June 3, 2024 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Russell Wilson getting the majority of the reps at Steelers OTA, if Trevor Lawrence has done enough to earn a massive extension with the Jags, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bert talking foot ball
in our number two. So how big a deal is
it that Russell Wilson is getting the vast majority of reps,
not justin fields, Russell Wilson at Steelers OTAs.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
What is that all about? Also?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Has Trevor Lawrence done enough to earn a massive mega
MEGAMEGA Jacksonville extension. We'll take a look at that. And
where are you at on the bills? Adding a failed
professional wrestler WWE wrestler, Gabe Stevenson.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
He's never even put.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
On cleats and now he's going to be in Buffalo
bill training camp. We'll get to all that and much
more right now here we go. It's our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Is it a rigged deal? Well?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
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don't know about you, but I'm a sucker for a
quarterback back. I jump at the opportunity to talk about
quarterback battles. Now, some are more interesting than others. If
you look at the tablet depth chart, we have one
of these in Pittsburgh. Or is that a fabrication? Is
that a fabrication? Is that dishonest? Totally dishonest to say
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that there is a quarterback battle. But in theory, we
were told you're gonna have Russell Wilson versus Justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's the matchup.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Only one will stand the other will dance with the devil,
and that's it. So if you haven't heard the latest
on this, and maybe not, we are told that Russell
Wilson is getting the overwhelming majority of reps, the vast
majority of reps during OTAs. Now publicly everyone involved has
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regurgitated the talking points memo that it's a quarterback battle
and I just want to win, and I'm here to
help the team win.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Blah blah blah blah blah all that. But here we
any information that says, well, one.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Guy is getting a lot more opportunity than the other guy.
That comes in cohoots with a story that claimed that
the quarterback from Chicago, Justin Fields, is also being under
consideration for a slash.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Role, like if you're old enough to remember a player
named Cordell Stewart.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So let us discuss the question how big a deal?
How big a deal is it that Russell Wilson is
getting the vast majority of the reps at the OTS.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's only offseason workouts. How big a deal is that?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So I've got the Daytona five hundred, software development and crayons,
and we'll put all.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
These together and we will not mind our p's and ques.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
We're not all right, So number one, Russell Wilson, pretty
obvious here. You don't have to have played in the NFL.
You don't have to have coached in the NFL. You
don't have to have a dopey overnight radio show to
know that Russell Wilson is in the driver's seat, right,
He's in the big chair. As one of our old
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morning guys used to say, every man, woman and child
knows it. It is stunning, though, to think that that
is where the Pittsburgh football team is at this particular point.
Think Kenny Pickett was so bad, so bad, they've gone
with a fixer upper in Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
At this particular point.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
When you consider the level of performance that Russe has
had his last year in Seattle and the two years
he was in Colorado, It's not just like he sucked
in Denver. He was bad in Seattle at the end
when they got.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Rid of him.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But if you think of this in terms of the
Great American Race, the Daytona five hundred, right now, Russell
Wilson based on OTAs and that's all the information we
have to go for. Or with Russell Wilson, he's got
the inside track right.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Obviously, right.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I mean he would have to stink, while Justin Fields
would have to take advantage of less opportunities. It does
not appear that the Steelers are exploring all avenues.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
They've honed in on.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The guy that used to be good as opposed to
the guy that's never been good as a pro quarterback
in justin fields and you look around, it's like this
guy's got the inside track and it's Russell Wilson's job
to blow. As a old Steeler broadcaster say double YOI
oh yeah, YoY, bring in those terrible towels. That's got
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a whole new meaning there, my goodness. And then I
get an email every time I bring up Russell Wilson,
I question whether or not he can play right. I
think he will freeze up and give it enough time,
it will not go well. And it doesn't mean the
Steelers can't win a few games. The Broncos won a
few games with Russell Wilson, but it wasn't because of
Russell Wilson that were winning those games. They played hide
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the quarterback, and we imagine the same thing will happen
in Pittsburgh going forward. All right now, Page two is
sticking with the quarterback situation. We pinwheel our way to Jacksonville.
We go there because that is where a quarterback story
is bubbling up. Not a quarterback controversy, though not a controversy,
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not that, but Trevor Lawrence reports over the weekend saying
that Trevor Lawrence is in line to be the next
quarterback to sign a mega mega mega mega mega mega
mega millions extension. Say what, and while still being negotiated.
It's not a done deal yet, so this could change.
People could come to their senses. But at this point,
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we talk about what's going on right now. We do
the show today. We don't do the show tomorrow. That's
a different show. This is today's show, so we worry
about what's going on today and today's show. It is
still being negotiated, so it's not done. It's still pouring
over the numbers. But Trevor Lawrence's deal is expected. That's
weasel terminology. Expected to make him the second highest paid
quarterback in Pro football with an average annual salary SAM
(07:00):
which in between Joe Burrow who's still going to be
number one, and Jared Goff.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
So question this is for the panel.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Has Trevor Lawrence done enough to warrant to earn a
massive Jags extension? And the only way you could say
that is if you're cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Right, I'm
shaking my head, No, shaking my head. Knowing now we
were very bullish on Trevor Lawrence and the Jags.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
In twenty twenty three, we.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Waxed poetic on the TV show Benny Versus the Penny,
singing the virtues of the Clemson quarterback with the golden locks,
and he made us look like absolute bloody ruse is
what he did right. This is not a finished product.
We haven't seen enough. But I look at it like this.
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If you're in the computer, it's like software development, and
think of it like beta testing. And if you've got
something in beta testing and you get it back and
there's all kinds of bugs and glitches and thinging the
jigs in there, it's not ready for the big time.
And Trevor Lawrence say.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
What you want.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
He's rough around the edges. He was never supported. This
was supposed to be the chosen one. He hasn't earned
a massive extension.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The chatter is that there's they've got so such low
self esteem. We'll expand on this more once the contract
is done. But it appears they have so much of
a me problem in Jacksonville, right, They're so there's so like, ah,
we don't want belog. You know, we finally got a
halfway decent quarterback. It reminds me of in basketball, Zion Williamson,
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who had no business signing a max contract in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But did and saw it happened. He got hurt when
the playoffs came around.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But you pay top dollar for an unf finished product,
and Trevor Lawrence is an unfinished project because you have FOMO,
you have fear of missing out. New Orleans in Pro
basketball was concerned Zion Williamson was gonna leave and go
to the Lakers or the Knicks or the Celtics and
be great, and they would have missed out on that.
And Jacksonville, based on reading the tea leaves here it's
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the same thing.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
They're like, this guy's gonna leave, and he's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You're gonna go to the Cowboys or the Seahawks and
become great. We don't want that, so we got to
keep him and we'll figure out a way to make
him great here.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
All right, final point. This also popped up on.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Our radar over the weekend, but I thought it's worthy
of some conversation here.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We did not get a chance to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
In Buffalo, Well Orchard Park, New York, the Bills over
the weekend made a signing that's not really newsworthy. But
the fact that they sign a guy that isn't a
football player is very rarely with a business that's in
the football business sign a guy that's not a football guy.
But that happened, right, How often do baseball teams sign
people that aren't baseball players. It does happen every one,
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so I think the last time was like in the
seventies when Charlie Finley added is it Herb Washington as
a pinch runner. But in football, every once in a
while this happened. So the Gable Stevenson who as a
professional wrestler. The Bills have added a professional wrestler, Gable Stevenson.
He won a gold medal in the twenty twenty Summer Olympics.
