Hour 2- The New Mr. Met

Ben Maller talks about his reaction to Juan Soto's opening Mets news conference, Soto saying he hasn't talked to Aaron Judge or any of his Yankees teammates since the playoffs, Mets owner Steve Cohen saying the team is still "engaged" with Pete Alonso, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go. Welcome, It's our number two in great demand,
the hour of one Soto. How did one Soto vibe
with you at his opening introductory news conference with the Mets.
We'll break it down. Also, Soto says he hasn't talked
to Aaron Judge or any of his ex Yankee teammates

(00:21):
since the season ended. Does that raise any suspicions with you?
And owner Steve Cohen says the Mets are still engaged
with petere Alnzo. However, they're letting Alonzo test the market.
How does that one sound. We'll get to all that
and more right now here. It is our number two.
The new mister Met has arrived. Welcome in the beginning

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Speaker 2 (01:55):
B.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
So the new King of Queens was interview. These opening
news conferences are religious revivals. So feel good, it's grab ass,
it's everything's great, and this was more grandeur than anything.
And as our leader, our lead from Flushing, well baseball

(02:17):
for you, little baseball. We'll get back to the football
where the Lrims really did ram it all day and
ram it all night as the Rams beat the forty
nine ers and are now in position they've set themselves
up to win the NFC West and Seattle's about to
fall apart there with Green Bay. But this is about baseball.
So after agreeing to the largest contract in baseball, the

(02:41):
largest contract in American sport, in fact, the largest contract
in all of sports on this little planet that we
all share as brothers and sisters from different mothers, And
so he was all smiles right. He was in a
good mood for the most part. He got a fifteen
year contract seven hundred and sixty five million, which likely

(03:07):
will go up from that. Either it will go up
to over eight hundred million, or he will opt out
of that contract. The deal includes a seventy five million
dollars signing bonus Cha Ching Chichang Chi Ching. There's an
opt out after the fifth year that the Mets can void.
They just add, as I mentioned, some more money, and
so that would mean over the final ten years of

(03:28):
the contract, Soto will end up getting a total value
of over eight hundred million dollars to play baseball. He
will likely end up being a designated hitter. He's not
a very good defensive player. Before you know he'll be
a designated hitter. He doesn't hustle all that much, and
he gets four bats a game or some so for

(03:49):
four played appearances on average a night, he's going to
get an ungodly amount ofment. Good for him now, Soto,
as you might imagine if somebody gave you a contract
that could be up to eight hundred million dollars. He
was lavishing praise on the Metropolitans and throwing a bunch

(04:11):
of sweet platitudes out saying that they're a great organization,
and then he used the D word, and that is
where people's eyebrows were raised. Take a listen to one
Soto slipping in the D.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Why they showed me how the organization ron steins and
how they look at their future. I think it was
one of the things that opened my eyes a little
bit more while they've been constructing and building to take
all the way, all the way up to fifteen years,
twenty years and never know. Definitely that was one of
the things I opened my eyes more. How hungry they

(04:56):
are for to win a championship and to want to
make a dynasty in.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
New York Mets okay, and believe your nose was growing Pinocchio.
He said the word dynasty multiple times. Of course, if
you wanted to be part of a dynasty, there's one
going on in Los Angeles right now. It's called the Dodgers. Wow,
all right, okay, pal. He also said regarding New York sports,
he said, it's a Mets town, New York. It's been

(05:22):
a Mets town for a long time, so I think
we just got to bring it to the top. He said.
He stressed that owner Steve Cohen is going to take
care of his family, and there's there's a lot to
chew on, and we'll get right into it. Why not
let us discuss the question how did One Soto vibe
with you? How did he vibe with you the opening

(05:45):
Mets introductory news conference? Now, I am not a Mets fan,
so you know that going in, so that means I'm
the perfect person to break this down. But to answer
the question, how did Wan Sodo vibe with you at
the opening news conference of his Mets career, I've got
New York Philharmonic token and menu, and we will combine

(06:06):
all of these things together and we are going to
make a pastrami sandwich at Kats's Deli in Manhattan, which
is the second greatest pastami sandwich I've ever had. The
top pastami sandwich I've ever had is at Langers Deli
in Los Angeles. Very upsetting the people in New York
that they don't dominate the pastrami game, that there's a

