April 25, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about MLB commissioner Rob Manfred defending the Oakland Athletics ownership group, who is to blame for the move to Vegas, Maller's Mountain of Money: Kelly Clarkson Edition, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number three. You see the
comments made by the Boss of Baseball, Rob Manford, or
man Fraud as we like to call him, on the
radio show. He defends defends the ownership group in Oakland.
So fair or foul to blame John Fisher for the
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athletics pending move to Vegas. He's the owner of the team.
And what do you make of Rob Manford's passionate defense
of the A's owner. Now, Rob Manford says that the
Vegas move will make the A's a more competitive team.
Do you believe that is that reality? We'll talk about
that as well right now in our number three Defending
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shite and a lad this hour, coming from a relocation situation,
has been some more fallout here from the story we
talked about in the previous episode of the show. The
Athletics right now in Nomad's Land. They are still technically
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in Oakland, but they have one foot out the door.
Last week the franchise reached a verbal a agreement. Papers
were starting to be signed and they are soon going
to head to Sin City, Lost Wages, Nevada. And if
you have not heard the latest and perhaps not here,
the politicians involved. The mayor of Oakland suggested that the
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Athletics use the negotiations with the city as leverage to
get other cities like Las Vegas involved. That came out
a few days ago and John Fisher, who the owner
of the Athletics, see he entered into a binding agreement
barring some kind of staff food to purchase land with
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help from a casino right there next to the Las
Vegas trip the plan to construct a massive baseball complex
right next to the Raiders Stadium. The Commissioner of Major
League Baseball. Rob Manford on this show, we call him
Rob man fraud. Well, he pushed back on the common
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it's criticizing John Fisher. Of course he did. Now listen closely.
We don't have the audio on this. Why would we.
He spoke to the Associated Press, the wire Service of Record,
and here's what Rob Manford said. He said, quote, I
feel sorry for the fans of Oakland, I really do,
he told the assembled media. But for the city of
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Oakland to point fingers at Fisher, meaning John Fisher, it's
not fair, is what Rob Manford had to say. He then,
in the next breath, said, we have shown an unbelievable
commitment to the fans in Oakland, he stated, by exhausting
every possible opportunity to try to get something done in Oakland.
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He added, saying that Fisher exclusively negotiated with Oakland from
twenty fourteen to twenty twenty one to build a new stadium. Unfortunately,
the government does not seem to have the will to
get it done. Quote from the Commissioner of Baseball. So
let's discuss the first part of that fair or foul.
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Here's the question, fair or foul to blame John Fisher
for the Athletics move to Vegas. So I've got outlaw,
pom poms and powerball, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make an
empty ballpark, which is what the Athletics will leave behind.
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Of course, right now, they have an empty ballpark even
when we're there. So to answer the question, fair or
foul to blame, John Fisher, the Commissioner of baseball, says
it's not fair. I say, after going to instant replay
fair ball, that is a fair ball. Now keep in mind,
I do not like politicians either. This is bad versus bad.
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We don't like the commissioner, we don't like the owners,
we don't like the politicians. Everyone's a loser. Everyone's a
loser in this There are no winners. You really gotta
be a special kind of scumbag for us to side
with some politicians. And when you crunch the numbers, John
Fisher is the steward of the Athletics franchise, and he's
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the guy calling the shots. And when I was growing up,
if you run a business, and you are the owner
of a business, even if you're part of a cartel
like Major League Baseball, the buck stops with you, and so,
John Fisher, you deserve all that comes with relocating a
sports franchise, the complete package, all the vitriol, all the anger,
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all the rage, all of it coming your way. You
signed up for it. They'll kiss your ass in Vegas,
they'll suck your toes on the Las Vegas Strip. But
in the Bay Area you are persona non grada. Although
the San Francisco giants I'm sure will welcome you with
open arms. They gotta be happy about this, right yeah, sure,
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why not? Absolutely? But to say that Fisher exhausted all opportunities,
it is not. It's disingenuous. Right now. I get that
the politicians in the Bay Area are a little wonky,
little moon battish and all that. I understand that part
of it. But you could have worked something out. Of course,
the part that you're not supposed to speak out loud
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is you build a stadium. You needed to spend your
own money. God forbid you spend your own money, right,
can't do that? No, No, If he was hell bent
determined to keep the athletics in the Bay Area, you
would have found a way. There is a path to
salvation to get a stadium done. But again, it would
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have involved opening up your wallet, and that is reboten
in ownership circles. You would be considered an outlaw heathen,
and you're seen as a sucker. If you spend your
own cash to build a stadium. It would have enraged
the other aristocrats that own teams, because they're the ones
also that have their handout taking taxpayer money in cities
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across the globe. And with all the Internet moguls, and
with all the money, even with the dot com boom
long in the rearview mirror and internet companies having to
lay off people, there's still plenty of money to go
around in northern California, and it is absurd that they
couldn't work something out. If they really wanted to, they
could have. Now. Secondly, let's address Rob Manford, who additionally
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said the following. He said the situation in Oakland, talking
about John Fisher, the owner, he said he spent at
least one hundred million trying to get a stadium built
in Oakland. And then Rob Manford had the hutzput to
say that drains your resources. You look at their attendants,
you can say chicken or the egg, but their attendance
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has never been outstanding. Let me put it that way.
Close quote from Rob Manford. So what do you make
of Rob Manford's defense of the A's owner John Fisher.
He's pulling one hundred million dollar number out of his
took us that he spent one hundred million dollars to
try to get a stadium built. So I would say
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the answer is predictable. It's on brand. Why Rob Manford
makes over ten million dollars a year, likely a lot
more than that. His main job responsibility is to hold
up the pom poms as the cheerleader for the owners
two four six eight. Who do we appreciate the owners?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Who?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And when you peel back the onion, Rob Manford is
just an empty suit. We've called this guy out for years.
We've gotten in trouble with Major League Baseball for calling
Rob Manford out. He's a little sensitive when he finds
out about some of the stuff we say. He doesn't
like it all the time. The people underneath him get
a little upset, little testy when we point out the truth.
But he's always been this way, right, he always will
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be that way. And understand, why does it if I
was the commission, if you've paid me ten million dollars,
and I had to look out for the billionaires that
own these teams. I do this same thing. But he's
devoid of independent thought. Right, the pitchclock is here. He's
getting praised for that. It's not here because Rob Manford
came up with it on his own. It's here because
television wanted the games to go quicker. The games are
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going too long. They were losing audience and they we
need the games to be quicker. We need them in
a three hour window. The games are going three and
a half and four hours. Do something about it. He
also his masterpiece. He failed to punish the cheating astro
see in fact, rewarded them. He ran interference for the astro.
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Manford is paid to slobber all over the owners. He's
not employed to keep them in line. That's not the job.
