June 30, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller begins hour 2 discussing Francisco Lindor holding a players only meeting after the Mets were outscored 30-4 in their series against the Pirates, then heads over to Sacramento as there has been Luis Severino trade talks, and remembers “The Cobra” Dave Parker after he passed away over the weekend + a new edition of Maller to the Third Degree!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
He we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's the Baseball Hour, well kind of. It's the Ben
Mather Show. Here in hour number two, it is all
about the Mets meet, the Mets beat the Mets. Will
this Francisco Lindor inspired players only meeting make a noticeable
difference for the Mets after they were swept by the
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lowly Pittsburgh Pirates over the weekend. Also, how do these
Luis Severino trade talks from the A's compute with you
seven Reno taking shots at the Bush League Ballpark in Sacramento.
And what will you remember about the baseball life of
Hall of Famer Dave Parker, who left us over the
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weekend at age seventy four. We'll talk about the cobra
and his career in baseball.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
All that and more.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Right now, it's our number two, riding high in April,
man crashing down in June. Welca come in the beginning
of another hour of the Ben Maler Show.
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I'd be so our lead this hour is from baseball.
We'll start out in Pittsburgh. That is where the Metropolitans
were floundering and drowning, a place normally you go to
(02:19):
get well if you're not doing that well. When you
see a team like the Pirates who are on their
way to losing one hundred games like they do almost
every year, you're like, oh man, this is great time
to eat, time to get get healthy.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
If you didn't follow this, I immediately when I saw this,
I said, oh this is great. This is a good story.
In fact, this is better than a good story is like, Okay,
you lost to the Pirates. A better story is what
Francisco Lindor did.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
He signed that forever contract with the Metropolitans a couple
years back, and after a slow start, he's put up
some decent stats and all that fine and wonderful and
all that. So less than twenty four hours prior, Francisco
Lindor called a team meeting, a closed clubhouse meet and greet.
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The Mets had lost two in a row to the Pirates.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
That was on.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Saturday, and then they went out the Amazings as they
are called when they win. They went out there the
Amazons and got smashed at PNC Park as they got
their ass handed him by the Pirates. It was O'Neil Cruz,
the guy that only plays hard when he feels like it.
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O'Neil Cruz and Tommy fam that very angry guy in
the outfield who teed off on the New York Mets
starting pitcher on Sunday, Frankie Montees and see you later.
Back to back first inning home runs. The Mets would
never never get into the game. They lost twelve to one.
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You lost by eleven runs to the Bucos after a
player only meeting. Now, O'Neal Cruz, the guy that has
put the dog in major League Dog, had another home
run in the seventh inning, a two run homer for
the Pirates. Now, the better story is in the losing
locker room, and that would be the Mets, who somehow,
some way managed to slide into Pittsburgh over the weekend
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last weekend at June. Last week in a June, they
slide into Pittsburgh and got outscored by twenty six runs.
The Pirates, what do they bring back? And evans likeing
Barry Bonds and Bobby Booney. The Pirates outscored the Mets
thirty to four. Thirty to four was the final. So
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if you're keeping scored at home, the New York Metropolitans
have now lost in their last sixteen games, thirteen of
the sixteen. Now, I didn't play major League baseball. I
just know that blows. Okay, So let us discuss the
question will this Francisco Goldendoor inspired players only meeting make
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any noticeable difference going forward for the Mets? We know
it didn't work the first day. We will make any
noticeable difference going forward? So I've got spinal tap, gothic
horror novel, and blueprint, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're going to make a intervention
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because the New York Mets, the way they are playing
baseball right now, they need an intervention. So number why,
I said number why. If you've heard the show over
the years, you know this is one of my pet peeves.
I know firsthand from being in the ballparks, in the
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stadiums of the arenas. I know what absolute fertilizer the
player's only meeting is. I also know that there's a
lot of low information fans that think it is something
that it is not. The player's only meeting has been
a staple of losing teams in professional sports. It is
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an enduring tradition that goes back to the start of media.
I mean media means has been around forever, but baseball
in the early days, there were eighteen newspapers that would
follow the New York Yankees, and if they didn't play well,
they'd have a player's only meeting and players only meetings.
It's like a fungus. It just refuses to die. It
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doesn't work, but it refuses to die. The only thing,
the only thing players only meeting meetings are good for
the only thing really accomplishes is it turns up the volume.
It turns up the volume a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
To think of the film Spinal Tap and the famous
scene in that film where you're demonstrating the amplifier for
the guitar and said, well, this one goes all way
up to eleven, and it's zero to eleven. Those other
ones only go to ten, but this is to eleven.
And so there you go, put it up to eleven.
And so that's what does. But team meetings are not necessary.
And I'll tell you why. The reason they're not necessary,
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and this is gonna blow you away. Professional athletes, the
brotherhood of professional athletes. They spend more time together than
they do with their families. They're on planes, trains, and
automobiles from here, there and everywhere. All they do is
hang out together. They work out in gyms together, they
practice their sport together. They stay at the same hotels,
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they eat at the same restaurants on the road, right,
they go down the hotel bar, all that stuff. In
other words, the players only meeting is just an opportunity
to chat amongst each other. Something they have the opportunity
to do every single efing day, And just like the
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real world.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I know from being in radio and having many meetings.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Back we don't have meetings anymore, but back in the
old days, we used to have meetings all the time,
and the whole point of the meeting was to try
to get it over with as quickly as possible, to
not ask any questions, to shut up, listen to the
dumb boss speak, and then get the hell out of there.
And inevitably, every place of business, at least I've worked,
there's always.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That one.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
A hole I want to say something else, there's that
one person that tries to suck up to the boss.
You know, you know what I'm talking about, and they
ask eight million questions. We used to have a guy
and he didn't work here anymore. He's I did a
TV show with him. But that guy, all he did
was ask stupid question would drive us all nuts. It's ridiculous.
It was so stupid. But the main the thing you
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accomplish it you don't improve things with players only meetings.
You just give the illusion that you care, right, You
give the appearance that you're involved and that you're really
upset by what's going on, and You can't just go
on and lose and do nothing. Oh, you gotta do something.
So you have the coach and the media think that
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you really care. These guys are passionate and they care.
Who knows what actually goes on in there. From what
I've heard, it's a lot of complaining. And then what
ends up happening is you have people that leave the
meeting feeling worse, and then that prolongs the situation because
they're being called out in front of their teammates. See, oh, well,
maybe this will help. We'll just do the old hail Mary.
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Why not all right now? Page two to Sacramento. That's right,
I said it. Sacramento a city that is so embarrassing.
They allowed a Major League Baseball team to move there,
and the team so humiliated by being in that city
they refuse to use the city Moniker, How do you
allow that if you're the mayor of Sacramento? How do
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you allow that if you're involved in that team. It's
so embarrassing. It's the most single, most embarrassing thing I
have seen in my years around professional sports that he
politicians allowed a team to move temporarily and they said, okay,
we'll find if you don't ever mention the city that
you're playing in, and it's so humiliating you talk about
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a kick to the nuts. Anyway, the Athletics, they spent
the weekend getting their face mostly bashed in by the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So the Athletics.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
The big move they made on their way to Vegas,
but they stopped in Sacramento from Oakland. They signed Luis Severino.
That's a starting pitcher, not a good one. They signed
him to a three year, sixty seven million dollars contract,
and now.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
They want to trade him.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They cannot wait to unload him, we are told because
sever Reno has pointed out what a bush league setup
they have in Sacramento, and he is agitated, the same
a holes that don't want to admit they're in Sacramento.
You can't make this up. Like the people running the
Athletics made sure to not have Sacramento in the name.
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It's just Athletics or Athletics Baseball. They don't want Sacramento
to be involved. So here's the guy ripping the ballpark
in Sacramento and the working conditions, and the team that
clearly agrees because they're the ones that are forcing Major
League Baseball run prop the news service to not say Sacramento,
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and they agree, But now they want to get.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Rid of him.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So how do these Luis Severino trade talks from the
Athletics compute to you?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
All Right, So I love.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
The fact that Severino played the Athletics. Nobody was going
to give him that kind of a contract. And how
do I know that if anyone had offered him that
kind of contract he would have gone anywhere else? The
Athletics are not a big league team. Everyone knew that.
