May 9, 2025 • 40 mins
The Red Sox mismanagement of Raffy Devers might hurt his future with the team. The Pirates whack their manager 39 games into the season. Plus, Lame Jones of the Week and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding Dong. We shoot for the moon in our number three,
going to the ends of the Earth and beyond the cosmos.
As we give you our number three, don't forget fifth
hour podcast later today. It's got a kind of a
coast to coast vibe to it a little bit. We'll
explain what that's about, but that's coming up an hour
number three of this podcast. We're going to talk about
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Rafael Devers, Rafael Devers ripping Red Sox management. Now, is
this more about a Rafael Devers being stubborn or b
is the Red Sox front office failing to manage their
star players properly. We'll take a look at that. And
with the friction between Rafael Devers and the team, how
is his future looking in Boston? Will go there? And
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a story out of Pittsburgh. After just thirty eight games,
the Pirates played whack a mole and got rid of
their manager, got named Derek Shelton to quote fix this
now according to the owner, So what did the Buckos
accomplish by letting their manager go when their season is
already buried? We'll talk about all of those things and
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more right now, and we'll make a living doing it.
It's the essence of the podcast. It's our number three
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gun one, We got a gun one. Baseball story, high drama,
Days of our Lives, drama in the American League East
on a random day in early May, Red Sox designated
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hitter Rafael Devers delivery the atomic elbow. As we say, so,
Devers is not happy. Now how do we know he's
not happy because he said he's not happy, upset with
the bosses, the powers that be with the Red Sox.
And this is a good one, This is a good one.
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He accused the organization of going back on their word,
back on their word. This is over a recent that
was made to him. So if you didn't see it,
and if you're not plugged in with the Red Sox,
this is a national show, not a local show. So
you might not be familiar with the story. So the
story is if you missed it. Rafael Devers says that
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the Red Sox executive we call them the GM there,
Craig Breslo, asked him to play first base. This following
the season ending injury to Tristan Cassies as he's out
for the year and probably part of next year as well.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
It turns out that Devers said that he was unwilling
to play first base. Why because the Red Sox had
told him to put his glove away after they moved
him from third base the designated hitter during the offseason. Now,
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he was asked if he was upset with the team
over the request, and he responded yes, of course in Spanish.
All right, so we I think we have the audio,
will place some of it. And I know he spoke
through a translator, so I'm not sure if we're going
to just hear the translator, we're gonna hear Okay, this
is the This is just the clean version where it's
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just the it's just his answers. Right, all right, let's go,
let's see what we got. This is Rafaeldevers ripping apart
the management of the Boston Red SOX, let's listen all along.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
It's from Raffey Devers quote. I know I'm a ballplayer,
but at the same time, they can't expect me to
play every single position out there and spring trending. They
talked to me and basically told me to put away
my glove, that I wasn't gonna play any other position.
But d H, so right now, I just feel like
it's not an appropriate decision by them to ask me
to play another position. It was the GM that I
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spoke with. I'm not sure what he has with me.
He played ball. I would like to think he knows
that changing positions like that isn't easy.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, that was NMLB network report there they were giving
the quote from from Rafield Devers. God, this is so
this is so good. This is such a great story
for talk radio. It is It is a ten out
of ten in terms of baseball stories. So, as you
heard the transcript being read by a teleprompter reader for
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MLB Network, Devers indicating that he was not happy because
it's hard. It's hard, and so he made it clear
that he is not happy with Craig Breslow and the
front office there in Boston. So let us discuss the
question is as false. Is this story more about a
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Raphael Devers being a stubborn donkey? Or B is this
story more about the Red Sox front office failing to
manage it's star players proper So my views on this,
I've got Kosher Salt, Alfred Hitchcock and Blue Whale, and
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we will combine all of these things together and be
footloose and fancy free is what we're going to be. Okay, So,
first of all, to answer the question, is it a
Rafael Devers being stubborn or is it be the Red
Sox front office failing to manage their star players properly?
My answer is not A or B. My answer is
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C all of the above. All of the above. You
have your classic spoiled, selfish star athlete. That's Rafaeld Devers
right on Central Casting. Now, the different wrinkle here is
the fact that he decided to go public and he
should be a brand ambassador for Kosher Salt. Morton's a
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Kosher Salt. Because Rafael Devers, you can tell he's not
hiding his emotion. He's got a beef with the front
office with the Red Sox. He believes he's the victim.
Everyone's the victim of this great injustice. So he's salty,
he's very salty, and he's upset. He's still bitter. He's
got that bitter face because Boston went out and signed
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that cheating a astro, Alex Bregman in the offseason, and
that was a third baseman. They took away the third
base position from Devers, who's been one of the worst
defensive players in baseball for years. So Devers is like, hey,
I'm not flexible. I will not bend with the wind.
I will not This is payback with a capitol p
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by Rafael Devers. Payback now. As for the Red Sox
front office, they are not off scot free. They also
looked like a bunch of dopes. And here's why. The
only reason that Rafael Devers got the bag was because
the Red Sox didn't want to pay Mookie Bets. They
gave Mookie bets away to the Dodgers for some of
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those snow Globe Hollywood toys in the gift shops in Hollywood.
That's what the Red Sox got backed for Mookie bets.
The Dodgers have won two World Series since they got
rid of Mookie Bets since the Red Sox got rid
of Mookie Bets and sent him to La so they
got rid of him. There was also another player, Xander Bogarts,
who left to go to the Padres, although he hasn't
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played that well in San Diego. So the Red Sox
had team, a team of players that had won a
World Series, although it was little shady in twenty eighteen,
and so they weren't keeping their players and the last
one left was Rafael Devers, so they had to pay him.
They obviously didn't vet Rafael Devers to say is this
a guy worthy of this kind of money? Can we
trust him? Is this somebody that will represent the organization properly? No,
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they didn't do that. They gave him the money and
now they're getting what they get. They deserve it. They
look like it was the idiots. And now is it
true that Craig Breslo mishandled the situation the gam there
in Boston by failing to communicate clearly with Rafael Devers
that he would be needed to play the field possibly
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down the line, I want a mess. Can you imagine
going to your boss and be like, yeah, I don't
want to do that job. But but we're paying you
a lot, But no, I don't want to do that.
Like how does that work? Like, seriously, can you get
away with that? If you're a truck driver and you're like,
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I don't I don't want to make that trip. I'm
you know, I'm good. When we're paying you, you have
to go that route. No, I'm not. I'm not doing that.
I'm not. I'm not doing it. Uh, you're You're in
a bakery and you're like, all right, I needed to
make this many donuts and this, you know, these these treats.
But no, I don't feel like doing that.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm not. I'm not comfortable. It's not easy, you know,
it's not easy. That's what That's what Rafael Devers is doing.
