, who's
on the brink of one of those four hundred and
fifty five hundred million dollar contracts with the hand out
all the time now in big time sports. The San
(03:23):
Diego outfielder Juan Soto not a fan of wait for it,
wait for it, the pitchclock. Now. How do we know that?
We know that because he said it multiple times. Soto
is having a tough time adjusting to the new rules,
and he is not backing down from the criticism. In fact,
(03:43):
he's doubling down on his comments. We have some audio
we're gonna play for you. As Warner Wolf would say,
let's go to the audio tape. Here is one Soto
who is upset over his routine being messed up. All right,
we have a fill in producer here, so unfortunately we
(04:05):
don't have the audio. But trust me, he said Soto,
he was bothered by it. He also said that he
has no time now to play mind games. He says,
there's no time at all, blah blah blah. Just trust me.
We had it, but we don't have it. All right,
So let us discuss the question do you have any
empathy for the sound that you didn't hear? Do you
(04:27):
have any empathy for one Soto and his struggle? So
I am shaking my head no on this. I've got
the buttercup, improv and kittens, and we will combine all
of these things together and we're going to try to
survive what has been already been a terrible beginning to
(04:50):
this malle of monologue.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So number one, number one soto first piece of advice
here is get over yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Okay. I understand that change is hard, and I'm not
gung ho for the pitch clock and all that, but
the world is not out to get Juan Soda. It's
not nobody is picking on him individually, or the Podrais
for that matter. I do not share a level of
grief that this is a terrible situation that it's impossible
(05:23):
to overcome. And does he realize, Juan Soto, how pathetic
that he sounds. I mean, it's one of these situations
you're like, well, suck it up, Buttercup, here you deal
with it. Toughen up a little bit and get your
crap together. Keep in mind that Juan Soto struggled down
the stretch of last season. He's not been the guy
(05:44):
that he had been with the Nationals. He hasn't carried
that natitude to San Diego said, wait a minute, weren't
the Podreys in the National League Championship Series? Yes? But
was that because of Juan Soto? No? No, and there
was no clock. Then the numbers are alarming. One Soto
batted two oh five over the final thirty eight games
(06:05):
of last regular season last year with no pitch clock.
He was hideous, and then in the playoffs he had
limited impact. He batted two thirty nine. He was not
hitting home runs all over the place. He didn't go bonkers,
he wasn't mister October and he ended up with a
deflating performance. Even though the Potters got far, there were
(06:27):
other people that were secondary actors for San Diego that
played better than Juan Soto. Now, page number two, So
how do you adjust? At this point, another ballplayer complaining
about the clock? So how can Juan Soto adjust his
game for the pitch clock? So the obviously answer is
(06:48):
less is more. I would advise you to stop wallowing
in victimhood. It is rather unbecoming. You'd say, Soto's been
around for five years now. He broke in when he
was nineteen years old. He's a five year veteran in
the major leagues. It's not like he's in his late
thirties or early forties. And he's been playing in the
(07:09):
major league level so long that he just cannot change
his ways. And he's been exposed here as a routine guy,
and now he's got the perfect fall guy, and so
he's yes, it's not my fault, ain't my fault. It's
the fact that they put the clocket, and so he
(07:29):
has to pivot. You've got a new improv. It's open
Mike Night at the end prov and you got to
let your natural instincts take over and It's like all
great athletes are able to read and react at some point,
and you have to rely on your ability to hit
the ball. And if you cannot adapt, if you do
not have adaptability, it's still April for God says, if
(07:50):
you do not have adaptability, then that's on you. And
he's you'd say he's costing himself a lot of money,
but we'll address that in a minute. I don't think
he is. I mean, I want to just that right now.
Is Juan Soto off to a poor start for the potter?
