April 19, 2024 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the slow start for the Houston Astros and if they are pretenders instead of contenders, if the Orioles should start worrying about Jackson Holliday, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number two talking Bays Ball
and those dirty, rotten scoundrels. The cheaters from Houston are
jose alb Bay and the cheating ass holes. I can
say that it's a podcast. Are they pretenders instead of contenders?
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The a Holes have the second worst record in the
American League? Is it time for the Orioles to start
worrying about Jackson? Holiday off to a terrible start in Baltimore.
And we'll also talk a little television because the NBA,
according to the business news people, is not going to
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reach a deal on television national television rights with Turner
Sports or with NBS or with ESPN. Rather, so they're
not going to have a national TV deal. They're going
to have to take bids from other channels and streaming services.
We'll discuss that and hold on more. Right now here,
it is our number two. Is it a trash can malfunction? Welcome,
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Jokes of the week coming up next hour are lead
this particular hour coming from the Diamond that is where
there was a light card in the Big Leagues on Thursday.
One of the games got rained out, so they'll have
to play at doubleheader this weekend. But a story that
is bubbling up. Bub bub bubble, that's how it sounds
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like bub bub that's in Houston. I've not forgotten. I
have not forgotten the den of iniquity. I'm not. And
now if you haven't been paying attention here and possibly not,
I know it's early in the baseball season. We're not
even on April. Okay, I get it. So there are
thirty members of the Cartel of Hardball, and the only
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one that was projected to be a playoff team who
currently is near the bottom is in the lone Star state.
The cheating a two one thousand holes. They find themselves
six and fourteen. That is a three hundred winning percentage.
That is the second worst record in the American League.
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The only team in the American League worse than the
team from Houston is the Chicago White Sox. And but wait,
there's more. The Astros are twenty seventh overall. They have
the twenty seventh overall record in the Big league. So
let us discuss the question our Jose Al Tuvey as
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we call them, ol Booby and the cheating Atros truly
pretenders instead of contenders. All the baseball experts said they
were going to be contenders. There right now looking like pretenders.
So I've got screenshot aol and oversized load. We'll get
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to all of that, combine it all together, and we
are going to make a lot of cake, a giant
size cake with all of it. Roll it out the
whole thing, all right, So number wa answer the question,
are Altuve and the cheating Astros pretenders instead of contenders. Yeah, now,
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let me address this for the crowd that believes this
is a premature take. I believe, and I've always followed
the pillar of broadcasting. It is never too early to
goof on the scoundrels of hardball. Never a roster led
by a bunch of bad actors, outlaws Alex Bregman and
jose Albouve. They should be in the baseball gulag. And
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the fact that they have not been sent to Siberia
and have continued unscathed is embarrassing. And I will not
forget because Rob Manford has no balls, so I will
have to be the one that punishes these losers. And
we also should point out we do the show today,
like they don't say, don Martin to the guys that
run Foxrustrated. You know, just wait on that take. Let
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that take kind of marinate until the end of the season.
You know, don't give that commentary. No, no, no. If
you look today, right, we're doing this show here Friday.
It's the nineteenth day, I believe, of April. So if
you look at the screenshot, we used to say Polaroid
that's outdated now, but screenshot bad teams lose close games.
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Houston is zero to five in one run games. Alex
Bregman one of the cheaters, batting two point fifty with
no home runs. It's a contract year. Jose A. Bray
You is thirty seven and he's hitting seventy eight and
io seventy eight the interstate with no home runs. But wait,
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there's more. We're not done. How about the pitching. The
pitching is so bad. I get a little tingling, That's
how bad the pitching is. Houston sports a five point
thirty nine earned run average. You know what that is
dad last in the American League and in all of baseball,
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only a team that plays half their games in altitude.
The Rockies are worse. The rotation ranks twenty sixth in
the major leagues, and they have an ERA of over
five five point one. Justin Verlander. He returned to the
game later tonight here on Friday. However, he's forty one
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and he's already got a bum shoulder. How about fran Burvaldez.
People making a big deal, he's got a bum elbow.
He's out right now. If you go back the second
half of last season, Franburvaldez lost it. He lost it.
It was a punch to the gut. But it's reality.
He had an ear at the second half of the
season of almost five four point six to six in
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the second half, and now he's got an l issue.
So it's a mess, and you definitely have to put
them in the basket of pretender. They're a pretender. How
soon before Houston starts unloading assets. Of course, you can't
trade Altuve and Pregnant because nobody wants them because they're taint.
They're tainted. But there are some other guys that can
be moved on that team because there's a lot of deadwood,
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a lot of dead wood, and I'm enjoying every loss.
Every single loss is a great mitzvah. All right, page
two now, speaking of slow start problems. Next stop we
go to Maryland where Sports with Coleman is a professional
gass back the Orioles. They actually have one of the
top records in baseball to begin the year, but the
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chosen one, the Prodigy, well he has not been performing
at a high level. It is not gone so well
for the Prodigy. In fact, I want to use this
for the first time in honor of my new favorite
Tampa Bay Ray you could say that the prodigy of
the Orioles, mister Jackson Holiday, who is one for twenty
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five to start his Baltimore career, that it's an all
encompassing type of suck is what it is for him,
one for twenty five since his first career hit. Holliday,
who's twenty, has struck out five times in his last
ten at bats with one walk. So is it time
for the Orioles to start worrying about Jackson Holliday, ding
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Ning Ning Ning n Yes, should you worry? Yeah, you
gotta worry, right, you gotta worry because everyone said he
was ready to go, and he was gonna come out
of the starting gate. It was a sprint to begin things.
And it's never too soon to have a little bit
of anxiety, a little bit of anxiety, assume nothing, question
everything right. Given a hero's welcome, they had a ticket
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tape parade there in Baltimore to welcome him in. It
was a wonderful The new King get arrived, the much
ballyhooed son of a big league star bill boarded as
Google Fiber high speed Internet, and so far he has
been that AOL dial up. That is the type of
performance he has provided so and just well it's gonna
be fun. He'll be all right, Well that always work
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got that way right, you know, it doesn't work out
all the time. There have been guys that we can't miss,
that missed and never got better. It's early, but he's
been terrible, and he looks like he's overmatched by the
major leagues at this point. It does a right all right.
The final point, we're gonna change lanes here and we're
gonna move over to the medium middle lane, middle lane
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of those sports media, so we'll go to hoops on this.
We are told that the NBA's exclusive TV rights negotiating
window with ESPN and Warner or you Turner or whatever.
I guess Turner actually at Warner, but that's expected to
pass without a deal. They're not expected to have a
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deal there with their current broadcast partners, so C NBC,
that's a business outfit. And they are reporting that Amazon, NBC, Universal, Netflix, YouTube, TV,
Apple as well, all of them have expressed preliminary interest
in talks with the NBA about potentially buying part of
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a package of games. So should the NBA be encouraged
or discouraged by the television developments that are out there.
