July 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller opens hour 3 of the show with comments from Orioles GM Mike Elias saying the team is 'not committed to a path' for the trade deadline yet. Then, Ben explains why the Diamondbacks decided to ban a fan for the entire season? The Giants picked up manager Bob Melvin's contract option for the 2026 season... Is there anything to read into with the timing? Plus, more fun with a new editions of 'Too Much or Not Enough?' and 'Maller to the 3rd Degree'!
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hour is from baseball. We'll start out in Baltimore. Now,
the July fourth holiday, you're coming up at the end
of the week. The calendar has flipped over. It's today's
July second. If you're scoring it home. So we are
less than a month away from the July thirty first
trade deadline, which means you must line up who's going
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where and which teams are selling and which teams are buying. Now,
the Baltimore Orioles, we can all agree the Baltimore Orioles
are the most disappointing team in baseball. They were supposed
to be a playoff contender, and they were in the
plus back to back years. Now Baltimore, the Orioles find
themselves ten games under five hundred, I believe it is now,
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rather than hovering around ten or more games under five hundred,
seven games out of the final wild card berth in
the American League. And have you heard the message from
the front office? Perhaps not so. The GM Mike Elias,
who's got his DNA with the cheating. Asstros mich Elias
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spoke with the reporters recently, he made it clear that
the Orioles, he said, are hoping to contend they're ten
games under five hundred, but they're preparing for both sides
of the trade deadline. Quote. People are making their preparations.
They understand that we're not committed to a path yet,
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the oriole windbag said, but we're doing preparation in both
directions and have an understanding where that might go close quote.
So that is what's known as the money quote. So
let us discuss the question the GM Mike Olias saying
that the Orioles are not committed to a path for
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the upcoming trade deadline yet, how does that vibe with you?
So I've got Las Vegas neon sign, all right, Las
Vegas style neon sign. We've got cyber gangsters, paradise, and oatmeal,
and we will combine all of these things together and
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we are going to make a rubber ducky, which is
what Michael Leprechaun had with him when he walked out
of the building. He was carrying a grown man in
a Leprechaunt shirt with a rubber ducky. He had that
it squeaked. All right. So my first thought here in
terms of you know, we don't know what we're gonna do.
You know, the ools are confused and all that. No,
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no they're not. There's no confusion at all. Don't kid yourself.
The ools know exactly what they're gonna do. Baltimore is
setting the table. They're getting the gasoline, they're getting the
matchbook ready, and it's burn, baby, burn. They are gonna
have a fire sale. And it's even like playing poker, right,
like any savvy poker player sitting on a full house,
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they're pretending they're still deciding whether they're all in or not.
I got a full house, but I'm maybe I'm not
going on. Please all right this we're not committed to
a path yet. Dance from the GM Mike Elias there
in Baltimore is comedy goal, it's laughable. It's also the
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classic front office maneuvering that we see this time of
the year. If you've been around a few years, you
know this. You don't tip your hand before the auction starts.
You don't announce before you're going to auction. You create tension,
you create uncertainty, and you create mystery. That way, you
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don't just get people who are buying your product, you
get people who are bidding on your product. It's rather obviously.
The O's are preparing the Las Vegas style Neon sign
out in front of Cameron Yards, and it says price
to sell, price to sell. Now, not everything's gonna get traded.
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You can't trade everything, trade most everything though, right if
you most of the secondary players, you're not gonna trade
the front line guys. But that's it. And you know,
if you're the Orioles, you got the usual suspect, the Dodgers,
the Mets, the Red Sox, the Agante's, the teams that
are either in contention or should be in contention, that
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are desperate for help. And so you've got that in
your back pocket. And if they if they stink like
they have so far this yeah, I mean, listen, may
the Ols win ten in a row before the trade deadline,
we can revisit this. But the Orioles, they did that
they're a contender. When you're ten games under five hundred,
you're not a contender, right, And they'll trade. They'll begin
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by trading expiring contracts or players that are older and
things like that. But don't before. It's not so much
a strategy for the Orioles, right, it's it's theater, is
what it is here. It's the Donald Trump book, Art
of the Deal, you know, baseball style and all that. Now, meanwhile,
we have a fan put on time out. We go
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to the Valley of the Sun, where the Arizona Diamondbacks
have said bye bye. They announced that that fan that
interfered with a live ball in the game back on
Monday against the Higan Days, that that fan has been dismissed.
That same fan, for the last several years has been
involved in trying to catch balls in the outfield that
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ended up up either being fair balls or foulball. Not
foul balls, but fair balls are in play. And there's
a whole sizzle reel of this Gibbroni doing his thing. Well,
he's been banned from attending Diamondback games for the remainder
of the twenty twenty five MLB season. And this is
the second fan who's been banned from baseball this season
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because of the Diamondbacks. Coutell Marte famously had a breakdown
at a rather benign comment and the Diamondbacks. You would
have thought he was told the worst thing in the world.
They banned the White Sox banned the fan because Marte
overreacted and all that stuff. Well, now this fan has
been banned. So during Monday's game, the fan interfered with
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a hit from San Francisco third basement Christian Costs in
the eighth inning. He reached over the outfield wall sitting
out in left center field, reached over the wall, caught
the live ball with his club. So they went to
the replay and it was initially ruled the home run.
They went to the expedited replay review and determined that
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it was a ground rule double. So question, why why
did the Diamondbacks decide to ban the fan for the
rest of the twenty twenty five season for interfering with
a live ball. I know it's happened a few times,
but why now? Why? Now? Is this a bannable situation
for the Diamondbacks. So now we have the glove Gestapo
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that has arrived on the scene here and this is
like an international crime, international crime? What are you doing?
And I would say what in the wild? As Jackie
Slater fams, what in orld? Like? This guy's a serial offender,
That's what they're saying, well, serial offender, he's like the
Barry Bonds of interfering with batted balls in the outfield.
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So what's supposed to happen if you're sitting and this
guy obviously he knows, she's strategically sitting in the outfield
because he knows there's a certain amount of balls every
year that are hit in the power alley and a
lot of the home runs are hit there. So he's
sitting there because he wants to get home runs. So
you're in the front row, you've got your glove, and
the ball is hit, you're in the front row, it's
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heading towards you are You're gonna just sit there and
not move. You're like a guard at Buckingham Palace and
you just freeze and you don't do any Come on,
which was to lock this person up? I mean, we
were banning him. But if you're really honest on what
happened after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, If you look
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at this, the reason the only reason the Arizonder the
Diamondbacks now are doing this is because it went viral.
He's been involved that the same fan has been involved
in this for seven what three or four years. I
think four years prior to this year, he was never band.
What did nobody notice? Yeah, it didn't go viral. If
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it had gone viral, he would have been kicked out.
This is the difference, right, you had the cyber gangster's paradise.
You had the bots on x and TikTok and read it,
and who knows, maybe they brought back MySpace. They brought
that back there. Probably they're all dragging this guy through
the cyber mud. Ben him, bend him, bet for baseball,
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but throw him out, they screamed from the top of
the mountain. It is all performative pr that's performative reactionary
public relations. If two hundred people were watching that game,
if that was a Tampa Bay Rays game or a
Sacramento Athletics game, there would be two hundred people there
and instead of the vultures on social media, then nothing
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would have happened. Nothing. There was a pile on It
was a dog pile. And this is the guys, Oh
my god, does it Every year the clip went viral,
It made the rounds and got enough views. The team
became aware of it and they're like, this is a
bad look. Terrified of any bad publicity. All these teams
are and so they probably have three of their interns
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who are always on the social media, and there's all
this is bad. It makes us look bad. And so
they went on there and they tested the rage meter, said,
where does this is this trending topic? It is a
trending topic. Oh man, this is bad and we must
ban this person. So there you go ban them. Of course,
these things, as we pointed out, are impossible to de fallow.
