June 19, 2024 • 36 mins
Ben Maller talks about the passing of Willie Mays at 93 years old on Tuesday and how he will be remembered, Aaron Judge going down for the Yankees, Maller to the Third Degree, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird to like our
rocket going to the heavens. Hour number two and we
remember a legend of baseball. How are you going to
remember Willy Mays? He died at age ninety three. The say,
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hey kid, Willy May's baseball immortal, and he is dead.
We'll talk about his life and times. Also, Aaron Judge
very much alive. He goes down for the Yankees, briefly
went down. It looks like the Yankees have dodged that.
So what does that mean for the Yankees going forward?
And TRIPLEA will soon shift to full automated balls and strikes.
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What does that tell us? What does that tell us?
We'll talk about that as well. It's all coming your
way right here, make way for our number two, saying
goodbye to a legend of baseball past. Welcome. In the
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So our lead this hour we go to baseball and
news that came down the pike, News that came down
the pike on Tuesday night, Tuesday night, watching some baseball
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saw Actually I was watching hockey. It's what I was watching.
But I saw this and I flipped over to a
baseball game, and I flipped back to the hockey game.
But our lead this hour is from baseball. A bigger
than life ballplayer has crossed over the pearly gates.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Here.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
We assume you've heard by now, but perhaps not. Willie
Mays has died. Died of heart failure. He was ninety three.
He's been in poor hell. He was the oldest living
Hall of Fame player in the sport of baseball. I'm
not sure who replaced him, not that it really matters,
but all kinds of tributes have come in from dignitaries,
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people that think they're dignitaries, people that think they're important.
All those type of people have issued various statements giving
respect tributes to Willie Mays. Now Mays if you assume
you know about his crewer, but some people don't. They
like I thought he was I saw people posting things,
so I thought he was already. He passed away years ago.
But Willy Mays at age ninety three, he had joined
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the Giants, the New York Giants in nineteen fifty one.
He played twenty two seasons, made twenty four All Star
Games because they had multiple All Star Games some of
those years, he made all of them twenty two seasons,
twenty four All Star Games, and he is recognized by
many as the greatest player of all time. Others say
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he's in the top five greatest players or top three,
whatever your big board might be. All but his final
two seasons were with the Higantes, mostly in New York,
but he was there when they moved to the west
and headed out to San Francisco. Dodgers and Giants went
together to play each other so they could cut down
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on travel. Had to have two teams head to the
West coast. The New York Giants imagine two teams leaving
New York now, but Willie Mays was part of that
and the team relocated in nineteen fifty seven, so I
actually spent most of his time with the San Francisco Giants.
But the romanticism is from the early days with the
New York Giants. The question is this, how are you
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going to remember Willie Mays? How are you going to
remember Willie Mays? And so you have the micro and
the macro on this. I've got Johnny Appleseed, Creamery and Stairway,
and we'll combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a nice tribute to these say
hey kids. So, first of all, I looked at Willie
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Mays through the eyes of someone who didn't see him play.
I didn't watch him play, I believe it or not.
You might think I'm old, but I'm not that old.
So I never saw Willie Mays play. I just saw highlights.
And I didn't even see highlights on YouTube, because when
I was a kid, there was no YouTube. My experience
with Willie Mays was highlights that were on. This Week
in Baseball was this half hour syndicated show with Mel Allen.
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I used to watch when I was a kid. But
the thing about it is it's like a time warp situation,
because the thing about Willy Mays is he seemed like
he wasn't even a real person as a as a
child growing up, I love baseball as a kid, played
it all the time, loved watching games and hearing about
games and the whole thing. And I my entire child
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that was regaled with stories. He was one of the
players that I was regaled with stories about Willie Mays
and the brilliance, and so I consider him in the
athletic context, Willie Mays to be like baseball's Johnny Appleseed,
an American folk hero Williams. Everyone's got a story. I've
heard a bunch. I was lucky I got to hear
Vin Scully tell so many stories over the years when
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the Dodgers and Giants would play, and they would play
each other a gazillion times every year, and so he
would go on and on about that. Vin Scully grew
up a Giants fan. No one's perfect, and he would
tell stories and wax poetic about to say, hey, kid,
and what it was like in those days in New York,
and the stories of Willie Mays as a young player
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with the Giants out in Harlem playing stickball with the
neighborhood kids. Sure that Shoheo Tani on his mansion with
his gates and security guards, goes out and plays stickball
with the kids, unless he doesn't. But that was at
different times, and that's what Willy Mays dead. It's one
of the great stories here, and we've told this so
I think we just told the story a few days
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back that Willie was on that short list of people
back in I think it was the eighties, early eighties
that bought a lifetime ticket airline ticket where he could
fly anywhere he wanted for the rest of his life.
And he had that until the end. And I remember
the stories from Mel Allen this week in Baseball, but
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the thing I remember most was the catch. They showed
the catch quite a bit, the famous catch on the
World Series where it was running and his back was
away from the the ball and he turned around and
he caught the ball at the Polo Grounds and the
great the greatest catch. I don't know if anything's better
than that, but the greatest catch at the time, and
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I don't think anything's trumped it. In my lifetime. And
the other thing about Willie Mays too that I'll recall
is at the end of his career, will he kept
playing I and I get older and things generally don't
work out so well. He didn't work out well for
Willy Mays the last couple of years of his career,
and I know hearing stories about his days with the Mets.
He had gone back to the Mets at the end
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of I think it was the seventy two season, then
he seventy three, which they actually made the World Series
with Yogi Bearra as the manager. We just talked about
that on my podcast this past weekend. That's the seventy
three Mets had Willie Mays, who was the epitome of
washed up at that point in his career. But Yogi
Berra was a manager, and that's when Yogi used the
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it ain't over till it's over phrase for the first time.
Was not as a player for the Yankees, but it
was managing Willis and the Mats, and they actually did
make the playoffs and made the World Series that year
with a basically a five hundred team. But he lived
a long, full life. And while it's sad when someone dies.
He lived to be ninety three years old. Willie Mays
saw a lot of crazy stuff, saw a lot of
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good stuff, a lot of bad stuff. And from what
I understand, he was in relatively good health up until
a couple of years ago. And I know he turned
ninety and the Giants, I remember they put him on
a golf court and they drove him around for his
ninetieth birthday and all that. But the rest in peace
to Willie Mays. All right, now, I'll turn the page
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here and there's a couple of things loosely related in baseball,
because they're baseball, so they loosely related. And the next
stop is the Pinstripe Paloosa, the Pinstripe Paloosa, and that
is where Air and Judge, not Aaron Rodgers, Air and
Judge and the Yankees. They were in Baltimore, actually, but
the Yankees seemed to think everything is good here, that
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they have avoid the worst of the worst. This after
Aaron Judge was drilled. Where have we seen this before?