In fact, after the game on Monday's hitting one sixty four,
Is this in the danger zone of affecting him down
(08:13):
the line? And I would say no, because he was
still going into play on Monday. Juan Soto was on
pace at twenty nine home runs and he was gonna
walk one hundred and fifty two times and say, yeah,
he's not hitting for average, but he's still hitting home
runs and he'll figure it out. And there was a
million miles to go. It's mile one of the long
(08:33):
baseball marathon. But the early results are dreadful, right, And
this is supposed to be the year that you go
out and you fatten up your stats on a padre
team that is high profile and a team that's spending
money like the Yankees, the Dodgers and these big money
teams and the Potters are now two games under five
(08:56):
hundred at this early point in the season. But it's
never too early to panic. So the final thought on this,
what are the chances we'll revisit this yet again? What
are the chances that Major League Baseball decides to add time?
Add time to the clock. So I continue to maintain,
(09:17):
do not hold your breath. There'll be some fine tuning
here and there, but baseball has been empowered.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
This is the.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
First time I can remember in the last ten years
that Major League Baseball's gotten positive media attention. You think
about how dark baseball is. You've had the cheating Astros,
the greatest scan of all time unpunished by the Weasley
commissioner Rob Manford. In the last ten years, you had
(09:44):
a brief labor stoppage, a very brief labor stoppage that
went back and forth between the union and the players.
And so now finally they find something baseball that gets
universal praise. They're not taking it back. I'm not just
now the doomsday scenario would be in the playoffs if
something happens, and at that I maintain I've maintained this
(10:06):
from the beginning. If something happens in a World Series game,
that becomes a different game changing situation. But as far
as the regular season is concerned, the only people that
are unhappy, the only people who are belly aching are
the beer salesmen right TV executives are kittens. They're smitten
kittens right now because this is what they want. The
(10:27):
ones that we're pulling the string, we're not Rob Manford.
The people at baseball, they were reactive. They were not proactive.
The people that are giving out the TV contracts were like, hey,
wait a minute, these games are too long and there's
not enough going on. We need to tighten things up.
And so now the games are zooming by and no
more five hour games. You don't have to worry about
(10:49):
any of that. The games are being played at a
quicker pace, which is great. I guess if you're into
that kind of thing. If I never really minded, I don't.
I never mind. The longest some of those Yankee red
sock games were ridiculous because it was just it was
ridunculously boring at times, because of all the time that
(11:12):
was wasted. But for the most part during the regular season,
it's like, ah whatever, But here we are. They made
the change in guys like Juan Soto freaking out like
it's not fair in all this complaining and whining and
the whole, the whole deal. It is the Ben Malord
Show as we continue on, and we will take your
calls at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox if
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at Ben Mallard. That's at Ben Mallard. We've had a
lot of fun over the years pointing out the frailties
of certain athletes, for example, Anthony Davis, Kawhi Leonard. We
bring up these guys quite a bit. Well. In baseball,
(11:59):
there's a guy by the name of gian Carlos Stanton
who is made out of class. And if you missed
the news over the recent days here, gian Carlos Stanton
has gone on what we used to call the disabled list,
but now they call it something else. They changed the
name on that because that's offensive. But giohn Carlos Stanton,
the Yankee Star who it's these moonshots is going to
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be out over a month at minimum, its a month,
likely a month and a half. And you always bet
the over a Grade two left hamstring strain for Gen
Carlos Stanton, who's gonna miss about thirty games minimum. For
the New York Yankees, who are also one of these teams.
You look, you look around, you like, the Rays had
(12:44):
that really great start in the historic start. They tied
the record to begin the season for wins, and you
look at the the Yankees are above five hundred. They're fine,
they're not they're not a losing record. They have one
of the better records, but they don't seem like they're
playing all that great. But here they are four games
above five hundred, and you look around the teams that
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are really off to the slow start here, the Dodgers
and the Padres. Those two teams are head and shoulders
above the rest among the teams that we're supposed to
be get with. I guess I wink at a nod
to the cheaters and the cheating Astros. They got to
pull out the trash cans because they also have a
losing record. As we are sitting here after almost almost
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twenty games, they're the fifteen to twenty game range. Most
teams have played over fifteen games. And as we continue
on eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox, the number
eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty nine.
