April 13, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about recent comments from Aaron Rodgers saying he's 90% retired and if that is causing the Jets to get cold feet, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, hour four of
our radio show, and we go right to the red meat.
That's Aaron Rodgers. Thumbs up or thumbs down on Aaron
Rodgers talking about retirement. Those comments that Rogers made causing
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the Jets owner to get cold feet? Why have the
Packers not made this Aaron Rodgers trade a priority. The
NFL draft is less than a couple of weeks away,
and Green Bay wants a second rounder and a first
rounder for Aaron Rodgers. How should the Jets handle that?
Would you trade a future first round pick and a
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second round pick for the services of Aaron Rodgers. We'll
talk about that as well. Here it is our number four.
Some stinky cheese. If you will well come in a
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It's the story that will not go away. We are
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now two weeks away, two weeks away from the NFL Draft. Then,
Cansa City. Do you have your big board? Have you
prepared your big board for the NFL Draft? You have not,
It's wrong with you. So I'm not going to talk
about the draft here. We've avoided this particular story we're
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about to talk about for the last couple of weeks.
We haven't done a real deep dive on it. So
we're gonna go back to it. It is time now
for our obligatory Mallard monologue about Aaron Rogers. Relax. So,
Aaron Rodgers is looking to escape Wisconsin. He's had enough
cheese kurds. He would like to move on to New
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Jersey and eat it all those great diners in Jersey.
So have you heard the latest on us? Because there's
some new stuff that caught my attention, so I wanted
to share it with you. If you haven't heard. We
have learned now a theory as to why Aaron Rodgers
has yet to be traded from the Packers to the Jets.
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What is it? Whispers that Woody Johnson, the owner of
the New York football team that wears green. Woody Johnson
has pumped the brakes for now on trade negotiations after
Aaron Rodgers made some comments public comments that the Jets
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owner was bothered by. Now what were those comments? Were
those comments about going on a darkness retreat? Was it
the Ayahuasco with Joe Rogan? Was it something else? Now?
Charles Robinson tells us the Jets czar Woody Johnson of
Johnson and Johnson fame, was flummixed when Aaron Rodgers said
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that he was about ninety percent ninety percent sure that
he was going to retire before going on that aforementioned
darkness retreat and ultimately decided to come back and play
in the twenty twenty three seasons. So the word is
the Jets had already worked out the general outline of
a trade, but after Woody Johnson heard that ninety percent
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quote from Rogers, He's like, wait a minute, what are
we doing here? Why would we trade all that to
get a guy who's going to retire or ninety percent retired.
So we are told both sides are reportedly dug in
and they're waiting it out. They're in a staring contest,
waiting to see who blinks first. And let us discuss
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the question. Will keep it simple? Thumbs up or thumbs
down on airin Rogers retirement comment, the ninety percent retired
comment causing the Jets owner Woody Johnson to get cold feet.
So I am gonna go thumbs up. I'm going thumbs
up on two thumbs up on this. I buy it.
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It makes sense. I've got shallow breathing, key lime and
docu sign and we'll put all of these things into
the pot and we'll see what we have. We're gonna
cook it up for about ten minutes. We'll see what happened.
So to kick off here, Of all the wild theories
that I have heard, and there are many, there are
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many that have been tossed around. Of all the theories,
this is the one that makes the most sense to me,
and if you think about it, it should make sense
to you. Woody Johnson is this old dude. He's tuning
in to the YouTuber Pat McAfee show. He's all excited
because the Jets are about to get an MVP level
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quarterback from a couple of years ago, and he's got
everything lined up. He knows the trades all but complete.
They've gotten the blessing from Rogers. They've worked out the
details with the Packers the Jets, so he knows everything's
agreed upon. All they have to do the Jets is
crossed the teas and dot the eyes and we're good
to go. A bing bought a boom, as Tony's Prano
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said back in the dawn his show. So Woody is
watching the McAfee show. He's listening to Rogers wax poetic
about how he was ninety percent ready to retire, and
all of a sudden, Woody Johnson's got a pin that
pops the balloon. He's seventy six years old. Seventy six
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years old. He's of the generation. In his head, Woody
Johnson's thinking that Aaron Rodgers is not fully committed. Because
at that age, if you were raised to think that
if you're going down retirement row and you're thinking of retirement,
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you're ninety percent retired, that you're already partially retired, You've
already checked out, and so that allows doubt to creep
into the picture, and then doubt leads to what it
leads to, the shallow breathing, that flop sweat, the rapid
heart rate. The clinical term for this is paralysis by analysis.
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That's the clinical term. But here's the thing, and this
is really the rub on this story. There are no
other suitors. There were whispers about a week ago that
somebody else was going to enter the phrase. As of
right now, unless it's happened and we don't know about it,
there's no one else that's gone public showing any interest
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in Aaron Rodgers. And if they do, it would still
be awkward because Rodgers has already shown that he wants
to play for the Jets in terms of trade talks
with the Jets and the Packers and with other teams
and the Packers regarding Aaron Rodgers, it is the thing.
Everyone that does a show like this has nightmares about
radio silence. Radio silence the thing you do not want.
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The only main goal we have is to keep the
VU meter moving on the board. That's it. Now. Furthermore,
why have the Packers not made a full, wholehearted effort
to make the Aaron Rodgers trade a priority. So on
this side of the microne, it seems like Green Bay
has put a price on Roger's head on the auctioning block.
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And we are told the Packers they want a second
round pick this year in the draft in two weeks,
and a twenty twenty four guaranteed first round pick from
the Jets. That's the bounty if you want Rogers. Is
it true that the Jets did agree to those terms
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on a trade and then when Rogers made the ninety
retirement line, the Jets then backed away. Is it also
true that the Packers are determined to get those picks
because the Jets had initially said they were going to
trade those picks to get Rogers. So he appears to
be that way. Each team is worried about perfectionism. The
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Packers have to get the picks. Green Bay is willing
to play the long game. The Jets trying to save
some face here, worried that Rogers is gonna go to
the Jets and then retire. It's always about the leverage.
Who's got the leverage. New York does not have the leverage.
The leverage is on the side of Green Bay, and
I'll tell you why, New York They've They've completely gone
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down fiasco road. If they don't get Rogers. This is,
in terms of a stupid sports transaction, cataclysmic for the
perception of the Jets. It's one thing to shoot your
shot and not get what you're looking for. It's another
thing to shoot your shot be told you're going to
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get what you shot your shot for, You're gonna make
the basket, and then say, you know what, I'm just
kidding that was a miscalculation. The Jets have already celebrated
the premature celebration. Aaron Rodgers and the Jets played footsie
in they made out with each other in public. And
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the diehard Jet fans, most of them work in the media.
I'm convinced there aren't any die hard Jet fans other
than people that do radio and television shows and podcast
The die hard Jet fans were orgasmic or gasmic. If
they the Jets do not get Aaron Rodgers, this would
be the ultimate key line, pie to the face, right
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to the schnaz that you won what you think is
the lottery and then you're you're all dressed up right,
everyone's dressed up for the cotillion. You're ready to have
the formal ball and the nice pep rally to welcome
in the quarterback. And then the Jets say, psych psych
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party shot. Let's address the compensation. Compensation again, Let's address
the compensation. Okay, So for those of you that are
not paying attention, bad job by you. Green Bay wants
were told a second round pick this year and a
first round pick for Rodgers? How should the Jets handle
that opera? So there is only one answer, which is
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the acceptable answer. I will be the voice of reason.
