July 29, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the most puzzling thing about Guardians closer Emmanuel Clase being dragged into this gambling web, where Clase crossed the line with the Guardians, remembering Cubs legend Ryne Sandberg, Maller to the Third Degree, and more!
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It's our numb berd two, our number two of the
Ben Malow Show podcast Piping Hot, Ready to go get
it before it cools down. We talk about the big
gambling scandal continuing in professional baseball. What is the most
puzzling thing about Guardians closer Emmanuel class being dragged in
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to the gambling web? Where did Emmanuel class A cross
the line with the Guardians according to the investigative reporting. Also,
we'll move away from that story. What are your reflections
on the life of Cubs legend Ryan Sandberg who died
this week? We look back at some memories of the
old Chicago cub Ryan Sandberg, All that and more right
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Today is the twenty ninth.
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The trade deadline is a couple days away on July
thirty first, so we're a couple days away from that.
I'm still upset that they ruined our fun. All the
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meant a lot of trades happened late at night. A
lot of trades happened right before we got on the air.
And then there was a woman with red hair named
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late for the trade deadline of the NBA. It wasn't fair.
She needed a beauty sleep, and so the NBA they said, okay,
we'll make the trade deadline the afternoon, and then every
other league followed suit, and so now we get crappy
daytime trade deadlines. But this is not about that. We
can rant about that later, but instead, if you did
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not hear the news, and possibly not, it is a
humdinger of a story. The All Star Closer, not this year,
but in years past for the Cleveland Guardians. What a
dumb name that is. Manuel class A has been put
on time out by Major League Baseball for some funny
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business turn If you believe the reporting, class A was
placed on the non non disciplinary, paid league paid LEA
through August thirty, first part of the ongoing Major League
Baseball investigation into sports gambling. The plot thickens. Now you
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keep me'scoring home. The Cleveland Guardians lead Major League Baseball
in gambling. Congratulations boys, Wow, so he's the second Guardians
pitcher to be caught in the all ongoing investigation, which
who knows when this is going to end? The Cleveland
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right hander, the great Luis Ortees. So good, you had
to look him up on Baseball Reference to find out
who he is. Anyway, he remains on the non disciplinary
paid leave naughty list now He was originally placed there
at July third. That has been extended for orties as
well to August thirty first. Nowaday prepared statement vetted by
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an army of lawyers. The Guardian said, among other things,
no additional players or club personnel are expected to be
impacted by the investigation. Keep in mind, if you know
your weasel words, look at page seventeen of the Weasel Handbook,
and the word expected is a weasel term because you
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never expect one of your players to get in trouble
with gambling. Why would you expect that you never expect
a trade to happen? They're unexpected? All right? So let
us discuss the question is as follows. Keep this simple
sports RADI. So what is the most puzzling What is
the most puzzling thing about the Guardians closer Emmanuel class
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A being dragged into the gambling web. So I've got
dance floor, Hansel and Gretel and Begs, and we will
combine all of these things together for an original Malard
monologue which is as good as milk chocolate covered almonds
one of my favorite snacks. When I don't eat much,
but when I do, I like to have a look
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a few handful or so of those delicious milk chocolate
covered almonds. Manly good. All right, kurklum brain, by the way,
I go krooklm brain. All right? So number what number
number one?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
This is not some flotsam and jetsam. This is this
is bigger. This is a bigger story here as a
Yogi bear taught me. Not Yogi bear. Yogi bear taught
me you're supposed to be smarter than the average bear.
Not so much. We're not talking about some random middle
relief pitcher or some fourth or fifth starter.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
At one point in recent years, if you were to
poll the executives in Major League Baseball, they would say
the top closer in the entire American League, Emmanuel Classe,
top guy in the American league.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Right, and if not all of baseball.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Was an all star multiple times coveted around baseball, expected
to be traded this week, not anymore, but was expected
to be traded. The thing, though, that's the most puzzling,
is the money factor. Now he's not the highest paid
relief pitcher in baseball. However, Class A is on a
twenty million dollar contract. So if you've got a twenty
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million dollar contract, you're living pretty high on the hog.
Most would say, right, And this is the biggest name
that has been caught up in this to this point.
And make no mistake, make no mistake, this is major
League Baseball. They're hitting the dance floor. They're out on
the dance floor. They're doing a little dance with a devil,
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is what they're doing. They tore and let me tell
you something, Baseball at this point is tore up from
the floor up. If you know what I'm saying here,
they signed these deals and listen, I again, I love gambling.
I'm a gambler, but even I know you're you're messing
with some really bad stuff here. How far in they've gone.
They didn't just go a little bit in. They just
put their toe in the water.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
They are all in.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Even I someone that bets I do, But I'm like
Pete Rose, I bet on baseball. Even I'm when I'm
watching him, blown away by the amount of advertising for
the for gambling. And listen, I don't mind it I'm
a little amazed that baseball is okay with it, But
here we are. And so they took the money, and
again I'm fine with it. I last a couple of years,
I did a gambling show, and for years on the radio,
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we did Benny versus the Pennies on TV the last
couple of years. But now, of course baseball, well they're shocked,
they're absolutely shocked that players are messing around with prop bets.
Give me a break. Well, that's what this is about.
So page two, So where where did Emmanuel class A
cross the line with the guardians? See? This is the
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part of the story which is almost unbelievable when you
think about how you can track something like this. Now,
now we think we know how this was uncovered, but
we don't know the specifics. We don't know all the
intricate details. However, we know that there was a line
that was tossed out unusual betting activity around multiple pitches
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involving Emmanuel class A. So Internet sluice have done some
digging and they've investigated this. Wes, this doesn't come from baseball.
Internet investigators have found what they believe is the smoking gun.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
What is that all right?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
What is the smoking gun. I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Class A has entered the ninth inning forty times this season,
forty times. And you know what is waste pitch rate
is on first pitches, it's almost twenty percent according to
stat cast, it's seventeen and a half percent.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, who cares about that, you're a nerd.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Let me explain. So seventeen and a half percent of
the time Class A comes in and throws garbage, a
non competitive pitch, no chance of being a strike, non competitive,
not eywhere close to the strike zone. And that is
something that stands out. I mean, one of these things
is not like the other. The rest of the pitches,
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the non competitive pitch rate is like around five percent.
The first pitch is close to twenty percent, so you
can do the mat It's like it stands out like
glitter at a funeral. You don't often see glitter at
a funeral, right, and you smell that it's not with
the rocks cooking. That would be in game live betting.
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Now I don't do the in game live betting. I don't.
I just yeah, it's not I think I have some
friends of mine that are really invested in in game
live betting, and they think I am a donkey for
not getting involved in it. They love it like they
love having action on multiple pitches, or what a batter
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is going to do, a ground ball, fly ball. These
all kinds of different props in game betting that you
can do and if you're unfamiliar with it, if you're
not a gambler, live betting has been around for you know, forever.
Now it's mainstream. But you can bet whether a pitch
is going to be a ball or a strike in
real time, in real time? Now, is it true that
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the wise guys had inside information on the pattern from
Emmanuel Class so when he came in out of a bullpen,
they knew chut chang chut ching to chang. Free money,
free money, free money, Come on down framee. Now, little
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Birdie tells me that may or may not have inside information.
There's a lot of blood at the crime scene, if
you know what I'm saying here a lot of blood.
And now I'm in the old days, back when the
mob was involved in this kind of stuff. Straight up,
what they would do is it'd be a phone call
to is Rodney Dangerfield, The old comedian would say, Vinnie boombots,
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So they'd call Vinnie Boombots and say, Hey, I'd like
to bet on that first pitch being a ball. These
days because of technology, what do you think there is
that You think there's text message chains, you think there's
social media change, you think there's Venmo transactions, burner phones
that aren't really burning, and all that. Major League Baseball
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and the sports books. From what we're hearing, and who
knows if we're right, we're hearing that they have the receipts.