So I have this one in the discouraging category. It's
a dangerous road. It's a path that is poorly lit,
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it's booby trapped, and it's littered with the corpses of
people that used to like your product, used to like
your product, and then uh and then fell fell on
hard time. Like here's the issue Baseball had. Well, most
of the games are on Fox and they have some
games on ESPN. If you like a certain team to
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watch every one of those games, you have to have
like five different television packages if you're an honest human
being and you don't go to the Russian websites and
the dark web to watch, right. So that's bad for
the customer. So this is why I have this story
as a dangerous one and a discouraging story, because, yeah,
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you can get a TV deal if you're the NBA
with Amazon, you can put some games on YouTube, put
a few on NBC, and that's fine. But the problem
is it's annoying. It's bad for the for the user,
the customer in your store that they instead of having
just to pay for cable, they're gonna have to buy
five different streaming services to watch every one of their games,
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and ESPN and Turner have clearly downgraded the value of
the product, and let this be a teachable moment. I
was actually texting some people in the media world here
that I know. I only know a few, most don't.
Most don't admit to a knowing me. But we were
going back and forth on this, and ESPN and Turner
they did a cost benefit analysis. They would like to
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keep the NBA, but they do not want to pay
the number that the NBA wants. And the reason they
don't want to do this it's like those trucks that
you see on the highways late at night, like when
we're doing the show, that say oversized load on them, right,
And I'm talking about Adam Silver. This is fallout from
Adam Silver green lighting load management, the general paranoia of
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the modern ballplayer that they're always going to get hurt.
They can't play too much, they can't over exert themselves.
It's killed the product. It's killed the product during the
regular season. It's a useless product during the regular season.
It's not must see TV at all. It's a bad
product now. Adam Silver and Joe Dumars and some of
the big shots at the NBA, they got the message.
They got the message too late. Though you might remember
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before this season they put the sixty five game rule
in that you had to play in sixty five games
to qualify for these wards and all that, but they
also released the science. They claimed all of a sudden,
the science said that load management does not actually prevent
injuries and all that they did that intentionally. That was
a preemptive strike to try to cut off at the pass.
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What is apparently going to happen anyway where the TV
contract is not worth as much and they're gonna have
to finagle the numbers to make it seem like it's
worth more than it is. That and the nerds, right,
we'll give a little tip to captain the nerds the
Steph Curry phenomena of the NBA where every single night
it's a Papa shot with the analytics, shoot the three
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ball or shoot in the paint, and no mid range
jump shot, no team basketball at all. It is the
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Speaker 1 (15:56):
Midnight Walker writes in from Syracuse. He says, a highly
tiled play once started out slow to the miners he
was about to go? Was that slow start the end
of his playing days? Not really? His name was Willie
Mays and he says, Jackson Holiday will be fine. Everyone's
freaking out. I got sports with Coleman over here, the
oriole pr hack. Who's harassing me for my Jackson Holiday monologue?
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The question if you were not paying attention, get a
cue tip, clean out your ear. The question was should
the orioles be worried? Yes, he's been terrible. One for
twenty five is terrible any way you cut it. That's bad,
and it doesn't guarantee he's gonna suck forever. I gotta
do the show today, and I'm reacting to what he's
done so far. And if he goes twenty out of
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twenty five, I'll react to that. But right now, today,
today's the day I'm doing the show. Today's the day.
I'm looking back at one in twenty five. And I
remember when he got called up and you thought Baby
Jesus had arrived. So stop Late night drug tester, you
do that there is right there, La night dirreuctor is
This says always great to hear the demise of the Astros.
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Even better would have been congratulating the royals in sweeping
those cheaters this season. I don't get too carried away. Yeah,
Homer writes in says, you're one hundred percent correct. The
interest in the NBA is weak. It is a terrible
product load management as a fraud. I can see the
NBA paying for networks to carry their games. Yeah, well,
(17:29):
good luck on that. You know you're laughing. I know
you're laughing over their Homer, good luck on that, but
I mean, I've heard people like in sports media that
have said all the seasons too long and they played
too many games. I think, what kind of losers. That's
like a terrible take. They played too many games. And
you think about everything that's gotten better in terms of travel,
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in terms of accommodations, the way things have improved, and
yet it's supposedly much harder now. Travel is so much better,
and all of that, and yet the covention, right, the whining,
it does not end. So it's the never ending blah blah.
(18:14):
You're complaining. Complain, complain, complain, complain, camplain can play. All right,
let's go to the phones and we'll check in in
the OC in Orange County. Will go Hello, Hello to
Crypto Ray. Hello, Crypto Ray, you are next on Fox. Welcome.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Yes, man malor So, I just dropped you an invitation
to weed Sheella tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What what what is the Oh yeah, it's all that's
a big day. It's Coop's birthday tomorrow, Happy birthday. Cool?
So what what is what is that? Well, I didn't
read it.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Okay, So, so Coop's got to come by. It's just
a green cross. It's a can Cana Marketplace in torrent
It's gonna be a lot of music acts, a lot
of goodies, of food and for you guys. And it's
free for you guys.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So you got you're going to hook it up. You're
a made man, Crypto Ray.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
You know people, you know, crypto and cannabis. They kind
of have a little bit in common where, you know,
you got to find a way to kind of be
financially creative and distribute distribute money. So yeah, but the
star act is going to be Leon Hendrix. Who is
Jimmy Hendrick's brother?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Who?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And how old is he?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
How old is he?
Speaker 7 (19:34):
God?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
I have no idea how old he is, but he
is very talented and he he can play a whole
Jimmy Hendrix set and everything. So you got to check
it out, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, yeah, Jimmy Hendrix he died fifty something years ago,
but he he was born in nineteen forty two. So
his brother is he younger or older? He must be younger.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
He's a young younger brother.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
All right, Well, good for him.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
What my question to you is, yeah, is Taylor Swift
and athletes? We can all make fun of Taylor Swift
all we want But my question is.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Is she an athlete?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
What sport does she play?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
She did a massive breaking, a massive record breaking, billion
dollar tour, took over the NFL, and now before you
can get your boots broken in by Beyonce's new country album,
Taylor Swift dropped a double album with thirty one songs.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Wow. Yeah, that makes her a songwriter and singer. That
doesn't make her an ask I mean, are you confusing
the term? Like are you going to say, you know
some golfers a musician you know because they wrote one
song or something like that. I'm just.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
The mental fortitude and you know that you know what
it takes a tour and all that stuff. I'm not
even a Taylor Swift man. I couldn't even name. She's
not an ass on, no, But I'm just doing there.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
What's her time in the forty? How fast? What's her
time in the shuttle drill? Do we know what she
does in the shuttle drill? How much can she? I
don't think she can bench that much. I don't believe
she's got a good bench press. All right, get crypto, right,
thank you, that's he's getting reck. You're warming up. Thank
your crypto way you're warming up for that that weed event,
and I think that's geographical, geographically undesirable for Coople Loop.
(21:25):
I don't think Coop.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Will be not far from me, however, but I already
have plans. Sorry, I will also I will be at
a concert.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Okay, so Crypto way, what what about Lorena, You've got
probably plans you get the other the gig. Yeah, you
will probably won't be.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I've got a lot of stuff going on tomorrow for Saturday.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well it's on Saturday. Today's Friday, so it's on Saturday.
You have plans for set? You DoLS? Oh okay, Oh
you're you. You celebrate Eddie's been celebrating that before it
was cool back in the back in the day. He
celebrated into a big festival in Oregon, probably ten years ago,
before it was all legal, and it was so fun.
