August 7, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the fight between the Guardians' Jose Ramirez and the White Sox' Tim Anderson, what it does for Tim Anderson's reputation, the Angels getting mocked for their losing streak, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb ber to our two
fight night in Cleveland. People thought that Jake Paul fight.
Many people thought Jake Paul fighting Nate Diez the big
fight of the weekend. But no, no, it was in
Cleveland the White Sox and the team formerly known as
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the Indians. How did you score the fight between Jose Ramirez,
the All Star and the non All Star Tim Anderson? Also,
does Jose Ramirez have a future in boxing? What happens
to Tim Anderson's reputation for Chicago's He got walloped? And
what do you make We turned the page from that.
What do you make of the Angels who have lost
six games in a row. They're being mocked for not
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trading sho Heyo Tani and now they're on a long
losing streak. We'll talk about that as well. Right now here,
it is our number two and we are ready not
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what our lead this hour? Coming from the sweet science,
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the fisticuffs, the squared circle. How many other boxing cliches
can I throw in? Well? What a night? It was
just a harmless Saturday night over the weekend, people out
doing things, enjoying themselves, having a fine time. And we
had a ruckus, We had a rhubarb that took place.
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What a scene? This was man alive. Now I was
watching some boxing stuff, so I did not see this live,
but immediately my phone blew up and people say, hey,
you see this. Look at this clip. This is amazing.
It's like, oh yeah, that's pretty good. Oh yeah, I
want to see like different angles, want to get the
different feeds of the broadcast. So if you didn't see
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this somehow, if you've been living in a shoe box
somewhere and you didn't pay attention, we'll get you caught
up to speed. So this happened the hoe down in
Tribe Town. Well, they used to be called the Tribe
Now they're named after a bridge, the Guardian. So anyway,
if you didn't see it, the Guardians All Star third
baseman Jose Ramirez. Guy's good player and he's kind of
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stuck not getting that much attention in Cleveland's a good team,
but they're not a glamour team. So you had Jose
Ramirez on one side, All Star, a former All Star
who once compared himself to Jackie Robinson in Tim Anderson
of the White Sox, and there was a play at
second base. Now to set this up, prior earlier in
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the game, Tim Anderson on replay, he had pushed the
bag of a Cleveland the hand rather of a Cleveland
base runner off the bag, which is seen as a
taboo in baseball. The Cleveland baseball team, Terry Francona, had
challenged the ruling. The Instant Replay Center in New York
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ruled they allowed Anderson to move the hand of Cleveland
player off the base, which is supposed not supposed to
be allowed. So that was a violation of the unwritten
rules of baseball, and so that was the backstory in this.
So Jose Ramirez is running to second and Anderson's on
the bag to try to make a play to tag him,
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and Ramirez slid in between Anderson's legs and he was
upset with Anderson, and we think he was upset by
what had happened earlier in the game, and he pointed
to the head of Tim Anderson and then they squared off.
There was more action in this than the Jake Paul
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fight versus Nate Diez over the weekend, but it was
all about a tag play at second base. Now we
have the audio tape. Tom Hamilton, one of the great
play by play voices in Major League Baseball. You talk
about dramatics, excitement, energy, He's got all the intangibles as
the cliches go. But here's Tom Hamilton, the voice of
the Cleveland baseball team. Listen to him describe what happened
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on this crazy play.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Hey, the diving vun down the right field line, kicks
into the corner. Rimerez onsueto second, head first slide, say Fenning.
The score is him and Hiss and another household double
right over the bag at first. Now Hosey and Anderson
square off.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
They're fighting.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
They're swinging down, Goesanderson, Downsanderson.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh so good, so good. Shanley down, gost Frais down,
gost Freis well, now down Goes Anderson. Needless to say,
this is the story everyone's talking about in the baseball world.
So let us join the party and have a sore a.
What do you say? So let's discuss the question how
did you score the fight between Jose Ramirez of Cleveland
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and Tim Anderson of Chicago. So, using the ten point
must system, this was a ten to eight fight card
in favor of Jose Ramiers. But you don't even need
to go to the judges' scorecards because this was a
t k oh see you later. I've got Deli counter
star Trek and Don Henley will combine all of these
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random things together, and we are going to make sense
of the unsensible is what we're going to make. So
number W.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Some fights are like splitting hairs. It could go either way.
There's a lot of drama, there's a lot of tensions.
I'm old school. I like the fight game. I'm not
big in the UFC. I'm more of an old school
boxing guy, and I used to love those big fights.
They never invited me to those things. You know. Some
of the people get invited, they pay for them to
go with these fights. I just like watching them. I
just like checking them out. So anyway, this one, if
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you look at the tail of the tape, surprisingly it
is an even matchup. Now, I thought that Jose Ramirez
was because he seems chunkier than Tim Anderson. So I thought, well,
there's clearly an advantage. Anderson's a little taller, but Ramirez
has some size in his build. But you look at
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the measurables. Jose Ramirez listed height five to nine. He's
a little fella five nine, one hundred and ninety pounds,
and Tim Anderson's listed height is six to one, so
he's got a big height advantage. You would think he'd
have a reach advantage. Anderson one hundred and eighty five pounds,
so there's only five pounds difference. But obviously there's a
much taller player in Tim Anderson. And when the fight
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unfolded for our blind listers, let me, let me describe
what happened. So Tim Anderson was the first to square
up and also the first to go down. He's the
Usually in a fight, if you're the first person to
throw a punch, you're gonna win. Any of us that
have been in fights, that's usually how it were that
you first, we're gonna throw the punch. In this case,
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after Ramirez had pointed in the face of the White
Sox shortstop, that was the trigger point. That was the
trigger point, and it was on like don't get cang
right there, bam, and so Anderson tossed his glove down
like he had been in eight thousand fights and he
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was like a club fighter and he was ready to
go the White Sox shortstop. So you assume that you
throw the glove down and right away, right handed haymaker boom,
just like that right he swung it like he knew
what he was doing. It did not connect the punch
did not connect, and Jose Ramirez okay. He then went
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to the deli counter and what he provided was a
delicious knuckle sandwich right to the chin of Anderson, right
to the face boom, bringing the salami with the knuckle.
Sam M's right there. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
Turn at the last the parties over in my head.
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When I saw the replay, I was looking at Tim
Anderson and I remember in these old cartoons they used
to show little birdies going around the head, and I
thought like Tim Anderson had like little birdies going around
his head because it was like it was crazy. It
was wild, all right now, Page two on this fight topic.
So does Jose Ramirez have a future in boxing? He
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was kidding around having a good time. As agent had
a photo of him in boxing gloves and they were
having five time, and well, I'd love to see it.
The answer is, obviously, I'm shaking my head. No, he's
got no future. You have a better future in boxing.
I have a better future in boxing than Jose Ramirez does.
He does happen to possess a pretty nice skill set, though,
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he does from what I saw, and it's very small
sample size. I'll grant you that, but Ramirez was a
able to bob and weave and avoid Tim Anderson's punch.
He and Anderson did telegraph it, and to the credit
of Jose Ramirez, he was able to dodge it. He
stayed on his feet. He certainly packed a wallop as
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he hit the bullseye on the punch. But regardless, the
main reason Jose Ramirez cannot be a boxer is he
has one hundred and forty one million dollar extension with
the Cleveland baseball team. So yeah, you're not gonna get
that money in boxing, and boxing is a verboten in
all contracts. Standard legal ees in all these contracts, just
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like sitting on a jet ski if you're an NFL
player for the Buffalo Bills also not allowed there. And
the only fighting Ramirez will be in is on field skirmishes.
