June 27, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller begins hour 2 discussing Kyle Tucker’s comments about a possible extension with Cubs, Alex Cora wants the media and fans to stop talking about the Rafael Devers trade, should the Dodgers be concerned about the ongoing offensive slump that Mookie Betts is in + a new edition of Maller to the Third Degree, & much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our numb or two talking baseball, playball, talking baseball.
Can you read anything into Kyle Tucker's response to questions
about the cub contract negotiations, which are ongoing.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's gonna be a free agent at the end of
the year, Alice Korra.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
He is urging everyone in the media to stop discussing
the Rafael Devers trade because the Red Sox players want
to move on. Is that how this works? And what
is the level of concern for Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts,
who's on pace to have his worst season as a
major league player this season. We'll talk about that as well,
(00:40):
all of it here in our number two.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's a case of a cubby bear in hibernation.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
If you will welcome in the beginning of another hour
of the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
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Speaker 1 (01:51):
So we go to baseball, talking.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Bay's Ball, and I lead this hour from Chicago, big money,
big drama involving a big bear, a Chicago Cup. Now,
I would argue that very few people tuning the Cub
Baseball to watch this guy play, and that very few
(02:15):
people buy tickets to watch this guy play. But yet
he is said to be the headliner of the Cubs.
They're at a crossroads. If you don't know where I'm
going with this, maybe not so Kyle Tucker. Yes, So
it's Tucker and Tucker. We started last hour with the
Ravens kicker, and now we're talking about Kyle Tucker. So,
Kyle Tucker is at a crossroads at Wrigley Field. He
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is in the last year of his contract and the
new deal. The great new deal sounds like it's at Washington,
DC for Kyle Tucker would pay him in the neighborhood
of five hundred million dollars. Now, this one blows me away.
I think Tucker is a fine player. I just don't
think of him as a box office guy.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I don't. Everywhere I read it's a five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's the get in buy in price for the Cubs,
and so there's no deal yet. Therefore, the Chicago Cubs
front office has to make a decision. The Cubs are
not playing as well as they were early in the year.
Everyone has a shot at the playoffs because they have
all these wild card teams, so everyone's kind of in contention.
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Unless you're the Rockies or the A's or the White Sox,
you're kind of in contention or the Marlins to make
the playoffs. So most of the league has a chance
to make the playoffs. Now that being said, the trade
deadline is about a month a little over a month.
July thirty first is the trade deadline. So if the
Cubs aren't going to keep the player, would they trade
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Kyle Tucker. They have to decide that. Oh the human drama.
So Kyle Tucker was asked about the ongoing negotiation.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Do you see this?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No, So Kyle Tucker was asked about negotiations on an
extension this week. What did he say? He said, quote,
For the most part, We're just going to keep that
between us. If anything happens, I'm sure you guys will know,
all right.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Close quote. So let us discuss the question. Can you
read anything? Can you read.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Anything into Kyle Tucker's response to the question about the
Cubs contract talks and where they are right now?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So of course you can.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Now in this one, I've got Christie's, Pyongyang and Pet Boys,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make deep dish Chicago pizza, which
I believe is in the freezer here courtesy of Perito.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Is that correct? Do I have that accurate? All right?
Thank you, Prita.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Sea may or may not be the reason I'm here,
but I'm just pointing that out. Not that I don't
love being here and hanging out with my friends, but anyway,
all right, So number one number, he said, Number one,
I got a feeling in my bones.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Number one number okay, all right. So if you.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Listen between the words, you parse the words, which you
have to do. And if you ever get a talk
show or a podcast, just parse words. That's all you
have to do. It's easy, pasy, fun to do. And
uh and you can come up with all kinds of answers.
So on this one, and this is based on a
lifetime of dealing with these kind of stories. If a
guy says we're just gonna keep it between us, Kyle
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Tucker is sending out a smoke signal, that is a
dead giveaway, dead giveaway. It was the non answer that
is an answer. Non answer that is an answer.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Now what do I mean? Let me expand on that.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So you think a guy who wants a long term contract,
a player that really likes where he's playing, you think
they give that answer we're gonna keep it private. No, No,
they say stuff like, oh, man, I love it here.
I got a place right on Lake Michigan's beautiful. I'm
(06:09):
right next to Cowherd here in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Man.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I know he's gonna have to move because he got
drafted by the Trailblazers. According to ESPN, So some coward's
gonna move. But for now, I'm like right next to him,
and it's just great. And I got sick views the
weather in the summer in Chicago is no better city
to live in.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's just amazing. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No, he didn't say anything. I want to retire here,
the greatest fans in the world. We're building something special.
I don't want to leave this team. He didn't say
any of that. So now if the Cubs also, if
the Cubs had not had not made him an offer,
they obviously made him an offer the mad and there
would be nothing to keep between the team and the player.
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So they made him an offer. Wasn't an acceptable offer,
otherwise he would have accepted the offer. So so at
this point it's like, well, he really wants to go
to free agency, but they're playing ping pong. They're going
back and forth and negotiate it. It's the money could be,
the amount of years, could be, the amount of deferred money.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
They want the Dodger.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Set up where they get paid till they're eighty years
old to avoid taxes.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So who knows.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now that being said, the smart money based on a
minutes long deliberation of the available information. The smart money,
says that Kyle Tucker is going to hit the Christie's swap.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Meet, if you know what I mean that the.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Between us line was yeah. What he meant to say
was yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm probably leaving. But I don't
want to deal with the drama of you people freaking
out when I say I'm going to test the market.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I'm gonna go to market.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So rather than say that, I'm just gonna keep it
between us. No, he does not have Kyle Tucker does
not have Scott Boris as his client. So that gives
the Cubs a little bit of wiggle room, little bit
of wiggle room. If Scott Boris's client, there's no way
you even consider any kind of extension.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's it. Forget about it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
But nevertheless, all right, nevertheless, which you want is a
bidding war.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You want a bidding war? How do you get a
bidding war? How do you do it?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Silent auction at Christie's. And you bring in the socks,
not the White Sox they suck, the Red Sox, the
Higandas who are spending some money, the Giants. They just
traded for Rafael Devers and his enormous contract and his
enormous waistline, and then the Yankees, the match, the Dodgers,
the usual suspects and the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And up, up and away the bidding war. Right now,
turning the.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Page, we now take a little pit stop in Boston
where I did a double check at the recent comments
by Alex Cora. So you see what he said. He's
the manager of the Boston baseball team. So Alex Cora,
the Red Sox manager who once fancied himself for the
players manager.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I'm all about the players and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He has decided he also can manage the media. Now
that's right, Alex Cora is now in charge of the media.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I didn't know I need a manager, but apparently I do.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So if you didn't see this, he said, everyone is
supposed to zip it radio silence and just nod solemnly
and move on. Do not mention Rafael Devers. Don't mention
his name because Alex core.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Does not want you to talk about that. He wants
to move on. That's what he said. So Alexe korra.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Urging everyone to stop discussing the Rafael Devers trade to
help the Red Sox clubhouse move on?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Is that how this works?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I'm asking for a friend, so ix nay on the ask,
that would be my response to Unfortunately, Alex kra you're
not the manager.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You're not the mayor, you're not the big.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Politician there in Pyongyang where you could get away with that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's not how it works here.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Sorry, not sorry, right, And Alice core is the same
guy who failed miserably to use diplomacy. If Alice Cora
had been good at his job, Rafael Devers would still
be playing for the Red Sox that was botched from
Jump Street by Alice Cora and the front office. But
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Alice Cora was supposed to be the ultimate player's manager
and all that stuff. And as we said, and he
could not convince Rafaeld Devers to be a team player,
to go to grab a first base mix and go
out and play first base and all that stuff. And
so now he wants to dictate the baseball news cycle.
