February 19, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about MLB slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s contract talks ending at an impasse and who is going to make a run at Vladdy, Red Sox legend siding with Rafael Devers over the team, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom Shaka Laca. It's our nab to our number two
talking baseball, and there is high drama in Toronto spring
training camp. Slugger of Vladimir Guerrero's contract talks with the
Blue Jays have ended at an in pass. What does
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Toronto do now? Also, who's going to be making a
run at Vladi Guerrero Junior via trade and then free agency?
And in Boston, franchise legend David Ortiz was deputized to
patch things over with Rafael Devers and the Red Sox
brass and he's sighted with Devers in the reluctance to
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change positions from third base. How does that change things?
We'll talk about all of that and more right now.
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page on that and we're gonna pivot to Ah, Yeah,
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we go where these stories of the day take us
in this hour. That would be Canada. Some new developments
on a name brand player who is starting to put
his toe in the water, saying, hey, I want to
see what else is out there. I want to see
where the water leads me. So another big name heading
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towards divorce court in baseball. Assume you've seen this, but
maybe not, maybe haven't heard yet. We learned that Vladimir
Goaretro Junior, Vladie Junior, is not long for Oh Canada. No, no, no,
he's not long for the Blue Jays either. They had
a deadline his own deadline, which was not met on
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a new Mega Mega Mega contract extension. So the contract
extension did not get done before the self imposed deadline.
On Monday night, late Guerrero told reporters at Blue Jays
spring training camp they had their numbers. I had my numbers,
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he said. Then he was asked what he is looking
for for his next possible team, and he said he
wanted a team that is winning. He wanted a team
that is winning. All right, So what does all this mean?
Let's decode all of this. What do you say? So,
barring a plot twist, barring a plot twist, at the
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eleventh hour, the twenty five year old, twenty five year
old Vladimir Guerrero Junior is playing his final games in
a Toronto uniform and he will exit stage left. So
the question though, we know what has happened, but what
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is going to happened next? So Vladimir Guerrel Junior, his
contract talks with the Blue Jays have reached impass and
he says that's it. I'm done. I'm not signing an extension.
I'm gonna test free agency. So what does Toronto do
now with Vladimir Guerrero Junior. So I've got auto club
regular customers and Foo fighters, and we will combine all
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of these things together, and we're going to make a
silhouette of the map of the United States. Because every
other team outside of Toronto is in the United States.
So chances are that vlad if he leaves the Blue Jays,
by the process of elimination, we'll be playing somewhere in
the continental United States. So nam b I said, numb
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burn I said, number. It didn't work that time. Damn
delayed reaction. I blame the heavy Mickey Mouse hears, That's
what I blame, all right. So my first thought on
this is where do the Blue Jays go from here?
They go to tyson Foods. Why do they go to
Tyson's Foods Because they are parked. Okay, they are parked
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at this particular point. Vladie Guerrero, while he is not
a perfect player, there are some issues here and there. Overall,
he is the touchstone of the franchise and he is
going to market. He is going to put his wares
on the market. And the Blue Jays, bumping heads with
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Vladimir Guerrero Junior, could not find common ground. And so
despite saying multiple times trying to try to deputize the
fan base that I want to be in Toronto my
entire career. Clearly he wants to be in Toronto if
they pay him to be in Toronto. I get it.
It's not a charity. I understand that. But when you're
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saying I want to be here, and the Blue Jays
did offer him a fair amount of money, but he's like, no, no,
go someone else, see what else is out there? So
that means he's obviously fixing to leave Canada. And he's
already gone down to the Auto Club and he's picked
up a bunch of maps, got a bunch of maps there,
and all roads, all of them lead to off ramps
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from the Blue Jays. Now, my advice, and I'm never
wrong about this stuff. I have all the answers doing
the Overnight Show. My advice is the Blue let it breathe.
Just take a deep breath, let it breathe. Just let
it breathe a little bit, right, But don't snooze. Do
not snooz. Just let it breathe. Right, And you don't
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want to make some kind of knee jerk trade in
spring training or even in the first month of the season.
You want to do that. You also there's common great
you do not want to be Ardie Marino, who allowed
sho hel Tani to play out his contract with the
Angels and did not trade him. If the player says, hey,
I don't want to sign an extension, I'm going to
test the market telling you I don't want to be there.
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So you might want to listen to them. You might
want to listen to them. Now you've got a couple
of options here. The Blue Jays don't figure to be
very good. They're projected to be a pretender. But the
reason you play it out is what if they actually
play above their means and they can be a contender
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for a little bit. And the sweet spot on the
trade is mid June to the trade deadline, So sometime
in mid June, right until the trade deadline, and that's
where you get the most bang for your buck. And
that's the confluence, if you will, the confluence where everything
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kind of runs together and forms this massive blob of goodness,
this massive gelatine blob of goodness. Now, secondly, all right,
who's going to make a run? You make the call,
who's going to make a run at Vladi Guerrero Junior here,
So we're gonna use the malar wheel of speculation, which
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is just a great device. I got it at a
yard sale years ago. And the malar wheel of speculation
has never never run. You spin the wheel and it
goes round and round and round and round and round
and round, and and the malar wheel of speculation it
stopped at regular customers as in repeat business. Now, Guerrero's
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not making ridonculous money by baseball standards right now. However, however,
he is considered a luxury item because even if you
trade for him, there's no guarantee that he's going to
sign a massive, massive, herculean sized contract extension. So as
a luxury item, you look to the Mets, you look
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to the Yankees, the Red Sox, the usual regular customers
for these big ticket items. But the reason you way
until Junior July. You can fool them for a bit.
In baseball. Now, over the course of the season, we
know the line with water seeks its on level, but
over the course of the season you can kind of
fool them for a while. So let's say there's some
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kind of surprise team that's got a little money burning
a hole in their pocket, and whether that's the Higantes
or the Diamondbacks or the Mariners or whoever. And they've
got money. So there's a lot of moving parts. And
then so you can sucker one of those teams in
because they get all horny they think they're gonna go
on a run in the playoffs and so but you
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gotta wait, you gotta wait. Now. The other question is
how good a player is Laddie Guerrero Junior. He's not
battle tested in terms of big games, big moments, and
so he's one of these guys that, until proven otherwise,
is a prolific stat stuffer. He hasn't had much of
an opportunity, but in the playoffs, Laddie Guerrero Junior is
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more mister May than mister October a one thirty six
career batting average in a small sample size. So that's
given you. Like in football, you'd say that's like Dak Prescott,
like where he puts up great numbers and he's got
four All Star appearances and a couple of Silver Sluggers.
He was the runner up for the MVP in the
American League a couple of years ago, so he's got
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all that cool stuff. But yet most of it is
when the Blue Jays are eliminated, which is the day
after they leave the Grapefruit League. The day after they
leave the Grapefruit League, the blue Jays are typically eliminated.