And this again ties back to the original Toronto Raptor
player that got banned for life from the NBA because
he was using around with prop bets. And so they
fell down this rabbit hole. They follow the digital paper
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trail like it's Hansel and Gretel and it's the cost
of doing business in Major League Baseball and who's next, Right,
they let the genie out of the bottle and the
second they agreed to go down this avenue and so
paid leave, paid leave means Major League Baseball is not
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ready to completely drop the hammer, and they're likely trying
to decide, like what is the punishment on this cause
you're not it's this weird gray area like you can
come in and proy a non competitive pitch if you're
a manual Class A and be really good. I mean,
he's been one of the top pitchers in baseball. He's
not as good this year. But the argument could be
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listening is it's not affecting the outcome of the game.
You're not throwing the game. This is not the Chicago
Black Sox back in the day. You're just throwing one pitch,
but you're hurting the gambles. And we always know about gambling.
They don't mind if you lose money and gambling. If
you win money, that's a problem. They'd all like, if
you win money, if you lose. They never investigate losers. No, no, no,
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they give you free steak dinners if you lose. If
you win, then they start snooping around. They put limits
on how much you can win. That's all. It's always men.
That's all back in the old days. They just take
you under the casino with baseball bats and you know,
so what's going on here. But we'll see how deep
the rabbit hole goes here. And we're not quite there yet.
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A Class A being on the list that is a
pretty large bombshell. It's a high leverage reliever. But again,
he's not throwing games. The argument at this point, from
what we heard, is not that he's throwing games. He's
just throwing random prop bets. And you don't bet that
much on a prop bet. But if you think it
ends with the two Cleveland Guardian pitchers, I have some
beachfront property in beautiful Des Moines, Iowa. I would like
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to sell you. Yeah, and my realtor there a couple reeltors.
In the morning, they'll show you around and the yeah,
do a good job.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Sure, why not?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I mean, if you have not been paying attention Major
League Baseball. They are in bed, and they're in bed
with the books, and now there are bed bugs starting
to bite. The bed bugs are out there biting right now.
Final point where to turn the page? Turn the page?
Another melancholy goodbye, we go to Chicago. News came out
on Monday night. The news came out a Major League
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Baseball the Cubs announcing the Hall of Famer Ryan Sandberg dead.
Died on Monday, age of sixty five. So I want
to spend a couple of minutes talking about Ryan Sandberg.
So what are what are your reflections on the Hall
of Famer remembered mostly for the Cubs. Right, didn't start
with the Cubs, But you remember Ryan Sambery, So what
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what are your reflections on Ryan Sambury. So my memories,
I get I'm not a Cub fan, not a Cup fan,
but my reflection on Ryan Sandberg, I will remember being
a child, a little boy, and turning on WGN, the superstation,
and being taken to another world like I was, Oh
my god. That was back when this thing called cable
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television was seen as an exotic thing. It's like, oh man,
it's crazy. And you'd sit there and there on your
television it was the Cub Baseball, Chicago.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Cub Baseball just appeared right there.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
In your living room. And I lived on the West Coast,
so the Cubs games would have to go pretty long,
and in those days they did. I mean, these baseball
games ago four hours. So I'd see the end of
the Cub games if I went to school, if I
ditch school, I'd watch the whole Cub game. I watched
the whole Cub game. So I'd sit there and watch.
And it didn't matter where you lived in those days.
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You didn't ask to watch the Cubs. You likely were
not a Cub fan. I wasn't, but there they were.
You had the Cubs and then you had the Braves
on TBS, but you had the Cubs on WGN, and
every afternoon you'd sit there. If you love baseball growing
up and being right in there, you'd watch it and
you'd see the ivy on the outfield walls at Wrigley,
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the lunatics and the bleachers. You'd see Harry Carey in
the booth with Steve Stone calling Cubs baseball. Occasionally Harry
would even be lucid. He was always sauced, always completely sauce,
and he had just like this haze of Budwise. Even
as a kid, I like that guy looks drunk. And
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then he had that it's like the Beg song. The
man in the middle of all that was Ryan Sandberg.
He was the man in the middle, slim. He had
the sleeves rolled up out there playing second base and
just wasn't about the glitz and glamour and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And he had the eye black smudged.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Across his face and the cheekbone and he'd be standing
out there at second base, digging in to the batter's
box and hitting one to the gap and was not flashing.
I didn't stand out and to stand out from the crowd.
Didn't do the things like Ricky Henderson some of the
other guys in that era did. But he didn't need
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to be. Ryan Sandberg was efficient and he played a
stoic stoic baseball for the Cubs there and fundamentals. Remember
the Sandberg game against Bruce Souiter in nineteen eighty four,
But that whole nineteen eighty four season for the Cubs,
if you're old enough to remember, that was cub That
was the year of destiny for the Chicago Cubs until
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Leon Durham got involved. But it was the year of
destiny for the Chicago Cubs. It just that was their time.
They won the division. Sandberg was the MVP of that
Cub team and for the first time any very long time,
I think it was a generation. The Chicago Cubs at
that point were not seen as lovable losers. The Chicago
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Cubs were contenders. This was gonna be the year they
were gonna end the curse of the Billy Goat. And
Sandberg was there, as we said, the man in the middle.
He was quiet, He was study for the Chicago Cubs,
and he wasn't all about the the show biz. And
you know there's other players were better. Mike Schmidt. You
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think of the home runs, he had a little bit
of flare to him, the craziest well, Ricky Henders. But
in the National League, I guess Ozzie Smith doing the
backflips the Wizard of Oz for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But Samberg was just always there.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I remember it as a kidd. He won a bunch
of gold gloves, and he won ten gold gloves and
was an All Star a bunch of times. And I
don't know, maybe one who knows a bunch of All
Star games, a bunch of gold gloves, I don't remember
the exact numbers. But he was always there and had
big power and would steal bases, and in that era,
normally he didn't have too much of those kind of
players where they would do both, and so he did both.
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And that was a position in the nineteen eighties where
you were posed to slap singles if you were a
second baseman and just turned double plays, that was it.
And Sandberg be out there hitting home runs and stealing
bases and doing all that, and then you got the name,
not Ryan Ryan Ryne, not r y An, And he
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was named after a legendary pitcher who was before my time,
who pitched for the I think it was the Cincinnati
Reds named Ryan Dern, who was the original wild Thing.
This guy threw really hard, he wore coke bottle glasses,
and nobody knew where the pitch was going. In fact,
one of the iconic baseball characters was named was not
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named after him, but was honored with his legacy. That
was Ricky wild Thing Vaughn in the movie Major League.
They actually patterned that character after Ryan Duran, who Ryan
Sandberg was named after and would go on and play
in the Major leagues and all that stuff. So dead
at age sixty five, way too young for Ryan Samdberg
from cancer. So rest in peace, Ryan Sandberg as he
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leaves this mortal coil, another little brick if you're around
my age, another brick of your child. We have a
lost Hulk Hogan Ozzy Osbourne, the kid from the Cosby Family.
Now Samberg, I thought it was only supposed to go
in threes. We're getting more here, We're getting more than threes.
Is it a six pack?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Like?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Where are we at on this? My God anyway, rest
in peace. It is the Ben Mahler Show. As we
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want to add to my solitle qui about Ryan Sandberg,
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the whole thing. We will do it next.
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Alright, back to what we go and we will get
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drug tester says Cleveland caught a gambling scandal the Tigers
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you were a kid growing up in the eighties and
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a fan of sports, you knew the lineup for the
Braves and the Mets like the back of your hands.
Summertime filler in between wrestling and cartoons. Yeah, don't forget.
At one point we also got Mets games. I did
on w o R. Not a lot of Mets games,
but there were Mets games there. Pig says, No Sean
Dunstan mentioned he was the flash next to Sandberg. Yeah,
(25:10):
that's a bad job by mee. Sean Dunstan, absolutely, But
in my defense, I did mention.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I did mention.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Leon the Bull Durham, so I did get him in there,
so that was a little bit. I didn't mention Rick Suckcliff.