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Oh nice, there you go. So it sounds like no
one will be shown up Crypto away from the show.
But thanks for the invite. Very kind of you to
do that. It's very kind of you to invite us,
and you're made mans. Of course years ago we've told
the story. I don't know if you were here for that, Lorraine. Uh,
but we were invited to Coachella by a listener and free,
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free tickets and the whole thing. And then at the
eleventh hour he said, psych kidding, No, no tickets for you. Yeah,
we were excited about that. We were like, it seems
like a good thing. That seems like that would be
something very kind gift to give someone. And you know,
so anyway, the Hot Ice Store there is a follow
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up to the Utah Yetti, at least that should be
their name. The team announced the NHL announced that they
will have a team in salt Lake, the Great salt Lake,
starting next season. And already the tickets are going fast.
Season tickets are selling fast, get them all you can.
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People are lining up there to buy hockey tickets in
Salt Lake. Does this mean now the next step for
Salt Lake is a professional baseball team and then they
have to get in NFL team to complete the full Monty.
They already got the NBA.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So have you seen this guy? I think it's Ryan
Smith is the CEO of the the Jazz and the
and now the hockey team. He looks like he's about
thirty two. He's a young guy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, he's a young guy. And he owns. I think
all of the professional sports in Utah. He's got a monopoly.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I'm the boss.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Not that there's that much professional sports, but yeah, I
think there's a soccer team.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Must be nice.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah. How did he make his money? Do we know
how he made his money?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I'm guessing from his family.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
You think, well, you ain't inherited it. Maybe he's a
tech guy and he invented some tech thing or something
like that. It's possible that. But salt Lake is the
twenty seventh biggest market in the in from terms of television.
They go by TV because that's the TV product, But
they're twenty seventh in population. They're just behind. They're sandwiched
behind Nashville. Is like they're the middle of filling on
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the oreo. You've got Nashville on one side. In Pittsburgh
is market number twenty eight. Pittsburgh's got everything. They got
well not everything. They don't have a basketball team.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
According to the Internet, he's a billionaire businessman, executive chairman
and co founder of Qualtricks. What Qualtricks qa r C S.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I know it, but what is it? Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It is a management company?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
What is is it? Like an investment company? Does he
do investment.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It offers cloud based subscription software platform for experience management.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
So that's Internet. That's cloud, right, that's the internet up
on the internet. How do we not get it on
the internet. We'd be millionaires.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
We were around before it even existed. We could have
gotten in on them.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Oh man, we'd be sitting pretty. You don't have to
make an age show. Co Lorraino. By the way, how
dare you all right? Look at it? And the Raindom
called this all day?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Oh wow, he's forty five. He looks like he's in
his thirties. He's a young looking fat.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Have that kind of money, Eddie. You can remember Elon
Musk how bad he looked, or Jeff Bezos and then
they got money all of a sudden they look good,
you know, silent and profiling and all that. It's amazing
what money can buy.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
We have some police news.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Oh good, the police blotter. I like the police.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Sort of involving ravens, wide receivers, Za Flowers. Not going
to face any punishment, not going to face any punishment
After the NFL found insufficient evidence to support allegations made
against him stemming from an alleged incident. I believe it
was a domestic incident back in the chain away.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
So so this is the anti Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Or by the way, did you ever talk about that,
Trevor Bauer?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, I don't think we did it. One of the
women was charged with lying, right, was that?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Am I right on it? Yeah? I think it was.
It was extortion? Yeah, yeah, But so.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Many people in baseball they're all, you know, scaredy cats,
but they're they don't like Bauer. They genuinely don't like him.
They think he's a douchebag and they don't want him
in the sport. And so he's not. He's pitching in
the Mexican League, making a few starts there. The guy
won the Cy Young Award.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Wild it's pretty crazy that he can't get a job
somewhere then nobody, I mean in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, the Atlanta Braves. They got a guy that's on
tape beating a woman up who's playing every day in
their lineup. But he's really good.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Yes, What what a what a world?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
What a what a whacky world?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
You know what I said. Your talent is bigger than
your problems and somebody will put up with it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh yeah, well that's the case in any business. Sure,
and when you stop performing, but Bower was still performing.
Thing really stopped performing. Did you see the Yarmor Yager story, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Did he know what happened with Yaga back?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
He's back playing. He scored in his first shift back
in the Czech Republic.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well, he owns the team, so you know, you're not impressed, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Guys how he's like fifty two years old, Yarmor Yager.
He broke the record. He broke Gordie Howe's record. Do
you see that? You didn't see that?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Was it like most ever goals regardless of league?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Because they Yeah, Yarma Yoger made his first appearance since
turning fifty two, so he broke how it made his
final professional hockey appearance when he was fifty two years
eleven days old in nineteen eighty. But Yarma Yoga is older.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Another one of those instances where the person looked way
older than they really were, like Gordi how it was.
You know, Gray Air looked like he was in his
sixties or something. You know, Yager. I don't know if
Yoger dies his air, but he doesn't look as old
as already outd Gordia, look like your grandpa.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Does you still have the flowing locks?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Does he still does not have the mullet anymore? No,
when he when they retired his number there in Pittsburgh,
all the other players they wore like the mullet wigs
to honor him, and and then it was ironic that
he didn't have the bullet anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I'm looking. The great thing about the internet is in
two seconds I found a clip of you Armor Yager
is scoring a goal there, vintage jogger and there's a
lot it looked like NASCAR jerseys there were in there,
and a lot of advertising.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
He says he actually doesn't want to play anymore, but
he has to for this, has to sell tickets. Team Eah, yeah, yeah,
trying to make money.
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the calls. We'll say hello to Blind Scott, who's on
(30:04):
the north end of Boston if he hasn't moved. Hello
Blind Scott.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Yeah, no, I'm still here. These are Jimmy Hendricks, Bob Miley,
and Princeton. I grew up on Cape Cod There's a
lot of indigenous people there. I grew up with thought
in Jimmy Hendricks and relatives there. They love to drink
thas people. They love the firewater, you know what I mean. Dude,
The guy that owns Tom the Arizona Coyotes, now he
(30:30):
started a tech company when he was sixteen. I really
got to point this out. So Lorena has already passed
like Iowa Sam and Roberto's skills. Like, she's a lot better.
She does a lot better like sounddrops Iowa Sam. That's
kind of a clown. I think he lives off like
organic farm money. Like that's how he's stay in the
business along. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
That is a low Blowbusk. Now, you've listened to the
show longer than almost anyone. Me and you go way back.
We've had many battles, right, You've hated me, you've at
me nasty emails, and then we've made up, We've hugged
it out and you come back to the show.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Yes, Uh, yeah, yeah, I love the show.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Yeah, and I know and i've and I've had and
I've been in part of those radio marketing surveys before,
so I know how they raised radio and stuff. They
don't rate this show is in the middle of the night.
It's just like nothing.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
That's actually not true anymore. That's an outdate to take.
But but here's the thing, Yeah, they actually do. Really
we get numbers. But here's the thing, blind Scott uh
in the history of the show, since you've been listening,
who was the first engineer when you started listening, who
was the first board on?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (31:30):
That guy they kept messing it out.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
What was his name?
