December 31, 2025 • 40 mins
Chris Plank talks about why more rounds of the College Football Playoffs should be played on-campus rather than at neutral sites, some of the top "non-talked about" sports stories of the year, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I mean, I like, we're counting down, but we're fifty
nine minutes away from truly starting our New Year's Eve celebration.
Welcome to the Ultimate the Big Ben Malor Show here
on Fox Sports Radio. My name is Chris Blank, sitting
in Happy New Year's Eve. Everybody, Now, I did have
to laugh. Well, first of all, Lorrain is here, Coop
(00:22):
is here. They're carrying the show for me tonight. MIKEE
Leprechaun tried to bring it down, but I fought through Lorrain,
a big fan of Michael Eprecaun. I did have to
laugh because I was getting things going. I feel real
excited about it, and I got this tweet from let
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me see who. I want to make sure I give
proper credit because the oh it was not a burner?
Knot well done? Who writes let's get some list radio?
Give us the list now? Not a burner. I am
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aware how Big Ben Malor pushes back against list to radio,
as do I and I think in the span of
the three hours that we've already done, there has.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Been zero lists.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But coming up in our final segment, I will give
in because I have a list of the top sports
moments in twenty twenty five that maybe nobody's talking about.
It's real easy to do a top sports moment of
twenty twenty five, and it's like the Dodger is a
winning the World Series. Yeah, I mean, of course that's
a top sports moment. It's a championship, and it's a
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team going back to back. The Eagles winning the Super Bowl, Yeah,
I mean, no dud, the Florida Gators won the title.
I mean, it's just these are moments that everybody realizes
are quote unquote memorable moments in twenty twenty five. But
I have others and may have slid under the radar.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Not a burner. I understand.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I understand the pushback by the Mallard militia according to
Chicky on NBA and according to you on list radio,
but unfortunately I have to feed into it just a bit.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Coming up later on this.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Hour, I owe you a second preview, a second preview
because I did not get my ole Miss Georgia take
in and I got a little Kirby Smart and Pete
Golding to share, which, by the way, Pete Golding is
quickly becoming one of my favorite college football coaches. If
you're not familiar with him, dude can't give a take
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without cussing. Love the guy. And we got to talk
about Alabama and Indiana. And I talked to Ryan Fowler
last night sitting in for Jason and Mike. Share a
little bit of that with you before we get out.
But in the meantime, if you're just getting up, you're
just getting added. Here's a couple of things that you missed.
You heard the saga in the update. What a wild
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finish to the TCU USC game. In the out first first,
TCU decided to kick a field goal rather than try
to win it in regulations.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Full the tip Calkila will stap it.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Back kick from Livermot is up and it is cold.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Over time we cope it's Senantorio ten Seals leads the
Frogs back.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Now some we're questioning whether or not in set Alamobile,
you decide and again we can fight over bowl games
all we want. Bowl games are meaningless. You bet unless
you win it. If you lose it, it's like nobody cares.
It's meaningless. Why are we even watching you? Sound like
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Matt Lioner. Is what happens whenever your team loses a
bowl game, because as soon as they lose. It's nobody
cares about this, but if you won it be hey,
this is a springboard. This is something we can build
off of right now. But I do think that it
is absolutely positively fair to have questioned TCU's decision in
that moment to go ahead and kick the field goal,
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to try to force overtime rather than go for it
and potentially win the football game. I mean, you're looking
at let me see where they have the ball at
Was it a ten yard line? You have about the
ten yard line?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But TCU played for overtime, and by god, it worked
because on third and twenty this happened.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Seals pumps. It left pain rix one tackle and two
and dives forward Hillers.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Trade got the left touch five to the pad to
the five is a yet, fads, let's see second's touchdown?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Can seals hood deal here tonight?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Oh, the horn Frogs have filed the bedrick against USC.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
One four times.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Impressive. Impressive.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
TCU beats USC thirty to twenty seven in overtime. But
the good news is USC, you guys are close, and
that's what's most important. You guys are close. And now apparently,
according to Lincoln Rally post game, you have kicked that
door open. And after this Alamo Bule lost to you
to TCU, a middle of the road big twelve team.