His job, Rob Manford's job is to rub their bellies
and pat them on the head with approval and whatever
you do, good job by you. Right. John Fisher moves
the A's out of the sixth largest media market in America,
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number six, and he goes to Vegas. You know what
media market? Las Vegas is number forty two. It's not
even a top twenty or a top thirty or a
top forty media market, and you get outside Vegas and
there's nothing but cactus. That's it. There's nothing. Now. Vegas
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is a booming metropolis right now because of the gambling
and all that. It's bigger than ever, but still number
forty two in terms of market size. And Rob Manford,
he greets John Fisher with a bubble bath and a
shoulder rub is what he does. And he's an advocate
for whatever the owners do, whatever they want, whatever they
do now. Final thought, So one more point here. Rob
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Manford says that the Vegas move will make the A's
more competitive. Do you believe that or not believe that?
I don't believe. I'm shaking my head. No.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Here.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
When the athletics were trying, they had playoff teams. They've
stopped trying the last couple of years. In fact, they
they've systematically limb by limb taken the the roster apart
because they're trying to make sure that nobody wants to
keep the team. There's no public vote of confidence and
people try to keep the team in the Bay Area.
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So we put a bad enough team on the field.
The politicians won't rally around, the fans, won't show up well,
raise the ticket prices, will screw the little man, and
will be allowed to move the team. So the A's
prove that it doesn't matter. As the commissioner said, the
attendance hasn't ever really been all that good. But yet
they've had teams that were consistent playoff teams. They've had
World Series contending teams in the last twenty years. Sporadically
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it has happened, and they've had some bad teams and
they hit the reset button all that. But the Athletics
have an underlying condition. And this is something that is
true whether you're a sports team or you've got an
issue in your life that running away from a problem,
it is the race that you will never win. You're
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never going the same issues are eventually going to haunt
the A's in Vegas. Now by that time they will
likely sell John Fure will either be dead or he'll
sell the team. But the Athletics will just be a shiny, new,
shiny new ballpark in Vegas away from you know, certainly
that'll that'll be cool for a couple of years and
all that they'll be filled with tourists, and eventually that
will grow stale. That will grow stale, and John Fisher
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is shown to be a lousy owner. And this roster
would I know, they beat the Angels, but they would
struggle to beat Pacific Coast League teams if they were
playing against Triple A teams with the roster that they
currently have. It is lacking talent across the board. It's
a total debacle. And the idea that this immediately improves
by walking in to Nevada where the one armed Bandit
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rules the day is manure. John Fisher is content to
use the A's as a profit center and pretend like
he wants to win and all that stuff, but he
is not shown that he has the fire in the belly,
has not shown that he's got the fire in the
belly and all that. And if you look at his history,
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we talked about this in previous episode of the show.
He's a failed real estate developer. He's a guy that's
got old money, he inherited old family money, was able
to get together with somebody who was a friend of
his partners, his former partners college fraternity, who knew somebody
who knew somebody else that got him some FaceTime with
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somebody from baseball, which allowed him to buy the Athletics.
He paid one hundred and eighty million dollars for the Athletics.
The team is said to be worth one point eight billion,
from one hundred and eighty million investment to one point
eight billion, and likely much higher than that when the
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goodies come in, all the comps and all that they're
getting from Vegas for essentially nothing or pennies on the
dollar when you think about how much they're actually going
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Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's Ben Maller and we began this hour ranting about
the words of Rob Manford, parsing the words as he
commented on the pending relocation situation. As the athletics as
they are heading to Sin City at a date to
be determined later time. Now for the malar riddle of day,
(15:54):
Alex Rodriguez has been shopping a documentary about Blank. That
is the question. What's the answer? Matthew Warrior Raider A's fan,
all his teams have moved, says Alex Rodriguez is shopping
a documentary about Mariners fans. Who else do we have? Calligan,
Tim and Michigan says, a documentary on how the steroids
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are good for baseball? He points out Sawman, says, A
Rod shopping a documentary about the history of Latin music
in New York. Bean boot maker Bob says how to
hide track marks and dispose of hyperdermic needles in the
locker room. That A Rod is putting a documentary about that.
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Ferg Dog says A Rod is working on a documentary
on David Vasse's recovery from almost dying. Going down the
Milwaukee Brewers slide that that is the answer. Late night
drug tester says A Rod's got a documentary coming out
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Bass guessed by the to see flusher page down Colorado
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It's a bad job by you. Alf the Alien Opiners says,
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Speaker 5 (17:38):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yes, he's trying to pitch a documentary about Picks with Poppy.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Picks with Pop? Is that the answer is that?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
That is incorrect, Eddie. The correct answer. Alex Rodriguez former
MB star Alex Rodriguez is currently shopping a documentary about
Alex Rodriguez. Would there be anything other than a he
wants a doc? Yeah. And that buddy who's friendly with
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all the athletes, Gotham Chapra. Is that his name? I
think that's the guy's name, right, He was with Tom Brady.
He's a documentary guy. And and the is a son,
isn't he the son of the other guy that's more famous, right, Yeah, yeah,
he's the kids found a niche hanging out with like
top level athletes. He I don't know if he is
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because his dad gets some access to these people. I
don't know, but he's found a way in. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to swamp Billy,
who's hanging out in the Sunshine State. Hello swamp Billy,
Hello geez, welcome.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Well, thank you for the welcome. Welcome to you. And
I love being on hold because of the reception through
my phone is better than my radio.
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That's a that's a great attitude.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
I've come to fuck you up.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Really if we stay down here, Yeah, I'm your clipper.
Russian is bad. It's infecting the militia. They're always gonna lose, man,
They're like Vanderbilt. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, no, No, that's a bad teake. That's a bad
take by you. That's a bad take. Listen. When I
when I was younger, people said the Chicago Cubs will
never win, they can never win. The Chicago Cubs won
the World season. People say the Boston Red Sox will
never win. The Curse of the Banbino idiot said, you
said the Red Sox have won three World Series, three
(19:27):
World Championships, actually four, I think it's four. Are up
to four now, I think it's up to four.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
But I had to eat crow and six because like
our famous trucker in Arkansas, I was for the Cardinals
and I told the guy from Rhode Island they were
gonna sweep them. Well it went the other way.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
There was there was a sweepe. You were on the
wrong side of it.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Let's talk about those cubs though. You mentioned every one
of those guys that left there and infected their new
teams with a bad attitude, just like the Washington Senator
Nationals or whatever they call of them, did that won
their fluke Chicago. This is a Cardinal fan coming out
in me. Can't win unless they pulled the plug on
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the lights and do stuff like that and do steroids.
They are the goats, the old fashioned.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
In the basement. Steve Goodman, a great songwriter, a little
short Jewish prophet who I worshiped. He was terrible, and he.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well if he said they were terrible, then they were.