That's it, They're done. It's all over all right now,
final point we go now by request from mister Irrigation,
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who is enjoying the shot in freude of a now
former cheating as one one thousand and two one thousand
hole joining the Red Sox. It is appropriate that Alex
Bregman went to the mass holes, from the A holes
to the mass holes. But there he is. And as
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the world turns at Finnway Park South, Yes, so David
Ortiz has entered the chat Big Poppy Red Sox legend
there and he is a steward of the franchise. Well,
here is a David Ortiz. He chimed in on Rafael
Devers and Alex Bregman the great debate which is going
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on here, the standoff, if you will, who's going to
be the third basement. So Big Poppy stood with the incumbent,
say that Devers is quote the current David Ortiz type
player on the Red Sox. He said, calling Raffi the
team's best player. Now, as you know, best means as
good as all the rest. So Devers is as good
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as every other player on the Red Sox. But wait,
there's more. Quote continues. So Big Poppy, speaking in his
native tongue, said that you're not talking about a Mickey
Mouse type of player when referencing Raffie l Devs. That's
what he said, a Mickey Mouse type player. All right,
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so let us discuss franchise legend. Who's so lucky the
Mitchell report never got out. David Ortiz. David Ortiz has
sighted with Rafael Devers over Red Sox brass over Red
Sox Brass, endeavors reluctance to leave the hot corner and
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change positions, become a designated hitter. So how does this
David Ortiz influence How does this change the story? All right, So,
I'm glad you asked. I'm glad you asked. So this
is the the Foo Fighters song monkey wrench. This is
a monkey wrench situation. Right when you juxtaposed what the
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Red Sox assumed that David Ortiz was going to do
and what he did, this is hilarious. Listen, I got
no skin in the game. I'm not on Red Sock.
I like when the Red Sox are interesting because it's
good for talk radio purposes. But in finway is a
cool place to visit, although not designed for people my height.
But here's the other thing, right, the plan for the
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Red Sox, when you judge the post what they thought.
They thought they were gonna send David Ortiz in and
he was on a peace keeping mission. He was going
to have a little chat with Rafael Devers and RAFFI, listen,
you do what the team needs you to do. You're
the franchise player. You got your money. You're gonna get
paid either way. And so they sent him in there
as a liaison between the front office, the coaching staff,
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and the player. And David Ortiz was supposed to finesse
Rafaeld Devers, give him a little shoulder rub and end
all hostilities. But instead, how did that work out? Well? Yes,
instead of that, he went rogue. He went rogue David Ortiz,
and he said, you know what, I'm going to become
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an arsonist. I want to extend the wildfires what I
would like to do and fan the flames. But the
issue ultimately comes down to the Red Sox who The
only reason I'm convinced they paid Devers is because they
didn't pay Mookie Bets. And then he went out and
won the World Series with the Dodgers, and so they
they couldn't keep losing everybody. Sandrew Bogarts went to the
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Padres and so they had to keep one of their
young players. The devs was like the next guy. So
they panicked and they paid him, and they knew he
was eventually gonna have to leave third base. The fact
that he's continued to play third base at a little
league level and continue to be out there because of
the contract, because of the country. I mean, they were
gonna pay him, and he was making good money before,
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but now he's making cartoonish money. All right, you want
to talk about any of that, You're more than welcome
to join us here. As the line has opened up
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of that. And then now back to the Malord Show. Yeah,
that's out. That's right, Bill, We roll on here through
the overnight. Matt Jack writes in from Sokel. He says,
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Vladdy Guerrero Junior could start for the Doyers at third
base today, but the last thing Toronto would do is
help the team that got the guys they wanted, Otani
and Sazaki And there you go. He says, meet and
greet at zendaas whatever we want. How about that? Whenever
we want to do a so caw meet and greet,
Matt Jack's our hookup, he knows, Yeah, so we can
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do one. Do one there as well. An La meeting Layton.
What's that nogon no lollygaggon. All right, we got to
work out the schedule, get a lot of moving parts. Here,
Mark writes, and he says, been too long with the
Malla militia. My hours changed. But I'm hearing you mallor
uh get me on the show. Mid February is as
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so as the kids say mid in sports. There you go.
That's Primo. I miss you, Primo, Eddie. That's Mark G,
the Great Mark G checking in there. He is listening. Well,
there are no mid points in the calendar. There are
just lazy talk show hosts. That's usually what happens the
quality of the show if the host is dependent on
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having great topics to talk about and they're not very
good talk show hosts. This is where the wheat is
separated from the chef. Right here, this is the separation point,
this part of the calendar, and I embrace. I embrace
the challenge. Let's go to Andrea, who's in Berkeley. Hello Andrea, welcome.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Hello Ben, how are you?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
If I was any better, I'd be a Jay, but
not a Blue Jay because they're about to lose one
of their touchstone players.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, I know, it's twelfth super Bowl ends and baseball
season begins, and well, yeah, speaking of football, Aaron Rogers,
Aaron Rodgers, Yes, yes, there you go. You know he's
Sagittarius September I'm sorry, December second, nineteen eighty three, and
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he's having his midlife crisis, Ben, and I can't underscore
that enough because he is this restless spirit, this Sagittarius
that loves action. And when you have your midlife crisis,
and for your listeners, between the ages of forty forty three,
you definitely want to have changes and you get more restless.
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And Aaron Rodgers is already restless, and he's questioning how
to revitalize and renew his life path and lo and
behold Rams. You know you were right on. You said
he's not going to retire when the Jets didn't want
him anymore. Remember that?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, no, why would you retire?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You know how much fun is it to play football?
Aren't you ever retire? Come on?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I know I'm sagittarius. Are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You know?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Every day is like an adventure. And he's free spirited.
He loves to travel. Know, he's athletic and idealistic and
very what's the word kind of visionary and open minded.
So he really likes, you know, being of football player
tooots him fine, and the travel and the freedom and I.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Think the look more. And you're in the Bay Area,
so you obviously know this bohemian tendencies, right, or or
you could say he is a hedonist. You could say, right, heist, that's.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
All I like, your self absorbed into a well.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, you're just pursuing pleasure. Is things in life give
you pleasure? You're a hedonist? Big word watch out alf
fun scrabble. I'm going to use the word hedonist. Yeah,
it's good word hedonist, like the word hedonist.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, I mean he definitely has that personality trade. I
think you're right on to pick that up on him.
And you know, again, the midlife crisis, especially for your
listeners out there, it's the time of restlessness, questioning, and change.
So people change career, relationship, living situations. It's a huge
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you know, right.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't like change though, you know energy, Yeah, you too, right.
You like consistency. We like comfort and consistencies boring, No, No,
it's exciting consistency. We like the food we like, we
like the people that we like. Those are the things
we like in and out.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
If someone made a joke about my taurus rising that
I don't like change, and they said, yeah, the only
thing that likes change is a wet baby.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah that's about right, or a really old person that
needs their diaper. Either way, you know, is it great
when you come into life and leave life you need diapers?
Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Kind of a full circle, yes, but I thought it
was great.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Real quick?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
How you alluded to being a Taurus on your Benny
versus the Penny the last episode of the season.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Oh, yes, well, thank you for watching the wrap up
season two, two seasons in. Yes, I didn't think we'd.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Get one, but lou By and you are you going
to do a third?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
We don't know. It's up to the suits over there
at NBC. We'll see. I think it's going to take
some time and decompress and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
But hopefully Good Energy was popular and fun and really
playful and entertaining, and it.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Did pretty well, So we'll see what happens. But not
my call. As you know, Andrea, that is a higher,
as they say, a higher pay grade. There's somebody in
a big corporate office somewhere that makes that decision.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Not me.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, but you know that was really fun to have
that to look forward to. That was really a fun.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, well for sure, hopefully we'll bring it back. But
thank you, Andrew and virgo in service. You want to
sell to Andrea, She'll enlighten you. And you've got your
newsletter comes out a couple of times a year.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah, Mark gets spring up.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
One off here. All right, well, thank you, Andrea. Enjoy
the bath. Start the bath you got? All right? There
she goes our friend Andrea, I know her whole schedule,
we're friends, you know, calls show and she gets done
with the show, and then she says she has a
bath with those essential oils. It's a big essential oil person.
