December 6, 2023 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about the idea that Shohei Ohtani's free agency has been a waste for MLB, if Dave Roberts screwed up by dropping an Ohtani nugget, Brian Cashman saying the Yankees have "very few untouchables," and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird two as we
try to outfox the podcast competition Talking bass Ball. We
record this podcast overnight so you have fresh audio content
now Overnight. We discussed the show Hey Otani, Sweepsticks, and
we asked the question, has Otani's free agency been a
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waste for Major League Baseball? He's attempted to cut off
insider information which would have created excitement and drama on
where Otani's gonna go, And so we discussed that. Also,
did Dave Roberts screw things up by dropping an Otani
nugget at the Dodgers had a meeting with Otani. Also,
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Brian Cashman says the Yankees have very few untouchables. Do
you believe him? We'll talk about that as well. It's
all coming your way right now here. It is our
number two putting the oh in otanis Oh, where's the news?
Where's the old Tani news? Well come, in the beginning
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headline this hour from the Grand Old Opry. Well down
the street from the Grand Old Opry and a couple
miles away headline Winter Meetings. They are in Tennessee and
that is where the baseball world has formed Vultron. This
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week the annual Swap Meet, which is really an opportunity
for baseball. I had an executive tell me years ago
the whole point of the Winter Meetings in the modern
era is to sell tickets. That the argument is your
your team's going to acquire somebody. The fan base is
gonna be so excited about they're gonna buy season tickets
or at least a ticket package because it's always in
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early December and people are buying gifts for Christmas. So like,
your team's gonna make that big move and you're gonna
sell a bunch of tickets for next summer, and you
get all that money to sit in your bank account
and you gain interest and all that. But anyway, the prize,
get to the point, please, The prize is Showy, Oh Tony,
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the Japanese sensation, the guy that lived up that better
offensive player than pitcher. He's not that great a pitcher,
but he's very good, very good offensive players. So what
is the latest. What is the latest from the winter
meetings on sho Hey Otani? Well, the prize is Otani,
not that you wouldn't know it. Not that you wouldn't
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know it. Otani and his agent have kept negotiations on lockdown.
Get me on a swat team to know what's going on.
So there's not much buzz. There's not a lot of
rumors other than writers making crap up. There's really no anticipation.
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It's not like it's down to the Dodgers, Angels and
the Giants. We don't know who it's down to. Maybe
Otani's already made his mind up, it just hasn't been announced.
We don't know. Now. The baseball industry not real happy,
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not real happy with what's going on. Now that the
agent issued a vaguely worded warning about a couple of
weeks ago, said no communication IX nay on the communication
a with Otani. Anything that you say about Oltani will
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be used against you, and not could be. It will
be used against you. It's like the Miranda rights, it's
the Otani rights on how to handle the media. As
a result, the flow of gossip and information about Otani
the Otani sweepstakes has been mostly limited to some scribes
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who are very good at creative writing, and they're just
making stuff up out of thin air, which maybe is
how it works all the time. I don't know, maybe
that's just how the business works. But if you've not
seen the latest on this, and maybe not, several dominant
baseball pundits have gotten on their soapbox and have whined
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and moaned and complained about what a debacle, What should
be one of the great moments in Baseball Winter Meetings
history is merely an afterthought. The Otani sweepstakes. A unicorn
player once in a generation, maybe more than that, once
in every three or four generations. Sho heey Otani and
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the way this is being handled butterfingers fingers is what
it is. With all the lack of anticipation and speculation
and all of that stuff. The way it's been handled here,
it is a haymaker for the sport of baseball, for
the industry of baseball in what should have been their
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shining moment. You'd much rather hear dirt on Otani than
watch these crappy play in nerve or in season tournament
games in the NBA. So let us discuss the question,
all right, questions, has the show Hey Otani free agency
shopping period, which is still going on as we are
doing this show in real time as far as we know,
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has this been a waste for Major League Baseball? So
I've got forty nine ers, Draconian and Woody and buzz Lightyear,
and that's it. We'll combine all these things together and
we are going to make a new Malor holiday song,
which we will debut coming up later this hour, new
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music on a sports talk radio show in the middle
of the night. But the Malard Militia has come together.
P one has sent us a new holiday song. Will
it become a classic? Time will tell, But we will
have that for you coming up here in a little bit.
But to get back to the question, has sho hey,
Otani in free agency, here been a waste for Major
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League Baseball. And the answer to that question is absolutely,
abe bleeping loutely now number wh number yes. So, taking
a couple of steps back and analyzing what has happened
up until this point, all of this is unnecessary. It
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is all unnecessary. Someone wants to pay you half a
billion dollars to play baseball, right, baseball. You're not gonna
die on a baseball field. You're not. You can play baseball.
But all that stuff it's on brand from Major League Baseball.
I was actually texting somebody that works in baseball who
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I've known for years, and we were going back and
forth about Otani. I was trying to figure out where
he was gonna go. I thought maybe this guy knew something.
He knows nothing. Unfortunately, but we were going back, I
was like, well, this is so baseball. It's so perfect
the way baseball. Baseball players do more to shoo themselves
in the foot than any other athlete. Like the NBA,
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players are great at marketing the game. Now, a lot
of people hate the NBA because the way they market
the game and the bravado and the catwalk to get
into the arena at NBA games, the fashion shows that
go on and all that. But it's good for business.
It's good for the bottom line. See who you that
And then you compare and contrast that to baseball, and
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perfect example would be in basketball. Their Otani Sweepstakes happened
eleven years ago. Lebron James, the decision, they called it
was a made for television special. Would Lebron James leave Cleveland?
Where would he go? Was he gonna go to the
Miami Heat? Would he go to the Lakers, the Chicago Bulls?
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Where or where or where was Lebron gonna go? That
was a huge story. It was such a big story
that it had a prime time special. And you're in
show business. I know people say baseball is boring, but
it is show business. It's entertainment. And this time of
the year is often more exciting than a random day
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in May or June when it comes to baseball information.
You're true fan of baseball. The excitement, the anticipation of
your team not sucking because they actually made good moves
in the month of December is a wonderful mitzvah. It's
a great thing for you, right, And Otani seen as
the Great Messiah, the Savior, the Messiah of mash if
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you will. And here we are a guy that owns
the pixie dust and his posse have handled this like
the forty nine Ers mascot sourdough. Sam. Just serving up
sourdough is what he's doing, right, He's like, no, no,
no fun for you. You don't coun out have many
funs speculating about this. Now, I know there's a middle ground.
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You don't have to turn this into a Shakespearean drama.
You don't have to go to the Boys and Girls
Club in Connecticut with Jim Gray and have an announcement.
I'm not saying that, But how about a middle ground?
How about somewhere in the middle, you know, put some
meat on the bone. Now, I also get why the
people who are baseball scribes are writing these think pieces
about how terrible this is, because that's their job is
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to have gossip and come up with gossip, and Otani's
camp is making their job more difficult, so they're upset
by that. But you don't need to be Johnny Raincroud,
rain Cloud, I should say, rain Cloud. You don't need
to be Johnny ring Cloud. Please stop, all right? Now meanwhile,
page two here and big revelation. The only real revelation
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that's come out of the Otani sweepsteaks from La La Land,
where the Dodgers have made their pitch in person for Otani.