I mean, if he said it, mean my god.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
Dallas Green got so upset about the song he wrote
about the about the cous being in the basement of
the National League that he had to write that lie
the Cubs going to wind today. Hell, how often does
that get played various album.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Not very much these days. Maybe maybe thirty years ago.
Thirty years ago got played, but not now.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
They all wait a second. I was pulling for the
cause that day they were playing the Dodgers stuck when
Davey Lopes is playing, y'all have a And I don't
like the Lakers that much because but they're going down.
There's like four teams left in the playoffs and the
Whifts that are better than them.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
All right, thank you? All right? There he goes swamp Billy,
a man who his local affiliate is so crappy, their
signal is so terrible that he would rather be on
hold to hear the show out there in the boondocks
of Florida. You need to up the wattage on that
radio station so he can actually hear in the swampland
what's going on. That would be a nice thing.
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The Jontay Murray of the Hawks has been suspended for
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Speaker 8 (22:43):
So what was ten months ago? It was about ten
months ago? What month we were get ten months ago?
We were looking at here and that was summer like June,
mid June.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You're asking me to go backwards on the calendar, that's about.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Ten months, because that's that's about what I think. We
know what the Dodgers were doing ten months ago in June.
They were stooping like crazy. Any the Dodgers lead Major
League Baseball. They have now had four players that have
gone on the paternity list this season. Mookie Bets, Evan Phillips,
Bruce Dark Gratol, and Max Munsey. They have all been
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given they've all given birth. Here it's twenty twenty three.
Men can give birth and they've been on the paternity list. There,
So the Dodgers lead baseball. Well, congratulations, it was one
category there, and boy, wouldn't you like to be Mookie
Bets kid my god, holy crap. Yeah, or Max Munsey
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for that matter. Imagine never having to worry about anything.
That's the definition of being born on third base right there.
Holy crap. Let's see. So you're telling me I don't
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productive at all because you made all the money and
I can use that money. Okay, sign me up for that.
Way to go. It's been mother show you'd like because
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this is my money, not your money. Well, that's that's
what he that's what he says. But let's say, Hello,
we got Doc Mike. Who's I don't know where doc is?
Doc Mike, Hello, you got the doc.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Good morning, just got back from North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Are you back in Chicago?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
I'm bag here right to tap tap. I got a
found a guy in a car with three bullet holes
in his head. No, no perpetrator. Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
A nice welcome back to Chicago moment right there. It's
good to see they've cleaned up the crime in the city.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Oh brother, Well, I'm getting ready to go to Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's right. We are just three weeks a little over
three weeks away. This is very exciting. Here I'm finalizing
a venue. I hope to find out in the next
couple of days. Here are a regional venue fell through?
So I've got I'm working on something and it's going
to be.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Very exciting, wonderful. And did my radio wife contact you
about the ceremony?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Who?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Well, I have been in contact, although I have not
heard from your radio wife in a little bit. Now
are we are we doing this on the air? Are
we doing this at the venue? What are we doing here?
This is at the venue. Oh Ma, are you ready
to announce this publicly?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Rings and all?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, rings and.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
All, Yes, Eddie, I will be I will be overseeing
the marriage radio marriage of Doc Mike and spin Cycle
Regina at the.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Does Regina know about this?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
That's good question. Does Regina know about this? Doc is
ab Okay, member of type Regina and confirm this? Okay.
This is going to be exciting, the first marriage. It's
going to be an amazing event, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
People all the last time we had an event planning
like this, it didn't end well though.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That is true. But you have a chance, Eddie. You
have an opportunity of flying in. Still, the tickets are
not that expensive. You can show up there and be
part of the event.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
As soon as somebody pays my way, I'll be happy to.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Oh come on, please, it's so much fun. Roberto, Roberto,
you might drive in, Roberto.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Ben is gonna take care of the ceremonies.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah, this is exciting, the first wedding I will have
ever done. It's going to be an amazing event. Everyone's
going to be talking about this. We'll get national publicity.
It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Should I bring T shirts?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Well, I mean we've we're I think we're covered. Are
you're gonna bring your Doc Mike shirts? If you want
to bring those, you can, you can bring them, Okay? Yeah.
Are you gonna be signing autographs like the last one
we did in Kansas City years ago, ten years ago?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Whatever? It was absolute? Yeah. By the way, your Dodgers
just left the wrecking house over here. You're probably aware
of that, right.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well it comes won one game, Well, they won one
game thirteen to nothing. The other games that Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
We backed up the truck already.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
You know you're calling early, Doc. I'm not used to this.
Normally you call the last hour. I'm a little confused
by you call.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I couldn't wait to get on the air.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
You want to take a call, Why don't we take
a call with you? Ask a dog. Let's go to
Tony in the Bay Area. Tony, you were on with
Doc Mike in Chicago.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Hello Tony, Hey, how you doing guys?
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Good morning Tony from Chicago. How you doing good?
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Doc Mike, do you know much about baseball history?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Back to nineteen forty five? That's when I was born.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Go ahead, okay, because I was just curious of the
Uh you know, the cheating Ashos and you know you
got the Black Sows from back in the day. I
wonder if they had to deal with the kind of
booing and jeering or whatever you want to call it.
That the uh that the Ashoes had to deal with.
Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Are you talking about the Chicago Blackhawks the hockey team.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
No, the Black Socks when they do the Black Sox.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Oh, yeah, that's that was the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
They that's before your time, doc, although not far before
your time, but it was before your time. Shoeless Joe Jackson.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Yeah, yeah, we have a restaurant here in town called
the Shoeless Joe's been there a few times.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Is it any good? Is it a good restaurant? You
don't need anything good. You eat healthy though, you don't
need any bad food.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Well, that was when I was drinking back then, you know,
back when Jordan was in charge. We watched a lot
of bulls games there that's right by the airport. What's
the question about Shoeless Joe Noll?
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Well was that?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
I say, what's your question about Shoeless Joe in the
in the Black Sox. No.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
I was wondering if the Black Sox team had to
deal with, uh, you know, the scrutiny of being cheaters,
you know, getting booed and maybe beer stone at him
and you know stuff like that. You know, because they
asked those seemed to be dealing with it, which they
right we should be. But you know, I wasn't around
back in the day like you to know about the
old timers.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Well, I would imagine there was there was some feedback,
you know, back then, the backlash year feedback.
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Speaker 10 (31:38):
Good morning? How you doing?
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Good morning? You ready to go here?
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I'm ready to go?
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(32:30):
I hang up on him. That's unfortunate. Well, I guess
we'll have a back to back in belly to belly
from Minnesota. We'll have about Brian is up next? Hello, Brian,
are you there? Brian?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
I am here.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Look at you guys are like neighbors. You're well, at
least in the same state. Brian, you're gonna play the game.
