December 17, 2025 • 42 mins
Ben Maller talks about the Arizona Diamondbacks targeting Alex Bregman in free agency, if Phillies fans should be excited about Adolis Garcia, reports that Brandon Nimmo got traded over a spat about politics, Too Much or Not Enough, #QueenOfHearts w/ LaReina, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Talking bays Maall, it's our number three, our number three,
and here we go on this seventeenth day of December,
the Ben Mavers Show, the Show that Loves the Hot
Stove League. A lot of gossip in the last twenty
four hours that the team from Arizona Raising Arizona looking
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for a big bopper to put in their lineup should
he land there, Alex Bregman, late of the cheating as
one and two one thousand holes, if he ends up
with the Diamondbacks, does that do anything for you? Also,
Phillies fans asking if they should pop Champagne over a
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Dallas Garcia.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What say you?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And if this is true, what does it say about
Francisco Lindor and the Mets culture? Reports saying that Lindor
got into a beef with Brandon Nimmo over Donald Trump
and that's why brandon Nimo was traded because he pulled
for the raw politician and Lindor didn't like it. I'll
talk about that Mets culture and more right now. It's
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a third railbow Man, It's a third rail here. It
is our number three, raising Arizona, at least raising the
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changed his nickname. So our lead this hour. Don't tell me,
but it's the middle of the night. I can talk
about whatever I want. I have editorial Control'm gonna talk
some baseball. I like baseball. I'm gonna talk baseball. So
we'll start out in the Valley of the Sun. The
Hot Stove League, not much of a hot stove league.
It's same thing we've seen in recent years. Now he did,
the Dodgers did, sign Edwin Diaz for the most part
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of the Oils got the Polar Bear. It doesn't seem
like there's a lot of juice to what's going on
right now. Well, the snakes are slithering around the cacti
in Arizona. And if you didn't see this, perhaps perhaps not.
We are hearing the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks have entered the
chat here on third baseman and always dirty Alex Bregman
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in free agency the third basement there Arizona looking to
unload the second baseman could tell Marte they would like
to dump him on the Red Sox and then poach
Alex Bregman, who spent a gap year playing in Boston
at Finway because nobody wanted him, so he went to
Boston on a pillow contract and then decided to opt
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out go back to market. And so Bregman is very popular.
Apparently with Arizona they were the mystery team. They're no
longer the mystery team. So that is a good jumping
out point. Let us discuss the question should he land there?
Should Alex Bregman take his talents to Arizona? Alex Bregman
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with the Diamondbacks? Does that do anything for you? Knowing
I am not a Diamondback fan, and knowing that I
am not a fan of the player, I've got scarlet letter,
Amazon resale, and loyalty oath and we will combine all
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of these things together and we are going to provide
absolute top forty hits. Top forty radio. It used to
be a big deal back in the day top forty radio.
So first of all, when I saw this that Bregman
is hot to to go to Arizona, first thing, it
get me indigestion. That was the first thought. I had.
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This would be like dropping top shelf money on a
PlayStation four in a PS five world, like the PlayStation
four still works right, it's fun, it's not the latest model,
it doesn't have all the bells and whistles, and it's
you know what year it is and all that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
This sounds to me though, like Bregman doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Really want to play in Arizona, and that this was
strategically leaked to the useful idiot baseball scribes to try
to get more money out of the team he really
wants to play for, whether that's to go back to
the Red Sox or whether that's to God only knows
who else is interested in this cheat, But he didn't
want to go to Arizona. If you want to go
to Arizona, you don't make it public and just sign
the contract. He's trying to squeeze more money. That's the
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play for Bregnan. He's trying to get more money out
of somebody else. And listen, he's dated tech much like
that PlayStation four. He's not the newest PlayStation and all that.
Bregman is entering his age thirty two season and the
whispers are he's gonna get one hundred and seventy million
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or more at age thirty two. That is a long
term mortgage, long term mortgage for the declining years. You're
paying for the decline. And this is not peak cheater
Alex Bregman. This is not the God's gonna hit thirty
home runs for you. And he doesn't bring that razzle dazzle.
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It does not bring that slugging. Is not quite where
it was. He's just not a franchise altering player, and
we cannot forget that. Wherever he ends up in God's
green Earth, Bregman brings his own wardrobe update. He brings
a scarlet letter, the cheating astrosh the cheating astros. The
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residue still sticks. There's some nice resid do do that's
still there. Front offices, they treat the player past their
athletic prime, like Bregman. They treat them like strawberries. Expired strawberries. Now,
when you get strawberries, and you get them originally they
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meant be a little green, but they look nice and
bright red shortly after that. And no matter how good
those strawberries once were, they're not buying. There's bacteria that
starts to grow on the expired strawberry. And if you
wait long enough, you'll see some mold and some hair
pop up and all that stuff. And here's the thing, Bregman.
You look at his age. He's at the end of
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his athletic prime. He's also coming off a season where
he dealt with a quad injury, the lower lower half
wear and tear of playing third base, the aging infielder.
There's a lot of red flags, a lot of red flags. Now,
smart teams know the trap. Now there's two things you do.
You either pay deferred money so you're not actually paying
them for another thirty years or twenty years or whatever.
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That's what the Dodgers do. The other option is to
just not bother signing these players because you're you're buying
upside down, like you don't want to buy at the
top of the market, and you certainly don't want to
buy on a diminishing asset, and you're paying for regression.
That's what you're paying for here. You're not paying for
the goosebumps and the tingles and all. That's just the
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cold malor math of the situation. That it should be
a hard pass from everyone because he's a cheating a
one thousand and two one thousand hole is what bregmant Is,
So can you go back to Houston and they brought
back that punk Carlos Korea? Can they bring him back?
All right? Now? Secondly, the Philadelphia PA we go. The
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Fighting Phills announced they have signed former Rangers outfielder a
Dollars Garcia and we're hearing the deals only for one year,
ten million dollars to go to Philadelphia. Now, two of
the biggest goals of the Fighting Pills this offseason would
add a right handed power bat and improve the outfield.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So does this count as a two for one special?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The theory is that Garcia coming over from Texas will add
protection to Bryce Harper in the middle of that lineup.
You might remember Dave Dombrowski pointing out that Bryce Harper
is no longer an elite player. So the question, some
of these Phillies fans are very excited a guy Fats
in Philadelphia and a few of our other guys there
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in the Delaware Valley saying what a sneaky good move
this is. So should Philly fans be all giddy here?
Should they be popping champagne? Because of the signing of
former Texas Rangers outfielder Adallas Garcia.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
What say you right? So this is not Don Perry.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Owen, it is not. This is store brand Selter, which
is fine, which is fine. It's got a dented can
on it. That's not great. That's not great. And this
is the classic Dave Dombrowski value play. This is why
buy it on Amazon. I'm just going to go to
the Amazon resale and I'm gonna go into there and
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I'm gonna grab whatever's in the bench, you know, quality
used items, open boxed items, maybe missing a charger.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But you save a lot of money. And sometimes those
deals work.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Sometimes those deals pay off for you, and it just
works really well. El Bomby as he was known there
in Arlington bomb dot com. And he was awesome. He
was so good in that twenty twenty three playoff run
for the Rangers, that magic carpet ride, which Edin Arlington
still smiles about to this day and will smile the
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rest of his days. Edit Arlington from that Rangers Bomb
dot Com run. And to remind you if you've forgotten
how good a Dallas Garcia was. He had eight home
runs and twenty two runs batter day in in fifteen
posts season games, including the World Series.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's a sheet coat, is what that was.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
That was insane, and that'll sell a lot of jerseys,
a lot of jerseys. And you do that in Philadelphia,
you put up those numbers in a playoff run for
the Philadelphia Phillies, they'll put your statue right next to
the Great Rocky Statue there on the steps, and you'll
be invited to the Mummers Parade like Jason Kelsey. However,
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the problem is this, when you take the Instagram filter
off the player, you see there's some storm clouds on
the horizon, like Garcia is heading into his age thirty
three seasons. So again you look at the comps, you're like, well,
that's pastor athletic prime. Usually you fall off the cliff,
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You fall off the cliff. He's coming off a season
that was so ugly in Texas. How ugly was it?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Thanks for asking?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It was so ugly that the Texas Rangers isn't one
of the franchise heroes. They won their first ever World
Series and the message from the Rangers was yeah, thanks,
but no thanks, We're good. We're good on that non tendered,
non tendered franchise hero, non tendered. That is like warm
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tapioca pudding that's left in the truck of the car.