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You're ready to go win the title next year.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Meanwhile, the bull struggles continue for the sec but it
didn't happen without some excitement between Tennessee and Illinois.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Kick off his hammer downfield, but the wind's gonna hold
it up. Dotson fumbles it. He picks it up at
the fifteen, looks for Roun.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Bounces it outside, dots it in the twenty to the
way five, no way to the forty, to the fifty,
to the honing to the thirty, to the twenty, to the.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Ten to the five to the inside.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Joe tam dot Sig touchdown, big.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Urach tie the game at twenty actually took the lead
twenty eight to twenty seven. But once again the excitement
of the play by play call of a field.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Three seconds laugh alto in the middle of the field
from nineteen for the Winds snap back kick in the air.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The kick is.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
We do It's God, I'm sorry, I just I had
to laugh. Over the Illinois play by play, our analyst
guy saying it's what we do.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Illinois football. I mean, you know, when you're the fighting line.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I all right, Thankfully, Bert Bellama is starting to do
some things nice. So you've won bowl games in back
to back years, but you're sitting there saying that's what
we do when you hadn't won back to back bowl
game since twenty ten to twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Stop it, that's what we do. No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
One of the quick college football note before we get
to the NFL into your tweets, Lincoln Riley is making
a few enemies because of the Notre Dame scheduling. I
guess kerfuffle would be the word. Here's what Lincoln said
leading up to the bowl game tonight about the fact
that Notre Dame and USC will not be playing each other.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's pretty simple.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
You know, we've both worked for months to try to
find a solution. Notre Dame was very vocal about the
fact that they would play us anytime, anywhere, and obviously
them not having a conference affiliation gives them an ability
to be.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Pretty flexible with their scheduling.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
We went back Jim cohin Road went back to Notre
Dame roughly a couple of weeks ago with the scenario
and a proposal that would extend the series for the
next two years, and we took Notre Dame at their
word that they would play US anytime, anywhere. That proposal
was rejected. Not only was it rejected, five minutes after
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we got the call, it was announced that they had
scheduled in another opponent, which I'll give them credit, that
might be the fastest scheduling act in college football history.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
First of all, I don't blame USC for not wanting
to play Notre Dame because there is no benefit in
playing a truly tough schedule. Oh unless you win those
games Texas. And what is USC not doing. They're not
winning the big game. They're losing their big matchups if
it's Oregon, if it's Notre Dame. I mean, they're just
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they're not getting it done under Lincoln Riley. So with
that in mind, I don't blame it all for not
wanting to play. But oh are we have one benefit
here at Fox Sports Radio because we can bring you
both sides of the argument. Now you can have the
people from USC that are carrying the water, and they've
got their PR team that's out there telling you all
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these things that USC didn't have done for them by
Notre Dame. Here was Brady Quinn Q on Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe yesterday talking about this scenario
and why why that Notre Dame is getting blamed for
everything that say grenade, that was a shade rocket.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I take that tank, go ahead. What are you talking about?
What's he talking about? I've said this publicly.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
It's rich coming from the guy who basically questioned playing
the game in general back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And it's rich coming from him because he couldn't beat
Notre Dame.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Really, if you look at his record, I mean, I
don't know, Jonas like, is his record any better as
a head coach at USC than Clay Helton's?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Was not?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Really, hasn't won a conference championship.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Didn't win in the Pack, hasn't won one in the
Big Ten, never run a Rose Bowl, hasn't made the playoff.
He has a worst winning percentage as the head coach
of SC than Clay Helton.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So it's it's funny to me.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
It's entertaining to me that you hear SC fans defend
Lincoln Riley when in reality, he's been a worse version
of the guy you ran out of your program, and
so you're defending these comments that he makes. And so
here's what's interesting about it is this is a pr
campaign by Southern cow And if you go through the
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timeline of how this all started, why this robbery no
longer exists, it really started with Lincoln Riley and his
inability to want to compete. Back when he was at Oklahoma,
had the chance to go to LSU that didn't work out,
didn't want to go with Oklahoma to the SEC because
he wouldn't He knew they couldn't compete and he wouldn't compete.