I will be the adult in the room when it
comes to the Aaron Rodgers trade talks. Here is the
advice from the Mallard think tank Party of one to
the Jets. You must cross the rubicon or in this case,
the Hudson cross, the Hudson tap, the docu sign. Make
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it official. Okay, have the bar mitzvah, consummate the relationship,
however you want to phrase it. Aaron Rodgers gets you
a seat at the grown up stable. It doesn't guarantee anything,
and knowing the way these things often work, it'll blow
up in your face. But that's not the point yet.
Gotta live in the high rent district when you have
the opportunity, and even if Aaron Rodgers comes and does
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a face plant and is one and done, whoopedie damn
do Who the hell about the draft picks? F them picks,
them picks. Draft picks are a renewable resource. Every year
you are allotted a new crop of draft picks. You
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get seven minimum seven draft picks every year. Now you
could trade some of those. There's ways you lose the
draft picks. If you're the Dolphins, you get caught tampering
and they take a pick away. But outside of that,
you are given seven picks, one in every round of
the draft. So the idea that you're gonna be broken
as a franchise if you lose a draft pick, it's bullcrap,
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is what it is. In Most of these draft picks
never live up to the life. Going back to twenty eight,
I went back to last fifteen years. I felt like
that was a good sample size the last fifteen years.
You know many players the Jets have drafted in the
first round of the draft. You don't know that, because
why would you know that you're a loser If you
know that, I'm a loser because I looked it up.
The Jets have drafted twenty players in the first round.
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So of those twenty players draft in the first round
by the Jets, how many of those players made an
AP first Team All Pro. I'm not talking about the
Pro Bowl because the Pro Bowl is ridiculous at this point,
it's a joke. But first team All Pro status that
means you've mattered. That means you're a big fin deal.
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If you're a first team All Pro in the NFL,
that's the Kremna krem that's the masterpiece player. If you're
the All t All Pro first team. So twenty first
round picks since twenty eight and out of those twenty
three three have made an AP first team All Pro.
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That is a success rate of fifteen percent. And that
includes Sauce Gardner, who they actually got right, but it
doesn't matter. They just got them right. That means the
odds are more stacked, if you go by the law
of averages, that they will not get it right with
their next picks. And what is my other evidence on that?
Zach Wilson. Hell, hello, this guy's he needs a flea
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bath because he's a dog with fleas. That Zach Wilson's Terrible.
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And is it true a Major League baseball mascot was
assaulted at the ballpark? And it was not a comedy routine.
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That's some loser assaulted a fluffy mascot at a big
league game? Is that true? We'll go to that story
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It's Ben Maller. Aaron Rodgers Monologue number seven thousand, two
hundred and twenty eight completed. That's how we began this hour.
Coming up later in the hour, we'll have fact or
fiction that I'll be coming your way. Just Josh writes
and says, no need for New York to get into
a Johnson measuring contest with Rogers. A ninety percent retired
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quarterback is still their best chance at winning a super Bowl.
But I'm bump. Well, lame jokes are actually tomorrow, Just Josh,
So make sure to send your jokes in if you
want to be part of lame Jokes. We're always looking
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Make sure to put your name near the joke if
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and sometimes I'm flustered putting that together. But if you
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Keith Ocho Textos says, I'm still trying to figure out
Danny G's last name, let alone Ben's middle name. Well,
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Danny G's last name is Giardelli from the famous chocolate family,
the Giadelli family, dB writes in Dennis, he says middle name.
I'm I'm the third, So there's two more poor souls
in the world with the middle name. It's Harlow. Yeah,
that's a tough one. That's a tough one. Both both
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my names. When I was little, nobody had I didn't
know anybody that had my my my first in my
middle name. Ferg Dog rights and says, I'm guessing Ben
Samuel Maller is the answer. I will neither confirm nor
deny that that is the middle name. Some people went
with Salve for obvious reasons. I think that's offensive. I'm
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offended by that. You should be canceled. Shame on you,
bad job by you. We'll go to the phones, and
let's say hello. Now, a man who's a legend, the
reigning caller of the year on this show. Give it
up for the Dickster, the highest honor in overnight sports radio,
the caller of the year. A man who's in the
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Kettering Banjo Society and the Strummers. Dick in Dayton, Good morning,
How are you? How you knowing? Dick? I was concerned
because Kathy and Wisconsin in Madison. She wanted to have
a recording session with you again. She was trying to
get a hold of you. So I was worried you
were sick or something like that. But you're you sound
pretty good. Yeah, yeah, I've been Actually I joined another group.
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It's what I joined another group. It's called the Miamisburg
Strummers and they play, uh, they're going to be playing
around Miami's Burg there and probably down to wait wait
wait wait wait, So you're not how do you have to?
I know you were tiredment you're in the Strummers. The
Kettering banjois Society. And what's the name of this one again?
This one's called the Miami's Burg Dullsburg Group and we
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meet every Tuesday. And we got two or three gigs
of Miami's Burg and a couple of the Festals coming up.
So the miami's Burg group is right, it's called Okay,
that's exciting. And what do you do in that? Do
you you're saying do you play the which instrument do
you play? I usually play the mandolin? But to U tomorrow? Oh,
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I was telling Dulu tomorrow was a special day. Been
tomorrow is my birthday? Oh, and that means it's also
Pete Rose's birthday. All right, Yes, that's right. Dick and Dayton,
the all time hits king in sports radio and Pete Rose.
We can't do birthday shout out, Dick. As you know,
we're not a morning zoo show. It just sounds like
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we're giving you a birthday shout out. Well, God bless you.
What are you doing for your birthday? Have big plans?
You're gonna go out and have a knight down drag out.
We wouldn't be appropriate, Ben. You know, my cousin sent
me a couple of cards. She's a big you know,
from Cleveland, and she sent me a real pretty card.
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But the strummers have a show over by the Dayton Mall.
It's one of the I'm trying to think that's one
of the restaurants we're going to be playing at today.
Are you working on your birthday? Are you going to
be performing on your birthday? Yes? Yeah, I believe really
cool and I'm gonna think you know, everybody, I went
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to see my friend down at uh. One of the
guys known as Dave from Dayton took me down there, Uh,
Jerry Jeff. His name is Dave and he's known as
day under ww I got uh. I got to meet
him down at the bar there, and I'm telling you, Ben,
that place was crowded. I mean, everybody was just talking.
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And I had such fun down there, and I talked
it was far there. People were having a grand old
time and all that. And you're turning twenty one again.
I was born the year this is a long time
ago that I can't remember, but I'm a Cleveland fanation
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you can't even remember the year you were born, Dick
and Dayton? Is that right? Nineteen? Whoa is that right?
And how old do you feel there? How old do
you feel? I feel that I'm only about six three
or four? Okay, all right, you're you're you're moving around
pretty good still, you're doing. You're doing all these bands
and so you got you got your movement and you're
living your life. It's wonderful. Yeah. And I call up
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you know, I call um. I'm a big fan of
you know, the sports shows. I have a friend that
used to work down here. He always calls me, I
got a new name. He calls me Chickster Dixter, the
chick magnet. Damn right, Oh, he calls your chickster Dixter,
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the chick Magnet's a yeah, yeah. And I have another
friend that they always uh always says uh. Well, it
wouldn't be a show without our buddy, he says uh.
