November 27, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about the hard lesson learned from the Anthony Rendon contract for the Angels, the knee jerk reaction to Dylan Cease signing with the Blue Jays, Ask Ben, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom shaka Laca.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's our number three and a very happy Thanksgiving to
you as we are hanging out here together the ubiquitous
Ben Mathers Show as it is omni present even on Thanksgiving.
And don't forget to check out Benny versus the Penny
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
So also have a Black Friday game preview.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That'll be coming up a little bit later on today
on this Thanksgiving. But this hour dedicated to baseball. What
is the lesson from Anthony Rendon's contract with the Angels?
There deep in negotiations to try to work out a
settlement so he never plays a game again with the
Angels like he.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Was playing anyway? Contract buyout on that?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Also, what is your knee jerk reaction your thoughts on
Dylan Cease getting two hundred million dollars from the Toronto
Blue Jays That kind of jumps off the page, doesn't
And what stands out about former Padre skipper Mike Shilt
landing with the Baltimore Organization. We'll go there as well.
(01:10):
Have a great Thanksgiving here. It is our number three.
A fallen angel, I've fallen and I cannot get up.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well. Come in the beginning of another hour of the
Ben Maler Show.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We are in the air everywhares we are marshalled together,
and we say grated, sliced or melted, its endless delight.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Coast to coast, border to border.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And beyond on the vast and markedly powerful microphones of FSR,
emmating live from the hole as we are making our living,
putting the microphone in the Turkey hole from the world
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who's hanging out with us, listening to the live radio.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Program do it. We'll do it live. I'll talk to you, listen,
We'll do it live. That's how we're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, our lead this hour from Anaheim, and we are
doing this for ferg Dog, who is literally the only
one that gives a rats ass about this. But no, no,
I mean it might be two other people, two other
people that care about this. Uh what is this to
Why would you talk about something in Anaheim? It's Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh my god, gosh, shut up? Who know he's listening anyway?
Who cares? So?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The Hot Stove League is heating up at the Big
a and Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Did the Angels make a big splash move? Is it
addition or is it abstraction?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Developing hot dot dot dot did you hear no, Well,
it's not done done. It's kind of done, but it's
not done done, so it's kind of number.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's not done done. The Angels and Malfeasan's guilty. Third
baseman Anthony Rendon the Dingleberry Anthony Rendon are in deep
contract talks about a buyout, which means bye bye baby,
see you later. Final year of a seven year monstrosity
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of a contract.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Two hundred and forty five million. The Angels gave this guy,
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now Rendon is expected to retire spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
He already retired a couple of years ago. He just
didn't tell anybody. He didn't tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The thirty five year old bust, one of the great
failures in baseball history, is owed thirty eight million thirty
eight million in twenty twenty six. The potential buyout of
the remaining money has not been docu signed. The teas
have not been crossed. That dies dot, the dots have
not been placed there on the eyes and all that stuff.
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So they still have to work on that. But the
expectation is that Rendon will defer some of the money.
They call that the Otani. Reason he would defer that
money is because of the taxation of the People's Republic
of California and to try to avoid.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Paying the highest tax rate in the land from the
evil politicians. So we'll be a smart move.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Actually, he'll get more money in the long run. That's
what Otani's doing. Really, anyone that signs with the teams
in California should do that to avoid the Gavin new
some taxes and all that. So that's the deal on that,
and the Angels would then be able to go back
to market and spend some more money and buy some
more players that'll break their hearts and all that.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's usually how that goes. It is a good jumping
off point.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So let us discuss, all right, the question what is
the lesson from Anthony Rendon's contract with the Angels as
it's about to come to an end here on this
Thanksgiving So my views on this, I've got Maya, Angelou, Braves,
Mascot and Loan, and we will combine all all of
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these things together and we are gonna make some delicious
garlic puffs. Yum, yum to my tum tum. All right,
first of all, the lesson and welcome my class. It's
professor Mahler. Welcome to our audio classroom. This is not
a webinar, this is an audio r audio radio. So
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first of all, don't fall for the shiny object. That's
my first thought on what lesson is out there. Don't
fall for the shiny object. That was the issue here.
Owner Artie Marino did the baseball version of impulse buying.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It's like the person that buys.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The diamond encrusted jet ski on TEAMU on a random.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Thursday in January.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You don't need a diamond encrusted jet ski. For some reason,
you had a couple of glasses of alcohol.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The next thing you know, there you go.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So Anthony Rendo and at one point was an October hero,
an October baseball hero, and it was one of the
great world series. The natitude beating the cheating a swell
one thousand and two, one thousand.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Holes, beating the A holes, and it was great. He
had that natitude he did. He had that natitude that
was for Washington.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I know that Rick and Maryland Morning Time an Austro
Jant the two other Nationals fans were very excited about that.
Then he got out to Anaheim, He's like, oh, man,
I can go to Disneyland every day, and I'm hanging on.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
He said, you know, I want to go to this land.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I don't really want to be bothered to play baseball,
even though I took the contract. So I'm going to
do a slow down strike. That's essentially what he accomplished.
Whether he tried to do it or not, it was
a slow down strike, slow down strike with really good benefits,
really good benefits.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The Angels gave him a two hundred.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And forty five million dollar contract, and the moment that
contract was completed in broad daylight, he treated baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Like as a job.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
He treated it like he was cleaning porta potties in Birmingham, Alabama,
in August after a carnival came through town, like a
state fair type thing in Birmingham, and it was one
hundred degrees and the humidity was about seven hundred degrees,
if you know what I mean. So how bad was
it for Anthony Rendona. I've got some malor, Matthew, let's
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go to my evidence. So this is rock bottom the
Angels wall Rendon was under contract. They played eight hundred
and ten games. How many games do you think Anthony
Rendon played? What kind of bang for your buck did
the Angels get so? Out of the eight hundred ten games,
this Mama, Luke, Anthony Rendon played two hundred.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And five games.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Out of the eight hundred ten, he missed almost seventy
five percent of his work assignments. He played a little
over twenty five percent. The number is twenty five point
three percent based on my.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Male or math.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Now, if you showed up and I have no idea
what you do. Maybe you're work in a factory, you're
a truck driver, who knows what you do? You're making
donuts or whatever, your cop you're a robber, whatever you
I don't care. If you showed up to work just
one day out of every four days you said I'm
good for one day out of four, would you still
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have a job. Would you be escorted out by security?
Probably so? And of course, well Wendon doesn't have a job.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He's leaving. Yes, he's getting.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Escorted out to the bank, and they're gonna have a
little convoy of brings trucks.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And oh maybe they'll do a direct depositive. Let's not
forget though.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
The other part, which I just chuckle at, is that
the Angels should have known better. Right, Anthony Rendon did
not make this a secret. He told me, he told you,
and he told literally everyone who would listen who he was.
(09:08):
This is not a bait and switch situation for the Angels.
It's not Anthony Rendaut let everyone know. He openly admitted
baseball was not his top priority even when he was
a good player in Washington. The players knew on the
Nationals that he didn't like baseball. He thought it was
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boring and he didn't really like it. And that's the
Maya Angelo one oh one. When someone shows you who
they are, believe them.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The first time. The Angels didn't believe him. They didn't
believe me. They said, well, yeah, he says that, but
he's so come on, he's good, he's so good.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And then well, the Angels didn't do their due diligence
and they fell for some October stardust and they ignored
the red flags like it was a bachelor party in
Vegas and they just ignored it. And now now they
want to buy out the player. The final thirty eight
million dollars, which is not a contract.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It's like a hostage negotiation, is what it is. You
talk you about, Fallen angel and all that Hell's Angels
is more like it. Lesson learned.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Avoid the boone doggle, avoid the boondoggle, avoid the mirage,
avoid Artie Morino syndrome, the wren Doon.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Deal, the Anthony Rendon deal, highway robbery, highway robbery. And
they also had an orthopedic surgeon president as well, so
they had all that just boggles the mind. It's not
only a boondoggle, it boggles the mind that we're at
this place now. Secondly, speaking of mind boggling and the show,
we now take you North of the Border.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Oh card.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Former Podres right handed Dylan Cease played for the White
Sox for a while with the Padres more recently, and
Dylan Ceaze has found.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
A new home.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
He's made at least thirty two starts the past five seasons.
