Hour 2 - Trade Chatter

Ben Maller talks about the latest from Jets HC Robert Saleh about the potential Aaron Rodgers trade, why the Jets & Packers have been unable to accomplish a trade to this point, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nime Bert two hour two
of our radio program, and Robert Sala is salivating about
acquiring the quarterback from the Green Bay Packers, the Jets
coach and a lot to say. Does this pending Aaron

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Rodgers trade chatters say more about the Jets or more
about Aaron Rogers? Also, what is Robert sala looking to
accomplish with this latest commentary praising the Jets organization for
being in contention to get Rogers? And why have the
Jets and Packers been unable to complete the trade? What

(00:45):
are they waiting for? Well examine that as well right
now in our number two waiting for the other shoe
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NFL owner is getting together for a pow wow in
the Valley of the Sun, waiting for the other shoot
to drop as we countdown to Aaron Rodgers being traded?
Is it going to happen this week? Inquiring minds, we'd
like to know, dot dot dot, but have you heard
the latest? Perhaps not? Perhaps you were watching college basketball,
living your life and enjoying your life on the week.

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Is not paying attention to any of the noise? Well,
Robert Salah, who's half man, half motivational speaker, the coach
in New Jersey for the team that wears green, Robert
Salah took time to praise the progress the Jets Suck Suck, suck,

(02:34):
the Jets organization has made because Aaron Rodgers is willing
to play for them. Yep, he's willing to play for them.
Two years ago, this is a quote. Two years ago,
Salah said, when we first got there, I just think
just thinking about where we were and how far we've come.

(02:56):
Sala stated to have a guy like him meeting Rogers
want to play for us is pretty cool and shows
how far we've come close quote. That quote comes from
Robert Salah. He gave it to the state sponsored NFL network.
They probab the news service of Football in America. So
let us discuss the question, does this Aaron Rogers trade

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chatters say more about the Jets or more about Aaron Rodgers?
And the arrow on this one is pointing towards Aaron Rogers. Sorry,
Robert Salah, I've got foul, subway rat and hitchcock in
and we will combine all of these things together and

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that will be the bedrock of this Mallard monologue. So
number one, this is not about the Jets. Aaron Rodgers
has a limited amount of suitors. You can say that's
not right, what's up with that? But that's the reality

(04:07):
of the situation. I'll tell you why Rogers is behind
in the count. He's got several strikes against him. He's
fouled some balls off at this point. That's the problem.
So he's behind the account. There's a lot of hearsay
about Rogers. This that and the other thing. But the
strikes against him, what are they. I'll tell you thirty

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nine years old. He'll turn forty before the next postseason.
Strike one, strike two passed, obviously passed, a cell by date,
making tons of money. I'm a salary cap truther, but
I'm in the minority in the neighborhood of sixty million dollars,
so not fiscally responsible. Aaron Rodgers that strike two and

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the pitch that he fouled off, that would be coming
off a down season. Rogers, with all that afterglow filmost
MVP awards, was seventeenth in quarterback rating in the NFL
last season, twenty first in completion percentage to a tongue
of iload. Jared Golf and Mac Jones completed a higher percentage.

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Rogers was tied for twenty fourth in completion percentage with
guys like Daniel Jones, who sucks. The Giants don't know
that yet because they paid him, and also Mac Jones
keeping up with the Joneses, while Rogers finished in the
top ten and interceptions. This is the Wall Street party foul.

(05:34):
It is a foul. Don't try to catch a falling knife,
because if you try to catch it. Chances are you
going to catch the blade and you're going to cut
your hand. Get a big gusher of blood going everywhere now,
page two. So what is Robert Salo looking to accomplish
with his quote when he said how great it is
and praised the Jets organization for rogers wanting to play

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for the Jets. So what is he looking to accomplish
for that comment. Well, it's rather obvious that Robert Salah
is looking to pat himself on the back, is what
he's doing. This is a self congratulatory comment by Salah.
He's putting a feather in his hat extolling the virtues
of Gang Green. He wants you to know, he wants

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me to know. He wants the world to know that
the Jets are amazed balls. Oh my god, they're so good,
thanks to Robert Salah and Joe Douglas, of course, rhapsodizing
why the regime is so wonderful. Blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah. Meanwhile, it is really chicken fertilizers,