And this is one of those stories. And then listen,
(10:41):
I try to talk baseball in the show a fair amount,
and we talk more baseball here than most places do
doing this kind of work. But these are the kind
of stories that provide guitar. It reminds me of like
and just say, well, you shouldn't talk about this. It's
like when that dumb, dumb Mookie bets more on him
in a minute, when the Padres and Dodgers were getting
(11:02):
into a slobber knocker and mookies.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'm not talking about that, but why not.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That's the story that gets people engaged, dummy, and you
want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
But as far as this one is concerned, right, and
you know, all of a sudden, you know, mid season
trade of the franchise cornerstone forever player to another another
team across the country, and it's just another random day
in the major leagues. So this is the part of
the story where you put Alex Cora on airplane mode. Right,
(11:35):
you just did no Wi Fi and that's it. And
of course, if he didn't already, I don't get a
check from aus Kora. Neither does well unless you work
for Red Sox dot Com.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I guess you do if you work for the team.
We're not.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We're not in the dugout. We should be, but we're not.
And I don't believe check my contract. I don't believe
we're obligated to pretend that this massive size mike shift
of a Red Sox player to basically given away.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
The rich's actually got garbage for him from the.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Giants, that that is not something of talk talk radio purpose.
Even later, like i's been been a minute, been a
couple of weeks, but still right now, final point to La.
We go, we go to La and sure enough the
Dodgers completed the old sweep aeroo of the Rockies there. However,
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not all as well in Blue Heaven.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Mookie Bets had a couple of hits, but he is
in the midst of his worst season in the big leagues.
Moogie Bets has often sucked at a time you cannot suck.
That's not my opinion, that is a fact. What's the evidence.
I'll give you the ovens. So Moogie Bets is on pace.
We're halfway through the baseball season. He is on pace
(12:53):
to have the lowest batting average, lowest on base percentage,
lowest slugging percentage of his entire career, the very bottom,
rock bottom for the Moxster, rock bottom now. Dave Roberts
recently was asked about the obvious connection. Well, the reason
Mookie Bets blows is because he's playing shortstop and it's
(13:15):
a tougher position defensively, and so it's spilling over. There's
some spillage, it's spilling into his offensive game.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Roberts pushed back on that and says there's no correlation
between Mookie Bets sucking offensively compared to what he had
been and now being shortstop for the Dodgers. So question,
what is the level of concern? What is the level
of concern for the Dodgers with shortstop Mookie Bets and
(13:43):
his subparse performance for the team this season. So mallor
scale of concern, Mallard scale of concerned one to ten,
with ten being.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Like alarm bell is going on. I'm a a seven.
I might have said, very distressing.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Now I've been in like chat conversations, like text conversations
with some.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Friends and they're like, oh man, it doesn't matter, he'll
hit when the playoffs come around. So how do you
know that? Like, how do you know?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And you don't know that he hasn't hit pretty much
all season, right, He's been a bust, and so he's
just assuming when the playoffs come around, all of a sudden,
he's gonna what are you gonna get a corked bat
or something like that. I mean, come on, Mookie is
one of the pillars of the what's supposed to be
the big Blue wrecking crew, and you get three hundred
(14:38):
and sixty five million dead presidents. That's a lot of
monopoly money. And you should get more production, it goes
without saying, than what Mookie Bets has provided for the
Dodgers this year. And at this point you might as
well call a tow truck and send the Mookie over
to Pep Boys there for a tune up, because he's
(14:58):
supposed to be the engine, or at least part of
the engine, and right now the check engine light is
on for Mookie Bets. He's the second lowest on base
plus slugging percentage in the Dodgers every day lineup, the
only one, and this is among all their qualified hitters.
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The only player that sucks more than Mookie Bets is
Michael Conforto, who actually has hit a little bit recently,
but still took the first two months of the baseball
season off. But Mookie trails six other players in the
everyday Dodger lineup in that category. So again, I still
want to hear it's a long season, don't worry. I
(15:39):
have to worry about today's show. I have a show
to do today. I have to worry about what's going
on right now in this moment. We live in the moment,
and in this moment, he sucks. That's it. And you
are I know this is a wild concept and you're
not gonna like it, but you are judged by your results.
It's a results based business, and right now the results
(16:02):
are screaming that Mookie Betts has relocated to a little
suburb of Los Angeles called Suckville and he is the
mayor of Suckville right now. So do better and be better.
And it's not outrageous. You're making three hundred and sixty
five million and all that. And if Mookie, you say
(16:23):
it's a bad year, it's a slump or something like that.
But if he lost something, he's he'said some medical stuff.
They're paying him for a very long time. So Mookie's
gonna be around for years to come. Good luck on that.
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And in hour four it'll be cheese with Bri. Is
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Speaker 3 (18:52):
All?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Right? Back to it? All right, back to it we go.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And we began with some hot baseball talk, and as anticipate,
patd flooded with angry middle aged men, very upset at
Lorena and Brie for not knowing who the say hey
kid was, So, as we anticipated, shuck.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The anger is real. The anger is real.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
The rage people are just upset because they want to
work on a sports station, and they're.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Like, I guess I don't know The nature Boy says,
I can't believe they didn't know who the say Hey
kid was ouch. And there were a bunch of messages
worse than that, but we'll leave those aside. Chip and
the Q's right, since, says a Plus on the Malld monologue,
Boston didn't learn from their own history, considering they were
(19:43):
the ones who traded away another great player before Babe Ruth.
The old adage is proven to be true. Those who
failed to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Well,
we'll see about Rafael Devers. He's not doing all that great.
I guess hit a home run yesterday, but he's generally
not doing that well. And the Dodgers. The one that
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really got away was Mookie bats. I mean, then, Mookie's
been to a couple of World Series with the Dodgers
and won a couple of World Series as a as
a Doyer Hl right, since says your diet trap the
Red Sox and Als. Cora was right on the money.
I've been saying for months that he has to go.
Cora just doesn't have it. He's the Doc Rivers of
(20:26):
Major League Baseball. The Socks are just the minor league
funnel teams for the big league's use. Injured, go play
for the Socks, then get the big contracts someplace else.
And he mentions Chris Sale. Now, Josh is a Chicago
sports fan. He says, Hey, Ben, sorry, Kyle Tucker ain't
going nowhere but leading the Cubs to beating the Dodgers
(20:48):
and onto the World Series. Okay, yeah, you keep dreaming that, Josh.
You keep dreaming that maybe maybe one of your dreams
will will come true. I'm gonna go, know, I'm gonna go. No,
I just go to the Fall and let's see a boy.
We got some legends. This is a murderer's row that
is lined up. Let's say hello to Let's go to Tony.
(21:08):
Is this Tony in the Bay Area? Hello Tony?
Speaker 7 (21:11):
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Jink's Mays. But thanks to the Fifth Dollar Podcast, I'm
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all right?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Always a matter of time with that one.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well he knows that the podcast downloads
go up because people even who listen live, they don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
What he said because thoughtful, it didn't make the end.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
If it made the air, we're going to get a
phone call, but not from our boss because our boss
is like on vacation somewhere, so we have to worry
about that, like a nice European vacation.