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Meaning as long as you have somebody else buy the ticket,
what are you gonna do A you be like James
Dolan and sc scan the crowd and then I don't
think that's legal. I believe you'll end up in a
lawsuit and then it'll cost you more money. And so
good luck on that all right. Now, final fun to
send Francisco. We go the Giants and Diamondbacks playing a
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series this week, and the Giants decided to pick up
manager Bob Melvin's contract option for next season. Now, normally
we would not talking about this, but I thought it
was worthy of some conversation considering the way things have
gone for the Giants. So can you read anything into
the timing The timing of the Diamondbacks, giving manager Bob
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Melvin a contract extension just a couple weeks after they
acquired Rafael Devers from the Red Sox. So on this one,
if you follow the bread crump crumbs, If you follow
the bread crumbs, here, Buster Posey is calling the shots, right,
He's the big shot, he's the GM and all that.
So this is old school, this is how they used
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to operate in baseball. The Giants are scuffling. If they
were a fish, they'd be the flounder. They're floundering, the Giants,
and so they're playing like they collectively hit the snooze
button all of a sudden after a pretty good start,
couple of months of good baseball. Now, if you go
back to last month, the San Francisco Giants are under
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five hundred the last thirty plus games. They recently got
smoked by the Marlins and then went to Chicago and
played like clowns against the White Sox over the weekend.
So they're bleeding games in the standings to the Doyers.
And it's like a tradition this time of the year.
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And the Giants find themselves in the midst of this foggy,
mediocre period of baseball. So what do the higher ups do?
Old school extend the manager. We support Bob Melvin. We
support this guy. That is the dreaded vote of confidence.
It is the baseball version of the boss calling you
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into the office, calling you to the carpet, and it's like,
we really believe in your leadership, we really think you're
a great leader. And then they hand you a cardboard
box and say you have thirty minutes to get all
your knick knacks and all your stuff and please leave
the building and if not, we're going to call security.
I've had that happen to me, as you heard the
show multiple times. So Bob Melvin does do I think
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Bob Melvin is the problem? No? I don't do I
think Bob Melvin is the reason the Giants suck right
now the last month. No, but I know he's not
the solution. He doesn't have the answers. We know that,
and so he's not the problem. But he's not the solution.
So he's somewhere in the middle. And the Giants hired
him because he was the adult in the room. He
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was going to bring order and make this a professional
outfit that plays baseball the right way. And the Giants
over the last month have been waiting through the baseball
version of oatmeal, meaning the way they are playing right now,
especially on offense for the most part the Giants, it's
like oatmeal. It's thick, bland and hard to swallow. That's
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the that's the Giants and the way they played recently,
and it's the front office saying not Bob Melvin's fault.
We support Bob Melvin while secretly whispering, but if this
keeps going the way it's going in the rest of
July and August and September, then we are throwing you
overboard into McCovey cove before next season. Period, hard stop, period,
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hard stop. It is the Bean Mallord Show. You want
to comment on any of that, you can join us
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can also give us your reviews on Mike the Leprechaun
that was in here and he's left the building. He's
vacated the building. He did bring a lot of gifts,
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which was very kind of him to do. I've not
even gone through everything and give a lot of stuff
for Loraina and Coop and they're not here, and some
stuff for me as well. Time out for the Mallor
Riddle of the day. And here's the Malord Riddle of
the day. Chiefs Star Travis Kelcey says he can no
longer blank while playing golf because the Papa Rozzo are
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always watching. Again, Chief Star Travis Kelsey says he can
no longer blank while playing golf because the paparazzi are
always watching. That is the Mallard Riddle of the day.
The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do it next. Hey,
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Mike the Leppercott in here and Lorrain is gone and
she'll be back later like next week, so we have
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the producer's share Ian Roddy underscore in Roddy underscore. Now
back to it all right. The show continues and the
answer to the Mallard Riddle of the day, Chief star
Travis Kelsey says he can no longer blank while playing
golf because of the paparazzi. They're always watching. That is
the question. What's the answer? Mala prop guy says, carry
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his Mike the Leprechaun, Lucky Rubbert Ducky while he plays golf.
Let's see who else we have A Scrooge says he
can no longer get a hole in one unless he's
hanging out with his lady friend. Freddy says Travis couldn't
keep his chicken up. Ferg Dog says. Travis Kelsey says
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he could not eat fig Newton's anymore. They're terrible anyways,
is what he said. Mason listener Mason and Huntington Beach
says he can no longer shoot a par on the
windmill hole. Not able to do that. Alf the Alien
ol Piner says he can no longer Travis Kelsey wear
the lucky shirt Walle golfing, that's quite the quite the
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impressive lucky shirt. Sean in Portland says, hit on the
beer cart. Girls can't do that anymore? Who else do
we have? Page down Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says
Travis can no longer carry a rubber chicken around that
needs the Heimlich maneuver. Yeah, can no longer eat his
favorite snack dill pickle gummy worms from King Rory, wash
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his balls from Bobby in Florida. Can no longer play
scratch and snif According to Keith Ocho Texto in Houston,
Ozzy Was says, I know you don't do shoutouts. I
don't expect a happy birthday for my wonderful wife. No,
Ozzy Was, we will not wish your wife a happy
birthday at all because this is not a Morning Zoos show,
So unfortunately we cannot wish your wife a happy birthday.
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Helps you understands that Gummy Dave got this right, bad
job by him obviously cheating. Can no longer wear a
dread while playing golf, according to Milkman Mike in Colorado,
Mark from Queens, Who's living in Arlington says Kelsey cannot
fool around with Taylor Swift in the woods anymore because
the paparazzi is watching, can no longer dance like rerun
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from What's Happening. There's a dated reference from Greg the
real estate guy from Baltimore. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says,
wash his balls is the answer? All right, Mary, do
you have an answer to the malor riddle of the day.
Travis Kelsey says he can no longer blank while playing
golf because of the paparazzo are always watch. Uh new
a cartwheel? Cartwheel? That's a great answer. Unfortunately, as incorrect.
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It turns out that Travis Kelsey says he can no
longer pee in the bushes because the paparazzi are always watching.
And that is a staple of golf. That's what real
men of golf do You got there? You're on the
sixteenth hole, or maybe not the sixteen, how about the
eleventh hole, and you're you gotta go to the bathroom. You
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just go out to find a tree, that's it. But
when there's paparazzo out there, you cannot do that. So
we have to find a bathroom. Now it is the
Ben mallis ShW Let's go to the phones and we
will have a game show coming up in a few minutes.
We're gonna have too much or not enough. Let's say
hello to Eddie, our guy in Charlotte. Hello, Eddie, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Hey Ben. How's everything going on?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
This is thumbs up, thumbs down Eddie. He's a legend
on the show and he's a new I know you're
you're a New York Giants fan, but you're in Charlotte.
So that's fine, that's it. That's all right. But what
do we have today, Eddie? What do we have?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Okay? That's in baseball season? Okay, yes, the number is
twenty The number is twenty eight. For the first time
in Major League Baseball history at this point in the
season has been only twenty eight pitch complete games. Yeah,
so the thumbs up, but thumbs down. Do we like this?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
No? No, no, no, no, thumb's down. Two thumbs down
on this, two thumbs down on this, EDG. Yeah, let's
let's make starting pitching grade again. And people in baseball
know this is bad, Eddie. You know as well as I.
When baseball is at its greatest, people go to watch
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the starting pitcher. It's like a boxer is like a boxer, Eddie.
Right back in the day, like you go to see
a boxer and a dominant starting pitcher, and all these teams,
they all make the same excuse. Well, it's not our fault.
It starts in college, it starts in high school. We'll
fix it, all right, fix it and make it a priority.
Give the guy that goes along in the game more money, right, Eddie,
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thank you? Yeah, all right, I agree, all right.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
All right, room, then you get my glass.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
You're listening to our live coverages, is Eddie thumbs up?