You're ready to go. I'm ready, all right, So it's
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be on the winning team. That's my prediction, A bold prediction. Chris, Well,
who do you want to partner up with? First? Though, Chris,
you were on the air first.
Speaker 10 (33:03):
Well, sorry to say, Ben, I'm gonna probably make you lose.
I want you to be my partner.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
No, no, we're in it to win it. We are
in it to win it. Here, Chris and Brian, who
do you want to partner up with? Brian?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Every day Eddie Eddie?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Eh, bad pick. But you had no good options. You
had no good option. So let's play the game here
with the categories kopuloop.
Speaker 11 (33:24):
All right, Like we said, this is the Kelly Clarkson addition,
she turned forty one years.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Old yesterday, old man.
Speaker 11 (33:30):
The categories are a moment like this, since you've been gone,
walk away, and bad reputation. Chris, you were on the
air first. Which category would you like?
Speaker 10 (33:42):
Since you've been gone?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
All right? And Brian, how about.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
You walk away?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
All right? All right? Very good?
Speaker 11 (33:50):
Chris and Ben, you are up first. The category is
since you've been gone. We need the first and last
name of the athlete in order to get the points.
You're gonna have forty five seconds on the since this
athlete left, their team hasn't the team that they were
on hasn't won a playoff series or game since since
they left, since they've been gone, forty five seconds on
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the clock.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Begin all right. Quarterback for the Colts and the Broncos.
He's now retired. Yeah, big poppy with the Red Sox
designated hitter. Uh, yes, you star for your Minnesota Timberwls.
He went to the Boston Celtics and the Big Trade
years ago.
Speaker 10 (34:31):
Yep, say his name, Barnett, Garnett Garnett was his first name.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Uh, that's not his first name. How about the butt
fumble guy for the Jets. He played at USC. He
had the butt fumble a few years ago. He's on
television now, Yep, yep, it doesn't help. How about the
chain smoking Lakers?
Speaker 10 (34:54):
Kennet he got that.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
One, all right?
Speaker 11 (35:00):
I think he was distracted trying to think of Kevin
Garnett's first name.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
You think what fumble guy was? Mark Sanchez? Yeah, changed
smoking Laker was Floddy Debots didn't get that one, right,
all right?
Speaker 11 (35:11):
No that is so that's sixty points for Chris Ben
We got him.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
These guys. These guys won't do it. Brian is about
to choke. I can I feel it?
Speaker 12 (35:19):
Which category?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Brian? And Eddie picks?
Speaker 12 (35:22):
Walk away?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You want to walk away?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Right now?
Speaker 11 (35:26):
These athletes all retired early, Brian, are you ready?
Speaker 5 (35:31):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Former Colts quarterback out of Stanford. Yes, former Detroit running back.
Some think he's the greatest of all time. Out of boat.
Former Giants catcher. He got run over at home plate,
so the Major League Baseball changed the rule. Megatron wide
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receiver for Detroit Hall of Famer. Yes, seven foot six
center of China played for the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Mccam, Yes, Adam China.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yes, she's a great player out of tried Eddie. Oh,
no questions. So good.
Speaker 12 (36:21):
Bryan, congratulations you made the promo, you made the drop.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Man out of China minute. But you just lost.
Speaker 12 (36:34):
Eddie trying to go, No, what's your one warning? Get
he gets?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
He gets one? Oh? Please? All right? Terrible language? God,
what about? What about?
Speaker 12 (36:49):
He didn't mean? You're forgiven?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
That's good, you didn't made it. Well, you know what,
Brian and Eddie? You are actually winning.
Speaker 11 (36:57):
So that's seventy point all right, So you guys are
down by ten. Chris, Chris, would you like a moment
like this or bad reputation.
Speaker 10 (37:08):
Moment like this?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Martis alright.
Speaker 11 (37:11):
These athletes have all won a Finals or World Series
or Super Bowl MVP award forty five seconds begin all right.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Player for the Yankees in a big home run against
the Red Sox known as Effing was an infielder for
the Yankees back in the seventies and the eighties. No
wide receiver for the Patriots was a Super Bowl MVP
and Super Bowl forty one. I think he went to Louisville,
I believe wide receiver. No, how about the greatest postseason
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pitcher in my lifetime for the San Francisco Giants. We
just talked about him. The other day. He was released
by the Diamondbacks. Yep, mister big shot for the Pistons.
He's now a coach of the Portland Trailblazers. Oh my god,
for the Rams. A white guy won the Super Bowl
(38:01):
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
We win.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
You got you?
Speaker 12 (38:08):
Oh my god, what terrible you got eat?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
What kind of dump?
Speaker 12 (38:15):
Your why would you do that?
Speaker 7 (38:18):
Your gout?
Speaker 12 (38:19):
Carst Eddy his guy, carst
Hello and welcome. It's our number three. You see the
comments made by the Boss of Baseball, Rob Manford, or
man Fraud as we like to call him, on the
radio show. He defends defends the ownership group in Oakland.
So fair or foul to blame John Fisher for the
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athletics pending move to Vegas. He's the owner of the team.
And what do you make of Rob Manford's passionate defense
of the A's owner. Now, Rob Manford says that the
Vegas move will make the A's a more competitive team.
Do you believe that is that reality? We'll talk about
that as well right now in our number three Defending
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shite and a lad this hour, coming from a relocation situation,
has been some more fallout here from the story we
talked about in the previous episode of the show. The
Athletics right now in Nomad's Land. They are still technically
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in Oakland, but they have one foot out the door.
Last week the franchise reached a verbal a agreement. Papers
were starting to be signed and they are soon going
to head to Sin City, Lost Wages, Nevada. And if
you have not heard the latest and perhaps not here,
the politicians involved. The mayor of Oakland suggested that the
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Athletics use the negotiations with the city as leverage to
get other cities like Las Vegas involved. That came out
a few days ago and John Fisher, who the owner
of the Athletics, see he entered into a binding agreement
barring some kind of staff food to purchase land with
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help from a casino right there next to the Las
Vegas trip the plan to construct a massive baseball complex
right next to the Raiders Stadium. The Commissioner of Major
League Baseball. Rob Manford on this show, we call him
Rob man fraud. Well, he pushed back on the common
(03:00):
it's criticizing John Fisher. Of course he did. Now listen closely.
We don't have the audio on this. Why would we.
He spoke to the Associated Press, the wire Service of Record,
and here's what Rob Manford said. He said, quote, I
feel sorry for the fans of Oakland, I really do,
he told the assembled media. But for the city of
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Oakland to point fingers at Fisher, meaning John Fisher, it's
not fair, is what Rob Manford had to say. He then,
in the next breath, said, we have shown an unbelievable
commitment to the fans in Oakland, he stated, by exhausting
every possible opportunity to try to get something done in Oakland.