Methinks that he will not have to fight anyone again
because of this, that he no one's gonna want to
fight Jose Ramirez because of the video of this. Now
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what happens to Tim and and his reputation. Oh, this
is a major major demerit for Tim Anders. This is
a guy that thinks of himself as a player that
brings the razzle, dazzle, the razmataz and all that oozing
with swag. Tim Anderson, he's the coolest guy around and
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he sent out a bunch of gibberish on social media.
This is for Tim Anderson a star Trek situation. Beam
me up, Scottie, get me the hell out of here, please.
I would like to go anywhere else, and of course
most people on the White Sox would like to go
somewhere else based on the way the White Sox season
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has gone. Mark, my producer here tonight, is a White Sox.
One of my guys is a White Sox fan, so
he also would like to go somewhere else other than
watch the White Sox and he doesn't even work for
the team. But I do recommend the White Sox doing
an intervention because Tim Anderson man this guy. The good
news is he can now have dinner with Jose Batista
the Blue Jays because that this is the greatest baseball
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rhubarb we have seen since a few years back. And
the video is notorious as Rude ned o'door of the
Rangers clocked absolutely delivered the little guy Jose Bautista, the
batflip guy for Toronto Joey Batts as he was called,
And that was Jose Batista's punishment for not following me
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on social media. He got punched in the face. Unless
that's not true at all. But the good news is
Jose Batista and Tim Anderson can now open up a booth,
a kissing booth. Not with each other, of course, but
they both kissed the canvas, or in this case, the
dirt at a Major League baseball game. Very few people
can say that that they ended up in the dirt
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from a punch. Usually it's a knockdown pitch, a little
chin music, not a punch. All right, final plays, move
away from the fight. I love the fight you want
to call, I'll talk about the fight the rest of
the show. I don't get I love to talk about
the fight. Amazing. But there's a story that has come
to my attention. Free Fall. In free Fall in the
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Angels lost their six consecutive game heartbreak Hotel when extra
innings with the Seattle Baseball team at the Big A
and the Angels now under five hundred, they are back
with a losing record. They had been playing pretty well
and they had won eight out of ten. At one point.
The Halo is now fifty six and fifty seven on
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the year. El Stinko in Anaheim to kick them a
little further, the Halos dropping seven games now back of
Toronto for the final wild card spot in the American
The Angels not only have to catch the Blue Jays,
they have to play leap frog past the Red Sox,
the Yankees, and the Mariners, who just kicked them in
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the nuts all weekend there in Anaheim. And so what
do you make what you make of the angels plight.
They're being mocked, ridiculed, and shamed because they did not
trade sho Hey Otani, and now many are already calling
this the last Supper for the Angels because of the
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fact that they have been so bad this week since
the trade deadline, and people have been criticizing me. So well,
you're defended the Angels. You said, don't trade Otani, and
I still defend the move. The outcome is irrelevant because
unless you're gonna promise me the Angels are gonna get
three future All Star players who are minor leaguers, and
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by the way, they weren't. You're just talking out of
your ass, So leave it alone. And this shows you
the neurosis among so many fans here, right, So predictable,
that's the word predictable here, it's dirty launder. It's the
old Don Henley tune. Kick them while they're down now.
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To be fair, the Angels are an easy target and
they deserve to be criticized because they have played like
bums this week. But that's a different topic. You can
rip the performance, but you do not rip them for
trading or not trading shohel Tani. You know, the fact
that they've been a bag of puke is a different
point of conversation. They tried. You're supposed to try to win.
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You're not just supposed to keep pushing the envelope further
and further down the road. Say oh no, we're gonna
be good in five years from now. Yeah, okay, stop
they have they're gonna get Mike tropped back. And I
don't even think it's over yet the Angels. They're seven
games back. And it was as there is a path here.
And I remember years ago when I covered the Angels
they had a massive lead, way back again and ahead
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of the Seattle Mariners, and and it was in August,
and slowly and surely the Mariners chipped away, and before
you know it, there was a one game playoff at
the Kingdome, the old ballpark there in Seattle, and of
course the Mariners won that and that that's what led
to their new ballpark. But you know, the the fetus
added two that people have here, it's pathetic that you're like, oh,
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you're ripping them because theydn't trade show a tony. Now,
the next point of demarcation for the Angels is they're
gonna have to make up. They're gonna have to play
well for two weeks to get back in this thing.
But if they can make up three games in a week,
get within four games and then chip two away, there are,
by my mat there's forty nine games left, so the
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next two weeks are crucial. They've got a trim four
to five games over the next two weeks off that,
which is absolutely possible because remember Toronto plays the Yankees,
Toronto plays the Red Sox, so those teams are gonna
beat each other up in the American leagues. They're gonna
lose games. So there's a path there for the Angels
to get back. I'm Benny bright Side, I'm Benny bright
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side on this and we'll see you know, I mean,
plus if Atani resigns with the Angels, then that's perfect.
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It's Ben Malor baseball heavy Mallard monologue mixed with boxing
Mallard prop guy says the Jose Ramirez Tim Anderson choreog
choreography rather looks familiar. Maybe we saw it on Tango
Night with Fergie and Brian Finley. They were Dancing with
the Stars. On Dancing with the Stars. Absolutely marking, Santa
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Monica writes, and he says, Ben, you did not realize
the Yankees would have given the Angels Aaron Judge, Garrett Cole,
Labor Torres and twenty seven draft picks for two months
of Otani. Well, okay, Mark, I stand correct. That's a
great take. Mark, You're absolutely right, that's what the Angels
would have gotten, and a bad job by them. I'm
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gonna do a one to eighty of my take, a
one eighty on my take. G Ange in Chicago says
eight plus on the Ballor monologue. Timmy has been outed
as a fake South Side of Chicago, tried play tried
to play him up as a star, and Chicago radio
covering up his life off the field, when the truth
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is he disrespects the game. Somewhere Josh Donaldson is smiling
f Timmy. All right, Yeah, Josh Donaldson's got to have
like one of those cheshire Cat smiles from ear to ear.
Ryan writes in and says, Ben, you forgot to add
Tony Phillips to the angels downfall. In ninety seven, the
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Angels had a huge lead in the American League West
Phillips was arrested and the Angels lost the lead and
had to play the Mariners in the one game playoff
against Randy Johnson in Seattle. I know the timeline's not
exactly right on that. I was around that Angel team
quite a bit. I think Tony got arrested a little
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bit later, if I remember correctly, but yeah, he did not.
Nobody hit on that team. And actually during that here's
a fun story. I was a radio stringer and he
covered the Angels that year, and as they imploded and
the Mariners traded for a picture named Andy Bennis from
the Padres, I believe it was they got him at
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the trade deadline, and the Angels didn't really do all
that much as I remember correctly, but Tony Phillips wanted
to fight me. He was very upset because I had
to ask I had to ask him questions. He did
not want to answer questions. Maybe he was all on
coke or whatever. I don't know that day, but he
was very upset with me. A very good player, by
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the way, Tony Phillips was a really solid lead off hitter.
It's like a utility guy for the Oakland Athletics, and
had a good run with the Angels in the White
Sox and some other teams. But he had a few issues.
