December 11, 2025 • 41 mins
Ben Maller talks about Pete Alonso leaving the Mets and signing with the Orioles, how much better Alonso makes Baltimore, if the Tigers will really trade Tarik Skubal, another edition of #AskBen, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three. Happy Thursday to you. It's the
eleventh day of December, and it's all about.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The Polar Bear.
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What does Pete Alonzo's departure tell you about the Mets culture?
A lot of people up in arms in Gotham. And
how much does Peter Alonzo make the Orioles a better?
How much better does Peter Alonzo make the ools? We'll
talk about that. And will the Detroit Tigers really trade
Tarik Schooble rumors out of the winter.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Meetings which ended on Wednesday. That and more here it is.
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It's strike number one in our number three. For Pete's sake?
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What are you doing? Welmeme.
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Speaker 1 (02:41):
Was it Today's Thursdays? On Tuesday? I got an email?
Why are you talking baseball? Loved it? Guy bitching me
out for talking about baseball. The chill out, dude. It's
like a couple of weeks in the off season we
talked baseball. The Winter Meetings are now over. If there's
anything good, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But the Wintermings did wrap up at a Mickey Mouse
resort where they give out NBA championships there in the
Greater Orlando area, and the great Polar Bear migration is underwey.
If you had pin Alonzo going back to the Mets,
you're a loser. If you have not heard, possibly not
pin Alonzo, who drove from Tampa over to Orlando on
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I four to try to seduce with.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
His hypnotic skills a big money offer. It worked. It worked.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He's so charming, He's Prince Charming, pied Alonzo, and he
talked the socks off Baltimore. The Orioles agreed to pay
ped Alonzo one hundred and fifty five million dollars after taxes.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
That's about twelve bucks, but still it's.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
A lot of money and a five year contract for Alonzo,
affectionately known as the Polar Bear. He joins the last
place team, bringing up the rear the Caboose of the
American Leagueese at least last season, Alonzo, who was on
a one year make good contract after threatening to leave
the Mets a year ago. He went out hit thirty
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eight dingers, one hundred and twenty six runs batted in
It's big bounce back year. He bet on himself and
the Mets thought, well, that's a good bet.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We're not paying you. Get out of here, you loser.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So thirty one years old, just had a birthday on Sunday.
Happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Actually, we don't do shout outs. That's mentioned.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's a mention to mention, So happy birthday to pen Alonzo.
On to mention on Sunday, the all time New York
Mets franchise home run king. As I said, turn out
the lads, the parties over. I earned All Star honors
five times in each of the last four years.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So Pete Alonso leaving as a fan favorite for the Mets,
and now with of course any league play.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
We've been around for a number of years that he
will be back every other year. He will play at
City Field and play the Yankees of course a couple
times a year in the New York market. So that
is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss better
story is in the losing locker room. So that is
where we're going to start in this case, the losing
front office. So the question what does Pete Alonzo's departure
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tell you about the New York Mets and their culture?
So my views on this, I've got lemonade stand, googly eyes,
and beach front condo, and we'll combine all of these
things together and we're going to make some French onion soup,
which is one of the great soups. I'm not a
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big soup guy. Every once in a while I'll go
for some nice soup and.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
A French onion amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I don't know where your favorite Let me know where
your favorite French onion place is, because I'm looking for
a good French onion place and I.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Do travel, so all right.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
First of all, so to answer the question what does
Peter Alonzo's departure tell you about the Mets culture? This
is the Mets full cultural colonoscopy.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
For the Mets. The Mets culture is getting a colonoscary.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
This is proof that something is rotten to the core
in Flushing. What a perfect name for a baseball team
to play in a town called Flushing. So the Mets
fans right now, many of them are sitting shiva for
Pete Alonzo and his departure. This is a two by
four right to the forehead for the New York Mets. Now,
(06:25):
we had heard whispers that this was gonna happen. It
wasn't a total shock that Alonzo was leaving. He clearly
was desperate to leave the Mets. He didn't have any
offer from the Mets because he went to the winter meetings.
He didn't have any offer that really convinced him to
go somewhere, Otherwise he wouldn't have gone to the Winter meeting.
So this came together in the last couple of days,
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and the whispers around the Mets were fractured. Clubhouse clicks,
side eye stairs, all the normal gunk in a fractured
And so this off season, a couple of moves that
have happened this week with Met free agentsy is confirmation
(07:09):
Because if you like Steve Cohen, mister twenty three billion
dollar net worth hedge fund, Wall Street high roller, mister
money is no object.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I'm gonna make the Mets great.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm gonna get to the World Series in this number,
he just let a homegrown fan favorite walk without even
making an offer. The tabloids are telling us that the
Mets did not even make an offer to Pete A. Lonzo,
not even a token offer, no offer.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Now, if that.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Is true, and we don't know, we're not there, it's
all speculations. That is, that's a big city team in
the Big Apple running a little league lemonade stand. And
don't ignore the subtext. Also because Edwin Diaz also said later, skater,
I'm out of here, asta pasta, and he left. He
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he went to the Dodgers. So you got Edwin Diez,
the greatest closer in Mets history, who's now with the Dodgers,
Pete Alonzo, the all time home run hitter in Mets history,
who is now with the Baltimore Orioles. And it feels,
based on a minutes long deliberation of the available information,
I'm gonna put my psychologist hat on here as a shrink.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
It seems that the.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
New York Mets, what they're doing here is cow towing
to Juan Soto. They're clearing out anyone who did not
kiss his toukis kiss the ring of the New face
of the franchise, right, Juan Soto strolling in.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
There, and Peter A. Lonzo.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I've been with the Mets longer than you. I'm mister
Met and Edwin did come on now. And so the
old guard, the old guard New York Mets got getting
chopped away like dead wood. Also a trade the Mets
made with the Rangers, another longtime fan favorite.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Met was traded away. So that's three.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's a two pillars, and like a partial pillar of
the Mets that have been sent out of town. It's
a Benny the Butcher style. Benny the Butcher styles where
that is. And so now you've got this giant chasm
the size of city field for the Mets. They've got
to get a you know, they did sign Devin Williams,
but he sucks, and they've got to get some more
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bullpen help. They need more pitching, and they obviously have
to replace Pete Alonzo. And among the early names being floated,
the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Lars Nootbar, and yeah, it's a good name.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I would rather have a Watcher mccallad or a three Musketeers,
or a Snickers Bar or a butter Finger. The Cardinals
Lars nootbar. The Mets need a splash. I don't think
they need a candy bar. That's the word on the street.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Secondly to the Baltimore side of things, the question on
the Orioles, how much better does pen Alonzo make the Orioles?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
So the O's did not just add the polar Bear, right,
it's at the polar Bear.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
They added a turbo boost to a lineup that And
I didn't watch every Oriols game, obviously, why would I?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I mean, I'm not a total loser, but I did
see a fair amount.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love those early games, you know, I do the
show from LA Those games start at four o'clock. I
love watching those games early on and watch the fair
amount of Orioles Yankees games and Red Sox games there.
And you look at the Orioles last season and that lineup,
it looked like they were surviving on celery and optimism.