Thumbs down, Eddie, he's now going to the glasses.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Oh, the gentlemen. I give him a B plus.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
B plus, not an A, but not a C and
not a D. He'll take that. He'll take that. The leprecha,
he said, he's back. Get his hotel room. He's listening,
he said, he's so he better be very good.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, okay, here we go. In October second, nineteen twenty
was the last triple header. It involved the Pittsburgh team
and the Cincinnati team. They was playing at triple header.
Some standings and weather and all that. Uh, thumbs up
with thumbs down. But maybe this team is getting the
triple header during the season.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
No, I'm gonna go thumbs down on that a little much.
I think they should have double headers on holidays, they
should play double headers. But yeah, I know it seems
like triple headers a little much, a little a little.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Too much, too much, too much.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I'm gonna go thumbs down on that. What about you, Eddie? Okay,
you go thumbs up and down, thumbs down, thumbs down. Yeah, yeh,
it does too like twos. I've been to some double headers,
believe it or not, and it was okay. I was
into if you're into it, I feel like three. Yeah,
that's pushing it like two's pushing it for a lot.
Like baseball. Remember when during the pandemic, like when they
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had double headers, they were like seven innings because they
didn't want to play the.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Full game exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Because somehow you wouldn't get sick if you played seven,
but if you played nine, you definitely get sick. You know,
big problem. Okay, last one, last one thrumbs up, thumbs
down at.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Basmall fashion here baseball fat all right. As far as
the city select uniforms they want to try to sell
you a tank top thumbs up the thumbs down for
the Tank Top City Select.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, I'm gonna go thumbs down. I know why they're
doing it, you know, and the Nike people that make
the uniforms that people don't buy ten different jerseys. The
jerseys don't change that much, so the only way to
move product they have to come up with this other stuff.
I'd say ninety seven percent of the City Connect jerseys suck,
so they're pretty bad.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Not all.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I mean there's some that are okay, Eddie. I mean
there's some that are right, but most of them are terrible. So, uh,
I wouldn't. I wouldn't spend a penny from Benny versus
the pat would not spend a penny on that stuff.
So I'm gonna go thumbs thumbs down. Yeah, all right,
you agree?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
All he can I give you? I want to know
your opinion thumbs up or thumbs down for Carrot Kick, Oh.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Right, I'm team No, No, don't. Mary's got two thumbs up, No, no,
thumbs down, thumbs down. No, that's bad, Joe. I don't
like I don't like carrots, so I don't like the carrots,
you know, I don't grow up. Wow, Mary, how dare you?
When it comes to cake, the key to the cake
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is the frosting. Anyway, that's the key to the cakes.
I understand. But I'll just eat the how about you,
I'll eat the frosting. You can have the cake with
the cake. You have to have both. No, you don't,
you know? All right, Eddie? Thank you, buddy? Call again?
All right, all right, all right, there's the great Eddie.
Thumbs up, thumbs down, Eddie. Tony in the Bay Area.
What's going on? Tony? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Hey man?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What do Mexican's called poppies picks? I don't know. Well,
there I go, thank Ben. Okay, all right, my god.
Tammy is in Montana. Hello, Tammy.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Hey Ben. I have to say that Mary is a
better producer. At least she doesn't interrupt you when you're talking.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Tom.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You're on the warpath here, Tammy, you were on the warpath,
my friend. Tammy fired up.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Out why Lorena does not play certain songs like Jayscoop
song for James. It's because she's not mentioned in them.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
No, I promise you that's not It's just Coop so lazy.
He won't put the song in I've told him to
do it. He thinks I'm kidding. I mean, I'm being
honest with you. I've tell him to do things he
doesn't do him. So I've tried to get him to
put the song in. He refuses to do it. It takes
about five minutes of his time to do it. He's
chosen not to put that song in. So it's I mean,
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we can't play it. It's not in the system. It's
only in his email. If it was in the system,
we'll be able to play it. There's nothing new with Lorena.
She would play I would tell her to play it.
She would play it. But it's not like Mary can't
play it because it's not in the system. So there's
no way to play it.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
So well, yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Orina likes to hear her name repeated. So anyway, one
last thing, because I don't know how you handle it. Then,
I don't know how you handle and deal with Bline
Scott without going absolutely insane.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
And well they do.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
They do pay me, so that is part of the reason, Tammy.
They pay me to this, So if they didn't pay me,
there would be a problem.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
But yeah, so well he just seems very angry, you know,
being a man or dressed and as a woman. He
needs to find something that makes him happy.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
So well he does. This show makes blind Scott happy.
This show makes good.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
He never sounds happy. I think he could be a furry.
If he was a furry, he might be happy.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Don't put don't put that out in the universe, Tammy.
We don't. I mean, come on, we got we we
would be happy. Well, Ferg dog is a furry, you
know dog.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Yeah, well we'd be happy because he'd be behind a
map least.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Okay, all right you are man Tam, thank you? All right,
Man Tam is getting ready for the octagon. She wants
to get in that octagon. She wants what she wants
to do. Man alive. All right, let's well, don't we
see Uh, let's just see this guy wants to play Tree.
You want to play the game Tree in Chicago? Would
you like to play the game Tree? You're down with it?
(28:21):
All right? Hold on, say here we hit that button there, Mary,
hit that button for the big game show here. We're
gonna have too much or not enough. We have a
big highly produced open here were and play this and
all right, let's do it here we go too much
or not enough, and we have a man. If you
(28:43):
get a package delivered in Chicago, it likely was in
the back of the truck that Tree is driving around
the Windy City and hello, Tree, you're gonna play the game.
I know you didn't call for this, but you're gonna play.
You're gonna be good sport, right of course, all right,
but how's how's a lot of treating in Chicago? Everything good?
Good man at ol'd hair Airport right now, just doing
what I do, beautiful. I one time got stuck in
(29:06):
a lightning storm at O'Hare Airport. This is in the
years before they changed the rules, and I spent Okay,
I think it was six hours. They had left the
gate and we were waiting to take off, and then
they said that the airport was closed and it was
closed for like six hours, and we sat in that plane.
It was a nightmare. Anyway, anytime I go to O'Hare,
(29:28):
I think of that obvious reasons. Okay, yeah, well, let's
play the game. Tree is in Chicago picking up some deliveries.
You're gonna get three right to win, three right to win?
Are you ready? All right? Question number one, Number So
the Milwaukee Bucks just signed Miles Turner, coming off an
NBA Finals appearance. In the Finals, across the seven game series,
(29:48):
Turner made twenty five total baskets. Is that too much
or not enough? Tree in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Mouths didn't play too good.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I'm gonna say not enough, all right, believe not. The
answer is too much. He made barely over that, barely
under that. He made twenty three shots, twenty three totals
under one. That's all right. You have more questions our
question number two. After adding DK Metcalf and Aaron Rogers
(30:21):
this offseason, the Pittsburgh Steelers have just recently traded for
Jalen Ramsey. In his entire career with Jacksonville and the
Rams and the Dolphins, Ramsey has twenty two interceptions. Is
that too much or not enough? Too much you sure
(30:42):
about that?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Don't go with too much?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
You're gonna go with too much? You sure? Let's find out. No,
that's not enough twenty I tried to talk into it.
Twenty four passes. He's intercepted twenty four passes his nine
year career. So again, it was close, but there's not
enough more than twenty two. Question number three Darren Waller
(31:07):
is coming out of a brief one year retirement. He
was traded from the Giants to the Dolphins. He'll be
playing in Miami. Just before this year off. Waller played
one season for the Giants. In that loan season, he
caught just three total touchdown passes. Is that too much
or not enough?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Oh? Man?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
He was terrible that year. Yeah, he was pretty bid.
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say under three because I
remember the game. When do you think that's too much?
All right, let's see is that too much? There you go?
You got one? Right? How about that? I got only
one touchdown in twelve games Darren Waller for the Giants.
