Hour 4 - An Evolving Situation

Ben Maller talks about Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman no longer demanding that the Yankees apologize to him, Wilson Contreras saying he won't waive his no-trade clause and wants to stay in Boston, Giants All-Star Luis Arraez's demand to stay at 2nd base, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go, Geronimo. It's our number four, our four
of the Ben Mahlor Show and the trade deadline coming up.
Interesting story from All Star Red Sox Pitcher a raw
This Chapman who is no longer demanding the Yankees apologize
to him. What do you read into this? We'll take

(00:20):
a look at that. Also, Wilson Contreras says he won't
waive his no trade cause he wants to stay with
the Red Sox. Does this close the door on his
trade situation? And does Giants All star Luisa rise demand
to stay, his demand to stay at second base? Heard
his trade value? All that and more right now, Malard
Palouza twenty twenty six tomorrow, here's our number.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Four un evolving situation and well come in the beginning
of another.

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Slash disclosures and we are back at it. Good to
be here, Glad you were there, and it's gonna yap
more about the All Star Game. It was not much
of a game, so instead we've got other noise around
the All Star Game, which is much more fun. The

(04:24):
American League All Stars shut out the National League All Stars.
A I want to get away week for Philadelphia Philly
All Star players as Kyle Schwarber lost the home run
derby at the last minute to Jordan Walker, and then
in the All Star Game you had Bryce Harper, Kyle
Schwarber and mister marsh the three Philadelphia Philly hitters go

(04:47):
zero for five with four strikeouts. I'm told that's not good.
I'm told that's not good. And then the losing pitcher,
Christopher Sanchez, got lit up in the first inning. So
not much else to say on that. There were record
amount of strikeouts for the National League hitters against the
American League pitchers. So one of those American League pitchers
are all this. Chapman says that he has changed his position.

(05:10):
I don't even saw this or not. Maybe not might
have missed it. But Chapman says he has moved on
from his public demand a couple weeks back that the
Yankees apologize to him if they want to trade for him,
telling reporters that he said this at the All Star
Game this week, that he has quote turned the page
a long time ago on the dispute, even though about

(05:33):
three weeks ago or less, Chapman was saying that he
needed an apology. Now, this goes all the way back
to twenty twenty two when Chapman was with the Yankees
and thinks that he got a raw deal by the Yankees.
They unfairly if you remember the story, they portrayed him
as a malcontent that went a wall and skipped a
mandatory workout and that led to him being off left

(05:56):
off the postseason roster. Now, he previously insisted that Brian
Cashman the gym and I believe Aaron Boone both owed
him an apology. So now he's done a one point
eighty on that. Chapman made it clear that he no
longer expects said apology, which he expected a few weeks ago,
saying the issue is behind him, and he gave the

(06:17):
generic sports cliche, I am focusing in on the moment
rather than revisiting old grievances. So that is a good
jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. You got
Red Sox closer Eraldus Chapman, who is no longer demanding
the Yankees apologize to him? What do you read in

(06:40):
to this? So my take, I've got bank fault, Instagram, hottie,
and gravitos and we will combine all of these things
together and we are going to make some Coppa gul
poutine is what we're going to do, and then we'll
have a side of the Babaganosh. Yes, a little side

(07:01):
of the Bobbach. So my first thought here, of radis
Chapman dropping the Yankees owe me an apology. Demand is
the baseball equivalent of a pilot to radio, wing in
to the tower at the airport and saying, all right, buys,
I'm ready to land this thing right on the Cross

(07:22):
Bronx Expressway. So, with the trade deadline less than a
month away, Chapman finally realizing the stubborn ego was a liability,
and he's all right. Yeah. Now, the other part of
this is the Red Sox are on a nine game burner.

