January 21, 2026 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Mets trading for White Sox OF Luis Robert Jr. and if it counts as a blockbuster trade, the chances that Victor Wembanyama makes the All-Star Game great again, Sean McDermott pointing out the Bills broken roster, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka Laca. It's our number too, Ben Maler Show.
We got a trade, We got trade action. The New
York Metropolitans have acquired outfielder centerfielder Luis Robert Junior from
the Chicago White Sox who had one good year and
a bunch of garbage? Does this count as a blockbuster trade?
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I know they're happy at the Vatican getting rid of
this guy, but are the Mets happy? Also? What are
the chances? What are the chances that Wemby in the
NBA helps make the All Star Game great again? We'll
discuss that. And in the NFL, former coach Sean McDermott,
according to a report, pointed out the broken Bill's roster
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and was rejected by the ownership in Buffalo. How do
you decode this one to all of that and more?
Right now? In our number two, we got trade action,
the transaction wise cranking up, Welcome in the beginning of
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Our lead this hour from the Trading Post. We have
a deal. We have a deal in baseball. So what
is it? Who cares? Let me explain. So we've learned
that the New York Metropolitans have added centerfielder Louise Robert
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Junior from the Chicago White Sox. Who what, Louise Robert Junior.
That doesn't make it, That doesn't make it tingle? No, okay,
the Mets will send outfielder Louise Angel Akuna. Yes he
is related to his the brothers siblings, the guy for
the Braves that always gets hurt, and a minor league
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pitcher you've never heard of. They go from the Mets
to the White Sox and the Truman Show. There you go.
So the Pope's favorite team gets a couple of scratcher takes. Now,
immediately the reaction has been what over the top, as
only the Met fan can do only the Met fan
can do this. Immediately, the Met fans, some of them,
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are hyping up Luis Robert Jr. He's the great Cuban
missile and just what the roster needs, just what the
roster needs, and perfect addition to the Mets lineup, shouting
from the heavens, we have gotten our man. It's like
he's he's got that Broadway aura. They of course, keep
in mind the same people that are saying this, the
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same people that are barking this out. These are casual
baseball fans, and they when the trade was announced, they went,
who is that? What's that guy's name? That's what That
was their first reaction. And then they said, well, he's him.
In record time, they just they google him. They googled
this guy once and they're like, all right, let's build
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a statue. Come on that right next to mister Mett.
We'll build a statue right there, and Ralph Kiner. So
that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question the Mets trading for White Sox outfielder Luis
Robert Jr. Does this count as a blockbuster trade? No,
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I've got Nordstrom rack, corporate retreat and where's Waldo and
we will combine all of these things together, one, two,
three and ABC.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So number wa I said number.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
One more time. Number. This is not a blockbuster in
the traditional sense that we use in the lexicon of
sports radio. It is not. And we know this. You
know this, and you're smart. I'm smart. So this is
a blockbuster video in twenty twenty six. That's the kind
of blockbuster. This is the empty shelves, dusty DVD cases
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and that please that little sticker that used to slap
on there, but please be kind and rewind you know
that thing there, that's it. That's what this is. Once
upon a time, in a land far far ago, you
had Luis Robert Jr. Who got MVP votes. He was
considered a luxury brand. Think of it like if it
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was a watch, he would have been a Rolex. With
the White Sox he just broke out was amazing and
almost forty home runs, drove in a bunch of runs.
He was great. At this point in the story, we're
at the point in the story where Luis Robert Jr.
Is like a scratched fit bit sitting in the clearance
bin at the Nordstrom rack. That's where he is right now,
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red tag final sale as is no returns. There you go.
Keep in mind the Mets wanted Kyle Tucker. They thought
they were gonna get Kyle Tucker. Instead, the Mets are
now convincing themselves the front office that the broken dreams
of this guy Robert they got from the White Sox.
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They just needed a new zip code. Give him a
new zip code. Everything. Change of scenery, classic change of scenery,
rebirth story arc at Sportscasting Clown College. So there is that,
and it's kind of like the house plan is dying
on your windows still. You've got a right on the
windows kind of dying there. So we'll just move it
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a little over to the right and then it'll be good.
So let's talk about geography. You want to talk about geography. Oh,
it's a sports radio show. We don't care about geography.
So the Mets play in Queens, the borough of queens,
more specifically flushing, which could not be more appropriate, could
not be more appropriate. That's not branding. That is baseball destiny.
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That is baseball dest Careers don't blossom there, they don't.
They don't blossom there, and they go down the porcelain
is where they go, right, do the old swirly swirl
right there, swirl swirl and then you know where that
ends up right right around the ball and disappears into
the East River. And then someone goes and catches a
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fish and the fish is in. Well, you know what
happens anyway, So the Mets, what do they need pitching?
You gotta get pitching. You gotta get pitching, you gotta
get and do the Mets have that? No, Instead, they're well,
we didn't get talkers, so let's go out and get
some gold. Of course it's it's fool's gold, is what
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it is, right, And so of course the many people, oh,
it's great, wonderful. Not exactly the championship kind of move
when you're looking for the career renaissance. Good luck. It's
a flyer. It's a flyer. The Mets are playing. They're
paying this guy twenty million, all right, expensive fly twenty
million dollars. I read the Mets are paying this guy.
So the Mets are playing the runner up ribbon game,
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as are twenty nine other teams because all of you
have told me it's all over. There's no need to
play this season. The Dodgers are gonna win the World Series.
There's no chance they don't win the World Series. They're
gonna win the World Series. So twenty nine other teams
are playing for the silver medal. The Dodgers have already
wrapped up the gold medal. The Mets are one of
those teams. But you look at the Mets, they have
a history of lies and promises that were never met
(09:16):
and hope that's always on layaway. That's the Mets. That's
the Met way. Same song. Years have changed, different kind
of disappointment.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Meanwhile, we head to pro bouncy Ball where the Parisian
prodigy making some headlines. Here Spurs star Victor Wembanyama. Victor
Wimanyama said this week, I want the name of the
All Star team and all that. One of the big
faces of the new age of the NBA, he said, quote,
I want to push the great players of this sport
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to play in the All Star Game just as hard
as I will. Wemby stated, we'll see how it goes,
but if they don't play hard, I'll do it without them.
Close quote it's Victor Webbanyama. Here's the question, what are
the chances just between us, what are the chances that Wemby,
the San Antonio Spurs star Wemby helps make the All
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Star Game great again by actually hustling? So the odds
malar odds on this. We spent about thirty seconds deliberating
the available information on the NBA All Star Game, and
the odds say Squad Douche gets an S for Squad
Douche good luck on that. This is adorable though it
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is right, how naive you can be and think that
this is all gonna work out for It's kind of
like a kid shown up to a poker game with
a bunch of monopoly money in a rule book. It's like,
you might want to sit this one out, you know,
I'm just saying. So Wemby says he's gonna play hard.
