Hour 3 - Diaz Goes Down

Ben Maller talks about the fallout from Edwin Diaz sustaining a season-ending injury at the World Baseball Classic, if the Mets are doomed without him, Lame Jokes of the Week, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our name or three hour three
of our radio program talking baseball, and what a story
it is the fallout from Edwin Diaz season ending injury
at the WBC. What is that fall out? We'll talk
about that. Are the Mets now doomed without Daz on

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the back end of their bullpen in twenty twenty three?
And also give us your school of thought on Major
League Baseball increasing the checks of the sticky stuff. They're
trying to crack down on the pitchers cheating yet again.
We'll talk about that as well right now in our
number three and lame jokes here. It is not able

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to have good things. That's the story of Major League Baseball.
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Coming from the World Baseball Classic. We'll get back to
the college basketball conversation coming up in a little bit,

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but we go where the news of the day takes us,
Where the news of the day takes us, and the
news of the day taking us to the New York
metropolitan area where the New York Mets played baseball. They're
in Florida right now. We're spring training and joining the
Sunshine State. That's about to end. But it's crazy. We're
getting real close to the start of the Major League

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Baseball season. Are you excited? You're not excited? Well, the
New York Mets were very excited and they're not quite
as excited right now. And a lot of pearl clutching
from the damage done the other day. Edwin Diaz, friend
of Timmy Trumpet, has been knocked out the standing eight

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count for Edwin Diaz. If you have not been following
the worst case scenario, the worst case scenario has happened.
It has taken place, and that's it. Bye bye, As
we've learned that Edwin dz suffered a torn but teller tendon,
and we know, being sports fans, we have to follow medicine,

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and that means the Mets have decided he's not gonna pitch.
They've given a yeah, that's his new trumpet player. When
he's in the operating room, they're gonna play this behind him,
Edwin Diaz. But Diaz was given a rough timeline of
eight months for the injury to heal. Now he needs
to have the operation and then from that point forward

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rehab and all that. And if you would look up
your calendar app on your phone or your laptop or
your device, you will see that we are now in
the mid to late part of March, eight months from today.
If my math is correct, this being the third month
of the year plus eight. We are looking at November.

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When does the Major League baseball season end? Late October
or early November, So you can do the math, so
Diaz would miss the entire the full monthy of baseball
games this year. Now, there's a lot of moving parts
to this story. It's an interesting story to me for
several reasons, because you have this thing that's getting some

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good publicity the World Baseball Classic, and this injury has
trumped everything going on in that Diaz rightney crumbling while
celebrating with his Puerto Rican teammates following their win over
the team representing the Dominican Republic. And that was a
game where Diaz had a save there and that pushed

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Puerto Rico into the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals, which is
a big deal apparently, And they were celebrating and it
was great and they had a good time until the
music stopped. So let us discuss the question what is
the fallout from the Edwin Diaz season ending injury at
the World Baseball Classics. So I'm glad you asked. I've

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got elm Street, Muddy Waters, and Stop and Frisk as well.
So we'll combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a sad trumpet, is what. We're
gonna make a sad trumpet now to lead off the
World Baseball class I'm not into it. I'm just not
my jam the World Baseball Classic. But I get that

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a lot of people seem to be enoyed. It's I'm
telling you right now, it's on the endangered list. I
made a rare. I made a rare and appropriate appearance
with my friend Steve Zaban, great radio man in Milwaukee
and DC and whatnot, and used to work here at
Fox Sports Radio, and we talked about the World Baseball Classic,
and I was like, listen, mark my words. Okay, the

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people in charge of baseball are going to do something
drastic as a result of this. Deep the people who
have the power at Baseball, they are going to there,
They're going to demand change. Now, some other types in
the Commissioner's office, I'm sure we'll try to move mountains
to keep that from happening. But it's not even about
the money. And that's the part of this that you

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have to understand. It's not Stephen Cohen's concern. It's not
going to affect his pocketbook because if Daz is out
for the whole season, as I understand it, his salary
will be paid for by Major League Baseball's insurance. So
that means the insurance premium will be going up for
future contracts. So what is it about? This is clearly

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a sucker punch to the New York Mets roster. It
also goes against what are the core values of modern sport.
The core values of modern sport, which I don't agree with,
by the way, but this is the way it is
that the world we live in, the world's change injury management.

