April 1, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Red Sox DH Rafael Devers' terrible start to the 2025 season and how big a problem it is for Boston, Jurikson Profar getting suspended for 80 games, Maller's Mountain of Money: Angus Young Edition, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka laka.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number three, our number three ready to go. Well,
we're ready to go, But is Rafael Devers ready to go?
Is his terrible start to the twenty twenty five baseball
season a big problem, a little problem, or no problem
at all? Also helped me understand why Jerkson Profar would
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risk his baseball reputation for some peds.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And where are you.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
At on Major League Baseball's customer service for the fans
that got screwed on opening day?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That little snaff fu on opening Day. We'll talk about
all that and more right now here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It is our number three, the mighty Raffi has struck
out again and again and again and again.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
He did it again, well gone. In the beginning of.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
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is from baseball and another compelling story. Now, an earlier
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hour we talked about the the Red Sox were in
and they ended up giving a guy that has yet
to win a game as a Red Sox nine career wins,
got one hundred and seventy million dollars, and a guy
that tapped out of pitching in the Pennant Race was
rewarded by the Red Sox. That's modern baseball, that's nerd ball.
That's nerd baseball. So with that being said, over the
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weekend there was a lot of talk about the torpedo
bats and.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
The Yankees, what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And then we've learned a bunch of other players around
baseball are also using the torpedo bats and they're not
hitting a gazillion home runs. But the buzz out of
Boston is about someone who's not making any kind of
power statement. In fact, there's no statement to be made
at all. The Red Sox in Baltimore. The Orioles played
their home opener on on Monday, and one of the
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biggest names, they're the biggest contract they ever handed out
in Boston for the baseball player was using not the
torpedo bat, but the invisible piece of lumber, absolutely invisible.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We're talking about Rafael Devers. If you have not been.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Following this story, it is a wild one. Perhaps you
have not gotten into the meat of it, the meat
and potatoes of the story. So I'll give you the
condensed thumbnail recap of what's been going on. Rafael Devers
wanted to play third base. He had been a third baseman,
a terrible third baseman. The Red Sox said, no, you're
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not gonna play third base anymore. You're gonna be the
designated hitter, and he sulked in spring training. Well, Rafael
Devers struck out three more times on Monday. That means
he's had nineteen at bats so far this season. He
is ozer for nineteen on the young season with how
many strikeouts? How about fifteen strikeouts in nineteen at pass Now,
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for a perspective, no batter in the history of Major
League baseball that goes back to the eighteen sixties has
struck out as much the first five games of a
season as Rafael Devers.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Holy Babe, Ruth Batman.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But here we are Raffy surpassing the record, which actually
is not that long ago.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Oh it's been a few years now.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Back in twenty eighteen, the Chicago Cubs had a player
named Ian Hap and he was half less. Ian Hap
fourteen strackouts the first five games. But Rafael Devers has
now fifteen punchouts the most over five games to start
the season. Now, opinions are mixed on this. There is
not a consensus. Some people say, it's just baseball. Who cares,
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it's only been a few games. Give the guy a break.
And those people we call dullards, we call them dullards.
There nothing to worry about. Others disagree. We tend to
agree more with them. We tend to agree more with
that side. So let us discuss the question. Is Rafael
devers terrible start, horrifically bad hitting to begin the twenty
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twenty five baseball season, a big problem, a little problem,
or no problem them at all for the Red Sox. So,
after a thorough minutes long deliberation, I will give you
my answer, I've got disobedience, Mark Wahlberg and trash men,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make an all you can eat buffet,
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which my man, Rafael Devers has not missed that all
you can eat buffet. And he's going right up until
that two hour time limit, and they're kicking his ass
out of the buffet, and he's like, I want the doggyback.
You can't have the doggyback. I want the doggyback. You
can't have it. It's a bffet. You can't take a doggyback.
I want the doggyback, all right? Anyway, So my first
thought after that minutes long Mallard deliberation, we have determined
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this is squarely in the big problem category.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
In fact, it is.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
A three hundred million dollar brainbuster, is what it is.
You see, Rafael Devers is in year number three of
a three hundred and thirteen million dollar contract he has
contractually to the Boston baseball team through twenty thirty three.
He has been billed as a omni present, dynamic offensive
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force who is twenty eight years old. He's a left
handed slugger and the only thing he's doing is slugging
imaginary baseballs because the ones that are physically there he's
not making contact with. And as they say, results may vary,
results may vary. Now, Devers did not play much in
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spring training. He did have a lot of whining. There
was a lot of wine time in spring training. He
was upset about being replaced. As we mentioned with Rafael Devers'
replacement there cheating as one thousand and two one thousand
hole Alex Bregman at third base. They brought that snot
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nosed Bregman in there to play third base. Now it
appears that Raphael Devers is taking part in an unannounced
act of disobedience as the regular season begins here against
the Red Sox front office. Devers, like a ninja, is
in the lineup every day and he is showing up
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to the ballpark while protesting. It is known as the
tool down strike, or in this case, the bat down strike,
and that means he's in the lineup for the Red Sox.
He's there, He goes up to the plate just refuses
to actually hit the baseball. And Rafael Devers has been
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the word is flaccid. As he's in the batter's box,
he is just in the thirtieth percentile to begin the
season among Major League Baseball hitters in batspeed. The nerds
are very concerned about that. It's almost like he's not
fully focused on his craft because he's upset and he's
having a hissy fit, and.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So it is.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's a big You got to think at some point here,
at some point, Rafael Devers is going to hit now.
I will never forget. I think it was I think
it was two thousand and nine. I got whacked from
this place and I was working at Wei in Boston.
I was doing some shows for them, and David Ortiz
was horrific. He was batting around. I was doing some
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shows around the All Star break. It was during the summer,
and David Ortiz was hitting it was like under two
hundred and so I of course said, you got to
get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He's done, he's cooked.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And then he lit the world on fire. Like I
don't know what he did. I'm sure there's nothing illegal.
David Ortis would never use performance enhancing drugs.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Or anything like that. That would be wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
But whatever he did, whatever magic beans David Ortis got,
it certainly worked out for him.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So you don't want to go over the top. But
we do the show.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Today and right now, Rafael Devers is a absolute hot
mess there for the Red Sox. Now, meanwhile, speaking of peds,
we go to Atlanta, well actually La where the Braves
traveling party, traveling circus in La La Land, and that
is where Atlanta Brave left fielder Jerkson Profar has taken
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a body blow, body blow, body blow as he has
received an eighty game suspension. You see this eighty game
suspension for being a ped cheat, multiple performance and dancing drugs.
So help me understand. While a guy who's fully vested
in the MLB pension, meaning he's been in the major
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leagues long enough to qualify, he's fully vested in the
pension play in Major League Baseball, why would Jerkson Profar
risk his baseball reputation with the pe days So he
is going Mark Wahlberg in that classic movie. It was
a remake of another classic movie, The Italian Job. One
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Last Heist. Of course, there were a lot of them.