There wasn't a lot there, So how much better do
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they get? Climb a couple of rungs on the baseball ladder,
a couple of rungs, but maybe they even sneak into
the balcony. You can climb up the side like Spider Man.
Spider Man, Spider Man. Now the Malard report card. I'm
gonna hand the Orioles a bet on the malt Of
report card because they paid retail, they paid the full amount,
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they didn't get a discount and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And Alonzo.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm gonna give Peede Alonzo on the Mallow report card
an a plus because he used some skullduggery to bamboozle
his way to Baltimore. He went to the Winter Minis.
He didn't have this offer. He wouldn't have gone to
the Winter Mintings if he had this offer. He was
able to get some FaceTime and like the snake Charmer
we said he would be and convince the Oriols to give.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Him more money and more years and all that stuff.
And so that's what he got. So I give Alonzo
an a plus. He walks into Camden Yards.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Like a guy who just upgraded from a studio apartment
to a beachfront condo.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He said, well, what are you talking about? The Metro
better than the Orioles.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Well, city Field though, when you do the side by side,
and my guy sports with Coleman's already been sending me
some propaganda that the home run rate from city Field,
which is like a refrigerated warehouse. To Camden Yards is
like it's a pinball machine there where baseballs go to
a enlightenment. And so Alonzo, if he just has the
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same year head last year we hit seven more home runs,
had forty five home runs. Now, let's not let's not
forget the will the beast in the room, and the
fact that Alonzo is thirty one years old and he's
entering the part of his baseball the cycle of life
in baseball, the career arc where generally the production goes down.
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Outside of the steroid era, the production goes down. And
yet despite that, for the short terms, you've got the
micro and the macro. The micro things are looking pretty
good for Baltimore. The macro, well, we'll worry about that
when we get there. The computer models, the old Solace machines,
say that Pete Alonso by himself is worth three to
five wins.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So you've just added five more wins to your total. Congratulations,
that's what they say. However, if you look at the
trickle down on all this, Alonzo protects Gunner Henderson in as.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
The he'd be the cleanup hitter. Pet Alnzo in my
Orioles lineup Adlee Rushman as well.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He freeze Rushman, gives the whole lineup kind of a
chiro practic adjustment in Baltimore. And so does he make
them a ninety five win team? Again, Well, they could,
he could.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Could's a weasel word that executives use before they raise
syst in ticket prices. And that's really what this move
is more about than anything. Yeah, Alonso makes the Orioles
three or five games better. It's the battle of perceptions.
That's the big battle. It's a pr move. You gotta
sell tickets. Those tickets don't sell themselves. You gotta get
ratings on television to make advertisers happy. And so it's
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a literal power move for the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
They're telling their fan base like, hey, you know, we're trying.
We're alive.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
We suck last year, but we're punching. We're punching. We're
not doing load management. We're not tanking any That's all right.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Final thought. Now, the buzz from the Winter meetings as.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
They came to an end on Wednesday at a Mickey
Mouse resort in Orlando or the Orlando area, was that
Ace Tarik schoolb much to the chagrin of legally blind
Christopher in London, a former Michigander who's an ex pat
now living in London. But the buzz at the winter
meetings is that Tarik school Ball was dangled on a
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fishing rod to the other twenty nine MLB teams. Of course,
the members of the cartel. There's only about seven, is
that right? Seven teams that would even bother bidding on
a guy like Tarik schoolbel the Big Whales.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That's about it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Like Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Dodgers that's four cubs, that's five.
Fill the Giants in there, that's six, and then seven
would be who seven.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Would be like the Rangers. Maybe maybe the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh way, listen, they're circling the boat like Hungary Shark's question.
Will the Detroit Tigers really trade to Reek schoolble between
now and opening day in the spring of twenty twenty six?
So the Mallard Sportsbook odds on the Tigers trading to
Reek School, Well, I'm gonna set the odds on this
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at plus nine hundred. That is a ten percent chance,
which means it's not probable. However, it's certainly not absolutely impossible.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Right, it's not probable.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It's it's possible, but not you know, it's somewhere in
that kind of gray area. I'm saying this the right way.
But here's why, because Detroit did not just listen. If
the whispers are correct, they actually engaged.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
They played foot seat, they flirted it. They made googly
eyes at the Dodgers, and they got all the they
got a little chubby.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
They're looking at all the minor league players that the
Dodgers could send to them. It's a nice sampler plate
of players, most of them that will not live up
to expectations that you could get. And so they took
the car for a test drive. Well, they weren't just
window shopping the Tigers. They took the car for a
test drive, and they smelled the carpet and the leather
and all that stuff, and they kind of felt how
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the steering wheel feels.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
And all that.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And so now there are better odds that Tarik Scooble
gets Dell then gets extended.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
The malarods on the.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Detroit Tigers ace of aces getting an extension that's at
plus forty five hundred.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That is a two percent chance.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That is a two percent chance, which is basically the
same probability as me becoming the next president of FIFA.
I'm pretty confident that people at FIFA don't know who
I am and are certainly not going to call me.
But Scuba wants four hundred million. Of course I also
want four hundred million. I'd like to let the world
know that the honorable person with the gas bag over
here like the four hundred million. Now, Scoopball's a chance
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to get it. It's a generational amount of money. He's
a generational pitcher. Allegedly that would be something. As good
as he is, I still would not go down that road.
I wouldn't do it. It's a guy that works one
day a week, thirty one starts a years the max,
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so thirty.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
One games and four hundred million. I don't know how
much that would be per year. The math ain't mathing
on that. Listen.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Detroit likes him, obviously, The Tigers like him. They were
in the playoffs, played the Mariners in the playoffs and
all that. Detroit likes the player. Detroit needs the player.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
We know that.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Detroit, though's not cutting that check. There's not gonna be
one of those jumbo sized cartoon checks from the Tigers,
and the Tigers aren't going to.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Force a trade.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
However, season goes on, you get to the trade deadline,
the Tigers are floundering, and it'say.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Hey, we're open for business.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yankees need a pitcher, the Dodgers, Hey, you want this guy,
make something happen.
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You know, don't understand Lady Sideburns will punch me, and
I don't want Lady Sideburns to punch me. Brown's quarterback
Shooter Sanders addressed rumors that he wears a blank during
games and Black and Blum says, a tinfoil hat under
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Firk Dog cheated and I got it right. What else
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Let's see, Lady Sideburns says, A pair of Barney and
Friends underwear, a chastity cage from Bobby Keylme Pie Bobby
in Florida, a Miss Argentina sash from Late Night drug tester?
What else do we have? Malapropey also went with a
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Speaker 1 (23:08):
What else do we have?
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A monocle from manuelan Guardian that'd be pretty funny. A monocle,
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chaps guessed by Rob the goat Man, an autographed Limp
Biscuit concert ticket, a safety note from King Rory Tom
(23:32):
sent the limp Biscuit one.
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See. What else do we have? Page down?
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He wears an unlicensed, unofficial Malard Militia T shirt under
his jersey.
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He says, where's the merch?
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Alf does well, we'll get on that here. Maybe over
the holiday hiatus we can work on the merch.
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What else do we have?
