March 27, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller previews the 2025 MLB season as we arrive at Opening Day, talks about the central theme of the season, gives a cheat sheet of 2025 MLB juicy storylines, how Rafael Devers will handle being pigeonholed as a DH, #AskBen, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball, and we'll welcome it's our number three, our number three,
with no radio silence because it's a podcast. Yeah, it's
a podcast. So here at our number three, by request,
It's Benny's Baseball Bonanza. As we look ahead to the
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twenty twenty five MLB season, which begins today, yes opening Day.
So as the curtain goes up, what is the central
theme of the twenty twenty five baseball season as it begins? Also,
what's on your cheat sheet of twenty twenty five MLB
juicy storylines going into the regular season. In addition, how
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will Raffi Devers handle being pigeonholed as a designated hitter
a three hundred million dollar designated hitter for the Red Sox.
We'll get to all of that, and who knows what
else we'll bring it to for right now in our
number three, it is a hardball jamboree, is what it is.
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I know, Eugene in Chicago a big fan of that.
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returning to Capistrano in a opening day look ahead to
the baseball season. So I leave this hour is from baseball.
You smell what the rock is cooking, and maybe your
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today bens where you are. If you're on the East
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coast this afternoon. If you're on the West coast early
in the morning, the umpire will come out and say
play ball and that's it, mom apple Pie, and baseball
opening Day. There's just a little bit extra about opening Day.
They got the bunting, the red, white, and blue bunting
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at the ballpark, and there's usually a pack crowd. And
the next time there's a pack crowd at these baseball
stadiums will be when they give away a bobblehead or
when the weather gets better and it's warm every day
but opening Day, and in theory, there's hope in the
air everywhere. Every single team starts with a perfect record.
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Of course that's not really true. Every team's supposed to
be zero and zero. But this opening day is different
because outside of the teams that haven't played, the Dodgers
and Cubs already played two games. Cubs are oz and
two Dodgers are two. Know, but every team other than
the White Sox can dream of finding glory glory Road
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in October. Now by popular demand, we're questioned by Eugenie
and Chicago and several other members senior ranking. Bring it
to your generals that have been sworn in, that have
taken the oath, the Skeeter in Montana Oath. It is
Benny's Baseball Bonanza. Benny's Baseball Bonanza, your one stop shop
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to be prepared for the right of passage. And here
we are on opening day. So let us discuss question
as the curtain goes up, up, up and away on
this opening day, what is the central theme of the
twenty twenty five MLB season. Those marketing people say, we've
got to have a theme. We've got to have a theme.
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So I've got Tiger Woods soundtrack and Family God, and
we'll put all these together and we are going to
make some soggy ballpark nachos and a delicious soft pretzel
and it's gonna be just one ballpark with peanuts, bag
of peanuts, way to go, garlic fries if you're in
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the Bay Area. Whatever it is, all right. So, first
of all, the theme, the central theme of the twenty
twenty five MLB season. It is a throwback to the
early two thousands. Now, let's go, if you will go
with me here, we're going to Hill Valley. Now. I
got to visit Hill Valley when I was working on
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Benny Versus the Penny. It was very cool. I get
to walk right through the courtyard there in Hill Valley,
and I didn't see Doc Brown but we need to
get Doc Brown and we need to take a spin
in the DeLorean because we're going back to the future. Baby,
You and I are going back to the future. And
we're gonna wait, there's that lightning strike. It's gonna hit
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at ten oh four pm, not ten oh three, not
ten oh five, zen o four pm. And remember now,
we're gonna we're gonna hit that dashboard. We're gonna punch
you in the year twenty oh two into the dashboards.
We're gonna go back and the vehicle has to get
to eighty eight miles per hour, not eighty nine or
ninety and not eighty seven or eighty six. Eighty eight
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miles per hour the DeLorean and that sufficient power and
we're good to go. So why are we setting the
year to twenty oh two? Well, I mentioned it's a
throwback season here, and if my math is right, that
was peak tiger time in twenty oh two. Most popular
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wager and one of the great talking points in sports
talk radio Tiger Woods versus the Field, the Spectacle, the Masters, Augusta, Georgia.
Would you rather take Tiger Woods or would you rather
take the field? Interesting? Now twenty twenty five, what is it.
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It's not obviously Tiger Woods, he's not a baseball player.
It's Show Hayes Dodgers versus the field. If I gave
you a couple thousand dollars of funny money and I said,
you can either bet on the Dodgers or you bet
on the field, who are you going to bet on?
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Who are you going to bet on? Now? The value
is actually taking the field. The value is not the Dodgers.
The difference though, at the Masters back in the day,
there were anywhere between twenty to thirty golfers that could
reasonably win the Masters in Georgia. I would argue, based
on a minutes long review, there are only seven seven
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teams in Major League Baseball that can win the World Series.
It would be a tremendous upset, and for some of
these other teams, a massive earth shattering upset if somebody
else went so. The seven teams, obviously the Dodgers, they're
at the very top. The Atlanta Braves, the Philadelphia Phillies.
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I'm going to include the Mets and the Yankees. Both
of them are flawed teams. We'll get to that in
a minute. I'm going to include the Red Sox because
they have the money to spend and to get that
last picture, much like the Mets doing the Yankees those
mid season editions. And I'm also gonna throw the Texas
Rangers in there, they won a couple of years ago.
And the wild card is obviously Jacob deGrom, who's probably
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already feeling pain in his elbow right now because he
always feels pain in his elbow. And those teams, even
the ones that are flowed like the Mets, they're a mess.
The Yankees have issues and they need upgrades and all that.
But the Dodgers have literally started two games ahead of
every other team in baseball, every other team in baseball,
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thanks to that Tokyo two step they did a week ago. Now, second,
what is on your chief? Let me help you out.
What is on your cheat sheet for the twenty twenty
five in terms of juicy storylines going into the new year?
What stands out? What are we gonna yapping about here?
So I got a ten spot. I'm not going lean
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and mean, I am going bold and beautiful. I got
a ten spot. So number one, number one, the obvious one. Now,
Eugenie in Chicago said, don't bring this up, you shouldn't
bring this up, eh, No, the story and I mentioned
it already. The Dodgers. The Dodgers are full arch villains,
they have arch villain status. They're a batman low level
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batman villain. The soundtrack for the Dodgers twenty twenty five season,
when they Go on the Road, is a score composed
by the Great John Williams. It's the Star Wars Imperial March,
the Darth Vader theme as it's known. So what does
Sho Hao Tani have for an encore? He went fifty
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to fifty last year. He's supposed to pitch once every
six days or so. He'll be pitching, So what does
he do now? Another thought, going in another juicy storyline,
did the Atlanta Braves return to four? Ronald Lacuna Junior?
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Snap crackle pop. Spencer Stryder Snap crackle pop. They've got
two of the leading candidates for comeback Player of the Year.
Are the Atlanta Braves back? Are they in position now
to be a legitimate threat to bird dog the Dodgers
in the Nation League? Where else? How about Bobby wit
number three? Bobby Witt Junior, Does he take the next
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step moving up the ladder and does he usurp Aaron Judge?
Is Bobby witt Junor going to be the top player?
