January 7, 2026 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the MLB's Athletics franchise not getting its trademark for Las Vegas, free agent OF Kyle Tucker seemingly being no closer to signing with a team than he did 2 months ago, Clayton Kershaw being a top studio target for NBC, Too Much or Not Enough, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, Shaka laka, it's our number three, our number three,
and talking Basebaul, Well, not really baseball, but it's indirectly baseball.
How do you process Major League Baseball's legal department and
the Athletics franchise failing to get it done. They have
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not yet been given permission. They were denied the trademark
for the Las Vegas Athletics nickname. I'm not kidding. They
were denied by the federal government using the Las Vegas
Athletics nickname. Also, why is it that in the first
week of January, free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker later the
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Cubs seems no closer designing than he did two months ago,
despite everyone saying he's the top free agent on the
market this offseason. Spring training starts in a little over
a month. Also, former Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw said to
be a top studio target for NBC's Major League Baseball coverage.
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How does that sound to you, Kersh? In the booth,
we'll talk about all of that, or at least the studio,
we'll talk about all that and more. Right now here,
it is our number three. Well, I'm looking at your
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did not get a's. No, no, no, you definitely did
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lead this out. We don't change it up. We'll get
back to the football. Well, get back to the football.
We're not gonna start with the footba though. We'll get
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back to the football. Not gonna start with the football.
Get back to the football. Our lead this hour from
the US Patent and Trademark Office, say what yeah? In
my favorite story of the day, My favorite story of
the day. Problems in Sacktown, Say what yeah? Stuck in
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Sacramento must be loving this story here now. If you
have not heard, maybe not the Athletics. That is a
professional baseball team, not a good one. The Athletics now
they used to be called the Oakland Athletics, but you
can't call them that now. And they don't want to
be the Sacramento Athletics, though they might be that next year.
The Athletics. That's again, professional baseball team, not a good one. Failing, failing,
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f f the f's FM. They failed in their bid
to register the Las Vegas Athletics nickname with the US
Patent and Trademark Office. The new trademark was supposed to
be set up in advance of their move, which I
still believe is three years away to Sin City. No seriou,
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I'm not meaning this up, by the way, although it
most be a fake story. No, no, no, seriously, we
are told that the United States Patent and Trademark Office
denied the A's application because it determined that the Las
Vegas Athletics is primarily geographically descriptive, meaning the name combines
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a well known place name with a generic sports term.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What wall uh.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, so granting, according to the FEDS, granting exclusive rights
to the phrase, which they've had since they were the
Philadelphia Athletics over one hundred years ago, but they say now,
granting exclusive rights to the phrase could that's a weasel word,
could prevent other legitimate athletic organizations in Las Vegas, in
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Las Vegas from using common language common language to describe
their activities. And that is a no no. That is
a no no. So the decision, as you might imagine,
would have massive implications if it has not changed for
the franchise's ability to charge you over priced hoodies and
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baseball caps and jerseys that for the team in Major
League Baseball the pennies on the dollar to make, and
then they charge you exorbitant amounts of money. So God
forbid that they are not allowed to price gouge you
with their craft that they sell you. So yeah, it's
kind of a big deal. And it would also, we
are told, prevent the people at Major League Baseball from
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fighting knockoff merch So if you don't get the trademark
to Las Vegas Athletics, anyone can make Las Vegas Athletics,
which could mean the prices would actually be somewhat affordable
to buy the merchandise, and maybe more people would buy
the merchandise because you're not taking their wallet. You dummies anyway,
So it's good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question,
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how do you process the Athletics. That's a Major League
Baseball franchise, not a good one, not getting the trademark
for the Las Vegas Athletics nickname. So my views on this.
I've got Ricky Ricardo, TJ Max, and Walgreens, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
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gonna make the Gobba goo'na make the gobag, and then
we're gonna have some babagoosh as well. We'll have both
those things, all right. So first of all, I can't
tell you, and I said it already. I know I'm
repeating myself. I love this story. This is so great
to me. There are some major schmucks that work at
Major League Baseball, and they did so full of themselves,
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and now I do like baseball, but there's some people
there that are just this is a good reality check.
It's a really good reality check that you know your
poop does smell. It does. So the Athletics got rejected
like Mutumbo back in the day, faster than a counterfeit chip.
When you go into a casino there at the high
roller table, even just the regular tables there. Denied, denied, denied, denied.
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Now the Feds say the name is too geographic, too generic,
to paint by numbers, if you will, And to that,
I say, I karumba, My god. This is one of
those moments where somewhere in Manhattan on Park Avenue, I
think it's Park Avenue, I walked right by Major League
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Baseball's the headquarters there. All of the sports leagues in
the industrial complex of American sport are within about a
three block radius in midtown Manhattan. And I was there
while back to my brother and just started wandering around,
like two in the morning. I was like, let me
just see where Major League Baseball's office is. Okay, where's
the NBA. Okay, that's oh, we're on fifth hour, Fifth Avenue.
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Where's the NFL. Okay, this over there. I did all so,
but somewhere in Major League Baseball's headquarters there you could
hear the famous meme from Ricky Ricardo screaming, Lucy, you
got some explaining to do, because I'm sure the person
named Lucy is the one that screwed this up at
Major League Baseball. Only Lucy here is Major League Baseball.
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Some middle manager who clearly mailed it in mailed it in.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I remember years ago I was talking to somebody that
worked for a professional basketball team that relocated. They were
explaining the pro sess of relocating sports team and they
laid it all out to me, and a lot of
it was boring. But they said, even before you announced
that you're relocating, legal the legal department has to file
all of these trademarks. You do it before you announce it.
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Therefore you don't have any problems. And sometimes they'll they'll
announce trademark deals they don't even use. They'll when teams relocate,
they'll do like I remember the Montreal Expos which became
the Washington Nationals if I remember correctly, and we were
here at Fox Sports Radio when they moved from Montreal.
But they changed like they threw out a bunch of
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different names, and because they tried to throw people off
the set. But the fact that Major League Baseball did
not have this done two years ago is relocation malpractice,
is what it is like. Honestly, like Major League Baseball,
they should actually take this as a positive. I'm gonna
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I'm gonna spend that Why would this be? This is
a pop champagne moment. Take advantage of your boner. Take
advantage of it. The trademark office, not Merkels boner. This
is Major League Baseball's bonner. The trademark office just save
for now. They save Major League Baseball from selling reheated leftovers.
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Now leftovers are okay, but you'd rather have a nice
fresh meal. Now you would. And if you're moving to
Las Vegas, you don't slap a new address on an
old suitcase and then you call it innovation. No, you
don't do that. You rebrand. You start fresh. You start
fresh like the hockey team. One of the dumbest name.
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We don't talk about hockey is since they whacked Eddie
in a while back. But the hockey team in Vegas,
the Golden Knights. What a dumb name. That is dumb,
da dum, dumb dumb. You could own a Vegas mantra,
like a Vegas slope. So my advice for the Major
League Baseball executives is leave the Athletics name, leave the colors,
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the dusty history of the Oakland Athletics and the Kansas
City Athletics and the Philadelphia Athletics, and just leave it
like a forgotten buffet voucher. Just leave it off to
the side there and cook up a whole new persona.