I could have picked any movie. There's a lot of
movies One Last Heist. You're going to retire and live
a clean life and all that stuff. But Profar put
together a late career renaissance in San Diego with the
Padres last year, and now we now know it's all phony.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's all fake, it wasn't real.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And using some chemically enhanced skulduggery.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
To get that one last big bag and.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
He got it right now, it's by baseball standard, it's
not the biggest bag in the world. But Jerkson Profar
signed a three year contract for forty two million from
the Atlanta Braves this offseason to be the everyday left fielder,
to be the lead off hitter for the Atlanta Braves.
So is Jerkson Profar's signing going to torment the Atlanta Braves. Well,
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the answer is absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now. The Braves are off to a dismal start there,
zero to five.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
They got pollaxed by the Dodgers on Monday night. There's
a lot of dark clouds over the Atlanta Brave locker
room right now. And Jerkson Profar is like Poltergeist. He's
going to haunt the Atlanta Braves. It is a forty
two million dollar mistake. There are no refunds. It's not
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They should put the clause. The Union would never allow it,
but they should put a clause in there. If you
do pds, your contract is void. They don't do that.
Profar was supposed to be the rock. The big addition,
Atlanta didn't do all that much in the offseason, and
he was gonna be the leadoff hitter and this, that
and the other thing, and instead Profar is said to
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miss the entire first half of the baseball season eighty games.
But wait, there's more. If Atlanta turns things around and
they catch lightning in a bottle and the Atlanta Braves
make the playoffs, guess who will not be eligible for
the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Ding ding ding ding ding yet, Jerkson Profar because of
being a PD cheat.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
He's got coodie and he's not allowed to be in
the postseason. So even if Atlanta gets going and Profar
is playing well, it doesn't matter. His season ends the
last day of the regular season. Profar not eligible for
postseason play. This also explains why Atlanta went out right
before opening day. He's signed former Red Sox Dodger, former
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Yankee Alex Verdugo as at least temporary addition to plug
the whole. Now turning the page on that, several of
the pe ones you know who you are, reached out
to me actually over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You were upset that I did not mention.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
The debacle that took place on opening Day, although we
did mention it last week. But there's more to the story.
We can now advance the story if you missed it.
One of the great technical blunders by rob Manfraud and
the people that run professional baseball. Where are you at
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on Major League Baseball's customer service department and how they
reacted to an opening day snaffu that saw a vast
majority of the people that subscribed to the TV package
not being able to watch the games on opening Day.
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They had major glitches on opening Day. So Major League
Baseball gave their fans a salute, not a military salute,
but they say, we want our paying customers, the people
that support our business, to know how we think of them.
And they actually they dusted off a nineteen sixties classic
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hit from the trash Men, Surfing Bird. The bird is
the word. The bird is the word. They gave their
fans the bird. Major League Baseball think so little of you.
They value dirt more than they do the people that
pay to watch the games on TV. And they think
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if you bought the streams, you're moron and we don't
care about you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
The reason I bring that up, major League Baseball is
treating the people that pay for these games like knuckle draggers.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Total rubs.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Got to get that dumb money, got to get that
dumb money. Major League Baseball acting like their Spirit Airlines
or Comcast Cable the way that they are treating their customers. Here,
if you didn't see it, this is a textbook example
of bad customer service. So you are providing a product,
people paid for the product. You didn't provide the product
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because of your mistake. So instead of reimbursing part of
the expense of the people that paid for the product
that you didn't provide, what is Major League Baseball doing well?
Major League Baseball, they didn't issue an immediate public statement,
so that bothered me. Right, They went on social media,
but they also sent on an email which I got
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a copy of by a couple of you guys, and
the email said, we are offering you a ten dollars
discount code to buy merchandise MLB merchandise. Now that sounds nice, right,
but you have to spend a minimum of twenty five dollars. Therefore,
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they're making more money, so they're giving you a ten
dollars discount, you got to spend at least twenty five dollars,
which means they get an extra fifteen dollars. And everything's
overpriced the gouge you on the MLB merchandise. So really,
and people did the math on this, we are told
that when you factor in the shipping cost that often
exceeds the discount. That means that if you actually use
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the discount code that Major League Baseball provided, you would
get a whopping one dollar and one cent one dollar
and one cent after you pay all.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
The fees for the shipping and all that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So they offered their fans a one dollar discount. I mean,
but you can't make this up. That is the ultimate.
We hate our customers that they're idiots. Will give you
a one dollar one cent discount. That is the compensation
for us being screw ups at Major League Baseball. And
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another example, Rob Manford, he doesn't care about the fans,
he doesn't care about anything. The Astros were cheating under
his watch, and he just said the trophy is a
harkeu metal who cares just a piece of metal. Major
League Baseball has prioritized profit over reliability over the customer experience,
and they're getting away with it right. They're making their money,
and good for them, but it's just they treat people
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like their their complete zeros, and they make They make
twelve point one billion in twenty twenty fourth, twelve point
one billion, and yet they still have this archaic blackout policy.
The ticket prices are insane in most places at face value.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Now a good thing about baseball.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
If you really want to go cheap, you can most places,
not in LA for a Dodger game, but you go
to an Angel game, they'll.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Actually pay you to go to an Angel game. Angels
are so bad they'll pay you.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
To go to the game. I believe I heard that.
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But time now for the Mallor Riddle of the day.
And here's the Mallor Riddle of the day.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
So the people over at Fanatics another interesting operation. They're
in bed with Major League Baseball. So Fanatics recently sent
A's fans an email featuring models wearing Oakland jerseys. Of course,
the team doesn't play in Oakland anymore. They had the
tagline new Season, New Dreams. When asked what happened, Fanatics
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blamed blank for the error. Again, people over at Fanatics,
they sent the fans of the Athletics and email featuring
models wearing Oakland jerseys. When asked what happened, Fanatics blamed
blank for the error. That is the Mallor Riddle of
the day. The answer, We'll get to it and we will.
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and it is the Malor Riddle of the day.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And here it is.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Fanatics recently send an email out to fans.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
They send a message out and they said, hey, this.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Is a nice photo of some models wearing Oakland A's
jerseys and get you ready for the new season. When
asked how that could happen the team no longer plays
in Oakland, fanatics blamed blank for the error.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
They blamed Blank for the error. That is the question.
What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's does anyone know the answer to the Mallord Riddle
of the day.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And let's see page down your page. They blamed Elton
that's from Late Night Drug Tester. Who else we have page? Then?
He can't read that.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
They blamed the haters and doubters of the first place.
