Hour 2 - Put Out the Caution Flag

Ben Maller talks about Rob Manfred's MLB showcase game at Bristol Motor Speedway, Big Papi & Derek Jeter crying about Elly De La Cruz being "buried" in Cincinnati, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball, it's our number to our number two, and how
do you sum up Rob Manford and Major League Baseball's
showcase game at Bristol Motors Speedway did not go that well.
Also over the weekend, you had the conversation between Big

(00:20):
Poppy and Derek Jeter on Fox crying about La de
la Cruz being buried in small market Cincinnati, bum that
he's not playing in a place like New York or
LA What is your position on all this? And Ol
fielder Byron Buxton says he's not planning on leaving after
the Twins just traded away almost half the team in

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a epic teardown at the trade deadline. Is he serious?
Tackle that as well? Settle in it's our number two.
Put out the caution flag. Welcome in the beginning of

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So our lead this hour is from what I'm calling
the Bristol Boondoggle, the Bristol Boondoggle, the best laid plans
of mice men and Major League Baseball. Now someone named
Eli White. Eli White apparely that's a player for the
Atlanta baseball team. Eli White hit a three run homer,
also had a solo shot and the Atlanta Broos beata

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Cincinnati Reds forty two. The game on Sunday, the Rain Delade,
the Rain to Laid Major League Baseball Speedway Classic, played
at the iconic Bristol Motor Speedway, the first ever Major
League Baseball game played in Tennessee. It was supposed to
be played on Saturday. Now they say that ninety one

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thousand brave souls were in attendance. They showed up men,
women and children to that game on Sunday. However, that's
not the story, all right, that is not the story here.
If you were watching the mess happen in real time,
you likely know what took place on Saturday. If not,

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if you missed it because you were out doing stuff,
maybe you didn't hear what happened. Possibly not. So the
game itself, which was the showcase for Baseball, the vehicle
to showcase the Bristol Motor Speedway. Major League Baseball is crossover,
this confab all that. So the game itself took a
back seat to what happened on Saturday. So if you

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were there, I'd love to hear from you to either
validate what I'm hearing or to dismiss what I'm hearing.
So the Major League Baseball Speedway Classic was promoted as
a spectacle. Oh you had to be there, But they
had this massive rain delay that did not subside on Saturday.
It was supposed to be nationally broadcast on Fox, so

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the game was it on hold. But that was just
the tip of the spear. You also had a logistical
nightmare for fans in attendance at the game on Saturday.
Now issues with just about everything from a customer relations standpoint.
So let us discuss the question is this, how do
you sum up Rob Manford's Major League Baseball showcase in

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Tennessee there and the game at Bristol Motors Speedway. So
I've got bonfire, mumbo and Egyptian linens, and we will
combine all of these things together and we will go
bugget and mugging and mugging and mugging and mugging. Let's race,
all right. So first of all, be careful what you
ask for, all right, be careful what you ask for.

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That's my first life Major League Baseball. As we said,
they wanted a spectacle. They wanted a spectacle, and oh
did they get a spectacle. Man, did they get a spectacle?

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (05:00):
And just not the kind they had anticipated they were
going to get. They didn't anticipate this. Major League Baseball
was pumping its chest out. They were all hyped up.
Another great moment, storybook moment for Major League Baseball. Bristol
Motor Speedway, first ever Major League Baseball game build as
this grand genre building moment, and it was a novelty event,

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but it was something you'd pass on. So I was there,
and for many people it turned into a very soggy,
stomach turning circus, if you will. On Saturday, and if
you squinted hard enough, very briefly, they tried to play
through the monsoon there in Tennessee and the Appalachian downpour.
They tried to play through. It didn't really work, and

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the rain pouring down it seemed like there was some
fog out there. And you might have seen baseball briefly
on Saturday, just a little glimpse of baseball, or at
least the ghost of a baseball game before they pulled
the plug and said that's it. And hecty five broadcast
team didn't even know that the game had been called

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for the night. They thought they were still waiting around
to play baseball. So that is part of it. But
what the fan got, the fan got the bird is
what the fan got right. What the fan got was
Major League Baseball's version of the Fire Festival. And that
is the point of demarcation, right that music event where
they didn't have any food and people were sweating and

