Hour 3 - Over Before It Begins

Ben Maller talks about Yankees ace Gerrit Cole being set to undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery and if this torpedo's the Yankees World Series chances, Dave Roberts getting a record-setting extension with the Dodgers, Maller's Mountain of Money: Jon Hamm Edition, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Boom, shaka Laca. It's our na bir three, our number
three talking baseball this hour. We'll get back to the
NFL later on, but here an hour number three. Garrett Cole,
Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. He is set
down to go season ending Tommy John surgery because of
an elbow injury. Does this torpedo the Yankees World Series dreams?

(00:23):
What can the Yankees do to replace Garrett Cole? Also,
what do you make of Dave Roberts record four year,
thirty two million dollar contract extension to continue managing the Dodgers?
And you make the call, do you support Jim Rice
or a Red Sox staffer They had a spring training
dust up. Yeah, the same Jim Rice that was a

(00:45):
Starbuck in the seventies and the eighties, now in his
seventies getting into a dust up with some nerd from
the Red Sox. We'll talk about all that and more
right now here. It is our number three, just away
from the opening of the baseball season, and already it
is turned out the last the parties over for one

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of the highest paid players in the sport. We'll discuss
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not wasting any time all about baseball. We'll get back
to the NFL momto And I know we love talking
about rich people getting richer in the NFL, But baseball
opening day is March eighteenth. It's a soft launch. It's
early in the morning, in the middle of the night
on the West coast, early in the morning on the
East coast. Dodgers and Cubs will open it up back

(02:41):
a week from today. March eighteenth is the season opener
in Major League Baseball, but the American opener will be
in March twenty seventh, I believe is the US opening day,
But our lead this hour is from baseball. We'll get
back to the NFL nonsense coming up in a minute.
But the sky is falling in the Bronx. As we

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mentioned in a previous hour, if you did not listen,
bad job by you. The news came out that ace
pitcher Garrett Cole, the highest paid pitcher in baseball, is
down for the count. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night,
as he will have the dreaded Tommy John surgery, which
does not sound that bad until you realize you are

(03:23):
moving ligaments around the body. The thirty four year old,
thirty four year old, passes prime right handed pitcher will
be sidelined not only the entire twenty twenty five season,
but likely at least half of the twenty twenty six season, when,
if my math is correct, he'll be thirty five years old.
So good luck on that. Let us discuss the question.

(03:47):
Garrett Cole set to undergo season ending Tommy John surgery
because of an elbow injury. Does this now torpedo the
Yankees and their reams of hoisting up a World Series
trophy in October or early November of twenty twenty five.
So I've got good book, laundromat, and Yoda, and we

(04:12):
will combine all of these things together, and we are
gonna make the Baba ganoosh is what We're gonna make
the Baba goosh. So, first of all, to answer the question,
and I want to explain us, I'm shaking my head. No,
I'm shaking my head. No, doesn't torpedo the Yankee season.
I think the story here is when Garrett Cole realized

(04:32):
we got a problem. Now they're saying it was in
spring training. He made a couple of starts and all that. Typically, though,
I'm skeptical. I just think this is some funny business
going on here, at least is worthy of investigation. It's
not gonna change the story that he needs Tommy John surgery.
But what if this happened in the multiverse. Let's say

(04:55):
this happened at some point I don't know before he
had agreed to that one hundred and forty four million
dollar opt in with the Yankees. Does that change anym
like you know you'd opt in. I'm trying to figure
out why he would do that. He said, well, he
loves playing for the Yankees. But is it possible that
Garrett Cole was working out and realized I got a
problem here. I gotta get that money. I don't want

(05:17):
to opt out because if I signed with a new team,
I then have to take a physical and I won't
pass the physical, and then we got a problem. So I'll,
you know, I'll put my tail between my legs and
I'll go back to the New York Yankees because I
got a major problem with my elbow, and I'm gonna
need Tommy Johnson to me. That's the story. No one's