Everyone knew the situation, so minor league out fit there.
They're not trying to win, they're trying to time it.
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So they have a collection of good young players, some
of them that are gonna be in their prime by
the time they open that ballpark in Vegas. They just
started construction of the ballpark in Vegas. You know how
long it's going to take to finish that. Hey, it's
gonna be three years minimum, probably longer than that. Before
everything's done. There'll be some delays, there'll be some setbacks.
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So it's gonna be several years before that ballpark is
done in Sacramento. And so sever Reno couldn't get a
deal anywhere else. So he said, all right, I'll take
the I'll take the money, and he's out there playing chess.
Luis Severino played chess with the Athletics. They paid, they overpaid,
they paid a premium form. Nobody else was willing to
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give him that kind of money. And then now before
the trade deadline, he's out there. He's like, checkmate, you're
gonna trade me. And if you don't trade me, I'm
gonna keep talking about what a minor league outfit you are.
And it's you look at the ballpark there. I've not
been to these Sacramento ball I've watched some games on
TV this year, and it is a Major League Baseball
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version of the witness protection program in Sacramento. It is
it is not listen, not a not a fan of
the spring training environment.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Prior to the start on Sunday, Sevarino had an zero
to seven record and an ERA of six point seventy
nine in ten starts in Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
In seven starts.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
On the road, he had an earned run average of
two and a half a little less than two and
a half. He did get lit up, but this is
in the game on Sunday against the Yankees as old team,
but it is a Doctor Jekyll, Mister Hyde gothic horror
horror novel is what. He's Doctor Jekyll, you know. And
he's on the road pitching at Dodger Stadium or Anaheim
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or somewhere else. He's fine. And then that hide he's
doctor Hyde or mister Hyde at the that minor league
Sutter Health.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Park or whatever the corporate name is that ballpark.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Now the bottom line, though, the bottom line on this
is that we expect him to end up by August first,
because the trade headline is July thirty first.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
He's going to end up on a contender.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And the the A's are throwing a tantrum like a
bunch of you know, toddlers out there the front office.
They're all upset and all this stuff. And you know,
how dare you because this guy is saying the quiet
part out loud. He's unfiltered because carry got the contract
that's guaranteed. And so now the A's front office they're
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shopping him like a some broken air fryer that you're
trying to get rid of on the internet. You'll offer up,
come pick it up here, you go take it, please,
All right now, final point, A melancholy melancholy oh bit
if you will. We learned over the weekend that soon
to be Hall of Fame. In fact, the ceremonies coming up,
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I believe in July here soon to be Hall of Famer.
Dave Parker died at the age of seventy four. Now,
if you're of a certain age, this is a big deal.
If you're below a certain age, you're like, I don't
know Dave Parker. As I saw some highlights, it doesn't
do anything for me. But Dave Parker was a legend
for the Pittsburgh Pirates back in the nineteen seventies and
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had some big years in the eighties, had a couple
of down years played with the Cincinnati Reds after he
left Pittsburgh. Actually was on some good teams with the
old Oakland Athletics. Won a World Series, the Bay Bridge
Series with the Athletics as a veteran mentor, and I
had a chance I a day Parker my podcast a
while back. Before he got into the Hall of Fame.
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It was campaigning to get into the Hall of Fame.
It was obviously a big deal, as anyone would say,
to get into the Hall of fame. So I want
to spend a few minutes what will you remember? What
are you going to remember about the baseball life of
Hall of Famer Dave Parker, who died over the weekend.
So on this one, it's not just the guy had
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a cam. He thought about the ability as a player.
He had a cannon in the in the outfield and
right field, and he brought this thunderous left handed power swing.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And those are all fun things and all.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Great, but for me, it was the way that he
carried himself on the field. There was this struck, this rasmatas,
the swagger, the presence in an era when most people
didn't carry to themselves like that in baseball. And so
Dave Parker stood out from the others in baseball and
that and he played very well, was an MVP in
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one the batting title a couple of times. And it
was a tall guy, six foot five, but he looked
more like a tight end, like a modern tight end
in the NFL. And it's it's like when he was batting,
and I saw most of what I saw if Dave
Parker was after his prime, Like I'm old. I'm not
that old, but I guess I am but I watched
him kind of after his prime years, and even then
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he would dare the opposing picture to throw him something
hit able. And what I loved I saw him with
the Play with the Angels near the end of his
career and saw him out there, and I went down
late in games because he'd be in the on deck
circle and he had an actual sledgehammer, not a fake sledgehammer.
He had a real sledgehammer. He got that from Willie
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Stargell with the Pirates, and it was like an act
of intimidation for the opposing pitcher. Like normally they used
to use these they call him donuts. They put they
weighted donuts around the back. Well, Dave Parker and he
learned it from Willy Starger. He had an actual sledgehammer
and he took it with him from Pittsburgh and then
they had to paint a the different colors to the
different teams he went for went to and he had
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the same electricity in that era, like Reggie Jackson was
a similar type player in that And you know this
guy's in there's every generation has a couple of them.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
You're so good and so gifted.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
That and the way they carry themselves that you're you're
locked in on them, like that's you got to see
when they're at bat. You don't go get the nachos,
you don't go take a whiz. You want to see
what they do. And he had the nickname too, the Cobra.
How great a nickname is that the Cobra. It's awesome.
And he backed it up on the field. And he
did all that in an era before look at me
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social media, you know that didn't exist, and that one around.
Now it's easy to put an earring in and dance
around and you get a million bots in the matrix
that get all excited, get all fired up. But there
was no clickbait when Dave Parker was doing his thing
back in the day, and now he wasn't perfect.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
There were some flaws.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
In the nineteen eighties, everyone was doing coke, including Dave Parker.
He loved the cocaine and there was a big drug
scandal in baseball and he was a central figure in that.
There was the One of the reasons Day Parker didn't
get in the Hall of Fame sooner is because of
the cocaine trials of the nineteen eighties. Imagine what that
would have been like in the modern era with the
media the way it is today, and it was mentioned,
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but it wasn't mentioned nearly all that much as I remember.
As I remember it, however, he didn't like run away
from that. He was was hoping.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
He talked about his issues and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
He'd been battling some health problems for a number of
years and made a ton of money, as I remember,
with Popeye's Chicken.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Dave Parker owned a bunch of Popeye's.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Chicken in Cincinnati, low key like franchises, and they did
pretty well. So he made some money on that. And
so rest in peace, Dave Parker, seventy fourth. It's a
bummer didn't get into the Hall of Fame, and he
got in, but he will not be able to give
his speech obviously, as he has checked out from this
mortal coil. We will press on. It is the Ben
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sacramento rights in as the top of the hour monologue
about The New York mets having a players only, meeting
the great waste of time players only, meeting and Also Luis,
sevarino who's about to be traded by The. Athletics stuck
In sacramento, says great rant about The sacramento, as, yes
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we are an embarrassment to professional. Sports the team sucks
almost as bad as the. City rob manfraud must be
on the spectrum to allow this blank show to happen
in the first. Place i'm embarrassed to be seen in,
public so he. Says JOHNNY q says The cobra at
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first the First Seattle All Star, game sat in right,
field Saw parker throw out two runners at HOME.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Mvp so so he.
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Ben good to do with.
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You i'm gonna tag to the top with the. Show
when you were talking About Lebron james and the tap
dance that he's doing a lot of good baseball talk
in terms of what's going on In Major league and
teams making. Moves you, KNOW i think baseball's a little
bit similar to. Basketball you, know All Star break In,
june you, know it's a beautiful, thing and then kind
Of All Star break going second half is when a
(22:55):
lot of people kind of lock in because it's such
a long. Journey but love to baseball. Commentary but in
terms Of lebron and THE, nba this Is lebron is
kind of like the basketball With Aaron rodgers is to.