That's what that is.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
One year deal.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That is a dead do what dead?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Give what?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It is that the Rangers think he's done. The rest
of the league thinks he's cooked. Couldn't get more than
a one year contract a Dallas Garcia that's cooked medium well,
no pink, no pink, no pink there and Dombrowski now
he's banking on the old fairy dust and offseason workouts
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with his new hitting coach of Dallas Garcia is gonna
be working out with his new hitting coach. No, not
Don Mattingly. The Phillies have hired the great Ponce de Leon.
They got him from the Marlins, the Fountain of Youth.
Of course, they'll be taking big gulps from the Fountain
of youth and hoping that works out here, the big
gulps of hope from the fountain of youth. And these
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things do happen every once in a while. They called
blue moon events, blue moon events. Once in a while,
once in a blue moon, it happens, right, it happens.
You're cautiously caffeinated, is what you are. And that's my advice.
This is like a lottery ticket. Most of the time
you lose. Every once in a while it hits. It's
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not a pension plan. All right. Now, final thought, we
go third rail, oh Man, third rail. So to New York.
We go some new details about the breakup herd round
Gotham regarding the New York Metropolitans. And this one is wild.
When I saw this, I thought of Steven Manhattan because
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this is this is right in his wheelhouse, Steven Manhattan.
He calls the show every so often. So New New
York sports talk radio legend Mike Francessa, who has been
demoted to the podcast world. So Francessa on his fledgling podcast,
which he does from his humble abode. Good for him. Uh,
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he claims that nobody else has. This is a Mike
Francissi report. He's claiming the real reason fan favorite Mets
fan favorite Brandon Nimmo was traded is that he and
Francisco Lindor could not get along over politics. Political differences
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led to a trade because they could not agree on
President Donald Trump. Say what yeah, all right, so question,
for the purposes of this male monologue, were going to
assume this is accurate So if this is true, what
does this say about Francisco Lindor And what does this
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say about the New York man It's culture, Well, it
tells me they are cooked the New York Mets. If
this is accurate, the Mets are not running a baseball team.
They're running a re education camp, is what they're doing,
Like seriously, Like, locker rooms are always supposed to be meritocracies,
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and we kind of work in a locker room here
in Radio's kind of how I relate. I ask people
from all different backgrounds here and whatnot, and we all
have a job to do marginal overnight talk radio. And
doesn't matter what you believe in politically. I've worked on
TV shows and done radio lunchime work with a lot
of looney tones. Okay, I think they're completely nuts with
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what they believe in, But I don't care. Who cares
to think. Whatever you want, don't bother me. You know,
it doesn't affect me at all. I live in my
own little world and that's that. And you live in
your world and that's fine. But we have a job
to do. And based on what FRANCESSA was saying, it
sounds like Francisco Lindor could not let that go. And
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your job as a baseball player, it's gonna be why
nobody else has this take Your job is to see ball,
hit ball. Your job is to catch the ball, and
your job is to win the game. You play to
win the game. That's the job, period. And instead, the
way the story's been relayed here brandon Nimo was essentially,
I'll use the language of the day, he was deported,
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not for striking out, not for playing like a stiff
with the New York Mets, not for loafing, none of
those things. But he didn't vote the right way. He
voted the wrong way, according to his teammate, And so
they got into it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And what's next comrades with the.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
New York Mets. Here are they going to have a
loyalty oath before batting practice? You take the loyalty oath?
There is that gonna be the case? Like political purity
test staple to the scouting report, you can only bring
players in that agree politically with Francisco Lindor. It's usually
how culture's rot from the inside. And yeah, you don't
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want team mates if this is true, You want kool
aid drinkers, is what you would like there, and you
get a fall in line. Brandon Nemo did not fall
in line. He didn't nod his head. He should have
nodded his head. He'd still be a Met. Don't rock
the boat. He rocked the boat. So now he's going
to play for the Rangers. Not exactly great leadership by
the Mets front office either, right, it's some authoritarian nonsense like, hey,
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Lindor's got a longer contract, and even though Brandon Nemo's
a fan favorite, his ass is gas. We had him
out of here. It's a nonsense mixed with sunflower seeds
on the floor of the dugout and all that. Now,
keep in mind, I am skeptical. I'm skeptical by nature.
I'm a skeptic on this one because my experience and
I for years I was in locker rooms and that
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was my gig.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Of course, in those days there was no social media.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But when I was around athletes of all the professional sports,
most of the athletes I dealt with, they're like bubble boys.
They live in a bubble meaning they don't give a
rats ass about who the president is, who's who the
local congress person or the senator. They don't care about that.
They live in a world of private jets and they've
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got nothing but free time to play video games. They've
got their personal trainer, they've got their personal chef, they've
got their butler. Whatever they need, it's all taken care
of this. So I look at that, and the politics
usually isn't in their oxygen, the athletes, and I don't
think it's changed today, even in a polarizing political climate.
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But if Francisco Lindor of the Mets, who is aristocrat
level rich, mind you signed one of the biggest contracts
at the time in baseball history. He's living the gilded life,
Francisco Lindor. And is he dividing the Mets clubhouse over
ideology then Houston or in this case Gotham or in
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this case Queen's Flushing. We got a problem. So the Mets,
they don't need political harmony. They don't. Hey, Donald Trump
will be president for a couple more years and then
someone else will be president, and then after that someone
else will be president. And that's kind of how that works.
All right, that's it the Mets need. They're going to
shock you. You play to win the game again, you
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gotta win show some toughness, show some plate discipline, pitch
better and go out there and win. As Rob Manford
would say, that little piece of metal, that little piece
of metal, Just do it. Now. My question is did
the Mets front office do a voter registration check on
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Marcus Simeon, who they got from the Texas Rangers, to
make sure that he voted for the right president. Otherwise
Francisco Lindor is not going to be happy and he
might have to be traded again. So it is the
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Hearts with the rain. If you want to send a
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hashtag Queen of Hearts. Of course, mostly you're so stupid
you don't know how to spell Queen of Hearts, but
try to do it anyway hashtag Queen of Hearts. Time
now for the mallor riddle of the day. Here it is.
Doctors have ordered Kentucky men's basketball coach Mark Pope to
stop blank again. Doctors have ordered Kentucky men's basketball coach
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Mark Pope to stop blank immediately. That is the Mallard
riddle of the day. The answer, We'll get to it.
We will do it next.
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I'm telling you why. Santa Claus is coming to t
He's making a this, he's setching it. But oh he's
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gonna find those who's not your nice. Santaclaus is coming
to te geezeeze you and your tweeting. He knows when
you're away.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
He knows that you ben.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
So be good good say yeah, I'm telling you?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, why why tell me? Does that Beyonce Zabrina Carpenter? No,
even better, that's right? Who needs doing? But when you
have Kaki Madison, it is I Bill Miller. You were
locked in Happy holidays from Kathy and Madison as right now.
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Rihanna is like, oh my god, what happened?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
If I could only be as good as her?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Uh? And Adele is going hello, yes, all right. Anyway,
if you want to be part of the show on
ex at Ben Maller, that's at Ben Maller. We have
a bit coming up later this hour called the Queen
of Hearts with the rain up, and if you would
like to be part of that, you can say they
question also too much not enough? I need a game
show contestant for that as well. Too much or not
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enough coming up here, but Queen of Hearts hashtag Queen
of Hearts hashtag Queen of Hearts your questions and loreno
as I'm also take calls for that coming up a
little bit later in the hour. Back to it, we go,
all right, back to it. We got time now for
the payoff on the Riddle of the day. Doctors have
ordered Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope to stop blank all right,
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let's see here, we'll skip over that one. Scrooge says,
chewing on testicles, all right, interesting watching Antiques road show,
it is addictive. From Rob the goat man I Leen
in San Francisco says the testicles stop standing under the missiletoe,
you're contagious, all right? What else there? Doctors told coach
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Pope to stop talking in tongues and giving the blessings.