This is not according to League sources. This is according
to Dave Roberts, who confirmed that Otani was at Chavez
Ravine hanging out a couple of days ago Dodger Stadium
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blue Heaven on Earth as Tommy Lisordi used to call it.
Roberts said, the conversation went, well, well, that's good to know.
That's good. That of course created a lot of bluster,
a lot of bluster, people up in arms, considering that
Otani wanted radio silence, which we never want radio silence.
We have radio silence. We're dead. It were doomed. It's
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all over. So Dave Roberts, did Dave Roberts screw things
up for the Dodgers by dropping the Otani nugget? Was
this another mistake by Dave Roberts. They liked him in
that spot. So I'm gonna go know on that. I
cool your jets, right, cool your jets on this and
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if show, hey, Otani is such a big kill joy
such a DeBie downer that just the mere mentioned by
Dave Roberts that Otani met with the Dodgers is off limits.
Then go somewhere else. Go play for the Toronto Blue Jays,
yourself out. I don't want anything to do with you.
He can't even pitch right now. Anyway. Who knows if
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you'll come back and be any good on the mound,
So just go somewhere else. I mean, you're not guarding
the secrets at Area fifty one about alien technology. You're
a stupid baseball player, is what you are. Okay, you're
a good baseball player, but I don't need the draconian rules.
I'm tired of baseball players acting like this. I thought
you were better than that. Otani. Come on, it's embarrassed,
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all right. Somebody's going to give you probably five hundred
million minimum in free agency and they're not supposed to
talk about it. Hush is the word ridiculous, all right?
Final point outside of old Tani, outside of Otani news,
the other big name that is expected to change laundry
but has not yet changed laundry is Juan Soto. The
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owner of the Padres is dead and they're expected to
get rid of a bunch of players.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
To be fair, the Padres were going to do this
anyway because their television deal went to hell, and the
good people of San Diego apparently don't have Padre fever,
at least not willing to pay for Padre baseball. I
know they're trying to change that up next season, but
they lost a ton of money of TV wise, even
though they make a ton of money still from the
National TV. But the Padres are going to unload Juan
Soto out of San Diego. The Bronx Bombers are often
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mentioned now. Yankee JM. Brian Cashman told reporters at the
winter meetings that there are quote very few untouchables on
the roster. Yankees were just a couple games over five
hundred last year, worst Yankee team in a generation since
nineteen ninety two. The Yankees have not sucked as much
as they did this past season since nineteen ninety two.
So Cashman was answering a question about whether or not
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the Bronx Bombers would say bye bye to second baseman
Glaber Torres and get rid of him. He's eligible for
free agency after next season. That's normally the time you
trade a player if you don't want to pay them,
and so is he available in the Wan Soto trade.
So Brian Cashman says the Yankees have very few untouchables.
Do you believe him? And who are the un touched?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
So?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes, I believe Brian cash I believe Brian Cashman, and
I will tell you right now, there are only two.
It's the gruesome twosome. There are two untouchables on the
New York Yankees. They are Woody and Buzz light Year
otherwise known as Aaron Judge and Garrett Cole. That's it, period.
Stop you know, I know they're untouchable. They both have
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no trade clauses, so even if the Yankees wanted to
trade them, they'd have to get approval, and good luck
on getting that. So those guys and that's it. Anyone
else outside of them, anyone is available. Yankees also made
a trade for a Red Sox. They got Alex Verdugo.
Who's your typical average player in baseball. That's the guy
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the Red Sox got from Mookie Betts. They're already trading
him because they determined he's not worth the money. They
don't want to pay him a big contract. When his
contract comes up in a couple of years, so that
Yankees got Alex Rodugo for a couple of minor league
pitchers and Brian cash Brian Cashman would would like would
like to? I guess imagine him at the bellaggio right.
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He's reshuffling the deck, is what he's doing. It is
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We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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Speaker 1 (16:46):
We will be debuting a new Mallor holiday tune. If
you're on hold, you heard it already, but you'll hear
the whole thing coming up momentarily late night, drug testers.
Thanks for letting me know. MLB teams have these meetings
to sell tickets for the holidays. Do you think they are?
Are there any for Royals and A's Any Royals and
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A's tickets left?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I think they're. I think they're they're good on that.
I think they'll give you the tickets actually as stalking stuffers.
Ferg Doog says, careful, Ben, after that, Dave Roberts Debaco,
your malar monologue will make it even harder for the
Dodgers to sign Otanisan, says Fick. Now, the Great Ted Soble,
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veteran radio man Ted Sobol points out he's listening to
the show, and I don't tell anyone that because you'll
he'll lose all credibility. But Ted points out that Dave
Roberts was born in Japan, speaks Japanese because of his
Japanese mother, so therefore Shohei should give him an exemption.
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It's like the Brotherhood from Japan, right, So that's the
whole thing on that. Now, Koopleloop, you're all worked up
at this coop. Now are you going to defend Otani
and his posse because I think it's stupid. You should promote.
You're promoting the sport. It's bigger than just you. And
what's the worst thing that happens if people talk about
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different rumors like you're meeting uh with you know, you're
down to two teams or down to three team? What's
the big deal? Well?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I mean, honestly, my thought is that it's a test.
You know, he's they're seeing what are you testing? Who
he can trust? What is the organization? Shouldn't you want
to go to the team that markets you the most?
Wouldn't that? I typical? This is typical Angel crap coop.
This is what Mike Trout does. He's okay that that
brings me. That brings me to my larger point. What
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does all of this point to good signs for him
re signing with the Angels?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It kind of does, doesn't it? Eh? I don't know
about that. What is it? Why wouldn't you bring it back? Anyway?
They're gonna stink anyway? So I bring him back, you know,
just just saying why I bring him back?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
From whose perspective? From like from that for them, for
the team, well.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You're just gonna be the same it went around, we'd
be about five hundred and you're not gonna be a
legitimate cond Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
But they'll fill the seats and they'll fill the ads.
The ad spend.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The people in Orange County go to those games. There's
a certain amount of people that will go to those games.
And when the Red Sox or Yankees come in, all
the people from the Commonwealth in New York go to
Angel games and they fill up the They said, well,
the Angels did make a move, Coop. I'll have that
in the twib notes. We'll have that in the twip notes.
Let's take it.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Hold on, I have a question for Coop. Now, back
in back in the day, now you did you said
something in you know you were heated, But I want
to know if it still stands if Otani goes to
the Dodgers, are you done with baseball?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yes? Wow, I don't believe It's a.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Lot riding on the line.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Ben's calling Cooper liar.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Just like our old guy. The bus driver said he
was not going back on on on X until Dave
Roberts was fired. But I guess he popped back up
on people change them mind, I do like that. I
do like that hat you're wearing, though, coup of all
your Bronco hats, that's my favorite one that.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
You have there.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Hold the school, the old school Bronco logo. I like this.
They should go back to that logo. That's a solid logo.