Some people thought he was the top player last year?
Does he pass Aaron Judge by in the American League?
And then you look at the Yankees? Can the Yankees
make the playoffs without Garrett Cole He's out all year
with his arm falling off. And Juan Soto who's across
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with the Mets. Now, speaking of the Mets, do the
one sodo Mets? They gave him seven hundred and sixty
five million. Methinks they don't have enough pitching now, I
know they got a couple guys on the what I
used to call the disabled list the Mets. Clay Holmes,
What up Holmes? Clay Holmes is your opening day pitcher
for the Metropolitans. Clay Holmes is the opening day pitcher.
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Signs things are not going well. Even if play Holmes
goes out and pitches a great game, that is not
the ideal situation. Is this finally the death the death
of the cheating astros? Is this the year that the
floor opens up, A trapdoor opens up, and the cheating
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a holes finally are exterminated and do not make the playoffs.
Can we pray, we pray to the baseball guys. Can
manager Terry Francona bring that midas touch with him? He
had it in Boston, he had it in Cleveland, and
he's now the Reds manager. So how's that go? And
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then will cheating asstro Alex Bregman and the very delicate
Garrett Crochet be enough. He's a pitcher. You probably don't
know who that is because he's pecial for the White Sox
and they're not a major league team. But he's the
big pickup in the pitching staff, Alex Bregman, the big pickup,
the cheater at third base? Is that enough to have
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the Red Sox have a metamorphosis and go from pretender
to contender? It should be? It should be? Should be enough?
And then I always look ahead mid season trade deadline
July thirty. First, the swap meet. Who's gonna get Toronto's
Laddie Guerrero Junior? Assuming he doesn't sign a contract today.
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Usually the opening day they make some last minute announced,
Hey we signed somebody before me. But assuming that doesn't happen,
Vladi Guerrero June, you're likely to be traded. And then
all season the Miami Marlins. That's like a Ponzi scheme
there in Miami, and they're going to send out every
fifth day till he gets hurt. Sandy all Kantar, that's
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the big one. That's the guy that the Mets and
the Yankees and the Red Sox will be looking after.
They're trying to poach him from Miami. Who you know,
see how good he is coming off the surgery. But
he was amazing. And then my other storyline to follow
Major League the movie. There were a bunch of Major
League movies. Most people only saw the first one or
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maybe the second one, but they made a third one,
if I remember correctly, it was Major League Back to
the Miners, And that's one of the storylines. As we
play ball, you have the Athletics who are so embarrassed
to be in Sacramento. They've got so much shame that
every time they take the field, they're doing the Walk
of Shame and they don't even want to include Sea Come.
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They're playing in a minor league ballpark in Sacramento. This season.
The Tampa Bay Rays, because of an act of God
blowing off the roof of their ballpark, they are playing
at the Yankee spring training facility. And there's some photos
which are hilarious of the Rays spring training ballpark, which
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will be their regular season ballpark. It's the Yankee spring
training ballpark, and you see the Yankee logo all over
the ballpark. They haven't covered up all the Yankee logos.
And so we got two of the teams in baseball
playing in minor league venues.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
All right, Now, final thought, I want to get away
from Benny's baseball bonanza and we go down to Boston
because there is some legitimate drama. A guy that was
supposed to be the grand poobah of Red Sox baseball
for years to come currently finds himself in the doghouse.
We're talking about Raffie L. Devers. Now you might remember
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the story. It was one of the better stories of
spring training when Rafael Devers showed up and said, Hey,
I'm a third baseman and I ain't I ain't going
anywhere else. So Devers, it turns out, will not be
a third baseman. He will be the primary designated hitter
for your twenty twenty five Red Sox this season, and
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he's he's not going to be playing third base. That
means that cheating Astro Alex Bregman, that little weasel Alex Bregman,
will be playing third base for the Astros, for the
for the Red Sex the X Astro all right, So
how will Raffie Devers the better stories in the losing
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locker room? So how will Raffie Devers handle being pigeonholed
as a designated hitter for the Red Sox. So I
can see the future. I'm a distant relative of Noster Damas,
I'm a friend of Noster Denas he lives in Sea.
So it is my belief that Raffi Devers is going
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to go full family guy as in Stewie Griffin. He's
going to be stewing in April and May and the
rest of March. Here there's only a few days left
here in the month of March. But at the start
of spring training, Rafael Devers made it very clear that
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he had a little bit more than a strong preference.
He said that third base was his possession, it was
his position. He owned it. So this is going to
be like a wildfire. They talk to people that are
out there in the front lines fighting wildfires and they
say that, well, they get the fire down, but those
those hotspots and they flare up. So right now, Alex Korra,
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the manager of the of the Socks, he has been
able to calm down the wildfire, but there's some hotspots
and there's going to be some flare ups. And Cora
said that moving Rafael Devers from third base to DH
shows that the Boston baseball team is quote in the
winning business. Now that sounds to me. I don't know
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if I want to run this value. I don't know
if you agree with me. Isn't that an indictment of
Rafael Devers? That Rafael Devers is a three hundred million
dollar liability. You don't pay someone three hundred million dollars
to just be a glorified pinch hitter as a designated hitter.
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So the Red Sox are saying they got hoodwin that Devers,
who was supposed to be the third baseman until twenty
thirty three, is such a screw up they have been
unable to cast a spell on him that he's been
demoted down a rank. Devers is on a ten year
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contract for three hundred and thirteen million. Three hundred and thirteen million.
He got that back in twenty twenty four and it
goes till twenty thirty three, and now he's the Merchant
of Doom for the Red Sox. It is the Ben
Mahlor Show. If you would like to be part you
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did not mention the team that you love, the team
that you worship, that you think is all high and mighty,
feel free some hot talk. Absolutely, yes, overnight we can
get away with that. You know, we can do hot
blue jay talk. If you're listening to Toronto or if
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you're a die hard Chicago White Sox fan, we can
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part of the show. And we'll get to all of
that time now though. For the Malor Riddle of the Day,
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that's right, the Mallor Riddle of the Day, and we'll
go to the Animal Kingdom. For the malor Riddle of
the day, We'll go to the tar Hill State. A
North Carolina man wore a blank to scare a black
bear out of his yard. Again some random Schmendrick in
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North Carolinas. Dude in North Carolina wore a blank to
scare a black bear out of his yard. That is
the Mallard riddle of the day. The answer, We'll get
to it, and we will do it next.
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now back to the Talk Fiesta. Well that's right, Phil
and with me Ben, time to pay off the Malor
riddle of the day. A random Schmendrick, a man from
North Carolina. Sounds like the start of a crime thriller.
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Man from North Carolina, So a man from North Carolina
wore a blank to scare a black bear out of
his yard. Late night drug tester says a nurse outfit.
He wore a nurse outfit. Who else do we have?
An angryvill mask from Scrooge? How did you get that
Scrooge that looks just like Angryville? That's what he wore
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as a little kid to Halloween. Who else? The lady
sideburn says plot twist. The guy was buck naked and
that scared the bear away. Clam says an angry Bill fattheit.
All these guys giving love to angry Bill. Who else
do we have? Page down? A lebron crying shirt from Freddy?