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No dump buttons today, babe, Yeah, babe.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
We're doing old school, We're doing We're doing satellite style radio.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Baby. We are just gonna let it rip, is what
we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Let's say hello now to the black irishman in Nebraska
and he's hanging out with us. Hello, black irishman.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Basic, Finally, are you complaining?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
No, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I gotta tell you before we get into it, before.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
We don't go there, what you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Well?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Why can't I go? You don't even know where I'm
gonna go? Why can't I go there?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Thanks? Take Mark off?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, thanks for calling. I really want to tell you, uh,
you know I I have a lot of hats.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I'm nicknamed the mad Hatter of sports Chat. It's one
of my many nicknames. I gotta tell you of all
the hats I've gotten, of all of them, the one
from Creighton, the Blue Jays hat from from Creighton.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
My favorite.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I actually don't have that, man. I'm telling I got
the Iowa hat. It's like a summer hat.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The bet was the Creighton blue Jay hat. That was
the bet that we made a bet.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I can get that one for you.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
We made a bet five years ago. We made this
bet five years ago, and I gotta tell you it's
my favorite hat.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
It's kind of light. People don't even see it on
my head. Yeah. Okay, where you be giving called? No,
where you been? Everything all right with you.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
It's the same old stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
That's called life.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You get to a certain age, it's the same stuff
that's that's life.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
You know. I was gonna tell you, man, you know,
my daughter, he's gone our summer.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh she is. She's not playing video games at home
now in the middle of that.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I know, you know, no, Okay, so she said, she said,
summer camp where's like, that's all he gets.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Up there with my auntie, you know, for the summer.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Let me let me, let me start, start.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I say, before you start. Every time you call, inevitably
I get an email. Was that god call himself the
black Irishman? That makes no sense.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Because many you did it, you did it, you did it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You did a DNA test, right, you did one of those.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
My granddad was a white dude from Hiland and his name.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
O'Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Okay, all right, yeah right here and ship okay, all.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Right, we're two for two, doing well doing We're doing
very well. Not dumping on man. I'm not just leave
it in there.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Why I'm gonna say. I want to say how the
lady is doing?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Okay, well, so we are now let's see here we
are two and a half the call love yes Bill? Okay? Yeah? Yeah?
What are you doing? I mean, you have nothing to say?
How come nobody has anything to say? They call the show?
I don't understand. Do you want to hear yourself on
the radio?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Also, like our guy from Korea town they called Last
Hour Bill from Korea.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
No, you're just boy, It's just you're just board. You
had nothing else to do. It's the middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
You called the show.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I hear you, man, Man, I got you.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I don't take you, man. I want to I want
to say. I want to get credits out of the
good women out there.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Okay, well, that's just what we need. Credit to the
good women. What about the bad women? What about the
bad women? They're more fun?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
What?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Now, my love, Okay, next time, I want to talk
about the w n B A too.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Okay, Okay, you should. You should call the Jason Smith
Show for them.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
But thank you when I send your hat.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Okay, I'm sure that I'm going to be dead by
the time I get that, but thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
All Right, there you go. It's the Black Irishman. It's
a terrible phone call. That is horrific.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That is the kind of thing where radio people listen
and say, never take calls.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
On talk radio.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
I'm scared.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Man. Not only was that called horrible, he then dotted
the I by cursing in the middle of it. Yes,
like the Ohio State Marching Band. He just out of
the eye right there. That call was so bad it
might inspire Justin and Cincinnati to call the show again.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That's how bad that call was.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
How long has it been since Justin called?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh it's been a long time, ye know, Justin's retired
from calling. He hides behind his phone. He hides behind
his phone and drops bombs on his phone. That's what
he does. Now, let's go. Well it is Legends nine
on the show, and we go now to the great
state of Maine and a man who has done the.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Lobster dip year after year.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
For a while, he was a celebrity caller to talk radio,
but now he's been captured by the TikTok.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
We say hello to what be Pie Blair? Hello Blair, Welcome?
Speaker 9 (26:38):
That's going on?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
No, you're bummed out? You signed to press. We're getting depressed, Blair?
What is going on with you?
Speaker 9 (26:45):
I had to give up a called clapper, So I
gave up that.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Why why did you have to give up the well?
Why do I want to know what that is? I
don't know what that is? Do I want to hold
on a second?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Me?
Speaker 9 (26:56):
All that it's a depressing app?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
For me, it was the very depressing app.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
The people on there were.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
After me, Oh that's a video? Is that a video
app thing? Or I've never heard?
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Oh, there's there's a spicy too. There's a spicy part
to it, and then there's a regular part.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Two, like a porn thing.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Kind of part to that, and then there's a regular party.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Oh, it says let's It says it lets you share
your whole lot of sects.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Take a breath.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It says, share your real, raw, unfiltered story with a
community of creators and supporters.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Yeah, that's why I left because one reason was I
reported mostly all the women on there, and they.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Got why did you report? What were the women doing
on there?
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Pissing me off?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Why were they upset? Why were they why were they
upsetting you?
Speaker 9 (27:53):
How they were just kicking me off? Like a lot
on there? Still they were just what were they doing?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I said, I don't showing their stuff?
Speaker 9 (28:01):
Like they can't be taking there. You know, it says
no nudity.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
And see were you were upset because women were showing
you It's the internet, Blair. I don't know if you've
been on there recently, but there's a lot of that
on the internet.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
But man, yeah, I know I walked away from it,
So we're good to see you later. Women, you can
do whatever the hell you want on there. Get away
with you know.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Have you gone on Instagram lately? Have you been on there?
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Why is it bad on there? Now?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It depends on this depends what your perception of bad is.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Some would say it's very good on there, others would.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
Yeah, okay, but the Dodgers, I.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Mean, yeah, so that's a smooth transition. The Dodgers. Let's
go for my bed's. We're gonna transition to Sporty Blair now.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Because the internet's not what it Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
So you're gonna come back to talk radio right play.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
You're done with the TikTok and all those evil women
showing their uh private parts and all that stuff.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Right to talk a lot it's a lot better. I mean,
it's is strict on rules now.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, they don't mess around to China, man, they don't
mess around there.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You know you're gonna follow those rules in China.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
There down that hill, I think it's that road. I
don't think it's the hill. I think most people want
to go down down.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So, do you have anything to say to your fans, Like,
we don't want to talk about sports. Nobody wants to
hear what you have to say about sports. Smaccoli says, Hello,
By the way, do you have anything to say? Do
you have any to say to Specole.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
I'm looking at the scores and I wanted to talk
about some baby.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
You didn't You haven't watched a baseball game in four years?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (29:37):
The four years is wrong?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
All right, six years you have not watched you know,
none of you people called this show.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
No, you don't even even watch sports. Marijuana marijuana, Yes,
I'm smoking crack. Is what come on?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Someone?
Speaker 9 (29:53):
You've been smoking marijuana like in your studio.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yes, my best friend is Mary Jane. That is correct.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Don't even blade or Mary Jane whatever you call her
last names.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, Mary Mary Jane doesn't have a last I think
she has a lesson. Then, man, what what do you want?
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Man?
Speaker 9 (30:12):
What I didn't know your I don't know your wife
was smoking hot.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Oh, here we go see now and now and now
we're Uh, you're gonna get her band from the internet.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Too, All right, I'm not going out to your wife.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I was very concerned. You know you're you're in Maine,
so I was very concerned there, Blair.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
Ye oh god, I know.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You I know you're, I know you're I know you're When.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
I come to California. We're hanging out, Ben, No, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
You don't call it. You don't call the show much anymore.
I don't know about that.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Then you're not walking away from me.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I'm running away from you. I'm not walking I'm running
away from you.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yes, I can just hang up on you.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
You're not running away either. Yeah, you're not hanging up yet.
You're not hanging out.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
You want to bet on that. I can hang up
on you if I want.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
You.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Dare me to hang up on you.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
You you don't think i'll hang up on you.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
You don't press my button. Don't press my button. I'll
hang up on you, all right, You're not that guy.
I'll trust me. You're not that guy. There you go.
I hung up on your blair. See that, you loser.
I hung up on you. You're gone.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Oh he's still there? What are you still doing there?
I hung up on you.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
I love you on my I love to have you
on my podcast, Dan.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
You're I will be happy to do it. My appearance
for is twenty thousand dollars, and I will go on
there as long as.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You want twenty thousand. That's listen. I charged my charged
I went on Marcel's.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Dopey thing and I went on there and it cost
him ten grand yours twenty thousands. And I went on
there and he kept me on hold while he was
reading the Bible.
Speaker 9 (31:50):
You, Madelena scream across the freaking studio. That is so lame.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
All right, here he is finally Blair in Maine. I
think he's getting off the internet, but I'm not sure.
Let's say hello to Tammy in Montana. Hello Tammy in Montana.