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is what it is. It's chicken fertilizer. It's puffery. The
Jets have merely shown hot flashes. Nothing remarkable about going
seven and ten, which is what the Jets record was
last season. When you take three steps back and look
out at the Aaron Getty and you look at the
landscape here, the Jets have been acting this offseason like

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a cornered New York City subway rat. They are acting
just like a subway rat, desperate to escape the situation,
in this case the duldrums, and so they have methodically
recruited Rogers. The reason this is more about Rogers than
it is the Jets is because Rogers had even't have options.
The Jets, meanwhile, have been over backward to help Rogers out.

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The evidence is overwhelming, follow the breadcrumbs, and so the
Jets have taken up the plan which we'd all love
to have it, the friend and Family plan, putting as
many of number twelve buddies on the payroll, giving them gigs,
hiring a Rodgers confidant in Nathaniel Hackett who couldn't hack

(07:53):
it in Denver, the failed Broncos head coach, signing another
Rodgers soul May and Alan Lazard away from northern Wisconsin,
while working to add other Bosom buddies like Odell Beckham
friends and family of Rogers get all the parks, all
the goodies. So Robert Salas talking about how great is

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I would say, how pathetic the Jets look that they're
going over the top to recruit this guy. Now, final point,
so why have we not reached the deal? Why have
the Jets and the Packers been unable to get the
deal done for Aaron Rodgers get the trade done. So
there's a couple of theories on this. We don't have

(08:38):
insider information here, but we can certainly spitball, which is
a lot more fun. Rogers said earlier this month on
a YouTube show on YouTube influencer Pat McAfee show that
he intends to play for the Jets, but trade compensation
is the only thing stopping him from landing in New York.

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Right now, they are at an impass as. Turning this
into a hitchcocky and melo drama is what they're doing here,
dragging it out, doing the limbo how low can you go?
But there is no rush to complete the deal. Now.
Some of said it's going to happen this week. I'll
believe it when it happens. There's a staring match and

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you're trying to see who will flinch first. The talks
have stalled since the Jets big wigs are either unwilling
or unsure whether or not they want to trade a
first round pick, the number thirteen overall pick in the
late April draft from Kansas City to rent Aaron Rodgers
for maybe only one more year or possibly two. Now,

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I think the Jets are rather pathetic here, But you've
already signed Hackett, who can't coach. You signed Alan Lazard
to suck up to Aaron Rodgers. You gotta complete the trade.
Just give the first round pick. Who the hell cares?
Most of these picks do not work out as advertised anyway,
f maam picks. You'd rather take one championship, considering the

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highlights of the Jets championship with Joe Namath back in
the day, that grainy real by real highlight thing that
was like barely colored television. That's the last time the
Jets won, So you might as well go for it.
Who cares? And if you get burned because you trade
the thirteenth pick overall and it ends up turning out
to be a great player in Green Bay, then who cares? All? Right?

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One season? One season sitting at the grown ups table
is worth it at this particular point when Rogers retires,
you'll figure it out. People say it's not fair. It's
a band aid. Who cares. It's a good band aid.
And if you've ever cut yourself, a good band aid
goes a long way. It's a good that's a solid
band aid. This is the Bain Maller Show. If you

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owner has said, no, I'm not doing what you want
me to do. No, no, no, no, no. Which NFL

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owner is it isn't and what is it all about?
We will get to the bottom of that and we
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Mallard Later this hour got Mallard to the third degree,

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and if you're with us for the full journey through
the overnight, we've got the instant AdviceLine next hour, the
Mallard Militia feud also scheduled for later on. If we
began with an Aaron Rodgers them monologue, the Late Night
gear Grinder writes in and says, I give you a

(12:52):
B on the hour to monologue big Man. The only
reason he's not an A is because I am sick
of here about the diva. From the Bay scale of
one to ten, would you blame the down season on
the lack of reliable receivers? So on the scale of
one to ten, Late Night gear Grinder, who is a