That's Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. Fer Dog says, stop
using Robbie's enormous Hemorhoyd's All right, interesting?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
What else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Stop trolling coach cal over Marcus Camby and a loss
to U Mass Final four banner, all right, stop high
fiving the cheerleaders from Fudgie in Boston. The Sawman in
Mississippi says, stop watching John Calipari highlight videos. Immediately stop
doing only fans from Eloy from Compton living in the Vatican.
(24:26):
From Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, stop buying his family Christmas
gifts from the neighborhood gas station from late night drug tester.
Who else do we have here? Putting ketchup on pizza
from Dante? That doesn't sound good. Doctors ordered him to
stop breathing from Donkey's sausage, stop drinking eggnog from filler
Up Phil. They're biting his nails from JT. The Wingman.
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Joe the ghost tunter in Ohio says, stop smelling dirty
used sacks. Inca terraces the ink se ween see spiders
singing the ink seen sea spider. All right, Loreina, do
you have an answer? Just not drinking something like milkman
Mike said, or stroking the chicken like courtesy flusher.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Oh yeah, No, We'll leave the chicken stroking to Mike
the Leprechaun.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
But uh no, I was thinking. They want him to
stop grilling on the sidelines making long.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
All right, Is that the answer? No, that is not
the answer.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
The doctors have ordered Kentucky men's basketball coach Mark Pope
to stop screaming at his team. He has damaged his
vocal cords. Kentucky sucks this year by Kentucky standards. Doctors
told him not to speak over a conversational volume for
the rest of the week because he's screwed up his
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vocal cords. So there you go. Let's go the phones.
I still need a contestant. Let's go to if you
want to play the game coming up here? Too much
or not enough? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
Mike is in Tucson. Hello Mike, Welcome. Oh I hung
up on Where do you go? He's not there. Let's
go to Greg and Pennsylvania. Hellout, I thought I hit
the button. He's not there. Greg and Pennsylvania was morning.
(26:06):
Hello Greg, good, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
Testicles and shipping stroking is exactly the reason I'm calling
as what I have to listen to from eight am
to five pm?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
What is.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
On today day? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I don't know what you're listening to.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I don't want to.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
When you have like Colin Calter, Dick rights, like Stephen Ahole.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And well, you know you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Why you don't have to watch any show you don't
like it, You're not forcing That's that is true.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
But obviously then I have no life. So I have
taken up the cause of removing the term eye test
from the sports talk radio lexicon.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Okay, why why? Why is why is that?
Speaker 9 (26:48):
Why is that go ahead, because basically, the eye test
is the equivalent of the feelings over the facts of
sports radio talk and the intellectually weak. And this came
to a head when I had to listen to people
bitch about the Domers and the whole Shador Sanders thing.
And it's sad that, you know, the real talk geniuses
(27:08):
are on the overnight and like I said, I got
to listen to that crap during the day. Yeah, I'm
bringing it to you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And of all, right, now I have I have used
the phrase I hope you don't hate me. I have
used the phrase from time to time. I don't use
it very often. Every once in a while I'll mix
it into my lexicon. Now, what is acceptable because I
do I do watch the game? I how should I use?
What kind of using stag? Greg? What would you like
me to use instead of eye test?
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Don't you well, it's not so much what you should use,
or you know, you come with me at facts. You know,
I have to listen to all the Domers complain about
this great one they had and that they got screwed
and the eye test.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
This, and they I test that, and I'm all right,
so you so you're really what you're complaining about, and
I'm gonna put you in the laboratory here what you
can I'm gonna workshop this. Okay, you're complaining about talk
show hosts that give opinions but don't tell you why
you want the Why why do you think that?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Not just that I saw it?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You you know? Okay?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
So that okay, I got you.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
All right, And that's a that's a fair point, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And I'll let you in on a dirty little secret.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
A lot of these guys don't watch the games and
they don't know what's going on. They just have producers
that tell them what's going on. So it's kind of
part of the deal. Unfortunately, that's the way it works.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Yes, well, that's obvious because when you tell me that
Notre Dame went on a run, or that she knows
Sanders is better than Dylan Gabriel, obviously you have not
watched anything or you know nothing, and you're just trying
to peep.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Well, but that the whole the Shugar Sanders thing is
he plays well online and they get a lot of
traction of that. And so but that's what the I mean,
that is kind of the job though they got to
get people to watch those shows. And you know, one
of my favorite memories was years ago. I was in
the in the Laker locker room. They got named Dwight Howard,
and Dwight was all upset. He was very upset because
(28:49):
Steven A and Skip Bayless had ripped him on their
show that did. They were working together ESPN, and so
buddy of mine, TJ. Simers, was a columnist. He died
last year, but tj uh was it this year? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I think it was this year. I don't know the
years run together.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Anyway, The point is he went up to Dwight and said, Dwight,
no one watches that show like and the ratings on
first take are terrible, like no one's watching, and Dwight
couldn't wrap his head around it. But but yet they're
trying to get people to watch. And so I understand
what you're saying, Greg, and that's a fair point.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
And I'm right there with that.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I love that you you turn to the Overnight Show,
Greg all night, you listen to this crap unbelievable. It's great.
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Mike and Tucson on
his back. I apologize, Mike. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I hit the thing of a jig and the dew
hickey blew up.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Gremlin.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I think it's the gremlins.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I don't go into the studio anymore. I work from home.
Why would I go in?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It's okay, it's okay to shout out.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
How's your wife doing?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
By the way, the most famous call Mike made his
wife was in the hospital and he passed the phone
to her and what a great husband that was. My God,
the prince, Prince charming.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
You are my best memories. It is my best memories.
My wife's still embarrassed, super embarrassed of that.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No, no, no one saws just radio.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
So I told her I put a call back, and
she's like, I'm so embarrassed. How we act? How you
act this? Because I heard myself, I said, let's put
the nurse on the falls. But then it's about I.
So why I called him? Because you know, first of all,
my nephew Edinburgh, he's a president of university, was on
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u A and he's going to Washington next next week.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
He moved to Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Capitol Hill, and I hope he has a Mount Militia
flag with him.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, we got to get him in the
Pentagon or something like that.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
That's what I'm saying about my little nephew. He can't
thanks for congress congressman who won Arizona, the congresswoman who
won as all. He that's who we can't thanks for.
So he goes to Washington with her, he graduates her.
I said, if you can you imagine a band Mount
Melissa in the White House flag. That's why I total
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shout shout to Edinburgh.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Okay, all right, well then yeah, and I will anybody
wants to invite me, you know, Capitol Hill, the White House,
I'll go. I'm in so I bet I will be
all right. Ben, Well, thank you, buddy.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
You're the man.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
You're like, you're connected now. You know people in DC,
you know guys in the Beltway, they're Mike, You're a
made man now.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
And I'm not.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
I'm not voice smoke.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I said, all right, no.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I believe you. All right, Well, keep us posting and
I know you'll call more right before the holidays.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
It's not your last call, so we'll talk more.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I thought, I know what I saw it, But you
know what I did.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
I now, Tousa, we're building a big bass Pro shop here.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
I've been working the day I've been working at.
Speaker 9 (31:49):
The date show.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Oh no, you're working the day shift.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
No, yes, man, yeah, I'm working the day fan shift.
Big Bass Pro shop. We're building a big one on
the south side.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Okay, that's good. Well those are great show.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I mean, even if you don't, those are great source
just to walk around and there's like a lot of
stuff to look at.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So let's go. Let's get to the game right now here,
we go.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Hit that butte right.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Yeah, get yeah?
Speaker 9 (32:06):
Yeah? Yeah yet yeah, get yet Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Got Thatt Mallard game.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
We've endured too many of these?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Is it too much or not enough?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Follering? Ready James? Hollering? James is his name and sleeping
is his game.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Hello James, I've won this game's sleeping. Yes you. The
most famous moment in game show history is hollering James,
snoring and winning too much or not enough? It inspired
thirty six pills in the morning, thirty six pills at night.
Let's get to the game quickly here, Question number one.