So you're on the board.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
He was so bad that he's so bad he didn't retire.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He got suspended from the NFL. He was so bad,
but they said he was retired. But no, no, All right,
let's go to question number four. And you're listening to
the tree. He's at O'Hare Airport picking up some deliveries
right now. Question number four got to get this right
to stay alive. Jeremiah Smith spoke to the Athletic. That's
the wide receiver from the Ohio State University and gave
(32:16):
a money quote. He says he promised he won't lose
another game to Michigan in the past. The season's loss
to the Wold rains. He had sixty receiving yards in
the big game. There is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
When they lost the game? I think sixty yards was
too much.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Okay, let's find out you're right, stay alive. If not,
you lose, let's find out here.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
You got your role about that?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Were even up too much? I only had thirty five
receiving yards in that game. He did have a touchdown.
So here it comes down to question number five. Will
the tree get higher in the sky or will we
up the tree down right now? We say well, we
say timber, or we say you're gonna win our question five.
(33:05):
This is Game seven of the World Series. This is
Game seven of the Finals. NBA Finals is Super Bowl.
Here we go, it's all online. Are you ready? Tree?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Alright, let's go, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The man sounds very confident, very calm. The New York
Knicks are reportedly bringing back Mike Brown for a second interview.
He's definitely an experienced candidate, having been an NBA coach
for ten seasons. Is that too much or not enough
(33:36):
for Mike Brown?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Oh man, NB your coach for ten seasons?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Think about it, King Laker, Yeah, that's right. You know
every team's coached. That's good. Uh Man, I'm gonna go
with ten seasons is too much? You sure about that?
You positive? You want to go too much? You don't
want to change that answer.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I thank you do a reverse psychology. So yes, I'm
gonna stick with my asses.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
So you don't think I like you. You think I'm
trying to tell you that to lose. All right, let's
find out your final answer is what.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Ten season is too much?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Find out you lost? It's not enough. No, I actually
liked you. I wanted you to win, but no, So
instead Tree, we're gonna give you you do not win,
but I'm gonna give you a lifetime supply nothing. Tree.
So whenever you want nothing, you know, your birthday holidays,
you think of the Ben Malor Show, the show that
gives you nothing, and we'll give you a way round
(34:32):
trip to nowhere that's nowhere, Oklahoma until they get an airport.
Then that's void. So round trip to nowhere and a
lifetime supply nothing. Because we're the Ben Malor show. We
have no budget. Well, thank you tree, safe travels around Chicago.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
There.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
We thank you for listening every night. We appreciate you.
Thank you. Be good, my man. All right, there is
a tree in chicag I tried to help him, did I?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Did?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I not try to help him? You did?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
You even gave him the opportunity to go back and
switch it to the answer.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Multiple times, right, like we're literally multiple times. I was like,
I want this guy to win. It did not work out.
You thought you were trying to minipure I thought I
was trying to screw him over. I wasn't trying to
screw them over. All right, straight at we are gonna
have We're gonna time shift for ratings purposes. We are
gonna have Mallor to the third degree, Malor the thirty.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
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his third degree. Time. We've time shifted this for ratings purposes,
(36:15):
so we passed the mic over to producer of the night,
Ian Roddy.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
All right, so first question here for you, Ben. Famed
YouTuber turn boxer Jake Paul defeated thirty nine year old
Julio Caesar Chavez Junior via unanimous decision a few days ago,
making yet another crazy victory over a long pastest prime
former boxing champion. So now the WBA, which is one
of the sports Big four governing bodies, they've added Paul
(36:42):
to its World cruiserweight rankings, putting him a number fourteen.
So none of the other three big, big governing bodies
have done that yet you are the first ones. But Ben,
do you like the decision to add Paul to the
official World rankings or is it not really?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
No, No, it's ridiculous. Listen, boxing is hanging out, it's
on fumes. I used to love boxing growing up. It's
the UFC is kicking their ass every single day of
the week. It's embarrassing for boxing. They still have this
alphabet soup, these four different things. They no one has
the balls to consolidate boxing the w A, WBA. As
you say, you talk about losing credibility, it's ridiculous. Number two,
(37:19):
Jake Paul is a grifter, He's a carpetbagger, he's a
side show. To give him any kind of credibility is embarrassing.
It's ridiculous. He's fighting tomato cans on a regular basis.
And you know there are many on the internet. I'm
not one of these people saying, don't sue me that
claim on these these are all scripted fights. I I
don't know whether that's true or not. I just things
(37:40):
I've read on the internet. But it's it's embarrassing to
make this seem legitimate. Bad job by the w BA next.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Yeah, so you alluded to it in the last segment there,
But the athletics man in Navara release Blair recent recently
release a feature on Ohio States the paywall at the
Athletic Yeah yeah, yeah so, and it's Smith detailed his
hate for Michigan, how crazy it was losing to them
last year, and in the article, he also promised on
the record that he will not lose another game to them.
(38:10):
That'd be the next two years before he has the
NFL at first, So, Ben, do you buy Smith's guarantee
that the Buckeyes won't lose the next time?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
But what did he put on He's gonna cut a
toe off or a finger? If he did not specify
whether he's got a real bet dead and listen, what's
he supposed to say? The most amazing thing about Jeremiah
Smith is he is making, if the Internet is right,
four point two million his his salary at Ohio State
four point two million in nil money. Aren't you supposed
(38:37):
to win every game when you were When you're at
four point two million dollars, He's third in all of
college football in nil money, which is amazing. That's wild
to me. Uh, he's a great he's a great talent.
He's going to be drafted in the top two or
three of the NFL draft, assuming he doesn't fall apart
before he can be drafted and all that stuff. But
(38:59):
he has to say they're gonna beat Michi. If you're
at Ohio State, it's like it's like being at sc
and saying, well, we're not gonna I think we'll lose
to Notre Dame this year or UCLA. You can't say that,
all right, I know you're an old trojan.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Next Yesterday, the Dolphins traded Jalen Ramsey and tight end
John new Smith to the Steelers for Minka Fitzpatrick and
a Day three pickswap so Ben, who do you think
won the trade?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
So I'm gonna discount John new Smith for a second,
just on the defensive back. For the safety, I'm gonna
give that to Jalen Ramsey. I don't think he's even closed.
Like Ramsey, he is tiptoeing towards the end of his
career because of the age thing. He's still got a
little fuel left in the tank. If you look at
Minka Fitzpatrick in Pittsburgh last year, he allowed a career
(39:45):
high opposing passer rating the numbers across the board, like
he was so much worse than he had been, like
he fell into an abyss there in Pittsburgh. And so
it's not surprising that they traded. And maybe you'll find
the fountain of youth. As you know, the found of
Youth is in Florida. Ponce de Leon somewhere in Florida
has the fund. I think it's in Tampa actually, but
(40:05):
but no, I'm gonna I'm gonna say the Steelers won
the trade. I mean, John O. Smith is that great,
but he's he's better and Jalen Ramsey's better than this Patrick.
All right there it is mallor to the third degree Ian,
How did we do crunching the numbers?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Here?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
And yep, yeap looks like he has a win.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Look at that bunner on the Lord another win.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I'm the all time wins king. No one else
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hour is from baseball. We'll start out in Baltimore. Now,
the July fourth holiday, you're coming up at the end
of the week. The calendar has flipped over. It's today's
July second. If you're scoring it home. So we are
less than a month away from the July thirty first
trade deadline, which means you must line up who's going
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where and which teams are selling and which teams are buying. Now,
the Baltimore Orioles, we can all agree the Baltimore Orioles
are the most disappointing team in baseball. They were supposed
to be a playoff contender, and they were in the
plus back to back years. Now Baltimore, the Orioles find
themselves ten games under five hundred, I believe it is now,
(02:24):
rather than hovering around ten or more games under five hundred,
seven games out of the final wild card berth in
the American League. And have you heard the message from
the front office? Perhaps not so. The GM Mike Elias,
who's got his DNA with the cheating. Asstros mich Elias
(02:44):
spoke with the reporters recently, he made it clear that
the Orioles, he said, are hoping to contend they're ten
games under five hundred, but they're preparing for both sides
of the trade deadline. Quote. People are making their preparations.