Just why not call them the Blackjacks. Oh I don't,
twenty one's the warn Armed Bandits, or just call them
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the bandits, the Vegas Bandits, the neon Now. I remember
when hockey moved there, they said you could not call
the team this out stupid. Gary Bettman is the commissioner.
That little weasel couldn't use a like a gambling type
thing because they didn't want to promote gambling, which is
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hilarious when every other commercial is for gambling. Well, you
can't use a gambling thing. We don't want to encourage gambling.
Fast forward five years, everything is about gambing. I agree.
How about the Vegas vis Yeah, now, because I know
that the girl and the cowboy hat, the big neon sign,
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that's Vegas Vicky and her husband which was across the
way at the other casino was Vegas Vick. They were married.
Oh yeah, A lot of people don't know that, but they.
And if you go to in which hotel is it
in Vegas? It's the new hotel. I love the sports
I forget the name of it, but the Vegas Vicky
sign is still in Vegas. It's just inside on the
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casino on the Fremont Street experience. I forget the name.
I'm having a mental block here, but it's inside like
you can see the sign anyway. How about I.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Think Vegas Strippers would be a good name.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It's a good name. I like that too. How about
the sassy sallies? Come on? Who says no? Yes, put
a hot woman on the hat there? Boom done? Come
on now now, when I become the commissioner of all sports,
and I'm probably just a couple years away from this,
when I become the commissioner of all sports, the malor
golden rule, if you relocate to take taxpayer money in
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another city, which is would all these scumbag owners do,
you're allowed to do it. However, no emotional carry on.
You have to leave the name. You leave everything behind,
You leave your dusty trophies, you leave behind all your records,
all your memories, and you start fresh. That's how it's done.
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You pull the slot handled down and you live with
the results. Oh, by the way, my man Rob pointing
out circa the great Rob, one of the great sports
writers out there, and I've known this guy for a lot.
He worked at newspapers when people read newspapers back, that's
how long ago he worked at newspapers. But Rob puts
out circa. Yeah, if you go into circa now, you
gotta be twenty one or over. That's the way they
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keep the riff raft out. But in there they have
the Vegas Vicky sign. It's awesome too, It's pretty cool.
I love it. I went to the Neon Museum in
Vegas last time I was in Vegas. Awesome too, it's great,
a lot of cool.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, it's off the strip. It's better. It's act. There's
one in La, but the one in Shockingly, the one
in Vegas is better. That's hard to believe that the
city that made Neon neon. Yeah. Anyway, Secondly, moving on
to free agency, we go. The big whale is still
waiting to be catched. The whalers are not doing their job.
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The big whales out in the Pacific. The uh spring.
Can you believe? Spring training is like a month away?
We're like a little over a month away from pitchers
and catchers reporting to Florida and Arizona for spring training.
The Great Fruit Leaue the Cactus League. Well, Kyle Tucker
with a T. Kyle Tucker, former Chicago Cub outfielder played
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for the cheating Astros. He is still twisting in the wind,
twisting in the wind that Tucker, who all you baseball
scribes told me, was the consensus number one player on
the market, and no one signed, No one signed. So
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the question why is it that we see here on
this first week of Janus, January seventh, as we're doing
the show right now in real time, and the most prized,
most coveted free agent, Kyle Tucker, is no closer to
signing than he was two months ago. What the heck?
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All right? So my determination on this Major League Baseball,
which is run by the nerds, the analytics department, the
front offices are a little gun shy because the Geiger
Counter is not looking good, all right. Buyer, beware, handle
with care, buyer, beware that thing's going in the dark,
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possible biohazard. Teams are clearly not completely sold on Kyle Tucker.
What is my evidence he hasn't signed. He's got an
asking price, the teams haven't met the asking prize. There
you go. Otherwise he would have been signed, sealed, and delivered.
He's not. Now why not? In part because of the
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way he performed or didn't perform in the second half
with the Cubbies in a contract year on a contending
Chicago Cum team, on a contending Cubs team. After July first,
Kyle Tucker was benched. He hit two twenty five with
just five home runs. Now, what do I know? I
just do the overnight show. But that sucks. That's not
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a franchise cornerstone player, Kyle Tucker. That's that's the fruit
flies haven't shown up yet, but they're circling. They're circling,
and that's Kyle Tucker right now. The warning signs for
Kyle Tucker are humming. They're humming. And so he wants
five hundred six hundred So do I. I'd like five
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hundred six hundred million. And so he is priced Kyle
Tucker free agent. Kyle Tucker is priced like a Picasso,
and he's playing like some wal art you'd buy TJ.
Max or Ross dress for less. You know that little
art section. Yeah, that kind of thing and the other issue,
and there's really no other way around it. Unpopular opinion.
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I don't think it's I don't think it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Though.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Kyle Tucker is a star, he's not a superstar. Kyle
Tucker is a star, but he's not a superstar. That
that's my meaning. He doesn't move tickets. Nobody's gonna say, oh,
we gotta go out and watch guys. Like when Otani
comes to town, I gotta see Otani the Unicorn. When
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Kyle Tucker comes to town, you're like, oh, whatever, Yeah,
I don't care. Like when he's coming up to bat,
you're like, I can't get my nachos because I gotta
watch Kyle. No, you get your nachos, you get a beer,
and it'll cost you seventy five dollars. Nobody's running to
watch television. The ratings don't betten when Kyle Tucker is
playing for your team. So he's asking for money, and
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the volatility is at a mince meat level. Oh maybe
just ground beat. So you read the fine print. He's
most likely got three years left in his prime. He
wants a six or seven year contract, so the math
on that's not good. Now, Toronto, the Blue Jays are
still playing foot see the Dodgers are lurking like a
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shadow in a parking garage. And nobody's forlorn. This has
the vibe like this guy's gonna go into spring training
and no one's gonna sign him. There's been no movement
radio silence here. And so they say, well, it's the
cost of doing business. All these guys that were paid
and all this stuff. Sure, However, here's the issue. Nobody wants
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to buy a used appliance that hum's funny, and there's
no return policy and all sales are final, which is
these free agent contracts. It's not like the NFL where
there's a bunch of dead money and you get out
of the contract or whatever. All right, now, final thought
to TV Lane, we go question former Dodger. Former Dodger
pitcher Clayton Kershaw is a said to be the top
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studio target for NBC and their Major League Baseball coverage.
How does that sound to you? Kersh in the booth?
So this is baseball's version of hotel lobby music, Clayton Kershaw,
It just is, you know, and who knows if he's
gonna get the job or not. It's it's like that
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the lobby music at a hotel. It exists and it's
background noise. And five minutes after you hear it, you
don't remember a single note because you're not supposed to. Now,
Kershaw is not offensive. I don't think you said anything offensive.