Halo's congratulations for a dog. Save that screenshot because you're
gonna need it when June comes around. They blame mister
t It's April Fools from Donkey Sausage. They blamed it
on ai Alf the Alien ol Piner Baseball Savant. They
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blamed it on The Malord Show Full Moon from Mallar
prop guy. That's his answer Robin, Minnesota says they said someone.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I think he meant hacked their their email. I think so.
I think that's what he meant their interned. Well, he
wrote attacked someone attacked and took over their email. But
I think he meant hacked, right, I don't think attacked.
Good guess, good guess backed he wrote it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Tex maacked lacked, don't touch up his work. Milkman Mike
in Colorado says it was their intern blind. Scott king
Rory from just adjacent to Green Bay says error code
four oh four. Jess End Junction says jose Can Seto's
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karaoke booze cruise.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Is to blame. Uh yeah, Eke.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And Roseville, Minnesota said Gavin Newsom, what an idiot?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Inca Terror said that bus driver Rocky Roberto and Inca
is in Dallas, Texas says about to take Spirit Airlines
back to Rochester. Wish me luck, yeah, godspeed God. Well,
you could be like Rob Parker's got a Spirit card.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
He's got a Spirit card there and he's like a
platinum member. Yeah yeah, he flies all the time. He
gets like free hot food on the plane. I don't
think they have hot yeah, I was gonna say that
the spirit does not have that. He gets theeanuts. I
don't even know if they have peanuts. They do.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
They have like cookies and stuff for sale, so he
might get that for free.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
But I think I'm buying the ticket. You might want
to throw some cookies in. You know what I'm saying.
I'm just I'm just saying that. Mason and Honton Beach
says the answer is that Al campanis the chief.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Don't blame me.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Camp Panis is the guy from Mason in Huntington Beach.
Steve the Misplaced san Diegan says they blamed the Oakland
invaders of the USFL. That's who they blamed. Uh, page
down can't read that. They blamed Elon Musk from JT
the Wingman Mercury in retrograde from Kathy.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
That's the answer. Do you have an answer, Lorraine? It's
the Mallard riddle of A.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Fanatics recently sent an email out to A's fans and
they were trying to promote the season, and they had
models wearing Oakland jerseys. Fortunately the team doesn't play in
Oakland anymore. They're in Sacramento. And they blamed fanatics blame
blank for the error.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Well, you know everyone wants to blame this lately, so
I'm gonna go with Crocs.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Ben Crocs, what a croc?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Crocs?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
They blamed technology, They set technology. Ain't my fault. Technologies
is gonna blame technology? Ain't my fault?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Technology.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Now some believe that they are using AI models. They're
not even hiring Fanatics is trying to save a couple bucks,
so they're not even using real models. This is all
AI generated and likely outsourced to some nerds somewhere.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
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in Boston and Paul, I think you've struck out less
than Rafael Devers this season.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Congratulations, Paul, mister mala, long time listen, my first time.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh look at this night.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Different you Pee. I liked that you picked April Fool's
Day to call the show.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I'm honored.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I just wanted to touch base on the whole Raphael
Debis thing. I've been in Boston to my entire life,
and one of my least favorite Red Sox of all
time have to be Raphaiel Debits. Now you want to
talk about overpaid, I completely agree. Now, I know how
much you hate but Houston Astros.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yes, yes, But.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
When Alex Bregman came to the Red Sox, I thought
it was a block singing disguise. And right now I
can honestly say I got to play both sides of it.
I think Rapie L. Devis is mentally broken, and as
much as I don't like him, I really think he's
gonna slump and he's gonna break out this year when
all he has to do is focus on hitting. I
gotta play both sides for the ball here.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's a bad job by you. What are you a politician?
What's wrong with you? You know you don't play both sides?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You know me already?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Oh you are?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You are?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I know it. That's what politicians do.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
No Devers, I still think he's sulking and yeah, he's
not gonna if he doesn't get a hit all season,
they'll they'll make some fake injury. They still might make
a fake and this continues. I know they go home
this weekend, but at some point they're gonna shut him
down and say his shoulders probably, you know, they'll make
something up to shut him down for ten days or something.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
So he trade him right now for Blad Guerrero Junior.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah, i'd make that trade too. Yeah, I would call
Toronto see if they'll make the trade. That's that sounds good.
I'll do that if I was the Red Sox, I'd
absolutely But you're still going to have the same You
don't have the same issue though, Right where do you
where you gonna move Guerrero around? And so then is
he going to be a DH and he's you're gonna
have to pay him?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
We have those issues. But with that, with the back on,
I mean, bring Rome and Anthony up from the WUSS.
He's been having quite the spring already. They sent him
down the trip Awa. I mean you could even I
know you don't want to take the glut glove out
of Jaron Durram's hand, but that kid's a power hitter.
I mean, there's a lot of moves you can make,
but struggling this long with this much money of a player,
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you can't have it.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, no, I agree, but there it's it's fun, you know,
the better stories in the losing locker room, and especially
when you're zero for nineteen with fifteen strikers, that is
hard to do any professional baseball. But he like maybe
like the pitchers when pitchers used to hit and they
were terrible, and you'd be like, ah, I kind of
get that. But this guy, you know, I don't need
to tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I mean, come on, all right, call more off and
thank you. Paul.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right, there's Paul, Paul the politics. There he goes,
Paul the politician. Where he goes only he knows that's it.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now. There is an interesting angle that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I have not touched on involving the great performance enhancing
drug scandal of the day in baseball. Is it true
that Jerkson Profar, Atlanta Brave left fielder Jerkson Profar, when
he signed the contract with the Atlanta Braves, the Atlanta
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Braves were fed a bill of goods by those close
to Jerkson Profar that the reason he was able to
turn around his career in San Diego was because of
a Padre teammate who may or may not have been
tainted say what yes behind a paywall at the Athletic
(28:55):
has been reported The Atlanta Braves attributed Jerkson profars power
resurgence and his offensive uptick at his middle age of
his baseball career two adjustments the Jerks and Profar made
with his lower body in his batting stance after working
out with Fernando Tatis Junior.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And his dad and his.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Dad the previous winter. Things that make you go hmm,
Things that make you go hmm for those that are
a little slow. Fernando to tease. A couple of years ago,
he had a really bad case of ringworm, so bad
he was suspended for cheating, and his pops the apple
(29:49):
doesn't fall far from the tree. Played for the Saint
Louis Cardinals in a time where many believe eighty five
ninety percent of the roster were using performances and drugs.