Football he's not retiring anytime, soon so putting out these
subliminals his wonderful, wife what is.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Your definition of anytime? Soon by the, way because he
is past the age of, Forty normally that's the time
you retire as you normally you don't even play till you're.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Forty, yes that's, True, Ben but all these professional sports
now you, know it's two hand. Touch it's pretty pat
you can't touch. Anybody they don't play at. All play
sixty five games and call it a full, season you. Know,
so and then of course you have Young bryce who's
At university Of arizona for his apprenticeship, year and then
he'll be coming into THE. Nba so that's certainly a.
(23:42):
Goal so it's a minimum of two. YEARS i, mean
you're not just gonna play with your two sons for
one year and then right off into the. Sunset pin
of fact is what are you going to do when
you're not out there playing basketball in the best shape
of your. Life you're gonna go lay on the beach
of the.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Visa how long is that gonna you live your?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Life, yeah it's a great wonderful.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Thing you'd be forty years old and have what thirty
forty years of endless amounts of money to do whatever
you want, to travel wherever you want to and just
live your.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Life come, on.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
He's doing that right, Now, Ben. Okay and of course
what did we learn From raiders Owner Al smith might
get that. Name he loves the, noise he loves being
in the, Arena he's not going anywhere anytime. Soon and
to mytimation, point BECAUSE i know you got a number
of other. Calls we see what's happening with Mister ayton
In portland buying out of his. Deal what's the rumor
(24:32):
mail Saying ayton's on his way To la be that,
center be that lop threat For lucas that they can
build it up to try to.
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Compete for a.
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Championship bottom line, is when you have the best job
on the, planet you know why? Leave when you stay
as long as you can and you know you have
plenty time to be rich and famous in the celebrity
but you can't get back being in the arena those
high leverage moments To, lebron it's good for THE q.
Rating it's an interesting. Narrative he's not going anywhere anytime.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Sorry he's not trying to. Where he just wants to
keep playing because he loves. It what comes to. It
but you're admitting he doesn't really want to. Win he's
not he's not in it to win. It you're you're admitting, that,
right that's what you're. Saying AND i agree with you on.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
That the championship the time is, done but you know,
who you, know you're still out. There he's good for
it's good for. Basketball he likes being out, there you.
Know and he's not Catching Michael. Jordan that's, done, Okay
but he can do all the longevity stuff and just
live it, up you, know and it's a win. Win
play with your, kids have.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
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We all, know, hey you look.
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Leave. Man thanks so much of the, Time i'm still
to be back.
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throwed your back the summer Of. Andre joe the Ghost hunter,
writes and he Says ben The, Cobra Dave parker was
looking out for the. Buckos believe, me they will suck.
Again and Says joe the Ghost.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Hunter, Well i'm, Honored joe that you listen to the.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
SHOW i, Know coast to, coast if you're a ghost,
hunter if you're into paranormal, research The coast to coast show.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Is the way to.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Go BUT i love the fact that you're loyal to this.
Show we appreciate That bill writes. It he, Says Dave
parker was. Awesome his arm was a true. Cannon he
tried to coax runners into trying his arm.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Out it was a.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Highlight not A Roberto clemente arm, partially but a cannon
he'd slapped down when catching fly balls At. Batti was
was upset at the ball and punished. It, Yeah, NO i,
Agree Dave parker was he, had he had and then
THE aes, team the last team he played, on the
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last team that won that he played, on The athletics
in the late.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
EIGHTIES i mean they for that era they, had they
had That.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Razmataz they had people were like the Bash brothers of
that era With kinseko And maguire And Dave parker was
also part of that. Team let's go to Uh poppy
In San. Diego Hello, Poppy Hello Ben.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Maler you know what you?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Know you started with two? Knows two you, knows, three you, knows,
four you know's you don't like five you.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Knows but some of the callers that you, hear they're very,
repetitive AND i know.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
That are you ripping other? Callers everyone hates. You you're
ripping other? Callers is that what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Now you're taking shots at other people that call the
show when people say you are bad as a.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Call, Really i'm the. Villain i'm the. Villain people love
me and shout out to my fans out. There you
have no.
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Fans you had one fan you.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Had you Had mason The, millennial WHO i guess got
banned from.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
The show or.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Whatever SO i don't know what.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Happened you're not, Sure maybe you should reply to, Him
mason The millennial and her emails that he, SAYS i.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
DIDN'T i didn't ban, Me SO i don't know what.
HAPPEN i Guess coop and loraen have a, problem BUT
i don't have a. PROBLEM i didn't ban.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Them go, ahead What i'm just.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Saying but look all the poppy fanatics on. There there there.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Are no poppy. Fanatics it doesn't doesn't.
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Exist they're all. True and everyone looked my tickets because
one of that there drug free.
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Because they don't they can't do, drugs, soure they don't.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Exist that we made that bling bling and like like
you're a. Pick but, LOOK i got some good news for,
You Ben, Maler, well what.
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Are you talking about my? PICKS i didn't make any.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Picks, well didn't you recommend me to pick on.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
The, NO i, Said.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
POPPY i, said you're Mister padre lap dog right when
you wear knee pads for The.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Padres so why didn't you pick The?
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Padres AND i, said go against some of The.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Padre you didn't say go against. Some you didn't say
go against. Some you just didn't think they were gonna.
Win but you didn't want to bet against.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Something, hey you're my mentor For, LOOK i was gonna
tell you go on to my main point on the.
Podcast whenever you need, something you're my. MENTOR i would
love to go be under in the. PODCAST i Know
danny you wasn't, there AND i would love to feel
like you can contact me, Whenever ben ma you know
where to?
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Read does anyone want me?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
To how DO i? KNOW i don't know where to reach.
YOU i don't have your phone, NUMBER i don't have your.
EMAIL i don't know how to get ahold of.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You i've none of.
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That Well i'll give that some off. Air but, LOOK
i don't need.
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That DO i need his? Number, BREE i don't THINK
i don't need his, number, RIGHT i don't need your.
Number why WOULD i want your. NUMBER i don't need your.
Number WHAT i know your.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
MENTOR i Thought Brian finley was your, mentor and they whacked.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Him he's not here.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Anymore, no he is my. Mentor and he said that
he loves.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
You he said to, you and that's a.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Lot that's why we were only work. Friends he has
not contacted me since he. Left he was a fake.
Friend he's a work, friend which is. Fine i'm okay with.
That you find out when people change. Jobs who's a real,
friend who's a work?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Friend? Wedding, yes because he was working here at the.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Time so we were work friends and we know that
you love A but, Look Ben, malor season, Three benny
versus A penny is going to be very successful on
your third.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Season well you better, Not, Jackson you better Not Jackson.
Poppy there better be a third. Season i'm gonna hunt you,
Down Ben.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Mano they're listen right. Now on season. Three you need
the best underground cap or view right there next to.
You you need to spice it. Up you need me
are you.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
In wait, wait, wait, wait, wait you're inviting yourself on
THE tv. Show if they bring the show, back that
will guarantee they cancel the. Show if they hear, this
they're gonna know. That the management over there listens AT,
nbc they'll hear. This they'll, say we can't bring the
show back Because poppy's gonna be on the.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Show so that's.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
It, No Ben, miller because you're my. Mentor on the production,
Meeting you're, like, HEY i have an. Idea you pitch
it on, There you pitch it on, there and, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Guy From San.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Diego he's he's known for being in uh uber, commercials
uber commercials.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
And, Yes i'm miss factor. Too but, Look i'm not
saying humble about. That you're very, Humble.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Larada does he sound like a humble man to?
Speaker 7 (30:37):
You i've met a lot of humble people in my,
life and he might be one of the most humble.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Sounding, really, Uh bri would he you're in the producer.