He's dead, by the way. He died a few years
back at a very young age. He should have lived
a lot longer than that. It is the Ben Malech Show.
Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to Jeff,
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who is in Seattle. Hello Jeff, Welcome.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Hi Dan, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What's going on.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Since you're talking about Tani? I'm a Seattle Samariner fan Corley,
and we're talking about Tani and I think the Angels
made a big missake by not trading him, because what
makes the Angels think they're going to beat the Mariners
out for the wild card spot?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
So what makes you think that they're not?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Well? Well, the Mariners were starting to roll a little bit,
which we did in the past. We've always had a
better second half of the season. We've got Ray and
Gonzalez coming back before too long. Although we really have
been having good pitching as as as we have been hitting,
you know, we have a little problem there.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
But yeah, well no, as a Marina fan, I would
agree with that. If I was a Marina fan, I
would think the Angels give up. Trade O'tani, trade Mike Trout,
trade everyone, trade them all, trade the big in the
parking lot, get rid of everyone. Yes, well, at least
so at.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Least so Tani. You don't get a buttleot of you.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Come out Jeff yeh, Jeff, oh is that bad?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
This is minor league players rarely live up to the
billy They really, they really live. No, I'm not a guy.
You're calling the wrong guy. There's a lot of hosts
that love it. They buy every scouting report. They think
it's every player is gonna live up to the hype
and all that. And I've I'm jaded enough. I've seen
enough trades, and I would say the hit rate on
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trades when you're getting the better player is ninety percent.
Like the Angels trader a Tony, they have a ten
percent chance of winning the trade and a ninety percent
chance of losing the trade. So I don't like those odds.
Maybe you like those ots.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
A team that gets them have to worry about signing
him next year.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Well, no, you'd get him. You wouldn't get that much
from him because he's only be there for a couple
months and then and then you see what would happen.
So there you go. But I thought the Mariners got
rid of a bunch of guys. What happened. They were
at the deadline, they were trading pitchers and relief pitchers,
and they were all.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Still wondering about that. We're all still wondering about that.
And you know what, Oh, Tony, hey, he may an
before you are.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Coop just rolled his eyes in the other room.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
He just really really is that that far off?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Well, who's who's got the bank roll with the Mariners?
Who's what kind of money they got, what kind of
dough they got? Because a ton is if he wants
to go for the money, he's going to get at
least I would think six hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Well, the Mariners haven't paid anybody anybody for a long time.
I got to think they have the money you know.
I mean, it's kind of like the Mirror has always
had somewhat of a Japanese connection since.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Its You wrote, yeah, no, I hear you, and then
eachro was great there and a wonderful Hall of Fame career.
I gotta go, but thank you. There's a Jeff in Seattle.
I thought the only Mariner fan we have was Robbie
the Mariner fan. I mean, he's Jeff's going in Robbie's territory.
He's entering Robbie the Mariner fans space. But Robbie didn't calverto.
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And in soccer, Lionel Messi continued to make the MLS
looking silly, but they don't care because people are coming
to see him play two more goals against FC Dallas
scored Sunday.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Because he scored two in every game he's played. I think,
so that's what it seems like, unless I missed the
game he did not. But the games that I've paid
attention to, he's scored two goals.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, no, I I think you're right on that. They
so they his last goal tied it up four to four.
And then the Miami FC. No, it's inter Miami. I'm sorry,
inter Miami. Right here are soccer guy? Change the name
to the Lionel Messis. How about that? Just change the name.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Okay, So that's fine. So he's saying I living his
best life there and making the MLS look like the
junior varsity of the soccer world dominating. And he's what
thirty six years old, he's doing this thing. It's a
messy situation, is what it is. That's what it is.
Thank you. It is the Ben Malords Show. As we
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a card shark, We have a follow up to a
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story we talked about in a previous episode of the show.
You remember this guy named Blake Martinez. We talked about
this a while back. He's a linebackers with the Raiders,
Pokey Man, Pokemon guy, Yeah, the Pokemon guy. So Blake
Martinez retired from the NFL at a young age because
he made so much money trading Pokemon cards that he
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didn't need the NFL think about that, So he quit.
He said, that's it, I'm done. I don't want to
play anymore. I'll just sell cards and I'm fine. Well,
now we have a follow up the rest of the
story dateline Pokemon cardan where former NFL linebacker Blake Martinez
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has been banned from selling Pokemon cards on something called
the what Not. I don't know what that is. There
was an investigation and he is being accused of scamming
card buyers. This is a blow to the Pokemon community.
This is not right here. I mean as and I
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defend the I was a collector of cards when I
was young. You cannot spit a loogie because you're a
former NFL player in the Pokemon domain here. So I
don't even know what what not is. Apparently this is
the I'm told it's the platform that they trade these
things on.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
What did he do.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well, I'll give you some of the information here. They
did not release all the details, but they claimed there
was a comprehensive investigation into Blake Martinez's activity. And from
what I was reading, I don't know social media, who
knows that there was people speculating that he was he
was scamming people. He was he was claiming cards were
in better condition than they were, things like that, and
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so but anyway, he left. Now, according to the Athletic,
this guy he had done more than eleven million dollars
in earnings from selling Pokemon cards last year. So now
he's what's he gonna do? Is he go back to
the NFL now or does he find somewhere else to
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sell his Pokemon cards. He he streamed sixteen hours per
day and claimed that he had twenty He claims he
has twenty full time employees. That's what he claimed. What
a racket man.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I don't know whether he was scamming people or not.
I have no idea, but couldn't he just have someone
else as a proxy sell the cards? So is this
really going to affect him? It's like that guy Billy Walter,
the famous sports better where the legendary figures the guy
actually wins. He wins Billy Walters, and so they don't
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allow him to bet in Vegas, he actually win. They
don't allow you to bet, and so he has to
hire people to put bets in and he still does it.
He went to jail for a while. I was friends
with Phil Mickelson. I think Michelson rated them out if
I remember correctly that part of the story, it's called
the Phones. Andre is in the Commonwealth and Andre is
up next before school gets back in session. Hello, Andre,
(29:32):
what's going on?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Ben?
Speaker 8 (29:33):
How you're doing? We do have a couple of weeks
left before school is back in session. We're enjoying, enjoying
the summer days to the best of their possible ability.
Actually here in the Cape, the Hyannis Farbahawks are Cape
League Baseball are playing well. That's my team that I
go ahead and root for. So they're off to they're
(29:53):
going to be in the conference champion.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Eddie, Eddie, why don't you give Cape League scores that
that's a bad job by you.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
That's okay, you know, that's my contribution. You know, you're
going to be a part of the Malord militia. I
understand you have to bring some kind of surplus value.
And so the stars of tomorrow in the KP League.
You know, if I can provide an update in particularly
when the home team, Hyenas Harborhawks are playing well, I'm
glad you know, to provide that news. But Ben, you know,
staying in the world at baseball, we had a dust up,
you know, we had we we had a one two
(30:21):
punch there, which was kind of unusual where we had
to play on the bases and then the guys kind
of get into it. That's not usually when you see
these baseball kerfuffles, right, it's usually when somebody's throwing at
somebody else unnecessarily where folks charge them out. Now, speaking
of that, Ben and quick aside, we remember when was
it Robert Ventura charged them mount against Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, we just had the thirtieth We just had the
thirtieth anniversary of that was last week, you know.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
And then we got this statement you're going to learn today.