(06:28):
better pastrami sandwich in LA. All right? Number one, doing
the autopsy, doing the autopsy based on what I saw,
and I watch every second of this. I do have
somewhat of a life that we taped the TV show
on Thursday. I had to sleep for a few hours.
I had to get ready for this show. I had

(06:49):
to watch a NFL game. But these are first world problems.
Let me tell you something. These are first world problems.
But I did watch a good chunk of it on
the YouTube or was at MLB dot com. I forget.
I think as you two anyway, So doing the autopsy
based on what I watched of this event. One Soto
is who we thought he was before the event. If

(07:10):
you want to crowd him, you can crown his ass,
right one Soto. Let me tell you what kind of
guy this is. One Soto is the New York Philharmonic
kind of guy. He's center stage, right there in the orchestra,
and Soto is He's got a trumpet. He's blowing his
own trumpet, is what he's doing right there. I mean, listen,
I get it, dude. You're a good baseball player. Congratulations,

(07:31):
you're good in terms of Q rating. In terms of liability,
you're in the bottom percent. Kyle, pompous, persnickety, humble, bragging.
That's the face of the Mets. I mean, that's now.
I listen, I got family in New York. I got
you know, I've been there many times over the years.

(07:51):
And the Met fan is a blue collar fan. The
Met fan these are like construction guys, fireman, blue call workers.
That's a Met fan. The Yankee fan is Wall Street
that's the elitist fan. But I look at Soto, and
this guy's much more of a Yankee than he is
a Met. The way he carries himself. He's so smug

(08:13):
and you know, look at me type guy and all that. Now,
as for the dynasty part of that, I wonder which
website Ajan Soto uses to buy his psychedelic toad venom,
because you have to be licking some psychedelic toad venom
there to think that the Mets are are anywhere near

(08:33):
a dynasty, that the Dodgers are going to own the
National League at least for the next couple of years.
And even though you understand all these news conferences, as
I said, it is a pep rally, it is a
religious revival. It is raw ra and everything's great and rainbows,
puppy dogs, lollipops, all that stuff. It's just wonderful right now,

(08:56):
turning the page, but not leaving the story. We're not
lee the story returning the page. So among the other
revelations that I jotted down was the relationship between One Soto,
Aaron Judge, and all of his old Yankee teammates. Listen
to what one Soda had to say about the team
that he used to play for ten miles away over

(09:19):
in the Bronx. Take a listen.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
You've been in touch with anybody from your former team
and could you share what those conversations might have been? Like,
I haven't talked to any of those guys. Definitely, we
talked to them through playoffs at the end of the playoffs,
but after I make these processes, I haven't talked to
any of those all right.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
So one Sodo says he has not talked to any
of his old teammates and was Aaron Judge. Also later
on he mentioned Aaron Judge not talked to him. Obviously
he's part of the team. So hadn't talked to Aaron
Judge or any of his ex Yankee teammates through this
process or process? Does this raise any suspicion to you?

(09:58):
All right? So I will now I will tell you no,
I am not a fan of Sodo I don't like
the way of this, the vibe I got from I
don't know, I'm the vibe police here, Like he really
cares what I think of him, but I just didn't
like to. However, I cannot fault one Soda on this one.
One Sodo has always been since he came to the
scene in DC with the Nationals and our friend the

(10:23):
ant man there. He knows this. He's nothing more than
a mercenary. Okay, He's never pretended to be anything else.
That's the reason that in your mid twenties you've already
played for four teams because you just were chasing the
money and you won. Congratulations, you found the plot of
gold at the end of the rainbow, and now you

(10:44):
are going to have to play for the Mets for
a number of years. But it's telling that El Capitan
of the New York Yankees, Aaron Judge did not even
bother to try to recruit Juan Soda. All right, and
they can say, hey, we're you know, good buddies and
all that, but not even a token call, not even

(11:04):
a token call to play to the cameras. Now putting
on my psychologist hat here behind the microphone, isn't that
a dead way if you won't even use a token
call to make yourself look good to win some clout
points with the baseball media and social media clout and

(11:26):
all that. Saying, well, Aaron Judge tried to convince Juan
Soto to come back to the Yankees, he wouldn't even
do that. That tells me there's something more going on there. Now,
I will point out that people that work together, these
are almost always superficial relationships. It's you're a coworker, You're
not real friends. No colleagues are are not friends. Colleagues

(11:50):
are people that you know, you work with and you
hope make you look better at work and all that.
That's what a colleague is. And so even in baseball
or whatever. And these guys spent a long time planes,
trains and automobiles and all that. We had a similar
story before the Viking Falcon game where Justin Jefferson said
he had not spoken to Kirk Cousins since he left Minnesota.