(07:44):
They are though, beating up tomato cans. In fact, they
have beaten up so many tomato cans. We are told
the Red Sox over the last nine games here that
it's like they're whipping up a batch of ragou marinera. However,
you gotta think Boston's gonna be selling. Don't you know

(08:05):
They've beating up bad teams. They play the good teams.
They're exposed. You don't suddenly clear the air with an organization.
I would say, if you're Chapman, unless you're hoping they call,
I'd be hard to believe the Red Sox would hand
deliver Chapman to the Yankees. You never say it, ever,
You never say ever. This is a shameless strategic de escalation,

(08:30):
the baseball version of Hey, I'm good if you're good. Yeah,
I'm good if you're good. So by killing the feud,
he's cracking open roll this. Chapman the bank vault door
wide open for a reunion with the team where he
spent seven seasons, a couple of tenures with the Yankees,

(08:50):
a roller coaster ride there before things deteriorated. So that's
the message. The messages, Hey, you don't need to apologize,
mister cashman, take me back, now, take me back, all right. Furthermore,
keeping the chatter going as the trade deadline is getting
closer and the rumors are swirling. One of the names
that has popped up a lot if you need a
big bopper in your lineup people looking to poach players

(09:13):
from the Red Sox, Wilson Contreras, who's been playing first
base for the Socks, and his name has popped up.
If you keep track of the gossip around baseball, his
name's popped up a lot, saying, well, this guy could
go to a contender and watch out. Well. He told
reporters also at the Festivus in Philly that he proactively
addressed the issue of the trade deadline with the organization,

(09:38):
and he was joking around about it. He wanted to
get ahead of any possible trade rumors. Well, sorry, they're
already out there. Contra shutting down or at least attempting
to shut down trade speculation, saying that he has already
informed the brass in Boston that he wants to stay.
He is not going to wave his no trade clause

(09:59):
because he wants to finish his entire career at Finway.
He said, quote, I've found my family. I didn't know
he was an orphan. He said, I've found my family
in the Commonwealth. He went on and said he was
very emotional. He has this bond, not James bond, just
a bond with a dog food Red Sox team. Now,

(10:23):
since Contreras somehow was given a full no trade clause,
he has complete control over whether or not he gets traded.
Question Yet Wilson Contreras saying publicly this week he will
not waive his no trade claws. He wants to stay
with the Red Sox. Does this close the door on
trade talks? So the answer is only if you are

(10:47):
a sucker with a capital S and I don't meet
a lollipop a sucker with a capitalist. If you believe
a no trade clause ends trade talks, you probably also
believe the WWE is completely real. Now. I like the
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up on it. I enjoyed it. I also have some

(11:07):
people I know that work in it, and one of
our biggest success stories in the Mallard Militia. The restler
known as Russef grew up on this show. Russef is
a big fan of the show, and he called into
the show in the past, and I used to work
with this guy named Eddie, and Eddie would be like, oh,
Russef doesn't really know who you are, who doesn't listen.
Then then Russef was traveling one night he called in.

(11:28):
It was great, It was wonderful. But I understand that's
not like legit anyway. The door isn't closed. It's just
got one of those cheap Motel six hotel latches on it.
That's it. Think of a no trade clause like a
velvet rope. If the bag is big enough. If the

(11:49):
bag is big enough, they'll let you in the club.
And Contrera says, I love Boston great. Reminds me of
every Instagram hottye who loves their partner until someone who's
a famous athlete or Scott more power and more money
slides into their dms and suddenly they love their partner

(12:09):
just not quite as much. In life, you're loyal until
you're offered something that makes loyalty feel like an outdated belief,
you know what I'm saying. So Contrera's can say, hey,
I'm staying in Boston and that's it. And the Red
Sox can say we're keeping them, We're keeping them, we
like the player. And every GM in the league can

(12:30):
say we're just checking in, you know, just doing some
window shopping, doing our due diligence. That's all. So the
most amazing part of this is that Wilson Contreras has
a no trade clause. He signed an eighty seven million
dollar deal with the Cardinals. Is it true that he's
already waved his no trade clause once to go from
Saint Louis to Boston. And if you've already waived the

(12:54):
no trade claw laws once, is it also true that
you're most likely to wave it again. So you're saying,
there's a chance, all right, last thing to San Francisco
where the Giants are bad and Luisa rise is on
the move? Or is he now? His name's also popped
up slap hitting infielder who's got one of the great

(13:17):
records in baseball history for batting average, and Luisa Rai
said he wants to remain a second basement. He's played
first base he's bounced around the name, and he says
wants to play continue to play second base if he
is traded before the deadline, emphasizing that he is prepared
and he has prepared rather all season to play at

(13:37):
second base, and he does not want to become a
dh again or a first basement and all that blah
blah blah blah blah. He did say the standard jock
cliche that he wants to stay with the Giants. Why
wouldn't you. They're terrible, you'll get October off. That's what
Mike Trout likes, not having to play playoff games. So
a rise with the Giants there says he wants to stay. However,
he didn't acknowledge the snuff a luffagus in the room

(13:58):
that if a trade happened, his only request is to
continue to play second base. Question, does Giants all star
Luisa Rise and his demand to stay at second base
hurt his trade value? So I am shaking my head.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
No.