I could have done Rick Suckcliffe, who was there at
eighty four. Dennis Eckersley. I associate Eckersley more with the athletics.
I know he played for a bunch of teams and
all that stuff, but huh, and then that Cup team
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that was before they got the great Andre DAWs.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
He came later.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
He was not on that eighty four cub seam. As
we do old guy baseball talk, Joe the gust Hunter says,
I remember watching the cub station back in the nineties
while my trash ex wife was yelling at me.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Good memories.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Love it, love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Doctor Crude says, I think he met Ryan durn pitched
for the Yankees no Texas teams. I was a huge
Yankee fan, he says. Well, I just know the name.
I don't know much about the guy. That's it. Just
in time. Davis right and says that was a great
history of Ryan Sandberg. I too was sitting on the
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floor turning the dial to see Sandberg play. Also, my
mom's family is from Cleveland, so Major League is a favorite.
The Sandberg wild thing connection.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Unreal.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
There you go. Thank you Bill Miller. Well, of course
all the Bill Miller. Our friend Tammy and Vegas. We
met her at the Malther Meet and greet we did
in Vegas last year. She says, Sam, as you WGN
came on. While I was a kid, I watched every
CUB game during the summer, and Ryan Sandberg was one
of my first favorite baseball players. Tammy says, I can remember,
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and this was when I was living in Hawaii. Well,
if you were living in Hawaii, that would mean that
was morning Cub baseball because the CUB games they started
like an eleven or noon on the West coast, so
that means they were started like nine or ten in
the morning, depending on the time of the year. In Hawaii.
So Benito says, shout out to a minual class a
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for making me money on DraftKings. Well, there you go.
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It's not a sad story.
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It's not.
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It's got to the phones. Any meenie, miney moe.
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Let's say hello to toad l fan who's in Colorado? Hello,
total fan? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Hey?
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Bed? Has it going?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
If I was any better now? You asked me how
I'm doing. You asked me how it's going.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
If I was any better, I'd be a Rocky, but
not a Colorado Rocky because they blow.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Okay, you got me, you got me.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
How you doing better?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Well? I dropped water in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I've had a slight headache as the wife decided to
do some dusting at the house, and I guess I'm
allergic to the dust in the house, So that kind
of has been a bit of an issue.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
But other than that, I'm alive. So that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I think you should ask him one more time how
he's doing. Yeah, well, I had I had lunch yesterday.
It was pretty good. I had some pulled chicken sandwiches.
I thought those were pretty good, made made my homemade,
not bad. And little pepper, a little spice. The key
is the spice. The key is the spice, spice the chicken.
You throw a little cheese on there, and pretty good, solid,
(28:29):
not too unhealthy, not too unhealthy. Ask me again how
I'm doing. I'm not going to No, I want you
to ask me again. Well, I'm glad you asked. No
one ever asked me how I'm doing. So I was
driving in here and I almost got killed. There's a
guy cutting me off. Because everyone drives in LA like
(28:50):
they're in Fast and the Furious and they zoom it.
They think apparently their car there's a force field around
their car and they can go.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I'm telling you a story.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Sorry, I almost died on the way here because some
jackwagon cut me off doing speed racer.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You asked me how I'm doing? You asked me how
I am doing.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
Let's let's hut that down.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Are you telling me how to do my job? Are you?
Are you advising me on how to do my job?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Uh? No?
Speaker 8 (29:22):
I actually is that your job to hunt him down?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I thought you were. I thought you were telling me something.
It didn't sound like he was saying something else. Lore
like he was telling me to tone it down, I thought,
right right, like, calm down, calm down, Yeah, that's what
it sounds about.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Well, anyway, hey, Lorena, while I'm thinking about it, how.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Do you ask Lorena how she's doing?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Well, I'm going to say something before.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You can be the how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Guy?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You could be hey, how are you doing that?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
But I'll tell you what I just wanted to say. Uh.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
You know, Queen, I'm a fellow technician myself, electrocal mechanical services,
my forte. I just one of the comment that the
times I listen, do you run a smooth.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Well she's very very on par with a technical mechanical engineer, Lorena.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Her knowledge of the engineering.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Very similar me and these buttons, a lot of buttons.
We go hand in hand. What are you eating in there?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Though?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I saw you?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I got a raspberry smuckers, like an uncrustable Yeah you
see it looks like a cookie and uncrushed. Okay, all right, solid?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Not bad? Did you heat it up?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
You just let them defrost for.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Like an hour?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
And by the way, Lorena, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Oh you know, not too bad?
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Hanging in, eh, hanging.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
In all right?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Thank you? You've you're stealing the show. You're what a
star you are? You have a gift. You have a gift.
I'm hanging up on you though, because I have other people.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Let's go to Jay.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Thank you. Jay is in Cincinnati. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Jay? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
What's up? Can you hear me? Because I'm on speaker
So take it off there?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You said, all right, you center, You're you're in a room.
You're right near the receiver even though you're on speakerphone,
and I can hear you loud and proud and a
good job by the Reds, by the way, very impressive.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Good job by the Reds.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
There sod yeah, well oh yeah today, but you stole
my thunder because I was calling because you didn't say
anything about the Shawano meter or Doug Decenzo. I used
to get, Oh, that's.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Right, Doug de that's a name I forgot. Doug descends.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
He was like he was like my size. He was
like five seven and one hundred and seventy pounds.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Doug Descenzo.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Wow, that's a good one. I haven't thought about it,
but thought about him. You know.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Soccer practice in July and August four schools started and
go home and all I remember of Sandberg and the
Shano meter, and I don't know Durham or Grace was
at first base or who else?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Well, Durham in the eighty four Durham and then shortly
a few years there later was Mark Grace took over.
Remember Keith Morland, very odd looking guy.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Keith Morley, Yes, I remember him, but my uncle said
he did a ball's cocaine with Leonon Durham once. But
that's besides the point.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Well, that was the nineteen eighties. Man, everyone was doing
coke and.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Bought it from Pete Rose. The hero he is.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
But I guess you can say that he's dead, so
you can't get sued by saying that Pete Rose, you know,
hooked you up with.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Well, Dusty Baker was pissed. What he was The rest
manager just said every time I forget which player was,
they said, every time I came to Cincinnati. I told Dusty,
I said, uh, Dusty kill Dave Parker, get me one
of the Nate balls of Pete's. And uh, Dusty Baker
got pissed. But it was true.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Well, there are so many stories about the cocaine days
in baseball, and they had cocaine trials. A lot of
younger people have no idea, but in the eighties they
were literally cocaine. The Pittsburgh drug Trials involving the biggest
stars in baseball that had been doing the coke and
they all got dinged. And there's some big old names
on that on that.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Okay, I'm sorry. I don't want to take up all
your time. That last caller was Aducus, but anyway, I
wanted to call you that the only time I turned on.
I mean, I listen to you every night until I
fall asleep.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Okay, well, thank you, But if it.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Was Colin Cowhard, I just turn it off. I don't
want to listen to him any at all.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Thank you for ripping one.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Of my guys.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
You guys are entertaining. He's not entertaining. He's just a douche,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, I sleep when he's on. He coward gets paid
a lot more money than me, so he's not worried
about that. But yeah, he's an over.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
You're on there wanting about money making stuff. Why don't
you do something different?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Well, you want me to leave, I could leave and
go somewhere else and do a morning show somewhere a
local morning at this No, I could. I could leave
here and go do a morning show somewhere and make
a lot more money. I could do an afternoon show somewhere,
make a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
More what you choose to do, Eh, that's true.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, I could. I make you leave. Maybe I'll leave,
maybe I'll take off. That's a good idea. I should
leave Fox Sports Radio. It's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
No, I don't want you advising me to leave.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I would make more money. I can't me at any money.