Speaker 7 (31:34):
He was like it's freezing and you couldn't go to
commercials and you just have Oh you're.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Talking about Jerry profit bro profit profit dude profit due.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Yeah, and Edie Eddie was coming in out of show
back then too. They changed your time slot a lot
and that was better.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, move moved all over. Yeah, we had some amazing
engineers in the early days. Amazing.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Yeah. Now the show, I think the shows where it
really needs to be right now though, like, yeah, I
left to be a bus driver. He probably wasn't so hot.
At be I mean, if you're gonna leave to be
a bunch drive, you're not really that great at being
a technical producer.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You're unloading here, blind Scott Man.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
I think the show's in the place where it needs
to be now though, like, oh good, Hey, the Bruins
got a great in the Celtics. It's going to be
a great run here. You're gonna get a lot of
calls from Boston.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
You know.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
I hope the rain is ready, you know, because two
championship trades coming up. The Bruins are going to play
the least. I don't know who there's still going to
play some bombs, you know what I mean. But it's
gonna be great. It's great time for sports radio.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
H Yeah, it is a good time of the year.
All right, well, thank you if you.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Do a live remote. I'm waiting for this announcement. You
have to figure announce You got to figure announcement to
make you said, I've been I've been trying to figure
out what it is. You know what I mean. You
went away and you go on vacation. Now you're going
to make an announcement, right, Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I mean there's nothing nothing currently. I think next week
there'll be a minor announcement, but yeah, I keep listening,
all right, nothing that is agree, All right, go away.
There's blind Scott who took shots at I with Sam,
Roberto and three of my engineers over the years. He
took it, but he was so sweet to me. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I loves you. Yeah, loves loves you. Big fan, big
fan of Lorraine. Uh well you Loraina should have been
a women's basketball player at the University of Iowa. We're
getting more information on just how much money Caitlin Clark
is going to get. So I guess you if you
wrote those stories about how sad it is for Kitlin Clark,
she didn't cash in. She's cashed in. Nike deal said
(33:30):
to be an excess of twenty million dollars twenty dollars. Wow,
all right, it's going to exceed twenty million dollars now
after taxes, that's about four million. But that's fine. She's
just doing pretty good. It's way beyond ten million, and
the numbers above twenty million dollars. They don't even have
(33:54):
the final numbers yet. And she's going to get her
own shoe, which Fry Daddy has promised. Lorena and she
will will hook up. So of course there will be
stories written. It's not fair. Victor win Minyaba signed one
hundred million dollar deal with Nike. Yeah, well that shows
you the difference. Here the difference. But here's the funny thing.
(34:16):
So Kaitlin Clark's shoe deal is almost identical to Ben Simmons'
contract he signed eight years ago in twenty sixteen with Nike.
Ben Simmons got a five year deal twenty million dollars.
And if you know how the inflation works, so let's
(34:37):
do a little inflation here. Nothing you like more than
inflation talk. That's the kind of commentary that you need
on overnight sports radio. So in twenty sixteen, if you
had twenty million dollars in today's money, that would be
twenty six million. So if Nike gives Kaitlin Clark twenty
six million, she'll she'll have gotten the exact same deal
(34:59):
that Ben's Simon Scott in terms of inflation. Time out
for the Insta trivia and what mallad of thirtygre here's
the answer, trivia. Blank leads the big leagues all big
league catchers in pitch framing runs so far this season. Again,
Blank leads all Major League Baseball catchers and pitch framing
runs this season. That is the instera trivia answer.
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I'm gonna don that rating.
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So dumb ass, I love you, jerk yourself away.
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You are the weakest links.
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Today's Friday, Today's Friday, Today's Friday. We take you a
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We're gonna flush it and move on. The show is over. Goodbye.
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It's Ben Mallor turned out for the instance Tribute'll get
to Mallard of the third degree quickly blank leads all
big league catchers and pitch framing runs so far this season.
The nerds love that. It's a very important thing for
the nerds. They worship that. And who do we have
your page down? Page down? Matteine Cleaves the Great Catcher
guest by Cowboy Killer. That's his answer, Elston Howard from
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The Midnight Walker. Bob Tewksbury, good name, mister, nice guy.
Adam Lowry of the Winnipeg Jets from Late Night Drug
tester Yarmer, Yager's twenty eight year old girlfriend. Wow, all right,
that's from Polly b. Yeah, his girlfriend stayed around that
age is entirely Blue Thunder from Alf the Alien Opiner.
(37:08):
That's a good reference there, Poppy before and after he
went to summer camp for Milkman Mike in Colorado. Casey
car Holler going with Yogi Bear of the Yankees. Good answer,
Justin and Cincinnati. A blind Scott. That's a great tribute
there for blind Scott. Terry Steinbach from Robin, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Any what say you had a former red backstop ed Tobinsey.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
That's a good name, but no. The correct answer. The
portly backstop of the Toronto baseball team, Alo Kirk. Alejandro
Kirk is the end. Here we go, here we go,
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
To the third degree. This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Robert Griffin the third said this week that he thinks
Spencer Rattler will be the steal of the draft and
that he will be a better pro quarterback than he
was in college. Ben, do you think Rattler has steal
of the draft potential? Yes, He's too short, turns the
ball over too many times. He's a gunslinger. What could
possibly go wrong? His comp is Zach Wilson. I'm not
(38:17):
betting on that. I'm not betting on that. You know,
a nice, nice college career bounced around a little bit.
I'm not going there. Forget about it. Next to nineteen
games this season, Aaron Judge is hitting under two hundreds,
like one to eighty something, with only three home runs. Ben,
is this just part of the normal ups and downs
of the season or do you think this is gonna
be a problem.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah, I think he's done. I think Aaron Judge can't
play anymore. He lost his bat speed and he's going
to have to retire and he's going to get a
job at walmart I think that's going to happen next.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
One NFL analyst suggested that the Dolphins are negotiating against
themselves when it comes to a contract extension for two attack.
If I Lola Ben, do you think the Dolphins are
the only team that will overpay for Tua?
Speaker 1 (38:59):
No, they are not the only team, but they should
not should not box themselves in where they sign to
let him test the market. There's other dumb teams. The
Washington Commanders come to mind, right off the top of
the Carolina Panthers teams like that. So yeah, there's always
another team that will overpay a player like Tua. But
he has not proven that he can win big games
(39:23):
and handle cold weather and all that. Those are things
you have to do when you play for the Dolphins
and you have to go to Buffalo or Baltimore, Kansas
City in the AFC playoffs. There is mallard of the
third degree? How den wait now pass the decision that
is se Aaron Juddson is gonna work at WALMARTE. It's
gonna happen. That was right, That was a great take.
Hello and welcome. It's our number two talking Bays Ball
and those dirty, rotten scoundrels. The cheaters from Houston are
jose alb Bay and the cheating ass holes. I can
say that it's a podcast. Are they pretenders instead of contenders?
(00:24):
The a Holes have the second worst record in the
American League? Is it time for the Orioles to start
worrying about Jackson? Holiday off to a terrible start in Baltimore.
And we'll also talk a little television because the NBA,
according to the business news people, is not going to
(00:44):
reach a deal on television national television rights with Turner
Sports or with NBS or with ESPN. Rather, so they're
not going to have a national TV deal. They're going
to have to take bids from other channels and streaming services.