So he goes to the PAC twelve for easier, greener pastures,
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and he hasn't been able to win anything.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So I will first off say I love Brady Quinn,
but as of right now, nobody's really crying any tears
for Notre Dame because y'all have been crying for like
literally the last month about not making the playoffs number one,
but number two in this case, I couldn't care less
about either side. I just think it's pretty rich, great adjective,
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pretty rich that Lincoln Riley is coming out and trying
to be the well they say it any common anywhere,
and it's like, well, when you go to me and
say we want to play week zero in Mexico reportedly,
I mean, it's like, Okay, well that's not going to work.
And then you try to lean on the where they're
not in a conference. Everyone feels that, right. So it's
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a big case of kind of who gives a you
know what I think in a lot of instances. But
it's part of what's wrong with college football. Now. You know,
I've talked a lot of college football tonight, and for
the most part that is a big turn off to
some I see a shady sean. You don't have to
send to me the tweet. It's college football. It's a
great sport. It's the second highest rated sport, period. Embrace it.
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But the bottom line, more than anything else, is this,
This is part of what's wrong with college football. We
are losing the fat of our great rivalries. We're losing
games like Oklahoma Nebraska. Hell, I throw West Virginia pit
in there. I think that's a great rivalry, USC Notre Dame.
These are games it should be played, period. And when
one of the first things you say after a couple
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of years on the job is I don't know why
we play this game, and then you want to try
to pretend like you didn't play a role. It's like,
well they said anytime anywhere, Rich. I hope they get
it figured out. It's a great uniform battle and it's
fun to watch, but the bottom line, more than anything else,
it ain't happening. It ain't happening in twenty twenty six.
So we'll keep our fingerscrossed and they can figure it
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out sooner rather than later. Now, before we put a
rap on the opening segment of our number four here
on the Ben Mallord Show on Fox Sports Radio, got
a couple tweets I want to hit, including this from
Josh and Lorena. This is kind of geared towards you,
so I want to get your take on this. Does
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Mike the lepre Kahn write get his rocks off? Every
time he mentions Lorraine's name, not even in the convo,
and still says it it's scary and creepy. Hashtag protect
the Queen, hashtag creepy.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I'm glad people agree with me. Who was this lovely person?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
This is at Purple in Gold two four eight, Josh.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
But I'm not hallucinating because sometimes I'm like, maybe I
am overreacting.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
No, it was always so I did the I don't
know if I have to reset this. I don't know
if there's I'm sure there's people waking up on the
East Coast that had heard this. I used to do
the Friday Show. I did the Friday Show during the summer.
Bernie went back to one show and before A. Kfig
and Adam took over. F and A.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
They're going to be in tomorrow night. They're great.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I kind of filled that void for a bit and
I loved it. I love doing it. I love this
time slot. I think it's the most passionate fans, and
I think we can get into pretty much whatever we
want whenever you people don't get.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Mad that it's not here.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, shenanigans, there's the term shenanigans. We can get away
with a little bit more because not a lot of
people are up and around right now, and if you are,
you're pretty locked in. So whenever Mike the Leprechaun would
start calling on Friday Night, I liked him. You know,
there'd be there'd be times whenever you need a little
bit of humor, and he tried he would come and
try out his bits. We were like star search for
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the Ben Malord Show in a lot of ways. But
he would always mention you always, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Like, that seems odd. That seems odd. So I'm glad that.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Wait, it's not just on this show.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
No, well, I haven't done the Friday show in a
while now. I don't know if he still calls k
Fig and Adam. We'll find out tomorrow night. But yeah,
it's not just here, It's not just here. Lefty has
a question for Coop. Lefty pho Shizzle Rights. What a
great name. Coop just said he would probably be getting
seats one at because seats eleven and twelve are closer
(15:02):
to center field. Is he going to a football game
midfield midfield, center field to twenty to twenty one, whatever
it takes. I know what you meant. I was following
along with it. But you said, we dug a little
deeper into ticket gate twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six now,
and it's maybe not where the seats are. You think
(15:24):
there's actually twelve seats in the row and it might
be a little bit higher or what have we discovered?