He says it's got to be Richard, or it's either
Richard not not the Richard he said that was in
the history book. But he says uh. He always says,
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I need a little pick me up. And what better
way to do it, he says, is Dick from Aton.
How about that? Dick? As long as I do this show,
I need you to be part of the show. Man.
You gotta be with me. You're you're the greatest happy
birthday that you can call tomorrow. We'll be here tomorrow
two if you want. But happy birthday, all right, I'd
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love to. Yeah, we talked to you on your actual birthday.
But thank you, buddy, You're welcome. I have a wonderful
that's gotta be a dropper. The chicks love Dick, there's
no doubt about it. I gotta meet him. I gotta
get to Ohio before I regret. But I did not
meet him when I was in Ohio, went with him
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to the Hall of Fame there, and I gotta, I gotta.
I'll I'll go, even if I go by myself for
a weekend. I'll leave the wife at home or whatever.
I'll go hang out. And he's what a piece of
work if we just think any it used to be
in the old days, everyone loved radio, like Dick and Dayton.
Now there's a very few people like that. They truly
love the radio. I mean they like it, but they
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don't love like Dick and Dayton. His whole wife revolves
around radio. It's wild. Yes, wants to leave the wife
at home so we can go visit Dick. Well, now
that your phrases like that anyway. Be sure to catch
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live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two
am Eastern eleven PM Pacific. What do you get when
you combine a three time manager of the Year at
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the Book of Joe podcast. Hey, this is Tom Berducci
from Fox Sports, MLB Network and Sports Illustrated and I'm
Joe Madden, and we're gonna be around to talk a
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little bit about manager real decisions, playoff games and what
may have accorded to the dug out maybe in the
nineteen eighties. I can't wait for this, Joe. We're gonna
dive into what goes on in the dugout and behind
the scenes in Major League Baseball, cars, wind whatever else
we want to talk about. Listen to the Book of
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Maller and the Tirerat dot com My Fun Fact Eddy
fun Fact of the Hour, this goes out to fer
ferg Dog Fergie and Alfi alienal Pine are two big
super fans of the show. Now that the Pittsburgh Pirates
have not made the Stanley Cup playoffs, they've been eliminated,
wins what I say, Pirate Pirates? Bat job by me.
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All those Pittsburgh teams are the same. So the Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh I said, the Pirates game, the Pittsburgh Penguins eliminated. Hello,
if you could talk that with hell. So the Pittsburgh
Penguins eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs? Which team now
has the longest active playoff street? The Penguins had it?
Which team has it? Now? I'll step back and wait
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for your answer. Go ahead, Chap, Jop, do do do do? Patriots? No?
Keep me the Patriots. That's wrong with you? The patrioty
didn't make the plaoffs last year, Eddy, bad job by you.
The correct answer of all sports, the major sports leagues.
We can't. We can't guess either. Well, go ahead, guess Coop. Okay,
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let's see all ready to go? No? No, Well, I
thought it was a hockey question. So that's that's why
I could be any any sport. Okay, um, longest playoff streak?
Do the Dodgers? The Dodgers? The Dodgers than how many years?
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Ten years in a row the Dodgers have made the playoffs?
And if they don't get some middle infields, yeah, my hand,
this year it must be nice. They might not make
the plows. They also need another starting pitcher. So if
you know anybody that can pitch, call the Dodgers. It's
almost as long as the Angels have been out of
the playoffs. That's yeah, that is when's the last thing
the US was in the playoffs? It was twenty fifteen.
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Oh wow, that's that's kind of a while ago. Now wild,
we have violence in baseball. We're taking out Denver, Colorado,
and my mascot friend, Dinger, the Rockies mascot, was the
victim of a violent attack. Try Sarah Tops, mascot of
the Colorado Rockies, was on the dugout dancing during a
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Rockies Cardinals game and some loser, some dope, got the
mascots on the dugout dancing and the mask the mascots
doing this thing. He's a mascot, Dinger the mascot, and
this dope, this drunk guy gets up there and assaults
assaults Dinger the mascot, and they kicked the guy out
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of the stadium. But the Denver Police Department is currently
investigating and there could be criminal charges. Imagine facing I
say it could be because it's twenty twenty three. So
maybe you get away with it. But if you can
imagine being charged with a crime for assaulting a mascot,
I mean all the things to be in trouble for this.
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This Now, the mascot, being a professional, got up and continued.
The show was actually helped up because it was wearing
the Dinger costume. But this happened earlier this week on
Monday at Coors Field in Denver. I'm watching the video now.
To be fair, Dinger did wave his tail right in
this man's face. Eddie's that's not allowed, Eddie, that's not allowed.
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That's the great that's been the Rockies official mascot since
the mid nineties. It's a great mascot, Dinger. It's not
as good as Wally the Green Monster, or the Dodgers
performance character, or there's so many Billy the Marlin, the
Great Marlin mascot. There's a lot of good mascots around
the big leagues. Let's get back over to Eddie Garcilo
right now, Puck the world. That's hockey season somewhere, and he,
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mister Puck, Eddie got all right a banned with The
NHL regular season ends officially on Friday, though most teams
will wrap it up on Thursday, and the NHL playoffs
get underway on Monday, April the seventeenth. But we do
know only one of the matchups so far. Every team
that we know, there's all the playoff match all the
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playoffs spots have been wrapped up, but we do not
know a lot of the matchups as of yet. They'll
be a lot of them be decided on Thursday. So
right now, the playoff matchups in the East are the
Bruins against the Islanders, Hurricanes against the Panthers, Maple Leaves
against the Lightning. It's the only one that has actually
locked in that will definitely happen, and the Devils against
the Rangers. Now, the Islanders earned that final playoffs spot
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and he used to talked about with that win over
the Canadians, and that knocked Pittsburgh out of the playoffs,
as you were talking about. So Boston does have the
one seed, but they we don't know which wildcard team
they're gonna face. It could be the Islanders, could be
the Panthers. It doesn't matter. Any of the Bruins are
going to the Stanley Cup Final. Oh well, I think
so too, But you're saying that it leaves me some
doubt now I'm a hockey guy. The number two seed
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up for grabs between the Hurricanes and the Devil, as
well playoff matchups in the West. You've got the Golden
Knights against the Jets, Stars against the Krack and Kings
against the Oilers, and Avalanche against the Wild. But the
one seed in the West still up for grabs between
the Golden Knights and the Oilers, the two seed also
contested between the Stars and the Avalanche, and the three
seed has not yet been decided between the Kings and
the Kraken. Boston Bruins have been the top team in
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the NHL all season long. They made history this week.
There now the all time winning his team in a
single season sixty four wins. Now they still have the
game left to go. The old NHL record was sixty
two by the ninety six Red Wings in the twenty
eighteen nineteen Lightning. Boston also setting a new NHL record
for most points in a single season. They get for that?
Did they get like a special watch or something to
the team. Do they give him a special project? I
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would guess that the organization would give them something special
for that. To commemory tow like when we celebrated our
twentieth anniversary here at Flox Sports Radio. Yes, it's very similar.