I know Justin and Cincinnati loves that too. Let's say
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hello to who do we have any meaning money? Let's
go to Danny. Is this my guy, Danny DeVito? Hello, Danny, welcome, Yes.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Sir, mister mal what's going on?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Hey, Danny, I'm gonna have you change positions. Are you
okay with changing positions?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Changing positions?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Now, I'm gonna what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, well, yeah, you know I'm gonna take you off
the trash truck and I'm gonna I'm gonna make you
work in the yard.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Well, it's a miserable out here right now. Ben, I'm
in High Park in Boston, and uh, it's freezing cold.
You guys are over there a night's warm.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Son.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I even know why I'm over here. I was born
and raised here. But I'm really getting tired of these witnesses.
But I you're like an ice box over here the
last couple of days, and it's not gonna get any
better for the next week.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So it's many. How many layers of clothing do you
have to have on to pick up the trash?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Oh, that's part of my problem. I never dressed right,
I'm mostly in the cab, but I get out.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I just get out.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I dumped out of dumped up at about twenty rats,
he jumped out.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Oh what a life? Do you imagine? Twenty rats? But
isn't it worse during the summer because then you got
the smell and the rats, But during the winner you
don't have really the smell.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Yeah, it's brutal. Hey, I'm calling about Aaron rodses This guy,
this bottom feet of Aaron rodses he U three years ago.
Bet he was the MVP of the league.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Right now he.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Gets to you know, the Jets, the low Jets say.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Get out of here.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
You gotta calment on that this kicking the play next
to you. Is he playing football next year?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, he's gonna play. Why not we played until they
ripped the uniform off. You don't want to go out
on that sour note with the Jets. Yeah, he'll be
playing somewhere. And if you got it, yeah, maybe the Rams,
the Titans, the Raiders. There's a bunch of teams that
need quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Okay, so so you think the Rams, let tit and
someone's gonna make a jump on him by next day.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You say, I don't know they're gonna make a jump,
but they teams need quarterbacks. Rogers is a quarterback. He's
a name that you've heard of. You know, he's a
legend back. Not from what he's done recently, but what
do you back in the day and so so, yeah,
he'll get a gig, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
And the last thing ben that all side game.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
So the NBA is a complete joke.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I wanted to bet on that thing. I didn't know
what to bet on.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I mean, no, no, I don't listen, do not bet
on stuff like that. What are you doing? You know
you're going so you lose your money. I know your
That's how they get you. They got you by the balls.
When you do that. You can't do that. You got
to pick your spots. That's how they make all their
money on that. You can't do that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Come on, it was a Sunday night.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
I had nothing going on.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's how they got you. They bored you. Start before
you know, you lost a couple hundred bucks and it's like,
what are you doing? I know how, I know how
it goes. I'm familiar with outgo.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I know, all right, we'll be I was coming back
from the super Bowl. I'm still I'm hoping that super Bowl.
I lost a ton on that.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
As you know, well, I did not go the way
I thought it was going to go either, as you know,
so I did not did not out very well for
me at all, and even worse at least I don't know.
At least it was over like at halftime, like there
was no I mean, it was done. That was it.
There was no competition at all. The game was done.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
That game was all over. The first sentiment to that game,
yeah by Mahomes is reaction and all that. I mean
he was he went to lost mahomes. The rest of
the teams did too, So yeah, that was bad.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
That was yeah, that was all right. Well, try to
maybe bring a jacket. You know, I'm not your mom,
but you might want to bring a jacket out there,
because I go, right there, you go. The great Danny DeVito,
fan of this show. Send that out, coop to. Danny
DeVito is a supporter of the Ben Maler Show. Right
that's a big name, Ben big name. It is currently
(26:48):
see here. It is thirteen degrees in Boston right now,
but the temperature it feels like it's zero degrees because
of the wind and all that. And it's supposed to
get down to minus two in a few hours. Allegedly
it's gonna feel like minus too in a couple hours.
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It is the Ben Malach Show, The Two Faced Rattlesnake.
Pay that off right now. So this is a story
from Major League Baseball. I present to you the Commissioner
of Major League Baseball, Clown Manford. Rob Clownmanford. Now, the
commissioner did some interviews recently, and he said that the
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talk about talking about both sides of mouth. He said
that the Dodgers are doing what the system allows, and
spending is great for the game. Rob Manford said, all right, well,
he's on board for the Dodgers. Well. He also said
that the economic disparity between teams like the Dodgers and
cheap ass teams like the Tampa Bay Arrays and the
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Sacramento Athletics, that teams like that, that is the very
top of his list of concerns. So he's, oh, yeah,
the Dodgers with the spending money's great for the game. Oh,
by the way, this is my number one concern. What
a two faced rattlesnake Rob Manford is.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I also saw on that point of conversation that Scott
boris the superagent. He went on a rant talking about
the economic imbalance in baseball, but his argument is the
other direction. He complained about these spending patterns over the winner.
And there are five teams, five teams in baseball with
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payrolls below one hundred million dollars as spring training is
underway in Florida and Arizona. According to the current luxury
tax calculations, five of the thirty members of the Cartel
Baseball are not even spending one hundred million dollars. Now,
Boris points out that last year there were six teams
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spending below one hundred million dollars, and the money they
get from the general fund is above that, So they
get more money from television and merch sales. Then they're
spending on player payroll that does not include all the
other revenue streams that the teams have, and so boris
complaining about that. Of course, nobody wants to hear Boris complain.
(29:17):
But what a what a weasel that Rob Manford is. Oh,
it's go back to the phones and we'll say lo
to Maynard, who's in Tampa. Hello, Maynard, welcome?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
What's up on man?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
How you be?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
If I was any better, I'd be a Ray, but
not a Tampa Bay Ray because you know they don't
spend it.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, I'm from Detroit.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Okay, I'd be a Tiger, but not a Detroit Tiger
because they are. Oh, I'd be a Wing, but not
a red Wing because they haven't been good in like
twenty years.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, I know we've been down on a downfall ball.
How come y'all only give no coverage to the tournament
right now?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You want to you want to sounds like you're angry.
Are you angry?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Well, I'm kind of you know, like trying to figure
out like y'all sports you know.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, we are. We are absolutely you don't talk.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
No one thing about hockey.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
No, we don't because it's called the broadcasting, not narrow casting.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Is that because you all ain't got no rights to
the hockey thing that you gotta.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
You know, No, No, I don't care about that. No,
probably talk about it tomorrow because or not tomorrow. Well, yeah, tomorrow,
today's Wednesday, so tomorrow will be Thursday.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Game. The other day when we kicked them out, you
know what that was.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Because it was because it was on Saturday. So you
see what happened was made or that was on Saturday,
and the show is on Monday morning, so it's kind
of old news by then.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
See the problem it's not old knows when that's coming
in up into you guys.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
You know, but it's like two days you know we did,
it's we do. Whatever's happening right there in the moment.
We try to avoid talking unless.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
It's name me. One time that I've heard heard you
talk about hockey, Well.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
There's this guy Eddie And one time I did a
story of out of Zamboni and I don't know if you.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Yes real good American.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Let me tell you, sir, it was. It was his
name out shaw Fing. It was a great segment. Everyone loved.