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A let's see here, donkey sausage says, A candy jockstrap
is the answer. A cod piece from Miguel on fire
Rest in piece the rate Frank Pollack, one of the
legends of Fox Sports Radio's crossed the Pearly Gates and
the big cod piece there my old boardop. Who else
do we have? Four Rolex watches, Eloy from Compton Gotta
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do it, mister Irrigation from Deep in the Heart of
Texas and Houston says he wears a diaper during games.
Shoulder wears panty hose according to just Josh, that's his answer.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
BP got it right. He cheated.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
He wears Hander hander pants the underpants for your hands
from courtesy Flusher, garter belt from Milkman, Mike and Colorado
at to to from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Inkatara went
with a Barney the Dinosaur undershirt as his answer. Filler up,
Phil says, Shoulder Sanders wears pantyhose Lucky Rabbit's foot from
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j T the Wingman, sock puppet from Gunner at the
Walmart in Minnesota. Mike the Leprechaun says, just like me,
he wears pink underwear. All right, that's a Chuck Ram
the Chuck Chuck Fan Ram Chuck Chuck the ram Fan.
If I could speak that with help, he got it right,
the raider. Do you have an answer? The Mallard riddle
of a Shadur Sanders a dressed. Rumors that he wears
(25:12):
a blank during.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Games, A training bra, ben, training bra?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Why not you got to start with the training bra?
Is that correct? Yeah? Rumors that he wears a thong
A thong A during games.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
There is some viral video of the Browns game against
the Tennessee Titans, and it certainly does look like he's
wearing a thong. Now, he said Shade Sanders that he
told his brother on some podcast that two people listen to.
He said that the reason it looked like that, he
admitted it did look like he was wearing a thong
during an NFL game. He said he had his back
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tape because he's dealing with a back injury, and so
they taped it. Can we check on can we check
on the internet when you hurt your back? Do you
have to you need to get taped to? It looks
like you're wearing a thong?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
I'm looking at this, Ben, and I'm just saying that
placement is sus, super sus.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
That's what the kids say.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
So Lorena as a from a female perspective, Lorena as
someone that may or may not have worn thongs, do
you believe that that is a thong?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
It looks pretty song the thong thong thong to me?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, okay, send that out coup on social media. Fox
Sports Radios Lorena reporting the FSR Tech Queen that she
believes it is more likely than not that that is
a thong. And uh, it's big news, big news. Let's
go to Andrea in Berkeley, who's in the leadoff chair
right now. She's the astrology insider. Coming up later this hour,
(26:47):
we will have ask band your questions are answer.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Hello, Andrea, welcome.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Well, if I was any better, I'd be a Met,
but not a New York Met because they losing players.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
I know, you know this is pretty epic. Last night
I was on your show and I'm sure we got
the podcast, and I mentioned I was learned about Peter
longto leaving the Mets, and sure enough you did. And
you know you want to energize your hopes, not your fears.
But this is, you know, December seven, nineteen ninety four,
(27:22):
just at his birthday, din And just had a satur return,
which is ending the new beginnings. He's thirty one and
he's a three thirded sagittariuts. I really hate to see
him go. He's really playful and fun. And you might
remember he alluded to mercury retrograde and talked about his
batting average going up when mercury came out of retrograde.
(27:43):
I just really enjoyed his personality. And you know that
said right now the Sons and Sagittarius, Venus and Mercury Mars.
So he just got his boos from the universe. Financially, energetically,
you know, have some endings and new beginnings. But between
him as a Diaz Nemo moved on. I mean, the
(28:07):
met trans are really struggling right now. But Pe for
me personally, you know, was really the personality of the team.
And I'm just really sorry to see him go. But
you know, one hundred and fifty five million, you know,
I understand where he's coming from, but he really was
the heart and soul of the team.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And I don't know, well, it's still he's still a
right you watch you just have to watch Orioles games now,
you have to see what he's doing in Baltimore and.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Watch the old But you know, and I think I'll
play the matter. We were talking about that showdown at
some point. But it's really, you know, one of those
things where you just pet along. Yeah, one hundred and
fifty five million dens to five years, and it's just
one of those things. He was just such a part
of the part of the team and really playful and
(28:59):
so on.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I mean, oh, this is the bets.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
The Mets better figure out how to win, because if
they don't win, and these guys are playing well for
the Dodgers and the Orioles, they'll never hear.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
The end of it. They're gonna be just roasted.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Good point. Yeah, New York fans, man, they're not. That's
a good point you just made.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, exact exactly so. And it's not like they don't
have the money. If it'd be one thing, if they
didn't have the money, he'd be like, Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
They don't have the money whatever, You're fine. But they
got one of the richest owners in all of sports.
This guy, this guy so loaded. My god, he goes
in the bathroom, he makes ten million dollars. This guy's
so rich.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
So oh, uncle Steve, they call.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Him, you know, as a Mets fan, the whole thing.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
So I don't know, you know, there's a lot of
explaining to do here, and you know, David sterns well, I.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Actually, by the way, I just looked at the schedule
because that's what we do here, the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Check this out.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Now that the Orioles do play at City Field in
twenty twenty six in September, so it's late in the season.
September fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth Mets and they host the
Orioles at Cityfield, So that'll be a big series.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
Right before my Virgo birthday. And that should be interesting
because September, that's from you know, teams are heading towards
the playoffs or not.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
So yeah, and that there's only after that.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
The Orioles will only have nine games left after that series,
so that's late.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
That's real late in the baseball season for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
So either pen Alonzo could be spoiler or the Mets
can spoil him and the Orioles.
Speaker 9 (30:42):
So yeah, no, that's that's a good way to put
in there. I heard you allude to cosmic energy earlier
in the show.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
So I was like, absolutely, look out for you.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Well, Adria, thank you the great area Virgo in service,
the astrology Insider and Virgo and service. On on, let's
go to Steve in Manhattan. Who's in the Big Apple.
Hello Steve, Welcome Steve O.
Speaker 11 (31:08):
One foggy Christmas Eve. Sayana came to say weed man
with your joint, so right, will you got my slate
to night? All of the other Potheads shouted.
Speaker 10 (31:24):
Outly, it's Christmas time in the City Bank Distinguished Panel.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Right, listen, Steve was good. That was good, that song
was good.
Speaker 11 (31:43):
Let me tell you. I'll tell you a funny story quick.
As a kid, I was all into sports, right, yeah,
I do have. I do have other siblings who were
into sports and music. They couldn't believe I could sing,
but I just didn't want to do it.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
I was into sports.
Speaker 11 (31:59):
I want to be Mick Jagger, Mickey Mann. Well, come on, anyway,
you could put together a medley of of Christmas songs.
And if you want to do that now, I wish
the Left for con up in Beantown. He's got to
do white Christmas. I mean, come on, you can't put
that voice to white Christmas. You got to be a
little creativity, you know, creative out there and do that.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
Man.
Speaker 11 (32:21):
But if he's listening, he's got to do White Christmas. Anyway.
The mark of a great coach is he can get
the staff to work late nights, to stay around late
at night and you know, do some polishing or something,
and that's the way to do it.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
I know.