I've told people like that he has.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Reached a seven year contract.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
With the Blue Jays for two hundred and ten million dollars. Hello, yeah,
somebody was schnockered in Toronto two hundred ten million with
the Blue Jays. So the question for the esteem panel,
the question is what are your knee jerk thoughts, your
knee jerk thoughts on Dylan Cease getting two hundred and
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ten million from the Blue Jays. So my initial thought
on this was, this is a fairy tale for him.
All Right, I'm in the catbird seed, I'm looking down here,
and this is a fairy tale as far as from
a logical standpoint looking at the movement and this transaction.
The Malor report card, the Malor report card, which is
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the report card of record, the Mallet report card C
minus C minus. Now, the Blue Jays did not sign electricity.
They did not they signed adequate. They took adequate. This
is not a blockbuster of a deal. It is a
yawn and stretch matinee is what that is? Just kind
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of yawn look there and you kind of you kind
of stretch your arms out. You know, it's kind of
maybe behind your head.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Do the surrender cobra thing that's called therender cobra. When
you put your arms behind your your hands behind your head,
that's surrender cobra. You do that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So you sip your caffeine whatever you're drinking, and yeah,
you check your watch and.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You say, okay, well he'll eat some innings. I guess
you know that's good. He'll eat some innings.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
The Jays are taking a seven year plunge on Dylan
Ce's in the jacuzzi. Two hundred and ten million dollars.
That's a that's a very soapy, optimistic jacuzzi.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
This is what that is.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And they're getting in return for two hundre ten million,
the Blue Jays are getting a jass. Just a starter,
just a starter, a middle of the rotation guy wrapped
in number one.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Starter repackaging is what it is. Yeah, he checks a
lot of the nerd boxes, the wars kind of sexy
that gets people a little turned on.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
There.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Dependable two hundred ten million. You're paying two hundred ten
million for dependable.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's akin to going to South Beach and buying a
South Beach luxury condo just because it's got really good plumbing.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
It's the plumbing is dependable, okay, but what about the view?
But the views aren't that good because it's it's facing
the city and you want to look at the ocean.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
That's right, But really good plumbing, the pipe you never
have to worry about the toilet. I don't care how
big a duty you give in the toilets. It's gonna flush.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It's the pipes are good, they're solid. It's a way
to go. Well.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
No, here's the truth. The Blue Jays are really paying
two hundred ten million for three years. Three years of
Dylan Ce's that's what he's got left in his prime.
After that, they're going to be paying him four years
as he has the slow fade into baseball menopause right,
and Cease has mostly been a costco sample pitch man.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
He's functional, he's serviceable. It's middle Aisle. It's like Aisle fifteen.
You know, you on Aisle fifteen. They got some kind
of yogurt. It's not good yogurt, but they want you
to buy it. And you're like, Okay, I'll take a
little cup of yogurt. But I really like yogurt, but
I'll take one. Why not?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Postseason? This is the problem I have. Postseason is where
the mask falls off. Seems like a bit of a
problem for a team that was a couple of good
plays away from winning the World Series this year. Postseason
is a thing that goes bumpity bump in the middle
of the night. Dylan says, you want to take a guess.
He's played in some playoff games with the White Sox
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and the Padres.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Would you like to take a guess? What is he? Ris? Okay,
you got what? I'm good? Okay, okay, don't change your number.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Dylan Ce's career era in the postseason is eight point
seventy four. The guy turns into the Atlanta Braves mascot,
mister Freeze's cousin brain Freeze. He's not mister Freeze, the
guy that runs out in the outfield of Braves games,
but he's the He's the cousin brain Freeze. He's the
thing that happens when you have too much. You eat
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ice cream too fast, and then you feel like you're
dying for about seven seconds, and then you feel better,
and then you immediately ice cream and do it again. Yeah,
pressure arrives, the big stage arrives, and he melts like
he's pitching with a hair dryer on the mound. Toronto.
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They bought a playoff roller coaster and they did not
get any barfbacks. So two hundred and ten million for
Dylan Sea's who can be the guy?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's the old argument on a random Thursday in Tampa.
He'll be fine. When you play the Orioles on a
Tuesday night in May, he'll be okay. He'll be okay.
The problem is when you play in the World Series
against the Dodgers and.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Then he rides the vomit comet. That becomes problematic. All right,
final thought. We go now to Baltimore, Maryland, birthplace of
the Orioles, who actually were born as the Saint Louis Browns.
But anyway, the Orioles are hiring former Cardinals and Podres
manager Mike Shilt.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now Shill taking a front office job. He will be
the new coordinator of instruction in the upper levels of
the minor league system. That sounds like a bull.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Crap, no show job, but it is his job. So
the question on this one, what stands out to you
about the former Podres skip Mike Shilt landing with the
Baltimore organization?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Sean.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
So, the reason I brought this up, and really the
only reason I brought this up, is because it's hot
take validation. And when you get confirmation and validation of
a hot take, you lean into it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You just lean into it, you do.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Sheilt delivered a sob store, you remember this. We talked
about it when he left the Padres. It wasn't that
he got fired. No, No, he's a proud baseball man.
He retired. He gave a speech, and he talked about
being emotionally cooked, physically overwhelmed, barely sleeping, losing hair, suffering
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chest pains.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
There were death.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Threats on social media. The full on symphony of excuses
and rationale is a symphony to a cacophony of excuses.
The grind of managing in the daily baseball life just
crushed him down to dust.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Now how do we know that?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Because he said all that stuff forty four days ago,
forty four days later, I guess no longer is he
physically overwhelmed, emotionally cooked, barely sleeping, losing hair, chest pains,
death threats.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
All of that is better. He's back. He's back six
weeks later. So what gives? It's rather obvious. I mean,
do I need to Okay, I'll tell you you're okay.
I'll tell you this was never a retirement.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
This was we're either going to fire you or we're
going to let you claim you retired. And so then
Mike Schultz like, okay, not only will I claim I'm retiring.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I'm going to talk about my hair falling.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Out and chest pains and this that and the other thing.
And the word on the street is that we've heard
from the baseball grapevine is that the issue Mike Schilt
has he tried to lasso tweedled the and tweedled dumb.
The divas, Fernando Tatis and Mannymo and the Padres didn't
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like when I said the potter didn't like it to
Tiase and Machado didn't like it, and they grumbled and complained.
And the legend is that he walked into the clubhouse
essentially just for the purposes of this monologue, Mike Shilt
wearing a doing a little cosplay. He was wearing a
Lone Ranger mask. And Ownership's like, wait a minute here,
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this guy Totis is under contract. Let's pump the brakes
on that. This guy's under contract for like another ten years.