If you would like to be part and it's crumbling,
they're all crumbling. We'll get to that and we will
do it.
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Any clown can tell you who won the game and
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Speaker 5 (16:14):
Mike says, can I buy you a drink? I don't know,
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Speaker 1 (16:17):
Justin locked In and the Enchanted Forest Rights in We
began this hour with a Juan Soto Mallard monologue. We
were reacting to get some things wrong, Juan Soto said,
but trust me, he did say them. I wasn't making
them up. Justin in the in the Enchanted Forests, the
reds are another one of those great teams. Off to
a slow start, but after the night, not even the
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owner's halfwit son can stop us. Now, he says, the
Philly rob Tribute account is bothered by my trip to Vegas. Again.
I was I was planning on doing the show from Vegas,
but it was the powers out of my control would
not allow that to happen. Maverick writes in and says,
get a straw and suck it up. Wan Sotel, try
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to earn some of that money you're going to get, so,
he says, we'll take your calls eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox. Before we get there, though, crumbling, crumbling, crumbling,
crumbling all around. And we mentioned the injury to the
star of the New York Yankees, that Gen Carlos Stanton's
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gonna be out four to six weeks. But not one,
but two headline starters in baseball. We're both walking off
the mound gingerly on Monday night. Stop me if you've
heard this before, Jacob de Gram of your Texas Rangers. Yeah,
Jacob de Gram, who was a walking injury with the
(17:46):
New York Metropolitans. But for reasons beyond the realm of reality.
The Rangers decide, you know what, we know that you're
almost never available, but you did win a couple of
cy young, so we'll give you a ton of money. Come,
we're desperate. We need to pitch for us. And so
the Rangers gave him a ton of money, and de
Gram went out and played against one of the worst
teams in baseball, the Royals, and he was fine. He
(18:08):
pitched four no hit innings and then the team announced
that he had been removed from the game in Kansas
City as a precaution because of a risk situation. But
not just the risk. No, no, there's reports that the
risk is all messed up. There might be some other
stuff going on there as well, but it was all
(18:29):
a precaution. All the precaution. He threw fifty eight pitches.
That's it, fifty eight pitches and he had to come
out of the game. Good luck to Bruce Bochie, the
Texas manager, and he's said, he said, there's concern anytime
you take a picture out. Of course he didn't add on,
(18:50):
especially when it's Jacob de Grom. So he got hurt.
But wait, there's another ace that also got hurt. Mister Burns,
the Milwaukee Brewers. Ace also knocked out as Corbyn Burns
came out of the game against the Mariners in Seattle
in the sixth inning a pectoral strain, and the Brewers
(19:13):
are like, well, we think he just overstretched everything. He'll
be okay, the Ace of the brew crew. But you
look up that timeline that even if it's a mild strain,
that's usually about a month, about a month if you
pull a chest muscle. So if you go by that timeline,
he's going to end up out for at least several weeks,
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Corbyn Burns, he'll be out of the lineup. Let's go
to the phones. We'll take your calls and we'll say
hello to Eenie Meenie mine. Well, let's sayllo to Regina.
Spin Cycle. Regina is in the Twin Cities. Hello, spin
cycle Regina.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
How are you?