(05:39):
talking about that. It's conceivable he got hurt in spring training,
but it's also possible that he knew something was not right.
There was something for Gayzy with the elbow before he
had opted in to stay with the Yankees. But it
is a body blow. It's obviously a body blow. Garrett
Cole is a three hundred and twenty million dollar pitcher.
He's supposed to be the crown jewel of the Yankee

(06:01):
pitching staff. But your roll with the punches and the
good news is I'll be Benny Brightside. You'll get a
pitcher that will actually hustle the first base and not
be a lazy slob and not cover first base in
the fricking World Series. What an embarrassment for the New
York Yankees. Garrett Cole is one of the great embarrassments
in Yankee baseball. That the sky is falling my Aaron
Judge misplays the ball in the outfield. There were some

(06:22):
other mistakes on the field, and Garrett Cole, the highest
paid pitcher of baseball, can't be bothered to cover first base. Now,
I'm glad he screwed that up. It was great, as
you know, Dodger backer. It's wonderful. But what an embarrassment
Garret Cole was to the Yankee uniform with that lack
of hustle. Now, the way this is gonna work, right,
no one player is going to fill the void of

(06:45):
Garrett Cole during the regular season. But you follow the
good book, the Bible of Baseball, Moneyball. The adage from
Moneyball goes something along the lines. You can't get someone
to replace Garrett Cole, but you can recreate Garrett Cole's
production in the in the aggregate, right, you can get
multiple players to plug in there. This ain't the Pirates,

(07:07):
though you're the Yankees. There's plenty of talent. They went
out and spent a bunch of money on Max Freed
from the Atlanta Braves, and he's usually fine during the
regular season, so he slides in. He's the new number
one starting pitcher for the Yankees. And then that Carlos
Radon as the number two starter. And then Marcus Stroman,
who they were going to trade now they won't trade

(07:29):
him because they need a pitcher, so he's in there.
Clark Schmidt. So they got guys. They got guys. And
remember you're the Yankees and it's supposed to be a
splitch splash situation. You can make a splash move now.
I know the spawn of George Steinbrenner, the kids. They
don't spend that kind of money. They don't like spending
money as much. And but go and there's pictures. The

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Podres are starting to unload players Dylan sees could be
yours if you want him. Luis Castillo and Seattle's another
player that's been mentioned a lot in the Hot Stove
League in the offseason who has not been traded so
there's options now turning the pitch. The team that absolutely
smothered the pathetic Yankees in the World Series, the d

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d G e RS Dodgers, the Doyers. Now they're soon
heading to Japan for the start of the baseball season
with the Dodgers. What do you make of Dave Roberts
getting a record four year, thirty two point four million
dollars contract extension with the Dodgers. So several of you

(08:36):
reached out to me, you know my opinion about Dave Roberts.
He said, Well, has your opinion changed? I got a
lot of those they won the World Series. You probably
like the guy. Now, No, I'm not a big fan.
I'm not everyone's getting paid. I wonder how much of
that money's deferred. Is Dave Roberts is going to be
getting a check in like twenty one thirty from the
Dodgers in deferred money. I don't know. But it's a

(08:58):
great gig, right. I think I could do it too.
I think you could do it. Lorena could do it,
Cooper Loop could do it. Anyone could do it. It's got
to be the easiest job in all of professional baseball.
What Dave Roberts is doing right. Managing the Dodgers, you
know what it's like, It's like running a laundromat. A

(09:19):
couple of years back, I was looking to invest I
was like, well, what businesses can you get where you
don't really have to do all that much stuff but
you make a decent amount of money. And some of
the businesses were like vending machines atm machines, but laundromats
came up a lot because once you set up the laundromat,

(09:40):
it kind of runs itself. Right. It's kind of as
long as something nob he's there destroying it, it runs itself.
It's almost fully sell for run business. You just got
to make sure the machines are are cleaned every so
often and that when one breaks they're repaired and a
timely fashion. It's kind of like managing the Dodgers. Okay,

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office sets up the roster. They have the top players
just about everywhere on the field the Dodgers, and there's
very little for Dave Roberts to do on a day
to day basis, and even if there was, the front
office would do it for it, meaning it's middle management.
That's essentially what Dave Roberts does on a day to