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That is the god of all sports. And we see
this in basketball, but we see it more and more
in these other sports, including baseball, including baseball, where it's
just not worth it. It's a cost benefit analysis, it's
not worth it. And why would you risk an injury
to your all star closer, your hundred million dollar pitcher

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for a game that really doesn't matter to the New
York Mets And you're getting paid that money to pitch
for the Mets. You're not getting paid to pitch for
Porter Eko in the World Baseball Classic. But this is it.
This is the journey to Elm Street, the nightmare on
Elm Street. I thought we did that last hour with

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a call we took from from the Bay Area. But
this is Freddie Krueger knocking on the door and you're
not answering. So Freddie decides to break the window and
break into your place. Worst case scenario has now happened.
And mark my words, I'm telling you I'm never wrong
about this stuff. There will be a movement to cancel

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the World Baseball Classic. Now, they could always compromise, and
what would the compromise be. The compromise would be a
filtered version of the event where the top line players
do not play, and if you're making a certain amount
of money, you're not in this event, and they'll sell it.

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They'll position it like, well, let's let the kids play
and we'll showcase the new young stars, but they're not
actually in the major leagues yet, so they'll dumb down
the event. So that's the contingency plan, where like you
won't completely get rid of it, but they will change
it where you're not going to see all all the
big games. And baseball players are legendarily soft. I mean

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they're the softest of the soft as far as the
athletes are concerned. And it's not even close. Now. Furthermore,
let's take a couple of steps back and look at
the Mets. Are the Mets now doomed? Should we play
Nana Nana Hey, good bye to the Mets? Are they
doomed without Edwin Diez? Yeah? I would like to say yes,

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but no, I am going to be Benny bright Side
on this. I'm shaking my head. No, the Mets are
not doomed. They're not here. We are sitting and talking
together in mid March. Now, I'm not going to sit
here and tell you this is not a karate kick
to the solar plexus of the Mats. However, if you're
keeping it real, when the one hundred and sixty two

(09:02):
game marathon get started at the end of March, the
Metropolitans will start from scratch. It's like that classic Muddy
Waters tune. You can't miss what you never had. And
while the Mets had Edwin Diez in twenty twenty two,
they have not had him this season in a regular
season game, and so Buck Showalter's mantra has to be

(09:25):
next man up. Right. We've all heard the hookiness of
the train keeps moving down the tracks, and I do
believe that an adversity like this to a sports team
is a daily double for the Mets. And what is
the daily double? Will you create an opportunity for someone?
And you also have a roadblock, which is a good thing.

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Let make splay right because the Mets they got endless
amounts of money. So warming up in the bullpen right
now is David Robertson, who had twenty saves last season.
He's older for the Cubs in the Phillies, who, by
the way, got to the World Series, a seasoned relief
pitcher who's got over one hundred and fifty career saves. Now,

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if that does not work, what does Stephen Cohen do?
Easy peasy, easy peasy. You're going offer up, You go
on et Sea, you go on eBay, and you play
supermarket sweep whatever you have to do. You pick up reinforcements.
Mid season. Some bad team inevitably will have a good closer,

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and you can trade for that particular closer. But there's
no way that a three hundred and sixty four million
dollar New York Metropolitans team is going to be completely
derailed because their closer went away. And they will brag, right,
should the Mets win, they will brag about overcoming the
adversity and the odds. And if they lose, they have

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the ace in the hole. Remember we mentioned the fact
that this is a daily double so opportunity. That's number one.
Number two is the ason hole. You gotta have a fall,
oh guy, scape goat city, not our fault. If only
Edwin Diaz hadn't gotten hurt way back in March, we
would have been fine all right, Now turning the picture,

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I wanted to move over to a story that caught
my at chanch. At least this will be our parting shot.
So Major League Baseball's rules Gestapo is on the prowl
and their target is yet again the sticky AIChE, not
that sticky aky, a different kind of sticky kiki. We
have learned that pictures starting this season will again receive

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a more invasive check for illegal substances, foreign substances all
across the major leagues. There was an internal memo that
was sent to all the teams and it said that
umpires inspections of pictures hands and fingers, which began last season,
will increase in both frequency and scope. According to the