And twenty six year old Robin Ventura learned what it
means to be country strong. You know, you think these
older guys.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Well, now that you now that you bring that up, well,
Robin also learned old man strength. You learn what old
man strength is. And that and the White Sox history
in fights is not that good. Robin Ventura getting pummelled, now,
Tim Anderson getting pummeled, This is not This is a
weak spot for the Chicago White Sox, the payhalls.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
I agreed. Ben, you're coming from the Windy City. Obviously,
Chicago's on.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
The south side. That's the the baddest part of town,
the South side of Chicago. That's embarrassing for the white
sox it is.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
It is embarrassing. But then here's my overarching point that
I want to make baseball in terms of the innovation
that they have brought to bear, specifically the pitch clock,
which has sped up the game and increased viewership and interest.
Why don't we have a challenge in baseball for third
strike calls?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (31:42):
You know, I follow the Baseball auditor on Twitter, and
you know, and it gives you the third strip. You know,
we've got We've got umpires missing on third strike calls
at a notable rate. So Baseball, let's get on this.
Let's get it.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah. But see, here's the problem, though. You at some
point you have to stop with the replay. You can't
replay everything. There has to be a point where you can't.
You just got it enough, let them play. What happened
andre to the human element? What happened to that that
there are going to be mistakes. It's within the margin
of error. Aside from Angel hernandez it gets every other
(32:16):
call wrong. Apparently according to the Internet, he's horrible as
an umpire. But aside from that, you know, there'll be
some mistakes. But it's when I when I was years
ago and I was first watching baseball, I said, well,
evens out, maybe it does, maybe it does, but replay everything,
and you're not replay everything.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
And here here is the stimmation of my argument. I'm
not talking about the age of machines. I realize that
AI is coming and and automation is coming into the world,
and we have to have safeguards. But just one challenge
call per manager.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Per game.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
But here's let me play Devil's advocate here, I'm gonna
advocate for the devil. Listen, all right, listen close. How
about this?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
What if?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
What if I'm a hitter and I say, you know what,
maya bat? My entire bat change because strike one was
actually a ball and I would have been ahead of
the count, and then the pitcher has to come at
me with a different pitch because he's you know, he's
behind in the count, and that screwed up my entire bat.
So why don't I get to review the first pitch
of the bat because that affected every other pitch of
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the bat. How about that?
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Okay? Point taking And by the way, the Devil's Advocate
with the Alvaccino and Kounto reads it with a great movie.
So he's a quick as side. But Ben, what did
I said? Third?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, I know what you said. But my point is
if you talk to hitters, and I've had over the years,
they they'll say, the most important pitch. You want to
be ahead of the count. I gotta let you go, Andre,
but thank you. We'll talk to you. I'm sure tomorrow
there's Andre from the comic book. But yeah, the most
important pitch strike one if you're a pitcher, and if
you're a hitter, if it's ball one, because then the
picture's working from behind and then you can kind of
(33:50):
you can lock in on a certain certain zone. It
is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we continue on and
time now for the instad trivia, and here it is.
Listen closely. Blank has the record for most receptions in
NFL history in their first one hundred games. Again, Blank
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has the record for the most receptions in NFL history
in their first one hundred games. That's the instant tribute,
the answer, and we'll get to Mallard of the third degree.
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We got Mallad of the A degree that'll be coming
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trivia Blank has the record for the most receptions in
NFL history in their first one hundred games. That is
the question. What is the answer? Does anyone listening know
the answer? Let's go to the Malard Militia. Frank Viola
(35:19):
great answer. Boy is he solid for the Vikings back
in the eighties. That's from Donkey Sausage also got traded
to the Jets. Mary lou Retten from mister nice Guy
old school reference there as he is known to do
with the Goose Scooby Dooby Doo from The Cowboy Killer.
That's his answer. Jarvis Landry tossed out by Matt the
Warrior Raider as fan. Aaron Hernandez from Justin in Cincinnati.
(35:43):
That's his favorite Patriot. Lionel L. Train Taylor from Malard
prop Guy Antonio Brown tossed out by Miguel on Fire.
Ferg Katz says Alex Tyshert from the Fifth Hour Podcast. Yeah,
we had Alex because Danny was away with his kid
being born this weekend, so's he's away for the next
couple of weeks. Freddie Mitchell fred X guessed by Nick
(36:05):
and Wisconsin. J. J. Stokes from Our Buddy Rob who
knows where all the good Delis are there in Minnesota?
Nikhil Harry of the Vikings from the Ron Mexico account.
Flipper Anderson from Calligan Tim Eddie, you have an answer, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Let's go with Randy Moss.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Randy Moss. No, your wife's gonna be upset with you, Eddie.
It's Keenan Allen of the Chargers six hundred and twenty
four receptions that the record for the most in their
first one hundred game.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree. This
is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Hey, the Coop de loop.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Jamar Chase told the media over the weekend that he
told Joe Burrow that he doesn't even want him to
suit up week one. He said, as long as he's
there after week five, they're good. Doesn't want him to
rush back from injury.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Do you think the Bengals would be fine without Burrow
for five weeks?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Yes? I also think that Jamar Chase is a dope.
That's what I think. Why don't they just rest him
for the entire season just in case he might get hurt?
In fact, don't even play him on wild card weekend
if the Bengals are on the wildcard game, which they
will be if they're lucky to make the playoffs without him. No, no,
I think they should save him for at least the
divisional round out of an abundance of caution. What the
hell are we doing, Jamar ch You're like, sire, what
(37:21):
are you doing? Bad job by you?
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Do?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
You know? The backup quarterback for the Bengals is Trevor Simeon.
You know who that is? Coop from your Bronco days
or his Bronco days. Come on, it's a joke please.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Next, so Barry Bonds did a podcast interview where he
admitted that he wasn't exactly the best clubhouse guy during
his career. He said he wasn't trying to be a
Dick and Dayton. But ain't no way in hell I'm
ever telling anybody what I do. I'm not going to
tell you what I see. I'll give you general conversation
to help you, but I don't know how long we're
(37:52):
going to be teammates, is what Bond said. Ben, Are
you buying that explanation?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
No, he was a jerk from the get go, before
he did all the drugs and all that. When with
the Pirates, he wouldn't sign autographs for sick kids. He
wouldn't do it. Think about that. He wasn't even anybody
at that point.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Next, Steve Cohen tried to reassure Mets fans over the weekend, saying, quote,
we promise you we will work hard to field a
competitive team in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Do you believe him? Yes? I believe him because he
has to sell season tickets. So that's what he said.
Are they actually gonna do it? No? But that's what
he said. How do we do koop he passes? That
is I win. I started the week with w wwwwww
Hello and welcome. It's our numb ber to our two
fight night in Cleveland. People thought that Jake Paul fight.
Many people thought Jake Paul fighting Nate Diez the big
fight of the weekend. But no, no, it was in
Cleveland the White Sox and the team formerly known as
(00:21):
the Indians. How did you score the fight between Jose Ramirez,
the All Star and the non All Star Tim Anderson? Also,
does Jose Ramirez have a future in boxing? What happens
to Tim Anderson's reputation for Chicago's He got walloped? And
what do you make We turned the page from that.