He's just kind of nothing. It's just it's it's like,
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what are you doing? And it's like you go down
to Walgreens and he's a drug on the market. He's
a drug on the market with no side effects, no benefits. Sterrell,
just another ex jock reading off the teleprompter, Q cards
and assembling. It's like he's assembling Ikea furniture and just
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follow the numbers. And the only problem with Krushaw other
than that is if you have him call playoff games.
And I don't think NBC is gonna doing much playoffs,
but if you have him call playoff games, we know
how he performs in October so flops, weat and uh yeah,
the whole thing discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and what about the
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whole bull crap about I want to be home with
my family. I want to be with my kids. It's
armed to work, Tarror. So if you take the job,
if you're it's a studio job. The NBC hub is
in Stanford, Connecticut. I've been there, been to Stanford, Kennedict.
I worked there, the old building, not the new building.
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So you'd be flying from Texas to Stanford, Connecticut seemingly
every week. You'd have to get a place like he
can afford it. Pontificate about the Kansas City Royals, bullpen.
Do you want to do that? Okay? Good chicken fingers
at Bobby V's in Stanford, Connecticut. It's still there, somehow,
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still there. So I don't. I don't think of Krishaw
as an enlightened young grasshopper. I don't. So anyway, there
you go. Does he need the money? Did he invest
in Enron or FTX or something like that. I don't know.
I know he made three hundred million dollars. So is
he bored already? See if he gets the job or not.
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Titans General manager Mike Borgganzi his news conference was interrupted
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by blank. That's the mallor riddle of that the answer,
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And here we go, So Titans GM Mike Boorg Ganzi's
news conference was interrupted by blank, all right, that is
the question. What is the answer? Gonzo guessed by Nick.
A band of gypsies from Luke the vending guy, like that,
it's good answer. Someone shouting six to seven yeah, daught,
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oh yeah, very funny. A flash mob dancing old rocky
top from our friend the saw Man. I miss our
friend in Knoxville used to call up and we'd sing,
sing that. What else do we have to see? Page
down page I can't read that. It was interrupted by
Bobby V plugging his second restaurant location near Bradley International
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Airport just outside of Hartford. I didn't know he opened
another one. Daniel Boone look alike from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
INCA Terra says, a torrent of ping pong balls from
mister Moose. There's a name from the past. What else
do we have? Rob says a hard hitting case of
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post skyline intestinal gurgling. The rain is going to enjoy
that donkey sausage, says A rabid wombat is the answer.
A peacock from Dante. JT the Wingman says Uber eats
delivering in order of Culver's cheese curds, which I did eat. JTS.
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You know how you listened to the Fifth Hour podcast.
I was in Arizona over the holiday time out there,
and they have Culvers in Phoenix. I was able to
go to Culver's and get my cheese curds fixed when
I was in the Valley of the Sun. That's the locust,
the closest culver and I will be back in Arizona
once the BUCkies opened.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
When I went to I think it was Chicago. I
saw Culver's and I was like, I want to go,
and I never went.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Bad job by you.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I don't think I saw it again, or else they
would have.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know, it was just around Chicago. There's Wisconsin in
the Midwest, all right. Anyway, again, the Riddle Titans GM
Mike Borgganzhi's news conference was interrupted by blank good answers here, Well,
what's your answer?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
The raina I think it was interrupted by a giant
purple flying dildo.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Wow, Okay, I know that's a great answer. But lights
somebody turned the lights out on the news count.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
The lights went out over.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The phones quickly. Quinzel in Oakland is cashing a golden ticket.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Hellwins weeah golden ticket? What's going on? I hope everybody
had a blessed New Year. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Big game to have your bad coins all that?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
One?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Man?
Speaker 6 (26:01):
All right, man, I just I wasn't really gonna call.
But then when you started calling the Oakland A's like
Dusty Man, I had to remind you that, man, they
were three p in the seventies. This is four I
was born, and they went to three straight in the
eighties to the ninetieth apoll.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, yeah, I recommend you go to an ear doctor
because I said, I want to honor the Oakland Athletics
by not having their name used in Las Vegas. Perfect.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Yeah, check this out A big ban. I don't know
if that's good because you're probably not familiar with the
politics out here. That the A's would have still been in.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
The Bay area.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
The Giants kept blocking it from getting the stadium because
they were trying to add a Sa Fadie in Fremont,
which is in the East Bay not on the seventh
slub side like twenty miles south.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, I know, I know all about that. But there
were way you didn't have to move the team. There
were ways to get it done. You didn't have to
know the team.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I understand that. Yeah, I'll say you on that one.
But hey, but let me before you cut me out.
Remember y'allre talking about this cow many how people make
all that much money like us in the bathroom and
dreams and stuff, and I was I was seek and
I was like, I was like, I had this dream
that like what was that was that I was out
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to eat and like with rain and going like thodder
or nose or whatever the lady's doing in the bathroom.
And then she came out and I had this like
I had, you know, those table trays like for the
breakfast and bed tables like with waffles and pancakes, you
know what I mean. And I was like it was
such a blessing. I woke up and I was back
at the Oakland Collegem. But I love you, and God
bless you.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Learning happy you all right, I'm glad I could be.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Thank you. Make sure I'm not in your dream. I
don't want me in your dreams, but I like it
Quin's but I don't want to be a dreams I think.
Go ahead, all right, there's like Quin's Ell from Oakland.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
He'll meet him. We'll meet him when we go up north.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, hopefully he'll be there. Yeah, we'll be in his backyard.
All right, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
here we go.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Oh oh yeah. That one thing that we do.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Him a jig to watch you McCall it the do
Hickey hit that event mallard game. We've endored too many
of these? Is it too much or not enough? Already?
Get to that game, and we bring in the guy
that had the most famous win in the history of
too much or not enough? Hollering James from Minneapolis.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
It was.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Shut up. He was fast asleep when he won the game,
our friend, the great hollering James. Hello James, how's life
treating you? James? Everything? Okay, you don't believe me?
Speaker 6 (28:32):
A good Jewish player?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh my god, a trope at all? All right, very
nice here, James, Let's play the game too much or
not Enough? Are you ready? Yes, you are, of course
you are. I gotta get three right to win the game.
Question number one Sunday. Sunday Sunday marked only the fourth
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time in NFL history that every team in a division
was in action on a given day and none of
them scored an offensive touchdown? Is that too much or
not enough.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Enough?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
All Right's find out, man, I get that wrong too much?
It was only the second time that that is too much.
I was back in nineteen eighty eight. AFC West, There
you go. AFC East was also back in ninety eight.
There you go, all right, AFC West. This week, here
we go. Question number two. The Ravens are one of
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only six teams in the NFL with one hundred and
eighty plus wins during John Harbaugh's eighteen year tenures. That
too much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Too much?
Speaker 6 (29:46):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Let's find out that's right? Look at you?
Speaker 6 (29:49):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They are one of four franchise along with the Patriots, Packers,
and the Steelers. Question number three for hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He's the biggest listener we have in Minnesota. Is that correct, James?