I think I've seen this a lot. A drilled with
a pitch in the mid to high nineties. There left
hand was it snap, crackle pop for Aaron Judge, it
does not appear to be the case. Judge claimed that
the X rays and the CT scan came back negative
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following the game. So what is the lesson for the
Yankees is they appear to have dodged one with Aaron
Judge a near miss. What's the lesson here? So on
this one, you're at the creamer when you have Aaron
Judge on your team. You're at the creamery, and eventually
the flavor of the month is going to come up
and it's going to be Rocky Road. It appears it
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is not right now Rocky Road, but eventually it is
going to be Rocky Road. And it goes with the
real estate. It is the full err and Judge experience.
It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of
when Aaron Judge is going to go down. He has
a very impressive resume of hitting moonshots, but he also
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has an impressive resume of getting hit with pitches and
other random things where he ends up getting hurt and
he broke his wrist. He got hit by a pitch
a couple years back. I remember he broke his wrist.
That's one of his many injuries at a side injury
so he'll let a moonshot for you to the moon.
He'll in the moonshot, Aaron Judge, and he'll also need
a shot of painkillers because something will be messed up.
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He'll be in the injury tent and all that. Now,
the early reports here late night and now into the
overnight out of Baltimore from the Yankee camp is that
Judge just has some swelling and he may even be
back in the lineup for the Yankees later on on Wednesday.
We don't buy that. We don't believe it. He's a
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baseball player. We would be surprised if he plays there,
because when baseball players have these kind of things happen,
they go on a sabbatical. And I wouldn't even be
shocked if Aaron Judge doesn't end up on the injured
list here because they said, well, he's got swelling and
there's there's a bruise, and he needs time to heal,
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and we're gonna put him on the shelf for a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Final thought, we round the basis to the boondocks of hardball.
The boondocks of hardball. We are told that the Triple A,
the Triple A baseball folks will soon be shifting to
fully automated balls and strikes. Let me repeat that for
the people a little slow in the back of the room.
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Major League Baseball is going all in on big tech,
all in all in here, what does this move tell us?
So this is the next step in this evolution by
Rob manfraud the Commission of Baseball is they are on
the stairway, not the stairway to heaven. They are on
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the stairway to the android takeover of Major League Baseball.
Watch out, there's no stopping it. They continue to do
the beta testing. Now they're going to triple A the
ABS system, as it's called the and that's a nice
way of not announcing it what it really is. People
here ABS are like well ABS, it's like ABC.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
ABS is automated balls and strikes and that's coming. Rob
Manford again, hel bent. He's hell bent on bringing the
big tech strike zone and spoiler. Here's the thing. I
pointed this out. I had a revelation while back, and
maybe I'm nuts. You can tell me I'm nuts if
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you want. But the people who are banging the drum
like they play for the a holes in Houston back
in the day and the people that seem to think, well,
this will end bad umpiy.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And you're not even taking the human element out of
the equation because some human being, some human being has
to program the automated ball and strikes, so they're gonna
come up with it. Is it gonna be more biased
to pitchers that throw the ball up in the zone
or down in the zone?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Is it gonna change? Is it gonna be the same,
will it be different? Are they still gonna show the
strike zone on television the way they do when you
watch games these days? So all this really does is
fog up add another layer of bureaucracy. So instead of
knowing who to complain to, the home plate umpire in
this case, which is the human being, now you've got
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to complain to like big tech, big Baseball, some schmuck
in a office building in Manhattan at MLB headquarter, Like
that's who you have to complain to, because they're the
ones that decide the automated strike zone. It is the
Ben Mahler Show. If you would like to be part speakeasy.
Rules are on effect, but there are lines open here.
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You wanna say a couple of thoughts on Willie mas.
I really feel like this is something if you're of
a certain age, Willie Mays means a big deal to you,
and it means a lot to you. And if you're
below a certain age, like.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I mean I kind of know who that is. It's
like one of those deals. That's it's it's the blessing
and curse when you live a long life, right you
get to a certain age, and it's like people kind
of know, Yeah, the older people do, with the younger
people not so much. Straight ahead, don't mess with me, bro,
Do not mess with me, Bro, and taking the slow road.
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We'll go there as well, and we will do it next.
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No chance? Right, well, now I'm very interested.
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All right, Well Eddie, let's just say maybe you should
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Let's go to the phone. I just said, go to Cleveland.
I've been to Cleveland. I was there for work. I
was there for a vacation. Let's go to Andrea. She
is in Berkeley and on this show, she is the
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Hang yeah, to enlighten you with magical information, full Moon's
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Hello, Ho Dan, how are you thank you for tonight's introduction?
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It's funny you said that. I'm actually working on my
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We've got one coming up on Thursday.
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Yeah, on Thursday, is right?
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Which moon is this?
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What are we looking at?
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The full moon will be in Tapricorn because this oh,
it'll be in Sagittarius because we're in Gemini. So that
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I'll call in.
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You are?
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I love that.
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in I think Wednesday or Thursday as it gets closer.
But yeah, going down memory lane then with fellow turists
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Willie Mays, who just transitioned. He was born May sixth,
nineteen thirty one, and I actually grew up. I saw
him in seventy three play with the New York Mets,
so I actually saw him play, I know him dating
myself here. And then I remember in nineteen seventy three
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Game seven or World Series against the A's of all things,
talk about full circle, and one of the runners, you know,
was Willie was treating with the home played umpire that
the runner was safe and Ray foss and missed the tag,
but you know he called him safe and the Mets
loss and the A's won the nineteen seventy three World Series.
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But I remember Willie Mays being really intense and really
integral to the Mets, having a lot of momentum and
positive energy, and you know that's what I miss. I
know he's a forever giant, and I'll remember him as
a Met.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well you remember him as a man man, And I
mean I mentioned this like baseball people say, well, that's
like the definition of an athlete. When he was with
the Mets, he was at the end of his career
and he didn't have much laughed and all that. They
still made the World Series though with Willie Mays even
though he was and.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
He still was a big draw, and he was really
friendly to fans and it was just you know, part
of his destiny to be with the New York Mets
for a while. And it's just like the nineteen seventy
three World Series. It's so interesting that I was and
I still am, obviously a huge Mets fan. And then
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you know, it's like being in California. Tune into the A's.
I always remember that nineteen seventy three World Series when
the Mets should have won.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, here here you are. Well, very good, thank you, Andrea.
And we look forward to the June full moon.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Yes, June full moon.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, it'll make us swoon. Yes, we'll be swooning all
over the radio. There she goes, Thank you, Andrea, appreciate that.
