May 8, 2023 • 34 mins
Ben Maller talks about the St. Louis Cardinals moving Wilson Contreras to DH, why the Cardinals are saying they haven't lost confidence in Contreras despite the move, Maller Militia Feud, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, Hour four of
the radio show. And there's a great story in baseball,
big free agent signing, total boondoggle. Now, what's your takeaway
from the Cardinals already bailing out on Wilson Contreras, the
former Cub catcher. They're moving him to designated hitter. Why
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make this move demoting Wilson Contreras Now we're only a
month into the baseball season. And how how comes? The
Cardinals are saying they have not lost confidence in Wilson
Contreras despite sending him to the designated hitter role. We'll
talk about that and more here it is. Give it
up for our number four. Have a great day to day,
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me and we will get back to the pro bouncy
ball conversation in a moment. There's an interesting story bouncing
around here in the echo chamber overnight, which we will address.
But I wanted to talk some baseball. Our lead this
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our custom baseball. It's a story that has been buried
by men, but it's the kind of a story that
warms our cockles. It does. It's a doozy. A shake
up in the heartland. The Saint Louis baseball team, the Cardinals,
are crumbling this season. It's been fifty years, a generation
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and a half, some would say two generations since a
Saint Louis baseball team sucked as much as the twenty
twenty three vintage does this year, and so they're shaking
things up. Gotta shake it up a little bit. If
you did not hear, maybe not the Cardinals. It was
announced recently that Wilson Contreras their big jewel pickup to
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replace Yachti Molina, a catcher who retired. So Wilson Contreo's
came over from the Cubs. He had agreed this offseason
to a five year contract for eighty seven and a
half million fully garag Tait contract agreed to in December,
a much bally Hood contract. And the Cardinals have decided
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that we have seen you play catcher for a little
over a month and you blow, so we would like
you to no longer be our catcher, and so they've
they've removed him. The manager, Oliver Marmal, the manageler Ali,
confirming over the weekend that Contreras will no longer be
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the catcher. He is the designated hit of the team,
called up a catcher from the minor leagues we've never
heard of, and they will have a platoon behind the plate.
But Wilson Contreras, the eighty seven and a half million
dollar man, no longer the catcher the Cardinals. Well, Wilson
has played the vast majority of the games at catcher
since he came into the big leagues part of that
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much bally Hood Saint Louis Cardinal or Chicago Cup rather
minor league system. And the Cubs had all these blue
chip players. They were going to be a dynasty in
the National League and now they're scattered all over major
League Baseball. So let's discuss the question. What is your
takeaway from the Cardinals moving their big free agent pickup,
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catcher Wilson Contrera's to designated hitter. So I've got court
martialled spiritual and my pillow, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a dirty uniform. You know how even play baseball and
you slide in the dirt and the grass and you
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get those stains all over your uniform. Yeah, that's what
we're gonna make, all right. So to lead off here,
Wilson Contreras, who has been splendid, He has been a
splendid disaster for the Redbirds. And it's all defense. It's
not offense, it's defense. And that is not my opinion.
It is a fact. It is a fact. This is
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you know what, this is the panic button. They hit
the panic button. They did the Cardinal are hitting the
panic button. I love it. And that's the reality of
the situation. There's nothing more you need to read into
this other than the fact that Cardinals signed this guy
in December. They gave eighty seven and a half million
dollars and now here we are in early May, and
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they have a scene enough. They can no longer take
any more from this cat and they want nothing to
do with them, nothing to do with them. And as
far as the numbers on the season is like, well,
the overall number he's on paste it nine home runs,
which not very good, and drive in sixty five runs.
As a catcher, you'd be like, okay, that's fine Contraras.
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But a designated hitter with that kind of production, it's
all it's all defense, it's all defense. And so actions
always speak louder than words, and that's what happened here.
Saint Louis Brass got together. They believe that Contreras is
such a zero with a glove in his hands, he
is such a waste of space that he is bringing
the entire pitching staff down. Management got together, they had
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a pow wow, and they have decided very publicly to
court martial the catcher. They've said, Wilson Contreras, we are
court martialing you. The accused has been convicted of dereliction
of duties. And since they are not allowed to issue
imprisonment and you can't forfeit pay, those contracts are guaranteed
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in Major League Baseball. They did what they legally could do.
They lost rank, Contrera's lost rank, dishonorable discharge from the
catching duties behind the plate, and Conrera's skipping. Yes, keep
in mind, this guy skipped the World Baseball Classic. He
was supposed to play for Venezuela. He skipped that so
he could learn the pitching staff for the Cardinals, and
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a month later he's apparently learned it so well they
want him to be a glorified pinch hitter. How did
that go? How did that go? Uh man? And now
he's gonna do the walk of shame? Wait, is this
not a great story? Oh my god? Eighty seven million
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dollar free agent contract. The guy's already been demoted a
month into the season. Now fur them, Why make this move?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Why the timing? Now? Well, first of all, my first
thought is it's a concession speech. The Cardinals are admitting defeat.
They're throwing the axe into the lake. They're chucking the
axe into the lake unconditional surrender, with the hope that
this is a salvage situation, a salvage and recovery situation.
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At this point, the Cardinals did win on Sunday. They
beat the Tigers and beat them pretty good, twelve to six.
So the Cardinals are now eleven and twenty four last place.
Saint Louis Cardinals are a gazillion games back if you
take a look at your baseball standings, and who doesn't
love looking at their mencheling baseball standings? But the Saint
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Louis Carters last place. They are nine games back of
the Pittsburgh Pirates, who have lost seven in rows. So
the Pirates have lost seven a, A and the Cardinals
are still still nine games back, which tells you what
a deep dark place the Cardinals are in at this point.
And the Redbirds are seven and have I think they're
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eight back now, I guess the Padres lost, so let
me check the wild Cards. Then he's coming into Sunday night.