That was his answer. Andy in Line Old Lakes, Minnesota
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says the North Carolina man wore a Viking jersey to
scare the bear out of the yard. Yeah, scare the bear.
Who else do we have? Page down? Milkman Mike in
Colorado says that the gentleman wore a blind Scott cosplay costume.
That's the answer. Eddie Garcia mask guessed by fer Dog,
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that's his answer. Alf the Alien Opina says he put
on a T shirt and nothing else and is that
from your closet. Alf is that? Probably not? Donkey Sausage
says he wore weed man hippie's teeth. That that is
the answer. Jess n Junction going with a rosie O'Donnell mask?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Did she?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Is she the one that one of those rosies left
the country? All those rosies are the same. Who else
we have? Fudgie? Says a Blair in Maine. Halloween mask
is the answer. Trucker Joe from the highways and byeways,
one of our many truck drivers, says he wore a
fat suit. But that's the answer. J T the Wingman
says A moonshiner still is the answer. A picture of Lizzo,
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guessed by Johnny Q. Gutter says he wore a Carolina
Panthers jersey and that scared scared the bear away. Either
that or he showed him the Minnesota Timberwolves playoff record.
Either one of those would have worked. All right, let's see, Loraina,
do you have an answer, Lorada? Please? I need an answer.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I think he wore a bikini.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
A bikini? All right? Is bikini? Is bikini? The answer?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Raw?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
No? All right? So a North Carolina man wore a
black bear costume to scare a black bear out of
his yard. He wore a bear costume.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It seems like a terrible idea. What if the bear
was horny, right, I mean, I mean, how are you
gonna stop the bear if the bear wanted to, you know,
make whoopee with the other? Well, don't they advise you
to stay whoever they are the big park rangers, to
stay away, like twenty five yards away from all the animals,
right and all that.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
And I've seen a lot of videos lately of bears
like coming on people's decks and stuff, like when they're
having barbecues. I saw a video today of a bear
that came up and got in someone's hot tub, Like
he took the top off and then got in the
hot tub. And I feel like I heard him sigh
like oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Well, I'll let you know that. Through marriage, I have
inside information on it. So my wife she deals with it.
She works in a community. She's a nine to one
one operator, but she's in a community that has a
lot of bears. Right, they come down from the hills.
And what happens is the TV news people anytime there's
a bear, they try to get the helicopter there as
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quickly as it can, because there's nothing that does better
television than animal stories. People love stories about a bear
eating out of a dumpster and walking through the neighborhood
like a drunk bear that ran into a case of
beer and drinking and they can't get it up of it.
So those stories do very well on TV, people, and
they go viral on the internet now obviously too, and
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and so it's all about that. But this was in Asheville,
North Carolina, and the guy he bought the costume says,
a bear costume like that costs anywhere from one hundred
and thirty to three or four hundred dollars and he
just put it on and the clip has gone gone viral.
So hey, just like a real bear. And the bear
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here saw him and said, man, did he get out
of here? But what would the bear possibly have attacked me?
I don't know the origins of the bear, like the
bear's territory. Maybe the bear would have thought, Hey, that's
my territory, and you know I'm gonna I'm gonna fight
you for the territory. It's pretty funny though, because he's
he's not on all fours like a bear. He's standing
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up and moving his arms side by side. It looks
like a skit from some kind of movie or TV
show or something like that. It's pretty it's pretty funny.
And the guy took off his bere hat. If you've
seen the it's things gone viral. He took off the
bare hat and he had He's like this bald dude
with a with a big beer, looks like a burly dude,
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like a manly man. And he went out there with that. Yeah, anyway,
that's the answer. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As
we are working our way through the overnight hours, and
we'll go to the phones and who do we have
any meany miney mole's Hello to weed Man hippie who's
in Miami. Hello, weed Man Hippie. Hey then I love you,
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Love you too, weed Man, lot of love. Hey, So
this guy's not here fortunately, all right? All right? What
are you doing to celebrate the guy's not there? What
are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
You know, he dreams a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So hopefully he got arrested and he's in jail.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Hopefully.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
That's a wonderful thought. Nothing negative about that at all.
He's great. Where are all these girls coming from? Where
are these what? Yes, well, they live where people build houses.
They're just living their life. They live in the you know,
the trees and the forest and all that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And yeah, really they come down to people's houses.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah all the time. Yeah. Well, in California they live
in the mountains and they come down in the foothills.
But in North Carolina there's a lot of trees and forests,
and so they live in the forest and they looking
for food, trying to find food. They're kind of like
the bears are kind of like you. They're trying to
find food. They're looking around for food, and they just
come down and they yeah, very similar. Have I well
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at the zoo, I've never No, I've never seen it.
I don't live in an area where the bears come down,
so I have not. Have you you live in Miami,
there's no bears. Have you seen Have you seen a gator? No?
Are they not? Are they not alligators in Miami? Is
that too? There are there are? But not where you live.
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You live in like the city, and there's probably no
gators around there. Yeah. I have seen them where where
I used to do in Southeast I used to see
them well, yeah, if you're further north through I mean
the video remember the video a couple years ago somebody
went through the sewer system was like, was it Orlando
or Jacksonville? And there's like tons of gators just living
in the in the sewer system in one of those cities.
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I forget which. Yeah, they're just living their greatest life. Man,
They're like, forget teenage mutant ninja turtles. You got teenage
mutant ninja gators down there. They're they're doing it. Man. Yeah, right,
are you excited for okkay? We man? You're fired up
for Oka Day? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
So who are the Anses playing?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
We met? I thought you were a Yankee fan. Aren't
you supposed to know who the Yankees are playing?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I don't know who are they playing?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
We are you gonna? You didn't watch any baseball this spring?
We met? Really? No, what do you ben? I don't
want to know what you do. Let me get your watch.
Are you watching movies on an illegal stream? You know?
I see, I know, I know we are right because
you watch me on the YouTube channel. I will give
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you a pass. The Yankees open up at noon today.
They play the Milwaukee Brewers at Key Stadium. Weather permitting
at Yankee Stadium. It should be it should be. All right,
it's like fifty degrees I think first pitch, and I
don't think there's any rain today, So they should get
that game.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Oh no, that's great, I'll listen to it.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
There you go, all right, enjoy the game. So, yeah,
what I see you on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
But it's only your monologues.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
You don't get all the callers. Yeah, yeah, they don't.
They don't put all that. I don't know if they
can only put certain parts of it on. I don't know.
They should put the whole thing on there, but they don't.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Yeah, they should, they really should.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's only yours. You realize that we don't have cameras
on the callers. You realize that, like, there's no camera
on the the people that call up. We're just we're
just there and they're not. There's no came we're not
stocking them, we're not putting cameras in their face and
all that. You wouldn't see them anywhere, the cameras on
your faces. And I'd be willing to do that if
they pay me accordingly, I'd be more than well, you
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know that costs a little more money. I can't just
do that without being compensated. My pretty looks and all that. Anyway,
enjoy opening day now that you learned. I love weed Man.
Who are the Yankees playing? Who the Mets playing today?
Do we know the Mets are playing the cheating Ehstros?