And Machado just signed an extension. So it's like an
e ticket ride with these guys. And so Ownership said,
we don't want a sheriff, we don't want the Lone Ranger,
we want missed out fire, we want a babysitter, and
so now now he lands Mike Schilt in Baltimore. He
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gets a cushy, no show front office job and doesn't
have to deal with mega egos of oriole players and
doesn't have a tiptoe.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Around to that.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
This gig is the baseball version of the Witness Protection Program,
meaning out of sight, out of the spotlight, you get
paid some money nowhere near Manny Machado mood swings or
to tease, jumping up and down with his feathers out
like a peacock, running around. Don't know about it. Show
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didn't retire, He never retired.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
He just rebranded.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
He just told you all bunch of bull crap about
being overwhelmed and physically cooked and this, and then they're
losing my hair, chest pains, death threats, all.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
That stuff, all that stuff, and he just rebranded the oils.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
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Time now for the Mallor Riddle of the day. And
here's the Mallor Riddle of the day for.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Elizabeth and for Eileen and Kathy and everyone else here.
It is the first thirty thousand fans to arrive at
M and T Banks Stadium in Baltimore for the Thanksgiving
night matchup with the Ravens today will receive a blank. Again,
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this is the Mallor Riddle of the day. The first
thirty thousand fans to arrive at M ANDT Bank Stadium
in Baltimore for the Ravens and the Ben Gals game
for Thanksgiving, we'll receive a blank. That is the malor
riddle of the day. The answer will get to it
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what nine since the Yankees won the World Series. I
don't know how she goes on with her life. When
she's complaining the Yankees have not done anything, she says, well,
they did sign somebody named Yery Rodriguez to a.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Minor league deal. I don't know who that is.
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And Ryan Yarborough also agreed to a contract, So congratulations
on that. And my favorite story of the Yankee offseason
is that they offered Trent Grisham a contract, thinking that
he would not agree to it and go to market,
and he accepted the offer.
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That is that is great.
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So Trent Grisham there back with the Yankees unless they
unless they trade him. And that's pretty well off from
this contract. And we'll get a draft pick or something
for me. And he's not going to take the contract.
But he took the contract. Time now though four The
Mallard Riddle of the day, and here's name mallet Riddle
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of to day. The first thirty thousand fans to arrive
at M and T Banks, Stadum and Baltimore and sit
out in the cold for four hours and watch the
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a blank. That is the riddle of the day.
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And let's see this. Any one know the answer? We
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night drug tester going with leftover Halloween candy.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
It's his answer. Who else? Do we have a.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Page down a frozen turkey if they can catch it
falling from the Sky is the greatest episode of the
sitcom w K RP and cinc A Naty the Turkey
Drop episode, a classic ferg Dog, says an Anthony Rendon
Bobblehead us Halo.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Hanks, Sure as hell, don't want one. Interesting. What else
do we have? Page down? Uh, let's see here far out,
Dave says, A purple pigmy penguin with big tails and
polka dotted bell bottom bridges. So that's the that's a
lot there, far out, David, you're running good stuff right now. Absolutely.
(27:57):
Jerry our friend from.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Rhode Island, who I'm ed at the World Series and
the Red Sox and Dodgers played years ago in the
World Series, and she's a loyal minion. She's up with
us on Thanksgiving, she says. The first thirty thousand at
the Ravens game will get a diaper, Hey, a diaper,
dandy baby, a tiper econ rose little bit, as to say,
a barbecued rib from Boog Powell Yum yum, A cozy
(28:21):
pair of mittens, guessed by Skip to Zip. Skip has
been with the show.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
For many, many many years. See who else do we have?
Let's see page down? JT. The wingman says, poutine.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Oh man, I wish I might fly to Baltimore if
they got poutine A baloney sandwich from Larry D.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
That's his answer. A white pants suit. Where's the suit?
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Ray?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Where's the suit ray? Where'd it go? Ray?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
All right, enough of that. The correct answer to the
Mallet riddle of the day. The first thirty thousand fans
to arrive at M and T Banks Stadium tonight in
Baltimore for the Thanksgiving game with the Ravens well receive
at ceramic Purple rising gravy boat. Yeah, they're giving out
(29:08):
gravy boats. What could possibly go wrong? I'm I'm sure
no one will throw one of those on the field
at all, and everyone will act politely.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Let's say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
Benny versus the penny. It's hollering James. I gotta take
on that. They we're gonna receive, Oh Joe said, go
show name Chad Johnson, who might not be relimited compete.
Johnson also played for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
What is in what's in the background? What are you
listening to Is that music? You got music there?
Speaker 8 (30:03):
Penny Penny?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Is it true? Hollering James, you did a line of
cocaine before you called the shows? That actor?
Speaker 9 (30:12):
I drag them out, and just for the record, you
take thirty six pills in the morning and thirty six
pills at night.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Correct, thirty six pills in the morning, thirty six pills
at night. Well, I would love I would love to
play I would love to play a song. Unfortunately, the
people I work with do not listen to me. I
asked them to put that in the system, and I
guarantee you they have not put that in the system.
So I'm fortunately it's hard to get people, you know,
(30:48):
when it's hard to get people to do things you
want them to do, when when they're lazy, they don't
like to do it. And unfortunately I've asked and they've
chosen not to do it, and so we don't have
It's on a computer a corner.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Back from Minnesota. Yes or no.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I just want to hear what's on in the background.
I'm just again, I that's like a beautiful virtuoso performance.
Whatever's going on back there.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
You don't want to talk about that, You just want
to be on the air. James, what are you doing
for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Buddy? What do you got? You got plans today? They're
having a big event at the house you're at. You're
gonna have some turkey dollar.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Check this out. Man generals knife my roommate, my housemate
who stands at the Google movie. Our families disowned us
and tell me, don't call me someone, don't call Gerald's.
We ain't got nobody check it in with us. They
don't care who we are. All we're saving sound with
(31:42):
keeping our mouth shut that we're in the group home
and may this maby we'll get set by group homes
staff a decent meal.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Okay, all right, well listen, you're part of our family.
We love you. You're you're one of.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Our crazy uncles here on the in the mallord militia.
So okay, you.
Speaker 10 (32:00):
Got the militia.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Mandy. I came so close to the first two weds
right below the last street. Remember the contest, did you
wed it? Came it?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah? Okay, well listen, a happy Thanksgiving, James.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I hope you have a good day today and stay
off the mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
That's is that code for something else? Do I? Not
know the window.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I feel like that's code for something else. Mike is
in Tucson. Remember Mike called us up his wife was
in the hospital, and he then passed the phone to
his wife, or one of the great calls we've taken
this year on the show.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Hello Mike and Tucson.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
Yes, I love that you remember that. My job is
to turkey. I'm the smoker turkey every year. Wife says, Oh,
you can say it like the turkey you got Ben
Millard overnight, Honey, Ben Coward, he's not working tonight exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
And And I just want I just want their record
to show that I make the same amount of money
as Concowerd.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And this is actually not a real human being. This
is AI. You've all been fooled.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
The real Ben Mallard would never slum and work at
this hour on Thanksgiving. He's much too important to radio
as a whole to ever drag himself down to the
sewer and work overnight.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
That's for that's for nobody. So okay, that's not that's not.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
A guy of Mallard's stature would never dig a hole
and put himself at the bottom of that.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
It would never happen.
Speaker 10 (33:38):
Exactly. That's why I'm cybergast. I message Coop the Loop
on Twitter X. He said, I'm off tonite. Oh, I'm
I'm off every holiday. Oh, Bed's working, Alien said. I
asked for your hat size, Ben. I went to the
Tucson Roadrunners this past Saturday. I got you the coolest
hat ever. But I wanted a half for you and
(33:59):
you and Coop. I remember your hat. I can remember.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Well, listen, he's away, I don't know whatever. He's fine.
Take days up, people. I don't have problem with taking
people taking days off. It's fine. You should take days off.
And I will take a few days off at the
end of the year. But it's not the end of
the year anyway.
