June 10, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about the chances that Roman Anthony turns out to be the real deal after he made his MLB debut for the Red Sox, Cubs ownership being pressured to pay Kyle Tucker, Red Sox pitcher Hunter Dobbins saying he'd rather retire than play for the Yankees, Maller's Mountain of Money: Michael J. Fox Edition, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ding Dong. It's our number three, our number three, and
a happy Tuesday to you. Talk in bays Bow and
here in our number three. What are the chances that
Roman Anthony turns out to be the real deal? He
made his major league debut for the Red Sox. Everyone's
all gung ho, they got their pants off. They're all
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excited about Roman Anthony. We'll talk about his situation. Also,
how do you categorize Cubs ownership being pressured to pay
Kyle Tucker who has not agreed to a contract yet.
He's gonna be the next big money player in baseball.
Cubs traded for him this offseason from the cheaters in Houston,
also the Red Sox. The pitcher Hunter Dobbins said he'd
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rather retire than play for the Yankees, and he didn't
back down after beating them over the weekend. Your thoughts
on his comments. We'll get to all of that and
more right now here. It is our number three. It's
all about the Roman numerals. Everyone's so excited about the
Roman numerals. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
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Buying show me. So our lead this hour from Finway Park.
We go to Finway Park. So the big story in
baseball that everyone's been yapping. I don't think the Dodgers
beating the Padres. That's expected, that game happening on Monday night.
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But the thing that everyone's been buzzing about for several
weeks in baseball. Has been something that finally happened, the
transaction wire, the high speed transaction wire. If you did
not hear about this or did not see it, we
learned that the Boston Red Sox. That's a baseball team,
not a good one. The Red Sox promoted outfire the
Roman Anthony and well, who's that. He's the number one
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minor league player and he is now in the Major
league twenty one years old. He was in the starting
lineup against the Tampa Bay baseball team. He was batting fifth,
He played right field, played right field. Now. He entered
spring ranked as the top prospect in the minor leagues,
and he has done nothing to change that. He had
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the long home run there for the Woo Socks the
other day, and he made his debut. How did he doubt?
Don't ask. He was zerover four with one run batted in,
and he had a walk and a massive booboo defensively,
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as he had Little League error the ball bouncing past
him in the outfield at Finway on a routine playing
right field that led to two runs for the Tampa
Bay Rays in that game. In a game that would
go extra innings and Tampa Bay would win that baseball game.
So let us discuss the question, the question, what are
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the chances that Roman Anthony turns out to be the
real deal for the Red Sox. So I've got combo meal,
porta potti, and lopstock and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a delicious,
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deep dish pizza chef's kiss. All right, So my first
thought on this, I'm gonna go chances that Roman Anthony
turns out to be the real No, when I say
real deal, I'm not just saying a major league player
because he'll be in the major leagues for a number
of years. Because he They're going to keep giving him opportunity.
And I would sit the bar. Not just to be
an all star. I don't think that is where the
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bar is. I'm talking about franchise level player, MVP level player.
That is what Roman Anthony needs to be. That is
the hype that this guy is not just your random
good prospect. A prospect is a suspect and through proven
otherwise that this guy something more than that. So again,
to be an MVP level player, to finish in the
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top three in the MVP vote. That doesn't happen for
most players. So I'm gonna say there's a two percent chance,
a two percent chance, and it's just not good. The
math on this is not good. The hype around this
guy is next level, and baseball scribes want to They've
already got the story rated. It's a Roman dynasty. He's
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the next Ted Williams. It's Roman ballgame, not Teddy ball game.
It's Roman ballgame. That is a bold leap of faith.
That is a bold leap of faith. Now, generally speaking,
the players the Red Sox have hyped up over these
most of them end up hitting at least a little
bit in the Major least. But again, we're not just
going a little bit. We're talking about it. You gotta
be an MVP. Who's the last Envy Mookie Bets, the
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last MVP the Red Sox Minor league system produced. I
think it's Mookie Bets the last one that they produce.
But you've got this other thing going on, which I
always get a kick out of. When people are are
on the hype train for a young player in baseball,
people love the next big thing. This is a great
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examples a teachable moment like we're all wired the same.
We disagree politically or about this, that and the other thing,
but when it comes to finding the next big thing. See,
that's what it's all about, right. The thrill of discovery
is a universal part of the human condition. There's something exhilarating,
it's undeniable. There's something exhilarating about being the first to
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discover that next big star in sports. I saw that
guy before. You know so and so, and I knew
and I knew. And then you also you balance that
with the fomo that you don't want to not see
the young player because you have the fear of missing
out if he turns out to be be pretty good.
And it's the perfect combomeal the fomo and then you've
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got the thrill of discovery. You combine those two together
and you put a little juice in there and you
stir it all around, and you got the perfect combo meal.
It's just just absolutely great. And as Dennis Green said
back in his day, the former Fox Sports Radio Very
Brief host, you got a job at ESPAN about a
week after he got hired here. But Dennis Green would say,
you want to crowd him, crowd his ass, but he
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is who he thought he was, and we let him
off the hook. We let him off the hook, and
again Mato of the show. A prospect is a suspect
and tool proven otherwise. And until he shows that he
can hit Roman Anthony in the big leagues for the
Red Sox, he's just another can't miss minor league player.
And you know how that usually ends up. They can
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sell it though for a little bit, they can hype
it up, and the Red Sox aren't doing that, and
they've always been ahead of the time. I remember years
ago I got into it with some Angels executives because
every year the Red Sox had some guy in the
minor leagues here where they they were hyping up and
most most of those guys had not turned out to
be all that good. And the Angels never hi there
minor league players. And I said, why do you do that?
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Copy what the Red Sox do, And this guy gave
me his whole lest year. That's not how baseball teams operate.
They should not be doing that. Now everyone does it.
It's been a few years and everyone's doing what they
used to do back in the day. Anyway, all right,
we go to Chicago developing storyline. The team that is
on the come, as they say in the card game,
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the Chicago Cubs. Where the ownership of the Chicago Cubs
feeling a bit of pressure. A developing story. It's percolating
out of the Windy City. The heat is on now,
the heat is on to extend outfielder Kyle Tucker. Pay
the man. You must pay Kyle Tucker. He's an outfielder.
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They picked him up from the cheating as one one
thousand and two, one thousand holes. I did that for
Ned in Milwaukee. I know he's still listening and Ned
in Milwaukee. Uh yeah. So the Cubs ownership is being
pressured now, they're being bullied to pay Kyle Tucker the
big money.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Tucker is on pace for a good season, not an
all time great season. He's on pace to hit a
little over thirty home runs and drive in one hundred
run He's also set to become a free agent in
a short amount of time, and ownership is said to
be scrambling, and it's like, can we afford him? Is
he just gonna run off and play for the Yankees
or the Dodgers of the Red Sox or you know,
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whoever the big money teams, even though the Cubs are
supposed to be a big money team last I checked. So,
how do you here's the question, how do you categorize
how do you categorize Cubs ownership being pressured to pay
Kyle Tucker. So this is one of those things that's
in the basket of a good problem to have. Oh,
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it's a good problem to have. The Cubbies have for
the most part sucked since they won the World Series.
They were supposed to be the team of the next
decade when they won the World Series and they ended
the curse of the Billy Goat, and they're all gone.
Every key player, every building block, who was a generational
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talent for the Cubs, Gonzo. Some of them are doing okay.
A lot of them. That was the peak of their career.