(10:19):
I must not have watched that in Tokyo. I guess
I missed it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
But wasn't that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
This wasn't that in the twenty twenty one That twenty
twenty Summer Olympics actually did in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I think they did because of the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Anyway, either way, he then became a professional wrestler for
the WWE, but he was so bad at that he
had such little ras matazz that he got out of
his contract earlier this month, he was let go by
the WWE. Was that from what I'm told? I'm not
the wrestling guy, but I used to be. But my
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guys that watch wrestling say he was so bad. He
just he had no persona, There was no act there,
There was no there there. Stevenson has had never even
put on a pair of cleats before. He recently worked
out for the Buffalo football team. So where are you
at on the Bills? Adding a former WWE wrestler who
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has never played football before, Gabe.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Stevenson, where you at on that?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
So someone in Buffalo, We're not sure who either knows
this guy is friends with an agent or they're just
playing with crayons and he just wanted to color outside
the lines.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
How about all of your buff.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Now Stevenson, who has I can't stress this enough.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
He never put on a pair of cleats.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
He never played organized football, and now you're expecting him
to try to make the Bills roster as a defensive lineman.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And what this is is a.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Kick in the nuts to all those cats that have
spent their whole life playing football. Pop Warner High School
college and I would like to play, but I actually
played football and I'm not some wrestler.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So it's pretty obvious what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Unless Gable sticks the landing, which is highly unlikely.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
That's the stuff of dreams. They make a Disney movie
out of that.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
It's more likely than not that what's going to happen
here is Gable Stevenson is going to be a pet
project that he's a speculative investment enterprise, if you will,
and they'll put him on the practice squad.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And all right, here's.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Imagine, imagine how embarrassing that's gonna be when he shows
up to the Bill's practice. Here's how you put your
shoulder pads. It's like freshman football in high school. All right,
here's how you strap your helmet on. Okay, now you
gotta tie your shoes, but you gotta tie this. Wait
a minute, you're in the Buffalo Bill's locker room.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Like, how detached from reality are we?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Like?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
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Speaker 1 (14:48):
The latest status update out of Pittsburgh. Looks like Russell
Wilson has the lead by a country mile.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Are you kidding me? No, I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm not That's what we're hearing that Russell Wilson's out
way out in front, getting the vast majority of the
reps in the offseason workout. Training camp does not start
for another month and a half, so we have plenty
of time before training camp comes around. Will take your
phone calls here in a moment. Let's see what I
wanted to do. There was a couple of comments I
want to read now. Matt the Warrior Raider. Former A's
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fan Tom Brady Rose fan says, Justin Fields is lower
on the depth chart than the guy the Seahawks looked
at and said, we'd rather have Geno Smith than this guy.
Not only that, Matt, Remember that the Seahawks traded for
Drew Lock. They wanted Drew Lock, they, I promise you.
When they traded Russell Wilson, they assumed Drew Lock would
be the temporary starter in Seattle and then they would
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transition to their next quarterback.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And then Drew Lock got beat out by Gino Smith.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So Gino Smith was like the second down the list
after Russell Wilson or third.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Down the list.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Remember when the Seahawks signed Matt Flynn Remember that?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh yes, that was before when then Russell Wilson in
training camp feed him out. Yeah, Matt Flynn got signed
because he had one good game and it.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Was we did. It was a really good game.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But it was one game seventeen, I guess. But you
have six touchdowns against the Lions at lambeau Field. Let's
give him a new contract, all right, let's go, let's
pay him.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Good luck. Mark the Walker says he's walking to Buffalo
as we speak. To sign of my contract. It's first come,
first serve, so I got to hurt. How crazy is that, Eddie?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The Bill signed a guy that had never put cleats on,
never played football, to a pro football contract WI.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
It's not unheard of. Why we had some rugby guys
that have that's happened to.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But they put cleats on, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
You wear cleveton, I guess so as they do.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
They play, they wear cleats, They've got hair and the chest.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
He never played football though.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
This guy a failed professional wrestler and now he's that's
just nuts craziness. Matt jack says, Hey, Ben, you say
you're not the wrestling guy, but based on the mall
of malicious guesses to your guessing games, your listeners are.
If Eddie's not fit to be the hockey guy, he
should be a professional wrestling have a professional segment, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Would you drop hockey for wrestling? No way, you will not.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I would probably do WNBA before I would do.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That, Matt jack.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Eddie says he would rather talk WNBA than pro wrestling.
What do you have to say to that, Matt? But
Matt Jackson get really mad now. Eke and Rosevio Minnesota says,
Bill's head coach Sean McDermott was a high school wrestling
champ in Pennsylvania. Okay, maybe that's the connection that could be.
There's some kind of connection. King Roy also says rumors
are Bill's head coach Sean McDermott a wrestling fan who
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was able to sweet talk Gable Stevenson to sign with
the Bill sweet talking.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
He had, what other options did he have?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
He wasn't from when I understand he wasn't doing very
well in professional wrestling.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
They were more than happy to get rid of him.
You don't say.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Fergduck says there's only one man who knows whether or
not Gable Stevenson will make it in the NFL. His
name is Andy the comic book guy. Are you kidding me?
Andy the comic book guy? And he's probably the bill
signed anyone, and Andy gets aroused, he's so excited that anyone. Oh,
this is the greatest thing of all time. Oh my god,
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let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
We'll say hello to Let's say.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
How about hollering James, Hello, hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
All right, James has apparently checked out.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We think he's alive.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
We just think that he fell asleep, which is unfortunate
because we would have liked to have put him on.
Let's say hello to Mason the millennial, who's in the
Bay Area. Hello, Mason the Millennial.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Hey Ben, how you doing man?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I was I was letting you talk, Mason. I was
allowing you be forum to speak.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
He didn't really mean that. That's just a small talk quote.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You don't you've met him, But.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
He didn't really mean that. It's just like you, just
filling time is what you're doing. Right?
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Maybe you know what, Ben? How about this? Your basketball
takes are collectively, consistently some of the worst bestball takes
I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
They don't align with your false belief.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Yeah, my false belief what we all know? What the
reason is why you want the Celtics to win?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And and why would why would why would I want
the Celtics to win?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Well, I I personally believe your Laker hate and your
bias consumes you in your mind and the way you
feel about Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
No, I am a fair arbitrator of the my sports takes.
I would never base an entire take on the fact
that I think it would be even more embarrassing for
the Lakers. If the Celtics win again, the Lakers are
never going to get The Lakers are about to hire
a podcaster as their coach. Can you believe that Mason,
a podcaster, is about to become the head coach the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Really setting the barlow with them?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I agree that is setting the barlow. I wouldn't hire
a podcaster to be the coach. Why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I mean, that's where we can agree, you know that
Will Here's.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
The question, though, since our own Doug Gottlieb is trying
to coach college basketball and do a show, will JJ
Reddick have the as my grandfather would say, the ultimate
HUTZBA and will he coach the Lakers and do his
grab ass podcast with Lebron James at the same time.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'd say he should. If Gottlieb can do it, I
say he should do it.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
I mean, why not in this wacky world of sports
and especially the chokes if the NBA is why the
hell not? Hey, hey Ben, what was the deal with this?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
This?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
The Pelicans deferring the seventeen sick? I mean, can you
like just in yes.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I will explain this to you.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So the Pelicans are betting that Lebron is going to
be worse next season, and as a result, the Lakers
are going to be worse, and therefore said draft pick
will be higher in twenty twenty five. So, yes, the Lakers,
the Repelicans are gambling. They're betting against the Lakers. They
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gave up what the seventeenth pick could have had the
seventeenth pick, right, and they believe the Lakers pick will
be a higher pick, which you get. You're basically the
lottery at that point, right, You're almost the lottery at
that point.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
I respect that, and I love that game on here
fast and you're NBA takes and then ask for you.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah, I know you're such a fraud. You're a fraud. Now, Mason,
will you make it.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
To the We're planning the Malor Meet and greet in
Vegas in late July early August.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Are you planning on a tending Mason?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Yep, Me and are going to drive down there together.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh wow, dynamic, Dynamic do some twosome? Yeah all right,
well very exciting.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I would love to meet see you again and meet
meet emmittt go.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Stare at your your golden State Warrior. Fat head.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay, go stare at that your steph Curry, fat egg,
get out of here. Let's say hello to blind Scott.
Blind Scott is on the north end of Boston. Will
Blind Scott enter the Steel Cage death match to decide
who will win the championship between the Boston Celtics and
the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Hello, Scotty, we got new neighbors.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Next story. The old neighbors moved out of my my
neighbor's apartment and they took everything with the pots and
pans and just pot everything they could take left. Hey,
I saw Jason Tatum over the weekend at five guys.