Speaker 10 (34:17):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I appreciate you the man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Thank you for listening. How's the turkey coming along? We're
good on that. Everything good with the turkey.
Speaker 10 (34:25):
Bet we're at one. We're two picks right now. We
got two more hours to go the bashtop Turkey and
the Master built.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
We'd like to let all the affiliates down the line.
Two more hours to go, and then we're good on
the turkey in Tucson.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So to the bird. Two more hours We're good.
Speaker 10 (34:45):
We can't even talk about the Raiders, but how about
the Arizona Wildcats number two in the country. Bear down
Arizona basketball.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
College basketball season starts right after the Super Bowl, so
in February will be caused basketball.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
All right, the great Mike and Tucson man doing his
due diligence with the bird.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
The bird is the word is the word. It's also dinner.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
We're gonna have ask ban. Your questions are answers? Hashtag
ask Ban, hashtag ask Man. We'll get to that and
we will.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Do it next.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Malor Show.
A Happy Thanksgiving. We thank you for spending part of
the holiday with us. If you're in Canada, that's just
another day. In Mexico, just another day. But in the States,
big day, big day, Oh my god, big day.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Nobody working, Well, we're working. You might be working too,
but you get the point. And a reminder. With the
iHeartRadio app, you can listen wherever. Got a couple of
emails from people upset. The Clipper Laker game the other
night went long in LA. We got covered up by
(36:05):
some postgame. The Warriors games have gone long, We've gotten
covered up. So on the West Coast we get covered
up sometimes by those postgame shows.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And you'd much rather hear us, So listen on the
iHeartRadio app. It's available twenty four to seven all night
every night. You can hear the Ben Malor Show, all
the other bombashtic braggett doushes, blowhards that work here, and
also the Fifth Hour Podcast, which we'll have new episodes
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
So you can make the Ben.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Malor Show, Fifth Hour Podcast and Fox Sports Radio presets
becoming a.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
P one and.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
It'll always pop up very top of the iHeartRadio app. Downloaded,
it's free. It's free. If it's free, it's for me.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
It's now time for how I get.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Twitter?
Speaker 6 (36:57):
This is your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
And way we go. It's ask Ben. Your questions are
answers for the rest of the hour, and the reading
of the questions, well, that'll that'll be up to the
man who's in the producer's chair there. Project P better
known as Patrick. So these are actual questions by actual
listeners sent in on the X machine hashtag ask Ben,
(37:24):
and what do we have here? What do we have here?
Project p All right, Well here's one.
Speaker 11 (37:31):
I actually kind of like, Ben.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
This one's kind of there's only one.
Speaker 11 (37:34):
There's only one though, no start us off. I like
this one's very wholesome. So this one's from JT the
wing Man. I've met JT though. We made a very
nice man. He lives in Knoxville. He drives a lot,
he loves the show.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Good dude. He's from Wisconsin though. Oh nice. Yeah, well
he has a very nice question.
Speaker 11 (37:56):
So, Ben, what was your favorite thing to make an
art class back in elementary school?
Speaker 8 (38:02):
Well?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I was not a good artist, it was not, but
my mom, God rest her soul, she kept every piece
of crap that I made. I remember we made something
out of it. I was like for Mother's Day, we
made this thing out of wood. It was like wood
shop type thing. And I was like, in elementary school,
this was back in the day when you could do this.
Now there'd be seventeen million lawsuits. But it was like
a little piece of what we carved it and wrote
(38:25):
like a little note to mom. You know, we love
your mom and all that, and so that was I
remember that. That's the thing I remember. You asked me
the question mark any any fun art school memories?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Mark when you were a kid, So that sparks a memory.
Speaker 12 (38:39):
When I was in grade school, we had to put
together a pillow. So they brought in once. It was
like a show and tell, so you just have to
repeat what's in front of us. So you had to
learn how to stuff the the you know, piece of
cloth that you had and you put the you know,
the soft stuff inside and you just have to sew
around just to make the pillow. So you you know,
(39:01):
needle and thread and sew it up and make a
little pillow.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
It was great. Look at you arts and crafts guy.
What what about you? Pat? Our friend Patrick?
Speaker 11 (39:12):
So like for arts and crafts, I remember fondly making
like little paper houses here and there for whatever, like
holidays and all that stuff. I personally really liked coloring
and coloring in the lines of whatever, paper mache and
all that good stuff. I liked being the guy that
liked to color stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Well, you're you can still color. It's like adult coloring.
Just don't just don't tell anyone you do it right, correct?
All right, don't tell you women? Probably what's next? What
do we got here?
Speaker 11 (39:43):
We can't go without having a Thanksgiving related once? So
I got my wet, I got our guy ferg Dog here,
he asked, what's some ferg Dog? So I'm gonna go
with this one for what is your least favorite Thanksgiving
side dish?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
All right? So this is not what firk Dog is
doing is mocking something that I have complained about for
some time.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
And this is I will engage in this, and this
will be the only time I engage in it.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Because of the bit yams. Yams sock jams are terrible, horrific,
bad all the way around, quickly anything mark you want
to add to that.
Speaker 12 (40:22):
I hate the ambrosia. I hate it. It doesn't look good.
I just will not try.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
To hate ambrosia. But there was a stripper back in
the day and ambrosia that was not bad. Just sure,
what about you? Project?
Speaker 11 (40:39):
So my least favorite would be sweet potatoes and yams
as well. It's just it's it's not great.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Yeah, I don't need them. My mom used to. I
told this. My mom used to cover them with marshmallows
and she gave them to me and I just eat
the marshmallows and not. She got so upset, she what
do you just? All right? What's next? What do you
Your questions are answered? All right?
Speaker 11 (40:58):
This is for the crew, all of us here.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
If you had to.
Speaker 11 (41:02):
Eat a crayon, what color would you pick?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Oh? I'd pick blue? Come on, I'd picked the blue.
I love the color blue. I picked the blue crayon.
It'd be like blueberry flavor blue. And who knows, I
probably did eat crayons when I was a kid. What
about you? Mark quickly anything, I'll try the orange Mark orange, Okay,
like a nice that's a good.
Speaker 11 (41:22):
Uh Patrick, I'm gonna go with brown because it's pretty
close to being chocolate. I mean, maybe not taste wise,
but I could convince myself chocolate.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
You could. You know, half the aisle says it's chocolate.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
The other half might say it's something else that comes
out the other end.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
There. I'm just saying. I'm just
Boom shaka Laca.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
It's our number three and a very happy Thanksgiving to
you as we are hanging out here together the ubiquitous
Ben Mathers Show as it is omni present even on Thanksgiving.
And don't forget to check out Benny versus the Penny
to get picks against the spread on all these big
(00:24):
Thanksgiving NFL games.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
So also have a Black Friday game preview.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
That'll be coming up a little bit later on today
on this Thanksgiving. But this hour dedicated to baseball. What
is the lesson from Anthony Rendon's contract with the Angels?
There deep in negotiations to try to work out a
settlement so he never plays a game again with the
Angels like he.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Was playing anyway? Contract buyout on that?
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Also, what is your knee jerk reaction your thoughts on
Dylan Cease getting two hundred million dollars from the Toronto
Blue Jays That kind of jumps off the page, doesn't
And what stands out about former Padre skipper Mike Shilt
landing with the Baltimore Organization. We'll go there as well.
(01:10):
Have a great Thanksgiving here. It is our number three.