It's wild and there are actually people defending him, although
I'm thinking that's just bots and that's like fake accounts. Now, Secondly,
with this friction which we have documented between Raffie Devers
and the baseball team, how is his future looking in Boston?
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So this is a situation where you have to put
friction at the very top of this is a friction
situation that is an understatement and it's I think an
accurate way to describe Rafaeld Devers as a me guy,
not a team guy. All right, me guy, not a
team guy. Now Devs is only in year two, if
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I'm not mistaken, of a ten year, three hundred and
thirteen million dollar contract, Yes, three one hundred and thirteen
million dollars for Raffield Evers. He's in year two of
the contract. Who goofed? I've got to know now, normal protocol.
Normal protocol is, if you're in that tax bracket for
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that kind of cash, you are expected to be a
good will ambassador. And instead of that, Devs in this
chapter of the book is starring in an Alfred Hitchcock film,
The Saboteur, and the face of the franchise has now
embarrassed the franchise multiple times. And now as a talk
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show host, I love it. Devs is great. Right. They
wanted to move him to DH. He to want to
play DH. Then they said it was some kind of
communication issue. Well, what are they gonna say now? Same thing.
At some point, the question will be asked, is the
juice worth the squeeze? Is Dever's worth the headaches? Devers
is on pace this year to drive in one hundred
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runs he got for that terrible start the first couple
weeks of the year was terrible, but he's picked it up.
He's on pace to driving one hundred runs and only
twenty five home runs, which isn't that great For three
hundred million dollars and forty plus doubles playing at Finway,
you should be able to hit forty doubles blindfolded. And
he's doing this while he is sulking in Poudyville, USA. Powdyville, USA.
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Now the other branch of this tree is that Rafael
Deveres has also exposed the Red Sox manager Alex Korra
as pinocchio. Liar, Liar, Liar, Liar, Liar, liar, because just
a couple of days ago, Alix Cora attempting to run
interference the naked bootleg for Rafael Devers. Remember this we
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talked about a little bit on the show. Alex Cora
claimed that they were not going to ask Rafael Devers
to play first base, that was not an option. And
yet we now know from the horse's mouth Rafaeld Devers
that behind the scenes the front office did did go
to the player and say we'd like you to play
first base. The Red Sox are a mediocre team so
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far this year, and now they have to find someone
to play first base. They have a couple of supposedly
hot shot minor league players, but they don't want to
put those guys in the major leagues because it involved
service time. And so the name that I saw, I
don't know if they've signed him yet, but the name
that was going around Anthony Rizzo, Anthony E. F. And Rizzo,
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who's been done for several years. He stinks, But that's
who who's available.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Now, final thought, we have a managerial change in professional baseball.
Say what, Yeah, we taken now to Pittsburgh, PA. We
go in a twelve and twenty six record. The Buckoes
have thrown manager Derek Shelton over board off the Pirate
ship Don Kelly. We're not sure who that is, but
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he is now the interim manager in Pittsburgh. The money
quote came from the frugal tightwad Bob Nutting. That's the
owner of the team. Interesting name, he said. The move
was made to quote fix this now, he said. So
after just thirty eight games, the Pirates have whacked manager
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Derek Shelton to quote. According to the owner, fix this
now is what the owner said. So what did the
Bucos accomplish with this particular move? So this is no
with one word. My word is abra cadabra. Its magical
misdirection is what it is. It's the hidden ball trick
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in involving managers. This move is a classic distraction. Think
of it like a blue whale in a goldfish tank. Okay,
it stands out, it's obvious, it doesn't fit. We all
know what you're doing. The Pirates have been a slapstick
comedy on and off the field. Now, we don't talk
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too much baseball this time of the year because it's
a thousand games to go, But what is my evidence.
The Pirates have been a slapstick comedy operation since the
beginning of the year. Here are some of the highlights
of Pirates baseball. When they're not getting shell act on
the field. The Pirates, without announcing, removed a tribute to
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Roberto Clemente that had been on the outfield sign at
their beautiful ballpark in Pittsburgh to sell booze to sell alcohol.
Of course, the family of Roberto Clemente was not happy
about that, and they tore up the organization so the
team had to put the tribute back on the wall.
Then a local TV station in Pittsburgh found out that
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a bunch of bricks that had the names of fans
and dead relatives of Pirate fans had been sent to
a dump to a recycle facility in Pittsburgh. These you
know how these teams have this deal. You buy a
brick and they'll put your name of your mom or
your dad, or your name or your kid's name, and
they'll put it in the stadium. And it's kind of
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a cool thing, right, that's kind of a neat thing,
and your name is there, and it's give them a
little money, and it is not. So without announcing it,
they ripped out all those bricks and just tossed them
into a recycle facility in Pennsylvania. Who goofed, I've got
to know. I'm not done though. Wait, there's one I
mentioned slapstick comedy. How about a fan dropping like a
sack of potatoes from twenty one feet off during the
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game onto the warning track when the Pirates were playing
the Cubs. Remember that? But wait, something even more outrageous happened.
There is video that has gone viral. The last couple
of days there was this would look like a drunk
dude at a Pirates game was in a disagreement an
unruly fan. So a stadium usher comes over to try
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to calm the situation down at the Pittsburgh Pirates stadium.
And so during this situation, so it clearly looked like
an inebriated guy in my opinion, and they're going back
and forth. So what did the stadium usher do. Did
he call the police and say we need the police
here to take care of No, he decided that he
wanted to fight the usher, right, so he whipped the
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usher with his belt. He took his belt off to
whip the person, and there was some spitting of lugis
involved by the fan. The fans spit the lugie and
it was I mean, this is next level. Now, as
for the Pirates on the field and the Derek Shelton
human sacrifice for the failure the buck last I checked,
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they can't hit, pitch or feel, but other than that,
they're a good ball club. If you take away hitting, pitching,
and defense. They have all the ingredients of a good team.
And the brass has assembled a dog's lunch roster. They
have two players it does remind you of the Angels
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a bit, not as extreme, but when the Angels had
Mike Trout and Shoho Tani and failed to make the
playoffs year after year after year after year after year
after year after year. Well, the Pirates have Paul Skiings
who at some points going to eventually pitch for the
Yankees of the Dodgers and get paid a ton of money,
and that's how it's gonna go. And then you have
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O'Neil Kruz who's one of the top young players in baseball,
though he's not playing that great this year. And outside
of that, to quote the great Dennis Eckers League, you
have a hodgepodge of nothingness is what you have. So
the future for the Pirates is hazy, with a high
probability of more fertilizer on the field. Pirate Baseball, My god.
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So it turns out that a fifty five year old
Georgia man is suing the NFL. We mentioned this the
other day. We now have some more information on the
gentleman that is going by the name John Doe. So
the fifty five year old Georgia man suing the NFL
(20:38):
over Shooder Sanders draft a tumble not only wants one
hundred million dollars in damages from the NFL, but he
also wants blank. He also wants blank. That is the
mallor riddle of the day. The answer, We'll get to
it and we will do it next.