I couldn't believe it. Man, he's just hanging out with
the people, eating five guys amongst everybody. You know what
I mean, Ben, You've never seen Wait?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Are you sure it was Tatum and not some guy
in a Jason Tatum jersey?
Speaker 7 (22:30):
No, all the kids would chase him. Did the kids
love that guy? You know he's plugging amongst the kids. Hey,
I noticed something about Mark, the full name guy I've
seen like you're married and he's married. You know you
guys are older guys. Coop's even married a younger guys
marked the full name guy. He's pushing seventy, never been married,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
He's very upset. Are you sure you want to go
down that road? Scott? Are you sure you want to
continue down this road?
Speaker 7 (22:58):
He's the fucking I started on the thing too. I
was scrolling for Netflix, and I said, this movie, and
then I started Justin Cooper by a liar. His name's
right on there, he said, Justin Cooper. I bet that's
worth a lot of money on it. That's on Netflix now,
you know what I mean. I bet if I watch
it like thirty times right now, that goes right to
Coop's pocket, you know, and he buys you guys all
like McCormick and Schmick's takeout or something. You know what
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I mean. Hey, I saw my buddy Ringo a few
months ago. You know, Ringo star, Me and him are
pretty quot He goes to this AA meeting downtown. That's
supports to say that. But when it's a guy like
Ringo out of my name dropping someone like that too,
you know what I mean. And another person I see
once in a while, not in years, all his names John,
but it's really Ozzy Osbourne. You know what I'm saying.
(23:42):
I have so many contacts. There's another reason why Mark
so jos He said, Scott, what are you?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
What are you smoking? Scott? What is going on?
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Oh? Nothing, I just got up and started walking around.
I just woke up like half hour ago. You know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I got an amazing hour. I mean the hour one
was one of the great hours we've ever done.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And you did not hear it.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
I got to hear that. I usually don't miss this stuff.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
You see here.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
This is what listeners don't know. I used to be
Ben's hairstylas before I went blind, and Ben cues me
in to call the show with these questions because the
show sucks if I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yes, that is true. That is true.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Whenever we hit a lull, I hit my button on
my phone and it texts Scott and he reads the
text and then he realizes it's like the batphone, and
he knows he's got to call in to the show
to save the show, or else we're gonna have to
turn off the transmitter because no one's listening.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Yeah. I bring up all these controversies like weed Man
and Jed who fled The reason why there's such losers
is because they live in Florida and there's no commerce
down there, so there's no way to work. So it's
actually a problem with society that has brought those men
to drugs, not addiction, you know what I'm saying. So
I hit all these hard, I hit all these height
hends in places. One thing that somethings are going to
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crush Dallas.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Dallas sucks.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
They shouldn't even be in the playoffs. Man, they weren't
even a playoff team.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
All right, all right, we gotta get somebody fun.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I gotta get I gotta get a Maverick guy, somebody
in Dallas who wants to challenge Scott.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
We got to do this now.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
We won't do it tomorrow. I think we'll do it
in the lead in into Wednesday. So Tuesday in the Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
All right, thank you, Scott.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I gotta go any The comic book guy, ironically enough,
was listening.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
He says, I don't know that irony is the right
use of that word.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
He has been convenient of you to leave out the
facts that the guy is a wrestler and an Olympic
gold I said he won an Olympic gold Medal. He says,
way to bury the lead, bad job by you. Hey,
you and I both know as a member of Bill's
Mafia in your comic book shop with the Bill's Mafia.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Flag right in the middle there.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And that's got to be one of the only comic
book shops in America that has that, because most people
there's not a lot of crossover comic book fan and
football fan, not a huge, not a gigantic.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Crossover the different subculture. And you've crossed the stream.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But whoever the Bills signed the Bills right now could say,
Josh Allen's going to take.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
A year off.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
We're going to go out and trade with the Rams
to get Jimmy Garoppolo. And you would call up and
sing the praises of Garoppolo, That's what you would do. Yeah,
Fred Wrights and says, how is blind Scott seeing all
these people? How would he know? He's at five guys?
I hope he doesn't pick up an iron to call
you some night.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, Well, he did sit on the plunger that one time.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
That's one of the great stories in the history of
the show, that Blind Scott sat on a plunger and
you know who knows there's some jokes there, Eddie, but
I'm not going there. I mean there's some humor in that,
but I will leave that alone. I do grown up shows.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yes. When you think Ben Mallor show, you think grown
up show.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I will tell you though, Eddie, last time I was
at five Guys, I think you have.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
To play in the NBA tool four to five. I
know it's appropriate that Tatum would be there.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I love five Guys, but it is really good.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I'm not going to go there.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
It doesn't justify cheeseburger. I have noticed pushback against the
fast food industry recently that now California screwed because of
the wage increase, but the rest of the country is not,
and there people push them back, like the CEO of
McDonald's was like trying to defend the ridiculous prices for
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Big Max in certain places. No Stradinas when I met
No Stradinas, he's in't Seattle. When I met him at
the Mallard meet and greet in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I remember the.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Meeting and he had a no weed Man signed. I
think he's going to change that to no blind Scott,
he says.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Weller in it.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The other day. Well, there it is, right there, that's
the famous drive.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We're all losing brain cells listening to blind Scott says
the aforementioned no stradinas legend. There Justin in Cincinnati. Justin
always sounds like he's out of breath. He then wishes
something really bad happens. All right, well, thank you for that,
but really firing up Blan Scott, firing up the Mai.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Back to baseball and Ben the number one overall drafting
in baseball kind of hit and missed. You've got some,
you know, pretty good players on the list. Adlee Rushman
would be the latest. Paul Skenes looked like he's gonna
be pretty good for the Pirates, Garrett Cole, Steven Strassburg,
even pretty good players, Bryce Harper, Carlos Carrera. Uh, but
then you've got a few misses. You've got Casey Mize
was a two thousand and eight number one overall pick,
(28:38):
royce Lewis, Uh, somebody named Mickey who's there's.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
A didn't the Yankees draft a pitcher was either for
Brian Taylor.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
That was a while ago. Yeah, he was actually really
good allian L pitchers on trarm trouble. But there was
also a number one pick in twenty twenty for the
Detroit Tigers, Spencer Torkelson.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Good name. So he's like a nerd.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, it does sounds like a nerd.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And he is how going to be a tough guy
with tough.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Early It's tough to be a major league baseball player too.
Because the number one pick for the Tigers out of
twenty twenty, he is being optioned to Triple A. It's
not working out for him. He's having a tough, tough
season this year. Looking at the stats here, let's see,
he is hitting two oh one with four home runs.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So I didn't play major league baseball, Eddy, I don't
think that's good though.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
No, not too, especially when you were the number one
overall pick in the draft. So they have they've decided
to send him down to whatever the Tiger's Triple A
team is it? Uh? I was gonna say Toledo too.
Is it Toledo?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
He used to be Toledo. I don't know if it
still is. Why wouldn't it be Toledo?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Remember we got all that mud hens stuff from.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
The Yeah where hat?
Speaker 8 (29:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Now? You're not?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I am. I swear to God, I'm wearing my money.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I do love that T shirt.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Great, very comfortable, very soft.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Oh yeah yeah, who.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Sent us that? We can't remember? I mean we got
to thank them. It's like this gift box, all this cool.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Toledo mats and shirts and stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, I around the house it's very comfortab I do too.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I wear that.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I got my Bucky stuff around that. I got more
clothes to wear around the house than I do outside.
I'm set up man, all right, Eddie, listen, I got
two fun facts this?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Are you ready for that? Too?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Fun I got? I got one. Well, I think I've
been willing to bet that we have the same fun facts.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Okay, well I let you need buy other fun fact
hit that butt hit fun fact.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
By fun fact, Eddie, someone named Nick Lofton hit a
walk off sackfly as Nelson, Alaska has hit two RBIs the.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The defeat of the San Diego Potter is four to three,
and the Royals, like Eddie, does not give the royal score,
but the Kansas City Royals if you look nine games
and what eleven games above five hundred and a wild
card team in the American League.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
But no respect from Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
It's nice, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I mean there are people on our affiliate in Kansas.