A fallen angel, I've fallen and I cannot get up.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Well. Come in the beginning of another hour of the
Ben Maler Show.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
We are in the air everywhares we are marshalled together,
and we say grated, sliced or melted, its endless delight.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Coast to coast, border to border.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
And beyond on the vast and markedly powerful microphones of FSR,
emmating live from the hole as we are making our living,
putting the microphone in the Turkey hole from the world
famous Fox Sports Radio studios, as approved by Hungarian Mike,
(02:05):
who's hanging out with us, listening to the live radio.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Program do it. We'll do it live. I'll talk to you, listen,
We'll do it live. That's how we're gonna do it.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Well, our lead this hour from Anaheim, and we are
doing this for ferg Dog, who is literally the only
one that gives a rats ass about this. But no, no,
I mean it might be two other people, two other
people that care about this. Uh what is this to
Why would you talk about something in Anaheim? It's Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Oh my god, gosh, shut up? Who know he's listening anyway?
Who cares? So?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
The Hot Stove League is heating up at the Big
a and Anaheim.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Did the Angels make a big splash move? Is it
addition or is it abstraction?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Developing hot dot dot dot did you hear no, Well,
it's not done done. It's kind of done, but it's
not done done, so it's kind of number.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's not done done. The Angels and Malfeasan's guilty. Third
baseman Anthony Rendon the Dingleberry Anthony Rendon are in deep
contract talks about a buyout, which means bye bye baby,
see you later. Final year of a seven year monstrosity
(03:25):
of a contract.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
Two hundred and forty five million. The Angels gave this guy,
Oh my god.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Now Rendon is expected to retire spoiler alert.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
He already retired a couple of years ago. He just
didn't tell anybody. He didn't tell anybody.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
The thirty five year old bust, one of the great
failures in baseball history, is owed thirty eight million thirty
eight million in twenty twenty six. The potential buyout of
the remaining money has not been docu signed. The teas
have not been crossed. That dies dot, the dots have
not been placed there on the eyes and all that stuff.
(04:02):
So they still have to work on that. But the
expectation is that Rendon will defer some of the money.
They call that the Otani. Reason he would defer that
money is because of the taxation of the People's Republic
of California and to try to avoid.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Paying the highest tax rate in the land from the
evil politicians. So we'll be a smart move.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Actually, he'll get more money in the long run. That's
what Otani's doing. Really, anyone that signs with the teams
in California should do that to avoid the Gavin new
some taxes and all that. So that's the deal on that,
and the Angels would then be able to go back
to market and spend some more money and buy some
more players that'll break their hearts and all that.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
It's usually how that goes. It is a good jumping
off point.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
So let us discuss, all right, the question what is
the lesson from Anthony Rendon's contract with the Angels as
it's about to come to an end here on this
Thanksgiving So my views on this, I've got Maya, Angelou, Braves,
Mascot and Loan, and we will combine all all of
(05:04):
these things together and we are gonna make some delicious
garlic puffs. Yum, yum to my tum tum. All right,
first of all, the lesson and welcome my class. It's
professor Mahler. Welcome to our audio classroom. This is not
a webinar, this is an audio r audio radio. So
(05:25):
first of all, don't fall for the shiny object. That's
my first thought on what lesson is out there. Don't
fall for the shiny object. That was the issue here.
Owner Artie Marino did the baseball version of impulse buying.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It's like the person that buys.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
The diamond encrusted jet ski on TEAMU on a random.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Thursday in January.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
You don't need a diamond encrusted jet ski. For some reason,
you had a couple of glasses of alcohol.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
The next thing you know, there you go.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
So Anthony Rendo and at one point was an October hero,
an October baseball hero, and it was one of the
great world series. The natitude beating the cheating a swell
one thousand and two, one thousand.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Holes, beating the A holes, and it was great. He
had that natitude he did. He had that natitude that
was for Washington.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
I know that Rick and Maryland Morning Time an Austro
Jant the two other Nationals fans were very excited about that.
Then he got out to Anaheim, He's like, oh, man,
I can go to Disneyland every day, and I'm hanging on.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
He said, you know, I want to go to this land.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I don't really want to be bothered to play baseball,
even though I took the contract. So I'm going to
do a slow down strike. That's essentially what he accomplished.
Whether he tried to do it or not, it was
a slow down strike, slow down strike with really good benefits,
really good benefits.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
The Angels gave him a two hundred.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
And forty five million dollar contract, and the moment that
contract was completed in broad daylight, he treated baseball.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Like as a job.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
He treated it like he was cleaning porta potties in Birmingham, Alabama,
in August after a carnival came through town, like a
state fair type thing in Birmingham, and it was one
hundred degrees and the humidity was about seven hundred degrees,
if you know what I mean. So how bad was
it for Anthony Rendona. I've got some malor, Matthew, let's
(07:26):
go to my evidence. So this is rock bottom the
Angels wall Rendon was under contract. They played eight hundred
and ten games. How many games do you think Anthony
Rendon played? What kind of bang for your buck did
the Angels get so? Out of the eight hundred ten games,
this Mama, Luke, Anthony Rendon played two hundred.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
And five games.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Out of the eight hundred ten, he missed almost seventy
five percent of his work assignments. He played a little
over twenty five percent. The number is twenty five point
three percent based on my.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Male or math.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Now, if you showed up and I have no idea
what you do. Maybe you're work in a factory, you're
a truck driver, who knows what you do? You're making
donuts or whatever, your cop you're a robber, whatever you
I don't care. If you showed up to work just
one day out of every four days you said I'm
good for one day out of four, would you still
(08:28):
have a job. Would you be escorted out by security?
Probably so? And of course, well Wendon doesn't have a job.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
He's leaving. Yes, he's getting.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Escorted out to the bank, and they're gonna have a
little convoy of brings trucks.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
And oh maybe they'll do a direct depositive. Let's not
forget though.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
The other part, which I just chuckle at, is that
the Angels should have known better. Right, Anthony Rendon did
not make this a secret. He told me, he told you,
and he told literally everyone who would listen who he was.
(09:08):
This is not a bait and switch situation for the Angels.
It's not Anthony Rendaut let everyone know. He openly admitted
baseball was not his top priority even when he was
a good player in Washington. The players knew on the
Nationals that he didn't like baseball. He thought it was
(09:29):
boring and he didn't really like it. And that's the
Maya Angelo one oh one. When someone shows you who
they are, believe them.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
The first time. The Angels didn't believe him. They didn't
believe me. They said, well, yeah, he says that, but
he's so come on, he's good, he's so good.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
And then well, the Angels didn't do their due diligence
and they fell for some October stardust and they ignored
the red flags like it was a bachelor party in
Vegas and they just ignored it. And now now they
want to buy out the player. The final thirty eight
million dollars, which is not a contract.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It's like a hostage negotiation, is what it is. You
talk you about, Fallen angel and all that Hell's Angels
is more like it. Lesson learned.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Avoid the boone doggle, avoid the boondoggle, avoid the mirage,
avoid Artie Morino syndrome, the wren Doon.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Deal, the Anthony Rendon deal, highway robbery, highway robbery. And
they also had an orthopedic surgeon president as well, so
they had all that just boggles the mind. It's not
only a boondoggle, it boggles the mind that we're at
this place now. Secondly, speaking of mind boggling and the show,
we now take you North of the Border.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Oh card.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Former Podres right handed Dylan Cease played for the White
Sox for a while with the Padres more recently, and
Dylan Ceaze has found.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
A new home.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
He's made at least thirty two starts the past five seasons.
I've told people like that he has.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Reached a seven year contract.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
With the Blue Jays for two hundred and ten million dollars. Hello, yeah,
somebody was schnockered in Toronto two hundred ten million with
the Blue Jays. So the question for the esteem panel,
the question is what are your knee jerk thoughts, your
knee jerk thoughts on Dylan Cease getting two hundred and
(11:36):
ten million from the Blue Jays. So my initial thought
on this was, this is a fairy tale for him.