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I say, I am the number one, number one listener
in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Shaye Jogis Alexander has nine games with a plus minus
of plus twenty, which makes Kyrie and okay see very
happy with twelve again. Let me repeat that. Shae yogis
Alexander nine games with a plus minus of plus twenty
or better this season? Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right? You're right? Look at you right again? He
leads the league with eleven games of plus twenty or more.
Do you see that Sopranos game the other night in
the NBA, the the Oklahoma City Thunder got blown out
at home by the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Count out?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Say we used to call that back in the old days,
a mob special. All right? Question number four? Justin Jefferson
just became the fifth wide receiver all time to begin
their career year with six straight one thousand yard seasons?
Is that too much or not enough? You're mister Minnesota Viking,
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you better get this right. Justin Jefferson just a fifth
wide receiver all time to begin their career with six
straight one thousand yard seasons? Too much or not enough?
For the win? Hollering James, I love.
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want a golden taken a golden James. You are the
winner of Too Much or Not Enough? What are you
gonna do now? James?
Speaker 7 (31:42):
I am the one.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
He was shy the line you were streaming. We couldn't
hear what James, You've just won an overnight radio game
show on the Ben Malor Show. What are you gonna
do now? I'm gonna holly, one can take.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
I need to be real good.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
I gimmick good.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Dammy, she comes to my neighbor blood.
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Rye, ooh you heard the. Man it's time for the
first love show of the new. Year new, year new,
love new, romance new. Problems what's going, on? Militia do
you think these.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Questions will be any good? Today or you think they're
going to suck your?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
EXPECTATIONS i hope we're off to a good. START I
i but after the Things i've seen ON x this,
WEEK i don't know what's going to.
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Happen all, right well let's get started With shane in Des,
moines who writes and he, says have you ever voted
for someone because a celebrity voted for that? Person that's
from that's For. Lorraina that's obviously your. Questions you're a bit.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
There, no, no you have. No celebrity influence is not my.
THING i more go off of.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Morals, morals all, right, really what's a is a Sliding? Ah?
No all? Right you buy products because the celebrity tells
you to buy the. Product now you do? KNOW i got.
You mike The leprechaun writes and he, says how could
you gently nudge your partner to lose weight or go
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to the gym after overindulging during the holiday?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Season oh this is a fun, one, because, yeah you
want what's best for your partner and you want to
stay a to your, partner and you, know sometimes you
can see something that kind of discussed you a. Bit
so there is a nice way to go about. It
BUT i like to do it in ways of, like
let's do it, together you, know because our fitness journey
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can be, together not just you need to go to the.
Gym you ate like a, pig you. Fatty, no let's
go to the gym. Together let's go get.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Fat that's nice. Advice But, mike how about just say
your new nickname is oink? Oink all, right let's say
hello To rick In. Maryland you know what time it?
Is Hello rick In? Maryland, hello morning.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Time LOOK i knew you to, Everybody, loraina tell me
IF i was. Wrong my son decided to bring his
young lady over for dinner during The kwansa, holiday and
his siblings told, him are you sure you want to do?
That SO i got right into. IT i asked, HER
i said can you? Cook and she. HESITATED i, said,
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son the next time you buy her a, gift make
sure it's a. Cookbook that, Wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Oh you know those women in the. Kitchen, Though, NO
i think that's a funny gift as long as he
means it in a joking. Manner but, NO i think
cooking is a very, vital, good, good useful tool to.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Have, Yeah, rick what you do is you do the
cookbook that you buy by the air, fryer the, blender the, foreman,
grill you know you just the little gifts and frying,
pan coffee.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Maker, yeah and then you can upgrade to household appliances
like a washer and, dryer, vacuum a. Vacuum what about
those feather dusters main? Outfit while you're at.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
It now you're talking the. Ranger now you're.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
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Road all, right thank, You, rick your, Day rick And
maryland morning. Time it is a great relevant question from Fird.
Bog he, Says, Hey, loraina do chicks find six seven
as hilarious as? Us?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Guys oh my, gosh please. STOP i NEVER i don't
even understand where it starts. ART i don't get, it
AND i don't want to get.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
It my nephew is a little little, rascal and he
saw him a lot of the, Holidays so he did
the six seventh, thing and you know, WHAT i decided
to fight, Back SO i then started doing the six.
Seven he did not think it was My he thought
LIKE i was breaking some kind of boundary as an
adult to say six seven that was a kid?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Thing did you try saying eight? Nine?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
After, NO i did.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Not you should try. That you should go six seven eight.
Nine and then also remember when it's, like why was
six afreid of seven seven eight?
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Nine you could be.
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Stupid you don't give them those dumb adult. Jokes we love,
those all.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
RIGHT.
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Jt The wingman writes in And it's The queen Of,
hearts he, says for The New, YEAR i was thinking
about sharing a toothbrush with my. Partner when is it
safe in the? Relationship? No why would you need to share?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
It, no there's a lot of things you can. SHARE
i don't think toothbrushes need to.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Do they're not that, expensive, right is?
Speaker 2 (38:01):
BIG i mean you do share, SALIVA i.
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Understand But big And drinks Does Big Big? Tooth do
they have they raised the prices of? Toothbrushes have?
Speaker 4 (38:11):
They?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
No AND i think you can go To Dollar tree
and get one.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
A?
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Boy all, Right Well Dollar tree is now seven Dollar.
TREE i think it's gone dollar. Fifty. Yeah, YEAH i
knew the ninety nine cents. STORIES i knew were in
danger WHEN i went in there and they had like
a forty dollars. Bag oh my.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Gosh, right it's, like actually only that far corner is
ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Cents. Yeah i'm, like, well this place isn't gonna be.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Right Even Dollar tree has frozen. Food this, Place dollar this.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Place is not long for the world charging that kind of,
money all? Right next up Is, steve Said. LORENA i
NOTICED i am going. Gray my wife says it makes
me look more. Distinguished but my barber asked IF i
wanted to embrace the Silver fox. Era i'm not ready
for any era that involves the world fox and, says
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how DO i age? Gracefully how are you going to
know how to age? Graceful you're not even that old.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
AROUND i think you are lucky to even have a
head of. Hair? Question is that? Dope embrace? It embrace
it her. Hair, yeah it's. Foxy, YEAH i like.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Silver you do LIKE i. DO i. Do you're just
doing that to flirt with. YOU i like, it AND
i don't believe. THAT i don't know if that's true
or and it's mixed in all nice like that's salt and, pepper,
right they call that. SOT i think salt and. Pepper keep, it,
OKAY i keep. It she has spoken
Boom, Shaka laka, it's our number three, our number three,
and talking Basebaul, Well, not really baseball, but it's indirectly baseball.
How do you process Major League Baseball's legal department and
the Athletics franchise failing to get it done. They have
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not yet been given permission. They were denied the trademark
for the Las Vegas Athletics nickname. I'm not kidding. They
were denied by the federal government using the Las Vegas
Athletics nickname. Also, why is it that in the first
week of January, free agent outfielder Kyle Tucker later the
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Cubs seems no closer designing than he did two months ago,
despite everyone saying he's the top free agent on the
market this offseason. Spring training starts in a little over
a month. Also, former Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw said to
be a top studio target for NBC's Major League Baseball coverage.