They were seven in backs, so yeah, there's seven back
of the Podres in the wild card race. In the
National League. They're the lowest ranked team by a wide
margin in the National League. Keeping up, we've only played
twenty one percent of the one hundred and sixty two
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game schedule, thirty five games in, so there are one
hundred and twenty seven games left to chip away and
climb up the ladder and out of the sewer in
the National League. But the streets are talking, and here's
what I'm hearing. There are whispers that indicate that this move,
in large part was generated by the pitching staff, that
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there was a rebellion from the Cardinals' pitching staff. And
the one thing I know for my years around baseball
that pitchers love to blame someone other than pitchers when
things don't go well, and a catcher is a prime
candidate for the blame game. And so we're hearing that
the pitching staff there simply did not like Wilson Contreras.
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They didn't think he paid enough attention behind the plate
and that he was affecting them. And it sounds like,
if this is right, that Saint Louis, even though everything's
antically analytically driven, they do give their catcher some leeway
and the catcher's allowed to call the game. And that
did not go well a lot of the game. And
so the results have been not good, not spotty, they've
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just been garbage. Cardinals pitching ranked twentieth in baseball, the
starters are ranked twenty third, and they've got Jordan Montgomery,
the x Yankee, Adam Wainwright is a thousand years old,
and a bunch of other names you've heard of that
have been around the major leagues. So consider the ex
communication of Wilson Contreras to be part of a ritual.
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Now you might remember, I think it was last year
that Miles and Miklos, the starting pitcher for the Cardinals,
he held a sage ritual, a spiritual sage burning at
Bush Stadium to dispel the negative energy. It's a purifying
cleansing of the bad mojo. May we recommend they come
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back and do that again, Try to improve the mood,
soothe the stress, if you will. All right, last thing here,
So how come the Cardinals general manager came out and
said that they have not lost confidence in Wilson Contreras.
That quote is bouncing around us behind a paywall on
the athletic that they have not lost confidence in Contras
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even oh, they have just demoted him to designated hitter.
So the the reason is rather obvious. It's a d
C situation, not a DAH situation. It's a DC situation,
which means damage control. The Cardinals front office is tossing
out a my pillow. They want a nice soft landing
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on the pillow there because the way I understand this,
if you're the general manager who signed off on giving
this guy eighty seven million and you've given up on
him after a month. If I'm the owner of the team,
who am I going to get rid of After I
get rid of a player, I'm gonna get rid of you,
and so Contreras as the Cardinals dhe it creates a
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roster log jam. Nolan Gorman has been used as the
He was the DH most of this year so far,
and he's actually had a good year. He's on pastate
over thirty home runs, driving one hundred runs for Saint Louis.
They can move him around. The problem is he's blocked
because they have Brendan Donovan at second base and Nolan
Aeronado is at third base. So that becomes problematic. And
then you look at the trickle down effect. And I
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would like to be the first person saying trade. There's
gonna be a trade. The Cardinals are gonna make a
trade and an over crowded roster, and I continue to
predict this is a take I will be validated. I
had this take several weeks back. I think it was
the first week of the baseball season, and I said
this on the air. There was a Cardinal player who
got benched for not hustling. You remember Tyler O'Neill, And
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he got called out by the Cardinals manager. And he's
currently got a back injury. But when he's fully in
the lineup and ready to go and all that, that
is the guy. That is the prime trade candidate. That
is the prime trade candidate. So keep an eye on that.
But what a hot mess, what a wonderful hot mess.
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The Saint Louis Cardinals, who you know, in the National League,
there are only three teams that have had have a
plus run differential in the entire National League. The Cardinals
are actually not the worst. They have the worst record
in the National League. But the team that has the
worst run differential you're Miami Marlins, who are minus fifty six.
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But they are way behind the two worst teams in
the American League, which are the Royals who have been
outscored by sixty six runs and the Oakland Slash Las
Vegas Athletics, who have somehow managed to be outscored by
one hundred and twenty four runs and they have only
played thirty five games. You can do the math on that.
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to be part Wild Story from the NBA. Now, we
talked about this earlier in the show. I would like
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to revisit this. The Denver Nuggets multiple time MVP Nikola
Jokic was given a technical foul. There was a play
that happened where josh A Kogi, who he's a basketball
player for the Suns. You've never heard of him, So
he dove into the crowd for a loose ball. I
think this happened. I want to say it's like the
second quarter of Game four, which went to the Suns.
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So Josha Koge makes a hustle play, he dives in
the crowd for this loose ball, and I'm watching the
replay here and it bounced into the hands of some
guy sitting in the front row. Well, that guy turned
out to be the owner of the team worth over
seven billion. The guy that just bought the Suns, matt Ishbia.
He held on the ball well a fan and then
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helped a Kogi get up. So then that's going on. Well,
Nikola Jolkic comes over there and he's like, wait a minute,
I would like the game to continue. I would like
to have the possession of the ball. Give me my ball.
I need my ball. And so he grabbed the ball
and that did not sit well with the owner of
the Sons who was holding onto the ball. So there
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was a tug of war with the ball, and so
they're battling for the ball. Whose ball is it? And
so they're going back and forth, and during that interaction,
Nikola Jokic made a brief elbow gesture and then the
ball came free and then and so now people are
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looking at the rules of the NBA Code of Conduct
and they're speculating whether or not Nikola Jokic will be
suspended from Game five in a playoff series that is
tied up four to four, and they're saying that his
move of entering the crowd. The NBA says the front
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row is the beginning of the stands, and so therefore,
that is a violation by the letter of the law.
And if that happens, then I know this is not reality.
But the people of Denver who have tickets for Game
five should just not even show up. I mean, what
are you doing. It's embarrassing. I mean the owner, first
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of all, should have given up the ball. I understand
why he didn't do it. If I owned the team,
I wouldn't do it. But you got to give up
the ball in that situation, and that was It's not
a violent act by Nikola Jokic of the Nuggets, I mean,
so stupid. But I would not put it past the
NBA because Denver is the ultimate flyover country. Not that
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Phoenix is a glamour location, but the NBA big wigs
would much rather spend a few weeks in the Valley
of the Sun than they would in Denver. So keep
an eye on that anyway. It is the Ben Maler Show.
