April 16, 2026 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the idea that Mike Trout should look to leave the Angels, reports that the Padres preparing to send Fernando Tatis Jr. to the transfer portal, Kevin McGonigle getting a $150M extension from the Tigers, #AskBen, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Playball. It's our number three, our number three, barking up
the tree right now here we go talking Bay's ball.
And we start out at Yankee Stadium. They played a
home run derby, they being Aaron Judge and Mike Trout
this week, and Mike Trout pretty much a forgotten man,
and then goes out and hits a bunch of home
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runs against the Yankees. Now the baseball media establishment's like,
wait a minute, Mike Trout's still in the major leagues
and now they're demanding that Trout Leve Anaheim, where are
you at on the idea that Mike Trout should force
his way out of the big A. That's pretty much
what the argument is, that he needs to demand a trade.
Also thumbs up or thumbs down on the podres preparing
(00:44):
to send Fernando Tatisse into the transfer portal. That's why
he's playing second base or was playing second base earlier
this week. And Kevin McGonagall gets a one hundred and
fifty million dollar extension in Motown as a first year player,
how do you justify that? If you're the Tigers, we'll
talk about that and a whole lot more right now,
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you'll take it all to heart, all the heart. The
bases are loaded and here it is our number three.
Also ask Ben our three little fishing, little fishing for you,
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back at little baseball for you this hour. We start
out with home run derby the Bronx is a burning,
the Yankees and Angels continuing they're all week series, They're
all week series. In the Boogie Down Bronx and Mike
Trout had another monster mash. He's had a big week
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there for the Halos in the Big City hit his
fourth dinger of the week, and the Angels Jordan Romano
puking it up doing his old Donnie Moore in personation
as a shot at somebody who's dead years ago. Anyway,
they bullpen choked, he choked romno, and so the Yankees
get a walk off when the Angels can light the
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l on fire.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
There.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So that led to a conversation another home run by
Mike Trout. You know where the conversation is going on this?
Perhaps not perhaps not.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Several prominent baseball pundits and a couple of people that
are not normally known for baseball commentary have decided all
of a sudden that they need to beat on the
drum and get Mike Trout to say nope, bueno and
get out of here, say bye bye to the big a.
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It's time now that Mike Trout must force his way
out of an Angel's uniform. And enough bobbing and weaving
with losing and all that just has to go to
the owner and say I want out, get me out
of here. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question where are you at on
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the idea that Mike Trout should look to leave the
Angels force his way out. That this has become a
popular talking point this week. So my views on this,
I've got electrician, I've got full body car wash and
elevator pitch and we will combine all of these things
together and we'll put them in a pot and spill
(05:25):
the beans. Will spill the beans. Yes, So I do
like the fact, first of all, that the establishment media,
the mainstream guys. We're not part of the mainstream because
we're on Overnight, but the mainstream guys, it's like they
have amnesia. The Angels are so irrelevant. How irrelevant are they?
(05:47):
Thanks for asking. They're so irrelevant that you forget about
them unless the Angels play the Yankees of the Dodgers
or something like that, and they're like, Oh, Mike Trout's
on the he's still playing. He's in the major leagues. Okay,
Well it's time for him to get the road. He's
got to get out of here. Yeah. So this is
is not, by the way, about what Trout should do,
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it's about what he wants to do. The argument, well,
Trout should demand a trade, because what Trout should do
and what Mike Trout wants to do are two different
things in different galaxies. Mike Trusts already made his choice
when he signed that four hundred million dollar Mega Mega
Mega Mega contract, when he did the DOCU sign on
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that that was it. He chose comfort He chose stability,
ocean breeze, hanging out in your fer dog, all that stuff.
He chose it over October baseball Cowabunga dude. So if
you're in the camp, the Trout should force his way out.
You might want to call on electrician. Get an electrician
(06:55):
in here, because Mike Trout is not hardwired like your
Ring Chase psychos that you love so much. Now, this
is not Sho hail Tani running off to join the
Dodgers because they have all the good players and I
want to join the Dodgers. That's not how Mike Trout
operates it. You know, he is the old school. He's
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like the antithesis of Kobe Bryant or Tom Brady that
just demand's winning and all that stuff. It would appear
based on the body of his work that Mike Trout
is a very good player who's perfectly fine, cashing historically
large checks, living the Laguna Beach life, beautiful Laguna Beach,
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clocking out in September, and that's it. And it's not
necessarily a flaw. It's his preference. He's happy, he's in
his happy place, and the inconvenient truth is he's also
damaged goods and now heading towards that period of past
your prime years and all that stuff. Availability still matters
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to some people, and Trout has not been the guy
who's out there most of the time. And so he
built this sandbox. It's a very expensive sandbox, and he's
not giving up his beach chair anytime soon. He's got
the umbrella, he's got the beach chair, he's got the
suntan lotion from Mike the Leprechaun. So he's in really
good shape, really good ship, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Secondly to a place that also has great weather. That
would be sun Diego or the Podres on a burner
late win by the Podres here. But that's not the story.
The story is a roster change.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
A lot of noise about the dance and peacock the
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Harold Reynolds, longtime Seattle Mariner, briefly oriole and an angel.
Harold Reynolds thinks the Podres are playing Fernando Tatis at
second base, which they just debuted the other day. They're
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playing to tease at second base to showcase him. Two
other teams say what Yeah, So The theory is that
San Diego cannot keep the payroll that they've had in
recent years, and someone's gotta go. Who's gonna go, somebody's
gotta go, all right, So the question thumbs up or
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thumbs down, thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs up, thumbs down.
On the podres preparing to send Fernando Tatis to the
transfer portal. So after a minute long Mallard deliberation, I
am going thumbs up. I am going thumbs up on this.
On the podres preparing to ship Fernando to Tis out
(09:44):
into the into the wild blue yonder there and let's
not kill ourselves wide like San Diego does need to
disinfect Fernando Tatis's reputation before they can even think about
moving him. And it's been a couple of years. Tatis
has not been the same player, not close to the
same player he had been when he was taking the
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happy sauce, really really good with the magic beans, and
he still carries that stigma and he's not going to
get rid of it anytime soon. So the Potrays are
in theory, running Fernando Tatis Junior through his reputation. They're
running it through some disinfected right doing that whole thing,
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and they're trying to get that full car, full body
car wash going, and they're going to get it detailed
and try to rinse off the lingering stench or the
ped stuff and still make it where somebody is willing
to give them something without holding their nose. So it
is a bit of pr D tox. The Second Base
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showcase and it's it's kind of you want to sell
a house and you have to pay for people to
put a sofa and some other furniture and stage it.
It's a it's a pop up showroom. Say, look, he's versatile,
he's reformed, he's he's a team player. He'll do anything
(11:10):
you want, anything you want. But he's still got that
radioactive residue. Well can't you overlooked at You should be
able to overlook them. We can't overlook that. Well, okay,
so we'll take some for breeze and we'll for breeze
him that that didn't work, so tatise. Even though he's
got that forever contract, he is not just a player.