We'll discuss that and hold on more. Right now here,
it is our number two. Is it a trash can malfunction? Welcome,
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Jokes of the week coming up next hour are lead
this particular hour coming from the Diamond that is where
there was a light card in the Big Leagues on Thursday.
One of the games got rained out, so they'll have
to play at doubleheader this weekend. But a story that
is bubbling up. Bub bub bubble, that's how it sounds
(02:35):
like bub bub that's in Houston. I've not forgotten. I
have not forgotten the den of iniquity. I'm not. And
now if you haven't been paying attention here and possibly not,
I know it's early in the baseball season. We're not
even on April. Okay, I get it. So there are
thirty members of the Cartel of Hardball, and the only
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one that was projected to be a playoff team who
currently is near the bottom is in the lone Star state.
The cheating a two one thousand holes. They find themselves
six and fourteen. That is a three hundred winning percentage.
That is the second worst record in the American League.
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The only team in the American League worse than the
team from Houston is the Chicago White Sox. And but wait,
there's more. The Astros are twenty seventh overall. They have
the twenty seventh overall record in the Big league. So
let us discuss the question our Jose Al Tuvey as
(03:45):
we call them, ol Booby and the cheating Atros truly
pretenders instead of contenders. All the baseball experts said they
were going to be contenders. There right now looking like pretenders.
So I've got screenshot aol and oversized load. We'll get
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to all of that, combine it all together, and we
are going to make a lot of cake, a giant
size cake with all of it. Roll it out the
whole thing, all right, So number wa answer the question,
are Altuve and the cheating Astros pretenders instead of contenders. Yeah, now,
(04:34):
let me address this for the crowd that believes this
is a premature take. I believe, and I've always followed
the pillar of broadcasting. It is never too early to
goof on the scoundrels of hardball. Never a roster led
by a bunch of bad actors, outlaws Alex Bregman and
jose Albouve. They should be in the baseball gulag. And
(04:59):
the fact that they have not been sent to Siberia
and have continued unscathed is embarrassing. And I will not
forget because Rob Manford has no balls, so I will
have to be the one that punishes these losers. And
we also should point out we do the show today,
like they don't say, don Martin to the guys that
run Foxrustrated. You know, just wait on that take. Let
(05:21):
that take kind of marinate until the end of the season.
You know, don't give that commentary. No, no, no. If
you look today, right, we're doing this show here Friday.
It's the nineteenth day, I believe, of April. So if
you look at the screenshot, we used to say Polaroid
that's outdated now, but screenshot bad teams lose close games.
(05:43):
Houston is zero to five in one run games. Alex
Bregman one of the cheaters, batting two point fifty with
no home runs. It's a contract year. Jose A. Bray
You is thirty seven and he's hitting seventy eight and
io seventy eight the interstate with no home runs. But wait,
(06:04):
there's more. We're not done. How about the pitching. The
pitching is so bad. I get a little tingling, That's
how bad the pitching is. Houston sports a five point
thirty nine earned run average. You know what that is
dad last in the American League and in all of baseball,
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only a team that plays half their games in altitude.
The Rockies are worse. The rotation ranks twenty sixth in
the major leagues, and they have an ERA of over
five five point one. Justin Verlander. He returned to the
game later tonight here on Friday. However, he's forty one
(06:45):
and he's already got a bum shoulder. How about fran Burvaldez.
People making a big deal, he's got a bum elbow.
He's out right now. If you go back the second
half of last season, Franburvaldez lost it. He lost it.
It was a punch to the gut. But it's reality.
He had an ear at the second half of the
season of almost five four point six to six in
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the second half, and now he's got an l issue.
So it's a mess, and you definitely have to put
them in the basket of pretender. They're a pretender. How
soon before Houston starts unloading assets. Of course, you can't
trade Altuve and Pregnant because nobody wants them because they're taint.
They're tainted. But there are some other guys that can
be moved on that team because there's a lot of deadwood,
(07:28):
a lot of dead wood, and I'm enjoying every loss.
Every single loss is a great mitzvah. All right, page
two now, speaking of slow start problems. Next stop we
go to Maryland where Sports with Coleman is a professional
gass back the Orioles. They actually have one of the
top records in baseball to begin the year, but the
(07:49):
chosen one, the Prodigy, well he has not been performing
at a high level. It is not gone so well
for the Prodigy. In fact, I want to use this
for the first time in honor of my new favorite
Tampa Bay Ray you could say that the prodigy of
the Orioles, mister Jackson Holiday, who is one for twenty
(08:14):
five to start his Baltimore career, that it's an all
encompassing type of suck is what it is for him,
one for twenty five since his first career hit. Holliday,
who's twenty, has struck out five times in his last
ten at bats with one walk. So is it time
for the Orioles to start worrying about Jackson Holliday, ding
(08:36):
Ning Ning Ning n Yes, should you worry? Yeah, you
gotta worry, right, you gotta worry because everyone said he
was ready to go, and he was gonna come out
of the starting gate. It was a sprint to begin things.
And it's never too soon to have a little bit
of anxiety, a little bit of anxiety, assume nothing, question
everything right. Given a hero's welcome, they had a ticket
(09:00):
tape parade there in Baltimore to welcome him in. It
was a wonderful The new King get arrived, the much
ballyhooed son of a big league star bill boarded as
Google Fiber high speed Internet, and so far he has
been that AOL dial up. That is the type of
performance he has provided so and just well it's gonna
be fun. He'll be all right, Well that always work
(09:22):
got that way right, you know, it doesn't work out
all the time. There have been guys that we can't miss,
that missed and never got better. It's early, but he's
been terrible, and he looks like he's overmatched by the
major leagues at this point. It does a right all right.
The final point, we're gonna change lanes here and we're
gonna move over to the medium middle lane, middle lane
(09:46):
of those sports media, so we'll go to hoops on this.
We are told that the NBA's exclusive TV rights negotiating
window with ESPN and Warner or you Turner or whatever.
I guess Turner actually at Warner, but that's expected to
pass without a deal. They're not expected to have a
(10:06):
deal there with their current broadcast partners, so C NBC,
that's a business outfit. And they are reporting that Amazon, NBC, Universal, Netflix, YouTube, TV,
Apple as well, all of them have expressed preliminary interest
in talks with the NBA about potentially buying part of
(10:31):
a package of games. So should the NBA be encouraged
or discouraged by the television developments that are out there.
So I have this one in the discouraging category. It's
a dangerous road. It's a path that is poorly lit,
(10:53):
it's booby trapped, and it's littered with the corpses of
people that used to like your product, used to like
your product, and then uh and then fell fell on
hard time. Like here's the issue Baseball had. Well, most
of the games are on Fox and they have some
games on ESPN. If you like a certain team to
(11:16):
watch every one of those games, you have to have
like five different television packages if you're an honest human
being and you don't go to the Russian websites and
the dark web to watch, right. So that's bad for
the customer. So this is why I have this story
as a dangerous one and a discouraging story, because, yeah,
(11:38):
you can get a TV deal if you're the NBA
with Amazon, you can put some games on YouTube, put
a few on NBC, and that's fine. But the problem
is it's annoying. It's bad for the for the user,
the customer in your store that they instead of having
just to pay for cable, they're gonna have to buy
five different streaming services to watch every one of their games,
(12:00):
and ESPN and Turner have clearly downgraded the value of
the product, and let this be a teachable moment. I
was actually texting some people in the media world here
that I know. I only know a few, most don't.