The highlight of their career was winning the World Series
of the Cubs, and they went on to just be
middling players and a lot of them are out of
baseball already. Although it has been a few years since
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the Cubs won. So they went through this period where
they were selling an inferior product at Wrigley Field. Prices,
bad product, crappy product, all that substandard. So they did that.
Now they have a team that does look to be
a playoff like the Cubs seem legit. We're into June.
The Cubs have a good team, and they found a
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couple of other players that seem to know what they're
doing and all that, and so you've got Cub ownership.
Though in the cartoon Bubble and I had, Cub ownership
is in panic mode. It's like the guy that walked
into the porta potty and walked out of the porta
potty and didn't realize for some reason, they left their
wallet in the porta poli a party and they were
at like the Lollapaloozer or something. They left the porta
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potty there. They're like, oh crap, literally, where's my wallet.
It's probably covered in crap. What happened? Now the Cubs
have the money. This is always the thing with teams
like the Cups. They loved to bitch and complain about,
oh man, we don't have the money. And they got
the money, got plenty of money. They bought all the
land around Wrigley Field. That's not I was in Chicago
was depressing because I had gone to Wrigley Field, back
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years and years ago when it was it was still
what I had heard when I was a kid about
Wrigley Field. You know, they were playing some night games.
They played a few night games, and it was a
bunch of dive bars around Wrigley Field. There was a
little fire station, there were people sitting on the rooftops.
And the Cubs are like, screw that, We'll just buy everything,
will make it like Downtown Disney, and they had. And
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so I went back and it was like it's just
wasn't the same and it was not the same vibe.
They ruined. You know, It's like, so, yeah, I hear
people that go to Comic Con, and they used to
go to Comic Con and it was just a bunch
of nerds. It was just nerd porn. And then at
some point, the big movie studios, the big media companies
are like, hey, we got these nerds here, why don't
we just take over Comic Con And then we'll we'll
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basically take all the money, we'll take their wallets, and
these idiots, these nerds will just keep going and going.
And so that's what happened. And and you know, I said,
the Cubs have done the same thing with like Wrigleyville.
It just wasn't wasn't the same experience as I remember.
But maybe I just got older and that's you know,
things happened. So but the Ricketts family, they have so
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much money. How much money do they have? They have
so much money. I think they could buy at least
a quarter, if not half, of Lake Michigan and call
it Lake Rickets and just that's it, right. Four point
five billion is the net worth and Wrigley feel just
a cow, just absolute cash cow. Like we go to
you go to Chicago, she got one of the great
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cities I've been to. There's some issues in Chicago, Like
there are a lot of places, but you go to
Chicago and there's a wonderful restaurants, and uh, you got
Lake Michigan, You've got the Chicago River, You've got great architecture.
They always say, go to Wrigley Field, Like that's one
of the places you have to visit when you go
to Chicago. If you're not from Chicago, you gotta go
check out a game at Wrigley Field and allside. Here's
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the thing, though, if you want to sit and have
dinner at the Big Boys table with teams like the Dodgers,
and then the Mets are spending a lot of money,
and the Yankees and teams like that, Well you're the
Chicago fing cups. So you gotta pay the man. You
gotta pay the man. And so the pressure is on.
And I'm just sitting and I'm off on the side there,
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and I'm looking down and I'm in the upper balcony,
and I'm seeing what the Chicago Cubs are doing and
seeing what they're gonna do here and all this stuff.
You want the spotlight, Well, here you go, here you go.
Do you care or do you not care? Are you
gonna give out one of those ridiculous contracts or not?
All right? Now, final thought, we go back to the socks.
There was a quote that several of you sent to me.
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Did you see this?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Can you believe he said that? What do you think
of that? Now? Not everyone was on the positive side.
There were some people saying, what's you get to the point? Please?
We're talking about Red Sox picture Hunter Dobbins. Do you
know who that is? Hunter Dobbins? Probably not.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
He said recently that he would rather retire. He said
he would rather retire than play for the Yankees. Now
he did not back down. He did not back down
when asked for a follow up, and they went out
and beat the Yankees in a game over the weekend.
So your thoughts on that? So my thought is that
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Hunter Dobbins. I went back and I looked at the
at the time, he has been in the major leagues
for about five good minutes, about five good minutes, and
he comes out saying that he would rather retur higher
than pitch for the Yankees retire. Did anyone wonder whether
or not Hunter Dobbins was planning his retirement because he
didn't want to play for the Yankees. That there was
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a famous story that I heard years and years ago,
which it turns out his actual bull crap. The story
was the great Jackie Robinson, at the end of his career,
was traded to the Giants, and he was, you know,
mister Dodger and all that, and he didn't want to
play for the Giants, so he retired rather than play
for the Giants, the San Francisco Giants. It's a famous,
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famous story, although I did hear from people that that
was not exactly true, that Jackie Robinson's his body had
fallen apart he couldn't play, and so it wasn't that
he didn't want to play for them, not that he
was dying to play for the San Francisco Giants, but
he physically couldn't play, and that's why he didn't play
for them. But it wasn't that he wouldn't have played
for them because he had some kind of blind loyalty
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to the Dodgers. It wasn't that. That's what I was.
This goes back thirty years. I was told that anyway,
it is the Ben Mouse Show. So the Yankees were
they exactly, Brian Cashman and his army of nerds, were
they banging down the door saying, we really got to
get this guy Hunter Dobbins. And then Hunter Dobbins like,
I'm not pitching for you. I was like, oh shucks,
oh man, we can't get our hands on Hunter freaking Dobbins.
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He's like, but really, what this is is the classic.
You're playing to the crowd, you're playing to the base,
and you're trying to make a name for yourself. You're
trying to excite the fan base and all that stuff,
and you know, little pinstripes are evil. They're bad, bad, bad,
bad bad, And I would rather work at a car
dealership than pitch for the Yankees. I would rather become
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a podcaster that no one listens to as soon as
I can buy my computer and microphone, like Blair in Wisconsin,
Blair and Main, rather Blair and Maine, a Whoopie Pie
Blair uh and and all like Live off the Grid
or something like that. It's all hyperpole. Not that I'm
against Tayperble and the other thing. I looked at him,
I said, well, remember this guy's from the Northeast and
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maybe he grew up in New Hampshire or something like that,
or Vermont, or he's the Main guy, and he's a
New England guy. So it's like, if you're from New England,
you know you grew up with the Red Sox. There's
no way you would ever play for the Yankees. No
born in Texas, grew up in Texas, went to college
in Texas. Hunter Dobbins does not have lobster in his DNA.
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Born in bred in the state of Texas. So he
just did that to win some brownie points in the
Red Sox. If the Red Sox dumped him today and
the Yankees are like, hey, we want you, he'd throw
on pinstripes and say, oh, I was just kidding. You know,
he'll start singing Sinatra songs. He'll be hanging out with
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Spike Lee when they'll be doing Yankee Talk. It is
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Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is spending his off season with Blank.
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Mallar's Mount of Money, we need a couple of contestants
for that game. But first the Riddle of the Day
spurs star Victor Webb Yama is spending his off season
with blank. With Blank, that is the question. What is
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the answer to the riddle? And let's see does anyone
in the Mala militia know the answer? We go to
the Hoy Poloy, the Great Unwashed to see if anybody
knows the answer. Sawman says he is spending time with
Walton Goggins. All right, who else do we have Page Dan,
I can't read that on the air. And Bill Miller,
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a self proclaimed oil tycoon from listener Mike, let's see
here skip over that. A former porn star named Bridget
from Donkey, all right, Sigfried and Roy from Lady sideburns
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Missus Buttersworth from Milkman, Mike, that's his answer. What do
we have here? Stevie Meatball says Victor waman Yama spending
his off season with his favorite Bam Maham weed Man
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Al says spending his offseason
with mister Rogers and Joe Rogan at the Mothership in Austin,
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Del Taco from King Rory Paige don Let's see here.