My guy Bob Fescal says, people complain, why do we
not get the score?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
They can play? Well, that's my first fun fact.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I got a lot of fun I got another fun
facts that malor fun fact.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
This is my hockey fun fact. Are you ready, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We got the same fun fact all right?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
This year's Stanley Cup final, yes, between the Oilers and Pantay, Yes,
will be the first between two cities in nachlse toty miles.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
That is correct.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
The previous record, Eddie. You know what the previous record was.
It was back in twenty eleven when the Vancouver Canucks
played the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final, and
that was twenty twenty four thousand, or twenty four hundred and.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Ninety nine miles.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
And the next next of us would be the Montreal
Canadians and the La Kings.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You remember that one, Eddie. Unfortunately old the bent stick.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Last time the Canadian team won the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
And then when we were at Eddie the The third
on the list would be Kings, so two thousand, five
hundred and forty one miles. Just for the record again
for those of you just tuning in Eddie Garcia, mister
Hockey over there said the edmund Toilers were not going
to win.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
They were not going to be.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
They're not going to be.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
They are going to win. They will absolutely win, and
then we will we.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Will have all things will be right in the world.
I will be mister hockey once again.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Are there any direct flights from Edmonton, Alberta to Sunrise, Florida?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Can you get any direct flights?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I don't think you can go correctly directly to Sunrise, Florida.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
No, I just go to Miami to get a car.
Maybe weed Man can show you the way.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Oh yeah, I'm sure that's true.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And yes, But to my oilers, my Connor McDavid, my
Edmonton Oilers gonna win the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
And I should, and then you will move to Edmonton.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I maybe I will. Maybe I'll do a morning drive
in Edmonton. You never know, any I might just up
and leave and just go to Edmonton.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Why not? What the hell? All right? Anyway, let's go,
We'll go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
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and look at the clock r Why don't we pause
for the cause? I see I think we have our
Maverick guy online, and I see some other big names there.
So hopefully those guys will stawn home. But I need
to leave time because we do have mallardly third degree.
Kevin Durant, by the way, is the guy that went viral.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
This is very odd.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I hope this is out of context video. Several of
you idiots sent me this video. There's a clip going
around social media. I'll describe it for our blind listeners,
and it shows what appears to be Phoenix Suns star
Kevin Durant at some nightclub, dancing in a very odd way.
Now listen, I know how to dance. You know, Benny
Breakdance was my game back in the day. They call
(34:01):
me Benny break Dance, So I know how to dance.
But Kevin Durantz out there at the club, he's dancing,
and it appears, and if you're able to see this,
if you're not blind, check this out. It appears his
dance move includes him practicing his jump shot like that's
part of his dance. He's practicing his jump shot while.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
At the club. Little lot, little douchey too, right, can
we agree on that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I'm just shocked at Durant's actually going out. I thought
he'd just stayed in. He's a curmudgeon, stays at home,
doesn't go out do much.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
But there he was. There's a video of him dancing
and using the jump shot. Is his signature move? All right?
It is the Ben malisho. We're gonna have a mallet
of the third degree. Here's the insta tribute.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Aaron Judge has two hundred seventy eight career home runs
in just eight hundred and ninety six games after Sunday
Blank currently is the quickest the three hundred home runs
in baseball history. Again, Aaron Judge two hundred seventy eight
two hundred every eight career home runs in eight hundred
ninety six games, Blank is the quickest of three.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Hundred home runs all time in baseball history. That is
the instert tributa the answer.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
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and here's.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Your Insta tribua for the day. Aaron Judge has toured
seventy eight home runs in his career just eight hundred
ninety six games. Blank currently has the record for the
quickest to three hundred career home runs.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
That is the uestion. What is the answer.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Let's see does anyone know the answer? We go to
the Great Unwashed and the Mallard Militia. Boy, there's some
very interesting things on the X machine X.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Marks the spot.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Cowboy Killer says it has to be Eddie Wnba Sicka
fan Garcia that that is the answer. The Big Donkey
Adam Dunn guess by Jordan amos otis from a mister
nice guy Haystacks Calhoun from Mark the Walker in Rochester,
Jared Duran from Alf the Alien Opiner.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Who else do we have? A guppy troop from.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Matt the Warrior, Tom Brady Roast Fan Alpha Academy Founder
Chad Gable guest by ferg Dog, Benny the Breakdance Popper
from Malard prop Guy Bo Derek tossed out by Art
Puffin Mark McGuire is the answer from Andy of Lion o' Lakes.
Felix Jose from Paul d.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
That's a good name.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Haven't heard that in a while, Benny Breakdown from Beneath
the Cowboy Fan. Corporal Klinger from King m We're in
that same hat, well not the same one because that's old.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
But yeah, anyway, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?
I need an answer.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with former Cleveland Indian slugger Travis Hafner.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Is it Travis Hafner?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
The correct answers a man that hurt himself blowing his
nose and changed his appearance dramatically after retiring Sammy Sosa.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Sammy Sosa one.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Fifty games, so it's pretty apparent that Aaron Judges are
gonna break that record. Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
This is one thing.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
That gets krilled, and we say hello to the couples.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
Red Sox manager Alex Corner recently discussed his contract situation
and so that he has no intention of negotiating during
UH and negotiating an extension during the season, and this
is like many to speculate that he may test the
open market. Ben, do you think Cora is back with
the Socks next year?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
No, he's done.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And it's an odd situation because Alex Cora was part
of the few people punished for the Astros. He didn't
play for the Astros, but he got pushed. He was
one of the masterminds of the cheating scandal, and then
they had problems in Boston and then they brought him
back and it seems like he's just done.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
He knows he's not going to be back.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
The Red Sox haven't spent a lot of money to
try to improve the team.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
They're a mid level.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Team and talent wise, and so yeah, he'll be managing
somewhere else next year doing television.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
Next, Marvin Lewis is making his return to the NFL sidelines,
as he will be assistant head coach for the Raiders
on Antonio Pierce's staff, Ben, do you think Lewis could
eventually make a return to the big chair.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
No, but I could see the scenario where he becomes
the defensive coordinator for the Raiders of their defense gets
off to a bad start. Marvin Lewis is still living
off that Ravens defense that he oversaw back back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
But he's the guy that's helping in Tonio Pierce. Kind
of show Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
The way as a head coach and the Raiders, if
they just get like ten wins, they could be a
wildcard team, but that division is stacked.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Next.
Speaker 8 (39:10):
Former Jets GM Mike Tannebaum recently made an appearance on
Dan Patrick when he revealed that if you were to
do a draft of all NFL players today, he would
take Patrick Mahomes number one and Jordan Love number two.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Ben, this is quite a hot take. Yeah, very hot. Yeah,
so hot. The MIC's are burning up. Yeah, that's right.
Where would you take Love?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I think Mike Tannenbaum proved why he's an embarrassment, That's
what I think with and why he sucked as a
GM of the Jets. Well, first of all, Mahomes goes one,
Joe Burrow goes number Hello Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
But Jordan Love he would be a top ten pick.
How did we do? Cope? You pass this edition? That
is a wag. You could put it on the bar,
that take
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bert talking foot ball
in our number two. So how big a deal is
it that Russell Wilson is getting the vast majority of reps,
not justin fields, Russell Wilson at Steelers OTAs.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
What is that all about? Also?