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profusely and then the travel accommodations that were promised were not.
There was a disaster, so this was being compared to
Major League Baseball's version of the Fire Festival. From the
standpoint to be fair, I don't think Jah Rule was
involved in this, so he was not there. He didn't
promise anything. So instead of sandwiches with no meat, they

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had nachos with no cheese. What do you call nachos
with no cheese? Chips is what you call it. They
had hot dogs without a bun. They didn't have ran
out of buns apparently for the hot dogs. And the rain.
See like the rain part of it that happens, you
can't really say, well, that's Baseball's fault. I as much

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as I love to pick and prod and poke major
League Baseball, you can't really say, hey, you know, this
is the issue here the rain, because that you know,
you can't predict one hundred percent it's going to rain
or it's not gonna rain, and all that stuff. Two
hour delay, zero contingency plan on Saturday. That will make
that a strike. It's not an out, it's a strike.

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So that strike one, no contingency plan on Saturday. People
waiting around you had empty concessions. These are boots on
the ground reporting empty concessions before first pitch, running out
of food before first pitch, strike two, and the kicker
of kickers. And this is from people who are in attendance.

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They said the infrastructure designed to get people into Bristol
Motor Speedway for the baseball game evolved around multiple shuttles
to get in. There was no explanation from anyone wearing
those dopey Major League Baseball polos on how exactly to
do it. So that is strike three, You're out, see
you later, goodbye. Right now. The fans were certainly out

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of luck, There's no question about that. They're also out
of food, and many of them, based on the commentary,
very very upset and out of patience with what happened.
So listen, it takes a special kind of hubris from
Rob Manford and all the underlings in the mafioso of

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Major League Baseball, the Organized Baseball Committee to cram tens
of thousands of humanity fans into a NASCAR stadium turned
ballpark as Frankenstein set up there for baseball and not consider, hey,
maybe we should go through the logistics on how these

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people are going to get in here and get out
of here, or you know what to do if there
is a weather situation, or the bathrooms or the food.
And it looks like either they didn't consider any of
those things or they just didn't care. They just didn't care.
So but hey, they apparently had a lot of beer

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and they had peanuts. So that's what they had beer
and peanuts, and that's all you need. And so that
to me is like nineteen eighties style high school football, hospitality, beer,
have beer, nineteen eighties high school football. They had peanuts,
get your peanuts now, but twenty twenty five, so it
doesn't really work. And now the biggest insult though Major

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League Baseball, the ham fisted attempt by Major League Baseball
to brand this as a social media spectacle. Now, that
is where this goes next level. That is where this
becomes the fire Festival. Major League Baseball saying, hey, this
is going to be a social media spectacle. So they
handed the fan, they handed the fan the right the cameras.

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Everyone's got cameras these days. Forgetting that the phone points
both ways, if you know what I mean, the phone
points both the way. So what Major League Baseball in
the marketing meeting in Manhattan, thought was going to be
in there in their head, this glitzy day of trending topics.
Baseball would dominate the weekend on the Socials, and it

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turned out to be a digital bonfire for Major League Baseball,
with photos documenting mile long shuttle lines to get to
the stadium. Fans had the receipts, right, they had the
receipts from the entire event. It was a disaster, and
many people pointing out the way that this sums up

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Major League Baseball's operation. People in ankle deep puddles in
the stadium, the nachos without cheese, the hot dogs without buns,
all of that, everything documented for posterity's sake and saved
for time. And so everything's getting frozen in images and
video of the logistical failure, the spectacular debacle of Rob

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Manford and Major League Baseball in real time. And this
is not just a one off, mind you, This is
not just one off because the priority is never the fan.
They don't care about the fans. There's seventeen million streaming
services to watch major League Baseball. They're asking you to
pirate major League Baseball because otherwise you gotta pay for

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the Hulu game of the week. You gotta get to
the you know, the Peacock game of the week, this game,
that game, all that stuff, and it's not about the
actual fan. You know. It must like a lot of
these places that used to give you something and make
you feel like you were getting a lot more than that.
They've cut back on that. But major League Baseball they
want the headlines. They thought they were gonna get the

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hashtags and not have to do the heavy lifting and
all that, and surprise, surprise, surprise, fans there, as we said,
were documenting all of the logistical failures one after another. Right,
and you go back and you talk about Baseball some
of the events they've done. This is the new strategy
to have these one off events. You remember the Field
of Dreams game in Iowa. For a lot of people