Remember Lorraine of the Zamboni segment. How popular was that
segment about Zamboni? My god, we talked about the Zamboni family,
the different generations, the updated Zamboni. People loved it, Maynard.
They could not get enough. So rather than you complain,
Maynard about the lack of hockey coverage, why don't you
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embrace the fact you can be the hockey guy. You
can enlighten the people on hockey. How about that? Maynard?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
All right, what you want to make a lot me about?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Well, no, no, no, you you have all the answers, right,
you watch all these games and you're you're very happy
with the the four Nations tournament. Right, you think this
is great and you don't think the USA is going
to choke here in the final game on Thursday and
lose to Canada. Right, you think they're gonna win.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Uh. The problem with is losing a Cam mccarr coming
back for Canada. That's that's the issue there. US losing
other two defensemen and then having to call someone up.
Quinn Hughes Q was he was on the original roster,
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but then he got hurt and then now he got called.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Time About time out, Maynard, I think it's better when
you just complain about the show not talking hockey than
when you talk hockey. I think it's more fun when
you say how much you hate the show rather than
you talk about hockey.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
What's that you You asked me to break it down?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I did, but you know, you know, I just didn't.
I don't know. I didn't float. To me, he didn't float.
I don't know if it flew. I didn't really float.
It was a little choppy. Nothing against you, little chopping.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
A breakdown of the thing.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I know.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Okay, okay, So so who do you think just you
thinking about not knowing anything about hockey?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Gonna cover hockey? Back when Wayne Gretzky played, I covered
hockey the La Kings Wayne Gretzky. That was on the
beat back in the day. That was a long time ago.
I spent thirty years. What's that I'm thinking? I'm rapping.
I'm wrapping myself in the flag, sir, Come on, USA, USA, USA,
usa us. Hey, I gotta thank you, thank you, Maynard.
(33:20):
I gotta go thank It's a Maynard upset hockey guy upset.
And my my experience with upset hockey guy is they're
upset that I don't talk about hockey. When I do
talk about hockey, they're upset that I am talking about
hockey because I'm not mister Hockey. So then they either way,
that's a no win situation because if I better bet
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no I started. You know again, I was thinking about
maybe Thursday night and a Friday talking about hockey. I'll
be watching the game there and all that. But again
I go back to the point, like when you talk
hockey and you're not like a hard old hockey guy,
like an original six fan, people get very upset. They
get very upset about that. Ton out for the insta trivia. Here,
(34:02):
it is the instant trivia. Blank led the NFL in
receptions three times in their career, more than any wide
receiver in NFL history. Again, Blank led the league in
receptions three times during their career, more than any wide
(34:22):
receiver in NFL history. That is the insta trivia. The answer,
We'll get to it, and we will.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
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(34:57):
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Come down for the Insta Trivia, a blatant attempt to
(35:18):
get you to listen a little bit longer. And here
is the Insta trivia. Blank led the league in receptions,
not once, not twice, but three times. That's more than
any wide receiver in NFL history. And you got to
fill in the blank. That's the question. You gotta fill
in the blank. The Ultimate Warrior guests by none other
(35:43):
than Rob in Vegas, William going with Julia's pierpoint patches
as his answer. Okay, Sterling Hitchcock guessed by mister nice guy,
mister Mouth from alf the Alien Opiner who never fails
to find and random things from the past. Who else
do we have? Timu Solani from ferg Dog. That's an
(36:06):
updated Tim Mussolani. Henry Ruggs the third there from King Rory. Well,
he's one of our listeners there in prison in Vegas
or in Reno. Who else? Late night drug tester says
NICOLEA Jokic, who is thirty today? All right, I think
I know what he's doing to celebrate his birthday. Andy
in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, Where all the Butter comes from,
(36:26):
says Maynard Darnell Randall Moss straight Cash, Homie, Ozzie Momentum
guest by Shane in Des Moines, Sterling Sharp from Eke
in Roseville, Minnesota, Steve Lombard Doozy one of the great
names in baseball history from Robin Minnesota Lombardozy, Gagny Herbeck
(36:50):
that was a Tom Burnansky on that team that was
a good team, Minnesota Twins. And Charlie Joiner misspelled by
Steve the Misplaced and Diagan Dick Bukis when the all
time great names from Timothy in Northern Kentucky. Who else
do we have? Guidomerkins from Sam Houston State, mister irrigation's
(37:12):
alum alumni. All right, Laray, No, do you have an
answer again? Blank? The only player, only player to lead
the league in receptions three times more than any other
wide receiver in NFL history, Michael Irvin. Ben, Wow, No,
that is incorrect. The correct answer from the New England
Patriots and others. Let's play with the Broncos. Wes Welker,
(37:34):
Wes Welker. The it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
To the third degree, This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Then over to the Koopal loop for the reading of
the questions.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
It was reported on Monday that Sean McVay quote really
likes backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and that the Rams could
re sign him as a bridge quarterback for next season. Ben,
what is the Rams ceiling with Jimmy g at the helm?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Well, the thing about Jimmy G's it's kind of like
Sam Darnell, Like, you can win regular season games, but
if you ultimately get to a point in the playoffs
where your quarterback has to step up and make plays.
Does anyone think Jimmy Garoppolo is gonna be that guy.
I don't. So we saw that with the forty nine ers.
So yeah, you could win ten games with a guy
like Jimmy Garoppolo, but in the playoffs it all falls apart.
(38:30):
Maybe mcveig should just go to lunch with Garoppolo rather
than have him as the quarterback next.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Miami quarterback Kim Ward is the betting favorite to be
the first overall pick in the draft, and he let
teams know this week that if they pass on him,
they quote got to play me for the rest of
my career and I'll remember that.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Oh I'm scared, right, but I'm scared. I'm scared. Ben.
Do you think the do you think Ward to the
Titans is a lock? No, don't. I look at these
quarterbacks and I don't see hey, number one overall pick,
Shooter Sanders, doesn't look like the number one guy cam Ward. Now,
one of them will likely be drafted number one because
(39:06):
they you know, that's what they do. They need a
quarterback these teams, and Tennessee needs a quarterback. But no,
I'm not overwhelmed by cam Ward. I didn't see him
play too much at Miami. But when I did, I
was like, this guy's guaranteed to be great in the NFL.
I didn't get that vibe. All right. Next, if the.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
Bengals do decide to tag T Higgins, who do you
think becomes the top free agent target this offseason?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Well, A, you're talking about wide receivers or what? Do
you just? In general? I guess, uh, you know, position
plays well, the player movement thing, it's gonna be. It's
not it's not a free agent, but it's gonna be
Miles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns and you're you're Denver Broncos.
Maybe they get it on that, but Miles Garrett's the guy,
and he's a Hall of Fame level defensive player. So
(39:47):
and Cooper Cup, how'd we know he passes? I wanted
the buzzer, weed Man. I wanted the buzzer
Boom Shaka Laca. It's our nab to our number two
talking baseball, and there is high drama in Toronto spring
training camp. Slugger of Vladimir Guerrero's contract talks with the
Blue Jays have ended at an in pass. What does
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Toronto do now? Also, who's going to be making a
run at Vladi Guerrero Junior via trade and then free agency?
And in Boston, franchise legend David Ortiz was deputized to
patch things over with Rafael Devers and the Red Sox
brass and he's sighted with Devers in the reluctance to
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change positions from third base. How does that change things?
We'll talk about all of that and more right now.