Speaker 11 (32:36):
Last year, I know, Minnesota went up to ann Arbor
for a football game, and Timmy Wats went up there too,
and he was getting he was going at it with
the an offer with the college kids up there. I mean,
those college kids don't want free tampons. I mean what
what they complained about with him? Anyway, Philadelphia, they just
(32:58):
got I think they just got lazy when they started.
What cheese was on it is? You are right, and
mister Bruno is correct that they've broke alone is the
cheese that they would put on it? Because they're also
famous for the hoi, the pork sandwich. We said, the pretzels.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
There's a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Still he's famous. It's good. It's a good food town.
It's not a healthy town, but it's a good food town.
It's delicious. I agree, right, and.
Speaker 11 (33:22):
I would tell people like you get into late December,
a lot of hosts going on vacation, the staff away.
It's a great time to prank talk radio. If you're
if you're read it, you know really.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, you know what it is? The phony phone call
is is outstanding?
Speaker 11 (33:38):
This time is falling asleep? They gotta take b twelve shot?
Mean what it ain't doing? You know the boxes used
to take the twelfth shots.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
In the middle of the night. Man, what do you
want people that people fall? Somebody with.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
No I got all right, so I gotta go, but
thank you got Stephen, Stephen Manhattan. They're checking in, hollering James,
see awake, Hollering James, I'm.
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Awake and alive and chicken. Yeah, Ben, all right, all right?
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As Ben is up next? I got to be programmed.
You know why, Ben, I'm in the program. I'm the
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Speaker 2 (36:01):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
These are actual questions by actual listeners to the show.
And now for the reading of the questions that have
been submitted using the hashtag ask Ben the Coopulo.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
All right, We're gonna ask a question from Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Hi, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
He says, it's the two part question, but that's kind
of cheating, so I'm only gonna it's not really two
part question, Mike, And those are two different questions, so
I'm only gonna read one of them. He wants to
know can you snap your fingers?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Let me let me try. I used to be able to.
I don't think I can anymore.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I used to be able to. I can move my ears,
I wi my ears, but I can't. I don't think
I could sap my fingers in I just tried.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I couldn't do it. What about you? Lorena? There you go.
Speaker 8 (36:53):
I know she can. She snaps at me all the time.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Do you believe the urban legend that that will lead
to arthritis when you're an old woman?
Speaker 8 (37:01):
You believe that's that's cracking your knuckles?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Isn't it ort same thing, right ules? Snapping your fingers
making tortillas?
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Can you do it? Do you believe Coop that if
you watch porn you'll go blind? Do you believe that? Also? No? No,
okay is pretty bad.
Speaker 8 (37:22):
Yes, I can snap my.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Fingers all right. I guess I'm the only one that
can al I'm a loser. I'm a loser. Ferg Dog
high Fergie. I've not met him, but I kind of
like the guy. He seems like a nice guy.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
I think he kind of likes you too. That's good
for him. Uh. He wants to know. Are you a
fan of karaoke?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
I've done karaoke a few times.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
One of my buddies, my old oldest friends I know,
is a huge karaoke fan. I don't love it. It's okay,
I gotta have a lot to drink to really get into.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I guess that's for everybody.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
What about you, Lorena, I like watching other people do
karaoke more more than me doing it.
Speaker 8 (38:07):
I've only done it at the mallard meet and greets
that we've done.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
So okay, Well we'll see. What about you, Cooble Loop.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
Uh yeah, I'm kind of with Loraina. I'm not a
fan of doing karaoke myself, but I will sit there
and watch other people do karaoke.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
That's like Big Balls Bob.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
That's enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yes, the great Big Balls Bob in Vegas.
Speaker 8 (38:27):
I wouldn't even do it at the mallor meeting greet.
I was, you know, props to Loraina for getting up
there and doing that.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
People try to get me to do it too, and
I said, I'm not doing it. I'm not getting up
there forced coerced you.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, well we were not see peer pressure got here.
We did not fall the peer pressure.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
We did not.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
What is next year? What have its? Asked? Ben?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Your questions are answers. If you like this, we do
it every week at about this time. If you don't
like it, we only do it once a week.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So chill out. What's wrong? We don't be a loser.
Speaker 8 (38:56):
This one should be interesting. I don't know if I
can think of one for me, but we'll ask the
question way. Maybe you guys don't know donkey sausage. He
would like donkey. He was like, you know, what's the
strangest rumor that you've ever heard about yourself?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Well, I mean there's a lot of stuff on the
internet which is not true about me being a multi millionaire.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
And I mean there's there's a lot of stuff like
that which I always laugh at. I wish that was true.
What's the craziest.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I don't Years ago there were rumors I was going
to get some like big jobs. I never was even
up for that.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I thought was was a musing. I mean, nothing other
than that kind of stuff. What about you, Larta?
Speaker 4 (39:39):
I think the biggest one is that I was just
going to end up with seven children.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Not six. In high school, you were most likely to
have seven children.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Really, okay, I wonder how that started.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
I can't imagine what the what the hell is that about?
My gud stopped to one?
Speaker 8 (39:58):
People stopped a.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Oh, one and done.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
That's it, one and done like a college basketball player.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
What about you, Coop one hit wonder.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
Yeah. I can't really think of strange rumors that I've
heard about myself.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Okay, I got you.
Speaker 8 (40:16):
No one ever said you were in a porno or something.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
No, I mean.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Remember when the remember the tabloids that did a story
about you but they used the wrong photo.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yeah, the London tabloids. That was pretty fun.
Speaker 8 (40:25):
Yeah, and they used like a like a a Canadian
Football League player or something like that.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Here's Coop, he's ready to play linebacker for the Edmonton
Eskimo or whatever called now.
Speaker 8 (40:41):
Yeah, and there are other things like, uh, you know,
your typical child actor rumors like oh he was he's
a jouggy now living in a crackhouse like stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
But you never went you never went full Goldberg from
the Mighty Ducks.
Speaker 8 (40:54):
You didn't go No, no, no, no, you did not
just the what's next?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
What do you got?
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Let's see, I had one in front of my screen. Oh,
here we go. Freddy wants to know what is the
worst Christmas gift that you have ever received.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
We'll be honey, But I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I usually, you know, when you're still young and you
don't want clothes and you get clothes like that kind
of stuff like, I don't think it's terrible. I usually
block out the basket. What about quickly, Loraino, what about you?
Speaker 8 (41:23):
Worst gift is no gift. Oh yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
No gift. All right, there you go, eh,
Playball.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It's our number three. Happy Thursday to you. It's the
eleventh day of December, and it's all about.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
The Polar Bear.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What does Pete Alonzo's departure tell you about the Mets culture?
A lot of people up in arms in Gotham. And
how much does Peter Alonzo make the Orioles a better?
How much better does Peter Alonzo make the ools? We'll
talk about that. And will the Detroit Tigers really trade
Tarik Schooble rumors out of the winter.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Meetings which ended on Wednesday. That and more here it is.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's strike number one in our number three. For Pete's sake?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
What are you doing? Welmeme.
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Speaker 1 (02:41):
Was it Today's Thursdays? On Tuesday? I got an email?