I saw something that will never happen again in baseball history.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I was at the game.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Fernando Tatis's Junior's dad, playing for the Cardinals against the Dodgers,
hit two grand slams in one inning.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
It was on a.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Chilly Friday night at Dodgers Stadium early in the season.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I was at that game.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
But wait, wait, so do performance enhancing drugs cause ringworm?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well, if you want to cover something up, they caused ringworm.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
If you.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Claim that you're.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Using something and it was a misunderstanding, and you might
say that you had ringworm, and you might, you might
do that. Right, Let's welcome in our contestants. We have
the game ready to go. We've got who do we
have or it's gonna be Mallard's amount of money. We've
got Mike in Boston. Hello, Mike in Boston.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You're gonna be one of our contestants. Oh what's going on, Mike?
Oh kind of.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
I'll fix it up. I got my an buzzer and
hold on.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
All right, take your time, don't mind the fact we're
on live radio. Don't bother, don't don't be in a rusher.
It's a little better yet very good. You're gonna play
maos mount money. And who do you want to partner
up with? You got me or Coop or Lorena?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I'll play with Justin all right, play with with the Coop.
All right, that's a bad job by you.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
And we have Jed who Fled in Parts Unknown the
swamp lands of Florida.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Hello, Jed who Fled. Yeah, it's chilly Friday night.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
When you saw those two Grand slams in one any huh?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Did you have a besy crackers to go with it?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Fend today, baby?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I mean there's other people I can play. I don't
have to use you as a contestant.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Then you're playing them right now? About them?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Go Jed, Jet, not Jet, You're not You're not gonna
tank the game, Jed.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I don't want any shenanigans here.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I need somebody in the bullpen in case, Jed, I
know sometimes you tank the game, so I need somebody.
I need a backup. At it as a phone's ring
at eight seven seven ninety. All right, quickly cool?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
What are the categories? Quick? Right? All right?
Speaker 5 (32:09):
This is the Angus Young edition of Mallards Mountain of Money.
He turned seventy years old on Monday, happy birthday. The
categories are It's a long Way to the Top, TNT
back in black, and thunderstruck. Uh it looks like we
hung up on my teammates. Oh so Jed picked thunderstruck.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You picked thunderstruck.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
No, I mean he got thunderstruck.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I have D and D well No, you picked you
picked thunder Yeah, all right, Mike is back. I understand
through the magic of the phone system. And Mike, let
me punch him up here. Mike, who which kedder do
you want?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
You have?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It's a long way to the top. T N T
or back in black? Back in black? All right, very good,
All stay right there, don't hang up. All right, very nice.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
We are going to have innoc entirety Mallar's amount of money.
We'll get to that and we will.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Bell Miller and you.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
It is the Ben Maler Show and the thrilling competition
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Weasel again, just search Ben mallar.
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Wherever you get your podcast, you'll find the latest episode
and a best all version which is two point five
seconds long, posted right after we get off the air.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
Now, Malor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Let's do it. Here we go. We have our contestants.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
We've got Mike in Boston who is with Cooper Loop
and Jed who fled. God only knows where Jed who
fled is and what kind of the bauchery he's getting
involved in. And that is the matchup. Mike is locked in,
Jed is locked in. All right, Coop, you're going first,
right back in black. I believe it's the category.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
That is right, Mike.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
We need the first and last name of the athlete
in order to get points. Uh, we're gonna have forty
five seconds of the clock.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Are you ready? Yes, these athletes all died young. Let's begin,
all right.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Number eight, the Black Mamba Kobe Bryant. Yes, this is
a baseball player for the Yankees. There's a disease named
after him. Yes, this was the intimidator NASCAR driver, Yes,
tight end for the Patriots. He killed somebody and then
killed himself. Yes, baseball player for the Pirates. He died
(34:52):
in a plane crash. Yes, this guy was drafted by
the Celtics. He died doing cocaine. Yes, such an easy
This guy was from Croatia. He was like one of
the best euro basketball players ever. Died at twenty eight
in a car crash after joining the NBA.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I'm gonna say you played the nets.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Oh oh, man, I like I like bulling with buffers,
I like.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Petrovich riding a bike with training wheels on.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
All right? Uh we picked thunderstruck. Are you ready here?
Are you ready my man?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Here?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yes? Yes, all right? Uh. These athletes were all heavy favorites.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
They got thunderstruck by the underdogs.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Are you ready? All right? Here we go forty five
seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Go.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
A quarterback for the Green Bay Packers before Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yes, the big german for the Mavericks. Yes.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Uh. The greatest receiver in Viking history. He also played
for the Patriots. Yes, known as the glove for the
Seat SuperSonics. Yes, greatest receiver for the greatest show on turf,
the Saint Louis ramsh No. No, yeah, that's correct. He's
a former Dodgers with the Phillies. Now he's the shortstop. Really,
(36:14):
skinny guy, white guy for the Phillies. Signed a bit coy. No, no, no, no, no,
he's with the Phillies. Used to play for the Nationals.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
All right. Pitcher for the Seattle Mariners when they had
the great team. Latin guy. No, not different, Latin. No,
he's not loud. Oh, come on, it's a good white guy.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
You gotta keep talking.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Trey Turner was who you missed there? Well you also
missed Freddy Garton then yeah, Freddy Garcon. Yeah, so one sixties.
So you guys are back up again, Jed, Do you
want TNT or it's a long way to.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
The top, long way to the topic? You want Roger smoke?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
All right?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
These athletes didn't win a championship until late in their career.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Are you prepared answer this category?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock,
and way we go. Quarterback for the Broncos Number seven
nineteen eighties. Yes, the bus goes round and round for
the Pittsburgh Steel Yes, gap tooth New York Giant defense. Yes,
the big unit for the Seattle Mariners. All right, he
also played for the Mariners. He pitched till he was
(37:23):
like forty seven years old. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Safety
played mostly for the Chargers, was played with the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Won a Super Bowl with the Rams at the end
of his career. White guy power. It's just a few
years ago, all right.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Basketball player out of Xavier won a championship with the
Golden State Warriors, I believe at the end of his career.
Not East, but not East.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
But that was a good clue at the end there.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Thank you, David West, West, who's talking about and then
Eric Weddle.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Not East.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Okay, that's three and twenty points. All right, Mike, we've
got tn T. These athletes all work or worked for TNT.
Mike you ready, shut shut up, keep talking for forty
five seconds, Mike, you ready?
Speaker 4 (38:16):
All right?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Let's begin, all right.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
This guy was a quarterback for the Rams. He was
also the athletic director for USC. Uh, no chance, all right,
let's let's try a black quarterback for the Eagles most
of his career later the Vikings. Yes, uh, this guy
was the Oilers quarterback. He was a CFL legend. Yes, Uh,
(38:43):
this guy was on the Fab five. His last name
is a Flower.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
Uh, this guy shoots lights out for the Pacers. He's
an analyst on TNT. Now, all right, the Brown Mount
of Rebound. We're out of time.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Sorry, John, I don't think let's let's show elements
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Recount, let's recount the vote on that
Boom, shaka laka.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
It's our number three, our number three ready to go. Well,
we're ready to go, But is Rafael Devers ready to go?