All the answers are too much or not enough? Monday
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marked only the third time in NBA history that two
centers had triple doubles in the same game. Is that
too much or not enough? Too much, Let's find out
that's right. Nikolea Jokic and Alfred Senghein are the only
two centers only centers to have triple doubles in the
same game. Question two, The Commanders and the Giants Commanders.
(33:02):
That Giants game was the fourth matchup in NFL history
where both teams entered with a single season losing streak
of seven or more games.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Is that too much.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Or not enough? James?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Let's find out? Look at that hollering James is on fire?
Call the fire department. Questions James Stephen Curry now has
twenty career games with forty or more points and ten
or more three pointers.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
All right? So the answer is the answer is not enough.
Curry has twenty four career games with at least forty
points and ten three pointers, most all time. Kay Thompson
is second Question number four. Are you ready, James, Let's.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Rock and roll?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Cardinals tight end Trey McBride now has nineteen consecutive games
with at least five receptions. Is that too much or
not enough? For the win?
Speaker 9 (34:07):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Let's find out. That's a lot.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
You gotta go the ticket, You gott call the ticket.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I congratulations, James, Okay, what a great boy. I can't think.
What a way to a woman's heart. Give her a
golden ticket. Yes, absolutely, you silly? Are you're a You're
a you're a regular. Don Juan, all right, thank you,
hollering James, Okay, Don Juan with teflon Queen of Hearts.
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We need questions hashtag Queen of Hearts. You can call
in if you want right now eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox.
Speaker 8 (34:47):
We just love love, don't we bet?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I don't know about that, but we will have the
Queen of Hearts with Lorraina. We'll get to that. We
will do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
Show weekdays at two am East an eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
It's the most wonderful time of the years when the
Ben Valor Show wishes holive. It's listening as joy and
good jee and it's the most wonderful time and the
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sad done notes out too. The Magic range time said,
Oh I won't be the slave when he heads Halflins.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Where you'll be on.
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It's the most wonderful time.
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Mill Miller and you.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
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Speaker 1 (36:12):
You can get malar monologues and other surprises and new
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for that big Seattle La Ram game. What a matchup
that is on Thursday night, complete handicapping. Pick on that game.
I'll tell you who I like. That'll be coming up
later today.
Speaker 10 (36:39):
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Gear Ride to Night gear Rye and nine dear Riye.
Yeah you heard the man. It's time to get right
here on the Ben Malor Show.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
There it is love, all right, It's amazing and call
up for this. The lines are full. Let's get some
questions here. What do we have any meanie miney.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Moe catch a lover by the tone?
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Adrian, the pokey pokey pokey guy from years ago says,
is a text breakup?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Okay? Or just call her?
Speaker 8 (37:20):
It depends on how close you were or.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Should you just ghost her? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (37:23):
If you really don't care about her at all, you
can completely ghost her.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
Text is kind of you know.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
So you'd rather be ghosted or text?
Speaker 8 (37:32):
I have been ghosted completely.
Speaker 10 (37:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:34):
I went from like super hot love bombing to just
like disappearing into the night.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That's unfortunate.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Yea, they get bored, they come back and then you
gotta tell them you know what, No, sorry.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
They come back around. Yeah, I gotcha, all right. Ferg
Dog rights and says do women enjoy wrapping presents or
doing the laundry more? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
I love wrapping the presents. It is so fun and
I just.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
Wanted a new way to to uh when I have
the first year I worked here, I wrapped all of
Doug Gottlieb's presents for him his family.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Is he in a flight of Wisconsin to wrap them?
This time or yeah, probably not, no, probably not. Yeah,
I did. I'm terrible rapping gifts. You didn't ask me
for a Doug. But I like that you can watch
YouTube videos and rap like you're working at it at
a department store. I like that. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah,
it's a little life hack makes it easier for you.
It looks all pretty, it says, dude. You enjoy going
(38:27):
Christmas caroling as well?
Speaker 7 (38:29):
Oh my gosh, I want to go Christmas Caroling. I
asked some of my singer friends if they would want to,
and no one wants to go. But I just be
singing Christmas songs without any other chorus. It can just
be me myself and.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I all right.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Shaneon Moynes says.
Speaker 8 (38:41):
Benel the red Nose here?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Okay, Ben is a Queen of Heart's question from Shanon,
and Moyes says, can we get a Queen of Heart's
schedule update going overnight? She's been making selective special appearances
in the overnight.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
Oh I love that, Shane. I miss you when I'm
on the air too, But you got to listen.
Speaker 8 (39:01):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
People have lives that they have to do, and I
only get paid twenty dollars an hour.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
So as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, I got you, all right? Goat man Rob rights in.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
He says, I'm sure you have heard now my friend
Robbie the Mariner fan has a bad case of hemorrhoids.
That would pushed so hard. How can he.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Feel comfortable with this while well being intimate?
Speaker 7 (39:26):
So yeah, you know, they do have some numbing stuff.
So if it's really causing you some issues, you can
put some numbing cream back there, because I know when
you're trying to get it on, you usually have to
put some pressure and you know, switch a.
Speaker 8 (39:38):
Little bit back there.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
You know I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (39:40):
Okay, So if it doesn't bother you, I'm sure there's
some type of pain reliever.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
All right.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
JT. The Wingman writes in from just outside Knoxville, Tennessee,
says he's joining his lady there at her holiday party
this weekend, and it's a jacket required event. Should I
go with a bow tie or a traditional necktie? Some JT.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
The Wingman ooh, with a jacket event? Well, if you
can tie a bow tie.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
I love a good bow tie and they are much
harder to tie though, So yeah, I would.
Speaker 8 (40:08):
Go that direction.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Here's what I would say. And I've met JT.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
The Wingman. He's been with many of these events that
we've done. He's a very nice man. I always like
to hang out. He's a good guy and he's from Wisconsin.
I feel like the bow tie is a spotlight on
you as a man because most people don't wear both. Yes,
So if you want to not get any extra attention,
just wear a regular tie. The bow tie is it's
an attention getter because most people don't wear bow ties right.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
And then even beyond that is the bulow tie.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes, the bolo tie that's like Philip Rivers.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Tie, much easier to put on it is, but definitely
a statement piece.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
It is a statement piece for sure. And it's like,
are you a cowboy?
Speaker 4 (40:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
No, no, I just have a bulow time Andy and
Lionel Lakes rites and he says every Christmas it's the same.
My gal says, don't get me anything. She sis with
that idea for me, and that's fine, but I get
her a little something and she's irritated with me. I
can't win here. Yeah, Well, then he says, should I
get her an adult toy that's from Lorraina.
Speaker 7 (41:08):
Well, adult toys or toys for our gifts for everybody
you know. You can play with them, she can play
with them. Group, it can be solo. That's why toys
are so great.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
It's all encompassing, is indeed. Yeah, okay, one shop stopped
all you need there.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Mike the Leprechaun says, jealousy is one of the deadly sins.
My ex girlfriend is extremely jealous of my current girlfriend.
We are supposed to go to a holiday party this weekend, whereas.
Speaker 8 (41:36):
It's Michael Leprechaun, right, they will be in.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
The same space. Yes, how can I avoid the fireworks?
So he's gonna says he's gonna have the X and
then his current girlfriend.
Speaker 7 (41:44):
Well, if you just leave your rubber chicken at home,
then no one will have to worry about getting jealous
of one another, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Well, I did see. I just saw. They just added
that there was somebody's question. We don't have time for
it now, though I would have gone to them earlier,
but I didn't see that on the board. Unfortunately. Well
stand hoold. Maybe we'll do that next star. But there,
just look at that. The Queen of Heart love well,
that's you speak for yourself, for you, that
Talking bays Maall, it's our number three, our number three,
and here we go on this seventeenth day of December,
the Ben Mavers Show, the Show that Loves the Hot
Stove League. A lot of gossip in the last twenty
four hours that the team from Arizona Raising Arizona looking
(00:21):
for a big bopper to put in their lineup should
he land there, Alex Bregman, late of the cheating as
one and two one thousand holes, if he ends up
with the Diamondbacks, does that do anything for you? Also,
Phillies fans asking if they should pop Champagne over a
(00:41):
Dallas Garcia.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What say you?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
And if this is true, what does it say about
Francisco Lindor and the Mets culture? Reports saying that Lindor
got into a beef with Brandon Nimmo over Donald Trump
and that's why brandon Nimo was traded because he pulled
for the raw politician and Lindor didn't like it. I'll
talk about that Mets culture and more right now. It's
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a third railbow Man, It's a third rail here. It
is our number three, raising Arizona, at least raising the
price tag. Welcome. In the beginning of another hour of
the Ben mal Show. We are in the air ev
rewaere as we make a connection. We do coast to coast,
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border to border and beyond on the vast and prestigiously
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Speaker 2 (01:44):
We serve up prairie pancakes.