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How does that sound to you, Kersh? In the booth,
we'll talk about all of that, or at least the studio,
we'll talk about all that and more. Right now here,
it is our number three. Well, I'm looking at your
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up a little bit later. So you just keep listening.
You'll hear that hashtag Queen of Heart. I want to
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but call in later and we'll do that. But our
lead this out. We don't change it up. We'll get
back to the football. Well, get back to the football.
We're not gonna start with the footba though. We'll get
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back to the football. Not gonna start with the football.
Get back to the football. Our lead this hour from
the US Patent and Trademark Office, say what yeah? In
my favorite story of the day, My favorite story of
the day. Problems in Sacktown, Say what yeah? Stuck in
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Sacramento must be loving this story here now. If you
have not heard, maybe not the Athletics. That is a
professional baseball team, not a good one. The Athletics now
they used to be called the Oakland Athletics, but you
can't call them that now. And they don't want to
be the Sacramento Athletics, though they might be that next year.
The Athletics. That's again, professional baseball team, not a good one. Failing, failing,
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f f the f's FM. They failed in their bid
to register the Las Vegas Athletics nickname with the US
Patent and Trademark Office. The new trademark was supposed to
be set up in advance of their move, which I
still believe is three years away to Sin City. No seriou,
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I'm not meaning this up, by the way, although it
most be a fake story. No, no, no, seriously, we
are told that the United States Patent and Trademark Office
denied the A's application because it determined that the Las
Vegas Athletics is primarily geographically descriptive, meaning the name combines
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a well known place name with a generic sports term.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
What wall uh.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Yeah, so granting, according to the FEDS, granting exclusive rights
to the phrase, which they've had since they were the
Philadelphia Athletics over one hundred years ago, but they say now,
granting exclusive rights to the phrase could that's a weasel word,
could prevent other legitimate athletic organizations in Las Vegas, in
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Las Vegas from using common language common language to describe
their activities. And that is a no no. That is
a no no. So the decision, as you might imagine,
would have massive implications if it has not changed for
the franchise's ability to charge you over priced hoodies and
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baseball caps and jerseys that for the team in Major
League Baseball the pennies on the dollar to make, and
then they charge you exorbitant amounts of money. So God
forbid that they are not allowed to price gouge you
with their craft that they sell you. So yeah, it's
kind of a big deal. And it would also, we
are told, prevent the people at Major League Baseball from
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fighting knockoff merch So if you don't get the trademark
to Las Vegas Athletics, anyone can make Las Vegas Athletics,
which could mean the prices would actually be somewhat affordable
to buy the merchandise, and maybe more people would buy
the merchandise because you're not taking their wallet. You dummies anyway,
So it's good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question,
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how do you process the Athletics. That's a Major League
Baseball franchise, not a good one, not getting the trademark
for the Las Vegas Athletics nickname. So my views on this.
I've got Ricky Ricardo, TJ Max, and Walgreens, and we
will combine all of these things together and we are
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gonna make the Gobba goo'na make the gobag, and then
we're gonna have some babagoosh as well. We'll have both
those things, all right. So first of all, I can't
tell you, and I said it already. I know I'm
repeating myself. I love this story. This is so great
to me. There are some major schmucks that work at
Major League Baseball, and they did so full of themselves,
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and now I do like baseball, but there's some people
there that are just this is a good reality check.
It's a really good reality check that you know your
poop does smell. It does. So the Athletics got rejected
like Mutumbo back in the day, faster than a counterfeit chip.
When you go into a casino there at the high
roller table, even just the regular tables there. Denied, denied, denied, denied.
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Now the Feds say the name is too geographic, too generic,
to paint by numbers, if you will, And to that,
I say, I karumba, My god. This is one of
those moments where somewhere in Manhattan on Park Avenue, I
think it's Park Avenue, I walked right by Major League
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Baseball's the headquarters there. All of the sports leagues in
the industrial complex of American sport are within about a
three block radius in midtown Manhattan. And I was there
while back to my brother and just started wandering around,
like two in the morning. I was like, let me
just see where Major League Baseball's office is. Okay, where's
the NBA. Okay, that's oh, we're on fifth hour, Fifth Avenue.
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Where's the NFL. Okay, this over there. I did all so,
but somewhere in Major League Baseball's headquarters there you could
hear the famous meme from Ricky Ricardo screaming, Lucy, you
got some explaining to do, because I'm sure the person
named Lucy is the one that screwed this up at
Major League Baseball. Only Lucy here is Major League Baseball.
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Some middle manager who clearly mailed it in mailed it in.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I remember years ago I was talking to somebody that
worked for a professional basketball team that relocated. They were
explaining the pro sess of relocating sports team and they
laid it all out to me, and a lot of
it was boring. But they said, even before you announced
that you're relocating, legal the legal department has to file
all of these trademarks. You do it before you announce it.
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Therefore you don't have any problems. And sometimes they'll they'll
announce trademark deals they don't even use. They'll when teams relocate,
they'll do like I remember the Montreal Expos which became
the Washington Nationals if I remember correctly, and we were
here at Fox Sports Radio when they moved from Montreal.
But they changed like they threw out a bunch of
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different names, and because they tried to throw people off
the set. But the fact that Major League Baseball did
not have this done two years ago is relocation malpractice,
is what it is like. Honestly, like Major League Baseball,
they should actually take this as a positive. I'm gonna
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I'm gonna spend that Why would this be? This is
a pop champagne moment. Take advantage of your boner. Take
advantage of it. The trademark office, not Merkels boner. This
is Major League Baseball's bonner. The trademark office just save
for now. They save Major League Baseball from selling reheated leftovers.
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Now leftovers are okay, but you'd rather have a nice
fresh meal. Now you would. And if you're moving to
Las Vegas, you don't slap a new address on an
old suitcase and then you call it innovation. No, you
don't do that. You rebrand. You start fresh. You start
fresh like the hockey team. One of the dumbest name.
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We don't talk about hockey is since they whacked Eddie
in a while back. But the hockey team in Vegas,
the Golden Knights. What a dumb name. That is dumb,
da dum, dumb dumb. You could own a Vegas mantra,
like a Vegas slope. So my advice for the Major
League Baseball executives is leave the Athletics name, leave the colors,
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the dusty history of the Oakland Athletics and the Kansas
City Athletics and the Philadelphia Athletics, and just leave it
like a forgotten buffet voucher. Just leave it off to
the side there and cook up a whole new persona.
Just why not call them the Blackjacks. Oh I don't,
twenty one's the warn Armed Bandits, or just call them
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the bandits, the Vegas Bandits, the neon Now. I remember
when hockey moved there, they said you could not call
the team this out stupid. Gary Bettman is the commissioner.
That little weasel couldn't use a like a gambling type
thing because they didn't want to promote gambling, which is
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hilarious when every other commercial is for gambling. Well, you
can't use a gambling thing. We don't want to encourage gambling.