Speaker 9 (15:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I think seat one I found like a three sixty
view thing. I thought, huh.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
I think seat one is literally on top of the aisle,
like nothing is in front. There's no other person in
front of you, no seat, it's just stairs, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It could be wrong, but that's what it looks like. Ingrass, seagrass.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Baby, that's what you want, unless you're standing next to
a gate at New Year's Eve and you're not allowed
to go pee because someone's gonna take your place. Craig,
tickets for events Jesus too expensive. As much as you
want to tend, it's a lot, especially for a playoff
game or two. Coop, consider yourself luckier than most. And
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as far as the college football playoffs go, writes, Craig,
should have been six to eight teams period. With that format,
all teams play, no buys, higher ranked teams have home field,
and all games, including the championship, would be done by
New Year's Well, Craig, I'm afraid I've got some bad
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news because we're not what's it called. Whenever you take away,
they're not minimizing, they're not shrinking the number of teams
in the playoffs. It's growing. But I think there is
one thing that we all can agree upon, and that's this.
The college football playoff atmosphere for home games is infinitely better,
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infinitely better than anything that's gonna happen in a bowl game.
In fact, talking about ticket prices, and I saw this
today in preparing for the program. The get in the
door price for the Cotton Bowl tonight. Let's just say
you're in Dallas and you want to go to the
Cotton Bowl. The get in the door price is thirty
two dollars, thirty two bucks. Now, if this game was
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on campus, you think anyone's getting in for thirty two bucks.
You can actually sit in the lower bowl between the
forties for four hundred and fifteen bucks, but you can
get in the door for thirty two dollars. The bottom line,
more than anything else, is these games need to be
played on campuses. If you want to do the final
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four in a playoff set, in a bowl game setting, fine,
But these whole atmospheres are awesome. And Cody won more.
Since we're on college, he writes, you're talking about the
Oklahoma State kid. It made me think of all the
players in the schools posting resigning post our resigning post
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like when it's National signing day for incoming high schoolers.
So I get excited because our best safety the last
two years decided to return. WTF. Oh, I'll add one
more to it. And I know we got a break,
I'll add one more to it. You know what's equally
enraging is whenever someone sends out there I'm leaving, thank
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you for everything post whenever they have no eligibility left
you have no other options. Bro, welcome to the workforce
or the NFL draft. Go enjoy your time, all right,
we'll get to your phone calls. Next eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven nine nine six
sixty three sixty nine, Chris Plank sitting in for Big
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most spectacular plays I think we've seen in college football.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
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winds and throws to.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
The end zone.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Up of the air trying for the catch. I don't
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Let's take a look at it for sure. But Jade
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let's get to the phone here. Let's get a couple
of calls in. We're heading down the home stretch of
the show. Whoopee Pie Blair, a little on us, see
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what's going on? Whoopye Pie Blair? How are you?
Speaker 11 (21:10):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Help?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Are you doing good?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Man?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Are you you sound down, Are you okay?
Speaker 11 (21:17):
No, I'm just a little bummed right now for the
Patriots right now?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh uh well, I mean with this fun dig stuff
for more, I mean the fact that they lost to
the Raiders and don't control their own destiny.
Speaker 11 (21:30):
No, this the phone digs thing like, how do you
manage to do what he did? You know, you got
to know better to do what you do to he's
to get to get that kind of charge on you
for you got no better not to do that kind
of case, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
And then to try to get her to sign an
NDA was the thing that's most hilarious. I mean again,
accusations so far, no charges, But I understand your frustration.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Right now, what's that?
Speaker 11 (21:57):
You know?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
It's all claim still so yes, that's true. Are we
just going to give her all that?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Now?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
We're gonna take our time. Maybe Stefans is a really
great guy.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Maybe he is patience my friend, So what's on your
mind tonight?