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Has Trevor Lawrence done enough to earn a massive mega
MEGAMEGA Jacksonville extension. We'll take a look at that. And
where are you at on the bills? Adding a failed
professional wrestler WWE wrestler, Gabe Stevenson.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
He's never even put.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
On cleats and now he's going to be in Buffalo
bill training camp. We'll get to all that and much
more right now here we go. It's our number two.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Is it a rigged deal? Well?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
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don't know about you, but I'm a sucker for a
quarterback back. I jump at the opportunity to talk about
quarterback battles. Now, some are more interesting than others. If
you look at the tablet depth chart, we have one
of these in Pittsburgh. Or is that a fabrication? Is
that a fabrication? Is that dishonest? Totally dishonest to say
(02:19):
that there is a quarterback battle. But in theory, we
were told you're gonna have Russell Wilson versus Justin Fields.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
That's the matchup.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Only one will stand the other will dance with the devil,
and that's it. So if you haven't heard the latest
on this, and maybe not, we are told that Russell
Wilson is getting the overwhelming majority of reps, the vast
majority of reps during OTAs. Now publicly everyone involved has
(02:48):
regurgitated the talking points memo that it's a quarterback battle
and I just want to win, and I'm here to
help the team win.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Blah blah blah blah blah all that. But here we
any information that says, well, one.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Guy is getting a lot more opportunity than the other guy.
That comes in cohoots with a story that claimed that
the quarterback from Chicago, Justin Fields, is also being under
consideration for a slash.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Role, like if you're old enough to remember a player
named Cordell Stewart.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
So let us discuss the question how big a deal?
How big a deal is it that Russell Wilson is
getting the vast majority of the reps at the OTS.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
It's only offseason workouts. How big a deal is that?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
So I've got the Daytona five hundred, software development and crayons,
and we'll put all.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
These together and we will not mind our p's and ques.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
We're not all right, So number one, Russell Wilson, pretty
obvious here. You don't have to have played in the NFL.
You don't have to have coached in the NFL. You
don't have to have a dopey overnight radio show to
know that Russell Wilson is in the driver's seat, right,
He's in the big chair. As one of our old
(04:04):
morning guys used to say, every man, woman and child
knows it. It is stunning, though, to think that that
is where the Pittsburgh football team is at this particular point.
Think Kenny Pickett was so bad, so bad, they've gone
with a fixer upper in Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
At this particular point.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
When you consider the level of performance that Russe has
had his last year in Seattle and the two years
he was in Colorado, It's not just like he sucked
in Denver. He was bad in Seattle at the end
when they got.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Rid of him.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
But if you think of this in terms of the
Great American Race, the Daytona five hundred, right now, Russell
Wilson based on OTAs and that's all the information we
have to go for. Or with Russell Wilson, he's got
the inside track right.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Obviously, right.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
I mean he would have to stink, while Justin Fields
would have to take advantage of less opportunities. It does
not appear that the Steelers are exploring all avenues.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
They've honed in on.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The guy that used to be good as opposed to
the guy that's never been good as a pro quarterback
in justin fields and you look around, it's like this
guy's got the inside track and it's Russell Wilson's job
to blow. As a old Steeler broadcaster say double YOI
oh yeah, YoY, bring in those terrible towels. That's got
(05:31):
a whole new meaning there, my goodness. And then I
get an email every time I bring up Russell Wilson,
I question whether or not he can play right. I
think he will freeze up and give it enough time,
it will not go well. And it doesn't mean the
Steelers can't win a few games. The Broncos won a
few games with Russell Wilson, but it wasn't because of
Russell Wilson that were winning those games. They played hide
(05:52):
the quarterback, and we imagine the same thing will happen
in Pittsburgh going forward. All right now, Page two is
sticking with the quarterback situation. We pinwheel our way to Jacksonville.
We go there because that is where a quarterback story
is bubbling up. Not a quarterback controversy, though not a controversy,
(06:14):
not that, but Trevor Lawrence reports over the weekend saying
that Trevor Lawrence is in line to be the next
quarterback to sign a mega mega mega mega mega mega
mega millions extension. Say what, and while still being negotiated.
It's not a done deal yet, so this could change.
People could come to their senses. But at this point,
(06:35):
we talk about what's going on right now. We do
the show today. We don't do the show tomorrow. That's
a different show. This is today's show, so we worry
about what's going on today and today's show. It is
still being negotiated, so it's not done. It's still pouring
over the numbers. But Trevor Lawrence's deal is expected. That's
weasel terminology. Expected to make him the second highest paid
quarterback in Pro football with an average annual salary SAM
(07:00):
which in between Joe Burrow who's still going to be
number one, and Jared Goff.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
So question this is for the panel.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Has Trevor Lawrence done enough to warrant to earn a
massive Jags extension? And the only way you could say
that is if you're cuckoo for cocoa puffs. Right, I'm
shaking my head, No, shaking my head. Knowing now we
were very bullish on Trevor Lawrence and the Jags.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
In twenty twenty three, we.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Waxed poetic on the TV show Benny Versus the Penny,
singing the virtues of the Clemson quarterback with the golden locks,
and he made us look like absolute bloody ruse is
what he did right. This is not a finished product.
We haven't seen enough. But I look at it like this.
(07:58):
If you're in the computer, it's like software development, and
think of it like beta testing. And if you've got
something in beta testing and you get it back and
there's all kinds of bugs and glitches and thinging the
jigs in there, it's not ready for the big time.
And Trevor Lawrence say.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
What you want.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
He's rough around the edges. He was never supported. This
was supposed to be the chosen one. He hasn't earned
a massive extension.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The chatter is that there's they've got so such low
self esteem. We'll expand on this more once the contract
is done. But it appears they have so much of
a me problem in Jacksonville, right, They're so there's so like, ah,
we don't want belog. You know, we finally got a
halfway decent quarterback. It reminds me of in basketball, Zion Williamson,
(08:50):
who had no business signing a max contract in New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But did and saw it happened. He got hurt when
the playoffs came around.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
But you pay top dollar for an unf finished product,
and Trevor Lawrence is an unfinished project because you have FOMO,
you have fear of missing out. New Orleans in Pro
basketball was concerned Zion Williamson was gonna leave and go
to the Lakers or the Knicks or the Celtics and
be great, and they would have missed out on that.
And Jacksonville, based on reading the tea leaves here it's
(09:18):
the same thing.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
They're like, this guy's gonna leave, and he's gonna go.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
You're gonna go to the Cowboys or the Seahawks and
become great. We don't want that, so we got to
keep him and we'll figure out a way to make
him great here.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
All right, final point. This also popped up on.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Our radar over the weekend, but I thought it's worthy
of some conversation here.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We did not get a chance to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
In Buffalo, Well Orchard Park, New York, the Bills over
the weekend made a signing that's not really newsworthy. But
the fact that they sign a guy that isn't a
football player is very rarely with a business that's in
the football business sign a guy that's not a football guy.
But that happened, right, How often do baseball teams sign
people that aren't baseball players. It does happen every one,
(09:57):
so I think the last time was like in the
seventies when Charlie Finley added is it Herb Washington as
a pinch runner. But in football, every once in a
while this happened. So the Gable Stevenson who as a
professional wrestler. The Bills have added a professional wrestler, Gable Stevenson.
He won a gold medal in the twenty twenty Summer Olympics.