Fast forward five years, everything is about gambing. I agree.
How about the Vegas vis Yeah, now, because I know
that the girl and the cowboy hat, the big neon sign,
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that's Vegas Vicky and her husband which was across the
way at the other casino was Vegas Vick. They were married.
Oh yeah, A lot of people don't know that, but they.
And if you go to in which hotel is it
in Vegas? It's the new hotel. I love the sports
I forget the name of it, but the Vegas Vicky
sign is still in Vegas. It's just inside on the
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casino on the Fremont Street experience. I forget the name.
I'm having a mental block here, but it's inside like
you can see the sign anyway. How about I.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Think Vegas Strippers would be a good name.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
It's a good name. I like that too. How about
the sassy sallies? Come on? Who says no? Yes, put
a hot woman on the hat there? Boom done? Come
on now now, when I become the commissioner of all sports,
and I'm probably just a couple years away from this,
when I become the commissioner of all sports, the malor
golden rule, if you relocate to take taxpayer money in
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another city, which is would all these scumbag owners do,
you're allowed to do it. However, no emotional carry on.
You have to leave the name. You leave everything behind,
You leave your dusty trophies, you leave behind all your records,
all your memories, and you start fresh. That's how it's done.
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You pull the slot handled down and you live with
the results. Oh, by the way, my man Rob pointing
out circa the great Rob, one of the great sports
writers out there, and I've known this guy for a lot.
He worked at newspapers when people read newspapers back, that's
how long ago he worked at newspapers. But Rob puts
out circa. Yeah, if you go into circa now, you
gotta be twenty one or over. That's the way they
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keep the riff raft out. But in there they have
the Vegas Vicky sign. It's awesome too, It's pretty cool.
I love it. I went to the Neon Museum in
Vegas last time I was in Vegas. Awesome too, it's great,
a lot of cool.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah, it's off the strip. It's better. It's act. There's
one in La, but the one in Shockingly, the one
in Vegas is better. That's hard to believe that the
city that made Neon neon. Yeah. Anyway, Secondly, moving on
to free agency, we go. The big whale is still
waiting to be catched. The whalers are not doing their job.
(14:16):
The big whales out in the Pacific. The uh spring.
Can you believe? Spring training is like a month away?
We're like a little over a month away from pitchers
and catchers reporting to Florida and Arizona for spring training.
The Great Fruit Leaue the Cactus League. Well, Kyle Tucker
with a T. Kyle Tucker, former Chicago Cub outfielder played
(14:36):
for the cheating Astros. He is still twisting in the wind,
twisting in the wind that Tucker, who all you baseball
scribes told me, was the consensus number one player on
the market, and no one signed, No one signed. So
(14:57):
the question why is it that we see here on
this first week of Janus, January seventh, as we're doing
the show right now in real time, and the most prized,
most coveted free agent, Kyle Tucker, is no closer to
signing than he was two months ago. What the heck?
(15:21):
All right? So my determination on this Major League Baseball,
which is run by the nerds, the analytics department, the
front offices are a little gun shy because the Geiger
Counter is not looking good, all right. Buyer, beware, handle
with care, buyer, beware that thing's going in the dark,
(15:41):
possible biohazard. Teams are clearly not completely sold on Kyle Tucker.
What is my evidence he hasn't signed. He's got an
asking price, the teams haven't met the asking prize. There
you go. Otherwise he would have been signed, sealed, and delivered.
He's not. Now why not? In part because of the
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way he performed or didn't perform in the second half
with the Cubbies in a contract year on a contending
Chicago Cum team, on a contending Cubs team. After July first,
Kyle Tucker was benched. He hit two twenty five with
just five home runs. Now, what do I know? I
just do the overnight show. But that sucks. That's not
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a franchise cornerstone player, Kyle Tucker. That's that's the fruit
flies haven't shown up yet, but they're circling. They're circling,
and that's Kyle Tucker right now. The warning signs for
Kyle Tucker are humming. They're humming. And so he wants
five hundred six hundred So do I. I'd like five
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hundred six hundred million. And so he is priced Kyle
Tucker free agent. Kyle Tucker is priced like a Picasso,
and he's playing like some wal art you'd buy TJ.
Max or Ross dress for less. You know that little
art section. Yeah, that kind of thing and the other issue,
and there's really no other way around it. Unpopular opinion.
(17:09):
I don't think it's I don't think it's wrong.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Though.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Kyle Tucker is a star, he's not a superstar. Kyle
Tucker is a star, but he's not a superstar. That
that's my meaning. He doesn't move tickets. Nobody's gonna say, oh,
we gotta go out and watch guys. Like when Otani
comes to town, I gotta see Otani the Unicorn. When
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Kyle Tucker comes to town, you're like, oh, whatever, Yeah,
I don't care. Like when he's coming up to bat,
you're like, I can't get my nachos because I gotta
watch Kyle. No, you get your nachos, you get a beer,
and it'll cost you seventy five dollars. Nobody's running to
watch television. The ratings don't betten when Kyle Tucker is
playing for your team. So he's asking for money, and
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the volatility is at a mince meat level. Oh maybe
just ground beat. So you read the fine print. He's
most likely got three years left in his prime. He
wants a six or seven year contract, so the math
on that's not good. Now, Toronto, the Blue Jays are
still playing foot see the Dodgers are lurking like a
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shadow in a parking garage. And nobody's forlorn. This has
the vibe like this guy's gonna go into spring training
and no one's gonna sign him. There's been no movement
radio silence here. And so they say, well, it's the
cost of doing business. All these guys that were paid
and all this stuff. Sure, However, here's the issue. Nobody wants
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to buy a used appliance that hum's funny, and there's
no return policy and all sales are final, which is
these free agent contracts. It's not like the NFL where
there's a bunch of dead money and you get out
of the contract or whatever. All right, now, final thought
to TV Lane, we go question former Dodger. Former Dodger
pitcher Clayton Kershaw is a said to be the top
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studio target for NBC and their Major League Baseball coverage.
How does that sound to you? Kersh in the booth?
So this is baseball's version of hotel lobby music, Clayton Kershaw,
It just is, you know, and who knows if he's
gonna get the job or not. It's it's like that
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the lobby music at a hotel. It exists and it's
background noise. And five minutes after you hear it, you
don't remember a single note because you're not supposed to. Now,
Kershaw is not offensive. I don't think you said anything offensive.
He's just kind of nothing. It's just it's it's like,
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what are you doing? And it's like you go down
to Walgreens and he's a drug on the market. He's
a drug on the market with no side effects, no benefits. Sterrell,
just another ex jock reading off the teleprompter, Q cards
and assembling. It's like he's assembling Ikea furniture and just
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follow the numbers. And the only problem with Krushaw other
than that is if you have him call playoff games.
And I don't think NBC is gonna doing much playoffs,
but if you have him call playoff games, we know
how he performs in October so flops, weat and uh yeah,
the whole thing discomfort, nausea, vomiting, and what about the
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whole bull crap about I want to be home with
my family. I want to be with my kids. It's
armed to work, Tarror. So if you take the job,
if you're it's a studio job. The NBC hub is
in Stanford, Connecticut. I've been there, been to Stanford, Kennedict.