Speaker 11 (22:09):
Come out. He'll come out of jail. But he needs
all the chargers he's gonna get and be the dummy
he's gonna be. But he's a great player now for
the NFL. But he's gonna come out of all the charges.
He's gonna get out of jail and stuff and then
play again, probably, I hope in the playoffs. But I
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don't know. I don't know about that guy. He needs
to his mind needs to be set into the playoffs
of the NFL, not being like a dummy he did
all the stupid things he just did, and mindset and
playing the NFL, like being playing with the football, playing
in the NFL and not doing stupid things like he did.
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You don't hit a woman. You don't do any of
that bull crap.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Well, you know, let me let me clean us up
just a little bit blair for you. And I appreciate
your phone call. I know you.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I wanted to get to some usc But these are
all accusations. Right now, we have one side of the story,
and as it stands right now, the Patriots have said
that there, boy, this sounds gonna someone that's just tuning in.
It's like, are you a defending Stefan Digs? No, No, no,
I'm just saying we live in a society where we
usually just ride away say well, there's a felony charge
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of strangulation and a misdemeanor charge for an alleged assult. Guilty.
Guilty guilty, throw them under the jail. We don't know.
There was a motion hearing that took place yesterday and
the arraignment is set for January twenty thirty, which, by
the way, is the Friday before the AFC Championship Game.
So I just I didn't mean to cut you off.
Will be bye, Blair. I just think that there's a
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long way to go. The Stefan Digg's side is denying
the allegation. Quote they're unsubstantiated, uncorroborated, and were never investigated
because they did not occur. The timing and motivation, rights
David Meyer, the attorney for Stefan Diggs, the timing and
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motivation for making this allegation is crystal clear. They are
the direct result of an employee employer financial dispute that
was not resolved to the employer's employee satisfaction. STEFAR looks
forward to establishing the truth in a court of law.
So the team had a statement that said, and I
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quote we support STAFUND. We will continue to gather information
and will cooperate fully with the appropriate authorities and the
NFL is necessary out of respect for all parties involved,
and given that this is an ongoing legal matter, we
will have no further comment at this time. The NFL
is added their aware of the matter and has been
in contact with the Patriots. So don't learning. Did I
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do a good job of cleaning it up?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Whenever? It will be by Cot just one.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
There should be no legal issues now, thank you none.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Hey, Scott Shapiro, Bud, I'm looking out for us, all right,
I'm looking out for Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
All right? What do you say we make this the
last call of the night? Coop you good with that? Loreni,
You're good with that? Sorry? All right?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
How fitting is it that it is Marcel that gets
the last word tonight on this show and the last
word on the Ben Malors Show, at least for the
Central and Eastern time zones in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
What's going on? Marcel? Welcome to the show.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
All good morning, Chris, you're filling in for mister Ben Mahler,
Loreena and Coopy Loop. Happy New Year's Eve so both
of the three of you, is a matter of fact,
thank you, and Happy New Year's Eve to all of you.
Can't wait for twenty twenty six. I love to have
the Caller of the Year still four times and looking
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forward for five and the Benny Awards mom next year.
And I'm so excited. You're so excited.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
About it, Chris, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Oh yes, I hope you all vote for me in
this next year's Beny Awards, picking down Mike the idiot
con Mike in New Hampshire, we'll be Pie Blair and
of course, last, without least all the transgender long we
don't say transgender on radio because Boston blind. As a
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matter of fact, those are four New England villains of mine.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, Marsa, you're calling them all out tonight, All right,
well go ahead, don't let me stop you.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
Oh yes, the last picks. We saw the food picks
and now the TV picks. This is the last Teavy
picks of twenty twenty five. I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know. My friends, we'll do some more
picks for you in twenty twenty six from yours truly.
So it's a new dawn and it's a new day.