Speaker 1 (14:18):
If you're watching on the YouTube feed at Ben Mahler Show,
I am shaking my head. No. My eyes are closed
because otherwise I'll get dizzy. So yeah, just because I
learned this a long time ago, just because you want
it does not mean you're going to get it. Despite
a very vocal preference by Luisa Rise, he does not

(14:38):
have a no trade doses. Now again, even if he
did have a no trade clause, it really wouldn't matter,
as we just talked about with Wilson Contreras to the
Red Sox. But a Rise looking at this, if the
right offer drops, here's what this means. The Giants are
absolutely going to trade. He's signed a one year contract.
I believe he's a journeyman player and that's it. Period stop.

(15:00):
And then once he has dealt Luisa Rise, he will
play wherever he is told to play because he wants
another contract. And in order to get another contract, he
has to go out there and monster Mash. I say,
Monster Mash, you slap a bunch of hits, a bunch
of singles in big games down the stretch and then
in the playoffs, and that's it. And so once he's

(15:23):
on another team, he's just going to do what they
tell him. The problem is Arise is lacking the gravitas
to have another outcome. He's a good player, he's just
not considered that good. And there's another guy that's been
tagged as a possible Yankee. Luisa Rise Tampa Bay has
been mentioned, even a trip back to the podres. They're interested.

(15:46):
They already had him. Why not. The problem Arise has
is he's good in real baseball. He's not good in
the algorithm. You know what I'm saying. So like, he
doesn't trend well. He just hits well. The computer nerds
that have hijacked baseball, the invasive species of nerds, they

(16:10):
don't like him because he does not hit the ball
five hundred feet. He does not have good exit v
low and they love exit vlo. They pull their pants down.
They get so excited about exit below, can't get enough
of it. Right, he hadn't hit the ball five hundred feet,
he didn't try it over. However, he's one of the
ultimate contact hitters. He would have been, so he would
have been the highest pid guy in baseball or one

(16:32):
of the highest paid players in baseball. Back in the
Tony Win Wade bog Z era of baseball, with the
singles hitter, the doubles hitter was very valuable. Rise is
twenty nine, and he's got that great record. He's the
only player to win consecutive batting titles with three different teams,
the Twins, Marlins and the Padres, and good luck striking

(16:53):
them out. Good luck striking them out. So his value
is fine. Whether he wants to play another position or
only a second basic doesn't matter. His value is okay.
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(21:00):
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(21:44):
appear the manager of the Cubs on social media instead
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The message praised Craig Counsel and the coaching staff for
the Cubs having a great record, way over five hundred
at the All Star break. And here's the part where
he got a little dicey. Levine, the Cubs reporter, said,

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let's hope twinkle d and twinkled Dumb don't sell you
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and then fall apart. He tried to delete it. The
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the Sun Times in Chicago, personally apologized to both after

(22:50):
this came out, and a spokesman confirming that, So there
you go. Now, why does that matter. It's just funny.
If that if this had happened on a random day
in August, it would not be as funny. It's the
All Star break, it's funny. It's funny at the All
Star break. It's funny. Let's go to the phones and

(23:10):
we'll say hello, eenie, meenie miney mode. Two percent chance,
two percent chances up next, Hello, two percent chance.

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Welcome man, thank you so much for taking a call.
You know, I just saw her something. I'm still kind
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Speaker 5 (23:37):
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Okay.

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Doctor Coop, I'll find Thank you, all right, put him
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all right, thank you Dorko. All we look forward to
hearing what you got tomorrow. This Dorko the comedian. Let's
say hellot of hollering James in Minneapolis, minnesot I do

(28:26):
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Can I be a contestant? Please? No? No, come on, Coop,
I was gonna ice slea man.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Yeah, man, Coop, But what is your act? James?

Speaker 3 (28:47):
My act? Comedian? Joke?

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Oh right, Coop, Coop, you got to put him in, Coop.
We got to give him a slot. I know we booked,
I know we booked the whole thing, but we got
to give a slot. And you want to be part tomorrow, right, James?