It's Legends night on the show. Hello Tammy, Hey Ben.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
We could always do it GoFundMe for your podcast fee
for Blair. I would, I would start one for you.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, well, you know, I don't know if we need
to do that, but I can't imagine. Now Hold, Blair
did hang up, but or I hung up on him.
Remember last time he called up? He said he was
starting a podcast, but he didn't have a computer, a
microphone or any way to do the podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
But he was he's planning on doing the podcast, that's.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
What he say. Y.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
I could always go to the library and use the
computer there, but that would be.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
A little that would be awkward.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Yes, yeah, real quick because I don't want to take
up a lot of time, but I was a little
pissed off last night with the fourth Hour, so I'm
just gonna let it slow.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Okay, okay, all.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
Right, Blind Scott talking about Filexis and Holler and James
is so hypocritical, Blind Scott. He slams everyone he can. Uh,
he is the quote creepy and rude unquote caller of
the year. And then he admits to taking money from
(33:21):
his mommy. I mean, how old is this guy? Store
hospitals and medicare so those of us who work have
to pay for his staffs with price hikes and more taxes.
He needs to shut the f up.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Finally, last person, Okay, how do you really feel, Tammy?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
How do you really feel?
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I'm letting it out because it's it's.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Been a while, a long time.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I'm glad you're back.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Yeah. Now, Lorena, you need to think before you criticize
somebody's phone quality.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 8 (33:57):
Dick and Dayton has called in for at least fifteen years,
never had phone issues. He moved into assisted living. Oh
my god, maybe it's not the best connection. We were
all able to hear and appreciate his.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Call as all line, we're bleeding.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (34:14):
And as far as seeking attention and being fake, as
you said about a caller, you're an expert at being fake.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
And see, wow, that's very rud there you're going, all right,
thank you, my god, very rude. How about that tammy
throwing haymakers out there. I don't even know that woman
all right, anyway, it is the Bane Malla.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
She's very angry. Uh no, we were big fans of
Dick and Dayton and find her a man, all right,
Uh all right, calm down please, and I will have
to get to Ohio.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I know.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
We learned our friend Dick and Dayton has now moved
into assisted living, so we have to make sure we
get there at some point here soon.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
That's the plan so we can have a big Mallard meeting,
which is really just going to be to hang out
and celebrate the many phone calls.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
The great moments from Dick and Date who talked about
his friend Dave Dave from Dayton they call him Dave,
and all the amazing phone calls that he has made
over his time on the show.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
So there is that.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
What's good to know, the boss, It's better to be
related to the boss, and that would be the Colorado Rockies,
who are not only a baseball team, but man do
they suck. And the Rockies have made a decision in
the front office.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
They have made a change.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
The COO, the president of the outgoing president COO of
the Rockies, so you don't know of his stepping down
at the end of the year after thirty seasons in
the front office. So the team needed a new executive
vice president and they have announced they are promoting the
oldest son of Dick Montfort, the guy that owns the team.
The plot thickens. So, yeah, this guy, Walker Montfort, thirty
(35:52):
eight years old and he is now going to be
the big cheese for the Rockies. Wow, he's the NEPO
executive VP. Now I know nepotisms everywhere. Lebron James convinced
the Lakers. He just told them to draft his kid
and give him a guaranteed contract. So the Lakers did.
And there's a bunch of coaches in the NFL that
are NEPO babies and players all over the plays. But
(36:17):
the owner promoting the kid. My god, man, the Rockies,
I don't know that they'll ever have another good team.
My life like I saw them in the World Shop.
I do not know that they will have another good
team in my lifetime. They are so bad anyway. It
is the Bean Maler Show. Time now for the Insta
Trivia of Mallard to the third degree. But here is
the Insta trivia. Tampa Bay's Junior Camonaro became the seventh
(36:43):
player with twenty plus home runs fifty plus runs batted
in the first seventy six games of a season at
twenty one or younger. Blank was the last player to
do it. That's the Insta trivia. The answer, We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
It is the Ben Maller Show.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
We're up all night, every single night, podcast every day.
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The fifth Hour pod will be up later today as well.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
So make sure to subscribe and listen just any of
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Speaker 1 (37:17):
We're going all night long.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
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the pod rated five stars.
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Again.
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Just search Ben Maller wherever you get your podcasts, and
then you'll find the latest episode. Best of version also
fifth hour podcast right after we get off the air.
All right, time now quickly for the Insta trivia, we'll
get to Mallard of the third degree. Tampa Bay's Junior
Caminero became the seventh player to hit twenty plus home
runs fifty plus runs batted in first seventy six games
(37:46):
of a season at age twenty one or younger.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Blank was the last to do it. We'll see, does
anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Wally Joyner guests by DJ Smith Patrick in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Page down Tammy of Montana, Maven's from Malard prop guy,
We've got jose Albouve guests by Sean in Portland.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Lorena, what say you? Lorena?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Zach Effron, all right, No, that isn't great. He is
Cody Bellinger back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Cody Bellinger. Here we go, Here we go right back.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
It's Meddler.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets great?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Our friend Bree. What do we have here?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Then?
Speaker 6 (38:27):
With all the rumors going around this with the Celtics,
everything must go roster sale? Were you surprised that Jalen
Brown is still at Boston Celtic today after the draft, and.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
He's still there a little bit, but they do have
to sell tickets.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
They can't get her of everyone.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
If somebody had made them the Godfather offer, they would
have traded Jalen Brown. It's still not out of the
question because you still trade him before you know, he's
got a couple months ago in the summertime before the
NBA season. I'm only slightly surprised because he's got a
three hundred million dollars contract.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
They're trying to trim the payroll. Next.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
During his first media availabil after drafting Cooper Flag, Nico
Harrison said, Fortune favors the bold.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, and what do you think of these comments? I
think Nico Harrison should be fired.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
And the fact that he still has a job is
Malfeasan's by the ownership of the Dallas Mavericks. And there
is bad mojo. I don't normally believe in mojo, but
there's bad mojo around the Mavericks. Either the NBA forced
them to trade Luca or Nico Harrison decided to trade Luca.
Either way, they got to get rid of Nico Harrison
because at any moment he could wake up and say
(39:30):
whoever the best player on the Mavericks says we're gonna
trade him next.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
AMC's website now displays a reminder that movie showtime has
come with twenty five to thirty minutes of previews. Do
you think this is a good idea or totally pointless?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It's totally pointless. Anyone's ever been in the movies knows
that when you go to the movies, it doesn't start
when it's supposed to start. They're gonna play the trailers,
and that's when you go get your popcorn, your can,
and your snacks. Everyone knows it's obvious. You don't need
to announce it. They're just worried about lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
How do we die?
Speaker 8 (39:56):
Why?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I put it on the phone. Jerome, I won Jerome
and Charleston, I won the game.
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our numb or two talking baseball, playball, talking baseball.
Can you read anything into Kyle Tucker's response to questions
about the cub contract negotiations, which are ongoing.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
It's gonna be a free agent at the end of
the year, Alice Korra.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
He is urging everyone in the media to stop discussing
the Rafael Devers trade because the Red Sox players want
to move on. Is that how this works? And what
is the level of concern for Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts,
who's on pace to have his worst season as a
major league player this season. We'll talk about that as well,
(00:40):
all of it here in our number two.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
It's a case of a cubby bear in hibernation.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
If you will welcome in the beginning of another hour
of the Ben Mahler Show.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
We are in the air everywhere. Ear plug play.
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neating live from the code as we crack the code
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So we go to baseball, talking.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Bay's Ball, and I lead this hour from Chicago, big money,
big drama involving a big bear, a Chicago Cup. Now,
I would argue that very few people tuning the Cub
Baseball to watch this guy play, and that very few
(02:15):
people buy tickets to watch this guy play. But yet
he is said to be the headliner of the Cubs.
