July 3, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller opens hour 2 of the show looking ahead to the season for the New York Giants... With Russell Wilson under center, what's the most likely season outcome for Big Blue? Ben explains why he prefers their other veteran option in Jameis Winston. Then, he weighs in all the Deebo Samuel weight-gain drama this offseason before giving Clayton Kershaw his flowers for surpassing 3,000 career strikeouts! Plus, more fun with a new edition of 'Maller to the 3rd Degree'!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom Shaka Laka. It's our name bird to a mind
boggling our number two. As we look into the crystal ball,
what are the most likely outcome? What is the most
likely outcome for Russell Wilson with the twenty twenty five
New York Football Giants. There are conflicting reports on his situation. Also,
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how much stalk do you put on the endorsement from
Jaden and Daniels and his endorsement of Deebo Samuel with
the Commanders. We'll talk about that. And in baseball, Dodgers
left hander Clayton Kershaw reaching three thousand strikeouts at the
Ravine in La with many convinced that he will be
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the last pitcher to reach that number of three thousand strikeouts?
Is this an overreaction or a smart take? We'll talk
about all of those stories and more right now here.
It is also Mallard of the third. It's our number two.
The Hontingmoon period about to come to an end. Welcome
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in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malor Show.
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should be. So we are heading into the big holiday
weekend July fourth, tomorrow. Tomorrow doesn't seem like it's football,
but we are closing in on the beginning of training
camp and that is our lead. Our lead is from
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this hour from the NFL rookies will start showing up
the camp in less than two weeks. Less than two
weeks away from training camp opening up for rookies in
the NFL. Now one of the teams that is expected
to blow this year the Giants. The Giants have been
good in a long time, and the rookies will report
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in like twelve days and then a few days after
that the veterans are going to show up. Now, there's
been a lot of noise about who's going to play
quarterback QB one for the team that calls themselves the
New York Giants, even though they play in New Jersey.
So if you have not been following, perhaps not. The
Giants general manager Joe Shane said somewhat recently that Russell
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Wilson brings to the Giants something they haven't had since
Elijah Manning, so that he was really buttering the biscuits
of Russell Wilson, who came over from Pittsburgh. And then
you add state sponsored NFL media say that it is
not a matter of if, not a matter of if
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that rookie quarterback Jackson Dart will replace Russell Wilson. It's
simply a matter of when is it week five? Is
it week six? Is it week seven? Week get when
is it gonna happen? So let us discuss the question
looking into the crystal ball, what's the most likely outcome?
Most likely outcome for Russell Wilson with the twenty twenty
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five New York Football Giants. So I've got Expedia, Summer
TV Classic and country Gospel, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a delicious HOGI a delicious hogy. So number W, I said,
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number yeah, Yeah. It's just some malor math. As you
know on my distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of
nostra Denas. He lives in Seattle, where Russell Wilson toiled
at quarterback for the Seahawks back in the day. So Russ,
if my math is correct, is now in the last
five years. Russ is playing for his fourth team in
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the last five years. So that's the math on that
he's thirty six. The Giants are trotting him out there,
and if you believe the quote from the general manager there,
Joe Shane, they want you to think they are. I
also purchased this offseason on Amazon a hot tub time machine,
and they are gonna set the year to what twenty
fourteen and the Legion of Boom and in this case,
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it's just Boom goes to quarterback. Good luck on that.
So the most likely outcome looking into the crystal mall
all right, Russell Wilson will be grabbing his smartphone. He
will be going on Expedia and he will be booking
a room at a bed and breakfast called the Heartbreak Hotel.
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That is where he's gonna go. Russell Wilson, Now, no
one's talking about Jameis Winston, and I want Jameis Winston
to play. I support Jameis Winston. I'll tell you why
he's bad. But he's fun bad, and if you're gonna
be bad, be fun bad. So Jameis Winston still hanging
around there, and then you've got the rookie Jackson Dart
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waiting to take the job. So, Russell Wilson, you don't
have to be some kind of high fu loot In
Adams Chefter Jay Glazer type to know that this is
a placeholder situation, plain and simple. That's it. Russ got
back up money from the Giants because they don't believe
in him, nor should they. He got the kind of
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a contract where just keep the seat warm. We don't
have seat heaters, so just keep the seat warm there, Russ,
and then you know, you move over to the side
and we'll just we'll be the coaching staff of the Jets.
We'll just pray that Jackson Dart doesn't look like a
deer in the headlights by the time we get into
week three or week four. But at least mister mister
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unlimited is squeezing all of the clout he can get
out of being the Giants quarterback because he's not very good,
hadn't been good in years. Russell Wilson. If you read
the tabloids, though, in the Big Apple, the Naked City
never sleeps, and in the last four months, Russ has
been a regular on the icon on a page six
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the tabloid of the New York Post. He has been
court sided at multiple New York Knickerbocker games during their
playoff run. He was most recently seen at the met Gala.
He was at that Bugase Fanatics Fest thing he showed
up to that. He's been at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.
I can go on and on. He's hit in every
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socialide event. I'm sure he'll be somewhere this weekend the
fourth of July. There'll be some high falutin party on
the Hamptons and Russell b that he's soaking it all in,
and I give him credit. You got to hit the
red carpet because Russ knows once he starts playing turnout
the last the parties over. Yeah, so he's they don't
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invite you to the red carpet. When you're holding a
clipboard and wearing a visor and you're the backup, they
don't invite you. So you got to take advantage of it.
Even though he's like the faux starting quarterback for the Giants,
you gotta take advantage of it. Now a guy in
that division that is not a faux starting quarterback. We
turned the page to the Beltway and Washington, d C.
The District of Columbia and so far, despite Internet reports,
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quarterback Jaden Daniels says he is on team Deebo. He
is on team Debo. He's impressed with Deebo Samuel, late
of the forty nine ers. Now that goes counter the
scandalous internet reports, including photos, the accusations that the new
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Commanders wide receiver Deebo Samuel needs to go to a farm,
a fat farm. So how much stock do you put
on Jaden Daniels giving an endorsement, a ringing endorsement of
Deebo Samuel with the commanders. All right, so on this one,
Jadon Daniels has turned into a crooner. He's singing Deebo
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Samuel's praises and all that stuff. You know, stand by
your man. You're supposed to do that, and it's one
of those things. If you have a problem, you do
it privately. You don't do it publicly. You do it privately.
That's the way you're supposed to do it. But I'm
a talk showst I like when you do it in
the public square. It's I need content. I have a
nightly show. I got four hours of talk radio real
estate I gotta fill. So he's doing the stand by
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your man thing, Jayden Daniels and all that stuff. Do
you think Jayden Daniels though, would come out and say,
oh my god, Deebo Samuel, he is one more sub
sandwich from exploding, right, I mean, and listen, Jadan Daniels.
He probably doesn't care whether Deebo Samuel's rocking a couple
of extra Chick fil A sandwiches or whatever it's it
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is setting up though, Like the thing that interests me
about this story is its setting up to be a
summer TV classic for the Washington Commanders. It's a it's
a show that's been on and off in six generations,
six decades. To tell the truth, will the real Deebo
Samuel please stand up? And you'll have three people all
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dressed like Deebo Samuel. Will the real Deebo Samuel stand up?
Because now, Deebo, He's never gonna in a mister Universe contest,
nor will I by the by that by that token.
But based on some social media clips that I've seen,
and you've sent me some of your knuckleheads love to
send me, do you see this? Oh my god, he's
got a belly. He's got a beer belly. Yeah, So
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people are acting. People are acting like Deebo Samuel waddled
in to the Commander's facility like a penguin, and he
was wearing cargo shorts and compression socks and he's like
somebody's uncle after a Fourth of July cookout this weekend.