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was Field of screams. Who attended that game and Baseball
we guarantee they're going to spin this. They said, well,
I was a learning opportunity and acclaim. There was just
overwhelming interest and exceeded expectations until the next Baseball one
off event, which turns out to be Burning Man. The

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reenactment of Burning Man with fire included so stag Doum.
But if you were there, I'd love to hear from you.
If you were in attendance. And I'm guessing the amount
of people that were there in ninety one thousand, there's
at least one or two that are listening to me
right now in real time. They can give us some
real time feedback on what your experience was like. Does
it inside with all that took place on the social

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media channels and all the reports and the photos and
the video and all that. Now, meanwhile, keeping up with
the Speedway classic theme that we began this hour with
over the weekend, you had a heated conversation in rain
delay filler about Big Poppy and Derek Jeter, the man
that could not attend the Yankee Old Timer game later

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this month because his daughter has a birthday party. Anyway,
Big Poppy and El Capatan, Derek Jeter, we're crying on Fox,
crying on Fox about La Dela Cruz being buried in Cincinnati,
Bummed he's not in a big market and essentially claiming
that it's a shame we don't get to see him

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and all this stuff. So what is your position? What
is your position on this? So this is with a
capital L, capital L a loser. Take. This is just
a classic example of Major League Baseball not knowing how
to promote the product, is what this one is. And
these old players Big Poppy and Derek Jeter complaining and

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all that. They think you've got to be in New York,
LA or Boston to be relevant. Meanwhile, I would argue
it has never been easier in the history of marketing.
It has never been easier to get a guy out
in front of the public and to market them. You've
got all the social media, which again I'm down on.

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I think it's the matrix, but you have it as
a tool with TikTok, Instagram, x YouTube. It's not nineteen
eighty nine anymore. And even that, Oh, by the way,
if you want to go down that rabbit hole and
marketing and all this stuff, if you go back to
the nineties in Major League baseball, the biggest start by

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far played in a small market, Ken Griffy Jr. In Seattle,
and he was in the air everywhere marketing. Cal Ripkin
in the eighties played in sleepy Baltimore and was a
huge deal. Tony Gwinn Mister Padre was beloved in San Diego.
There was no social media when those guys were playing,

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and none of them played in media meccas, and yet
they were able to get hell Cincinnati, and they had
a guy named Barry Larkin who was a very popular
player for the Cincinnati Red small market Cincinnati. The problem
is not Cincinnati, it's major League Baseball being stuck in
the stone age, and Baseball, just in the last couple
of years is realized, well, maybe we should embrace having

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our content out there and not send cease and desist
letters to anyone that uses Major League Baseball content. And
so Baseball essentially is blaming the zip code, if you will,
when the reality is they don't know how to sell
the stars of the game. They don't. And La de
la Cruz of the Reds, he is tailor made for

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viral highlights. He's a switch hitter, he's got electric speed,
a bazooka for an arm, he's got some swag, he's
got that aura what you're looking for, and he should
be everywhere, should be a household name, but he's stuck
doing the mumbo and the mediocrity mumbo in Cincinnati. That's

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where you take a step forward, take a step back,
and shake it all about. That's the Reds. That's the
Cincinnati Reds. That's what they do. That's what the Reds do.
So it is inevitable. It is inevitable that he's eventually
going to leave Cincinnati. Why is that not because of
the marketing. It's gonna be because of the the way
the franchises run, the lack of commitment to success by

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the ownership. There. You think the Reds are gonna pony
up and put good a good roster together to win.
Then they figured out a way to do it in Milwaukee.
They figured out how to do it in Tampa most
of the time, where they put a competitive team on
the field. But Cincinnati, so yeah, eventually Big Poppy and
Derek Jeeter will get their way and Cruise will end

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up in LA or New York or Boston or San
Francisco somewhere like that. And you can blame Major League Baseball.
You blame Rob Man for blame the owners who won't
spend in Cincinnati, and play the blame game all you want.
The league office that still operates offen like it's the
nineteen seventy five season and not the twenty twenty five season.