They're at a crossroads. If you don't know where I'm
going with this, maybe not so Kyle Tucker. Yes, So
it's Tucker and Tucker. We started last hour with the
Ravens kicker, and now we're talking about Kyle Tucker. So,
Kyle Tucker is at a crossroads at Wrigley Field. He
(02:38):
is in the last year of his contract and the
new deal. The great new deal sounds like it's at Washington,
DC for Kyle Tucker would pay him in the neighborhood
of five hundred million dollars. Now, this one blows me away.
I think Tucker is a fine player. I just don't
think of him as a box office guy.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I don't. Everywhere I read it's a five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
That's the get in buy in price for the Cubs,
and so there's no deal yet. Therefore, the Chicago Cubs
front office has to make a decision. The Cubs are
not playing as well as they were early in the year.
Everyone has a shot at the playoffs because they have
all these wild card teams, so everyone's kind of in contention.
(03:25):
Unless you're the Rockies or the A's or the White Sox,
you're kind of in contention or the Marlins to make
the playoffs. So most of the league has a chance
to make the playoffs. Now that being said, the trade
deadline is about a month a little over a month.
July thirty first is the trade deadline. So if the
Cubs aren't going to keep the player, would they trade
(03:48):
Kyle Tucker. They have to decide that. Oh the human drama.
So Kyle Tucker was asked about the ongoing negotiation.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Do you see this?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
No, So Kyle Tucker was asked about negotiations on an
extension this week. What did he say? He said, quote,
For the most part, We're just going to keep that
between us. If anything happens, I'm sure you guys will know,
all right.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Close quote. So let us discuss the question. Can you
read anything? Can you read.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Anything into Kyle Tucker's response to the question about the
Cubs contract talks and where they are right now?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
So of course you can.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Now in this one, I've got Christie's, Pyongyang and Pet Boys,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make deep dish Chicago pizza, which
I believe is in the freezer here courtesy of Perito.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Is that correct? Do I have that accurate? All right?
Thank you, Prita.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Sea may or may not be the reason I'm here,
but I'm just pointing that out. Not that I don't
love being here and hanging out with my friends, but anyway,
all right, So number one number, he said, Number one,
I got a feeling in my bones.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Number one number okay, all right. So if you.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Listen between the words, you parse the words, which you
have to do. And if you ever get a talk
show or a podcast, just parse words. That's all you
have to do. It's easy, pasy, fun to do. And
uh and you can come up with all kinds of answers.
So on this one, and this is based on a
lifetime of dealing with these kind of stories. If a
guy says we're just gonna keep it between us, Kyle
(05:32):
Tucker is sending out a smoke signal, that is a
dead giveaway, dead giveaway. It was the non answer that
is an answer. Non answer that is an answer.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Now what do I mean? Let me expand on that.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
So you think a guy who wants a long term contract,
a player that really likes where he's playing, you think
they give that answer we're gonna keep it private. No, No,
they say stuff like, oh, man, I love it here.
I got a place right on Lake Michigan's beautiful. I'm
(06:09):
right next to Cowherd here in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Man.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I know he's gonna have to move because he got
drafted by the Trailblazers. According to ESPN, So some coward's
gonna move. But for now, I'm like right next to him,
and it's just great. And I got sick views the
weather in the summer in Chicago is no better city
to live in.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It's just amazing. Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
No, he didn't say anything. I want to retire here,
the greatest fans in the world. We're building something special.
I don't want to leave this team. He didn't say
any of that. So now if the Cubs also, if
the Cubs had not had not made him an offer,
they obviously made him an offer the mad and there
would be nothing to keep between the team and the player.
(06:47):
So they made him an offer. Wasn't an acceptable offer,
otherwise he would have accepted the offer. So so at
this point it's like, well, he really wants to go
to free agency, but they're playing ping pong. They're going
back and forth and negotiate it. It's the money could be,
the amount of years, could be, the amount of deferred money.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
They want the Dodger.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Set up where they get paid till they're eighty years
old to avoid taxes.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So who knows.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Now that being said, the smart money based on a
minutes long deliberation of the available information. The smart money,
says that Kyle Tucker is going to hit the Christie's swap.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Meet, if you know what I mean that the.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Between us line was yeah. What he meant to say
was yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm probably leaving. But I don't
want to deal with the drama of you people freaking
out when I say I'm going to test the market.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I'm gonna go to market.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So rather than say that, I'm just gonna keep it
between us. No, he does not have Kyle Tucker does
not have Scott Boris as his client. So that gives
the Cubs a little bit of wiggle room, little bit
of wiggle room. If Scott Boris's client, there's no way
you even consider any kind of extension.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
That's it. Forget about it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
But nevertheless, all right, nevertheless, which you want is a
bidding war.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
You want a bidding war? How do you get a
bidding war? How do you do it?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Silent auction at Christie's. And you bring in the socks,
not the White Sox they suck, the Red Sox, the
Higandas who are spending some money, the Giants. They just
traded for Rafael Devers and his enormous contract and his
enormous waistline, and then the Yankees, the match, the Dodgers,
the usual suspects and the Cubs.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And up, up and away the bidding war. Right now,
turning the.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Page, we now take a little pit stop in Boston
where I did a double check at the recent comments
by Alex Cora. So you see what he said. He's
the manager of the Boston baseball team. So Alex Cora,
the Red Sox manager who once fancied himself for the
players manager.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
I'm all about the players and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He has decided he also can manage the media. Now
that's right, Alex Cora is now in charge of the media.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I didn't know I need a manager, but apparently I do.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
So if you didn't see this, he said, everyone is
supposed to zip it radio silence and just nod solemnly
and move on. Do not mention Rafael Devers. Don't mention
his name because Alex core.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Does not want you to talk about that. He wants
to move on. That's what he said. So Alexe korra.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Urging everyone to stop discussing the Rafael Devers trade to
help the Red Sox clubhouse move on?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Is that how this works?
Speaker 2 (09:41):
I'm asking for a friend, so ix nay on the ask,
that would be my response to Unfortunately, Alex kra you're
not the manager.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You're not the mayor, you're not the big.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Politician there in Pyongyang where you could get away with that.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
That's not how it works here.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Sorry, not sorry, right, And Alice core is the same
guy who failed miserably to use diplomacy. If Alice Cora
had been good at his job, Rafael Devers would still
be playing for the Red Sox that was botched from
Jump Street by Alice Cora and the front office. But
(10:20):
Alice Cora was supposed to be the ultimate player's manager
and all that stuff. And as we said, and he
could not convince Rafaeld Devers to be a team player,
to go to grab a first base mix and go
out and play first base and all that stuff. And
so now he wants to dictate the baseball news cycle.
And this is one of those stories. And then listen,
(10:41):
I try to talk baseball in the show a fair amount,
and we talk more baseball here than most places do
doing this kind of work. But these are the kind
of stories that provide guitar. It reminds me of like
and just say, well, you shouldn't talk about this. It's
like when that dumb, dumb Mookie bets more on him
in a minute, when the Padres and Dodgers were getting
(11:02):
into a slobber knocker and mookies.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
I'm not talking about that, but why not.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
That's the story that gets people engaged, dummy, and you
want to talk about it.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
But as far as this one is concerned, right, and
you know, all of a sudden, you know, mid season
trade of the franchise cornerstone forever player to another another
team across the country, and it's just another random day
in the major leagues. So this is the part of
the story where you put Alex Cora on airplane mode. Right,
(11:35):
you just did no Wi Fi and that's it. And
of course, if he didn't already, I don't get a
check from aus Kora. Neither does well unless you work
for Red Sox dot Com.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I guess you do if you work for the team.
We're not.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
We're not in the dugout. We should be, but we're not.
And I don't believe check my contract. I don't believe
we're obligated to pretend that this massive size mike shift
of a Red Sox player to basically given away.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
The rich's actually got garbage for him from the.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Giants, that that is not something of talk talk radio purpose.