(26:50):
So Mala militia, let's get into it. And we've got
the phone calls are playing along with me. So let's
see what line'es one through three going to be taking place,
and Coopy Loop is going to be standing by. If not, Chris,
Willina and Coopie Loop will play along with me.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I tried to shut the calls down, Marcel, I was
giving you the last words. So I think we're playing
along here.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Okay? Is that fine?
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Oh? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (27:20):
The phone calls pass and straight to the personalities of
overnight radio. Chris, you're a filly in for ban Let's go.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Okay. I don't know the rules of the game.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
You guess what he watched on.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
TV last night. Oh, this is not eating anymore? Okay,
Food Picks was the other day. Oh okay, so this
is what you watched. What you watched on TV the
USC TCU Bowl game.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Oh this is not the mixed matches all industry, but
thank you for that, Chris. Do you say, speaking of USC,
you love USC, aren't you me?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I mean no, I don't. I think they're soft all.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Oh wow, what a shame for the Trojans instead, how
lost it is? But not a mixed match. It is
a La reno. This is the last TV Picks of
the year, so go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Oh it's so hard since it's since it's the last
one of the year, we're gonna go with you watched
the final three episodes of Stranger Things.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Oh good, guess Stranger Jings on Netflix Stranger Things, Stranger Things.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yes, yes, I don't think he was just like the eighties.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
They do look like the eighties. Yes, oh, well done.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Well'll believe it or not, my friend, not a mixed match.
It is Fiskey correct and Coopley looked the last TV
pits of twenty twenty five. Go right ahead, buddy, I
think you.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Were watching Hit and Run, which is episode four of
season six of Better.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
Call Saul Ooh ooh, Better Call Us on HBO Max.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
It's on Netflix.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
All the same on Netflix with you and Lorena. Yes,
oh wow, what a ball, what a shame? And this
is not a mixed match.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Okay, given to your general Sorry big answer.
Speaker 9 (29:19):
Here my last TV picks of twenty twenty five. It's
the NBA on NBC. What that?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Wow wow.
Speaker 9 (29:32):
And a lot of surprise. I hope you all having
a great new year. For more my calls in twenty
twenty six, be back on Friday to start the new one.
I promise you that. And Coop your Coop's coop on entertainment,
the announce the one from yours truly coming from you
see you?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Then thank you Marcel. We'll talk to you then.
Speaker 9 (29:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Up on Friday, there's a well are you guys off?
Are you guys getting a couple of days off? Off?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I'll be for you vote. I will have tonight like
you know, gotcha New Year's Day?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I will not I will be here, but.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
I will be.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I will be back for Friday and coop scoop on entertainment.
Do you know I got?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I gotta say I every single time I don't get
to fill in for Ben as much as I will,
it never takes any time off. But when I get
to I forget the unabashed brilliance of Marcell's phone calls,
because there is only a handful of people on the
planet who could turn either a what they ate or
what they watched on TV into a full radio segment.
(30:37):
But here's Marcel. I apologize for getting confused. I've only
done the food segment and what he ate? All right,
That's all I've ever done with Marcel, So the TV
kind of threw me off a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Coop, that's on me.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Okay, look at the spread in your wings.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Fill in. You know, I'm learning a little bit. I
do appreciate too.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
How we say all right, we'll take the last phone call,
and he's trying to get more phone calls, and what
are you doing, Marcel, I'm giving you the last word
on the show. I wasn't quite expecting you to say,
all right, let's go to the phones. I'll be better
prepared next time. Thanks for all the calls tonight, man,
I appreciated. The Ben Malor Show is sponsored by Draft
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Speaker 1 (31:27):
That's promo code Mallard Marcel at Draft Kings. The crown
is yours M A L L E R. For those
of you that have problems with that spelling side of things.