(03:45):
He added, saying that Fisher exclusively negotiated with Oakland from
twenty fourteen to twenty twenty one to build a new stadium. Unfortunately,
the government does not seem to have the will to
get it done. Quote from the Commissioner of Baseball. So
let's discuss the first part of that fair or foul.
(04:05):
Here's the question, fair or foul to blame John Fisher
for the Athletics move to Vegas. So I've got outlaw,
pom poms and powerball, and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make an
empty ballpark, which is what the Athletics will leave behind.
(04:28):
Of course, right now, they have an empty ballpark even
when we're there. So to answer the question, fair or
foul to blame, John Fisher, the Commissioner of baseball, says
it's not fair. I say, after going to instant replay
fair ball, that is a fair ball. Now keep in mind,
I do not like politicians either. This is bad versus bad.
(04:52):
We don't like the commissioner, we don't like the owners,
we don't like the politicians. Everyone's a loser. Everyone's a
loser in this There are no winners. You really gotta
be a special kind of scumbag for us to side
with some politicians. And when you crunch the numbers, John
Fisher is the steward of the Athletics franchise, and he's
(05:13):
the guy calling the shots. And when I was growing up,
if you run a business, and you are the owner
of a business, even if you're part of a cartel
like Major League Baseball, the buck stops with you, and so,
John Fisher, you deserve all that comes with relocating a
sports franchise, the complete package, all the vitriol, all the anger,
(05:36):
all the rage, all of it coming your way. You
signed up for it. They'll kiss your ass in Vegas,
they'll suck your toes on the Las Vegas Strip. But
in the Bay Area you are persona non grada. Although
the San Francisco giants I'm sure will welcome you with
open arms. They gotta be happy about this, right yeah, sure,
(05:57):
why not? Absolutely? But to say that Fisher exhausted all opportunities,
it is not. It's disingenuous. Right now. I get that
the politicians in the Bay Area are a little wonky,
little moon battish and all that. I understand that part
of it. But you could have worked something out. Of course,
the part that you're not supposed to speak out loud
(06:18):
is you build a stadium. You needed to spend your
own money. God forbid you spend your own money, right,
can't do that? No, No, If he was hell bent
determined to keep the athletics in the Bay Area, you
would have found a way. There is a path to
salvation to get a stadium done. But again, it would
(06:39):
have involved opening up your wallet, and that is reboten
in ownership circles. You would be considered an outlaw heathen,
and you're seen as a sucker. If you spend your
own cash to build a stadium. It would have enraged
the other aristocrats that own teams, because they're the ones
also that have their handout taking taxpayer money in cities
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across the globe. And with all the Internet moguls, and
with all the money, even with the dot com boom
long in the rearview mirror and internet companies having to
lay off people, there's still plenty of money to go
around in northern California, and it is absurd that they
couldn't work something out. If they really wanted to, they
could have. Now. Secondly, let's address Rob Manford, who additionally
(07:25):
said the following. He said the situation in Oakland, talking
about John Fisher, the owner, he said he spent at
least one hundred million trying to get a stadium built
in Oakland. And then Rob Manford had the hutzput to
say that drains your resources. You look at their attendants,
you can say chicken or the egg, but their attendance
(07:47):
has never been outstanding. Let me put it that way.
Close quote from Rob Manford. So what do you make
of Rob Manford's defense of the A's owner John Fisher.
He's pulling one hundred million dollar number out of his
took us that he spent one hundred million dollars to
try to get a stadium built. So I would say
(08:08):
the answer is predictable. It's on brand. Why Rob Manford
makes over ten million dollars a year, likely a lot
more than that. His main job responsibility is to hold
up the pom poms as the cheerleader for the owners
two four six eight. Who do we appreciate the owners?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Who?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And when you peel back the onion, Rob Manford is
just an empty suit. We've called this guy out for years.
We've gotten in trouble with Major League Baseball for calling
Rob Manford out. He's a little sensitive when he finds
out about some of the stuff we say. He doesn't
like it all the time. The people underneath him get
a little upset, little testy when we point out the truth.
But he's always been this way, right, he always will
(08:52):
be that way. And understand, why does it if I
was the commission, if you've paid me ten million dollars,
and I had to look out for the billionaires that
own these teams. I do this same thing. But he's
devoid of independent thought. Right, the pitchclock is here. He's
getting praised for that. It's not here because Rob Manford
came up with it on his own. It's here because
television wanted the games to go quicker. The games are
(09:12):
going too long. They were losing audience and they we
need the games to be quicker. We need them in
a three hour window. The games are going three and
a half and four hours. Do something about it. He
also his masterpiece. He failed to punish the cheating astro
see in fact, rewarded them. He ran interference for the astro.
(09:33):
Manford is paid to slobber all over the owners. He's
not employed to keep them in line. That's not the job.
His job, Rob Manford's job is to rub their bellies
and pat them on the head with approval and whatever
you do, good job by you. Right. John Fisher moves
the A's out of the sixth largest media market in America,
(09:56):
number six, and he goes to Vegas. You know what
media market? Las Vegas is number forty two. It's not
even a top twenty or a top thirty or a
top forty media market, and you get outside Vegas and
there's nothing but cactus. That's it. There's nothing. Now. Vegas
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is a booming metropolis right now because of the gambling
and all that. It's bigger than ever, but still number
forty two in terms of market size. And Rob Manford,
he greets John Fisher with a bubble bath and a
shoulder rub is what he does. And he's an advocate
for whatever the owners do, whatever they want, whatever they
do now. Final thought, So one more point here. Rob
(10:37):
Manford says that the Vegas move will make the A's
more competitive. Do you believe that or not believe that?
I don't believe. I'm shaking my head. No.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Here.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
When the athletics were trying, they had playoff teams. They've
stopped trying the last couple of years. In fact, they
they've systematically limb by limb taken the the roster apart
because they're trying to make sure that nobody wants to
keep the team. There's no public vote of confidence and
people try to keep the team in the Bay Area.
(11:09):
So we put a bad enough team on the field.