And this is a dead end job. You're over, is what?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Last thing? Last thing gonna say. I wanted to know
if Blind Scott watches the Reds game tonight, what do
you think about the strike zone with the balls inside
our out?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, let me check with him whole on a second,
Blind Scott, your thoughts on the strike zone in the
Reds game?
Speaker 9 (34:05):
Blind Scott, Oh, yeah, that's why I'm for the robot umpires. Dude,
this guy, Jay, he's a hack for a caller. You
don't insult the guy that makes all the money for
the network, Dude, when you come on the radio. That's
the quickest way to get Ben in trouble.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
This guy, Yeah, all right, Yeah, Jay, why are you
trying to get me in trouble?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
What's up with that?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Now? It's not going to get you in trouble, all.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Right, Scott, He says, it's not going to get me
in trouble. Scott.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Well, anything nowadays to get you in trouble. You say
that we people operate too thin. When I heard you
come on the edgenight, you sounded like you were on fire.
You were so angry. I went through the state of trauma.
I'm holding my blanky right now. You don't sound already
explained that you were almost killed. Though now I'm concerned.
You almost killed and your wife threw dust up your nose.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yes, that's uh, well she did some cleaning and there's
some dust on the fans. And it's been a couple
of days here where it's just been kind of you're
not lingering, like some kind of allergy thing going on,
you know, And I'm I don't have allergies. I don't
usually have I don't normally have this problem. But it's
any other thoughts.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Jay, Yeah, I just how does blind Scott tell like
when there's a review in NFL if the guy got
two feet down or one feed down.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Great question. Let me see, blind Scott. We're asking a
blind guy, Blind Scott, how do you handle the reviews
in the NFL? Blind Scott?
Speaker 9 (35:23):
This is actually a pretty good question. So the radio
guys aren't that good on the radio. There's too many
players on the football field. They need to describe it better.
That's why Ben, you really could. Ben could work anywhere.
He could make way more money than this. I email
Ben all the time. I say, don't do the fifth outary.
You're not getting paid for it. Take another job, don't
I do that?
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You do? You advise me. You're one of my great
career advisor. How's that working, Ascot. You've been my advisor
for twenty years? Look at me?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Yeah, tell me all the free food.
Speaker 9 (35:48):
I got my whole food full of fridge shouts.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Of you right now, I know, look at that all right?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Any other thoughts, Jay, I.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Did that guy something real quick? We had a guy
go from the TV broadcast to the REDS radio broadcast
because very liarkable to the Hall of Fame this weekend. Yeah,
and he doesn't seem to understand it. On the radio,
you can't. He went from TV to radio. You can't
see the game.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Oh no, oh no, oh oh no, that's yeah. It's
a lot harder to radio than television.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
You got to be people's eyes exactly.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
But just in general, I mean, there are TV, there's
a bunch of people helping you out. In radio, you're
pretty much on your own. So it's a it's a
much different animal. All Right, I gotta go, Thank you, Jay,
I go away. You've had enough airtime. Please. It is
the Ben Malerd Show. We'll push back the Walk of Shame.
We'll push that back a little bit time now though,
for the Insta Trivia with Mallard of the third degree
(36:42):
coming up.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Here's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Blank was the first player in baseball history to hit
a walk off grand slam.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
In a postseason game.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Again, Blank, first player in baseball history to had a
walk off grand slam and season.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
That's the Insta trivia. The answer.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
We'll get to it.
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We'll do it next.
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Speaker 3 (37:58):
Thank god for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Here's the insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Blank was the first player in baseball history hit a
walk off Grand Slam in a postseason game.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
You've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Uh yeah, Alf the Alien Olpiner says the buzzer Jose Albouve,
who else? Steve Bye Bye? Balbodi from Lawson one of
the all time greats? Who else? Page down? Lineman Bostock
from courtesy Flusher, Captain Kangaroo tossed out by Andy and
Lionel Lakes, Minnesota and Mark in Queens says.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Well he got it right.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
He says I did not cheat. I remember because I
had a bet on the game. Jimmy Pearsall from I
forty Ian Andrew Vaughan tossed up by King Rory. Who
else we have? Bert Cobain guessed by Donkey Sausage, Manuel
and Guardina Excusy Man Well Guardiana Larry Parrish as his answer.
(38:54):
John Crook from Perito Sean in Portland said, Ron say
Willie Stargel guessed by JT. The Wingman in Knoxville, Stuart
Griffin from Far Out Day, Mario Mendoza from Georgia, boy
Roy Hobbs from BP, what say you.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Have a right up?
Speaker 2 (39:13):
I'm gonna go with Stan mucial Ben Okay what was
his nickname? The music Man okay a or the Man?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
The correct answer is.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Nelson Cruz with the Rangers against the Tigers way back
in twenty eleven in the American Mague Championship Series.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Here we go, it's maller. How about that?
Speaker 5 (39:34):
To the third degree?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
This is one big Ben gets grilled Kupol.
Speaker 10 (39:41):
With Matthew Stafford week to week with back problems. Sean
mcvayhy recently told reporters that he thinks Jimmy Garoppolo is
a starting quarterback. Yeah, Ben, Let's assume the worst and
say Jimmy G has to start a number of games
for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
How much does that hurt their chances at winning the
NFC West.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Well, he has started seven games since the end of
the twenty two season for the Raiders and he did
start one game for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Listen, the Rams are supposed to.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Be more of a defensive team, so they can get
by in the regular season to ultimately get where they
want to go and get to the Super Bowl, win
the NFC, which they were close to doing last year.
They have very little chance with Garoppolo, very little chance
with Jimmy G. The Prince Aladdin the Great Garoppolo.
Speaker 10 (40:24):
Next, Billy Donovan has a losing record in five seasons
with the Bulls and has led them to the playoffs
one time. Yet the team just signed him to a
multi year extension. Are you surprised by this?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
No, And the rumor for a long time was that
Donovan was going to go back to college, but they
college basketball is so effed up and so messed up
right now, he's changed his mind. The thing about the
bullszelt for a couple of years. They weren't even trying
to win. They were fielding non competitive teams and Billy
Donovan was coaching teams that they.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Knew going into the year, we're going to be terrible.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I went with a great college basketball coaches for the
Florida Gators.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
But he likes the NBA lifestyle. They like him.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
He's considered one of the least the mid to mid
tier to a little bit better than that NBA coach.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
And you know he's not going anyway. He's been there.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
He was in Oklahoma City for five years now, he's
been in Chicago. He's been an NBA coach for ten
years now, I believe, so he's not He's settled into
that live next.
Speaker 10 (41:20):
The Texas Rangers are in third place in the AL West,
but have been on a tear in July and they
actually have the second best run differential in all of
the American League. Ben eddin Arlington alluded to it last night. Yeah,
do you think the Rangers are being slept on?
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Well, I'm not sleeping on the Rangers because they would
die if I slept on them. But no, the Rangers
are one of those teams in the American League. I
don't see anybody invincible. I don't even nationallygue for that matter.
To me, it's wide open. Just getting the playoffs and
with Bruce Bochie one of the better managers in playoffs,
they got absolutely got a shot. How do we do
MASSU Sedition nother wad quote it on the ball. Oh yeah,
Pizza, Pizza.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
It's our numb berd two, our number two of the
Ben Malow Show podcast Piping Hot, Ready to go get
it before it cools down. We talk about the big
gambling scandal continuing in professional baseball. What is the most
puzzling thing about Guardians closer Emmanuel class being dragged in
(00:22):
to the gambling web? Where did Emmanuel class A cross
the line with the Guardians according to the investigative reporting. Also,
we'll move away from that story. What are your reflections
on the life of Cubs legend Ryan Sandberg who died
this week? We look back at some memories of the
old Chicago cub Ryan Sandberg, All that and more right
(00:45):
now here it is our number two. You can bet
on it. You're not supposed to welcome. In the beginning
of another.
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is from the Land from Cleveland. One of the big
(02:08):
names that is supposed to be traded this week is
off the trading block.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Today is the twenty ninth.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
The trade deadline is a couple days away on July
thirty first, so we're a couple days away from that.