Now the mystery will be solved to tell the truth
when training camp opens up in a couple of weeks,
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and will Deebo Samuel show up? Will he be wearing
a football helmet, football pads, and pants or will he
be wearing a moo moo. We will find out when
the Washington football team opens up camp. Now, final point,
we're gonna pivot away from that to baseball. Big story
in baseball not the infestation of double headed because of
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the bad weather that hit the Atlantic seaboard this week.
But instead everyone's been yapping about Dodger starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw,
the old left handed Clayton Kershaw. On a random Wednesday
night against one of the worst teams in baseball, the
Chicago White Sox, Clayton Kershaw reached three thousand strikeouts and
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many pungents of baseball are convinced that he is the
last one, the last one to reach three thousand strikeouts.
So is that an overreaction or is that a smart take?
Overreaction or a smart take that Clayton Kershaw is the
last pitcher to reach three thousand strikeouts? So this is
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with a capital H, hyperbole is what this is. Now.
I know that we're being fed this propaganda that three
thousand strikeouts, this is it by a starter and Kershaw's
a relic from a different era. Phoee. I say for
Clayton Kershaw's milestone, what it should be is a bridge,
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a bridge over troubled waters, a hardball revival, and someone's
gonna have the goal to actually do this, and it's
gonna be a crappy team, a team that has no
real fan base that's willing to do it, to think
outside the boxes. Everyone's thinking the same way in baseball,
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copycat situation and all that stuff. With Kershaw, what you
should be doing is crank up the Hank Williams country
gospel tune. I saw the light. I saw the light. Baseball,
like everything, it's cyclical, everything's cyclical. It can once again.
I am am I a knucklehead for believing that baseball
can once again rediscover big time starting pitching. And they
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always take the easy road out. They say, well, it's
not an orfold. These guys didn't throw a lot in
high school, they didn't throw a lot in college. But
a lot of the pitchers are drafted out of high school.
Clayton Kershaw, I believe, came out of high school from
the Dallas area. And you can take a picture who's
eighteen years old out of high school and the guys
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they're signing in the Dominican and other places are younger
than that, and you can mold them into starting pitchers.
You have enough time to do that, so you can.
You can rally around, and I'll give you the little
dirty secret about the sport of baseball. Baseball is better
when you have dominate starting pitching. Does anyone disagree with that?
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Does anyone want to raise their hand? No one's going
to raise their hand and disagree. So I would like
you to join my grassroots movement. It's an upstart, renegade outfit,
and let's make starting pitching great again. The nerds killed it.
We can bring it back from the dead. We can
resuscitate it. The starting pitcher is the one person in
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baseball who can control the narrative, the one person with
the ball who can set the tone and where you're like,
I guaranteed to win this there very rarely will we
not win when this guy's pitching. You cannot replicate that
with your bullpen day And let the aces walk the
tight rope when they go third time through the lineup.
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You don't need to have a coronary when you get
to the eighth inning. Let him pitch, let him pitch
out of trouble, let them get dirty, let them give
up some runs and blow some games. Because baseball does
not need any more of these matchups where you bring
out the three ring binder and you're playing nerd ball.
You need dramatic moments and a dominant starting pitcher, and
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there's hardly any of them left in the game. But
a dominant starting pitcher on the mound. It's like going
to see a heavyweight boxing match back in the old days. Right,
everyone's anticipating what's gonna happen. Right, you own the night,
that is the moment. It's the moment of truth. Who's
gonna pitch better that night, who's gonna do better?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
All that?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And like the idea that well this is the last one,
Clayton Kershaw, it shouldn't be right. And it's gonna take
a team that has no fans, like the Athletics who
don't even have a city. They're so embarrassed about being
in Sacramento, or the Tampa Bay Rays is another minor
league outfit, and just just go for it. Just develop
pitchers to be dominant starting pitching, and you have such
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an advantage over everyone else, and then that team has
to succeed, and then when they succeed, everyone's gonna copy them.
Period stop. It is the Ben Mahler Show. As we
are rolling through the overnight. You want to comment on
any of that, you can join us right now. A
couple of lines open up all of a sudden, as
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some of these knuckleheads did not have these staying powers.
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And now back to it all. Right, back to it
we go, and the Prisoner of the Mall Mint take
of the Day. We'll get to that coming up in
a minute. We ranted and raved about the Footbaul world. Well,
Russell Wilson, mister unlimited, and he's on thin ice already
with the Giants. And then the curious case of Deebo
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Samuel with the Washington Commanders. Is he the size of
the blimp or is he not the size of the limb?
Inquiring minds would like to know. Shane in the Morning
Rite Sin says, it is said that you do not
do birthday shout outs. Shane says, as my son turned
sixteen today. Well a Shane, we don't do birthday shoutouts.
We're not a Morning Zoos show. We don't get paid
like a Morning ju show. B I doubt that your
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son would want me to do a shout out to
him anyway. He sixteen year old kid does not want
some overnight gas bag to wish him a happy birthday,
does not want that at all. What else do we
have see page nan Bill says something about deal a meal.
That's what he says. Nature Boy, very active on social media,
says the nerds are leading us to believe pitchers should
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never go more than one hundred pitches. I beg to differ,
says the nature Boy, and then he has some examples
of a game years ago, back in the nineteen sixties,
when both pitchers went over two hundred pitches. And yeah,
the one hundred pitch thing is a fascinating quirk that
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they just arbitrarily decided one hundred pitches because it's a
round number. It's a big number, one hundred pitches. That
anything after one hundred pitches and you're going to fall apart.
But there are examples. I remember hearing stories about Fernando
Valezuela when he was pitching in the Dominican League early
in his Dodger career, had come from Mexico, but he
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was pitching in some offseason and games and he just
keep pitching and pitching. Levon Hernandez, who pitched years ago
out of Cuba, another guy that supposed to pitch two
hundred pitches in a game and they came back and
pitched another game. Like a day later and all that stuff.
But now they've decided one hundred pitches and your arm
is going to fall off. All right's go to the phones.
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Let's say hello to Sir scratch Off, who has come
out of retirement and he is on the air, in
the air everywhere they're in Arkansas. Hello, sir scratch Off?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What's going on? Money for you?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Man?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's always sir scratch out. Man, don't play no kidding
them names burh. I'm trying to stay away for a
bunch of girls. They wasn't money all the time, and
I'm getting tired and messing with me. So I just
changed my name.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh well that'll solve everything. Now, what do you What
are you going to complain about? You always have a complaint,
You're always upset about something. What are you upset about
it today?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
That's why, man, I ain't upset about nothing. I just like,
I'm ready for football. But you know, I'll tell you what.
I just I'm a big old football fan and I'm
hoping him. Brands are coming out here?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Are you're driving? Thre a bad cell spot there? All
of a sudden, Sir scratch Uh, yeah, I get a
quick take and then hang up. What's your what's your
quick take there, sir scratch.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Off, my quick take? I didn't go further now, but
watch you, Derek, the leprechauns go becalling his boy away
from me.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
What do you?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Are you jealous because the leprechaun was in here? You
know you're you could have been You could have been
in here, Sir scratch off. I I gotta tell you.
A couple of years ago, we had this great Mallard
meet and greet in Arkansas. You flew us all out there.
It was an amazing time. I had such a wonderful time,
Sir scratch Off. You were so so generous, so hospital
Oh no, don't.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Start, don't start that man.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah no, it was great. No yet, we had a
great time at the Mallar meat greet. You remember you
brought us all out there in Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
A million times. You've come to any time you want to.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, No, you said you were gonna you said you
were gonna roll out the red carpet. Remember you said that,
Sir scratch Off. You said that, you said.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You and I ain't seen you come down and runway
either to plane either. You get your you get your
butt over the Arkansas West Memphis, where you'll be coming
in at down a big daddy. We'll take care of you.