(10:19):
I must not have watched that in Tokyo. I guess
I missed it.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
But wasn't that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
This wasn't that in the twenty twenty one That twenty
twenty Summer Olympics actually did in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I think they did because of the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Anyway, either way, he then became a professional wrestler for
the WWE, but he was so bad at that he
had such little ras matazz that he got out of
his contract earlier this month, he was let go by
the WWE. Was that from what I'm told? I'm not
the wrestling guy, but I used to be. But my
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guys that watch wrestling say he was so bad. He
just he had no persona, There was no act there,
There was no there there. Stevenson has had never even
put on a pair of cleats before. He recently worked
out for the Buffalo football team. So where are you
at on the Bills? Adding a former WWE wrestler who
(11:15):
has never played football before, Gabe.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Stevenson, where you at on that?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
So someone in Buffalo, We're not sure who either knows
this guy is friends with an agent or they're just
playing with crayons and he just wanted to color outside
the lines.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
How about all of your buff.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Now Stevenson, who has I can't stress this enough.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
He never put on a pair of cleats.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
He never played organized football, and now you're expecting him
to try to make the Bills roster as a defensive lineman.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
And what this is is a.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Kick in the nuts to all those cats that have
spent their whole life playing football. Pop Warner High School
college and I would like to play, but I actually
played football and I'm not some wrestler.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So it's pretty obvious what's going on here.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Unless Gable sticks the landing, which is highly unlikely.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
That's the stuff of dreams. They make a Disney movie
out of that.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
It's more likely than not that what's going to happen
here is Gable Stevenson is going to be a pet
project that he's a speculative investment enterprise, if you will,
and they'll put him on the practice squad.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And all right, here's.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Imagine, imagine how embarrassing that's gonna be when he shows
up to the Bill's practice. Here's how you put your
shoulder pads. It's like freshman football in high school. All right,
here's how you strap your helmet on. Okay, now you
gotta tie your shoes, but you gotta tie this. Wait
a minute, you're in the Buffalo Bill's locker room.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Like, how detached from reality are we?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Like?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
What is going on? But that's where we are. It
is the Ben Mallers Show.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
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A pro athlete, a well paid pro athlete has gone
(13:18):
viral for a very odd, very odd. I was gonna
make this the riddle of the day, but I think
we'll do it right now. So a well known athlete
has gone viral over the weekend and it involves something
that happened at the club.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
But what was We'll get to that and we will
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Speaker 1 (14:48):
The latest status update out of Pittsburgh. Looks like Russell
Wilson has the lead by a country mile.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Are you kidding me? No, I'm not kidding you.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I'm not That's what we're hearing that Russell Wilson's out
way out in front, getting the vast majority of the
reps in the offseason workout. Training camp does not start
for another month and a half, so we have plenty
of time before training camp comes around. Will take your
phone calls here in a moment. Let's see what I
wanted to do. There was a couple of comments I
want to read now. Matt the Warrior Raider. Former A's
(15:20):
fan Tom Brady Rose fan says, Justin Fields is lower
on the depth chart than the guy the Seahawks looked
at and said, we'd rather have Geno Smith than this guy.
Not only that, Matt, Remember that the Seahawks traded for
Drew Lock. They wanted Drew Lock, they, I promise you.
When they traded Russell Wilson, they assumed Drew Lock would
be the temporary starter in Seattle and then they would
(15:43):
transition to their next quarterback.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
And then Drew Lock got beat out by Gino Smith.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
So Gino Smith was like the second down the list
after Russell Wilson or third.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Down the list.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Remember when the Seahawks signed Matt Flynn Remember that?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Oh yes, that was before when then Russell Wilson in
training camp feed him out. Yeah, Matt Flynn got signed
because he had one good game and it.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Was we did. It was a really good game.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
But it was one game seventeen, I guess. But you
have six touchdowns against the Lions at lambeau Field. Let's
give him a new contract, all right, let's go, let's
pay him.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Good luck. Mark the Walker says he's walking to Buffalo
as we speak. To sign of my contract. It's first come,
first serve, so I got to hurt. How crazy is that, Eddie?
Speaker 1 (16:23):
The Bill signed a guy that had never put cleats on,
never played football, to a pro football contract WI.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
It's not unheard of. Why we had some rugby guys
that have that's happened to.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But they put cleats on, Eddie.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
You wear cleveton, I guess so as they do.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
They play, they wear cleats, They've got hair and the chest.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
He never played football though.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
This guy a failed professional wrestler and now he's that's
just nuts craziness. Matt jack says, Hey, Ben, you say
you're not the wrestling guy, but based on the mall
of malicious guesses to your guessing games, your listeners are.
If Eddie's not fit to be the hockey guy, he
should be a professional wrestling have a professional segment, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Would you drop hockey for wrestling? No way, you will not.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
I would probably do WNBA before I would do.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That, Matt jack.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Eddie says he would rather talk WNBA than pro wrestling.
What do you have to say to that, Matt? But
Matt Jackson get really mad now. Eke and Rosevio Minnesota says,
Bill's head coach Sean McDermott was a high school wrestling
champ in Pennsylvania. Okay, maybe that's the connection that could be.
There's some kind of connection. King Roy also says rumors
are Bill's head coach Sean McDermott a wrestling fan who
(17:29):
was able to sweet talk Gable Stevenson to sign with
the Bill sweet talking.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
He had, what other options did he have?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
He wasn't from when I understand he wasn't doing very
well in professional wrestling.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
They were more than happy to get rid of him.
You don't say.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Fergduck says there's only one man who knows whether or
not Gable Stevenson will make it in the NFL. His
name is Andy the comic book guy. Are you kidding me?
Andy the comic book guy? And he's probably the bill
signed anyone, and Andy gets aroused, he's so excited that anyone. Oh,
this is the greatest thing of all time. Oh my god,
(18:05):
let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
We'll say hello to Let's say.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
How about hollering James, Hello, hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
All right, James has apparently checked out.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
We think he's alive.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
We just think that he fell asleep, which is unfortunate
because we would have liked to have put him on.
Let's say hello to Mason the millennial, who's in the
Bay Area. Hello, Mason the Millennial.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Hey Ben, how you doing man?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
Hello?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I was I was letting you talk, Mason. I was
allowing you be forum to speak.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I ask you a question.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
He didn't really mean that. That's just a small talk quote.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
You don't you've met him, But.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
He didn't really mean that. It's just like you, just
filling time is what you're doing. Right?
Speaker 6 (18:52):
Maybe you know what, Ben? How about this? Your basketball
takes are collectively, consistently some of the worst bestball takes
I've ever heard.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
They don't align with your false belief.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Yeah, my false belief what we all know? What the
reason is why you want the Celtics to win?
Speaker 1 (19:15):
And and why would why would why would I want
the Celtics to win?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
Well, I I personally believe your Laker hate and your
bias consumes you in your mind and the way you
feel about Oh.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
No, I am a fair arbitrator of the my sports takes.
I would never base an entire take on the fact
that I think it would be even more embarrassing for
the Lakers. If the Celtics win again, the Lakers are
never going to get The Lakers are about to hire
a podcaster as their coach. Can you believe that Mason,
a podcaster, is about to become the head coach the Lakers.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Really setting the barlow with them?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I agree that is setting the barlow. I wouldn't hire
a podcaster to be the coach. Why would you do that?
Speaker 6 (19:57):
I mean, that's where we can agree, you know that
Will Here's.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
The question, though, since our own Doug Gottlieb is trying
to coach college basketball and do a show, will JJ
Reddick have the as my grandfather would say, the ultimate
HUTZBA and will he coach the Lakers and do his
grab ass podcast with Lebron James at the same time.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I'd say he should. If Gottlieb can do it, I
say he should do it.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
I mean, why not in this wacky world of sports
and especially the chokes if the NBA is why the
hell not? Hey, hey Ben, what was the deal with this?
Speaker 1 (20:30):
This?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
The Pelicans deferring the seventeen sick? I mean, can you
like just in yes.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
I will explain this to you.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
So the Pelicans are betting that Lebron is going to
be worse next season, and as a result, the Lakers
are going to be worse, and therefore said draft pick
will be higher in twenty twenty five. So, yes, the Lakers,
the Repelicans are gambling. They're betting against the Lakers. They
(20:57):
gave up what the seventeenth pick could have had the
seventeenth pick, right, and they believe the Lakers pick will
be a higher pick, which you get. You're basically the
lottery at that point, right, You're almost the lottery at
that point.
Speaker 6 (21:13):
I respect that, and I love that game on here
fast and you're NBA takes and then ask for you.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Yeah, I know you're such a fraud. You're a fraud. Now, Mason,
will you make it.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
To the We're planning the Malor Meet and greet in
Vegas in late July early August.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Are you planning on a tending Mason?
Speaker 6 (21:28):
Yep, Me and are going to drive down there together.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh wow, dynamic, Dynamic do some twosome? Yeah all right,
well very exciting.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
I would love to meet see you again and meet
meet emmittt go.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Stare at your your golden State Warrior. Fat head.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Okay, go stare at that your steph Curry, fat egg,
get out of here. Let's say hello to blind Scott.
Blind Scott is on the north end of Boston. Will
Blind Scott enter the Steel Cage death match to decide
who will win the championship between the Boston Celtics and
the Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Hello, Scotty, we got new neighbors.