Speaker 1 (19:54):
If I was any better, Regina, I would be sleeping,
but I'm not. I'm here, think away.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Well, that's gonna happen when we work overnights.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
You know.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But you're not working overnights anymore, right, Virginia. You moved
to the day shift for a while. You've been away
from the overnight vibe.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
I have been wait from the overnights for a little bit,
but I'm still kind of pulling all the lake work
for the overnights because I'm trying so hard to get
this confirmation of what I want this whole envisioned meet
and Greek to be.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, that's true. Now for those who don't know, for
those that have not been paying attention, May twentieth is
the date. So we're a little over a month away
the Minnesota mallord meet and greet, and you, Regina, are
trying to find a venue. I have some backup plans
if this doesn't work out, but we do have to
pick something here relatively soon, here, Regina, because you gotta
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let people know. We'll got people traveling from California, from Florida,
possibly some other places far away to come hanging out
with us.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Yeah, that would be wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. And I'm trying
to secure this one specific venue and I don't even
know if we're allowed to say it or not, but
well do we wait.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
I don't I don't want to jinx it, Regina, So
I don't want to jink.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
I know, I know, I know. I'm waiting till tomorrow
morning to find out from the directors senior person. And
I'm just like, oh my gosh, I just.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
This is big. These are these are very important people
and more all the more reason Eddie Garcia should show up, right, Regina,
that Eddie should make a track in Minnesota.
Speaker 6 (21:28):
And he said, I don't think that we can. I'm like, what.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Exactly, It's very disappointing. I want to if there was
a charger, if there was a charger game there, Eddie
would be there. But there's no charging game. That's the problem.
Just don't play the Viking exactly so it does not happen,
all right? And there's something else that is it true?
There's some other big event being played there Regina at
this Mallard meet and great? Is that accurate?
Speaker 6 (21:54):
Yes? We are wondering if semester of paramonny is still
legal and documented?
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Am I am I legal? And I believe I am
legal and documented. I believe I have my paperwork. I
think racist I think I have it. I don't know.
Maybe I'll get kicked out though, I don't know. Do
you need special papers to get to Minnesota? Do you
have to have special paperwork.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
To get in there.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
I just out of the state.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
No, I'm gonna try not to. But if you do it,
you import me to Canada.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Though.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Don't send me to Wisconsin. My brother lives there, So
send me to Canada, all right, or send me south.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
Toronto, Toronto beautiful tuntle's great.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Yeah, well it's a bit of a drive from Minnesota.
But but I got you all right. Well, very good, Regina.
So well we'll see what happens, but thank you, all right,
spin cycle Regina the hostess with the mostest and she
is trying to put some fishing touches on that. We've
had other people that have worked behind the scenes have
been getting email from people saying, hey, I got I
got this venue lined up. We've had some people that
(22:52):
run different bars in Minnesota that would like to host
the event. So we'll get something squared away as as
soon as she humanly possible. Mallard prop guy writes in
he says, I have been thinking that the pitch clock
may have time added in the future for the reasons
you cited. Also, it's mind blowing that the time for
(23:14):
your ephas pitch to leave your hand to get to
the catcher's mitt is fifteen seconds, and he says, well,
that's because I was ahead of my time. I'm actually
a time traveler, Mallard prop guy, and I knew the
pitch clock time based on when a runner would be
on base or not on base, and that it's really
(23:35):
not an ephis pitch. It's a bugs bunny curveball. The
bugs bunny curveball the most lethal pitch. And there are
video clips if you go to YouTube of professional hitters,
Hall of Fame hitters being hornswoggled by the lollipop Bugs
bunny curveball, unable to hit it, unable to get her done.
That's a fact, all right, straight ahead, straight ahead for
(23:57):
us a starting quarterback in the NFL, sounding like he's
not very optimistic his health will allow him to perform
in the twenty twenty three season, at least at the
beginning of the twenty twenty three season. We'll get to that,
but right now, let's get over to these sports news
desk and games of note. Garcia right over there, here's.
Speaker 4 (24:20):
Eddy, all right, thank you, Ben. We'll start with the
NBA playoffs. We had a couple of game twos, including
the Kings knocking off the defending champion Warriors one fourteen
to two one zero six to grab a two zero
series advantage. Tiaron Fox and Demanto Sibonas each had twenty
four points for Sacramento and the win. Speaking of Sabonas,
he also got mixed up with Draymond Green of the Warriors.