What do you make of the Angels who have lost
six games in a row. They're being mocked for not
(00:43):
trading sho Heyo Tani and now they're on a long
losing streak. We'll talk about that as well. Right now here,
it is our number two and we are ready not
to use the r where we're not allowed. He's that
ready to mumble. We're ready to mumble. That's what we're
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I have been accused of doing something that one of
our bosses at this company does not like. Don't bear
the lead, mo myn art. So our lead this hour,
which maybe should have been our lead last hour? But
what our lead this hour? Coming from the sweet science,
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the fisticuffs, the squared circle. How many other boxing cliches
can I throw in? Well? What a night? It was
just a harmless Saturday night over the weekend, people out
doing things, enjoying themselves, having a fine time. And we
had a ruckus, We had a rhubarb that took place.
(02:31):
What a scene? This was man alive. Now I was
watching some boxing stuff, so I did not see this live,
but immediately my phone blew up and people say, hey,
you see this. Look at this clip. This is amazing.
It's like, oh yeah, that's pretty good. Oh yeah, I
want to see like different angles, want to get the
different feeds of the broadcast. So if you didn't see
(02:53):
this somehow, if you've been living in a shoe box
somewhere and you didn't pay attention, we'll get you caught
up to speed. So this happened the hoe down in
Tribe Town. Well, they used to be called the Tribe
Now they're named after a bridge, the Guardian. So anyway,
if you didn't see it, the Guardians All Star third
baseman Jose Ramirez. Guy's good player and he's kind of
(03:14):
stuck not getting that much attention in Cleveland's a good team,
but they're not a glamour team. So you had Jose
Ramirez on one side, All Star, a former All Star
who once compared himself to Jackie Robinson in Tim Anderson
of the White Sox, and there was a play at
second base. Now to set this up, prior earlier in
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the game, Tim Anderson on replay, he had pushed the
bag of a Cleveland the hand rather of a Cleveland
base runner off the bag, which is seen as a
taboo in baseball. The Cleveland baseball team, Terry Francona, had
challenged the ruling. The Instant Replay Center in New York
(03:56):
ruled they allowed Anderson to move the hand of Cleveland
player off the base, which is supposed not supposed to
be allowed. So that was a violation of the unwritten
rules of baseball, and so that was the backstory in this.
So Jose Ramirez is running to second and Anderson's on
the bag to try to make a play to tag him,
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and Ramirez slid in between Anderson's legs and he was
upset with Anderson, and we think he was upset by
what had happened earlier in the game, and he pointed
to the head of Tim Anderson and then they squared off.
There was more action in this than the Jake Paul
(04:39):
fight versus Nate Diez over the weekend, but it was
all about a tag play at second base. Now we
have the audio tape. Tom Hamilton, one of the great
play by play voices in Major League Baseball. You talk
about dramatics, excitement, energy, He's got all the intangibles as
the cliches go. But here's Tom Hamilton, the voice of
the Cleveland baseball team. Listen to him describe what happened
(05:02):
on this crazy play.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Hey, the diving vun down the right field line, kicks
into the corner. Rimerez onsueto second, head first slide, say Fenning.
The score is him and Hiss and another household double
right over the bag at first. Now Hosey and Anderson
square off.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
They're fighting.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
They're swinging down, Goesanderson, Downsanderson.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Oh so good, so good. Shanley down, gost Frais down,
gost Freis well, now down Goes Anderson. Needless to say,
this is the story everyone's talking about in the baseball world.
So let us join the party and have a sore a.
What do you say? So let's discuss the question how
did you score the fight between Jose Ramirez of Cleveland
(05:58):
and Tim Anderson of Chicago. So, using the ten point
must system, this was a ten to eight fight card
in favor of Jose Ramiers. But you don't even need
to go to the judges' scorecards because this was a
t k oh see you later. I've got Deli counter
star Trek and Don Henley will combine all of these
(06:22):
random things together, and we are going to make sense
of the unsensible is what we're going to make. So
number W.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Some fights are like splitting hairs. It could go either way.
There's a lot of drama, there's a lot of tensions.
I'm old school. I like the fight game. I'm not
big in the UFC. I'm more of an old school
boxing guy, and I used to love those big fights.
They never invited me to those things. You know. Some
of the people get invited, they pay for them to
go with these fights. I just like watching them. I
just like checking them out. So anyway, this one, if
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you look at the tail of the tape, surprisingly it
is an even matchup. Now, I thought that Jose Ramirez
was because he seems chunkier than Tim Anderson. So I thought, well,
there's clearly an advantage. Anderson's a little taller, but Ramirez
has some size in his build. But you look at
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the measurables. Jose Ramirez listed height five to nine. He's
a little fella five nine, one hundred and ninety pounds,
and Tim Anderson's listed height is six to one, so
he's got a big height advantage. You would think he'd
have a reach advantage. Anderson one hundred and eighty five pounds,
so there's only five pounds difference. But obviously there's a
much taller player in Tim Anderson. And when the fight
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unfolded for our blind listers, let me, let me describe
what happened. So Tim Anderson was the first to square
up and also the first to go down. He's the
Usually in a fight, if you're the first person to
throw a punch, you're gonna win. Any of us that
have been in fights, that's usually how it were that
you first, we're gonna throw the punch. In this case,
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after Ramirez had pointed in the face of the White
Sox shortstop, that was the trigger point. That was the
trigger point, and it was on like don't get cang
right there, bam, and so Anderson tossed his glove down
like he had been in eight thousand fights and he
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was like a club fighter and he was ready to
go the White Sox shortstop. So you assume that you
throw the glove down and right away, right handed haymaker boom,
just like that right he swung it like he knew
what he was doing. It did not connect the punch
did not connect, and Jose Ramirez okay. He then went
(08:45):
to the deli counter and what he provided was a
delicious knuckle sandwich right to the chin of Anderson, right
to the face boom, bringing the salami with the knuckle.
Sam M's right there. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
Turn at the last the parties over in my head.
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When I saw the replay, I was looking at Tim
Anderson and I remember in these old cartoons they used
to show little birdies going around the head, and I
thought like Tim Anderson had like little birdies going around
his head because it was like it was crazy. It
was wild, all right now, Page two on this fight topic.
So does Jose Ramirez have a future in boxing? He
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was kidding around having a good time. As agent had
a photo of him in boxing gloves and they were
having five time, and well, I'd love to see it.
The answer is, obviously, I'm shaking my head. No, he's
got no future. You have a better future in boxing.
I have a better future in boxing than Jose Ramirez does.
He does happen to possess a pretty nice skill set, though,
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he does from what I saw, and it's very small
sample size. I'll grant you that, but Ramirez was a
able to bob and weave and avoid Tim Anderson's punch.
He and Anderson did telegraph it, and to the credit
of Jose Ramirez, he was able to dodge it. He
stayed on his feet. He certainly packed a wallop as
(10:17):
he hit the bullseye on the punch. But regardless, the
main reason Jose Ramirez cannot be a boxer is he
has one hundred and forty one million dollar extension with
the Cleveland baseball team. So yeah, you're not gonna get
that money in boxing, and boxing is a verboten in
all contracts. Standard legal ees in all these contracts, just
(10:38):
like sitting on a jet ski if you're an NFL
player for the Buffalo Bills also not allowed there. And
the only fighting Ramirez will be in is on field skirmishes.