It is the Ben Malors Show. As we are continuing on,
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let's say hello to Scott who's in Des Moines? Hello Scott, welcome?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Hey, Hey, how are you guys doing today?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
If I was any better, I would be a sock,
But not a White Sox because they're terrible.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Definitely not though. Being a huge Dodger fan here in Iowa,
everybody here's the Cubs fan, and I'm so tired of
hearing how the Dodgers are ruining baseball. So maybe you
can help me understand this. So all these teams that
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are paying the luxury tax, all that money gets thrown
into a pool and it gets distributed to all the
other teams. Is that right? Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah? Yeah? In fact, teams like the Athletics and the
Marlins and the Pirates they don't even spend. But I
think the Marlins are the ones that are the worst.
They don't spend even the bare minimum and yeah, they
get a fun They make money from the Dodgers and
the Red Sox and the teams that I spent a
lot of money. But here's like the argument is, the
Cubs could be doing the same thing. The guy that
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owns the Cubs is worth a gazillion dollars. He could
do the same thing. He just chooses not to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
So the so, for what I read, each team's getting
like two hundred and forty million dollars from this tax
the other teams are paying. But then you got the pirates,
who's whose teams only worked like sixty million. So why
are the people mad at the Dodgers when you should
be going to your teams and saying you're getting two
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hundred and forty million dollars from the Yankees, You're getting
it from the match, you're getting from the Dodgers. Why
are you not putting this into players going on?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Because I'm not you, Scott, but a lot of other
people not me. Of course, a lot of other people
are idiots. That's why they're jealous. It's jealousy, and that's
why they're complaining about the Dodgers and making a big
deal about that. But we got to leave it there, Scott,
Just enjoy where your Dodger capital annoy you, You're cub fan, friends,
and the Dodgers. This is the greatest time to be
a Dodger, for they've had some good runs over the
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years of the Dodgers. This is there's nothing quite like
what's going on right now. This is absolutely saying and
it's not gonna last. At some point the money will
have to be paid, the deferred money, and either the
people owning the Dodgers now will sell the team and
they'll suck for twenty years down the line, but not
right now. So in the moment, all we have is
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right now. Enjoy if you like the Dodgers. If not,
put some kind of spell, put some kind of voodoo
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Speaker 7 (34:47):
Go ahead, cool, all right, Ben, We're gonna start off
with a question from ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Hi, Fergie, he wants to know.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
It's question for everybody. When's the last time you've been
on a boat.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh, let me try to think. I like to go
on boats when I go places. I'm trying to think that.
I think the last time I was on a boat
was God, it's been a while. Oh you know. No,
it was in Charleston. I went on one in Charleston.
We went a little boat tour around Charleston. And then
before that was in Minnesota. We went to Lake Superior
and took a boat right around the brown water of
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Lake Superior. It's beautiful, very cold, but it was beautiful.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
What about you, Lorraina, Oh goodness, it was just a
couple of weeks months ago.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
I was on the Queen Mary for brunch.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
That's a ship.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
That's not a moraina that it's not really it's a hotel.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, it's a ship.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
It's not and it doesn't it doesn't know, it doesn't
go anywhere. That doesn't count. It is landlocked the sense
I know it's in the water, but it doesn't go
out to see it doesn't know.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Well, that's my answer. That doesn't Yeah, that doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
No, it's nothing.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
The last time you were on a boat, like a boat.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That actually had had went out in the ocean.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
It was like a year ago.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Okay, well, I mean that's also a ship.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
But okay, where did you go on the cruise?
Speaker 5 (36:11):
We did the Port of Mexico stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, okay, cool, God, terrible answer.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
You're a terrible answer. The last time I was at
least at least you know, places for the Seahawks.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
The last time I was on a boat was last
July in Chicago. I went on the architectural like river boat.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Oh I've done that. That's cool. Yeah, it was really cool,
really neat.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
It was on that one boat in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
In New Orleans, I did the boat with the crocodile house.
Alloted time to the honorable Larina. We moved on to
your time as ad the air boat.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
Yes, that counts as a boat. Anyway, Moving on, j
Z the Wingman would like to know, since it opening
day in Major League Baseball, what is your favorite ballpark food?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
So? I love the the pretzel, the soft pretzel, but
it can't be one of those. I don't want to
name him because they might be a sponsor at some
point here, but there's a national pretzel chain which doesn't
make very good ballpark pretzels. But if you're in a
town that has good pretzels, like Philadelphia or New York
or somewhere like that. I love a ballpark soft pretzel,
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nachos and a bag of peanuts. I'm good. And in
San Francisco garlic fries. But that's about it. What about
you lorraina hot dog all day?
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Yes, most of.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
The ballpark hot dogs, only a few of them have
been good. Cleveland's got good hot dogs, Boston's got good
hot doggs. What about you Google.
Speaker 7 (37:45):
Loop nachos, but not not just like the regular like
nacho cheese and you know the round chip nachos. I
mean like with meat and sour cream, and you want
to mean guacamole.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
My only problem with nachos is the same problem I
have with cereal. You've got to eat it fast, and
every second that goes by without out eating the nachos
or the cereal, it becomes a lesser meal. Like cereal,
I used to like it when I was a kid,
but I had to eat it so fast because it
becomes soggy. And the same thing with nachos. You have
to eat it very fast. It's soggy. It's not that
good anyway. What is next? What do we have? All right?
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Now, this one seems like it was gonna be a
good question, but I think it ends up not being
a good question because I think it's obvious.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Make it a good question?
Speaker 7 (38:29):
Well, well, Chicago bears twenty four. He wants to know
he's in Nebraska. Would you rather taste everything your hands
touch or everything your feet touch?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
That's an obvious one, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I mean yeah, unless you're you're just walking on I
don't know what you would be walking on and you want.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
To yeah, I hands yeah, Yeah, all right, let's get
skip ahead of this.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
That's gotta be the dombest question we've ever been asked.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
I mean it was getting creative, which is good. I
like that, but then it was just too easy.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
I just gave up at the end.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (39:04):
Out wants to know what was your go to beverage
growing up, excluding soda.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I'll give you one. It's tang. I meant, when I
was a kid, my mom's oh, this is the stuff
astronauts were drinking in space, and it was just like
like sugar tang. What about you learned a quick like
tampico tampico cool?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I liked.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I remember when Snapple took off. There was a period
where Snapple. Everyone was drinking three bottles a day. Oh man,
it was so popular. Remember that that when you took
the lid off, that that snap sound. That's the name
Playball, and we'll welcome it's our number three, our number three,
with no radio silence because it's a podcast. Yeah, it's
a podcast. So here at our number three, by request,
It's Benny's Baseball Bonanza. As we look ahead to the
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twenty twenty five MLB season, which begins today, yes opening Day.
So as the curtain goes up, what is the central
theme of the twenty twenty five baseball season as it begins? Also,
what's on your cheat sheet of twenty twenty five MLB
juicy storylines going into the regular season. In addition, how
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will Raffi Devers handle being pigeonholed as a designated hitter
a three hundred million dollar designated hitter for the Red Sox.