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page on that and we're gonna pivot to Ah, Yeah,
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we go where these stories of the day take us
in this hour. That would be Canada. Some new developments
on a name brand player who is starting to put
his toe in the water, saying, hey, I want to
see what else is out there. I want to see
where the water leads me. So another big name heading
(02:35):
towards divorce court in baseball. Assume you've seen this, but
maybe not, maybe haven't heard yet. We learned that Vladimir
Goaretro Junior, Vladie Junior, is not long for Oh Canada. No, no, no,
he's not long for the Blue Jays either. They had
a deadline his own deadline, which was not met on
(02:58):
a new Mega Mega Mega contract extension. So the contract
extension did not get done before the self imposed deadline.
On Monday night, late Guerrero told reporters at Blue Jays
spring training camp they had their numbers. I had my numbers,
(03:18):
he said. Then he was asked what he is looking
for for his next possible team, and he said he
wanted a team that is winning. He wanted a team
that is winning. All right, So what does all this mean?
Let's decode all of this. What do you say? So,
barring a plot twist, barring a plot twist, at the
(03:39):
eleventh hour, the twenty five year old, twenty five year
old Vladimir Guerrero Junior is playing his final games in
a Toronto uniform and he will exit stage left. So
the question though, we know what has happened, but what
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is going to happened next? So Vladimir Guerrel Junior, his
contract talks with the Blue Jays have reached impass and
he says that's it. I'm done. I'm not signing an extension.
I'm gonna test free agency. So what does Toronto do
now with Vladimir Guerrero Junior. So I've got auto club
regular customers and Foo fighters, and we will combine all
(04:23):
of these things together, and we're going to make a
silhouette of the map of the United States. Because every
other team outside of Toronto is in the United States.
So chances are that vlad if he leaves the Blue Jays,
by the process of elimination, we'll be playing somewhere in
the continental United States. So nam b I said, numb
(04:49):
burn I said, number. It didn't work that time. Damn
delayed reaction. I blame the heavy Mickey Mouse hears, That's
what I blame, all right. So my first thought on
this is where do the Blue Jays go from here?
They go to tyson Foods. Why do they go to
Tyson's Foods Because they are parked. Okay, they are parked
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at this particular point. Vladie Guerrero, while he is not
a perfect player, there are some issues here and there. Overall,
he is the touchstone of the franchise and he is
going to market. He is going to put his wares
on the market. And the Blue Jays, bumping heads with
(05:34):
Vladimir Guerrero Junior, could not find common ground. And so
despite saying multiple times trying to try to deputize the
fan base that I want to be in Toronto my
entire career. Clearly he wants to be in Toronto if
they pay him to be in Toronto. I get it.
It's not a charity. I understand that. But when you're
(05:54):
saying I want to be here, and the Blue Jays
did offer him a fair amount of money, but he's like, no, no,
go someone else, see what else is out there? So
that means he's obviously fixing to leave Canada. And he's
already gone down to the Auto Club and he's picked
up a bunch of maps, got a bunch of maps there,
and all roads, all of them lead to off ramps
(06:18):
from the Blue Jays. Now, my advice, and I'm never
wrong about this stuff. I have all the answers doing
the Overnight Show. My advice is the Blue let it breathe.
Just take a deep breath, let it breathe. Just let
it breathe a little bit, right, But don't snooze. Do
not snooz. Just let it breathe. Right, And you don't
(06:39):
want to make some kind of knee jerk trade in
spring training or even in the first month of the season.
You want to do that. You also there's common great
you do not want to be Ardie Marino, who allowed
sho hel Tani to play out his contract with the
Angels and did not trade him. If the player says, hey,
I don't want to sign an extension, I'm going to
test the market telling you I don't want to be there.
(07:02):
So you might want to listen to them. You might
want to listen to them. Now you've got a couple
of options here. The Blue Jays don't figure to be
very good. They're projected to be a pretender. But the
reason you play it out is what if they actually
play above their means and they can be a contender
(07:22):
for a little bit. And the sweet spot on the
trade is mid June to the trade deadline, So sometime
in mid June, right until the trade deadline, and that's
where you get the most bang for your buck. And
that's the confluence, if you will, the confluence where everything
(07:44):
kind of runs together and forms this massive blob of goodness,
this massive gelatine blob of goodness. Now, secondly, all right,
who's going to make a run? You make the call,
who's going to make a run at Vladi Guerrero Junior here,
So we're gonna use the malar wheel of speculation, which
(08:04):
is just a great device. I got it at a
yard sale years ago. And the malar wheel of speculation
has never never run. You spin the wheel and it
goes round and round and round and round and round
and round, and and the malar wheel of speculation it
stopped at regular customers as in repeat business. Now, Guerrero's
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not making ridonculous money by baseball standards right now. However, however,
he is considered a luxury item because even if you
trade for him, there's no guarantee that he's going to
sign a massive, massive, herculean sized contract extension. So as
a luxury item, you look to the Mets, you look
(08:52):
to the Yankees, the Red Sox, the usual regular customers
for these big ticket items. But the reason you way
until Junior July. You can fool them for a bit.
In baseball. Now, over the course of the season, we
know the line with water seeks its on level, but
over the course of the season you can kind of
fool them for a while. So let's say there's some
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kind of surprise team that's got a little money burning
a hole in their pocket, and whether that's the Higantes
or the Diamondbacks or the Mariners or whoever. And they've
got money. So there's a lot of moving parts. And
then so you can sucker one of those teams in
because they get all horny they think they're gonna go
on a run in the playoffs and so but you
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gotta wait, you gotta wait. Now. The other question is
how good a player is Laddie Guerrero Junior. He's not
battle tested in terms of big games, big moments, and
so he's one of these guys that, until proven otherwise,
is a prolific stat stuffer. He hasn't had much of
an opportunity, but in the playoffs, Laddie Guerrero Junior is
(09:56):
more mister May than mister October a one thirty six
career batting average in a small sample size. So that's
given you. Like in football, you'd say that's like Dak Prescott,
like where he puts up great numbers and he's got
four All Star appearances and a couple of Silver Sluggers.
He was the runner up for the MVP in the
American League a couple of years ago, so he's got
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all that cool stuff. But yet most of it is
when the Blue Jays are eliminated, which is the day
after they leave the Grapefruit League. The day after they
leave the Grapefruit League, the blue Jays are typically eliminated.
That's it, They're done. It's all over all right now,
final point we go now by request from mister Irrigation,
(10:39):
who is enjoying the shot in freude of a now
former cheating as one one thousand and two one thousand
hole joining the Red Sox. It is appropriate that Alex
Bregman went to the mass holes, from the A holes
to the mass holes. But there he is. And as
(11:01):
the world turns at Finnway Park South, Yes, so David
Ortiz has entered the chat Big Poppy Red Sox legend
there and he is a steward of the franchise. Well,
here is a David Ortiz. He chimed in on Rafael
Devers and Alex Bregman the great debate which is going
(11:21):
on here, the standoff, if you will, who's going to
be the third basement. So Big Poppy stood with the incumbent,
say that Devers is quote the current David Ortiz type
player on the Red Sox. He said, calling Raffi the
team's best player. Now, as you know, best means as
good as all the rest. So Devers is as good
(11:44):
as every other player on the Red Sox. But wait,
there's more. Quote continues. So Big Poppy, speaking in his
native tongue, said that you're not talking about a Mickey
Mouse type of player when referencing Raffie l Devs. That's
what he said, a Mickey Mouse type player. All right,
(12:05):
so let us discuss franchise legend. Who's so lucky the
Mitchell report never got out. David Ortiz. David Ortiz has
sighted with Rafael Devers over Red Sox brass over Red
Sox Brass, endeavors reluctance to leave the hot corner and
(12:27):
change positions, become a designated hitter. So how does this
David Ortiz influence How does this change the story? All right, So,
I'm glad you asked. I'm glad you asked. So this
is the the Foo Fighters song monkey wrench. This is
a monkey wrench situation. Right when you juxtaposed what the
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Red Sox assumed that David Ortiz was going to do
and what he did, this is hilarious. Listen, I got
no skin in the game. I'm not on Red Sock.