I worked there, the old building, not the new building.
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So you'd be flying from Texas to Stanford, Connecticut seemingly
every week. You'd have to get a place like he
can afford it. Pontificate about the Kansas City Royals, bullpen.
Do you want to do that? Okay? Good chicken fingers
at Bobby V's in Stanford, Connecticut. It's still there, somehow,
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still there. So I don't. I don't think of Krishaw
as an enlightened young grasshopper. I don't. So anyway, there
you go. Does he need the money? Did he invest
in Enron or FTX or something like that. I don't know.
I know he made three hundred million dollars. So is
he bored already? See if he gets the job or not.
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Titans General manager Mike Borgganzi his news conference was interrupted
(21:56):
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And here we go, So Titans GM Mike Boorg Ganzi's
news conference was interrupted by blank, all right, that is
the question. What is the answer? Gonzo guessed by Nick.
A band of gypsies from Luke the vending guy, like that,
it's good answer. Someone shouting six to seven yeah, daught,
(23:42):
oh yeah, very funny. A flash mob dancing old rocky
top from our friend the saw Man. I miss our
friend in Knoxville used to call up and we'd sing,
sing that. What else do we have to see? Page
down page I can't read that. It was interrupted by
Bobby V plugging his second restaurant location near Bradley International
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Airport just outside of Hartford. I didn't know he opened
another one. Daniel Boone look alike from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
INCA Terra says, a torrent of ping pong balls from
mister Moose. There's a name from the past. What else
do we have? Rob says a hard hitting case of
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post skyline intestinal gurgling. The rain is going to enjoy
that donkey sausage, says A rabid wombat is the answer.
A peacock from Dante. JT the Wingman says Uber eats
delivering in order of Culver's cheese curds, which I did eat. JTS.
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You know how you listened to the Fifth Hour podcast.
I was in Arizona over the holiday time out there,
and they have Culvers in Phoenix. I was able to
go to Culver's and get my cheese curds fixed when
I was in the Valley of the Sun. That's the locust,
the closest culver and I will be back in Arizona
once the BUCkies opened.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
When I went to I think it was Chicago. I
saw Culver's and I was like, I want to go,
and I never went.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Bad job by you.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I don't think I saw it again, or else they
would have.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
You know, it was just around Chicago. There's Wisconsin in
the Midwest, all right. Anyway, again, the Riddle Titans GM
Mike Borgganzhi's news conference was interrupted by blank good answers here, Well,
what's your answer?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
The raina I think it was interrupted by a giant
purple flying dildo.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
Wow, Okay, I know that's a great answer. But lights
somebody turned the lights out on the news count.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
The lights went out over.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
The phones quickly. Quinzel in Oakland is cashing a golden ticket.
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Hellwins weeah golden ticket? What's going on? I hope everybody
had a blessed New Year. What's going on?
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Big game to have your bad coins all that?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
One?
Speaker 5 (26:01):
Man?
Speaker 6 (26:01):
All right, man, I just I wasn't really gonna call.
But then when you started calling the Oakland A's like
Dusty Man, I had to remind you that, man, they
were three p in the seventies. This is four I
was born, and they went to three straight in the
eighties to the ninetieth apoll.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, yeah, I recommend you go to an ear doctor
because I said, I want to honor the Oakland Athletics
by not having their name used in Las Vegas. Perfect.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Yeah, check this out A big ban. I don't know
if that's good because you're probably not familiar with the
politics out here. That the A's would have still been in.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
The Bay area.
Speaker 6 (26:37):
The Giants kept blocking it from getting the stadium because
they were trying to add a Sa Fadie in Fremont,
which is in the East Bay not on the seventh
slub side like twenty miles south.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Yeah, I know, I know all about that. But there
were way you didn't have to move the team. There
were ways to get it done. You didn't have to
know the team.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I understand that. Yeah, I'll say you on that one.
But hey, but let me before you cut me out.
Remember y'allre talking about this cow many how people make
all that much money like us in the bathroom and
dreams and stuff, and I was I was seek and
I was like, I was like, I had this dream
that like what was that was that I was out
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to eat and like with rain and going like thodder
or nose or whatever the lady's doing in the bathroom.
And then she came out and I had this like
I had, you know, those table trays like for the
breakfast and bed tables like with waffles and pancakes, you
know what I mean. And I was like it was
such a blessing. I woke up and I was back
at the Oakland Collegem. But I love you, and God
bless you.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Learning happy you all right, I'm glad I could be.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Thank you. Make sure I'm not in your dream. I
don't want me in your dreams, but I like it
Quin's but I don't want to be a dreams I think.
Go ahead, all right, there's like Quin's Ell from Oakland.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
He'll meet him. We'll meet him when we go up north.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, hopefully he'll be there. Yeah, we'll be in his backyard.
All right, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
here we go.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
Oh oh yeah. That one thing that we do.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Him a jig to watch you McCall it the do
Hickey hit that event mallard game. We've endored too many
of these? Is it too much or not enough? Already?
Get to that game, and we bring in the guy
that had the most famous win in the history of
too much or not enough? Hollering James from Minneapolis.
Speaker 7 (28:18):
It was.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Shut up. He was fast asleep when he won the game,
our friend, the great hollering James. Hello James, how's life
treating you? James? Everything? Okay, you don't believe me?
Speaker 6 (28:32):
A good Jewish player?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh my god, a trope at all? All right, very
nice here, James, Let's play the game too much or
not Enough? Are you ready? Yes, you are, of course
you are. I gotta get three right to win the game.
Question number one Sunday. Sunday Sunday marked only the fourth
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time in NFL history that every team in a division
was in action on a given day and none of
them scored an offensive touchdown? Is that too much or
not enough.
Speaker 6 (29:10):
Enough?
Speaker 1 (29:11):
All Right's find out, man, I get that wrong too much?
It was only the second time that that is too much.
I was back in nineteen eighty eight. AFC West, There
you go. AFC East was also back in ninety eight.
There you go, all right, AFC West. This week, here
we go. Question number two. The Ravens are one of
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only six teams in the NFL with one hundred and
eighty plus wins during John Harbaugh's eighteen year tenures. That
too much or not enough?
Speaker 7 (29:44):
Too much?
Speaker 6 (29:46):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Let's find out that's right? Look at you?
Speaker 6 (29:49):
All right?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They are one of four franchise along with the Patriots, Packers,
and the Steelers. Question number three for hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
He's the biggest listener we have in Minnesota. Is that correct, James?
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I say, I am the number one, number one listener
in Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Shaye Jogis Alexander has nine games with a plus minus
of plus twenty, which makes Kyrie and okay see very
happy with twelve again. Let me repeat that. Shae yogis
Alexander nine games with a plus minus of plus twenty
or better this season? Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 6 (30:28):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right? You're right? Look at you right again? He
leads the league with eleven games of plus twenty or more.