They understand that we're not committed to a path yet,
(03:05):
the oriole windbag said, but we're doing preparation in both
directions and have an understanding where that might go close quote.
So that is what's known as the money quote. So
let us discuss the question the GM Mike Olias saying
that the Orioles are not committed to a path for
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the upcoming trade deadline yet, how does that vibe with you?
So I've got Las Vegas neon sign, all right, Las
Vegas style neon sign. We've got cyber gangsters, paradise, and oatmeal,
and we will combine all of these things together and
(03:48):
we are going to make a rubber ducky, which is
what Michael Leprechaun had with him when he walked out
of the building. He was carrying a grown man in
a Leprechaunt shirt with a rubber ducky. He had that
it squeaked. All right. So my first thought here in
terms of you know, we don't know what we're gonna do.
You know, the ools are confused and all that. No,
(04:09):
no they're not. There's no confusion at all. Don't kid yourself.
The ools know exactly what they're gonna do. Baltimore is
setting the table. They're getting the gasoline, they're getting the
matchbook ready, and it's burn, baby, burn. They are gonna
have a fire sale. And it's even like playing poker, right,
like any savvy poker player sitting on a full house,
(04:31):
they're pretending they're still deciding whether they're all in or not.
I got a full house, but I'm maybe I'm not
going on. Please all right this we're not committed to
a path yet. Dance from the GM Mike Elias there
in Baltimore is comedy goal, it's laughable. It's also the
(04:52):
classic front office maneuvering that we see this time of
the year. If you've been around a few years, you
know this. You don't tip your hand before the auction starts.
You don't announce before you're going to auction. You create tension,
you create uncertainty, and you create mystery. That way, you
(05:12):
don't just get people who are buying your product, you
get people who are bidding on your product. It's rather obviously.
The O's are preparing the Las Vegas style Neon sign
out in front of Cameron Yards, and it says price
to sell, price to sell. Now, not everything's gonna get traded.
(05:32):
You can't trade everything, trade most everything though, right if
you most of the secondary players, you're not gonna trade
the front line guys. But that's it. And you know,
if you're the Orioles, you got the usual suspect, the Dodgers,
the Mets, the Red Sox, the Agante's, the teams that
are either in contention or should be in contention, that
(05:53):
are desperate for help. And so you've got that in
your back pocket. And if they if they stink like
they have so far this yeah, I mean, listen, may
the Ols win ten in a row before the trade deadline,
we can revisit this. But the Orioles, they did that
they're a contender. When you're ten games under five hundred,
you're not a contender, right, And they'll trade. They'll begin
(06:15):
by trading expiring contracts or players that are older and
things like that. But don't before. It's not so much
a strategy for the Orioles, right, it's it's theater, is
what it is here. It's the Donald Trump book, Art
of the Deal, you know, baseball style and all that. Now, meanwhile,
we have a fan put on time out. We go
(06:37):
to the Valley of the Sun, where the Arizona Diamondbacks
have said bye bye. They announced that that fan that
interfered with a live ball in the game back on
Monday against the Higan Days, that that fan has been dismissed.
That same fan, for the last several years has been
involved in trying to catch balls in the outfield that
(06:59):
ended up up either being fair balls or foulball. Not
foul balls, but fair balls are in play. And there's
a whole sizzle reel of this Gibbroni doing his thing. Well,
he's been banned from attending Diamondback games for the remainder
of the twenty twenty five MLB season. And this is
the second fan who's been banned from baseball this season
(07:24):
because of the Diamondbacks. Coutell Marte famously had a breakdown
at a rather benign comment and the Diamondbacks. You would
have thought he was told the worst thing in the world.
They banned the White Sox banned the fan because Marte
overreacted and all that stuff. Well, now this fan has
been banned. So during Monday's game, the fan interfered with
(07:46):
a hit from San Francisco third basement Christian Costs in
the eighth inning. He reached over the outfield wall sitting
out in left center field, reached over the wall, caught
the live ball with his club. So they went to
the replay and it was initially ruled the home run.
They went to the expedited replay review and determined that
(08:08):
it was a ground rule double. So question, why why
did the Diamondbacks decide to ban the fan for the
rest of the twenty twenty five season for interfering with
a live ball. I know it's happened a few times,
but why now? Why? Now? Is this a bannable situation
for the Diamondbacks. So now we have the glove Gestapo
(08:32):
that has arrived on the scene here and this is
like an international crime, international crime? What are you doing?
And I would say what in the wild? As Jackie
Slater fams, what in orld? Like? This guy's a serial offender,
That's what they're saying, well, serial offender, he's like the
Barry Bonds of interfering with batted balls in the outfield.
(08:56):
So what's supposed to happen if you're sitting and this
guy obviously he knows, she's strategically sitting in the outfield
because he knows there's a certain amount of balls every
year that are hit in the power alley and a
lot of the home runs are hit there. So he's
sitting there because he wants to get home runs. So
you're in the front row, you've got your glove, and
the ball is hit, you're in the front row, it's
(09:19):
heading towards you are You're gonna just sit there and
not move. You're like a guard at Buckingham Palace and
you just freeze and you don't do any Come on,
which was to lock this person up? I mean, we
were banning him. But if you're really honest on what
happened after a minutes long Mallard deliberation, If you look
(09:41):
at this, the reason the only reason the Arizonder the
Diamondbacks now are doing this is because it went viral.
He's been involved that the same fan has been involved
in this for seven what three or four years. I
think four years prior to this year, he was never band.
What did nobody notice? Yeah, it didn't go viral. If
(10:03):
it had gone viral, he would have been kicked out.
This is the difference, right, you had the cyber gangster's paradise.
You had the bots on x and TikTok and read it,
and who knows, maybe they brought back MySpace. They brought
that back there. Probably they're all dragging this guy through
the cyber mud. Ben him, bend him, bet for baseball,
(10:28):
but throw him out, they screamed from the top of
the mountain. It is all performative pr that's performative reactionary
public relations. If two hundred people were watching that game,
if that was a Tampa Bay Rays game or a
Sacramento Athletics game, there would be two hundred people there
and instead of the vultures on social media, then nothing
(10:53):
would have happened. Nothing. There was a pile on It
was a dog pile. And this is the guys, Oh
my god, does it Every year the clip went viral,
It made the rounds and got enough views. The team
became aware of it and they're like, this is a
bad look. Terrified of any bad publicity. All these teams
are and so they probably have three of their interns
(11:14):
who are always on the social media, and there's all
this is bad. It makes us look bad. And so
they went on there and they tested the rage meter, said,
where does this is this trending topic? It is a
trending topic. Oh man, this is bad and we must
ban this person. So there you go ban them. Of course,
these things, as we pointed out, are impossible to de fallow.
(11:36):
Meaning as long as you have somebody else buy the ticket,
what are you gonna do A you be like James
Dolan and sc scan the crowd and then I don't
think that's legal. I believe you'll end up in a
lawsuit and then it'll cost you more money. And so
good luck on that all right. Now, final fun to
send Francisco. We go the Giants and Diamondbacks playing a
(11:58):
series this week, and the Giants decided to pick up
manager Bob Melvin's contract option for next season. Now, normally
we would not talking about this, but I thought it
was worthy of some conversation considering the way things have
gone for the Giants. So can you read anything into
the timing The timing of the Diamondbacks, giving manager Bob
(12:21):
Melvin a contract extension just a couple weeks after they
acquired Rafael Devers from the Red Sox. So on this one,
if you follow the bread crump crumbs, If you follow
the bread crumbs, here, Buster Posey is calling the shots, right,
He's the big shot, he's the GM and all that.