It's very very similar. Boston also one hundred and thirty
three points. The old record is won thirty two by
the seventy six seventy seven Montreal Canadians. Although, to be fair,
back when Montreal had the record, they played eighty games
instead of eighty two and they had ties back then,
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so the Bruins did get the benefit of the overtime
of the shootouts in today's game. Twelve teams in the
NHL this season hit the one hundred point mark, including
the Seattle Kracken, who did it exactly one hundred points
for them Individually. Eleven players scored over one hundred points
in the season, led by Connor McDavid's one hundred and
fifty two. His names already on the Heart Trophy for
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League MVP, just the sixth player to score one hundred
and fifty points in a season, and the first to
do it since Mario Lemie ninety six season. Also, Sharks
defenseman Eric Carlson reached one hundred points. He's the first
defenseman to get one hundred points in the season since
Brian Leach did it in ninety two season, so if
I'm corrected, he The only thing left to be decided
here is who finishes with the worst record. That's still
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up for grabs. Well, the playoff seedings. We don't know
the matchups that I'm saying, Like, the teams are all
in the playoffs already, but you've got Columbus, Anaheim, and
Chicago who are all neck and neck. That is that
is correct? They are bad to see who'll be the
worst team and get the best odds for the draft lottery. Yes,
is there a Parisian prodigy in hockey? Yes, we'll be draft. Yes,
(31:08):
his name is Connor Bdard Bard. Yeah, always from Regina. Yes, yeah,
I think it's Regina. Penguin Stars Sidney Crosby reach fifteen
hundred points this past week, sixth fastest player to do that,
fifteenth player in AGEL history for to get fifteen hundred
points in his career. Capitol Star Alexander Vetchkan did not
score a goal this week, only played one game. Caps
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have been eliminated, so he's likely not going to play
in their last game, so he'll finish the season with play.
I picked him in the thing, Yeah, it's a bad
job about you. He's got forty two goals eight twenty
two in his career, so he's seventy It's like he'll
start next season seventy three away from the all time
goal scoring record in Wayne Gretzky, Joe Pavelski, the Stars
Claud Drew. These senators both reached a thousand points in
their career this week and the Lightning Stars Steven Stamkos
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played in his one thousandth game. The La Kings and
narraz and Kayote is going to play a pair of
preseason games in Melbourne, Australia at Rod Labor Arena. Next
season games will be on September twenty three and twenty fourth,
part of the Global Series. First ever NHL games played
in the Southern Hemisphere, I'm told. Congrats to Quinnipiac out
of Connecticut. They won the first ever men's hockey national
(32:12):
championship in their program's history. They beat Minnesota three to two.
This is devastating for our friends in Minnesota. It is actually,
I'm sure they're very upset about that, right, that's their
native sport. And finally, Michigan freshman Adam Fantilly wins the
Obie Baker Award, the Hockey Heisman as College Players College
Hockey's top player. Adam Fantilly he is He's expected to
(32:34):
be the consolation prize for whoever misses out on the
Connor Badard Sweepstakes. Projected to be the number two overall
pick in the twenty twenty three NHL Draft. And that
is your puck the world that it is the Ben
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It's Ben Maller. Please transmit opedia. Is it fact or fiction?
Let's face some row facts on the Ben Maller Show,
and it is factor fiction time. So let's welcome in
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our panel of judges that have assembled here to attempt
to answer which is the fake story? We say hello
to Leslie, the power couple, Leslie and Jack the judge
in Braden in Florida, the spring training home of the
Pittsburgh Pirates. Hello, Leslie, good morning, great show, and I
(34:21):
loved your monologue. Oh well, thank you there? And is
Jack excited? Is he giddy because his Tampa Bay Rays
are on fire? Happy? It's so wonderful. It's early, though
it is. I just want to point oh twelve in
a row. Wow, I think they peaked too soon, Leslie.
All right, Hey, Leslie. By the way, I made brisket
(34:45):
for the first time last week. Leslie, I'm so proud
of you. I did. I didn't burn it either. I
made it the right way, and people like, oh, no,
good for you and thank you. And nobody died eating
the food that I cooked, so that's the yeah. All right,
Hold on a second. We have Milkman Mike in Colorado. Hello,
milkman Mike. Hey, good enchanted morning from the Mile High City.
(35:10):
Living your best life. Milk Man Mike, you're doing absolutely
Twitter legend. And we have furg Dog. Hello, furg Dog,
a hoy man, how are you doing today? I see
what you did there for dog. That's right, A fun fact.
They were debating whether they say hello or a hoy. Yeah,
(35:33):
bring it back, it's clad, it's a classic's good job,
all right, Hold on a sec We have Shane in
the Moine. Hello, Shane, and now we know where the
death of the word a hoy came from. Thanks for
that for dog. Shots fired. Anthony in Pittsburgh, Hello, Anthony, welcome, good, Hello, Hello,
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how's everything? Everybody? Everything's you know? Getting Pete sneaky Pete,
Pete Pete and Pittsburgh. Now you don't know him? Yeah
I do. It's probably better though. What do you do
for a living? What do you do for a living? There, Anthony,
I read a backo, really Bacco Bacco's loaders? Who does
as you? David? Dup trucks. Look at that. I used
(36:16):
to play with all those toys, the hot wheels of
those when I was a kid. I used to I
like to love those. Hold on a sec, Anthony, Let's
go to the Let's go to the game. I think
that's all we have time for. So here we go
as far as the judges A cut the ball. Perhaps
the Yankees are fans of this show, because it seems
Glaber Torres has taken the advice of Eddie Garcia. Torres
(36:36):
posted a video on Instagram this week of him taking
the infamous long Haired ball boy into the clubhouse to
get his long locks cut by the team barber. We
talked about that story the other day. Story number two
Baseball on Mars. Major League Baseball is taking its partnership
with Mars Incorporated to a new level. You can now
(36:57):
order custom eminem candies that have your favorite baseball team's name,
logo and colors printed on the chocolate. Delights that melt
in your mouth, not your hand, unless we made that up.
In story number three, the Philly Foodies, I wish fats
and Phillies still called the show. The Phillies played a
game with the Marlins. This week. It was dollar dog
(37:18):
night in the Delaware Valley. So what happened, in true
Philadelphia fashion a massive food fight. There were wieners flying
in the air everywhere, hot dogs, you name it, all
over the place. And that is story number three. Only
one of these stories is not true. See if you
can separate fiction from fact. We'll start with Leslie, Leslie one,
(37:41):
two or three? Leslie. Oh, I gotta go with number three.
It's one of my favorite activities. All right, hold one, Leslie, Well, hello,
I didn't see that when he coming to milk man Mike.
They don't. Don't forget to celebrate Marcel's favorite holiday, Titanic
Dales Saturday. It's number one, number one, one of the
(38:02):
great moments in show history. When my job broke the
Titanic story. Furg Dog one, two or three, furg Dog.
Oh again, number one, Number one, Shane and nine, Shane
go to Hell, fur Dog. It's number two. Oh, you
are such a loose Anthony at Pittsburgh, Anthony bag gog
go three. Number three. All right, turns out the fake
(38:22):
story number one, number one, the glabor Tory in Malmore
story that is the fake one. This week, it's gotta murder,
Gotta go now, Coop's gotta go. I don't have anywhere
to go. Coop's got places to go. I don't
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, hour four of
our radio show, and we go right to the red meat.