Those loves Blue helmets.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
A solid There's lots of talk about them going back
to that logo.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Should all the Seahawks too? Man, they look good with
those old uniforms. Yeah there.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
I guess the Broncos are going to debut new uniforms
next season, but it's all it's kept under wraps. We
don't know what they're going to look like. The mystery
people are hoping and speculating that they're going back to
the old Denver d Well.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's nostalgic for me because I remember seeing those uniforms
when I was a kid. But I like to see
I think they look better than what they have now. Anyway,
all right, it's the Benbogho. Let's go tell the phones.
Andre is in the hold on. I say I pushed
the wrong lineup, Dad, go it. Let's say hello to
Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, what's going.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
On, Ben, Good, good evening. It's good to be with you.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
This is what we had, the situation in the Laker's
son's game with that referee making the call. By the way,
I am an official myself.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I know you always mentioned that. We know, Andre you
are an official. That was incompetence by the referee. That
was absolute incompetence. That was Keystone cop Like at the
end of the Laker Sun game with seven seconds left,
it's a loose ball and Lebron calls the time out
while the ball is loose. Austin reeves. Look about this too.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
The rest that gave him that granted the timeout he
could not see, his vision was blocked by the PA.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No more reason to not make the call. What do
you mean not to make the call?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
When somebody calls for time out, you give them the timeout.
The ball, you guys have is an issue with the
rules themselves.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You are such a jackass. You don't believe that. Coop's
laughing right now because he absolutely believe it. The one
of the perks being a Laker guy is it's eight
on five most nights. It's eight on five. It's the
five on the court, the three freeze against the other
five players for the other team. That's how it's always been,
and I guess it will always continue the rest of
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my life.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
And it's good for the brand, Ben, you know, having.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
The brand, Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it's very good for
the brand.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Bring bring them into the n season tournament and you
get more eyeball. But in fact, the matter resist and
I have to go back to again my officiating back right, listen,
Ben's team control exiit that was an interrupted dribble, as
we call it a loose ball. It's called an interrupted dribble,
and team control exists. So if there's a foul, right,
if there's a foul during that possession, you maintain team control.
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The Lakers would have still been the offensive team. Nonetheless,
for a time out, you have to have.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Andre, You've had a lot of bad takes. This is
the this takes the cake here, congratulations, Andre, This take
right here, the worst take you've had. We have cake.
I'm gonna eat that cake, but I'm gonna there's an
old I tried that.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
It's pretty gross.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
There was some disgusting pilot was in here, but I
disposed of it. I threw it out. It was so disgusting.
The pie looked like it was not orange. It was
turning brown.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yeah, it was it oxygen mixing with the surface.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, it was really bad. Damn that oxygen almost as
bad as Andre's take here defending the NBA officials, and there.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Was no defense to the official. I'm simply trying to
use it as a teachable moment for people to see.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Wouldn't the teachable moment be Okay, we review every fricking
thing in the basketball game. These games taken extra thirty
forty minutes sometimes because these stupid coaches challenges or instant
replay and all that. So there's nothing we can do.
Our hands are tied. We can't do a damn thing.
Why not, morons?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
You should You should be able to challenge that. If
you're able to if you're going to be able to
challenge everything, you should be a challenge at everything, exactly,
all right, What you can say.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
In that situation is it's an inadvertent with the meaning
you blew the whistle, and it has no correlation to anything.
You go back to what we call the point of interruption,
which is a loose ball where nobody has a loose ball,
and then you can go to what you can have
a jump ball situation.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I will actually credit Lebron James because he knew the
Lakers were about to turn the ball over and he
called time out. That was a smart play. And he
also knows the officials are in his back pocket and
he's going to get the call. So it's smart by
Lebron because he knows and fifty to fifty calls going
to go his direction because he runs the NBA, it's
his world.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
But in conclusion that the referees could have conferenced up
and they could have got that one right. They could
have just said inavertent with so we go back to
the point of interruption would have been a jump ball.
And then what you don't want to have happened in
a game is you don't under a minute, and that
was under thirty seconds. That team can't recover from that
lost possession as we saw, and the Lakers won based
on getting that extra possession. So it really swung the game.
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Have a jump ball, get both teams an equal opportunity,
and the people will go back down and they got
their money's worse.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Unlike the Super Bowl again with that.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
One dog on one of the biggest game in sport.
It was the Fosters. It was it was a miscarriagy justice.
Thanks taking the call, Ben.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Not as big as a miscarriage of justice as the
cheating Aestros cheating during the World Series in the MLB
World Series video and Rob Manford, the ballless Commissioner of Baseball,
the toothless, spinalless Commissioner of Baseball running interference for the
cheating one thousand and two, one thousand holes.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Thank be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
I'm sorry to do this to you, Ben, but I
think I'm gonna steal something from your twip notes. The
Cleveland Guardians will pick first in the twenty twenty four
Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. They won the draft lottery.
They had a two percent chance of getting the number
one pick, but they beat out eight of the teams,
including the A's, Royals and Rockies, who had eighteen point
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three percent chance of winning that first pick. So congratulations, Cleveland,
you get number one pick in the baseball drafts.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I had a lot of number one picks in Cleveland
over the years. They've got more number one picks than
they had victories. Cleveland Sports Calves have had multiple number
one picks, the Cleveland Browns have had multiple number one picks,
and now the Cleveland the old Cleveland Indians. Anyway, it
is the Ben Malors Show. In this portion of the show,
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Here we go, Here we go. All the latest rumlecks,
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all the latest stylings from Baseball's winter meetings. The Angels
have they made a move, well not a big move,
but they did sign a relief pitcher in free agency.
That news coming down within the last couple of hours.
The Angels have added a former San Diego Padre relief pitcher.
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I believe Luis Garcia is that's the gentleman's name who
will now yes, he will be pitching for the Angels.
Angels also announced that Mike Trout, according to the GM,
will one hundred percent not be traded, not be traded
form Anaheim one hundred percent. Well, that means there's a shot.
You're saying there's a chance. Also, the latest one sho
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Hal Tani, he apparently has shown zero interest, does not
want to play in New York according to people that
don't know anything because Otani hasn't said anything, but they're
saying there's no apparently no chance he's gonna play for
the Mets or the Yankees, which means so likely sign
with the Yankees later today. Also, the Cubs supposedly boked
b They balked at Shohil Tani's asking price. He was
(27:52):
looking for a ten year contract at least five hundred million,
and the Cubs said, no way, We're not gonna do that. Also,
a day after Alex Bregman, the cheating astro, his name
floated out in the trademark at the GM in Houston,
says quote, He's a pillar for the club. Ha cheta
(28:14):
Chitta Chada, peller for the club. Peller for debauchery, Peller
for debauchery back to the Cubs. Cubs, Matt Chapman sounds
like a nineteen twenties type baseball player. Matt Chapman. He's
been playing in Toronto recently. He's a free agent, supposed
he The Cubs doesn't look like they're gonna get Otani,
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so they're eyeing Matt Chapman and also possibly Cody Bellinger,
who would like a ton of money as well. Doesn't
everyone want a ton of money? And Bellinger has been
flirting with the New York Yankees. But the Yankees traded
for Alex Verdugo, mister average beat beat and Verdugo a
rare red Sox Yankee trade. I believe this is thet
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There's been less than ten of the since the nineteen
sixty nine season, with expansion in baseball and the moving
of teams around nineteen sixty nine, so there're lily been
less than ten trades between these teams. The other day,
Marco Gonzales the Mariners. He was traded from Seattle to Atlanta,
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and the Braves have now traded the left handed starter
again to your Pirates, Eddi Marco Gonzalez in a salary dump.