I'm still upset that they ruined our fun. All the
trade deadlines used to be at midnight Eastern Time, which
meant a lot of trades happened late at night. A
lot of trades happened right before we got on the air.
And then there was a woman with red hair named
(02:36):
Rachel Nichols that complained that she had to stay up
late for the trade deadline of the NBA. It wasn't fair.
She needed a beauty sleep, and so the NBA they said, okay,
we'll make the trade deadline the afternoon, and then every
other league followed suit, and so now we get crappy
daytime trade deadlines. But this is not about that. We
can rant about that later, but instead, if you did
(02:59):
not hear the news, and possibly not, it is a
humdinger of a story. The All Star Closer, not this year,
but in years past for the Cleveland Guardians. What a
dumb name that is. Manuel class A has been put
on time out by Major League Baseball for some funny
(03:21):
business turn If you believe the reporting, class A was
placed on the non non disciplinary, paid league paid LEA
through August thirty, first part of the ongoing Major League
Baseball investigation into sports gambling. The plot thickens. Now you
(03:44):
keep me'scoring home. The Cleveland Guardians lead Major League Baseball
in gambling. Congratulations boys, Wow, so he's the second Guardians
pitcher to be caught in the all ongoing investigation, which
who knows when this is going to end? The Cleveland
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right hander, the great Luis Ortees. So good, you had
to look him up on Baseball Reference to find out
who he is. Anyway, he remains on the non disciplinary
paid leave naughty list now He was originally placed there
at July third. That has been extended for orties as
well to August thirty first. Nowaday prepared statement vetted by
(04:26):
an army of lawyers. The Guardian said, among other things,
no additional players or club personnel are expected to be
impacted by the investigation. Keep in mind, if you know
your weasel words, look at page seventeen of the Weasel Handbook,
and the word expected is a weasel term because you
(04:47):
never expect one of your players to get in trouble
with gambling. Why would you expect that you never expect
a trade to happen? They're unexpected? All right? So let
us discuss the question is as follows. Keep this simple
sports RADI. So what is the most puzzling What is
the most puzzling thing about the Guardians closer Emmanuel class
(05:08):
A being dragged into the gambling web. So I've got
dance floor, Hansel and Gretel and Begs, and we will
combine all of these things together for an original Malard
monologue which is as good as milk chocolate covered almonds
one of my favorite snacks. When I don't eat much,
but when I do, I like to have a look
(05:29):
a few handful or so of those delicious milk chocolate
covered almonds. Manly good. All right, kurklum brain, by the way,
I go krooklm brain. All right? So number what number
number one?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
This is not some flotsam and jetsam. This is this
is bigger. This is a bigger story here as a
Yogi bear taught me. Not Yogi bear. Yogi bear taught
me you're supposed to be smarter than the average bear.
Not so much. We're not talking about some random middle
relief pitcher or some fourth or fifth starter.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
At one point in recent years, if you were to
poll the executives in Major League Baseball, they would say
the top closer in the entire American League, Emmanuel Classe,
top guy in the American league.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Right, and if not all of baseball.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Was an all star multiple times coveted around baseball, expected
to be traded this week, not anymore, but was expected
to be traded. The thing, though, that's the most puzzling,
is the money factor. Now he's not the highest paid
relief pitcher in baseball. However, Class A is on a
twenty million dollar contract. So if you've got a twenty
(06:43):
million dollar contract, you're living pretty high on the hog.
Most would say, right, And this is the biggest name
that has been caught up in this to this point.
And make no mistake, make no mistake, this is major
League Baseball. They're hitting the dance floor. They're out on
the dance floor. They're doing a little dance with a devil,
(07:05):
is what they're doing. They tore and let me tell
you something, Baseball at this point is tore up from
the floor up. If you know what I'm saying here,
they signed these deals and listen, I again, I love gambling.
I'm a gambler, but even I know you're you're messing
with some really bad stuff here. How far in they've gone.
They didn't just go a little bit in. They just
put their toe in the water.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
They are all in.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Even I someone that bets I do, But I'm like
Pete Rose, I bet on baseball. Even I'm when I'm
watching him, blown away by the amount of advertising for
the for gambling. And listen, I don't mind it I'm
a little amazed that baseball is okay with it, But
here we are. And so they took the money, and
again I'm fine with it. I last a couple of years,
I did a gambling show, and for years on the radio,
(07:48):
we did Benny versus the Pennies on TV the last
couple of years. But now, of course baseball, well they're shocked,
they're absolutely shocked that players are messing around with prop bets.
Give me a break. Well, that's what this is about.
So page two, So where where did Emmanuel class A
cross the line with the guardians? See? This is the
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part of the story which is almost unbelievable when you
think about how you can track something like this. Now,
now we think we know how this was uncovered, but
we don't know the specifics. We don't know all the
intricate details. However, we know that there was a line
that was tossed out unusual betting activity around multiple pitches
(08:36):
involving Emmanuel class A. So Internet sluice have done some
digging and they've investigated this. Wes, this doesn't come from baseball.
Internet investigators have found what they believe is the smoking gun.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
What is that all right?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
What is the smoking gun. I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Class A has entered the ninth inning forty times this season,
forty times. And you know what is waste pitch rate
is on first pitches, it's almost twenty percent according to
stat cast, it's seventeen and a half percent.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Well, who cares about that, you're a nerd.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Let me explain. So seventeen and a half percent of
the time Class A comes in and throws garbage, a
non competitive pitch, no chance of being a strike, non competitive,
not eywhere close to the strike zone. And that is
something that stands out. I mean, one of these things
is not like the other. The rest of the pitches,
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the non competitive pitch rate is like around five percent.
The first pitch is close to twenty percent, so you
can do the mat It's like it stands out like
glitter at a funeral. You don't often see glitter at
a funeral, right, and you smell that it's not with
the rocks cooking. That would be in game live betting.
(09:54):
Now I don't do the in game live betting. I don't.
I just yeah, it's not I think I have some
friends of mine that are really invested in in game
live betting, and they think I am a donkey for
not getting involved in it. They love it like they
love having action on multiple pitches, or what a batter
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is going to do, a ground ball, fly ball. These
all kinds of different props in game betting that you
can do and if you're unfamiliar with it, if you're
not a gambler, live betting has been around for you know, forever.
Now it's mainstream. But you can bet whether a pitch
is going to be a ball or a strike in
real time, in real time? Now, is it true that
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the wise guys had inside information on the pattern from
Emmanuel Class so when he came in out of a bullpen,
they knew chut chang chut ching to chang. Free money,
free money, free money, Come on down framee. Now, little
(11:01):
Birdie tells me that may or may not have inside information.
There's a lot of blood at the crime scene, if
you know what I'm saying here a lot of blood.
And now I'm in the old days, back when the
mob was involved in this kind of stuff. Straight up,
what they would do is it'd be a phone call
to is Rodney Dangerfield, The old comedian would say, Vinnie boombots,
(11:23):
So they'd call Vinnie Boombots and say, Hey, I'd like
to bet on that first pitch being a ball. These
days because of technology, what do you think there is
that You think there's text message chains, you think there's
social media change, you think there's Venmo transactions, burner phones
that aren't really burning, and all that. Major League Baseball
(11:45):
and the sports books. From what we're hearing, and who
knows if we're right, we're hearing that they have the receipts.
And this again ties back to the original Toronto Raptor
player that got banned for life from the NBA because
he was using around with prop bets. And so they
fell down this rabbit hole. They follow the digital paper
(12:05):
trail like it's Hansel and Gretel and it's the cost
of doing business in Major League Baseball and who's next, Right,
they let the genie out of the bottle and the
second they agreed to go down this avenue and so
paid leave, paid leave means Major League Baseball is not
(12:27):
ready to completely drop the hammer, and they're likely trying
to decide, like what is the punishment on this cause
you're not it's this weird gray area like you can
come in and proy a non competitive pitch if you're
a manual Class A and be really good. I mean,
he's been one of the top pitchers in baseball. He's
not as good this year. But the argument could be
(12:48):
listening is it's not affecting the outcome of the game.