Let's say hello to David, who is in the Sunflower
state of Kansas.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Hello, David, this is David.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
You might know me as a friend of a little
pig named Charlotte who calls up and gives you some
musical renditions.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Of course, you're famous on this show. And let me
tell you that the Malord Palooza will be coming up
in late July. It looks like so well, what.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
I wanted to do is tell you that in nineteen
fifty four, I was eleven years old and I was
laying on the couch in my parents' living room, and
I saw that catch on TV with Willie Mays and
we kids the next day, we were all trying to
do that catch. But what was really funny was his
basket catch. And we had seen the basket catch on
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TV before, and so every kid and Tom was trying
to make the basket catch. Well, that resulted in a
lot of bonked heads, skinned stomachs, and some damage to
the nether regions for most of us trying to make
that catch.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Are you saying Willie Mays is responsible for a number
of children being injured?
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Well, I know, I would say our enthusiasm is responsible.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
I shed a tear this morning when I heard he
passed away, because he meant an awful lot to a
lot of us.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Oh yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I mean he was the biggest thing going in his
day with the Giants and all the records and all
the accolades that he got during his career. He was
a big part of baseball history, the glory days, as
they say, a baseball.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Back by the TV. The TV we had was a
huge nineteen inch or at the time in a console
that contained a record player, and a tape recorder, and
so it was we were watching on the latest stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You were ahead of your time with technology at there
and now. And how big was the setup that you
had there was at the size of a boat.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Yes, yes, well actually you could use it. My mother
used to it as a serving table and it caught
on fire when she left the candles burning underneath one
of the foods.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
But anyway, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But I'm sure that's a great family story that you
probably regaled everyone around. Everyone knows that story in the family.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
I bet that the Yes, yeah, we've gone through that
several times. But anyway, just wants you to know that
I was their first chand for it.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
That's awesome, Dave, very very cool. Thank you for sharing that.
I appreciate that. And I can imagine kids running out
and trying to copy that catch and how that went
so and.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
David was the very famous there. He's the keeper of
the pig on this show, and that means a lot
to us. It's a lot to us, and we were
excited about that because hopefully the pig will be back
in the Malapalooz. We want some new acts as well.
We want new acts to be part of this as well,
but we look forward to having some of the classic
acts and the Malapalooza return to the show.
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Speaker 3 (23:52):
I did see this.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
I don't know if you're talking about this later in
the show at some point, but we know about the
Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royal, But could
they be the Kansas Chiefs and the Kansas Royals. Apparently
the state of Kansas is making a serious run to
become the new home of the Chiefs and the Royals,
looking to apparently build them new stadiums to uh to
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lure them from Kansas City to.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well, I mean, I assume you've been to Kansas City
right in the past.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I have not been to Kansas City. Really.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
The Chargers play there every year.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
My wife doesn't want to go there.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
There's amazing barbecue in Kansas City. Though, why would you do?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
I would one I'm saying I don't want to go,
she doesn't want to go. She decides where we go.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
In the charge of w all right, my god, that's
amazing to me. You think you at least check all
the boxes in the AFC west of the opponents you're
going to be playing anyway. Now, I've been to Kansas City.
It's Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas are separated
by the train tracks. I stayed when I was in
Kansas City, Missouri. I stayed across the train tracks because
it was cheaper in Kansas Is where I stayed. So
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it's like, they're just okay, but they don't have to
change the name.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
You think the folks in Kansas City are excited about this,
and you think they're in different you you're on there
with the big budd.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Well, that's right, Bob Fesco. Well, there is a point
of demarcation. But here's the thing. A lot of the
Chief Season ticket old I don't know about the Royals,
but a lot of the Chief Season ticketals live in Kansas.
Like Kansas Is where the hip young people are, and
a lot of the old codgers are in Kansas in
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Missouri and Missouri side. So I am my problem. I
least they don't have to change the name in any
of the teams because they're still removing part of it. Well, no,
they don't have to Kansas City, Kansas is where they're
going to be playing. It's literally named Kansas City, Kansas.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So the city of Kansas City is in two states.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
There's a Kansas City, Missouri, there's train tracks, and then there's.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Okay, so are they separate cities.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
They're separate cities because they're in separate state, state city.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Taking to my geography class and I'll teach you all
about that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Oh you're yes, you're the one who's gonna teach me
about a lot of things. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, no, I've been there. I know at least that area. No,
you look at a map that he's looking at a map,
Get out of map and get some facts and get
back to me. Get some it's not that confusing yet.
There's Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas, and it's separated
by some train tracks. That's it. That's all.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
All right. Are you done? I'm done? Do you have
a fun fact?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I gotta ask if I have a fun fact? The
fun they are a lot of fun, and they are
a lot of fun. In that Dodger game with the
Rockies show, oh Tani Unloaded, it was in the sixth inning.
He had a four hundred and seventy six foot home run.
That is the longest. Now he used the metal back.
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They let him because he's so popular in Japan. They
let him use them back. But O Tani four hundred
and seventy six foot home run and that is the
second longest in recorded history. They've only been recording these
with they call it the stat cast era, which goes
back to twenty fifteen. The only home run longer than
that was by another Dodger at the time, the man
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that wore the pearls for the Atlanta Braves when they
had their great success couple of years ago, Jack Peterson.
Jack Peterson is the one that has the longest hit
home four hundred and seventy seven feet. That's and Dodger history.
Is the second longest in Dodger history in the stat
cast era. And the other fun fact, we have two
for one Eddie hit it again.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Fonus.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Fun fact. Have you been keeping track of the Arizona
Diamondbacks who were absolutely killing gamblers? The Diamondbacks last ten games,
the last ten games have all been decided by five
plus runs, either four Arizona or against Arizona. That is
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the longest such streak since nineteen hundred of consecutive games
where the game is decided by that margin of Is
that not fun?
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Eddy?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Come on, where's the fots fun? Nineteen one hundred, eight
hundred and twenty four years of baseball, last ten games decided?
You got to go back to the Baltimore Orioles who
had an eleven game streak. And I know you were
there for that, Eddie in May of eighteen ninety four,
the last time it happened. No, I'll say hello to
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hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Different hollering Jamess. Drinking than my trivia question to you?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Malt liquor?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
What was that drinking?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Malt liquor? Malt liquor?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
No, not malt liquor?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Mounting to do you say?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Do the?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Do I do the?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Do you do the? Dude? You do?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And you treat me like a fool something?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
How do I know? How do I treat you like
a fool?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
James?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I don't know. You're cheering and levy, but thedn't you
turn on me with Eddie?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
How did I do?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
What were you talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I've not turned on you with Eddie at all.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You sure about that? You're not gonna treat me like
weed man, hippie.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I would never treat you like we'ed men.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
His phone rails sounds really good today. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
He's got a great phone. He's got a broadcast quality.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Phone right there.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I got a broadcast caller when I called. I'm one
of your favorite listeners.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Ill, Why why you're saying we do call all the time?