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All right, back to it as I been, as we
pay off the Mallor riddle of the day, the Mallard
Riddle of the day that'll be coming up here, mall monetarily,
momentarily look forward to that as we work our way
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through these early morning hours. And let's see here, what
do we have and want to read that? All right,
it's time now for the riddle of the day, the
riddle of the day. So what is the answer to
the riddle of the day, you ask, Well, let me
give you the riddle and then you can try to
figure it out. By the way, Jeff in Iowa is listening,
and he is enjoying the show. He thinks that we're
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truck around around Iowa, we're glad to know that you're listening.
And here is the insta trivia. A fifty five year
old Georgia man is suing the NFL over Shooder Satyrs
draft a tumble fumble bumble. Not only does this person
want one hundred million in damages, but also would like
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blank it says, this is very important. What do we
have you this? See page Dan, I don't know if
I can read that. On the air. We'll skip over
that one. A lot of reaction to Rafael Devers and
the Mallard monologue about that, and let's see what answers
do we have? Fudgie says, a Fudgie como bobblehead doll
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is the answer. Boiled peanuts from JT. The Wingman in Knoxville, Tennessee,
but as hard as in Wisconsin. King Rory says a
honey bun, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger is the answer. Milkman
Mike says, the guy wants lifetime invitations to Jeffrey Epstein
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and Diddy parties. Yeah, I don't think they're having those anymore.
I think those are over. A clam says a set
of four tires from Tire Rack. Well, who wouldn't want those?
That's a big deal? What else? Alf the Alien opiner
says he would also like a camel. He wants to
have a camel. Who else? Page down starting quarterback for
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Mike Tomlins Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Steelers. Ferg Dog
says wants to broadcast a game with SpongeBob. Well, that
would be quite the broadcast. Now, in that photo, I
actually know one of the people in that photo because
he used to be a Clipper broadcast. I didn't know
he did a game with SpongeBob. I had no idea.
Who else do we have? Page down? I can't read
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that on the air. All right, that's it up, Larina,
Do you have an answer? A lot of answers that
are on the on the spectrum can't read him on
here Loredo the riddle of the day, fifty five year
old Georgia man suing the NFL over Shudur Sanders Draft day.
Tumble and bumble and stumble. But not only does this
JABRONI want one hundred million in damages, but would also
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like blank? He says, Blank's very important.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yes, he would also like his own pony petting zoo. Ben.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, did you want that when you were a little girl?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
He did?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You did, and you never got that. Family did not
provide you for that, And that's very.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Sad that you The correct answer is the fifty five
year old Georgia Man suing using the name John Doe,
suing the NFL over Suder Sanders draft day a fault.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Not only wants one hundred million dollars, he would also
like he's looking forward to discovery, the discovery process, as
he believes that will prove the illegal conspiracy against Shardeur Sanders.
That was the answer.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
That was the answer, discovery, You're recorded.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
This is a law process, was the answer.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's what he wants. He wants the discovery process. Yeah,
he could pick new socks and he wants a discovery process.
I know, I know you can get in new such
but no, this is where you go. You know, you
get sued, you have to turn over all your email
and your phone records and all that, like all of
that becomes available to the other side. So this guy,
this guy thinks that a the lawsuit is not gonna
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get thrown out right away. It's obviously frivolous. So he
thinks it's not gonna get thrown out. And then he's like, well,
not is it not gonna get thrown out? But I'm
gonna go and I'm gonna have access to all the
text messages and email of all of these different NFL
executives and you know, all the big shots in the NFL.
Good luck, good luck on that. All right's go back
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to the calls and let's say hello to Andrea. She's
in the Bay Area. She's got the star chart out
and she is ready to dazzle you. Get you set
up for the big weekend here with all all you
need to know in a cosmic approach.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Hello, and hello Ben. I like the way you put that.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, absolutely, So what do we got now? The Warriors
are not looking so good right now. Things at the
game one, they took it on the channing game through
there and it didn't really show up for game thing.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Yeah, well, the Steph Curry, that's definitely you know, timing
is everything, and not good timing for the injury. And
it's the first time he ever had a hamstring injury.
And he's born March fourteen, nineteen eighty eight, one point
fifty one pm Akron, Ohio. Remember the same hospital as Lebron.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yep, yep, from you.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
We know that from you, we do, right, We always
talk about that. And basically he is a Pisces and
Saturn is in Pisces right now. Conjuncture's son. What that
means is Saturn rules of skeletal system, his knees, teeth,
joint back. So it's like delay, not denial. But it's
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really a very challenging transit to have in terms of
physical health and energy. It's really a low point. And
they actually said he was crying, which is very Pisces,
and you know, he really wants to play, but he
doesn't want to tempt the fates and start playing before
it's healed. And again, this is the first time he
had a hamstring injury, so he's kind of had a loss.
(28:29):
And you know they're saying, no, we examined I think Wednesday,
a week after. So you know, there's some light at
the end of the tunnels.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
There is light, but if the Warriors keep losing these games,
there's no more light, they go to the darkness.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
It's over right, It's you know, just that many games.
So it's definitely not the best timing for this to
be happening. And yeah, it's a Saturn. You know, you
get a Saturn transit, then it's only twenty nine years
Saturn conjunct the Sun.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Oh really, twenty that's a long time. Twenty ninety, right, like.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
The Saturn return when you're twenty nine, Saturn conjunct your
son when every twenty nine years. So some of these
planetary cycles don't happen very often, and when they do,
they tend to kind of stick around for a while.
And that said, Saturn is uh, you know, limitation challenges
and again the skeletal system, so it's definitely lowered energy
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and vitality.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Gotcha, gotcha? All right? Well he's getting older and stuff starts,
you know, hurting a little more where you get older.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
It's just kind of yeah, I know, only in the
sports world is like thirty five or thirty seven. They
make it sound like it's ancient.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I know, isn't that funny? Is I always laugh at
that too? It's oh he's so old. Oh he's a
grizzled letter and I'm like, oly crap, what are you?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You you just shut up? You know?
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah? All right, Well, have a great weekend, Andrea, thank
you so much. And you're on ex Virgo and service
you have. That newsletter comes out every what every four months?
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Oh yeah, I'll be doing one you know soon again, So.
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Have a nice all right, there you go. Our friend
Andrea check it in and she's hanging out in northern
California in Berkeley, big supporter of the show. And yeah,
all right, let's see what. I don't know. If some
of your people keep you must think we're doing like
(30:27):
satellite radio, just a podcast and I can just say
every bad effing word you want me to say. I know, dude,
it's like you gonna get me in trouble one of
these times. I'm gonna read this stuff on the air
and then you're gonna have to dump it. And if
you don't dump it, I'm gonna get in trouble, and
then you know I don't. Yeah, Matt Jack writes and says,
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the Dowyers desperately need a third basement. We will pay
Rafael Devers, send Devers to La and he can replace
Max Muncie and throw Duran in to replace Conforto. Oh yeah, Matt.