(10:20):
day basis, when you're managing the Dodgers, ninety eight percent
of the work is done by the nerds, and you're
a middle manager. You're mister smooth talker. You deal with
the media, you smile, You put a witty one liner
out there. I really liked him in that spot, you
know that kind of thing. And you're good and you
make a lot of money for that. And Dave runs
down to San Diego when he wants, got a place

(10:41):
down there, kind of chills out, enjoys life, and some
low information fans think you're actually responsible for the wins
and the losses and all that, and it's wonderful, all right. Now,
final fun several of you I mentioned the Dave Roberts thing.
You guys reached out to me and you wanted me
to yap about Dave Roberts. Whether some of our listeners
in the Commonwealth, we're upset that I did not mention

(11:02):
the developing brew haha between a Red Sox legend and
some no name analytical person for the Boston baseball team.
And so I'll bring that up right now for those
that don't know the story. Maybe you're not in the
Boston area. You'll follow the Red Sox. It's a pretty
good story even if you're not from there. And let
me explain why. So this story involves a baseball legend

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depending how old you are. If you're young, you have
no idea who this guy is. But if you're of
a certain age, probably middle aged or above, Jim Rice
was a monster masher in his day. He's old now,
he's in his seventies. But Jim Rice was one of
the stars of baseball. Red Sox never won in those days.
They had the curse of the Banbino, but they had
Jim Rice sitting home runs and driving in a bunch

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of runs and just amazing in the seventies in the
eighties for the Boston Red Sox, and he got into
a heated confrontation with a Red Sox staffer because Dave Roberts,
not Dave Roberts, because Jim Rice. Jim Rice had the gall,
the nerve. If you will to give advice, now, this

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was not advice that he was approaching a player on
his own. Jim Rice got into a heated confrontation with
some Red Sox employee. He was just simply having a
cup of coffee. Rice watching some batting practice in spring training,
and it was an indoor batting practice session, and one
of the Red Sox players approached him to ask his opinion. Hey,

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can you give me your opinion? You played, you were
an MVP in baseball. Can you give me your opinion?
And so Rice was asked his feedback. He gave his
feedback to said player. They did not name the player.
The cowards in the Boston media would not name the player.
So things apparently got awkward record of the story which
is bouncing around this unidentified analytical nerd. He went up

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to Jim Rice and said, you know you can't you
can't be doing that because your advice did not align
with the organizational charter, the franchise charter on how we
want our hitters to approach the ball. And so Dave
Roberts got keep on with Dave Robbers. Jim Rice, excuse me,
Jim Rice, there we go. I kept Dave Roberts, jimm

(13:20):
so Jim Rice, okay, So Jim Rice he asked the
Red Sox staffer a question. He said, Hey, did you
play in the major leagues? And the Red Sox analytical
person said to Jim Rice, I did not. I did not.
Rice then responded with, well you can't talk to me,

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then he's and then Rice dismissed him by saying, go
look at the video monitor and do what you do
and don't talk to me, and kind of shoot him
away and said get out of here. So then a
bunch of other people came in, tried to de escalate
the situation and all that. So here we go. That's

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the backstory. So Jim Rice, young Red Sox player, minor
league guy, asked Jim Rice advice. Rice gives the advice.
Red Sox chief Nerd comes over says, you can't do that.
That's not what we want our hitters to do. So
you make the call. Do you support Jim Rice or
some faceless Red Sox staffer who confronted the Red Sox

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legend in this dust up? So I will go first here.
So I'm gonna side based on the information that I
have with the Rice A Ronie. I'm gonna go with
Jim Rice on this. And here's why. Okay, this gotta
be the dumbest story of spring training, and there's a
lot of them right from what Rice has said here,

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and we don't really know the other side of the story.
We'll likely never hear the full story on the other side.
But Jim Rice says he was not meddling. He was
merely there observing having a cup of coffee. The player
approached him unsolicited. These former players, it is baseball tradition.
You are set for life if you're of a certain