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So it's not a market size issue. I maintain that
it is a marketing issue. And there was a point
when baseball marketed itself as a national pastime. It is
a regional sport, but as a national pastime, they would
have stars everywhere and you'd want to hear about him.
Now you have regional You care about the hometown team

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and all that. And here's an example. You have one
of the most electrifying players in baseball and many people
know about them, but they don't know that much about him,
and he's in the league. But that's a failure by
the league, is what that is? All right?

Speaker 2 (18:00):
Now?

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Final fun to Minnesota we go follow up to the
follow up. Follow up to the follow up the Minnesota
Twins who decided to get out of the Major league
baseball business. They're now a bush league, minor league outfit.
The Minnesota Twins trading away almost fifty percent of the
roster at the trade deadline. So Bryan Byron Buxton, the outfielder,

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one of the guys that was not traded away. He
was asked whether or not he is looking to relocate.
He said, quote, he is not planning on leaving. After
the Twins traded almost half the team. Is he serious
Byron Buxton? So Buckston, the way I will answer this question,
Buckston is either in denial or he's lying to himself.

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Right that Minnesota clubhouse probably sounds like I would think
an echo chamber here at this point. That wasn't fifty percent,
it was like forty percent of the roster. Gonzo see
you later. That is not a retool. That is a
straight up liquidation sale, is what that is. They wave
the white flag with both ants and said that's it,

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We're done. And I don't I don't buy Buxton for
a second. I don't. You don't come out and say
I'm gone, because then everyone is boo you the rest
of the year, all the seven people that show up
the Twins games the rest of the year. And he's
saying like, hey, I'm not leaving and all that stuff,
and yeah, he'll be playing for the rest of this

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year and likely for years to come, surrounded by Triple A,
Double A players. But the only reason that you would
stay in Minnesota is because you got the bag. What's
in the bag? Seven years? One hundred million dollars. Hello,
that's a big bag, guaranteed money for an outfield, and

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we're not talking about Juan Soto or No, we're talking
about a guy and in busting who's good but not
great and guaranteed Mulah and all that stuff. That's a
lot of coin. That's a a lot of money for
a guy who typically spends a good chunk of every
Major League Baseball season in the injury tent, and he's
been that way for some time. But you throw Egyptian

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linens and a hot tub in your Minneapolis mansion and
you can deal with a lot of crappy decisions by
the boss. Suddenly that rebuild doesn't feel so bad. But ultimately,
Egyptian linens aside, you can have those any place anywhere
because you've got the money. The losing sucks, check clears,
direct deposit, all that stuff, and so you're essentially sleeping

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in a sleeping bag filled with cash money. Right, And
we have a feeling, we have a feeling that Buxton's
gonna rethink things, right, rethink things, and either he's gonna
ask out or they will ship him out against his
will there and he will not be back. But obviously
can't trade him now because the trade deadline has passed.

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But that's the story in minutes so it is the
Ben Mahler Show. As we roll on, we'll get back
to the calls at eight seven seven ninety nine on
Fox eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine. Again,
if you're at the event over the weekend at Bristol
Motor Speedway and you would like to either verify or
push back on what I was looking at the horrific

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experience that many people had at that venue for the
Braves and Reds, give us a buzz at eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine
six six three six'. Nine as we work our way
through the over night hours and straight, ahead it was

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a musical taunt and how great it. Was we'll get to.
That we'll take your, calls the whole, thing and we
will do it.

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know we don't do shout, outs SO i cannot do
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Speaker 4 (24:28):
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Speaker 1 (24:29):
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listening because that would be disappointing that they're not listening
because they were literally right. Here but we won't know
whether you're listening or, not because how will we. Know
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in the laundry. Department she spent a very large amount

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of her. Money of, course she gets paid the big
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SPECIAL i didn't even want to buy. It, well that's

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not the story THAT i.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
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it So i'm gonna buy.

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It and this is a shirt honoring some of the.

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the letters have a different, villain so it Says disneyland
across my.

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Noodles.

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Speaker 4 (25:41):
NOODLES i dropped a noodle on my.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
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a noodle on my, shirt.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
SO i immediately sprayed it with.

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this stay out because shout is my best. Friend it
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away right.