(13:15):
diehard Minnesota unbashed a polished apologist from Minnesota Sports, I
would say on the Aaron Rodgers scale of one to ten,
receiver's fault. I'm gonna go three. And here's why. It's
the quarterback. It's like the chicken and the egg arguments
the quarterback that makes the receiver, not vice versa. Yea,

(13:36):
Phoebe says, Hey, Mallard, he's in Chicago A plus and
two mc chickens on the Mallard monologue, the frogers think
he is a Kevin Costner in the movie For Love
of the Game, where he reminisces about shagging groupies while
pitching a perfect game. Okay, let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth

(14:00):
teaching the youth of America. Hello Andre, Welcome, Hello Ben.
How how's it going, Yes, teaching teaching the youth of
America how to take power naps. You got to take
power naps of order in order to be part of
the Malari. But the lessons that we're gonna have on
Monday lessons, we're gonna have a Monday Ben, And you
alluded to it. Okay, when you got a big ball

(14:22):
game deciding who goes to the final four, and you're
an official, which, by the way, I am, I referee
high school and also some college basketball. Ben Okay, we
got to let the players decide. We call it whistle discipline. Ben, Okay,
you don't step in, particularly the call in the creating game.
I don't mind saying. And by the way, let's make
it clear that I'm an official and I support officials,

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but you know what, I also support Ben, the conversation.
We as officials are not above reproach and we're not
above having a conversation about what happened. So we're not
going to have anything like this. You know, get get
getting the long blue line or great line or zebra line,
whatever the king. Well, what are you saying, Andre's it
has to be clear and obvious in the final part
of the game, and you're not gonna call a file

(15:05):
where there was contact not affecting the shot in any way.
You don't make that. Yeah, we call that start to develop, finish,
but to go a level beyond that, that official he's
what we call the trail official, and he's making a call.
That call when it goes to the basket, that's the
lead's call. That'd be the referee on the baseline. And
what we say is in those instances you only come

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in late needed and write that's the only time as
an ATOM Zone official that you're gonna make that call.
And you can see he makes that call even before
the lead, who by the way, passed on that The
lead passed on the contact. So from a technical standpoint,
it doesn't it's not up to snuff. But then beyond that,
shout out to Craton, shout out to coach McDermott and

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how they conducted themselves with class. I can't even begin
to describe how furious I am. Do you know what
it takes to put yourself in that spot if you're
a Craton to have an opportunity to go to a
final four, You get to the freaking top of the
mountain and you get bounced all the way down like
you're freaking sisipis. Excuse like you'r sisipis. You've got to
go all the way down because of a questionable call.

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It's unacceptable. Well, but it's also remember I mean, Andrea,
that's just a't guarante it's because there was a chicken
crap call, But it doesn't guarantee that Creton would have
won it. Just the game would have ended up likely
going to overtime, and with the time and the clock
and all that would have ended in an overtime, and
then it's a toss up in overtime. And the way
the way Creton was shooting the ball against San Diego,

(16:29):
see its defense. They very likely would have lost anyway,
but you at least have an opportunity. You don't lose
on that kind of crap, exactly, an inconclusion. As an official,
you you want to know, you want to be invisible
if possible, but you definitely want to allow the players
to side the game. It's not what we saw. It
just it's not you know, I'm just hurting for the teams.

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You know, as an official doesn't end your career, but
you know, we have to do a better job. Sisipis
by the way we're doing ancient history been uh you
know that greet the guy in Greek mythology push the
rock all the way almost to the top of the hill,
only to have to come all the way back to
that down to the bottom. That's where we are right
now with the NCAA tournament. Will fix in the final four.
Thanks taking the call. All right, there goes the great
Andre fan favorite. I know Anthony and Anaheims fired up

(17:12):
to hear Andre calling the show again. He's Jones up.
This is gonna be the hour of big time called
legends calling the show like in Houston Monotone, Mark, who's
up next? Hello? Monitor Monotone Mark back to back and
belly to belly, two of the legendary callers on the show.
Hello monotone, Mark Here? What's going on? Hello? Yeah, you're

(17:36):
you're on the air. You have fame crap different total
but going on. Well yeah, with the same thing, the
same crap, different day. Hey, what do you want me
to say? Oh? The gonna be the new owner of
the Coyotes. You know, you know Jerry Joe's a van Chill.
You're gonna make it happen a one. Well, I'm thinking
about you know, it meant a lot of money, as