We'll get a big day to come over there.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I can right as soon as I get that plane ticket,
I'll be right there. I'll be right there, hanging out.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Got got good barbecue.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Is Jimmy Hart still around? Is he still hanging out
around there? Is he still still with us? Jimmy Hart?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah? He kept Jonesborough last Tuesday Wednesday. They was just
stuff on him and old Randy Halls. Randy Hales lives
over in Jonesborough, of.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Course, he goes, that's all. That's where all the cool
people live in Jonesboro.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Hey, hey, I don't why call you? Listen to me now,
I want you. I want to get your take on
this real quick.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You've been on You've been on there two minutes, and
now you know why you call it? Go ahead, now
listen to me.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Listen to me. You know, my boy, Austin Reeese he
got this new contract offer, four year, ninety million dollars.
He turned it down. Do you think he's turned it
down for a reason.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yes, of course, Well there's two reasons. He can make
more money if he waits a year, he can make
like another one hundred and twenty million or more than that.
And if he wants to be the man, he's got
to leave the Lakers. You can't be the man with
the Lakers. It's gonna be Luca. So if he wants
to have his own team, then he can't.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Hear, Hey, I'm gonna shoot the gears. I got you now, No,
I just think that I haint just Kim Joe. But
he can't ockstun here. Like a few days ago, they
have a camp for boys over there at the high school. Yeah,
he's got his name all over breathe it's a basketball
camp or he's these boys in high school.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And I was asking that question, you know, but I mean,
you know, all right, well, he's not gonna he's not
gonna give you a straight answer. You know that he's
not gonna give it. If he gives you a straight answer,
he goes viral and then all of a sudden, he's
gonna have to deal with that. So I mean, you
can ask him next time he's in town or whatever,
but he's not gonna give you a straight answer.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I would take some guaranteed money and then it's something happened.
Then you got your guaranteed money.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, well he's already's already enough money. He's made enough
already where he's set. So now you're going like generational wealth.
Now he's making millions of dollars right now. All right,
I gotta leave it there. Thank you. About there. You
go out of retirement and he'll go back to retirement.
Now right, are you going back to retirements or scratch up?
I think you are going back to retirement. You made
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that phone call. Now you've got to step aside and
go to retirement. So we mentioned Clayton Kershaw three thousand strikeouts,
So baseball people all fired up, they're all excited about this.
So the prisoner of the Moment take of the day
goes to someone that that I've dealt with a few times.
He does some radio stuff. He's a columnist. Bill Plashke,
who's a commis for The Other Times, used to be
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on that Around the Horn show before he got canceled.
So Plashki is claiming yet again that Clayton Kershaw is
the greatest pitcher in Dodger history, which has got to
be one of the lamest takes of all time. Now
we're gonna sit here and break down the Dodger all
time pitching. But it ain't Clayton Kershaw, and it can
never beat Clayton Kerr because of the albatross that is
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the postseason. You cannot properly adjudicate Clayton Kershaw without mentioning
that he is consistently ridden in the front seat of
the vomit comet in the postseason. You can't get around it.
There's nothing you can do to clean it up. His
earn run average is four and a half in the postseason.
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And you think of some of the other greats in
Dodger history. Sandy Kofax had an ERA of under one
when he pitched back for the Dodgers back in the day,
help Fernando Vealnezuela, who had a very brief run of
dominance for the Dodgers. His postseason earned run average was
I believe under two. If I'm not mistaken with the Dodgers,
so Kershaw for all the success on a random Tuesday
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night against the Rockies or a Wednesday night against the
White Sox, it's the big moments when he needs to
change his diaper and there's no other way around that
that is just the way it has been and continues
to be so anyway, it is the bed Mal Show.
If you want to be part on x at Ben
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Math the phones or hot let's get back to the calls.
Will say hello to Tony in the Bay Area, Hello, Tony, welcome,
Hey man.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
What does David Besse call the two ball count?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't know, kin music, Thanks buddy, No, Tony, it's
a drive by phone call right there. He dropped it
and then that's it. Lets let's say hello to guess
my better judgment Poppy in San Diego. Hello, Poppy, Hey, actually,
good judgment.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Come to my mantor you know, actually though my heart
was really great. I got actually inspired and motivated. I
know you guys want to hear my pits.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
But nobody wants to hear your Scott Foster's not on
pining your game. Nobody wants to hear your pick. Scott
Foster's not upiing your game.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Well, actually, when Brian know is here, we actually went
to and on the pitch.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I'm just saying, well, Brian Knows not here, so you
want to call him. He'll be on this weekend. You
can call him up. But it's the Ben Malors Show.
And thank you for the call, Poppy. I appreciate it.
All right, bye bye, all right. So the Max Munsey's
story is interesting. I have no patience for that guy none.
So the Max Monsey story I think is interesting. He
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got injured and we have an update and this is
bad news. I believe this is bad news for the Dodgers.
And here's why. So Max Munsey was injured at third base.
He is a play bang bang play, one of the
white sized guys trying to steal third base and Will
Smith threw the ball down and there was a collision
and Max Monsey's knee bent the wrong way. And so
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the latest from Dodgerland. They say that Max Munsey is
getting an MRI, which will be later today here on
the third of July. And here's the part that should
scare all the Dodger of ficionados. It'said Dave Robert said
the initial tests have them feeling quote optimistic, and that
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they hope is it's only a sustained or a serious sprain,
but not not any ligament damage supposedly. So I'm gonna
go things that are likely not. Youre like Max Munsey,
Is there any way he does not end up on
what used to be called the disabled list for the Dodge,
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Like that's a gary, We'll start with that. So he'll
be out. He'll he'll be on the disabled list, the
injury list whatever they call it now, whatever they change
it to, which is politically correct. So he'll be out
for at least a brief period of time. But I
gotta think he's out for a month or two. The
top scenario is months. He's out all of July and
comes back sometime in August. The injury was so bad
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they I'm told they I didn't see. I was watching
the White Sox broadcast because some of the Dodger broadcasters
annoy me. But I believe they didn't show it on
the Dodger broadcast like they did not the injury. They
would not rebroadcast the injury. They said, was that that
bad an injury like I saw, it looked bad, and
it looked like the kind of injury is going to
keep you out for a good period of time. In
the fact that he was hopping off the field he
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could barely put any weight on it also generally not
a great sign. Not a great sign. And Max Munsey
was in a neck and neck race with Manny Machato
to be the starting third baseman for the National League
All Stars, and he came up a wee bit short,
just a wee bit short. Did not did not quite
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work out there, as they have named the All Stars
starting lineups the All Star gam more only what do
we like? Less than two weeks away from that, and
we're closing in on that. And the Dodgers win, by
the way, they won in a rally against the White
Sox on that random game. And Freddie Freeman, who was
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named to the All Star team in the National League,
he had his seventeenth career walk off hit that includes
the playoffs, third most in the wild Card Era. I
guess that's now the modern ear of the wild Card era,
which goes back to the mid nineties when they started
the wild card games. Was that ninety seven, ninety five nine, six,
ninety seven somewhere around there they started the Wildcags. I
think it was ninety seven. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's
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been a while. And the player in the Wildcard Era
that has the most walkoff hits all time, you know
it is, that's right, Big Poppy. David Ortiz has the
most walk off hits since that arbitrary date in the
mid nineties. So there you go, Eileen writes in she
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sent a photo of what she claims is Russell Wilson
at the met Gala. I think that might be Diddy
at the met Gala, Eileen. I think you confuse that
with Diddy there. But that's quite quite the outfit there.
That is an impressive outfit. If I ever end up
at the met Gala, just throw me off the bridge.
Just toss me off the bridge and say get out
of here. You're done. We are moved on from you.
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We want nothing to do if you get the f
out of here now. Next hour, we have ask Ben.
Your questions are answers if you'd like to submit a
question right now, and producer Ian is in the he's
in the producer's chair, so he'll be compiling the questions.
And the way we compile the ask Ben questions is
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do sporty on ask Ben. You can save that for
somebody else, but you can ask questions. You want to
know our favorites ice cream. It's a very important question.