I like when the Red Sox are interesting because it's
good for talk radio purposes. But in finway is a
cool place to visit, although not designed for people my height.
But here's the other thing, right, the plan for the
(13:09):
Red Sox, when you judge the post what they thought.
They thought they were gonna send David Ortiz in and
he was on a peace keeping mission. He was going
to have a little chat with Rafael Devers and RAFFI, listen,
you do what the team needs you to do. You're
the franchise player. You got your money. You're gonna get
paid either way. And so they sent him in there
as a liaison between the front office, the coaching staff,
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and the player. And David Ortiz was supposed to finesse
Rafaeld Devers, give him a little shoulder rub and end
all hostilities. But instead, how did that work out? Well? Yes,
instead of that, he went rogue. He went rogue David Ortiz,
and he said, you know what, I'm going to become
(13:53):
an arsonist. I want to extend the wildfires what I
would like to do and fan the flames. But the
issue ultimately comes down to the Red Sox who The
only reason I'm convinced they paid Devers is because they
didn't pay Mookie Bets. And then he went out and
won the World Series with the Dodgers, and so they
they couldn't keep losing everybody. Sandrew Bogarts went to the
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Padres and so they had to keep one of their
young players. The devs was like the next guy. So
they panicked and they paid him, and they knew he
was eventually gonna have to leave third base. The fact
that he's continued to play third base at a little
league level and continue to be out there because of
the contract, because of the country. I mean, they were
gonna pay him, and he was making good money before,
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but now he's making cartoonish money. All right, you want
to talk about any of that, You're more than welcome
to join us here. As the line has opened up
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All right?
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Anyway, Well, my Carmen Doppelganger on one of the TVs
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of that. And then now back to the Malord Show. Yeah,
that's out. That's right, Bill, We roll on here through
the overnight. Matt Jack writes in from Sokel. He says,
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Vladdy Guerrero Junior could start for the Doyers at third
base today, but the last thing Toronto would do is
help the team that got the guys they wanted, Otani
and Sazaki And there you go. He says, meet and
greet at zendaas whatever we want. How about that? Whenever
we want to do a so caw meet and greet,
Matt Jack's our hookup, he knows, Yeah, so we can
(17:24):
do one. Do one there as well. An La meeting Layton.
What's that nogon no lollygaggon. All right, we got to
work out the schedule, get a lot of moving parts. Here,
Mark writes, and he says, been too long with the
Malla militia. My hours changed. But I'm hearing you mallor
uh get me on the show. Mid February is as
(17:48):
so as the kids say mid in sports. There you go.
That's Primo. I miss you, Primo, Eddie. That's Mark G,
the Great Mark G checking in there. He is listening. Well,
there are no mid points in the calendar. There are
just lazy talk show hosts. That's usually what happens the
quality of the show if the host is dependent on
(18:10):
having great topics to talk about and they're not very
good talk show hosts. This is where the wheat is
separated from the chef. Right here, this is the separation point,
this part of the calendar, and I embrace. I embrace
the challenge. Let's go to Andrea, who's in Berkeley. Hello Andrea, welcome.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Hello Ben, how are you?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
If I was any better, I'd be a Jay, but
not a Blue Jay because they're about to lose one
of their touchstone players.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, I know, it's twelfth super Bowl ends and baseball
season begins, and well, yeah, speaking of football, Aaron Rogers,
Aaron Rodgers, Yes, yes, there you go. You know he's
Sagittarius September I'm sorry, December second, nineteen eighty three, and
(19:06):
he's having his midlife crisis, Ben, and I can't underscore
that enough because he is this restless spirit, this Sagittarius
that loves action. And when you have your midlife crisis,
and for your listeners, between the ages of forty forty three,
you definitely want to have changes and you get more restless.
(19:28):
And Aaron Rodgers is already restless, and he's questioning how
to revitalize and renew his life path and lo and
behold Rams. You know you were right on. You said
he's not going to retire when the Jets didn't want
him anymore. Remember that?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah, no, why would you retire?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Come on?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
You know how much fun is it to play football?
Aren't you ever retire? Come on?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I know I'm sagittarius. Are you kidding?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You know?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Every day is like an adventure. And he's free spirited.
He loves to travel. Know, he's athletic and idealistic and
very what's the word kind of visionary and open minded.
So he really likes, you know, being of football player
tooots him fine, and the travel and the freedom and I.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Think the look more. And you're in the Bay Area,
so you obviously know this bohemian tendencies, right, or or
you could say he is a hedonist. You could say, right, heist, that's.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
All I like, your self absorbed into a well.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
No, you're just pursuing pleasure. Is things in life give
you pleasure? You're a hedonist? Big word watch out alf
fun scrabble. I'm going to use the word hedonist. Yeah,
it's good word hedonist, like the word hedonist.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Yeah, I mean he definitely has that personality trade. I
think you're right on to pick that up on him.
And you know, again, the midlife crisis, especially for your
listeners out there, it's the time of restlessness, questioning, and change.
So people change career, relationship, living situations. It's a huge
(21:04):
you know, right.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
I don't like change though, you know energy, Yeah, you too, right.
You like consistency. We like comfort and consistencies boring, No, No,
it's exciting consistency. We like the food we like, we
like the people that we like. Those are the things
we like in and out.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
If someone made a joke about my taurus rising that
I don't like change, and they said, yeah, the only
thing that likes change is a wet baby.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Yeah that's about right, or a really old person that
needs their diaper. Either way, you know, is it great
when you come into life and leave life you need diapers?
Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Kind of a full circle, yes, but I thought it
was great.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
Real quick?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
How you alluded to being a Taurus on your Benny
versus the Penny the last episode of the season.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Oh, yes, well, thank you for watching the wrap up
season two, two seasons in. Yes, I didn't think we'd.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Get one, but lou By and you are you going
to do a third?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
We don't know. It's up to the suits over there
at NBC. We'll see. I think it's going to take
some time and decompress and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
But hopefully Good Energy was popular and fun and really
playful and entertaining, and it.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Did pretty well, So we'll see what happens. But not
my call. As you know, Andrea, that is a higher,
as they say, a higher pay grade. There's somebody in
a big corporate office somewhere that makes that decision.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
Not me.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah, but you know that was really fun to have
that to look forward to. That was really a fun.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Yeah, well for sure, hopefully we'll bring it back. But
thank you, Andrew and virgo in service. You want to
sell to Andrea, She'll enlighten you. And you've got your
newsletter comes out a couple of times a year.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah, Mark gets spring up.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
One off here. All right, well, thank you, Andrea. Enjoy
the bath. Start the bath you got? All right? There
she goes our friend Andrea, I know her whole schedule,
we're friends, you know, calls show and she gets done
with the show, and then she says she has a
bath with those essential oils. It's a big essential oil person.