Tom in Kansas City says he's spending his off season
with Big Bang to learn broadcasting. That's right, there, you go.
Man Well in Guardina says Wemby, the Parisian Prodigy, is
spending his summer with lamar Odom at the Bunny Ranch,
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smoking crack and enjoying some adult activity. We'll clean that up.
Inca Terra says, Giselle Bunchen is the answer. Mister Irrigation
says he's doing a citizen's ride with TV's Hunter. Friend
of the show, Fred Ryer. Reach out to Fred. Haven't
talked to Fred in a while. A Riddle of the
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day answer is a some kind of plastic blow up
doll from Johnny Q. That's his answer. Tom Tom the
Plumber says he spent his off season at David Robinson's poolhouse.
That he was out with Oscar the Grouch on Sesame
Street from Mark in Santa Monica, Ricardo says, hanging out
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with Yao Ming to discuss what to do when early
retirement hits. That's that is a low blow. That is
a low blow. All right, Loraina, do you have an
answer the Mallard rule of the day.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yes, I think he was hanging out with his evil twin.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
All right? Is evil twin correct? That's the here, No, that
is incorrect. It turns out, unfortunately, that Spurst star Victor
Weman Yama spending his off season with Chinese monks, real
authentic Chinese monks, not the fake, fraudulent monks, not the
ones you see outside the grocery store that want donation. No,
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not the ones you see on the streets in Vegas
and head like no, real like, he shaved his head
and he's going for How great would it be if
he said, you know what, I've seen the light and
I'm going to retire. I'm going to become a monk.
That is my future. Sorry, San Antonio, You're screwed. I
want to be a monk and I don't want to
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be a spur. I want to be a monk, and
I'm out. I'm the monk. Call me the monk Man.
That could be his nickname, the monk Man. That could
be it. Anyway, that is the answer. Let's go to
the phones. I say hello to Paul, who is in Boston.
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Paul?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Welcome, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Then?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
How you doing? Love the show Man? Listen to you
every morning driving into the city for work.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Thank you, sir, Thank you? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
So I wanted to touch base on that Hunt and
Dobbin thing. So I'm a huge Socks fan, hate the Yankees,
love to hate him, love the rivalry, wanted to get reborn.
So I did a little bit of digging on that
Dobbins thing. They were talking about it last night. So
Hunter's father, Lance was drafted by the Yankees back in
the day and they traded him, didn't give him a
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shot to the Arizona Diamondbacks for two years. His father
was a die hod Socks fan, and oddly enough, his
first game he ever pitched in the Mages was at
Yankee Stadium against the Yankees. So I think there's a
little bit of family hatred there, which I love. I
want that reborn. I would love to see that hatred
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back in the city, especially this weekend coming up with
the series.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
All right, listen, people have been saying that I still believe,
don't you think deep down though, Paul, if Hunter Dobbins
flames out with the Socks and he ends up looking
for a job and the Yankees are like, hey, we'll
give you a shot, like he's signed of the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Oh he'll play anyway.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Exactly, That's what I'm saying. That's exactly right, That's what
I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. No, I got you.
I mean, it is always weird when you have rivalries
and then that you grew up a fan of a
team and then you end up having to play for
the rival. It's like, what do you do?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
You do it for the love of the game. You
do it for the love of the game.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Man, there you go. I got you'all. I have a
good day. Thank you. All right, this Paul, he's driving
into work. Let's say hello to Hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, Minace, Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
He's feeling good tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
This is an all star performance by the great Hollering James.
James just spent a few hours watching Twins baseball. Ye
here he is. You're listening to a man in his
natural habitat enjoying the Ben Mather Show all the hot takes.
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Isn't that right, James? That's right, it's correct. Would you
would you like to play the game? James? Now, I understand,
how many times do you think he snores in in
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one minute?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
At least twenty seven times?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
All right, fade him down for a second, doesn't put
him down. Let me get the clock out. How many
times do.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
You think I said twenty seven times?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No, no, no, not that many times? Sixty second?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Now does that count as like a.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I'm saying up and down snore?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
So each up and down is one?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I think he's gonna do sixty seconds seven seven, okay,
seven and more or less?
Speaker 4 (26:36):
What do you I think this would be more than that?
Like like full.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
All right, it's a let's get back he let me
start the clock. Here, here we go, we're on our
way and go one, two, three, four. Oh, I'm gonna
this is way over five unless six. That's a little
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bit seventy six, seven, eight nine, we're nine, ten, eleven,
thirty seconds, eleven.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Twelve, a little faster, thirteen.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Fourteen was slower forty seconds, fifteen, sixteen, seventy eighteen, nineteen, twenty,
twenty one, moncome twenty two, twenty three. That's it, twenty
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three the clock, one minute, twenty three stores from Hollering James,
twenty three stores a minute. You give us one minute,
that's twenty three stores.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
What other radio sho gives you?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Nobody does that, Lorrene, We're the only show that does that.
Nobody else has that content. You think Colin Cowherd would
do that, No, he would never do that. So let's
see that so twenty three times one minute, so in
an hour, that means that means he stores one thousand,
three hundred eighty times an hour. No, Yes, and so
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times twenty four that if he slept for twenty four hours,
he would snore thirty three thousand, one hundred twenty times. Wow.
Let's say he sleeps eight hours though, because most people
sleep about eight. I don't honestly like five. But thus
he does eight hours. That means oh, I say, let mean,
let's see one, three eighty and then times eight. That
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works out to eleven thousand and forty snores per night.
Oh my god, that's how you get the nickname hollering James. Well,
actually you get the nickname hollering James because he would
sea should be snoring James honestly. Yeah, it's pretty impressive though.
Thank you, all right, hang up on yourself. King of
Kurds is next, and we are moments away from Mather's
(29:10):
Mountain Money. Hello, King of Kurds, Big Ben.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You beautiful bohemus of a being. Hello, I got a
quick question.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
I think I threw uh coop for a loop.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
When I called in, I was on speakerphone, so I
paused for a bit and he did his standard auctioneer
Ben maushow, who's this?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
And I asked how he was doing and he paused,
like no one has ever asked him before.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
No one's evertimized interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah, none the less.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Did he tell you how he's doing?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
No, he quickly. He didn't even ask me what I
want to talk about. He just said, all right, hold on.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
H okay. So there was no real screening. He just
puts you on hold and then that's it.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Well, you're one of those m vps king of Kurds'
you're gonna get on the air no matter what you say.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Don't smooth to me now the loop, you.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Know what that's small? Yeah, don't sweet talk me now. Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
you use me? You know how dare you?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I called, uh maybe a week week and have go
to apologize for a previous call because we did one
of our Milwauk late night Milwaukee email or militia meetups. Yeah,
I remember that, and I and there was a non
newbie night and I gave the phone to someone and
then I didn't even listen to the calls. A little embarrassed,
(30:32):
but I interjected, I don't remember, and I don't want
anyone to have become lactose intolerant or develop a peanut energy.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's very important you should get you should run for
politic politicians say I'm running on the anti peanut policy,
and I do not want people that are lactose intolerant.