He was on the ground, got kind of tangled up
(24:40):
in Green's legs, and Green decided to stop on his
chest as he was heading down the court.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Well.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
That got him a flagrant foul and an ejection and
was with seven h three to playing with Golden State
down four. That didn't help their efforts in coming back
to try and get the win, and for Green he
could see a suspension going forward. The seventy six ers
beat the Nets ninety six to eighty four tyres actually
thirty three points for Philadelphia as they grabbed a two
ozh series advantage. News round the NBA where a Milwaukee
Buck star Giannis and the Coopo had an MRI on
(25:07):
a xedrid back came back clean. According head coach Mike Budenholzer,
the team's optimistic he can play in Game two against
the Heat coming up on Wednesday. Opening nine of the
NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, we had two games go beyond regulation.
The Wild beat the Stars in Dallas three to two
in double overtime. Ryan Hartman the overtime game winner from
Minnesota and the Kings rally with three in the third.
They scored the game time goal of seventeen seconds left
(25:29):
that alex I follow wins it in overtime. In the
Power played four three Kings over the Oilers. Bruins beat
the Panthers three to one. Was the Hurricanes getting by
the Islanders two to one. Into baseball games a note,
we had the Brave shutting out the Padres two out
of the Atlanta now thirteen and four in the season.
They won seven in a row. They're on top of
the NL East. The Dodgers beat excuse me, the Mets
beat the Dodgers eight to six. New York is eleven
(25:50):
and six. They won five in a row. Brewers lead
the NL Central with a twelve and five record. They
beat the Mariners in Seattle seven to three. Was the
Reds over the Rays eight to one after starting thirteen
to o. Tampa Bays loss three or four, but they're
still on top in the AL East. The Rangers beat
the Royals for nothing, Texas leading the Al West. Jacob
Durram got the start. As you were talking about Ben.
He had two relievers combined to one hit Kansas City
(26:11):
and the Diamondbacks down.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
The card left with an injury though he kind of
buried the leader.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah, well you just mentioned that. I didn't need to
say it.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I think people are listening the whole time.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Oh they're listening to you the me. Yeah, Diamondbacks beat
the Cardinals six three. Arizona on top of the NLST.
Peven Smith a Grand Slam home run for Arizona. Paven Smith,
Peven Smith, Peven Smith. You never heard of Peven Smith.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Smithy peven That's interesting. First thing his way through life.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
All look at you, thank you, look at you.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
I'll be here all night.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
I knew some the NFL. The Eagles have reached an
agreement on a contract extension with quarterback Jalen Hurts with
up to two hundred and fifty five million dollars over.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
How FID is this? All you need is one good year?
All I need is one good year in radio, get
paid the big money, just like it.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
We're still waiting for you.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It's gonna happen one of these days.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Yeah, one of.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
These days is gonna happen. And Eddie, it's gonna take place.
Are you ready for my fun factor?
Speaker 4 (27:02):
The already it can't possibly as good as the other
the fun This is a from last hour, not possible.
This is a fun.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
It's not gonna be a letdown. This is so much fun.
So we are seventeen games into the baseball season for
the team in the Pacific Northwest of the Mariners, and
they are so desperate to find a designated hitter that
they're going to sign Robbie the Mariner fan our listener.
The Seattle Mariners do not have a run batted in
from their designated hitter position after seventeen games. The combined
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this is supposed to be the hitter that's a professional hitter.
You're designatedor the Seattle Mariners designated hitters are five for
fifty six. They're hitting eighty nine this season after seventeen games.
Where have you gone, Alvin Davis? Where have you gone?
Hack Man? Jeffrey Leonard, the Seattle Mayor, Edgar Martinez. Edgar
(27:57):
Martin is the greatest DH of them all. That's right,
see Mariner back in the day with the Mariners eighty
nine their designator. They got to bring back the picture.