Why are you talking baseball? Loved it? Guy bitching me
out for talking about baseball. The chill out, dude. It's
like a couple of weeks in the off season we
talked baseball. The Winter Meetings are now over. If there's
anything good, we'll talk about it.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But the Wintermings did wrap up at a Mickey Mouse
resort where they give out NBA championships there in the
Greater Orlando area, and the great Polar Bear migration is underwey.
If you had pin Alonzo going back to the Mets,
you're a loser. If you have not heard, possibly not
pin Alonzo, who drove from Tampa over to Orlando on
(03:20):
I four to try to seduce with.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
His hypnotic skills a big money offer. It worked. It worked.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
He's so charming, He's Prince Charming, pied Alonzo, and he
talked the socks off Baltimore. The Orioles agreed to pay
ped Alonzo one hundred and fifty five million dollars after taxes.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
That's about twelve bucks, but still it's.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
A lot of money and a five year contract for Alonzo,
affectionately known as the Polar Bear. He joins the last
place team, bringing up the rear the Caboose of the
American Leagueese at least last season, Alonzo, who was on
a one year make good contract after threatening to leave
the Mets a year ago. He went out hit thirty
(04:04):
eight dingers, one hundred and twenty six runs batted in
It's big bounce back year. He bet on himself and
the Mets thought, well, that's a good bet.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
We're not paying you. Get out of here, you loser.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So thirty one years old, just had a birthday on Sunday.
Happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Actually, we don't do shout outs. That's mentioned.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's a mention to mention, So happy birthday to pen Alonzo.
On to mention on Sunday, the all time New York
Mets franchise home run king. As I said, turn out
the lads, the parties over. I earned All Star honors
five times in each of the last four years.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
So Pete Alonso leaving as a fan favorite for the Mets,
and now with of course any league play.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
We've been around for a number of years that he
will be back every other year. He will play at
City Field and play the Yankees of course a couple
times a year in the New York market. So that
is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss better
story is in the losing locker room. So that is
where we're going to start in this case, the losing
front office. So the question what does Pete Alonzo's departure
(05:12):
tell you about the New York Mets and their culture?
So my views on this, I've got lemonade stand, googly eyes,
and beach front condo, and we'll combine all of these
things together and we're going to make some French onion soup,
which is one of the great soups. I'm not a
(05:34):
big soup guy. Every once in a while I'll go
for some nice soup and.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
A French onion amazing.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
I don't know where your favorite Let me know where
your favorite French onion place is, because I'm looking for
a good French onion place and I.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Do travel, so all right.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
First of all, so to answer the question what does
Peter Alonzo's departure tell you about the Mets culture? This
is the Mets full cultural colonoscopy.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
For the Mets. The Mets culture is getting a colonoscary.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
This is proof that something is rotten to the core
in Flushing. What a perfect name for a baseball team
to play in a town called Flushing. So the Mets
fans right now, many of them are sitting shiva for
Pete Alonzo and his departure. This is a two by
four right to the forehead for the New York Mets. Now,
(06:25):
we had heard whispers that this was gonna happen. It
wasn't a total shock that Alonzo was leaving. He clearly
was desperate to leave the Mets. He didn't have any
offer from the Mets because he went to the winter meetings.
He didn't have any offer that really convinced him to
go somewhere, Otherwise he wouldn't have gone to the Winter meeting.
So this came together in the last couple of days,
(06:46):
and the whispers around the Mets were fractured. Clubhouse clicks,
side eye stairs, all the normal gunk in a fractured
And so this off season, a couple of moves that
have happened this week with Met free agentsy is confirmation
(07:09):
Because if you like Steve Cohen, mister twenty three billion
dollar net worth hedge fund, Wall Street high roller, mister
money is no object.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I'm gonna make the Mets great.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I'm gonna get to the World Series in this number,
he just let a homegrown fan favorite walk without even
making an offer. The tabloids are telling us that the
Mets did not even make an offer to Pete A. Lonzo,
not even a token offer, no offer.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Now, if that.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Is true, and we don't know, we're not there, it's
all speculations. That is, that's a big city team in
the Big Apple running a little league lemonade stand. And
don't ignore the subtext. Also because Edwin Diaz also said later, skater,
I'm out of here, asta pasta, and he left. He
(08:00):
he went to the Dodgers. So you got Edwin Diez,
the greatest closer in Mets history, who's now with the Dodgers,
Pete Alonzo, the all time home run hitter in Mets history,
who is now with the Baltimore Orioles. And it feels,
based on a minutes long deliberation of the available information,
I'm gonna put my psychologist hat on here as a shrink.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
It seems that the.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
New York Mets, what they're doing here is cow towing
to Juan Soto. They're clearing out anyone who did not
kiss his toukis kiss the ring of the New face
of the franchise, right, Juan Soto strolling in.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
There, and Peter A. Lonzo.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
I've been with the Mets longer than you. I'm mister
Met and Edwin did come on now. And so the
old guard, the old guard New York Mets got getting
chopped away like dead wood. Also a trade the Mets
made with the Rangers, another longtime fan favorite.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Met was traded away. So that's three.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
It's a two pillars, and like a partial pillar of
the Mets that have been sent out of town. It's
a Benny the Butcher style. Benny the Butcher styles where
that is. And so now you've got this giant chasm
the size of city field for the Mets. They've got
to get a you know, they did sign Devin Williams,
but he sucks, and they've got to get some more
(09:24):
bullpen help. They need more pitching, and they obviously have
to replace Pete Alonzo. And among the early names being floated,
the Cardinals.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Lars Nootbar, and yeah, it's a good name.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
I would rather have a Watcher mccallad or a three Musketeers,
or a Snickers Bar or a butter Finger. The Cardinals
Lars nootbar. The Mets need a splash. I don't think
they need a candy bar. That's the word on the street.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Secondly to the Baltimore side of things, the question on
the Orioles, how much better does pen Alonzo make the Orioles?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
So the O's did not just add the polar Bear, right,
it's at the polar Bear.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
They added a turbo boost to a lineup that And
I didn't watch every Oriols game, obviously, why would I?
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I mean, I'm not a total loser, but I did
see a fair amount.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love those early games, you know, I do the
show from LA Those games start at four o'clock. I
love watching those games early on and watch the fair
amount of Orioles Yankees games and Red Sox games there.
And you look at the Orioles last season and that lineup,
it looked like they were surviving on celery and optimism.
There wasn't a lot there, So how much better do
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they get? Climb a couple of rungs on the baseball ladder,
a couple of rungs, but maybe they even sneak into
the balcony. You can climb up the side like Spider Man.
Spider Man, Spider Man. Now the Malard report card. I'm
gonna hand the Orioles a bet on the malt Of
report card because they paid retail, they paid the full amount,
(11:02):
they didn't get a discount and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
And Alonzo.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm gonna give Peede Alonzo on the Mallow report card
an a plus because he used some skullduggery to bamboozle
his way to Baltimore. He went to the Winter Minis.
He didn't have this offer. He wouldn't have gone to
the Winter Mintings if he had this offer. He was
able to get some FaceTime and like the snake Charmer
we said he would be and convince the Oriols to give.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Him more money and more years and all that stuff.