The Dodgers, they they are an odd team because they
have a good record. It just doesn't seem like they're
(31:09):
that good though. It seems like the team the way
I've watched them, like they're gonna lose the way they're playing, right,
I know, there's a million games to go, and all that.
But Confordo sucks, Max Munsey blows, and these guys are
in the lineup every day. It's like they got automatic outs.
And you look at Otani had a career year last year.
(31:31):
He's obviously not as good as he was last year.
You're not gonna play that way back to back. It's
just a lot of things that are just kind of eh.
Yet they have a great record and they're gonna be
in the playoffs and they'll probably win the division and
then all that, and it just doesn't seem like it's
going that great though. But anyway, let's say hello now
to the man voted the worst caller on the show
(31:55):
for years, Poppy in Sundayego. Hello, Poppy.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Hey, yeah, that's right, I'm the worst color of the year.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Proud of it.
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That's my mentor. Big shout out love my mentor, and
happy late birthday on my mentor. I gotta give him
a shout out on that, you know. But you know
what I want to talk about is this a couple
of things. I know you guys want to hear my pitch,
but my mind is Scott Foster. He's back. He's back
from an injury. He helped, you know, you know the
thunder they think the Denver nugget. Am I surprised? No,
(32:28):
I told you guys, when Scott Foster's on there, pay
attention V for the home team. So prediction right here
where I think he's gonna go. He might play tomorrow.
But I don't know, guys. I don't think he's You.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Can't make a pick because you hold us. You can't
make a pick because you're not You're not hold on. No, no, no,
hold you're not really gambling. You're not not listen. No no, no, no,
you're you're not You're not making a pick. You're just saying,
wherever was Scott Foster game, just butt the home team.
That's not that's not a pick. You just following Scott
Foster around.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, well that's what you just said.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah you said no, but it's a yes.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
No no, Ben, matter what I'm trying to think, you're
thinking like twenty steps ahead and I'm gonna do a
chess move on you jump twenty a step ahead of you.
But this is a thing you might think, Oh, yeah,
he's gonna pick the home TEMs does not know the
NBA with Adam Silver, I think he's gonna do. Where
he needs to go next is on the Celtics New
York game, because everyone just think about it psychology and mentality.
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Everyone's thinking, yeah, new York, New York, New York, whatever
and for. But with Adam Silvery's like, no, we can't
have this. We got to send the doctor to New
York on there. But he's not gonna be in the
home team. He's not gonna favor the name. He's gonna
go in the opposite and favor the Celtics. So it
makes it a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Okay, now you're playing. Now you're playing mental games with yourself.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
No, no, I'm doing But I'm just saying, he goes
somewhere else. Yeah, go for the home teams.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
But okay, alright, I gotta go, thank you, all right,
there you go. All right, that's his big pick. We've
got big bands, lame jokes of the week. Do we
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Man's are a laugh track. He's in Miami. He's calling
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Great weed Man from Miami. He's part of the jokes.
(34:20):
He's got his own segment here we don't pay him,
but the government does. I got we kind of we
pay our taxes, so we kind of indirectly pay weed man.
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Weed man? Hippie in Miami, Miami, Miami.
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Okay, all right? These are actual chip I know your
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I screwed up a punch line. It was your laugh
was funny anyway? How much of a bomb. Is weed
(36:38):
man hippie?
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How much?
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Well, the concept work from home is foreign to him
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you call weed man in a plane?
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What?
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Hi?
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What do you call weed man on land?
Speaker 7 (37:00):
What?
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Also? High? That's Alex Lisinecal. We sent that one in. Well,
interesting news out. I don't know if you saw this
this week. Did you know that Weedman hippie once defeated
a silver backed gorilla in combat?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Are you kidding me?
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Yeah? Yeah, it turns out the gorilla could not handle
the smell. That's Tom from Fullerton who sent that one in. Well,
here's one from the lame Joke writer of the Year
last year. I believe he's won a couple of times.
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What was weed Man's childhood nickname? What pot boy was
his nickname? That's SIRF for Todd the comedian. These are
actual jokes by actual listeners. How did weed Man get
off the streets?
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How?
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But you don't remember you moved your tent to the sidewalk.
That's how you did. That's how drew in Minnesota, Thanka drew.
What is the difference between Mike the Left and weed
Man hippie. What Mike is searching for a pot of
gold and weed Man is just looking for coot. That's
a yeah, that's a you've heard that joke before. That's
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weed Man, why is it surprising that you're short and
only weigh one hundred and twenty pounds?
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But why because you're a big dummy. That's Tony in
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What is the difference between weed man and a catfish?
What one is a bottom feeder? The other is a fish?
That's a Noah in Austin, all right, If Justin Cooper,
(38:47):
If the Justin Cooper doll is a bobblehead and the
Bill Miller doll is a babblehead, what is the lorraina doll?
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do you see that pirate Did you see that pirate
fan that got injured after falling onto the field.
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Yeah?
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Wow, yeah, yeah, Well doctors have diagnosed him with Anthony
Rendon disease because he got injured the second he touched
the field. That's Alex the cinecal Well, this offseason, where
is John Morant going to work on his shot Hawaii?
Where no the shooting range, He's going to surfer? Todd
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the comedian There. Well, in Ohio, a raccoon was found
holding a crack pipe in a pullover by the cops.
Did you see this weed man?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Wow?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Jed whu Fled said he's glad
his pet raccoon was found alive. He would like his
pipe back, though, he would like the pipe back, So
make that take that happen. How can you tell that
Mike the Leprechaun is jealous of Coop's friendship with Lorena. Wow,
he he's green with envy. He's green with envy. Right there,
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star players properly. We'll take a look at that. And
with the friction between Rafael Devers and the team, how
is his future looking in Boston? Will go there? And
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a story out of Pittsburgh. After just thirty eight games,
the Pirates played whack a mole and got rid of
their manager, got named Derek Shelton to quote fix this
now according to the owner, So what did the Buckos
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on a random day in early May, Red Sox designated
(03:29):
hitter Rafael Devers delivery the atomic elbow. As we say, so,
Devers is not happy. Now how do we know he's
not happy because he said he's not happy, upset with
the bosses, the powers that be with the Red Sox.
And this is a good one, This is a good one.