(12:12):
And I said at the time, and I stand by
that take. I'm not changing the take that, yeah, these
guys are friends because they are forced to be friends
during the season. Are co workers colleagues Once the season ends,
they're on their own time. They don't have to hang
out with these people or associate with these people. All right,
final point One more nugget, not a chicken nugget, but

(12:32):
one more nugget. Regarding what's next for the Metropolitan's, the owner,
Steve Cohen says, the Mets are quote still engaged with
Peter Alnso, however, however, they're letting Alonzo test the market.
They're letting him testimony. So how does this sound to you?
How does this sound to you?

Speaker 4 (12:53):
So?

Speaker 1 (12:53):
Okay, So I'll go here. When you look at the menu,
you know, you sit down, they hand you the men
and you say, nah, here's the menu, here's the specials.
And then they'll say, oh, here's the catcher the day.
The catcher the day is not the polar bear, okay.
And it's illegal to hunt polar bears. I believe sounds
like it should be illegal. So they're not serving blubber,

(13:13):
they're not serving the polar bear as the catcher day.
And Steve Cohen knows this like he's got f you
money and then some. And if Steve Cohen really wanted
Pete Alonzo to come back, he certainly would not allow
him to test the market. Right, But things have changed Alonzo.
Last season, while his overall numbers were good, you break

(13:34):
them down, the analytical numbers were not good. He was
no longer a holy terror, terrible numbers with runners in
scoring position. It's fair to say the Mets no longer
deem him essential. Now he's not a center the men's.
If you look at the temperature in the room for
the Mets regarding their interest in Alonzo, it's luke warm.

(13:56):
That's the temperature. If you really want Alonzo back, you
move mountains. Am I wrong on this? Maybe I am?
You move mountains. You keep him away as much as
you can from testing the mark. You say no, no,
nobody else is gonna make you a better offer. Alonzo, though,
has already started meeting with other teams as he tries
to navigate the minefield that is free agency and avoid

(14:21):
the booby traps. And nobody though at this point, based
on the fact that contracts have been signed now for
several weeks and nobody has lined up Pete Alonzo, and
that is a pretty good indicator, a pretty good indicator
that there is not an overwhelming amount of interest. Now,

(14:42):
whether the Giants or the Texas Rangers. Somebody like that
steps up the Orioles offers him some money. Fine, but
at this point it's not an overwhelming amount of interest.
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(18:07):
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(18:30):
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mouth Benny Bill Bill, No, it's not. I'm not big
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which will be on, will be on a little bit
later Benny Versus the Penny today actually started airing. I

(18:52):
got emails some people that saw it last night in
the market, so that's exciting and you can check that
out all weekend long. Benny versus the Penny.

Speaker 8 (19:02):
How do you feel about your picks today, Ben this weekend?

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, I already am O for one I had. I
did take the Niners, So that's a good loss though,
because I wanted the Rams to win. I didn't think
they were gonna win, but I wanted them to win,
so I'm happy about that. But this is a big
weekend because I need to I need to have a
winning weekend against the Penny because there's only a few
weeks to go in the season and the last week
is a killer. The final week of the season is an.

Speaker 8 (19:26):
A two weeks left, well, no, it's.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
It's week This is week fifteen. It goes to week eighteen,
so there's three weeks left in the regular season and
then the playoffs playoffs. Yes, it's winding down the regular
season fast. I know. It's kind of crazy, unless it hasn't.
Inka Terror writes in from New York, says eight out
of ten on the opening Mallard monologue on the smug

(19:49):
oh meter. No one is more smug than the Astros.
As an expert in tone of voice, I think Soto
is lying. Can literally hear his nose growing and Lorraine
unlike real talk, I am exotic, famous and available. I'm
just saying, yeah, inc. Let me tell you, Lorena. This

(20:12):
guy inco there, Okay, total stud He's traveled the world.
He's performed in Russia and all over Europe, and famous
music halls around the world, and a friend of the show,
friend of the show, and a very famous story about
how he came to the States and how he's Yeah,