My goal is to cure, forget curing cancer or any
of the other diseases. That's cure those that are lactose intolerance.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
I would vote for.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
You appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Well, It's like guests on posters.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
The Blair in Maine calling in threw me off while
I was lubricating my talking voice. You said, no one
can die twice. Being from Wisconsin, bartending and whatnot. I'm
not going to mention names, but this gentleman, I have
seen him die twice, and as you know, it's inevitable.
Taxes and death.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
You can go taxes empt, but it's going to be thrice.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
This guy literally there was an off duty nurse. She
was luckily there, resuscitated him. He got dropped out by
a taxi with his ambulance pant on and tried to
get another drink.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
So he really loves what was his drink of choice.
What does he like to drink?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Jim Beam and bush Light.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
So this guy is addicted to Jim Beaman bush light
and it's killing him.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Solid Vietnam VETT. You wouldn't expect that. He's got a
big doc mic energy.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh so bigger than life personality, life of the room, lights.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Up the room. On that that gets along with people
you think might not talk to.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Love guys like that. Love love the old the old
guy that's got a big personality. Love that guy. Love
that guy.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
This guy has died twice and uh he's still in
the stud.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
That's great. I hope he keeps going.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I got one quick question for you, though I don't
know if it's been discussed because I only listened to
you and my mother. Uh So, if SGA wins the
championship after winning MVP, although it's against the Pacers and
Haliburton sucks, is he considered better than any of the
big three in OKC because Durant needed help, everyone else
(32:39):
needed help. I know there's good role players there, yeah,
boding statistics and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh no, because it's only it's like one season. So
like those guys are all Hall of Fame players and
he's not a Hall of Fame player yet. Oh, how
can you say that he's gonna win the MVP. He
won the MVP. You know he's gonna be the finals.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
All time points and length of everything. But like he did,
like it was hard in Westbrook and Durant and they
did nothing in this guy.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, and Harden was a backup. Yeah Harden. Well, according
to the nerds, the thunder Stack team, they're the next
dynasty of the world of basketball. All right, King Kurtz,
I gotta go. You're both guarding all the time.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
But not in Milwaukee. I know the call is kind
of okay, but Wisconsin, that's got to stick together unless
you're an asstroll.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, that's right, no ass a, thank you, going hang
up with please? All right, I need another contestant for
Mallor's amount of money. I got one contestant, but we
need too so I gotta get somebody else. I know
I'm working. I don't want to be about I understand,
but I can't play the game with this one person.
We have two people that need to play the game.
There's only one person on Hold. So eight seven seven
(33:55):
ninety nine on Fox is the number eight seven seven
nine nine six six three six nine. If you'd like
to play, we are gonna have Malar's Mountain of money.
If we can get that other contestant. We'll get to
that and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
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Speaker 3 (34:45):
Now Malor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Anyway, we go, let's welcome in our contestants. We have
let's see your Ani nine more. We've got Tyler in Boston.
Who's gonna play? Hello, Tyler, welcome, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Benny?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
There you go, Tyler, you're gonna play the game. Who
would you like to partner up with? Here? Tyler, you
can play with me, Ben Lorraina. If you've got a
sense of humor or coop.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
A loop as funny as it would be to play
with Florena.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
I think I'm going with you about it?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
All right, Well, we'll have to win, Tyler. I hate
to do it, but we'll have to win. Hold on
a second, and we have any meenie money. Moe. Jacob,
who's over in Delaware? What's going on? Jacob? All right, man, welcome?
You want to play the game? I assume yes. You
called in. What are you driving around right now?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
What are you going?
Speaker 5 (35:40):
I am I'm heading them a bread round. I'm on
the road right now.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
We're all right? You good to go? And who do
you want to partner up with?
Speaker 5 (35:46):
I want to go?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
You want to lose? That's wow.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
I can't believe you guys always leave me out of this.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
It's not nice. It's very rude.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
All right, gentlemen, this is Malard's Mountain of Money, the
Michael J.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Fox edition. He turned six four years old on Monday.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Still going huh yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
But the categories are family ties, back to the Future,
teen Wolf and p D.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Tyler. You were on first? Which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah? Great show? And you know I've been to that
that thing with the light tarts at Universal Studios.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
That's right, that's right, and Jacob, which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Teen Wolf? Alright?
Speaker 4 (36:26):
All right, we're first chos Wolf.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Yes, Tyler is up first. Back to the future. You
know the rules, first and last name, all that, all right?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
These athletes were all born in nineteen eighty five or
nineteen fifty five? Are you ready? Tyler? All right?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Quarter?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
All right here with the forty five seconds, here we go.
Quarterback for the Ravens when they won the Super Bowl
the last time. No, no, he's the backup for the
Browns right now. He's still playing. Yes, the point guard
for the Lob City Clippers. He's forty years old. He's
played if he bounced prep. Yes, he was known for
the push with usc running back dated a Kardashian. Yes,
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the greatest Olympic swimmer of all time. Yes, Giants quarterback
of the nineteen eighties when they won the Super Bowl.
And also his backup Jeff Hostetler one no biblical name.
NBA player from the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties. A center,
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all right, Phil Simms, that's who you missed, the Simms
and also Moses Malone.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
All right, Jacob, we have teen wolf here. These athletes
all went pro as a teenager. Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I am all right?
Speaker 7 (37:41):
Forty five second let's to begin the King. He's on
the Lakers right now. Yes, this is the great one
in hockey. Yes, he was the big ticket, played for
the Minnesota Timber Bowls and then later the Celtics. Yes,
this guy's dad is LeVar. He is currently on the
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what's that?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (38:04):
This guy was a picture for the Mets. He loved cocaine,
Doc Gordon, that's not his name. Close, all right, we'll
go on. Yes, Pacers power forward. He was part of
the brawl at the with Detroit. Yes, this guy was
a teenager for the Lakers. He was the center with
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paw Gasol.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Oh, did not get it? All right? What was that round?
Speaker 6 (38:31):
No, there's sixty?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Uh, all right, so we got one hundred, so we
got to be one ady. What do you want, Tyler?
You got? What do we what do we have?
Speaker 6 (38:41):
We have family ties or p D yeh.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Family ties or pd? Family ties? All right, family ties.
These athletes all had a family member in the same
team organization. Are you ready, Tyler? Here, we'll go forty
five seconds and we're on our way. The King of
the Akers right now, Yes, point guard for the Knickerbockers. Yes. Uh,
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he was a coach of the Jets, big fat guy coach,
was it, Yes, that is correct. The coach of the
Celtics when they won the championship. Yes that is correct. Uh.
Shorts out for the Orioles. Cheated again. We want the guy, Tyler.
That is a winner. We wanted the game. We didn't
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get enough time, Jacob. We would have been got a
golden Tech. You gotta gold another win all time wins King.
Nobody has more wins of these games. Thank you, Tyler.
Bad luck Jacob should have picked me.
Ding Dong. It's our number three, our number three, and
a happy Tuesday to you. Talk in bays Bow and
here in our number three. What are the chances that
Roman Anthony turns out to be the real deal? He
made his major league debut for the Red Sox. Everyone's
all gung ho, they got their pants off. They're all
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excited about Roman Anthony. We'll talk about his situation. Also,
how do you categorize Cubs ownership being pressured to pay
Kyle Tucker who has not agreed to a contract yet.
He's gonna be the next big money player in baseball.
Cubs traded for him this offseason from the cheaters in Houston,
also the Red Sox. The pitcher Hunter Dobbins said he'd
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rather retire than play for the Yankees, and he didn't
back down after beating them over the weekend. Your thoughts
on his comments. We'll get to all of that and
more right now here. It is our number three. It's
all about the Roman numerals. Everyone's so excited about the
Roman numerals. Welcome in the beginning of another hour of
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Buying show me. So our lead this hour from Finway Park.