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Gone SO i colored it with sharpie blue spots on my.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
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if you want to do some painting around the. House
you want to do some painting in the? Hallway like
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Ben malor. Show, WELL i did not smoke out anyone
who was at The Bristol motor Speed at least they
haven't gotten through on the phones. Yet King roy says
the only Way Major League baseball can redeem themselves from
this speedway To bockle is if next YEAR'S. Nascar next
YEAR nascar has a race going on at the same
time as the baseball. GAME i can see it. Now
that'd be a great. Idea have two for, One, yeah

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two for. One jill says That Jolson. Minnesota she says
That Byron buckson doesn't want to leave The twins because
there is no pressure here In. Minnesota that's actually a great, Point.
Jill how's your? Bullpen by how's That yankee bullpen working
Out Joe Jose yankee. Fan that reminds me years ago
in another, life WHEN i was doing stuff with The.

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Dodgers we were In milwaukee and Mister, Baseball Bob yuker
went on a rant about one of the. Guys this
is back in the long time, ago in the, nineties
but The brewers had a guy that hit a lot
of home runs every, year drove in a lot of,
runs and they never made the. Playoffs and he and
a couple of the other writers were pointing out that
these guys that loved playing In milwaukee because they called

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it a one beat rider. Town at that that's back
when newspapers still. Mattered there was one beat writer that
covered The, brewers and often late in the year when
the team was out of the, race the beat guy
would stop traveling with the team so they wouldn't have
to adend any. Questions and they loved. It that was
the greatest thing you could possibly have because you just played,
baseball got paid major league, money played in big league,

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ballparks and there was like no pressure at. All Toomic
asphalt rites and, says The Speedway classic is one of a,
kind like combining The Best field Of dreams With worst
of The Fire. Festival John smoltz thought if the game
was tied after nine, innings they would have a swing
off and you couldn't ask for better. Seats and then

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he sent a photo of a person's view with a
pillar a much like the Old Tiger. Stadium but you
can't see, yes sitting right behind a pillar right. There
so just absolutely a wonderful ferk.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
Dog.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
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well he had big supporter of The disney. Brand justin
And cincinnati's go to the. Phones Cool Daddy blind is up? Next,
hello Cool Daddy? Blind going, On? Benny what's going? On
my man In South? Carolina? Correct you're In South? Carolina

(29:06):
is that? Right AM i?

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Right that's? Right that's, right that's. Right Miami representati, though
but you, Know i'm SORRY i missed you On charleston,
Too BUT i got a question to. Two the first
question Blak jay From. Cincinnati remember he had picked on
his blind people just tell him bleep. Him but, anyway
what ABOUT i want to tell like Mac daddy something

(29:30):
you Know andre Man andre a very intelligent. Person i'll
be listening to him Man andrea with a. Dog, yeah
he's a cool. Dude BUT i got a question of,
like this is a real, question like who CAN i talk?
To or you don't got nobody on the militia that could,
Help LIKE i got a real idea that could make
the militia very. Wealthy oh?

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Really? Okay all, right well, YEAH i think you should
go to the top of the. Militia you want to
do this on the, air. OFFIA i feel like this
might be something so big you want to share it
on there because somebody might steal.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's it's not patent, yet but all, right you haven't
you got. Patent, okay it's not patent, yet BUT i
could give you a little snippet. Though but it's gonna
Be vegas versus the, world and it's on that. Ramification
BUT i believe you probably With vegas like you worked With,
Fourfox so it's gonna be kind of. Hard BUT i
need to talk to somebody off, air Like coop or

(30:24):
somebody GIVE.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
I can put you on hold when you want to
go on hold right? Now you want to talk To
coop off there all, Right i'll put you on. Hold all,
right there's a coop blind. One make sure you better
pick that. Up coop Cool Daddy. Blind he's got something's
gonna make us all. Rich all. RIGHT i like the.
Idea do we have to share with the. Company how's that?
Work do we? Know?

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Okay every man for, themselves.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Every, man woman and child for. Themselves let's go now
to any meenie miney. More let's go To, andre a
man who Cool Daddy blind just said one of the
most intelligent. Calls we, have one of the smartest people
out there, who for some, reason has become a polarizing
member in The malin milition is all because of his. Dog, Willis,
Hello andre.

Speaker 6 (31:06):
Alone, ben how you.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Doing it's good to be with.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
YOU i don't. STRIVE i don't strive.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
To be a.