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He is a distressed asset. Considering the player that he
was and the player that he is now are two
totally different things, and he's not that old, and so
buyers don't pay top dollar for damaged goods. So you
polish it, you put a little spit shine on it,
you repackage it, and you have ownership. That's the issue here,
(11:54):
and that's really think The ownership is uncertain. You've got
a bloated payroll, the own that was all gung ho
to wins. He died, so you got the team's kind
of been in this holding pattern. And this was always
the plan. The Padres traded their entire farm system to
go for it. Last year. It didn't work out so well.
They blew it, and so they don't. They don't have
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a lot going on right now, a lot going on.
The clock is ticking, and so this part of it
is corporate baseball. When you talk about the idea of
Fernando Tatis Junior leaving the Padres, you clean up the
balance sheet. This is the oldest trick. If the team's
about to be sold, before the deal is done, you
go to the party that's about to win the bid
(12:37):
and you say, okay, what's your budget. Who do you
want to get rid of? Will be the bad guys
and we'll clear out some dead weight, cut out the
dead wood, and then we'll take the complaints. And then
the new owner says, well, I would have kept that player,
but the old owners got rid of him, when really
you were the ones. You were the ones that said,
we want this guy gone. We got to unload this player.
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And that's how that goes. But it's so it's corpus stuff.
It can clean up the balance sheet. Then you hand
the keys over and you sign all and get the
notary out and sign all the paperwork and all that.
Nothing says new ownership ready. Nothing says that like unloading
your most complicated investment. And my advice to San Diego
is to throw in some of that ringworm medication, because
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we know Tatise is very good at hitting a home
run when he's on that very nice bottle of ringworm medication.
If you know what I mean, The real ones know
all right, final thought, it has happened yet again to Detroit.
We go and wait a minute, the hero of opening
day Tigers rookie Kevin McGonagall becoming the latest unproven major
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league player to win the Mega Millions. Congratulations, guys. Twenty
one years old. He agreed to a one hundred and
fifty one million dollar contract over eight years. Contract starts
in twenty twenty seven. So we got this infielder mcgonagill
twenty one years old. Imagine that he's twenty one. You
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got one hundred and fifty million coming your way. Holy crap.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And early on I don't know what he did in
the game on Wednesday. He was hitting over three hundred
heading into the game, had a home run eight RBIs whatever?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Fin?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I only played seventeen games. Seventeen games, seventeen games? Yeah,
how great is that? You imagine showing up to work
for seventeen days and saying, okay, let's give you a
forever money. So the question, Kevin mcgonagill, Detroit Baseball gets
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the one hundred and fifty million dollar extension in Motown.
How do the Tigers justify this? So let's begin with this.
Kevin mcgonagill looks like a nice player, certainly appears to
have the toolbox, the skills that are required to be
a successful Major League baseball player. He's a promising kid.
(15:07):
Good for him, however, Yeah, you know, however's coming? Not
a butt, not a butt, not a butt, not a butt,
not a butt. However, you and I let's not pretend, Okay,
we're having a conversation. I'm doing most of the talking.
In fact, why am I doing all the talking? So
let's not pretend that this isn't the latest chapter in
Major League Baseball's Great Prospect Ponzi scheme. There are going
(15:32):
to be Netflix docu series, there will be books written
about this era. This isn't about what mcconagill is. It's
about what a spreadsheet dreams that he might be. And
that continues the era that we're in right now. Detroit's
front office, just like all these other teams, trunk on
projections selling a Silicon Valley elevator like pitch the elevator
(15:58):
pitch to a baseball audience, they sold it to ownership.
So the pitch, and I'm gonna recreate it for you.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
And this is a.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Recreation, which is possibly true, maybe not so the elevator
pitch to ownership is the baseball ops department goes to
the owner of the Tigers and said, listen, this guy,
Kevin mcgona gill projects to be a thirteen year big
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league player with multiple All Star games, and we'll lead
the league in hitting one year, lead the league in
doubles another year. And the final part of the elevator
pitch is trust us bro. You know a lot of
teams spaying big money. Untrust us bro. We are in
the golden age of professional baseball teams now paying superstar
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money before a player becomes a star. Which again, it's
one of these things that's changed in my lifetime, and
I got to get used to it because when I
was raised, you had to prove you were legit to
get paid. They don't want to pay it. You were
under scrutiny and you had to show that you could
live up to the hype. Now, just the hype alone,
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because of the World Wide Web and the algorithms in
the box, just the hype alone isn't Oh, he's the
number two prospect in baseball. Pay the man, Pay the man.
It's backwards. It's analytical arrogance, is what it is, the
belief that you can correctly predict chaos, and it's spreading.
It is spreading. Now mentioned this is a widespread pandemic.
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You've got the Pirates who did it, the Seattle Mariners,
the Milwaukee Brewers, and now you have the Detroit Tigers.
All of them. It's copycat capitalism, wearing cleats and Major
League Baseball is it's not so much a sport anymore.
It's it's like Wall Street meets Ivy League is what
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it is. And prospect if you look at it like this,
prospects are like startups if you pay any attention. I
don't know if you do or not. And I have
a love hate relationship with investments. I should be better
at it. I'm not. And I occasionally dabble in investments.
And I have, like most of you, I have an
app on my phone. I futz around with it, and
I I'll buy things or sell things or whatever on that.
It's like playing a video game. The one thing I've learned, though,
(18:23):
is the startup and venture capital invests a lot of
money in these startups winn A prospect is a suspect
and thil proven otherwise. And prospect is also like a startup,
and most startups fail. Most startups don't make The Tigers
are not buying certainty, right, They're they're buying a dream,
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and dreams are very expensive, and they often don't come true.
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order to defend the Nuggets Nicola jokicch again, Minnesota's Julius
(20:12):
Randall recently said that he'll need blank in order to
defend the Nuggets Nicola Jokic in the NBA playoffs. That
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and Greet will be taking place a week from Saturday
in the Greater Cincinnati area. The first one, well, there's
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some other ones. We got one in the Boston area
Worcester will be there coming up in early May, second
weekend in May. I believe we'll be there. I think
that's right. I believe that's right. So we'll be doing
that and then down the line, who knows where else
we'll end up it the only one. The only two
that we have for sure are Cincinnati and then Boston.
We'll see what happens during the summer. Hopefully Slug is
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still hanging out with us and he's got all the
hookups in Vegas and we can do something there. We
haven't done one in La in a while. I'm trying
to get to San Francisco, so we'll see what happens
with that. But the first one is coming up week
from Saturday in Newport, Kentucky, just a mile away from
where the Reds play in the Ohio River and all that.
So we'll be hanging out there at Strong's Bricko in
Pizzeria from two till five. And this is not through
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the company. They don't pay for the travel on this,
they don't pay for anything. We're just doing this on
our own. So I will be there hanging out with
you to celebrate Dick and Dayton who will be performing
music in Ohio, al and all the big names. So
check that out. Time out for the Mallard Riddle to day.
And also we have ask Ben coming up hashtag ass Ben.
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Here's the Mallard Riddle of the Day. Minnesota's Julius Randall
said recently that he'll need blank in order to defend
the Nuggets Joker Nicola Jokic in the NBA playoffs, which
began this weekend. That is the question, and what is
the answer. Let's see Jill in Minnesota clearly cheating, got
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it right, bad job by her. Who else do we have?
Let's see pizza? Papa said, two more Juicy Lucy's and
a small diet coke. You can't go wrong with juicy Lucy.