Methinks that he will not have to fight anyone again
because of this, that he no one's gonna want to
fight Jose Ramirez because of the video of this. Now
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what happens to Tim and and his reputation. Oh, this
is a major major demerit for Tim Anders. This is
a guy that thinks of himself as a player that
brings the razzle, dazzle, the razmataz and all that oozing
with swag. Tim Anderson, he's the coolest guy around and
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he sent out a bunch of gibberish on social media.
This is for Tim Anderson a star Trek situation. Beam
me up, Scottie, get me the hell out of here, please.
I would like to go anywhere else, and of course
most people on the White Sox would like to go
somewhere else based on the way the White Sox season
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has gone. Mark, my producer here tonight, is a White Sox.
One of my guys is a White Sox fan, so
he also would like to go somewhere else other than
watch the White Sox and he doesn't even work for
the team. But I do recommend the White Sox doing
an intervention because Tim Anderson man this guy. The good
news is he can now have dinner with Jose Batista
the Blue Jays because that this is the greatest baseball
(12:06):
rhubarb we have seen since a few years back. And
the video is notorious as Rude ned o'door of the
Rangers clocked absolutely delivered the little guy Jose Bautista, the
batflip guy for Toronto Joey Batts as he was called,
And that was Jose Batista's punishment for not following me
(12:26):
on social media. He got punched in the face. Unless
that's not true at all. But the good news is
Jose Batista and Tim Anderson can now open up a booth,
a kissing booth. Not with each other, of course, but
they both kissed the canvas, or in this case, the
dirt at a Major League baseball game. Very few people
can say that that they ended up in the dirt
(12:49):
from a punch. Usually it's a knockdown pitch, a little
chin music, not a punch. All right, final plays, move
away from the fight. I love the fight you want
to call, I'll talk about the fight the rest of
the show. I don't get I love to talk about
the fight. Amazing. But there's a story that has come
to my attention. Free Fall. In free Fall in the
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Angels lost their six consecutive game heartbreak Hotel when extra
innings with the Seattle Baseball team at the Big A
and the Angels now under five hundred, they are back
with a losing record. They had been playing pretty well
and they had won eight out of ten. At one point.
The Halo is now fifty six and fifty seven on
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the year. El Stinko in Anaheim to kick them a
little further, the Halos dropping seven games now back of
Toronto for the final wild card spot in the American
The Angels not only have to catch the Blue Jays,
they have to play leap frog past the Red Sox,
the Yankees, and the Mariners, who just kicked them in
(13:54):
the nuts all weekend there in Anaheim. And so what
do you make what you make of the angels plight.
They're being mocked, ridiculed, and shamed because they did not
trade sho Hey Otani, and now many are already calling
this the last Supper for the Angels because of the
(14:15):
fact that they have been so bad this week since
the trade deadline, and people have been criticizing me. So well,
you're defended the Angels. You said, don't trade Otani, and
I still defend the move. The outcome is irrelevant because
unless you're gonna promise me the Angels are gonna get
three future All Star players who are minor leaguers, and
(14:35):
by the way, they weren't. You're just talking out of
your ass, So leave it alone. And this shows you
the neurosis among so many fans here, right, So predictable,
that's the word predictable here, it's dirty launder. It's the
old Don Henley tune. Kick them while they're down now.
(14:56):
To be fair, the Angels are an easy target and
they deserve to be criticized because they have played like
bums this week. But that's a different topic. You can
rip the performance, but you do not rip them for
trading or not trading shohel Tani. You know, the fact
that they've been a bag of puke is a different
point of conversation. They tried. You're supposed to try to win.
(15:16):
You're not just supposed to keep pushing the envelope further
and further down the road. Say oh no, we're gonna
be good in five years from now. Yeah, okay, stop
they have they're gonna get Mike tropped back. And I
don't even think it's over yet the Angels. They're seven
games back. And it was as there is a path here.
And I remember years ago when I covered the Angels
they had a massive lead, way back again and ahead
(15:39):
of the Seattle Mariners, and and it was in August,
and slowly and surely the Mariners chipped away, and before
you know it, there was a one game playoff at
the Kingdome, the old ballpark there in Seattle, and of
course the Mariners won that and that that's what led
to their new ballpark. But you know, the the fetus
added two that people have here, it's pathetic that you're like, oh,
(16:05):
you're ripping them because theydn't trade show a tony. Now,
the next point of demarcation for the Angels is they're
gonna have to make up. They're gonna have to play
well for two weeks to get back in this thing.
But if they can make up three games in a week,
get within four games and then chip two away, there are,
by my mat there's forty nine games left, so the
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next two weeks are crucial. They've got a trim four
to five games over the next two weeks off that,
which is absolutely possible because remember Toronto plays the Yankees,
Toronto plays the Red Sox, so those teams are gonna
beat each other up in the American leagues. They're gonna
lose games. So there's a path there for the Angels
to get back. I'm Benny bright Side, I'm Benny bright
(16:46):
side on this and we'll see you know, I mean,
plus if Atani resigns with the Angels, then that's perfect.
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It's Ben Malor baseball heavy Mallard monologue mixed with boxing
Mallard prop guy says the Jose Ramirez Tim Anderson choreog
choreography rather looks familiar. Maybe we saw it on Tango
Night with Fergie and Brian Finley. They were Dancing with
the Stars. On Dancing with the Stars. Absolutely marking, Santa
(18:16):
Monica writes, and he says, Ben, you did not realize
the Yankees would have given the Angels Aaron Judge, Garrett Cole,
Labor Torres and twenty seven draft picks for two months
of Otani. Well, okay, Mark, I stand correct. That's a
great take. Mark, You're absolutely right, that's what the Angels
would have gotten, and a bad job by them. I'm
(18:36):
gonna do a one to eighty of my take, a
one eighty on my take. G Ange in Chicago says
eight plus on the Ballor monologue. Timmy has been outed
as a fake South Side of Chicago, tried play tried
to play him up as a star, and Chicago radio
covering up his life off the field, when the truth
(18:59):
is he disrespects the game. Somewhere Josh Donaldson is smiling
f Timmy. All right, Yeah, Josh Donaldson's got to have
like one of those cheshire Cat smiles from ear to ear.
Ryan writes in and says, Ben, you forgot to add
Tony Phillips to the angels downfall. In ninety seven, the
(19:20):
Angels had a huge lead in the American League West
Phillips was arrested and the Angels lost the lead and
had to play the Mariners in the one game playoff
against Randy Johnson in Seattle. I know the timeline's not
exactly right on that. I was around that Angel team
quite a bit. I think Tony got arrested a little
(19:40):
bit later, if I remember correctly, but yeah, he did not.
Nobody hit on that team. And actually during that here's
a fun story. I was a radio stringer and he
covered the Angels that year, and as they imploded and
the Mariners traded for a picture named Andy Bennis from
the Padres, I believe it was they got him at
(20:01):
the trade deadline, and the Angels didn't really do all
that much as I remember correctly, but Tony Phillips wanted
to fight me. He was very upset because I had
to ask I had to ask him questions. He did
not want to answer questions. Maybe he was all on
coke or whatever. I don't know that day, but he
was very upset with me. A very good player, by
(20:23):
the way, Tony Phillips was a really solid lead off hitter.
It's like a utility guy for the Oakland Athletics, and
had a good run with the Angels in the White
Sox and some other teams. But he had a few issues.
He's dead, by the way. He died a few years
back at a very young age. He should have lived
a lot longer than that. It is the Ben Malech Show.