That's Aaron Rodgers. Thumbs up or thumbs down on Aaron
Rodgers talking about retirement. Those comments that Rogers made causing
(00:21):
the Jets owner to get cold feet? Why have the
Packers not made this Aaron Rodgers trade a priority. The
NFL draft is less than a couple of weeks away,
and Green Bay wants a second rounder and a first
rounder for Aaron Rodgers. How should the Jets handle that?
Would you trade a future first round pick and a
(00:43):
second round pick for the services of Aaron Rodgers. We'll
talk about that as well. Here it is our number four.
Some stinky cheese. If you will well come in a
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It's the story that will not go away. We are
(01:53):
now two weeks away, two weeks away from the NFL Draft. Then,
Cansa City. Do you have your big board? Have you
prepared your big board for the NFL Draft? You have not,
It's wrong with you. So I'm not going to talk
about the draft here. We've avoided this particular story we're
(02:15):
about to talk about for the last couple of weeks.
We haven't done a real deep dive on it. So
we're gonna go back to it. It is time now
for our obligatory Mallard monologue about Aaron Rogers. Relax. So,
Aaron Rodgers is looking to escape Wisconsin. He's had enough
cheese kurds. He would like to move on to New
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Jersey and eat it all those great diners in Jersey.
So have you heard the latest on us? Because there's
some new stuff that caught my attention, so I wanted
to share it with you. If you haven't heard. We
have learned now a theory as to why Aaron Rodgers
has yet to be traded from the Packers to the Jets.
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What is it? Whispers that Woody Johnson, the owner of
the New York football team that wears green. Woody Johnson
has pumped the brakes for now on trade negotiations after
Aaron Rodgers made some comments public comments that the Jets
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owner was bothered by. Now what were those comments? Were
those comments about going on a darkness retreat? Was it
the Ayahuasco with Joe Rogan? Was it something else? Now?
Charles Robinson tells us the Jets czar Woody Johnson of
Johnson and Johnson fame, was flummixed when Aaron Rodgers said
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that he was about ninety percent ninety percent sure that
he was going to retire before going on that aforementioned
darkness retreat and ultimately decided to come back and play
in the twenty twenty three seasons. So the word is
the Jets had already worked out the general outline of
a trade, but after Woody Johnson heard that ninety percent
(04:09):
quote from Rogers, He's like, wait a minute, what are
we doing here? Why would we trade all that to
get a guy who's going to retire or ninety percent retired.
So we are told both sides are reportedly dug in
and they're waiting it out. They're in a staring contest,
waiting to see who blinks first. And let us discuss
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the question. Will keep it simple? Thumbs up or thumbs
down on airin Rogers retirement comment, the ninety percent retired
comment causing the Jets owner Woody Johnson to get cold feet.
So I am gonna go thumbs up. I'm going thumbs
up on two thumbs up on this. I buy it.
(04:52):
It makes sense. I've got shallow breathing, key lime and
docu sign and we'll put all of these things into
the pot and we'll see what we have. We're gonna
cook it up for about ten minutes. We'll see what happened.
So to kick off here, Of all the wild theories
that I have heard, and there are many, there are
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many that have been tossed around. Of all the theories,
this is the one that makes the most sense to me,
and if you think about it, it should make sense
to you. Woody Johnson is this old dude. He's tuning
in to the YouTuber Pat McAfee show. He's all excited
because the Jets are about to get an MVP level
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quarterback from a couple of years ago, and he's got
everything lined up. He knows the trades all but complete.
They've gotten the blessing from Rogers. They've worked out the
details with the Packers the Jets, so he knows everything's
agreed upon. All they have to do the Jets is
crossed the teas and dot the eyes and we're good
to go. A bing bought a boom, as Tony's Prano
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said back in the dawn his show. So Woody is
watching the McAfee show. He's listening to Rogers wax poetic
about how he was ninety percent ready to retire, and
all of a sudden, Woody Johnson's got a pin that
pops the balloon. He's seventy six years old. Seventy six
(06:20):
years old. He's of the generation. In his head, Woody
Johnson's thinking that Aaron Rodgers is not fully committed. Because
at that age, if you were raised to think that
if you're going down retirement row and you're thinking of retirement,
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you're ninety percent retired, that you're already partially retired, You've
already checked out, and so that allows doubt to creep
into the picture, and then doubt leads to what it
leads to, the shallow breathing, that flop sweat, the rapid
heart rate. The clinical term for this is paralysis by analysis.
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That's the clinical term. But here's the thing, and this
is really the rub on this story. There are no
other suitors. There were whispers about a week ago that
somebody else was going to enter the phrase. As of
right now, unless it's happened and we don't know about it,
there's no one else that's gone public showing any interest
(07:23):
in Aaron Rodgers. And if they do, it would still
be awkward because Rodgers has already shown that he wants
to play for the Jets in terms of trade talks
with the Jets and the Packers and with other teams
and the Packers regarding Aaron Rodgers, it is the thing.
Everyone that does a show like this has nightmares about
radio silence. Radio silence the thing you do not want.
(07:47):
The only main goal we have is to keep the
VU meter moving on the board. That's it. Now. Furthermore,
why have the Packers not made a full, wholehearted effort
to make the Aaron Rodgers trade a priority. So on
this side of the microne, it seems like Green Bay
has put a price on Roger's head on the auctioning block.
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And we are told the Packers they want a second
round pick this year in the draft in two weeks,
and a twenty twenty four guaranteed first round pick from
the Jets. That's the bounty if you want Rogers. Is
it true that the Jets did agree to those terms
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on a trade and then when Rogers made the ninety
retirement line, the Jets then backed away. Is it also
true that the Packers are determined to get those picks
because the Jets had initially said they were going to
trade those picks to get Rogers. So he appears to
be that way. Each team is worried about perfectionism. The
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Packers have to get the picks. Green Bay is willing
to play the long game. The Jets trying to save
some face here, worried that Rogers is gonna go to
the Jets and then retire. It's always about the leverage.
Who's got the leverage. New York does not have the leverage.
The leverage is on the side of Green Bay, and
I'll tell you why, New York They've They've completely gone
(09:19):
down fiasco road. If they don't get Rogers. This is,
in terms of a stupid sports transaction, cataclysmic for the
perception of the Jets. It's one thing to shoot your
shot and not get what you're looking for. It's another
thing to shoot your shot be told you're going to
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get what you shot your shot for, You're gonna make
the basket, and then say, you know what, I'm just
kidding that was a miscalculation. The Jets have already celebrated
the premature celebration. Aaron Rodgers and the Jets played footsie
in they made out with each other in public. And
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the diehard Jet fans, most of them work in the media.
I'm convinced there aren't any die hard Jet fans other
than people that do radio and television shows and podcast
The die hard Jet fans were orgasmic or gasmic. If
they the Jets do not get Aaron Rodgers, this would
be the ultimate key line, pie to the face, right
(10:25):
to the schnaz that you won what you think is
the lottery and then you're you're all dressed up right,
everyone's dressed up for the cotillion. You're ready to have
the formal ball and the nice pep rally to welcome
in the quarterback. And then the Jets say, psych psych
(10:48):
party shot. Let's address the compensation. Compensation again, Let's address
the compensation. Okay, So for those of you that are
not paying attention, bad job by you. Green Bay wants
were told a second round pick this year and a
first round pick for Rodgers? How should the Jets handle
that opera? So there is only one answer, which is
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the acceptable answer. I will be the voice of reason.