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If you know what I mean, from the world famous
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email from Old Man River who announced that he cannot
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use his name old Man River anymore. He is changing
that up, he says, because of Philip Rivers. Old Man
Rivers now suddenly the oldest active quarterback. So he's he's saying, well,
he's going to change it up a little bit. That's
a mic in Florida now no longer old Man. I
just want to let all the affiliates know that he's
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changed his nickname. So our lead this hour. Don't tell me,
but it's the middle of the night. I can talk
about whatever I want. I have editorial Control'm gonna talk
some baseball. I like baseball. I'm gonna talk baseball. So
we'll start out in the Valley of the Sun. The
Hot Stove League, not much of a hot stove league.
It's same thing we've seen in recent years. Now he did,
the Dodgers did, sign Edwin Diaz for the most part
(03:14):
of the Oils got the Polar Bear. It doesn't seem
like there's a lot of juice to what's going on
right now. Well, the snakes are slithering around the cacti
in Arizona. And if you didn't see this, perhaps perhaps not.
We are hearing the Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks have entered the
chat here on third baseman and always dirty Alex Bregman
(03:38):
in free agency the third basement there Arizona looking to
unload the second baseman could tell Marte they would like
to dump him on the Red Sox and then poach
Alex Bregman, who spent a gap year playing in Boston
at Finway because nobody wanted him, so he went to
Boston on a pillow contract and then decided to opt
(04:02):
out go back to market. And so Bregman is very popular.
Apparently with Arizona they were the mystery team. They're no
longer the mystery team. So that is a good jumping
out point. Let us discuss the question should he land there?
Should Alex Bregman take his talents to Arizona? Alex Bregman
(04:23):
with the Diamondbacks? Does that do anything for you? Knowing
I am not a Diamondback fan, and knowing that I
am not a fan of the player, I've got scarlet letter,
Amazon resale, and loyalty oath and we will combine all
(04:44):
of these things together and we are going to provide
absolute top forty hits. Top forty radio. It used to
be a big deal back in the day top forty radio.
So first of all, when I saw this that Bregman
is hot to to go to Arizona, first thing, it
get me indigestion. That was the first thought. I had.
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This would be like dropping top shelf money on a
PlayStation four in a PS five world, like the PlayStation
four still works right, it's fun, it's not the latest model,
it doesn't have all the bells and whistles, and it's
you know what year it is and all that.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
This sounds to me though, like Bregman doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Really want to play in Arizona, and that this was
strategically leaked to the useful idiot baseball scribes to try
to get more money out of the team he really
wants to play for, whether that's to go back to
the Red Sox or whether that's to God only knows
who else is interested in this cheat, But he didn't
want to go to Arizona. If you want to go
to Arizona, you don't make it public and just sign
the contract. He's trying to squeeze more money. That's the
(05:50):
play for Bregnan. He's trying to get more money out
of somebody else. And listen, he's dated tech much like
that PlayStation four. He's not the newest PlayStation and all that.
Bregman is entering his age thirty two season and the
whispers are he's gonna get one hundred and seventy million
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or more at age thirty two. That is a long
term mortgage, long term mortgage for the declining years. You're
paying for the decline. And this is not peak cheater
Alex Bregman. This is not the God's gonna hit thirty
home runs for you. And he doesn't bring that razzle dazzle.
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It does not bring that slugging. Is not quite where
it was. He's just not a franchise altering player, and
we cannot forget that. Wherever he ends up in God's
green Earth, Bregman brings his own wardrobe update. He brings
a scarlet letter, the cheating astrosh the cheating astros. The
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residue still sticks. There's some nice resid do do that's
still there. Front offices, they treat the player past their
athletic prime, like Bregman. They treat them like strawberries. Expired strawberries. Now,
when you get strawberries, and you get them originally they
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meant be a little green, but they look nice and
bright red shortly after that. And no matter how good
those strawberries once were, they're not buying. There's bacteria that
starts to grow on the expired strawberry. And if you
wait long enough, you'll see some mold and some hair
pop up and all that stuff. And here's the thing, Bregman.
You look at his age. He's at the end of
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his athletic prime. He's also coming off a season where
he dealt with a quad injury, the lower lower half
wear and tear of playing third base, the aging infielder.
There's a lot of red flags, a lot of red flags. Now,
smart teams know the trap. Now there's two things you do.
You either pay deferred money so you're not actually paying
them for another thirty years or twenty years or whatever.
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That's what the Dodgers do. The other option is to
just not bother signing these players because you're you're buying
upside down, like you don't want to buy at the
top of the market, and you certainly don't want to
buy on a diminishing asset, and you're paying for regression.
That's what you're paying for here. You're not paying for
the goosebumps and the tingles and all. That's just the
(08:26):
cold malor math of the situation. That it should be
a hard pass from everyone because he's a cheating a
one thousand and two one thousand hole is what bregmant Is,
So can you go back to Houston and they brought
back that punk Carlos Korea? Can they bring him back?
All right? Now? Secondly, the Philadelphia PA we go. The
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Fighting Phills announced they have signed former Rangers outfielder a
Dollars Garcia and we're hearing the deals only for one year,
ten million dollars to go to Philadelphia. Now, two of
the biggest goals of the Fighting Pills this offseason would
add a right handed power bat and improve the outfield.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So does this count as a two for one special?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The theory is that Garcia coming over from Texas will add
protection to Bryce Harper in the middle of that lineup.
You might remember Dave Dombrowski pointing out that Bryce Harper
is no longer an elite player. So the question, some
of these Phillies fans are very excited a guy Fats
in Philadelphia and a few of our other guys there
(09:33):
in the Delaware Valley saying what a sneaky good move
this is. So should Philly fans be all giddy here?
Should they be popping champagne? Because of the signing of
former Texas Rangers outfielder Adallas Garcia.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
What say you right? So this is not Don Perry.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Owen, it is not. This is store brand Selter, which
is fine, which is fine. It's got a dented can
on it. That's not great. That's not great. And this
is the classic Dave Dombrowski value play. This is why
buy it on Amazon. I'm just going to go to
the Amazon resale and I'm gonna go into there and
(10:14):
I'm gonna grab whatever's in the bench, you know, quality
used items, open boxed items, maybe missing a charger.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But you save a lot of money. And sometimes those
deals work.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Sometimes those deals pay off for you, and it just
works really well. El Bomby as he was known there
in Arlington bomb dot com. And he was awesome. He
was so good in that twenty twenty three playoff run
for the Rangers, that magic carpet ride, which Edin Arlington
still smiles about to this day and will smile the
(10:45):
rest of his days. Edit Arlington from that Rangers Bomb
dot Com run. And to remind you if you've forgotten
how good a Dallas Garcia was. He had eight home
runs and twenty two runs batter day in in fifteen
posts season games, including the World Series.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
That's a sheet coat, is what that was.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
That was insane, and that'll sell a lot of jerseys,
a lot of jerseys. And you do that in Philadelphia,
you put up those numbers in a playoff run for
the Philadelphia Phillies, they'll put your statue right next to
the Great Rocky Statue there on the steps, and you'll
be invited to the Mummers Parade like Jason Kelsey. However,
(11:26):
the problem is this, when you take the Instagram filter
off the player, you see there's some storm clouds on
the horizon, like Garcia is heading into his age thirty
three seasons. So again you look at the comps, you're like, well,
that's pastor athletic prime. Usually you fall off the cliff,
(11:47):
You fall off the cliff. He's coming off a season
that was so ugly in Texas. How ugly was it?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Thanks for asking?