You're not throwing the game. This is not the Chicago
Black Sox back in the day. You're just throwing one pitch,
but you're hurting the gambles. And we always know about gambling.
They don't mind if you lose money and gambling. If
you win money, that's a problem. They'd all like, if
you win money, if you lose. They never investigate losers. No, no, no,
(13:12):
they give you free steak dinners if you lose. If
you win, then they start snooping around. They put limits
on how much you can win. That's all. It's always men.
That's all back in the old days. They just take
you under the casino with baseball bats and you know,
so what's going on here. But we'll see how deep
the rabbit hole goes here. And we're not quite there yet.
(13:32):
A Class A being on the list that is a
pretty large bombshell. It's a high leverage reliever. But again,
he's not throwing games. The argument at this point, from
what we heard, is not that he's throwing games. He's
just throwing random prop bets. And you don't bet that
much on a prop bet. But if you think it
ends with the two Cleveland Guardian pitchers, I have some
beachfront property in beautiful Des Moines, Iowa. I would like
(13:56):
to sell you. Yeah, and my realtor there a couple reeltors.
In the morning, they'll show you around and the yeah,
do a good job.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Sure, why not?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
I mean, if you have not been paying attention Major
League Baseball. They are in bed, and they're in bed
with the books, and now there are bed bugs starting
to bite. The bed bugs are out there biting right now.
Final point where to turn the page? Turn the page?
Another melancholy goodbye, we go to Chicago. News came out
on Monday night. The news came out a Major League
(14:30):
Baseball the Cubs announcing the Hall of Famer Ryan Sandberg dead.
Died on Monday, age of sixty five. So I want
to spend a couple of minutes talking about Ryan Sandberg.
So what are what are your reflections on the Hall
of Famer remembered mostly for the Cubs. Right, didn't start
with the Cubs, But you remember Ryan Sambery, So what
(14:53):
what are your reflections on Ryan Sambury. So my memories,
I get I'm not a Cub fan, not a Cup fan,
but my reflection on Ryan Sandberg, I will remember being
a child, a little boy, and turning on WGN, the superstation,
and being taken to another world like I was, Oh
my god. That was back when this thing called cable
(15:15):
television was seen as an exotic thing. It's like, oh man,
it's crazy. And you'd sit there and there on your
television it was the Cub Baseball, Chicago.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Cub Baseball just appeared right there.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
In your living room. And I lived on the West Coast,
so the Cubs games would have to go pretty long,
and in those days they did. I mean, these baseball
games ago four hours. So I'd see the end of
the Cub games if I went to school, if I
ditch school, I'd watch the whole Cub game. I watched
the whole Cub game. So I'd sit there and watch.
And it didn't matter where you lived in those days.
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You didn't ask to watch the Cubs. You likely were
not a Cub fan. I wasn't, but there they were.
You had the Cubs and then you had the Braves
on TBS, but you had the Cubs on WGN, and
every afternoon you'd sit there. If you love baseball growing
up and being right in there, you'd watch it and
you'd see the ivy on the outfield walls at Wrigley,
(16:16):
the lunatics and the bleachers. You'd see Harry Carey in
the booth with Steve Stone calling Cubs baseball. Occasionally Harry
would even be lucid. He was always sauced, always completely sauce,
and he had just like this haze of Budwise. Even
as a kid, I like that guy looks drunk. And
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then he had that it's like the Beg song. The
man in the middle of all that was Ryan Sandberg.
He was the man in the middle, slim. He had
the sleeves rolled up out there playing second base and
just wasn't about the glitz and glamour and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
And he had the eye black smudged.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Across his face and the cheekbone and he'd be standing
out there at second base, digging in to the batter's
box and hitting one to the gap and was not flashing.
I didn't stand out and to stand out from the crowd.
Didn't do the things like Ricky Henderson some of the
other guys in that era did. But he didn't need
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to be. Ryan Sandberg was efficient and he played a
stoic stoic baseball for the Cubs there and fundamentals. Remember
the Sandberg game against Bruce Souiter in nineteen eighty four,
But that whole nineteen eighty four season for the Cubs,
if you're old enough to remember, that was cub That
was the year of destiny for the Chicago Cubs until
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Leon Durham got involved. But it was the year of
destiny for the Chicago Cubs. It just that was their time.
They won the division. Sandberg was the MVP of that
Cub team and for the first time any very long time,
I think it was a generation. The Chicago Cubs at
that point were not seen as lovable losers. The Chicago
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Cubs were contenders. This was gonna be the year they
were gonna end the curse of the Billy Goat. And
Sandberg was there, as we said, the man in the middle.
He was quiet, He was study for the Chicago Cubs,
and he wasn't all about the the show biz. And
you know there's other players were better. Mike Schmidt. You
(18:20):
think of the home runs, he had a little bit
of flare to him, the craziest well, Ricky Henders. But
in the National League, I guess Ozzie Smith doing the
backflips the Wizard of Oz for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
But Samberg was just always there.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I remember it as a kidd. He won a bunch
of gold gloves, and he won ten gold gloves and
was an All Star a bunch of times. And I
don't know, maybe one who knows a bunch of All
Star games, a bunch of gold gloves, I don't remember
the exact numbers. But he was always there and had
big power and would steal bases, and in that era,
normally he didn't have too much of those kind of
players where they would do both, and so he did both.
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And that was a position in the nineteen eighties where
you were posed to slap singles if you were a
second baseman and just turned double plays, that was it.
And Sandberg be out there hitting home runs and stealing
bases and doing all that, and then you got the name,
not Ryan Ryan Ryne, not r y An, And he
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was named after a legendary pitcher who was before my time,
who pitched for the I think it was the Cincinnati
Reds named Ryan Dern, who was the original wild Thing.
This guy threw really hard, he wore coke bottle glasses,
and nobody knew where the pitch was going. In fact,
one of the iconic baseball characters was named was not
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named after him, but was honored with his legacy. That
was Ricky wild Thing Vaughn in the movie Major League.
They actually patterned that character after Ryan Duran, who Ryan
Sandberg was named after and would go on and play
in the Major leagues and all that stuff. So dead
at age sixty five, way too young for Ryan Samdberg
from cancer. So rest in peace, Ryan Sandberg as he
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leaves this mortal coil, another little brick if you're around
my age, another brick of your child. We have a
lost Hulk Hogan Ozzy Osbourne, the kid from the Cosby Family.
Now Samberg, I thought it was only supposed to go
in threes. We're getting more here, We're getting more than threes.
Is it a six pack?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Like?
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Where are we at on this? My God anyway, rest
in peace. It is the Ben Mahler Show. As we
press on, we'll get back to the calls at eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. If you've got anything you
want to add to my solitle qui about Ryan Sandberg,
feel free the Walk of Shame. It is the Walk
of Shame. We'll get to that. We'll take your calls,
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the whole thing. We will do it next.
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you were a kid growing up in the eighties and
(24:46):
a fan of sports, you knew the lineup for the
Braves and the Mets like the back of your hands.
Summertime filler in between wrestling and cartoons. Yeah, don't forget.
At one point we also got Mets games. I did
on w o R. Not a lot of Mets games,
but there were Mets games there. Pig says, No Sean
Dunstan mentioned he was the flash next to Sandberg. Yeah,
(25:10):
that's a bad job by mee. Sean Dunstan, absolutely, But
in my defense, I did mention.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I did mention.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Leon the Bull Durham, so I did get him in there,
so that was a little bit. I didn't mention Rick Suckcliff.
I could have done Rick Suckcliffe, who was there at
eighty four. Dennis Eckersley. I associate Eckersley more with the athletics.