I bet you the pictures would hit Oh eighty nine
if you brought the pictures back and allowed them to hit.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we continue on
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and save at Progressive dot com. So a lot of
injury stuff going on, maybe Mercury's in retrograde or something
along those lines. We'll have to check in with Andrea
get an update on that at some point. But an
(28:41):
NFL quarterback NFL quarterback popping up on the injury blotter,
if you will, and that quarterback is Brock perty I
remember Brock Purdy was injured in the NFC title game
that led the Philadelphia Eagles to have an easy time
against the forty nine er and advanced to the Super Bowl. Well,
(29:02):
Brock Purty, the breakout star mister Irrelevant, who then put
up a bunch of great performances coming out of nowhere
for the Niners and the surgery. The report initially, the
reporting was that brock Purty had avoided Tommy John surgery
and that everything was good here, that he would be
ready to go by early in training camp, and essentially
(29:25):
it was status quo. He would be the de facto starter,
health permitting, and Trey Lance was there just in case,
and they signed a third quarterback in Sam Darnold. But
the plan was brock Purty is going to going to play. Well,
now now that song is changing a little bit. The
tune is changing here, and brock Purty recently quoted as
(29:46):
saying that he is quote not sure, not sure if
he will play in twenty twenty three. Say what means
he had Tommy John? Then well, he recently admitted that
he's not really sure if he will play during the
upcoming season. He said, he obviously has reached out to
(30:10):
a bunch of people since the since the surgery, and
he was excited and all that, but apparently he's not
not come. I don't think he had the Tommy John
surgery though. But are we talked about this, Roberto. We're
baseball guys, right, and when you avoid Tommy john surgery.
It's only a temporary situation. Yeah, eventually you're going to
(30:31):
need it, so keep an eye. What if Sam Darnold
ends up starting for the for the forty nine ers.
Geez man, o man, what a what a debacle? What
a debacle. We'll see what happens with that. But the
UCL recovery and it's it's a mess. It's a mess.
(30:55):
We'll find out. We got a lot of long way
to go between now and when training camp.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
For a while, remember that people were doing that. Was
it that plasma in Richmond? They were doing what they
went to Europe? Yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah, the Dodgers Chad
Billingsley tried doing something like that and then yeah, I
ended up getting hurt and have Tommy Johns. So it's unavoidably.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
I think I think he's golfing at this point. She
had probably that's a long time ago. But he's done. Now.
Let's go to let's go to Chris in Cansauh City. Hello, Christopher,
you were on the Ben Mathers Show on Fox.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
Well, then are you there? Ben?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, I stepped out for a smoke.
Speaker 8 (31:34):
I'm still stuck what I'm still stuck in the hospital.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Well, get how do we get you out of there?
Speaker 8 (31:43):
I don't know, I you know, I it all what
kind of down here? I got that final contract if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
You sound good though, you sound like I do.
Speaker 8 (31:55):
It was all an accident kind of but uh, I
just want to treeve on. I one only Doc Mike,
who is actually three years ago, predicted what was going
to happen to me?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Is that How did how did how did Doc Mike
predict what's going to happen?
Speaker 8 (32:14):
Well? He I was I was on steroids for years. Yeah,
and he predicted that this was eventually going to happen
to me. And the day we met in Kansas City,
he talked to me for a good hour and a
half and he he assigned me some stuff and he
looked at some stuff.
Speaker 1 (32:32):
And it's with all with all due respect, I mean
he's not you know, he's not really like a doctor.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
He's like, oh I.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
He says he.
Speaker 8 (32:43):
Has to respect him because he's actually he was the
first one to tell me about this.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Is there anything they can do here, Chris? Is there
anything they can you can do?
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Well?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I'm not I'm not a doctor, but I've been drinking
about rope for twenty years. Is there anything that the
people who are advising you have they giving you any
any ray of hope here?
Speaker 8 (33:03):
They told you, Oh no, no, no, I'm in here
and I'm doing quite well. Kansas City is a quite
great town to get sick and right to tell you.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Okay, so you sound your voice sounds very strong. You
sound like I can only tell by the voice.