But why do you think I'm against you? What have
I done that's besmirched your good name?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You won't you you won't put me online with Tammy
and Canada. I'm trying to beat in Greeter like.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
James. You understand, James, that Timmy is not on hold
at all times. Do you understand that.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
That she's Oh, she's busy at work.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
She's at work. Y's right, she doesn't call. She rarely
calls the show anymore because she's not new hours. No,
it's not because of you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I think it was overly aggressive, and I said somethings
I should have said. I ran my big mouth, and
I take those things back.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
So, okay, it is all because of you, James.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
She stopped all this.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
She actually told me off there that she stopped talking.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
She's listening. I take those things back. I shared me
some egotistical because I do got a place to live.
They take good care of me. But let me buy
my weekly alounce the diet Mountain Dudes that I need.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
That's very important.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
It's the little things in life, the diet Mountain Dude.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
As long as I'm not drinking of getting high. If
I continue to drinking and getting iged with it, don't
do in this house anymore because I'm not pressure by
any idiots or goons doing that.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Now, why do you like? Why do you like mountain
dew so much? We are you anti? Seven up? You
don't like seven off?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It's got more caffeine mountain dude does, and it's me.
I buy sugar for energy drinks.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
What about uh, Sierra Miss? Do you like Sierra Miss?
I love seer a missed you do, but you're drinking?
You drink mountain Dew right now?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I choose Mountain do over Sera Miss.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
What about sprite Spice a good drink too, I had a.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Couple of those to me.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
What about how about a Fanta? You ever drink fantas
good as well?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
We like it? Of course you like this Fanta like fanta.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
What I'm trying to think of some other drinks here
that could be any other drinks that we know of
that he how about Canadian what's it called Canadian dry?
What about that Canada?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, Canada drink.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I like Canada. Room for the oilers because I think Cammy,
who were hitting real good. Set me in order the shirt.
Set me in order of shirts. And a weird one,
a white one.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I like the white one better.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Than the blue one.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I don't know because this is uh, it's not a
colorful AND's a wet one in Minnesota where they got
the two biggest walls in America. I'm sure you've seen
the one that was here.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
All Right, I gotta go it.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
I got all right, I.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Got stuff to do.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Time now for the Insta trivia?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
And then when was the last time he had a
mountain dew?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Probably the nineties?
Speaker 6 (32:19):
Maybe I can't remember me too, It's been a long
long time.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I gave up so to the rain. I got real
fat so mostly from eight too much.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
But Eddie, you don't have baja blast a taco bell
I do not coop? Is that is that mountain dew.
Is it a mountain dew?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, that's not the next level. I didn't know a right. Please,
everyone's stop. Here's the instant trivia. Blank is the only
player in baseball history to have a fifty plus home
run and twenty triple season. Again, Blank, the only player
in baseball history to have a fifty plus home run
and twenty triple season. That's the instant trivia. The answer next.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
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Speaker 1 (33:26):
It's Ben Mallor, get my bell bottoms on, here's the
Inkstad trivia and we get to Mallard of the third degree.
But here it is Blank, the only player in Big
league history you'd have fifty or more home runs and
twenty or more triples in a season. That is the question.
What is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
(33:48):
We go to the Great Unwashed to find out. Eloy
from conferences it's your favorite astro Carlos Correa. Who else
do you have? Page now? Ken oberch Fell from mister
nice guy hollering James Guess by Ferg dog Uh, it's
accurate photo Maclamore? Who is forty one today? From the
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Late Night drug tester? Notorious speister Adam Dunn from Jordan
what's that you any quick man? Yes it's Willie, Yes,
I had a.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Here we go, it's Maller.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grill.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
One of the storylines after the Celtics won their championship
was that Al Horford finally has a ring, breaking Gary
Payton's record for most playoff games played before winning a championship. Ben,
does this championship change Horford's legacy at all?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
What legacy? Exactly? Is the change coup Al Horford A
solid question. No the answer, no, it doesn't change it.
He made a few All Star games and all that
his nickname with his Selfltics is average.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Al Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
He'll make the Hall of Fame because everyone makes the
Basketball Hall of Fame, but it doesn't change things. He
wasn't the reason they won. He was on the team
when they went next.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
MLB tweeted out an update on All Star voting Monday,
and many fans were shocked to see Phillies' third basement
Alex Baum, having more votes than sho heey O Tani
in the National League.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Ben, can you explain this, yes, because his interpreter that's
going to jail was the one that was voting for
Otani all those times, and now the guy's in jail,
so now he needs somebody else to fill the ballot
and stuff the ballot box. How do I?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Maybe nobody in Japan can vote. They cut off the
voting in Japan. Next, it is.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Being reported that the Pelicans don't want to give Brandon
Ingram a max extension and could look to trade him
before letting him get the free agency. Ben, do you
think someone will give Ingram max money?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, but he's like Luka Doncic in the respect He's
not as good an offensive player as Luca, but he's
a one trick pony. He'll get your twenty or twenty
five points. He's not gonna play much defense. He'll take
a bunch of knights off andered run of the mill
NBA player. But somebody will pay them because they're desperate
and they're horny to get better. How did we know
you fail?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That is a win I won. Thank you very much,
Eddie said, I want. That's a win for me, just
like the Edmonton Oilers.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
A win.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Woo
Hello and welcome. It's our numb bird to like our
rocket going to the heavens. Hour number two and we
remember a legend of baseball. How are you going to
remember Willy Mays? He died at age ninety three. The say,
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hey kid, Willy May's baseball immortal, and he is dead.
We'll talk about his life and times. Also, Aaron Judge
very much alive. He goes down for the Yankees, briefly
went down. It looks like the Yankees have dodged that.
So what does that mean for the Yankees going forward?
And TRIPLEA will soon shift to full automated balls and strikes.
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What does that tell us? What does that tell us?
We'll talk about that as well. It's all coming your
way right here, make way for our number two, saying
goodbye to a legend of baseball past. Welcome. In the
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So our lead this hour we go to baseball and
news that came down the pike, News that came down
the pike on Tuesday night, Tuesday night, watching some baseball
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saw Actually I was watching hockey. It's what I was watching.
But I saw this and I flipped over to a
baseball game, and I flipped back to the hockey game.
But our lead this hour is from baseball. A bigger
than life ballplayer has crossed over the pearly gates.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Here.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
We assume you've heard by now, but perhaps not. Willie
Mays has died. Died of heart failure. He was ninety three.