(17:57):
you know, and talk radio over and guy makes the
most money. So I am considering buying the Coyotes. Would
you like to work for me? Monotone Mark? Oh, man,
it'll be a blast, so I'll be honored. You know what,
you gonna make this happen. I can see you as
my hype man. You'd be a good hype man. Oh
the sure doesn't sound like it. Let's go he's running
with another one. You'd be willing to relocate there, you'd

(18:19):
have to move to Arizona. Oh, I don't mind a break.
I've been a fix before. Oh you have you enjoyed it?
You liked your visits to the valley? Oh yeah, sure,
there's a lot of ambient noise. What are you doing
right now? Mark? What's going on in the background? There?
Don't know here, I'll work, you know, got my work done?
Look a little show? Yeah, okay, all right, you're just

(18:42):
you're just checking in. You just want to say hello.
You want to want to buy the hockey team, and
I'll employ you as my hype man and my po cheerleader. Guy,
you'd be very top, very important. Oh yeah, all right,
thank you? All right, hang up, it's going well? Right, No,

(19:04):
it's not going well. That was not good. No, you
didn't enjoy that terrible call. I bet you can get better.
Do you want to hear this? Sure? Let's go to Minneapolis.
Now we might have to go caller free depending on
how this turns out. Let's say hello to Gutter in Minnesota. Hello, Gunner, Yeah, man,

(19:28):
the colon was talking about the wolfs and your horrible cuppers.
Your coppers an't gonna make to that. I'm like the
Wolf Past Warriors up a mixt up sixteen. It's a
hot take, Gutter. That's quite the take from you, Gunner.
Oh come on, yeah, yeah, yeah, Gutter. You only call

(19:51):
up when the Timberwolves win. You don't call up when
they lose. I've noticed that. Well they got one. I'll
tell you that on all the way. Okay, I'm not
really worried about thank you. All right, we'd like to
alert all the affiliates down the line caller free radio,

(20:14):
the rest all the hour, caller free radio. I'm done.
I can't that's it. I've reached my limit. So for
the rest of the hour we will not have a
single crappy phone call. We have met our quota of
crap and so now it'll just be some wholesome sports talk.

(20:39):
That's right, wholesome sports talk, the way it needed to be.
And if you get upset with me on that, blame Gunner.
And if you get upset with Gunner monotone, Matt, you
can blame him, or you can blame Andre if you want.
Robin Vegas says, if Andre thinks that was a bad call,
then we that I loved it, he said. To be fair,

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Andre would know what a bad call is because he
makes three or four of them every week. Shots fired,
Firdag says monotone, Mark and a gunner back to back.
How lucky are we? Yes, what a wonderful way to
start out the new week. Yeah, I know you're I

(21:20):
know you're fired up for them. I try to keep
your emotions in check. Gotta keep your emotions in check.
So an NFL owner, an NFL owner has said, no,
I am not doing that. Boy, what is it? What
is that all about? Also, we will have an update
on the number one fantasy event of the football off season,

(21:46):
a bit that no one else has, and we have
exclusive details that we will reveal coming up here shortly.
You're gonna hear it if you stay locked in. Otherwise
you're gonna miss it. You say, oh crap, what did
I miss? You're gonna have to go back and download
the podcast. It's a big pain in the ass. You'll
find out what the details are. We'll get to all that,

(22:08):
but right now, let's get over to the Sporting News
desk and a man who cooks some food up in
the microwave. I don't know what it was. I saw
him walked by with a plate, though clearly not doing
interminute fasting. Edny gars see it right over there, just
getting some you know, some celery sticks, some hummus. I
eat like a burger, wrong, nothing but healthy for me.