And so that's what he got. So I give Alonzo
an a plus. He walks into Camden Yards.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
Like a guy who just upgraded from a studio apartment
to a beachfront condo.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
He said, well, what are you talking about? The Metro
better than the Orioles.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Well, city Field though, when you do the side by side,
and my guy sports with Coleman's already been sending me
some propaganda that the home run rate from city Field,
which is like a refrigerated warehouse. To Camden Yards is
like it's a pinball machine there where baseballs go to
a enlightenment. And so Alonzo, if he just has the
(12:03):
same year head last year we hit seven more home runs,
had forty five home runs. Now, let's not let's not
forget the will the beast in the room, and the
fact that Alonzo is thirty one years old and he's
entering the part of his baseball the cycle of life
in baseball, the career arc where generally the production goes down.
(12:24):
Outside of the steroid era, the production goes down. And
yet despite that, for the short terms, you've got the
micro and the macro. The micro things are looking pretty
good for Baltimore. The macro, well, we'll worry about that
when we get there. The computer models, the old Solace machines,
say that Pete Alonso by himself is worth three to
five wins.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
So you've just added five more wins to your total. Congratulations,
that's what they say. However, if you look at the
trickle down on all this, Alonzo protects Gunner Henderson in as.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
The he'd be the cleanup hitter. Pet Alnzo in my
Orioles lineup Adlee Rushman as well.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
He freeze Rushman, gives the whole lineup kind of a
chiro practic adjustment in Baltimore. And so does he make
them a ninety five win team? Again, Well, they could,
he could.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Could's a weasel word that executives use before they raise
syst in ticket prices. And that's really what this move
is more about than anything. Yeah, Alonso makes the Orioles
three or five games better. It's the battle of perceptions.
That's the big battle. It's a pr move. You gotta
sell tickets. Those tickets don't sell themselves. You gotta get
ratings on television to make advertisers happy. And so it's
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a literal power move for the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
They're telling their fan base like, hey, you know, we're trying.
We're alive.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
We suck last year, but we're punching. We're punching. We're
not doing load management. We're not tanking any That's all right.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Final thought. Now, the buzz from the Winter meetings as.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
They came to an end on Wednesday at a Mickey
Mouse resort in Orlando or the Orlando area, was that
Ace Tarik schoolb much to the chagrin of legally blind
Christopher in London, a former Michigander who's an ex pat
now living in London. But the buzz at the winter
meetings is that Tarik school Ball was dangled on a
(14:24):
fishing rod to the other twenty nine MLB teams. Of course,
the members of the cartel. There's only about seven, is
that right? Seven teams that would even bother bidding on
a guy like Tarik schoolbel the Big Whales.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
That's about it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Like Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Dodgers that's four cubs, that's five.
Fill the Giants in there, that's six, and then seven
would be who seven.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Would be like the Rangers. Maybe maybe the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Oh way, listen, they're circling the boat like Hungary Shark's question.
Will the Detroit Tigers really trade to Reek schoolble between
now and opening day in the spring of twenty twenty six?
So the Mallard Sportsbook odds on the Tigers trading to
Reek School, Well, I'm gonna set the odds on this
(15:21):
at plus nine hundred. That is a ten percent chance,
which means it's not probable. However, it's certainly not absolutely impossible.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Right, it's not probable.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
It's it's possible, but not you know, it's somewhere in
that kind of gray area. I'm saying this the right way.
But here's why, because Detroit did not just listen. If
the whispers are correct, they actually engaged.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
They played foot seat, they flirted it. They made googly
eyes at the Dodgers, and they got all the they
got a little chubby.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
They're looking at all the minor league players that the
Dodgers could send to them. It's a nice sampler plate
of players, most of them that will not live up
to expectations that you could get. And so they took
the car for a test drive. Well, they weren't just
window shopping the Tigers. They took the car for a
test drive, and they smelled the carpet and the leather
and all that stuff, and they kind of felt how
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the steering wheel feels.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
And all that.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
And so now there are better odds that Tarik Scooble
gets Dell then gets extended.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
The malarods on the.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Detroit Tigers ace of aces getting an extension that's at
plus forty five hundred.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
That is a two percent chance.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
That is a two percent chance, which is basically the
same probability as me becoming the next president of FIFA.
I'm pretty confident that people at FIFA don't know who
I am and are certainly not going to call me.
But Scuba wants four hundred million. Of course I also
want four hundred million. I'd like to let the world
know that the honorable person with the gas bag over
here like the four hundred million. Now, Scoopball's a chance
(17:02):
to get it. It's a generational amount of money. He's
a generational pitcher. Allegedly that would be something. As good
as he is, I still would not go down that road.
I wouldn't do it. It's a guy that works one
day a week, thirty one starts a years the max,
(17:23):
so thirty.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
One games and four hundred million. I don't know how
much that would be per year. The math ain't mathing
on that. Listen.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Detroit likes him, obviously, The Tigers like him. They were
in the playoffs, played the Mariners in the playoffs and
all that. Detroit likes the player. Detroit needs the player.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
We know that.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Detroit, though's not cutting that check. There's not gonna be
one of those jumbo sized cartoon checks from the Tigers,
and the Tigers aren't going to.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Force a trade.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
However, season goes on, you get to the trade deadline,
the Tigers are floundering, and it'say.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
Hey, we're open for business.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yankees need a pitcher, the Dodgers, Hey, you want this guy,
make something happen.
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(19:28):
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You know, don't understand Lady Sideburns will punch me, and
I don't want Lady Sideburns to punch me. Brown's quarterback
Shooter Sanders addressed rumors that he wears a blank during
games and Black and Blum says, a tinfoil hat under
his helmet is the answer.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Firk Dog cheated and I got it right. What else
do we have?
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Let's see, Lady Sideburns says, A pair of Barney and
Friends underwear, a chastity cage from Bobby Keylme Pie Bobby
in Florida, a Miss Argentina sash from Late Night drug tester?
What else do we have? Malapropey also went with a
tinfoil hat. He says, tinfoil hat, do rag while playing quarterback?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (23:09):
A monocle from manuelan Guardian that'd be pretty funny. A monocle,
a blackbrais and wallet chain that would be solid assless
chaps guessed by Rob the goat Man, an autographed Limp
Biscuit concert ticket, a safety note from King Rory Tom
(23:32):
sent the limp Biscuit one.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
See. What else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 2 (23:35):
He wears an unlicensed, unofficial Malard Militia T shirt under
his jersey.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
He says, where's the merch?
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Alf does well, we'll get on that here. Maybe over
the holiday hiatus we can work on the merch.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
What else do we have?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
A let's see here, donkey sausage says, A candy jockstrap
is the answer. A cod piece from Miguel on fire
Rest in piece the rate Frank Pollack, one of the
legends of Fox Sports Radio's crossed the Pearly Gates and
the big cod piece there my old boardop. Who else
do we have? Four Rolex watches, Eloy from Compton Gotta
(24:12):
do it, mister Irrigation from Deep in the Heart of
Texas and Houston says he wears a diaper during games.