I had a couple more quick tweets that I wanted
to get to, and I got my non talked about
stories of twenty twenty five that we do have to
talk about, though, I will say there are some of
(31:50):
you that are already starting to look ahead, like Eddie
the nature.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Boy's been on fire tonight, he writes.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Prediction, we will look back at twenty twenty five when
everyone thought the Lakers were ascending and the Clippers were
a dumpster fire, only to find out the opposite ended
up being true. Boy, that would take quite a rally
from the Los Angeles Clippers. But again, knowing this, I've
(32:18):
been threatened earlier to not talk too terribly much about
the NBA.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
The Lakers look awful.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
They look terrible, and again I know that huh changed,
I know what do what happened? But they went from
being a team that was kind of up there being
talked about with maybe competing with OKC. We'll see what
the Jokic Nicole Yokich injury. It looks like Spurs look
really good this year. But now now all of a sudden,
(32:45):
you're looking at a team that I don't know, can't
seem to get out of its own way. They've lost
four of their last five games. It's the NBA, so
it's a long season, so I'm not going to freak
out too terribly much.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
They got back to back games coming up on Friday
and against Memphis. Memphis, I mean that should get you
back on track. They've struggled a bit this year, so
we'll see. We'll see if maybe the Lakers can't get
things right. I will say I do appreciate that JJ
Reddick hasn't been afraid to I guess call him out.
(33:19):
But suddenly you look at the Clippers and they're starting
to put some things together. They've won five straight games,
So maybe nature Boy, you're right, Maybe you're right. I
did have to laugh about one more from nature Boy,
who said chin up to all the Raiders fans. After all,
nobody thought the Patriots would be where they are today,
(33:41):
one strangler away from the playoffs, allegedly, allegedly, Eddie allegedly.
All right, when we come back, I have the top
non talked about stories of twenty twenty five, the things
in the sports world that were either dumb or made
(34:03):
absolutely positively no sense. And I want to remind you
that you're running out of time because we have a
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(34:57):
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Speaker 1 (35:12):
Sitting here looking at all this audio I had queued up.
We never got to Kirby Smart, RPTE Golding, We never
heard from Kurt Signetti. We didn't hear from Ryan Fowler.
I had some good stuff on coaching searches, never got there.
But that's fine because I like hanging with you guys
and taking your calls. Two quick tweets before we get
out of here. Craig followed up on his college football
(35:33):
playoff tweet, writing, I know college football is not going
to drop teams from the playoffs. Too much money involved,
along with all the bowl games rewarding four to five
and six win teams after this iteration of twelve, by
twenty thirty, it'll probably be thirty two teams. So dumb,
So three and four lost teams are going to be
in And Lefty, who's been on fire tonight, Lefty rights.
(35:58):
The news on Stefan dis is all messed up. I've
read from news websites that he's been charged with a felony. Well,
if that was true, wouldn't he be in jail. He's
not in jail. The lawyer for the chef obviously has
a media savvy lawyer. Has anyone heard from Gloria Alredy.
Here's just kind of become my go to take whenever
(36:21):
it comes to every legal issue. Let the process play out.
We don't have to be knee jerky in first like
life lesson. No one wants to hear that. It's like,
by god, I want to know now is he playing?
Is he gonna play? Is gonna be okay for the playoffs.
But let the Stefon big situation play out. He doesn't
even even have a hearing until what the Friday before
(36:45):
the AFC Championship game, So the Patriots season could be
done by that point, or it becomes a major story
by the time we get to that moment in the season.
Patriots have said they're standing behind him. NFL has no
comment now. Twenty twenty five was a wild year. Twenty
twenty five was a wild year. Dodgers went back to back,
(37:06):
Eagles won the Super Bowl. You had a college football
national champion in Ohio State who might be able to
repeat this year. It's a fun year. NBA title from
my Oklahoma City thunder who looked like they're gonna win
it again and no one's gonna stop him.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Maybe ever.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
But I think what continues to be the wildest stories
in sports come to us from the gambling world. Let's
go back a little bit, give you a little perspective.