Even later, like i's been been a minute, been a
couple of weeks, but still right now, final point to La.
We go, we go to La and sure enough the
Dodgers completed the old sweep aeroo of the Rockies there. However,
(12:27):
not all as well in Blue Heaven.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Mookie Bets had a couple of hits, but he is
in the midst of his worst season in the big leagues.
Moogie Bets has often sucked at a time you cannot suck.
That's not my opinion, that is a fact. What's the evidence.
I'll give you the ovens. So Moogie Bets is on pace.
We're halfway through the baseball season. He is on pace
(12:53):
to have the lowest batting average, lowest on base percentage,
lowest slugging percentage of his entire career, the very bottom,
rock bottom for the Moxster, rock bottom now. Dave Roberts
recently was asked about the obvious connection. Well, the reason
Mookie Bets blows is because he's playing shortstop and it's
(13:15):
a tougher position defensively, and so it's spilling over. There's
some spillage, it's spilling into his offensive game.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Roberts pushed back on that and says there's no correlation
between Mookie Bets sucking offensively compared to what he had
been and now being shortstop for the Dodgers. So question,
what is the level of concern? What is the level
of concern for the Dodgers with shortstop Mookie Bets and
(13:43):
his subparse performance for the team this season. So mallor
scale of concern, Mallard scale of concerned one to ten,
with ten being.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Like alarm bell is going on. I'm a a seven.
I might have said, very distressing.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Now I've been in like chat conversations, like text conversations
with some.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Friends and they're like, oh man, it doesn't matter, he'll
hit when the playoffs come around. So how do you
know that? Like, how do you know?
Speaker 2 (14:16):
And you don't know that he hasn't hit pretty much
all season, right, He's been a bust, and so he's
just assuming when the playoffs come around, all of a sudden,
he's gonna what are you gonna get a corked bat
or something like that. I mean, come on, Mookie is
one of the pillars of the what's supposed to be
the big Blue wrecking crew, and you get three hundred
(14:38):
and sixty five million dead presidents. That's a lot of
monopoly money. And you should get more production, it goes
without saying, than what Mookie Bets has provided for the
Dodgers this year. And at this point you might as
well call a tow truck and send the Mookie over
to Pep Boys there for a tune up, because he's
(14:58):
supposed to be the engine, or at least part of
the engine, and right now the check engine light is
on for Mookie Bets. He's the second lowest on base
plus slugging percentage in the Dodgers every day lineup, the
only one, and this is among all their qualified hitters.
(15:18):
The only player that sucks more than Mookie Bets is
Michael Conforto, who actually has hit a little bit recently,
but still took the first two months of the baseball
season off. But Mookie trails six other players in the
everyday Dodger lineup in that category. So again, I still
want to hear it's a long season, don't worry. I
(15:39):
have to worry about today's show. I have a show
to do today. I have to worry about what's going
on right now in this moment. We live in the moment,
and in this moment, he sucks. That's it. And you
are I know this is a wild concept and you're
not gonna like it, but you are judged by your results.
It's a results based business, and right now the results
(16:02):
are screaming that Mookie Betts has relocated to a little
suburb of Los Angeles called Suckville and he is the
mayor of Suckville right now. So do better and be better.
And it's not outrageous. You're making three hundred and sixty
five million and all that. And if Mookie, you say
(16:23):
it's a bad year, it's a slump or something like that.
But if he lost something, he's he'said some medical stuff.
They're paying him for a very long time. So Mookie's
gonna be around for years to come. Good luck on that.
It is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you'd like to
comment on any of this, you can join us right now,
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(17:07):
who the boss is, but it's even better to be
related to the boss.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
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We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
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Usually in these promos they ask you to listen to
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I don't know what the twenty six is for, but
you can salo to her there and she's in the
producer's chair.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
And in hour four it'll be cheese with Bri. Is
that right? I think? So? Why not? What the hell?
Speaker 3 (18:52):
All?
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Right? Back to it? All right, back to it we go.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
And we began with some hot baseball talk, and as anticipate,
patd flooded with angry middle aged men, very upset at
Lorena and Brie for not knowing who the say hey
kid was, So, as we anticipated, shuck.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
The anger is real. The anger is real.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
The rage people are just upset because they want to
work on a sports station, and they're.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Like, I guess I don't know The nature Boy says,
I can't believe they didn't know who the say Hey
kid was ouch. And there were a bunch of messages
worse than that, but we'll leave those aside. Chip and
the Q's right, since, says a Plus on the Malld monologue,
Boston didn't learn from their own history, considering they were
(19:43):
the ones who traded away another great player before Babe Ruth.
The old adage is proven to be true. Those who
failed to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Well,
we'll see about Rafael Devers. He's not doing all that great.
I guess hit a home run yesterday, but he's generally
not doing that well. And the Dodgers. The one that
(20:04):
really got away was Mookie bats. I mean, then, Mookie's
been to a couple of World Series with the Dodgers
and won a couple of World Series as a as
a Doyer Hl right, since says your diet trap the
Red Sox and Als. Cora was right on the money.
I've been saying for months that he has to go.
Cora just doesn't have it. He's the Doc Rivers of
(20:26):
Major League Baseball. The Socks are just the minor league
funnel teams for the big league's use. Injured, go play
for the Socks, then get the big contracts someplace else.
And he mentions Chris Sale. Now, Josh is a Chicago
sports fan. He says, Hey, Ben, sorry, Kyle Tucker ain't
going nowhere but leading the Cubs to beating the Dodgers
(20:48):
and onto the World Series. Okay, yeah, you keep dreaming that, Josh.
You keep dreaming that maybe maybe one of your dreams
will will come true. I'm gonna go, know, I'm gonna go. No,
I just go to the Fall and let's see a boy.
We got some legends. This is a murderer's row that
is lined up. Let's say hello to Let's go to Tony.
(21:08):
Is this Tony in the Bay Area? Hello Tony?
Speaker 7 (21:11):
Hey man, I'm not trying to plug nothing unless it's
Jink's Mays. But thanks to the Fifth Dollar Podcast, I'm
a fan of Mike Norris. And the porn Star of
the Week is live revamped. The Oldie of the Night
is come Home Soon by the Intruders, And if you
type in ninety six in Verblancos. You can see him
play in their own fucking coverin all right, thank you,
(21:32):
all right?
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Always a matter of time with that one.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well he knows that the podcast downloads
go up because people even who listen live, they don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
What he said because thoughtful, it didn't make the end.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
If it made the air, we're going to get a
phone call, but not from our boss because our boss
is like on vacation somewhere, so we have to worry
about that, like a nice European vacation.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
No dump buttons today, babe, Yeah, babe.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
We're doing old school, We're doing We're doing satellite style radio.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Baby. We are just gonna let it rip, is what
we're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Let's say hello now to the black irishman in Nebraska
and he's hanging out with us. Hello, black irishman.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Basic, Finally, are you complaining?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
No, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
I gotta tell you before we get into it, before.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
We don't go there, what you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (22:25):
Well?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Why can't I go? You don't even know where I'm
gonna go? Why can't I go there?
Speaker 5 (22:30):
Thanks? Take Mark off?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Well, thanks for calling. I really want to tell you, uh,
you know I I have a lot of hats.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
I'm nicknamed the mad Hatter of sports Chat. It's one
of my many nicknames. I gotta tell you of all
the hats I've gotten, of all of them, the one
from Creighton, the Blue Jays hat from from Creighton.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
My favorite.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I actually don't have that, man. I'm telling I got
the Iowa hat. It's like a summer hat.
Speaker 8 (23:03):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
No, no, no.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
The bet was the Creighton blue Jay hat. That was
the bet that we made a bet.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
I can get that one for you.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
We made a bet five years ago. We made this
bet five years ago, and I gotta tell you it's
my favorite hat.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
It's kind of light. People don't even see it on
my head. Yeah. Okay, where you be giving called? No,
where you been? Everything all right with you.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
It's the same old stuff.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
That's called life.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
Man.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You get to a certain age, it's the same stuff
that's that's life.