He's been in poor hell. He was the oldest living
Hall of Fame player in the sport of baseball. I'm
not sure who replaced him, not that it really matters,
but all kinds of tributes have come in from dignitaries,
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people that think they're dignitaries, people that think they're important.
All those type of people have issued various statements giving
respect tributes to Willie Mays. Now Mays if you assume
you know about his crewer, but some people don't. They
like I thought he was I saw people posting things,
so I thought he was already. He passed away years ago.
But Willy Mays at age ninety three, he had joined
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the Giants, the New York Giants in nineteen fifty one.
He played twenty two seasons, made twenty four All Star
Games because they had multiple All Star Games some of
those years, he made all of them twenty two seasons,
twenty four All Star Games, and he is recognized by
many as the greatest player of all time. Others say
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he's in the top five greatest players or top three,
whatever your big board might be. All but his final
two seasons were with the Higantes, mostly in New York,
but he was there when they moved to the west
and headed out to San Francisco. Dodgers and Giants went
together to play each other so they could cut down
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on travel. Had to have two teams head to the
West coast. The New York Giants imagine two teams leaving
New York now, but Willie Mays was part of that
and the team relocated in nineteen fifty seven, so I
actually spent most of his time with the San Francisco Giants.
But the romanticism is from the early days with the
New York Giants. The question is this, how are you
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going to remember Willie Mays? How are you going to
remember Willie Mays? And so you have the micro and
the macro on this. I've got Johnny Appleseed, Creamery and Stairway,
and we'll combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a nice tribute to these say
hey kids. So, first of all, I looked at Willie
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Mays through the eyes of someone who didn't see him play.
I didn't watch him play, I believe it or not.
You might think I'm old, but I'm not that old.
So I never saw Willie Mays play. I just saw highlights.
And I didn't even see highlights on YouTube, because when
I was a kid, there was no YouTube. My experience
with Willie Mays was highlights that were on. This Week
in Baseball was this half hour syndicated show with Mel Allen.
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I used to watch when I was a kid. But
the thing about it is it's like a time warp situation,
because the thing about Willy Mays is he seemed like
he wasn't even a real person as a as a
child growing up, I love baseball as a kid, played
it all the time, loved watching games and hearing about
games and the whole thing. And I my entire child
(05:23):
that was regaled with stories. He was one of the
players that I was regaled with stories about Willie Mays
and the brilliance, and so I consider him in the
athletic context, Willie Mays to be like baseball's Johnny Appleseed,
an American folk hero Williams. Everyone's got a story. I've
heard a bunch. I was lucky I got to hear
Vin Scully tell so many stories over the years when
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the Dodgers and Giants would play, and they would play
each other a gazillion times every year, and so he
would go on and on about that. Vin Scully grew
up a Giants fan. No one's perfect, and he would
tell stories and wax poetic about to say, hey, kid,
and what it was like in those days in New York,
and the stories of Willie Mays as a young player
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with the Giants out in Harlem playing stickball with the
neighborhood kids. Sure that Shoheo Tani on his mansion with
his gates and security guards, goes out and plays stickball
with the kids, unless he doesn't. But that was at
different times, and that's what Willy Mays dead. It's one
of the great stories here, and we've told this so
I think we just told the story a few days
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back that Willie was on that short list of people
back in I think it was the eighties, early eighties
that bought a lifetime ticket airline ticket where he could
fly anywhere he wanted for the rest of his life.
And he had that until the end. And I remember
the stories from Mel Allen this week in Baseball, but
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the thing I remember most was the catch. They showed
the catch quite a bit, the famous catch on the
World Series where it was running and his back was
away from the the ball and he turned around and
he caught the ball at the Polo Grounds and the
great the greatest catch. I don't know if anything's better
than that, but the greatest catch at the time, and
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I don't think anything's trumped it. In my lifetime. And
the other thing about Willie Mays too that I'll recall
is at the end of his career, will he kept
playing I and I get older and things generally don't
work out so well. He didn't work out well for
Willy Mays the last couple of years of his career,
and I know hearing stories about his days with the Mets.
He had gone back to the Mets at the end
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of I think it was the seventy two season, then
he seventy three, which they actually made the World Series
with Yogi Bearra as the manager. We just talked about
that on my podcast this past weekend. That's the seventy
three Mets had Willie Mays, who was the epitome of
washed up at that point in his career. But Yogi
Berra was a manager, and that's when Yogi used the
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it ain't over till it's over phrase for the first time.
Was not as a player for the Yankees, but it
was managing Willis and the Mats, and they actually did
make the playoffs and made the World Series that year
with a basically a five hundred team. But he lived
a long, full life. And while it's sad when someone dies.
He lived to be ninety three years old. Willie Mays
saw a lot of crazy stuff, saw a lot of
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good stuff, a lot of bad stuff. And from what
I understand, he was in relatively good health up until
a couple of years ago. And I know he turned
ninety and the Giants, I remember they put him on
a golf court and they drove him around for his
ninetieth birthday and all that. But the rest in peace
to Willie Mays. All right, now, I'll turn the page
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here and there's a couple of things loosely related in baseball,
because they're baseball, so they loosely related. And the next
stop is the Pinstripe Paloosa, the Pinstripe Paloosa, and that
is where Air and Judge, not Aaron Rodgers, Air and
Judge and the Yankees. They were in Baltimore, actually, but
the Yankees seemed to think everything is good here, that
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they have avoid the worst of the worst. This after
Aaron Judge was drilled. Where have we seen this before?
I think I've seen this a lot. A drilled with
a pitch in the mid to high nineties. There left
hand was it snap, crackle pop for Aaron Judge, it
does not appear to be the case. Judge claimed that
the X rays and the CT scan came back negative
(09:22):
following the game. So what is the lesson for the
Yankees is they appear to have dodged one with Aaron
Judge a near miss. What's the lesson here? So on
this one, you're at the creamer when you have Aaron
Judge on your team. You're at the creamery, and eventually
the flavor of the month is going to come up
and it's going to be Rocky Road. It appears it
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is not right now Rocky Road, but eventually it is
going to be Rocky Road. And it goes with the
real estate. It is the full err and Judge experience.
It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of
when Aaron Judge is going to go down. He has
a very impressive resume of hitting moonshots, but he also
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has an impressive resume of getting hit with pitches and
other random things where he ends up getting hurt and
he broke his wrist. He got hit by a pitch
a couple years back. I remember he broke his wrist.
That's one of his many injuries at a side injury
so he'll let a moonshot for you to the moon.
He'll in the moonshot, Aaron Judge, and he'll also need
a shot of painkillers because something will be messed up.