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Later this hour. Whether you like it or not, whether
you can handle it or not, we will have malar
militia feud. The feud is on Ferg Dog Rights In
he says, what happened to the Redbirds just last week?
I believe you did a monologue and how impressive the
Angels sweeping the Cardinals was. But now it doesn't seem
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like a big deal anymore. Now, Ferg Dog you were
you were sleeping when that happened. It's a bad job
by you. Late night truck tester says it could be
worse for the Cardinals. They could be like the club
in Western Missouri. Yeah, how things going for those oil?
Is everything good with that? Yes? What could be wrong?
What could possibly go wrong for the royal No? Nothing?
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Oh everything? Yeah? Everything and and then some there you go.
Stevie Meatball's rites In says we should have done the
instant of ice line for Juan Soto. He says he
should have been giving him advice for the calendar and
his uh issue with with dogs. He's allergic to dogs.
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I was allergic to cats. I don't know if I
still them because I haven't been around cats. When I
was a kid, I could not be around cats. I
was allergic to cats. But I think I think I
outgrew that. But I'm not sure. Do you outgrow those
things or are those with you your entire life? I
don't say something on the I should say, all right.
I don't think you should say that I learned. I
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learned when in doubt, leave it out. When in doubt,
leave it out. That is what I like. Not allergic
to that, Roberto, but definitely not allergic to that. I
can confirm that as not the case on that. But
I have I have worked with people who are I
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have worked with people who are allergic. It could have
been argued that it was allergic to you for a while.
That is yes, that was an yes, I was the
infectant absolutely on that. There's no like. I keep seeing
these these idiots around the NBA like, Wow, there's a
chance that the NBA is going to suspend Tokole game.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Now do they do they find in the NBA for embellishment?
Do they do that?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
But an owner do they find? I'm gonna say that
was a big, big time flock. If you look at
the letter of the law. I'm a spirit law guy.
I like to go above the speed limits, so I
go the flow of traffic. If everyone's driving over the
speed limit, I go over the speed limit. It's a
spirit of the law, not the letter of the law.
But they say this year in the NBA bylaws, a player, coach, trainer,
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or other team bench person must be ejected for a
one A punching foul, two a fighting foul, three a
technical foul for an attempted punch or swing with no
contact or a thrown elbow towards an opponent. But here's
number four. This is the key thing here for Yokich, deliberty,
deliberately entering the stands other than as a continuance of play.
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So the argument is that he did enter the stands. No,
but I mean, I agree he should not be punched,
but he did go into the stands. He went in
the front row. No, that they're on the court. But
that's the stands. The state the NBA. The NBA says
the stands start in the front row. Coop, that's what
they say. That's not even the front row. That is
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that's I feel like that's a separate setting. That's court side.
You are on the court. No, but the interpretation is
that that is you're you're in the front row. That
that those billionaires that sit in the front row, that's
the beginning of the stands. No, I agree. I think
this would be the dumbest thing in the world. It
would make great talk radio though, so I fully support
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it now that I think about it. The outrage, right, Eddie,
come on this, Yeah, I want him to be suspended
for the rest of the playoffs. Yokis that would be wonderful. Man,
would that be great? Holy crap, I would love that.
Ar Cracker.
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many kids, many of you. That's right, Marcell's favorite team.
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He's a crackhead. The Seattle Crackett now have sixteen different
goal scorers for the first ten playoff games as a team,
three more than any other franchise in NHL history. Eddie
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Their leading scorer is hurt. He gill come back and
he'll score a goal too.
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And we had the most short that what five shorthanded
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were scored? What happened to the what happened to the
power play advantage? Eddy, I don't understand the oilers certainly
have it. I don't get it. All right, it is
the Ben Maler Show. As we continue on, calm down, Marcel,
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I fact, we should tell to him right now. He
is a crackhead. So let's go to him right now.
And we say hello to Marcel, who's online? One Marcel,
you're on the air. Please hello Marcel, Yes, good.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Morning, Ben. I just called you on Friday because you
guys are busy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, no, you can still call us on Friday, but
we try to get you on. But you know, we're
a very popular show. We don't always have time, but
we we do think of you, Marcel, and we love
that you call the show every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Not everyone agrees with that, but that's because you're such
a polarizing caller. Marcel, you're a lightning right, You're a firebrand.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Absolutely, I do understand it.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And congratulations is a crackhead, This is a big day
for you, right to your team doing very well.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Oh thank you. Not just for crack heads, but did
you know, Ben, that's Seattle crack In. It's a new
NHL franchise team beating the Dallas Stars in Game three
yesterday by the score of seven. Old.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
But their fans are called crackheads. And you're a fan
of the team, is that correct?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I'm no, I'm just a fan ambassador of my teams,
including the Seattle Loves. What is that the center Seattle
Loves the city all?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Is that a barbecue restaurant? Is it loves barbecue? I
was a kid.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
No, no, no. The Emerald City is Seattle Love, home
of the Mariners, the Seahawks, the crack In. It's the
name of the team Sounders too as well.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I don't think it's called the City of Love. I don't.
I think that's Paris, the City of Lights.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
The City of Light is Paris there and Seattle to Paris. Oh,
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
What's what's the famous landmark in Paris.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
The Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Does he not know he's a Parisian? This guy? Are
you part of Parisian?
Speaker 4 (25:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What is a Parisian?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
The Parisian? I know, I don't know what kind of
parish it is.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
It's a type of fish.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Oh yeah, the type of fish. It is the type
of fish.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
It's a little spicy. All right, How can we help
you here? What are we doing? It's Monday? What does
that mean here? Marcel? What do we have?
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Baller, you got that going have a motorcycle. But my
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They have a car. Well, that's very nice in your
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They do not have a They don't have a boat,
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No, not at all.