You can't go wrong with that. What else? Filler up
Phil said, handcuffs? What else we Doug in South Korea
says kiss Catman boots from from Doug. O. JT. The
(24:07):
wing Man just outside Knoxville, Tennessee says Batman utility belt
circa nineteen sixty six. He said, no, no, no, no,
no no Batman. Yeah. Cookies Ramen flavored oreos from courtesy Flusher.
Let me puke in my mouth right now. A sword
from Dante Rebecca the ram Fan. Oh, that's that's for Aspen.
(24:30):
I'll save that for Aspen. Let's see. Mister irrigation said
Don Lemon's Lucky Rabbit foot. Well, that's quite the rabbit.
I've never seen a rabbit like that. What Doc Dan
says something sometimes hide and seek is a dangerous game. Okay, random,
I think he's reacting to what we posted. Who else
page Dan? A hug from Diana Russini from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
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far out Dave, who I also believe is gonna beat
the Ohio meet and greet?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
We do?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
He says long term ludicrous, Lucy, Limousine, Linguini, Leppa designer, Lama,
lily Pad logistics. Okay, I don't know why you put
the designer in there, but you threw that in there
as well. Who else do we have? Page down? Eileen
went with old Chucky, The old Chucky donkey sausage, said
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some viagra, Lady Cyburn. Lady Cyburn says, fuzzy handcuffs is
the answer. He'll need a ride to the Ohio Meet
and greet from Alf the alien olpiner. Who else do
you have? He'll need to consume more gasoline than usual,
more gasoline than usual? Who else? I can't read that
(25:47):
Harley Quinn costume from Late Night Drug Tester. All right,
Jill is denied that she cheated. Do you have an answer?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Lorena, faith dust and pixie.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Dust, faith dust and pixie dust.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I think it's faith trust.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And faith trust is something like that. Yeah, I know
the correct answer. Joyce Randall said that he is going
to need to ask God for a few favors to
defend the Joker in the NBA playoffs. I think he's
going to have to take a number. It's going to
the DMV. You know, God's a little busy right now.
(26:28):
You never know. I'm sure God's very interested in who
wins the Minnesota Denver playoff series, unless that is not
the case. We have asked Ben coming up in a
little bit your questions and our answers. Let's go to
the falls and let's say hello to Jay who's in Cincinnati.
What's going on? Jay? Welcome, what's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I don't know if you'll allow this but or if
it's ever happened, but I want to take the oath
in person in front of Dick and Dayton down at
the pizza place.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You want to be sworn in in front of the
dixter uh As, No, I don't. I don't think Dick
has been Dick and Dayton's been sworn in. Ah. You know,
I'll think about see other We'll see what the crowds like.
We'll see what we Yeah, it's possible. I'm thinking we
could do that and we'll see. I'll put that.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
On my note something about Cricinnati. All right, what uh
fur ball that he used to do Sunday morning sports
talk here. Yeah, but he doesn't, he didn't anymore. But
when we played the Rams, the Bengals played the Rams
in the Super Bowl, Yeah, that's Saturday morning SportsTalk.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
The first caller called.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
In and said, uh, do you think Pete Rose would
be on the Hall of Fame. I'll hang up and listen. Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That was such a that was such a great topic
from like nineteen eighty nine until if they.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Don't have nothing to talk about on local sports talk,
they just bring up Pete Rose in the phone line.
Light up.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Perfect. That's great. I love that. It's still still fantastic.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It is.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That is depressing. That is that was a big deal.
When I started in sports radio. That was like a big,
big thing even you know, not even just in Cincinnati,
is everywhere, like Pete was a polarizing guy.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Okay, that's nice, being nice.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, all right, Well I'm Jay again. We're looking forward.
It's gonna be fun and it's coming up be here
before you know it. So it's gonna be a lot
of fun. So thank you the great Jay in Cincinnati.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Could you imagine trying to get Dick and Dayton to
do the oath like repeat after me? And he'd be like, anyway,
it's a good target to you.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I have made multiple I have made multiple phone calls
to Dick and Dayton this week to try to work
out the logistical situations.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
How's that going?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well? The first time I called him, we had a
nice conversation and he proceeded to tell me all the
radio shows that he's called into and how much he
loves the show. And it was like essentially doing a
fifteen minute phone call with Dick and Dayton, like we
just weren't broadcasting it. And so I was like, all right,
so I got this number. I want you to write
this number down very important though. This is a guardian angel.
(29:07):
This woman here is willing to drive you from dating
down to the event and back. And so he he
said okay, And so I said, you have a pen.
I don't have a pen. Well, why don't you have
a pen?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I don't have a pen. Runner, Well, can you get
a pen? Well, yeah, I can get a can you
call me back later? So I had to call him
back a second time because he didn't have access to
a pen, and I don't think he does text messaging,
so that's a problem. So there was some communication issues.
But anyway, let's go to the Dominican Mike, who I
(29:41):
met at the Charleston Meet and Greet. The great Dominican Mike,
friend of the show. Hello, Dominican Mike, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Hello, Hello, Hello Ben, Hello and the crew. And you're
right we met before. I've been listening to you for
a long time since through the overnight weekends, you know,
so it's been it's been a long time, and I've
been a fan of yours and a friend of yours
for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Ben, you know, well, thanks, thank you, Dominican Mike. And
you came up. You dragged your lady with you. She
was very nice as well, so it was nice to
see both you guys.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Yeah, all right, all right, and now you mentioned maybe
one day you guys can do the Florida Meet and Greek,
you know, and Florida me and Greek.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You know, where would you recommend Where would be the
place to go in Florida? Where would be the spot?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You probably have to do Orlando because that's that's that's
the central point of Florida. You know. You can you
can go from Miami. You can drive from Miami. You
can drive up from the the Hick Riviera or whatever
it's called, right, Jed, Jed can drive down from the.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Jed's not allowed to leave the county that he's in here,
the Red Deck Riviera, He's not allowed to leave.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah. Yeah, So I think Orlando will be the way
to do it because centralized, you know. So I know
you have too to listen to you brandon to it
as well. Sarasota, Tampa. You got Mikey here in town
by believe.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, Mikey his phone's not working right now. He'll call
up once he gets his phone paid for of us.
So yeah, so what's on your what's on your agenda? Dominican,
we have not spoken in some time? What is going
on with you? Have anything good? You're You're alive and well?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
It really good. I'm alive and well. I'm flying today.
I'm flying to Arizona. So I'm calling you because I'm
catching early flights to Arizona.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
But I'm also checking in with you because.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You don't let you know that I listen.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
I listen every day.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I listen to a podcast. You know I don't. I
listen to you all the time. And I wanted to
touch up on a.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Take from you from last week about the merchandising and
the Masters. Okay, Atlanta last week last weekend, spent some
time in Atlanta, and I can tell you that amount
of people merchandise for the Masters, it was overwhelming, so
many people, and they have the numb, the little number
(31:50):
that sixty sixty dollars and people have to show up
at six am just to get that. They wouldn't even
watch much golf just to get that numb. So the merchandising,
it wasn't saying. So when you take about the millions
and millions of dollars they make, I completely believe it, you.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Know, yeah, no, no, they made it. They sold a
lot of stuff, Like how much were of those things
going for on the secondary market, those little Masters nomes.
I know, the Masters freaks out. They freak out about everything.