By the Atlanta Braves, so that means he gets to
pitch in Pittsburgh for four months and then be traded
at the deadline to a contender we lose is a
starting pitcher. Also, Trevor Bauer and his reps have been
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hanging out in Nashville begging for work. Bauer would like
to be back in baseball, considering the ridiculousness of him
being thrown out of baseball a couple of years ago.
And he's also got interest in teams in Japan. Yankees
think they're gonna get the Ocean. Obu Yamamoto, the big
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preach pitcher, is supposed gonna get like three hundred million dollars.
Somebody named Jackson Holliday, apparently a top prospects going to
make the Oriols. They pretty much announced he's going to
be on the opening day roster for the Ools. And
the team that got screwed the most, the team that
got screwed the most at the Major League Baseball Draft lottery.
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The soon to be Las Vegas is. If you believe
in karma, and I know the astrology, lady believes in karma.
If you believe in karma, the Oakland Athletics. They get
it because how about this the A's, they were the
worst team in baseball almost all year, they did not
get a top free pick. They were tied for having
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the top odds of landing the number one overall pick.
And this is the second consecutive lottery pick, which means
the A's, who figured to stink out loud again in
twenty twenty four, cannot pick inside the top nine until
twenty twenty five. It's a for gazy rule baseball put
in to try to keep teams from tanking. Good luck
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on that. So there you go. That's some of the
notes around baseballs winter meetings. Say Winter Wonderland, Dad Gummet,
Hello Dad Gummet in Arkansas?
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Yeah, yant lee and go back to Saint Looik. I'm like,
whyon't we just let everybody come back say it's beenner
all fourteen different times? You cause hill, every time we
turn around, we'll get back to the same trash.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Can you find Bob? Can you find Bob Gibson somewhere?
Probably not not available, but maybe you can, you know,
find a way.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
I got my life from driving big Flatman and stuff
I got for the State Highway apartment they started building
nursing homes across the street. When you lay the Dad,
the State Highway apartment are so lazy they go.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Across a lot, Dad, gummot. I actually thought of you
after the show, which means I probably need a mental evaluation.
But I was driving back to the Malor mansion and
a complete shutdown on the highway I take to get
back to the Malor mansion as there was a two
people died out in the highway there and they hit
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this kid was like trunk driving and hit the back
of a big rig that was parked on the side
of the road. And that's it. Lights out for We
get hit all the time in.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Jone Borough, Man, they city councils, they put weeds in
the town. Now they got marija. They got a I
call it medical marra one. Don't get it wrong, it's
medical weeds. They got alcohol now into the restaurants. So
they won't bring the store, but they bringing restaurants because
all the Christians gonna go outside of town and buy
the bearer. You don't have fourteen miles, but they got
something after Now you got shootings, you got killings all
the time. I'm like, hey, one, we just open up
in a little Las Vegas. There we got gam one.
(32:38):
I'm asking it's gonna be a big deal. You see,
you couldn't buy Groce, you get a Walmart. Everybody's closed down,
you know, chick blaze on anyone closed down on Sundays. Hey,
I'm gonna tell you a story, man, let me hit
tell your story. Everybody shut out here for a second.
I want to use two of your collars for this joke,
but I can't use one of them until the end
of it because you eat a mess up my joke.
But you got a taxi cab driver and you got
a nun. Well the tax jop driver's spot. We're gonna
(33:01):
put Shane to boys. Shane looked back in the back seat,
and there's a nun setting back there, and boy, he
just smiling both from here to hear, boy and grinning
and slabbing out of his mouth. And she kept saying,
would you tell me why you keep looking at me?
He said, I just want to tell you something. You
one beautiful woman, and I give you anything in the world.
I'm singing, ain't got no kids, I give anything in
(33:22):
the world. Just kiss you. One time, he said, I
boys had a dream, just kissing. None said, they don't
get around me in She said, I'll tell you what
you do. She said, you pull up the road to
prin and you pull over and I'll let you take
you that. This is. So they went up the road
there and no shame pulled that tax cab over there.
Get on, boy, he got at the.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh my god, dad, dummack, can we move ahead?
Speaker 6 (33:41):
In the joke, he just light the tour. Okay, don't
mess up with Joe. He just lated to her. Here
he goes right here, points line. He just lighted the tour.
So just about time they got done the work, she's
fixed to get out, he said, look back, he said, Man,
I'm gonna taste it my life to you. He said,
I am married, I do have kids. I just want
to see what I was like, and I'm sorry to
lie to you. She said, well, and this is go
fer though, say, well, I won't tell you something. I'm
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on my way to costume party. And that's the best
kiss I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Hang up on yourself. Wow, it's a lot of work.
There was a lot of work. We're gonna have mallard
of the third degree. Here's the insta trivia. Blank has
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passes minimum forty targets this season. The lowest catchable targetright,
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Americ Van of a good name, but it's Elijah Moore.
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to do? The third degree? You want to wait? Who
we can wait? Because dad Gummett did about a ten
minute freaking joke. Okay, he did about a ten minute joke,
and he screwed up the whole clock here because we
let him do it. We let him do ten minutes.
(36:42):
So why don't we wait on the third degree? How
about that sounds good because Dad gummet bull guard at
the time. Not only that, the Malard song thing, right,
we gotta yeah, yeah, we got to push that back. Also,
I heard a Marvin McNutt in there, former Hawkeye wide receiver.
Of course you would. You should ban Dad Gummet for that.
You want to, we can give him the poppy treatment,
(37:04):
get rid of Dad Gummt. Well, next hour, we have
the Iowa Minutes, so we have like thirty six minutes
of content in one minute. Next, man, it's just a
lot coming up here. Any big announcements in the Iowa
min Are we waiting on the big announcement in iosm?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Are we?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Wh I don't know by which? How do you define
the big announcement? Oh? Wait, wait, wait till Friday for
the big announcement.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
We'll wait on that.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Can't Friday? Whatever you wish, whatever I don't wish for anything. Well,
I wish for health and money. Those are the two
things I usually wish for and sometimes money before health
is sometimes indeed
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird two as we
try to outfox the podcast competition Talking bass Ball. We
record this podcast overnight so you have fresh audio content
now Overnight. We discussed the show Hey Otani, Sweepsticks, and
we asked the question, has Otani's free agency been a
(00:23):
waste for Major League Baseball? He's attempted to cut off
insider information which would have created excitement and drama on
where Otani's gonna go, And so we discussed that. Also,
did Dave Roberts screw things up by dropping an Otani
nugget at the Dodgers had a meeting with Otani. Also,
(00:43):
Brian Cashman says the Yankees have very few untouchables. Do
you believe him? We'll talk about that as well. It's
all coming your way right now here. It is our
number two putting the oh in otanis Oh, where's the news?