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is your full pick from last night?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
No, I don't. I don't see him here, So I
don't I don't see Justin?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Does he bring him on?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
SIRR say line three? Hit line three, Line three, Please,
I say you had uh cocka? What cocka? The type
of burrito? Taca, it's a burrito. You said you had
a burrito coca. Okay, I'll go. I say you had
(28:25):
chef boyar d And I.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Know you're going to put the mixed match to start
the week.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
That's right, go ahead, Eddie, No cheating, Eddie, no cheating.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I'm gonna say you had a ball of fruit loops loops.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Hey, no, no, that's not the one of the food packs.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Please hurry up, we're short on time. Cooper little Please,
I think you had a grilled cheese with bacon.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I don't think it's going to be not a mixed
match eater.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Oh, bad job by you, Roberto. Please let's say you
had cocka. Oh it sounds like justin again. Unbelievable. What's
the answer? Mark? Sell? Reveal answers? Please?
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What the drum ball? Please? And to start the week,
the food picks Popeye, food olesen noodles, chicken, and of
course biscuits from last night.
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Shocking. Oh no chicken bar, no chef boy are do
I get out of here? Marcel? What you know? What's next? Marcel?
Though you don't know.
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Listen winning and everything. It's the only thing.
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It's time for another Mallard game show.
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We surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing.
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That is the top answer forty points. It's malor Militia
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Play the puid right now. I just want to take
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the week in Kareem Hunt running back late of the
Cleveland Browns suppose of the Denver Broncos Hot and Heavy
Coops Broncos and interested in Kareem Hunt. So I saw
that also crying. Craig was crying at the end of
the Cracking game, and a listener named Abigail says that
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the yoker, the joker is going to go with continuance
of play. Let's welcome in our contestants on the malor
Militia feud. We say hello to Philip, who's in southern California.
Hello Philip, Yes, in Montabella, where our friend Rachel and
Montabella resids. Hopefully she's doing okay. We haven't heard from
(31:29):
Rachel in a while. I hope she's doing all right.
You ready to go here, Philip.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
I'm ready to go.
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Let's do it, all right, buddy. What do you do
for a living? Philip?
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I watched TV?
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You watch TV? Oh? Very nice? Okay, so do I
I watched TV and then talk about what I watched
on TV. Okay, very good, And we have the chef
who's online? Number four? Hello, chef, Chief weather Chief, Hello, Chief,
good morning, Good morning Chief. How's everything in Pennsylvania this morning?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Everything is wonderful, it's beautiful this morning.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
All right, very nice. It's gona beautiful day today. Okay,
pick a keagy of one, two, three, four? What you
want to see any meenie money Moe. All right, we'll
go with number four.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Here.
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Name, gentlemen, you're we're gonna start with your Your name
is your buzzer to start, and then you'll keep going
until you get one wrong name something that you might
find on your car windshield. Top five? Mike? Wait, who's Mike? Uh?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Chief?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Oh all right? Yes, Philip?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
A ticket?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You said? All right, I'm confused, Cool, what's going on here?
I don't I'm confused.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Is the name?
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I don't know what the hell is happening?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Part in the street and they left me a sweeping ticket? No?
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I know that? Well, yes, but who's yes, that's part
it is correct for? Is that Philip? I don't know
who is that? Who gets Philip? All right, Philip, you
go first, you got that one right. Name something that
you might find on your car winshield. Top four answers
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on the board. Now one hundred people surveyed. Go ahead, Philip,
bird crap, bird crap? Is that? Yes? That is an there.
The good job by you, Philip. That was the number
three answer, and you get to go again. Name something
you might find on your car windshield? Philip? Raindrops? Is
(33:40):
that on there? No? That is strike one for Philip,
and now the chief is up. Chief, you get to
go windshield. Yes, absolutely, that is correct.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
That was the number four answer. Name something you might
find on your car windshield. We've got parking ticket, bird dropping,
and windshield wipers. There are three more answers left on
the board.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Inspection sticker? Is that on there? Yes? All right, there
you go. That is on there, and you get to
go again, Gie, Name something you might find on your
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car windshield? What do you say, fog, No, that is
not on there. That is incorrect, And I think we
are out of all the time. Who won the game? Coop?
Do the math on that, quick guy, quick, Philip one
all right. The other answers were flyer slash ads and
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sticker slash decals. Insects. There you go, mal or militia
feud in the bucks. I have nothing to do, I
have nowhere to go.
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, Hour four of
the radio show. And there's a great story in baseball,
big free agent signing, total boondoggle. Now, what's your takeaway
from the Cardinals already bailing out on Wilson Contreras, the
former Cub catcher. They're moving him to designated hitter. Why
(00:24):
make this move demoting Wilson Contreras Now we're only a
month into the baseball season. And how how comes? The
Cardinals are saying they have not lost confidence in Wilson
Contreras despite sending him to the designated hitter role. We'll
talk about that and more here it is. Give it
up for our number four. Have a great day to day,
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me and we will get back to the pro bouncy
ball conversation in a moment. There's an interesting story bouncing
around here in the echo chamber overnight, which we will address.
But I wanted to talk some baseball. Our lead this
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our custom baseball. It's a story that has been buried
by men, but it's the kind of a story that
warms our cockles. It does. It's a doozy. A shake
up in the heartland. The Saint Louis baseball team, the Cardinals,
are crumbling this season. It's been fifty years, a generation
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and a half, some would say two generations since a
Saint Louis baseball team sucked as much as the twenty
twenty three vintage does this year, and so they're shaking
things up. Gotta shake it up a little bit. If
you did not hear, maybe not the Cardinals. It was
announced recently that Wilson Contreras their big jewel pickup to
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replace Yachti Molina, a catcher who retired. So Wilson Contreo's
came over from the Cubs. He had agreed this offseason
to a five year contract for eighty seven and a
half million fully garag Tait contract agreed to in December,
a much bally Hood contract. And the Cardinals have decided
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that we have seen you play catcher for a little
over a month and you blow, so we would like
you to no longer be our catcher, and so they've
they've removed him. The manager, Oliver Marmal, the manageler Ali,
confirming over the weekend that Contreras will no longer be
(03:28):
the catcher. He is the designated hit of the team,
called up a catcher from the minor leagues we've never
heard of, and they will have a platoon behind the plate.