Speaker 6 (31:15):
DIVIDER i strive to be a United. Ben that's WHAT
i want to.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
DO i want to night.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
People, Okay willis AND i that that's what We're that's
what we're striving to do. Here, okay bring the people, Together,
ben that's what it's all. About SO i appreciate the
shout out from Cool Daddy. Blood, okay me And willis
we're all, about, okay the popular the working class heroes out, There,
okay getting the job, done because a working class hero

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is something to. Be that's How willis fields about.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
It he's mowing And, andre can you just be quiet
for twenty twenty SEVENS i gotta be quiet for twenty right,
Now just just be, quiet all? Right you got right?
Now willis is not barking right. Now you, see it's

(32:02):
very odd that all of a, sudden.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
It is very odd he is back amazing the dog sid.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Hmm interesting up, There, yes twenty seconds is. Up, now go,
ahead continue with the.

Speaker 6 (32:18):
Call, okay well, motivate, Okay So, ben, listen you're talking
About mark leeby. Here, okay the guy talked one.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Hundred all. Right he's a good.

Speaker 6 (32:26):
Guy he has a little bit of sand do with. Him,
ben You're Adam sandler's local to us here on The.
Cape good dude walk around in his polo, shirt you,
know high five and people signing autographed paying for. Dinner
did you know that In japan there's ninety five thousand
people that are one hundred or over.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
In the country Of. Japan ninety Five is that?

Speaker 1 (32:47):
Right are you sure about? That that seems like a
lot of. People that's a lot of ninety.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Five Express i'm.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Poking are you, saying are you saying are they doing
something in the court Where? Japan you said that was In?
Japan what DO i? NEED i GUESS i don't need enough.
SEAFOOD i don't like. Seafood he eat a lot of
seafood in you, pay don't?

Speaker 2 (33:04):
They?

Speaker 6 (33:05):
Yeah willis might one tact. People he's super.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Motivator we've already.

Speaker 6 (33:08):
Been told he needs a snackero this is getting eecticut from.
Friend but he's people again saying That willis is not
a REAL i try to explain to, People, okay he's
A malanois from Rural. George he's a rescue. Dog my good,
buddy and the cop my name man hooked me up
with the agency BECAUSE i went to a bunch of
agencies they wouldn't you. Know so Finally willis got to
me like just about two years, ago and he's a, motivor.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
You, know but he had well you you would admit,
though the circle of life For willis the dog when
originally you said you were With willis would like Get
willis to, bark And willis would not bark at, all
and Now willis will not shut. UP i, Mean willis
is just an attention horror and just will not be
quiet at, all making it all About willis and really
stealing the spotlight from. You although Cool Daddy, Blind though

(33:53):
Cool Daddy blind's, like well wait a, MINUTE i still
Love andre's.

Speaker 6 (33:56):
Calls i'm glad about. That, Then but when you, finished
when you don't make the top four in The Mallet,
palooza you can you can hear it From. Willis, okay
you want to talk about people excited for THE nfl.
Season willis AND i we can't wait to get back
to The mallet pollooser never Mind. JAYSOP i mean he's
a champion what he.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
Earned i'm not.

Speaker 6 (34:15):
Saying that we can usurp, him all, right but you're
seeing more.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Motivating, well you have a. Year you have a year
till the Next Mallet, palooza and you have a year
to try to get your act together and refine your.
Bid And i'm getting a. HEADACHE i have headphones, on
and your dog's giving a.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Headache he need to have.

Speaker 6 (34:30):
A snack of him no head ache the Bet, Okay
but in, conclusion my summary, point all, right, listen dog on,
It Jerry, jones it's just reaching a fever. PITCH i
know you got other callers, here, Obviously dak for you
that he's obviously not going to be. Trade that's not
how THE nfl. Works that's not going to, happen you.
Know but this thing, here that this back and. Forth, See,
jerry if you had just paid him the, money you,

(34:50):
KNOW i done something a little bit, pragmatic wouldn't have this,
distraction you. Know now it's gonna draw it in the.
Camp obviously he's eventually going to sign and play for
The cowboys and all will be. Forgive but never mind
The cowboys competing in THE Nfc, east which is no
longer a cup kit With washington In. PHILADELPHIA i, mean
it's just Classic cowboys one oh. One if they're not
they're not gonna make the. Playoffs that's WHY i think

(35:11):
it could.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Be the co Whether michael well, well Whether Michael parson's
players are not, there they're not gonna make the. Playoffs
so that doesn't. Matter this is a throwaway year for The.
Cowboys they'll be round five, hundred they'll be in contention
for a wild, cardboard but they're not gonna make the
play you just.