(22:30):
You know that? That's it looked like chicken sandwich just
to me. But I don't know. No, No, you were
not see it correctly. No, I wouldn't microwave a burger though.
That's not good. Well, you can't burn your food in
the microwave. You like burnt food, so you could if
you cook it long enough in the microwave, it could
cause some problems, dry, dry out the chicken. You know

(22:52):
that it doesn't sound very good. No, how's little sandwiches
though pretty good. I don't know what you're talking about.
Celery sticks were delicious the way, I don't know salary
came in that shape. I had no idea. Do we
have a do we have a J. Scoop update? By
the way, he did send a photo out he had landed.
He can't fly into the Ukraine. But I'll tell you

(23:14):
what I know. How about that? Well, you'll do that
coming up? Okay? Sounds good? Yeah, be sure to catch
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And if an owner's meetings getting underway in Arizona. Lots

(23:58):
of things to discuss, including possible rule changes, but it
looks like the NFL will not be making roughing the
passer reviewable. It has been talked about, but the Competition
Committee says that according to a report reviewed more than
eighty roughing the passer penalties from last year, probably there
was ninety three calls they reviewed eighty of them. I

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don't know what happened to other thirteen, but apparently the
Competition Committee said that only three of them were questionable calls. Yeah,
there was, there was. There was at least three in
one weekend. For god's sakes, are you kidding me? Only
three of the eighty they reviewed questions They liked the

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They like to have control and they don't want to
go to replay and they don't want that. They like
to influence. Certain that's a big quality roughing the past.
It is. It's an important change, the fuel position, a
chance to score. I mean, look, if they don't want
to make the rule change, okay, but don't give me,
don't try and sell me that bullcrap. It's only three question.

(25:03):
Our buddy, Dean Blandino got caught on a hot mic
over the weekend XFL XFL game. He said one thing,
and then when he thought the mic was off, I said,
we screwed that up and it was awkward, good audio.
I was not watching it live. Somebody sent me the clip.
It's bouncing around social media. But yeah, it's fine. Did

(25:24):
they really screw it up or maybe they wanted that
call to go the way it went. Inquiring minds would
like to know. I always look forward to those owners meetings.
I cannot wait, I cannot wait. The news will be
flowing out all day long from the NFL owners meetings.
It is the Bennett Mallers Show. As we continue on
through the overnight hours, it is caller free for the

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(26:08):
what about Jay Scoop if you heard it at the
end of last week or Buddy, Jay Scoop a platinum
winning Benny Award winner. He has taken off. He flew
out over the weekend and he is going to the
Ukraine and Jay Scoop is going to help out as
a former military man. Himself served in the Armed Forces

(26:30):
here in the States for a few years and he
felt that it was his calling to go there. We
talked about a little bit on the air. He had
told me several months back that he was planning on
doing this and it meant a lot to him to
go there to the Ukraine and help out, and so
he is on his way. You can't fly into the Ukraine.

(26:52):
There are no direct flights because there's a war going
on there. He sent out some photos that he said here,
I was not expecting to visit Slovakia, but here I am.
And he sent some some road signs and I've not
been been there, but yeah, I don't know. I think

(27:13):
that does the GPS work the same? I think I
need the GPS because I don't think I can read
the street signs very well there. They look a little confusing.
Nice bridge, though he sent out a photo of it,
appears to be a really nice bridge in Slovakia. And
he may be listening, although he's likely jet jet lagged.
If he is in it's still in Slovakia because it's
nine thirty in the morning. We're doing this in real time,

(27:35):
nine thirty in the morning in Slovakia. So yes, yes,
I know that. You know, beggars can't be choosers, but
I was curious because of his recent health issues, are
we sure that the Ukrainian army is gonna gonna take him? Well,
beggars can't be choosers. I think all hands on deck.

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I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. I
have no idea, but I think he he's I don't
know that he's going to be on the like the
front line of the war. I don't know. I mean,
I don't know exactly what he's gonna do or there's
different jobs you can have in the military, obviously, but
we'll find out. I'm sure hopefully he'll he'll make it

(28:18):
back in one piece, and he'll come back soon and
we'll find out what he did and and all that.
But our guy Jay Scoop on his way, he said
he's he had to drive. I guess we can say this,
and I think he said he was going to go
from Warsaw. His plan was to drive in from Warsaw,

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which I don't know how long a drive that is
to where he was going in the Ukraine, and I
don't have a map out so I couldn't tell you,
but I'm guessing it's pretty long. And it's some interesting
country there, country that I will likely never see. But
he's he's doing his thing. So an NFL ower turn
the page on that. An NFL owner has said, no,