Shoulder wears panty hose according to just Josh, that's his answer.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
BP got it right. He cheated.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
He wears Hander hander pants the underpants for your hands
from courtesy Flusher, garter belt from Milkman, Mike and Colorado
at to to from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Inkatara went
with a Barney the Dinosaur undershirt as his answer. Filler up,
Phil says, Shoulder Sanders wears pantyhose Lucky Rabbit's foot from
(24:50):
j T the Wingman, sock puppet from Gunner at the
Walmart in Minnesota. Mike the Leprechaun says, just like me,
he wears pink underwear. All right, that's a Chuck Ram
the Chuck Chuck Fan Ram Chuck Chuck the ram Fan.
If I could speak that with help, he got it right,
the raider. Do you have an answer? The Mallard riddle
of a Shadur Sanders a dressed. Rumors that he wears
(25:12):
a blank during.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Games, A training bra, ben, training bra?
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Why not you got to start with the training bra?
Is that correct? Yeah? Rumors that he wears a thong
A thong A during games.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
There is some viral video of the Browns game against
the Tennessee Titans, and it certainly does look like he's
wearing a thong. Now, he said Shade Sanders that he
told his brother on some podcast that two people listen to.
He said that the reason it looked like that, he
admitted it did look like he was wearing a thong
during an NFL game. He said he had his back
(25:50):
tape because he's dealing with a back injury, and so
they taped it. Can we check on can we check
on the internet when you hurt your back? Do you
have to you need to get taped to? It looks
like you're wearing a thong?
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Uh huh.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
I'm looking at this, Ben, and I'm just saying that
placement is sus, super sus.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
That's what the kids say.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
So Lorena as a from a female perspective, Lorena as
someone that may or may not have worn thongs, do
you believe that that is a thong?
Speaker 1 (26:18):
It looks pretty song the thong thong thong to me?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Yeah, okay, send that out coup on social media. Fox
Sports Radios Lorena reporting the FSR Tech Queen that she
believes it is more likely than not that that is
a thong. And uh, it's big news, big news. Let's
go to Andrea in Berkeley, who's in the leadoff chair
right now. She's the astrology insider. Coming up later this hour,
(26:47):
we will have ask band your questions are answer.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
Hello, Andrea, welcome.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Well, if I was any better, I'd be a Met,
but not a New York Met because they losing players.
Speaker 9 (27:01):
I know, you know this is pretty epic. Last night
I was on your show and I'm sure we got
the podcast, and I mentioned I was learned about Peter
longto leaving the Mets, and sure enough you did. And
you know you want to energize your hopes, not your fears.
But this is, you know, December seven, nineteen ninety four,
(27:22):
just at his birthday, din And just had a satur return,
which is ending the new beginnings. He's thirty one and
he's a three thirded sagittariuts. I really hate to see
him go. He's really playful and fun. And you might
remember he alluded to mercury retrograde and talked about his
batting average going up when mercury came out of retrograde.
(27:43):
I just really enjoyed his personality. And you know that
said right now the Sons and Sagittarius, Venus and Mercury Mars.
So he just got his boos from the universe. Financially, energetically,
you know, have some endings and new beginnings. But between
him as a Diaz Nemo moved on. I mean, the
(28:07):
met trans are really struggling right now. But Pe for
me personally, you know, was really the personality of the team.
And I'm just really sorry to see him go. But
you know, one hundred and fifty five million, you know,
I understand where he's coming from, but he really was
the heart and soul of the team.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
And I don't know, well, it's still he's still a
right you watch you just have to watch Orioles games now,
you have to see what he's doing in Baltimore and.
Speaker 9 (28:36):
Watch the old But you know, and I think I'll
play the matter. We were talking about that showdown at
some point. But it's really, you know, one of those
things where you just pet along. Yeah, one hundred and
fifty five million dens to five years, and it's just
one of those things. He was just such a part
of the part of the team and really playful and
(28:59):
so on.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
I mean, oh, this is the bets.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
The Mets better figure out how to win, because if
they don't win, and these guys are playing well for
the Dodgers and the Orioles, they'll never hear.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
The end of it. They're gonna be just roasted.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
Good point. Yeah, New York fans, man, they're not. That's
a good point you just made.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, exact exactly so. And it's not like they don't
have the money. If it'd be one thing, if they
didn't have the money, he'd be like, Okay.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
They don't have the money whatever, You're fine. But they
got one of the richest owners in all of sports.
This guy, this guy so loaded. My god, he goes
in the bathroom, he makes ten million dollars. This guy's
so rich.
Speaker 9 (29:39):
So oh, uncle Steve, they call.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Him, you know, as a Mets fan, the whole thing.
Speaker 10 (29:46):
That's right.
Speaker 9 (29:47):
So I don't know, you know, there's a lot of
explaining to do here, and you know, David sterns well, I.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Actually, by the way, I just looked at the schedule
because that's what we do here, the Baltimore Orioles.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Check this out.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Now that the Orioles do play at City Field in
twenty twenty six in September, so it's late in the season.
September fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth Mets and they host the
Orioles at Cityfield, So that'll be a big series.
Speaker 9 (30:18):
Right before my Virgo birthday. And that should be interesting
because September, that's from you know, teams are heading towards
the playoffs or not.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
So yeah, and that there's only after that.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
The Orioles will only have nine games left after that series,
so that's late.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
That's real late in the baseball season for sure.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
So either pen Alonzo could be spoiler or the Mets
can spoil him and the Orioles.
Speaker 9 (30:42):
So yeah, no, that's that's a good way to put
in there. I heard you allude to cosmic energy earlier
in the show.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
So I was like, absolutely, look out for you.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
Well, Adria, thank you the great area Virgo in service,
the astrology Insider and Virgo and service. On on, let's
go to Steve in Manhattan. Who's in the Big Apple.
Hello Steve, Welcome Steve O.
Speaker 11 (31:08):
One foggy Christmas Eve. Sayana came to say weed man
with your joint, so right, will you got my slate
to night? All of the other Potheads shouted.
Speaker 10 (31:24):
Outly, it's Christmas time in the City Bank Distinguished Panel.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Right, listen, Steve was good. That was good, that song
was good.
Speaker 11 (31:43):
Let me tell you. I'll tell you a funny story quick.
As a kid, I was all into sports, right, yeah,
I do have. I do have other siblings who were
into sports and music. They couldn't believe I could sing,
but I just didn't want to do it.
Speaker 10 (31:58):
I was into sports.
Speaker 11 (31:59):
I want to be Mick Jagger, Mickey Mann. Well, come on, anyway,
you could put together a medley of of Christmas songs.
And if you want to do that now, I wish
the Left for con up in Beantown. He's got to
do white Christmas. I mean, come on, you can't put
that voice to white Christmas. You got to be a
little creativity, you know, creative out there and do that.
Speaker 12 (32:21):
Man.
Speaker 11 (32:21):
But if he's listening, he's got to do White Christmas. Anyway.
The mark of a great coach is he can get
the staff to work late nights, to stay around late
at night and you know, do some polishing or something,
and that's the way to do it.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
I know.