He's gonna play hard, and the other stars, of course,
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they don't like that, right, And he says if they
don't pay attention, he'll just do it alone, and that's
what he's gonna do. It's terrific, very noble of when
ban Yama to say that he's also showing the world
he's absolutely clueless, absolutely clueless. Why this Just in to
the Ben Maler Show on Fox Sports Radio, the NBA
(11:12):
All Star Game is not broken. People think it's broken.
It's not broken. It is working exactly as it is
designed to work. They keep futzing around with the format,
but it's working the way they want it to work.
When I say they, I'm talking about the people that
are on the court. It is a corporate retreat with sneakers.
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That's what the NBA All Star Game is. A corporate
retreat in sneakers. It is a showroom. It is a handshake,
grab ass convention with a basketball problem. Right. The problem
is they're supposed to play in the All Star Game.
I don't want to play in the All Star Game.
And years ago, with no one asking, the players of
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the NBA were so soft. How soft were they? They
were so soft these players that they voted with their
feet wildcat style, wildcat strike style. And their effort or
the lack of effort in the NBA All Star Game
they stop caring, and we stop caring, all right, so
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nobody cares. That's the NBA All Star Game. No defense,
no diving for loose balls, no sweat stains. Some of
these guys in the Also Game, they don't even need
to take showers after the game because they don't put
no effort into the All Star Game. It's all about
positive vibes and all that.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You know, the.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Social media selfies and you know, put on the gram
and TikTok and the occasional just every once in a while,
the uncontested circus dunk. That's just to keep the sponsors
from panicking, just to keep them from panicking and all
that stuff. So every few years, and this just happens
to be Wemby, But every few years in all these sports,
there's a young buck that comes along that shows up
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like a fire breathing dragon, and hey, listen, I'm gonna play.
I gotta earn my money, I got to sing for
my supper, and I'm gonna play hard, even though it's
the All Star Game. And inevitably what happens is tap tap,
look at the tap on the shoulder. Hey hey kid,
we'd like to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
What is it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, so you know you're making us look bad here.
It's a it's a marathon, not a wind sprint the
All Star Game. Save save the energy, save the calories.
Nobody's getting paid extra for caring. No one's getting extra
money for hustling. Uh so there you go. So listen Wembley.
Wemby can play hard. Good for him, But the revolution
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changing the All Star Game, making it great again is
not going to happen here, and just not. So that's
how the NBA hot Dogs are made good luck. I
recall when I was covering baseball years ago before the
Dodgers became good when they sucked, and I was doing
the Dodger programming in another life, and there was a
guy on the team that they called up from Triple
A Albuquerque, Albuqueres. And this guy was hustling and running
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wild and young outfielder, and he got the talk and
he was taught about the what they call it the
big league jog. It's still a thing in baseball where
you hit a ball that's almost guaranteed to be an
out and you don't hustle. This guy would hustle, and
he would make the other guys look bad because they
were lazy. They were lazy, so he got to talk.
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The veteran player said, listen, making us look bad. Here,
come on, like, what are you doing all right?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Final point to Buffalo. Here we go, Buffalo Bill's mafia
going through these seven stages of grief after they lost
in Denver and then lost their head coach, and I
read an interesting story here if you saw this or not,
the Bill's organization, the leaders had a pow wow with
Sean McDermott, the former coach, and McDermott pointed out, according
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to the story, McDermott pointed out the many flaws in
the Buffalo Bill's roster that were preventing the team from
reaching the Promised land. So, according to the reporting, breathless reporting,
the GM, mister Bean and Terry Pegoula, the owner, were
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not happy. They were upset with McDermott and they got
annoyed that he was complaining about the way the roster
was built there in western New York. So the question
for you, and I'm gonna answer this first, but here's
the question. Former coach Sean McDermott pointing out that the
Bills roster was not up to standard. It was a
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bit broken and being rejected, rejected by ownership. How do
you decode this particular report. So let's use the Mallard
Dakota ring on this one. We're also going to open
up the MiB. So not only are we using the
Mallard Dakota ring, we're going to open up the MIIB.
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Now that's not men in Black, that's the Malord Investigative Bureau,
So you're can investigate. So this leak out of Buffalo
and it smells. It smells like some rotting chicken wings
from the anchor bar and grill that were left outside
to rot, is what it sounds. It smells like that. Yeah, yeah,
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So this is another one to the low information fan,
to the casual fan. They see this headline and it
makes the bills look like villains twirling their mustaches. You know,
the classic cartoon villain twirling the mustache. That's what it
looks like if you just look at the way the
story was reported. Oh no, my coach, who I love?
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You want and better players?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And the mean oders said no, no, no, no, you
don't get better players.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And how's my acting on these a?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Bad? Not bad? Not bad thing. I'll be here all
week anyway. If you don't like, it's an overnighte If
you liked it, I'll be here all week. If you
don't like, it's an overnight show, so chill out, dude,
what's wrong with you? Go have a beer? All right? Anyway,
So let's be level headed on this one. I'm gonna
be level headed. We're gonna play the parlor game. What
do you say? You and I are gonna play the
parlor game. So the parlor game works like this, who not,
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who done it? Who leaked it? We always ask two questions,
why leak it now? And who does the leak benefit?
And so I've done that and activating the Malard Investigative Bureau.
This one is child's play. This is easy. This is
like beginner level. This is an entry level question. I'm
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gonna ask my students it is. It's child's play. It
sure as hell wasn't the Buffalo Bill's ownership. Can we
all agree on that. You're nodding your head, Yes, it
wasn't the Bill's ownership, because this makes them look like
a bunch of country bumpkins. You can't handle the truth. Now,
if you follow the cookie crumbs from Felexus in Buffalo
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and Bill's monster if you follow, and also inker tear,
if you follow the cookie crumbs, they lead right to
the Sean McDermott caucus is where they lead. And this
is a where's Waldough situation? So where's Waldo situation?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Now?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What do I mean by that? Everyone and their uncle? Right,
they're looking at the roster and meanwhile, Waldo, if you
look for Waldo, we're in a headset saying, hey, hey,
I didn't choke. I didn't choke in those big games.
My toys were broken. This is what's called reputation laundering
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by the Sean McDermott group, the people that are invested
in McDermott getting another head coaching job. It is public
relations scented candle, like like light the candle, you'll change
the smell in the room and all that stuff. Flip
the script, right, you flip the script. Sean McDermott goes
from playoff underachiever to misunderstood martyr. He had Oh it
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wasn't his fault. He knew they needed better players and
they didn't get him better players. Of course that's a
loser's attitude, right. You complain about the the ingredients, the tools,
you have and you'll figure it out, all right, you
figure it out, and that's the way you're supposed to
do it. And it's also a day get right, it's
a tell buffalo brass. We obviously didn't leak it again,
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no chance this was leaked intentionally because Sean McDermot would
like to get the raider job or the Browns job,
one of these other jobs that is open. And so
symphony have playing the tug at the heartstrings symphony a
symphony symphony. I can't say the word. There you go
the uh trying to get public favor if you will.