Your favorite ice cream or favorite place to go on vacation,
things like that. Those are the kind of questions that
are perfect, absolutely perfect for ask Ben. So that'll be
(31:47):
coming up next hour. We also have the Malord Riddle
of the Day that'll be next hour, and straight ahead
it's the third degree. We'll get to the third degree.
But here's the Insta trivia, and this is where we
give you a brain buster and then you have to
try to figure out who it is through the brain buster.
All right, So here is Detroit's Hobby Bias, who was
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close to being released in spring training. The Tigers Hobby
Bias has joined Pete Rose, Harmon, Killerbrew, and Blank as
the only players to start the All Star Game at
three different positions. Again, the Tigers Hobby Bias joining Pete Rose, Harmon, Killerbrew,
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and Blank as the only players to start the All
Star Game at three different positions. That is the Insta trivia.
The answer. We'll get to it, and we're gonna have
Mallard to the third degree. We'll get to all of
that and we will do it.
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have Mallard the Third Degree. But time now to pay
off the Insta trivia. And here it is Detroit's Hobby
Baiaz joined Pete Rose, Harmon Killebrew and Blank is the
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only players to start the All Star Game at three
different positions. That is the question. What is the answer.
Let's see does anyone know the answer? And let's see
here Marco Scutero from Scrooge hiding somewhere in the in
the Bay Area. Jose Offerman from Miguel on Fire. You
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cannot spell Offerman without an E for error. Who else
do we have? Richard Simmons guests by malar prop guy.
That's his answer. The great former Dodger Let's see here
page down. Ocho Texto went with a porn star. Who
else do we have? Brian from the movie Life of
Brian guessed by Bobby in Florida. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
(34:50):
going with Yogi Bearra as his answer. Alf the Alien
opiner says it's the Swiss Army Knife. That that the answer.
King Rory checks in with Max Power or Max Powers
is his answer. The annoying caller of the Year, Poppy, Yeah,
(35:10):
I didn't you know. I'm doing a lot of talk
radio today. I did not have time for Poppy. I
could not take any more. Poppy could not. Robin Minnesota's
going with John Rocker as his answer. Matt the Bears
fan in Nebraska says that would be Ben's favorite Dodger
Pitcher Blake Snell. Yeah, Blake said, this is how you know?
(35:30):
That guy vessay I was on earlier locally in LA
That guy Bass said is the Dodger, posting he's such
a Blake Snell toady. He would not admit that Blake
Snell has been a bust. He's made two starts as
a Dodger, two starts as a Dodger. Horrible, horrible move.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Mark in Queens via San Diego and Arlington says Abner
double day is the answer A fine relevant name, A
contemporary name. Sean and Portland's going with Danny Ainge as
his answer. Mark checks in with Rusty Koontz and make
sure I say that properly. Gotta pause before you say
(36:10):
the last name. Who else do we have? Page down?
Christopher and cansa City going with Dodger legend the Liono
Deshields as his answer. Jason going with Craig Biggio. Yeah.
I was getting a lot of messages from fans of
the as one thousand and two one thousand holes, all
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excited because they beat the Rockies. Does anyone want to
let the people of Houston know the Rockies suck and
everyone beats the Rockies? Does anyone to let me know? Anyway?
Let's pay off the insta trivia question. So the Tigers
hobby bias joining Pete, Rose, Harmon, Killebrew, and Blank is
the only players to start the All Star Game in
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three different positions. Let's go over to Mary. Mary, do
you have an answer? Mary?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
My mom? All right? Is it Mary's mother? Is that
the answer? Let's find out. Apparently it's not your mom.
I'm sorry, I'm sure she's a lovely lady. No, the
correct answer is Albert who hosts Albert who the answer?
Who started the All Star Game at first base, third base,
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and in left field? So there is that? Put that
in your pipe and smoking and right now here we go.
Here we go. It's time hit that button. There, Mary,
that's the one right there. That's it. That's the one.
All right. We go over to the producer's chair and
Ian Roddy. Hello. Ian.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
You notice I've learned not to jump jump the gun
as much like I did last week.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
You were excited it happens, you know.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Yeah, I'm learning. I'm learning. Here we go, let's jump
in here though number one. On a recent podcast interview,
Chiefs tight End Travis Kelcey recalled some troubles he had
behind the scenes back when he hosted Saturday Night Live
back in twenty twenty three. So the hardest part of
hosting SNL was the pre show table read because apparently
he can't really read that well. So inevitably social media
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got a hold of that, got a hold of that,
and you know, they've been making a ton of fun
of him. So, Ben, do you think any less of
Kelsey now that you know he has tough time reading?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
No, because I think he was embellishing it. If he's
not embellishing it, I mean, that's pretty impressive. He went
to Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland, he went to
the University of Cincinnati. I think he spent four years
in college. And if he was able to make it
through all that and not not be able to read,
like there's reading at a high level and then there's
(38:29):
like reading just being able to read enough. I don't
doubt that Kelsey's not a prolific reader. He's a football player,
and he's like a meathead football player. I don't think
any less of him. I never thought of him as
an academic type person anyway, So who cares?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
You know?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Whether he reads a lot, and I'd like to think
that he's not totally lacking the ability to read anything
all right, Next.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
With all the potential trade rumors circling around Lebron right now,
his son Brawn. He was asked how he feels about
all of it, so he said, he doesn't really pay
attention all that stuff. But look, Ben, if Lebron Senior
were to be traded, what do you think the Lakers
would do with Bronni?
Speaker 1 (39:05):
They'd include him in the trade if Lebron No, I
don't think Lebron's being traded. And let me tell you Ian,
that is the number one answer publicists tell you the
number one answer when you're asked a difficult question is
if if it's about a play in a football game,
so I didn't see the play, and if it's about
trade rumors, you say, I don't pay attention to that stuff.
I was unaware of it. Right, You played dumb that way.
(39:27):
You just kind of kill the line of questioning and
all that. But no, if the Lakers are gonna get
out of the Lebron business, if they are ready to
unload Lebron James, then it is a two for one
special at the flea market, and it's gonna be Lebron
and Bronni. They're going to trade them to the Knicks
or the Cavaliers or to wherever, and I will guarantee
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you that Bronni is absolutely aware of what's going on
with Lebron and where he's gonna end up because he
is handcuffed to Lebron. The only reason he's in the NBA,
the kid can't play. The only reason he's in the
NBAS because it was Dad. Next.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
So the Milwaukee Bucks, who you know, as you mentioned
in the monologue yesterday, they recently released Damian Lillard and
they're reportedly eyeing twelve time All Star Chris Paul as
his potential replacement. According to Chris Haynes, So, Ben, would
you like the forty year old CP three for the
Bucks as a short term bridge at point guard?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
So only if you can get a Delorian and go
back to the future and head back, you know, back
in time. But no, listen, Chris Paul's washed up at
this point. He's a backup. I read where Chris Paul
wants to start. He's looking for his starting job. No,
I mean, he gotta signed somebody, but Chris Paul. I
have a feeling he's gonna end up with the Clippers
and all that. But no, I would not I would
not bring Chris paul In expecting him to be a starter,
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a play big minutes and all that at this point,
although he did play a lot in San Antonio on
a terrible Spurs team that seven people watched. All right, there,
it is Mallor to the third degree. How did we do?
Speaker 4 (40:56):
It was close today, but you still managed to win
this one. Ben, nice jobs does a win?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I got the long. I don't think I've lost a
Mallard of the third degree this year. I think I'm
undefeated this year at MAL. What a streak, A record streak.
Boom Shaka Laka. It's our name bird to a mind
boggling our number two. As we look into the crystal ball,
what are the most likely outcome? What is the most
likely outcome for Russell Wilson with the twenty twenty five
New York Football Giants. There are conflicting reports on his situation. Also,
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how much stalk do you put on the endorsement from
Jaden and Daniels and his endorsement of Deebo Samuel with
the Commanders. We'll talk about that. And in baseball, Dodgers
left hander Clayton Kershaw reaching three thousand strikeouts at the
Ravine in La with many convinced that he will be
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the last pitcher to reach that number of three thousand strikeouts?