Speaker 3 (28:58):
You want to be part of I want to watch tomorrow?
Or yes I do.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Now, you're not just gonna You're not just gonna tell
one joke and talking about Kirby Buckett, are you? Because
we don't need that. Okay, you're gonna do a syria.
You're inna practice. You're look in front of a mirror
and practice the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Yes, I can lead with one joke on the night.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
No, no, we don't want a joke right now.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
You don't want to joke. Okay, I lean with my topic.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
All right, quickly quickly, I'll.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Getting my topic cares what this is for all the
eaters out there and all the drinkers, what.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
All the people that eat? Which is everyone. Everyone has
to eat Jams, what drinking and Ben and the lottery?
A are you trying to steal? Marcel? In Brooklyn's bit?
Is that what you're trying to steal?

Speaker 3 (29:50):
I don't know. Does Marshall have a pat on it?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
Let me ask Marcel and Brooklyn? Marcell and Brooklyn. It
appears that hollering James is trying to do food picks?
Do you want him to do food picks? Marcel?

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Are you? Will you allow him to do food picks?

Speaker 8 (30:06):
The Food Picks is on Mondays there man, but TV
Picks on wednesdayy?

Speaker 1 (30:12):
No, no, but James wants to do a special special
Wednesday edition of the Food Picks.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
All right, Dan, So let's get into it. We have
hollering James.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
All right, no, no, no James. We're supposed to guess
what James had. I'm gonna say James had a giant cheeseburger.
That's what I would say. What do you think, Marcel,
what do you think hollering James had had last night
for dinner?

Speaker 8 (30:38):
Well, believe it or not, it's not a mixed match
for the giant cheeseburger one only.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
I love. Thank you for that, Marcel, you know what
you're You're an American treasure. Uh Larina. What do you
think hollering James had for dinner last night?

Speaker 7 (30:56):
I think he had fish and chips, chips.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
I don't think he's ever had fish and chips? What
about you, Cooper Loop go ahead? I think he had
sesame chicken with Ata, Mommy and Rice. All right, lock
your answer in no chance he didn't know what that
is either, James reveal answers. What did hollering James have
for dinner last night?

Speaker 3 (31:19):
James? Samira has had a giant cheese booker?

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah, I win the first ever hollering James. Rude pig?

Speaker 3 (31:28):
What are we doing here?

Speaker 1 (31:32):
You know they take a dummy? All right? Da? We
love you, James. I look forward to your act tomorrow,
but please hang up on yourself right now. Marcel TV
picks do we even want to do that? Mike the Leprecaun. Hello,
Mike the Leprecun. You're on with Marcel? Hello, Mike the Leprechaun.

Speaker 8 (31:48):
Mike's the idiot con one of my enemies. Don't interrupt you, dummy.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Oh nice, Mike. Then I'm the only one allowed. I'm
only you can't you know I'm a low Can you
you have a password?

Speaker 3 (32:03):
Place? Regardless?

Speaker 5 (32:04):
Marcel?

Speaker 8 (32:05):
Who won the soccer game yesterday? Spain?

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Who?

Speaker 8 (32:09):
Spain? Who's going to win today? England? You idiot?

Speaker 3 (32:15):
Idiot?

Speaker 8 (32:17):
Star game?

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Go back to.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
I don't know coyote?

Speaker 8 (32:28):
Who? Who would the.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
All Star Game?

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Who won the All Star Game?

Speaker 8 (32:37):
The American League? Not your red anymore? Yeah? The red
sofxer fourteen to sixteen? Did anybody talking about true? Yeah?
Wait till next week. They're going to kill him and
you're Bob not anymore? Answers supid.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
They're gonna You're gonna fall in the Paloosa.

Speaker 8 (32:53):
You're going to be a Paloosa a palooza loser. What
are you going to have for barbecue? I'm having barbecue tonight. Better.
Someone put Mike the idiot? Can you eliminade him now? Gizzard?

Speaker 1 (33:07):
Alright? All right, Tom down? What is Mike? Why does
Mike get so worked up? I don't understand he gets
all worked up over this? It's it's wild, all right?
Uh TV picks, you watched the All Star Game on
Fox last night?

Speaker 8 (33:21):
What do you think Mixed match? It is?

Speaker 1 (33:22):
All right? What do you think you watched?