Speaker 8 (33:16):
I can't see you, so I know I've been up
all night listening to you.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (33:21):
Yeah, it's just a matter of fact of you know,
getting things organized, because it's just the fact that you know,
when you get in here and you do all this stuff,
you never know what's going to happen to you. So
you get speck in these things. But then you sit
back and you think about what has happened, and it
all goes back to that one night at the bricks
(33:41):
Killer where he was saying, you know, and it's like, okay,
this may happen. So it did.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
So it's like okay, so he got he got one, right.
But uh, you you can control as much as you
can control at this point, right, Chris, So.
Speaker 8 (33:57):
You've yeah, you've been through this. I take because I
follow with you for years, you know, with your mother.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
So there's there's different things you can come up with
in the nice Keep throwing haymakers is all you can do, right,
you can do.
Speaker 8 (34:09):
So I'm trying to get out of here.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Uh they won't. They won't let you out because you're
some tests or not right or something like that.
Speaker 8 (34:17):
Here for twenty two days.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
It's a long run. It's a long, long run.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
Yeah, a long run. But you know what's Uh, I'm
going to try to get up there to Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Okay, Well, we'd love to see you. See there's something
to look forward to. May twentieth, We got you got
a month.
Speaker 8 (34:33):
Right, right, So I'm not I'm definitely looking forward.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Well, and Doc Michael be there, and Doc will yell
at you when you show up.
Speaker 8 (34:40):
Yeah, right now, he'll be still.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I still got his beer beer, the Bloody I have
that too, the bloody Goat beer, the beer for losers
that Doc might be.
Speaker 8 (34:50):
So I was wondering if, as I say about going
up there, was the fact that, you know, getting up
there and staying up there. Yeah, and uh, just something
to look forward to.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Well, there you go. You see, I gotta leave it there,
but you got someone to look forward to, Chris and
feel better and keep us updated. Twenty two days is
a long time to spend in the hospital.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
They dropped the guillotine.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
On him, Yeah, they did. The hospital dropped the guillotine
on him. They will out of an abundance of caution.
They were waiting for him to get healthy and then
they'll let him out.
Speaker 9 (35:20):
Well.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I look forward to seeing you, Chris in Minnesota there
in about a month. It'll be a lot of fun.
We have Mallard of the third degree. That is up next.
Mallard of the third Degree. Here is the install trivia.
We'll go to football. I haven't done any football yet.
Here it is the Insta trivia. Blank holds the modern
day record for the as the as the oldest rookie
(35:42):
quarterback in NFL history. Again, Blank holds the modern day
record as the oldest rookie quarterback in NFL history. That
is the Insta trivia. The answer. We'll get to that
and Mallard of the third degree and we will do
it next.
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dot Com Fox Sports Radios Studio. It's Ben Maller and
here's the instant trivia.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
We'll do some football with Mallard of the third degree
on deck, and here it is Blank holds the modern
day record as the oldest rookie quarterback in NFL history.
That is the question. What is the answer that? See
does anyone no set answer? And we go to the
Mallard militia on Twitter at Ben Mahler and see if
(37:24):
any of he's got it. Cowboy Killers going with Gordon
Bombay as his answer. Nick in Wisconsin says, Chris Wank
is the way to go. Maverick checks in with Barney Fife.
He's not a Dallas Maverick. He's just the Maverick. Late
night drug tester says it's Conan O'Brien, who is sixty
years old today. Johnny Utah from Just Josh, that's his answer.
(37:48):
Milkman Mike and Colorado says it's Mason and Poppy and
their crew at Coachella. That's kind of what I imagine them
looking like there. John kittn A tossed out by Rob
the goat Man from Iowa. Mister nice guy says, Dick
Tidrow is the way to go. Reggie Roby from Sean
(38:10):
in Portland justin in the enchanted forest going with Dante
Culpepper as his answer. Miguel on Fire says, Jake Plumber
is the answer. That actually looks more like Jake Plumber
to me that I know who it is, but it
looks to me like that is our our comedian friend,
Sir for Todd the comedian, That's what that looks like.