You can't resell the tickets of if you're able to
get tickets or that you can't resell them and all that.
I guess they don't care if you resell the Master's gnome, right,
(32:25):
They're not going to complain if you did that.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
They have to mentioned that it was it was insane
mention it and I was like, wow, it is insane.
I mean, I wish you could get I can get
a piece of that.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
But you know, yeah, we got to find a way
to make money. Dominican mic we got to find a
way to hustle gets some money. Yeah. Absolute, They travels
to make and Mike, it's good to hear from you.
Be safe, my man. All right, thank you the great
great Dominican Mic. There, friend of the show out there,
hustling spends part of the year in Florida, part of
the year in Arizona. He's a baller to make Mike
(33:00):
is a baller because he lives in two states. He's
able to pull that off. That's that job is not Daddy's,
not daddy's. It is the Ben Mallor Show. As we
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As we roll on. Reminder, you can always find this
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Speaker 6 (34:18):
Your questions on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Now, all right, here we go. It's time now for
ask Ben. Your questions are answers for the arrest of
the hour. These are actual questions by actual listeners to
the show. And let's get the party started. The reading
of the questions over to the coop a loop or
as Dick and Dayton calls you, what does he call you,
(34:40):
coop doll loop or something like that.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Yeah, Uh, Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah, he doesn't call you koop a loop. He calls
you something like that.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
But let's start off with a question from Ray.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Hi.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
Ray, Ray would like to know what's the best and
worst investment you've ever made.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
The best investment I ever made. I bought a little
bit of apple stock when it was relatively early. That
turned out to be pretty good. Now I have a
relative who fed a lot on apple in one amount,
one a good amount. The worst thing I've ever done
I've talked about on the radio. I had someone early
on in bitcoin at a Mexican restaurant while eating chips
(35:26):
in salsa, spent about thirty minutes trying to get me
to buy bitcoin when it was very cheap, And I
spent most of the time mocking this person, ridiculing this
person about how stupid the investment was, and yeah, how
much is bitcoin worth now? I don't want too much?
That's the worst, that's yeah, what about you, Lelena?
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Yeah, electric cars and ethereum. I've taken all my investor
money I saw, haven't got any of it back yet,
so you're.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Still waiting on me. Regret that. And also I forgot
blind Scott when he was known as blind. Scott recommended
a weed company, the only one that went out of this,
the only one so license to print money when you're
in weed. He picked a one company. They couldn't sell weed.
You know how hard it is not to sell weed.
He picked a one company. They couldn't sell weed. Cool.
Speaker 8 (36:16):
I would say my best investment would be Apple and
and my house, and then the worst investment was this
pharmaceutical company that shot up and it was great and
I should have sold. I would have made a ton
of money and I didn't sell. And it's worth nothing now.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Ah no, not even a penny stock.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
What is? What is next?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Year?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
It's asked Ben. Your questions are answers to the rest
all be our hashtag. Asked Ben, if you like this bit,
we do it every week. If you don't like it,
we only do it once a week. So who cares?
Speaker 8 (36:55):
Shane and des moines Hi, Shane, we would like to know.
Do you wash your car by hand? Under you go
to a car wash?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah? So for years I washed my car car by hand.
The wife decided that we needed to go to a
There's a car wash like right down the street and
you get one car wash a day if you pay
like a flat rate, so I try to go four
times a week. My car only needs to be washed
like once every two weeks, but since I'm paying for it,
I go like three or four times a week. What
about you lorrain my hand or do you wash? You
(37:26):
go to the car wash?
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 9 (37:27):
I used to try to do by hand when I
got my new car, but it's just too much work.
So I do like a drive through car wash, and
then I make sure to do the hand drying and
the waxing by myself.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
I've never attempted to wash my car by hand.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Never, Why would you? That's something everyone does when they
get a car. Yes, everyone who gets a car the
first time. Back in my day, you're like, you love
the car. You're like, okay, this is good. We're going.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
I do love the car, and I pay somebody else
to wash it by hand.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
I don't try.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
People, Well, you should trust me.
Speaker 8 (38:03):
It's better than driving doing one of those drive through
car washes that'll damage your paint over time, that's what.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
They say, But I don't know. I had pretty good
luck anyway. I pay somebody to come to my to
my house and wash the car. Oh you fancy what
is next to?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
What do we got?
Speaker 8 (38:18):
Okay, we're gonna start off. We're gonna do a question
now from King the King Rory.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
H King Rory. He's in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Now.
Speaker 8 (38:26):
I think what he means by he says, have you
ever been summoned for jury duty? And I imagine everybody's
been summoned for jury duty? But have I guess have
you ever been selected?
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Is what he's asking.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
No, So I I did come close. I was on
I was on standby on the call list for a
federal jury. How great would that have been? I was excited.
I was like, this is cool. I should I don't
know what it was. It was a federal case and
I didn't even know I was on this list. I
guess we're all on the list, and I wanted to
do it. I was like, that would be cool. It'd
(38:57):
be a fun story to said I was on a
federal jury and I didn't get picked.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
So I got a new one coming up?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Oh you do?
Speaker 9 (39:05):
Yeah, May eleventh, I have selected for jury duty, so
it'll be my first one that if I actually go to.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
So I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
All right, what about you?
Speaker 8 (39:17):
At the risk of incriminating myself, I've never responded.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
I've never Yeah, you know, I'm just never. That's not
my thing.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
And nothing's ever happened, you know, no, of course.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
Not nothing that nothing ever will happen unless somebody listening
to this right now.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It's like those tickets, you know, they just put a
bunch of cameras in La, those red you know, the
speeding cameras, like like, I don't think you actually have
to pay them because there's no cop that cited you,
you know.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
What I mean, who actually saw you?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Like, only dumb people pay them like it's okay, then
get that dumb money.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
Next late night drug tester would like to know what
is the last documentary you watched?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, I've been I've been laxed on my documentaries.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I was.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
What was the name of it was on Netflix? It
was like a food documentary. Uh couple, I forget the
name of it though.
Speaker 9 (40:10):
What was the last Oates documentary?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
All right? I want to watch that Jerry West documentary?
Speaker 8 (40:17):
Why good document I think the last one I watched
was a red Hot Chili Pepper's documentary on netilit.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
All right, I gotta check that Jerry West thing out.
I'll watch this one and there's a UFO one I
want to watch.
Playball. It's our number three, our number three, barking up
the tree right now here we go talking Bay's ball.
And we start out at Yankee Stadium. They played a
home run derby, they being Aaron Judge and Mike Trout
this week, and Mike Trout pretty much a forgotten man,
and then goes out and hits a bunch of home
(00:21):
runs against the Yankees. Now the baseball media establishment's like,
wait a minute, Mike Trout's still in the major leagues
and now they're demanding that Trout Leve Anaheim, where are
you at on the idea that Mike Trout should force
his way out of the big A. That's pretty much
what the argument is, that he needs to demand a trade.
Also thumbs up or thumbs down on the podres preparing
(00:44):
to send Fernando Tatisse into the transfer portal. That's why
he's playing second base or was playing second base earlier
this week. And Kevin McGonagall gets a one hundred and
fifty million dollar extension in Motown as a first year player,
how do you justify that? If you're the Tigers, we'll
talk about that and a whole lot more right now,
(01:07):
you'll take it all to heart, all the heart. The
bases are loaded and here it is our number three.