Where's the old Tani news? Well come, in the beginning
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headline this hour from the Grand Old Opry. Well down
the street from the Grand Old Opry and a couple
miles away headline Winter Meetings. They are in Tennessee and
that is where the baseball world has formed Vultron. This
(02:19):
week the annual Swap Meet, which is really an opportunity
for baseball. I had an executive tell me years ago
the whole point of the Winter Meetings in the modern
era is to sell tickets. That the argument is your
your team's going to acquire somebody. The fan base is
gonna be so excited about they're gonna buy season tickets
or at least a ticket package because it's always in
(02:39):
early December and people are buying gifts for Christmas. So like,
your team's gonna make that big move and you're gonna
sell a bunch of tickets for next summer, and you
get all that money to sit in your bank account
and you gain interest and all that. But anyway, the prize,
get to the point, please, The prize is Showy, Oh Tony,
(03:00):
the Japanese sensation, the guy that lived up that better
offensive player than pitcher. He's not that great a pitcher,
but he's very good, very good offensive players. So what
is the latest. What is the latest from the winter
meetings on sho Hey Otani? Well, the prize is Otani,
not that you wouldn't know it. Not that you wouldn't
(03:21):
know it. Otani and his agent have kept negotiations on lockdown.
Get me on a swat team to know what's going on.
So there's not much buzz. There's not a lot of
rumors other than writers making crap up. There's really no anticipation.
(03:43):
It's not like it's down to the Dodgers, Angels and
the Giants. We don't know who it's down to. Maybe
Otani's already made his mind up, it just hasn't been announced.
We don't know. Now. The baseball industry not real happy,
(04:03):
not real happy with what's going on. Now that the
agent issued a vaguely worded warning about a couple of
weeks ago, said no communication IX nay on the communication
a with Otani. Anything that you say about Oltani will
(04:25):
be used against you, and not could be. It will
be used against you. It's like the Miranda rights, it's
the Otani rights on how to handle the media. As
a result, the flow of gossip and information about Otani
the Otani sweepstakes has been mostly limited to some scribes
(04:45):
who are very good at creative writing, and they're just
making stuff up out of thin air, which maybe is
how it works all the time. I don't know, maybe
that's just how the business works. But if you've not
seen the latest on this, and maybe not, several dominant
baseball pundits have gotten on their soapbox and have whined
(05:06):
and moaned and complained about what a debacle, What should
be one of the great moments in Baseball Winter Meetings
history is merely an afterthought. The Otani sweepstakes. A unicorn
player once in a generation, maybe more than that, once
in every three or four generations. Sho heey Otani and
(05:30):
the way this is being handled butterfingers fingers is what
it is. With all the lack of anticipation and speculation
and all of that stuff. The way it's been handled here,
it is a haymaker for the sport of baseball, for
the industry of baseball in what should have been their
(05:50):
shining moment. You'd much rather hear dirt on Otani than
watch these crappy play in nerve or in season tournament
games in the NBA. So let us discuss the question,
all right, questions, has the show Hey Otani free agency
shopping period, which is still going on as we are
doing this show in real time as far as we know,
(06:12):
has this been a waste for Major League Baseball? So
I've got forty nine ers, Draconian and Woody and buzz Lightyear,
and that's it. We'll combine all these things together and
we are going to make a new Malor holiday song,
which we will debut coming up later this hour, new
(06:35):
music on a sports talk radio show in the middle
of the night. But the Malard Militia has come together.
P one has sent us a new holiday song. Will
it become a classic? Time will tell, But we will
have that for you coming up here in a little bit.
But to get back to the question, has sho hey,
Otani in free agency, here been a waste for Major
(06:57):
League Baseball. And the answer to that question is absolutely,
abe bleeping loutely now number wh number yes. So, taking
a couple of steps back and analyzing what has happened
up until this point, all of this is unnecessary. It
(07:21):
is all unnecessary. Someone wants to pay you half a
billion dollars to play baseball, right, baseball. You're not gonna
die on a baseball field. You're not. You can play baseball.
But all that stuff it's on brand from Major League Baseball.
I was actually texting somebody that works in baseball who
(07:43):
I've known for years, and we were going back and
forth about Otani. I was trying to figure out where
he was gonna go. I thought maybe this guy knew something.
He knows nothing. Unfortunately, but we were going back, I
was like, well, this is so baseball. It's so perfect
the way baseball. Baseball players do more to shoo themselves
in the foot than any other athlete. Like the NBA,
(08:04):
players are great at marketing the game. Now, a lot
of people hate the NBA because the way they market
the game and the bravado and the catwalk to get
into the arena at NBA games, the fashion shows that
go on and all that. But it's good for business.
It's good for the bottom line. See who you that
And then you compare and contrast that to baseball, and
(08:24):
perfect example would be in basketball. Their Otani Sweepstakes happened
eleven years ago. Lebron James, the decision, they called it
was a made for television special. Would Lebron James leave Cleveland?
Where would he go? Was he gonna go to the
Miami Heat? Would he go to the Lakers, the Chicago Bulls?
(08:44):
Where or where or where was Lebron gonna go? That
was a huge story. It was such a big story
that it had a prime time special. And you're in
show business. I know people say baseball is boring, but
it is show business. It's entertainment. And this time of
the year is often more exciting than a random day
(09:06):
in May or June when it comes to baseball information.
You're true fan of baseball. The excitement, the anticipation of
your team not sucking because they actually made good moves
in the month of December is a wonderful mitzvah. It's
a great thing for you, right, And Otani seen as
the Great Messiah, the Savior, the Messiah of mash if
(09:30):
you will. And here we are a guy that owns
the pixie dust and his posse have handled this like
the forty nine Ers mascot sourdough. Sam. Just serving up
sourdough is what he's doing, right, He's like, no, no,
no fun for you. You don't coun out have many
funs speculating about this. Now, I know there's a middle ground.
(09:51):
You don't have to turn this into a Shakespearean drama.
You don't have to go to the Boys and Girls
Club in Connecticut with Jim Gray and have an announcement.
I'm not saying that, But how about a middle ground?
How about somewhere in the middle, you know, put some
meat on the bone. Now, I also get why the
people who are baseball scribes are writing these think pieces
about how terrible this is, because that's their job is
(10:13):
to have gossip and come up with gossip, and Otani's
camp is making their job more difficult, so they're upset
by that. But you don't need to be Johnny Raincroud,
rain Cloud, I should say, rain Cloud. You don't need
to be Johnny ring Cloud. Please stop, all right? Now meanwhile,
page two here and big revelation. The only real revelation
(10:36):
that's come out of the Otani sweepsteaks from La La Land,
where the Dodgers have made their pitch in person for Otani.
This is not according to League sources. This is according
to Dave Roberts, who confirmed that Otani was at Chavez
Ravine hanging out a couple of days ago Dodger Stadium
(10:59):
blue Heaven on Earth as Tommy Lisordi used to call it.
Roberts said, the conversation went, well, well, that's good to know.
That's good. That of course created a lot of bluster,
a lot of bluster, people up in arms, considering that
Otani wanted radio silence, which we never want radio silence.
We have radio silence. We're dead. It were doomed. It's
(11:20):
all over. So Dave Roberts, did Dave Roberts screw things
up for the Dodgers by dropping the Otani nugget? Was
this another mistake by Dave Roberts. They liked him in
that spot. So I'm gonna go know on that. I
cool your jets, right, cool your jets on this and
(11:43):
if show, hey, Otani is such a big kill joy
such a DeBie downer that just the mere mentioned by
Dave Roberts that Otani met with the Dodgers is off limits.