Is this an overreaction or a smart take? We'll talk
about all of those stories and more right now here.
It is also Mallard of the third. It's our number two.
The Hontingmoon period about to come to an end. Welcome
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weekend July fourth, tomorrow. Tomorrow doesn't seem like it's football,
but we are closing in on the beginning of training
camp and that is our lead. Our lead is from
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this hour from the NFL rookies will start showing up
the camp in less than two weeks. Less than two
weeks away from training camp opening up for rookies in
the NFL. Now one of the teams that is expected
to blow this year the Giants. The Giants have been
good in a long time, and the rookies will report
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in like twelve days and then a few days after
that the veterans are going to show up. Now, there's
been a lot of noise about who's going to play
quarterback QB one for the team that calls themselves the
New York Giants, even though they play in New Jersey.
So if you have not been following, perhaps not. The
Giants general manager Joe Shane said somewhat recently that Russell
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Wilson brings to the Giants something they haven't had since
Elijah Manning, so that he was really buttering the biscuits
of Russell Wilson, who came over from Pittsburgh. And then
you add state sponsored NFL media say that it is
not a matter of if, not a matter of if
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that rookie quarterback Jackson Dart will replace Russell Wilson. It's
simply a matter of when is it week five? Is
it week six? Is it week seven? Week get when
is it gonna happen? So let us discuss the question
looking into the crystal ball, what's the most likely outcome?
Most likely outcome for Russell Wilson with the twenty twenty
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five New York Football Giants. So I've got Expedia, Summer
TV Classic and country Gospel, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a delicious HOGI a delicious hogy. So number W, I said,
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number yeah, Yeah. It's just some malor math. As you
know on my distant relative of Nostradamus and friend of
nostra Denas. He lives in Seattle, where Russell Wilson toiled
at quarterback for the Seahawks back in the day. So Russ,
if my math is correct, is now in the last
five years. Russ is playing for his fourth team in
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the last five years. So that's the math on that
he's thirty six. The Giants are trotting him out there,
and if you believe the quote from the general manager there,
Joe Shane, they want you to think they are. I
also purchased this offseason on Amazon a hot tub time machine,
and they are gonna set the year to what twenty
fourteen and the Legion of Boom and in this case,
(05:11):
it's just Boom goes to quarterback. Good luck on that.
So the most likely outcome looking into the crystal mall
all right, Russell Wilson will be grabbing his smartphone. He
will be going on Expedia and he will be booking
a room at a bed and breakfast called the Heartbreak Hotel.
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That is where he's gonna go. Russell Wilson, Now, no
one's talking about Jameis Winston, and I want Jameis Winston
to play. I support Jameis Winston. I'll tell you why
he's bad. But he's fun bad, and if you're gonna
be bad, be fun bad. So Jameis Winston still hanging
around there, and then you've got the rookie Jackson Dart
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waiting to take the job. So, Russell Wilson, you don't
have to be some kind of high fu loot In
Adams Chefter Jay Glazer type to know that this is
a placeholder situation, plain and simple. That's it. Russ got
back up money from the Giants because they don't believe
in him, nor should they. He got the kind of
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a contract where just keep the seat warm. We don't
have seat heaters, so just keep the seat warm there, Russ,
and then you know, you move over to the side
and we'll just we'll be the coaching staff of the Jets.
We'll just pray that Jackson Dart doesn't look like a
deer in the headlights by the time we get into
week three or week four. But at least mister mister
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unlimited is squeezing all of the clout he can get
out of being the Giants quarterback because he's not very good,
hadn't been good in years. Russell Wilson. If you read
the tabloids, though, in the Big Apple, the Naked City
never sleeps, and in the last four months, Russ has
been a regular on the icon on a page six
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the tabloid of the New York Post. He has been
court sided at multiple New York Knickerbocker games during their
playoff run. He was most recently seen at the met Gala.
He was at that Bugase Fanatics Fest thing he showed
up to that. He's been at the Vanity Fair Oscar party.
I can go on and on. He's hit in every
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socialide event. I'm sure he'll be somewhere this weekend the
fourth of July. There'll be some high falutin party on
the Hamptons and Russell b that he's soaking it all in,
and I give him credit. You got to hit the
red carpet because Russ knows once he starts playing turnout
the last the parties over. Yeah, so he's they don't
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invite you to the red carpet. When you're holding a
clipboard and wearing a visor and you're the backup, they
don't invite you. So you got to take advantage of it.
Even though he's like the faux starting quarterback for the Giants,
you gotta take advantage of it. Now a guy in
that division that is not a faux starting quarterback. We
turned the page to the Beltway and Washington, d C.
The District of Columbia and so far, despite Internet reports,
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quarterback Jaden Daniels says he is on team Deebo. He
is on team Debo. He's impressed with Deebo Samuel, late
of the forty nine ers. Now that goes counter the
scandalous internet reports, including photos, the accusations that the new
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Commanders wide receiver Deebo Samuel needs to go to a farm,
a fat farm. So how much stock do you put
on Jaden Daniels giving an endorsement, a ringing endorsement of
Deebo Samuel with the commanders. All right, so on this one,
Jadon Daniels has turned into a crooner. He's singing Deebo
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Samuel's praises and all that stuff. You know, stand by
your man. You're supposed to do that, and it's one
of those things. If you have a problem, you do
it privately. You don't do it publicly. You do it privately.
That's the way you're supposed to do it. But I'm
a talk showst I like when you do it in
the public square. It's I need content. I have a
nightly show. I got four hours of talk radio real
estate I gotta fill. So he's doing the stand by
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your man thing, Jayden Daniels and all that stuff. Do
you think Jayden Daniels though, would come out and say,
oh my god, Deebo Samuel, he is one more sub
sandwich from exploding, right, I mean, and listen, Jadan Daniels.
He probably doesn't care whether Deebo Samuel's rocking a couple
of extra Chick fil A sandwiches or whatever it's it
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is setting up though, Like the thing that interests me
about this story is its setting up to be a
summer TV classic for the Washington Commanders. It's a it's
a show that's been on and off in six generations,
six decades. To tell the truth, will the real Deebo
Samuel please stand up? And you'll have three people all
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dressed like Deebo Samuel. Will the real Deebo Samuel stand up?
Because now, Deebo, He's never gonna in a mister Universe contest,
nor will I by the by that by that token.
But based on some social media clips that I've seen,
and you've sent me some of your knuckleheads love to
send me, do you see this? Oh my god, he's
got a belly. He's got a beer belly. Yeah, So
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people are acting. People are acting like Deebo Samuel waddled
in to the Commander's facility like a penguin, and he
was wearing cargo shorts and compression socks and he's like
somebody's uncle after a Fourth of July cookout this weekend.
Now the mystery will be solved to tell the truth
when training camp opens up in a couple of weeks,
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and will Deebo Samuel show up? Will he be wearing
a football helmet, football pads, and pants or will he
be wearing a moo moo. We will find out when
the Washington football team opens up camp. Now, final point,
we're gonna pivot away from that to baseball. Big story
in baseball not the infestation of double headed because of
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the bad weather that hit the Atlantic seaboard this week.
But instead everyone's been yapping about Dodger starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw,
the old left handed Clayton Kershaw. On a random Wednesday
night against one of the worst teams in baseball, the
Chicago White Sox, Clayton Kershaw reached three thousand strikeouts and
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many pungents of baseball are convinced that he is the
last one, the last one to reach three thousand strikeouts.
So is that an overreaction or is that a smart take?
Overreaction or a smart take that Clayton Kershaw is the
last pitcher to reach three thousand strikeouts? So this is
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with a capital H, hyperbole is what this is. Now.