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That sells us well, I'm going to court a public
opinion and all that stuff. Anyway, it is the ban
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certainly will be used against you in the court of
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o Piner from just on the Road and over the
hill from the pro Bouncy Ball Hall of Fame in Springfield,
mass says McDermott. His complaints, You know, his complaint sounds
(23:11):
like sour grapes. But at the same time he's not wrong.
How mister Bean bamboozled the ownership into a promotion is puzzling.
At the least, he must be really nice, must be
a good guy to hang out with. Ferg Dog says,
is it too early to pencil the Chargers into next
year's Super Bowl now that they got Mike McDaniel as
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the offensive coordinator. Yeah, we'll get to that later. It's
on my big board for a dog, not a list.
It's on my big board. That'll be coming up a
little bit later. Barbecuing len rights in he had retired
as a caller, and he came out of retirement. He's
such a star caller. He came out of retirement. Barbecuing
Lenz says, I'm excited, Ben I went to Game four
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of the ALCS. I am now qualified for the Hall
of Fame. Have you banged on some trash cans that'll
get you in the Hall of Fame? Yeah, I don't know,
why not? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
All right, fair enough. And there were some other comments
from some of these knuckleheads that I wanted to address here, JJ,
who said, you know, damn well, this guy in Seattle
who's whining, he's having a pity party because the Dodgers
spent too much money.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
We I reget the Dodger can't win.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Oh my god, he says, you know, damn well, having
a higher payroll gives you an immensely better shot at winning.
I am not a low information fan at all. The
Blue Jays and the Dodgers were top three in baseball. Well, JJ,
you have You might not be a low information fan,
but you're a loser fan, right. You don't have that
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fighting spirit. It's a shame. By your standard, everyone should
be exactly the same, and that's how every team should be.
And that's not how life is. So why should sports
be like that? And by your standard, Indiana should not
have won the championship. He's in the Indiana story is
so good in college football is because the overcame the eyes.
They spent money.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh my God, they spend money, they paid players and
oh my god, so bad.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The greatest upset of all time is David beating Goliath.
The It's in the Bible. That would not be allowed
if people like JJ ran the world. Well, we can't
allow that. Goliath is too big. David's got no chance.
We can't come on so wrong we Parito writes it.
He says, Hey, John Morosi, I was on an earlier
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show and like a blank blank he said he voted
for Carlos Beltron. He said, because we don't know how
many teams cheated, he says. Parita says, what an a hole.
They were caught redhanded. Yeah, I didn't hear that, so
I don't know if that's true. If that's true, that's
I mean, that's come on. I like John Paul Arrossi,
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but it's embarrassing for him and every other baseball writer
who won't vote for the steroid guys. You know, I
won't Bonds and Clemmens and a Rod and Manny Ramirez,
who's now off the ballot. Those guys can't get in. Well,
you've already voted people who did steroids in the Hall
of Fame, you dummies. Let's go to the phones. The
Black Irishman is in Omaha. Hello, Black Irishman, welcome. Hold on.
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We'll see that's not on the air, Coop, but i'd
see I'm hitting that right there. Hold on a sec,
Hold on a sec. We're having phone issues now, Coop said.
If I punch up the right the left side, it
will work. Let me let me try this again. Hello,
Black Irishman. That doesn't. That does not work. So all right,
I've hung up on the Black Irishman. It's one of
those nights. That's all you ask and they say, yeah, yeah,
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come into the mother ship and you gotta you know,
everything's good and all that, and here we are, here
we are. I've had nothing but issues. I'm sure. Yeah,
it feels like Monday. That'll get fixed right away. That'll
that'll be fixed. Uh well, caliber well, if coward has
a problem, will get quickly. Well, coward, doesn't they calls?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
He's an overnight show for me. Does he take calls.
I don't know if he takes calls on it. I
don't listen to a show, but I'm if he does
take calls, this will be fixed right away, immediately, it
will be fixed. No, question about Now I did find
I think this is a burner account for Albouve, mister Alboove. Yeah. Uh.
(27:27):
It just has a heart emoji on the name, and
it says ben give it up on the cheating a Astros.
Then this person says the Astros did not cheat. Everyone
has an edge. This person said the Astros did not chat.
This has to be Albouve. It has to be Albouve.
Burner account has to be uh. And then they do
(27:50):
what about ism, which you've lost the argument. If you
ever took a debate class, I don't know who this is.
I don't if it's a man or a woman, or
it's some kind of body account or a lizard person
or the Grays. I don't know whatever that thing is.
When you do what about ism, you've lost the argument.
(28:10):
You're doing what about ism? Case in point. Give you
an example. Next time you get pulled over speeding and
the officer says, I need your drivers and registration. How
fast were you driving? And he said, well, I was
going the speed of traffic. Everyone else was going the
same speed. It doesn't matter. You still get the ticket, Sir,
(28:33):
I was driving with intention. Yeah, unless you're a hot
woman like Lorraina, and then maybe you get out of
the ticket. But if you're ugly like the rest of us,
that doesn't work. That does not work. Understand all right?
The black Irishman's called back. Now Coop's gonna have to
punch the calls up and he loves that. He really
gets excited about it, and he's really there's the black
(28:55):
Irish from your boy the Rams. It's not my boys.
I didn't give birth to the Rams. What I like
the Rams? You know what I got. I got big plants,
Black irishman. You know what I'm gonna be doing on Sunday.
You know what I'm doing. I'm gonna be sitting on
the sofa. I'm gonna have appetizers, I'm gonna have some beverages,
(29:18):
and I'm gonna be wearing my my hat from Creighton
University that you got me. I am gonna wear that
hat proudly. Uh size eight Creighton Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Cat.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
No, don't wake your daughter. Why is your daughter's not
involved in this? I just wanted to tell you I'm
so happy you sent me that hat and I'm gonna
wear proudly.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I love you too. Wait, I'm trying to change something.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Loren is what. I don't know. He just he just
announced he loves you, Loraina. The black Irishman. Now for
those sometimes when you're on the air black Irishman, people
send me messages you shouldn't call you shouldn't call that
guy a black Irishman. But you, you, yourself, came up
with that nickname, right, you said you did.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
White dude called me that because my name is Sullivan.
He's telling me. I'm like, dang, I like that.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Okay, So you didn't come up with it on your own, right,
someone else gave it to you.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
What? Yeah, the white guy at the pawn shot.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's all great nickdames in the history of time. All
great nicknames come from a pawn shop.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
For real?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
What were you? What were you? Were you buying something
or selling.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
The whole bunch of stuff?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Oh no, what did you plant?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Don't you?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
What did you put? I got to know? Hey, I
got it. I gotta know. What did you put?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
What were you?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
A lot of stuff?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
What does that mean? Like jewelry is a secret. I
know it's a secret. No one's listening. It's in the
middle of the man.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
That was a way you name it? Whatever? Whatever I could,
pind I named.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
And what did you need money for?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Oh? Okay, okay, I don't you could. I don't know, Man,
you on the spot.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'm not putting you on this. I'm just asking questions.