So this is old school, this is how they used
(12:43):
to operate in baseball. The Giants are scuffling. If they
were a fish, they'd be the flounder. They're floundering, the Giants,
and so they're playing like they collectively hit the snooze
button all of a sudden after a pretty good start,
couple of months of good baseball. Now, if you go
back to last month, the San Francisco Giants are under
(13:04):
five hundred the last thirty plus games. They recently got
smoked by the Marlins and then went to Chicago and
played like clowns against the White Sox over the weekend.
So they're bleeding games in the standings to the Doyers.
And it's like a tradition this time of the year.
(13:25):
And the Giants find themselves in the midst of this foggy,
mediocre period of baseball. So what do the higher ups do?
Old school extend the manager. We support Bob Melvin. We
support this guy. That is the dreaded vote of confidence.
It is the baseball version of the boss calling you
(13:46):
into the office, calling you to the carpet, and it's like,
we really believe in your leadership, we really think you're
a great leader. And then they hand you a cardboard
box and say you have thirty minutes to get all
your knick knacks and all your stuff and please leave
the building and if not, we're going to call security.
I've had that happen to me, as you heard the
show multiple times. So Bob Melvin does do I think
(14:09):
Bob Melvin is the problem? No? I don't do I
think Bob Melvin is the reason the Giants suck right
now the last month. No, but I know he's not
the solution. He doesn't have the answers. We know that,
and so he's not the problem. But he's not the solution.
So he's somewhere in the middle. And the Giants hired
him because he was the adult in the room. He
(14:29):
was going to bring order and make this a professional
outfit that plays baseball the right way. And the Giants
over the last month have been waiting through the baseball
version of oatmeal, meaning the way they are playing right now,
especially on offense for the most part the Giants, it's
like oatmeal. It's thick, bland and hard to swallow. That's
(14:54):
the that's the Giants and the way they played recently,
and it's the front office saying not Bob Melvin's fault.
We support Bob Melvin while secretly whispering, but if this
keeps going the way it's going in the rest of
July and August and September, then we are throwing you
overboard into McCovey cove before next season. Period, hard stop, period,
(15:16):
hard stop. It is the Bean Mallord Show. You want
to comment on any of that, you can join us
right now. We'll take your phone calls. There's one light
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can also give us your reviews on Mike the Leprechaun
that was in here and he's left the building. He's
vacated the building. He did bring a lot of gifts,
(15:37):
which was very kind of him to do. I've not
even gone through everything and give a lot of stuff
for Loraina and Coop and they're not here, and some
stuff for me as well. Time out for the Mallor
Riddle of the day. And here's the Malord Riddle of
the day. Chiefs Star Travis Kelcey says he can no
longer blank while playing golf because the Papa Rozzo are
(15:59):
always watching. Again, Chief Star Travis Kelsey says he can
no longer blank while playing golf because the paparazzi are
always watching. That is the Mallard Riddle of the day.
The answer, We'll get to it. We'll do it next. Hey,
it's Ben, host of the Fifth Hour with Ben Maller.
Would mean a lot to have you join us on
(16:20):
our weekly auditory journey. You're asking, what in God's name
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Speaker 2 (16:45):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app Bill Miller and you.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
It is the Ben Mahler Show, up all night every night.
You can interapp with this show on the phones. And
we're just a few minutes away from another game show
whether you like it or not. Yeah, coming up a
little bit later this hour, we will have too Much
or Not Enough. We want to be a contestant on
that eight seven seven nine to nine, six six three
(17:18):
sixty nine lines are full. Wait till someone hangs up,
and then you can be a contestant on Too Much
or Not Enough. Also later this hour, because we had
Mike the Leppercott in here and Lorrain is gone and
she'll be back later like next week, so we have
time shifted Mallard of the third degree for ratings purposes.
(17:40):
That'll be coming up at the end of this hour.
You can interact with us on the X machine at
Banton mallor Salo to Mary, our friend. Mary's here. She
loves working in the overnight shift. He's wide awake, she's
not half sleep at all. She's smiling. She's very happy.
To be here unless she's not marry The boardop on
acting salo to our friend Mary, and Ian is in
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the producer's share Ian Roddy underscore in Roddy underscore. Now
back to it all right. The show continues and the
answer to the Mallard Riddle of the day, Chief star
Travis Kelsey says he can no longer blank while playing
golf because of the paparazzi. They're always watching. That is
the question. What's the answer? Mala prop guy says, carry
(18:23):
his Mike the Leprechaun, Lucky Rubbert Ducky while he plays golf.
Let's see who else we have A Scrooge says he
can no longer get a hole in one unless he's
hanging out with his lady friend. Freddy says Travis couldn't
keep his chicken up. Ferg Dog says. Travis Kelsey says
(18:44):
he could not eat fig Newton's anymore. They're terrible anyways,
is what he said. Mason listener Mason and Huntington Beach
says he can no longer shoot a par on the
windmill hole. Not able to do that. Alf the Alien
ol Piner says he can no longer Travis Kelsey wear
the lucky shirt Walle golfing, that's quite the quite the
(19:05):
impressive lucky shirt. Sean in Portland says, hit on the
beer cart. Girls can't do that anymore? Who else do
we have? Page down Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says
Travis can no longer carry a rubber chicken around that
needs the Heimlich maneuver. Yeah, can no longer eat his
favorite snack dill pickle gummy worms from King Rory, wash
(19:30):
his balls from Bobby in Florida. Can no longer play
scratch and snif According to Keith Ocho Texto in Houston,
Ozzy Was says, I know you don't do shoutouts. I
don't expect a happy birthday for my wonderful wife. No,
Ozzy Was, we will not wish your wife a happy
birthday at all because this is not a Morning Zoos show,
So unfortunately we cannot wish your wife a happy birthday.
(19:52):
Helps you understands that Gummy Dave got this right, bad
job by him obviously cheating. Can no longer wear a
dread while playing golf, according to Milkman Mike in Colorado,
Mark from Queens, Who's living in Arlington says Kelsey cannot
fool around with Taylor Swift in the woods anymore because
the paparazzi is watching, can no longer dance like rerun
(20:14):
from What's Happening. There's a dated reference from Greg the
real estate guy from Baltimore. Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says,
wash his balls is the answer? All right, Mary, do
you have an answer to the malor riddle of the day.
Travis Kelsey says he can no longer blank while playing
golf because of the paparazzo are always watch. Uh new
a cartwheel? Cartwheel? That's a great answer. Unfortunately, as incorrect.
(20:38):
It turns out that Travis Kelsey says he can no
longer pee in the bushes because the paparazzi are always watching.
And that is a staple of golf. That's what real
men of golf do You got there? You're on the
sixteenth hole, or maybe not the sixteen, how about the
eleventh hole, and you're you gotta go to the bathroom. You
(20:58):
just go out to find a tree, that's it. But
when there's paparazzo out there, you cannot do that. So
we have to find a bathroom. Now it is the
Ben mallis ShW Let's go to the phones and we
will have a game show coming up in a few minutes.
We're gonna have too much or not enough. Let's say
hello to Eddie, our guy in Charlotte. Hello, Eddie, Welcome.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Hey Ben. How's everything going on?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
This is thumbs up, thumbs down Eddie. He's a legend
on the show and he's a new I know you're
you're a New York Giants fan, but you're in Charlotte.
So that's fine, that's it. That's all right. But what
do we have today, Eddie? What do we have?
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Okay? That's in baseball season? Okay, yes, the number is
twenty The number is twenty eight. For the first time
in Major League Baseball history at this point in the
season has been only twenty eight pitch complete games. Yeah,
so the thumbs up, but thumbs down. Do we like this?
Speaker 1 (21:51):
No? No, no, no, no, thumb's down. Two thumbs down
on this, two thumbs down on this, EDG. Yeah, let's
let's make starting pitching grade again. And people in baseball
know this is bad, Eddie. You know as well as I.
When baseball is at its greatest, people go to watch
(22:11):
the starting pitcher. It's like a boxer is like a boxer, Eddie.
Right back in the day, like you go to see
a boxer and a dominant starting pitcher, and all these teams,
they all make the same excuse. Well, it's not our fault.