But Wilson Contreras, the eighty seven and a half million
dollar man, no longer the catcher the Cardinals. Well, Wilson
has played the vast majority of the games at catcher
since he came into the big leagues part of that
(03:50):
much bally Hood Saint Louis Cardinal or Chicago Cup rather
minor league system. And the Cubs had all these blue
chip players. They were going to be a dynasty in
the National League and now they're scattered all over major
League Baseball. So let's discuss the question. What is your
takeaway from the Cardinals moving their big free agent pickup,
(04:11):
catcher Wilson Contrera's to designated hitter. So I've got court
martialled spiritual and my pillow, and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a dirty uniform. You know how even play baseball and
you slide in the dirt and the grass and you
(04:31):
get those stains all over your uniform. Yeah, that's what
we're gonna make, all right. So to lead off here,
Wilson Contreras, who has been splendid, He has been a
splendid disaster for the Redbirds. And it's all defense. It's
not offense, it's defense. And that is not my opinion.
It is a fact. It is a fact. This is
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you know what, this is the panic button. They hit
the panic button. They did the Cardinal are hitting the
panic button. I love it. And that's the reality of
the situation. There's nothing more you need to read into
this other than the fact that Cardinals signed this guy
in December. They gave eighty seven and a half million
dollars and now here we are in early May, and
(05:16):
they have a scene enough. They can no longer take
any more from this cat and they want nothing to
do with them, nothing to do with them. And as
far as the numbers on the season is like, well,
the overall number he's on paste it nine home runs,
which not very good, and drive in sixty five runs.
As a catcher, you'd be like, okay, that's fine Contraras.
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But a designated hitter with that kind of production, it's
all it's all defense, it's all defense. And so actions
always speak louder than words, and that's what happened here.
Saint Louis Brass got together. They believe that Contreras is
such a zero with a glove in his hands, he
is such a waste of space that he is bringing
the entire pitching staff down. Management got together, they had
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a pow wow, and they have decided very publicly to
court martial the catcher. They've said, Wilson Contreras, we are
court martialing you. The accused has been convicted of dereliction
of duties. And since they are not allowed to issue
imprisonment and you can't forfeit pay, those contracts are guaranteed
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in Major League Baseball. They did what they legally could do.
They lost rank, Contrera's lost rank, dishonorable discharge from the
catching duties behind the plate, and Conrera's skipping. Yes, keep
in mind, this guy skipped the World Baseball Classic. He
was supposed to play for Venezuela. He skipped that so
he could learn the pitching staff for the Cardinals, and
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a month later he's apparently learned it so well they
want him to be a glorified pinch hitter. How did
that go? How did that go? Uh man? And now
he's gonna do the walk of shame? Wait, is this
not a great story? Oh my god? Eighty seven million
(07:05):
dollar free agent contract. The guy's already been demoted a
month into the season. Now fur them, Why make this move?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Why the timing? Now? Well, first of all, my first
thought is it's a concession speech. The Cardinals are admitting defeat.
They're throwing the axe into the lake. They're chucking the
axe into the lake unconditional surrender, with the hope that
this is a salvage situation, a salvage and recovery situation.
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At this point, the Cardinals did win on Sunday. They
beat the Tigers and beat them pretty good, twelve to six.
So the Cardinals are now eleven and twenty four last place.
Saint Louis Cardinals are a gazillion games back if you
take a look at your baseball standings, and who doesn't
love looking at their mencheling baseball standings? But the Saint
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Louis Carters last place. They are nine games back of
the Pittsburgh Pirates, who have lost seven in rows. So
the Pirates have lost seven a, A and the Cardinals
are still still nine games back, which tells you what
a deep dark place the Cardinals are in at this point.
And the Redbirds are seven and have I think they're
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eight back now, I guess the Padres lost, so let
me check the wild Cards. Then he's coming into Sunday night.
They were seven in backs, so yeah, there's seven back
of the Podres in the wild card race. In the
National League. They're the lowest ranked team by a wide
margin in the National League. Keeping up, we've only played
twenty one percent of the one hundred and sixty two
(08:43):
game schedule, thirty five games in, so there are one
hundred and twenty seven games left to chip away and
climb up the ladder and out of the sewer in
the National League. But the streets are talking, and here's
what I'm hearing. There are whispers that indicate that this move,
in large part was generated by the pitching staff, that
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there was a rebellion from the Cardinals' pitching staff. And
the one thing I know for my years around baseball
that pitchers love to blame someone other than pitchers when
things don't go well, and a catcher is a prime
candidate for the blame game. And so we're hearing that
the pitching staff there simply did not like Wilson Contreras.
(09:29):
They didn't think he paid enough attention behind the plate
and that he was affecting them. And it sounds like,
if this is right, that Saint Louis, even though everything's
antically analytically driven, they do give their catcher some leeway
and the catcher's allowed to call the game. And that
did not go well a lot of the game. And
so the results have been not good, not spotty, they've
(09:50):
just been garbage. Cardinals pitching ranked twentieth in baseball, the
starters are ranked twenty third, and they've got Jordan Montgomery,
the x Yankee, Adam Wainwright is a thousand years old,
and a bunch of other names you've heard of that
have been around the major leagues. So consider the ex
communication of Wilson Contreras to be part of a ritual.