I will be the adult in the room when it
comes to the Aaron Rodgers trade talks. Here is the
advice from the Mallard think tank Party of one to
the Jets. You must cross the rubicon or in this case,
the Hudson cross, the Hudson tap, the docu sign. Make
(11:32):
it official. Okay, have the bar mitzvah, consummate the relationship,
however you want to phrase it. Aaron Rodgers gets you
a seat at the grown up stable. It doesn't guarantee anything,
and knowing the way these things often work, it'll blow
up in your face. But that's not the point yet.
Gotta live in the high rent district when you have
the opportunity, and even if Aaron Rodgers comes and does
(11:54):
a face plant and is one and done, whoopedie damn
do Who the hell about the draft picks? F them picks,
them picks. Draft picks are a renewable resource. Every year
you are allotted a new crop of draft picks. You
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get seven minimum seven draft picks every year. Now you
could trade some of those. There's ways you lose the
draft picks. If you're the Dolphins, you get caught tampering
and they take a pick away. But outside of that,
you are given seven picks, one in every round of
the draft. So the idea that you're gonna be broken
as a franchise if you lose a draft pick, it's bullcrap,
(12:36):
is what it is. In Most of these draft picks
never live up to the life. Going back to twenty eight,
I went back to last fifteen years. I felt like
that was a good sample size the last fifteen years.
You know many players the Jets have drafted in the
first round of the draft. You don't know that, because
why would you know that you're a loser If you
know that, I'm a loser because I looked it up.
The Jets have drafted twenty players in the first round.
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So of those twenty players draft in the first round
by the Jets, how many of those players made an
AP first Team All Pro. I'm not talking about the
Pro Bowl because the Pro Bowl is ridiculous at this point,
it's a joke. But first team All Pro status that
means you've mattered. That means you're a big fin deal.
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If you're a first team All Pro in the NFL,
that's the Kremna krem that's the masterpiece player. If you're
the All t All Pro first team. So twenty first
round picks since twenty eight and out of those twenty
three three have made an AP first team All Pro.
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That is a success rate of fifteen percent. And that
includes Sauce Gardner, who they actually got right, but it
doesn't matter. They just got them right. That means the
odds are more stacked, if you go by the law
of averages, that they will not get it right with
their next picks. And what is my other evidence on that?
Zach Wilson. Hell, hello, this guy's he needs a flea
(14:02):
bath because he's a dog with fleas. That Zach Wilson's Terrible.
It is the Bayet Maller Show. You want to comment
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And is it true a Major League baseball mascot was
assaulted at the ballpark? And it was not a comedy routine.
(14:50):
That's some loser assaulted a fluffy mascot at a big
league game? Is that true? We'll go to that story
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It's Ben Maller. Aaron Rodgers Monologue number seven thousand, two
hundred and twenty eight completed. That's how we began this hour.
Coming up later in the hour, we'll have fact or
fiction that I'll be coming your way. Just Josh writes
and says, no need for New York to get into
a Johnson measuring contest with Rogers. A ninety percent retired
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quarterback is still their best chance at winning a super Bowl.
But I'm bump. Well, lame jokes are actually tomorrow, Just Josh,
So make sure to send your jokes in if you
want to be part of lame Jokes. We're always looking
for new joke writers. We do Q and A jokes.
Make sure to put your name near the joke if
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and sometimes I'm flustered putting that together. But if you
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Keith Ocho Textos says, I'm still trying to figure out
Danny G's last name, let alone Ben's middle name. Well,
(16:42):
Danny G's last name is Giardelli from the famous chocolate family,
the Giadelli family, dB writes in Dennis, he says middle name.
I'm I'm the third, So there's two more poor souls
in the world with the middle name. It's Harlow. Yeah,
that's a tough one. That's a tough one. Both both
(17:06):
my names. When I was little, nobody had I didn't
know anybody that had my my my first in my
middle name. Ferg Dog rights and says, I'm guessing Ben
Samuel Maller is the answer. I will neither confirm nor
deny that that is the middle name. Some people went
with Salve for obvious reasons. I think that's offensive. I'm
(17:27):
offended by that. You should be canceled. Shame on you,
bad job by you. We'll go to the phones, and
let's say hello. Now, a man who's a legend, the
reigning caller of the year on this show. Give it
up for the Dickster, the highest honor in overnight sports radio,
the caller of the year. A man who's in the
(17:49):
Kettering Banjo Society and the Strummers. Dick in Dayton, Good morning,
How are you? How you knowing? Dick? I was concerned
because Kathy and Wisconsin in Madison. She wanted to have
a recording session with you again. She was trying to
get a hold of you. So I was worried you
were sick or something like that. But you're you sound
pretty good. Yeah, yeah, I've been Actually I joined another group.
(18:14):
It's what I joined another group. It's called the Miamisburg
Strummers and they play, uh, they're going to be playing
around Miami's Burg there and probably down to wait wait
wait wait wait, So you're not how do you have to?
I know you were tiredment you're in the Strummers. The
Kettering banjois Society. And what's the name of this one again?
This one's called the Miami's Burg Dullsburg Group and we
(18:39):
meet every Tuesday. And we got two or three gigs
of Miami's Burg and a couple of the Festals coming up.
So the miami's Burg group is right, it's called Okay,
that's exciting. And what do you do in that? Do
you you're saying do you play the which instrument do
you play? I usually play the mandolin? But to U tomorrow? Oh,
(19:02):
I was telling Dulu tomorrow was a special day. Been
tomorrow is my birthday? Oh, and that means it's also
Pete Rose's birthday. All right, Yes, that's right. Dick and Dayton,
the all time hits king in sports radio and Pete Rose.
We can't do birthday shout out, Dick. As you know,
we're not a morning zoo show. It just sounds like
(19:24):
we're giving you a birthday shout out. Well, God bless you.
What are you doing for your birthday? Have big plans?
You're gonna go out and have a knight down drag out.
We wouldn't be appropriate, Ben. You know, my cousin sent
me a couple of cards. She's a big you know,
from Cleveland, and she sent me a real pretty card.
(19:45):
But the strummers have a show over by the Dayton Mall.
It's one of the I'm trying to think that's one
of the restaurants we're going to be playing at today.
Are you working on your birthday? Are you going to
be performing on your birthday? Yes? Yeah, I believe really
cool and I'm gonna think you know, everybody, I went
(20:06):
to see my friend down at uh. One of the
guys known as Dave from Dayton took me down there, Uh,
Jerry Jeff. His name is Dave and he's known as
day under ww I got uh. I got to meet
him down at the bar there, and I'm telling you, Ben,
that place was crowded. I mean, everybody was just talking.
(20:27):
And I had such fun down there, and I talked
it was far there. People were having a grand old
time and all that. And you're turning twenty one again.
I was born the year this is a long time
ago that I can't remember, but I'm a Cleveland fanation
(20:48):
you can't even remember the year you were born, Dick
and Dayton? Is that right? Nineteen? Whoa is that right?