I'm curious. You don't want to talk about it. You
don't have to talk about it. It's fine. I just
I thought it would.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I want to stand. Hey, man, I want to spend
more money than I make. How's that sound? But I
don't tell you man about that. I told you about
the Sea Haws. What the season started? Man, you gotta
give it to me. I did say the Sea Hawks.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Let's give it to you, all right, Yeah, let's everyone
give it. Everyone stand up and applaud the Black Iris.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
You see.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You said, Well, you said you like Sam going on.
I said, yeah, I do, but he ain't really doing nothing.
It's just a team in general.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, it was not very good. Okay, whatever, okay, whatever
it's not. It is not whatever. He's not very good.
I know this, Josh.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I'm sorry. I want to talk about Tyreek. Hugh and
my homeboy. They both heard. All you gotta do is
come back. Can't see next year? Another scene. These stupid
coaches going forward on fourth down? Who and the hell
goes for it on fourth down?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
He'll go, have you not watched the NFL for the
last seven years?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
That's what I'm watch it. I don't like it. Man,
Who ni fourth down?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay? I say the survey says everyone goes for it
on fourth down? Everyone goes forward on fourth out your fire?
You're old? Your daughter's sleeping? Your daughter is actually sleeping,
are you? She's not gamy? She might be gaming. Maybe
she's gaming, she might not be.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
She can take phone calls. I told you, man, when
you get tired of take.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
A phone calls, it's just caught up. Yeah, stuff like that.
All everything good. You hadn't heard from you. We haven't
heard him in a while. Black the hat?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I got the hat, dude, I know I don't take
you double or nothing on the super Bowl? Right? Well?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Why would why?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I mean not the super Bowl champions right?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
First of all, if you have the hat, why would
you want to make another vet? You already have the hat,
you purchased the hat. Why would you Why would you
not want to give me the hat?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I Am going to give it to you.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Okay, what's called if you buy a gift and never
give it to someone.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Is that a thing? There's a thing. Calm down, all right, please,
people actually listen to not many, there's some people listening.
I think you got nothing else to say. That's it,
you're out of material. All right, we'll go to go
to bed. All right, thank you, thank you. There you go.
(33:17):
The black Irishman's it's bedtime. You got to hang up
on him, Cooper, he's still in the area.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I know.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Don't walk away. I can't hang up on anybody anybody
there you go? All right, very nice. What's the great
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As we work our way through the overnight hours, we're
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it's got my start. There was a woman that came
(34:25):
from Minnesota to try out for one of the talk
show positions named Michelle Tafoya. She didn't get the job.
She would go on to have a twenty plus year
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(34:46):
how about that? Ah Yeah, she's running for the Senate
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or not, but I thought that was like, wow, that's
kind of cool when you know someone. I don't really
know her, but I ran we crossed like ships passing
in the night. And then you know later here here
she is popping up on the radar. Time now for
the Insta Trivia Buffalo's Josh Allen and the ravens Lamar
(35:09):
Jackson are the first MVP quarterbacks at age thirty or
younger to have to deal with a coaching change since
Blank had a new coach years ago. Again, Buffalo's Josh Allen,
Baltimore's Lamar Jackson the first MVP quarterbacks at age thirty
or younger to deal with a coaching change since Blank
had a new coach years ago. That is the insta
(35:30):
trivia the answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
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(36:31):
Insta trivia. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson the first MVP
quarterbacks at age thirty or younger to deal with the
coaching change since Blank had a new coach of years ago.
Eileen in San Francisco says Michelle Tafoya is the answer.
Nick going with Baker Mayfield as his answer. John Elway
(36:52):
from Milkman, Mike and Colorado, Nelson Mandela from Bobby in
Florida in Florida, Louis Tiant from I'm alf the Alien Opiner.
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it's Kurt Warner. Kurt Warner back in two thousand for
the Saint Louis Rams when Dick for Meal stepped away,
(37:33):
Here we go. It's here. We're gone to the third degree.
This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
In his ten games with the Seahawks, Rashid Shaheed has
returned to kickoff for a touchdown three times now summer,
crediting Shaheed with changing Seattle season, Ben is the trade
for Shaheed the best deadline deal since the forty nine
ers dealt for McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
First of all, he didn't change their season. They were
having a good year. That what changed their season is
Puka Nakula went on a podcast and ripped the NFL
officials or a live stream, and the NFL officials violated
the rule book and helped Seattle out in that game
on that Thursday night. That helped Seattle out more than
anything else, the playoff game against the Night. They could
have had Doug Baldwin out there or Tyler Lockett and
(38:20):
they would have won that game. The way the forty
nine ers played, it's been a good trade. Let's not
get crazy, though, Come on, please Next.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
There's been a call for full time reps for years now,
but former VP of Officiating Mike Pereira might be the
most prominent person calling for that. Peira said in before
the divisional round that the seventeen referees who lead each
of the officiating crews should be full time employees. Ben
with that and all the controversy over the weekend, do
you think the NFL finally takes a shot at this.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
No, because the NFL loves controversy, It wouldn't end the controversy.
Baseball has full time umpires, People still wrap up umpires.
NBA has got full time officials. How often does Scott
Foster get ripped in the NBA? It doesn't change it.
The issue is the subjective nature of the calls. That's
never going to change. The NFL likes it that way.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Next, the Charlotte Hornets are eleven games under five hundred,
but analyst Brian Windhorse believes that they would beat the
Lakers in a series better than the Lakers really that bad?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Well, if Brian wind Horse said it, the Hornets have
They did play well against the Lakers this year, but
now in a seven game series, it would be different.
I would like to think they would beat the Hornets. Otherwise,
JJ Reddick will be back doing podcast full time. If
that's the case, how did we do kobolo? You pass
as they would play?
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Won a game hollowing James I won, James hollowing James
I won
Boom, Shaka Laca. It's our number too, Ben Maler Show.
We got a trade, We got trade action. The New
York Metropolitans have acquired outfielder centerfielder Luis Robert Junior from
the Chicago White Sox who had one good year and
a bunch of garbage? Does this count as a blockbuster trade?
(00:23):
I know they're happy at the Vatican getting rid of
this guy, but are the Mets happy? Also? What are
the chances? What are the chances that Wemby in the
NBA helps make the All Star Game great again? We'll
discuss that. And in the NFL, former coach Sean McDermott,
according to a report, pointed out the broken Bill's roster
(00:43):
and was rejected by the ownership in Buffalo. How do
you decode this one to all of that and more?
Right now? In our number two, we got trade action,
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Our lead this hour from the Trading Post. We have
a deal. We have a deal in baseball. So what
is it? Who cares? Let me explain. So we've learned
that the New York Metropolitans have added centerfielder Louise Robert
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Junior from the Chicago White Sox. Who what, Louise Robert Junior.
That doesn't make it, That doesn't make it tingle? No, okay,
the Mets will send outfielder Louise Angel Akuna. Yes he
is related to his the brothers siblings, the guy for
the Braves that always gets hurt, and a minor league
(03:57):
pitcher you've never heard of. They go from the Mets
to the White Sox and the Truman Show. There you go.