Share does he sound like a humble? Man absolutely, not,
absolutely there's some real talk about.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
It you're not coming across as humble, There. POPPY i
hate to tell you.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
That, Look Ben, ma you're my. Mentor you just keep.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Saying that you keep over and, oh you keep saying that.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
You're my mentor your winner on benny versus a. Penny,
Guys i'm gonna give you.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Winners, no, stop you know you're. Not you're Got Foster.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Poppy How Scott foster?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Doing oh that's a good.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Point, yeah, yeah, Yeah Where Scott foster? At what game
is he officiating? Tonight do you know Where Scott foster?
IS nba Rapp, okay all, right all, RIGHT i gotta
go look at look at the time.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Here.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
UNBELIEVABLE i must go all right there you, go, Alright.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Uh don Uh, wright this IS i still have like
thirty cards Of Dave. PARKER i love the old pirate. Uniforms,
yeah there's some pretty good uniforms back in the. Day
parrito writes and, SAYS i Watched Dave parker And Reggie
smith in the same game throw Out runners At home flat.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Footed it, was oh you did? That watch this?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Classic, also we mimicked his coiled up batting stands.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Playing in the.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Park, yeah, well the btning stands. Stuff he always is
back in the old days before the. Internet now you
DON'T i don't think is there any kids out. There no,
kids they don't do. That why would.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
They they have The, internet they Have internet. Porn they
have all. That they don't need to worry.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
About pretending the, worst, right they don't have to worry
about pretending to be some baseball. Player they can pretend
to be other. Things so, anyway it is The Ben
Mallor show.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
As we are rolling rolling through.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
The overnight so looking for some insider. Info The San
Francisco giants who got their ass kicked by The Chicago
White sox this weekend after getting their face bashed.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
In by The Miami.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Marlins this is after The giants went out and got
a power hitting three hundred million dollar player And Rafael
devers from The Red.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Sox The giants are free, falling free.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Falling and so they have made a roster. Move The
giants have signed Longtime dodger Catcher Austin.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Barnes Mister barnes.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
To a minor league deal eleven season since mostly As
Clayton kershaw's personal catcher with The, doyers and he's likely
going to be with The giants here, Shortly Buster posey
sign signing, him and it seems to have a history
of knowing catchers. There the starting catcher for The higantes
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Is Patrick.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Bailey and he has not hit very.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Well and if you want a guy that can't, Hit
Austin barnes would be, perfect as he's managed to get
fully vested in The Major League baseball pension. Program not
being able to hit a career two twenty three hitter
and numbers just. Horrific but they kept him around Because
kershaw liked, him and they finally got fed off The
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dodgers and they Fired Austin barnes earlier this. Season they
called Up Dalton rushing to play once or twice a.
Week And Will, smith who signed forever and ever and,
ever is still hanging around as The dodgers catcher for
as long as he can play behind the, plate and
then they'll move him to another position because they've signed
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him for a very long. Time But Austin barnes going
to The giants a, signed things are not going. Well
trying to get Some dodger, intel get some inside info
on The. Dodges we have mallardly third. Degree we'll get
to that coming up time now for The Insta trivium
and blank is fifteen for fifteen stealing bases this, season
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raising his career success rate to an even ninety. Percent in,
fact he is the only player In Major League baseball
history with at least one hundred stolen bases that has
a career success rate of at least ninety. Percent, Again
blank is fifteen for fifteen stealing bases this, season raising
his career success rate to an even ninety. Percent the
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only player In Major League baseball history with at least
one hundred stolen bases and a career success rate of
at least ninety. Percent that is the, trivia the. Answer
we'll get to. It we will do it.
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Here all, right.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Time now for the insta. Trivia then we're gonna Have
mallor to the third. Degree here's the instant. Trivia blank
is fifteen for fifteen stealing bases this, season raising his
career success rate to an even ninety.
Speaker 1 (36:04):
Percent he is the only player.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
In Major League baseball history with at least one hundred
stolen bases and a career success rate of at least ninety.
Percent that is the. Question what is the? Answer and
let's see does anyone know the? Answer sheen Into moine
going With Starling. Marte all these answers from real people
just like. Yourself on ex At Ben, Mause, scrooge who
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the Key lin that delicious Key Lion. Pie, YES i
got some Key lin ice cream over the. Weekend the, Wife,
oh you don't really like? THAT i, Said DO i like?
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and was really. GOOD i, like, uh what else do?
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coleman The firecracker From JOHNNY. Q Hadley staple From chipping The.
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Have Page?
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Down Just josh As poppy is the worst mentor illness is?
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uh let's See. Lorraina do you have an, Answer, Lorraine.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
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ONE i know it is Not.
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For.
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Now for, now subject To. James here we go about.
Speaker 5 (38:17):
That to the third. Degree this is one Big ben
gets quick over.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Debris she's in the producer's chair and she's about to grill.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Me it's mallard of the.
Speaker 7 (38:28):
Thing you sound so, Excited, BEN i am overwhelmed with emotion.
Already The evil four letter is marketing the heck out
Of Cooper flag and The MAVs taking On Brownie james
and The lakers fly tenth to open up The Las
Vegas Summer. League, ben what do you make of this
over hyped hoopla?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Matchup, well IF i worked AT, ESPN i would be
hyping it up, too because they want people to. Watch
it's the summer. League thing blows me. AWAY i used
to go to The Summer. League used to be In
La it was In Long, beach it was In.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Irvine for a.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
While AND i would go to The Summer league and
no one cared about The Summer.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Lee it was a.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Joke it was like a high school. Thing now these
games are all on television and it's, like gives a
rats ass about The Summer, League and it doesn't if
you play. WELL i Remember wmber When Magic johnson celebrate
The lakers won The Summer league championship and they celeb
it was so. Stupid, NO i don't give a rat,
test BUT i will watch it IF i have a
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talk show to do that.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Night.
Speaker 7 (39:22):
Next, Alrighty South Carolina gamecocks women's basketball team head Coach
Don sealey is rumored to be one of The knicks
head coaching. Candidates, ben do you actually see her as
an actual candidate or is it just like pr who?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Blocks? Oh, NO i want to see her get the. Job.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Breon here's why they've hired men since nineteen seventy and
they haven't, won so might as well try a, woman
just change it up a little.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Bit, WELL i. Don't it's not get crazy, Here but,
no what the hell they. Can't they don't get anything.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Right so if they want to hire, he that means
she's probably gonna do a terrible job as coach because
everyone else they want to hire.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Stinks but eventually there'll be a woman.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Coaching in THE. Nba whether it's her or, not who,
knows but who. Cares i'll rip whoever coaches the next.
Speaker 7 (40:02):
Next former college football head Coach Steve spurrier said on
the most Recent Another julie podcast that he's skeptical on
all the hype surrounding Arch. Manning my question, is if
he was this, good how come they Let Quinn yours
play all this? TIME i give a seventh round pick this.
Year do you agree with The steve spurriers, Comment.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
WELL i love the old ball, coach uh and it is, logical, like,
listen you got to MANNING, dna, right Arch manning MANNING
dna And Quinn yours wasn't thought of very highly by THE.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
NFL i TOTALLY i agree with. Him it makes. Sense
you got to question this. Guy how do we do?
Speaker 3 (40:34):
It?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
YES i, follow we go. FULLAXIS i, passed PHILEXIS i
passed all? Right hallelujah
He we go.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's the Baseball Hour, well kind of. It's the Ben
Mather Show. Here in hour number two, it is all
about the Mets meet, the Mets beat the Mets. Will
this Francisco Lindor inspired players only meeting make a noticeable
difference for the Mets after they were swept by the
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lowly Pittsburgh Pirates over the weekend. Also, how do these
Luis Severino trade talks from the A's compute with you
seven Reno taking shots at the Bush League Ballpark in Sacramento.
And what will you remember about the baseball life of
Hall of Famer Dave Parker, who left us over the
(00:45):
weekend at age seventy four. We'll talk about the cobra
and his career in baseball.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
All that and more.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Right now, it's our number two, riding high in April,
man crashing down in June. Welca come in the beginning
of another hour of the Ben Maler Show.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
We are in the air everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
BFFs, as we are talking when the sun don't shine,
coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the
mast and impressively powerful microphones of fsre amminating live from
the stop. The truck stop of sports talk, not to
be confused with truck stop fungus, as we're hanging out
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I'd be so our lead this hour is from baseball.