We go to Finway Park. So the big story in
baseball that everyone's been yapping. I don't think the Dodgers
beating the Padres. That's expected, that game happening on Monday night.
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But the thing that everyone's been buzzing about for several
weeks in baseball. Has been something that finally happened, the
transaction wire, the high speed transaction wire. If you did
not hear about this or did not see it, we
learned that the Boston Red Sox. That's a baseball team,
not a good one. The Red Sox promoted outfire the
Roman Anthony and well, who's that. He's the number one
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minor league player and he is now in the Major
league twenty one years old. He was in the starting
lineup against the Tampa Bay baseball team. He was batting fifth,
He played right field, played right field. Now. He entered
spring ranked as the top prospect in the minor leagues,
and he has done nothing to change that. He had
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the long home run there for the Woo Socks the
other day, and he made his debut. How did he doubt?
Don't ask. He was zerover four with one run batted in,
and he had a walk and a massive booboo defensively,
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as he had Little League error the ball bouncing past
him in the outfield at Finway on a routine playing
right field that led to two runs for the Tampa
Bay Rays in that game. In a game that would
go extra innings and Tampa Bay would win that baseball game.
So let us discuss the question, the question, what are
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the chances that Roman Anthony turns out to be the
real deal for the Red Sox. So I've got combo meal,
porta potti, and lopstock and we will combine all of
these things together and we are going to make a delicious,
(04:20):
deep dish pizza chef's kiss. All right, So my first
thought on this, I'm gonna go chances that Roman Anthony
turns out to be the real No, when I say
real deal, I'm not just saying a major league player
because he'll be in the major leagues for a number
of years. Because he They're going to keep giving him opportunity.
And I would sit the bar. Not just to be
an all star. I don't think that is where the
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bar is. I'm talking about franchise level player, MVP level player.
That is what Roman Anthony needs to be. That is
the hype that this guy is not just your random
good prospect. A prospect is a suspect and through proven
otherwise that this guy something more than that. So again,
to be an MVP level player, to finish in the
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top three in the MVP vote. That doesn't happen for
most players. So I'm gonna say there's a two percent chance,
a two percent chance, and it's just not good. The
math on this is not good. The hype around this
guy is next level, and baseball scribes want to They've
already got the story rated. It's a Roman dynasty. He's
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the next Ted Williams. It's Roman ballgame, not Teddy ball game.
It's Roman ballgame. That is a bold leap of faith.
That is a bold leap of faith. Now, generally speaking,
the players the Red Sox have hyped up over these
most of them end up hitting at least a little
bit in the Major least. But again, we're not just
going a little bit. We're talking about it. You gotta
be an MVP. Who's the last Envy Mookie Bets, the
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last MVP the Red Sox Minor league system produced. I
think it's Mookie Bets the last one that they produce.
But you've got this other thing going on, which I
always get a kick out of. When people are are
on the hype train for a young player in baseball,
people love the next big thing. This is a great
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examples a teachable moment like we're all wired the same.
We disagree politically or about this, that and the other thing,
but when it comes to finding the next big thing. See,
that's what it's all about, right. The thrill of discovery
is a universal part of the human condition. There's something exhilarating,
it's undeniable. There's something exhilarating about being the first to
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discover that next big star in sports. I saw that
guy before. You know so and so, and I knew
and I knew. And then you also you balance that
with the fomo that you don't want to not see
the young player because you have the fear of missing
out if he turns out to be be pretty good.
And it's the perfect combomeal the fomo and then you've
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got the thrill of discovery. You combine those two together
and you put a little juice in there and you
stir it all around, and you got the perfect combo meal.
It's just just absolutely great. And as Dennis Green said
back in his day, the former Fox Sports Radio Very
Brief host, you got a job at ESPAN about a
week after he got hired here. But Dennis Green would say,
you want to crowd him, crowd his ass, but he
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is who he thought he was, and we let him
off the hook. We let him off the hook, and
again Mato of the show. A prospect is a suspect
and tool proven otherwise. And until he shows that he
can hit Roman Anthony in the big leagues for the
Red Sox, he's just another can't miss minor league player.
And you know how that usually ends up. They can
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sell it though for a little bit, they can hype
it up, and the Red Sox aren't doing that, and
they've always been ahead of the time. I remember years
ago I got into it with some Angels executives because
every year the Red Sox had some guy in the
minor leagues here where they they were hyping up and
most most of those guys had not turned out to
be all that good. And the Angels never hi there
minor league players. And I said, why do you do that?
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Copy what the Red Sox do, And this guy gave
me his whole lest year. That's not how baseball teams operate.
They should not be doing that. Now everyone does it.
It's been a few years and everyone's doing what they
used to do back in the day. Anyway, all right,
we go to Chicago developing storyline. The team that is
on the come, as they say in the card game,
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the Chicago Cubs. Where the ownership of the Chicago Cubs
feeling a bit of pressure. A developing story. It's percolating
out of the Windy City. The heat is on now,
the heat is on to extend outfielder Kyle Tucker. Pay
the man. You must pay Kyle Tucker. He's an outfielder.
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They picked him up from the cheating as one one
thousand and two, one thousand holes. I did that for
Ned in Milwaukee. I know he's still listening and Ned
in Milwaukee. Uh yeah. So the Cubs ownership is being
pressured now, they're being bullied to pay Kyle Tucker the
big money.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Tucker is on pace for a good season, not an
all time great season. He's on pace to hit a
little over thirty home runs and drive in one hundred
run He's also set to become a free agent in
a short amount of time, and ownership is said to
be scrambling, and it's like, can we afford him? Is
he just gonna run off and play for the Yankees
or the Dodgers of the Red Sox or you know,
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whoever the big money teams, even though the Cubs are
supposed to be a big money team last I checked. So,
how do you here's the question, how do you categorize
how do you categorize Cubs ownership being pressured to pay
Kyle Tucker. So this is one of those things that's
in the basket of a good problem to have. Oh,
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it's a good problem to have. The Cubbies have for
the most part sucked since they won the World Series.
They were supposed to be the team of the next
decade when they won the World Series and they ended
the curse of the Billy Goat, and they're all gone.
Every key player, every building block, who was a generational
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talent for the Cubs, Gonzo. Some of them are doing okay.
A lot of them. That was the peak of their career.
The highlight of their career was winning the World Series
of the Cubs, and they went on to just be
middling players and a lot of them are out of
baseball already. Although it has been a few years since
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the Cubs won. So they went through this period where
they were selling an inferior product at Wrigley Field. Prices,
bad product, crappy product, all that substandard. So they did that.
Now they have a team that does look to be
a playoff like the Cubs seem legit. We're into June.
The Cubs have a good team, and they found a
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couple of other players that seem to know what they're
doing and all that, and so you've got Cub ownership.
Though in the cartoon Bubble and I had, Cub ownership
is in panic mode. It's like the guy that walked
into the porta potty and walked out of the porta
potty and didn't realize for some reason, they left their
wallet in the porta poli a party and they were
at like the Lollapaloozer or something. They left the porta
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potty there. They're like, oh crap, literally, where's my wallet.
It's probably covered in crap. What happened? Now the Cubs
have the money. This is always the thing with teams
like the Cups. They loved to bitch and complain about,
oh man, we don't have the money. And they got
the money, got plenty of money. They bought all the
land around Wrigley Field. That's not I was in Chicago
was depressing because I had gone to Wrigley Field, back
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years and years ago when it was it was still
what I had heard when I was a kid about
Wrigley Field. You know, they were playing some night games.