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corporate memo. The memo went on to say, the inspections
are expected to be far more or thorough then the
often perfunctory checks that umpires last year. Yeah, they will
be going all in a full cavity search from the
umpire right there at the first baseline. The umpires have
been checking pictures for the sticky stuff the last two years,

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although what happened last season is they got a little lax.
They kind of let everyone know all right, it's gonna
fourth inning. We're gonna check you for some stuff. So
that means you're allowed to cheat in the first, second,
and third inning, and the fifth and the sixth inning,
but you can't do it in the fourth inning. You
gotta make sure you're all clean. You're good to go.
In addition, here's the other part which I found fascinating,

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And this is another one of those rules that should
be named after somebody. The umpires, in addition to checking
the pictures, will be checking catchers for sticky stuff. So
let's give our school of thought on baseball increasing the
sticky stuff checks. So this is a case of when

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life imitates art. And one of the great movies is
an old movie now back in the stones. Of course,
before I was alive, I didn't see it in the theaters,
The Naked Gun, one of the great scenes of all time.
In my head, I envisioned this being like a modern
day Leslie Nielsen. May he rest in peace, like umpire,
And it's stop and frisk, stop and frisk as you're

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on the on the field conducting pat downs, searching for contraband.
And we are told the checks could could come before
or after eatings at any time. Umpires will be able
to check fingers, hands, hats, gloves, belts, waistlines and pants.
What's in your pants? The catcher thing? The catcher things

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great because the catchers being added. This is the Yadier
Molina rule. One of the funniest things I've ever seen.
We goofed. I did a monologue on this years ago.
But if you're old enough to remember twenty seventeen, way
back the hot tub time machine, do you remember it
was a Cardinal cub game. It was a day game
in Saint Louis, and the Cardinals catcher Yati Molina. He

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dropped to his knees. He was trying to block the
pitch in the dirt, and he looked around frantically. He
could not find the book. Where's the book? Where's my baseball?
He couldn't find the baseball. Where's my baseball? He kept
looking around, couldn't find it. And the reason he couldn't
find it why because it was stuck to his chest protector.
And how did that happen? He had so much pine tar,

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so much gooey oozing pine tar, all over his chest protector.
It was like velcrow. It was wild baseball. Baseball did
nothing after that, they just like didn't abolutely nothing, And
now here we are six years later and now they're
doing something. But let's be completely honest here. I think
you're a smart person, and you know and I know

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that Major League Baseball doesn't really care about pine tar
and suntan lotion and all the other things people used
to cheat all that stuff. They just believe the magic
placebo to get more offense is to get rid of
the spin rate. If and the pitchers get the spin
rate up because they use vasoline and other stuff, and

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so the worst the spin rate is, the better the
offense is, which is quality control in the eyes of baseball.
So that's really what this is all about. But it
is an interesting tale. This hopefully it's interesting as well.
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(15:55):
Riddle of the day, the Maller Riddle of the day.
Hollywood's star Ben Afflack recently said that he doesn't play
golf because it reminds him of Blank. Again. Big star
actor Ben Afflack recently said that he doesn't play the
game of golf because it reminds him of Blank. That

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is the Maller Riddle of the day. The answer, We'll
get to it, and we will do it next. Be
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A Mallar Riddle of the day, the malor riddle of
the day. We began this hour ranting about the World
Baseball Classic, But this is the riddle of the day.
So Hollywood's Ben Afflack said that he does not play
golf because it reminds him of blank. David the Fried
Daddy in Pennsylvania says he doesn't play golf because it
reminds him of how small his balls are. Wow, that's

(17:03):
that's mean, the fright Eddy, very very mean. Who else
do we have? Let's see here, Bean boot Maker Bob
says it reminds him his acting is below par. All right,
what else do we have? Page down? Page down? Courtesy
Flusher says it reminds him of his favorite food, the
dilly dog cheesecake. Oh, that is disgusting they ever send

(17:26):
that again? That's like something Alfie anal Piner would like if.
Furd Dog says it reminds him of not getting the
role of Happy Gilmore now that one of the iconic
golf movies of all time. Jay Dot our buddy in Utah,
The Very Personable Debonair Ja Dot says Ben Afflack does