Then go somewhere else. Go play for the Toronto Blue Jays,
yourself out. I don't want anything to do with you.
He can't even pitch right now. Anyway. Who knows if
(12:05):
you'll come back and be any good on the mound,
So just go somewhere else. I mean, you're not guarding
the secrets at Area fifty one about alien technology. You're
a stupid baseball player, is what you are. Okay, you're
a good baseball player, but I don't need the draconian rules.
I'm tired of baseball players acting like this. I thought
you were better than that. Otani. Come on, it's embarrassed,
(12:25):
all right. Somebody's going to give you probably five hundred
million minimum in free agency and they're not supposed to
talk about it. Hush is the word ridiculous, all right?
Final point outside of old Tani, outside of Otani news,
the other big name that is expected to change laundry
but has not yet changed laundry is Juan Soto. The
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owner of the Padres is dead and they're expected to
get rid of a bunch of players.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Now.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
To be fair, the Padres were going to do this
anyway because their television deal went to hell, and the
good people of San Diego apparently don't have Padre fever,
at least not willing to pay for Padre baseball. I
know they're trying to change that up next season, but
they lost a ton of money of TV wise, even
though they make a ton of money still from the
National TV. But the Padres are going to unload Juan
Soto out of San Diego. The Bronx Bombers are often
(13:15):
mentioned now. Yankee JM. Brian Cashman told reporters at the
winter meetings that there are quote very few untouchables on
the roster. Yankees were just a couple games over five
hundred last year, worst Yankee team in a generation since
nineteen ninety two. The Yankees have not sucked as much
as they did this past season since nineteen ninety two.
So Cashman was answering a question about whether or not
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the Bronx Bombers would say bye bye to second baseman
Glaber Torres and get rid of him. He's eligible for
free agency after next season. That's normally the time you
trade a player if you don't want to pay them,
and so is he available in the Wan Soto trade.
So Brian Cashman says the Yankees have very few untouchables.
Do you believe him? And who are the un touched?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
So?
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Yes, I believe Brian cash I believe Brian Cashman, and
I will tell you right now, there are only two.
It's the gruesome twosome. There are two untouchables on the
New York Yankees. They are Woody and Buzz light Year
otherwise known as Aaron Judge and Garrett Cole. That's it, period.
Stop you know, I know they're untouchable. They both have
(14:23):
no trade clauses, so even if the Yankees wanted to
trade them, they'd have to get approval, and good luck
on getting that. So those guys and that's it. Anyone
else outside of them, anyone is available. Yankees also made
a trade for a Red Sox. They got Alex Verdugo.
Who's your typical average player in baseball. That's the guy
(14:45):
the Red Sox got from Mookie Betts. They're already trading
him because they determined he's not worth the money. They
don't want to pay him a big contract. When his
contract comes up in a couple of years, so that
Yankees got Alex Rodugo for a couple of minor league
pitchers and Brian cash Brian Cashman would would like would
like to? I guess imagine him at the bellaggio right.
(15:06):
He's reshuffling the deck, is what he's doing. It is
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We will be debuting a new Mallor holiday tune. If
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the whole thing coming up momentarily late night, drug testers.
Thanks for letting me know. MLB teams have these meetings
to sell tickets for the holidays. Do you think they are?
Are there any for Royals and A's Any Royals and
(17:10):
A's tickets left?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (17:11):
I think they're. I think they're they're good on that.
I think they'll give you the tickets actually as stalking stuffers.
Ferg Doog says, careful, Ben, after that, Dave Roberts Debaco,
your malar monologue will make it even harder for the
Dodgers to sign Otanisan, says Fick. Now, the Great Ted Soble,
(17:31):
veteran radio man Ted Sobol points out he's listening to
the show, and I don't tell anyone that because you'll
he'll lose all credibility. But Ted points out that Dave
Roberts was born in Japan, speaks Japanese because of his
Japanese mother, so therefore Shohei should give him an exemption.
(17:52):
It's like the Brotherhood from Japan, right, So that's the
whole thing on that. Now, Koopleloop, you're all worked up
at this coop. Now are you going to defend Otani
and his posse because I think it's stupid. You should promote.
You're promoting the sport. It's bigger than just you. And
what's the worst thing that happens if people talk about
(18:13):
different rumors like you're meeting uh with you know, you're
down to two teams or down to three team? What's
the big deal? Well?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I mean, honestly, my thought is that it's a test.
You know, he's they're seeing what are you testing? Who
he can trust? What is the organization? Shouldn't you want
to go to the team that markets you the most?
Wouldn't that? I typical? This is typical Angel crap coop.
This is what Mike Trout does. He's okay that that
brings me. That brings me to my larger point. What
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does all of this point to good signs for him
re signing with the Angels?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
It kind of does, doesn't it? Eh? I don't know
about that. What is it? Why wouldn't you bring it back? Anyway?
They're gonna stink anyway? So I bring him back, you know,
just just saying why I bring him back?
Speaker 5 (18:58):
From whose perspective? From like from that for them, for
the team, well.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You're just gonna be the same it went around, we'd
be about five hundred and you're not gonna be a
legitimate cond Yeah.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
But they'll fill the seats and they'll fill the ads.
The ad spend.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The people in Orange County go to those games. There's
a certain amount of people that will go to those games.
And when the Red Sox or Yankees come in, all
the people from the Commonwealth in New York go to
Angel games and they fill up the They said, well,
the Angels did make a move, Coop. I'll have that
in the twib notes. We'll have that in the twip notes.
Let's take it.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Hold on, I have a question for Coop. Now, back
in back in the day, now you did you said
something in you know you were heated, But I want
to know if it still stands if Otani goes to
the Dodgers, are you done with baseball?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Yes? Wow, I don't believe It's a.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Lot riding on the line.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Ben's calling Cooper liar.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Just like our old guy. The bus driver said he
was not going back on on on X until Dave
Roberts was fired. But I guess he popped back up
on people change them mind, I do like that. I
do like that hat you're wearing, though, coup of all
your Bronco hats, that's my favorite one that.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
You have there.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Hold the school, the old school Bronco logo. I like this.
They should go back to that logo. That's a solid logo.
Those loves Blue helmets.
Speaker 5 (20:12):
A solid There's lots of talk about them going back
to that logo.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Should all the Seahawks too? Man, they look good with
those old uniforms. Yeah there.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
I guess the Broncos are going to debut new uniforms
next season, but it's all it's kept under wraps. We
don't know what they're going to look like. The mystery
people are hoping and speculating that they're going back to
the old Denver d Well.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
That's nostalgic for me because I remember seeing those uniforms
when I was a kid. But I like to see
I think they look better than what they have now. Anyway,
all right, it's the Benbogho. Let's go tell the phones.