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Now you might remember, I think it was last year
that Miles and Miklos, the starting pitcher for the Cardinals,
he held a sage ritual, a spiritual sage burning at
Bush Stadium to dispel the negative energy. It's a purifying
cleansing of the bad mojo. May we recommend they come
(10:36):
back and do that again, Try to improve the mood,
soothe the stress, if you will. All right, last thing here,
So how come the Cardinals general manager came out and
said that they have not lost confidence in Wilson Contreras.
That quote is bouncing around us behind a paywall on
the athletic that they have not lost confidence in Contras
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even oh, they have just demoted him to designated hitter.
So the the reason is rather obvious. It's a d
C situation, not a DAH situation. It's a DC situation,
which means damage control. The Cardinals front office is tossing
out a my pillow. They want a nice soft landing
(11:19):
on the pillow there because the way I understand this,
if you're the general manager who signed off on giving
this guy eighty seven million and you've given up on
him after a month. If I'm the owner of the team,
who am I going to get rid of After I
get rid of a player, I'm gonna get rid of you,
and so Contreras as the Cardinals dhe it creates a
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roster log jam. Nolan Gorman has been used as the
He was the DH most of this year so far,
and he's actually had a good year. He's on pastate
over thirty home runs, driving one hundred runs for Saint Louis.
They can move him around. The problem is he's blocked
because they have Brendan Donovan at second base and Nolan
Aeronado is at third base. So that becomes problematic. And
then you look at the trickle down effect. And I
(12:02):
would like to be the first person saying trade. There's
gonna be a trade. The Cardinals are gonna make a
trade and an over crowded roster, and I continue to
predict this is a take I will be validated. I
had this take several weeks back. I think it was
the first week of the baseball season, and I said
this on the air. There was a Cardinal player who
got benched for not hustling. You remember Tyler O'Neill, And
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he got called out by the Cardinals manager. And he's
currently got a back injury. But when he's fully in
the lineup and ready to go and all that, that
is the guy. That is the prime trade candidate. That
is the prime trade candidate. So keep an eye on that.
But what a hot mess, what a wonderful hot mess.
(12:48):
The Saint Louis Cardinals, who you know, in the National League,
there are only three teams that have had have a
plus run differential in the entire National League. The Cardinals
are actually not the worst. They have the worst record
in the National League. But the team that has the
worst run differential you're Miami Marlins, who are minus fifty six.
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But they are way behind the two worst teams in
the American League, which are the Royals who have been
outscored by sixty six runs and the Oakland Slash Las
Vegas Athletics, who have somehow managed to be outscored by
one hundred and twenty four runs and they have only
played thirty five games. You can do the math on that.
It is the Ben Malers Show. If you would like
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to be part Wild Story from the NBA. Now, we
talked about this earlier in the show. I would like
(13:51):
to revisit this. The Denver Nuggets multiple time MVP Nikola
Jokic was given a technical foul. There was a play
that happened where josh A Kogi, who he's a basketball
player for the Suns. You've never heard of him, So
he dove into the crowd for a loose ball. I
think this happened. I want to say it's like the
second quarter of Game four, which went to the Suns.
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So Josha Koge makes a hustle play, he dives in
the crowd for this loose ball, and I'm watching the
replay here and it bounced into the hands of some
guy sitting in the front row. Well, that guy turned
out to be the owner of the team worth over
seven billion. The guy that just bought the Suns, matt Ishbia.
He held on the ball well a fan and then
(14:39):
helped a Kogi get up. So then that's going on. Well,
Nikola Jolkic comes over there and he's like, wait a minute,
I would like the game to continue. I would like
to have the possession of the ball. Give me my ball.
I need my ball. And so he grabbed the ball
and that did not sit well with the owner of
the Sons who was holding onto the ball. So there
(15:01):
was a tug of war with the ball, and so
they're battling for the ball. Whose ball is it? And
so they're going back and forth, and during that interaction,
Nikola Jokic made a brief elbow gesture and then the
ball came free and then and so now people are
(15:22):
looking at the rules of the NBA Code of Conduct
and they're speculating whether or not Nikola Jokic will be
suspended from Game five in a playoff series that is
tied up four to four, and they're saying that his
move of entering the crowd. The NBA says the front
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row is the beginning of the stands, and so therefore,
that is a violation by the letter of the law.
And if that happens, then I know this is not reality.
But the people of Denver who have tickets for Game
five should just not even show up. I mean, what
are you doing. It's embarrassing. I mean the owner, first
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of all, should have given up the ball. I understand
why he didn't do it. If I owned the team,
I wouldn't do it. But you got to give up
the ball in that situation, and that was It's not
a violent act by Nikola Jokic of the Nuggets, I mean,
so stupid. But I would not put it past the
NBA because Denver is the ultimate flyover country. Not that
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Phoenix is a glamour location, but the NBA big wigs
would much rather spend a few weeks in the Valley
of the Sun than they would in Denver. So keep
an eye on that anyway. It is the Ben Maler Show.
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Later this hour. Whether you like it or not, whether
you can handle it or not, we will have malar
militia feud. The feud is on Ferg Dog Rights In
he says, what happened to the Redbirds just last week?
I believe you did a monologue and how impressive the
Angels sweeping the Cardinals was. But now it doesn't seem
(18:43):
like a big deal anymore. Now, Ferg Dog you were
you were sleeping when that happened. It's a bad job
by you. Late night truck tester says it could be
worse for the Cardinals. They could be like the club
in Western Missouri. Yeah, how things going for those oil?
Is everything good with that? Yes? What could be wrong?
What could possibly go wrong for the royal No? Nothing?
(19:08):
Oh everything? Yeah? Everything and and then some there you go.
Stevie Meatball's rites In says we should have done the
instant of ice line for Juan Soto. He says he
should have been giving him advice for the calendar and
his uh issue with with dogs. He's allergic to dogs.
(19:29):
I was allergic to cats. I don't know if I
still them because I haven't been around cats. When I
was a kid, I could not be around cats. I
was allergic to cats. But I think I think I
outgrew that. But I'm not sure. Do you outgrow those
things or are those with you your entire life? I
don't say something on the I should say, all right.