(03:49):
He accused the organization of going back on their word,
back on their word. This is over a recent that
was made to him. So if you didn't see it,
and if you're not plugged in with the Red Sox,
this is a national show, not a local show. So
you might not be familiar with the story. So the
story is if you missed it. Rafael Devers says that
(04:13):
the Red Sox executive we call them the GM there,
Craig Breslo, asked him to play first base. This following
the season ending injury to Tristan Cassies as he's out
for the year and probably part of next year as well.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
It turns out that Devers said that he was unwilling
to play first base. Why because the Red Sox had
told him to put his glove away after they moved
him from third base the designated hitter during the offseason. Now,
(04:47):
he was asked if he was upset with the team
over the request, and he responded yes, of course in Spanish.
All right, so we I think we have the audio,
will place some of it. And I know he spoke
through a translator, so I'm not sure if we're going
to just hear the translator, we're gonna hear Okay, this
is the This is just the clean version where it's
(05:10):
just the it's just his answers. Right, all right, let's go,
let's see what we got. This is Rafaeldevers ripping apart
the management of the Boston Red SOX, let's listen all along.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
It's from Raffey Devers quote. I know I'm a ballplayer,
but at the same time, they can't expect me to
play every single position out there and spring trending. They
talked to me and basically told me to put away
my glove, that I wasn't gonna play any other position.
But d H, so right now, I just feel like
it's not an appropriate decision by them to ask me
to play another position. It was the GM that I
(05:41):
spoke with. I'm not sure what he has with me.
He played ball. I would like to think he knows
that changing positions like that isn't easy.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Okay, that was NMLB network report there they were giving
the quote from from Rafield Devers. God, this is so
this is so good. This is such a great story
for talk radio. It is It is a ten out
of ten in terms of baseball stories. So, as you
heard the transcript being read by a teleprompter reader for
(06:15):
MLB Network, Devers indicating that he was not happy because
it's hard. It's hard, and so he made it clear
that he is not happy with Craig Breslow and the
front office there in Boston. So let us discuss the
question is as false. Is this story more about a
(06:36):
Raphael Devers being a stubborn donkey? Or B is this
story more about the Red Sox front office failing to
manage it's star players proper So my views on this,
I've got Kosher Salt, Alfred Hitchcock and Blue Whale, and
(06:57):
we will combine all of these things together and be
footloose and fancy free is what we're going to be. Okay, So,
first of all, to answer the question, is it a
Rafael Devers being stubborn or is it be the Red
Sox front office failing to manage their star players properly?
My answer is not A or B. My answer is
(07:18):
C all of the above. All of the above. You
have your classic spoiled, selfish star athlete. That's Rafaeld Devers
right on Central Casting. Now, the different wrinkle here is
the fact that he decided to go public and he
should be a brand ambassador for Kosher Salt. Morton's a
(07:40):
Kosher Salt. Because Rafael Devers, you can tell he's not
hiding his emotion. He's got a beef with the front
office with the Red Sox. He believes he's the victim.
Everyone's the victim of this great injustice. So he's salty,
he's very salty, and he's upset. He's still bitter. He's
got that bitter face because Boston went out and signed
(08:01):
that cheating a astro, Alex Bregman in the offseason, and
that was a third baseman. They took away the third
base position from Devers, who's been one of the worst
defensive players in baseball for years. So Devers is like, hey,
I'm not flexible. I will not bend with the wind.
I will not This is payback with a capitol p
(08:26):
by Rafael Devers. Payback now. As for the Red Sox
front office, they are not off scot free. They also
looked like a bunch of dopes. And here's why. The
only reason that Rafael Devers got the bag was because
the Red Sox didn't want to pay Mookie Bets. They
gave Mookie bets away to the Dodgers for some of
(08:49):
those snow Globe Hollywood toys in the gift shops in Hollywood.
That's what the Red Sox got backed for Mookie bets.
The Dodgers have won two World Series since they got
rid of Mookie Bets since the Red Sox got rid
of Mookie Bets and sent him to La so they
got rid of him. There was also another player, Xander Bogarts,
who left to go to the Padres, although he hasn't
(09:10):
played that well in San Diego. So the Red Sox
had team, a team of players that had won a
World Series, although it was little shady in twenty eighteen,
and so they weren't keeping their players and the last
one left was Rafael Devers, so they had to pay him.
They obviously didn't vet Rafael Devers to say is this
a guy worthy of this kind of money? Can we
trust him? Is this somebody that will represent the organization properly? No,
(09:34):
they didn't do that. They gave him the money and
now they're getting what they get. They deserve it. They
look like it was the idiots. And now is it
true that Craig Breslo mishandled the situation the gam there
in Boston by failing to communicate clearly with Rafael Devers
that he would be needed to play the field possibly
(09:57):
down the line, I want a mess. Can you imagine
going to your boss and be like, yeah, I don't
want to do that job. But but we're paying you
a lot, But no, I don't want to do that.
Like how does that work? Like, seriously, can you get
away with that? If you're a truck driver and you're like,
(10:19):
I don't I don't want to make that trip. I'm
you know, I'm good. When we're paying you, you have
to go that route. No, I'm not. I'm not doing that.
I'm not. I'm not doing it. Uh, you're You're in
a bakery and you're like, all right, I needed to
make this many donuts and this, you know, these these treats.
But no, I don't feel like doing that.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm not. I'm not comfortable. It's not easy, you know,
it's not easy. That's what That's what Rafael Devers is doing.
It's wild and there are actually people defending him, although
I'm thinking that's just bots and that's like fake accounts. Now, Secondly,
with this friction which we have documented between Raffie Devers
and the baseball team, how is his future looking in Boston?
(11:00):
So this is a situation where you have to put
friction at the very top of this is a friction
situation that is an understatement and it's I think an
accurate way to describe Rafaeld Devers as a me guy,
not a team guy. All right, me guy, not a
team guy. Now Devs is only in year two, if
(11:22):
I'm not mistaken, of a ten year, three hundred and
thirteen million dollar contract, Yes, three one hundred and thirteen
million dollars for Raffield Evers. He's in year two of
the contract. Who goofed? I've got to know now, normal protocol.
Normal protocol is, if you're in that tax bracket for
(11:44):
that kind of cash, you are expected to be a
good will ambassador. And instead of that, Devs in this
chapter of the book is starring in an Alfred Hitchcock film,
The Saboteur, and the face of the franchise has now
embarrassed the franchise multiple times. And now as a talk
(12:04):
show host, I love it. Devs is great. Right. They
wanted to move him to DH. He to want to
play DH. Then they said it was some kind of
communication issue. Well, what are they gonna say now? Same thing.
At some point, the question will be asked, is the
juice worth the squeeze? Is Dever's worth the headaches? Devers
is on pace this year to drive in one hundred
(12:26):
runs he got for that terrible start the first couple
weeks of the year was terrible, but he's picked it up.
He's on pace to driving one hundred runs and only
twenty five home runs, which isn't that great For three
hundred million dollars and forty plus doubles playing at Finway,
you should be able to hit forty doubles blindfolded. And
he's doing this while he is sulking in Poudyville, USA. Powdyville, USA.