We'll get to all of that, and who knows what
else we'll bring it to for right now in our
number three, it is a hardball jamboree, is what it is.
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I know, Eugene in Chicago a big fan of that.
So is Steve the Misplaced. San Diego loves that as
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returning to Capistrano in a opening day look ahead to
the baseball season. So I leave this hour is from baseball.
You smell what the rock is cooking, and maybe your
nose is clogged up a little bit a tissue. Later
today bens where you are. If you're on the East
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coast this afternoon. If you're on the West coast early
in the morning, the umpire will come out and say
play ball and that's it, mom apple Pie, and baseball
opening Day. There's just a little bit extra about opening Day.
They got the bunting, the red, white, and blue bunting
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at the ballpark, and there's usually a pack crowd. And
the next time there's a pack crowd at these baseball
stadiums will be when they give away a bobblehead or
when the weather gets better and it's warm every day
but opening Day, and in theory, there's hope in the
air everywhere. Every single team starts with a perfect record.
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Of course that's not really true. Every team's supposed to
be zero and zero. But this opening day is different
because outside of the teams that haven't played, the Dodgers
and Cubs already played two games. Cubs are oz and
two Dodgers are two. Know, but every team other than
the White Sox can dream of finding glory glory Road
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in October. Now by popular demand, we're questioned by Eugenie
and Chicago and several other members senior ranking. Bring it
to your generals that have been sworn in, that have
taken the oath, the Skeeter in Montana Oath. It is
Benny's Baseball Bonanza. Benny's Baseball Bonanza, your one stop shop
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to be prepared for the right of passage. And here
we are on opening day. So let us discuss question
as the curtain goes up, up, up and away on
this opening day, what is the central theme of the
twenty twenty five MLB season. Those marketing people say, we've
got to have a theme. We've got to have a theme.
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So I've got Tiger Woods soundtrack and Family God, and
we'll put all these together and we are going to
make some soggy ballpark nachos and a delicious soft pretzel
and it's gonna be just one ballpark with peanuts, bag
of peanuts, way to go, garlic fries if you're in
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the Bay Area. Whatever it is, all right. So, first
of all, the theme, the central theme of the twenty
twenty five MLB season. It is a throwback to the
early two thousands. Now, let's go, if you will go
with me here, we're going to Hill Valley. Now. I
got to visit Hill Valley when I was working on
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Benny Versus the Penny. It was very cool. I get
to walk right through the courtyard there in Hill Valley,
and I didn't see Doc Brown but we need to
get Doc Brown and we need to take a spin
in the DeLorean because we're going back to the future. Baby,
You and I are going back to the future. And
we're gonna wait, there's that lightning strike. It's gonna hit
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at ten oh four pm, not ten oh three, not
ten oh five, zen o four pm. And remember now,
we're gonna we're gonna hit that dashboard. We're gonna punch
you in the year twenty oh two into the dashboards.
We're gonna go back and the vehicle has to get
to eighty eight miles per hour, not eighty nine or
ninety and not eighty seven or eighty six. Eighty eight
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miles per hour the DeLorean and that sufficient power and
we're good to go. So why are we setting the
year to twenty oh two? Well, I mentioned it's a
throwback season here, and if my math is right, that
was peak tiger time in twenty oh two. Most popular
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wager and one of the great talking points in sports
talk radio Tiger Woods versus the Field, the Spectacle, the Masters, Augusta, Georgia.
Would you rather take Tiger Woods or would you rather
take the field? Interesting? Now twenty twenty five, what is it.
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It's not obviously Tiger Woods, he's not a baseball player.
It's Show Hayes Dodgers versus the field. If I gave
you a couple thousand dollars of funny money and I said,
you can either bet on the Dodgers or you bet
on the field, who are you going to bet on?
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Who are you going to bet on? Now? The value
is actually taking the field. The value is not the Dodgers.
The difference though, at the Masters back in the day,
there were anywhere between twenty to thirty golfers that could
reasonably win the Masters in Georgia. I would argue, based
on a minutes long review, there are only seven seven
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teams in Major League Baseball that can win the World Series.
It would be a tremendous upset, and for some of
these other teams, a massive earth shattering upset if somebody
else went so. The seven teams, obviously the Dodgers, they're
at the very top. The Atlanta Braves, the Philadelphia Phillies.
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I'm going to include the Mets and the Yankees. Both
of them are flawed teams. We'll get to that in
a minute. I'm going to include the Red Sox because
they have the money to spend and to get that
last picture, much like the Mets doing the Yankees those
mid season editions. And I'm also gonna throw the Texas
Rangers in there, they won a couple of years ago.
And the wild card is obviously Jacob deGrom, who's probably
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already feeling pain in his elbow right now because he
always feels pain in his elbow. And those teams, even
the ones that are flowed like the Mets, they're a mess.
The Yankees have issues and they need upgrades and all that.
But the Dodgers have literally started two games ahead of
every other team in baseball, every other team in baseball,
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thanks to that Tokyo two step they did a week ago. Now, second,
what is on your chief? Let me help you out.
What is on your cheat sheet for the twenty twenty
five in terms of juicy storylines going into the new year?
What stands out? What are we gonna yapping about here?
So I got a ten spot. I'm not going lean
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and mean, I am going bold and beautiful. I got
a ten spot. So number one, number one, the obvious one. Now,
Eugenie in Chicago said, don't bring this up, you shouldn't
bring this up, eh, No, the story and I mentioned
it already. The Dodgers. The Dodgers are full arch villains,
they have arch villain status. They're a batman low level
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batman villain. The soundtrack for the Dodgers twenty twenty five season,
when they Go on the Road, is a score composed
by the Great John Williams. It's the Star Wars Imperial March,
the Darth Vader theme as it's known. So what does
Sho Hao Tani have for an encore? He went fifty
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to fifty last year. He's supposed to pitch once every
six days or so. He'll be pitching, So what does
he do now? Another thought, going in another juicy storyline,
did the Atlanta Braves return to four? Ronald Lacuna Junior?
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Snap crackle pop. Spencer Stryder Snap crackle pop. They've got
two of the leading candidates for comeback Player of the Year.
Are the Atlanta Braves back? Are they in position now
to be a legitimate threat to bird dog the Dodgers
in the Nation League? Where else? How about Bobby wit
number three? Bobby Witt Junior, Does he take the next
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step moving up the ladder and does he usurp Aaron Judge?
Is Bobby witt Junor going to be the top player?
Some people thought he was the top player last year?
Does he pass Aaron Judge by in the American League?
And then you look at the Yankees? Can the Yankees
make the playoffs without Garrett Cole He's out all year
with his arm falling off. And Juan Soto who's across
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with the Mets. Now, speaking of the Mets, do the
one sodo Mets? They gave him seven hundred and sixty
five million. Methinks they don't have enough pitching now, I
know they got a couple guys on the what I
used to call the disabled list the Mets. Clay Holmes,
What up Holmes? Clay Holmes is your opening day pitcher
for the Metropolitans. Clay Holmes is the opening day pitcher.
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Signs things are not going well. Even if play Holmes
goes out and pitches a great game, that is not
the ideal situation. Is this finally the death the death
of the cheating astros? Is this the year that the
floor opens up, A trapdoor opens up, and the cheating
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a holes finally are exterminated and do not make the playoffs.