(20:33):
the guy's a big deal, much much bigger deal than
anyone I know. Stuck in Sacramento, right since, says f
Plus on the Miller monologue, Who cares about the journeyman
Juan Soto? Enough blabermouth, Bill, I know you kidnapped Ben's
microphone for that bit. Ben would never spend that long
talking about a loser. You may sound like him, but

(20:54):
there's only one Bloviator, says Stuck in Sacramentdo you go
late night? Drug Tester writes it, says hearing the arrogance
of Juan Soto makes me wish the hour two monologue
would have focused on Ferguson Jenkins birthday today. That's very random,
very very random, but you did get it in. Let's go,

(21:15):
let's go the foes, and who do we have. Let's
say hello to Tuna in Lagunaunah Tuna and it rhymes,
it flows, its rhythmic Tuna in Laguna, Hello Tuna.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
What's up, ben A? So all these San Francisco guys,
they're finally getting a taste of the Ponzi scheme medicine
that their coach is. Sean McVay and Stafford get no respect.
They are like an index fund that constantly go up.
Put your money in there. They're gonna go up and down.
They can win by forty, they can win by three.

(21:50):
Kick a field goal, kick a touchdown. With m shanahan,
all you're gonna get is when it's time to cash out, Boom.
He's going to pull the rugound out of you, leave
town and leave you with zero championships, nothing. He'll blow
a twenty eight to three leads. Brock Perty ain't going
to get paid now. He's a total fraud. And now

(22:10):
he's gonna skip town to Chicago and everyone's gonna build
him lust build them up like the new kid in town,
the big shiny object and all he is a goddamn
pozzy schemer, that's all he is.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Bet Yeah, that's it. Okay, he's blown more leads. He's
like the king of blown leads.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
There.

Speaker 1 (22:27):
There's a lot of bloone leads.

Speaker 2 (22:28):
A lot'resting. How he's some like shiny glittery object. He's
like the the was that old thing they used to
sell like flowers in the fifteen hundreds. He's one of
the He's a total scam. He does nothing of substance,
nothing of substance. And then mcveigs that's there, does nothing
get but gets crapped on all day. And then all
he does is plung his way to the playoffs. They

(22:50):
were one and four. They had everyone injured. Nobody quit
that team. They all came back and won seven out
of nine. No respect.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Just RESPI no respect, no respect. I can old media.
I get no respect, no respect. Let me tell you, man,
I went to I looked at me.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
You'll go back to the city. Stay out of southern California.
We don't need you down here to stay up there.
Get out of here.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Look at you. You feel good now? Tony. You feel good.
You took shots. Your your voice is being heard all
over the Bay Area. You feel good about yourself? Now
you feel good? Yeah? All right, thank you. There's a
tuna in Laguna. Check.

Speaker 8 (23:21):
The bay is cold and gloomy.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Okay, and and also beautiful during the day.

Speaker 8 (23:28):
Okay, you don't like isn't this a battle?

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Ben?

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (23:32):
That's right? Well yeah, cold and gloomy, Cold and gloomy.
H So are you gonna go to the mallor meet
and greet? We do next year in the Bay Area.

Speaker 8 (23:40):
You are going to go, but it will be cold
and gloomy.

Speaker 1 (23:43):
It depends what time we go there.

Speaker 8 (23:46):
I can dress properly.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah. Now, my favorite Bay Area cold and gloomy story
is Candlestick Park, and I remember hearing the story years ago.
That's where the Giants used to play. So when the
New York Giants were looking for a place to play
there gonna move out to the West Coast with the Dodgers,
and they were trying to find a spot to play,
and so they they took the ownership group from the

(24:08):
New York Giants out to Candlestick Point. I guess it
was called at the time. I believe and it was
about one one o'clock, two o'clock in the afternue It
was just beautiful. It was sunny. There was a light breeze.

Speaker 8 (24:20):
Blowing, would you say, like seventy six.