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Now the other branch of this tree is that Rafael
Deveres has also exposed the Red Sox manager Alex Korra
as pinocchio. Liar, Liar, Liar, Liar, Liar, liar, because just
a couple of days ago, Alix Cora attempting to run
interference the naked bootleg for Rafael Devers. Remember this we
(13:11):
talked about a little bit on the show. Alex Cora
claimed that they were not going to ask Rafael Devers
to play first base, that was not an option. And
yet we now know from the horse's mouth Rafaeld Devers
that behind the scenes the front office did did go
to the player and say we'd like you to play
first base. The Red Sox are a mediocre team so
(13:34):
far this year, and now they have to find someone
to play first base. They have a couple of supposedly
hot shot minor league players, but they don't want to
put those guys in the major leagues because it involved
service time. And so the name that I saw, I
don't know if they've signed him yet, but the name
that was going around Anthony Rizzo, Anthony E. F. And Rizzo,
(13:55):
who's been done for several years. He stinks, But that's
who who's available.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
All right.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Now, final thought, we have a managerial change in professional baseball.
Say what, Yeah, we taken now to Pittsburgh, PA. We
go in a twelve and twenty six record. The Buckoes
have thrown manager Derek Shelton over board off the Pirate
ship Don Kelly. We're not sure who that is, but
(14:25):
he is now the interim manager in Pittsburgh. The money
quote came from the frugal tightwad Bob Nutting. That's the
owner of the team. Interesting name, he said. The move
was made to quote fix this now, he said. So
after just thirty eight games, the Pirates have whacked manager
(14:47):
Derek Shelton to quote. According to the owner, fix this
now is what the owner said. So what did the
Bucos accomplish with this particular move? So this is no
with one word. My word is abra cadabra. Its magical
misdirection is what it is. It's the hidden ball trick
(15:09):
in involving managers. This move is a classic distraction. Think
of it like a blue whale in a goldfish tank. Okay,
it stands out, it's obvious, it doesn't fit. We all
know what you're doing. The Pirates have been a slapstick
comedy on and off the field. Now, we don't talk
(15:30):
too much baseball this time of the year because it's
a thousand games to go, But what is my evidence.
The Pirates have been a slapstick comedy operation since the
beginning of the year. Here are some of the highlights
of Pirates baseball. When they're not getting shell act on
the field. The Pirates, without announcing, removed a tribute to
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Roberto Clemente that had been on the outfield sign at
their beautiful ballpark in Pittsburgh to sell booze to sell alcohol.
Of course, the family of Roberto Clemente was not happy
about that, and they tore up the organization so the
team had to put the tribute back on the wall.
Then a local TV station in Pittsburgh found out that
(16:12):
a bunch of bricks that had the names of fans
and dead relatives of Pirate fans had been sent to
a dump to a recycle facility in Pittsburgh. These you
know how these teams have this deal. You buy a
brick and they'll put your name of your mom or
your dad, or your name or your kid's name, and
they'll put it in the stadium. And it's kind of
(16:33):
a cool thing, right, that's kind of a neat thing,
and your name is there, and it's give them a
little money, and it is not. So without announcing it,
they ripped out all those bricks and just tossed them
into a recycle facility in Pennsylvania. Who goofed, I've got
to know. I'm not done though. Wait, there's one I
mentioned slapstick comedy. How about a fan dropping like a
sack of potatoes from twenty one feet off during the
(16:56):
game onto the warning track when the Pirates were playing
the Cubs. Remember that? But wait, something even more outrageous happened.
There is video that has gone viral. The last couple
of days there was this would look like a drunk
dude at a Pirates game was in a disagreement an
unruly fan. So a stadium usher comes over to try
(17:19):
to calm the situation down at the Pittsburgh Pirates stadium.
And so during this situation, so it clearly looked like
an inebriated guy in my opinion, and they're going back
and forth. So what did the stadium usher do. Did
he call the police and say we need the police
here to take care of No, he decided that he
wanted to fight the usher, right, so he whipped the
(17:41):
usher with his belt. He took his belt off to
whip the person, and there was some spitting of lugis
involved by the fan. The fans spit the lugie and
it was I mean, this is next level. Now, as
for the Pirates on the field and the Derek Shelton
human sacrifice for the failure the buck last I checked,
(18:01):
they can't hit, pitch or feel, but other than that,
they're a good ball club. If you take away hitting, pitching,
and defense. They have all the ingredients of a good team.
And the brass has assembled a dog's lunch roster. They
have two players it does remind you of the Angels
(18:23):
a bit, not as extreme, but when the Angels had
Mike Trout and Shoho Tani and failed to make the
playoffs year after year after year after year after year
after year after year. Well, the Pirates have Paul Skiings
who at some points going to eventually pitch for the
Yankees of the Dodgers and get paid a ton of money,
and that's how it's gonna go. And then you have
(18:43):
O'Neil Kruz who's one of the top young players in baseball,
though he's not playing that great this year. And outside
of that, to quote the great Dennis Eckers League, you
have a hodgepodge of nothingness is what you have. So
the future for the Pirates is hazy, with a high
probability of more fertilizer on the field. Pirate Baseball, My god.
(19:07):
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the day. And here's the Mallor Riddle of the day.
So it turns out that a fifty five year old
Georgia man is suing the NFL. We mentioned this the
other day. We now have some more information on the
gentleman that is going by the name John Doe. So
the fifty five year old Georgia man suing the NFL
(20:38):
over Shooder Sanders draft a tumble not only wants one
hundred million dollars in damages from the NFL, but he
also wants blank. He also wants blank. That is the
mallor riddle of the day. The answer, We'll get to
it and we will do it next.
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Lapp right over there, Big Morning Show, Big Morning Show
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sports radio, So act accordingly. And now back to the nonsense.
All right, back to it as I been, as we
pay off the Mallor riddle of the day, the Mallard
Riddle of the day that'll be coming up here, mall monetarily,
momentarily look forward to that as we work our way
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through these early morning hours. And let's see here, what
do we have and want to read that? All right,
it's time now for the riddle of the day, the
riddle of the day. So what is the answer to
the riddle of the day, you ask, Well, let me
give you the riddle and then you can try to
figure it out. By the way, Jeff in Iowa is listening,
and he is enjoying the show. He thinks that we're
(22:59):
very good. So thank you, Jeff. As you drive your
truck around around Iowa, we're glad to know that you're listening.
And here is the insta trivia. A fifty five year
old Georgia man is suing the NFL over Shooder Satyrs
draft a tumble fumble bumble. Not only does this person
want one hundred million in damages, but also would like
(23:22):
blank it says, this is very important. What do we
have you this? See page Dan, I don't know if
I can read that. On the air. We'll skip over
that one. A lot of reaction to Rafael Devers and
the Mallard monologue about that, and let's see what answers
do we have? Fudgie says, a Fudgie como bobblehead doll
(23:47):
is the answer. Boiled peanuts from JT. The Wingman in Knoxville, Tennessee,
but as hard as in Wisconsin. King Rory says a
honey bun, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger is the answer. Milkman
Mike says, the guy wants lifetime invitations to Jeffrey Epstein
(24:07):
and Diddy parties. Yeah, I don't think they're having those anymore.