Most don't admit to a knowing me. But we were
going back and forth on this, and ESPN and Turner
they did a cost benefit analysis. They would like to
(12:22):
keep the NBA, but they do not want to pay
the number that the NBA wants. And the reason they
don't want to do this it's like those trucks that
you see on the highways late at night, like when
we're doing the show, that say oversized load on them, right,
And I'm talking about Adam Silver. This is fallout from
Adam Silver green lighting load management, the general paranoia of
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the modern ballplayer that they're always going to get hurt.
They can't play too much, they can't over exert themselves.
It's killed the product. It's killed the product during the
regular season. It's a useless product during the regular season.
It's not must see TV at all. It's a bad
product now. Adam Silver and Joe Dumars and some of
the big shots at the NBA, they got the message.
They got the message too late. Though you might remember
(13:04):
before this season they put the sixty five game rule
in that you had to play in sixty five games
to qualify for these wards and all that, but they
also released the science. They claimed all of a sudden,
the science said that load management does not actually prevent
injuries and all that they did that intentionally. That was
a preemptive strike to try to cut off at the pass.
(13:26):
What is apparently going to happen anyway where the TV
contract is not worth as much and they're gonna have
to finagle the numbers to make it seem like it's
worth more than it is. That and the nerds, right,
we'll give a little tip to captain the nerds the
Steph Curry phenomena of the NBA where every single night
it's a Papa shot with the analytics, shoot the three
(13:49):
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Midnight Walker writes in from Syracuse. He says, a highly
tiled play once started out slow to the miners he
was about to go? Was that slow start the end
of his playing days? Not really? His name was Willie
Mays and he says, Jackson Holiday will be fine. Everyone's
freaking out. I got sports with Coleman over here, the
oriole pr hack. Who's harassing me for my Jackson Holiday monologue?
(16:20):
The question if you were not paying attention, get a
cue tip, clean out your ear. The question was should
the orioles be worried? Yes, he's been terrible. One for
twenty five is terrible any way you cut it. That's bad,
and it doesn't guarantee he's gonna suck forever. I gotta
do the show today, and I'm reacting to what he's
done so far. And if he goes twenty out of
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twenty five, I'll react to that. But right now, today,
today's the day I'm doing the show. Today's the day.
I'm looking back at one in twenty five. And I
remember when he got called up and you thought Baby
Jesus had arrived. So stop Late night drug tester, you
do that there is right there, La night dirreuctor is
This says always great to hear the demise of the Astros.
(17:08):
Even better would have been congratulating the royals in sweeping
those cheaters this season. I don't get too carried away. Yeah,
Homer writes in says, you're one hundred percent correct. The
interest in the NBA is weak. It is a terrible
product load management as a fraud. I can see the
NBA paying for networks to carry their games. Yeah, well,
(17:29):
good luck on that. You know you're laughing. I know
you're laughing over their Homer, good luck on that, but
I mean, I've heard people like in sports media that
have said all the seasons too long and they played
too many games. I think, what kind of losers. That's
like a terrible take. They played too many games. And
you think about everything that's gotten better in terms of travel,
(17:52):
in terms of accommodations, the way things have improved, and
yet it's supposedly much harder now. Travel is so much better,
and all of that, and yet the covention, right, the whining,
it does not end. So it's the never ending blah blah.
(18:14):
You're complaining. Complain, complain, complain, complain, camplain can play. All right,
let's go to the phones and we'll check in in
the OC in Orange County. Will go Hello, Hello to
Crypto Ray. Hello, Crypto Ray, you are next on Fox. Welcome.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
Yes, man malor So, I just dropped you an invitation
to weed Sheella tomorrow night.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
What what what is the Oh yeah, it's all that's
a big day. It's Coop's birthday tomorrow, Happy birthday. Cool?
So what what is what is that? Well, I didn't
read it.
Speaker 7 (18:48):
What is it?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
Okay, So, so Coop's got to come by. It's just
a green cross. It's a can Cana Marketplace in torrent
It's gonna be a lot of music acts, a lot
of goodies, of food and for you guys. And it's
free for you guys.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
So you got you're going to hook it up. You're
a made man, Crypto Ray.
Speaker 6 (19:10):
You know people, you know, crypto and cannabis. They kind
of have a little bit in common where, you know,
you got to find a way to kind of be
financially creative and distribute distribute money. So yeah, but the
star act is going to be Leon Hendrix. Who is
Jimmy Hendrick's brother?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Who?
Speaker 4 (19:31):
And how old is he?
Speaker 1 (19:32):
How old is he?
Speaker 7 (19:34):
God?
Speaker 6 (19:34):
I have no idea how old he is, but he
is very talented and he he can play a whole
Jimmy Hendrix set and everything. So you got to check
it out, all right.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, yeah, Jimmy Hendrix he died fifty something years ago,
but he he was born in nineteen forty two. So
his brother is he younger or older? He must be younger.
Speaker 7 (19:56):
He's a young younger brother.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
All right, Well, good for him.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
What my question to you is, yeah, is Taylor Swift
and athletes? We can all make fun of Taylor Swift
all we want But my question is.
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Is she an athlete?
Speaker 1 (20:14):
What sport does she play?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Well?
Speaker 6 (20:17):
She did a massive breaking, a massive record breaking, billion
dollar tour, took over the NFL, and now before you
can get your boots broken in by Beyonce's new country album,
Taylor Swift dropped a double album with thirty one songs.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Wow. Yeah, that makes her a songwriter and singer. That
doesn't make her an ask I mean, are you confusing
the term? Like are you going to say, you know
some golfers a musician you know because they wrote one
song or something like that. I'm just.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
The mental fortitude and you know that you know what
it takes a tour and all that stuff. I'm not
even a Taylor Swift man. I couldn't even name. She's
not an ass on, no, But I'm just doing there.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
What's her time in the forty? How fast? What's her
time in the shuttle drill? Do we know what she
does in the shuttle drill? How much can she? I
don't think she can bench that much. I don't believe
she's got a good bench press. All right, get crypto, right,
thank you, that's he's getting reck. You're warming up. Thank
your crypto way you're warming up for that that weed event,
and I think that's geographical, geographically undesirable for Coople Loop.
(21:25):
I don't think Coop.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Will be not far from me, however, but I already
have plans. Sorry, I will also I will be at
a concert.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Okay, so Crypto way, what what about Lorena, You've got
probably plans you get the other the gig. Yeah, you
will probably won't be.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I've got a lot of stuff going on tomorrow for Saturday.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well it's on Saturday. Today's Friday, so it's on Saturday.
You have plans for set? You DoLS? Oh okay, Oh
you're you. You celebrate Eddie's been celebrating that before it
was cool back in the back in the day. He
celebrated into a big festival in Oregon, probably ten years ago,
before it was all legal, and it was so fun.
(22:06):
Oh nice, there you go. So it sounds like no
one will be shown up Crypto away from the show.