Speaker 1 (24:23):
Yeah, it was perfect weather. And so they was, oh,
this is great. We got to build our ballpark here.
This is gonna be so amazing for the Giants. It's
gonna be be wonderful. And then they built the ballpark
and they played mostly night games, and at night at
Candlestick it was always like in the like the fifties
or the low forties, it was always cold at night,

(24:45):
even during the It was ridiculous. Yeah, they got they
got hornswoggled. That was some skullduggery, is what that was.
Let's go to the Bay area. Now, be careful of
the rand. They're out to get you. Moe Joe Rising
is in the Bay but he's mister positive Joel Rising.
He's good, he's got those good vibrations. Hello, Mo, you're
all Rising.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
I'm all baby like math Fire. Always have desire and
listen to the Benmo the Ben Valor show every night
in the quarter. Hey man, how you doing, mister Ben
Malor Man? Happy holidays? To you and the lovely fantastic Lorena.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
If I was any better, I'd be a Niner. But
I wouldn't beat Kyle Shanahan because he's got something explaining
to dude.

Speaker 4 (25:32):
Yeah, I don't know, man about the whole thing. I mean,
I guess he's okay as a coach. I mean his father,
I mean, back in the day with the Broncos, you know,
Mike Shanahan, the whole little debaca with the with my
crappy team the Raiders that are now the Vegas Raiders.
But that's the whole story of itself. I don't know.
He's been in the Super Bowl twice, they somehow keep losing,

(25:54):
I don't know, and then tonight their playoffs hopes are
just dashed, you know. So yeah, it's pretty bleak for
the for the Niner fans out of there.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Yeah, you know, it's you look at you want to
be the glasses half full or I always say the
glass is refillable. The Niners have been to a couple
of Super Bowls, didn't win anything, but they've been to
a couple of Super Bowls in recent years. Now you're
going to get a high draft pick, so you obviously
some of these guys have gotten old and they're injury
prone now, so you're gonna have to replace some players.

(26:23):
So you have a chance to do that if you
if you love the draft, and and we'll see. I
still think that Shanahan trade things a possibility. I still
believe there's a possibility that Shanahan does end up coaching
another team. I don't think that came out of nowhere.
And if he wants to stay, and I give I'll
give Sean McVay credit because that when the Rams won
the Super Bowl, everyone thought, well, he's gonna leave. He's

(26:45):
not gonna stay because he doesn't want to deal with
the bull crap, and he stayed. And not that the
Rams are a Super Bowl contender, but at least they're
a playoff contender, which is.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
They're pretty good.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
The last color made that point. They had a bunch
of injuries too, and they kind of rebout it. And
let me see this, mister benn I, I I'm not
sure I heard that the Raiders have the first pick
or they have the second pick the Giants. Can you
fill me in who do the Raiders have the first
pick in the draft at this point, or do the Giants.

Speaker 1 (27:12):
Now, at this point, it's based on opponent winning percentage,
and at this moment, if the season ended today, the
NFL would lose a lot of money. But the Las
Vegas Raiders, as my old mentor Tony Bruno would say,
are on the clock. The Raiders are on the flock.
They have the same but their opponents winning percentage is
worse than the Giants, and so therefore they would be

(27:32):
picking number one. And right now the Patriots would have
the number three pick as well.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
Giants, they'll somehow mess it up and win a game. Hey,
I and I heard you had just mentioned next year
you're going to have a meet and greet out here
in the Bay Area. Oh my god, mister Benn, you
gotta have it. Man, the Mojo Risen is going to
have to be there to meet me. Yeah, the famous.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
We'll make it. We'll make it happen. We're going to
make it happen. We we had. I have a heard
from him in months, so I don't know if the
offer still stands. But Tony, Tony in uh, they're not
Tony what was his name? Alam to Lou, Alam to Lou.
Excuse there you go.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Alamy would be a great place man, that's right down
the street from Castle Velly. Will not write down the street,
but not not keep maybe twenty minutes. Man, I'll be
there all right. Notice called you hey, because on December eighth,
this real quick was the legendary of course, Jim Morrison's birthday.
He would have been seventy eight maybe eighty. Love you guys,

(28:30):
Happy holidays. And I was watching some Christmas movies for
Lorraina too. It's a wonderful life, Rudolph the Red Nose
rain There. Love you guys.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
You gotta watch Elf, and you gotta watch the uh
what was it the Chevy Chase Christmas Vacation. Then you're
gonna watch that all right? Thank you? There you. Let's
say hello to Gunner who is in Minasuta. Hello, Gunner, welcome.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Hey man, I'm not going umber Egg. I'm callingball called
football playoffs.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
It's a big Oh. How come you know what? Talk
about the Rams? You don't want to talk about the
Rams they won? Or you don't want talking about that
they want You don't want to talk about it. I
see how it is the team when they win, when
they lose, you want to talk about when they Rams won?
You want to talk about them. Come on, what kind
of frog caller are you?