I know Justin and Cincinnati loves that too. Let's say
(23:07):
hello to who do we have any meaning money? Let's
go to Danny. Is this my guy, Danny DeVito? Hello, Danny, welcome, Yes.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Sir, mister mal what's going on?
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Hey, Danny, I'm gonna have you change positions. Are you
okay with changing positions?
Speaker 5 (23:21):
Changing positions?
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Now, I'm gonna what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Well?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah, well, yeah, you know I'm gonna take you off
the trash truck and I'm gonna I'm gonna make you
work in the yard.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Well, it's a miserable out here right now. Ben, I'm
in High Park in Boston, and uh, it's freezing cold.
You guys are over there a night's warm.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
Son.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
I even know why I'm over here. I was born
and raised here. But I'm really getting tired of these witnesses.
But I you're like an ice box over here the
last couple of days, and it's not gonna get any
better for the next week.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
So it's many. How many layers of clothing do you
have to have on to pick up the trash?
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Oh, that's part of my problem. I never dressed right,
I'm mostly in the cab, but I get out.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I just get out.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
I dumped out of dumped up at about twenty rats,
he jumped out.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Oh what a life? Do you imagine? Twenty rats? But
isn't it worse during the summer because then you got
the smell and the rats, But during the winner you
don't have really the smell.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Yeah, it's brutal. Hey, I'm calling about Aaron rodses This guy,
this bottom feet of Aaron rodses he U three years ago.
Bet he was the MVP of the league.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
Right now he.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
Gets to you know, the Jets, the low Jets say.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
Get out of here.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
You gotta calment on that this kicking the play next
to you. Is he playing football next year?
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, he's gonna play. Why not we played until they
ripped the uniform off. You don't want to go out
on that sour note with the Jets. Yeah, he'll be
playing somewhere. And if you got it, yeah, maybe the Rams,
the Titans, the Raiders. There's a bunch of teams that
need quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
Okay, so so you think the Rams, let tit and
someone's gonna make a jump on him by next day.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
You say, I don't know they're gonna make a jump,
but they teams need quarterbacks. Rogers is a quarterback. He's
a name that you've heard of. You know, he's a
legend back. Not from what he's done recently, but what
do you back in the day and so so, yeah,
he'll get a gig, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
And the last thing ben that all side game.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
So the NBA is a complete joke.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
I wanted to bet on that thing. I didn't know
what to bet on.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I mean, no, no, I don't listen, do not bet
on stuff like that. What are you doing? You know
you're going so you lose your money. I know your
That's how they get you. They got you by the balls.
When you do that. You can't do that. You got
to pick your spots. That's how they make all their
money on that. You can't do that.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Come on, it was a Sunday night.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
I had nothing going on.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
That's how they got you. They bored you. Start before
you know, you lost a couple hundred bucks and it's like,
what are you doing? I know how, I know how
it goes. I'm familiar with outgo.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
I know, all right, we'll be I was coming back
from the super Bowl. I'm still I'm hoping that super Bowl.
I lost a ton on that.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
As you know, well, I did not go the way
I thought it was going to go either, as you know,
so I did not did not out very well for
me at all, and even worse at least I don't know.
At least it was over like at halftime, like there
was no I mean, it was done. That was it.
There was no competition at all. The game was done.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
That game was all over. The first sentiment to that game,
yeah by Mahomes is reaction and all that. I mean
he was he went to lost mahomes. The rest of
the teams did too, So yeah, that was bad.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
That was yeah, that was all right. Well, try to
maybe bring a jacket. You know, I'm not your mom,
but you might want to bring a jacket out there,
because I go, right there, you go. The great Danny DeVito,
fan of this show. Send that out, coop to. Danny
DeVito is a supporter of the Ben Maler Show. Right
that's a big name, Ben big name. It is currently
(26:48):
see here. It is thirteen degrees in Boston right now,
but the temperature it feels like it's zero degrees because
of the wind and all that. And it's supposed to
get down to minus two in a few hours. Allegedly
it's gonna feel like minus too in a couple hours.
(27:10):
It is the Ben Malach Show, The Two Faced Rattlesnake.
Pay that off right now. So this is a story
from Major League Baseball. I present to you the Commissioner
of Major League Baseball, Clown Manford. Rob Clownmanford. Now, the
commissioner did some interviews recently, and he said that the
(27:33):
talk about talking about both sides of mouth. He said
that the Dodgers are doing what the system allows, and
spending is great for the game. Rob Manford said, all right, well,
he's on board for the Dodgers. Well. He also said
that the economic disparity between teams like the Dodgers and
cheap ass teams like the Tampa Bay Arrays and the
(27:56):
Sacramento Athletics, that teams like that, that is the very
top of his list of concerns. So he's, oh, yeah,
the Dodgers with the spending money's great for the game. Oh,
by the way, this is my number one concern. What
a two faced rattlesnake Rob Manford is.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Now.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I also saw on that point of conversation that Scott
boris the superagent. He went on a rant talking about
the economic imbalance in baseball, but his argument is the
other direction. He complained about these spending patterns over the winner.
And there are five teams, five teams in baseball with
(28:35):
payrolls below one hundred million dollars as spring training is
underway in Florida and Arizona. According to the current luxury
tax calculations, five of the thirty members of the Cartel
Baseball are not even spending one hundred million dollars. Now,
Boris points out that last year there were six teams
(28:56):
spending below one hundred million dollars, and the money they
get from the general fund is above that, So they
get more money from television and merch sales. Then they're
spending on player payroll that does not include all the
other revenue streams that the teams have, and so boris
complaining about that. Of course, nobody wants to hear Boris complain.
(29:17):
But what a what a weasel that Rob Manford is. Oh,
it's go back to the phones and we'll say lo
to Maynard, who's in Tampa. Hello, Maynard, welcome?
Speaker 4 (29:27):
What's up on man?
Speaker 2 (29:28):
How you be?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
If I was any better, I'd be a Ray, but
not a Tampa Bay Ray because you know they don't
spend it.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, I'm from Detroit.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Okay, I'd be a Tiger, but not a Detroit Tiger
because they are. Oh, I'd be a Wing, but not
a red Wing because they haven't been good in like
twenty years.
Speaker 4 (29:46):
Yeah, I know we've been down on a downfall ball.
How come y'all only give no coverage to the tournament
right now?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
You want to you want to sounds like you're angry.
Are you angry?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
Well, I'm kind of you know, like trying to figure
out like y'all sports you know.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Yeah, we are. We are absolutely you don't talk.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
No one thing about hockey.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
No, we don't because it's called the broadcasting, not narrow casting.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
Is that because you all ain't got no rights to
the hockey thing that you gotta.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
You know, No, No, I don't care about that. No,
probably talk about it tomorrow because or not tomorrow. Well, yeah, tomorrow,
today's Wednesday, so tomorrow will be Thursday.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Game. The other day when we kicked them out, you
know what that was.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Because it was because it was on Saturday. So you
see what happened was made or that was on Saturday,
and the show is on Monday morning, so it's kind
of old news by then.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
See the problem it's not old knows when that's coming
in up into you guys.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
You know, but it's like two days you know we did,
it's we do. Whatever's happening right there in the moment.
We try to avoid talking unless.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
It's name me. One time that I've heard heard you
talk about hockey, Well.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
There's this guy Eddie And one time I did a
story of out of Zamboni and I don't know if you.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Yes real good American.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Let me tell you, sir, it was. It was his
name out shaw Fing. It was a great segment. Everyone loved.