Let's go to the phones. We'll say hello to Jeff,
(20:43):
who is in Seattle. Hello Jeff, Welcome.
Speaker 5 (20:47):
Hi Dan, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
What's going on.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Since you're talking about Tani? I'm a Seattle Samariner fan Corley,
and we're talking about Tani and I think the Angels
made a big missake by not trading him, because what
makes the Angels think they're going to beat the Mariners
out for the wild card spot?
Speaker 1 (21:07):
So what makes you think that they're not?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
Well? Well, the Mariners were starting to roll a little bit,
which we did in the past. We've always had a
better second half of the season. We've got Ray and
Gonzalez coming back before too long. Although we really have
been having good pitching as as as we have been hitting,
you know, we have a little problem there.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
But yeah, well no, as a Marina fan, I would
agree with that. If I was a Marina fan, I
would think the Angels give up. Trade O'tani, trade Mike Trout,
trade everyone, trade them all, trade the big in the
parking lot, get rid of everyone. Yes, well, at least
so at.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Least so Tani. You don't get a buttleot of you.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Come out Jeff yeh, Jeff, oh is that bad?
Speaker 6 (21:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (21:57):
This is minor league players rarely live up to the
billy They really, they really live. No, I'm not a guy.
You're calling the wrong guy. There's a lot of hosts
that love it. They buy every scouting report. They think
it's every player is gonna live up to the hype
and all that. And I've I'm jaded enough. I've seen
enough trades, and I would say the hit rate on
(22:20):
trades when you're getting the better player is ninety percent.
Like the Angels trader a Tony, they have a ten
percent chance of winning the trade and a ninety percent
chance of losing the trade. So I don't like those odds.
Maybe you like those ots.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
A team that gets them have to worry about signing
him next year.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Well, no, you'd get him. You wouldn't get that much
from him because he's only be there for a couple
months and then and then you see what would happen.
So there you go. But I thought the Mariners got
rid of a bunch of guys. What happened. They were
at the deadline, they were trading pitchers and relief pitchers,
and they were all.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Still wondering about that. We're all still wondering about that.
And you know what, Oh, Tony, hey, he may an
before you are.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Coop just rolled his eyes in the other room.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
He just really really is that that far off?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Well, who's who's got the bank roll with the Mariners?
Who's what kind of money they got, what kind of
dough they got? Because a ton is if he wants
to go for the money, he's going to get at
least I would think six hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Well, the Mariners haven't paid anybody anybody for a long time.
I got to think they have the money you know.
I mean, it's kind of like the Mirror has always
had somewhat of a Japanese connection since.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Its You wrote, yeah, no, I hear you, and then
eachro was great there and a wonderful Hall of Fame career.
I gotta go, but thank you. There's a Jeff in Seattle.
I thought the only Mariner fan we have was Robbie
the Mariner fan. I mean, he's Jeff's going in Robbie's territory.
He's entering Robbie the Mariner fans space. But Robbie didn't calverto.
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And in soccer, Lionel Messi continued to make the MLS
looking silly, but they don't care because people are coming
to see him play two more goals against FC Dallas
scored Sunday.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Because he scored two in every game he's played. I think,
so that's what it seems like, unless I missed the
game he did not. But the games that I've paid
attention to, he's scored two goals.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Yeah, no, I I think you're right on that. They
so they his last goal tied it up four to four.
And then the Miami FC. No, it's inter Miami. I'm sorry,
inter Miami. Right here are soccer guy? Change the name
to the Lionel Messis. How about that? Just change the name.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Okay, So that's fine. So he's saying I living his
best life there and making the MLS look like the
junior varsity of the soccer world dominating. And he's what
thirty six years old, he's doing this thing. It's a
messy situation, is what it is. That's what it is.
Thank you. It is the Ben Malords Show. As we
(25:55):
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a card shark, We have a follow up to a
(26:18):
story we talked about in a previous episode of the show.
You remember this guy named Blake Martinez. We talked about
this a while back. He's a linebackers with the Raiders,
Pokey Man, Pokemon guy, Yeah, the Pokemon guy. So Blake
Martinez retired from the NFL at a young age because
he made so much money trading Pokemon cards that he
(26:39):
didn't need the NFL think about that, So he quit.
He said, that's it, I'm done. I don't want to
play anymore. I'll just sell cards and I'm fine. Well,
now we have a follow up the rest of the
story dateline Pokemon cardan where former NFL linebacker Blake Martinez
(27:04):
has been banned from selling Pokemon cards on something called
the what Not. I don't know what that is. There
was an investigation and he is being accused of scamming
card buyers. This is a blow to the Pokemon community.
This is not right here. I mean as and I
(27:26):
defend the I was a collector of cards when I
was young. You cannot spit a loogie because you're a
former NFL player in the Pokemon domain here. So I
don't even know what what not is. Apparently this is
the I'm told it's the platform that they trade these
things on.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
What did he do.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Well, I'll give you some of the information here. They
did not release all the details, but they claimed there
was a comprehensive investigation into Blake Martinez's activity. And from
what I was reading, I don't know social media, who
knows that there was people speculating that he was he
was scamming people. He was he was claiming cards were
in better condition than they were, things like that, and
(28:08):
so but anyway, he left. Now, according to the Athletic,
this guy he had done more than eleven million dollars
in earnings from selling Pokemon cards last year. So now
he's what's he gonna do? Is he go back to
the NFL now or does he find somewhere else to
(28:30):
sell his Pokemon cards. He he streamed sixteen hours per
day and claimed that he had twenty He claims he
has twenty full time employees. That's what he claimed. What
a racket man.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
I don't know whether he was scamming people or not.
I have no idea, but couldn't he just have someone
else as a proxy sell the cards? So is this
really going to affect him? It's like that guy Billy Walter,
the famous sports better where the legendary figures the guy
actually wins. He wins Billy Walters, and so they don't
(29:08):
allow him to bet in Vegas, he actually win. They
don't allow you to bet, and so he has to
hire people to put bets in and he still does it.
He went to jail for a while. I was friends
with Phil Mickelson. I think Michelson rated them out if
I remember correctly that part of the story, it's called
the Phones. Andre is in the Commonwealth and Andre is
up next before school gets back in session. Hello, Andre,
(29:32):
what's going on?
Speaker 5 (29:33):
Ben?
Speaker 8 (29:33):
How you're doing? We do have a couple of weeks
left before school is back in session. We're enjoying, enjoying
the summer days to the best of their possible ability.
Actually here in the Cape, the Hyannis Farbahawks are Cape
League Baseball are playing well. That's my team that I
go ahead and root for. So they're off to they're
(29:53):
going to be in the conference champion.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Eddie, Eddie, why don't you give Cape League scores that
that's a bad job by you.
Speaker 8 (30:00):
That's okay, you know, that's my contribution. You know, you're
going to be a part of the Malord militia. I
understand you have to bring some kind of surplus value.
And so the stars of tomorrow in the KP League.
You know, if I can provide an update in particularly
when the home team, Hyenas Harborhawks are playing well, I'm
glad you know, to provide that news. But Ben, you know,
staying in the world at baseball, we had a dust up,
you know, we had we we had a one two
(30:21):
punch there, which was kind of unusual where we had
to play on the bases and then the guys kind
of get into it. That's not usually when you see
these baseball kerfuffles, right, it's usually when somebody's throwing at
somebody else unnecessarily where folks charge them out. Now, speaking
of that, Ben and quick aside, we remember when was
it Robert Ventura charged them mount against Nolan Ryan.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, we just had the thirtieth We just had the
thirtieth anniversary of that was last week, you know.