Also ask Ben our three little fishing, little fishing for you,
welcome in, Not that kind of fishing. It's our number.
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back at little baseball for you this hour. We start
out with home run derby the Bronx is a burning,
the Yankees and Angels continuing they're all week series, They're
all week series. In the Boogie Down Bronx and Mike
Trout had another monster mash. He's had a big week
(03:45):
there for the Halos in the Big City hit his
fourth dinger of the week, and the Angels Jordan Romano
puking it up doing his old Donnie Moore in personation
as a shot at somebody who's dead years ago. Anyway,
they bullpen choked, he choked romno, and so the Yankees
get a walk off when the Angels can light the
(04:07):
l on fire.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
There.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
So that led to a conversation another home run by
Mike Trout. You know where the conversation is going on this?
Perhaps not perhaps not.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Several prominent baseball pundits and a couple of people that
are not normally known for baseball commentary have decided all
of a sudden that they need to beat on the
drum and get Mike Trout to say nope, bueno and
get out of here, say bye bye to the big a.
(04:41):
It's time now that Mike Trout must force his way
out of an Angel's uniform. And enough bobbing and weaving
with losing and all that just has to go to
the owner and say I want out, get me out
of here. So that is a good jumping off point.
Let us discuss the question where are you at on
(05:03):
the idea that Mike Trout should look to leave the
Angels force his way out. That this has become a
popular talking point this week. So my views on this,
I've got electrician, I've got full body car wash and
elevator pitch and we will combine all of these things
together and we'll put them in a pot and spill
(05:25):
the beans. Will spill the beans. Yes, So I do
like the fact, first of all, that the establishment media,
the mainstream guys. We're not part of the mainstream because
we're on Overnight, but the mainstream guys, it's like they
have amnesia. The Angels are so irrelevant. How irrelevant are they?
(05:47):
Thanks for asking. They're so irrelevant that you forget about
them unless the Angels play the Yankees of the Dodgers
or something like that, and they're like, Oh, Mike Trout's
on the he's still playing. He's in the major leagues. Okay,
Well it's time for him to get the road. He's
got to get out of here. Yeah. So this is
is not, by the way, about what Trout should do,
(06:10):
it's about what he wants to do. The argument, well,
Trout should demand a trade, because what Trout should do
and what Mike Trout wants to do are two different
things in different galaxies. Mike Trusts already made his choice
when he signed that four hundred million dollar Mega Mega
Mega Mega contract, when he did the DOCU sign on
(06:33):
that that was it. He chose comfort He chose stability,
ocean breeze, hanging out in your fer dog, all that stuff.
He chose it over October baseball Cowabunga dude. So if
you're in the camp, the Trout should force his way out.
You might want to call on electrician. Get an electrician
(06:55):
in here, because Mike Trout is not hardwired like your
Ring Chase psychos that you love so much. Now, this
is not Sho hail Tani running off to join the
Dodgers because they have all the good players and I
want to join the Dodgers. That's not how Mike Trout
operates it. You know, he is the old school. He's
(07:16):
like the antithesis of Kobe Bryant or Tom Brady that
just demand's winning and all that stuff. It would appear
based on the body of his work that Mike Trout
is a very good player who's perfectly fine, cashing historically
large checks, living the Laguna Beach life, beautiful Laguna Beach,
(07:37):
clocking out in September, and that's it. And it's not
necessarily a flaw. It's his preference. He's happy, he's in
his happy place, and the inconvenient truth is he's also
damaged goods and now heading towards that period of past
your prime years and all that stuff. Availability still matters
(08:02):
to some people, and Trout has not been the guy
who's out there most of the time. And so he
built this sandbox. It's a very expensive sandbox, and he's
not giving up his beach chair anytime soon. He's got
the umbrella, he's got the beach chair, he's got the
suntan lotion from Mike the Leprechaun. So he's in really
good shape, really good ship, all right.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Secondly to a place that also has great weather. That
would be sun Diego or the Podres on a burner
late win by the Podres here. But that's not the story.
The story is a roster change.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
A lot of noise about the dance and peacock the
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Harold Reynolds, longtime Seattle Mariner, briefly oriole and an angel.
Harold Reynolds thinks the Podres are playing Fernando Tatis at
second base, which they just debuted the other day. They're
(09:00):
playing to tease at second base to showcase him. Two
other teams say what Yeah, So The theory is that
San Diego cannot keep the payroll that they've had in
recent years, and someone's gotta go. Who's gonna go, somebody's
gotta go, all right, So the question thumbs up or
(09:23):
thumbs down, thumbs up, thumbs down, thumbs up, thumbs down.
On the podres preparing to send Fernando Tatis to the
transfer portal. So after a minute long Mallard deliberation, I
am going thumbs up. I am going thumbs up on this.
On the podres preparing to ship Fernando to Tis out
(09:44):
into the into the wild blue yonder there and let's
not kill ourselves wide like San Diego does need to
disinfect Fernando Tatis's reputation before they can even think about
moving him. And it's been a couple of years. Tatis
has not been the same player, not close to the
same player he had been when he was taking the
(10:04):
happy sauce, really really good with the magic beans, and
he still carries that stigma and he's not going to
get rid of it anytime soon. So the Potrays are
in theory, running Fernando Tatis Junior through his reputation. They're
running it through some disinfected right doing that whole thing,
(10:27):
and they're trying to get that full car, full body
car wash going, and they're going to get it detailed
and try to rinse off the lingering stench or the
ped stuff and still make it where somebody is willing
to give them something without holding their nose. So it
is a bit of pr D tox. The Second Base
(10:49):
showcase and it's it's kind of you want to sell
a house and you have to pay for people to
put a sofa and some other furniture and stage it.
It's a it's a pop up showroom. Say, look, he's versatile,
he's reformed, he's he's a team player. He'll do anything
(11:10):
you want, anything you want. But he's still got that
radioactive residue. Well can't you overlooked at You should be
able to overlook them. We can't overlook that. Well, okay,
so we'll take some for breeze and we'll for breeze
him that that didn't work, so tatise. Even though he's
got that forever contract, he is not just a player.
(11:32):
He is a distressed asset. Considering the player that he
was and the player that he is now are two
totally different things, and he's not that old, and so
buyers don't pay top dollar for damaged goods. So you
polish it, you put a little spit shine on it,
you repackage it, and you have ownership. That's the issue here,
(11:54):
and that's really think The ownership is uncertain. You've got
a bloated payroll, the own that was all gung ho
to wins. He died, so you got the team's kind
of been in this holding pattern. And this was always
the plan. The Padres traded their entire farm system to
go for it. Last year. It didn't work out so well.
They blew it, and so they don't. They don't have
(12:16):
a lot going on right now, a lot going on.
The clock is ticking, and so this part of it
is corporate baseball. When you talk about the idea of
Fernando Tatis Junior leaving the Padres, you clean up the
balance sheet. This is the oldest trick. If the team's
about to be sold, before the deal is done, you
go to the party that's about to win the bid
(12:37):
and you say, okay, what's your budget. Who do you
want to get rid of? Will be the bad guys
and we'll clear out some dead weight, cut out the
dead wood, and then we'll take the complaints. And then
the new owner says, well, I would have kept that player,
but the old owners got rid of him, when really
you were the ones. You were the ones that said,
we want this guy gone. We got to unload this player.