Speaker 11 (32:36):
Last year, I know, Minnesota went up to ann Arbor
for a football game, and Timmy Wats went up there too,
and he was getting he was going at it with
the an offer with the college kids up there. I mean,
those college kids don't want free tampons. I mean what
what they complained about with him? Anyway, Philadelphia, they just
(32:58):
got I think they just got lazy when they started.
What cheese was on it is? You are right, and
mister Bruno is correct that they've broke alone is the
cheese that they would put on it? Because they're also
famous for the hoi, the pork sandwich. We said, the pretzels.
Speaker 10 (33:13):
There's a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Still he's famous. It's good. It's a good food town.
It's not a healthy town, but it's a good food town.
It's delicious. I agree, right, and.
Speaker 11 (33:22):
I would tell people like you get into late December,
a lot of hosts going on vacation, the staff away.
It's a great time to prank talk radio. If you're
if you're read it, you know really.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yeah, you know what it is? The phony phone call
is is outstanding?
Speaker 11 (33:38):
This time is falling asleep? They gotta take b twelve shot?
Mean what it ain't doing? You know the boxes used
to take the twelfth shots.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
In the middle of the night. Man, what do you
want people that people fall? Somebody with.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
No I got all right, so I gotta go, but
thank you got Stephen, Stephen Manhattan. They're checking in, hollering James,
see awake, Hollering James, I'm.
Speaker 12 (34:02):
Awake and alive and chicken. Yeah, Ben, all right, all right?
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We are you excited? James? Can you promote? I want
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This is holler and James straight ahead on the Ben
Mather Show is ask Ben?
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Yeah? Let me roll? Hower? Is James straight into the
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As Ben is up next? I got to be programmed.
You know why, Ben, I'm in the program. I'm the
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Speaker 2 (36:01):
Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
These are actual questions by actual listeners to the show.
And now for the reading of the questions that have
been submitted using the hashtag ask Ben the Coopulo.
Speaker 8 (36:15):
All right, We're gonna ask a question from Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Hi, Mike the Leprechaun.
Speaker 8 (36:20):
He says, it's the two part question, but that's kind
of cheating, so I'm only gonna it's not really two
part question, Mike, And those are two different questions, so
I'm only gonna read one of them. He wants to
know can you snap your fingers?
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Let me let me try. I used to be able to.
I don't think I can anymore.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
I used to be able to. I can move my ears,
I wi my ears, but I can't. I don't think
I could sap my fingers in I just tried.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I couldn't do it. What about you? Lorena? There you go.
Speaker 8 (36:53):
I know she can. She snaps at me all the time.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Do you believe the urban legend that that will lead
to arthritis when you're an old woman?
Speaker 8 (37:01):
You believe that's that's cracking your knuckles?
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Isn't it ort same thing, right ules? Snapping your fingers
making tortillas?
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Anyway?
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Can you do it? Do you believe Coop that if
you watch porn you'll go blind? Do you believe that? Also? No? No,
okay is pretty bad.
Speaker 8 (37:22):
Yes, I can snap my.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Fingers all right. I guess I'm the only one that
can al I'm a loser. I'm a loser. Ferg Dog
high Fergie. I've not met him, but I kind of
like the guy. He seems like a nice guy.
Speaker 8 (37:36):
I think he kind of likes you too. That's good
for him. Uh. He wants to know. Are you a
fan of karaoke?
Speaker 1 (37:45):
I've done karaoke a few times.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
One of my buddies, my old oldest friends I know,
is a huge karaoke fan. I don't love it. It's okay,
I gotta have a lot to drink to really get into.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
I guess that's for everybody.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
What about you, Lorena, I like watching other people do
karaoke more more than me doing it.
Speaker 8 (38:07):
I've only done it at the mallard meet and greets
that we've done.
Speaker 1 (38:10):
So okay, Well we'll see. What about you, Cooble Loop.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
Uh yeah, I'm kind of with Loraina. I'm not a
fan of doing karaoke myself, but I will sit there
and watch other people do karaoke.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
That's like Big Balls Bob.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
That's enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yes, the great Big Balls Bob in Vegas.
Speaker 8 (38:27):
I wouldn't even do it at the mallor meeting greet.
I was, you know, props to Loraina for getting up
there and doing that.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
People try to get me to do it too, and
I said, I'm not doing it. I'm not getting up
there forced coerced you.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, well we were not see peer pressure got here.
We did not fall the peer pressure.
Speaker 1 (38:44):
We did not.
Speaker 8 (38:45):
That's right.
Speaker 1 (38:46):
What is next year? What have its? Asked? Ben?
Speaker 2 (38:48):
Your questions are answers. If you like this, we do
it every week at about this time. If you don't
like it, we only do it once a week.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
So chill out. What's wrong? We don't be a loser.
Speaker 8 (38:56):
This one should be interesting. I don't know if I
can think of one for me, but we'll ask the
question way. Maybe you guys don't know donkey sausage. He
would like donkey. He was like, you know, what's the
strangest rumor that you've ever heard about yourself?
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Well, I mean there's a lot of stuff on the
internet which is not true about me being a multi millionaire.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
And I mean there's there's a lot of stuff like
that which I always laugh at. I wish that was true.
What's the craziest.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I don't Years ago there were rumors I was going
to get some like big jobs. I never was even
up for that.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I thought was was a musing. I mean, nothing other
than that kind of stuff. What about you, Larta?
Speaker 4 (39:39):
I think the biggest one is that I was just
going to end up with seven children.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Not six. In high school, you were most likely to
have seven children.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
Really, okay, I wonder how that started.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
I can't imagine what the what the hell is that about?
My gud stopped to one?
Speaker 8 (39:58):
People stopped a.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Oh, one and done.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
That's it, one and done like a college basketball player.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
What about you, Coop one hit wonder.
Speaker 8 (40:06):
Yeah. I can't really think of strange rumors that I've
heard about myself.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Okay, I got you.
Speaker 8 (40:16):
No one ever said you were in a porno or something.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
No, I mean.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Remember when the remember the tabloids that did a story
about you but they used the wrong photo.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Yeah, the London tabloids. That was pretty fun.
Speaker 8 (40:25):
Yeah, and they used like a like a a Canadian
Football League player or something like that.
Speaker 2 (40:33):
Here's Coop, he's ready to play linebacker for the Edmonton
Eskimo or whatever called now.
Speaker 8 (40:41):
Yeah, and there are other things like, uh, you know,
your typical child actor rumors like oh he was he's
a jouggy now living in a crackhouse like stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (40:51):
But you never went you never went full Goldberg from
the Mighty Ducks.
Speaker 8 (40:54):
You didn't go No, no, no, no, you did not
just the what's next?
Speaker 1 (40:59):
What do you got?
Speaker 8 (41:00):
Let's see, I had one in front of my screen. Oh,
here we go. Freddy wants to know what is the
worst Christmas gift that you have ever received.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
We'll be honey, But I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
I usually, you know, when you're still young and you
don't want clothes and you get clothes like that kind
of stuff like, I don't think it's terrible. I usually
block out the basket. What about quickly, Loraino, what about you?
Speaker 8 (41:23):
Worst gift is no gift. Oh yeah, it's a good point.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
No gift. All right, there you go, eh,
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