I think those are over. A clam says a set
of four tires from Tire Rack. Well, who wouldn't want those?
That's a big deal? What else? Alf the Alien opiner
says he would also like a camel. He wants to
have a camel. Who else? Page down starting quarterback for
(24:31):
Mike Tomlins Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Steelers. Ferg Dog
says wants to broadcast a game with SpongeBob. Well, that
would be quite the broadcast. Now, in that photo, I
actually know one of the people in that photo because
he used to be a Clipper broadcast. I didn't know
he did a game with SpongeBob. I had no idea.
Who else do we have? Page down? I can't read
(24:53):
that on the air. All right, that's it up, Larina,
Do you have an answer? A lot of answers that
are on the on the spectrum can't read him on
here Loredo the riddle of the day, fifty five year
old Georgia man suing the NFL over Shudur Sanders Draft day.
Tumble and bumble and stumble. But not only does this
JABRONI want one hundred million in damages, but would also
(25:16):
like blank? He says, Blank's very important.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
Yes, he would also like his own pony petting zoo. Ben.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Yeah, did you want that when you were a little girl?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
He did?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
You did, and you never got that. Family did not
provide you for that, And that's very.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Sad that you The correct answer is the fifty five
year old Georgia Man suing using the name John Doe,
suing the NFL over Suder Sanders draft day a fault.
Speaker 1 (25:42):
Not only wants one hundred million dollars, he would also
like he's looking forward to discovery, the discovery process, as
he believes that will prove the illegal conspiracy against Shardeur Sanders.
That was the answer.
Speaker 6 (25:55):
That was the answer, discovery, You're recorded.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
This is a law process, was the answer.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's what he wants. He wants the discovery process. Yeah,
he could pick new socks and he wants a discovery process.
I know, I know you can get in new such
but no, this is where you go. You know, you
get sued, you have to turn over all your email
and your phone records and all that, like all of
that becomes available to the other side. So this guy,
this guy thinks that a the lawsuit is not gonna
(26:24):
get thrown out right away. It's obviously frivolous. So he
thinks it's not gonna get thrown out. And then he's like, well,
not is it not gonna get thrown out? But I'm
gonna go and I'm gonna have access to all the
text messages and email of all of these different NFL
executives and you know, all the big shots in the NFL.
Good luck, good luck on that. All right's go back
(26:46):
to the calls and let's say hello to Andrea. She's
in the Bay Area. She's got the star chart out
and she is ready to dazzle you. Get you set
up for the big weekend here with all all you
need to know in a cosmic approach.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
Hello, and hello Ben. I like the way you put that.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Yeah, absolutely, So what do we got now? The Warriors
are not looking so good right now. Things at the
game one, they took it on the channing game through
there and it didn't really show up for game thing.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
Yeah, well, the Steph Curry, that's definitely you know, timing
is everything, and not good timing for the injury. And
it's the first time he ever had a hamstring injury.
And he's born March fourteen, nineteen eighty eight, one point
fifty one pm Akron, Ohio. Remember the same hospital as Lebron.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yep, yep, from you.
Speaker 7 (27:44):
We know that from you, we do, right, We always
talk about that. And basically he is a Pisces and
Saturn is in Pisces right now. Conjuncture's son. What that
means is Saturn rules of skeletal system, his knees, teeth,
joint back. So it's like delay, not denial. But it's
(28:06):
really a very challenging transit to have in terms of
physical health and energy. It's really a low point. And
they actually said he was crying, which is very Pisces,
and you know, he really wants to play, but he
doesn't want to tempt the fates and start playing before
it's healed. And again, this is the first time he
had a hamstring injury, so he's kind of had a loss.
(28:29):
And you know they're saying, no, we examined I think Wednesday,
a week after. So you know, there's some light at
the end of the tunnels.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
There is light, but if the Warriors keep losing these games,
there's no more light, they go to the darkness.
Speaker 7 (28:43):
It's over right, It's you know, just that many games.
So it's definitely not the best timing for this to
be happening. And yeah, it's a Saturn. You know, you
get a Saturn transit, then it's only twenty nine years
Saturn conjunct the Sun.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Oh really, twenty that's a long time. Twenty ninety, right, like.
Speaker 7 (29:05):
The Saturn return when you're twenty nine, Saturn conjunct your
son when every twenty nine years. So some of these
planetary cycles don't happen very often, and when they do,
they tend to kind of stick around for a while.
And that said, Saturn is uh, you know, limitation challenges
and again the skeletal system, so it's definitely lowered energy
(29:29):
and vitality.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Gotcha, gotcha? All right? Well he's getting older and stuff starts,
you know, hurting a little more where you get older.
Speaker 7 (29:37):
It's just kind of yeah, I know, only in the
sports world is like thirty five or thirty seven. They
make it sound like it's ancient.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I know, isn't that funny? Is I always laugh at
that too? It's oh he's so old. Oh he's a
grizzled letter and I'm like, oly crap, what are you?
Speaker 2 (29:50):
I mean?
Speaker 1 (29:50):
You you just shut up? You know?
Speaker 7 (29:52):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah? All right, Well, have a great weekend, Andrea, thank
you so much. And you're on ex Virgo and service
you have. That newsletter comes out every what every four months?
Speaker 7 (30:02):
Oh yeah, I'll be doing one you know soon again, So.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
Have a nice all right, there you go. Our friend
Andrea check it in and she's hanging out in northern
California in Berkeley, big supporter of the show. And yeah,
all right, let's see what. I don't know. If some
of your people keep you must think we're doing like
(30:27):
satellite radio, just a podcast and I can just say
every bad effing word you want me to say. I know, dude,
it's like you gonna get me in trouble one of
these times. I'm gonna read this stuff on the air
and then you're gonna have to dump it. And if
you don't dump it, I'm gonna get in trouble, and
then you know I don't. Yeah, Matt Jack writes and says,
(30:48):
the Dowyers desperately need a third basement. We will pay
Rafael Devers, send Devers to La and he can replace
Max Muncie and throw Duran in to replace Conforto. Oh yeah, Matt.
The Dodgers, they they are an odd team because they
have a good record. It just doesn't seem like they're
(31:09):
that good though. It seems like the team the way
I've watched them, like they're gonna lose the way they're playing, right,
I know, there's a million games to go, and all that.
But Confordo sucks, Max Munsey blows, and these guys are
in the lineup every day. It's like they got automatic outs.
And you look at Otani had a career year last year.
(31:31):
He's obviously not as good as he was last year.