Speaker 4 (35:24):
Wait we're going all the, way all.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
The, way all the way to THE Nfl. Draft, baby what's?

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Down?

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Cowboys all? RIGHT i thank You, andre appreciate that The
Great andre there and the Common wealth his dog. Willis
it is The Ben Malor. Show time now for the
inch to trivia and we'll get To mallard of the
third degree at forty years of age in two hundred
and fifty three, Days Justin turner The garden gnol the
second oldest player In Chicago cup's history with a walk

(35:52):
off home. Run blank is the only player older to
hit a walk off home run in cub. History that
is The Insta. Trivia the, Answer mallard of the Third. Degree.

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right after the end of the. Show, alright back to
it we go quickly time now for the quickly insta.
Trivia we go to, baseball, where at forty, years two
hundred and fifty three days, Old Justin turner The garden
home the second oldest player in cub history with a

(36:59):
walk off home, run blank the only player older to do.
It that's the. Question what is the? Answer Mark curry
From bobby In. Florida let's see who else do we?
Have Dick murdoch From andy And Lionel, Lakes. Minnesota give
me a little taste of, That, Dick Ernie banks From
Josh josh In. Nebraska Harry carey gets By Malaprop guy holding.

(37:23):
Again Frank thomas From Charman, Charman The Talent Talentless Hack
andre From Just. Josh that's not. Nice willis The dog
That never shuts Up guests By Ferg Dog jesus From King,
Rory Terry schumpert FROM i fourty e and there's a good.
Name do you have an? Answer the Write Ray Charles.
No the correct answer another Former Dodger Davey. Lopes Davey

(37:47):
lopes back in nineteen eighty, Six here we, Go here we,
Go here we.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Go how about?

Speaker 3 (37:53):
That to the third? Degree this is one gets.

Speaker 7 (37:59):
Great last week he mentioned These saints as one of
the teams that could go into tank mode this. Season
vegas has their over under win total set at six
and a half, Games, ben is that too?

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Many, well if everything breaks right for The, saints if
they stay relatively, healthy and one of these quarterbacks turns
out to be halfway, decent they can win six. Games Spider,
alard that ain't. Happening. Cool they're not winning six. Games
the injury rate is one hundred percent in THE. Nfl
unless they've got Some New orleans voodoo, bugaloo The saints
are going to be worse than six and a. Half

(38:30):
bet the. Under.

Speaker 7 (38:31):
NEXT espn AND nfl reached a massive deal over the
weekend that GIVES espn control OVER nfl, media and THE
nfl has ten percent ownership OF. Espn the deal will
need federal regulatory approval before it is.

Speaker 1 (38:43):
Finalized. Ben do you Think trump could hold this? Up, well,
yes he has a beef with THE, nfl and you, Know,
keemo he would never become president if he had gotten
the bills ownership. Shops all you people at Hey, trump
you would let him own the. Bills he would have
just owned The Buffalo. Bills but it's a bad deal for. Fans,
cool they're gonna put commercials on THE nfl red zone
LIKE espn in THE nfl already in bed with each,

(39:05):
other but this is next. Level it is a bad
deal for the customer and it should be tied up in.
COURT i hope it does get tied up in the
in the legal. System, next The New.

Speaker 7 (39:15):
York knicks And Michael bridges agree to a four, year
one hundred and fifty million dollars extension over the. Weekend
sources said the deal happened because The knicks have intel
That jannis won't be requesting a trade from The. Bucks
do you Think giannis is staying In? Milwaukee, well it's.

Speaker 1 (39:27):
A it's a McHale. Bridges but, Listen, YANNIS i don't
think he's staying In. MILWAUKEE i think he doesn't want
to play for The. Knicks that's what this is? About
how did we do you pass? This that's A WED
i won For. WILL i did it For. WILL i
won the.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
GAME i.

Speaker 1 (39:41):
Won i'm a. Winner