Is his terrible start to the twenty twenty five baseball
season a big problem, a little problem, or no problem
at all? Also helped me understand why Jerkson Profar would
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risk his baseball reputation for some peds.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And where are you.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
At on Major League Baseball's customer service for the fans
that got screwed on opening day?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
That little snaff fu on opening Day. We'll talk about
all that and more right now here.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
It is our number three, the mighty Raffi has struck
out again and again and again and again.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
He did it again, well gone. In the beginning of.
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hour we talked about the the Red Sox were in
and they ended up giving a guy that has yet
to win a game as a Red Sox nine career wins,
got one hundred and seventy million dollars, and a guy
that tapped out of pitching in the Pennant Race was
rewarded by the Red Sox. That's modern baseball, that's nerd ball.
That's nerd baseball. So with that being said, over the
(02:20):
weekend there was a lot of talk about the torpedo
bats and.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
The Yankees, what's going on here?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
And then we've learned a bunch of other players around
baseball are also using the torpedo bats and they're not
hitting a gazillion home runs. But the buzz out of
Boston is about someone who's not making any kind of
power statement. In fact, there's no statement to be made
at all. The Red Sox in Baltimore. The Orioles played
their home opener on on Monday, and one of the
(02:49):
biggest names, they're the biggest contract they ever handed out
in Boston for the baseball player was using not the
torpedo bat, but the invisible piece of lumber, absolutely invisible.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We're talking about Rafael Devers. If you have not been.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Following this story, it is a wild one. Perhaps you
have not gotten into the meat of it, the meat
and potatoes of the story. So I'll give you the
condensed thumbnail recap of what's been going on. Rafael Devers
wanted to play third base. He had been a third baseman,
a terrible third baseman. The Red Sox said, no, you're
(03:24):
not gonna play third base anymore. You're gonna be the
designated hitter, and he sulked in spring training. Well, Rafael
Devers struck out three more times on Monday. That means
he's had nineteen at bats so far this season. He
is ozer for nineteen on the young season with how
many strikeouts? How about fifteen strikeouts in nineteen at pass Now,
(03:46):
for a perspective, no batter in the history of Major
League baseball that goes back to the eighteen sixties has
struck out as much the first five games of a
season as Rafael Devers.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
Holy Babe, Ruth Batman.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
But here we are Raffy surpassing the record, which actually
is not that long ago.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Oh it's been a few years now.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Back in twenty eighteen, the Chicago Cubs had a player
named Ian Hap and he was half less. Ian Hap
fourteen strackouts the first five games. But Rafael Devers has
now fifteen punchouts the most over five games to start
the season. Now, opinions are mixed on this. There is
not a consensus. Some people say, it's just baseball. Who cares,
(04:32):
it's only been a few games. Give the guy a break.
And those people we call dullards, we call them dullards.
There nothing to worry about. Others disagree. We tend to
agree more with them. We tend to agree more with
that side. So let us discuss the question. Is Rafael
devers terrible start, horrifically bad hitting to begin the twenty
(04:54):
twenty five baseball season, a big problem, a little problem,
or no problem them at all for the Red Sox. So,
after a thorough minutes long deliberation, I will give you
my answer, I've got disobedience, Mark Wahlberg and trash men,
and we will combine all of these things together and
we are going to make an all you can eat buffet,
(05:17):
which my man, Rafael Devers has not missed that all
you can eat buffet. And he's going right up until
that two hour time limit, and they're kicking his ass
out of the buffet, and he's like, I want the doggyback.
You can't have the doggyback. I want the doggyback. You
can't have it. It's a bffet. You can't take a doggyback.
I want the doggyback, all right? Anyway, So my first
thought after that minutes long Mallard deliberation, we have determined
(05:38):
this is squarely in the big problem category.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
In fact, it is.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
A three hundred million dollar brainbuster, is what it is.
You see, Rafael Devers is in year number three of
a three hundred and thirteen million dollar contract he has
contractually to the Boston baseball team through twenty thirty three.
He has been billed as a omni present, dynamic offensive
(06:09):
force who is twenty eight years old. He's a left
handed slugger and the only thing he's doing is slugging
imaginary baseballs because the ones that are physically there he's
not making contact with. And as they say, results may vary,
results may vary. Now, Devers did not play much in
(06:30):
spring training. He did have a lot of whining. There
was a lot of wine time in spring training. He
was upset about being replaced. As we mentioned with Rafael Devers'
replacement there cheating as one thousand and two one thousand
hole Alex Bregman at third base. They brought that snot
(06:50):
nosed Bregman in there to play third base. Now it
appears that Raphael Devers is taking part in an unannounced
act of disobedience as the regular season begins here against
the Red Sox front office. Devers, like a ninja, is
in the lineup every day and he is showing up
(07:10):
to the ballpark while protesting. It is known as the
tool down strike, or in this case, the bat down strike,
and that means he's in the lineup for the Red Sox.
He's there, He goes up to the plate just refuses
to actually hit the baseball. And Rafael Devers has been
(07:31):
the word is flaccid. As he's in the batter's box,
he is just in the thirtieth percentile to begin the
season among Major League Baseball hitters in batspeed. The nerds
are very concerned about that. It's almost like he's not
fully focused on his craft because he's upset and he's
having a hissy fit, and.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So it is.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's a big You got to think at some point here,
at some point, Rafael Devers is going to hit now.
I will never forget. I think it was I think
it was two thousand and nine. I got whacked from
this place and I was working at Wei in Boston.
I was doing some shows for them, and David Ortiz
was horrific. He was batting around. I was doing some
(08:14):
shows around the All Star break. It was during the summer,
and David Ortiz was hitting it was like under two
hundred and so I of course said, you got to
get rid of him.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
He's done, he's cooked.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And then he lit the world on fire. Like I
don't know what he did. I'm sure there's nothing illegal.
David Ortis would never use performance enhancing drugs.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Or anything like that. That would be wrong.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
But whatever he did, whatever magic beans David Ortis got,
it certainly worked out for him.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
So you don't want to go over the top. But
we do the show.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Today and right now, Rafael Devers is a absolute hot
mess there for the Red Sox. Now, meanwhile, speaking of peds,
we go to Atlanta, well actually La where the Braves
traveling party, traveling circus in La La Land, and that
is where Atlanta Brave left fielder Jerkson Profar has taken
(09:08):
a body blow, body blow, body blow as he has
received an eighty game suspension. You see this eighty game
suspension for being a ped cheat, multiple performance and dancing drugs.
So help me understand. While a guy who's fully vested
in the MLB pension, meaning he's been in the major
(09:28):
leagues long enough to qualify, he's fully vested in the
pension play in Major League Baseball, why would Jerkson Profar
risk his baseball reputation with the pe days So he
is going Mark Wahlberg in that classic movie. It was
a remake of another classic movie, The Italian Job. One
(09:51):
Last Heist. Of course, there were a lot of them.