But thanks for the invite. Very kind of you to
do that. It's very kind of you to invite us,
and you're made mans. Of course years ago we've told
the story. I don't know if you were here for that, Lorraine. Uh,
but we were invited to Coachella by a listener and free,
(22:30):
free tickets and the whole thing. And then at the
eleventh hour he said, psych kidding, No, no tickets for you. Yeah,
we were excited about that. We were like, it seems
like a good thing. That seems like that would be
something very kind gift to give someone. And you know,
so anyway, the Hot Ice Store there is a follow
(22:52):
up to the Utah Yetti, at least that should be
their name. The team announced the NHL announced that they
will have a team in salt Lake, the Great salt Lake,
starting next season. And already the tickets are going fast.
Season tickets are selling fast, get them all you can.
(23:13):
People are lining up there to buy hockey tickets in
Salt Lake. Does this mean now the next step for
Salt Lake is a professional baseball team and then they
have to get in NFL team to complete the full Monty.
They already got the NBA.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
So have you seen this guy? I think it's Ryan
Smith is the CEO of the the Jazz and the
and now the hockey team. He looks like he's about
thirty two. He's a young guy.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
Yeah, he's a young guy. And he owns. I think
all of the professional sports in Utah. He's got a monopoly.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I'm the boss.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Not that there's that much professional sports, but yeah, I
think there's a soccer team.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Must be nice.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yeah. How did he make his money? Do we know
how he made his money?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I'm guessing from his family.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
You think, well, you ain't inherited it. Maybe he's a
tech guy and he invented some tech thing or something
like that. It's possible that. But salt Lake is the
twenty seventh biggest market in the in from terms of television.
They go by TV because that's the TV product, But
they're twenty seventh in population. They're just behind. They're sandwiched
behind Nashville. Is like they're the middle of filling on
(24:21):
the oreo. You've got Nashville on one side. In Pittsburgh
is market number twenty eight. Pittsburgh's got everything. They got
well not everything. They don't have a basketball team.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
According to the Internet, he's a billionaire businessman, executive chairman
and co founder of Qualtricks. What Qualtricks qa r C S.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
I know it, but what is it? Uh?
Speaker 2 (24:45):
It is a management company?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
What is is it? Like an investment company? Does he
do investment.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
It offers cloud based subscription software platform for experience management.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
So that's Internet. That's cloud, right, that's the internet up
on the internet. How do we not get it on
the internet. We'd be millionaires.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
We were around before it even existed. We could have
gotten in on them.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
Oh man, we'd be sitting pretty. You don't have to
make an age show. Co Lorraino. By the way, how
dare you all right? Look at it? And the Raindom
called this all day?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Oh wow, he's forty five. He looks like he's in
his thirties. He's a young looking fat.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Have that kind of money, Eddie. You can remember Elon
Musk how bad he looked, or Jeff Bezos and then
they got money all of a sudden they look good,
you know, silent and profiling and all that. It's amazing
what money can buy.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
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Speaker 2 (25:38):
We have some police news.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Oh good, the police blotter. I like the police.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Sort of involving ravens, wide receivers, Za Flowers. Not going
to face any punishment, not going to face any punishment
After the NFL found insufficient evidence to support allegations made
against him stemming from an alleged incident. I believe it
was a domestic incident back in the chain away.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
So so this is the anti Trevor Bauer.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Or by the way, did you ever talk about that,
Trevor Bauer?
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, I don't think we did it. One of the
women was charged with lying, right, was that?
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Am I right on it? Yeah? I think it was.
It was extortion? Yeah, yeah, But so.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Many people in baseball they're all, you know, scaredy cats,
but they're they don't like Bauer. They genuinely don't like him.
They think he's a douchebag and they don't want him
in the sport. And so he's not. He's pitching in
the Mexican League, making a few starts there. The guy
won the Cy Young Award.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Wild it's pretty crazy that he can't get a job
somewhere then nobody, I mean in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Yeah, the Atlanta Braves. They got a guy that's on
tape beating a woman up who's playing every day in
their lineup. But he's really good.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Yes, What what a what a world?
Speaker 1 (26:51):
What a what a whacky world?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
You know what I said. Your talent is bigger than
your problems and somebody will put up with it.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Oh yeah, well that's the case in any business. Sure,
and when you stop performing, but Bower was still performing.
Thing really stopped performing. Did you see the Yarmor Yager story, Eddie?
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Did he know what happened with Yaga back?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
He's back playing. He scored in his first shift back
in the Czech Republic.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
Well, he owns the team, so you know, you're not impressed, Eddie.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Guys how he's like fifty two years old, Yarmor Yager.
He broke the record. He broke Gordie Howe's record. Do
you see that? You didn't see that?
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Was it like most ever goals regardless of league?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Because they Yeah, Yarma Yoger made his first appearance since
turning fifty two, so he broke how it made his
final professional hockey appearance when he was fifty two years
eleven days old in nineteen eighty. But Yarma Yoga is older.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Another one of those instances where the person looked way
older than they really were, like Gordi how it was.
You know, Gray Air looked like he was in his
sixties or something. You know, Yager. I don't know if
Yoger dies his air, but he doesn't look as old
as already outd Gordia, look like your grandpa.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Does you still have the flowing locks?
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Does he still does not have the mullet anymore? No,
when he when they retired his number there in Pittsburgh,
all the other players they wore like the mullet wigs
to honor him, and and then it was ironic that
he didn't have the bullet anymore.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I'm looking. The great thing about the internet is in
two seconds I found a clip of you Armor Yager
is scoring a goal there, vintage jogger and there's a
lot it looked like NASCAR jerseys there were in there,
and a lot of advertising.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
He says he actually doesn't want to play anymore, but
he has to for this, has to sell tickets. Team Eah, yeah, yeah,
trying to make money.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
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the calls. We'll say hello to Blind Scott, who's on
(30:04):
the north end of Boston if he hasn't moved. Hello
Blind Scott.
Speaker 7 (30:09):
Yeah, no, I'm still here. These are Jimmy Hendricks, Bob Miley,
and Princeton. I grew up on Cape Cod There's a
lot of indigenous people there. I grew up with thought
in Jimmy Hendricks and relatives there. They love to drink
thas people. They love the firewater, you know what I mean. Dude,
The guy that owns Tom the Arizona Coyotes, now he
(30:30):
started a tech company when he was sixteen. I really
got to point this out. So Lorena has already passed
like Iowa Sam and Roberto's skills. Like, she's a lot better.
She does a lot better like sounddrops Iowa Sam. That's
kind of a clown. I think he lives off like
organic farm money. Like that's how he's stay in the
business along. You know what I mean?
Speaker 1 (30:50):
That is a low Blowbusk. Now, you've listened to the
show longer than almost anyone. Me and you go way back.
We've had many battles, right, You've hated me, you've at
me nasty emails, and then we've made up, We've hugged
it out and you come back to the show.
Speaker 6 (31:05):
Yes, Uh, yeah, yeah, I love the show.
Speaker 7 (31:07):
Yeah, and I know and i've and I've had and
I've been in part of those radio marketing surveys before,
so I know how they raised radio and stuff. They
don't rate this show is in the middle of the night.