Remember Lorraine of the Zamboni segment. How popular was that
segment about Zamboni? My god, we talked about the Zamboni family,
the different generations, the updated Zamboni. People loved it, Maynard.
They could not get enough. So rather than you complain,
Maynard about the lack of hockey coverage, why don't you
(31:31):
embrace the fact you can be the hockey guy. You
can enlighten the people on hockey. How about that? Maynard?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
All right, what you want to make a lot me about?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Well, no, no, no, you you have all the answers, right,
you watch all these games and you're you're very happy
with the the four Nations tournament. Right, you think this
is great and you don't think the USA is going
to choke here in the final game on Thursday and
lose to Canada. Right, you think they're gonna win.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
Uh. The problem with is losing a Cam mccarr coming
back for Canada. That's that's the issue there. US losing
other two defensemen and then having to call someone up.
Quinn Hughes Q was he was on the original roster,
(32:17):
but then he got hurt and then now he got called.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Time About time out, Maynard, I think it's better when
you just complain about the show not talking hockey than
when you talk hockey. I think it's more fun when
you say how much you hate the show rather than
you talk about hockey.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
What's that you You asked me to break it down?
Speaker 1 (32:38):
I did, but you know, you know, I just didn't.
I don't know. I didn't float. To me, he didn't float.
I don't know if it flew. I didn't really float.
It was a little choppy. Nothing against you, little chopping.
Speaker 4 (32:49):
A breakdown of the thing.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
I know.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
Okay, okay, So so who do you think just you
thinking about not knowing anything about hockey?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Gonna cover hockey? Back when Wayne Gretzky played, I covered
hockey the La Kings Wayne Gretzky. That was on the
beat back in the day. That was a long time ago.
I spent thirty years. What's that I'm thinking? I'm rapping.
I'm wrapping myself in the flag, sir, Come on, USA, USA, USA,
usa us. Hey, I gotta thank you, thank you, Maynard.
(33:20):
I gotta go thank It's a Maynard upset hockey guy upset.
And my my experience with upset hockey guy is they're
upset that I don't talk about hockey. When I do
talk about hockey, they're upset that I am talking about
hockey because I'm not mister Hockey. So then they either way,
that's a no win situation because if I better bet
(33:42):
no I started. You know again, I was thinking about
maybe Thursday night and a Friday talking about hockey. I'll
be watching the game there and all that. But again
I go back to the point, like when you talk
hockey and you're not like a hard old hockey guy,
like an original six fan, people get very upset. They
get very upset about that. Ton out for the insta trivia. Here,
(34:02):
it is the instant trivia. Blank led the NFL in
receptions three times in their career, more than any wide
receiver in NFL history. Again, Blank led the league in
receptions three times during their career, more than any wide
(34:22):
receiver in NFL history. That is the insta trivia. The answer,
We'll get to it, and we will.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Do it next be sure to catch live editions of
the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven
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Speaker 1 (34:37):
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Be sure to check out the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel.
The management types would love that, make them very happy.
To search Fox Sports Radio on the YouTube, we'll see
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(34:57):
Ben only wants you to watch his videos the monologues
that are on there, but be sure to subscribe so
you never miss any of the gas baggerie that is
out there. The Fox Sports Radio videos on the YouTube.
Come down for the Insta Trivia, a blatant attempt to
(35:18):
get you to listen a little bit longer. And here
is the Insta trivia. Blank led the league in receptions,
not once, not twice, but three times. That's more than
any wide receiver in NFL history. And you got to
fill in the blank. That's the question. You gotta fill
in the blank. The Ultimate Warrior guests by none other
(35:43):
than Rob in Vegas, William going with Julia's pierpoint patches
as his answer. Okay, Sterling Hitchcock guessed by mister nice guy,
mister Mouth from alf the Alien Opiner who never fails
to find and random things from the past. Who else
do we have? Timu Solani from ferg Dog. That's an
(36:06):
updated Tim Mussolani. Henry Ruggs the third there from King Rory. Well,
he's one of our listeners there in prison in Vegas
or in Reno. Who else? Late night drug tester says
NICOLEA Jokic, who is thirty today? All right, I think
I know what he's doing to celebrate his birthday. Andy
in Lino Lakes, Minnesota, Where all the Butter comes from,
(36:26):
says Maynard Darnell Randall Moss straight Cash, Homie, Ozzie Momentum
guest by Shane in Des Moines, Sterling Sharp from Eke
in Roseville, Minnesota, Steve Lombard Doozy one of the great
names in baseball history from Robin Minnesota Lombardozy, Gagny Herbeck
(36:50):
that was a Tom Burnansky on that team that was
a good team, Minnesota Twins. And Charlie Joiner misspelled by
Steve the Misplaced and Diagan Dick Bukis when the all
time great names from Timothy in Northern Kentucky. Who else
do we have? Guidomerkins from Sam Houston State, mister irrigation's
(37:12):
alum alumni. All right, Laray, No, do you have an
answer again? Blank? The only player, only player to lead
the league in receptions three times more than any other
wide receiver in NFL history, Michael Irvin. Ben, Wow, No,
that is incorrect. The correct answer from the New England
Patriots and others. Let's play with the Broncos. Wes Welker,
(37:34):
Wes Welker. The it's Mallard. How about that?
Speaker 2 (37:44):
To the third degree, This is one big Ben gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Then over to the Koopal loop for the reading of
the questions.
Speaker 6 (37:55):
It was reported on Monday that Sean McVay quote really
likes backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and that the Rams could
re sign him as a bridge quarterback for next season. Ben,
what is the Rams ceiling with Jimmy g at the helm?
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Well, the thing about Jimmy G's it's kind of like
Sam Darnell, Like, you can win regular season games, but
if you ultimately get to a point in the playoffs
where your quarterback has to step up and make plays.
Does anyone think Jimmy Garoppolo is gonna be that guy.
I don't. So we saw that with the forty nine ers.
So yeah, you could win ten games with a guy
like Jimmy Garoppolo, but in the playoffs it all falls apart.
(38:30):
Maybe mcveig should just go to lunch with Garoppolo rather
than have him as the quarterback next.
Speaker 6 (38:34):
Miami quarterback Kim Ward is the betting favorite to be
the first overall pick in the draft, and he let
teams know this week that if they pass on him,
they quote got to play me for the rest of
my career and I'll remember that.
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Oh I'm scared, right, but I'm scared. I'm scared. Ben.
Do you think the do you think Ward to the
Titans is a lock? No, don't. I look at these
quarterbacks and I don't see hey, number one overall pick,
Shooter Sanders, doesn't look like the number one guy cam Ward. Now,
one of them will likely be drafted number one because
(39:06):
they you know, that's what they do. They need a
quarterback these teams, and Tennessee needs a quarterback. But no,
I'm not overwhelmed by cam Ward. I didn't see him
play too much at Miami. But when I did, I
was like, this guy's guaranteed to be great in the NFL.
I didn't get that vibe. All right. Next, if the.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
Bengals do decide to tag T Higgins, who do you
think becomes the top free agent target this offseason?
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Well, A, you're talking about wide receivers or what? Do
you just? In general? I guess, uh, you know, position
plays well, the player movement thing, it's gonna be. It's
not it's not a free agent, but it's gonna be
Miles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns and you're you're Denver Broncos.
Maybe they get it on that, but Miles Garrett's the guy,
and he's a Hall of Fame level defensive player. So
(39:47):
and Cooper Cup, how'd we know he passes? I wanted
the buzzer, weed Man. I wanted the buzzer
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