(10:27):
He'll be in the injury tent and all that. Now,
the early reports here late night and now into the
overnight out of Baltimore from the Yankee camp is that
Judge just has some swelling and he may even be
back in the lineup for the Yankees later on on Wednesday.
We don't buy that. We don't believe it. He's a
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baseball player. We would be surprised if he plays there,
because when baseball players have these kind of things happen,
they go on a sabbatical. And I wouldn't even be
shocked if Aaron Judge doesn't end up on the injured
list here because they said, well, he's got swelling and
there's there's a bruise, and he needs time to heal,
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and we're gonna put him on the shelf for a
little bit.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
All right.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Final thought, we round the basis to the boondocks of hardball.
The boondocks of hardball. We are told that the Triple A,
the Triple A baseball folks will soon be shifting to
fully automated balls and strikes. Let me repeat that for
the people a little slow in the back of the room.
(11:32):
Major League Baseball is going all in on big tech,
all in all in here, what does this move tell us?
So this is the next step in this evolution by
Rob manfraud the Commission of Baseball is they are on
the stairway, not the stairway to heaven. They are on
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the stairway to the android takeover of Major League Baseball.
Watch out, there's no stopping it. They continue to do
the beta testing. Now they're going to triple A the
ABS system, as it's called the and that's a nice
way of not announcing it what it really is. People
here ABS are like well ABS, it's like ABC.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
ABS is automated balls and strikes and that's coming. Rob
Manford again, hel bent. He's hell bent on bringing the
big tech strike zone and spoiler. Here's the thing. I
pointed this out. I had a revelation while back, and
maybe I'm nuts. You can tell me I'm nuts if
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you want. But the people who are banging the drum
like they play for the a holes in Houston back
in the day and the people that seem to think, well,
this will end bad umpiy.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
No.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
And you're not even taking the human element out of
the equation because some human being, some human being has
to program the automated ball and strikes, so they're gonna
come up with it. Is it gonna be more biased
to pitchers that throw the ball up in the zone
or down in the zone?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Is it gonna change? Is it gonna be the same,
will it be different? Are they still gonna show the
strike zone on television the way they do when you
watch games these days? So all this really does is
fog up add another layer of bureaucracy. So instead of
knowing who to complain to, the home plate umpire in
this case, which is the human being, now you've got
(13:31):
to complain to like big tech, big Baseball, some schmuck
in a office building in Manhattan at MLB headquarter, Like
that's who you have to complain to, because they're the
ones that decide the automated strike zone. It is the
Ben Mahler Show. If you would like to be part speakeasy.
Rules are on effect, but there are lines open here.
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You wanna say a couple of thoughts on Willie mas.
I really feel like this is something if you're of
a certain age, Willie Mays means a big deal to you,
and it means a lot to you. And if you're
below a certain age, like.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I don't know that.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I mean I kind of know who that is. It's
like one of those deals. That's it's it's the blessing
and curse when you live a long life, right you
get to a certain age, and it's like people kind
of know, Yeah, the older people do, with the younger
people not so much. Straight ahead, don't mess with me, bro,
Do not mess with me, Bro, and taking the slow road.
(14:23):
We'll go there as well, and we will do it next.
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It's Ben Maler. What kind of steamer ready? Any kind
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Speaker 1 (15:55):
I I think I should refrain from that.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Probably a good idea.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
I want to know the joke.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
I know Coop knows it because he gave me the look.
But I don't think Eddie knows it. Do you think
Eddie knows it?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
No chance? Right, well, now I'm very interested.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
All right, Well Eddie, let's just say maybe you should
go on vacation to Cleveland.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
How about that you should go to Oh I understand that.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yes, I'm still over the head over here, guys, Well.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Coop will tell you.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Let's go to the phone. I just said, go to Cleveland.
I've been to Cleveland. I was there for work. I
was there for a vacation. Let's go to Andrea. She
is in Berkeley and on this show, she is the
goddess of the stars. She's got the star charts out there.
Hang yeah, to enlighten you with magical information, full Moon's
(16:57):
you name it? Hello and vertual in service on X.
Speaker 8 (17:03):
Hello, Ho Dan, how are you thank you for tonight's introduction?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
If I was any better, I would be sleeping. But no,
I wouldn't. I like working at night because no one
bothers me.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Oh yeah, no, I do my best work at night.
It's funny you said that. I'm actually working on my
Summer Solstice newsletter. I'll be ready in a couple of
days to send it out, So if anyone wants it,
please let me know. And interesting you mentioned the full moon, Dan,
We've got one coming up on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Yeah, on Thursday, is right?
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Which moon is this?
Speaker 3 (17:35):
What are we looking at?
Speaker 8 (17:37):
The full moon will be in Tapricorn because this oh,
it'll be in Sagittarius because we're in Gemini. So that
should be wateresting it. I'll tell you more about it.
I'll call in.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Okay, the June full moon, yes, help.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
You go in June full moon and I'll tell you
more about it next time I call in. And I
wanted to talk a little bit about are you.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You're teasing a future phone call?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
You are?
Speaker 1 (18:07):
That's good, that's good promotion. Thank you you're promoting a
future phone call.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
I love that.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
I think I learned from the best.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
What welcome? Yeah? So yeah, I'm working on the summer
SOS newsletter and I'll be sharing that and i'll call
in I think Wednesday or Thursday as it gets closer.
But yeah, going down memory lane then with fellow turists
(18:37):
Willie Mays, who just transitioned. He was born May sixth,
nineteen thirty one, and I actually grew up. I saw
him in seventy three play with the New York Mets,
so I actually saw him play, I know him dating
myself here. And then I remember in nineteen seventy three
(18:57):
Game seven or World Series against the A's of all things,
talk about full circle, and one of the runners, you know,
was Willie was treating with the home played umpire that
the runner was safe and Ray foss and missed the tag,
but you know he called him safe and the Mets
loss and the A's won the nineteen seventy three World Series.
(19:20):
But I remember Willie Mays being really intense and really
integral to the Mets, having a lot of momentum and
positive energy, and you know that's what I miss. I
know he's a forever giant, and I'll remember him as
a Met.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Well you remember him as a man man, And I
mean I mentioned this like baseball people say, well, that's
like the definition of an athlete. When he was with
the Mets, he was at the end of his career
and he didn't have much laughed and all that. They
still made the World Series though with Willie Mays even
though he was and.
Speaker 8 (19:51):
He still was a big draw, and he was really
friendly to fans and it was just you know, part
of his destiny to be with the New York Mets
for a while. And it's just like the nineteen seventy
three World Series. It's so interesting that I was and
I still am, obviously a huge Mets fan. And then
(20:11):
you know, it's like being in California. Tune into the A's.
I always remember that nineteen seventy three World Series when
the Mets should have won.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, here here you are. Well, very good, thank you, Andrea.