Speaker 1 (11:54):
It was so ugly that the Texas Rangers isn't one
of the franchise heroes. They won their first ever World
Series and the message from the Rangers was yeah, thanks,
but no thanks, We're good. We're good on that non tendered,
non tendered franchise hero, non tendered. That is like warm
(12:16):
tapioca pudding that's left in the truck of the car.
That's what that is.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
One year deal.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That is a dead do what dead?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Give what?
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It is that the Rangers think he's done. The rest
of the league thinks he's cooked. Couldn't get more than
a one year contract a Dallas Garcia that's cooked medium well,
no pink, no pink, no pink there and Dombrowski now
he's banking on the old fairy dust and offseason workouts
(12:50):
with his new hitting coach of Dallas Garcia is gonna
be working out with his new hitting coach. No, not
Don Mattingly. The Phillies have hired the great Ponce de Leon.
They got him from the Marlins, the Fountain of Youth.
Of course, they'll be taking big gulps from the Fountain
of youth and hoping that works out here, the big
gulps of hope from the fountain of youth. And these
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things do happen every once in a while. They called
blue moon events, blue moon events. Once in a while,
once in a blue moon, it happens, right, it happens.
You're cautiously caffeinated, is what you are. And that's my advice.
This is like a lottery ticket. Most of the time
you lose. Every once in a while it hits. It's
(13:33):
not a pension plan. All right. Now, final thought, we
go third rail, oh Man, third rail. So to New York.
We go some new details about the breakup herd round
Gotham regarding the New York Metropolitans. And this one is wild.
When I saw this, I thought of Steven Manhattan because
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this is this is right in his wheelhouse, Steven Manhattan.
He calls the show every so often. So New New
York sports talk radio legend Mike Francessa, who has been
demoted to the podcast world. So Francessa on his fledgling podcast,
which he does from his humble abode. Good for him. Uh,
(14:15):
he claims that nobody else has. This is a Mike
Francissi report. He's claiming the real reason fan favorite Mets
fan favorite Brandon Nimmo was traded is that he and
Francisco Lindor could not get along over politics. Political differences
(14:37):
led to a trade because they could not agree on
President Donald Trump. Say what yeah, all right, so question,
for the purposes of this male monologue, were going to
assume this is accurate So if this is true, what
does this say about Francisco Lindor And what does this
(14:58):
say about the New York man It's culture, Well, it
tells me they are cooked the New York Mets. If
this is accurate, the Mets are not running a baseball team.
They're running a re education camp, is what they're doing,
Like seriously, Like, locker rooms are always supposed to be meritocracies,
(15:20):
and we kind of work in a locker room here
in Radio's kind of how I relate. I ask people
from all different backgrounds here and whatnot, and we all
have a job to do marginal overnight talk radio. And
doesn't matter what you believe in politically. I've worked on
TV shows and done radio lunchime work with a lot
of looney tones. Okay, I think they're completely nuts with
(15:41):
what they believe in, But I don't care. Who cares
to think. Whatever you want, don't bother me. You know,
it doesn't affect me at all. I live in my
own little world and that's that. And you live in
your world and that's fine. But we have a job
to do. And based on what FRANCESSA was saying, it
sounds like Francisco Lindor could not let that go. And
(16:01):
your job as a baseball player, it's gonna be why
nobody else has this take Your job is to see ball,
hit ball. Your job is to catch the ball, and
your job is to win the game. You play to
win the game. That's the job, period. And instead, the
way the story's been relayed here brandon Nimo was essentially,
I'll use the language of the day, he was deported,
(16:22):
not for striking out, not for playing like a stiff
with the New York Mets, not for loafing, none of
those things. But he didn't vote the right way. He
voted the wrong way, according to his teammate, And so
they got into it.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And what's next comrades with the.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
New York Mets. Here are they going to have a
loyalty oath before batting practice? You take the loyalty oath?
There is that gonna be the case? Like political purity
test staple to the scouting report, you can only bring
players in that agree politically with Francisco Lindor. It's usually
how culture's rot from the inside. And yeah, you don't
(16:59):
want team mates if this is true, You want kool
aid drinkers, is what you would like there, and you
get a fall in line. Brandon Nemo did not fall
in line. He didn't nod his head. He should have
nodded his head. He'd still be a Met. Don't rock
the boat. He rocked the boat. So now he's going
to play for the Rangers. Not exactly great leadership by
the Mets front office either, right, it's some authoritarian nonsense like, hey,
(17:22):
Lindor's got a longer contract, and even though Brandon Nemo's
a fan favorite, his ass is gas. We had him
out of here. It's a nonsense mixed with sunflower seeds
on the floor of the dugout and all that. Now,
keep in mind, I am skeptical. I'm skeptical by nature.
I'm a skeptic on this one because my experience and
I for years I was in locker rooms and that
(17:45):
was my gig.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Of course, in those days there was no social media.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
But when I was around athletes of all the professional sports,
most of the athletes I dealt with, they're like bubble boys.
They live in a bubble meaning they don't give a
rats ass about who the president is, who's who the
local congress person or the senator. They don't care about that.
They live in a world of private jets and they've
(18:11):
got nothing but free time to play video games. They've
got their personal trainer, they've got their personal chef, they've
got their butler. Whatever they need, it's all taken care
of this. So I look at that, and the politics
usually isn't in their oxygen, the athletes, and I don't
think it's changed today, even in a polarizing political climate.
(18:34):
But if Francisco Lindor of the Mets, who is aristocrat
level rich, mind you signed one of the biggest contracts
at the time in baseball history. He's living the gilded life,
Francisco Lindor. And is he dividing the Mets clubhouse over
ideology then Houston or in this case Gotham or in
(18:57):
this case Queen's Flushing. We got a problem. So the Mets,
they don't need political harmony. They don't. Hey, Donald Trump
will be president for a couple more years and then
someone else will be president, and then after that someone
else will be president. And that's kind of how that works.
All right, that's it the Mets need. They're going to
shock you. You play to win the game again, you
(19:19):
gotta win show some toughness, show some plate discipline, pitch
better and go out there and win. As Rob Manford
would say, that little piece of metal, that little piece
of metal, Just do it. Now. My question is did
the Mets front office do a voter registration check on
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Marcus Simeon, who they got from the Texas Rangers, to
make sure that he voted for the right president. Otherwise
Francisco Lindor is not going to be happy and he
might have to be traded again. So it is the
Ben Mahlor Show. If you would like to be part,
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Hearts with the rain. If you want to send a
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try to do it anyway hashtag Queen of Hearts. Time
now for the mallor riddle of the day. Here it is.
Doctors have ordered Kentucky men's basketball coach Mark Pope to
stop blank again. Doctors have ordered Kentucky men's basketball coach
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Mark Pope to stop blank immediately. That is the Mallard
riddle of the day. The answer, We'll get to it.
We will do it next.
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Speaker 6 (21:16):
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I'm telling you why. Santa Claus is coming to t
He's making a this, he's setching it. But oh he's
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gonna find those who's not your nice. Santaclaus is coming
to te geezeeze you and your tweeting. He knows when
you're away.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
He knows that you ben.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
So be good good say yeah, I'm telling you?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Well, why why tell me? Does that Beyonce Zabrina Carpenter? No,
even better, that's right? Who needs doing? But when you
have Kaki Madison, it is I Bill Miller. You were
locked in Happy holidays from Kathy and Madison as right now.
(22:38):
Rihanna is like, oh my god, what happened?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
If I could only be as good as her?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Uh? And Adele is going hello, yes, all right. Anyway,
if you want to be part of the show on
ex at Ben Maller, that's at Ben Maller. We have
a bit coming up later this hour called the Queen
of Hearts with the rain up, and if you would
like to be part of that, you can say they
question also too much not enough? I need a game
show contestant for that as well. Too much or not
(23:04):
enough coming up here, but Queen of Hearts hashtag Queen
of Hearts hashtag Queen of Hearts your questions and loreno
as I'm also take calls for that coming up a
little bit later in the hour. Back to it, we go,
all right, back to it. We got time now for
the payoff on the Riddle of the day. Doctors have
ordered Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope to stop blank all right,
(23:27):
let's see here, we'll skip over that one. Scrooge says,
chewing on testicles, all right, interesting watching Antiques road show,
it is addictive. From Rob the goat man I Leen
in San Francisco says the testicles stop standing under the missiletoe,
you're contagious, all right? What else there? Doctors told coach
(23:49):
Pope to stop talking in tongues and giving the blessings.