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pedigree as a baseball player. These teams bring back the
former players to spring training. You're like Yoda. Every team
does it. They bring back a handful of franchise quote
unquote legends into your seventies and that. Jim Rice does
do some broadcasting for the Red Sox and all that.
But you're there. These former players are there to provide

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supposed wisdom, right to share what they know from their
day and pass it on to the future generations. So
if he's allowed to be there, why is he not
allowed to give advice? It makes no sense. It's it's
so stupid. Why are you inviting him to spring training
if you don't want Jim Rice, if somebody as long

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as he's not meddling, and he's not approaching players and
telling them what to do, because that's not his role.
But if he's there to offer Yoda like wisdom and
you don't allow it, what do you do? I've always
I think one of the great advantages you have in
life a classroom is to learn from people that have
lived their life before you. And you can learn from

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people that have been there and respect your elders and
all that. I think that's very important. And the Red
Sox some nerd for the redsume you shouldn't be doing that.
That's not what we want. Yeah, all right, just put
a muzzle on them, all right. It is the Ben
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Cowboy Defensive Star Micah Parsons recently posted a video of
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of the day. Cowboy Defensive star Micah Parsons recently posted
a video of himself playing around with a blank and

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that is the malor riddle of the day. What is
the answer? Let's see here. Late Night drug tester says
playing with mouse traps donkeys, Sausage says his ultimate warrior
wrestle Buddy is the answer. See alex In and n
apple Plis says a bad batch of grass from weed Man.

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God forbid alex that would be terrible. Alf the Alien
Olpiner says he was playing with the drone he bought
from Trevor Bauer name we haven't heard in the while.
Trevor Bauer Andy from lion O' Lakes in Minnesota says
he was caught playing around with his vegetable but only

(19:25):
one yo yo from Milkman Mike in Colorado. His thermostat
it is not a toy from ferg Dog not a toy.
Who else do you we have page down playing a
round with Jerry Jones glory hole from Stevie meepaules I
cleaned that up. Chicago school bus guests by King. Rory

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Justin in Cincinnati said a hooker is the answer? Who
else do you have? Page nine him that hook that night?
Hell yeah. Play with a chucky doll from Eke and Rosewoo, Minnesota.
A digital space monkey says, A headless Barbie doll is
the answer, slug says, and several other people said a

(20:12):
fidget spinner. A fidget spinner is the answer. Inca Terra
said blind Scott's blow up doll is the answer? Who
else do we have? I can't read that on the air.
Let's see here, we'll skip over that one. Timothy from Kentucky,
Northern Kentucky said a wooden nipple reference to Tony in

(20:34):
the Bay Areas called earlier and all right? Do you
have an answer, Lorraine?

Speaker 3 (20:40):
Not?

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Do you? I? Ben, Yes, all right, it's a rubber duck.
Rubber duck. Yeah, all right, No, unfortunately it's not not
a rubber duck. Turns out, I am yeah. Cowboys defensive
star Michah Parson's recently posted a video that appears to
show he is playing around with the real life lion,

(21:02):
the King of the Jungle, the lion that was a
horrible lion sound Ben, Now the lion Lorene. It does
look like the in the video clip. Looks like the
lions heavily medicated and sedated, like like Bill Cosby got
to the lion and gave it some you know, some

(21:22):
barbituates or whatever, and the lion was very calm and mellow,
but he did pet the lion. Would you pet a lion?
If I raised the lion, it doesn't matter if you
raise a lion, it doesn't matter because the lion is
a beast of the jungle, and the law of the
jungle is the lion at any moment would would fall

(21:44):
back into its animalistic ways and bite your head off,
murder you. Yeah, like even Sigfried and Roy I said
a dated reference. But they worked with lions for years, right,
lions and tigers and all that. No, I thought that
was the two people in Las Vegas. Yeah, yeah, it is.
But then one day they decided they got hungry and
they bit one of them head off. Yeah the heck, well,
I know, I mean right away, pack, I don't know.