Speaker 7 (22:05):
Next story. The old neighbors moved out of my my
neighbor's apartment and they took everything with the pots and
pans and just pot everything they could take left. Hey,
I saw Jason Tatum over the weekend at five guys.
I couldn't believe it. Man, he's just hanging out with
the people, eating five guys amongst everybody. You know what
I mean, Ben, You've never seen Wait?
Speaker 1 (22:25):
Are you sure it was Tatum and not some guy
in a Jason Tatum jersey?
Speaker 7 (22:30):
No, all the kids would chase him. Did the kids
love that guy? You know he's plugging amongst the kids. Hey,
I noticed something about Mark, the full name guy I've
seen like you're married and he's married. You know you
guys are older guys. Coop's even married a younger guys
marked the full name guy. He's pushing seventy, never been married,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
He's very upset. Are you sure you want to go
down that road? Scott? Are you sure you want to
continue down this road?
Speaker 7 (22:58):
He's the fucking I started on the thing too. I
was scrolling for Netflix, and I said, this movie, and
then I started Justin Cooper by a liar. His name's
right on there, he said, Justin Cooper. I bet that's
worth a lot of money on it. That's on Netflix now,
you know what I mean. I bet if I watch
it like thirty times right now, that goes right to
Coop's pocket, you know, and he buys you guys all
like McCormick and Schmick's takeout or something. You know what
(23:21):
I mean. Hey, I saw my buddy Ringo a few
months ago. You know, Ringo star, Me and him are
pretty quot He goes to this AA meeting downtown. That's
supports to say that. But when it's a guy like
Ringo out of my name dropping someone like that too,
you know what I mean. And another person I see
once in a while, not in years, all his names John,
but it's really Ozzy Osbourne. You know what I'm saying.
(23:42):
I have so many contacts. There's another reason why Mark
so jos He said, Scott, what are you?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
What are you smoking? Scott? What is going on?
Speaker 7 (23:49):
Oh? Nothing, I just got up and started walking around.
I just woke up like half hour ago. You know
what I mean.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
I got an amazing hour. I mean the hour one
was one of the great hours we've ever done.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
And you did not hear it.
Speaker 7 (24:01):
I got to hear that. I usually don't miss this stuff.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
You see here.
Speaker 7 (24:04):
This is what listeners don't know. I used to be
Ben's hairstylas before I went blind, and Ben cues me
in to call the show with these questions because the
show sucks if I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yes, that is true. That is true.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Whenever we hit a lull, I hit my button on
my phone and it texts Scott and he reads the
text and then he realizes it's like the batphone, and
he knows he's got to call in to the show
to save the show, or else we're gonna have to
turn off the transmitter because no one's listening.
Speaker 7 (24:33):
Yeah. I bring up all these controversies like weed Man
and Jed who fled The reason why there's such losers
is because they live in Florida and there's no commerce
down there, so there's no way to work. So it's
actually a problem with society that has brought those men
to drugs, not addiction, you know what I'm saying. So
I hit all these hard, I hit all these height
hends in places. One thing that somethings are going to
(24:55):
crush Dallas.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Dallas sucks.
Speaker 7 (24:56):
They shouldn't even be in the playoffs. Man, they weren't
even a playoff team.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
All right, all right, we gotta get somebody fun.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I gotta get I gotta get a Maverick guy, somebody
in Dallas who wants to challenge Scott.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
We got to do this now.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
We won't do it tomorrow. I think we'll do it
in the lead in into Wednesday. So Tuesday in the Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
All right, thank you, Scott.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I gotta go any The comic book guy, ironically enough,
was listening.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
He says, I don't know that irony is the right
use of that word.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
He has been convenient of you to leave out the
facts that the guy is a wrestler and an Olympic
gold I said he won an Olympic gold Medal. He says,
way to bury the lead, bad job by you. Hey,
you and I both know as a member of Bill's
Mafia in your comic book shop with the Bill's Mafia.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Flag right in the middle there.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
And that's got to be one of the only comic
book shops in America that has that, because most people
there's not a lot of crossover comic book fan and
football fan, not a huge, not a gigantic.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Crossover the different subculture. And you've crossed the stream.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
But whoever the Bills signed the Bills right now could say,
Josh Allen's going to take.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
A year off.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
We're going to go out and trade with the Rams
to get Jimmy Garoppolo. And you would call up and
sing the praises of Garoppolo, That's what you would do. Yeah,
Fred Wrights and says, how is blind Scott seeing all
these people? How would he know? He's at five guys?
I hope he doesn't pick up an iron to call
you some night.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
Yeah, Well, he did sit on the plunger that one time.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
That's one of the great stories in the history of
the show, that Blind Scott sat on a plunger and
you know who knows there's some jokes there, Eddie, but
I'm not going there. I mean there's some humor in that,
but I will leave that alone. I do grown up shows.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yes. When you think Ben Mallor show, you think grown
up show.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I will tell you though, Eddie, last time I was
at five Guys, I think you have.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
To play in the NBA tool four to five. I
know it's appropriate that Tatum would be there.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
I love five Guys, but it is really good.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
I'm not going to go there.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
It doesn't justify cheeseburger. I have noticed pushback against the
fast food industry recently that now California screwed because of
the wage increase, but the rest of the country is not,
and there people push them back, like the CEO of
McDonald's was like trying to defend the ridiculous prices for
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Big Max in certain places. No Stradinas when I met
No Stradinas, he's in't Seattle. When I met him at
the Mallard meet and greet in twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
I remember the.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Meeting and he had a no weed Man signed. I
think he's going to change that to no blind Scott,
he says.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Weller in it.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
The other day. Well, there it is, right there, that's
the famous drive.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
We're all losing brain cells listening to blind Scott says
the aforementioned no stradinas legend. There Justin in Cincinnati. Justin
always sounds like he's out of breath. He then wishes
something really bad happens. All right, well, thank you for that,
but really firing up Blan Scott, firing up the Mai.
Speaker 4 (28:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Back to baseball and Ben the number one overall drafting
in baseball kind of hit and missed. You've got some,
you know, pretty good players on the list. Adlee Rushman
would be the latest. Paul Skenes looked like he's gonna
be pretty good for the Pirates, Garrett Cole, Steven Strassburg,
even pretty good players, Bryce Harper, Carlos Carrera. Uh, but
then you've got a few misses. You've got Casey Mize
was a two thousand and eight number one overall pick,
(28:38):
royce Lewis, Uh, somebody named Mickey who's there's.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
A didn't the Yankees draft a pitcher was either for
Brian Taylor.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
That was a while ago. Yeah, he was actually really
good allian L pitchers on trarm trouble. But there was
also a number one pick in twenty twenty for the
Detroit Tigers, Spencer Torkelson.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
Good name. So he's like a nerd.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Yeah, it does sounds like a nerd.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And he is how going to be a tough guy
with tough.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Early It's tough to be a major league baseball player too.
Because the number one pick for the Tigers out of
twenty twenty, he is being optioned to Triple A. It's
not working out for him. He's having a tough, tough
season this year. Looking at the stats here, let's see,
he is hitting two oh one with four home runs.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
So I didn't play major league baseball, Eddy, I don't
think that's good though.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
No, not too, especially when you were the number one
overall pick in the draft. So they have they've decided
to send him down to whatever the Tiger's Triple A
team is it? Uh? I was gonna say Toledo too.
Is it Toledo?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
He used to be Toledo. I don't know if it
still is. Why wouldn't it be Toledo?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Remember we got all that mud hens stuff from.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
The Yeah where hat?
Speaker 8 (29:47):
Right?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Now? You're not?
Speaker 2 (29:48):
I am. I swear to God, I'm wearing my money.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
I do love that T shirt.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Great, very comfortable, very soft.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Oh yeah yeah, who.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Sent us that? We can't remember? I mean we got
to thank them. It's like this gift box, all this cool.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Toledo mats and shirts and stuff.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, I around the house it's very comfortab I do too.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
I wear that.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I got my Bucky stuff around that. I got more
clothes to wear around the house than I do outside.
I'm set up man, all right, Eddie, listen, I got
two fun facts this?