And we look forward to the June full moon.
Speaker 8 (20:30):
Yes, June full moon.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Okay, it'll make us swoon. Yes, we'll be swooning all
over the radio. There she goes, Thank you, Andrea, appreciate that.
Let's say hello to David, who is in the Sunflower
state of Kansas.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Hello, David, this is David.
Speaker 9 (20:49):
You might know me as a friend of a little
pig named Charlotte who calls up and gives you some
musical renditions.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Of course, you're famous on this show. And let me
tell you that the Malord Palooza will be coming up
in late July. It looks like so well, what.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
I wanted to do is tell you that in nineteen
fifty four, I was eleven years old and I was
laying on the couch in my parents' living room, and
I saw that catch on TV with Willie Mays and
we kids the next day, we were all trying to
do that catch. But what was really funny was his
basket catch. And we had seen the basket catch on
(21:28):
TV before, and so every kid and Tom was trying
to make the basket catch. Well, that resulted in a
lot of bonked heads, skinned stomachs, and some damage to
the nether regions for most of us trying to make
that catch.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Are you saying Willie Mays is responsible for a number
of children being injured?
Speaker 9 (21:51):
Well, I know, I would say our enthusiasm is responsible.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 9 (21:57):
I shed a tear this morning when I heard he
passed away, because he meant an awful lot to a
lot of us.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Oh yeah, no, I know.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
I mean he was the biggest thing going in his
day with the Giants and all the records and all
the accolades that he got during his career. He was
a big part of baseball history, the glory days, as
they say, a baseball.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
Back by the TV. The TV we had was a
huge nineteen inch or at the time in a console
that contained a record player, and a tape recorder, and
so it was we were watching on the latest stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
You were ahead of your time with technology at there
and now. And how big was the setup that you
had there was at the size of a boat.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
Yes, yes, well actually you could use it. My mother
used to it as a serving table and it caught
on fire when she left the candles burning underneath one
of the foods.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
But anyway, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
But I'm sure that's a great family story that you
probably regaled everyone around. Everyone knows that story in the family.
Speaker 9 (23:08):
I bet that the Yes, yeah, we've gone through that
several times. But anyway, just wants you to know that
I was their first chand for it.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
That's awesome, Dave, very very cool. Thank you for sharing that.
I appreciate that. And I can imagine kids running out
and trying to copy that catch and how that went
so and.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Thank you, Dave.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
David was the very famous there. He's the keeper of
the pig on this show, and that means a lot
to us. It's a lot to us, and we were
excited about that because hopefully the pig will be back
in the Malapalooz. We want some new acts as well.
We want new acts to be part of this as well,
but we look forward to having some of the classic
acts and the Malapalooza return to the show.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
I did see this.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
I don't know if you're talking about this later in
the show at some point, but we know about the
Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royal, But could
they be the Kansas Chiefs and the Kansas Royals. Apparently
the state of Kansas is making a serious run to
become the new home of the Chiefs and the Royals,
looking to apparently build them new stadiums to uh to
(24:15):
lure them from Kansas City to.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Well, I mean, I assume you've been to Kansas City
right in the past.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
I have not been to Kansas City. Really.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
The Chargers play there every year.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
My wife doesn't want to go there.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
There's amazing barbecue in Kansas City. Though, why would you do?
Speaker 6 (24:31):
I would one I'm saying I don't want to go,
she doesn't want to go. She decides where we go.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
In the charge of w all right, my god, that's
amazing to me. You think you at least check all
the boxes in the AFC west of the opponents you're
going to be playing anyway. Now, I've been to Kansas City.
It's Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas are separated
by the train tracks. I stayed when I was in
Kansas City, Missouri. I stayed across the train tracks because
it was cheaper in Kansas Is where I stayed. So
(25:01):
it's like, they're just okay, but they don't have to
change the name.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
You think the folks in Kansas City are excited about this,
and you think they're in different you you're on there
with the big budd.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Well, that's right, Bob Fesco. Well, there is a point
of demarcation. But here's the thing. A lot of the
Chief Season ticket old I don't know about the Royals,
but a lot of the Chief Season ticketals live in Kansas.
Like Kansas Is where the hip young people are, and
a lot of the old codgers are in Kansas in
(25:29):
Missouri and Missouri side. So I am my problem. I
least they don't have to change the name in any
of the teams because they're still removing part of it. Well, no,
they don't have to Kansas City, Kansas is where they're
going to be playing. It's literally named Kansas City, Kansas.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So the city of Kansas City is in two states.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
There's a Kansas City, Missouri, there's train tracks, and then there's.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Okay, so are they separate cities.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
They're separate cities because they're in separate state, state city.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Taking to my geography class and I'll teach you all
about that.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Oh you're yes, you're the one who's gonna teach me
about a lot of things. I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Well, no, I've been there. I know at least that area. No,
you look at a map that he's looking at a map,
Get out of map and get some facts and get
back to me. Get some it's not that confusing yet.
There's Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas, and it's separated
by some train tracks. That's it. That's all.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
All right. Are you done? I'm done? Do you have
a fun fact?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
I gotta ask if I have a fun fact? The
fun they are a lot of fun, and they are
a lot of fun. In that Dodger game with the
Rockies show, oh Tani Unloaded, it was in the sixth inning.
He had a four hundred and seventy six foot home run.
That is the longest. Now he used the metal back.
(26:54):
They let him because he's so popular in Japan. They
let him use them back. But O Tani four hundred
and seventy six foot home run and that is the
second longest in recorded history. They've only been recording these
with they call it the stat cast era, which goes
back to twenty fifteen. The only home run longer than
that was by another Dodger at the time, the man
(27:15):
that wore the pearls for the Atlanta Braves when they
had their great success couple of years ago, Jack Peterson.
Jack Peterson is the one that has the longest hit
home four hundred and seventy seven feet. That's and Dodger history.
Is the second longest in Dodger history in the stat
cast era. And the other fun fact, we have two
for one Eddie hit it again.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Fonus.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Fun fact. Have you been keeping track of the Arizona
Diamondbacks who were absolutely killing gamblers? The Diamondbacks last ten games,
the last ten games have all been decided by five
plus runs, either four Arizona or against Arizona. That is
(28:00):
the longest such streak since nineteen hundred of consecutive games
where the game is decided by that margin of Is
that not fun?
Speaker 8 (28:12):
Eddy?
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Come on, where's the fots fun? Nineteen one hundred, eight
hundred and twenty four years of baseball, last ten games decided?
You got to go back to the Baltimore Orioles who
had an eleven game streak. And I know you were
there for that, Eddie in May of eighteen ninety four,
the last time it happened. No, I'll say hello to
(28:36):
hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Different hollering Jamess. Drinking than my trivia question to you?