Do you see that Sopranos game the other night in
the NBA, the the Oklahoma City Thunder got blown out
at home by the Charlotte Hornets.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Count out?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Say we used to call that back in the old days,
a mob special. All right? Question number four? Justin Jefferson
just became the fifth wide receiver all time to begin
their career year with six straight one thousand yard seasons?
Is that too much or not enough? You're mister Minnesota Viking,
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you better get this right. Justin Jefferson just a fifth
wide receiver all time to begin their career with six
straight one thousand yard seasons? Too much or not enough?
For the win? Hollering James, I love.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Checking on Tanner. I hope I just destroyed for the
Golden diget more. I'm gonna say too much.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
You see, that's all my God, hollowing. James, you just
want a golden taken a golden James. You are the
winner of Too Much or Not Enough? What are you
gonna do now? James?
Speaker 7 (31:42):
I am the one.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
He was shy the line you were streaming. We couldn't
hear what James, You've just won an overnight radio game
show on the Ben Malor Show. What are you gonna
do now? I'm gonna holly, one can take.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
I need to be real good.
Speaker 6 (31:58):
I gimmick good.
Speaker 7 (31:59):
Dammy, she comes to my neighbor blood.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Okay, thank you, Calm down. We have the Queen of Hearts,
the Queen of Hearts. Love advice from Lorraine hashtag Queen
of Hearts. If you'd like to participate, you can also
call in at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
and you Love Love eight seven seven nine nine Your
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Rye, ooh you heard the. Man it's time for the
first love show of the new. Year new, year new,
love new, romance new. Problems what's going, on? Militia do
you think these.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Questions will be any good? Today or you think they're
going to suck your?
Speaker 2 (34:00):
EXPECTATIONS i hope we're off to a good. START I
i but after the Things i've seen ON x this,
WEEK i don't know what's going to.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Happen all, right well let's get started With shane in Des,
moines who writes and he, says have you ever voted
for someone because a celebrity voted for that? Person that's
from that's For. Lorraina that's obviously your. Questions you're a bit.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
There, no, no you have. No celebrity influence is not my.
THING i more go off of.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Morals, morals all, right, really what's a is a Sliding? Ah?
No all? Right you buy products because the celebrity tells
you to buy the. Product now you do? KNOW i got.
You mike The leprechaun writes and he, says how could
you gently nudge your partner to lose weight or go
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to the gym after overindulging during the holiday?
Speaker 2 (34:52):
Season oh this is a fun, one, because, yeah you
want what's best for your partner and you want to
stay a to your, partner and you, know sometimes you
can see something that kind of discussed you a. Bit
so there is a nice way to go about. It
BUT i like to do it in ways of, like
let's do it, together you, know because our fitness journey
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can be, together not just you need to go to the.
Gym you ate like a, pig you. Fatty, no let's
go to the gym. Together let's go get.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Fat that's nice. Advice But, mike how about just say
your new nickname is oink? Oink all, right let's say
hello To rick In. Maryland you know what time it?
Is Hello rick In? Maryland, hello morning.
Speaker 7 (35:33):
Time LOOK i knew you to, Everybody, loraina tell me
IF i was. Wrong my son decided to bring his
young lady over for dinner during The kwansa, holiday and
his siblings told, him are you sure you want to do?
That SO i got right into. IT i asked, HER
i said can you? Cook and she. HESITATED i, said,
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son the next time you buy her a, gift make
sure it's a. Cookbook that, Wrong.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Oh you know those women in the. Kitchen, Though, NO
i think that's a funny gift as long as he
means it in a joking. Manner but, NO i think
cooking is a very, vital, good, good useful tool to.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Have, Yeah, rick what you do is you do the
cookbook that you buy by the air, fryer the, blender the, foreman,
grill you know you just the little gifts and frying,
pan coffee.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Maker, yeah and then you can upgrade to household appliances
like a washer and, dryer, vacuum a. Vacuum what about
those feather dusters main? Outfit while you're at.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
It now you're talking the. Ranger now you're.
Speaker 7 (36:37):
Little waist down the, road little waist down the.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Road all, right thank, You, rick your, Day rick And
maryland morning. Time it is a great relevant question from Fird.
Bog he, Says, Hey, loraina do chicks find six seven
as hilarious as? Us?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
Guys oh my, gosh please. STOP i NEVER i don't
even understand where it starts. ART i don't get, it
AND i don't want to get.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
It my nephew is a little little, rascal and he
saw him a lot of the, Holidays so he did
the six seventh, thing and you know, WHAT i decided
to fight, Back SO i then started doing the six.
Seven he did not think it was My he thought
LIKE i was breaking some kind of boundary as an
adult to say six seven that was a kid?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Thing did you try saying eight? Nine?
Speaker 1 (37:24):
After, NO i did.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Not you should try. That you should go six seven eight.
Nine and then also remember when it's, like why was
six afreid of seven seven eight?
Speaker 1 (37:34):
Nine you could be.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Stupid you don't give them those dumb adult. Jokes we love,
those all.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
RIGHT.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Jt The wingman writes in And it's The queen Of,
hearts he, says for The New, YEAR i was thinking
about sharing a toothbrush with my. Partner when is it
safe in the? Relationship? No why would you need to share?
Speaker 2 (37:53):
It, no there's a lot of things you can. SHARE
i don't think toothbrushes need to.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Do they're not that, expensive, right is?
Speaker 2 (38:01):
BIG i mean you do share, SALIVA i.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Understand But big And drinks Does Big Big? Tooth do
they have they raised the prices of? Toothbrushes have?
Speaker 4 (38:11):
They?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
No AND i think you can go To Dollar tree
and get one.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
A?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
Boy all, Right Well Dollar tree is now seven Dollar.
TREE i think it's gone dollar. Fifty. Yeah, YEAH i
knew the ninety nine cents. STORIES i knew were in
danger WHEN i went in there and they had like
a forty dollars. Bag oh my.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
Gosh, right it's, like actually only that far corner is
ninety nine.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
Cents. Yeah i'm, like, well this place isn't gonna be.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Right Even Dollar tree has frozen. Food this, Place dollar this.
Speaker 1 (38:36):
Place is not long for the world charging that kind of,
money all? Right next up Is, steve Said. LORENA i
NOTICED i am going. Gray my wife says it makes
me look more. Distinguished but my barber asked IF i
wanted to embrace the Silver fox. Era i'm not ready
for any era that involves the world fox and, says
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how DO i age? Gracefully how are you going to
know how to age? Graceful you're not even that old.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
AROUND i think you are lucky to even have a
head of. Hair? Question is that? Dope embrace? It embrace
it her. Hair, yeah it's. Foxy, YEAH i like.
Speaker 1 (39:17):
Silver you do LIKE i. DO i. Do you're just
doing that to flirt with. YOU i like, it AND
i don't believe. THAT i don't know if that's true
or and it's mixed in all nice like that's salt and, pepper,
right they call that. SOT i think salt and. Pepper keep, it,
OKAY i keep. It she has spoken