We'll start out in Pittsburgh. That is where the Metropolitans
were floundering and drowning, a place normally you go to
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get well if you're not doing that well. When you
see a team like the Pirates who are on their
way to losing one hundred games like they do almost
every year, you're like, oh man, this is great time
to eat, time to get get healthy.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
If you didn't follow this, I immediately when I saw this,
I said, oh this is great. This is a good story.
In fact, this is better than a good story is like, Okay,
you lost to the Pirates. A better story is what
Francisco Lindor did.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
He signed that forever contract with the Metropolitans a couple
years back, and after a slow start, he's put up
some decent stats and all that fine and wonderful and
all that. So less than twenty four hours prior, Francisco
Lindor called a team meeting, a closed clubhouse meet and greet.
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The Mets had lost two in a row to the Pirates.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
That was on.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Saturday, and then they went out the Amazings as they
are called when they win. They went out there the
Amazons and got smashed at PNC Park as they got
their ass handed him by the Pirates. It was O'Neil Cruz,
the guy that only plays hard when he feels like it.
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O'Neil Cruz and Tommy fam that very angry guy in
the outfield who teed off on the New York Mets
starting pitcher on Sunday, Frankie Montees and see you later.
Back to back first inning home runs. The Mets would
never never get into the game. They lost twelve to one.
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You lost by eleven runs to the Bucos after a
player only meeting. Now, O'Neal Cruz, the guy that has
put the dog in major League Dog, had another home
run in the seventh inning, a two run homer for
the Pirates. Now, the better story is in the losing
locker room, and that would be the Mets, who somehow,
some way managed to slide into Pittsburgh over the weekend
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last weekend at June. Last week in a June, they
slide into Pittsburgh and got outscored by twenty six runs.
The Pirates, what do they bring back? And evans likeing
Barry Bonds and Bobby Booney. The Pirates outscored the Mets
thirty to four. Thirty to four was the final. So
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if you're keeping scored at home, the New York Metropolitans
have now lost in their last sixteen games, thirteen of
the sixteen. Now, I didn't play major League baseball. I
just know that blows. Okay, So let us discuss the
question will this Francisco Goldendoor inspired players only meeting make
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any noticeable difference going forward for the Mets? We know
it didn't work the first day. We will make any
noticeable difference going forward? So I've got spinal tap, gothic
horror novel, and blueprint, and we will combine all of
these things together and we're going to make a intervention
(05:28):
because the New York Mets, the way they are playing
baseball right now, they need an intervention. So number why,
I said number why. If you've heard the show over
the years, you know this is one of my pet peeves.
I know firsthand from being in the ballparks, in the
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stadiums of the arenas. I know what absolute fertilizer the
player's only meeting is. I also know that there's a
lot of low information fans that think it is something
that it is not. The player's only meeting has been
a staple of losing teams in professional sports. It is
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an enduring tradition that goes back to the start of media.
I mean media means has been around forever, but baseball
in the early days, there were eighteen newspapers that would
follow the New York Yankees, and if they didn't play well,
they'd have a player's only meeting and players only meetings.
It's like a fungus. It just refuses to die. It
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doesn't work, but it refuses to die. The only thing,
the only thing players only meeting meetings are good for
the only thing really accomplishes is it turns up the volume.
It turns up the volume a little bit.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
To think of the film Spinal Tap and the famous
scene in that film where you're demonstrating the amplifier for
the guitar and said, well, this one goes all way
up to eleven, and it's zero to eleven. Those other
ones only go to ten, but this is to eleven.
And so there you go, put it up to eleven.
And so that's what does. But team meetings are not necessary.
And I'll tell you why. The reason they're not necessary,
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and this is gonna blow you away. Professional athletes, the
brotherhood of professional athletes. They spend more time together than
they do with their families. They're on planes, trains, and
automobiles from here, there and everywhere. All they do is
hang out together. They work out in gyms together, they
practice their sport together. They stay at the same hotels,
(07:36):
they eat at the same restaurants on the road, right,
they go down the hotel bar, all that stuff. In
other words, the players only meeting is just an opportunity
to chat amongst each other. Something they have the opportunity
to do every single efing day, And just like the
(07:56):
real world.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
I know from being in radio and having many meetings.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Back we don't have meetings anymore, but back in the
old days, we used to have meetings all the time,
and the whole point of the meeting was to try
to get it over with as quickly as possible, to
not ask any questions, to shut up, listen to the
dumb boss speak, and then get the hell out of there.
And inevitably, every place of business, at least I've worked,
there's always.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That one.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
A hole I want to say something else, there's that
one person that tries to suck up to the boss.
You know, you know what I'm talking about, and they
ask eight million questions. We used to have a guy
and he didn't work here anymore. He's I did a
TV show with him. But that guy, all he did
was ask stupid question would drive us all nuts. It's ridiculous.
It was so stupid. But the main the thing you
(08:44):
accomplish it you don't improve things with players only meetings.
You just give the illusion that you care, right, You
give the appearance that you're involved and that you're really
upset by what's going on, and You can't just go
on and lose and do nothing. Oh, you gotta do something.
So you have the coach and the media think that
(09:07):
you really care. These guys are passionate and they care.
Who knows what actually goes on in there. From what
I've heard, it's a lot of complaining. And then what
ends up happening is you have people that leave the
meeting feeling worse, and then that prolongs the situation because
they're being called out in front of their teammates. See, oh, well,
maybe this will help. We'll just do the old hail Mary.
(09:30):
Why not all right now? Page two to Sacramento. That's right,
I said it. Sacramento a city that is so embarrassing.
They allowed a Major League Baseball team to move there,
and the team so humiliated by being in that city
they refuse to use the city Moniker, How do you
allow that if you're the mayor of Sacramento? How do
(09:51):
you allow that if you're involved in that team. It's
so embarrassing. It's the most single, most embarrassing thing I
have seen in my years around professional sports that he
politicians allowed a team to move temporarily and they said, okay,
we'll find if you don't ever mention the city that
you're playing in, and it's so humiliating you talk about
(10:15):
a kick to the nuts. Anyway, the Athletics, they spent
the weekend getting their face mostly bashed in by the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
So the Athletics.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
The big move they made on their way to Vegas,
but they stopped in Sacramento from Oakland. They signed Luis Severino.
That's a starting pitcher, not a good one. They signed
him to a three year, sixty seven million dollars contract,
and now.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
They want to trade him.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
They cannot wait to unload him, we are told because
sever Reno has pointed out what a bush league setup
they have in Sacramento, and he is agitated, the same
a holes that don't want to admit they're in Sacramento.
You can't make this up. Like the people running the
Athletics made sure to not have Sacramento in the name.
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It's just Athletics or Athletics Baseball. They don't want Sacramento
to be involved. So here's the guy ripping the ballpark
in Sacramento and the working conditions, and the team that
clearly agrees because they're the ones that are forcing Major
League Baseball run prop the news service to not say Sacramento,
(11:28):
and they agree, But now they want to get.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Rid of him.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
So how do these Luis Severino trade talks from the
Athletics compute to you?
Speaker 1 (11:39):
All Right, So I love.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
The fact that Severino played the Athletics. Nobody was going
to give him that kind of a contract. And how
do I know that if anyone had offered him that
kind of contract he would have gone anywhere else? The
Athletics are not a big league team. Everyone knew that.
Everyone knew the situation, so minor league out fit there.
They're not trying to win, they're trying to time it.
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So they have a collection of good young players, some
of them that are gonna be in their prime by
the time they open that ballpark in Vegas. They just
started construction of the ballpark in Vegas. You know how
long it's going to take to finish that. Hey, it's
gonna be three years minimum, probably longer than that. Before
everything's done. There'll be some delays, there'll be some setbacks.
(12:27):
So it's gonna be several years before that ballpark is
done in Sacramento. And so sever Reno couldn't get a
deal anywhere else. So he said, all right, I'll take
the I'll take the money, and he's out there playing chess.