I know he played for a bunch of teams and
all that stuff, but huh, and then that Cup team
(25:39):
that was before they got the great Andre DAWs.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
He came later.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
He was not on that eighty four cub seam. As
we do old guy baseball talk, Joe the gust Hunter says,
I remember watching the cub station back in the nineties
while my trash ex wife was yelling at me.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Good memories.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
That's great.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Love it, love it, love it, love it.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
Doctor Crude says, I think he met Ryan durn pitched
for the Yankees no Texas teams. I was a huge
Yankee fan, he says. Well, I just know the name.
I don't know much about the guy. That's it. Just
in time. Davis right and says that was a great
history of Ryan Sandberg. I too was sitting on the
(26:28):
floor turning the dial to see Sandberg play. Also, my
mom's family is from Cleveland, so Major League is a favorite.
The Sandberg wild thing connection.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Unreal.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
There you go. Thank you Bill Miller. Well, of course
all the Bill Miller. Our friend Tammy and Vegas. We
met her at the Malther Meet and greet we did
in Vegas last year. She says, Sam, as you WGN
came on. While I was a kid, I watched every
CUB game during the summer, and Ryan Sandberg was one
of my first favorite baseball players. Tammy says, I can remember,
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and this was when I was living in Hawaii. Well,
if you were living in Hawaii, that would mean that
was morning Cub baseball because the CUB games they started
like an eleven or noon on the West coast, so
that means they were started like nine or ten in
the morning, depending on the time of the year. In Hawaii.
So Benito says, shout out to a minual class a
(27:20):
for making me money on DraftKings. Well, there you go.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
It's not a sad story.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
It's not.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
It's got to the phones. Any meenie, miney moe.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Let's say hello to toad l fan who's in Colorado? Hello,
total fan? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (27:38):
Bed? Has it going?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
If I was any better now? You asked me how
I'm doing. You asked me how it's going.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
If I was any better, I'd be a Rocky, but
not a Colorado Rocky because they blow.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Okay, you got me, you got me.
Speaker 8 (27:52):
How you doing better?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Well? I dropped water in the kitchen.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
I've had a slight headache as the wife decided to
do some dusting at the house, and I guess I'm
allergic to the dust in the house, So that kind
of has been a bit of an issue.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
But other than that, I'm alive. So that's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I think you should ask him one more time how
he's doing. Yeah, well, I had I had lunch yesterday.
It was pretty good. I had some pulled chicken sandwiches.
I thought those were pretty good, made made my homemade,
not bad. And little pepper, a little spice. The key
is the spice. The key is the spice, spice the chicken.
You throw a little cheese on there, and pretty good, solid,
(28:29):
not too unhealthy, not too unhealthy. Ask me again how
I'm doing. I'm not going to No, I want you
to ask me again. Well, I'm glad you asked. No
one ever asked me how I'm doing. So I was
driving in here and I almost got killed. There's a
guy cutting me off. Because everyone drives in LA like
(28:50):
they're in Fast and the Furious and they zoom it.
They think apparently their car there's a force field around
their car and they can go.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
I'm telling you a story.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Sorry, I almost died on the way here because some
jackwagon cut me off doing speed racer.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You asked me how I'm doing? You asked me how
I am doing.
Speaker 8 (29:10):
Let's let's hut that down.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Are you telling me how to do my job? Are you?
Are you advising me on how to do my job?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Uh? No?
Speaker 8 (29:22):
I actually is that your job to hunt him down?
Speaker 3 (29:26):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I thought you were. I thought you were telling me something.
It didn't sound like he was saying something else. Lore
like he was telling me to tone it down, I thought,
right right, like, calm down, calm down, Yeah, that's what
it sounds about.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Well, anyway, hey, Lorena, while I'm thinking about it, how.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Do you ask Lorena how she's doing?
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (29:41):
Well, I'm going to say something before.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You can be the how are you doing?
Speaker 2 (29:45):
Guy?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
You could be hey, how are you doing that?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
But I'll tell you what I just wanted to say. Uh.
Speaker 8 (29:50):
You know, Queen, I'm a fellow technician myself, electrocal mechanical services,
my forte. I just one of the comment that the
times I listen, do you run a smooth.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Well she's very very on par with a technical mechanical engineer, Lorena.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Her knowledge of the engineering.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Very similar me and these buttons, a lot of buttons.
We go hand in hand. What are you eating in there?
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Though?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I saw you?
Speaker 1 (30:20):
I got a raspberry smuckers, like an uncrustable Yeah you
see it looks like a cookie and uncrushed. Okay, all right, solid?
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Not bad? Did you heat it up?
Speaker 5 (30:29):
No?
Speaker 2 (30:29):
You just let them defrost for.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
Like an hour?
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (30:33):
And by the way, Lorena, how you doing?
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Oh you know, not too bad?
Speaker 8 (30:38):
Hanging in, eh, hanging.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
In all right?
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Thank you? You've you're stealing the show. You're what a
star you are? You have a gift. You have a gift.
I'm hanging up on you though, because I have other people.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Let's go to Jay.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Thank you. Jay is in Cincinnati. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Jay? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (30:55):
What's up? Can you hear me? Because I'm on speaker
So take it off there?
Speaker 2 (30:58):
You said, all right, you center, You're you're in a room.
You're right near the receiver even though you're on speakerphone,
and I can hear you loud and proud and a
good job by the Reds, by the way, very impressive.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
Good job by the Reds.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
There sod yeah, well oh yeah today, but you stole
my thunder because I was calling because you didn't say
anything about the Shawano meter or Doug Decenzo. I used
to get, Oh, that's.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Right, Doug de that's a name I forgot. Doug descends.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
He was like he was like my size. He was
like five seven and one hundred and seventy pounds.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
Doug Descenzo.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Wow, that's a good one. I haven't thought about it,
but thought about him. You know.
Speaker 3 (31:31):
Soccer practice in July and August four schools started and
go home and all I remember of Sandberg and the
Shano meter, and I don't know Durham or Grace was
at first base or who else?
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Well, Durham in the eighty four Durham and then shortly
a few years there later was Mark Grace took over.
Remember Keith Morland, very odd looking guy.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Keith Morley, Yes, I remember him, but my uncle said
he did a ball's cocaine with Leonon Durham once. But
that's besides the point.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Well, that was the nineteen eighties. Man, everyone was doing
coke and.
Speaker 3 (32:02):
Bought it from Pete Rose. The hero he is.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
But I guess you can say that he's dead, so
you can't get sued by saying that Pete Rose, you know,
hooked you up with.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Well, Dusty Baker was pissed. What he was The rest
manager just said every time I forget which player was,
they said, every time I came to Cincinnati. I told Dusty,
I said, uh, Dusty kill Dave Parker, get me one
of the Nate balls of Pete's. And uh, Dusty Baker
got pissed. But it was true.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Well, there are so many stories about the cocaine days
in baseball, and they had cocaine trials. A lot of
younger people have no idea, but in the eighties they
were literally cocaine. The Pittsburgh drug Trials involving the biggest
stars in baseball that had been doing the coke and
they all got dinged. And there's some big old names
on that on that.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Okay, I'm sorry. I don't want to take up all
your time. That last caller was Aducus, but anyway, I
wanted to call you that the only time I turned on.
I mean, I listen to you every night until I
fall asleep.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Okay, well, thank you, But if it.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Was Colin Cowhard, I just turn it off. I don't
want to listen to him any at all.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Thank you for ripping one.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
Of my guys.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
You guys are entertaining. He's not entertaining. He's just a douche,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, I sleep when he's on. He coward gets paid
a lot more money than me, so he's not worried
about that. But yeah, he's an over.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
You're on there wanting about money making stuff. Why don't
you do something different?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Well, you want me to leave, I could leave and
go somewhere else and do a morning show somewhere a
local morning at this No, I could. I could leave
here and go do a morning show somewhere and make
a lot more money. I could do an afternoon show somewhere,
make a lot.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
More what you choose to do, Eh, that's true.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, I could. I make you leave. Maybe I'll leave,
maybe I'll take off. That's a good idea. I should
leave Fox Sports Radio. It's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
No, I don't want you advising me to leave.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I would make more money. I can't me at any money.