Can we pray, we pray to the baseball guys. Can
manager Terry Francona bring that midas touch with him? He
had it in Boston, he had it in Cleveland, and
he's now the Reds manager. So how's that go? And
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then will cheating asstro Alex Bregman and the very delicate
Garrett Crochet be enough. He's a pitcher. You probably don't
know who that is because he's pecial for the White Sox
and they're not a major league team. But he's the
big pickup in the pitching staff, Alex Bregman, the big pickup,
the cheater at third base? Is that enough to have
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the Red Sox have a metamorphosis and go from pretender
to contender? It should be? It should be? Should be enough?
And then I always look ahead mid season trade deadline
July thirty. First, the swap meet. Who's gonna get Toronto's
Laddie Guerrero Junior? Assuming he doesn't sign a contract today.
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Usually the opening day they make some last minute announced,
Hey we signed somebody before me. But assuming that doesn't happen,
Vladi Guerrero June, you're likely to be traded. And then
all season the Miami Marlins. That's like a Ponzi scheme
there in Miami, and they're going to send out every
fifth day till he gets hurt. Sandy all Kantar, that's
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the big one. That's the guy that the Mets and
the Yankees and the Red Sox will be looking after.
They're trying to poach him from Miami. Who you know,
see how good he is coming off the surgery. But
he was amazing. And then my other storyline to follow
Major League the movie. There were a bunch of Major
League movies. Most people only saw the first one or
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maybe the second one, but they made a third one,
if I remember correctly, it was Major League Back to
the Miners, And that's one of the storylines. As we
play ball, you have the Athletics who are so embarrassed
to be in Sacramento. They've got so much shame that
every time they take the field, they're doing the Walk
of Shame and they don't even want to include Sea Come.
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They're playing in a minor league ballpark in Sacramento. This season.
The Tampa Bay Rays, because of an act of God
blowing off the roof of their ballpark, they are playing
at the Yankee spring training facility. And there's some photos
which are hilarious of the Rays spring training ballpark, which
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will be their regular season ballpark. It's the Yankee spring
training ballpark, and you see the Yankee logo all over
the ballpark. They haven't covered up all the Yankee logos.
And so we got two of the teams in baseball
playing in minor league venues.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
All right, Now, final thought, I want to get away
from Benny's baseball bonanza and we go down to Boston
because there is some legitimate drama. A guy that was
supposed to be the grand poobah of Red Sox baseball
for years to come currently finds himself in the doghouse.
We're talking about Raffie L. Devers. Now you might remember
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the story. It was one of the better stories of
spring training when Rafael Devers showed up and said, Hey,
I'm a third baseman and I ain't I ain't going
anywhere else. So Devers, it turns out, will not be
a third baseman. He will be the primary designated hitter
for your twenty twenty five Red Sox this season, and
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he's he's not going to be playing third base. That
means that cheating Astro Alex Bregman, that little weasel Alex Bregman,
will be playing third base for the Astros, for the
for the Red Sex the X Astro all right, So
how will Raffie Devers the better stories in the losing
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locker room? So how will Raffie Devers handle being pigeonholed
as a designated hitter for the Red Sox. So I
can see the future. I'm a distant relative of Noster Damas,
I'm a friend of Noster Denas he lives in Sea.
So it is my belief that Raffi Devers is going
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to go full family guy as in Stewie Griffin. He's
going to be stewing in April and May and the
rest of March. Here there's only a few days left
here in the month of March. But at the start
of spring training, Rafael Devers made it very clear that
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he had a little bit more than a strong preference.
He said that third base was his possession, it was
his position. He owned it. So this is going to
be like a wildfire. They talk to people that are
out there in the front lines fighting wildfires and they
say that, well, they get the fire down, but those
those hotspots and they flare up. So right now, Alex Korra,
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the manager of the of the Socks, he has been
able to calm down the wildfire, but there's some hotspots
and there's going to be some flare ups. And Cora
said that moving Rafael Devers from third base to DH
shows that the Boston baseball team is quote in the
winning business. Now that sounds to me. I don't know
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if I want to run this value. I don't know
if you agree with me. Isn't that an indictment of
Rafael Devers? That Rafael Devers is a three hundred million
dollar liability. You don't pay someone three hundred million dollars
to just be a glorified pinch hitter as a designated hitter.
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So the Red Sox are saying they got hoodwin that Devers,
who was supposed to be the third baseman until twenty
thirty three, is such a screw up they have been
unable to cast a spell on him that he's been
demoted down a rank. Devers is on a ten year
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contract for three hundred and thirteen million. Three hundred and thirteen million.
He got that back in twenty twenty four and it
goes till twenty thirty three, and now he's the Merchant
of Doom for the Red Sox. It is the Ben
Mahlor Show. If you would like to be part you
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that you worship, that you think is all high and mighty,
feel free some hot talk. Absolutely, yes, overnight we can
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that time now though. For the Malor Riddle of the Day,
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that's right, the Mallor Riddle of the Day, and we'll
go to the Animal Kingdom. For the malor Riddle of
the day, We'll go to the tar Hill State. A
North Carolina man wore a blank to scare a black
bear out of his yard. Again some random Schmendrick in
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North Carolinas. Dude in North Carolina wore a blank to
scare a black bear out of his yard. That is
the Mallard riddle of the day. The answer, We'll get
to it, and we will do it next.
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and with me Ben, time to pay off the Malor
riddle of the day. A random Schmendrick, a man from
North Carolina. Sounds like the start of a crime thriller.
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Man from North Carolina, So a man from North Carolina
wore a blank to scare a black bear out of
his yard. Late night drug tester says a nurse outfit.
He wore a nurse outfit. Who else do we have?
An angryvill mask from Scrooge? How did you get that
Scrooge that looks just like Angryville? That's what he wore
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as a little kid to Halloween. Who else? The lady
sideburn says plot twist. The guy was buck naked and
that scared the bear away. Clam says an angry Bill fattheit.
All these guys giving love to angry Bill. Who else
do we have? Page down? A lebron crying shirt from Freddy?
That was his answer. Andy in Line Old Lakes, Minnesota
(21:45):
says the North Carolina man wore a Viking jersey to
scare the bear out of the yard. Yeah, scare the bear.
Who else do we have? Page down? Milkman Mike in
Colorado says that the gentleman wore a blind Scott cosplay costume.
That's the answer. Eddie Garcia mask guessed by fer Dog,
(22:09):
that's his answer. Alf the Alien Opina says he put
on a T shirt and nothing else and is that
from your closet. Alf is that? Probably not? Donkey Sausage
says he wore weed man hippie's teeth. That that is
the answer. Jess n Junction going with a rosie O'Donnell mask?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Did she?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Is she the one that one of those rosies left
the country? All those rosies are the same. Who else
we have? Fudgie? Says a Blair in Maine. Halloween mask
is the answer. Trucker Joe from the highways and byeways,
one of our many truck drivers, says he wore a
fat suit. But that's the answer. J T the Wingman
says A moonshiner still is the answer. A picture of Lizzo,
(22:58):
guessed by Johnny Q. Gutter says he wore a Carolina
Panthers jersey and that scared scared the bear away. Either
that or he showed him the Minnesota Timberwolves playoff record.