And how old do you feel there? How old do
you feel? I feel that I'm only about six three
or four? Okay, all right, you're you're you're moving around
pretty good still, you're doing. You're doing all these bands
and so you got you got your movement and you're
living your life. It's wonderful. Yeah. And I call up
(21:12):
you know, I call um. I'm a big fan of
you know, the sports shows. I have a friend that
used to work down here. He always calls me, I
got a new name. He calls me Chickster Dixter, the
chick magnet. Damn right, Oh, he calls your chickster Dixter,
(21:35):
the chick Magnet's a yeah, yeah. And I have another
friend that they always uh always says uh. Well, it
wouldn't be a show without our buddy, he says uh.
He says it's got to be Richard, or it's either
Richard not not the Richard he said that was in
the history book. But he says uh. He always says,
(21:55):
I need a little pick me up. And what better
way to do it, he says, is Dick from Aton.
How about that? Dick? As long as I do this show,
I need you to be part of the show. Man.
You gotta be with me. You're you're the greatest happy
birthday that you can call tomorrow. We'll be here tomorrow
two if you want. But happy birthday, all right, I'd
(22:18):
love to. Yeah, we talked to you on your actual birthday.
But thank you, buddy, You're welcome. I have a wonderful
that's gotta be a dropper. The chicks love Dick, there's
no doubt about it. I gotta meet him. I gotta
get to Ohio before I regret. But I did not
meet him when I was in Ohio, went with him
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to the Hall of Fame there, and I gotta, I gotta.
I'll I'll go, even if I go by myself for
a weekend. I'll leave the wife at home or whatever.
I'll go hang out. And he's what a piece of
work if we just think any it used to be
in the old days, everyone loved radio, like Dick and Dayton.
Now there's a very few people like that. They truly
love the radio. I mean they like it, but they
(22:59):
don't love like Dick and Dayton. His whole wife revolves
around radio. It's wild. Yes, wants to leave the wife
at home so we can go visit Dick. Well, now
that your phrases like that anyway. Be sure to catch
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Maller and the Tirerat dot com My Fun Fact Eddy
fun Fact of the Hour, this goes out to fer
ferg Dog Fergie and Alfi alienal Pine are two big
super fans of the show. Now that the Pittsburgh Pirates
have not made the Stanley Cup playoffs, they've been eliminated,
wins what I say, Pirate Pirates? Bat job by me.
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All those Pittsburgh teams are the same. So the Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh I said, the Pirates game, the Pittsburgh Penguins eliminated. Hello,
if you could talk that with hell. So the Pittsburgh
Penguins eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs? Which team now
has the longest active playoff street? The Penguins had it?
Which team has it? Now? I'll step back and wait
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for your answer. Go ahead, Chap, Jop, do do do do? Patriots? No?
Keep me the Patriots. That's wrong with you? The patrioty
didn't make the plaoffs last year, Eddy, bad job by you.
The correct answer of all sports, the major sports leagues.
We can't. We can't guess either. Well, go ahead, guess Coop. Okay,
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let's see all ready to go? No? No, Well, I
thought it was a hockey question. So that's that's why
I could be any any sport. Okay, um, longest playoff streak?
Do the Dodgers? The Dodgers? The Dodgers than how many years?
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Ten years in a row the Dodgers have made the playoffs?
And if they don't get some middle infields, yeah, my hand,
this year it must be nice. They might not make
the plows. They also need another starting pitcher. So if
you know anybody that can pitch, call the Dodgers. It's
almost as long as the Angels have been out of
the playoffs. That's yeah, that is when's the last thing
the US was in the playoffs? It was twenty fifteen.
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Oh wow, that's that's kind of a while ago. Now wild,
we have violence in baseball. We're taking out Denver, Colorado,
and my mascot friend, Dinger, the Rockies mascot, was the
victim of a violent attack. Try Sarah Tops, mascot of
the Colorado Rockies, was on the dugout dancing during a
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Rockies Cardinals game and some loser, some dope, got the
mascots on the dugout dancing and the mask the mascots
doing this thing. He's a mascot, Dinger the mascot, and
this dope, this drunk guy gets up there and assaults
assaults Dinger the mascot, and they kicked the guy out
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of the stadium. But the Denver Police Department is currently
investigating and there could be criminal charges. Imagine facing I
say it could be because it's twenty twenty three. So
maybe you get away with it. But if you can
imagine being charged with a crime for assaulting a mascot,
I mean all the things to be in trouble for this.
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This Now, the mascot, being a professional, got up and continued.
The show was actually helped up because it was wearing
the Dinger costume. But this happened earlier this week on
Monday at Coors Field in Denver. I'm watching the video now.
To be fair, Dinger did wave his tail right in
this man's face. Eddie's that's not allowed, Eddie, that's not allowed.
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That's the great that's been the Rockies official mascot since
the mid nineties. It's a great mascot, Dinger. It's not
as good as Wally the Green Monster, or the Dodgers
performance character, or there's so many Billy the Marlin, the
Great Marlin mascot. There's a lot of good mascots around
the big leagues. Let's get back over to Eddie Garcilo
right now, Puck the world. That's hockey season somewhere, and he,
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mister Puck, Eddie got all right a banned with The
NHL regular season ends officially on Friday, though most teams
will wrap it up on Thursday, and the NHL playoffs
get underway on Monday, April the seventeenth. But we do
know only one of the matchups so far. Every team
that we know, there's all the playoff match all the
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playoffs spots have been wrapped up, but we do not
know a lot of the matchups as of yet. They'll
be a lot of them be decided on Thursday. So
right now, the playoff matchups in the East are the
Bruins against the Islanders, Hurricanes against the Panthers, Maple Leaves
against the Lightning. It's the only one that has actually
locked in that will definitely happen, and the Devils against
the Rangers. Now, the Islanders earned that final playoffs spot
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and he used to talked about with that win over
the Canadians, and that knocked Pittsburgh out of the playoffs,
as you were talking about. So Boston does have the
one seed, but they we don't know which wildcard team
they're gonna face. It could be the Islanders, could be
the Panthers. It doesn't matter. Any of the Bruins are
going to the Stanley Cup Final. Oh well, I think
so too, But you're saying that it leaves me some
doubt now I'm a hockey guy. The number two seed
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up for grabs between the Hurricanes and the Devil, as
well playoff matchups in the West. You've got the Golden
Knights against the Jets, Stars against the Krack and Kings
against the Oilers, and Avalanche against the Wild. But the
one seed in the West still up for grabs between
the Golden Knights and the Oilers, the two seed also
contested between the Stars and the Avalanche, and the three
seed has not yet been decided between the Kings and
the Kraken. Boston Bruins have been the top team in
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the NHL all season long. They made history this week.
There now the all time winning his team in a
single season sixty four wins. Now they still have the
game left to go. The old NHL record was sixty
two by the ninety six Red Wings in the twenty
eighteen nineteen Lightning. Boston also setting a new NHL record
for most points in a single season. They get for that?
Did they get like a special watch or something to
the team. Do they give him a special project? I
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would guess that the organization would give them something special
for that. To commemory tow like when we celebrated our
twentieth anniversary here at Flox Sports Radio. Yes, it's very similar.