It starts in college, it starts in high school. We'll
fix it, all right, fix it and make it a priority.
Give the guy that goes along in the game more money, right, Eddie,
(22:34):
thank you? Yeah, all right, I agree, all right.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
All right, room, then you get my glass.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
You're listening to our live coverages, is Eddie thumbs up?
Thumbs down, Eddie, he's now going to the glasses.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Oh, the gentlemen. I give him a B plus.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
B plus, not an A, but not a C and
not a D. He'll take that. He'll take that. The leprecha,
he said, he's back. Get his hotel room. He's listening,
he said, he's so he better be very good.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
Yeah, okay, here we go. In October second, nineteen twenty
was the last triple header. It involved the Pittsburgh team
and the Cincinnati team. They was playing at triple header.
Some standings and weather and all that. Uh, thumbs up
with thumbs down. But maybe this team is getting the
triple header during the season.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
No, I'm gonna go thumbs down on that a little much.
I think they should have double headers on holidays, they
should play double headers. But yeah, I know it seems
like triple headers a little much, a little a little.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Too much, too much, too much.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I'm gonna go thumbs down on that. What about you, Eddie? Okay,
you go thumbs up and down, thumbs down, thumbs down. Yeah, yeh,
it does too like twos. I've been to some double headers,
believe it or not, and it was okay. I was
into if you're into it, I feel like three. Yeah,
that's pushing it like two's pushing it for a lot.
Like baseball. Remember when during the pandemic, like when they
(24:01):
had double headers, they were like seven innings because they
didn't want to play the.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Full game exactly exactly.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Because somehow you wouldn't get sick if you played seven,
but if you played nine, you definitely get sick. You know,
big problem. Okay, last one, last one thrumbs up, thumbs
down at.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Basmall fashion here baseball fat all right. As far as
the city select uniforms they want to try to sell
you a tank top thumbs up the thumbs down for
the Tank Top City Select.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Yeah, I'm gonna go thumbs down. I know why they're
doing it, you know, and the Nike people that make
the uniforms that people don't buy ten different jerseys. The
jerseys don't change that much, so the only way to
move product they have to come up with this other stuff.
I'd say ninety seven percent of the City Connect jerseys suck,
so they're pretty bad.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
Not all.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
I mean there's some that are okay, Eddie. I mean
there's some that are right, but most of them are terrible. So, uh,
I wouldn't. I wouldn't spend a penny from Benny versus
the pat would not spend a penny on that stuff.
So I'm gonna go thumbs thumbs down. Yeah, all right,
you agree?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
All he can I give you? I want to know
your opinion thumbs up or thumbs down for Carrot Kick, Oh.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Right, I'm team No, No, don't. Mary's got two thumbs up, No, no,
thumbs down, thumbs down. No, that's bad, Joe. I don't
like I don't like carrots, so I don't like the carrots,
you know, I don't grow up. Wow, Mary, how dare you?
When it comes to cake, the key to the cake
(25:35):
is the frosting. Anyway, that's the key to the cakes.
I understand. But I'll just eat the how about you,
I'll eat the frosting. You can have the cake with
the cake. You have to have both. No, you don't,
you know? All right, Eddie? Thank you, buddy? Call again?
All right, all right, all right, there's the great Eddie.
Thumbs up, thumbs down, Eddie. Tony in the Bay Area.
What's going on? Tony? Welcome?
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Hey man?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What do Mexican's called poppies picks? I don't know. Well,
there I go, thank Ben. Okay, all right, my god.
Tammy is in Montana. Hello, Tammy.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Hey Ben. I have to say that Mary is a
better producer. At least she doesn't interrupt you when you're talking.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Tom.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You're on the warpath here, Tammy, you were on the warpath,
my friend. Tammy fired up.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Out why Lorena does not play certain songs like Jayscoop
song for James. It's because she's not mentioned in them.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
No, I promise you that's not It's just Coop so lazy.
He won't put the song in I've told him to
do it. He thinks I'm kidding. I mean, I'm being
honest with you. I've tell him to do things he
doesn't do him. So I've tried to get him to
put the song in. He refuses to do it. It takes
about five minutes of his time to do it. He's
chosen not to put that song in. So it's I mean,
(26:52):
we can't play it. It's not in the system. It's
only in his email. If it was in the system,
we'll be able to play it. There's nothing new with Lorena.
She would play I would tell her to play it.
She would play it. But it's not like Mary can't
play it because it's not in the system. So there's
no way to play it.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
So well, yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
Orina likes to hear her name repeated. So anyway, one
last thing, because I don't know how you handle it. Then,
I don't know how you handle and deal with Bline
Scott without going absolutely insane.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
And well they do.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
They do pay me, so that is part of the reason, Tammy.
They pay me to this, So if they didn't pay me,
there would be a problem.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
But yeah, so well he just seems very angry, you know,
being a man or dressed and as a woman. He
needs to find something that makes him happy.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
So well he does. This show makes blind Scott happy.
This show makes good.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
He never sounds happy. I think he could be a furry.
If he was a furry, he might be happy.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Don't put don't put that out in the universe, Tammy.
We don't. I mean, come on, we got we we
would be happy. Well, Ferg dog is a furry, you
know dog.
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Yeah, well we'd be happy because he'd be behind a
map least.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
Okay, all right you are man Tam, thank you? All right,
Man Tam is getting ready for the octagon. She wants
to get in that octagon. She wants what she wants
to do. Man alive. All right, let's well, don't we
see Uh, let's just see this guy wants to play Tree.
You want to play the game Tree in Chicago? Would
you like to play the game Tree? You're down with it?
(28:21):
All right? Hold on, say here we hit that button there, Mary,
hit that button for the big game show here. We're
gonna have too much or not enough. We have a
big highly produced open here were and play this and
all right, let's do it here we go too much
or not enough, and we have a man. If you
(28:43):
get a package delivered in Chicago, it likely was in
the back of the truck that Tree is driving around
the Windy City and hello, Tree, you're gonna play the game.
I know you didn't call for this, but you're gonna play.
You're gonna be good sport, right of course, all right,
but how's how's a lot of treating in Chicago? Everything good?
Good man at ol'd hair Airport right now, just doing
what I do, beautiful. I one time got stuck in
(29:06):
a lightning storm at O'Hare Airport. This is in the
years before they changed the rules, and I spent Okay,
I think it was six hours. They had left the
gate and we were waiting to take off, and then
they said that the airport was closed and it was
closed for like six hours, and we sat in that plane.
It was a nightmare. Anyway, anytime I go to O'Hare,
(29:28):
I think of that obvious reasons. Okay, yeah, well, let's
play the game. Tree is in Chicago picking up some deliveries.
You're gonna get three right to win, three right to win?
Are you ready? All right? Question number one, Number So
the Milwaukee Bucks just signed Miles Turner, coming off an
NBA Finals appearance. In the Finals, across the seven game series,
(29:48):
Turner made twenty five total baskets. Is that too much
or not enough? Tree in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Mouths didn't play too good.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
I'm gonna say not enough, all right, believe not. The
answer is too much. He made barely over that, barely
under that. He made twenty three shots, twenty three totals
under one. That's all right. You have more questions our
question number two. After adding DK Metcalf and Aaron Rogers
(30:21):
this offseason, the Pittsburgh Steelers have just recently traded for
Jalen Ramsey. In his entire career with Jacksonville and the
Rams and the Dolphins, Ramsey has twenty two interceptions. Is
that too much or not enough? Too much you sure
(30:42):
about that?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
Don't go with too much?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
You're gonna go with too much? You sure? Let's find out. No,
that's not enough twenty I tried to talk into it.
Twenty four passes. He's intercepted twenty four passes his nine
year career. So again, it was close, but there's not
enough more than twenty two. Question number three Darren Waller
(31:07):
is coming out of a brief one year retirement. He
was traded from the Giants to the Dolphins. He'll be
playing in Miami. Just before this year off. Waller played
one season for the Giants. In that loan season, he
caught just three total touchdown passes. Is that too much
or not enough?