All Right, I'm in the catbird seed, I'm looking down here,
and this is a fairy tale as far as from
a logical standpoint looking at the movement and this transaction.
The Malor report card, the Malor report card, which is
(11:59):
the report card of record, the Mallet report card C
minus C minus. Now, the Blue Jays did not sign electricity.
They did not they signed adequate. They took adequate. This
is not a blockbuster of a deal. It is a
yawn and stretch matinee is what that is? Just kind
(12:22):
of yawn look there and you kind of you kind
of stretch your arms out. You know, it's kind of
maybe behind your head.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Do the surrender cobra thing that's called therender cobra. When
you put your arms behind your your hands behind your head,
that's surrender cobra. You do that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
So you sip your caffeine whatever you're drinking, and yeah,
you check your watch and.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
You say, okay, well he'll eat some innings. I guess
you know that's good. He'll eat some innings.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
The Jays are taking a seven year plunge on Dylan
Ce's in the jacuzzi. Two hundred and ten million dollars.
That's a that's a very soapy, optimistic jacuzzi.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
This is what that is.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And they're getting in return for two hundre ten million,
the Blue Jays are getting a jass. Just a starter,
just a starter, a middle of the rotation guy wrapped
in number one.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Starter repackaging is what it is. Yeah, he checks a
lot of the nerd boxes, the wars kind of sexy
that gets people a little turned on.
Speaker 6 (13:18):
There.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
Dependable two hundred ten million. You're paying two hundred ten
million for dependable.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
That's akin to going to South Beach and buying a
South Beach luxury condo just because it's got really good plumbing.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
It's the plumbing is dependable, okay, but what about the view?
But the views aren't that good because it's it's facing
the city and you want to look at the ocean.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
That's right, But really good plumbing, the pipe you never
have to worry about the toilet. I don't care how
big a duty you give in the toilets. It's gonna flush.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
It's the pipes are good, they're solid. It's a way
to go. Well.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
No, here's the truth. The Blue Jays are really paying
two hundred ten million for three years. Three years of
Dylan Ce's that's what he's got left in his prime.
After that, they're going to be paying him four years
as he has the slow fade into baseball menopause right,
and Cease has mostly been a costco sample pitch man.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
He's functional, he's serviceable. It's middle Aisle. It's like Aisle fifteen.
You know, you on Aisle fifteen. They got some kind
of yogurt. It's not good yogurt, but they want you
to buy it. And you're like, Okay, I'll take a
little cup of yogurt. But I really like yogurt, but
I'll take one. Why not?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Postseason? This is the problem I have. Postseason is where
the mask falls off. Seems like a bit of a
problem for a team that was a couple of good
plays away from winning the World Series this year. Postseason
is a thing that goes bumpity bump in the middle
of the night. Dylan says, you want to take a guess.
He's played in some playoff games with the White Sox
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and the Padres.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Would you like to take a guess? What is he? Ris? Okay,
you got what? I'm good? Okay, okay, don't change your number.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Dylan Ce's career era in the postseason is eight point
seventy four. The guy turns into the Atlanta Braves mascot,
mister Freeze's cousin brain Freeze. He's not mister Freeze, the
guy that runs out in the outfield of Braves games,
but he's the He's the cousin brain Freeze. He's the
thing that happens when you have too much. You eat
(15:26):
ice cream too fast, and then you feel like you're
dying for about seven seconds, and then you feel better,
and then you immediately ice cream and do it again. Yeah,
pressure arrives, the big stage arrives, and he melts like
he's pitching with a hair dryer on the mound. Toronto.
(15:47):
They bought a playoff roller coaster and they did not
get any barfbacks. So two hundred and ten million for
Dylan Sea's who can be the guy?
Speaker 1 (15:58):
It's the old argument on a random Thursday in Tampa.
He'll be fine. When you play the Orioles on a
Tuesday night in May, he'll be okay. He'll be okay.
The problem is when you play in the World Series
against the Dodgers and.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Then he rides the vomit comet. That becomes problematic. All right,
final thought. We go now to Baltimore, Maryland, birthplace of
the Orioles, who actually were born as the Saint Louis Browns.
But anyway, the Orioles are hiring former Cardinals and Podres
manager Mike Shilt.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Now Shill taking a front office job. He will be
the new coordinator of instruction in the upper levels of
the minor league system. That sounds like a bull.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Crap, no show job, but it is his job. So
the question on this one, what stands out to you
about the former Podres skip Mike Shilt landing with the
Baltimore organization?
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Sean.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
So, the reason I brought this up, and really the
only reason I brought this up, is because it's hot
take validation. And when you get confirmation and validation of
a hot take, you lean into it.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
You just lean into it, you do.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Sheilt delivered a sob store, you remember this. We talked
about it when he left the Padres. It wasn't that
he got fired. No, No, he's a proud baseball man.
He retired. He gave a speech, and he talked about
being emotionally cooked, physically overwhelmed, barely sleeping, losing hair, suffering
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chest pains.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
There were death.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Threats on social media. The full on symphony of excuses
and rationale is a symphony to a cacophony of excuses.
The grind of managing in the daily baseball life just
crushed him down to dust.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Now how do we know that?
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Because he said all that stuff forty four days ago,
forty four days later, I guess no longer is he
physically overwhelmed, emotionally cooked, barely sleeping, losing hair, chest pains,
death threats.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
All of that is better. He's back. He's back six
weeks later. So what gives? It's rather obvious. I mean,
do I need to Okay, I'll tell you you're okay.
I'll tell you this was never a retirement.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
This was we're either going to fire you or we're
going to let you claim you retired. And so then
Mike Schultz like, okay, not only will I claim I'm retiring.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I'm going to talk about my hair falling.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Out and chest pains and this that and the other thing.
And the word on the street is that we've heard
from the baseball grapevine is that the issue Mike Schilt
has he tried to lasso tweedled the and tweedled dumb.
The divas, Fernando Tatis and Mannymo and the Padres didn't
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like when I said the potter didn't like it to
Tiase and Machado didn't like it, and they grumbled and complained.
And the legend is that he walked into the clubhouse
essentially just for the purposes of this monologue, Mike Shilt
wearing a doing a little cosplay. He was wearing a
Lone Ranger mask. And Ownership's like, wait a minute here,
(19:23):
this guy Totis is under contract. Let's pump the brakes
on that. This guy's under contract for like another ten years.
And Machado just signed an extension. So it's like an
e ticket ride with these guys. And so Ownership said,
we don't want a sheriff, we don't want the Lone Ranger,
we want missed out fire, we want a babysitter, and
so now now he lands Mike Schilt in Baltimore. He
(19:44):
gets a cushy, no show front office job and doesn't
have to deal with mega egos of oriole players and
doesn't have a tiptoe.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Around to that.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
This gig is the baseball version of the Witness Protection Program,
meaning out of sight, out of the spotlight, you get
paid some money nowhere near Manny Machado mood swings or
to tease, jumping up and down with his feathers out
like a peacock, running around. Don't know about it. Show
(20:15):
didn't retire, He never retired.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
He just rebranded.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
He just told you all bunch of bull crap about
being overwhelmed and physically cooked and this, and then they're
losing my hair, chest pains, death threats, all.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
That stuff, all that stuff, and he just rebranded the oils.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Just confirmed the podres Random out of Dodge, Random Out
of Dodge.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
It is the Ben Mallard Show.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
If you would like to be part you can join
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Also on ex at Ben Maller that's at Ben Mallor.