(22:08):
It just sounds better that way. Cold, don't touch up
my work, it sounds better. But they worked together for
years and then one day that things did not go
right and then they that was it, you know, messed
up beautiful their show. Yeah. Anyway, all right, let's go
to the phones and let's say we do need some contestants.
If you want to start calling up for Malos amount
of money, then we'll have that game in its entirety

(22:30):
call right now eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.
But until then, let's say hello to Andrea in Berkeley.
She's got some dirt on Garrett Cole. As he's done
with the Yankees for a year and a half, it
would appear we'll see him sometime in twenty twenty six.
Good luck on that. Hello Andrea, Hello, man, how are you?

(22:52):
If I was any better, I'd be Cole. Actually, I
would be Garrett Cole, because Garrett's all right financially. He's
got another one hundred and forty four million he in
with the Yanks.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
Yeah, you know, I did my due diligence. I did
my research, and I saw that. At first, he opted
out of his nine year, three hundred twenty four million
dollar contract a little after the World Series, but then
him and the Yankees agreed to the original terms, paying
him for four more years at one hundred and forty

(23:22):
four million. But Money's not everything, and now he has
to have Tommy John surgery, and he just posted an
emotional note on Instagram saying, I have a lot left
to give. I'm fully committed to the work ahead. I'll
attack my rehab every day and support the twenty twenty
five Yankees every step of the way. I love this game,

(23:45):
I love competing. Can't wait to be back on the
mound stronger than ever. So it's interesting. Do you know
that he's married to Brandon Crawford's sister Amy.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Yeah. I remember something about when he was playing d
Crawford was with the Giants and there was I mean,
it's like mister Giant back and they played for years
with the San Francisco Giants. So I remember about something
about that. But GARRICKO last year, he only made seventeen
starts last year, right.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
He was delayed three months?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah, So now you do the math on this. So
seventeen starts last year, no starts this year, and then
he's gonna miss at least half of next year.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
Do you think he's gonna miss beyond? Oh, he's going
to miss a year.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
And then, yeah, they asked me because they usually they
don't want to rush him back. So though like slow,
they won't do the spring training thing. Sometime around Juniors
July of twenty twenty six he'll come back. So that's
a year and a half. That means from the end
of the twenty twenty three season to sometime in twenty
twenty six will have made seventeen total starts over that
period of time.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
You know what what's you know, Timing is everything. And
basically one of your callers called in was already feeling
the full moon lunar eclipse. It's in Virgo and Pisces,
and what that means is people with planets in Virgo
or ices are feeling it more acutely. Garrett Cole is
a Virgo September eighth, nineteen ninety and I'm concerned. You know,

(25:10):
the surgery is on the eighteenth of March, and mercury
goes retrograde on the fourteenth of March. So in a
perfect world, if you know he was my client, I say,
you know, that's really not the best time for surgery.
You don't want to have to redo the surgery, retrograde
or rethink or you know, just have to you know,

(25:31):
it might be some delays, but be there it may
schedule for next Tuesday, the eighteenth mercury retrograde, so you call,
there's no March fourteenth to April seventh, so the baseball
season does open with mercury retrograde. And you know, it's
just interesting because I always look to Saturn, which rules

(25:52):
the skeletal system, bones, knees, teeth, joins, back, and the
progression is squaring his saturn, and that can really affect
the skeletal system. And it's a long term transit, meaning
he did feel it last year as well when the
trouble began. So it's just the time to kind of
be as courageous as possible. But he's a virgo. And

(26:16):
I do remember when he didn't cover first base during the.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
World I love that. That's my favorite non cover since
another Yankee back in the day, Hedeki A Rabu who
got the nickname the Big Fat Toad by George Steinbrenner.
I believe he didn't cover first base. Great moments in
baseball history. Yes, all right, well, Andrea, thank you, and
the big crazy night on the calls here, so we
are definitely feeling the cosmic effects already. Yes, all right,

(26:43):
there she goes our friend Andrew and we will have
coming up in a little bit. Mallard's amount of money
they salo to blind Scott. There she goes the astrology
lady sailor to her virgo in service on AX. Hello,
blind Scott.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Dude, Lona's worth one point five million dollars. I looked
it up online.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Congratulations, you're with one point five you the heck is
my money?