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Malt liquor?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
What was that drinking?
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Malt liquor? Malt liquor?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
No, not malt liquor?
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Mounting to do you say?
Speaker 3 (28:57):
Do the?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Do I do the?
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Do you do the? Dude? You do?
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And you treat me like a fool something?
Speaker 1 (29:05):
How do I know? How do I treat you like
a fool?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
James?
Speaker 2 (29:08):
I don't know. You're cheering and levy, but thedn't you
turn on me with Eddie?
Speaker 1 (29:12):
How did I do?
Speaker 3 (29:13):
What were you talking about?
Speaker 1 (29:14):
I've not turned on you with Eddie at all.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You sure about that? You're not gonna treat me like
weed man, hippie.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
I would never treat you like we'ed men.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
His phone rails sounds really good today. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
He's got a great phone. He's got a broadcast quality.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Phone right there.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I got a broadcast caller when I called. I'm one
of your favorite listeners.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Ill, Why why you're saying we do call all the time?
But why do you think I'm against you? What have
I done that's besmirched your good name?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
You won't you you won't put me online with Tammy
and Canada. I'm trying to beat in Greeter like.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
James. You understand, James, that Timmy is not on hold
at all times. Do you understand that.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
That she's Oh, she's busy at work.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
She's at work. Y's right, she doesn't call. She rarely
calls the show anymore because she's not new hours. No,
it's not because of you.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I think it was overly aggressive, and I said somethings
I should have said. I ran my big mouth, and
I take those things back.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
So, okay, it is all because of you, James.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
She stopped all this.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
She actually told me off there that she stopped talking.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
She's listening. I take those things back. I shared me
some egotistical because I do got a place to live.
They take good care of me. But let me buy
my weekly alounce the diet Mountain Dudes that I need.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
That's very important.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
It's the little things in life, the diet Mountain Dude.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
As long as I'm not drinking of getting high. If
I continue to drinking and getting iged with it, don't
do in this house anymore because I'm not pressure by
any idiots or goons doing that.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Now, why do you like? Why do you like mountain
dew so much? We are you anti? Seven up? You
don't like seven off?
Speaker 2 (30:56):
It's got more caffeine mountain dude does, and it's me.
I buy sugar for energy drinks.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
What about uh, Sierra Miss? Do you like Sierra Miss?
I love seer a missed you do, but you're drinking?
You drink mountain Dew right now?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
I choose Mountain do over Sera Miss.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
What about sprite Spice a good drink too, I had a.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Couple of those to me.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
What about how about a Fanta? You ever drink fantas
good as well?
Speaker 3 (31:22):
We like it? Of course you like this Fanta like fanta.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
What I'm trying to think of some other drinks here
that could be any other drinks that we know of
that he how about Canadian what's it called Canadian dry?
What about that Canada?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah, Canada drink.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
I like Canada. Room for the oilers because I think Cammy,
who were hitting real good. Set me in order the shirt.
Set me in order of shirts. And a weird one,
a white one.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
I like the white one better.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Than the blue one.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
I don't know because this is uh, it's not a
colorful AND's a wet one in Minnesota where they got
the two biggest walls in America. I'm sure you've seen
the one that was here.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
All Right, I gotta go it.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
I got all right, I.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
Got stuff to do.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
Time now for the Insta trivia?
Speaker 3 (32:14):
And then when was the last time he had a
mountain dew?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Probably the nineties?
Speaker 6 (32:19):
Maybe I can't remember me too, It's been a long
long time.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I gave up so to the rain. I got real
fat so mostly from eight too much.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
But Eddie, you don't have baja blast a taco bell
I do not coop? Is that is that mountain dew.
Is it a mountain dew?
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, that's not the next level. I didn't know a right. Please,
everyone's stop. Here's the instant trivia. Blank is the only
player in baseball history to have a fifty plus home
run and twenty triple season. Again, Blank, the only player
in baseball history to have a fifty plus home run
and twenty triple season. That's the instant trivia. The answer next.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
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Speaker 6 (33:09):
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say giving those work in the dreaded day ship the
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Speaker 1 (33:26):
It's Ben Mallor, get my bell bottoms on, here's the
Inkstad trivia and we get to Mallard of the third degree.
But here it is Blank, the only player in Big
league history you'd have fifty or more home runs and
twenty or more triples in a season. That is the question.
What is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
(33:48):
We go to the Great Unwashed to find out. Eloy
from conferences it's your favorite astro Carlos Correa. Who else
do you have? Page now? Ken oberch Fell from mister
nice guy hollering James Guess by Ferg dog Uh, it's
accurate photo Maclamore? Who is forty one today? From the
(34:09):
Late Night drug tester? Notorious speister Adam Dunn from Jordan
what's that you any quick man? Yes it's Willie, Yes,
I had a.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
Here we go, it's Maller.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
How about that?
Speaker 4 (34:29):
To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grill.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
One of the storylines after the Celtics won their championship
was that Al Horford finally has a ring, breaking Gary
Payton's record for most playoff games played before winning a championship. Ben,
does this championship change Horford's legacy at all?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
What legacy? Exactly? Is the change coup Al Horford A
solid question. No the answer, no, it doesn't change it.
He made a few All Star games and all that
his nickname with his Selfltics is average.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Al Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
He'll make the Hall of Fame because everyone makes the
Basketball Hall of Fame, but it doesn't change things. He
wasn't the reason they won. He was on the team
when they went next.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
MLB tweeted out an update on All Star voting Monday,
and many fans were shocked to see Phillies' third basement
Alex Baum, having more votes than sho heey O Tani
in the National League.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Ben, can you explain this, yes, because his interpreter that's
going to jail was the one that was voting for
Otani all those times, and now the guy's in jail,
so now he needs somebody else to fill the ballot
and stuff the ballot box. How do I?
Speaker 4 (35:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
Maybe nobody in Japan can vote. They cut off the
voting in Japan. Next, it is.
Speaker 7 (35:38):
Being reported that the Pelicans don't want to give Brandon
Ingram a max extension and could look to trade him
before letting him get the free agency. Ben, do you
think someone will give Ingram max money?
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, but he's like Luka Doncic in the respect He's
not as good an offensive player as Luca, but he's
a one trick pony. He'll get your twenty or twenty
five points. He's not gonna play much defense. He'll take
a bunch of knights off andered run of the mill
NBA player. But somebody will pay them because they're desperate
and they're horny to get better. How did we know
you fail?
Speaker 3 (36:07):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That is a win I won. Thank you very much,
Eddie said, I want. That's a win for me, just
like the Edmonton Oilers.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
A win.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
Woo
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