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Oh? Man?
Speaker 1 (31:30):
He was terrible that year. Yeah, he was pretty bid.
I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say under three because I
remember the game. When do you think that's too much?
All right, let's see is that too much? There you go?
You got one? Right? How about that? I got only
one touchdown in twelve games Darren Waller for the Giants.
So you're on the board.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
He was so bad that he's so bad he didn't retire.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
He got suspended from the NFL. He was so bad,
but they said he was retired. But no, no, All right,
let's go to question number four. And you're listening to
the tree. He's at O'Hare Airport picking up some deliveries
right now. Question number four got to get this right
to stay alive. Jeremiah Smith spoke to the Athletic. That's
the wide receiver from the Ohio State University and gave
(32:16):
a money quote. He says he promised he won't lose
another game to Michigan in the past. The season's loss
to the Wold rains. He had sixty receiving yards in
the big game. There is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (32:34):
When they lost the game? I think sixty yards was
too much.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Okay, let's find out you're right, stay alive. If not,
you lose, let's find out here.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
You got your role about that?
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Were even up too much? I only had thirty five
receiving yards in that game. He did have a touchdown.
So here it comes down to question number five. Will
the tree get higher in the sky or will we
up the tree down right now? We say well, we
say timber, or we say you're gonna win our question five.
(33:05):
This is Game seven of the World Series. This is
Game seven of the Finals. NBA Finals is Super Bowl.
Here we go, it's all online. Are you ready? Tree?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Alright, let's go, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
The man sounds very confident, very calm. The New York
Knicks are reportedly bringing back Mike Brown for a second interview.
He's definitely an experienced candidate, having been an NBA coach
for ten seasons. Is that too much or not enough
(33:36):
for Mike Brown?
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Oh man, NB your coach for ten seasons?
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Think about it, King Laker, Yeah, that's right. You know
every team's coached. That's good. Uh Man, I'm gonna go
with ten seasons is too much? You sure about that?
You positive? You want to go too much? You don't
want to change that answer.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
I thank you do a reverse psychology. So yes, I'm
gonna stick with my asses.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
So you don't think I like you. You think I'm
trying to tell you that to lose. All right, let's
find out your final answer is what.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Ten season is too much?
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Find out you lost? It's not enough. No, I actually
liked you. I wanted you to win, but no, So
instead Tree, we're gonna give you you do not win,
but I'm gonna give you a lifetime supply nothing. Tree.
So whenever you want nothing, you know, your birthday holidays,
you think of the Ben Malor Show, the show that
gives you nothing, and we'll give you a way round
(34:32):
trip to nowhere that's nowhere, Oklahoma until they get an airport.
Then that's void. So round trip to nowhere and a
lifetime supply nothing. Because we're the Ben Malor show. We
have no budget. Well, thank you tree, safe travels around Chicago.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
There.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
We thank you for listening every night. We appreciate you.
Thank you. Be good, my man. All right, there is
a tree in chicag I tried to help him, did I?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Did?
Speaker 1 (34:56):
I not try to help him? You did?
Speaker 4 (34:58):
You even gave him the opportunity to go back and
switch it to the answer.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Multiple times, right, like we're literally multiple times. I was like,
I want this guy to win. It did not work out.
You thought you were trying to minipure I thought I
was trying to screw him over. I wasn't trying to
screw them over. All right, straight at we are gonna
have We're gonna time shift for ratings purposes. We are
gonna have Mallor to the third degree, Malor the thirty.
We'll get to that and we will do it next.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
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his third degree. Time. We've time shifted this for ratings purposes,
(36:15):
so we passed the mic over to producer of the night,
Ian Roddy.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
All right, so first question here for you, Ben. Famed
YouTuber turn boxer Jake Paul defeated thirty nine year old
Julio Caesar Chavez Junior via unanimous decision a few days ago,
making yet another crazy victory over a long pastest prime
former boxing champion. So now the WBA, which is one
of the sports Big four governing bodies, they've added Paul
(36:42):
to its World cruiserweight rankings, putting him a number fourteen.
So none of the other three big, big governing bodies
have done that yet you are the first ones. But Ben,
do you like the decision to add Paul to the
official World rankings or is it not really?
Speaker 1 (36:55):
No, No, it's ridiculous. Listen, boxing is hanging out, it's
on fumes. I used to love boxing growing up. It's
the UFC is kicking their ass every single day of
the week. It's embarrassing for boxing. They still have this
alphabet soup, these four different things. They no one has
the balls to consolidate boxing the w A, WBA. As
you say, you talk about losing credibility, it's ridiculous. Number two,
(37:19):
Jake Paul is a grifter, He's a carpetbagger, he's a
side show. To give him any kind of credibility is embarrassing.
It's ridiculous. He's fighting tomato cans on a regular basis.
And you know there are many on the internet. I'm
not one of these people saying, don't sue me that
claim on these these are all scripted fights. I I
don't know whether that's true or not. I just things
(37:40):
I've read on the internet. But it's it's embarrassing to
make this seem legitimate. Bad job by the w BA next.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Yeah, so you alluded to it in the last segment there,
But the athletics man in Navara release Blair recent recently
release a feature on Ohio States the paywall at the
Athletic Yeah yeah, yeah so, and it's Smith detailed his
hate for Michigan, how crazy it was losing to them
last year, and in the article, he also promised on
the record that he will not lose another game to them.
(38:10):
That'd be the next two years before he has the
NFL at first, So, Ben, do you buy Smith's guarantee
that the Buckeyes won't lose the next time?
Speaker 1 (38:16):
But what did he put on He's gonna cut a
toe off or a finger? If he did not specify
whether he's got a real bet dead and listen, what's
he supposed to say? The most amazing thing about Jeremiah
Smith is he is making, if the Internet is right,
four point two million his his salary at Ohio State
four point two million in nil money. Aren't you supposed
(38:37):
to win every game when you were When you're at
four point two million dollars, He's third in all of
college football in nil money, which is amazing. That's wild
to me. Uh, he's a great he's a great talent.
He's going to be drafted in the top two or
three of the NFL draft, assuming he doesn't fall apart
before he can be drafted and all that stuff. But
(38:59):
he has to say they're gonna beat Michi. If you're
at Ohio State, it's like it's like being at sc
and saying, well, we're not gonna I think we'll lose
to Notre Dame this year or UCLA. You can't say that,
all right, I know you're an old trojan.
Speaker 4 (39:11):
Next Yesterday, the Dolphins traded Jalen Ramsey and tight end
John new Smith to the Steelers for Minka Fitzpatrick and
a Day three pickswap so Ben, who do you think
won the trade?
Speaker 1 (39:22):
So I'm gonna discount John new Smith for a second,
just on the defensive back. For the safety, I'm gonna
give that to Jalen Ramsey. I don't think he's even closed.
Like Ramsey, he is tiptoeing towards the end of his
career because of the age thing. He's still got a
little fuel left in the tank. If you look at
Minka Fitzpatrick in Pittsburgh last year, he allowed a career
(39:45):
high opposing passer rating the numbers across the board, like
he was so much worse than he had been, like
he fell into an abyss there in Pittsburgh. And so
it's not surprising that they traded. And maybe you'll find
the fountain of youth. As you know, the found of
Youth is in Florida. Ponce de Leon somewhere in Florida
has the fund. I think it's in Tampa actually, but
(40:05):
but no, I'm gonna I'm gonna say the Steelers won
the trade. I mean, John O. Smith is that great,
but he's he's better and Jalen Ramsey's better than this Patrick.
All right there it is mallor to the third degree Ian,
How did we do crunching the numbers?
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Here?
Speaker 4 (40:19):
And yep, yeap looks like he has a win.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Look at that bunner on the Lord another win.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
I'm the all time wins king. No one else
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