The politicians won't rally around, the fans, won't show up well,
raise the ticket prices, will screw the little man, and
will be allowed to move the team. So the A's
prove that it doesn't matter. As the commissioner said, the
attendance hasn't ever really been all that good. But yet
they've had teams that were consistent playoff teams. They've had
World Series contending teams in the last twenty years. Sporadically
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it has happened, and they've had some bad teams and
they hit the reset button all that. But the Athletics
have an underlying condition. And this is something that is
true whether you're a sports team or you've got an
issue in your life that running away from a problem,
it is the race that you will never win. You're
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never going the same issues are eventually going to haunt
the A's in Vegas. Now by that time they will
likely sell John Fure will either be dead or he'll
sell the team. But the Athletics will just be a shiny, new,
shiny new ballpark in Vegas away from you know, certainly
that'll that'll be cool for a couple of years and
all that they'll be filled with tourists, and eventually that
will grow stale. That will grow stale, and John Fisher
(12:18):
is shown to be a lousy owner. And this roster
would I know, they beat the Angels, but they would
struggle to beat Pacific Coast League teams if they were
playing against Triple A teams with the roster that they
currently have. It is lacking talent across the board. It's
a total debacle. And the idea that this immediately improves
by walking in to Nevada where the one armed Bandit
(12:43):
rules the day is manure. John Fisher is content to
use the A's as a profit center and pretend like
he wants to win and all that stuff, but he
is not shown that he has the fire in the belly,
has not shown that he's got the fire in the
belly and all that. And if you look at his history,
(13:04):
we talked about this in previous episode of the show.
He's a failed real estate developer. He's a guy that's
got old money, he inherited old family money, was able
to get together with somebody who was a friend of
his partners, his former partners college fraternity, who knew somebody
who knew somebody else that got him some FaceTime with
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somebody from baseball, which allowed him to buy the Athletics.
He paid one hundred and eighty million dollars for the Athletics.
The team is said to be worth one point eight billion,
from one hundred and eighty million investment to one point
eight billion, and likely much higher than that when the
(13:45):
goodies come in, all the comps and all that they're
getting from Vegas for essentially nothing or pennies on the
dollar when you think about how much they're actually going
to spend. It is the Ben Malord Show. You want
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Speaker 1 (15:31):
It's Ben Maller and we began this hour ranting about
the words of Rob Manford, parsing the words as he
commented on the pending relocation situation. As the athletics as
they are heading to Sin City at a date to
be determined later time. Now for the malar riddle of day,
(15:54):
Alex Rodriguez has been shopping a documentary about Blank. That
is the question. What's the answer? Matthew Warrior Raider A's fan,
all his teams have moved, says Alex Rodriguez is shopping
a documentary about Mariners fans. Who else do we have? Calligan,
Tim and Michigan says, a documentary on how the steroids
(16:17):
are good for baseball? He points out Sawman, says, A
Rod shopping a documentary about the history of Latin music
in New York. Bean boot maker Bob says how to
hide track marks and dispose of hyperdermic needles in the
locker room. That A Rod is putting a documentary about that.
(16:38):
Ferg Dog says A Rod is working on a documentary
on David Vasse's recovery from almost dying. Going down the
Milwaukee Brewers slide that that is the answer. Late night
drug tester says A Rod's got a documentary coming out
about fruit bongs that he's working on Big Mouth Billy
(16:58):
Bass guessed by the to see flusher page down Colorado
Kids says, where is Malaysia Airlines Flight three seventy? Hey,
Rod's into that black Steve the Second says, the answer
is a toilet where I was. I missed the riddle.
It's a bad job by you. Alf the Alien Opiners says,
(17:21):
based on what I learned from the Fifth Hour podcast
and a fun fact by Danny g it's a documentary
about people stealing popular road signs of former hit TV
shows Cheetos, Guess by Stevie, Meatballs in Florida. Eddie, do
you have an answer? Eddie?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Yes, he's trying to pitch a documentary about Picks with Poppy.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Picks with Pop? Is that the answer is that?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
No?
Speaker 1 (17:45):
That is incorrect, Eddie. The correct answer. Alex Rodriguez former
MB star Alex Rodriguez is currently shopping a documentary about
Alex Rodriguez. Would there be anything other than a he
wants a doc? Yeah. And that buddy who's friendly with
(18:05):
all the athletes, Gotham Chapra. Is that his name? I
think that's the guy's name, right, He was with Tom Brady.
He's a documentary guy. And and the is a son,
isn't he the son of the other guy that's more famous, right, Yeah, yeah,
he's the kids found a niche hanging out with like
top level athletes. He I don't know if he is
(18:25):
because his dad gets some access to these people. I
don't know, but he's found a way in. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to swamp Billy,
who's hanging out in the Sunshine State. Hello swamp Billy,
Hello geez, welcome.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Well, thank you for the welcome. Welcome to you. And
I love being on hold because of the reception through
my phone is better than my radio.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
That's a that's a great attitude.
Speaker 7 (18:52):
I've come to fuck you up.
Speaker 6 (18:56):
Really if we stay down here, Yeah, I'm your clipper.
Russian is bad. It's infecting the militia. They're always gonna lose, man,
They're like Vanderbilt. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, no, No, that's a bad teake. That's a bad
take by you. That's a bad take. Listen. When I
when I was younger, people said the Chicago Cubs will
never win, they can never win. The Chicago Cubs won
the World season. People say the Boston Red Sox will
never win. The Curse of the Banbino idiot said, you
said the Red Sox have won three World Series, three
(19:27):
World Championships, actually four, I think it's four. Are up
to four now, I think it's up to four.
Speaker 6 (19:31):
But I had to eat crow and six because like
our famous trucker in Arkansas, I was for the Cardinals
and I told the guy from Rhode Island they were
gonna sweep them. Well it went the other way.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
There was there was a sweepe. You were on the
wrong side of it.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Let's talk about those cubs though. You mentioned every one
of those guys that left there and infected their new
teams with a bad attitude, just like the Washington Senator
Nationals or whatever they call of them, did that won
their fluke Chicago. This is a Cardinal fan coming out
in me. Can't win unless they pulled the plug on
(20:08):
the lights and do stuff like that and do steroids.
They are the goats, the old fashioned.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
In the basement. Steve Goodman, a great songwriter, a little
short Jewish prophet who I worshiped. He was terrible, and he.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
Well if he said they were terrible, then they were.
I mean, if he said it, mean my god.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
Dallas Green got so upset about the song he wrote
about the about the cous being in the basement of
the National League that he had to write that lie
the Cubs going to wind today. Hell, how often does
that get played various album.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Not very much these days. Maybe maybe thirty years ago.
Thirty years ago got played, but not now.
Speaker 6 (20:53):
They all wait a second. I was pulling for the
cause that day they were playing the Dodgers stuck when
Davey Lopes is playing, y'all have a And I don't
like the Lakers that much because but they're going down.
There's like four teams left in the playoffs and the
Whifts that are better than them.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
All right, thank you? All right? There he goes swamp Billy,
a man who his local affiliate is so crappy, their
signal is so terrible that he would rather be on
hold to hear the show out there in the boondocks
of Florida. You need to up the wattage on that
radio station so he can actually hear in the swampland
what's going on. That would be a nice thing.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Hey, what's up, everybody, It's me.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Three time pro bowler Lavarrington and I couldn't be more
excited to announce a podcast called Up on Game?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
What is up on Game?