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Are you ready for that? Too?
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Fun I got? I got one. Well, I think I've
been willing to bet that we have the same fun facts.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Okay, well I let you need buy other fun fact
hit that butt hit fun fact.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
By fun fact, Eddie, someone named Nick Lofton hit a
walk off sackfly as Nelson, Alaska has hit two RBIs the.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Kansas City Royals.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
The defeat of the San Diego Potter is four to three,
and the Royals, like Eddie, does not give the royal score,
but the Kansas City Royals if you look nine games
and what eleven games above five hundred and a wild
card team in the American League.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
But no respect from Eddie Garcia.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
It's nice, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
I mean there are people on our affiliate in Kansas.
My guy Bob Fescal says, people complain, why do we
not get the score?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
They can play? Well, that's my first fun fact.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I got a lot of fun I got another fun
facts that malor fun fact.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
This is my hockey fun fact. Are you ready, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We got the same fun fact all right?
Speaker 1 (31:15):
This year's Stanley Cup final, yes, between the Oilers and Pantay, Yes,
will be the first between two cities in nachlse toty miles.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
That is correct.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
The previous record, Eddie. You know what the previous record was.
It was back in twenty eleven when the Vancouver Canucks
played the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup Final, and
that was twenty twenty four thousand, or twenty four hundred and.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Ninety nine miles.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
And the next next of us would be the Montreal
Canadians and the La Kings.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
You remember that one, Eddie. Unfortunately old the bent stick.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
Last time the Canadian team won the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
And then when we were at Eddie the The third
on the list would be Kings, so two thousand, five
hundred and forty one miles. Just for the record again
for those of you just tuning in Eddie Garcia, mister
Hockey over there said the edmund Toilers were not going
to win.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
They were not going to be.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
They're not going to be.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
They are going to win. They will absolutely win, and
then we will we.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
Will have all things will be right in the world.
I will be mister hockey once again.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Are there any direct flights from Edmonton, Alberta to Sunrise, Florida?
Speaker 2 (32:25):
Can you get any direct flights?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I don't think you can go correctly directly to Sunrise, Florida.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
No, I just go to Miami to get a car.
Maybe weed Man can show you the way.
Speaker 3 (32:35):
Oh yeah, I'm sure that's true.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
And yes, But to my oilers, my Connor McDavid, my
Edmonton Oilers gonna win the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
And I should, and then you will move to Edmonton.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
I maybe I will. Maybe I'll do a morning drive
in Edmonton. You never know, any I might just up
and leave and just go to Edmonton.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Why not? What the hell? All right? Anyway, let's go,
We'll go to the phones.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
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and look at the clock r Why don't we pause
for the cause? I see I think we have our
Maverick guy online, and I see some other big names there.
So hopefully those guys will stawn home. But I need
to leave time because we do have mallardly third degree.
Kevin Durant, by the way, is the guy that went viral.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
This is very odd.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I hope this is out of context video. Several of
you idiots sent me this video. There's a clip going
around social media. I'll describe it for our blind listeners,
and it shows what appears to be Phoenix Suns star
Kevin Durant at some nightclub, dancing in a very odd way.
Now listen, I know how to dance. You know, Benny
Breakdance was my game back in the day. They call
(34:01):
me Benny break Dance, So I know how to dance.
But Kevin Durantz out there at the club, he's dancing,
and it appears, and if you're able to see this,
if you're not blind, check this out. It appears his
dance move includes him practicing his jump shot like that's
part of his dance. He's practicing his jump shot while.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
At the club. Little lot, little douchey too, right, can
we agree on that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
I'm just shocked at Durant's actually going out. I thought
he'd just stayed in. He's a curmudgeon, stays at home,
doesn't go out do much.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
But there he was. There's a video of him dancing
and using the jump shot. Is his signature move? All right?
It is the Ben malisho. We're gonna have a mallet
of the third degree. Here's the insta tribute.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Aaron Judge has two hundred seventy eight career home runs
in just eight hundred and ninety six games after Sunday
Blank currently is the quickest the three hundred home runs
in baseball history. Again, Aaron Judge two hundred seventy eight
two hundred every eight career home runs in eight hundred
ninety six games, Blank is the quickest of three.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Hundred home runs all time in baseball history. That is
the instert tributa the answer.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
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and here's.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Your Insta tribua for the day. Aaron Judge has toured
seventy eight home runs in his career just eight hundred
ninety six games. Blank currently has the record for the
quickest to three hundred career home runs.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
That is the uestion. What is the answer.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Let's see does anyone know the answer? We go to
the Great Unwashed and the Mallard Militia. Boy, there's some
very interesting things on the X machine X.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Marks the spot.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Cowboy Killer says it has to be Eddie Wnba Sicka
fan Garcia that that is the answer. The Big Donkey
Adam Dunn guess by Jordan amos otis from a mister
nice guy Haystacks Calhoun from Mark the Walker in Rochester,
Jared Duran from Alf the Alien Opiner.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Who else do we have? A guppy troop from.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Matt the Warrior, Tom Brady Roast Fan Alpha Academy Founder
Chad Gable guest by ferg Dog, Benny the Breakdance Popper
from Malard prop Guy Bo Derek tossed out by Art
Puffin Mark McGuire is the answer from Andy of Lion o' Lakes.
Felix Jose from Paul d.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
That's a good name.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Haven't heard that in a while, Benny Breakdown from Beneath
the Cowboy Fan. Corporal Klinger from King m We're in
that same hat, well not the same one because that's old.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
But yeah, anyway, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie?
I need an answer.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
Yeah, I'm gonna go with former Cleveland Indian slugger Travis Hafner.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Is it Travis Hafner?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
The correct answers a man that hurt himself blowing his
nose and changed his appearance dramatically after retiring Sammy Sosa.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Sammy Sosa one.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Fifty games, so it's pretty apparent that Aaron Judges are
gonna break that record. Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
This is one thing.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
That gets krilled, and we say hello to the couples.
Speaker 8 (37:49):
Red Sox manager Alex Corner recently discussed his contract situation
and so that he has no intention of negotiating during
UH and negotiating an extension during the season, and this
is like many to speculate that he may test the
open market. Ben, do you think Cora is back with
the Socks next year?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
No, he's done.
Speaker 1 (38:04):
And it's an odd situation because Alex Cora was part
of the few people punished for the Astros. He didn't
play for the Astros, but he got pushed. He was
one of the masterminds of the cheating scandal, and then
they had problems in Boston and then they brought him
back and it seems like he's just done.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
He knows he's not going to be back.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
The Red Sox haven't spent a lot of money to
try to improve the team.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
They're a mid level.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
Team and talent wise, and so yeah, he'll be managing
somewhere else next year doing television.
Speaker 8 (38:33):
Next, Marvin Lewis is making his return to the NFL sidelines,
as he will be assistant head coach for the Raiders
on Antonio Pierce's staff, Ben, do you think Lewis could
eventually make a return to the big chair.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
No, but I could see the scenario where he becomes
the defensive coordinator for the Raiders of their defense gets
off to a bad start. Marvin Lewis is still living
off that Ravens defense that he oversaw back back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (38:58):
But he's the guy that's helping in Tonio Pierce. Kind
of show Antonio Pierce.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
The way as a head coach and the Raiders, if
they just get like ten wins, they could be a
wildcard team, but that division is stacked.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Next.
Speaker 8 (39:10):
Former Jets GM Mike Tannebaum recently made an appearance on
Dan Patrick when he revealed that if you were to
do a draft of all NFL players today, he would
take Patrick Mahomes number one and Jordan Love number two.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Ben, this is quite a hot take. Yeah, very hot. Yeah,
so hot. The MIC's are burning up. Yeah, that's right.
Where would you take Love?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
I think Mike Tannenbaum proved why he's an embarrassment, That's
what I think with and why he sucked as a
GM of the Jets. Well, first of all, Mahomes goes one,
Joe Burrow goes number Hello Joe Burrow.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
But Jordan Love he would be a top ten pick.
How did we do? Cope? You pass this edition? That
is a wag. You could put it on the bar,
that take
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