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Man?

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Oh there she's Tammy and Montana impersonation again.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Oh yeah. I went to Jim Rice's meet and greet
three times. I know him. He came to the mail
room when I worked there. In my family before they
died in a plane crash, they had season tickets to
the Red Sox. So like Jim Wrights, he had to
retire from baseball. He played like not so many seasons,
but he was really good. But he like you say then,
like which is so noxious? Like go to eye doctor,

(27:27):
go to the eye doctor. Like Jim Rice went to
the eye doctor and they made him retire. As like
how famous I did these or something or maybe got
here with the baseball. But I also went to a
Ted Williams meet and greet with my dad and he
did this like my aunt's husband. He was a bookie.
You know, I'm blind Scott from the North End. I
represent the North End boy In the eighties, my my
dad's sister, her husband was a bookie, and we went

(27:48):
to a Ted Williams meet and great. He used to
get us into all this cool stuff and he did
like a fly fishing expedition and my dad harassed him instantly.
He packed it up and he left. Dude, Jim Rice
isn't really that nice of a guy either. Most of
these people from Boston not really that friendly, so I'm
not surprised they're like arguing. When I played for the
blind baseball team, I was one of the best players

(28:09):
on the team, and they use that analytics stuff to
try to even do blind baseball.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
You know, yeah, it's very similar. I was actually telling
Coop off the air, I said this Jim Rice thing
where he got into it with some nerd for the
Red Sox, and then you blind Scott playing blind baseball.
Those are really good comparisons.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Yeah, you know, blind baseball sucks because oh I hate
drag queens too. I can't stand him. You don't know
the difference between like kayl and Jenner and a drag queen.
Like there's Kayln Jenner and then there's the people that
work at Target. That's the it's a.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Bold position by you to be anti.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
Dragons' proceress in community. They take a hit right now,
you know, but yeah, you know, I just but anyways, yeah,
because drag queen performance is terrible, Like it just looks bad.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
For drag queens.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
We need better drag queens.

Speaker 1 (28:57):
That's your campaign. You want better drag queen is that's okay.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
Yeah, I'm a fan of ones that can like have
better forms and that you know, what Larina did to
me that was bad. Like I have a coke lear implant,
so like she cheated on this game show. So it
takes a few seconds for me to hear it to
synthesize what it's saying.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
So the sound I hear is you making an excuse.
That's the sound.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
The blind people that came out that fake blind people
to try to make fun of me. Dude, it's not
easy being blind. I hate being blind. I'm still grieving
that vision line.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
I understand. That's completely reasonable thing to be upset by.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
I got hundreds of enemies outside. They start coming out
of the little North End holes at like six in
the morning. They stand on the corner, you know, like
it's really dangerous out there. They started to fill these
potholes too. There was so many potholes, like you're going
to break your leg, Like I'm running down the street.
This is a good move for blind people. So they
got one ways in the north End. You can take
a shortcut. It's called the blind shortcut. You run up

(29:54):
the one way as fast as you can with your
mobility can but sometimes KAY stopped. So I ran right
in to a car. Did I tell you this already?
And then I fell backwards and it was a lady
like Barina driving and she started screaming. I just ran
around the car and took off.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Oh yeah, I took off. Why didn't you call a lawyer?
That seems like you?