(12:59):
And that's how that goes. But it's so it's corpus stuff.
It can clean up the balance sheet. Then you hand
the keys over and you sign all and get the
notary out and sign all the paperwork and all that.
Nothing says new ownership ready. Nothing says that like unloading
your most complicated investment. And my advice to San Diego
is to throw in some of that ringworm medication, because
(13:22):
we know Tatise is very good at hitting a home
run when he's on that very nice bottle of ringworm medication.
If you know what I mean, The real ones know
all right, final thought, it has happened yet again to Detroit.
We go and wait a minute, the hero of opening
day Tigers rookie Kevin McGonagall becoming the latest unproven major
(13:47):
league player to win the Mega Millions. Congratulations, guys. Twenty
one years old. He agreed to a one hundred and
fifty one million dollar contract over eight years. Contract starts
in twenty twenty seven. So we got this infielder mcgonagill
twenty one years old. Imagine that he's twenty one. You
(14:09):
got one hundred and fifty million coming your way. Holy crap.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
And early on I don't know what he did in
the game on Wednesday. He was hitting over three hundred
heading into the game, had a home run eight RBIs whatever?
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Fin?
Speaker 1 (14:21):
I only played seventeen games. Seventeen games, seventeen games? Yeah,
how great is that? You imagine showing up to work
for seventeen days and saying, okay, let's give you a
forever money. So the question, Kevin mcgonagill, Detroit Baseball gets
(14:43):
the one hundred and fifty million dollar extension in Motown.
How do the Tigers justify this? So let's begin with this.
Kevin mcgonagill looks like a nice player, certainly appears to
have the toolbox, the skills that are required to be
a successful Major League baseball player. He's a promising kid.
(15:07):
Good for him, however, Yeah, you know, however's coming? Not
a butt, not a butt, not a butt, not a butt,
not a butt. However, you and I let's not pretend, Okay,
we're having a conversation. I'm doing most of the talking.
In fact, why am I doing all the talking? So
let's not pretend that this isn't the latest chapter in
Major League Baseball's Great Prospect Ponzi scheme. There are going
(15:32):
to be Netflix docu series, there will be books written
about this era. This isn't about what mcconagill is. It's
about what a spreadsheet dreams that he might be. And
that continues the era that we're in right now. Detroit's
front office, just like all these other teams, trunk on
projections selling a Silicon Valley elevator like pitch the elevator
(15:58):
pitch to a baseball audience, they sold it to ownership.
So the pitch, and I'm gonna recreate it for you.
Speaker 5 (16:08):
And this is a.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Recreation, which is possibly true, maybe not so the elevator
pitch to ownership is the baseball ops department goes to
the owner of the Tigers and said, listen, this guy,
Kevin mcgona gill projects to be a thirteen year big
(16:29):
league player with multiple All Star games, and we'll lead
the league in hitting one year, lead the league in
doubles another year. And the final part of the elevator
pitch is trust us bro. You know a lot of
teams spaying big money. Untrust us bro. We are in
the golden age of professional baseball teams now paying superstar
(16:51):
money before a player becomes a star. Which again, it's
one of these things that's changed in my lifetime, and
I got to get used to it because when I
was raised, you had to prove you were legit to
get paid. They don't want to pay it. You were
under scrutiny and you had to show that you could
live up to the hype. Now, just the hype alone,
(17:11):
because of the World Wide Web and the algorithms in
the box, just the hype alone isn't Oh, he's the
number two prospect in baseball. Pay the man, Pay the man.
It's backwards. It's analytical arrogance, is what it is, the
belief that you can correctly predict chaos, and it's spreading.
It is spreading. Now mentioned this is a widespread pandemic.
(17:36):
You've got the Pirates who did it, the Seattle Mariners,
the Milwaukee Brewers, and now you have the Detroit Tigers.
All of them. It's copycat capitalism, wearing cleats and Major
League Baseball is it's not so much a sport anymore.
It's it's like Wall Street meets Ivy League is what
(18:00):
it is. And prospect if you look at it like this,
prospects are like startups if you pay any attention. I
don't know if you do or not. And I have
a love hate relationship with investments. I should be better
at it. I'm not. And I occasionally dabble in investments.
And I have, like most of you, I have an
app on my phone. I futz around with it, and
I I'll buy things or sell things or whatever on that.
It's like playing a video game. The one thing I've learned, though,
(18:23):
is the startup and venture capital invests a lot of
money in these startups winn A prospect is a suspect
and thil proven otherwise. And prospect is also like a startup,
and most startups fail. Most startups don't make The Tigers
are not buying certainty, right, They're they're buying a dream,
(18:47):
and dreams are very expensive, and they often don't come true.
They often do not come true. It is the ban
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(20:12):
Randall recently said that he'll need blank in order to
defend the Nuggets Nicola Jokic in the NBA playoffs. That
is the malor really love that day the answer, We'll
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Speaker 6 (20:26):
Do it.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
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in the Greater Cincinnati area. The first one, well, there's
(22:14):
some other ones. We got one in the Boston area
Worcester will be there coming up in early May, second
weekend in May. I believe we'll be there. I think
that's right. I believe that's right. So we'll be doing
that and then down the line, who knows where else
we'll end up it the only one. The only two
that we have for sure are Cincinnati and then Boston.
We'll see what happens during the summer. Hopefully Slug is
(22:35):
still hanging out with us and he's got all the
hookups in Vegas and we can do something there. We
haven't done one in La in a while. I'm trying
to get to San Francisco, so we'll see what happens
with that. But the first one is coming up week
from Saturday in Newport, Kentucky, just a mile away from
where the Reds play in the Ohio River and all that.
So we'll be hanging out there at Strong's Bricko in
Pizzeria from two till five. And this is not through
(22:58):
the company. They don't pay for the travel on this,
they don't pay for anything. We're just doing this on
our own. So I will be there hanging out with
you to celebrate Dick and Dayton who will be performing
music in Ohio, al and all the big names. So
check that out. Time out for the Mallard Riddle to day.
And also we have ask Ben coming up hashtag ass Ben.
(23:19):
Here's the Mallard Riddle of the Day. Minnesota's Julius Randall
said recently that he'll need blank in order to defend
the Nuggets Joker Nicola Jokic in the NBA playoffs, which
began this weekend. That is the question, and what is
the answer. Let's see Jill in Minnesota clearly cheating, got
(23:42):
it right, bad job by her. Who else do we have?
Let's see pizza? Papa said, two more Juicy Lucy's and
a small diet coke. You can't go wrong with juicy Lucy.
You can't go wrong with that. What else? Filler up
Phil said, handcuffs? What else we Doug in South Korea
says kiss Catman boots from from Doug. O. JT. The
(24:07):
wing Man just outside Knoxville, Tennessee says Batman utility belt
circa nineteen sixty six. He said, no, no, no, no,
no no Batman. Yeah. Cookies Ramen flavored oreos from courtesy Flusher.
Let me puke in my mouth right now. A sword
from Dante Rebecca the ram Fan. Oh, that's that's for Aspen.