Speaker 8 (30:47):
And then we got this statement you're going to learn today.
And twenty six year old Robin Ventura learned what it
means to be country strong. You know, you think these
older guys.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Well, now that you now that you bring that up, well,
Robin also learned old man strength. You learn what old
man strength is. And that and the White Sox history
in fights is not that good. Robin Ventura getting pummelled, now,
Tim Anderson getting pummeled, This is not This is a
weak spot for the Chicago White Sox, the payhalls.
Speaker 8 (31:12):
I agreed. Ben, you're coming from the Windy City. Obviously,
Chicago's on.
Speaker 1 (31:16):
The south side. That's the the baddest part of town,
the South side of Chicago. That's embarrassing for the white
sox it is.
Speaker 8 (31:24):
It is embarrassing. But then here's my overarching point that
I want to make baseball in terms of the innovation
that they have brought to bear, specifically the pitch clock,
which has sped up the game and increased viewership and interest.
Why don't we have a challenge in baseball for third
strike calls?
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (31:42):
You know, I follow the Baseball auditor on Twitter, and
you know, and it gives you the third strip. You know,
we've got We've got umpires missing on third strike calls
at a notable rate. So Baseball, let's get on this.
Let's get it.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Yeah. But see, here's the problem, though. You at some
point you have to stop with the replay. You can't
replay everything. There has to be a point where you can't.
You just got it enough, let them play. What happened
andre to the human element? What happened to that that
there are going to be mistakes. It's within the margin
of error. Aside from Angel hernandez it gets every other
(32:16):
call wrong. Apparently according to the Internet, he's horrible as
an umpire. But aside from that, you know, there'll be
some mistakes. But it's when I when I was years
ago and I was first watching baseball, I said, well,
evens out, maybe it does, maybe it does, but replay everything,
and you're not replay everything.
Speaker 8 (32:34):
And here here is the stimmation of my argument. I'm
not talking about the age of machines. I realize that
AI is coming and and automation is coming into the world,
and we have to have safeguards. But just one challenge
call per manager.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Per game.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
But here's let me play Devil's advocate here, I'm gonna
advocate for the devil. Listen, all right, listen close. How
about this?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
What if?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
What if I'm a hitter and I say, you know what,
maya bat? My entire bat change because strike one was
actually a ball and I would have been ahead of
the count, and then the pitcher has to come at
me with a different pitch because he's you know, he's
behind in the count, and that screwed up my entire bat.
So why don't I get to review the first pitch
of the bat because that affected every other pitch of
(33:17):
the bat. How about that?
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Okay? Point taking And by the way, the Devil's Advocate
with the Alvaccino and Kounto reads it with a great movie.
So he's a quick as side. But Ben, what did
I said? Third?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
No, I know what you said. But my point is
if you talk to hitters, and I've had over the years,
they they'll say, the most important pitch. You want to
be ahead of the count. I gotta let you go, Andre,
but thank you. We'll talk to you. I'm sure tomorrow
there's Andre from the comic book. But yeah, the most
important pitch strike one if you're a pitcher, and if
you're a hitter, if it's ball one, because then the
picture's working from behind and then you can kind of
(33:50):
you can lock in on a certain certain zone. It
is the Ben Mahlor Show. As we continue on and
time now for the instad trivia, and here it is.
Listen closely. Blank has the record for most receptions in
NFL history in their first one hundred games. Again, Blank
(34:11):
has the record for the most receptions in NFL history
in their first one hundred games. That's the instant tribute,
the answer, and we'll get to Mallard of the third degree.
We'll do it next.
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Speaker 1 (34:59):
We got Mallad of the A degree that'll be coming
up here mal monetarily time now th four. The Insta
trivia Blank has the record for the most receptions in
NFL history in their first one hundred games. That is
the question. What is the answer? Does anyone listening know
the answer? Let's go to the Malard Militia. Frank Viola
(35:19):
great answer. Boy is he solid for the Vikings back
in the eighties. That's from Donkey Sausage also got traded
to the Jets. Mary lou Retten from mister nice Guy
old school reference there as he is known to do
with the Goose Scooby Dooby Doo from The Cowboy Killer.
That's his answer. Jarvis Landry tossed out by Matt the
Warrior Raider as fan. Aaron Hernandez from Justin in Cincinnati.
(35:43):
That's his favorite Patriot. Lionel L. Train Taylor from Malard
prop Guy Antonio Brown tossed out by Miguel on Fire.
Ferg Katz says Alex Tyshert from the Fifth Hour Podcast. Yeah,
we had Alex because Danny was away with his kid
being born this weekend, so's he's away for the next
couple of weeks. Freddie Mitchell fred X guessed by Nick
(36:05):
and Wisconsin. J. J. Stokes from Our Buddy Rob who
knows where all the good Delis are there in Minnesota?
Nikhil Harry of the Vikings from the Ron Mexico account.
Flipper Anderson from Calligan Tim Eddie, you have an answer, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Let's go with Randy Moss.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Randy Moss. No, your wife's gonna be upset with you, Eddie.
It's Keenan Allen of the Chargers six hundred and twenty
four receptions that the record for the most in their
first one hundred game.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
It's Mallard. How about that to the third degree. This
is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Hey, the Coop de loop.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
Jamar Chase told the media over the weekend that he
told Joe Burrow that he doesn't even want him to
suit up week one. He said, as long as he's
there after week five, they're good. Doesn't want him to
rush back from injury.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Ben.
Speaker 6 (36:56):
Do you think the Bengals would be fine without Burrow
for five weeks?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
Yes? I also think that Jamar Chase is a dope.
That's what I think. Why don't they just rest him
for the entire season just in case he might get hurt?
In fact, don't even play him on wild card weekend
if the Bengals are on the wildcard game, which they
will be if they're lucky to make the playoffs without him. No, no,
I think they should save him for at least the
divisional round out of an abundance of caution. What the
hell are we doing, Jamar ch You're like, sire, what
(37:21):
are you doing? Bad job by you?
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Do?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
You know? The backup quarterback for the Bengals is Trevor Simeon.
You know who that is? Coop from your Bronco days
or his Bronco days. Come on, it's a joke please.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Next, so Barry Bonds did a podcast interview where he
admitted that he wasn't exactly the best clubhouse guy during
his career. He said he wasn't trying to be a
Dick and Dayton. But ain't no way in hell I'm
ever telling anybody what I do. I'm not going to
tell you what I see. I'll give you general conversation
to help you, but I don't know how long we're
(37:52):
going to be teammates, is what Bond said. Ben, Are
you buying that explanation?
Speaker 1 (37:56):
No, he was a jerk from the get go, before
he did all the drugs and all that. When with
the Pirates, he wouldn't sign autographs for sick kids. He
wouldn't do it. Think about that. He wasn't even anybody
at that point.
Speaker 6 (38:07):
Next, Steve Cohen tried to reassure Mets fans over the weekend, saying, quote,
we promise you we will work hard to field a
competitive team in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (38:17):
Do you believe him? Yes? I believe him because he
has to sell season tickets. So that's what he said.
Are they actually gonna do it? No? But that's what
he said. How do we do koop he passes? That
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