I know that we're being fed this propaganda that three
thousand strikeouts, this is it by a starter and Kershaw's
a relic from a different era. Phoee. I say for
Clayton Kershaw's milestone, what it should be is a bridge,
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a bridge over troubled waters, a hardball revival, and someone's
gonna have the goal to actually do this, and it's
gonna be a crappy team, a team that has no
real fan base that's willing to do it, to think
outside the boxes. Everyone's thinking the same way in baseball,
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copycat situation and all that stuff. With Kershaw, what you
should be doing is crank up the Hank Williams country
gospel tune. I saw the light. I saw the light. Baseball,
like everything, it's cyclical, everything's cyclical. It can once again.
I am am I a knucklehead for believing that baseball
can once again rediscover big time starting pitching. And they
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always take the easy road out. They say, well, it's
not an orfold. These guys didn't throw a lot in
high school, they didn't throw a lot in college. But
a lot of the pitchers are drafted out of high school.
Clayton Kershaw, I believe, came out of high school from
the Dallas area. And you can take a picture who's
eighteen years old out of high school and the guys
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they're signing in the Dominican and other places are younger
than that, and you can mold them into starting pitchers.
You have enough time to do that, so you can.
You can rally around, and I'll give you the little
dirty secret about the sport of baseball. Baseball is better
when you have dominate starting pitching. Does anyone disagree with that?
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Does anyone want to raise their hand? No one's going
to raise their hand and disagree. So I would like
you to join my grassroots movement. It's an upstart, renegade outfit,
and let's make starting pitching great again. The nerds killed it.
We can bring it back from the dead. We can
resuscitate it. The starting pitcher is the one person in
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baseball who can control the narrative, the one person with
the ball who can set the tone and where you're like,
I guaranteed to win this there very rarely will we
not win when this guy's pitching. You cannot replicate that
with your bullpen day And let the aces walk the
tight rope when they go third time through the lineup.
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You don't need to have a coronary when you get
to the eighth inning. Let him pitch, let him pitch
out of trouble, let them get dirty, let them give
up some runs and blow some games. Because baseball does
not need any more of these matchups where you bring
out the three ring binder and you're playing nerd ball.
You need dramatic moments and a dominant starting pitcher, and
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there's hardly any of them left in the game. But
a dominant starting pitcher on the mound. It's like going
to see a heavyweight boxing match back in the old days. Right,
everyone's anticipating what's gonna happen. Right, you own the night,
that is the moment. It's the moment of truth. Who's
gonna pitch better that night, who's gonna do better?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
All that?
Speaker 1 (15:03):
And like the idea that well this is the last one,
Clayton Kershaw, it shouldn't be right. And it's gonna take
a team that has no fans, like the Athletics who
don't even have a city. They're so embarrassed about being
in Sacramento, or the Tampa Bay Rays is another minor
league outfit, and just just go for it. Just develop
pitchers to be dominant starting pitching, and you have such
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an advantage over everyone else, and then that team has
to succeed, and then when they succeed, everyone's gonna copy them.
Period stop. It is the Ben Mahler Show. As we
are rolling through the overnight. You want to comment on
any of that, you can join us right now. A
couple of lines open up all of a sudden, as
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some of these knuckleheads did not have these staying powers.
So anyway, eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight
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that'll be coming your way in a little bit and
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talk about being a prisoner of the moment, a prisoner
of the moment. We'll get to that and we will
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(16:26):
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L L E. R. Mary is hitting all the buttons
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and she's behind the glass right there. So Mary the boardop. Yeah,
she slept all day, slept like a baby all day.
And in the producer's share, Ian Roddy let's see how
to ian Ian Roddy underscore and your comments canon will
be used against you in the court of sports radio.
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And now back to it all. Right, back to it
we go, and the Prisoner of the Mall Mint take
of the Day. We'll get to that coming up in
a minute. We ranted and raved about the Footbaul world. Well,
Russell Wilson, mister unlimited, and he's on thin ice already
with the Giants. And then the curious case of Deebo
(18:25):
Samuel with the Washington Commanders. Is he the size of
the blimp or is he not the size of the limb?
Inquiring minds would like to know. Shane in the Morning
Rite Sin says, it is said that you do not
do birthday shout outs. Shane says, as my son turned
sixteen today. Well a Shane, we don't do birthday shoutouts.
We're not a Morning Zoos show. We don't get paid
like a Morning ju show. B I doubt that your
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son would want me to do a shout out to
him anyway. He sixteen year old kid does not want
some overnight gas bag to wish him a happy birthday,
does not want that at all. What else do we
have see page nan Bill says something about deal a meal.
That's what he says. Nature Boy, very active on social media,
says the nerds are leading us to believe pitchers should
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never go more than one hundred pitches. I beg to differ,
says the nature Boy, and then he has some examples
of a game years ago, back in the nineteen sixties,
when both pitchers went over two hundred pitches. And yeah,
the one hundred pitch thing is a fascinating quirk that
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they just arbitrarily decided one hundred pitches because it's a
round number. It's a big number, one hundred pitches. That
anything after one hundred pitches and you're going to fall apart.
But there are examples. I remember hearing stories about Fernando
Valezuela when he was pitching in the Dominican League early
in his Dodger career, had come from Mexico, but he
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was pitching in some offseason and games and he just
keep pitching and pitching. Levon Hernandez, who pitched years ago
out of Cuba, another guy that supposed to pitch two
hundred pitches in a game and they came back and
pitched another game. Like a day later and all that stuff.
But now they've decided one hundred pitches and your arm
is going to fall off. All right's go to the phones.
(20:18):
Let's say hello to Sir scratch Off, who has come
out of retirement and he is on the air, in
the air everywhere they're in Arkansas. Hello, sir scratch Off?
Speaker 2 (20:28):
What's going on? Money for you?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Man?
Speaker 2 (20:29):
It's always sir scratch out. Man, don't play no kidding
them names burh. I'm trying to stay away for a
bunch of girls. They wasn't money all the time, and
I'm getting tired and messing with me. So I just
changed my name.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Oh well that'll solve everything. Now, what do you What
are you going to complain about? You always have a complaint,
You're always upset about something. What are you upset about
it today?
Speaker 2 (20:47):
That's why, man, I ain't upset about nothing. I just like,
I'm ready for football. But you know, I'll tell you what.
I just I'm a big old football fan and I'm
hoping him. Brands are coming out here?
Speaker 1 (20:59):
Are you're driving? Thre a bad cell spot there? All
of a sudden, Sir scratch Uh, yeah, I get a
quick take and then hang up. What's your what's your
quick take there, sir scratch.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Off, my quick take? I didn't go further now, but
watch you, Derek, the leprechauns go becalling his boy away
from me.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
What do you?
Speaker 4 (21:19):
What do you?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Are you jealous because the leprechaun was in here? You
know you're you could have been You could have been
in here, Sir scratch off. I I gotta tell you.
A couple of years ago, we had this great Mallard
meet and greet in Arkansas. You flew us all out there.
It was an amazing time. I had such a wonderful time,
Sir scratch Off. You were so so generous, so hospital
Oh no, don't.
Speaker 2 (21:37):
Start, don't start that man.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Yeah no, it was great. No yet, we had a
great time at the Mallar meat greet. You remember you
brought us all out there in Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
A million times. You've come to any time you want to.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Yeah, No, you said you were gonna you said you
were gonna roll out the red carpet. Remember you said that,
Sir scratch Off. You said that, you said.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
You and I ain't seen you come down and runway
either to plane either. You get your you get your
butt over the Arkansas West Memphis, where you'll be coming
in at down a big daddy. We'll take care of you.