(24:30):
I'll save that for Aspen. Let's see. Mister irrigation said
Don Lemon's Lucky Rabbit foot. Well, that's quite the rabbit.
I've never seen a rabbit like that. What Doc Dan
says something sometimes hide and seek is a dangerous game. Okay, random,
I think he's reacting to what we posted. Who else
page Dan? A hug from Diana Russini from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
(24:54):
far out Dave, who I also believe is gonna beat
the Ohio meet and greet?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
We do?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
He says long term ludicrous, Lucy, Limousine, Linguini, Leppa designer, Lama,
lily Pad logistics. Okay, I don't know why you put
the designer in there, but you threw that in there
as well. Who else do we have? Page down? Eileen
went with old Chucky, The old Chucky donkey sausage, said
(25:21):
some viagra, Lady Cyburn. Lady Cyburn says, fuzzy handcuffs is
the answer. He'll need a ride to the Ohio Meet
and greet from Alf the alien olpiner. Who else do
you have? He'll need to consume more gasoline than usual,
more gasoline than usual? Who else? I can't read that
(25:47):
Harley Quinn costume from Late Night Drug Tester. All right,
Jill is denied that she cheated. Do you have an answer?
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Lorena, faith dust and pixie.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Dust, faith dust and pixie dust.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
I think it's faith trust.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
And faith trust is something like that. Yeah, I know
the correct answer. Joyce Randall said that he is going
to need to ask God for a few favors to
defend the Joker in the NBA playoffs. I think he's
going to have to take a number. It's going to
the DMV. You know, God's a little busy right now.
(26:28):
You never know. I'm sure God's very interested in who
wins the Minnesota Denver playoff series, unless that is not
the case. We have asked Ben coming up in a
little bit your questions and our answers. Let's go to
the falls and let's say hello to Jay who's in Cincinnati.
What's going on? Jay? Welcome, what's going on.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I don't know if you'll allow this but or if
it's ever happened, but I want to take the oath
in person in front of Dick and Dayton down at
the pizza place.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
You want to be sworn in in front of the
dixter uh As, No, I don't. I don't think Dick
has been Dick and Dayton's been sworn in. Ah. You know,
I'll think about see other We'll see what the crowds like.
We'll see what we Yeah, it's possible. I'm thinking we
could do that and we'll see. I'll put that.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
On my note something about Cricinnati. All right, what uh
fur ball that he used to do Sunday morning sports
talk here. Yeah, but he doesn't, he didn't anymore. But
when we played the Rams, the Bengals played the Rams
in the Super Bowl, Yeah, that's Saturday morning SportsTalk.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
The first caller called.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
In and said, uh, do you think Pete Rose would
be on the Hall of Fame. I'll hang up and listen. Uh.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
That was such a that was such a great topic
from like nineteen eighty nine until if they.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Don't have nothing to talk about on local sports talk,
they just bring up Pete Rose in the phone line.
Light up.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Perfect. That's great. I love that. It's still still fantastic.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
It is.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That is depressing. That is that was a big deal.
When I started in sports radio. That was like a big,
big thing even you know, not even just in Cincinnati,
is everywhere, like Pete was a polarizing guy.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
Okay, that's nice, being nice.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, all right, Well I'm Jay again. We're looking forward.
It's gonna be fun and it's coming up be here
before you know it. So it's gonna be a lot
of fun. So thank you the great Jay in Cincinnati.
Speaker 8 (28:26):
Could you imagine trying to get Dick and Dayton to
do the oath like repeat after me? And he'd be like, anyway,
it's a good target to you.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
I have made multiple I have made multiple phone calls
to Dick and Dayton this week to try to work
out the logistical situations.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
How's that going?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Well? The first time I called him, we had a
nice conversation and he proceeded to tell me all the
radio shows that he's called into and how much he
loves the show. And it was like essentially doing a
fifteen minute phone call with Dick and Dayton, like we
just weren't broadcasting it. And so I was like, all right,
so I got this number. I want you to write
this number down very important though. This is a guardian angel.
(29:07):
This woman here is willing to drive you from dating
down to the event and back. And so he he
said okay, And so I said, you have a pen.
I don't have a pen. Well, why don't you have
a pen?
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Well?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I don't have a pen. Runner, Well, can you get
a pen? Well, yeah, I can get a can you
call me back later? So I had to call him
back a second time because he didn't have access to
a pen, and I don't think he does text messaging,
so that's a problem. So there was some communication issues.
But anyway, let's go to the Dominican Mike, who I
(29:41):
met at the Charleston Meet and Greet. The great Dominican Mike,
friend of the show. Hello, Dominican Mike, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Hello, Hello, Hello Ben, Hello and the crew. And you're
right we met before. I've been listening to you for
a long time since through the overnight weekends, you know,
so it's been it's been a long time, and I've
been a fan of yours and a friend of yours
for a long long time.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
Ben, you know, well, thanks, thank you, Dominican Mike. And
you came up. You dragged your lady with you. She
was very nice as well, so it was nice to
see both you guys.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
Yeah, all right, all right, and now you mentioned maybe
one day you guys can do the Florida Meet and Greek,
you know, and Florida me and Greek.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
You know, where would you recommend Where would be the
place to go in Florida? Where would be the spot?
Speaker 2 (30:25):
You probably have to do Orlando because that's that's that's
the central point of Florida. You know. You can you
can go from Miami. You can drive from Miami. You
can drive up from the the Hick Riviera or whatever
it's called, right, Jed, Jed can drive down from the.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Jed's not allowed to leave the county that he's in here,
the Red Deck Riviera, He's not allowed to leave.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Yeah. Yeah, So I think Orlando will be the way
to do it because centralized, you know. So I know
you have too to listen to you brandon to it
as well. Sarasota, Tampa. You got Mikey here in town
by believe.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
Yeah, Mikey his phone's not working right now. He'll call
up once he gets his phone paid for of us.
So yeah, so what's on your what's on your agenda? Dominican,
we have not spoken in some time? What is going
on with you? Have anything good? You're You're alive and well?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
It really good. I'm alive and well. I'm flying today.
I'm flying to Arizona. So I'm calling you because I'm
catching early flights to Arizona.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
But I'm also checking in with you because.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
You don't let you know that I listen.
Speaker 4 (31:22):
I listen every day.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
I listen to a podcast. You know I don't. I
listen to you all the time. And I wanted to
touch up on a.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Take from you from last week about the merchandising and
the Masters. Okay, Atlanta last week last weekend, spent some
time in Atlanta, and I can tell you that amount
of people merchandise for the Masters, it was overwhelming, so
many people, and they have the numb, the little number
(31:50):
that sixty sixty dollars and people have to show up
at six am just to get that. They wouldn't even
watch much golf just to get that numb. So the merchandising,
it wasn't saying. So when you take about the millions
and millions of dollars they make, I completely believe it, you.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Know, yeah, no, no, they made it. They sold a
lot of stuff, Like how much were of those things
going for on the secondary market, those little Masters nomes.
I know, the Masters freaks out. They freak out about everything.
You can't resell the tickets of if you're able to
get tickets or that you can't resell them and all that.
I guess they don't care if you resell the Master's gnome, right,
(32:25):
They're not going to complain if you did that.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
They have to mentioned that it was it was insane
mention it and I was like, wow, it is insane.