Luis Severino played chess with the Athletics. They paid, they overpaid,
they paid a premium form. Nobody else was willing to
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give him that kind of money. And then now before
the trade deadline, he's out there. He's like, checkmate, you're
gonna trade me. And if you don't trade me, I'm
gonna keep talking about what a minor league outfit you are.
And it's you look at the ballpark there. I've not
been to these Sacramento ball I've watched some games on
TV this year, and it is a Major League Baseball
(13:11):
version of the witness protection program in Sacramento. It is
it is not listen, not a not a fan of
the spring training environment.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Prior to the start on Sunday, Sevarino had an zero
to seven record and an ERA of six point seventy
nine in ten starts in Sacramento.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
In seven starts.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
On the road, he had an earned run average of
two and a half a little less than two and
a half. He did get lit up, but this is
in the game on Sunday against the Yankees as old team,
but it is a Doctor Jekyll, Mister Hyde gothic horror
horror novel is what. He's Doctor Jekyll, you know. And
he's on the road pitching at Dodger Stadium or Anaheim
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or somewhere else. He's fine. And then that hide he's
doctor Hyde or mister Hyde at the that minor league
Sutter Health.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
Park or whatever the corporate name is that ballpark.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Now the bottom line, though, the bottom line on this
is that we expect him to end up by August first,
because the trade headline is July thirty first.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
He's going to end up on a contender.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
And the the A's are throwing a tantrum like a
bunch of you know, toddlers out there the front office.
They're all upset and all this stuff. And you know,
how dare you because this guy is saying the quiet
part out loud. He's unfiltered because carry got the contract
that's guaranteed. And so now the A's front office they're
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shopping him like a some broken air fryer that you're
trying to get rid of on the internet. You'll offer up,
come pick it up here, you go take it, please,
All right now, final point, A melancholy melancholy oh bit
if you will. We learned over the weekend that soon
to be Hall of Fame. In fact, the ceremonies coming up,
(14:58):
I believe in July here soon to be Hall of Famer.
Dave Parker died at the age of seventy four. Now,
if you're of a certain age, this is a big deal.
If you're below a certain age, you're like, I don't
know Dave Parker. As I saw some highlights, it doesn't
do anything for me. But Dave Parker was a legend
for the Pittsburgh Pirates back in the nineteen seventies and
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had some big years in the eighties, had a couple
of down years played with the Cincinnati Reds after he
left Pittsburgh. Actually was on some good teams with the
old Oakland Athletics. Won a World Series, the Bay Bridge
Series with the Athletics as a veteran mentor, and I
had a chance I a day Parker my podcast a
while back. Before he got into the Hall of Fame.
(15:41):
It was campaigning to get into the Hall of Fame.
It was obviously a big deal, as anyone would say,
to get into the Hall of fame. So I want
to spend a few minutes what will you remember? What
are you going to remember about the baseball life of
Hall of Famer Dave Parker, who died over the weekend.
So on this one, it's not just the guy had
(16:02):
a cam. He thought about the ability as a player.
He had a cannon in the in the outfield and
right field, and he brought this thunderous left handed power swing.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
And those are all fun things and all.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Great, but for me, it was the way that he
carried himself on the field. There was this struck, this rasmatas,
the swagger, the presence in an era when most people
didn't carry to themselves like that in baseball. And so
Dave Parker stood out from the others in baseball and
that and he played very well, was an MVP in
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one the batting title a couple of times. And it
was a tall guy, six foot five, but he looked
more like a tight end, like a modern tight end
in the NFL. And it's it's like when he was batting,
and I saw most of what I saw if Dave
Parker was after his prime, Like I'm old. I'm not
that old, but I guess I am but I watched
him kind of after his prime years, and even then
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he would dare the opposing picture to throw him something
hit able. And what I loved I saw him with
the Play with the Angels near the end of his
career and saw him out there, and I went down
late in games because he'd be in the on deck
circle and he had an actual sledgehammer, not a fake sledgehammer.
He had a real sledgehammer. He got that from Willie
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Stargell with the Pirates, and it was like an act
of intimidation for the opposing pitcher. Like normally they used
to use these they call him donuts. They put they
weighted donuts around the back. Well, Dave Parker and he
learned it from Willy Starger. He had an actual sledgehammer
and he took it with him from Pittsburgh and then
they had to paint a the different colors to the
different teams he went for went to and he had
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the same electricity in that era, like Reggie Jackson was
a similar type player in that And you know this
guy's in there's every generation has a couple of them.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
You're so good and so gifted.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
That and the way they carry themselves that you're you're
locked in on them, like that's you got to see
when they're at bat. You don't go get the nachos,
you don't go take a whiz. You want to see
what they do. And he had the nickname too, the Cobra.
How great a nickname is that the Cobra. It's awesome.
And he backed it up on the field. And he
did all that in an era before look at me
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social media, you know that didn't exist, and that one around.
Now it's easy to put an earring in and dance
around and you get a million bots in the matrix
that get all excited, get all fired up. But there
was no clickbait when Dave Parker was doing his thing
back in the day, and now he wasn't perfect.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
There were some flaws.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
In the nineteen eighties, everyone was doing coke, including Dave Parker.
He loved the cocaine and there was a big drug
scandal in baseball and he was a central figure in that.
There was the One of the reasons Day Parker didn't
get in the Hall of Fame sooner is because of
the cocaine trials of the nineteen eighties. Imagine what that
would have been like in the modern era with the
media the way it is today, and it was mentioned,
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but it wasn't mentioned nearly all that much as I remember.
As I remember it, however, he didn't like run away
from that. He was was hoping.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
He talked about his issues and all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
He'd been battling some health problems for a number of
years and made a ton of money, as I remember,
with Popeye's Chicken.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Dave Parker owned a bunch of Popeye's.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Chicken in Cincinnati, low key like franchises, and they did
pretty well. So he made some money on that. And
so rest in peace, Dave Parker, seventy fourth. It's a
bummer didn't get into the Hall of Fame, and he
got in, but he will not be able to give
his speech obviously, as he has checked out from this
mortal coil. We will press on. It is the Ben
Mahlord Show. If you'd like to comment on any of that,
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and now back back to, it all. Right stuck In
sacramento rights in as the top of the hour monologue
about The New York mets having a players only, meeting
the great waste of time players only, meeting and Also Luis,
sevarino who's about to be traded by The. Athletics stuck
In sacramento, says great rant about The sacramento, as, yes
(21:48):
we are an embarrassment to professional. Sports the team sucks
almost as bad as the. City rob manfraud must be
on the spectrum to allow this blank show to happen
in the first. Place i'm embarrassed to be seen in,
public so he. Says JOHNNY q says The cobra at
(22:08):
first the First Seattle All Star, game sat in right,
field Saw parker throw out two runners at HOME.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Mvp so so he.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Says all, right, wow go to the, phones and we'll
say hello to eeny meenie Money. Mall let's go To,
andre who's in The. Commonwealth, Hello, Andre, welcome what's going?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
On?
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Ben good to do with.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
You i'm gonna tag to the top with the. Show
when you were talking About Lebron james and the tap
dance that he's doing a lot of good baseball talk
in terms of what's going on In Major league and
teams making. Moves you, KNOW i think baseball's a little
bit similar to. Basketball you, know All Star break In,
june you, know it's a beautiful, thing and then kind
Of All Star break going second half is when a
(22:55):
lot of people kind of lock in because it's such
a long. Journey but love to baseball. Commentary but in
terms Of lebron and THE, nba this Is lebron is
kind of like the basketball With Aaron rodgers is to.
Football he's not retiring anytime, soon so putting out these
subliminals his wonderful, wife what is.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Your definition of anytime? Soon by the, way because he
is past the age of, Forty normally that's the time
you retire as you normally you don't even play till you're.
Speaker 3 (23:20):
Forty, yes that's, True, Ben but all these professional sports
now you, know it's two hand. Touch it's pretty pat
you can't touch. Anybody they don't play at. All play
sixty five games and call it a full, season you. Know,
so and then of course you have Young bryce who's
At university Of arizona for his apprenticeship, year and then
he'll be coming into THE. Nba so that's certainly a.