(28:59):
I'm not doing that. I am not and that NFL
owner who else but Dan Snyder, Day Lionel Washington, DC
were the Commandos formerly known as the Redskins. Dan Snyder,
owner of that team, declining to interview again with someone

(29:20):
named Mary Joe White, not snow White, Mary Joe White.
She's an attorney from what I read, and she has
multiple made multiple efforts to interview Dan Snyder. The NFL
conducting a second investigation into the Washington football team and
its culture of debauchery. That comes from the Washington Post,

(29:45):
the Jeff Bezos owned Washington Post that has weaponized a
crew of writers to write smut about Dan Snyder, which
is like like shooting fish in a barrel when you
think about it. But the Post said that the investigation
started after a former commando's marketing manager and cheerleaders said

(30:07):
in February of last year that Dan Snyder harassed her
at a team dinner, putting his hand on her thigh
and pressing her towards his limo. Interesting, but they have
been unable to meet with Dan status. Some had already

(30:28):
reported that Mike Florio got some erroneous information that there
was this implied that a sale was pending, that the
Commander's owner Dan Snyder and his wife had cleaned out
their office and they were getting ready to sell the team,
and that was over a week ago. Nothing has happened,
and there's nothing on the agenda that is available to

(30:52):
say that there's a sale that's about to happen, So
it would indicate that the status quo is in place.
The team was ten million. Snyder was forced to give
over day to day operations to his wife over the
last investigation, which was conducted by a different attorney, someone
named Beth Wilkinson. We don't really know who that is,

(31:12):
but that was about the culture of wrongdoing and harassment
that was in Washington. Do you see that goes on there?
I think that's just required when you're in the Washington,
DC area, right, Isn't that how they operate in Congress
and then Capitol Hill. That's how those things go. I
think I think it's something similar along those lines. All right,

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it is The Ben Maller Show. Late Night gear Grinder
says Eddie crunching on celery sticks while on the air
would be better to listen to than the last three callers.
Ice picks for my ears, please, says the Late Night
Gear grinder Gunner who thinks his call was good. On

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social media, he says, I got a Bachelor Clippers because
Benzel Fan, Hi, Well you really showed me. It really
showed me. Your PHEMEE in Chicago says unscreened callers would
be fun. Ben And here's that bomb from future cub
MVP Cody Bellinger. Yeah, okay, he's any one seventy six.

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You'd be here at home running a Cactus League against
the Royals. The bomb. Let's see how Cody does in
the cold Chicago weather in April. Let's see how that goes. Yeah,
because I remember when he was at the Dodge. Remember
they played the Red Sox in the World Series. A
little toasty in Boston. And I say toasty, I mean
cold toasty, And he was bundled up like he was

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at the North Pole. But that whole Dodger team when
they got the Finnway and they were all wearing their
parkas you knew right then, they they were spooked. They
were spooked by the weather. They were not prepared for
the conditions, which makes it all the more amazing that
the Red Sox have gotten so many players from the
Dodgers who can't handle playing in cold weather, which is

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a every a prowl in Boston at the beginning of
the year, late March early April. And then if you're
good and you get to the playoffs. It's in the
playoffs every year. It's like, yeah, you'll be fine in May, June, July,
and August. And in those months when the weather's all right,
put down the line becomes a problem. Enjoy Corny Blue.

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We got James Altman, maybe future Rookie of the Year Altman.
There you go. Is that your your favorite Dodger? Yeah?
Out of the year. There, they got the what's his name?
The ex diamond back Parlta, Right, they got him? Yeah,
he solid, he's all right. He reminds me of the
other X diamond back they picked up a couple of
years ago. You you hated him? What was his name? Ajo?
AJ Pollock? Where's he at? Is he anywhere? Is he

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had a baseball No? He's playing? Is he? Yeah? I
forgot what team is? It was Seattle? Maybe I think
it might be sat Yeah, there you go, very good.
That's that ends the AJ Pollock talk. But it's better
than taking a call, Okay, AJ Pollock talk is better
than taking one of these phone calls. We have mallardly
third degree. That is straight ahead. This portion of the