We'll get a big day to come over there.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I can right as soon as I get that plane ticket,
I'll be right there. I'll be right there, hanging out.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Got got good barbecue.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Is Jimmy Hart still around? Is he still hanging out
around there? Is he still still with us? Jimmy Hart?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah? He kept Jonesborough last Tuesday Wednesday. They was just
stuff on him and old Randy Halls. Randy Hales lives
over in Jonesborough, of.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Course, he goes, that's all. That's where all the cool
people live in Jonesboro.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Hey, hey, I don't why call you? Listen to me now,
I want you. I want to get your take on
this real quick.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You've been on You've been on there two minutes, and
now you know why you call it? Go ahead, now
listen to me.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Listen to me. You know, my boy, Austin Reeese he
got this new contract offer, four year, ninety million dollars.
He turned it down. Do you think he's turned it
down for a reason.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Yes, of course, Well there's two reasons. He can make
more money if he waits a year, he can make
like another one hundred and twenty million or more than that.
And if he wants to be the man, he's got
to leave the Lakers. You can't be the man with
the Lakers. It's gonna be Luca. So if he wants
to have his own team, then he can't.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Hear, Hey, I'm gonna shoot the gears. I got you now, No,
I just think that I haint just Kim Joe. But
he can't ockstun here. Like a few days ago, they
have a camp for boys over there at the high school. Yeah,
he's got his name all over breathe it's a basketball
camp or he's these boys in high school.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And I was asking that question, you know, but I mean,
you know, all right, well, he's not gonna he's not
gonna give you a straight answer. You know that he's
not gonna give it. If he gives you a straight answer,
he goes viral and then all of a sudden, he's
gonna have to deal with that. So I mean, you
can ask him next time he's in town or whatever,
but he's not gonna give you a straight answer.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
I would take some guaranteed money and then it's something happened.
Then you got your guaranteed money.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yeah, well he's already's already enough money. He's made enough
already where he's set. So now you're going like generational wealth.
Now he's making millions of dollars right now. All right,
I gotta leave it there. Thank you. About there. You
go out of retirement and he'll go back to retirement.
Now right, are you going back to retirements or scratch up?
I think you are going back to retirement. You made
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that phone call. Now you've got to step aside and
go to retirement. So we mentioned Clayton Kershaw three thousand strikeouts,
So baseball people all fired up, they're all excited about this.
So the prisoner of the Moment take of the day
goes to someone that that I've dealt with a few times.
He does some radio stuff. He's a columnist. Bill Plashke,
who's a commis for The Other Times, used to be
(24:39):
on that Around the Horn show before he got canceled.
So Plashki is claiming yet again that Clayton Kershaw is
the greatest pitcher in Dodger history, which has got to
be one of the lamest takes of all time. Now
we're gonna sit here and break down the Dodger all
time pitching. But it ain't Clayton Kershaw, and it can
never beat Clayton Kerr because of the albatross that is
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the postseason. You cannot properly adjudicate Clayton Kershaw without mentioning
that he is consistently ridden in the front seat of
the vomit comet in the postseason. You can't get around it.
There's nothing you can do to clean it up. His
earn run average is four and a half in the postseason.
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And you think of some of the other greats in
Dodger history. Sandy Kofax had an ERA of under one
when he pitched back for the Dodgers back in the day,
help Fernando Vealnezuela, who had a very brief run of
dominance for the Dodgers. His postseason earned run average was
I believe under two. If I'm not mistaken with the Dodgers,
so Kershaw for all the success on a random Tuesday
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night against the Rockies or a Wednesday night against the
White Sox, it's the big moments when he needs to
change his diaper and there's no other way around that
that is just the way it has been and continues
to be so anyway, it is the bed Mal Show.
If you want to be part on x at Ben
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Math the phones or hot let's get back to the calls.
Will say hello to Tony in the Bay Area, Hello, Tony, welcome,
Hey man.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
What does David Besse call the two ball count?
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I don't know, kin music, Thanks buddy, No, Tony, it's
a drive by phone call right there. He dropped it
and then that's it. Lets let's say hello to guess
my better judgment Poppy in San Diego. Hello, Poppy, Hey, actually,
good judgment.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Come to my mantor you know, actually though my heart
was really great. I got actually inspired and motivated. I
know you guys want to hear my pits.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
But nobody wants to hear your Scott Foster's not on
pining your game. Nobody wants to hear your pick. Scott
Foster's not upiing your game.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Well, actually, when Brian know is here, we actually went
to and on the pitch.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
I'm just saying, well, Brian Knows not here, so you
want to call him. He'll be on this weekend. You
can call him up. But it's the Ben Malors Show.
And thank you for the call, Poppy. I appreciate it.
All right, bye bye, all right. So the Max Munsey's
story is interesting. I have no patience for that guy none.
So the Max Monsey story I think is interesting. He
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got injured and we have an update and this is
bad news. I believe this is bad news for the Dodgers.
And here's why. So Max Munsey was injured at third base.
He is a play bang bang play, one of the
white sized guys trying to steal third base and Will
Smith threw the ball down and there was a collision
and Max Monsey's knee bent the wrong way. And so
(27:44):
the latest from Dodgerland. They say that Max Munsey is
getting an MRI, which will be later today here on
the third of July. And here's the part that should
scare all the Dodger of ficionados. It'said Dave Robert said
the initial tests have them feeling quote optimistic, and that
(28:06):
they hope is it's only a sustained or a serious sprain,
but not not any ligament damage supposedly. So I'm gonna
go things that are likely not. Youre like Max Munsey,
Is there any way he does not end up on
what used to be called the disabled list for the Dodge,
(28:28):
Like that's a gary, We'll start with that. So he'll
be out. He'll he'll be on the disabled list, the
injury list whatever they call it now, whatever they change
it to, which is politically correct. So he'll be out
for at least a brief period of time. But I
gotta think he's out for a month or two. The
top scenario is months. He's out all of July and
comes back sometime in August. The injury was so bad
(28:50):
they I'm told they I didn't see. I was watching
the White Sox broadcast because some of the Dodger broadcasters
annoy me. But I believe they didn't show it on
the Dodger broadcast like they did not the injury. They
would not rebroadcast the injury. They said, was that that
bad an injury like I saw, it looked bad, and
it looked like the kind of injury is going to
keep you out for a good period of time. In
the fact that he was hopping off the field he
(29:12):
could barely put any weight on it also generally not
a great sign. Not a great sign. And Max Munsey
was in a neck and neck race with Manny Machato
to be the starting third baseman for the National League
All Stars, and he came up a wee bit short,
just a wee bit short. Did not did not quite
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work out there, as they have named the All Stars
starting lineups the All Star gam more only what do
we like? Less than two weeks away from that, and
we're closing in on that. And the Dodgers win, by
the way, they won in a rally against the White
Sox on that random game. And Freddie Freeman, who was
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named to the All Star team in the National League,
he had his seventeenth career walk off hit that includes
the playoffs, third most in the wild Card Era. I
guess that's now the modern ear of the wild Card era,
which goes back to the mid nineties when they started
the wild card games. Was that ninety seven, ninety five nine, six,
ninety seven somewhere around there they started the Wildcags. I
think it was ninety seven. Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's
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been a while. And the player in the Wildcard Era
that has the most walkoff hits all time, you know
it is, that's right, Big Poppy. David Ortiz has the
most walk off hits since that arbitrary date in the
mid nineties. So there you go, Eileen writes in she
(30:39):
sent a photo of what she claims is Russell Wilson
at the met Gala. I think that might be Diddy
at the met Gala, Eileen. I think you confuse that
with Diddy there. But that's quite quite the outfit there.
That is an impressive outfit. If I ever end up
at the met Gala, just throw me off the bridge.
Just toss me off the bridge and say get out
of here. You're done. We are moved on from you.
(31:02):
We want nothing to do if you get the f
out of here now. Next hour, we have ask Ben.
Your questions are answers if you'd like to submit a
question right now, and producer Ian is in the he's
in the producer's chair, so he'll be compiling the questions.
And the way we compile the ask Ben questions is
(31:24):
hashtag ask Ben. Those are not sporty questions. We don't
do sporty on ask Ben. You can save that for
somebody else, but you can ask questions. You want to
know our favorites ice cream. It's a very important question.