Speaker 8 (33:23):
All right? Now go right ahead for you, buddy, I
think you watched Interstellar Apple TV plus. Yeah, well not
a mixed match.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
It is all right, Coop and Cooky Loop.

Speaker 8 (33:35):
What do you have for me and Mike fan? So
go right ahead, this is your chance.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
I think you watched House of Dragons Netflix, HBO, MAC, Yes,
not a mixed match.

Speaker 8 (33:47):
And then put the smile on your face.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
No, I'm smiling from you to ear trumble please.

Speaker 8 (33:53):
Well right now you all saw a game in the city,
probably law with the Americans, shut up the national form nothing.

Speaker 1 (34:03):
Itself, all right, thank you, Marcell. We grew at Marcel
and Brooklyn. You see how much money Mexico made from
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hundred and ninety nine million dollars in the World Cup
matches in Mexico City and a couple of the spots
in that country. The Mexico Business News, which I always read,
estimates that by hosting the twenty twenty six FIFA World Cup,

(34:45):
and it was mostly in the US and Canada, but
Mexico generated roughly two billion dollars in US money, which
is about zero point one percent of the entire country
of Mexico's economy. The g the g of Mexico from
the World Cup, and the people say, well, there's second

(35:05):
fiddle to the US and all that they didn't have
as many matches. However, now I'm always skeptical of these
business reports about revenue that seems like reasonable two billion.
It is the Ben Malor Show. Password the word Game
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Speaker 4 (36:16):
Attention everyoneord is password?

Speaker 1 (36:21):
You idiot? Password the word Game of the Stars. Here's
Ben Meler. All right, let's do it. Here we go
password time, and let's welcome in our contestants for password.
We have a Phase in Chicago. Hello, Phase, Welcome?

Speaker 8 (36:41):
What up? Man?

Speaker 3 (36:43):
There?

Speaker 1 (36:43):
He is? My man? Phase met himmet a couple of
years ago. And then who do you want to partner
with Phase?

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Fase?

Speaker 8 (36:52):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (36:55):
All, I want to be a loser?

Speaker 9 (36:57):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Loraina picked one two or three?

Speaker 3 (37:02):
One?

Speaker 1 (37:02):
Tour number three? Well you have picked.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
What does it say?

Speaker 1 (37:08):
Toothpick? You picked a guy named toothpick in Fort Worth? Hello, Toothpick, Welcome?
How are well? Welcome? Toothpick. I'm a big fan of
those plastic toothpick things. I love them. Yeah, that's right,
wo and toothpicks all the way I go plastic like

(37:30):
to ruin the environment. Who would you like to partner
up with? Mister toothpick guy, Let's let's go. All right,
we're in it.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
To win it.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Go ahead, we have a list of words one to
ten phase in Chicago. You were on first, so help
us out there, phase and pick a number one shoes
number one. You didn't say it right. You didn't say
it right, despatch by you. All right, there it is
there we go.

Speaker 9 (37:57):
All right, go ahead, cool, all right, let's go with uh,
let's go with yes anytime plantation?

Speaker 1 (38:10):
Wow, Coop, how dare you? No?

Speaker 5 (38:16):
No?

Speaker 1 (38:16):
Oh you Coop got excited for a second. He thought
that you had said the the thing. Let's go with homestead.

Speaker 8 (38:29):
U arm.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
Yeah, there you go. We got the lead and we
will not concede. You're losing phase, you dope. You should
have picked me, all right? Uh? Miss you kind of
cheated right there, kind of like cut, yes you did.
You're like, oh, you got excited. Tell him losing, mister toothpick,

(38:52):
ignore him, mister toothpick to ten. Uh four, number four, Well,
that's that's appropriate that you would pick that, because that's
really the theme of the show. Uh, let's go very well,
I'm not trying to cheat coop. Let's go with intricate, intricate, intricate, intricate, intricate.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
I no clue, no clue. I don't have a clue.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
All right, Phase, let's go with convoluted.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
To big work.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Guys, not that easy. Phase is not this job is
now you need an answer.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Phase.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
You're gonna lose the game. You don't get this right?

Speaker 8 (39:42):
Is it cheater?

Speaker 1 (39:44):
You lost your face? You lost? Phase is a loser.

Speaker 9 (39:48):
You lost.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
We want, mister Toothing. All we need is one word.
We want the game and