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Yeah, and I should I have one? You done on
Endicott three personal injury I have. I have a criminal
lawyer too. And when I go to the meet and greet,
I'm gonna look up places are gonna have free spaghetti
dinners at.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Before Well that's great.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
Yeah, I'm gonna look at you.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
Okay, all right, I gotta I gotta go. Thank you.
All right. By the way, we did have one of
our contestants hung up, So eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox, if you'd like to fill that blank chair
we have We had our game board, said, but one
of the idiots hung up. So eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox, we want to play mallards amount of money.
Let's go to Keg drinking Steve. Who's in Cannes City

(30:49):
or somewhere close. Hello, Keg drinking Steve.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
Oh yeah, angle back. You know you know I like
Greg Queens if they're hot. Man the blind Scott, he
can't see him too good, So I think he's got
to reevaluate just his stance on social issues. Uh. I
can't wait that Aaron Rodgers is going to be back

(31:14):
to decimate Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen and sure the
Chiefs going to the super Bowl. I know, I know
you you love the Chiefs. I know you remember of
Chiefs kingdom when you're not ramming it all day and
ramming it all night. So we'll get you, we'll get
you off of that. I'm I want, I want Aaron
Rodgers to succeed. His personality is going to be so

(31:38):
so in touch with with Pittsburgh and and everything. They're
all about man, I have a question for Lorena too.
I wanted to talk.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
To right quickly, please quickly.

Speaker 5 (31:50):
Oh, okay, are you there, Lorena?

Speaker 1 (31:53):
I'm always here.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Okay, I got I got a big problem that I
need some womenly attention on this. I have an overnight
lady caller, and and she she massages daddy's shoulder. But
you know, at five am, she wants to get up
and order the whole menu at McDonald's. Am I being
a bad friend? She wants to order the whole menu.

(32:17):
I'm not really a breakfast person. I'm very unsure what what? What?
What is the correct what?

Speaker 1 (32:24):
I think you should get her whatever she wants. She
wants some breakfast as well, the whole menu, that's fine,
I can't. I mean, she a pig if she's eating
the whole.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
I worked her out. I worked her out pretty good.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
I mean, I bet you got to feed the beast
a big to get a big breakfast after things like that.

Speaker 5 (32:42):
You know, I don't want to waste all I don't
want to waste all that all that food, you know,
because she does a pretty good job on specially all right.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Boring me, I go buy buy some hash Browns or something.
What do you want from me? Go buy her hash Browns?
Call me today? All right? Yeah, you get a fish
filet sandwich. I mean, what do you want? Queen of Hearts? Tomorrow?

Speaker 5 (33:05):
Ben?

Speaker 1 (33:06):
Was that right? Tomorrow? Isn't it?

Speaker 5 (33:08):
Tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (33:08):
Wasn't a helmet man supposed to come by on this show?
He's not come by. He didn't show up. Again, helman
man was supposed to show up. He didn't show up?
What's up with that? All Let's welcome our contestas we
have Manuel in Guardina, who's going off going to play? Hello?
Manuel in Guardina? Welcome?

Speaker 4 (33:24):
Hey Ben? Hello Man his bossor Scott still talking?

Speaker 1 (33:28):
That guy rambles man? Holy smoke, he's a rambling man.
Who do you want to partner up with? Manuel? Quickly? Please?
All right? Well that's a good choice. All right, very good.
Hold on a second now, Loraina picked door number one,
door number two or door number three? Go ahead, Lorena
number three? All right, Well you picked Ron, who is
also in southern California. Hello, Ron, Welcome, big Ben? How

(33:52):
you doing Ron? If I was any better, I'd be sleeping,
But I'm not. I'm here talking, which is fine. I'm
happy to be here, and Ron, welcome here. It sounds
like you're driving around, Is that correct?

Speaker 5 (34:01):
Yeah, I'm way home from work, all right?

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Ver? And what kind of work do you do in
the health food all right? Coop? Yes, no, it's not
for we've learned enough about all right, Coop does not
care about you. You're gonna play with the coop? And
what are the categories? Quickly cool? All right?

Speaker 6 (34:16):
This is the John hamm edition. He turned fifty four yesterday.
Categories are early Bird, Special, mad Men, the Town, and
thirty Rock. Manuel, you were on first, which category would
you like?

Speaker 4 (34:27):
You know, we're going mad Man all right?