It's just like nothing.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
That's actually not true anymore. That's an outdate to take.
But but here's the thing, Yeah, they actually do. Really
we get numbers. But here's the thing, blind Scott uh
in the history of the show, since you've been listening,
who was the first engineer when you started listening, who
was the first board on?
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (31:30):
That guy they kept messing it out.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
What was his name?
Speaker 7 (31:34):
He was like it's freezing and you couldn't go to
commercials and you just have Oh you're.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Talking about Jerry profit bro profit profit dude profit due.
Speaker 7 (31:42):
Yeah, and Edie Eddie was coming in out of show
back then too. They changed your time slot a lot
and that was better.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Yeah, move moved all over. Yeah, we had some amazing
engineers in the early days. Amazing.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
Yeah. Now the show, I think the shows where it
really needs to be right now though, like, yeah, I
left to be a bus driver. He probably wasn't so hot.
At be I mean, if you're gonna leave to be
a bunch drive, you're not really that great at being
a technical producer.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
You're unloading here, blind Scott Man.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
I think the show's in the place where it needs
to be now though, like, oh good, Hey, the Bruins
got a great in the Celtics. It's going to be
a great run here. You're gonna get a lot of
calls from Boston.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
You know.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
I hope the rain is ready, you know, because two
championship trades coming up. The Bruins are going to play
the least. I don't know who there's still going to
play some bombs, you know what I mean. But it's
gonna be great. It's great time for sports radio.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
H Yeah, it is a good time of the year.
All right, well, thank you if you.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Do a live remote. I'm waiting for this announcement. You
have to figure announce You got to figure announcement to
make you said, I've been I've been trying to figure
out what it is. You know what I mean. You
went away and you go on vacation. Now you're going
to make an announcement, right, Uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I mean there's nothing nothing currently. I think next week
there'll be a minor announcement, but yeah, I keep listening,
all right, nothing that is agree, All right, go away.
There's blind Scott who took shots at I with Sam,
Roberto and three of my engineers over the years. He
took it, but he was so sweet to me. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I loves you. Yeah, loves loves you. Big fan, big
fan of Lorraine. Uh well you Loraina should have been
a women's basketball player at the University of Iowa. We're
getting more information on just how much money Caitlin Clark
is going to get. So I guess you if you
wrote those stories about how sad it is for Kitlin Clark,
she didn't cash in. She's cashed in. Nike deal said
(33:30):
to be an excess of twenty million dollars twenty dollars. Wow,
all right, it's going to exceed twenty million dollars now
after taxes, that's about four million. But that's fine. She's
just doing pretty good. It's way beyond ten million, and
the numbers above twenty million dollars. They don't even have
(33:54):
the final numbers yet. And she's going to get her
own shoe, which Fry Daddy has promised. Lorena and she
will will hook up. So of course there will be
stories written. It's not fair. Victor win Minyaba signed one
hundred million dollar deal with Nike. Yeah, well that shows
you the difference. Here the difference. But here's the funny thing.
(34:16):
So Kaitlin Clark's shoe deal is almost identical to Ben Simmons'
contract he signed eight years ago in twenty sixteen with Nike.
Ben Simmons got a five year deal twenty million dollars.
And if you know how the inflation works, so let's
(34:37):
do a little inflation here. Nothing you like more than
inflation talk. That's the kind of commentary that you need
on overnight sports radio. So in twenty sixteen, if you
had twenty million dollars in today's money, that would be
twenty six million. So if Nike gives Kaitlin Clark twenty
six million, she'll she'll have gotten the exact same deal
(34:59):
that Ben's Simon Scott in terms of inflation. Time out
for the Insta trivia and what mallad of thirtygre here's
the answer, trivia. Blank leads the big leagues all big
league catchers in pitch framing runs so far this season. Again,
Blank leads all Major League Baseball catchers and pitch framing
runs this season. That is the instera trivia answer.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
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Speaker 7 (35:42):
I'm gonna don that rating.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
So dumb ass, I love you, jerk yourself away.
Speaker 5 (35:49):
You are the weakest links.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Today's Friday, Today's Friday, Today's Friday. We take you a
loose You don't you don't sit there, look at it.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
You flesh it and move on.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
We're gonna flush it and move on. The show is over. Goodbye.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
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Speaker 1 (36:24):
It's Ben Mallor turned out for the instance Tribute'll get
to Mallard of the third degree quickly blank leads all
big league catchers and pitch framing runs so far this season.
The nerds love that. It's a very important thing for
the nerds. They worship that. And who do we have
your page down? Page down? Matteine Cleaves the Great Catcher
guest by Cowboy Killer. That's his answer, Elston Howard from
(36:47):
The Midnight Walker. Bob Tewksbury, good name, mister, nice guy.
Adam Lowry of the Winnipeg Jets from Late Night Drug
tester Yarmer, Yager's twenty eight year old girlfriend. Wow, all right,
that's from Polly b. Yeah, his girlfriend stayed around that
age is entirely Blue Thunder from Alf the Alien Opiner.
(37:08):
That's a good reference there, Poppy before and after he
went to summer camp for Milkman Mike in Colorado. Casey
car Holler going with Yogi Bear of the Yankees. Good answer,
Justin and Cincinnati. A blind Scott. That's a great tribute
there for blind Scott. Terry Steinbach from Robin, Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Any what say you had a former red backstop ed Tobinsey.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
That's a good name, but no. The correct answer. The
portly backstop of the Toronto baseball team, Alo Kirk. Alejandro
Kirk is the end. Here we go, here we go,
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
To the third degree. This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Robert Griffin the third said this week that he thinks
Spencer Rattler will be the steal of the draft and
that he will be a better pro quarterback than he
was in college. Ben, do you think Rattler has steal
of the draft potential? Yes, He's too short, turns the
ball over too many times. He's a gunslinger. What could
possibly go wrong? His comp is Zach Wilson. I'm not
(38:17):
betting on that. I'm not betting on that. You know,
a nice, nice college career bounced around a little bit.
I'm not going there. Forget about it. Next to nineteen
games this season, Aaron Judge is hitting under two hundreds,
like one to eighty something, with only three home runs. Ben,
is this just part of the normal ups and downs
of the season or do you think this is gonna
be a problem.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yeah, I think he's done. I think Aaron Judge can't
play anymore. He lost his bat speed and he's going
to have to retire and he's going to get a
job at walmart I think that's going to happen next.
Speaker 3 (38:49):
One NFL analyst suggested that the Dolphins are negotiating against
themselves when it comes to a contract extension for two attack.
If I Lola Ben, do you think the Dolphins are
the only team that will overpay for Tua?
Speaker 1 (38:59):
No, they are not the only team, but they should
not should not box themselves in where they sign to
let him test the market. There's other dumb teams. The
Washington Commanders come to mind, right off the top of
the Carolina Panthers teams like that. So yeah, there's always
another team that will overpay a player like Tua. But
he has not proven that he can win big games
(39:23):
and handle cold weather and all that. Those are things
you have to do when you play for the Dolphins
and you have to go to Buffalo or Baltimore, Kansas
City in the AFC playoffs. There is mallard of the
third degree? How den wait now pass the decision that
is se Aaron Juddson is gonna work at WALMARTE. It's
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