(17:47):
not play golf after hitting a hole in one with
singer Lizzo. I don't know what you mean by that.
Page down, a page down. Milkman Mike says it reminds
him of Catholic summer camp and he does not enjoy that.
Supermarket Steve says he does not like golf because he

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did not like how stupid Matt Damon looked in the
legend of bagger Vance. He said, page down, page down.
I can't read that on the air. Kyle says, because
of j Loo's fat took us that that is the answer.
Alf the alien Opiner says, Ben Affleck does not play

(18:30):
golf because the other golfers drive the carts like his father.
That's a great little childhood book that you found there.
You find some good stuff out good. Who else do
you have? Page down, page down, doubleow. Mexican says he
does not play golf ben Affleck because of rich white guys.
That would be the problem. As Pizza says. The guy's

(18:51):
name is Pizza. In your face, He says, Jennifer Garner
is the answer? All right, do you have an answer? Eddie?
Did he mallor riddle of the day? He because Batman
doesn't play golf as closed, But no, he correct Eddie.
Ben Affleck recently said he does not play golf because

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it reminds him of meth, meth, meth and fetamines. He said,
he this is a quote. I look, yeah, he says,
I look at golf like meth. Affleck said, they have
they have better teeth. But it doesn't seem like people
ever come out of that. Once they start golfing, you
just don't ever see them again. Can we get our

(19:32):
meth expert? Do we have Jet who fled is here?
I don't think he's online, he's not. Let's go to
Jed who fled? Jed as someone who's dabbled in this substance,
would you like to enlighten ben affleck Jed, you are
a drug expert. When the golfer asked me how long
he can stay up on math? How many days? I went,

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there's a reason, Eddie, the man's an expert. Eddie, there's
a reason he's managing. I'll bring the funny. I'll bring
the funny. I'll bring the funny. I'll bring Yes, he's next.
I'm gonna say I can still are so bad? He's
that his shirts or your shirtsflefle There you go, I got,

(20:14):
I mean, put go back on. You sound like you're
doing something you probably shouldn't be doing right now. So okay, kids,
don't do the drugs. You'll be like that. Okay, that's
the PSA right there, that's my PSA. Don't do that?
Is Joe there and Joe's probably gone long gun. Right,
it's Joe and Rhode Island. There, let's see remember that guy,
Joe and Rhode Island. I think that's the same guy

(20:35):
he was. He's gone, Oh, he's long gun. He called
up earlier, I get a quick call, but then he
hung up. Yeah, the guy's a bum. Yeah, yeah, I
probably should have. It's bad job by me, who goofed.
I've got to know. I think I goofed. Be sure
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(20:58):
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wanted to call up the other night, but she's got
a job, she's actually working, and she can't do that.

(22:01):
But she this is actually an interesting one, so she says,
she wants to know our opinion. Was the pass in
the Virginia game at the end of the Virginia game
when they blew it against Andy Furman University? Was that
as dumb or worse than the Jacobe Myers pass against
the Raiders? Trying to try to win a debate? All right,

(22:25):
So I'll go first, and I'm gonna say it's worse,
and I'll tell you why. Because the Patriots game was tied,
as I remember it, So if the pass has not
made the game goes to overtime, the Raiders could still
have conceivably won the game. Virginia had the game, they
were leading by two points, they had the ball. All

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they had to do was successfully get the ball across
half court and that's it. That's that's all. They win
the game, or otherwise Furman's gonna have to foul him
and they simplest thing they script. So I my vote
goes to Virginia. Congratulations Virginia. Eddie, you want in on this,

(23:08):
all right? Eddie agrees Roberto r F. I agree because
it was an actual playoff game. Well, that is true,
it is. It was a tournament. Yeah, yeah, Coop. Any
disagreement here, nope, all right, we all agree. That's it.
Hopefully you're on our side, Lee, otherwise you're in trouble.
Otherwise you're done. All right, it's the the Ben Mallows.