Speaker 1 (34:30):
And Ron, how about you rock? All right? All right? Everyone,
hold on, We're gonna have Malar's amount of money. It's entirety.
We'll get to that. We'll do it next.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill
Miller and you.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
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stream the show and all the Fox Sports Radio programs
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Just search Fox Sports Radio on the app. You can
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(35:08):
on your car radio dial. So be sure to preset
Fox Sports Radio the iHeart app Ben Malor Show, Fifth
Hour podcast as well. Then it'll always pop right up
on your screen.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
Right now, Malor's Mountain of Money? Do you have what
it takes to get to the top? Probably not.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
It's the John Ham edition and we'll get right to it.
So we have time, and Manuel and Guardina you're teamed
up with me? Yes, you picked mad men? Is that correct?
All right? These athletes were known for having a short temper.
We need the first and last name, first and last name,
and here we go, forty five seconds on the clock.
We're on our way go. Quarterback of the Patriots in

(35:52):
the Glory years. He's on. Yes, MVP for Oklahoma City,
played for the Lakers and the Clippers. He's with Denver
now out the west Brook. Yes, a wide receiver traded
from Seattle to Pittsburgh this week. Yes, quarterback for the
Rams in the nineteen eighties. He got happy feet against
the fite. Yes.

Speaker 6 (36:11):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Picked the closer for the Atlanta Braves. He had problems
with the new Yes choked his coach out for the
Golden State Warriors. In the yes pitcher for the Cubs,
he kept attacking gatorade bottles and bron y'ah my man,
all right, we got we ran the barn. That's that's
why you were the Game show contestant of the Year
last year. Man, well, unbelievable. All right, Ron, it's all over, Coop.

(36:34):
You might as well quick.

Speaker 6 (36:35):
We've got thirty rock You're cooked. These athletes all war
or war number thirty. Are you ready?

Speaker 1 (36:43):
Run?

Speaker 5 (36:44):
Ye?

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Go for it?

Speaker 6 (36:44):
All right, forty five seconds. Let's begin splash brother on
the Warriors right now, pretty topton No, the guy who's
still on the Warriors. Best three point shooter of all time? Yeah, okay,
this guy is the all time leading strikeout pitcher.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Yes uh.

Speaker 6 (37:06):
This guy was the running back for the Broncos when
they won the Super Bowl with John Elway.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
This guy's son was the kid for the Mariners. J Yeah,
but the Dad King Junior King Senior. Yes uh.

Speaker 6 (37:23):
This guy got a lot of technical fouls for the
Pistons and the Trailblazers.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
No, the other one, the other one, jeez, the one,
the other Wallace. Wait, I was offended by that, Justin,
and Cincinnati's offended by that too. No, you think it
was right, Rashid Wallace. Both teams played hard by man,
Rashid Wallace. And all right, well, all right, so that's
a hundred points. So we're back up again, Ron.

Speaker 6 (37:52):
Would you like early Bird Special or the Town Special?

Speaker 1 (37:58):
Early Bird Special? Chop up? All right? Hold on, hey,
I need to read the description.

Speaker 6 (38:06):
These athletes all won a championship their rookie season. Forty
five seconds? Yeah, how does it feel? Forty five seconds?

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Begin? All right? This guy is the best point guard
of all time.

Speaker 6 (38:19):
For the Lakers very well? No, yes, the captain for
the Yankees, the captain. Yes, this guy Plos from Argentina.
He was on the San Antonio Spurs when they won
other championships.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
What's his full name?

Speaker 6 (38:43):
What running back that got to two thousand yards for
the Baltimore Ravens Henry?

Speaker 1 (38:54):
Nope? Oh no, all right? Basketball player nicknamed Silk. Yeah,
I didn't get enough, did I don't think so? You
want to try to run it up quickly? Manuel? And
all right, all right, these are some of the best
athletes to play in Boston, a city you hate. I know, Manuell,
but here we go. Uh tight End a similar name

(39:17):
to mine. The last name is like a jacket in
the in the two thousands, tight End for the Patriots.
No boxer nicknamed uh marvelous. Yes, outfielder with very long
last name. A lot of weird letters in there. For
the Red Sox in the sixties and seventies. No Carl.

(39:40):
Yes we won though we won, so there you go. Yeahz.
They called them yeaz