They played a few night games, and it was a
bunch of dive bars around Wrigley Field. There was a
little fire station, there were people sitting on the rooftops.
And the Cubs are like, screw that, We'll just buy everything,
will make it like Downtown Disney, and they had. And
(12:00):
so I went back and it was like it's just
wasn't the same and it was not the same vibe.
They ruined. You know, It's like, so, yeah, I hear
people that go to Comic Con, and they used to
go to Comic Con and it was just a bunch
of nerds. It was just nerd porn. And then at
some point, the big movie studios, the big media companies
are like, hey, we got these nerds here, why don't
we just take over Comic Con And then we'll we'll
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basically take all the money, we'll take their wallets, and
these idiots, these nerds will just keep going and going.
And so that's what happened. And and you know, I said,
the Cubs have done the same thing with like Wrigleyville.
It just wasn't wasn't the same experience as I remember.
But maybe I just got older and that's you know,
things happened. So but the Ricketts family, they have so
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much money. How much money do they have? They have
so much money. I think they could buy at least
a quarter, if not half, of Lake Michigan and call
it Lake Rickets and just that's it, right. Four point
five billion is the net worth and Wrigley feel just
a cow, just absolute cash cow. Like we go to
you go to Chicago, she got one of the great
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cities I've been to. There's some issues in Chicago, Like
there are a lot of places, but you go to
Chicago and there's a wonderful restaurants, and uh, you got
Lake Michigan, You've got the Chicago River, You've got great architecture.
They always say, go to Wrigley Field, Like that's one
of the places you have to visit when you go
to Chicago. If you're not from Chicago, you gotta go
check out a game at Wrigley Field and allside. Here's
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the thing, though, if you want to sit and have
dinner at the Big Boys table with teams like the Dodgers,
and then the Mets are spending a lot of money,
and the Yankees and teams like that, Well you're the
Chicago fing cups. So you gotta pay the man. You
gotta pay the man. And so the pressure is on.
And I'm just sitting and I'm off on the side there,
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and I'm looking down and I'm in the upper balcony,
and I'm seeing what the Chicago Cubs are doing and
seeing what they're gonna do here and all this stuff.
You want the spotlight, Well, here you go, here you go.
Do you care or do you not care? Are you
gonna give out one of those ridiculous contracts or not?
All right? Now, final thought, we go back to the socks.
There was a quote that several of you sent to me.
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Did you see this?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Ben?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Can you believe he said that? What do you think
of that? Now? Not everyone was on the positive side.
There were some people saying, what's you get to the point? Please?
We're talking about Red Sox picture Hunter Dobbins. Do you
know who that is? Hunter Dobbins? Probably not.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
He said recently that he would rather retire. He said
he would rather retire than play for the Yankees. Now
he did not back down. He did not back down
when asked for a follow up, and they went out
and beat the Yankees in a game over the weekend.
So your thoughts on that? So my thought is that
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Hunter Dobbins. I went back and I looked at the
at the time, he has been in the major leagues
for about five good minutes, about five good minutes, and
he comes out saying that he would rather retur higher
than pitch for the Yankees retire. Did anyone wonder whether
or not Hunter Dobbins was planning his retirement because he
didn't want to play for the Yankees. That there was
(15:13):
a famous story that I heard years and years ago,
which it turns out his actual bull crap. The story
was the great Jackie Robinson, at the end of his career,
was traded to the Giants, and he was, you know,
mister Dodger and all that, and he didn't want to
play for the Giants, so he retired rather than play
for the Giants, the San Francisco Giants. It's a famous,
(15:35):
famous story, although I did hear from people that that
was not exactly true, that Jackie Robinson's his body had
fallen apart he couldn't play, and so it wasn't that
he didn't want to play for them, not that he
was dying to play for the San Francisco Giants, but
he physically couldn't play, and that's why he didn't play
for them. But it wasn't that he wouldn't have played
for them because he had some kind of blind loyalty
(15:57):
to the Dodgers. It wasn't that. That's what I was.
This goes back thirty years. I was told that anyway,
it is the Ben Mouse Show. So the Yankees were
they exactly, Brian Cashman and his army of nerds, were
they banging down the door saying, we really got to
get this guy Hunter Dobbins. And then Hunter Dobbins like,
I'm not pitching for you. I was like, oh shucks,
oh man, we can't get our hands on Hunter freaking Dobbins.
(16:22):
He's like, but really, what this is is the classic.
You're playing to the crowd, you're playing to the base,
and you're trying to make a name for yourself. You're
trying to excite the fan base and all that stuff,
and you know, little pinstripes are evil. They're bad, bad, bad,
bad bad, And I would rather work at a car
dealership than pitch for the Yankees. I would rather become
(16:44):
a podcaster that no one listens to as soon as
I can buy my computer and microphone, like Blair in Wisconsin,
Blair and Main, rather Blair and Maine, a Whoopie Pie
Blair uh and and all like Live off the Grid
or something like that. It's all hyperpole. Not that I'm
against Tayperble and the other thing. I looked at him,
I said, well, remember this guy's from the Northeast and
(17:05):
maybe he grew up in New Hampshire or something like that,
or Vermont, or he's the Main guy, and he's a
New England guy. So it's like, if you're from New England,
you know you grew up with the Red Sox. There's
no way you would ever play for the Yankees. No
born in Texas, grew up in Texas, went to college
in Texas. Hunter Dobbins does not have lobster in his DNA.
(17:28):
Born in bred in the state of Texas. So he
just did that to win some brownie points in the
Red Sox. If the Red Sox dumped him today and
the Yankees are like, hey, we want you, he'd throw
on pinstripes and say, oh, I was just kidding. You know,
he'll start singing Sinatra songs. He'll be hanging out with
(17:49):
Spike Lee when they'll be doing Yankee Talk. It is
the Ben Malors Show as we are working our way
through the overnight. If you'd like to be part eight
seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
nine six three sixty nine, you can be part of
the show coming up later this hour. Later this hour,
we're gonna have Mallard's mount of money. But time now
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for the Mallor Riddle of today. And here's the Mallard
Riddle of the day. Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is spending
his off season with Blank again, the very tall Parisian prodigy.
Spurs star Victor Wembanyama is spending his off season with Blank.
(18:33):
That is the Mallor Riddle of the day. The answer,
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
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Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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Speaker 1 (18:53):
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And you can interact with the show at eight seven
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(19:39):
Back to it all right? Back to payoff the malor
Riddle of the Day. Also later this hour Malar's mount
of Money. So if you want to play that game,
Mallar's Mount of Money, we need a couple of contestants
for that game. But first the Riddle of the Day
spurs star Victor Webb Yama is spending his off season
with blank. With Blank, that is the question. What is
(20:02):
the answer to the riddle? And let's see does anyone
in the Mala militia know the answer? We go to
the Hoy Poloy, the Great Unwashed to see if anybody
knows the answer. Sawman says he is spending time with
Walton Goggins. All right, who else do we have Page Dan,
I can't read that on the air. And Bill Miller,
(20:26):
a self proclaimed oil tycoon from listener Mike, let's see
here skip over that. A former porn star named Bridget
from Donkey, all right, Sigfried and Roy from Lady sideburns
(20:48):
Missus Buttersworth from Milkman, Mike, that's his answer. What do
we have here? Stevie Meatball says Victor waman Yama spending
his off season with his favorite Bam Maham weed Man
from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Al says spending his offseason
with mister Rogers and Joe Rogan at the Mothership in Austin,
(21:11):
Del Taco from King Rory Paige don Let's see here.