Andre is in the hold on. I say I pushed
the wrong lineup, Dad, go it. Let's say hello to
Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, what's going.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
On, Ben, Good, good evening. It's good to be with you.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
This is what we had, the situation in the Laker's
son's game with that referee making the call. By the way,
I am an official myself.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I know you always mentioned that. We know, Andre you
are an official. That was incompetence by the referee. That
was absolute incompetence. That was Keystone cop Like at the
end of the Laker Sun game with seven seconds left,
it's a loose ball and Lebron calls the time out
while the ball is loose. Austin reeves. Look about this too.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
The rest that gave him that granted the timeout he
could not see, his vision was blocked by the PA.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
No more reason to not make the call. What do
you mean not to make the call?
Speaker 5 (21:37):
When somebody calls for time out, you give them the timeout.
The ball, you guys have is an issue with the
rules themselves.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
You are such a jackass. You don't believe that. Coop's
laughing right now because he absolutely believe it. The one
of the perks being a Laker guy is it's eight
on five most nights. It's eight on five. It's the
five on the court, the three freeze against the other
five players for the other team. That's how it's always been,
and I guess it will always continue the rest of
(22:06):
my life.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
And it's good for the brand, Ben, you know, having.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
The brand, Yeah, that's good. Yeah, it's very good for
the brand.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Bring bring them into the n season tournament and you
get more eyeball. But in fact, the matter resist and
I have to go back to again my officiating back right, listen,
Ben's team control exiit that was an interrupted dribble, as
we call it a loose ball. It's called an interrupted dribble,
and team control exists. So if there's a foul, right,
if there's a foul during that possession, you maintain team control.
(22:34):
The Lakers would have still been the offensive team. Nonetheless,
for a time out, you have to have.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Andre, You've had a lot of bad takes. This is
the this takes the cake here, congratulations, Andre, This take
right here, the worst take you've had. We have cake.
I'm gonna eat that cake, but I'm gonna there's an
old I tried that.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
It's pretty gross.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
There was some disgusting pilot was in here, but I
disposed of it. I threw it out. It was so disgusting.
The pie looked like it was not orange. It was
turning brown.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Yeah, it was it oxygen mixing with the surface.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Yeah, it was really bad. Damn that oxygen almost as
bad as Andre's take here defending the NBA officials, and there.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Was no defense to the official. I'm simply trying to
use it as a teachable moment for people to see.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Wouldn't the teachable moment be Okay, we review every fricking
thing in the basketball game. These games taken extra thirty
forty minutes sometimes because these stupid coaches challenges or instant
replay and all that. So there's nothing we can do.
Our hands are tied. We can't do a damn thing.
Why not, morons?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
You should You should be able to challenge that. If
you're able to if you're going to be able to
challenge everything, you should be a challenge at everything, exactly,
all right, What you can say.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
In that situation is it's an inadvertent with the meaning
you blew the whistle, and it has no correlation to anything.
You go back to what we call the point of interruption,
which is a loose ball where nobody has a loose ball,
and then you can go to what you can have
a jump ball situation.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I will actually credit Lebron James because he knew the
Lakers were about to turn the ball over and he
called time out. That was a smart play. And he
also knows the officials are in his back pocket and
he's going to get the call. So it's smart by
Lebron because he knows and fifty to fifty calls going
to go his direction because he runs the NBA, it's
his world.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
But in conclusion that the referees could have conferenced up
and they could have got that one right. They could
have just said inavertent with so we go back to
the point of interruption would have been a jump ball.
And then what you don't want to have happened in
a game is you don't under a minute, and that
was under thirty seconds. That team can't recover from that
lost possession as we saw, and the Lakers won based
on getting that extra possession. So it really swung the game.
(24:51):
Have a jump ball, get both teams an equal opportunity,
and the people will go back down and they got
their money's worse.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Unlike the Super Bowl again with that.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
One dog on one of the biggest game in sport.
It was the Fosters. It was it was a miscarriagy justice.
Thanks taking the call, Ben.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Not as big as a miscarriage of justice as the
cheating Aestros cheating during the World Series in the MLB
World Series video and Rob Manford, the ballless Commissioner of Baseball,
the toothless, spinalless Commissioner of Baseball running interference for the
cheating one thousand and two, one thousand holes.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
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Speaker 3 (25:32):
I'm sorry to do this to you, Ben, but I
think I'm gonna steal something from your twip notes. The
Cleveland Guardians will pick first in the twenty twenty four
Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. They won the draft lottery.
They had a two percent chance of getting the number
one pick, but they beat out eight of the teams,
including the A's, Royals and Rockies, who had eighteen point
(25:53):
three percent chance of winning that first pick. So congratulations, Cleveland,
you get number one pick in the baseball drafts.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
I had a lot of number one picks in Cleveland
over the years. They've got more number one picks than
they had victories. Cleveland Sports Calves have had multiple number
one picks, the Cleveland Browns have had multiple number one picks,
and now the Cleveland the old Cleveland Indians. Anyway, it
is the Ben Malors Show. In this portion of the show,
(26:21):
Ioa Sam tells me, I have to tell you this
or also kick me in the balls. Brought to you
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in the mood here? Iowa, Sam, you have any music?
Here we go, Here we go. All the latest rumlecks,
(26:46):
all the latest stylings from Baseball's winter meetings. The Angels
have they made a move, well not a big move,
but they did sign a relief pitcher in free agency.
That news coming down within the last couple of hours.
The Angels have added a former San Diego Padre relief pitcher.
(27:06):
I believe Luis Garcia is that's the gentleman's name who
will now yes, he will be pitching for the Angels.
Angels also announced that Mike Trout, according to the GM,
will one hundred percent not be traded, not be traded
form Anaheim one hundred percent. Well, that means there's a shot.
You're saying there's a chance. Also, the latest one sho
(27:27):
Hal Tani, he apparently has shown zero interest, does not
want to play in New York according to people that
don't know anything because Otani hasn't said anything, but they're
saying there's no apparently no chance he's gonna play for
the Mets or the Yankees, which means so likely sign
with the Yankees later today. Also, the Cubs supposedly boked
b They balked at Shohil Tani's asking price. He was
(27:52):
looking for a ten year contract at least five hundred million,
and the Cubs said, no way, We're not gonna do that. Also,
a day after Alex Bregman, the cheating astro, his name
floated out in the trademark at the GM in Houston,
says quote, He's a pillar for the club. Ha cheta
(28:14):
Chitta Chada, peller for the club. Peller for debauchery, Peller
for debauchery back to the Cubs. Cubs, Matt Chapman sounds
like a nineteen twenties type baseball player. Matt Chapman. He's
been playing in Toronto recently. He's a free agent, supposed
he The Cubs doesn't look like they're gonna get Otani,
(28:36):
so they're eyeing Matt Chapman and also possibly Cody Bellinger,
who would like a ton of money as well. Doesn't
everyone want a ton of money? And Bellinger has been
flirting with the New York Yankees. But the Yankees traded
for Alex Verdugo, mister average beat beat and Verdugo a
rare red Sox Yankee trade. I believe this is thet
(28:58):
There's been less than ten of the since the nineteen
sixty nine season, with expansion in baseball and the moving
of teams around nineteen sixty nine, so there're lily been
less than ten trades between these teams. The other day,
Marco Gonzales the Mariners. He was traded from Seattle to Atlanta,
(29:19):
and the Braves have now traded the left handed starter
again to your Pirates, Eddi Marco Gonzalez in a salary dump.