So the Pope's favorite team gets a couple of scratcher takes. Now,
immediately the reaction has been what over the top, as
only the Met fan can do only the Met fan
can do this. Immediately, the Met fans, some of them,
(04:18):
are hyping up Luis Robert Jr. He's the great Cuban
missile and just what the roster needs, just what the
roster needs, and perfect addition to the Mets lineup, shouting
from the heavens, we have gotten our man. It's like
he's he's got that Broadway aura. They of course, keep
in mind the same people that are saying this, the
(04:41):
same people that are barking this out. These are casual
baseball fans, and they when the trade was announced, they went,
who is that? What's that guy's name? That's what That
was their first reaction. And then they said, well, he's him.
In record time, they just they google him. They googled
this guy once and they're like, all right, let's build
(05:03):
a statue. Come on that right next to mister Mett.
We'll build a statue right there, and Ralph Kiner. So
that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
the question the Mets trading for White Sox outfielder Luis
Robert Jr. Does this count as a blockbuster trade? No,
(05:24):
I've got Nordstrom rack, corporate retreat and where's Waldo and
we will combine all of these things together, one, two,
three and ABC.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So number wa I said number.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
One more time. Number. This is not a blockbuster in
the traditional sense that we use in the lexicon of
sports radio. It is not. And we know this. You
know this, and you're smart. I'm smart. So this is
a blockbuster video in twenty twenty six. That's the kind
of blockbuster. This is the empty shelves, dusty DVD cases
(06:05):
and that please that little sticker that used to slap
on there, but please be kind and rewind you know
that thing there, that's it. That's what this is. Once
upon a time, in a land far far ago, you
had Luis Robert Jr. Who got MVP votes. He was
considered a luxury brand. Think of it like if it
(06:26):
was a watch, he would have been a Rolex. With
the White Sox he just broke out was amazing and
almost forty home runs, drove in a bunch of runs.
He was great. At this point in the story, we're
at the point in the story where Luis Robert Jr.
Is like a scratched fit bit sitting in the clearance
bin at the Nordstrom rack. That's where he is right now,
(06:47):
red tag final sale as is no returns. There you go.
Keep in mind the Mets wanted Kyle Tucker. They thought
they were gonna get Kyle Tucker. Instead, the Mets are
now convincing themselves the front office that the broken dreams
of this guy Robert they got from the White Sox.
(07:07):
They just needed a new zip code. Give him a
new zip code. Everything. Change of scenery, classic change of scenery,
rebirth story arc at Sportscasting Clown College. So there is that,
and it's kind of like the house plan is dying
on your windows still. You've got a right on the
windows kind of dying there. So we'll just move it
(07:30):
a little over to the right and then it'll be good.
So let's talk about geography. You want to talk about geography. Oh,
it's a sports radio show. We don't care about geography.
So the Mets play in Queens, the borough of queens,
more specifically flushing, which could not be more appropriate, could
not be more appropriate. That's not branding. That is baseball destiny.
(07:52):
That is baseball dest Careers don't blossom there, they don't.
They don't blossom there, and they go down the porcelain
is where they go, right, do the old swirly swirl
right there, swirl swirl and then you know where that
ends up right right around the ball and disappears into
the East River. And then someone goes and catches a
(08:14):
fish and the fish is in. Well, you know what
happens anyway, So the Mets, what do they need pitching?
You gotta get pitching. You gotta get pitching, you gotta
get and do the Mets have that? No, Instead, they're well,
we didn't get talkers, so let's go out and get
some gold. Of course it's it's fool's gold, is what
(08:35):
it is, right, And so of course the many people, oh,
it's great, wonderful. Not exactly the championship kind of move
when you're looking for the career renaissance. Good luck. It's
a flyer. It's a flyer. The Mets are playing. They're
paying this guy twenty million, all right, expensive fly twenty
million dollars. I read the Mets are paying this guy.
So the Mets are playing the runner up ribbon game,
(08:56):
as are twenty nine other teams because all of you
have told me it's all over. There's no need to
play this season. The Dodgers are gonna win the World Series.
There's no chance they don't win the World Series. They're
gonna win the World Series. So twenty nine other teams
are playing for the silver medal. The Dodgers have already
wrapped up the gold medal. The Mets are one of
those teams. But you look at the Mets, they have
a history of lies and promises that were never met
(09:16):
and hope that's always on layaway. That's the Mets. That's
the Met way. Same song. Years have changed, different kind
of disappointment.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Meanwhile, we head to pro bouncy Ball where the Parisian
prodigy making some headlines. Here Spurs star Victor Wembanyama. Victor
Wimanyama said this week, I want the name of the
All Star team and all that. One of the big
faces of the new age of the NBA, he said, quote,
I want to push the great players of this sport
(09:44):
to play in the All Star Game just as hard
as I will. Wemby stated, we'll see how it goes,
but if they don't play hard, I'll do it without them.
Close quote it's Victor Webbanyama. Here's the question, what are
the chances just between us, what are the chances that Wemby,
the San Antonio Spurs star Wemby helps make the All
(10:07):
Star Game great again by actually hustling? So the odds
malar odds on this. We spent about thirty seconds deliberating
the available information on the NBA All Star Game, and
the odds say Squad Douche gets an S for Squad
Douche good luck on that. This is adorable though it
(10:30):
is right, how naive you can be and think that
this is all gonna work out for It's kind of
like a kid shown up to a poker game with
a bunch of monopoly money in a rule book. It's like,
you might want to sit this one out, you know,
I'm just saying. So Wemby says he's gonna play hard.
He's gonna play hard, and the other stars, of course,
(10:51):
they don't like that, right, And he says if they
don't pay attention, he'll just do it alone, and that's
what he's gonna do. It's terrific, very noble of when
ban Yama to say that he's also showing the world
he's absolutely clueless, absolutely clueless. Why this Just in to
the Ben Maler Show on Fox Sports Radio, the NBA
(11:12):
All Star Game is not broken. People think it's broken.
It's not broken. It is working exactly as it is
designed to work. They keep futzing around with the format,
but it's working the way they want it to work.
When I say they, I'm talking about the people that
are on the court. It is a corporate retreat with sneakers.
(11:35):
That's what the NBA All Star Game is. A corporate
retreat in sneakers. It is a showroom. It is a handshake,
grab ass convention with a basketball problem. Right. The problem
is they're supposed to play in the All Star Game.
I don't want to play in the All Star Game.
And years ago, with no one asking, the players of
(11:56):
the NBA were so soft. How soft were they? They
were so soft these players that they voted with their
feet wildcat style, wildcat strike style. And their effort or
the lack of effort in the NBA All Star Game
they stop caring, and we stop caring, all right, so
(12:16):
nobody cares. That's the NBA All Star Game. No defense,
no diving for loose balls, no sweat stains. Some of
these guys in the Also Game, they don't even need
to take showers after the game because they don't put
no effort into the All Star Game. It's all about
positive vibes and all that.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
You know, the.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Social media selfies and you know, put on the gram
and TikTok and the occasional just every once in a while,
the uncontested circus dunk. That's just to keep the sponsors
from panicking, just to keep them from panicking and all
that stuff. So every few years, and this just happens
to be Wemby, But every few years in all these sports,
there's a young buck that comes along that shows up
(12:56):
like a fire breathing dragon, and hey, listen, I'm gonna play.