Tom in Kansas City says he's spending his off season
with Big Bang to learn broadcasting. That's right, there, you go.
Man Well in Guardina says Wemby, the Parisian Prodigy, is
spending his summer with lamar Odom at the Bunny Ranch,
(21:33):
smoking crack and enjoying some adult activity. We'll clean that up.
Inca Terra says, Giselle Bunchen is the answer. Mister Irrigation
says he's doing a citizen's ride with TV's Hunter. Friend
of the show, Fred Ryer. Reach out to Fred. Haven't
talked to Fred in a while. A Riddle of the
(21:55):
day answer is a some kind of plastic blow up
doll from Johnny Q. That's his answer. Tom Tom the
Plumber says he spent his off season at David Robinson's poolhouse.
That he was out with Oscar the Grouch on Sesame
Street from Mark in Santa Monica, Ricardo says, hanging out
(22:16):
with Yao Ming to discuss what to do when early
retirement hits. That's that is a low blow. That is
a low blow. All right, Loraina, do you have an
answer the Mallard rule of the day.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
Yes, I think he was hanging out with his evil twin.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
All right? Is evil twin correct? That's the here, No, that
is incorrect. It turns out, unfortunately, that Spurst star Victor
Weman Yama spending his off season with Chinese monks, real
authentic Chinese monks, not the fake, fraudulent monks, not the
ones you see outside the grocery store that want donation. No,
(22:54):
not the ones you see on the streets in Vegas
and head like no, real like, he shaved his head
and he's going for How great would it be if
he said, you know what, I've seen the light and
I'm going to retire. I'm going to become a monk.
That is my future. Sorry, San Antonio, You're screwed. I
want to be a monk and I don't want to
(23:16):
be a spur. I want to be a monk, and
I'm out. I'm the monk. Call me the monk Man.
That could be his nickname, the monk Man. That could
be it. Anyway, that is the answer. Let's go to
the phones. I say hello to Paul, who is in Boston.
What's going on?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Paul?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
Welcome, what's happening?
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Then?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
How you doing? Love the show Man? Listen to you
every morning driving into the city for work.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Thank you, sir, Thank you? What's going on?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
So I wanted to touch base on that Hunt and
Dobbin thing. So I'm a huge Socks fan, hate the Yankees,
love to hate him, love the rivalry, wanted to get reborn.
So I did a little bit of digging on that
Dobbins thing. They were talking about it last night. So
Hunter's father, Lance was drafted by the Yankees back in
the day and they traded him, didn't give him a
(24:01):
shot to the Arizona Diamondbacks for two years. His father
was a die hod Socks fan, and oddly enough, his
first game he ever pitched in the Mages was at
Yankee Stadium against the Yankees. So I think there's a
little bit of family hatred there, which I love. I
want that reborn. I would love to see that hatred
(24:21):
back in the city, especially this weekend coming up with
the series.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
All right, listen, people have been saying that I still believe,
don't you think deep down though, Paul, if Hunter Dobbins
flames out with the Socks and he ends up looking
for a job and the Yankees are like, hey, we'll
give you a shot, like he's signed of the Yankees.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
Oh he'll play anyway.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Exactly, That's what I'm saying. That's exactly right, That's what
I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. No, I got you.
I mean, it is always weird when you have rivalries
and then that you grew up a fan of a
team and then you end up having to play for
the rival. It's like, what do you do?
Speaker 5 (24:55):
You do it for the love of the game. You
do it for the love of the game.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Man, there you go. I got you'all. I have a
good day. Thank you. All right, this Paul, he's driving
into work. Let's say hello to Hollering James, who's in Minneapolis, Minace, Minnesota.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
He's feeling good tonight.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
This is an all star performance by the great Hollering James.
James just spent a few hours watching Twins baseball. Ye
here he is. You're listening to a man in his
natural habitat enjoying the Ben Mather Show all the hot takes.
(25:41):
Isn't that right, James? That's right, it's correct. Would you
would you like to play the game? James? Now, I understand,
how many times do you think he snores in in
(26:02):
one minute?
Speaker 4 (26:05):
At least twenty seven times?
Speaker 1 (26:08):
All right, fade him down for a second, doesn't put
him down. Let me get the clock out. How many
times do.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
You think I said twenty seven times?
Speaker 1 (26:16):
No, no, no, not that many times? Sixty second?
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Now does that count as like a.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
I'm saying up and down snore?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
So each up and down is one?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I think he's gonna do sixty seconds seven seven, okay,
seven and more or less?
Speaker 4 (26:36):
What do you I think this would be more than that?
Like like full.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
All right, it's a let's get back he let me
start the clock. Here, here we go, we're on our
way and go one, two, three, four. Oh, I'm gonna
this is way over five unless six. That's a little
(27:05):
bit seventy six, seven, eight nine, we're nine, ten, eleven,
thirty seconds, eleven.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
Twelve, a little faster, thirteen.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Fourteen was slower forty seconds, fifteen, sixteen, seventy eighteen, nineteen, twenty,
twenty one, moncome twenty two, twenty three. That's it, twenty
(27:49):
three the clock, one minute, twenty three stores from Hollering James,
twenty three stores a minute. You give us one minute,
that's twenty three stores.
Speaker 4 (27:58):
What other radio sho gives you?
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Nobody does that, Lorrene, We're the only show that does that.
Nobody else has that content. You think Colin Cowherd would
do that, No, he would never do that. So let's
see that so twenty three times one minute, so in
an hour, that means that means he stores one thousand,
three hundred eighty times an hour. No, Yes, and so
(28:23):
times twenty four that if he slept for twenty four hours,
he would snore thirty three thousand, one hundred twenty times. Wow.
Let's say he sleeps eight hours though, because most people
sleep about eight. I don't honestly like five. But thus
he does eight hours. That means oh, I say, let mean,
let's see one, three eighty and then times eight. That
(28:47):
works out to eleven thousand and forty snores per night.
Oh my god, that's how you get the nickname hollering James. Well,
actually you get the nickname hollering James because he would
sea should be snoring James honestly. Yeah, it's pretty impressive though.
Thank you, all right, hang up on yourself. King of
Kurds is next, and we are moments away from Mather's
(29:10):
Mountain Money. Hello, King of Kurds, Big Ben.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
You beautiful bohemus of a being. Hello, I got a
quick question.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
I think I threw uh coop for a loop.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
When I called in, I was on speakerphone, so I
paused for a bit and he did his standard auctioneer
Ben maushow, who's this?
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:29):
And I asked how he was doing and he paused,
like no one has ever asked him before.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
No one's evertimized interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah, none the less.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Did he tell you how he's doing?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
No, he quickly. He didn't even ask me what I
want to talk about. He just said, all right, hold on.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
H okay. So there was no real screening. He just
puts you on hold and then that's it.
Speaker 7 (29:54):
Well, you're one of those m vps king of Kurds'
you're gonna get on the air no matter what you say.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Don't smooth to me now the loop, you.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Know what that's small? Yeah, don't sweet talk me now. Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
you use me? You know how dare you?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
I called, uh maybe a week week and have go
to apologize for a previous call because we did one
of our Milwauk late night Milwaukee email or militia meetups. Yeah,
I remember that, and I and there was a non
newbie night and I gave the phone to someone and
then I didn't even listen to the calls. A little embarrassed,
(30:32):
but I interjected, I don't remember, and I don't want
anyone to have become lactose intolerant or develop a peanut energy.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
It's very important you should get you should run for
politic politicians say I'm running on the anti peanut policy,
and I do not want people that are lactose intolerant.