Either one of those would have worked. All right, let's see, Loraina,
do you have an answer, Lorada? Please? I need an answer.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
I think he wore a bikini.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
A bikini? All right? Is bikini? Is bikini? The answer?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Raw?
Speaker 1 (23:28):
No? All right? So a North Carolina man wore a
black bear costume to scare a black bear out of
his yard. He wore a bear costume.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
That's a good idea.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It seems like a terrible idea. What if the bear
was horny, right, I mean, I mean, how are you
gonna stop the bear if the bear wanted to, you know,
make whoopee with the other? Well, don't they advise you
to stay whoever they are the big park rangers, to
stay away, like twenty five yards away from all the animals,
right and all that.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
And I've seen a lot of videos lately of bears
like coming on people's decks and stuff, like when they're
having barbecues. I saw a video today of a bear
that came up and got in someone's hot tub, Like
he took the top off and then got in the
hot tub. And I feel like I heard him sigh
like oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
Well, I'll let you know that. Through marriage, I have
inside information on it. So my wife she deals with it.
She works in a community. She's a nine to one
one operator, but she's in a community that has a
lot of bears. Right, they come down from the hills.
And what happens is the TV news people anytime there's
a bear, they try to get the helicopter there as
(24:41):
quickly as it can, because there's nothing that does better
television than animal stories. People love stories about a bear
eating out of a dumpster and walking through the neighborhood
like a drunk bear that ran into a case of
beer and drinking and they can't get it up of it.
So those stories do very well on TV, people, and
they go viral on the internet now obviously too, and
(25:03):
and so it's all about that. But this was in Asheville,
North Carolina, and the guy he bought the costume says,
a bear costume like that costs anywhere from one hundred
and thirty to three or four hundred dollars and he
just put it on and the clip has gone gone viral.
So hey, just like a real bear. And the bear
(25:27):
here saw him and said, man, did he get out
of here? But what would the bear possibly have attacked me?
I don't know the origins of the bear, like the
bear's territory. Maybe the bear would have thought, Hey, that's
my territory, and you know I'm gonna I'm gonna fight
you for the territory. It's pretty funny though, because he's
he's not on all fours like a bear. He's standing
(25:48):
up and moving his arms side by side. It looks
like a skit from some kind of movie or TV
show or something like that. It's pretty it's pretty funny.
And the guy took off his bere hat. If you've
seen the it's things gone viral. He took off the
bare hat and he had He's like this bald dude
with a with a big beer, looks like a burly dude,
(26:09):
like a manly man. And he went out there with that. Yeah, anyway,
that's the answer. It is the Ben Mahlor Show. As
we are working our way through the overnight hours, and
we'll go to the phones and who do we have
any meany miney mole's Hello to weed Man hippie who's
in Miami. Hello, weed Man Hippie. Hey then I love you,
(26:33):
Love you too, weed Man, lot of love. Hey, So
this guy's not here fortunately, all right? All right? What
are you doing to celebrate the guy's not there? What
are you doing? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (26:43):
You know, he dreams a lot.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
So hopefully he got arrested and he's in jail.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Hopefully.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
That's a wonderful thought. Nothing negative about that at all.
He's great. Where are all these girls coming from? Where
are these what? Yes, well, they live where people build houses.
They're just living their life. They live in the you know,
the trees and the forest and all that.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
And yeah, really they come down to people's houses.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Yeah all the time. Yeah. Well, in California they live
in the mountains and they come down in the foothills.
But in North Carolina there's a lot of trees and forests,
and so they live in the forest and they looking
for food, trying to find food. They're kind of like
the bears are kind of like you. They're trying to
find food. They're looking around for food, and they just
come down and they yeah, very similar. Have I well
(27:39):
at the zoo, I've never No, I've never seen it.
I don't live in an area where the bears come down,
so I have not. Have you you live in Miami,
there's no bears. Have you seen Have you seen a gator? No?
Are they not? Are they not alligators in Miami? Is
that too? There are there are? But not where you live.
(28:00):
You live in like the city, and there's probably no
gators around there. Yeah. I have seen them where where
I used to do in Southeast I used to see
them well, yeah, if you're further north through I mean
the video remember the video a couple years ago somebody
went through the sewer system was like, was it Orlando
or Jacksonville? And there's like tons of gators just living
in the in the sewer system in one of those cities.
(28:21):
I forget which. Yeah, they're just living their greatest life. Man,
They're like, forget teenage mutant ninja turtles. You got teenage
mutant ninja gators down there. They're they're doing it. Man. Yeah, right,
are you excited for okkay? We man? You're fired up
for Oka Day? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:40):
So who are the Anses playing?
Speaker 1 (28:44):
We met? I thought you were a Yankee fan. Aren't
you supposed to know who the Yankees are playing?
Speaker 2 (28:48):
I don't know who are they playing?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
We are you gonna? You didn't watch any baseball this spring?
We met? Really? No, what do you ben? I don't
want to know what you do. Let me get your watch.
Are you watching movies on an illegal stream? You know?
I see, I know, I know we are right because
you watch me on the YouTube channel. I will give
(29:12):
you a pass. The Yankees open up at noon today.
They play the Milwaukee Brewers at Key Stadium. Weather permitting
at Yankee Stadium. It should be it should be. All right,
it's like fifty degrees I think first pitch, and I
don't think there's any rain today, So they should get
that game.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Oh no, that's great, I'll listen to it.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
There you go, all right, enjoy the game. So, yeah,
what I see you on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
But it's only your monologues.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
You don't get all the callers. Yeah, yeah, they don't.
They don't put all that. I don't know if they
can only put certain parts of it on. I don't know.
They should put the whole thing on there, but they don't.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
Yeah, they should, they really should.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
It's only yours. You realize that we don't have cameras
on the callers. You realize that, like, there's no camera
on the the people that call up. We're just we're
just there and they're not. There's no came we're not
stocking them, we're not putting cameras in their face and
all that. You wouldn't see them anywhere, the cameras on
your faces. And I'd be willing to do that if
they pay me accordingly, I'd be more than well, you
(30:14):
know that costs a little more money. I can't just
do that without being compensated. My pretty looks and all that. Anyway,
enjoy opening day now that you learned. I love weed Man.
Who are the Yankees playing? Who the Mets playing today?
Do we know the Mets are playing the cheating Ehstros?
It is the Ben Malors Show. As we are continuing on,
(30:37):
let's say hello to Scott who's in Des Moines? Hello Scott, welcome?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Hey, Hey, how are you guys doing today?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
If I was any better, I would be a sock,
But not a White Sox because they're terrible.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Definitely not though. Being a huge Dodger fan here in Iowa,
everybody here's the Cubs fan, and I'm so tired of
hearing how the Dodgers are ruining baseball. So maybe you
can help me understand this. So all these teams that
(31:12):
are paying the luxury tax, all that money gets thrown
into a pool and it gets distributed to all the
other teams. Is that right? Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah? Yeah? In fact, teams like the Athletics and the
Marlins and the Pirates they don't even spend. But I
think the Marlins are the ones that are the worst.