Speaker 2 (29:12):
I went call that a win? If they win by morning.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
You wouldn't call that a win. They were underdogs. They
won the game out right. You don't know anything about
sports if you don't think that was a quality win.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
They should not have been underdogs because.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Why should they have not been. They were on the
road against a team that was in the Super Bowl
last year. Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Yeah, the liars are falling apart as they seek, so
they should.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Not because of the rams. Because of the rams. That's why. No,
are you at the Walmart right now?

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Yeah? I'm on break once? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:53):
What do you eat on? Bread? What's the what's the
big meal there? What do you say, Coop? I didn't know.

Speaker 8 (30:05):
Nazi sticks? Yeah yeah, like mozzarella sticks?

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah yeah, Well in Minnesota they just call them. They
have a different name.

Speaker 8 (30:14):
I got some Zis sticks, Ben, What.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Are you a mobster?

Speaker 2 (30:22):
What?

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Okay? Somebody somebody sent me an email saying that you
claim you're doing this is a character? Is that true? Gunner?
This is performance hard because if you're doing a character,
this is like the worst character ever, So you might
want to change your character. Okay, this is this is
not this is not what you think it is. You know,
I'm just.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Saying, oh, I know, I'm not a character.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
No, so you're a real person.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yes, I'm a real person.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
Are you sure about that?

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yes, I'm sure about that.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
Okay, all right, well thank you with the call. I'm
gonna I have to go stare at the wall, but
thank you. All right. It is the Ben Mallor Show.
We are working our way through the overnight. Don't forget
later on if you're with us for the full journey
through the overnight, We'll have lame jokes of the week
next hour, later this hour, Mallard of the third degree,

(31:19):
and to play with a Lion's tale remember that story.
We have a Mallord follow up. Mallor Show follow up
dateline Motown Thursday Night game a couple of weeks ago.
I think it was last week actually, Lions and Packers
me oh my. Remember the Lion fan that started talking
crap to the Packer players on the sidelines and got

(31:40):
into it with the head coach, Matt LeFleur of the
Green Bay Packers there at Ford Field. He was out
on the field before the game to carry the flag.
One of the flagcarriers. So anyway, we have the rest
of the stories. The late great Paul Harvey would say,
you know about that, but right now you're gonna hear
the rest of the story. So the Lions have revoked
this dude's season tickets because of that pregame verbal altercation.

(32:07):
He's out, no longer a Lion season ticket holder. He says,
he is devastated and oh so sorry that he was
escorted out and not allowed to continue as a season
two Now do you get a refund on that? How
does that work? They give you a refund, no money back?
Then no money back. All sales are final. Okay, I

(32:31):
don't know if that's the case or not. And how
much do you want to bet that the Green Bay
Packers are the ones that somebody in the Packers organization
they were the ones that made sure that the Lions
got rid of this guy's the season two older because
the Lions didn't seem to care the guy stayed at
the game. They kicked him out at halftime, but he
was there for the first half. It was only like
at halftime somebody finally tracked him down and kicked him out,

(32:53):
So they didn't really care. A right turning the page.
I love this story. It's one of my favorite stories
of the week. We take it out to New Jersey.
The New York Giants getting ready for this weekend's game.
They are the biggest underdog that they have been since
back in the Stone Age. You'll hear more about this
on Benny Versus the Penny, Massive Dog against the Ravens.

(33:14):
So the Giants had practice on Thursday. They had the
red zone period of practice outside no typical day in December,
mid December and New Jersey temperatures in around thirty degrees.
There were eighteen mile an hour wins, howling. So the
offense ran seventeen red zone place in the practice. There

(33:40):
they get them at seventeen passes. How many of those
passes did they complete? With Tommy Cullins, I got an answer,
all right, how about none? They went er for seventeen.
But wait, there's more. It gets even better. The New
York Giants had four passes against air. That means there
were no defensive players trying to stop the pass. They

(34:03):
went oh for four on those. They had thirteen passes
in one on one situations versus defensive players. They were
oher for thirteen and yeah, you had, according to the
people that were there documenting it, you had drop passes,
you had Tommy Cullitz overthrowing receivers.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
You had.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
Defensive miscues that still didn't matter. And there even were
some penalties that should have would have been called. And
that sums up the New York Giants. There they are,
the beautiful New York Giants. Oh me, oh my, it
is the Ben Maler Show. We are going to have
Mallard of the third degree. Here's the insta tribuam Raider

(34:48):
brock Bowers. Brock Bowers can be the first rookie tied
end to be named First Team All Pro since Blank.
Again the Raiders, brock Bowers could be the first rookie
tight end to be named first Team All Pro as
as a tight end since Blake. That is the instant trivia,
the answer and Mallard of the third degree. We'll get

(35:09):
to it. We'll do it next.