My goal is to cure, forget curing cancer or any
of the other diseases. That's cure those that are lactose intolerance.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
I would vote for.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
You appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Well, It's like guests on posters.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
The Blair in Maine calling in threw me off while
I was lubricating my talking voice. You said, no one
can die twice. Being from Wisconsin, bartending and whatnot. I'm
not going to mention names, but this gentleman, I have
seen him die twice, and as you know, it's inevitable.
Taxes and death.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
You can go taxes empt, but it's going to be thrice.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
This guy literally there was an off duty nurse. She
was luckily there, resuscitated him. He got dropped out by
a taxi with his ambulance pant on and tried to
get another drink.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
So he really loves what was his drink of choice.
What does he like to drink?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Jim Beam and bush Light.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
So this guy is addicted to Jim Beaman bush light
and it's killing him.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Solid Vietnam VETT. You wouldn't expect that. He's got a
big doc mic energy.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Oh so bigger than life personality, life of the room, lights.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Up the room. On that that gets along with people
you think might not talk to.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Love guys like that. Love love the old the old
guy that's got a big personality. Love that guy. Love
that guy.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
This guy has died twice and uh he's still in
the stud.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
That's great. I hope he keeps going.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
I got one quick question for you, though I don't
know if it's been discussed because I only listened to
you and my mother. Uh So, if SGA wins the
championship after winning MVP, although it's against the Pacers and
Haliburton sucks, is he considered better than any of the
big three in OKC because Durant needed help, everyone else
(32:39):
needed help. I know there's good role players there, yeah,
boding statistics and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Oh no, because it's only it's like one season. So
like those guys are all Hall of Fame players and
he's not a Hall of Fame player yet. Oh, how
can you say that he's gonna win the MVP. He
won the MVP. You know he's gonna be the finals.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
All time points and length of everything. But like he did,
like it was hard in Westbrook and Durant and they
did nothing in this guy.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, and Harden was a backup. Yeah Harden. Well, according
to the nerds, the thunder Stack team, they're the next
dynasty of the world of basketball. All right, King Kurtz,
I gotta go. You're both guarding all the time.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
But not in Milwaukee. I know the call is kind
of okay, but Wisconsin, that's got to stick together unless
you're an asstroll.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Yeah, that's right, no ass a, thank you, going hang
up with please? All right, I need another contestant for
Mallor's amount of money. I got one contestant, but we
need too so I gotta get somebody else. I know
I'm working. I don't want to be about I understand,
but I can't play the game with this one person.
We have two people that need to play the game.
There's only one person on Hold. So eight seven seven
(33:55):
ninety nine on Fox is the number eight seven seven
nine nine six six three six nine. If you'd like
to play, we are gonna have Malar's Mountain of money.
If we can get that other contestant. We'll get to
that and we will do it next.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Bell Miller and You. It is the Ben Malors Show
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Speaker 3 (34:45):
Now Malor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
takes to get to the top? Probably not.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Anyway, we go, let's welcome in our contestants. We have
let's see your Ani nine more. We've got Tyler in Boston.
Who's gonna play? Hello, Tyler, welcome, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (35:08):
Benny?
Speaker 1 (35:09):
There you go, Tyler, you're gonna play the game. Who
would you like to partner up with? Here? Tyler, you
can play with me, Ben Lorraina. If you've got a
sense of humor or coop.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
A loop as funny as it would be to play
with Florena.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
I think I'm going with you about it?
Speaker 1 (35:24):
All right, Well, we'll have to win, Tyler. I hate
to do it, but we'll have to win. Hold on
a second, and we have any meenie money. Moe. Jacob,
who's over in Delaware? What's going on? Jacob? All right, man, welcome?
You want to play the game? I assume yes. You
called in. What are you driving around right now?
Speaker 6 (35:40):
What are you going?
Speaker 5 (35:40):
I am I'm heading them a bread round. I'm on
the road right now.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
We're all right? You good to go? And who do
you want to partner up with?
Speaker 5 (35:46):
I want to go?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
You want to lose? That's wow.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
I can't believe you guys always leave me out of this.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
It's not nice. It's very rude.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
All right, gentlemen, this is Malard's Mountain of Money, the
Michael J.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Fox edition. He turned six four years old on Monday.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Still going huh yeah.
Speaker 7 (36:02):
But the categories are family ties, back to the Future,
teen Wolf and p D.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Tyler. You were on first? Which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah? Great show? And you know I've been to that
that thing with the light tarts at Universal Studios.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
That's right, that's right, and Jacob, which category would you like?
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Teen Wolf? Alright?
Speaker 4 (36:26):
All right, we're first chos Wolf.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
Yes, Tyler is up first. Back to the future. You
know the rules, first and last name, all that, all right?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
These athletes were all born in nineteen eighty five or
nineteen fifty five? Are you ready? Tyler? All right?
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Quarter?
Speaker 1 (36:42):
All right here with the forty five seconds, here we go.
Quarterback for the Ravens when they won the Super Bowl
the last time. No, no, he's the backup for the
Browns right now. He's still playing. Yes, the point guard
for the Lob City Clippers. He's forty years old. He's
played if he bounced prep. Yes, he was known for
the push with usc running back dated a Kardashian. Yes,
(37:07):
the greatest Olympic swimmer of all time. Yes, Giants quarterback
of the nineteen eighties when they won the Super Bowl.
And also his backup Jeff Hostetler one no biblical name.
NBA player from the nineteen seventies and nineteen eighties. A center,
(37:28):
all right, Phil Simms, that's who you missed, the Simms
and also Moses Malone.
Speaker 7 (37:35):
All right, Jacob, we have teen wolf here. These athletes
all went pro as a teenager. Are you ready?
Speaker 1 (37:41):
I am all right?
Speaker 7 (37:41):
Forty five second let's to begin the King. He's on
the Lakers right now. Yes, this is the great one
in hockey. Yes, he was the big ticket, played for
the Minnesota Timber Bowls and then later the Celtics. Yes,
this guy's dad is LeVar. He is currently on the
(38:01):
what's that?
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Uh?
Speaker 7 (38:04):
This guy was a picture for the Mets. He loved cocaine,
Doc Gordon, that's not his name. Close, all right, we'll
go on. Yes, Pacers power forward. He was part of
the brawl at the with Detroit. Yes, this guy was
a teenager for the Lakers. He was the center with
(38:25):
paw Gasol.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Oh, did not get it? All right? What was that round?
Speaker 6 (38:31):
No, there's sixty?
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Uh, all right, so we got one hundred, so we
got to be one ady. What do you want, Tyler?
You got? What do we what do we have?
Speaker 6 (38:41):
We have family ties or p D yeh.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (38:46):
Family ties or pd? Family ties? All right, family ties.
These athletes all had a family member in the same
team organization. Are you ready, Tyler? Here, we'll go forty
five seconds and we're on our way. The King of
the Akers right now, Yes, point guard for the Knickerbockers. Yes. Uh,
(39:08):
he was a coach of the Jets, big fat guy coach,
was it, Yes, that is correct. The coach of the
Celtics when they won the championship. Yes that is correct. Uh.
Shorts out for the Orioles. Cheated again. We want the guy, Tyler.
That is a winner. We wanted the game. We didn't
(39:31):
get enough time, Jacob. We would have been got a
golden Tech. You gotta gold another win all time wins King.
Nobody has more wins of these games. Thank you, Tyler.
Bad luck Jacob should have picked me.
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