Speaker 3 (21:48):
You ask, along with my fellow pro bowler TJ. Huschman,
Zada and Super Bowl champion. Yep, that's right, Plexico Burris.
You can only name a show with that type of
talent on it. Up on Game We're going to be
sharing our real life experiences loaded with teachable moments. Listen
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Podcasts or wherever you get your podcast from.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
More injury news from the NBA. Actually this is not
injury news. This is a suspension Atlanta Hawks.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Guard Dejonty injury suspension. It's all the same.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
The Jontay Murray of the Hawks has been suspended for
Game five of the series there for Atlanta. He made
inappropriate contact and verbally abused a game official after a
loss on Sunday.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
So what was ten months ago? It was about ten
months ago? What month we were get ten months ago?
We were looking at here and that was summer like June,
mid June.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
You're asking me to go backwards on the calendar, that's about.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Ten months, because that's that's about what I think. We
know what the Dodgers were doing ten months ago in June.
They were stooping like crazy. Any the Dodgers lead Major
League Baseball. They have now had four players that have
gone on the paternity list this season. Mookie Bets, Evan Phillips,
Bruce Dark Gratol, and Max Munsey. They have all been
(23:21):
given they've all given birth. Here it's twenty twenty three.
Men can give birth and they've been on the paternity list. There,
So the Dodgers lead baseball. Well, congratulations, it was one
category there, and boy, wouldn't you like to be Mookie
Bets kid my god, holy crap. Yeah, or Max Munsey
(23:43):
for that matter. Imagine never having to worry about anything.
That's the definition of being born on third base right there.
Holy crap. Let's see. So you're telling me I don't
really have to do anything. I don't have to be
productive at all because you made all the money and
I can use that money. Okay, sign me up for that.
Way to go. It's been mother show you'd like because
(24:06):
this is my money, not your money. Well, that's that's
what he that's what he says. But let's say, Hello,
we got Doc Mike. Who's I don't know where doc is?
Doc Mike, Hello, you got the doc.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Good morning, just got back from North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Are you back in Chicago?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
I'm bag here right to tap tap. I got a
found a guy in a car with three bullet holes
in his head. No, no perpetrator. Yeah, yeah, it's.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
A nice welcome back to Chicago moment right there. It's
good to see they've cleaned up the crime in the city.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Oh brother, Well, I'm getting ready to go to Minnesota.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
That's right. We are just three weeks a little over
three weeks away. This is very exciting. Here I'm finalizing
a venue. I hope to find out in the next
couple of days. Here are a regional venue fell through?
So I've got I'm working on something and it's going
to be.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Very exciting, wonderful. And did my radio wife contact you
about the ceremony?
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Who?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Well, I have been in contact, although I have not
heard from your radio wife in a little bit. Now
are we are we doing this on the air? Are
we doing this at the venue? What are we doing here?
This is at the venue. Oh Ma, are you ready
to announce this publicly?
Speaker 5 (25:26):
Rings and all?
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, rings and.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
All, Yes, Eddie, I will be I will be overseeing
the marriage radio marriage of Doc Mike and spin Cycle
Regina at the.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Does Regina know about this?
Speaker 1 (25:40):
That's good question. Does Regina know about this? Doc is
ab Okay, member of type Regina and confirm this? Okay.
This is going to be exciting, the first marriage. It's
going to be an amazing event, Eddie.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
People all the last time we had an event planning
like this, it didn't end well though.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
That is true. But you have a chance, Eddie. You
have an opportunity of flying in. Still, the tickets are
not that expensive. You can show up there and be
part of the event.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
As soon as somebody pays my way, I'll be happy to.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
Oh come on, please, it's so much fun. Roberto, Roberto,
you might drive in, Roberto.
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Ben is gonna take care of the ceremonies.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Yeah, this is exciting, the first wedding I will have
ever done. It's going to be an amazing event. Everyone's
going to be talking about this. We'll get national publicity.
It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 5 (26:31):
Should I bring T shirts?
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Well, I mean we've we're I think we're covered. Are
you're gonna bring your Doc Mike shirts? If you want
to bring those, you can, you can bring them, Okay? Yeah.
Are you gonna be signing autographs like the last one
we did in Kansas City years ago, ten years ago?
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Whatever? It was absolute? Yeah. By the way, your Dodgers
just left the wrecking house over here. You're probably aware
of that, right.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well it comes won one game, Well, they won one
game thirteen to nothing. The other games that Dodgers.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
We backed up the truck already.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
You know you're calling early, Doc. I'm not used to this.
Normally you call the last hour. I'm a little confused
by you call.
Speaker 5 (27:08):
I couldn't wait to get on the air.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
You want to take a call, Why don't we take
a call with you? Ask a dog. Let's go to
Tony in the Bay Area. Tony, you were on with
Doc Mike in Chicago.
Speaker 9 (27:20):
Hello Tony, Hey, how you doing guys?
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Good morning Tony from Chicago. How you doing good?
Speaker 7 (27:28):
Uh?
Speaker 9 (27:29):
Doc Mike, do you know much about baseball history?
Speaker 5 (27:35):
Back to nineteen forty five? That's when I was born.
Speaker 9 (27:37):
Go ahead, okay, because I was just curious of the
Uh you know, the cheating Ashos and you know you
got the Black Sows from back in the day. I
wonder if they had to deal with the kind of
booing and jeering or whatever you want to call it.
That the uh that the Ashoes had to deal with.
Do you know anything about that?
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Are you talking about the Chicago Blackhawks the hockey team.
Speaker 9 (27:59):
No, the Black Socks when they do the Black Sox.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
Oh, yeah, that's that was the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
They that's before your time, doc, although not far before
your time, but it was before your time. Shoeless Joe Jackson.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Yeah, yeah, we have a restaurant here in town called
the Shoeless Joe's been there a few times.
Speaker 1 (28:21):
Is it any good? Is it a good restaurant? You
don't need anything good. You eat healthy though, you don't
need any bad food.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Well, that was when I was drinking back then, you know,
back when Jordan was in charge. We watched a lot
of bulls games there that's right by the airport. What's
the question about Shoeless Joe Noll?
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Well was that?
Speaker 5 (28:43):
I say, what's your question about Shoeless Joe in the
in the Black Sox. No.
Speaker 9 (28:47):
I was wondering if the Black Sox team had to
deal with, uh, you know, the scrutiny of being cheaters,
you know, getting booed and maybe beer stone at him
and you know stuff like that. You know, because they
asked those seemed to be dealing with it, which they
right we should be. But you know, I wasn't around
back in the day like you to know about the
old timers.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Well, I would imagine there was there was some feedback,
you know, back then, the backlash year feedback.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yeah, all right, there was no thank you, riveting conversation.
I'm so glad we had that. We all got to
eaves drop in on that. I need some contestants. We've
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Speaker 2 (31:10):
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takes to get to the top? Probably not?