And this is a dead end job. You're over, is what?
Speaker 3 (33:51):
Last thing? Last thing gonna say. I wanted to know
if Blind Scott watches the Reds game tonight, what do
you think about the strike zone with the balls inside
our out?
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Okay, let me check with him whole on a second,
Blind Scott, your thoughts on the strike zone in the
Reds game?
Speaker 9 (34:05):
Blind Scott, Oh, yeah, that's why I'm for the robot umpires. Dude,
this guy, Jay, he's a hack for a caller. You
don't insult the guy that makes all the money for
the network, Dude, when you come on the radio. That's
the quickest way to get Ben in trouble.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
This guy, Yeah, all right, Yeah, Jay, why are you
trying to get me in trouble?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
Dude?
Speaker 2 (34:24):
What's up with that?
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Now? It's not going to get you in trouble, all.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Right, Scott, He says, it's not going to get me
in trouble. Scott.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Well, anything nowadays to get you in trouble. You say
that we people operate too thin. When I heard you
come on the edgenight, you sounded like you were on fire.
You were so angry. I went through the state of trauma.
I'm holding my blanky right now. You don't sound already
explained that you were almost killed. Though now I'm concerned.
You almost killed and your wife threw dust up your nose.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yes, that's uh, well she did some cleaning and there's
some dust on the fans. And it's been a couple
of days here where it's just been kind of you're
not lingering, like some kind of allergy thing going on,
you know, And I'm I don't have allergies. I don't
usually have I don't normally have this problem. But it's
any other thoughts.
Speaker 3 (35:10):
Jay, Yeah, I just how does blind Scott tell like
when there's a review in NFL if the guy got
two feet down or one feed down.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Great question. Let me see, blind Scott. We're asking a
blind guy, Blind Scott, how do you handle the reviews
in the NFL? Blind Scott?
Speaker 9 (35:23):
This is actually a pretty good question. So the radio
guys aren't that good on the radio. There's too many
players on the football field. They need to describe it better.
That's why Ben, you really could. Ben could work anywhere.
He could make way more money than this. I email
Ben all the time. I say, don't do the fifth outary.
You're not getting paid for it. Take another job, don't
I do that?
Speaker 8 (35:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You do? You advise me. You're one of my great
career advisor. How's that working, Ascot. You've been my advisor
for twenty years? Look at me?
Speaker 3 (35:47):
Yeah, tell me all the free food.
Speaker 9 (35:48):
I got my whole food full of fridge shouts.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Of you right now, I know, look at that all right?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Any other thoughts, Jay, I.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Did that guy something real quick? We had a guy
go from the TV broadcast to the REDS radio broadcast
because very liarkable to the Hall of Fame this weekend. Yeah,
and he doesn't seem to understand it. On the radio,
you can't. He went from TV to radio. You can't
see the game.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Oh no, oh no, oh oh no, that's yeah. It's
a lot harder to radio than television.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
You got to be people's eyes exactly.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
But just in general, I mean, there are TV, there's
a bunch of people helping you out. In radio, you're
pretty much on your own. So it's a it's a
much different animal. All Right, I gotta go, Thank you, Jay,
I go away. You've had enough airtime. Please. It is
the Ben Malerd Show. We'll push back the Walk of Shame.
We'll push that back a little bit time now though,
for the Insta Trivia with Mallard of the third degree
(36:42):
coming up.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Here's the Insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Blank was the first player in baseball history to hit
a walk off grand slam.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
In a postseason game.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Again, Blank, first player in baseball history to had a
walk off grand slam and season.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
That's the Insta trivia. The answer.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
We'll get to it.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (37:05):
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Speaker 1 (37:16):
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Speaker 2 (37:18):
It is the Ben Mahler Show, up all night, every night.
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(37:39):
It'll be posted. Be sure to follow and review the
podcast rated five stars. You can even provide a fresh,
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best of version posted right after the end of the show.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Thank god for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Here's the insta trivia.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Blank was the first player in baseball history hit a
walk off Grand Slam in a postseason game.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
You've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Uh yeah, Alf the Alien Olpiner says the buzzer Jose Albouve,
who else? Steve Bye Bye? Balbodi from Lawson one of
the all time greats? Who else? Page down? Lineman Bostock
from courtesy Flusher, Captain Kangaroo tossed out by Andy and
Lionel Lakes, Minnesota and Mark in Queens says.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
Well he got it right.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
He says I did not cheat. I remember because I
had a bet on the game. Jimmy Pearsall from I
forty Ian Andrew Vaughan tossed up by King Rory. Who
else we have? Bert Cobain guessed by Donkey Sausage, Manuel
and Guardina Excusy Man Well Guardiana Larry Parrish as his answer.
(38:54):
John Crook from Perito Sean in Portland said, Ron say
Willie Stargel guessed by JT. The Wingman in Knoxville, Stuart
Griffin from Far Out Day, Mario Mendoza from Georgia, boy
Roy Hobbs from BP, what say you.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
Have a right up?
Speaker 2 (39:13):
I'm gonna go with Stan mucial Ben Okay what was
his nickname? The music Man okay a or the Man?
Speaker 1 (39:21):
The correct answer is.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Nelson Cruz with the Rangers against the Tigers way back
in twenty eleven in the American Mague Championship Series.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Here we go, it's maller. How about that?
Speaker 5 (39:34):
To the third degree?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
This is one big Ben gets grilled Kupol.
Speaker 10 (39:41):
With Matthew Stafford week to week with back problems. Sean
mcvayhy recently told reporters that he thinks Jimmy Garoppolo is
a starting quarterback. Yeah, Ben, Let's assume the worst and
say Jimmy G has to start a number of games
for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
How much does that hurt their chances at winning the
NFC West.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Well, he has started seven games since the end of
the twenty two season for the Raiders and he did
start one game for the Rams.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Listen, the Rams are supposed to.
Speaker 2 (40:05):
Be more of a defensive team, so they can get
by in the regular season to ultimately get where they
want to go and get to the Super Bowl, win
the NFC, which they were close to doing last year.
They have very little chance with Garoppolo, very little chance
with Jimmy G. The Prince Aladdin the Great Garoppolo.
Speaker 10 (40:24):
Next, Billy Donovan has a losing record in five seasons
with the Bulls and has led them to the playoffs
one time. Yet the team just signed him to a
multi year extension. Are you surprised by this?
Speaker 2 (40:35):
No, And the rumor for a long time was that
Donovan was going to go back to college, but they
college basketball is so effed up and so messed up
right now, he's changed his mind. The thing about the
bullszelt for a couple of years. They weren't even trying
to win. They were fielding non competitive teams and Billy
Donovan was coaching teams that they.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
Knew going into the year, we're going to be terrible.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
I went with a great college basketball coaches for the
Florida Gators.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
But he likes the NBA lifestyle. They like him.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
He's considered one of the least the mid to mid
tier to a little bit better than that NBA coach.
Speaker 1 (41:09):
And you know he's not going anyway. He's been there.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
He was in Oklahoma City for five years now, he's
been in Chicago. He's been an NBA coach for ten
years now, I believe, so he's not He's settled into
that live next.
Speaker 10 (41:20):
The Texas Rangers are in third place in the AL West,
but have been on a tear in July and they
actually have the second best run differential in all of
the American League. Ben eddin Arlington alluded to it last night. Yeah,
do you think the Rangers are being slept on?
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Well, I'm not sleeping on the Rangers because they would
die if I slept on them. But no, the Rangers
are one of those teams in the American League. I
don't see anybody invincible. I don't even nationallygue for that matter.
To me, it's wide open. Just getting the playoffs and
with Bruce Bochie one of the better managers in playoffs,
they got absolutely got a shot. How do we do
MASSU Sedition nother wad quote it on the ball. Oh yeah,
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