(23:42):
Goal so it's a minimum of two. YEARS i, mean
you're not just gonna play with your two sons for
one year and then right off into the. Sunset pin
of fact is what are you going to do when
you're not out there playing basketball in the best shape
of your. Life you're gonna go lay on the beach
of the.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Visa how long is that gonna you live your?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Life, yeah it's a great wonderful.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Thing you'd be forty years old and have what thirty
forty years of endless amounts of money to do whatever
you want, to travel wherever you want to and just
live your.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Life come, on.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
He's doing that right, Now, Ben. Okay and of course
what did we learn From raiders Owner Al smith might
get that. Name he loves the, noise he loves being
in the, Arena he's not going anywhere anytime. Soon and
to mytimation, point BECAUSE i know you got a number
of other. Calls we see what's happening with Mister ayton
In portland buying out of his. Deal what's the rumor
(24:32):
mail Saying ayton's on his way To la be that,
center be that lop threat For lucas that they can
build it up to try to.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Compete for a.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Championship bottom line, is when you have the best job
on the, planet you know why? Leave when you stay
as long as you can and you know you have
plenty time to be rich and famous in the celebrity
but you can't get back being in the arena those
high leverage moments To, lebron it's good for THE q.
Rating it's an interesting. Narrative he's not going anywhere anytime.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Sorry he's not trying to. Where he just wants to
keep playing because he loves. It what comes to. It
but you're admitting he doesn't really want to. Win he's
not he's not in it to win. It you're you're admitting, that,
right that's what you're. Saying AND i agree with you on.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
That the championship the time is, done but you know,
who you, know you're still out. There he's good for
it's good for. Basketball he likes being out, there you.
Know and he's not Catching Michael. Jordan that's, done, Okay
but he can do all the longevity stuff and just
live it, up you, know and it's a win. Win
play with your, kids have.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Fun the ratings are, there and.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Look what's the whole. NARRATIVE i just credit him for
the coke and dagger type of, stuff the cliffhanger when.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
We all, know, hey you look.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
It you're quote unquote addicted to, it and until they
kick you out of the, casino you're never gonna.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Leave. Man thanks so much of the, Time i'm still
to be back.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
There it Is andre from the COMM i know everyone
throwed your back the summer Of. Andre joe the Ghost hunter,
writes and he Says ben The, Cobra Dave parker was
looking out for the. Buckos believe, me they will suck.
Again and Says joe the Ghost.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
Hunter, Well i'm, Honored joe that you listen to the.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
SHOW i, Know coast to, coast if you're a ghost,
hunter if you're into paranormal, research The coast to coast show.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
Is the way to.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Go BUT i love the fact that you're loyal to this.
Show we appreciate That bill writes. It he, Says Dave
parker was. Awesome his arm was a true. Cannon he
tried to coax runners into trying his arm.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
Out it was a.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Highlight not A Roberto clemente arm, partially but a cannon
he'd slapped down when catching fly balls At. Batti was
was upset at the ball and punished. It, Yeah, NO i,
Agree Dave parker was he, had he had and then
THE aes, team the last team he played, on the
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last team that won that he played, on The athletics
in the late.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
EIGHTIES i mean they for that era they, had they
had That.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Razmataz they had people were like the Bash brothers of
that era With kinseko And maguire And Dave parker was
also part of that. Team let's go to Uh poppy
In San. Diego Hello, Poppy Hello Ben.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Maler you know what you?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
Know you started with two? Knows two you, knows, three you, knows,
four you know's you don't like five you.
Speaker 6 (27:06):
Knows but some of the callers that you, hear they're very,
repetitive AND i know.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
That are you ripping other? Callers everyone hates. You you're
ripping other? Callers is that what you're doing?
Speaker 2 (27:16):
Now you're taking shots at other people that call the
show when people say you are bad as a.
Speaker 6 (27:20):
Call, Really i'm the. Villain i'm the. Villain people love
me and shout out to my fans out. There you
have no.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Fans you had one fan you.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Had you Had mason The, millennial WHO i guess got
banned from.
Speaker 6 (27:34):
The show or.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Whatever SO i don't know what.
Speaker 6 (27:36):
Happened you're not, Sure maybe you should reply to, Him
mason The millennial and her emails that he, SAYS i.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
DIDN'T i didn't ban, Me SO i don't know what.
HAPPEN i Guess coop and loraen have a, problem BUT
i don't have a. PROBLEM i didn't ban.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Them go, ahead What i'm just.
Speaker 6 (27:49):
Saying but look all the poppy fanatics on. There there there.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Are no poppy. Fanatics it doesn't doesn't.
Speaker 6 (27:55):
Exist they're all. True and everyone looked my tickets because
one of that there drug free.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Because they don't they can't do, drugs, soure they don't.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Exist that we made that bling bling and like like
you're a. Pick but, LOOK i got some good news for,
You Ben, Maler, well what.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Are you talking about my? PICKS i didn't make any.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Picks, well didn't you recommend me to pick on.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
The, NO i, Said.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
POPPY i, said you're Mister padre lap dog right when
you wear knee pads for The.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Padres so why didn't you pick The?
Speaker 6 (28:23):
Padres AND i, said go against some of The.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Padre you didn't say go against. Some you didn't say
go against. Some you just didn't think they were gonna.
Win but you didn't want to bet against.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Something, hey you're my mentor For, LOOK i was gonna
tell you go on to my main point on the.
Podcast whenever you need, something you're my. MENTOR i would
love to go be under in the. PODCAST i Know
danny you wasn't, there AND i would love to feel
like you can contact me, Whenever ben ma you know
where to?
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Read does anyone want me?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
To how DO i? KNOW i don't know where to reach.
YOU i don't have your phone, NUMBER i don't have your.
EMAIL i don't know how to get ahold of.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
You i've none of.
Speaker 6 (28:52):
That Well i'll give that some off. Air but, LOOK
i don't need.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
That DO i need his? Number, BREE i don't THINK
i don't need his, number, RIGHT i don't need your.
Number why WOULD i want your. NUMBER i don't need your.
Number WHAT i know your.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
MENTOR i Thought Brian finley was your, mentor and they whacked.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Him he's not here.
Speaker 6 (29:08):
Anymore, no he is my. Mentor and he said that
he loves.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
You he said to, you and that's a.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Lot that's why we were only work. Friends he has
not contacted me since he. Left he was a fake.
Friend he's a work, friend which is. Fine i'm okay with.
That you find out when people change. Jobs who's a real,
friend who's a work?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Friend? Wedding, yes because he was working here at the.
Speaker 6 (29:30):
Time so we were work friends and we know that
you love A but, Look Ben, malor season, Three benny
versus A penny is going to be very successful on
your third.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Season well you better, Not, Jackson you better Not Jackson.
Poppy there better be a third. Season i'm gonna hunt you,
Down Ben.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Mano they're listen right. Now on season. Three you need
the best underground cap or view right there next to.
You you need to spice it. Up you need me
are you.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
In wait, wait, wait, wait, wait you're inviting yourself on
THE tv. Show if they bring the show, back that
will guarantee they cancel the. Show if they hear, this
they're gonna know. That the management over there listens AT,
nbc they'll hear. This they'll, say we can't bring the
show back Because poppy's gonna be on the.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Show so that's.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
It, No Ben, miller because you're my. Mentor on the production,
Meeting you're, like, HEY i have an. Idea you pitch
it on, There you pitch it on, there and, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Guy From San.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Diego he's he's known for being in uh uber, commercials
uber commercials.
Speaker 6 (30:28):
And, Yes i'm miss factor. Too but, Look i'm not
saying humble about. That you're very, Humble.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
Larada does he sound like a humble man to?
Speaker 7 (30:37):
You i've met a lot of humble people in my,
life and he might be one of the most humble.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Sounding, really, Uh bri would he you're in the producer.