Your favorite ice cream or favorite place to go on vacation,
things like that. Those are the kind of questions that
are perfect, absolutely perfect for ask Ben. So that'll be
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coming up next hour. We also have the Malord Riddle
of the Day that'll be next hour, and straight ahead
it's the third degree. We'll get to the third degree.
But here's the Insta trivia, and this is where we
give you a brain buster and then you have to
try to figure out who it is through the brain buster.
All right, So here is Detroit's Hobby Bias, who was
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close to being released in spring training. The Tigers Hobby
Bias has joined Pete Rose, Harmon, Killerbrew, and Blank as
the only players to start the All Star Game at
three different positions. Again, the Tigers Hobby Bias joining Pete Rose, Harmon, Killerbrew,
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and Blank as the only players to start the All
Star Game at three different positions. That is the Insta trivia.
The answer. We'll get to it, and we're gonna have
Mallard to the third degree. We'll get to all of
that and we will do it.
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get off the air. All right, back to where we go,
we will have coming up in a few minutes. We
have Mallard the Third Degree. But time now to pay
off the Insta trivia. And here it is Detroit's Hobby
Baiaz joined Pete Rose, Harmon Killebrew and Blank is the
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only players to start the All Star Game at three
different positions. That is the question. What is the answer.
Let's see does anyone know the answer? And let's see
here Marco Scutero from Scrooge hiding somewhere in the in
the Bay Area. Jose Offerman from Miguel on Fire. You
(34:26):
cannot spell Offerman without an E for error. Who else
do we have? Richard Simmons guests by malar prop guy.
That's his answer. The great former Dodger Let's see here
page down. Ocho Texto went with a porn star. Who
else do we have? Brian from the movie Life of
Brian guessed by Bobby in Florida. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
(34:50):
going with Yogi Bearra as his answer. Alf the Alien
opiner says it's the Swiss Army Knife. That that the answer.
King Rory checks in with Max Power or Max Powers
is his answer. The annoying caller of the Year, Poppy, Yeah,
(35:10):
I didn't you know. I'm doing a lot of talk
radio today. I did not have time for Poppy. I
could not take any more. Poppy could not. Robin Minnesota's
going with John Rocker as his answer. Matt the Bears
fan in Nebraska says that would be Ben's favorite Dodger
Pitcher Blake Snell. Yeah, Blake said, this is how you know?
(35:30):
That guy vessay I was on earlier locally in LA
That guy Bass said is the Dodger, posting he's such
a Blake Snell toady. He would not admit that Blake
Snell has been a bust. He's made two starts as
a Dodger, two starts as a Dodger. Horrible, horrible move.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Mark in Queens via San Diego and Arlington says Abner
double day is the answer A fine relevant name, A
contemporary name. Sean and Portland's going with Danny Ainge as
his answer. Mark checks in with Rusty Koontz and make
sure I say that properly. Gotta pause before you say
(36:10):
the last name. Who else do we have? Page down?
Christopher and cansa City going with Dodger legend the Liono
Deshields as his answer. Jason going with Craig Biggio. Yeah.
I was getting a lot of messages from fans of
the as one thousand and two one thousand holes, all
(36:30):
excited because they beat the Rockies. Does anyone want to
let the people of Houston know the Rockies suck and
everyone beats the Rockies? Does anyone to let me know? Anyway?
Let's pay off the insta trivia question. So the Tigers
hobby bias joining Pete, Rose, Harmon, Killebrew, and Blank is
the only players to start the All Star Game in
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three different positions. Let's go over to Mary. Mary, do
you have an answer? Mary?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
My mom? All right? Is it Mary's mother? Is that
the answer? Let's find out. Apparently it's not your mom.
I'm sorry, I'm sure she's a lovely lady. No, the
correct answer is Albert who hosts Albert who the answer?
Who started the All Star Game at first base, third base,
(37:15):
and in left field? So there is that? Put that
in your pipe and smoking and right now here we go.
Here we go. It's time hit that button. There, Mary,
that's the one right there. That's it. That's the one.
All right. We go over to the producer's chair and
Ian Roddy. Hello. Ian.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
You notice I've learned not to jump jump the gun
as much like I did last week.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
You were excited it happens, you know.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
Yeah, I'm learning. I'm learning. Here we go, let's jump
in here though number one. On a recent podcast interview,
Chiefs tight End Travis Kelcey recalled some troubles he had
behind the scenes back when he hosted Saturday Night Live
back in twenty twenty three. So the hardest part of
hosting SNL was the pre show table read because apparently
he can't really read that well. So inevitably social media
(37:58):
got a hold of that, got a hold of that,
and you know, they've been making a ton of fun
of him. So, Ben, do you think any less of
Kelsey now that you know he has tough time reading?
Speaker 1 (38:06):
No, because I think he was embellishing it. If he's
not embellishing it, I mean, that's pretty impressive. He went
to Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland, he went to
the University of Cincinnati. I think he spent four years
in college. And if he was able to make it
through all that and not not be able to read,
like there's reading at a high level and then there's
(38:29):
like reading just being able to read enough. I don't
doubt that Kelsey's not a prolific reader. He's a football player,
and he's like a meathead football player. I don't think
any less of him. I never thought of him as
an academic type person anyway, So who cares?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
You know?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Whether he reads a lot, and I'd like to think
that he's not totally lacking the ability to read anything
all right, Next.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
With all the potential trade rumors circling around Lebron right now,
his son Brawn. He was asked how he feels about
all of it, so he said, he doesn't really pay
attention all that stuff. But look, Ben, if Lebron Senior
were to be traded, what do you think the Lakers
would do with Bronni?
Speaker 1 (39:05):
They'd include him in the trade if Lebron No, I
don't think Lebron's being traded. And let me tell you Ian,
that is the number one answer publicists tell you the
number one answer when you're asked a difficult question is
if if it's about a play in a football game,
so I didn't see the play, and if it's about
trade rumors, you say, I don't pay attention to that stuff.
I was unaware of it. Right, You played dumb that way.
(39:27):
You just kind of kill the line of questioning and
all that. But no, if the Lakers are gonna get
out of the Lebron business, if they are ready to
unload Lebron James, then it is a two for one
special at the flea market, and it's gonna be Lebron
and Bronni. They're going to trade them to the Knicks
or the Cavaliers or to wherever, and I will guarantee
(39:49):
you that Bronni is absolutely aware of what's going on
with Lebron and where he's gonna end up because he
is handcuffed to Lebron. The only reason he's in the NBA,
the kid can't play. The only reason he's in the
NBAS because it was Dad. Next.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
So the Milwaukee Bucks, who you know, as you mentioned
in the monologue yesterday, they recently released Damian Lillard and
they're reportedly eyeing twelve time All Star Chris Paul as
his potential replacement. According to Chris Haynes, So, Ben, would
you like the forty year old CP three for the
Bucks as a short term bridge at point guard?
Speaker 1 (40:21):
So only if you can get a Delorian and go
back to the future and head back, you know, back
in time. But no, listen, Chris Paul's washed up at
this point. He's a backup. I read where Chris Paul
wants to start. He's looking for his starting job. No,
I mean, he gotta signed somebody, but Chris Paul. I
have a feeling he's gonna end up with the Clippers
and all that. But no, I would not I would
not bring Chris paul In expecting him to be a starter,
(40:44):
a play big minutes and all that at this point,
although he did play a lot in San Antonio on
a terrible Spurs team that seven people watched. All right, there,
it is Mallor to the third degree. How did we do?
Speaker 4 (40:56):
It was close today, but you still managed to win
this one. Ben, nice jobs does a win?
Speaker 1 (41:01):
I got the long. I don't think I've lost a
Mallard of the third degree this year. I think I'm
undefeated this year at MAL. What a streak, A record streak.
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