Speaker 5 (23:31):
You know. I was gonna tell you, man, you know,
my daughter, he's gone our summer.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Oh she is. She's not playing video games at home
now in the middle of that.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I know, you know, no, Okay, so she said, she said,
summer camp where's like, that's all he gets.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
Up there with my auntie, you know, for the summer.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Let me let me, let me start, start.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I say, before you start. Every time you call, inevitably
I get an email. Was that god call himself the
black Irishman? That makes no sense.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Because many you did it, you did it, you did it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
You did a DNA test, right, you did one of those.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
My granddad was a white dude from Hiland and his name.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
O'Sullivan.
Speaker 5 (24:16):
Okay, all right, yeah right here and ship okay, all.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Right, we're two for two, doing well doing We're doing
very well. Not dumping on man. I'm not just leave
it in there.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
Why I'm gonna say. I want to say how the
lady is doing?
Speaker 1 (24:34):
Okay, well, so we are now let's see here we
are two and a half the call love yes Bill? Okay? Yeah? Yeah?
What are you doing? I mean, you have nothing to say?
How come nobody has anything to say? They call the show?
I don't understand. Do you want to hear yourself on
the radio?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Also, like our guy from Korea town they called Last
Hour Bill from Korea.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
No, you're just boy, It's just you're just board. You
had nothing else to do. It's the middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
You called the show.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I hear you, man, Man, I got you.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
I don't take you, man. I want to I want
to say. I want to get credits out of the
good women out there.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Okay, well, that's just what we need. Credit to the
good women. What about the bad women? What about the
bad women? They're more fun?
Speaker 3 (25:17):
What?
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Now, my love, Okay, next time, I want to talk
about the w n B A too.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Okay, Okay, you should. You should call the Jason Smith
Show for them.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
But thank you when I send your hat.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Okay, I'm sure that I'm going to be dead by
the time I get that, but thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
All Right, there you go. It's the Black Irishman. It's
a terrible phone call. That is horrific.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That is the kind of thing where radio people listen
and say, never take calls.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
On talk radio.
Speaker 9 (25:49):
I'm scared.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Man. Not only was that called horrible, he then dotted
the I by cursing in the middle of it. Yes,
like the Ohio State Marching Band. He just out of
the eye right there. That call was so bad it
might inspire Justin and Cincinnati to call the show again.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
That's how bad that call was.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
How long has it been since Justin called?
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Oh it's been a long time, ye know, Justin's retired
from calling. He hides behind his phone. He hides behind
his phone and drops bombs on his phone. That's what
he does. Now, let's go. Well it is Legends nine
on the show, and we go now to the great
state of Maine and a man who has done the.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Lobster dip year after year.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
For a while, he was a celebrity caller to talk radio,
but now he's been captured by the TikTok.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
We say hello to what be Pie Blair? Hello Blair, Welcome?
Speaker 9 (26:38):
That's going on?
Speaker 1 (26:40):
No, you're bummed out? You signed to press. We're getting depressed, Blair?
What is going on with you?
Speaker 9 (26:45):
I had to give up a called clapper, So I
gave up that.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Why why did you have to give up the well?
Why do I want to know what that is? I
don't know what that is? Do I want to hold
on a second?
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Me?
Speaker 9 (26:56):
All that it's a depressing app?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
For me, it was the very depressing app.
Speaker 9 (27:02):
The people on there were.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
After me, Oh that's a video? Is that a video
app thing? Or I've never heard?
Speaker 9 (27:08):
Oh, there's there's a spicy too. There's a spicy part
to it, and then there's a regular part.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Two, like a porn thing.
Speaker 9 (27:17):
Kind of part to that, and then there's a regular party.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
Oh, it says let's It says it lets you share
your whole lot of sects.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Take a breath.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
It says, share your real, raw, unfiltered story with a
community of creators and supporters.
Speaker 9 (27:36):
Yeah, that's why I left because one reason was I
reported mostly all the women on there, and they.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Got why did you report? What were the women doing
on there?
Speaker 5 (27:48):
Pissing me off?
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Why were they upset? Why were they why were they
upsetting you?
Speaker 9 (27:53):
How they were just kicking me off? Like a lot
on there? Still they were just what were they doing?
Speaker 1 (27:59):
I said, I don't showing their stuff?
Speaker 9 (28:01):
Like they can't be taking there. You know, it says
no nudity.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
And see were you were upset because women were showing
you It's the internet, Blair. I don't know if you've
been on there recently, but there's a lot of that
on the internet.
Speaker 9 (28:12):
But man, yeah, I know I walked away from it,
So we're good to see you later. Women, you can
do whatever the hell you want on there. Get away
with you know.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Have you gone on Instagram lately? Have you been on there?
Speaker 9 (28:25):
Why is it bad on there? Now?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
It depends on this depends what your perception of bad is.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Some would say it's very good on there, others would.
Speaker 9 (28:34):
Yeah, okay, but the Dodgers, I.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
Mean, yeah, so that's a smooth transition. The Dodgers. Let's
go for my bed's. We're gonna transition to Sporty Blair now.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
Because the internet's not what it Okay.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
So you're gonna come back to talk radio right play.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
You're done with the TikTok and all those evil women
showing their uh private parts and all that stuff.
Speaker 9 (28:56):
Right to talk a lot it's a lot better. I mean,
it's is strict on rules now.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, they don't mess around to China, man, they don't
mess around there.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
You know you're gonna follow those rules in China.
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Man.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
There down that hill, I think it's that road. I
don't think it's the hill. I think most people want
to go down down.
Speaker 5 (29:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
So, do you have anything to say to your fans, Like,
we don't want to talk about sports. Nobody wants to
hear what you have to say about sports. Smaccoli says, Hello,
By the way, do you have anything to say? Do
you have any to say to Specole.
Speaker 9 (29:27):
I'm looking at the scores and I wanted to talk
about some baby.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
You didn't You haven't watched a baseball game in four years?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 9 (29:37):
The four years is wrong?
Speaker 2 (29:40):
All right, six years you have not watched you know,
none of you people called this show.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
No, you don't even even watch sports. Marijuana marijuana, Yes,
I'm smoking crack. Is what come on?
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Someone?
Speaker 9 (29:53):
You've been smoking marijuana like in your studio.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yes, my best friend is Mary Jane. That is correct.
Speaker 9 (29:59):
Don't even blade or Mary Jane whatever you call her
last names.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Yeah, Mary Mary Jane doesn't have a last I think
she has a lesson. Then, man, what what do you want?
Speaker 7 (30:12):
Man?
Speaker 9 (30:12):
What I didn't know your I don't know your wife
was smoking hot.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Oh, here we go see now and now and now
we're Uh, you're gonna get her band from the internet.
Speaker 9 (30:21):
Too, All right, I'm not going out to your wife.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
I was very concerned. You know you're you're in Maine,
so I was very concerned there, Blair.
Speaker 9 (30:30):
Ye oh god, I know.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You I know you're, I know you're I know you're When.
Speaker 9 (30:37):
I come to California. We're hanging out, Ben, No, I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
You don't call it. You don't call the show much anymore.
I don't know about that.
Speaker 9 (30:43):
Then you're not walking away from me.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
I'm running away from you. I'm not walking I'm running
away from you.
Speaker 5 (30:49):
Man.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yes, I can just hang up on you.
Speaker 9 (30:51):
You're not running away either. Yeah, you're not hanging up yet.
You're not hanging out.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
You want to bet on that. I can hang up
on you if I want.
Speaker 3 (30:57):
You.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Dare me to hang up on you.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
You you don't think i'll hang up on you.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
You don't press my button. Don't press my button. I'll
hang up on you, all right, You're not that guy.
I'll trust me. You're not that guy. There you go.
I hung up on your blair. See that, you loser.