We do have ask Ban coming up a little bit
later this hour. Your questions are answers hashtag ask Ban
that'll be coming away.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
And we've got some new.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
People Marks here and Patrick who's now Project Pee.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
He's our producer for the night.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
And so everyone in the house and ask Ben coming
up next hour.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
Time now for the Mallor Riddle of the day. And
here's the Mallor Riddle of the day for.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Elizabeth and for Eileen and Kathy and everyone else here.
It is the first thirty thousand fans to arrive at
M and T Banks Stadium in Baltimore for the Thanksgiving
night matchup with the Ravens today will receive a blank. Again,
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this is the Mallor Riddle of the day. The first
thirty thousand fans to arrive at M ANDT Bank Stadium
in Baltimore for the Ravens and the Ben Gals game
for Thanksgiving, we'll receive a blank. That is the malor
riddle of the day. The answer will get to it
(21:53):
and we'll do it.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Next. However, it's the a block that I think. Is
it our seven? Oh?
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Okay, we count to three, not not to seven. Do
you know about the three t's of Thanksgiving? You're shaking
your head no you don't. Okay, all right, I'll tell
you turkey for eating, table for gathering, and the third.
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Speaker 2 (24:04):
Bill Miller and you, Happy Thanksgiving from everyone here at
Fox Sports Radio, working every day.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
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We don't shut down.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
I noticed ever since the pandemic that a lot of
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Speaker 1 (24:25):
But the fortunately for us, because we do the overnight.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Show, the radio station decided.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
To continue doing the twenty four hour cycle.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
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the Ben Maller Show page on YouTube. You can say
hello to Mark, our engineer tonight, the Great Mark Ramsey,
the prad of Chicago, and he's from the baddest part
of town there in the Windy City, the south Side.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
Mark Ramsey with a C, Mark Ramsey six four nine
five zero.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
And Project p is in the big chair producing the show.
Say hello to Patrick, Project Pe and he's at Paddy
speaks with a Z. Paddy speaks with a Z. And
now back to it. Back to it we go. Our
friend Jill, the long suffering Yankee fan. It's been since
(25:38):
what nine since the Yankees won the World Series. I
don't know how she goes on with her life. When
she's complaining the Yankees have not done anything, she says, well,
they did sign somebody named Yery Rodriguez to a.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
Minor league deal. I don't know who that is.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And Ryan Yarborough also agreed to a contract, So congratulations
on that. And my favorite story of the Yankee offseason
is that they offered Trent Grisham a contract, thinking that
he would not agree to it and go to market,
and he accepted the offer.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
That is that is great.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So Trent Grisham there back with the Yankees unless they
unless they trade him. And that's pretty well off from
this contract. And we'll get a draft pick or something
for me. And he's not going to take the contract.
But he took the contract. Time now though four The
Mallard Riddle of the day, and here's name mallet Riddle
(26:41):
of to day. The first thirty thousand fans to arrive
at M and T Banks, Stadum and Baltimore and sit
out in the cold for four hours and watch the
Ravens and the Bengals on Thanksgiving night, they will receive
a blank. That is the riddle of the day.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
And let's see this. Any one know the answer? We
go to.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
The hoi poloid Mallot prop guy says a cassette tape
of Tom Looney's Benny Versus the Penny Audition late late
night drug tester going with leftover Halloween candy.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
It's his answer. Who else? Do we have a.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Page down a frozen turkey if they can catch it
falling from the Sky is the greatest episode of the
sitcom w K RP and cinc A Naty the Turkey
Drop episode, a classic ferg Dog, says an Anthony Rendon
Bobblehead us Halo.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Hanks, Sure as hell, don't want one. Interesting. What else
do we have? Page down? Uh, let's see here far out,
Dave says, A purple pigmy penguin with big tails and
polka dotted bell bottom bridges. So that's the that's a
lot there, far out, David, you're running good stuff right now. Absolutely.
(27:57):
Jerry our friend from.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Rhode Island, who I'm ed at the World Series and
the Red Sox and Dodgers played years ago in the
World Series, and she's a loyal minion. She's up with
us on Thanksgiving, she says. The first thirty thousand at
the Ravens game will get a diaper, Hey, a diaper,
dandy baby, a tiper econ rose little bit, as to say,
a barbecued rib from Boog Powell Yum yum, A cozy
(28:21):
pair of mittens, guessed by Skip to Zip. Skip has
been with the show.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
For many, many many years. See who else do we have?
Let's see page down? JT. The wingman says, poutine.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Oh man, I wish I might fly to Baltimore if
they got poutine A baloney sandwich from Larry D.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
That's his answer. A white pants suit. Where's the suit?
Speaker 8 (28:42):
Ray?
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Where's the suit ray? Where'd it go? Ray?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
All right, enough of that. The correct answer to the
Mallet riddle of the day. The first thirty thousand fans
to arrive at M and T Banks Stadium tonight in
Baltimore for the Thanksgiving game with the Ravens well receive
at ceramic Purple rising gravy boat. Yeah, they're giving out
(29:08):
gravy boats. What could possibly go wrong? I'm I'm sure
no one will throw one of those on the field
at all, and everyone will act politely.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Let's say hello to hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 8 (29:34):
Benny versus the penny. It's hollering James. I gotta take
on that. They we're gonna receive, Oh Joe said, go
show name Chad Johnson, who might not be relimited compete.
Johnson also played for the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
What is in what's in the background? What are you
listening to Is that music? You got music there?
Speaker 8 (30:03):
Penny Penny?
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Is it true? Hollering James, you did a line of
cocaine before you called the shows? That actor?
Speaker 9 (30:12):
I drag them out, and just for the record, you
take thirty six pills in the morning and thirty six
pills at night.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
Correct, thirty six pills in the morning, thirty six pills
at night. Well, I would love I would love to
play I would love to play a song. Unfortunately, the
people I work with do not listen to me. I
asked them to put that in the system, and I
guarantee you they have not put that in the system.
So I'm fortunately it's hard to get people, you know,
(30:48):
when it's hard to get people to do things you
want them to do, when when they're lazy, they don't
like to do it. And unfortunately I've asked and they've
chosen not to do it, and so we don't have
It's on a computer a corner.
Speaker 8 (31:00):
Back from Minnesota. Yes or no.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I just want to hear what's on in the background.
I'm just again, I that's like a beautiful virtuoso performance.
Whatever's going on back there.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
You don't want to talk about that, You just want
to be on the air. James, what are you doing
for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Buddy? What do you got? You got plans today? They're
having a big event at the house you're at. You're
gonna have some turkey dollar.
Speaker 8 (31:22):
Check this out. Man generals knife my roommate, my housemate
who stands at the Google movie. Our families disowned us
and tell me, don't call me someone, don't call Gerald's.
We ain't got nobody check it in with us. They
don't care who we are. All we're saving sound with
(31:42):
keeping our mouth shut that we're in the group home
and may this maby we'll get set by group homes
staff a decent meal.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Okay, all right, well listen, you're part of our family.
We love you. You're you're one of.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Our crazy uncles here on the in the mallord militia.
So okay, you.
Speaker 10 (32:00):
Got the militia.
Speaker 8 (32:03):
Mandy. I came so close to the first two weds
right below the last street. Remember the contest, did you
wed it? Came it?
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah? Okay, well listen, a happy Thanksgiving, James.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
I hope you have a good day today and stay
off the mountain dew.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
That's is that code for something else? Do I? Not
know the window.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
I feel like that's code for something else. Mike is
in Tucson. Remember Mike called us up his wife was
in the hospital, and he then passed the phone to
his wife, or one of the great calls we've taken
this year on the show.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Hello Mike and Tucson.