I could have picked any movie. There's a lot of
movies One Last Heist. You're going to retire and live
a clean life and all that stuff. But Profar put
together a late career renaissance in San Diego with the
Padres last year, and now we now know it's all phony.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
It's all fake, it wasn't real.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
And using some chemically enhanced skulduggery.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
To get that one last big bag and.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
He got it right now, it's by baseball standard, it's
not the biggest bag in the world. But Jerkson Profar
signed a three year contract for forty two million from
the Atlanta Braves this offseason to be the everyday left fielder,
to be the lead off hitter for the Atlanta Braves.
So is Jerkson Profar's signing going to torment the Atlanta Braves. Well,
(10:48):
the answer is absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now. The Braves are off to a dismal start there,
zero to five.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
They got pollaxed by the Dodgers on Monday night. There's
a lot of dark clouds over the Atlanta Brave locker
room right now. And Jerkson Profar is like Poltergeist. He's
going to haunt the Atlanta Braves. It is a forty
two million dollar mistake. There are no refunds. It's not
(11:14):
They should put the clause. The Union would never allow it,
but they should put a clause in there. If you
do pds, your contract is void. They don't do that.
Profar was supposed to be the rock. The big addition,
Atlanta didn't do all that much in the offseason, and
he was gonna be the leadoff hitter and this, that
and the other thing, and instead Profar is said to
(11:36):
miss the entire first half of the baseball season eighty games.
But wait, there's more. If Atlanta turns things around and
they catch lightning in a bottle and the Atlanta Braves
make the playoffs, guess who will not be eligible for
the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
Ding ding ding ding ding yet, Jerkson Profar because of
being a PD cheat.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
He's got coodie and he's not allowed to be in
the postseason. So even if Atlanta gets going and Profar
is playing well, it doesn't matter. His season ends the
last day of the regular season. Profar not eligible for
postseason play. This also explains why Atlanta went out right
before opening day. He's signed former Red Sox Dodger, former
(12:21):
Yankee Alex Verdugo as at least temporary addition to plug
the whole. Now turning the page on that, several of
the pe ones you know who you are, reached out
to me actually over the weekend.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
You were upset that I did not mention.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
The debacle that took place on opening Day, although we
did mention it last week. But there's more to the story.
We can now advance the story if you missed it.
One of the great technical blunders by rob Manfraud and
the people that run professional baseball. Where are you at
(13:00):
on Major League Baseball's customer service department and how they
reacted to an opening day snaffu that saw a vast
majority of the people that subscribed to the TV package
not being able to watch the games on opening Day.
(13:23):
They had major glitches on opening Day. So Major League
Baseball gave their fans a salute, not a military salute,
but they say, we want our paying customers, the people
that support our business, to know how we think of them.
And they actually they dusted off a nineteen sixties classic
(13:45):
hit from the trash Men, Surfing Bird. The bird is
the word. The bird is the word. They gave their
fans the bird. Major League Baseball think so little of you.
They value dirt more than they do the people that
pay to watch the games on TV. And they think
(14:05):
if you bought the streams, you're moron and we don't
care about you.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
The reason I bring that up, major League Baseball is
treating the people that pay for these games like knuckle draggers.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Total rubs.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Got to get that dumb money, got to get that
dumb money. Major League Baseball acting like their Spirit Airlines
or Comcast Cable the way that they are treating their customers. Here,
if you didn't see it, this is a textbook example
of bad customer service. So you are providing a product,
people paid for the product. You didn't provide the product
(14:44):
because of your mistake. So instead of reimbursing part of
the expense of the people that paid for the product
that you didn't provide, what is Major League Baseball doing well?
Major League Baseball, they didn't issue an immediate public statement,
so that bothered me. Right, They went on social media,
but they also sent on an email which I got
(15:05):
a copy of by a couple of you guys, and
the email said, we are offering you a ten dollars
discount code to buy merchandise MLB merchandise. Now that sounds nice, right,
but you have to spend a minimum of twenty five dollars. Therefore,
(15:26):
they're making more money, so they're giving you a ten
dollars discount, you got to spend at least twenty five dollars,
which means they get an extra fifteen dollars. And everything's
overpriced the gouge you on the MLB merchandise. So really,
and people did the math on this, we are told
that when you factor in the shipping cost that often
exceeds the discount. That means that if you actually use
(15:50):
the discount code that Major League Baseball provided, you would
get a whopping one dollar and one cent one dollar
and one cent after you pay all.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
The fees for the shipping and all that.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So they offered their fans a one dollar discount. I mean,
but you can't make this up. That is the ultimate.
We hate our customers that they're idiots. Will give you
a one dollar one cent discount. That is the compensation
for us being screw ups at Major League Baseball. And
(16:23):
another example, Rob Manford, he doesn't care about the fans,
he doesn't care about anything. The Astros were cheating under
his watch, and he just said the trophy is a
harkeu metal who cares just a piece of metal. Major
League Baseball has prioritized profit over reliability over the customer experience,
and they're getting away with it right. They're making their money,
and good for them, but it's just they treat people
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twelve point one billion in twenty twenty fourth, twelve point
one billion, and yet they still have this archaic blackout policy.
The ticket prices are insane in most places at face value.
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So the people over at Fanatics another interesting operation. They're
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the team doesn't play in Oakland anymore. They had the
tagline new Season, New Dreams. When asked what happened, Fanatics
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blamed blank for the error. Again, people over at Fanatics,
they sent the fans of the Athletics and email featuring
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and it is the Malor Riddle of the day.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
And here it is.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Fanatics recently send an email out to fans.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
They send a message out and they said, hey, this.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Is a nice photo of some models wearing Oakland A's
jerseys and get you ready for the new season. When
asked how that could happen the team no longer plays
in Oakland, fanatics blamed blank for the error.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
They blamed Blank for the error. That is the question.
What is the answer?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's does anyone know the answer to the Mallord Riddle
of the day.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
And let's see page down your page. They blamed Elton
that's from Late Night Drug Tester. Who else we have page? Then?
He can't read that.
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
They blamed the haters and doubters of the first place.
Halo's congratulations for a dog. Save that screenshot because you're
gonna need it when June comes around. They blame mister
t It's April Fools from Donkey Sausage. They blamed it
on ai Alf the Alien ol Piner Baseball Savant. They
(21:32):
blamed it on The Malord Show Full Moon from Mallar
prop guy. That's his answer Robin, Minnesota says they said someone.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
I think he meant hacked their their email. I think so.
I think that's what he meant their interned. Well, he
wrote attacked someone attacked and took over their email. But
I think he meant hacked, right, I don't think attacked.