I hung up on you. You're gone.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Oh he's still there? What are you still doing there?
I hung up on you.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
I love you on my I love to have you
on my podcast, Dan.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
You're I will be happy to do it. My appearance
for is twenty thousand dollars, and I will go on
there as long as.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
You want twenty thousand. That's listen. I charged my charged
I went on Marcel's.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Dopey thing and I went on there and it cost
him ten grand yours twenty thousands. And I went on
there and he kept me on hold while he was
reading the Bible.
Speaker 9 (31:50):
You, Madelena scream across the freaking studio. That is so lame.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
All right, thank you?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
All right, here he is finally Blair in Maine. I
think he's getting off the internet, but I'm not sure.
Let's say hello to Tammy in Montana. Hello Tammy in Montana.
It's Legends night on the show. Hello Tammy, Hey Ben.
Speaker 8 (32:13):
We could always do it GoFundMe for your podcast fee
for Blair. I would, I would start one for you.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Yeah, well, you know, I don't know if we need
to do that, but I can't imagine. Now Hold, Blair
did hang up, but or I hung up on him.
Remember last time he called up? He said he was
starting a podcast, but he didn't have a computer, a
microphone or any way to do the podcast.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
But he was he's planning on doing the podcast, that's.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
What he say. Y.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
I could always go to the library and use the
computer there, but that would be.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
A little that would be awkward.
Speaker 8 (32:45):
Yes, yeah, real quick because I don't want to take
up a lot of time, but I was a little
pissed off last night with the fourth Hour, so I'm
just gonna let it slow.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
Okay, okay, all.
Speaker 8 (33:01):
Right, Blind Scott talking about Filexis and Holler and James
is so hypocritical, Blind Scott. He slams everyone he can. Uh,
he is the quote creepy and rude unquote caller of
the year. And then he admits to taking money from
(33:21):
his mommy. I mean, how old is this guy? Store
hospitals and medicare so those of us who work have
to pay for his staffs with price hikes and more taxes.
He needs to shut the f up.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Finally, last person, Okay, how do you really feel, Tammy?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
How do you really feel?
Speaker 8 (33:44):
I'm letting it out because it's it's.
Speaker 4 (33:46):
Been a while, a long time.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
I'm glad you're back.
Speaker 8 (33:50):
Yeah. Now, Lorena, you need to think before you criticize
somebody's phone quality.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 8 (33:57):
Dick and Dayton has called in for at least fifteen years,
never had phone issues. He moved into assisted living. Oh
my god, maybe it's not the best connection. We were
all able to hear and appreciate his.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Call as all line, we're bleeding.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (34:14):
And as far as seeking attention and being fake, as
you said about a caller, you're an expert at being fake.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
And see, wow, that's very rud there you're going, all right,
thank you, my god, very rude. How about that tammy
throwing haymakers out there. I don't even know that woman
all right, anyway, it is the Bane Malla.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
She's very angry. Uh no, we were big fans of
Dick and Dayton and find her a man, all right,
Uh all right, calm down please, and I will have
to get to Ohio.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
I know.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
We learned our friend Dick and Dayton has now moved
into assisted living, so we have to make sure we
get there at some point here soon.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
That's the plan so we can have a big Mallard meeting,
which is really just going to be to hang out
and celebrate the many phone calls.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
The great moments from Dick and Date who talked about
his friend Dave Dave from Dayton they call him Dave,
and all the amazing phone calls that he has made
over his time on the show.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
So there is that.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
What's good to know, the boss, It's better to be
related to the boss, and that would be the Colorado Rockies,
who are not only a baseball team, but man do
they suck. And the Rockies have made a decision in
the front office.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
They have made a change.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
The COO, the president of the outgoing president COO of
the Rockies, so you don't know of his stepping down
at the end of the year after thirty seasons in
the front office. So the team needed a new executive
vice president and they have announced they are promoting the
oldest son of Dick Montfort, the guy that owns the team.
The plot thickens. So, yeah, this guy, Walker Montfort, thirty
(35:52):
eight years old and he is now going to be
the big cheese for the Rockies. Wow, he's the NEPO
executive VP. Now I know nepotisms everywhere. Lebron James convinced
the Lakers. He just told them to draft his kid
and give him a guaranteed contract. So the Lakers did.
And there's a bunch of coaches in the NFL that
are NEPO babies and players all over the plays. But
(36:17):
the owner promoting the kid. My god, man, the Rockies,
I don't know that they'll ever have another good team.
My life like I saw them in the World Shop.
I do not know that they will have another good
team in my lifetime. They are so bad anyway. It
is the Bean Maler Show. Time now for the Insta
Trivia of Mallard to the third degree. But here is
the Insta trivia. Tampa Bay's Junior Camonaro became the seventh
(36:43):
player with twenty plus home runs fifty plus runs batted
in the first seventy six games of a season at
twenty one or younger. Blank was the last player to
do it. That's the Insta trivia. The answer, We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
It is the Ben Maller Show.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
We're up all night, every single night, podcast every day.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
The fifth Hour pod will be up later today as well.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
So make sure to subscribe and listen just any of
the show.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
We're going all night long.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Whoever you get your podcast, we should have followed review
the pod rated five stars.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Again.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Just search Ben Maller wherever you get your podcasts, and
then you'll find the latest episode. Best of version also
fifth hour podcast right after we get off the air.
All right, time now quickly for the Insta trivia, we'll
get to Mallard of the third degree. Tampa Bay's Junior
Caminero became the seventh player to hit twenty plus home
runs fifty plus runs batted in first seventy six games
(37:46):
of a season at age twenty one or younger.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Blank was the last to do it. We'll see, does
anyone know the answer?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Wally Joyner guests by DJ Smith Patrick in San Diego.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Page down Tammy of Montana, Maven's from Malard prop guy,
We've got jose Albouve guests by Sean in Portland.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Lorena, what say you? Lorena?
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Zach Effron, all right, No, that isn't great. He is
Cody Bellinger back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Cody Bellinger. Here we go, Here we go right back.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
It's Meddler.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (38:19):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets great?
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Our friend Bree. What do we have here?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
Then?
Speaker 6 (38:27):
With all the rumors going around this with the Celtics,
everything must go roster sale? Were you surprised that Jalen
Brown is still at Boston Celtic today after the draft, and.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
He's still there a little bit, but they do have
to sell tickets.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
They can't get her of everyone.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
If somebody had made them the Godfather offer, they would
have traded Jalen Brown. It's still not out of the
question because you still trade him before you know, he's
got a couple months ago in the summertime before the
NBA season. I'm only slightly surprised because he's got a
three hundred million dollars contract.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
They're trying to trim the payroll. Next.
Speaker 6 (38:57):
During his first media availabil after drafting Cooper Flag, Nico
Harrison said, Fortune favors the bold.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Yeah, and what do you think of these comments? I
think Nico Harrison should be fired.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
And the fact that he still has a job is
Malfeasan's by the ownership of the Dallas Mavericks. And there
is bad mojo. I don't normally believe in mojo, but
there's bad mojo around the Mavericks. Either the NBA forced
them to trade Luca or Nico Harrison decided to trade Luca.
Either way, they got to get rid of Nico Harrison
because at any moment he could wake up and say
(39:30):
whoever the best player on the Mavericks says we're gonna
trade him next.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
AMC's website now displays a reminder that movie showtime has
come with twenty five to thirty minutes of previews. Do
you think this is a good idea or totally pointless?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
It's totally pointless. Anyone's ever been in the movies knows
that when you go to the movies, it doesn't start
when it's supposed to start. They're gonna play the trailers,
and that's when you go get your popcorn, your can,
and your snacks. Everyone knows it's obvious. You don't need
to announce it. They're just worried about lawsuits.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
How do we die?
Speaker 8 (39:56):
Why?
Speaker 2 (39:59):
I put it on the phone. Jerome, I won Jerome
and Charleston, I won the game.
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