I gotta earn my money, I got to sing for
my supper, and I'm gonna play hard, even though it's
the All Star Game. And inevitably what happens is tap tap,
look at the tap on the shoulder. Hey hey kid,
we'd like to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
What is it.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Yeah, so you know you're making us look bad here.
It's a it's a marathon, not a wind sprint the
All Star Game. Save save the energy, save the calories.
Nobody's getting paid extra for caring. No one's getting extra
money for hustling. Uh so there you go. So listen Wembley.
Wemby can play hard. Good for him, But the revolution
(13:40):
changing the All Star Game, making it great again is
not going to happen here, and just not. So that's
how the NBA hot Dogs are made good luck. I
recall when I was covering baseball years ago before the
Dodgers became good when they sucked, and I was doing
the Dodger programming in another life, and there was a
guy on the team that they called up from Triple
A Albuquerque, Albuqueres. And this guy was hustling and running
(14:02):
wild and young outfielder, and he got the talk and
he was taught about the what they call it the
big league jog. It's still a thing in baseball where
you hit a ball that's almost guaranteed to be an
out and you don't hustle. This guy would hustle, and
he would make the other guys look bad because they
were lazy. They were lazy, so he got to talk.
(14:23):
The veteran player said, listen, making us look bad. Here,
come on, like, what are you doing all right?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Now?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Final point to Buffalo. Here we go, Buffalo Bill's mafia
going through these seven stages of grief after they lost
in Denver and then lost their head coach, and I
read an interesting story here if you saw this or not,
the Bill's organization, the leaders had a pow wow with
Sean McDermott, the former coach, and McDermott pointed out, according
(14:50):
to the story, McDermott pointed out the many flaws in
the Buffalo Bill's roster that were preventing the team from
reaching the Promised land. So, according to the reporting, breathless reporting,
the GM, mister Bean and Terry Pegoula, the owner, were
(15:13):
not happy. They were upset with McDermott and they got
annoyed that he was complaining about the way the roster
was built there in western New York. So the question
for you, and I'm gonna answer this first, but here's
the question. Former coach Sean McDermott pointing out that the
Bills roster was not up to standard. It was a
(15:34):
bit broken and being rejected, rejected by ownership. How do
you decode this particular report. So let's use the Mallard
Dakota ring on this one. We're also going to open
up the MiB. So not only are we using the
Mallard Dakota ring, we're going to open up the MIIB.
(15:55):
Now that's not men in Black, that's the Malord Investigative Bureau,
So you're can investigate. So this leak out of Buffalo
and it smells. It smells like some rotting chicken wings
from the anchor bar and grill that were left outside
to rot, is what it sounds. It smells like that. Yeah, yeah,
(16:16):
So this is another one to the low information fan,
to the casual fan. They see this headline and it
makes the bills look like villains twirling their mustaches. You know,
the classic cartoon villain twirling the mustache. That's what it
looks like if you just look at the way the
story was reported. Oh no, my coach, who I love?
(16:39):
You want and better players?
Speaker 2 (16:41):
And the mean oders said no, no, no, no, you
don't get better players.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
And how's my acting on these a?
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Right?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Bad? Not bad? Not bad thing. I'll be here all
week anyway. If you don't like, it's an overnighte If
you liked it, I'll be here all week. If you
don't like, it's an overnight show, so chill out, dude,
what's wrong with you? Go have a beer? All right? Anyway,
So let's be level headed on this one. I'm gonna
be level headed. We're gonna play the parlor game. What
do you say? You and I are gonna play the
parlor game. So the parlor game works like this, who not,
(17:13):
who done it? Who leaked it? We always ask two questions,
why leak it now? And who does the leak benefit?
And so I've done that and activating the Malard Investigative Bureau.
This one is child's play. This is easy. This is
like beginner level. This is an entry level question. I'm
(17:35):
gonna ask my students it is. It's child's play. It
sure as hell wasn't the Buffalo Bill's ownership. Can we
all agree on that. You're nodding your head, Yes, it
wasn't the Bill's ownership, because this makes them look like
a bunch of country bumpkins. You can't handle the truth. Now,
if you follow the cookie crumbs from Felexus in Buffalo
(17:58):
and Bill's monster if you follow, and also inker tear,
if you follow the cookie crumbs, they lead right to
the Sean McDermott caucus is where they lead. And this
is a where's Waldough situation? So where's Waldo situation?
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Now?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What do I mean by that? Everyone and their uncle? Right,
they're looking at the roster and meanwhile, Waldo, if you
look for Waldo, we're in a headset saying, hey, hey,
I didn't choke. I didn't choke in those big games.
My toys were broken. This is what's called reputation laundering
(18:36):
by the Sean McDermott group, the people that are invested
in McDermott getting another head coaching job. It is public
relations scented candle, like like light the candle, you'll change
the smell in the room and all that stuff. Flip
the script, right, you flip the script. Sean McDermott goes
from playoff underachiever to misunderstood martyr. He had Oh it
(19:03):
wasn't his fault. He knew they needed better players and
they didn't get him better players. Of course that's a
loser's attitude, right. You complain about the the ingredients, the tools,
you have and you'll figure it out, all right, you
figure it out, and that's the way you're supposed to
do it. And it's also a day get right, it's
a tell buffalo brass. We obviously didn't leak it again,
(19:27):
no chance this was leaked intentionally because Sean McDermot would
like to get the raider job or the Browns job,
one of these other jobs that is open. And so
symphony have playing the tug at the heartstrings symphony a
symphony symphony. I can't say the word. There you go
the uh trying to get public favor if you will.
(19:50):
That sells us well, I'm going to court a public
opinion and all that stuff. Anyway, it is the ban
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I fell asleep.
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There an example. We haven't heard from Helmet Man checking out.
He's playing the shower right now. I'm in the shower
for three hours. Three hours? Yeah, what do you mean
by that? It is possible Helmet Man's interviewing for the
Raven's head coaching job right now. It's conceivable. Oh yeah,
is that why he's not calling eight seven seven nine
(22:27):
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Cooper Loop a Bronco fan, your comments can and most
(22:47):
certainly will be used against you in the court of
the malar militia, So please act accordingly. Alf the alien
o Piner from just on the Road and over the
hill from the pro Bouncy Ball Hall of Fame in Springfield,
mass says McDermott. His complaints, You know, his complaint sounds
(23:11):
like sour grapes. But at the same time he's not wrong.
How mister Bean bamboozled the ownership into a promotion is puzzling.
At the least, he must be really nice, must be
a good guy to hang out with. Ferg Dog says,
is it too early to pencil the Chargers into next
year's Super Bowl now that they got Mike McDaniel as
(23:33):
the offensive coordinator. Yeah, we'll get to that later. It's
on my big board for a dog, not a list.