That's Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. Fer Dog says, stop
using Robbie's enormous Hemorhoyd's All right, interesting?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
What else do we have? Page down?
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Stop trolling coach cal over Marcus Camby and a loss
to U Mass Final four banner, all right, stop high
fiving the cheerleaders from Fudgie in Boston. The Sawman in
Mississippi says, stop watching John Calipari highlight videos. Immediately stop
doing only fans from Eloy from Compton living in the Vatican.
(24:26):
From Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, stop buying his family Christmas
gifts from the neighborhood gas station from late night drug tester.
Who else do we have here? Putting ketchup on pizza
from Dante? That doesn't sound good. Doctors ordered him to
stop breathing from Donkey's sausage, stop drinking eggnog from filler
Up Phil. They're biting his nails from JT. The Wingman.
(24:52):
Joe the ghost tunter in Ohio says, stop smelling dirty
used sacks. Inca terraces the ink se ween see spiders
singing the ink seen sea spider. All right, Loreina, do
you have an answer? Just not drinking something like milkman
Mike said, or stroking the chicken like courtesy flusher.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Oh yeah, No, We'll leave the chicken stroking to Mike
the Leprechaun.
Speaker 8 (25:17):
But uh no, I was thinking. They want him to
stop grilling on the sidelines making long.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
All right, Is that the answer? No, that is not
the answer.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
The doctors have ordered Kentucky men's basketball coach Mark Pope
to stop screaming at his team. He has damaged his
vocal cords. Kentucky sucks this year by Kentucky standards. Doctors
told him not to speak over a conversational volume for
the rest of the week because he's screwed up his
(25:46):
vocal cords. So there you go. Let's go the phones.
I still need a contestant. Let's go to if you
want to play the game coming up here? Too much
or not enough? Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox,
Mike is in Tucson. Hello Mike, Welcome. Oh I hung
up on Where do you go? He's not there. Let's
go to Greg and Pennsylvania. Hellout, I thought I hit
the button. He's not there. Greg and Pennsylvania was morning.
(26:06):
Hello Greg, good, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 9 (26:10):
Testicles and shipping stroking is exactly the reason I'm calling
as what I have to listen to from eight am
to five pm?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
What is.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
On today day? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
I don't know what you're listening to.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
I don't want to.
Speaker 9 (26:23):
When you have like Colin Calter, Dick rights, like Stephen Ahole.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And well, you know you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Why you don't have to watch any show you don't
like it, You're not forcing That's that is true.
Speaker 9 (26:35):
But obviously then I have no life. So I have
taken up the cause of removing the term eye test
from the sports talk radio lexicon.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Okay, why why? Why is why is that?
Speaker 9 (26:48):
Why is that go ahead, because basically, the eye test
is the equivalent of the feelings over the facts of
sports radio talk and the intellectually weak. And this came
to a head when I had to listen to people
bitch about the Domers and the whole Shador Sanders thing.
And it's sad that, you know, the real talk geniuses
(27:08):
are on the overnight and like I said, I got
to listen to that crap during the day. Yeah, I'm
bringing it to you, Ben.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
And of all, right, now I have I have used
the phrase I hope you don't hate me. I have
used the phrase from time to time. I don't use
it very often. Every once in a while I'll mix
it into my lexicon. Now, what is acceptable because I
do I do watch the game? I how should I use?
What kind of using stag? Greg? What would you like
me to use instead of eye test?
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Don't you well, it's not so much what you should use,
or you know, you come with me at facts. You know,
I have to listen to all the Domers complain about
this great one they had and that they got screwed
and the eye test.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
This, and they I test that, and I'm all right,
so you so you're really what you're complaining about, and
I'm gonna put you in the laboratory here what you
can I'm gonna workshop this. Okay, you're complaining about talk
show hosts that give opinions but don't tell you why
you want the Why why do you think that?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Not just that I saw it?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
You you know? Okay?
Speaker 2 (28:04):
So that okay, I got you.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
All right, And that's a that's a fair point, you know.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
And I'll let you in on a dirty little secret.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
A lot of these guys don't watch the games and
they don't know what's going on. They just have producers
that tell them what's going on. So it's kind of
part of the deal. Unfortunately, that's the way it works.
Speaker 9 (28:16):
Yes, well, that's obvious because when you tell me that
Notre Dame went on a run, or that she knows
Sanders is better than Dylan Gabriel, obviously you have not
watched anything or you know nothing, and you're just trying
to peep.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Well, but that the whole the Shugar Sanders thing is
he plays well online and they get a lot of
traction of that. And so but that's what the I mean,
that is kind of the job though they got to
get people to watch those shows. And you know, one
of my favorite memories was years ago. I was in
the in the Laker locker room. They got named Dwight Howard,
and Dwight was all upset. He was very upset because
(28:49):
Steven A and Skip Bayless had ripped him on their
show that did. They were working together ESPN, and so
buddy of mine, TJ. Simers, was a columnist. He died
last year, but tj uh was it this year? I
don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I think it was this year. I don't know the
years run together.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Anyway, The point is he went up to Dwight and said, Dwight,
no one watches that show like and the ratings on
first take are terrible, like no one's watching, and Dwight
couldn't wrap his head around it. But but yet they're
trying to get people to watch. And so I understand
what you're saying, Greg, and that's a fair point.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
And I'm right there with that.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I love that you you turn to the Overnight Show,
Greg all night, you listen to this crap unbelievable. It's great.
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go. Mike and Tucson on
his back. I apologize, Mike. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
I hit the thing of a jig and the dew
hickey blew up.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
I don't know what happened.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Gremlin.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I think it's the gremlins.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
You know.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
I don't go into the studio anymore. I work from home.
Why would I go in?
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It's okay, it's okay to shout out.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
How's your wife doing?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
By the way, the most famous call Mike made his
wife was in the hospital and he passed the phone
to her and what a great husband that was. My God,
the prince, Prince charming.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
You are my best memories. It is my best memories.
My wife's still embarrassed, super embarrassed of that.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
No, no, no one saws just radio.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
So I told her I put a call back, and
she's like, I'm so embarrassed. How we act? How you
act this? Because I heard myself, I said, let's put
the nurse on the falls. But then it's about I.
So why I called him? Because you know, first of all,
my nephew Edinburgh, he's a president of university, was on
(30:30):
u A and he's going to Washington next next week.
Speaker 6 (30:35):
He moved to Washington, d C.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Capitol Hill, and I hope he has a Mount Militia
flag with him.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Oh yeah, yeah, we got to get him in the
Pentagon or something like that.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
That's what I'm saying about my little nephew. He can't
thanks for congress congressman who won Arizona, the congresswoman who
won as all. He that's who we can't thanks for.
So he goes to Washington with her, he graduates her.
I said, if you can you imagine a band Mount
Melissa in the White House flag. That's why I total
(31:07):
shout shout to Edinburgh.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Okay, all right, well then yeah, and I will anybody
wants to invite me, you know, Capitol Hill, the White House,
I'll go. I'm in so I bet I will be
all right. Ben, Well, thank you, buddy.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
You're the man.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
You're like, you're connected now. You know people in DC,
you know guys in the Beltway, they're Mike, You're a
made man now.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
And I'm not.
Speaker 9 (31:31):
I'm not voice smoke.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I said, all right, no.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I believe you. All right, Well, keep us posting and
I know you'll call more right before the holidays.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
It's not your last call, so we'll talk more.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I thought, I know what I saw it, But you
know what I did.
Speaker 9 (31:43):
I now, Tousa, we're building a big bass Pro shop here.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
I've been working the day I've been working at.
Speaker 9 (31:49):
The date show.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Oh no, you're working the day shift.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
No, yes, man, yeah, I'm working the day fan shift.
Big Bass Pro shop. We're building a big one on
the south side.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Okay, that's good. Well those are great show.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I mean, even if you don't, those are great source
just to walk around and there's like a lot of
stuff to look at.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
So let's go. Let's get to the game right now here,
we go.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Hit that butte right.
Speaker 4 (32:05):
Yeah, get yeah?