I don't think you should say that I learned. I
(19:49):
learned when in doubt, leave it out. When in doubt,
leave it out. That is what I like. Not allergic
to that, Roberto, but definitely not allergic to that. I
can confirm that as not the case on that. But
I have I have worked with people who are I
(20:11):
have worked with people who are allergic. It could have
been argued that it was allergic to you for a while.
That is yes, that was an yes, I was the
infectant absolutely on that. There's no like. I keep seeing
these these idiots around the NBA like, Wow, there's a
chance that the NBA is going to suspend Tokole game.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Now do they do they find in the NBA for embellishment?
Do they do that?
Speaker 1 (20:41):
But an owner do they find? I'm gonna say that
was a big, big time flock. If you look at
the letter of the law. I'm a spirit law guy.
I like to go above the speed limits, so I
go the flow of traffic. If everyone's driving over the
speed limit, I go over the speed limit. It's a
spirit of the law, not the letter of the law.
But they say this year in the NBA bylaws, a player, coach, trainer,
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or other team bench person must be ejected for a
one A punching foul, two a fighting foul, three a
technical foul for an attempted punch or swing with no
contact or a thrown elbow towards an opponent. But here's
number four. This is the key thing here for Yokich, deliberty,
deliberately entering the stands other than as a continuance of play.
(21:27):
So the argument is that he did enter the stands. No,
but I mean, I agree he should not be punched,
but he did go into the stands. He went in
the front row. No, that they're on the court. But
that's the stands. The state the NBA. The NBA says
the stands start in the front row. Coop, that's what
they say. That's not even the front row. That is
(21:47):
that's I feel like that's a separate setting. That's court side.
You are on the court. No, but the interpretation is
that that is you're you're in the front row. That
that those billionaires that sit in the front row, that's
the beginning of the stands. No, I agree. I think
this would be the dumbest thing in the world. It
would make great talk radio though, so I fully support
(22:08):
it now that I think about it. The outrage, right, Eddie,
come on this, Yeah, I want him to be suspended
for the rest of the playoffs. Yokis that would be wonderful. Man,
would that be great? Holy crap, I would love that.
Ar Cracker.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
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Speaker 1 (22:29):
Hey, it's Ben, host of The Fifth Hour with Ben
Maller along with my trustee sidekick David Gascon. Would mean
a lot to have you join us on our weekly
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We chat with captains of industry in media, sports and
(22:51):
more every week explore some amazing facts about human nature
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on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get
your podcast. Here's my fun fact, the Seattle Kracking. This
goes out there, JJ and Rent and Crying, Craig and Seattle,
all my Seattle guys in the Malad Militia, I met
many kids, many of you. That's right, Marcell's favorite team.
(23:12):
He's a crackhead. The Seattle Crackett now have sixteen different
goal scorers for the first ten playoff games as a team,
three more than any other franchise in NHL history. Eddie
through their first ten playoff games. That is putting the
fun in fun facts. Seattle Crackett.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Their leading scorer is hurt. He gill come back and
he'll score a goal too.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And we had the most short that what five shorthanded
goals and that we had not seen that in the
NHL in more than thirty years since five shorthanded goals
were scored? What happened to the what happened to the
power play advantage? Eddy, I don't understand the oilers certainly
have it. I don't get it. All right, it is
the Ben Maler Show. As we continue on, calm down, Marcel,
(23:59):
I fact, we should tell to him right now. He
is a crackhead. So let's go to him right now.
And we say hello to Marcel, who's online? One Marcel,
you're on the air. Please hello Marcel, Yes, good.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Morning, Ben. I just called you on Friday because you
guys are busy.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Well, no, you can still call us on Friday, but
we try to get you on. But you know, we're
a very popular show. We don't always have time, but
we we do think of you, Marcel, and we love
that you call the show every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Not everyone agrees with that, but that's because you're such
a polarizing caller. Marcel, you're a lightning right, You're a firebrand.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Absolutely, I do understand it.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
And congratulations is a crackhead, This is a big day
for you, right to your team doing very well.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
Oh thank you. Not just for crack heads, but did
you know, Ben, that's Seattle crack In. It's a new
NHL franchise team beating the Dallas Stars in Game three
yesterday by the score of seven. Old.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
But their fans are called crackheads. And you're a fan
of the team, is that correct?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I'm no, I'm just a fan ambassador of my teams,
including the Seattle Loves. What is that the center Seattle
Loves the city all?
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Is that a barbecue restaurant? Is it loves barbecue? I
was a kid.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
No, no, no. The Emerald City is Seattle Love, home
of the Mariners, the Seahawks, the crack In. It's the
name of the team Sounders too as well.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I don't think it's called the City of Love. I don't.
I think that's Paris, the City of Lights.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
The City of Light is Paris there and Seattle to Paris. Oh,
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
What's what's the famous landmark in Paris.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
The Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Does he not know he's a Parisian? This guy? Are
you part of Parisian?
Speaker 4 (25:54):
No?
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What is a Parisian?
Speaker 4 (25:58):
The Parisian? I know, I don't know what kind of
parish it is.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
It's a type of fish.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Oh yeah, the type of fish. It is the type
of fish.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
It's a little spicy. All right, How can we help
you here? What are we doing? It's Monday? What does
that mean here? Marcel? What do we have?
Speaker 4 (26:15):
And we have the return of the frew Picks. That's
chefs around the corner. Also, Malan militia feud is on deck.
But I know you about it, and I know you
about it, my friend, your show is made possible in
part by who else? Progressive?
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Roberto says, sure, why not? That's right, Marcel, progressive and
you know progressive. They can take care of all your niece.
Do you have an r you have like a motorcycle? Right, Marcel,
you're a.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
Baller, you got that going have a motorcycle. But my
family have a car instead.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
They have a car. Well, that's very nice in your
family to have a car. Do they have a boat?
Does anyone in your family have a boat?