It's on my big board. That'll be coming up a
little bit later. Barbecuing len rights in he had retired
as a caller, and he came out of retirement. He's
such a star caller. He came out of retirement. Barbecuing
Lenz says, I'm excited, Ben I went to Game four
(23:54):
of the ALCS. I am now qualified for the Hall
of Fame. Have you banged on some trash cans that'll
get you in the Hall of Fame? Yeah, I don't know,
why not? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
No?
Speaker 1 (24:06):
All right, fair enough. And there were some other comments
from some of these knuckleheads that I wanted to address here, JJ,
who said, you know, damn well, this guy in Seattle
who's whining, he's having a pity party because the Dodgers
spent too much money.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
We I reget the Dodger can't win.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Oh my god, he says, you know, damn well, having
a higher payroll gives you an immensely better shot at winning.
I am not a low information fan at all. The
Blue Jays and the Dodgers were top three in baseball. Well, JJ,
you have You might not be a low information fan,
but you're a loser fan, right. You don't have that
(24:45):
fighting spirit. It's a shame. By your standard, everyone should
be exactly the same, and that's how every team should be.
And that's not how life is. So why should sports
be like that? And by your standard, Indiana should not
have won the championship. He's in the Indiana story is
so good in college football is because the overcame the eyes.
They spent money.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
Oh my God, they spend money, they paid players and
oh my god, so bad.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The greatest upset of all time is David beating Goliath.
The It's in the Bible. That would not be allowed
if people like JJ ran the world. Well, we can't
allow that. Goliath is too big. David's got no chance.
We can't come on so wrong we Parito writes it.
He says, Hey, John Morosi, I was on an earlier
(25:34):
show and like a blank blank he said he voted
for Carlos Beltron. He said, because we don't know how
many teams cheated, he says. Parita says, what an a hole.
They were caught redhanded. Yeah, I didn't hear that, so
I don't know if that's true. If that's true, that's
I mean, that's come on. I like John Paul Arrossi,
(25:54):
but it's embarrassing for him and every other baseball writer
who won't vote for the steroid guys. You know, I
won't Bonds and Clemmens and a Rod and Manny Ramirez,
who's now off the ballot. Those guys can't get in. Well,
you've already voted people who did steroids in the Hall
of Fame, you dummies. Let's go to the phones. The
Black Irishman is in Omaha. Hello, Black Irishman, welcome. Hold on.
(26:21):
We'll see that's not on the air, Coop, but i'd
see I'm hitting that right there. Hold on a sec,
Hold on a sec. We're having phone issues now, Coop said.
If I punch up the right the left side, it
will work. Let me let me try this again. Hello,
Black Irishman. That doesn't. That does not work. So all right,
I've hung up on the Black Irishman. It's one of
those nights. That's all you ask and they say, yeah, yeah,
(26:43):
come into the mother ship and you gotta you know,
everything's good and all that, and here we are, here
we are. I've had nothing but issues. I'm sure. Yeah,
it feels like Monday. That'll get fixed right away. That'll
that'll be fixed. Uh well, caliber well, if coward has
a problem, will get quickly. Well, coward, doesn't they calls?
Speaker 5 (27:05):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
He's an overnight show for me. Does he take calls.
I don't know if he takes calls on it. I
don't listen to a show, but I'm if he does
take calls, this will be fixed right away, immediately, it
will be fixed. No, question about Now I did find
I think this is a burner account for Albouve, mister Alboove. Yeah. Uh.
(27:27):
It just has a heart emoji on the name, and
it says ben give it up on the cheating a Astros.
Then this person says the Astros did not cheat. Everyone
has an edge. This person said the Astros did not chat.
This has to be Albouve. It has to be Albouve.
Burner account has to be uh. And then they do
(27:50):
what about ism, which you've lost the argument. If you
ever took a debate class, I don't know who this is.
I don't if it's a man or a woman, or
it's some kind of body account or a lizard person
or the Grays. I don't know whatever that thing is.
When you do what about ism, you've lost the argument.
(28:10):
You're doing what about ism? Case in point. Give you
an example. Next time you get pulled over speeding and
the officer says, I need your drivers and registration. How
fast were you driving? And he said, well, I was
going the speed of traffic. Everyone else was going the
same speed. It doesn't matter. You still get the ticket, Sir,
(28:33):
I was driving with intention. Yeah, unless you're a hot
woman like Lorraina, and then maybe you get out of
the ticket. But if you're ugly like the rest of us,
that doesn't work. That does not work. Understand all right?
The black Irishman's called back. Now Coop's gonna have to
punch the calls up and he loves that. He really
gets excited about it, and he's really there's the black
(28:55):
Irish from your boy the Rams. It's not my boys.
I didn't give birth to the Rams. What I like
the Rams? You know what I got. I got big plants,
Black irishman. You know what I'm gonna be doing on Sunday.
You know what I'm doing. I'm gonna be sitting on
the sofa. I'm gonna have appetizers, I'm gonna have some beverages,
(29:18):
and I'm gonna be wearing my my hat from Creighton
University that you got me. I am gonna wear that
hat proudly. Uh size eight Creighton Blue Jays.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
Cat.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
No, don't wake your daughter. Why is your daughter's not
involved in this? I just wanted to tell you I'm
so happy you sent me that hat and I'm gonna
wear proudly.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
I love you too. Wait, I'm trying to change something.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
Loren is what. I don't know. He just he just
announced he loves you, Loraina. The black Irishman. Now for
those sometimes when you're on the air black Irishman, people
send me messages you shouldn't call you shouldn't call that
guy a black Irishman. But you, you, yourself, came up
with that nickname, right, you said you did.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
White dude called me that because my name is Sullivan.
He's telling me. I'm like, dang, I like that.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Okay, So you didn't come up with it on your own, right,
someone else gave it to you.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
What? Yeah, the white guy at the pawn shot.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
That's all great nickdames in the history of time. All
great nicknames come from a pawn shop.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
For real?
Speaker 1 (30:24):
What were you? What were you? Were you buying something
or selling.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
The whole bunch of stuff?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Oh no, what did you plant?
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Don't you?
Speaker 1 (30:32):
What did you put? I got to know? Hey, I
got it. I gotta know. What did you put?
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
What were you?
Speaker 3 (30:38):
A lot of stuff?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
What does that mean? Like jewelry is a secret. I
know it's a secret. No one's listening. It's in the
middle of the man.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
That was a way you name it? Whatever? Whatever I could,
pind I named.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
And what did you need money for?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
Oh? Okay, okay, I don't you could. I don't know, Man,
you on the spot.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
I'm not putting you on this. I'm just asking questions.
I'm curious. You don't want to talk about it. You
don't have to talk about it. It's fine. I just
I thought it would.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
I want to stand. Hey, man, I want to spend
more money than I make. How's that sound? But I
don't tell you man about that. I told you about
the Sea Haws. What the season started? Man, you gotta
give it to me. I did say the Sea Hawks.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Let's give it to you, all right, Yeah, let's everyone
give it. Everyone stand up and applaud the Black Iris.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
You see.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
You said, Well, you said you like Sam going on.