It's very very similar. Boston also one hundred and thirty
three points. The old record is won thirty two by
the seventy six seventy seven Montreal Canadians. Although, to be fair,
back when Montreal had the record, they played eighty games
instead of eighty two and they had ties back then,
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so the Bruins did get the benefit of the overtime
of the shootouts in today's game. Twelve teams in the
NHL this season hit the one hundred point mark, including
the Seattle Kracken, who did it exactly one hundred points
for them Individually. Eleven players scored over one hundred points
in the season, led by Connor McDavid's one hundred and
fifty two. His names already on the Heart Trophy for
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League MVP, just the sixth player to score one hundred
and fifty points in a season, and the first to
do it since Mario Lemie ninety six season. Also, Sharks
defenseman Eric Carlson reached one hundred points. He's the first
defenseman to get one hundred points in the season since
Brian Leach did it in ninety two season, so if
I'm corrected, he The only thing left to be decided
here is who finishes with the worst record. That's still
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up for grabs. Well, the playoff seedings. We don't know
the matchups that I'm saying, Like, the teams are all
in the playoffs already, but you've got Columbus, Anaheim, and
Chicago who are all neck and neck. That is that
is correct? They are bad to see who'll be the
worst team and get the best odds for the draft lottery. Yes,
is there a Parisian prodigy in hockey? Yes, we'll be draft. Yes,
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his name is Connor Bdard Bard. Yeah, always from Regina. Yes, yeah,
I think it's Regina. Penguin Stars Sidney Crosby reach fifteen
hundred points this past week, sixth fastest player to do that,
fifteenth player in AGEL history for to get fifteen hundred
points in his career. Capitol Star Alexander Vetchkan did not
score a goal this week, only played one game. Caps
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have been eliminated, so he's likely not going to play
in their last game, so he'll finish the season with play.
I picked him in the thing, Yeah, it's a bad
job about you. He's got forty two goals eight twenty
two in his career, so he's seventy It's like he'll
start next season seventy three away from the all time
goal scoring record in Wayne Gretzky, Joe Pavelski, the Stars
Claud Drew. These senators both reached a thousand points in
their career this week and the Lightning Stars Steven Stamkos
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played in his one thousandth game. The La Kings and
narraz and Kayote is going to play a pair of
preseason games in Melbourne, Australia at Rod Labor Arena. Next
season games will be on September twenty three and twenty fourth,
part of the Global Series. First ever NHL games played
in the Southern Hemisphere, I'm told. Congrats to Quinnipiac out
of Connecticut. They won the first ever men's hockey national
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championship in their program's history. They beat Minnesota three to two.
This is devastating for our friends in Minnesota. It is actually,
I'm sure they're very upset about that, right, that's their
native sport. And finally, Michigan freshman Adam Fantilly wins the
Obie Baker Award, the Hockey Heisman as College Players College
Hockey's top player. Adam Fantilly he is He's expected to
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be the consolation prize for whoever misses out on the
Connor Badard Sweepstakes. Projected to be the number two overall
pick in the twenty twenty three NHL Draft. And that
is your puck the world that it is the Ben
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to be one of our judges, call right now. Fact
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or fiction. I need some judges. We need a few
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It's Ben Maller. Please transmit opedia. Is it fact or fiction?
Let's face some row facts on the Ben Maller Show,
and it is factor fiction time. So let's welcome in
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our panel of judges that have assembled here to attempt
to answer which is the fake story? We say hello
to Leslie, the power couple, Leslie and Jack the judge
in Braden in Florida, the spring training home of the
Pittsburgh Pirates. Hello, Leslie, good morning, great show, and I
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loved your monologue. Oh well, thank you there? And is
Jack excited? Is he giddy because his Tampa Bay Rays
are on fire? Happy? It's so wonderful. It's early, though
it is. I just want to point oh twelve in
a row. Wow, I think they peaked too soon, Leslie.
All right, Hey, Leslie. By the way, I made brisket
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for the first time last week. Leslie, I'm so proud
of you. I did. I didn't burn it either. I
made it the right way, and people like, oh, no,
good for you and thank you. And nobody died eating
the food that I cooked, so that's the yeah. All right,
Hold on a second. We have Milkman Mike in Colorado. Hello,
milkman Mike. Hey, good enchanted morning from the Mile High City.
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Living your best life. Milk Man Mike, you're doing absolutely
Twitter legend. And we have furg Dog. Hello, furg Dog,
a hoy man, how are you doing today? I see
what you did there for dog. That's right, A fun fact.
They were debating whether they say hello or a hoy. Yeah,
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bring it back, it's clad, it's a classic's good job,
all right, Hold on a sec We have Shane in
the Moine. Hello, Shane, and now we know where the
death of the word a hoy came from. Thanks for
that for dog. Shots fired. Anthony in Pittsburgh, Hello, Anthony, welcome, good, Hello, Hello,
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how's everything? Everybody? Everything's you know? Getting Pete sneaky Pete,
Pete Pete and Pittsburgh. Now you don't know him? Yeah
I do. It's probably better though. What do you do
for a living? What do you do for a living? There, Anthony,
I read a backo, really Bacco Bacco's loaders? Who does
as you? David? Dup trucks. Look at that. I used
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to play with all those toys, the hot wheels of
those when I was a kid. I used to I
like to love those. Hold on a sec, Anthony, Let's
go to the Let's go to the game. I think
that's all we have time for. So here we go
as far as the judges A cut the ball. Perhaps
the Yankees are fans of this show, because it seems
Glaber Torres has taken the advice of Eddie Garcia. Torres
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posted a video on Instagram this week of him taking
the infamous long Haired ball boy into the clubhouse to
get his long locks cut by the team barber. We
talked about that story the other day. Story number two
Baseball on Mars. Major League Baseball is taking its partnership
with Mars Incorporated to a new level. You can now
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order custom eminem candies that have your favorite baseball team's name,
logo and colors printed on the chocolate. Delights that melt
in your mouth, not your hand, unless we made that up.
In story number three, the Philly Foodies, I wish fats
and Phillies still called the show. The Phillies played a
game with the Marlins. This week. It was dollar dog
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night in the Delaware Valley. So what happened, in true
Philadelphia fashion a massive food fight. There were wieners flying
in the air everywhere, hot dogs, you name it, all
over the place. And that is story number three. Only
one of these stories is not true. See if you
can separate fiction from fact. We'll start with Leslie, Leslie one,
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two or three? Leslie. Oh, I gotta go with number three.
It's one of my favorite activities. All right, hold one, Leslie, Well, hello,
I didn't see that when he coming to milk man Mike.
They don't. Don't forget to celebrate Marcel's favorite holiday, Titanic
Dales Saturday. It's number one, number one, one of the
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great moments in show history. When my job broke the
Titanic story. Furg Dog one, two or three, furg Dog.
Oh again, number one, Number one, Shane and nine, Shane
go to Hell, fur Dog. It's number two. Oh, you
are such a loose Anthony at Pittsburgh, Anthony bag gog
go three. Number three. All right, turns out the fake
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story number one, number one, the glabor Tory in Malmore
story that is the fake one. This week, it's gotta murder,
Gotta go now, Coop's gotta go. I don't have anywhere
to go. Coop's got places to go. I don't
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