They don't spend even the bare minimum and yeah, they
get a fun They make money from the Dodgers and
the Red Sox and the teams that I spent a
lot of money. But here's like the argument is, the
Cubs could be doing the same thing. The guy that
(31:44):
owns the Cubs is worth a gazillion dollars. He could
do the same thing. He just chooses not to do it.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
So the so, for what I read, each team's getting
like two hundred and forty million dollars from this tax
the other teams are paying. But then you got the pirates,
who's whose teams only worked like sixty million. So why
are the people mad at the Dodgers when you should
be going to your teams and saying you're getting two
(32:09):
hundred and forty million dollars from the Yankees, You're getting
it from the match, you're getting from the Dodgers. Why
are you not putting this into players going on?
Speaker 1 (32:16):
Because I'm not you, Scott, but a lot of other
people not me. Of course, a lot of other people
are idiots. That's why they're jealous. It's jealousy, and that's
why they're complaining about the Dodgers and making a big
deal about that. But we got to leave it there, Scott,
Just enjoy where your Dodger capital annoy you, You're cub fan, friends,
and the Dodgers. This is the greatest time to be
a Dodger, for they've had some good runs over the
(32:38):
years of the Dodgers. This is there's nothing quite like
what's going on right now. This is absolutely saying and
it's not gonna last. At some point the money will
have to be paid, the deferred money, and either the
people owning the Dodgers now will sell the team and
they'll suck for twenty years down the line, but not
right now. So in the moment, all we have is
(32:59):
right now. Enjoy if you like the Dodgers. If not,
put some kind of spell, put some kind of voodoo
bugaloo on the Dodgers. It is the Ben Mahler Show.
We're gonna have ask Ban your questions our answers for
the rest of the hour. Hashtag ask Ban and friends.
You can ask me, Rain and Coop a little and
(33:19):
also Bill Miller usually just in the back there and
picks his nose, so not him, but ask Ben. We'll
get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
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(34:00):
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Speaker 4 (34:09):
Thank god for the Internet.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
We get off the air.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
It's now time for time for Horry horrya as Twitter said,
us your questions on Twitter. Now, hey, no way we go,
it is asked Ben and friends, your questions, our answers
for the rest of the hour, just to work him playing.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Exactly. All right, Well, let's get to it here with
the reading of the questions as I will take the
high ground and I will pass the baton and the
relay race of talk radio to the Kooper loop.
Speaker 7 (34:47):
Go ahead, cool, all right, Ben, We're gonna start off
with a question from ferg Dog.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Hi, Fergie, he wants to know.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
It's question for everybody. When's the last time you've been
on a boat.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
Oh, let me try to think. I like to go
on boats when I go places. I'm trying to think that.
I think the last time I was on a boat
was God, it's been a while. Oh you know. No,
it was in Charleston. I went on one in Charleston.
We went a little boat tour around Charleston. And then
before that was in Minnesota. We went to Lake Superior
and took a boat right around the brown water of
(35:22):
Lake Superior. It's beautiful, very cold, but it was beautiful.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
What about you, Lorraina, Oh goodness, it was just a
couple of weeks months ago.
Speaker 5 (35:31):
I was on the Queen Mary for brunch.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
That's a ship.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
That's not a moraina that it's not really it's a hotel.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, it's a ship.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
It's not and it doesn't it doesn't know, it doesn't
go anywhere. That doesn't count. It is landlocked the sense
I know it's in the water, but it doesn't go
out to see it doesn't know.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
Well, that's my answer. That doesn't Yeah, that doesn't count.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
No, it's nothing.
Speaker 4 (35:56):
The last time you were on a boat, like a boat.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That actually had had went out in the ocean.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
It was like a year ago.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Okay, well, I mean that's also a ship.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
But okay, where did you go on the cruise?
Speaker 5 (36:11):
We did the Port of Mexico stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
Yeah, okay, cool, God, terrible answer.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
You're a terrible answer. The last time I was at
least at least you know, places for the Seahawks.
Speaker 7 (36:24):
The last time I was on a boat was last
July in Chicago. I went on the architectural like river boat.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Oh I've done that. That's cool. Yeah, it was really cool,
really neat.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
It was on that one boat in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
In New Orleans, I did the boat with the crocodile house.
Alloted time to the honorable Larina. We moved on to
your time as ad the air boat.
Speaker 7 (36:51):
Yes, that counts as a boat. Anyway, Moving on, j
Z the Wingman would like to know, since it opening
day in Major League Baseball, what is your favorite ballpark food?
Speaker 1 (37:06):
So? I love the the pretzel, the soft pretzel, but
it can't be one of those. I don't want to
name him because they might be a sponsor at some
point here, but there's a national pretzel chain which doesn't
make very good ballpark pretzels. But if you're in a
town that has good pretzels, like Philadelphia or New York
or somewhere like that. I love a ballpark soft pretzel,
(37:27):
nachos and a bag of peanuts. I'm good. And in
San Francisco garlic fries. But that's about it. What about
you lorraina hot dog all day?
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Yes, most of.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
The ballpark hot dogs, only a few of them have
been good. Cleveland's got good hot dogs, Boston's got good
hot doggs. What about you Google.
Speaker 7 (37:45):
Loop nachos, but not not just like the regular like
nacho cheese and you know the round chip nachos. I
mean like with meat and sour cream, and you want
to mean guacamole.
Speaker 4 (38:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
My only problem with nachos is the same problem I
have with cereal. You've got to eat it fast, and
every second that goes by without out eating the nachos
or the cereal, it becomes a lesser meal. Like cereal,
I used to like it when I was a kid,
but I had to eat it so fast because it
becomes soggy. And the same thing with nachos. You have
to eat it very fast. It's soggy. It's not that
good anyway. What is next? What do we have? All right?
Speaker 7 (38:22):
Now, this one seems like it was gonna be a
good question, but I think it ends up not being
a good question because I think it's obvious.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Make it a good question?
Speaker 7 (38:29):
Well, well, Chicago bears twenty four. He wants to know
he's in Nebraska. Would you rather taste everything your hands
touch or everything your feet touch?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
That's an obvious one, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
I mean yeah, unless you're you're just walking on I
don't know what you would be walking on and you want.
Speaker 7 (38:49):
To yeah, I hands yeah, Yeah, all right, let's get
skip ahead of this.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
That's gotta be the dombest question we've ever been asked.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
I mean it was getting creative, which is good. I
like that, but then it was just too easy.
Speaker 1 (39:02):
I just gave up at the end.
Speaker 4 (39:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (39:04):
Out wants to know what was your go to beverage
growing up, excluding soda.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
I'll give you one. It's tang. I meant, when I
was a kid, my mom's oh, this is the stuff
astronauts were drinking in space, and it was just like
like sugar tang. What about you learned a quick like
tampico tampico cool?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
I liked.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
I remember when Snapple took off. There was a period
where Snapple. Everyone was drinking three bottles a day. Oh man,
it was so popular. Remember that that when you took
the lid off, that that snap sound. That's the name
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