I said, yeah, I do, but he ain't really doing nothing.
It's just a team in general.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, it was not very good. Okay, whatever, okay, whatever
it's not. It is not whatever. He's not very good.
I know this, Josh.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
I'm sorry. I want to talk about Tyreek. Hugh and
my homeboy. They both heard. All you gotta do is
come back. Can't see next year? Another scene. These stupid
coaches going forward on fourth down? Who and the hell
goes for it on fourth down?
Speaker 1 (31:55):
He'll go, have you not watched the NFL for the
last seven years?
Speaker 3 (31:59):
That's what I'm watch it. I don't like it. Man,
Who ni fourth down?
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Okay? I say the survey says everyone goes for it
on fourth down? Everyone goes forward on fourth out your fire?
You're old? Your daughter's sleeping? Your daughter is actually sleeping,
are you? She's not gamy? She might be gaming. Maybe
she's gaming, she might not be.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
She can take phone calls. I told you, man, when
you get tired of take.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
A phone calls, it's just caught up. Yeah, stuff like that.
All everything good. You hadn't heard from you. We haven't
heard him in a while. Black the hat?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I got the hat, dude, I know I don't take
you double or nothing on the super Bowl? Right? Well?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Why would why?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
I mean not the super Bowl champions right?
Speaker 1 (32:40):
First of all, if you have the hat, why would
you want to make another vet? You already have the hat,
you purchased the hat. Why would you Why would you
not want to give me the hat?
Speaker 3 (32:48):
I Am going to give it to you.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Okay, what's called if you buy a gift and never
give it to someone.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
Is that a thing? There's a thing. Calm down, all right, please,
people actually listen to not many, there's some people listening.
I think you got nothing else to say. That's it,
you're out of material. All right, we'll go to go
to bed. All right, thank you, thank you. There you go.
(33:17):
The black Irishman's it's bedtime. You got to hang up
on him, Cooper, he's still in the area.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
I know.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Don't walk away. I can't hang up on anybody anybody
there you go? All right, very nice. What's the great
equipment we have the We are the number one sports
radio network in America. By the way, I want you
to bona fide. All right. We are the king of overnight.
Not just overnight, but we are the top sports radio
(33:43):
network in America. We have more lists people listening to
this than anyone else. And nothing works. Nothing, nothing in
the building works. We got cockroaches parachuting in from the ceiling.
It's just absolutely great. All right, skunks in the events, yeah,
all right, Well we'll try to fix the f I
(34:03):
see some big names I would like to get to.
I'll see if they stay on hold, they might hang up,
they might absolutely all right, it is the Ben Malor Show.
As we work our way through the overnight hours, we're
gonna have Mallor to the third Degree coming up. By
the way, the person I crossed path passed with years
ago and I was working in San Diego radio and
it's got my start. There was a woman that came
(34:25):
from Minnesota to try out for one of the talk
show positions named Michelle Tafoya. She didn't get the job.
She would go on to have a twenty plus year
career working the sidelines on NFL games. She left sportscasting
a couple of years ago, and she's announced that she's
going to run for the United States Senate in Minnesota. Yeah, wow,
(34:46):
how about that? Ah Yeah, she's running for the Senate
in Minnesota. So I don't know if she's gonna win
or not, but I thought that was like, wow, that's
kind of cool when you know someone. I don't really
know her, but I ran we crossed like ships passing
in the night. And then you know later here here
she is popping up on the radar. Time now for
the Insta Trivia Buffalo's Josh Allen and the ravens Lamar
(35:09):
Jackson are the first MVP quarterbacks at age thirty or
younger to have to deal with a coaching change since
Blank had a new coach years ago. Again, Buffalo's Josh Allen,
Baltimore's Lamar Jackson the first MVP quarterbacks at age thirty
or younger to deal with a coaching change since Blank
had a new coach years ago. That is the insta
(35:30):
trivia the answer. We'll get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
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So check it out all right time now for the
payoff on the Insta trivia, and then we will get
to Malor to the third degree. So here is the
(36:31):
Insta trivia. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson the first MVP
quarterbacks at age thirty or younger to deal with the
coaching change since Blank had a new coach of years ago.
Eileen in San Francisco says Michelle Tafoya is the answer.
Nick going with Baker Mayfield as his answer. John Elway
(36:52):
from Milkman, Mike and Colorado, Nelson Mandela from Bobby in
Florida in Florida, Louis Tiant from I'm alf the Alien Opiner.
This is Louis Tian for the Hall of Fame. Mark
McGuire from King Rory who has ted Williams the Splendid
Splinter from Scrooge in Northern California. Boomer Asias and guests
(37:12):
by Ike in Roseville, Minnesota. Luke Littler, who is nineteen
today the World Dark Champion from Late Night Drug Tester.
What say you, Lorraine? It does not ken the Snake, eh,
It's got to be Max Goofer from JT No that
isn't correct. It is jac the wing man said that
it's Kurt Warner. Kurt Warner back in two thousand for
the Saint Louis Rams when Dick for Meal stepped away,
(37:33):
Here we go. It's here. We're gone to the third degree.
This is one big Ben gets grilled cool.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
In his ten games with the Seahawks, Rashid Shaheed has
returned to kickoff for a touchdown three times now summer,
crediting Shaheed with changing Seattle season, Ben is the trade
for Shaheed the best deadline deal since the forty nine
ers dealt for McCaffrey.
Speaker 1 (37:57):
First of all, he didn't change their season. They were
having a good year. That what changed their season is
Puka Nakula went on a podcast and ripped the NFL
officials or a live stream, and the NFL officials violated
the rule book and helped Seattle out in that game
on that Thursday night. That helped Seattle out more than
anything else, the playoff game against the Night. They could
have had Doug Baldwin out there or Tyler Lockett and
(38:20):
they would have won that game. The way the forty
nine ers played, it's been a good trade. Let's not
get crazy, though, Come on, please Next.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
There's been a call for full time reps for years now,
but former VP of Officiating Mike Pereira might be the
most prominent person calling for that. Peira said in before
the divisional round that the seventeen referees who lead each
of the officiating crews should be full time employees. Ben
with that and all the controversy over the weekend, do
you think the NFL finally takes a shot at this.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
No, because the NFL loves controversy, It wouldn't end the controversy.
Baseball has full time umpires, People still wrap up umpires.
NBA has got full time officials. How often does Scott
Foster get ripped in the NBA? It doesn't change it.
The issue is the subjective nature of the calls. That's
never going to change. The NFL likes it that way.
Speaker 4 (39:05):
Next, the Charlotte Hornets are eleven games under five hundred,
but analyst Brian Windhorse believes that they would beat the
Lakers in a series better than the Lakers really that bad?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Well, if Brian wind Horse said it, the Hornets have
They did play well against the Lakers this year, but
now in a seven game series, it would be different.
I would like to think they would beat the Hornets. Otherwise,
JJ Reddick will be back doing podcast full time. If
that's the case, how did we do kobolo? You pass
as they would play?
Speaker 2 (39:30):
Won a game hollowing James I won, James hollowing James
I won
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