Speaker 9 (32:06):
Yeah? Yeah yet yeah, get yet Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Got Thatt Mallard game.
Speaker 10 (32:09):
We've endured too many of these?
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Is it too much or not enough?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Follering? Ready James? Hollering? James is his name and sleeping
is his game.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Hello James, I've won this game's sleeping. Yes you. The
most famous moment in game show history is hollering James,
snoring and winning too much or not enough? It inspired
thirty six pills in the morning, thirty six pills at night.
Let's get to the game quickly here, Question number one.
All the answers are too much or not enough? Monday
(32:39):
marked only the third time in NBA history that two
centers had triple doubles in the same game. Is that
too much or not enough? Too much, Let's find out
that's right. Nikolea Jokic and Alfred Senghein are the only
two centers only centers to have triple doubles in the
same game. Question two, The Commanders and the Giants Commanders.
(33:02):
That Giants game was the fourth matchup in NFL history
where both teams entered with a single season losing streak
of seven or more games.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Is that too much.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Or not enough? James?
Speaker 3 (33:13):
Not enough?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Let's find out? Look at that hollering James is on fire?
Call the fire department. Questions James Stephen Curry now has
twenty career games with forty or more points and ten
or more three pointers.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Is that too much or not enough?
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (33:34):
All right? So the answer is the answer is not enough.
Curry has twenty four career games with at least forty
points and ten three pointers, most all time. Kay Thompson
is second Question number four. Are you ready, James, Let's.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Rock and roll?
Speaker 1 (33:54):
Cardinals tight end Trey McBride now has nineteen consecutive games
with at least five receptions. Is that too much or
not enough? For the win?
Speaker 9 (34:07):
Too much?
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Let's find out. That's a lot.
Speaker 5 (34:12):
You gotta go the ticket, You gott call the ticket.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I congratulations, James, Okay, what a great boy. I can't think.
What a way to a woman's heart. Give her a
golden ticket. Yes, absolutely, you silly? Are you're a You're
a you're a regular. Don Juan, all right, thank you,
hollering James, Okay, Don Juan with teflon Queen of Hearts.
(34:40):
We need questions hashtag Queen of Hearts. You can call
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Speaker 8 (34:47):
We just love love, don't we bet?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I don't know about that, but we will have the
Queen of Hearts with Lorraina. We'll get to that. We
will do it next.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
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Show weekdays at two am East an eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 10 (35:08):
It's the most wonderful time of the years when the
Ben Valor Show wishes holive. It's listening as joy and
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Where you'll be on.
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It's the most wonderful time.
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questions here. What do we have any meanie miney.
Speaker 8 (37:06):
Moe catch a lover by the tone?
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Adrian, the pokey pokey pokey guy from years ago says,
is a text breakup?
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Okay? Or just call her?
Speaker 8 (37:20):
It depends on how close you were or.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
Should you just ghost her? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (37:23):
If you really don't care about her at all, you
can completely ghost her.
Speaker 8 (37:27):
Text is kind of you know.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
So you'd rather be ghosted or text?
Speaker 8 (37:32):
I have been ghosted completely.
Speaker 10 (37:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (37:34):
I went from like super hot love bombing to just
like disappearing into the night.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That's unfortunate.
Speaker 7 (37:40):
Yea, they get bored, they come back and then you
gotta tell them you know what, No, sorry.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
They come back around. Yeah, I gotcha, all right. Ferg
Dog rights and says do women enjoy wrapping presents or
doing the laundry more? Oh my gosh.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
I love wrapping the presents. It is so fun and
I just.
Speaker 7 (37:59):
Wanted a new way to to uh when I have
the first year I worked here, I wrapped all of
Doug Gottlieb's presents for him his family.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
Is he in a flight of Wisconsin to wrap them?
This time or yeah, probably not, no, probably not. Yeah,
I did. I'm terrible rapping gifts. You didn't ask me
for a Doug. But I like that you can watch
YouTube videos and rap like you're working at it at
a department store. I like that. Yeah, yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah,
it's a little life hack makes it easier for you.
It looks all pretty, it says, dude. You enjoy going
(38:27):
Christmas caroling as well?
Speaker 7 (38:29):
Oh my gosh, I want to go Christmas Caroling. I
asked some of my singer friends if they would want to,
and no one wants to go. But I just be
singing Christmas songs without any other chorus. It can just
be me myself and.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
I all right.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Shaneon Moynes says.
Speaker 8 (38:41):
Benel the red Nose here?
Speaker 1 (38:45):
Okay, Ben is a Queen of Heart's question from Shanon,
and Moyes says, can we get a Queen of Heart's
schedule update going overnight? She's been making selective special appearances
in the overnight.
Speaker 7 (38:58):
Oh I love that, Shane. I miss you when I'm
on the air too, But you got to listen.
Speaker 8 (39:01):
Okay.
Speaker 7 (39:02):
People have lives that they have to do, and I
only get paid twenty dollars an hour.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
So as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
Yeah, I got you, all right? Goat man Rob rights in.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
He says, I'm sure you have heard now my friend
Robbie the Mariner fan has a bad case of hemorrhoids.
That would pushed so hard. How can he.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Feel comfortable with this while well being intimate?
Speaker 7 (39:26):
So yeah, you know, they do have some numbing stuff.
So if it's really causing you some issues, you can
put some numbing cream back there, because I know when
you're trying to get it on, you usually have to
put some pressure and you know, switch a.
Speaker 8 (39:38):
Little bit back there.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
You know I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (39:40):
Okay, So if it doesn't bother you, I'm sure there's
some type of pain reliever.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
All right.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
Well.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
JT. The Wingman writes in from just outside Knoxville, Tennessee,
says he's joining his lady there at her holiday party
this weekend, and it's a jacket required event. Should I
go with a bow tie or a traditional necktie? Some JT.
Speaker 8 (40:00):
The Wingman ooh, with a jacket event? Well, if you
can tie a bow tie.
Speaker 7 (40:03):
I love a good bow tie and they are much
harder to tie though, So yeah, I would.
Speaker 8 (40:08):
Go that direction.
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Here's what I would say. And I've met JT.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
The Wingman. He's been with many of these events that
we've done. He's a very nice man. I always like
to hang out. He's a good guy and he's from Wisconsin.
I feel like the bow tie is a spotlight on
you as a man because most people don't wear both. Yes,
So if you want to not get any extra attention,
just wear a regular tie. The bow tie is it's
an attention getter because most people don't wear bow ties right.
Speaker 8 (40:34):
And then even beyond that is the bulow tie.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Yes, the bolo tie that's like Philip Rivers.
Speaker 8 (40:39):
Tie, much easier to put on it is, but definitely
a statement piece.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
It is a statement piece for sure. And it's like,
are you a cowboy?
Speaker 4 (40:46):
No?
Speaker 1 (40:46):
No, no, I just have a bulow time Andy and
Lionel Lakes rites and he says every Christmas it's the same.
My gal says, don't get me anything. She sis with
that idea for me, and that's fine, but I get
her a little something and she's irritated with me. I
can't win here. Yeah, Well, then he says, should I
get her an adult toy that's from Lorraina.
Speaker 7 (41:08):
Well, adult toys or toys for our gifts for everybody
you know. You can play with them, she can play
with them. Group, it can be solo. That's why toys
are so great.
Speaker 2 (41:18):
It's all encompassing, is indeed. Yeah, okay, one shop stopped
all you need there.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Mike the Leprechaun says, jealousy is one of the deadly sins.
My ex girlfriend is extremely jealous of my current girlfriend.
We are supposed to go to a holiday party this weekend, whereas.
Speaker 8 (41:36):
It's Michael Leprechaun, right, they will be in.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
The same space. Yes, how can I avoid the fireworks?
So he's gonna says he's gonna have the X and
then his current girlfriend.
Speaker 7 (41:44):
Well, if you just leave your rubber chicken at home,
then no one will have to worry about getting jealous
of one another, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Well, I did see. I just saw. They just added
that there was somebody's question. We don't have time for
it now, though I would have gone to them earlier,
but I didn't see that on the board. Unfortunately. Well
stand hoold. Maybe we'll do that next star. But there,
just look at that. The Queen of Heart love well,
that's you speak for yourself, for you, that
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