Speaker 4 (26:51):
No?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
They do not have a They don't have a boat,
so there's no boat.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
What about a bicycle?
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Bicycle?
Speaker 2 (26:57):
No?
Speaker 4 (26:57):
No, no?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
What about an ATV?
Speaker 4 (27:00):
No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
What do you think an ATV is?
Speaker 4 (27:03):
It's just like the ATV of the motorcyclist something.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, it's like something. Yeah. Anyway, This fortun brought to
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Marcel and Brooklyn just said it to it.
Speaker 4 (27:26):
And now a new dawn, a new day, the month
of mayus here, so mala militia. Let's get into X
and we're going to bring in Justin and Cincinnati right now.
Who knows the fou picks on Mondays and he joins
us definitely right now. Good morning, sir, Happy Monday. It's
a new week, so let's get clean and fresh. What
(27:51):
is your full pick from last night?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
No, I don't. I don't see him here, So I
don't I don't see Justin?
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Does he bring him on?
Speaker 1 (28:02):
SIRR say line three? Hit line three, Line three, Please,
I say you had uh cocka? What cocka? The type
of burrito? Taca, it's a burrito. You said you had
a burrito coca. Okay, I'll go. I say you had
(28:25):
chef boyar d And I.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Know you're going to put the mixed match to start
the week.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
That's right, go ahead, Eddie, No cheating, Eddie, no cheating.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I'm gonna say you had a ball of fruit loops loops.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Hey, no, no, that's not the one of the food packs.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Please hurry up, we're short on time. Cooper little Please,
I think you had a grilled cheese with bacon.
Speaker 4 (28:51):
I don't think it's going to be not a mixed
match eater.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Oh, bad job by you, Roberto. Please let's say you
had cocka. Oh it sounds like justin again. Unbelievable. What's
the answer? Mark? Sell? Reveal answers? Please?
Speaker 4 (29:02):
What the drum ball? Please? And to start the week,
the food picks Popeye, food olesen noodles, chicken, and of
course biscuits from last night.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Shocking. Oh no chicken bar, no chef boy are do
I get out of here? Marcel? What you know? What's next? Marcel?
Though you don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Do you malin militia feud? Call right now if you
want to play with Ben and the guys eight seven seven.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Ninety All right, malon Milissia feud. We get to it
and we will do it.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Next pal, see it cut.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
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Speaker 2 (30:18):
It's winning so important.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
Listen winning and everything. It's the only thing.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
It's time for another Mallard game show.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
Oh yeah, so go.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
We surveyed one hundred people named sports teams associated with losing.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Kurs I believe the answer is to Clippers.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
That is the top answer forty points. It's malor Militia
cute and we will.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Play the puid right now. I just want to take
care of some business here. There was a rumor over
the week in Kareem Hunt running back late of the
Cleveland Browns suppose of the Denver Broncos Hot and Heavy
Coops Broncos and interested in Kareem Hunt. So I saw
that also crying. Craig was crying at the end of
the Cracking game, and a listener named Abigail says that
(31:09):
the yoker, the joker is going to go with continuance
of play. Let's welcome in our contestants on the malor
Militia feud. We say hello to Philip, who's in southern California.
Hello Philip, Yes, in Montabella, where our friend Rachel and
Montabella resids. Hopefully she's doing okay. We haven't heard from
(31:29):
Rachel in a while. I hope she's doing all right.
You ready to go here, Philip.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
I'm ready to go.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Let's do it, all right, buddy. What do you do
for a living? Philip?
Speaker 4 (31:41):
I watched TV?
Speaker 1 (31:42):
You watch TV? Oh? Very nice? Okay, so do I
I watched TV and then talk about what I watched
on TV. Okay, very good, And we have the chef
who's online? Number four? Hello, chef, Chief weather Chief, Hello, Chief,
good morning, Good morning Chief. How's everything in Pennsylvania this morning?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Everything is wonderful, it's beautiful this morning.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
All right, very nice. It's gona beautiful day today. Okay,
pick a keagy of one, two, three, four? What you
want to see any meenie money Moe. All right, we'll
go with number four.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Here.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Name, gentlemen, you're we're gonna start with your Your name
is your buzzer to start, and then you'll keep going
until you get one wrong name something that you might
find on your car windshield. Top five? Mike? Wait, who's Mike? Uh?
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Chief?
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Oh all right? Yes, Philip?
Speaker 4 (32:41):
A ticket?
Speaker 1 (32:42):
You said? All right, I'm confused, Cool, what's going on here?
I don't I'm confused.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
Is the name?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I don't know what the hell is happening?
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Part in the street and they left me a sweeping ticket? No?
Speaker 1 (32:53):
I know that? Well, yes, but who's yes, that's part
it is correct for? Is that Philip? I don't know
who is that? Who gets Philip? All right, Philip, you
go first, you got that one right. Name something that
you might find on your car winshield. Top four answers
(33:14):
on the board. Now one hundred people surveyed. Go ahead, Philip,
bird crap, bird crap? Is that? Yes? That is an there.
The good job by you, Philip. That was the number
three answer, and you get to go again. Name something
you might find on your car windshield? Philip? Raindrops? Is
(33:40):
that on there? No? That is strike one for Philip,
and now the chief is up. Chief, you get to
go windshield. Yes, absolutely, that is correct.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
That was the number four answer. Name something you might
find on your car windshield. We've got parking ticket, bird dropping,
and windshield wipers. There are three more answers left on
the board.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Inspection sticker? Is that on there? Yes? All right, there
you go. That is on there, and you get to
go again, Gie, Name something you might find on your
(34:24):
car windshield? What do you say, fog, No, that is
not on there. That is incorrect, And I think we
are out of all the time. Who won the game? Coop?
Do the math on that, quick guy, quick, Philip one
all right. The other answers were flyer slash ads and
(34:44):
sticker slash decals. Insects. There you go, mal or militia
feud in the bucks. I have nothing to do, I
have nowhere to go.
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