(23:29):
Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello to
Let's say hello to Andrea, who's in Berkeley and she
is up next. Hello Andrea the sports sorcer. She's a
Benny Award winner. Hello Andrew, Hello Ben. Yes, it's the
Andrey of the astrologer, and uh, I appreciate the award.
Thanks again for that, and uh yeah, I wish I

(23:51):
had better news about Edwin Diez and the Metropolitans as
you call them. Uh yeah, just upsetting to hear that
his birthday, Ben, it's actually next week. He's March twenty second,
nineteen ninety four. He's an aries and he's having his
SADO return from age twenty eight to thirty. And that's
some cycle of endings new beginnings. It also rules the

(24:13):
skeletal structure bones, knees, teeth, joints. So that was a
really unfortunate injury of all things celebrating. And you know,
I watched Sportnet New York and all of that, and yeah,
they were livid. I mean they were really upset that that.
You know, it's like an exhibition game. It's like an
all star game basically, and I don't know, maybe they

(24:34):
can play at the end of this season, but I
know they want to peak the curiosity and interest in baseball,
so they play it before. But well, there's no good
time to play because, yeah, you don't want to do
it after the season because you're going against the NFL.
So you know, that's a bad this it's actually a
good time to do it on the calendar because the
only other competitions college basketball. So that's it, you got it.
That's nothing much going on other than that, so right,

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and it does kind of get people interested in the
season in baseball, it's just unfortunate to have an injury.
You know, the Mets were obviously Uncle Steve and the
payroll were really poised on the cusp of, you know,
a really great season, and now you can still have
a great season, and you know, the Mets will just
trade for something. If they're bullpen socks the first half

(25:16):
of the season, they'll just trade for somebody and they'll
they'll get a closer off one of the bad teams
and they'll be fine. So I was looking at Adam
ount Ofvino's chart. He's a scorpio November twenty five. He's
been doing quite well. And then David Robertson, So yeah,
Robertson's been a closure. But here the think about the
back of the bullpen. There are some tough saves, but

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I hate to be the guy that let's the secrets out.
But not all saves are that difficult. Like there's some
times you get the bottom of the order in the
ninth inning, and it's it's relatively paint by numbers, this
idea that every save is nail biting. That's not that's
not the case. Yeah, I mean some are more basic
than others. But you know he's gonna miss the whole season.

(25:59):
Diaz with the torn Patel attended and yeah, it's just
you know, life is timing. Timing is life. So you
know he did, thanks to the fans for the prayers,
and um, you know he had the surgery. But it's
just one of those things where, um, the timing and
the season got everyone really their hopes up and then

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got everyone really angry. People in New York getting all right,
it's baseball. It's not one. It's not basketball or even football.
If your quarterback got hurt in football, you're screwed. But
all right, I gotta go, thank you, Andrea, Thank you.
Then have a wonderful weekend. There she goes to Andrea
our friend checking in from the Bay, giving us the
inside skinny on her New York metropolitis. He's a X

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New York. She's been the Bay area a long time.
We know her her whole life story from her calling
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we know what we know. We know she's told us
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Who does Lizzo have Lisa Hi, Lisa Hi? Dad? All
right there? See you look at that right there? And

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who does Lizzo have winning in her March Madness bracket? Yeah,
she's picking Texas, Eminem Meddie. She likes them. That's a
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Do you know how many people it takes for Lizzo
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hold the ball. And then one guy's got opera rate
the crane. So there's a two that's from Buck Buck
from Boston. He's gotta gotta pay for those three. Got
gotta help with those three daughters. I think they're all
grown now, so I think he's all right. What is
Lizzo's favorite tire? Rack tire? She likes that Donut Spatty.

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She really enjoys that, right the back got the frosting on.
It's good good spare tire. I didn't know they sold
that a tire rac Doc. That's a chip from Maine.
I always good to an involve a sponsor. Why doesn't
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seventh inning stretched he would have painted the ass. That

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In these their Big Ben's Lame jokes of the week.
What did Lizzo's doctor say when she showed up with
lacerations on her hands? No, doctor said, listen, don't bite
the hand that feeds you. Okay, what's wrong? Surfer topic?

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Comedian set that one in? Coop. You got any jokes
over there? Not yet? Not yet? A right, Coop's working
on that. Why does Lizzo want to go to KFC? No? No, no,
because it's on her bucket list? Eddie she Eke in Roseville, Minnesota.