Share does he sound like a humble? Man absolutely, not,
absolutely there's some real talk about.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
It you're not coming across as humble, There. POPPY i
hate to tell you.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
That, Look Ben, ma you're my. Mentor you just keep.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
Saying that you keep over and, oh you keep saying that.
Speaker 6 (30:59):
You're my mentor your winner on benny versus a. Penny,
Guys i'm gonna give you.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Winners, no, stop you know you're. Not you're Got Foster.
Speaker 7 (31:06):
Poppy How Scott foster?
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Doing oh that's a good.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Point, yeah, yeah, Yeah Where Scott foster? At what game
is he officiating? Tonight do you know Where Scott foster?
IS nba Rapp, okay all, right all, RIGHT i gotta
go look at look at the time.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Here.
Speaker 1 (31:20):
UNBELIEVABLE i must go all right there you, go, Alright.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
Uh don Uh, wright this IS i still have like
thirty cards Of Dave. PARKER i love the old pirate. Uniforms,
yeah there's some pretty good uniforms back in the. Day
parrito writes and, SAYS i Watched Dave parker And Reggie
smith in the same game throw Out runners At home flat.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Footed it, was oh you did? That watch this?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Classic, also we mimicked his coiled up batting stands.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
Playing in the.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Park, yeah, well the btning stands. Stuff he always is
back in the old days before the. Internet now you
DON'T i don't think is there any kids out. There no,
kids they don't do. That why would.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
They they have The, internet they Have internet. Porn they
have all. That they don't need to worry.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
About pretending the, worst, right they don't have to worry
about pretending to be some baseball. Player they can pretend
to be other. Things so, anyway it is The Ben
Mallor show.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
As we are rolling rolling through.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
The overnight so looking for some insider. Info The San
Francisco giants who got their ass kicked by The Chicago
White sox this weekend after getting their face bashed.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
In by The Miami.
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Marlins this is after The giants went out and got
a power hitting three hundred million dollar player And Rafael
devers from The Red.
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Sox The giants are free, falling free.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Falling and so they have made a roster. Move The
giants have signed Longtime dodger Catcher Austin.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Barnes Mister barnes.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
To a minor league deal eleven season since mostly As
Clayton kershaw's personal catcher with The, doyers and he's likely
going to be with The giants here, Shortly Buster posey
sign signing, him and it seems to have a history
of knowing catchers. There the starting catcher for The higantes
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Is Patrick.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Bailey and he has not hit very.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Well and if you want a guy that can't, Hit
Austin barnes would be, perfect as he's managed to get
fully vested in The Major League baseball pension. Program not
being able to hit a career two twenty three hitter
and numbers just. Horrific but they kept him around Because
kershaw liked, him and they finally got fed off The
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dodgers and they Fired Austin barnes earlier this. Season they
called Up Dalton rushing to play once or twice a.
Week And Will, smith who signed forever and ever and,
ever is still hanging around as The dodgers catcher for
as long as he can play behind the, plate and
then they'll move him to another position because they've signed
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him for a very long. Time But Austin barnes going
to The giants a, signed things are not going. Well
trying to get Some dodger, intel get some inside info
on The. Dodges we have mallardly third. Degree we'll get
to that coming up time now for The Insta trivium
and blank is fifteen for fifteen stealing bases this, season
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raising his career success rate to an even ninety. Percent in,
fact he is the only player In Major League baseball
history with at least one hundred stolen bases that has
a career success rate of at least ninety. Percent, Again
blank is fifteen for fifteen stealing bases this, season raising
his career success rate to an even ninety. Percent the
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only player In Major League baseball history with at least
one hundred stolen bases and a career success rate of
at least ninety. Percent that is the, trivia the. Answer
we'll get to. It we will do it.
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Here all, right.
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Time now for the insta. Trivia then we're gonna Have
mallor to the third. Degree here's the instant. Trivia blank
is fifteen for fifteen stealing bases this, season raising his
career success rate to an even ninety.
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Percent he is the only player.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
In Major League baseball history with at least one hundred
stolen bases and a career success rate of at least ninety.
Percent that is the. Question what is the? Answer and
let's see does anyone know the? Answer sheen Into moine
going With Starling. Marte all these answers from real people
just like. Yourself on ex At Ben, Mause, scrooge who
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hides behind his smartphone in The Bay, area is going
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the Camera George eastman my Mentor loreina From bobby In.
Florida so that's From bobby Is, bobby the guy that says.
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DOES i make my?
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APPRENTICE i THINK i believe so he the guy that's
at the pie is at the Same Bobby bobby and
the Key lin that delicious Key Lion. Pie, YES i
got some Key lin ice cream over the. Weekend the, Wife,
oh you don't really like? THAT i, Said DO i like?
It BECAUSE i had some.
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Real Key lime like you can compare?
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It?
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Cream you not that existed on a? Waffle? Come yeah it.
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Was it was Key line with Like Graham cracker mixed
and was really. GOOD i, like, uh what else do?
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Have Page?
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Down Just josh As poppy is the worst mentor illness is?
Real so he, said all, right well that's a shot fired. There,
uh let's See. Lorraina do you have an, Answer, Lorraine.
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Yes all, Right tom, Cruise Tom. Cruise oh look at two.
ONE i know it is Not.
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Fielder Byron, Buxton Byron, buxman is the answer.
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For.
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Now for, now subject To. James here we go about.
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That to the third. Degree this is one Big ben
gets quick over.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Debris she's in the producer's chair and she's about to grill.
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Me it's mallard of the.
Speaker 7 (38:28):
Thing you sound so, Excited, BEN i am overwhelmed with emotion.
Already The evil four letter is marketing the heck out
Of Cooper flag and The MAVs taking On Brownie james
and The lakers fly tenth to open up The Las
Vegas Summer. League, ben what do you make of this
over hyped hoopla?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Matchup, well IF i worked AT, ESPN i would be
hyping it up, too because they want people to. Watch
it's the summer. League thing blows me. AWAY i used
to go to The Summer. League used to be In
La it was In Long, beach it was In.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
Irvine for a.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
While AND i would go to The Summer league and
no one cared about The Summer.
Speaker 1 (38:59):
Lee it was a.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Joke it was like a high school. Thing now these
games are all on television and it's, like gives a
rats ass about The Summer, League and it doesn't if
you play. WELL i Remember wmber When Magic johnson celebrate
The lakers won The Summer league championship and they celeb
it was so. Stupid, NO i don't give a rat,
test BUT i will watch it IF i have a
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talk show to do that.
Speaker 1 (39:22):
Night.
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Next, Alrighty South Carolina gamecocks women's basketball team head Coach
Don sealey is rumored to be one of The knicks
head coaching. Candidates, ben do you actually see her as
an actual candidate or is it just like pr who?
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Blocks? Oh, NO i want to see her get the. Job.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Breon here's why they've hired men since nineteen seventy and
they haven't, won so might as well try a, woman
just change it up a little.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
Bit, WELL i. Don't it's not get crazy, Here but,
no what the hell they. Can't they don't get anything.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Right so if they want to hire, he that means
she's probably gonna do a terrible job as coach because
everyone else they want to hire.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
Stinks but eventually there'll be a woman.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Coaching in THE. Nba whether it's her or, not who,
knows but who. Cares i'll rip whoever coaches the next.
Speaker 7 (40:02):
Next former college football head Coach Steve spurrier said on
the most Recent Another julie podcast that he's skeptical on
all the hype surrounding Arch. Manning my question, is if
he was this, good how come they Let Quinn yours
play all this? TIME i give a seventh round pick this.
Year do you agree with The steve spurriers, Comment.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
WELL i love the old ball, coach uh and it is, logical, like,
listen you got to MANNING, dna, right Arch manning MANNING
dna And Quinn yours wasn't thought of very highly by THE.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
NFL i TOTALLY i agree with. Him it makes. Sense
you got to question this. Guy how do we do?
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It?
Speaker 1 (40:34):
YES i, follow we go. FULLAXIS i, passed PHILEXIS i
passed all? Right hallelujah
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