Good guess, good guess backed he wrote it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Tex maacked lacked, don't touch up his work. Milkman Mike
in Colorado says it was their intern blind. Scott king
Rory from just adjacent to Green Bay says error code
four oh four. Jess End Junction says jose Can Seto's
(22:20):
karaoke booze cruise.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Is to blame. Uh yeah, Eke.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And Roseville, Minnesota said Gavin Newsom, what an idiot?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Who else?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Inca Terror said that bus driver Rocky Roberto and Inca
is in Dallas, Texas says about to take Spirit Airlines
back to Rochester. Wish me luck, yeah, godspeed God. Well,
you could be like Rob Parker's got a Spirit card.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
He's got a Spirit card there and he's like a
platinum member. Yeah yeah, he flies all the time. He
gets like free hot food on the plane. I don't
think they have hot yeah, I was gonna say that
the spirit does not have that. He gets theeanuts. I
don't even know if they have peanuts. They do.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
They have like cookies and stuff for sale, so he
might get that for free.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
But I think I'm buying the ticket. You might want
to throw some cookies in. You know what I'm saying.
I'm just I'm just saying that. Mason and Honton Beach
says the answer is that Al campanis the chief.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Don't blame me.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Camp Panis is the guy from Mason in Huntington Beach.
Steve the Misplaced san Diegan says they blamed the Oakland
invaders of the USFL. That's who they blamed. Uh, page
down can't read that. They blamed Elon Musk from JT
the Wingman Mercury in retrograde from Kathy.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
That's the answer. Do you have an answer, Lorraine? It's
the Mallard riddle of A.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Fanatics recently sent an email out to A's fans and
they were trying to promote the season, and they had
models wearing Oakland jerseys. Fortunately the team doesn't play in
Oakland anymore. They're in Sacramento. And they blamed fanatics blame
blank for the error.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Well, you know everyone wants to blame this lately, so
I'm gonna go with Crocs.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Ben Crocs, what a croc?
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Crocs?
Speaker 2 (24:13):
They blamed technology, They set technology. Ain't my fault. Technologies
is gonna blame technology? Ain't my fault?
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Technology.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Now some believe that they are using AI models. They're
not even hiring Fanatics is trying to save a couple bucks,
so they're not even using real models. This is all
AI generated and likely outsourced to some nerds somewhere.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Anyway.
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any meenie miney mo. Let's say it to Paul. Paul's
in Boston and Paul, I think you've struck out less
than Rafael Devers this season.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
Congratulations, Paul, mister mala, long time listen, my first time.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Oh look at this night.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Different you Pee. I liked that you picked April Fool's
Day to call the show.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
I'm honored.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
I just wanted to touch base on the whole Raphael
Debis thing. I've been in Boston to my entire life,
and one of my least favorite Red Sox of all
time have to be Raphaiel Debits. Now you want to
talk about overpaid, I completely agree. Now, I know how
much you hate but Houston Astros.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Yes, yes, But.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
When Alex Bregman came to the Red Sox, I thought
it was a block singing disguise. And right now I
can honestly say I got to play both sides of it.
I think Rapie L. Devis is mentally broken, and as
much as I don't like him, I really think he's
gonna slump and he's gonna break out this year when
all he has to do is focus on hitting. I
gotta play both sides for the ball here.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
That's a bad job by you. What are you a politician?
What's wrong with you? You know you don't play both sides?
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Wow?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
You know me already?
Speaker 1 (26:24):
Oh you are?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
You are?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I know it. That's what politicians do.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
No Devers, I still think he's sulking and yeah, he's
not gonna if he doesn't get a hit all season,
they'll they'll make some fake injury. They still might make
a fake and this continues. I know they go home
this weekend, but at some point they're gonna shut him
down and say his shoulders probably, you know, they'll make
something up to shut him down for ten days or something.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
So he trade him right now for Blad Guerrero Junior.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Yeah, i'd make that trade too. Yeah, I would call
Toronto see if they'll make the trade. That's that sounds good.
I'll do that if I was the Red Sox, I'd
absolutely But you're still going to have the same You
don't have the same issue though, Right where do you
where you gonna move Guerrero around? And so then is
he going to be a DH and he's you're gonna
have to pay him?
Speaker 4 (27:13):
We have those issues. But with that, with the back on,
I mean, bring Rome and Anthony up from the WUSS.
He's been having quite the spring already. They sent him
down the trip Awa. I mean you could even I
know you don't want to take the glut glove out
of Jaron Durram's hand, but that kid's a power hitter.
I mean, there's a lot of moves you can make,
but struggling this long with this much money of a player,
(27:34):
you can't have it.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, no, I agree, but there it's it's fun, you know,
the better stories in the losing locker room, and especially
when you're zero for nineteen with fifteen strikers, that is
hard to do any professional baseball. But he like maybe
like the pitchers when pitchers used to hit and they
were terrible, and you'd be like, ah, I kind of
get that. But this guy, you know, I don't need
to tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
I mean, come on, all right, call more off and
thank you. Paul.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
All right, there's Paul, Paul the politics. There he goes,
Paul the politician. Where he goes only he knows that's it.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
Now. There is an interesting angle that.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
I have not touched on involving the great performance enhancing
drug scandal of the day in baseball. Is it true
that Jerkson Profar, Atlanta Brave left fielder Jerkson Profar, when
he signed the contract with the Atlanta Braves, the Atlanta
(28:31):
Braves were fed a bill of goods by those close
to Jerkson Profar that the reason he was able to
turn around his career in San Diego was because of
a Padre teammate who may or may not have been
tainted say what yes behind a paywall at the Athletic
(28:55):
has been reported The Atlanta Braves attributed Jerkson profars power
resurgence and his offensive uptick at his middle age of
his baseball career two adjustments the Jerks and Profar made
with his lower body in his batting stance after working
out with Fernando Tatis Junior.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
And his dad and his.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Dad the previous winter. Things that make you go hmm,
Things that make you go hmm for those that are
a little slow. Fernando to tease. A couple of years ago,
he had a really bad case of ringworm, so bad
he was suspended for cheating, and his pops the apple
(29:49):
doesn't fall far from the tree. Played for the Saint
Louis Cardinals in a time where many believe eighty five
ninety percent of the roster were using performances and drugs.
I saw something that will never happen again in baseball history.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
I was at the game.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
Fernando Tatis's Junior's dad, playing for the Cardinals against the Dodgers,
hit two grand slams in one inning.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
It was on a.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Chilly Friday night at Dodgers Stadium early in the season.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
I was at that game.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
But wait, wait, so do performance enhancing drugs cause ringworm?