(38:32):
Brandon Wheden guests by Jeff in Oklahoma, Cecil Cooper from
Shane and Des Moines. Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 4 (38:39):
Was it Drew Henson?
Speaker 1 (38:41):
Drew Henson a fine answer, but that is incorrectly correct answer.
We gotta go way back. Diener Brock of the La Rams, a.
Speaker 4 (38:49):
Canadian Football League.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yes, spent ten years in the CFL, and at age
thirty four years he made his debut with the Rams,
the La Rams, and they wish they had not signed
dieter Brock. What a debacle he turned out to be.
But here we go, it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (39:07):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
And we say hello to Ethan who's in for the
Kooper loop?
Speaker 4 (39:17):
All right?
Speaker 9 (39:18):
Clippers guard Russell Westbrook had a bold take about his
skill set. He said he's the top rebounding guard in
the NBA Ben did Russell Welsbrook hit the bullseye on
this one?
Speaker 1 (39:28):
All right? So first of all, you always sound like
a bit of a douche when you say that. Even
when when you say, humbly speaking that you're the best
at something, you sound like a moron. So that's the
golden rules. To let other people speak for you. It's
much more effective. It's more much more efficient when then,
like when Lebron says you're the greatest of all as Lebron,
(39:48):
he sounds stupid of Westbrook the same thing. But Russell
Westbrook's numbers. Here's my problem with Westbrook. As far as
a rebounder, he's a good rebound he's very good rebounder.
His numbers are inflated. I can't get past the stat
stuffing in OKC when guys would run away from rebounds
to allow Westbrook to fatten the stat sheet there. The
video is incriminating on the internet, but he is among
(40:11):
the all time top rebounding guards in NBA history. Even
with that as a demeriate, when you look at Jason Kidden,
Magic Johnson. Another guy from a different era was Vern
Fleming of the Pacers. He was very good rebounding guard,
for example. But yeah, he's in that conversation, but you
shouldn't be the guy saying it next, all right.
Speaker 9 (40:31):
Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has proposed a rule change to
protect star players from getting hurt. Cuban wants to adjust
the charging rule by moving the circle further away from
the basket and add an extra foot.
Speaker 1 (40:42):
Ben good idea or a bad idea. It is an
irrelevant idea. It is one of these things, number one.
It's one of these things that sounds like a solution,
but it's not going to make all that big a difference.
We should be encouraging rules that actually promote good effort
plays on both sides of the ball. This would try
to take away a lot of that on defense, and
(41:02):
you're gonna be punishing defensive players there by moving the
circle out a little bit further, and you're not going
to stop injuries from happening. The NBA player of today
is not built for a rugged game, any kind of physicality.
They're soft. That's the reality. The league has helped encourage that.
(41:24):
The players are not asked to play in every game,
they're asked to take days off and no rule change
is going to fix that mindset. And it's a product
of being coddled. And it actually starts way before the NBA.
But this is like, it's ridiculous. Mark Cuban, supposedly a
smart guy, thinks this is going to solve a lot
of the problems.
Speaker 9 (41:43):
Next, Blue Jay's pitcher Anthony Bass, ripped United Airlines for
making his wife clean up a mess his kids made. Ben,
what's your take on this disagreement?
Speaker 1 (41:52):
All right, So I saw this and I've never heard
of Anthony Bass. He's a nobody. He's actually been in
the major leagues for twelve seasons, which blew me away
as a bullpen extra arm in the bullpen guy. But
he sounds so entitled. Listen, if your kids make a mess,
I don't care. If you're your prey, you gotta clean
up the mess. It's not United Airlines problem. How do
we go? It's as I want. That's a pass, a pass,
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seeze get degrees. That's a win. I wanted to get.
Speaker 4 (42:23):
Too late.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
Now I want I beat the clock.
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Ben Maller
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