You're not gonna play that way back to back. It's
just a lot of things that are just kind of eh.
Yet they have a great record and they're gonna be
in the playoffs and they'll probably win the division and
then all that, and it just doesn't seem like it's
going that great though. But anyway, let's say hello now
to the man voted the worst caller on the show
(31:55):
for years, Poppy in Sundayego. Hello, Poppy.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Hey, yeah, that's right, I'm the worst color of the year.
Speaker 7 (32:04):
Proud of it.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
That's my mentor. Big shout out love my mentor, and
happy late birthday on my mentor. I gotta give him
a shout out on that, you know. But you know
what I want to talk about is this a couple
of things. I know you guys want to hear my pitch,
but my mind is Scott Foster. He's back. He's back
from an injury. He helped, you know, you know the
thunder they think the Denver nugget. Am I surprised? No,
(32:28):
I told you guys, when Scott Foster's on there, pay
attention V for the home team. So prediction right here
where I think he's gonna go. He might play tomorrow.
But I don't know, guys. I don't think he's You.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Can't make a pick because you hold us. You can't
make a pick because you're not You're not hold on. No, no, no,
hold you're not really gambling. You're not not listen. No no, no, no,
you're you're not You're not making a pick. You're just saying,
wherever was Scott Foster game, just butt the home team.
That's not that's not a pick. You just following Scott
Foster around.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
Yeah, well that's what you just said.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah you said no, but it's a yes.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
No no, Ben, matter what I'm trying to think, you're
thinking like twenty steps ahead and I'm gonna do a
chess move on you jump twenty a step ahead of you.
But this is a thing you might think, Oh, yeah,
he's gonna pick the home TEMs does not know the
NBA with Adam Silver, I think he's gonna do. Where
he needs to go next is on the Celtics New
York game, because everyone just think about it psychology and mentality.
(33:29):
Everyone's thinking, yeah, new York, New York, New York, whatever
and for. But with Adam Silvery's like, no, we can't
have this. We got to send the doctor to New
York on there. But he's not gonna be in the
home team. He's not gonna favor the name. He's gonna
go in the opposite and favor the Celtics. So it
makes it a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Okay, now you're playing. Now you're playing mental games with yourself.
Speaker 3 (33:51):
No, no, I'm doing But I'm just saying, he goes
somewhere else. Yeah, go for the home teams.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
But okay, alright, I gotta go, thank you, all right,
there you go. All right, that's his big pick. We've
got big bands, lame jokes of the week. Do we
have the weed Man? By the way, producer Leelee weed
Man's are a laugh track. He's in Miami. He's calling
up right now. I bet okay, we'll get him, the
Great weed Man from Miami. He's part of the jokes.
(34:20):
He's got his own segment here we don't pay him,
but the government does. I got we kind of we
pay our taxes, so we kind of indirectly pay weed man.
All right, we'll get to that big bangs lame jokes
of the week for the rest of the hour. We'll
get to it. We'll do it next.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
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Speaker 5 (35:35):
Knock, knock, who's there? Blame We blame week too. It's
big Man's lame joke of the week.
Speaker 1 (35:42):
All right, let's do it then, jokes in the week.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
Are you there?
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Weed man? Hippie in Miami, Miami, Miami.
Speaker 7 (35:48):
Well out here?
Speaker 5 (35:50):
It all right?
Speaker 1 (35:51):
You don't see them that excited today? Are you not excited?
Speaker 7 (35:54):
I'm tired?
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Okay, all right? These are actual chip I know your
roommates gone. These are actual jokes by actual listeners sending
to the show. I love you all right, Benmaller Show
at gmail dot com. Did you hear the tooth fairy
move to Miami? He became a vagrant and was arrested
(36:17):
for trespassing. That's not the punchline. Police a still trying
to identify the owner of some dirty dentures found in
her apartment cart or shopping cart. Rather, that's Gordon in Tatoba.
I screwed up a punch line. It was your laugh
was funny anyway? How much of a bomb. Is weed
(36:38):
man hippie?
Speaker 3 (36:40):
How much?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
Well, the concept work from home is foreign to him
in two different ways. So that's Alex Thesenecal. What do
you call weed man in a plane?
Speaker 2 (36:54):
What?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (36:56):
What do you call weed man on land?
Speaker 7 (37:00):
What?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Also? High? That's Alex Lisinecal. We sent that one in. Well,
interesting news out. I don't know if you saw this
this week. Did you know that Weedman hippie once defeated
a silver backed gorilla in combat?
Speaker 5 (37:17):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah? Yeah, it turns out the gorilla could not handle
the smell. That's Tom from Fullerton who sent that one in. Well,
here's one from the lame Joke writer of the Year
last year. I believe he's won a couple of times.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
Here.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
What was weed Man's childhood nickname? What pot boy was
his nickname? That's SIRF for Todd the comedian. These are
actual jokes by actual listeners. How did weed Man get
off the streets?
Speaker 3 (37:49):
How?
Speaker 1 (37:51):
But you don't remember you moved your tent to the sidewalk.
That's how you did. That's how drew in Minnesota, Thanka drew.
What is the difference between Mike the Left and weed
Man hippie. What Mike is searching for a pot of
gold and weed Man is just looking for coot. That's
a yeah, that's a you've heard that joke before. That's
(38:13):
Chip in Maine. It's Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. Well,
weed Man, why is it surprising that you're short and
only weigh one hundred and twenty pounds?
Speaker 5 (38:24):
Not true?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
But why because you're a big dummy. That's Tony in
the Bay Area. That's not nice. Phony, that's not nice.
What is the difference between weed man and a catfish?
What one is a bottom feeder? The other is a fish?
That's a Noah in Austin, all right, If Justin Cooper,
(38:47):
If the Justin Cooper doll is a bobblehead and the
Bill Miller doll is a babblehead, what is the lorraina doll?
What a bubblehead? That's from Eke in Roseville Soda. Well,
do you see that pirate Did you see that pirate
fan that got injured after falling onto the field.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (39:08):
Wow, yeah, yeah, Well doctors have diagnosed him with Anthony
Rendon disease because he got injured the second he touched
the field. That's Alex the cinecal Well, this offseason, where
is John Morant going to work on his shot Hawaii?
Where no the shooting range, He's going to surfer? Todd
(39:30):
the comedian There. Well, in Ohio, a raccoon was found
holding a crack pipe in a pullover by the cops.
Did you see this weed man?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Jed whu Fled said he's glad
his pet raccoon was found alive. He would like his
pipe back, though, he would like the pipe back, So
make that take that happen. How can you tell that
Mike the Leprechaun is jealous of Coop's friendship with Lorena. Wow,
he he's green with envy. He's green with envy. Right there,
(40:04):
It is lame jokes. We thank you eat man. There
go all right, enjoy your freedom without your roommate. There
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