Speaker 1 (31:21):
Man, No way we go. Time now for Malor's mount
the Money, the Kelly Clarkson Edition. I believe. So let's
welcome in our contestants. We have any Meenie, miney Moe.
Let's say a loor to Chris, who's in Minnesota? Who's
gonna play? Hello? Chris?
Speaker 10 (31:38):
Good morning? How you doing?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Good morning? You ready to go here?
Speaker 10 (31:41):
I'm ready to go?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
All right? What you got going on? What do you
what brings you to the show?
Speaker 10 (31:45):
I work in a machine shop and inspector, so I
love listening to you guys on the way to work,
and once I get here, I listened to you all morning.
And may you put a smile on my face every day?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh God, bless you? All right, Hold on a second,
we have Steven camsh City. Hell Hello Steve.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
But going on there?
Speaker 6 (32:03):
How's it go?
Speaker 5 (32:04):
All buddy?
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Hello? Hello? Hello?
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Hello?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Everything all right with you? Steve? What you got going on? Man? Hello? Steve?
Did he hang up? Now? He's still there? Mm hmm?
Interesting Steve? Wake up, Steve? I don't hear him? All right?
(32:30):
I hang up on him. That's unfortunate. Well, I guess
we'll have a back to back in belly to belly
from Minnesota. We'll have about Brian is up next? Hello, Brian,
are you there? Brian?
Speaker 5 (32:41):
I am here.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Look at you guys are like neighbors. You're well, at
least in the same state. Brian, you're gonna play the game.
You're ready to go. I'm ready, all right, So it's
Brian versus Chris, and I predict somebody from Minnesota will
be on the winning team. That's my prediction, A bold prediction. Chris, Well,
who do you want to partner up with? First? Though, Chris,
you were on the air first.
Speaker 10 (33:03):
Well, sorry to say, Ben, I'm gonna probably make you lose.
I want you to be my partner.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
No, no, we're in it to win it. We are
in it to win it. Here, Chris and Brian, who
do you want to partner up with? Brian?
Speaker 5 (33:13):
Every day Eddie Eddie?
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Eh, bad pick. But you had no good options. You
had no good option. So let's play the game here
with the categories kopuloop.
Speaker 11 (33:24):
All right, Like we said, this is the Kelly Clarkson addition,
she turned forty one years.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Old yesterday, old man.
Speaker 11 (33:30):
The categories are a moment like this, since you've been gone,
walk away, and bad reputation. Chris, you were on the
air first. Which category would you like?
Speaker 10 (33:42):
Since you've been gone?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
All right? And Brian, how about.
Speaker 5 (33:45):
You walk away?
Speaker 1 (33:47):
All right? All right? Very good?
Speaker 11 (33:50):
Chris and Ben, you are up first. The category is
since you've been gone. We need the first and last
name of the athlete in order to get the points.
You're gonna have forty five seconds on the since this
athlete left, their team hasn't the team that they were
on hasn't won a playoff series or game since since
they left, since they've been gone, forty five seconds on
(34:10):
the clock.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Begin all right. Quarterback for the Colts and the Broncos.
He's now retired. Yeah, big poppy with the Red Sox
designated hitter. Uh, yes, you star for your Minnesota Timberwls.
He went to the Boston Celtics and the Big Trade
years ago.
Speaker 10 (34:31):
Yep, say his name, Barnett, Garnett Garnett was his first name.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Uh, that's not his first name. How about the butt
fumble guy for the Jets. He played at USC. He
had the butt fumble a few years ago. He's on
television now, Yep, yep, it doesn't help. How about the
chain smoking Lakers?
Speaker 10 (34:54):
Kennet he got that.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
One, all right?
Speaker 11 (35:00):
I think he was distracted trying to think of Kevin
Garnett's first name.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
You think what fumble guy was? Mark Sanchez? Yeah, changed
smoking Laker was Floddy Debots didn't get that one, right,
all right?
Speaker 11 (35:11):
No that is so that's sixty points for Chris Ben
We got him.
Speaker 1 (35:15):
These guys. These guys won't do it. Brian is about
to choke. I can I feel it?
Speaker 12 (35:19):
Which category?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Brian? And Eddie picks?
Speaker 12 (35:22):
Walk away?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You want to walk away?
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Eddie?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Right now?
Speaker 11 (35:26):
These athletes all retired early, Brian, are you ready?
Speaker 5 (35:31):
I'm ready?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Forty five seconds on the clock. Begin.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Former Colts quarterback out of Stanford. Yes, former Detroit running back.
Some think he's the greatest of all time. Out of boat.
Former Giants catcher. He got run over at home plate,
so the Major League Baseball changed the rule. Megatron wide
(35:55):
receiver for Detroit Hall of Famer. Yes, seven foot six
center of China played for the Houston Rockets.
Speaker 5 (36:06):
Mccam, Yes, Adam China.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yes, she's a great player out of tried Eddie. Oh,
no questions. So good.
Speaker 12 (36:21):
Bryan, congratulations you made the promo, you made the drop.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Man out of China minute. But you just lost.
Speaker 12 (36:34):
Eddie trying to go, No, what's your one warning? Get
he gets?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
He gets one? Oh? Please? All right? Terrible language? God,
what about? What about?
Speaker 12 (36:49):
He didn't mean? You're forgiven?
Speaker 1 (36:52):
That's good, you didn't made it. Well, you know what,
Brian and Eddie? You are actually winning.
Speaker 11 (36:57):
So that's seventy point all right, So you guys are
down by ten. Chris, Chris, would you like a moment
like this or bad reputation.
Speaker 10 (37:08):
Moment like this?
Speaker 1 (37:09):
Martis alright.
Speaker 11 (37:11):
These athletes have all won a Finals or World Series
or Super Bowl MVP award forty five seconds begin all right.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
Player for the Yankees in a big home run against
the Red Sox known as Effing was an infielder for
the Yankees back in the seventies and the eighties. No
wide receiver for the Patriots was a Super Bowl MVP
and Super Bowl forty one. I think he went to Louisville,
I believe wide receiver. No, how about the greatest postseason
(37:40):
pitcher in my lifetime for the San Francisco Giants. We
just talked about him. The other day. He was released
by the Diamondbacks. Yep, mister big shot for the Pistons.
He's now a coach of the Portland Trailblazers. Oh my god,
for the Rams. A white guy won the Super Bowl
(38:01):
a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4 (38:03):
We win.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
You got you?
Speaker 12 (38:08):
Oh my god, what terrible you got eat?
Speaker 1 (38:14):
What kind of dump?
Speaker 12 (38:15):
Your why would you do that?
Speaker 7 (38:18):
Your gout?
Speaker 12 (38:19):
Carst Eddy his guy, carst
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