Speaker 10 (32:40):
Yes, I love that you remember that. My job is
to turkey. I'm the smoker turkey every year. Wife says, Oh,
you can say it like the turkey you got Ben
Millard overnight, Honey, Ben Coward, he's not working tonight exactly.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
And And I just want I just want their record
to show that I make the same amount of money
as Concowerd.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
And this is actually not a real human being. This
is AI. You've all been fooled.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
The real Ben Mallard would never slum and work at
this hour on Thanksgiving. He's much too important to radio
as a whole to ever drag himself down to the
sewer and work overnight.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
That's for that's for nobody. So okay, that's not that's not.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
A guy of Mallard's stature would never dig a hole
and put himself at the bottom of that.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
It would never happen.
Speaker 10 (33:38):
Exactly. That's why I'm cybergast. I message Coop the Loop
on Twitter X. He said, I'm off tonite. Oh, I'm
I'm off every holiday. Oh, Bed's working, Alien said. I
asked for your hat size, Ben. I went to the
Tucson Roadrunners this past Saturday. I got you the coolest
hat ever. But I wanted a half for you and
(33:59):
you and Coop. I remember your hat. I can remember.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Well, listen, he's away, I don't know whatever. He's fine.
Take days up, people. I don't have problem with taking
people taking days off. It's fine. You should take days off.
And I will take a few days off at the
end of the year. But it's not the end of
the year anyway.
Speaker 10 (34:17):
All right.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I appreciate you the man. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
Thank you for listening. How's the turkey coming along? We're
good on that. Everything good with the turkey.
Speaker 10 (34:25):
Bet we're at one. We're two picks right now. We
got two more hours to go the bashtop Turkey and
the Master built.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
We'd like to let all the affiliates down the line.
Two more hours to go, and then we're good on
the turkey in Tucson.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
So to the bird. Two more hours We're good.
Speaker 10 (34:45):
We can't even talk about the Raiders, but how about
the Arizona Wildcats number two in the country. Bear down
Arizona basketball.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
College basketball season starts right after the Super Bowl, so
in February will be caused basketball.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
But thank you.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
All right, the great Mike and Tucson man doing his
due diligence with the bird.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
The bird is the word is the word. It's also dinner.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
We're gonna have ask ban. Your questions are answers? Hashtag
ask Ban, hashtag ask Man. We'll get to that and
we will.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
Do it next.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Malor Show.
A Happy Thanksgiving. We thank you for spending part of
the holiday with us. If you're in Canada, that's just
another day. In Mexico, just another day. But in the States,
big day, big day, Oh my god, big day.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Nobody working, Well, we're working. You might be working too,
but you get the point. And a reminder. With the
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(36:05):
some postgame. The Warriors games have gone long, We've gotten
covered up. So on the West Coast we get covered
up sometimes by those postgame shows.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And you'd much rather hear us, So listen on the
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this weekend.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
So you can make the Ben.
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Malor Show, Fifth Hour Podcast and Fox Sports Radio presets
becoming a.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
P one and.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
It'll always pop up very top of the iHeartRadio app. Downloaded,
it's free. It's free. If it's free, it's for me.
Speaker 6 (36:51):
It's now time for how I get.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Twitter?
Speaker 6 (36:57):
This is your questions on Twitter now.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
And way we go. It's ask Ben. Your questions are
answers for the rest of the hour, and the reading
of the questions, well, that'll that'll be up to the
man who's in the producer's chair there. Project P better
known as Patrick. So these are actual questions by actual
listeners sent in on the X machine hashtag ask Ben,
(37:24):
and what do we have here? What do we have here?
Project p All right, Well here's one.
Speaker 11 (37:31):
I actually kind of like, Ben.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
This one's kind of there's only one.
Speaker 11 (37:34):
There's only one though, no start us off. I like
this one's very wholesome. So this one's from JT the
wing Man. I've met JT though. We made a very
nice man. He lives in Knoxville. He drives a lot,
he loves the show.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Good dude. He's from Wisconsin though. Oh nice. Yeah, well
he has a very nice question.
Speaker 11 (37:56):
So, Ben, what was your favorite thing to make an
art class back in elementary school?
Speaker 8 (38:02):
Well?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I was not a good artist, it was not, but
my mom, God rest her soul, she kept every piece
of crap that I made. I remember we made something
out of it. I was like for Mother's Day, we
made this thing out of wood. It was like wood
shop type thing. And I was like, in elementary school,
this was back in the day when you could do this.
Now there'd be seventeen million lawsuits. But it was like
a little piece of what we carved it and wrote
(38:25):
like a little note to mom. You know, we love
your mom and all that, and so that was I
remember that. That's the thing I remember. You asked me
the question mark any any fun art school memories?
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Mark when you were a kid, So that sparks a memory.
Speaker 12 (38:39):
When I was in grade school, we had to put
together a pillow. So they brought in once. It was
like a show and tell, so you just have to
repeat what's in front of us. So you had to
learn how to stuff the the you know, piece of
cloth that you had and you put the you know,
the soft stuff inside and you just have to sew
around just to make the pillow. So you you know,
(39:01):
needle and thread and sew it up and make a
little pillow.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
It was great. Look at you arts and crafts guy.
What what about you? Pat? Our friend Patrick?
Speaker 11 (39:12):
So like for arts and crafts, I remember fondly making
like little paper houses here and there for whatever, like
holidays and all that stuff. I personally really liked coloring
and coloring in the lines of whatever, paper mache and
all that good stuff. I liked being the guy that
liked to color stuff.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Well, you're you can still color. It's like adult coloring.
Just don't just don't tell anyone you do it right, correct?
All right, don't tell you women? Probably what's next? What
do we got here?
Speaker 11 (39:43):
We can't go without having a Thanksgiving related once? So
I got my wet, I got our guy ferg Dog here,
he asked, what's some ferg Dog? So I'm gonna go
with this one for what is your least favorite Thanksgiving
side dish?
Speaker 1 (40:02):
All right? So this is not what firk Dog is
doing is mocking something that I have complained about for
some time.
Speaker 2 (40:08):
And this is I will engage in this, and this
will be the only time I engage in it.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
Because of the bit yams. Yams sock jams are terrible, horrific,
bad all the way around, quickly anything mark you want
to add to that.
Speaker 12 (40:22):
I hate the ambrosia. I hate it. It doesn't look good.
I just will not try.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
To hate ambrosia. But there was a stripper back in
the day and ambrosia that was not bad. Just sure,
what about you? Project?
Speaker 11 (40:39):
So my least favorite would be sweet potatoes and yams
as well. It's just it's it's not great.
Speaker 1 (40:45):
Yeah, I don't need them. My mom used to. I
told this. My mom used to cover them with marshmallows
and she gave them to me and I just eat
the marshmallows and not. She got so upset, she what
do you just? All right? What's next? What do you
Your questions are answered? All right?
Speaker 11 (40:58):
This is for the crew, all of us here.
Speaker 1 (41:01):
If you had to.
Speaker 11 (41:02):
Eat a crayon, what color would you pick?
Speaker 1 (41:06):
Oh? I'd pick blue? Come on, I'd picked the blue.
I love the color blue. I picked the blue crayon.
It'd be like blueberry flavor blue. And who knows, I
probably did eat crayons when I was a kid. What
about you? Mark quickly anything, I'll try the orange Mark orange, Okay,
like a nice that's a good.
Speaker 11 (41:22):
Uh Patrick, I'm gonna go with brown because it's pretty
close to being chocolate. I mean, maybe not taste wise,
but I could convince myself chocolate.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
You could. You know, half the aisle says it's chocolate.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
The other half might say it's something else that comes
out the other end.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
There. I'm just saying. I'm just
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