Speaker 5 (35:10):
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Speaker 9 (35:29):
It's the most wonderful time when the Bend mall Show
wishes honor. It's listener's giant GM. It's the most wonderful time.

(35:50):
Send them notes out to the man beat his slave,
he heads halftime.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
It's the most another class. It is I Bill Miller.
I've never heard these songs. There's no Bill Miller Holiday songs.

(36:26):
So with that nonsense, here's still raising my glass to that.
Say my name. I'm Bill Miller. Say my name. I've
been told to promote the Ben Mahller's show for some reason.
I don't get paid for this. It's an active charity.

(36:47):
But if you would like to interact with the show,
I've been told you can do that on something called
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called X. And you can say hello to the people
that are on the show, the live show. Oh right
now at Ben Mallard to say hi to bloviating Ben
the Queen FSR Tech Queen and uh Bronco fan. That's

(37:10):
uh Bronco fan for Cooper Loop. Let's get back into it.
You got you didn't, Bill, You didn't say my name?
It's it's my name? Is Ben? What a loser? Well,
here is the Insta trivia. Here we go, Here we go.

(37:31):
The Raiders brock Bowers, the ray of sunshine in the
darkness in Vegas. Brock Bowers, I love you. That's next hour,
weed Man Brock the lame jokes are next star. Brock
Bowers can be the first rookie tight end to be
named First team All Pro since Blank. That is the question.
What is the answer, And Lorena, we don't have any

(37:52):
time for the fake answers. What is your answer, Lorena?

Speaker 8 (37:55):
Obviously it's Bill Mallard.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Wow, No, okay, caught off guard. Jeremy Shockey is the answer.
Jeremy Shockey. Back into toy h two generation here we
got Smeller. How about to the third degree.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
This is one thing gets grill.

Speaker 6 (38:18):
So rumors of how Tom Brady is going to affect
the Raiders continue to pour in. On Wednesday was a
report that Brady's influence could mean Mike Rabel as a
replacement for Antonio Pierce.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
Ben, are you buying that? No, Antonio Pierce should get
another year. They railroaded Pierce. They gave him a crappy
offensive coordinator, and he didn't pick. They gave as I understated,
and he has no quarterback. The Raiders are going to
have a top five pick in the draft right now,
they have the number one pick. Let's see what Antonio
Pierce can do when he actually has a chance with
a decent a better roster, a better offensive coordinator, and

(38:52):
Tom Brady owns a bit of the Raiders. They gonna
let Tom Brady be the GM of the Raiders? Why
would you do that?

Speaker 6 (38:56):
Next, looking around the NBA media landscape and you'll find
the the Oklahoma City Thunder at the top of most
power rankings. Now, Ben, they were the number one seed
last year but lost in the conference semifinals. Do you
think they'll make a deeper run this year?

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Well, they are loaded and Kyrie in Oka, see, who's
a big fan of the show, is not gonna like this.
But it's not good for the NBA. There's just not
a lot of national appeal. They have good players, but
they don't have the wow factor in Okay. See, that's
a league that needs the wow factor and they're just
missing that. They're winning a lot, but they're missing that.

(39:31):
But I do think they'll go on a big round
the Plubs next.

Speaker 6 (39:34):
NFL exact Troy Vincent called the on side kick a
dead play due to the low recovery rate, said the
league will consider changes in the offseason, Ben, how can
the league fix this?

Speaker 1 (39:43):
Oh yeah, so here's what you can do. Grow some
hair in their chest and go back to the old kickoff.
All right, stop being a bunch of wooses. It's ridiculous.
How did we do, Kobolo? You pass this edition? That
is a win. Another win. Gonna add that to my
lifetime rackets, right, they're all time wins, King,