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inch to trivia will go to hockey. Someone named Eric
Kamrie of the Buffalo Sabers. We're doing this for Andy,

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the comic book guy. Eric Comrie of the Sabers allowed
ten goals in his last game on March ninth, over
the weekend, he had a shutout. He's the first NHL
goalie to allow ten or more goals in one game
and then record a shutout in his next game since blank. Again,

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Eric Comrie of the Sabers. He had allowed ten goals
in his game on March ninth, over the weekend, he
had a shutout, becoming the first NHL goal he allowed
ten or more goals in one game and then have
a shutout in his very next game since blank. That
is the insta trivia the answer, We'll get to it
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the trivia time we go to hockey where Eric Comry
of the Sabers allowed ten goals in a game on
March ninth. Over the weekend, he notched a shutout that
becoming making him the first NHL goalie to allow ten

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or more goals in one game and then have a
shutout in his next game. First, I want to do
it since blank, that is the question. What is the answer?
Let's see does anyone in the Mallar militia know the
answer and will start out? Let's see her, any meany
mighty mo. A lot of good hockey knowledge here. Cowboy

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Killer says it has to be lou Pinella. It's good
hockey knowledge there, Oscar going with Christi Yamaguchi as his answer.
Elton Brand former Clipper and Bull from Chris in the
Wing The Iron Sheet guest by Rob in Vegas. Shakira
from the Dixter Parody account to page nine on page down,

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I can't read that on the air. Brian Finley guess
by the ferg page. Who else do we have? Professor
sub zero from Mason in Huntington Beach, Clinton Mallar, Chuck
from Miguel Goldberg guest by multiple listeners, Arthur erbe guests
by Matt the Warrior Rader as fan, Eddie, do you
have an answer, Eddie quickly? Please? Oh, yes, it's Darren Poopa.

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Is that correct? No? Oh, it's right. You're not a
hockey guy, Eddie. The correct answer. How do you not
know Don Simmons of the Toronto Maple Leafs in nineteen
sixty four? Bad hockey knowledge, Eddie, You don't know the
great Don Simmons. How about the leg of the third degree?

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One of my heroes? One gets quilled? All right? Coo,
nick start. Jalen Brunson told the Reporter recently that he
at one point was willing to sign with the Mavericks
for roughly half of what the Knicks ended up paying him,
but Dallas dragged her feet on negotiations. Ben, do you
think the Maths made the wrong choice by letting Brunson go? See?
I don't believe Jalen Brunson. This is an after the

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fact story. He's like, I'm a good guy, I'm a
good cop. Then Dallas is the bad cop. You should
love me. If Brunson had his heart set on staying
with the Mavericks, he would still be playing in Texas, right.
The Knickerbockers second thought, The Knickerbockers put in a full
court press. They recruited Brunson for over a year through

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back channels to get him to New York. They paid him.
They gave him one hundred and four million after taxes.
It's not that much because it's New York, but he's
also got ties there and I don't believe Brunson. I
think he's full of crap. Next, Brooklyns wide receiver Jerry
Judy has had his name come up in trade rumors
for weeks now. Earlier this morning they were saying they

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weren't let him go for any more than any less
than a first or second round pick. Then this morning
Sean Payton said that they're not gonna trade Jerry Judy
or Courtland Sutton. Do you believe him? I don't because Champagne.
It's easy to say that now, But if somebody gives
you what you want, you'll trade him, and Judy is
more likely to be traded than not. The Broncos can
be patient for now. The big point of tradess that

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is the NFL Draft. But he's inconsistent and he's not
one of Sean Payton's guys, so I'll believe it when
September comes around and Judy's still on the team. Next
a MLB insider recently said that negotiations with Shohei Otani
are going to start at five hundred million, and it's
just a question of how high will it go. Yeah, Ben,
what do you think, oh Tony's contract will be? How

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come people don't write that when my contracts up, that
it's gonna Mallar's contracts gonna start at five hundred million. Now,
these things are always outrageous. There's only a finite amount
of teams that will bid on Otani. He'll get around
five hundred million, but he's not gonna get a billion.
Let's stop that. How do we do Copello? You pass us?
That is a winner. Put it on the far color
free radio. Blausers