Speaker 3 (30:25):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Well, if you want to cover something up, they caused ringworm.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
If you.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Claim that you're.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Using something and it was a misunderstanding, and you might
say that you had ringworm, and you might, you might
do that. Right, Let's welcome in our contestants. We have
the game ready to go. We've got who do we
have or it's gonna be Mallard's amount of money. We've
got Mike in Boston. Hello, Mike in Boston.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
You're gonna be one of our contestants. Oh what's going on, Mike?
Oh kind of.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
I'll fix it up. I got my an buzzer and
hold on.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
All right, take your time, don't mind the fact we're
on live radio. Don't bother, don't don't be in a rusher.
It's a little better yet very good. You're gonna play
maos mount money. And who do you want to partner
up with? You got me or Coop or Lorena?
Speaker 1 (31:17):
I'll play with Justin all right, play with with the Coop.
All right, that's a bad job by you.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
And we have Jed who Fled in Parts Unknown the
swamp lands of Florida.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Hello, Jed who Fled. Yeah, it's chilly Friday night.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
When you saw those two Grand slams in one any huh?
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Did you have a besy crackers to go with it?
Speaker 4 (31:40):
Fend today, baby?
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I mean there's other people I can play. I don't
have to use you as a contestant.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Then you're playing them right now? About them?
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Go Jed, Jet, not Jet, You're not You're not gonna
tank the game, Jed.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I don't want any shenanigans here.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
I need somebody in the bullpen in case, Jed, I
know sometimes you tank the game, so I need somebody.
I need a backup. At it as a phone's ring
at eight seven seven ninety. All right, quickly cool?
Speaker 1 (32:07):
What are the categories? Quick? Right? All right?
Speaker 5 (32:09):
This is the Angus Young edition of Mallards Mountain of Money.
He turned seventy years old on Monday, happy birthday. The
categories are It's a long Way to the Top, TNT
back in black, and thunderstruck. Uh it looks like we
hung up on my teammates. Oh so Jed picked thunderstruck.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
You picked thunderstruck.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
No, I mean he got thunderstruck.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I have D and D well No, you picked you
picked thunder Yeah, all right, Mike is back. I understand
through the magic of the phone system. And Mike, let
me punch him up here. Mike, who which kedder do
you want?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
You have?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
It's a long way to the top. T N T
or back in black? Back in black? All right, very good,
All stay right there, don't hang up. All right, very nice.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
We are going to have innoc entirety Mallar's amount of money.
We'll get to that and we will.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Do it next.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
Bell Miller and you.
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Speaker 3 (33:48):
Now, Malor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
Let's do it. Here we go. We have our contestants.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
We've got Mike in Boston who is with Cooper Loop
and Jed who fled. God only knows where Jed who
fled is and what kind of the bauchery he's getting
involved in. And that is the matchup. Mike is locked in,
Jed is locked in. All right, Coop, you're going first,
right back in black. I believe it's the category.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
That is right, Mike.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
We need the first and last name of the athlete
in order to get points. Uh, we're gonna have forty
five seconds of the clock.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Are you ready? Yes, these athletes all died young. Let's begin,
all right.
Speaker 5 (34:31):
Number eight, the Black Mamba Kobe Bryant. Yes, this is
a baseball player for the Yankees. There's a disease named
after him. Yes, this was the intimidator NASCAR driver, Yes,
tight end for the Patriots. He killed somebody and then
killed himself. Yes, baseball player for the Pirates. He died
(34:52):
in a plane crash. Yes, this guy was drafted by
the Celtics. He died doing cocaine. Yes, such an easy
This guy was from Croatia. He was like one of
the best euro basketball players ever. Died at twenty eight
in a car crash after joining the NBA.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
I'm gonna say you played the nets.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Oh oh, man, I like I like bulling with buffers,
I like.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Petrovich riding a bike with training wheels on.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
All right? Uh we picked thunderstruck. Are you ready here?
Are you ready my man?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Here?
Speaker 1 (35:32):
Yes? Yes, all right? Uh. These athletes were all heavy favorites.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
They got thunderstruck by the underdogs.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
Are you ready? All right? Here we go forty five
seconds on the clock.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
Go.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
A quarterback for the Green Bay Packers before Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Yes, the big german for the Mavericks. Yes.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Uh. The greatest receiver in Viking history. He also played
for the Patriots. Yes, known as the glove for the
Seat SuperSonics. Yes, greatest receiver for the greatest show on turf,
the Saint Louis ramsh No. No, yeah, that's correct. He's
a former Dodgers with the Phillies. Now he's the shortstop. Really,
(36:14):
skinny guy, white guy for the Phillies. Signed a bit coy. No, no, no, no, no,
he's with the Phillies. Used to play for the Nationals.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
All right. Pitcher for the Seattle Mariners when they had
the great team. Latin guy. No, not different, Latin. No,
he's not loud. Oh, come on, it's a good white guy.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
You gotta keep talking.
Speaker 5 (36:34):
Trey Turner was who you missed there? Well you also
missed Freddy Garton then yeah, Freddy Garcon. Yeah, so one sixties.
So you guys are back up again, Jed, Do you
want TNT or it's a long way to.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
The top, long way to the topic? You want Roger smoke?
Speaker 1 (36:49):
All right?
Speaker 2 (36:51):
All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
These athletes didn't win a championship until late in their career.
Speaker 1 (36:58):
Are you prepared answer this category?
Speaker 2 (37:02):
All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock,
and way we go. Quarterback for the Broncos Number seven
nineteen eighties. Yes, the bus goes round and round for
the Pittsburgh Steel Yes, gap tooth New York Giant defense. Yes,
the big unit for the Seattle Mariners. All right, he
also played for the Mariners. He pitched till he was
(37:23):
like forty seven years old. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Safety
played mostly for the Chargers, was played with the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Won a Super Bowl with the Rams at the end
of his career. White guy power. It's just a few
years ago, all right.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Basketball player out of Xavier won a championship with the
Golden State Warriors, I believe at the end of his career.
Not East, but not East.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
But that was a good clue at the end there.
Speaker 5 (37:52):
Thank you, David West, West, who's talking about and then
Eric Weddle.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Not East.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
Okay, that's three and twenty points. All right, Mike, we've
got tn T. These athletes all work or worked for TNT.
Mike you ready, shut shut up, keep talking for forty
five seconds, Mike, you ready?
Speaker 4 (38:16):
All right?
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Let's begin, all right.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (38:18):
This guy was a quarterback for the Rams. He was
also the athletic director for USC. Uh, no chance, all right,
let's let's try a black quarterback for the Eagles most
of his career later the Vikings. Yes, uh, this guy
was the Oilers quarterback. He was a CFL legend. Yes, Uh,
(38:43):
this guy was on the Fab five. His last name
is a Flower.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
Uh, this guy shoots lights out for the Pacers. He's
an analyst on TNT. Now, all right, the Brown Mount
of Rebound. We're out of time.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Sorry, John, I don't think let's let's show elements
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Recount, let's recount the vote on that
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