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Pretty good start to the jokes, right, Well, I'm sure
we'll screw it up. That's a pretty good start to
the jokes. What do you call Lizzo if she was
born in China? The Great Ball of China, Eddie, that's
what you that's Alex the Cnical who was snubbed in
Lame Jokes finalist nominees Lame Jokes of the Year. What

(30:50):
happened to Lizzo the last time she wore a black
and white polka dot dress? The farmer Eddie? Miss, you
know what the farmer did you? That's a cow over there?
Look at that? Or to milk the cow? We can't
go on. Let's just skip that one by all right,
let's skip over that one. Did you hear that Brendan

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Frasier won an Oscar for playing a great, big fat guy? Yeah,
not to be I done. Lizzo has agreed to star
in the Karen Carpenter story. So there's Wow Gordon at Tacoma.
Let's right over his head. Weed Man said, did you
hear Lizzo got a prize for eating ice cream? Yeah,

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she's pretty excited about she received the Blue Bell Peace Prize.
So what's the best seat on a plane? Oh, you've
heard that before. That's Ekan Rosville, Minnesota. Anything yet, coop Alright?
Weed Man almost got hit by a car yesterday. Yeah,

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he heard there was a pothole. He went out to
try to smoke it, and uh, that's Daniel sent that
one in What Happened when Lizzo uh took a morning
dump Petty. According to John from Youngstown, Ohio, weed Man

(32:18):
was born just like that man Man. Yeah. Did you
hear that weed Man's house burned down? Yeah? Yeah. The
detectives are not sure who started the dumpster fire. They
don't really know, but they're looking at it. That's Alex,

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Alex the cynical set that one in. These are big
Man's lame jokes of the week. Have you heard they
are doing a reboot of Kate Hudson's twenty o three
film How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days? Yeah,
it's good. It'll be in the Coop Scoop later. It's
going to star weed Man Hippie and it will be
titled how to Be a Bum and a Scum in

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ten Days? So that's Uh. Why was weed Man happy
about the Benny Caller of the Year winner, Well, he
loves Dick uh and uh yeah he does. Uh. Why

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does food picks and weed Man or what rather? What
does food picks and weed Man's underwear have in common?
They're both worn out, Eddie, They're both Why does weed
Man need Lisa in his life? Well, according to Surfer Todd,
the comedian, the Benny winning joke rider. Someone has to

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choose food, Eddie. That's why someone is there. Have you
found your Have you found your teeth yet? Weed Man? No,
you can't. Have you found Have you looked for your teeth?
Have you found your teeth somewhere? Yeah? Yeah. If you're
new to the show, wheed Man is a little down

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on his luck in Miami. I think you figured that out.
And he had addentures and the rats ate them? Is
that correct, weed Man? Yes? No, I don't know, we
don't know. I talked to him last week. I did
a wellness check on weed Man. I called him up
and while we were talking, he was doing play by
play of a rat running across the floor. What I

(34:29):
could I could hear it in the Background's fascinating, all right?
What did John Morant tell the reporter when asked if
it was okay to ask some questions? Shoot? What John
Morant's favorite beverage Cult forty five? He loves It's Turnpike, Bob.

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Did you see John Morand apologize for his behavior on
social media? Yes, he said He's no more posting pictures
with his app on. He said sir for Todd. The
comedian Nick Saban has been talking to Brandon Miller of
the basketball team there this week to see that. Yeah,

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Brandon did not mind the shotgun, but is more of
a pistol formation kind of guy, he said. George from Rochester,
Minnesota's Big Bench. Lame jokes that we did. Did you
know that many of Aaron Rodgers friends and relatives are
allegedly afraid that Rogers is having some serious mental health
issues related to his sanity, Eddie, Yes, they say. The

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only evidence they have is that he wants to play
for the Jets. That's all. That's the problem. That's list
of Nason. Some callers jokes, what would Andrea the sports
astrouger have gotten if she didn't win a Benny Award?
Andrea would have gotten a Constellation Prize. What do you

(35:58):
call plastered Paul's withdrawals after Saint Patty's Day? The shamrock shakes, Eddie,
that's what you're calling. That's chip chip from me. Now
there you go. Let's see page down, page down. Some
of these I don't think I can read it on
the air. What is Eddie's favorite NFL postseason award? Yeah,

(36:20):
the the Kicker Award, Golden Toe Award, Eddie John and
Youngster Oh a modern medical miracle. Good job by all
the joke riders, lame jokes off the week, Thank you
weed Man. I gotta go, there you go.