I mean, I wish you could get I can get
a piece of that.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
But you know, yeah, we got to find a way
to make money. Dominican mic we got to find a
way to hustle gets some money. Yeah. Absolute, They travels
to make and Mike, it's good to hear from you.
Be safe, my man. All right, thank you the great
great Dominican Mic. There, friend of the show out there,
hustling spends part of the year in Florida, part of
the year in Arizona. He's a baller to make Mike
(33:00):
is a baller because he lives in two states. He's
able to pull that off. That's that job is not Daddy's,
not daddy's. It is the Ben Mallor Show. As we
roll on, we've got ask band, ask Ben your questions
and our answers. Get those questions in hashtag ask Ben.
(33:20):
Hashtag ask Ben.
Speaker 6 (33:22):
We'll get to that. We will do it next. Be
sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Bill Miller and you. It is the Ben Mallor Show.
As we roll on. Reminder, you can always find this
show on the iHeartRadio app. Yeah, it's on the Fox
Sports Radio channel. Never covered up by anything. It's available
all the time, every night, all night. So for whatever reason,
if your local radio you should listen to your local
(33:51):
radio station. But if for some reason the transmitter goes
out or they make poor programming decisions, put some infomercials
on or something like that. We're on the iHeartRadio channel,
Fox Sports Radio on the iHeart app. Check it out.
Thank you the image. All right, ask that Twitter, Send us.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
Your questions on Twitter.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Now, all right, here we go. It's time now for
ask Ben. Your questions are answers for the arrest of
the hour. These are actual questions by actual listeners to
the show. And let's get the party started. The reading
of the questions over to the coop a loop or
as Dick and Dayton calls you, what does he call you,
(34:40):
coop doll loop or something like that.
Speaker 5 (34:41):
Yeah, Uh, Dick and Dayton.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
Yeah, he doesn't call you koop a loop. He calls
you something like that.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
But let's start off with a question from Ray.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Hi.
Speaker 8 (34:55):
Ray, Ray would like to know what's the best and
worst investment you've ever made.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
The best investment I ever made. I bought a little
bit of apple stock when it was relatively early. That
turned out to be pretty good. Now I have a
relative who fed a lot on apple in one amount,
one a good amount. The worst thing I've ever done
I've talked about on the radio. I had someone early
on in bitcoin at a Mexican restaurant while eating chips
(35:26):
in salsa, spent about thirty minutes trying to get me
to buy bitcoin when it was very cheap, And I
spent most of the time mocking this person, ridiculing this
person about how stupid the investment was, and yeah, how
much is bitcoin worth now? I don't want too much?
That's the worst, that's yeah, what about you, Lelena?
Speaker 9 (35:46):
Yeah, electric cars and ethereum. I've taken all my investor
money I saw, haven't got any of it back yet,
so you're.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Still waiting on me. Regret that. And also I forgot
blind Scott when he was known as blind. Scott recommended
a weed company, the only one that went out of this,
the only one so license to print money when you're
in weed. He picked a one company. They couldn't sell weed.
You know how hard it is not to sell weed.
He picked a one company. They couldn't sell weed. Cool.
Speaker 8 (36:16):
I would say my best investment would be Apple and
and my house, and then the worst investment was this
pharmaceutical company that shot up and it was great and
I should have sold. I would have made a ton
of money and I didn't sell. And it's worth nothing now.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Ah no, not even a penny stock.
Speaker 5 (36:45):
What is? What is next?
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Year?
Speaker 1 (36:46):
It's asked Ben. Your questions are answers to the rest
all be our hashtag. Asked Ben, if you like this bit,
we do it every week. If you don't like it,
we only do it once a week. So who cares?
Speaker 8 (36:55):
Shane and des moines Hi, Shane, we would like to know.
Do you wash your car by hand? Under you go
to a car wash?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Yeah? So for years I washed my car car by hand.
The wife decided that we needed to go to a
There's a car wash like right down the street and
you get one car wash a day if you pay
like a flat rate, so I try to go four
times a week. My car only needs to be washed
like once every two weeks, but since I'm paying for it,
I go like three or four times a week. What
about you lorrain my hand or do you wash? You
(37:26):
go to the car wash?
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Oh gosh.
Speaker 9 (37:27):
I used to try to do by hand when I
got my new car, but it's just too much work.
So I do like a drive through car wash, and
then I make sure to do the hand drying and
the waxing by myself.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
Okay, cool.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
I've never attempted to wash my car by hand.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
Never, Why would you? That's something everyone does when they
get a car. Yes, everyone who gets a car the
first time. Back in my day, you're like, you love
the car. You're like, okay, this is good. We're going.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
I do love the car, and I pay somebody else
to wash it by hand.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
I don't try.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
People, Well, you should trust me.
Speaker 8 (38:03):
It's better than driving doing one of those drive through
car washes that'll damage your paint over time, that's what.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
They say, But I don't know. I had pretty good
luck anyway. I pay somebody to come to my to
my house and wash the car. Oh you fancy what
is next to?
Speaker 1 (38:17):
What do we got?
Speaker 8 (38:18):
Okay, we're gonna start off. We're gonna do a question
now from King the King Rory.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
H King Rory. He's in Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
Now.
Speaker 8 (38:26):
I think what he means by he says, have you
ever been summoned for jury duty? And I imagine everybody's
been summoned for jury duty? But have I guess have
you ever been selected?
Speaker 5 (38:35):
Is what he's asking.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
No, So I I did come close. I was on
I was on standby on the call list for a
federal jury. How great would that have been? I was excited.
I was like, this is cool. I should I don't
know what it was. It was a federal case and
I didn't even know I was on this list. I
guess we're all on the list, and I wanted to
do it. I was like, that would be cool. It'd
(38:57):
be a fun story to said I was on a
federal jury and I didn't get picked.
Speaker 5 (39:01):
So I got a new one coming up?
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Oh you do?
Speaker 9 (39:05):
Yeah, May eleventh, I have selected for jury duty, so
it'll be my first one that if I actually go to.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
So I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
All right, what about you?
Speaker 8 (39:17):
At the risk of incriminating myself, I've never responded.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
I've never Yeah, you know, I'm just never. That's not
my thing.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
And nothing's ever happened, you know, no, of course.
Speaker 8 (39:32):
Not nothing that nothing ever will happen unless somebody listening
to this right now.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
It's like those tickets, you know, they just put a
bunch of cameras in La, those red you know, the
speeding cameras, like like, I don't think you actually have
to pay them because there's no cop that cited you,
you know.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
What I mean, who actually saw you?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Like, only dumb people pay them like it's okay, then
get that dumb money.
Speaker 8 (39:54):
Next late night drug tester would like to know what
is the last documentary you watched?
Speaker 1 (40:01):
Yeah, I've been I've been laxed on my documentaries.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I was.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
What was the name of it was on Netflix? It
was like a food documentary. Uh couple, I forget the
name of it though.
Speaker 9 (40:10):
What was the last Oates documentary?
Speaker 1 (40:15):
All right? I want to watch that Jerry West documentary?
Speaker 8 (40:17):
Why good document I think the last one I watched
was a red Hot Chili Pepper's documentary on netilit.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
All right, I gotta check that Jerry West thing out.
I'll watch this one and there's a UFO one I
want to watch.
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