By the Atlanta Braves, so that means he gets to
pitch in Pittsburgh for four months and then be traded
at the deadline to a contender we lose is a
starting pitcher. Also, Trevor Bauer and his reps have been
(29:41):
hanging out in Nashville begging for work. Bauer would like
to be back in baseball, considering the ridiculousness of him
being thrown out of baseball a couple of years ago.
And he's also got interest in teams in Japan. Yankees
think they're gonna get the Ocean. Obu Yamamoto, the big
(30:02):
preach pitcher, is supposed gonna get like three hundred million dollars.
Somebody named Jackson Holliday, apparently a top prospects going to
make the Oriols. They pretty much announced he's going to
be on the opening day roster for the Ools. And
the team that got screwed the most, the team that
got screwed the most at the Major League Baseball Draft lottery.
(30:23):
The soon to be Las Vegas is. If you believe
in karma, and I know the astrology, lady believes in karma.
If you believe in karma, the Oakland Athletics. They get
it because how about this the A's, they were the
worst team in baseball almost all year, they did not
get a top free pick. They were tied for having
(30:44):
the top odds of landing the number one overall pick.
And this is the second consecutive lottery pick, which means
the A's, who figured to stink out loud again in
twenty twenty four, cannot pick inside the top nine until
twenty twenty five. It's a for gazy rule baseball put
in to try to keep teams from tanking. Good luck
(31:06):
on that. So there you go. That's some of the
notes around baseballs winter meetings. Say Winter Wonderland, Dad Gummet,
Hello Dad Gummet in Arkansas?
Speaker 6 (31:20):
Yeah, yant lee and go back to Saint Looik. I'm like,
whyon't we just let everybody come back say it's beenner
all fourteen different times? You cause hill, every time we
turn around, we'll get back to the same trash.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Can you find Bob? Can you find Bob Gibson somewhere?
Probably not not available, but maybe you can, you know,
find a way.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
I got my life from driving big Flatman and stuff
I got for the State Highway apartment they started building
nursing homes across the street. When you lay the Dad,
the State Highway apartment are so lazy they go.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Across a lot, Dad, gummot. I actually thought of you
after the show, which means I probably need a mental evaluation.
But I was driving back to the Malor mansion and
a complete shutdown on the highway I take to get
back to the Malor mansion as there was a two
people died out in the highway there and they hit
(32:08):
this kid was like trunk driving and hit the back
of a big rig that was parked on the side
of the road. And that's it. Lights out for We
get hit all the time in.
Speaker 6 (32:16):
Jone Borough, Man, they city councils, they put weeds in
the town. Now they got marija. They got a I
call it medical marra one. Don't get it wrong, it's
medical weeds. They got alcohol now into the restaurants. So
they won't bring the store, but they bringing restaurants because
all the Christians gonna go outside of town and buy
the bearer. You don't have fourteen miles, but they got
something after Now you got shootings, you got killings all
the time. I'm like, hey, one, we just open up
in a little Las Vegas. There we got gam one.
(32:38):
I'm asking it's gonna be a big deal. You see,
you couldn't buy Groce, you get a Walmart. Everybody's closed down,
you know, chick blaze on anyone closed down on Sundays. Hey,
I'm gonna tell you a story, man, let me hit
tell your story. Everybody shut out here for a second.
I want to use two of your collars for this joke,
but I can't use one of them until the end
of it because you eat a mess up my joke.
But you got a taxi cab driver and you got
a nun. Well the tax jop driver's spot. We're gonna
(33:01):
put Shane to boys. Shane looked back in the back seat,
and there's a nun setting back there, and boy, he
just smiling both from here to hear, boy and grinning
and slabbing out of his mouth. And she kept saying,
would you tell me why you keep looking at me?
He said, I just want to tell you something. You
one beautiful woman, and I give you anything in the world.
I'm singing, ain't got no kids, I give anything in
(33:22):
the world. Just kiss you. One time, he said, I
boys had a dream, just kissing. None said, they don't
get around me in She said, I'll tell you what
you do. She said, you pull up the road to
prin and you pull over and I'll let you take
you that. This is. So they went up the road
there and no shame pulled that tax cab over there.
Get on, boy, he got at the.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh my god, dad, dummack, can we move ahead?
Speaker 6 (33:41):
In the joke, he just light the tour. Okay, don't
mess up with Joe. He just lated to her. Here
he goes right here, points line. He just lighted the tour.
So just about time they got done the work, she's
fixed to get out, he said, look back, he said, Man,
I'm gonna taste it my life to you. He said,
I am married, I do have kids. I just want
to see what I was like, and I'm sorry to
lie to you. She said, well, and this is go
fer though, say, well, I won't tell you something. I'm
(34:02):
on my way to costume party. And that's the best
kiss I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Hang up on yourself. Wow, it's a lot of work.
There was a lot of work. We're gonna have mallard
of the third degree. Here's the insta trivia. Blank has
the lowest catchable target rate on ten or more yard
passes minimum forty targets this season. The lowest catchable targetright,
meaning the throws his way have been the most unketchable
(34:35):
in the NFL minimum forty targets. That's the insta trivia.
The answer next.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
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Speaker 1 (35:24):
And here's the insta trivia. The instant trivia blatant attempt
to get you to listen a little bit longer and
maybe it's worked. Blank has the lowest catchable target rate
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anyone know the answer? The Winner Warlock guests by Milkman
Mike in Colorado, Hank Hill from Cowboy Killer, Joe Jaravicius,
The Art of Sports Talk Page Down, Keenan Allen, and
(36:07):
Missus Garcia's Favorite from Mal The prop Guy, Lou Panela
from Mister Nice Guy, The Colonel Guess by Alf The
Alien of Pinter, Marvin McNutt from Big Lou and the LBC.
What's that you, Eddie?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
I'm gonna go with former Chief tamerk vanover.
Speaker 1 (36:21):
Americ Van of a good name, but it's Elijah Moore.
Elijah Moore, the Cleveland Browns percent. Now who you want
to do? The third degree? You want to wait? Who
we can wait? Because dad Gummett did about a ten
minute freaking joke. Okay, he did about a ten minute joke,
and he screwed up the whole clock here because we
let him do it. We let him do ten minutes.
(36:42):
So why don't we wait on the third degree? How
about that sounds good because Dad gummet bull guard at
the time. Not only that, the Malard song thing, right,
we gotta yeah, yeah, we got to push that back. Also,
I heard a Marvin McNutt in there, former Hawkeye wide receiver.
Of course you would. You should ban Dad Gummet for that.
You want to, we can give him the poppy treatment,
(37:04):
get rid of Dad Gummt. Well, next hour, we have
the Iowa Minutes, so we have like thirty six minutes
of content in one minute. Next, man, it's just a
lot coming up here. Any big announcements in the Iowa
min Are we waiting on the big announcement in iosm?
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Are we?
Speaker 1 (37:20):
Wh I don't know by which? How do you define
the big announcement? Oh? Wait, wait, wait till Friday for
the big announcement.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
We'll wait on that.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
Can't Friday? Whatever you wish, whatever I don't wish for anything. Well,
I wish for health and money. Those are the two
things I usually wish for and sometimes money before health
is sometimes indeed
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