Twenty twenty three, we had NFL players suspended, You had
an iwhen Iowa state controversy. You had the Shohei Otani
controversy with his interpreter. Yeah, John Tay Porter, who was
(37:43):
permanently banned from the NBA after withdrawing early from games
to get out from under a gambling debt so he
can hit us under. There's FBI involvement in games that
grew and grew and grew. But in twenty twenty five,
that trend has not slowed down. And I tipped my
cap to those areas that have really done a good
(38:06):
job of making sure that you're getting things right. You know,
we're not having people try to fudge the system. I
don't know if we've had a more wild story than
following the Terry Rosier, Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones arrests, conspiracy
to commit wire fraud and money laundring that came win
(38:28):
Rosier scary Terry was already under investigation by the NBA
in February. We weren't done there. You had the Cleveland
Guardians pitcher pittures Emanuel Class and Luis Ortiz, who were
placed on leave by Major League Baseball over the summer
(38:49):
because they threw specific pitches in certain games to profit
from illegal wagers on whether or not there would be
first pitch strikes.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
We also had an in It's I.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Guess you could say an instance in February where umpire
Pat Hoberg was fired for sharing legal sports gambling accounts
with a friend who bet on baseball games, and he
intentionally deleted emails and messages that were perting it to
the league's investigation. Oh and let's not forget the FBI
(39:26):
also busted an illegal sports betting ring that was allegedly
operated by a member of the what is it the
Lucisi crime family New Jersey, in which two of the
fourteen arrested were former NCAA wrestlers who were charged with
racketeering in the first degree. Oh, that's not it. In September,
(39:48):
we had three D one basketball players that were banned
from the NCAA for betting on their own games. You
want to find the juiciest stories of twenty twenty five,
you don't have to look in the in the NBA column,
or in the college football column, or in the baseball column.
You look right in the gambling world, where we continue
(40:10):
to try to get an edge. And kudos to those
who are holding everyone accountable. All right, Lorena, have a
great New Year's Eve celebration. Coop always appreciated. Thanks to
everyone who checked in on the phones. And on X Tonight,
stick Around, two pros and a cup of Joe is
coming up next. Have a great New Year's, don't drink
and drive, and we'll see you in twenty twenty six
on Fox Sports Radio
I mean, I like, we're counting down, but we're fifty
nine minutes away from truly starting our New Year's Eve celebration.
Welcome to the Ultimate the Big Ben Malor Show here
on Fox Sports Radio. My name is Chris Blank, sitting
in Happy New Year's Eve. Everybody, Now, I did have
to laugh. Well, first of all, Lorrain is here, Coop
(00:22):
is here. They're carrying the show for me tonight. MIKEE
Leprechaun tried to bring it down, but I fought through Lorrain,
a big fan of Michael Eprecaun. I did have to
laugh because I was getting things going. I feel real
excited about it, and I got this tweet from let
(00:42):
me see who. I want to make sure I give
proper credit because the oh it was not a burner?
Knot well done? Who writes let's get some list radio?
Give us the list now? Not a burner. I am
(01:03):
aware how Big Ben Malor pushes back against list to radio,
as do I and I think in the span of
the three hours that we've already done, there has.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Been zero lists.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
But coming up in our final segment, I will give
in because I have a list of the top sports
moments in twenty twenty five that maybe nobody's talking about.
It's real easy to do a top sports moment of
twenty twenty five, and it's like the Dodger is a
winning the World Series. Yeah, I mean, of course that's
a top sports moment. It's a championship, and it's a
(01:42):
team going back to back. The Eagles winning the Super Bowl, Yeah,
I mean, no dud, the Florida Gators won the title.
I mean, it's just these are moments that everybody realizes
are quote unquote memorable moments in twenty twenty five. But
I have others and may have slid under the radar.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Not a burner. I understand.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
I understand the pushback by the Mallard militia according to
Chicky on NBA and according to you on list radio,
but unfortunately I have to feed into it just a bit.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Coming up later on this.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Hour, I owe you a second preview, a second preview
because I did not get my ole Miss Georgia take
in and I got a little Kirby Smart and Pete
Golding to share, which, by the way, Pete Golding is
quickly becoming one of my favorite college football coaches. If
you're not familiar with him, dude can't give a take
(02:34):
without cussing. Love the guy. And we got to talk
about Alabama and Indiana. And I talked to Ryan Fowler
last night sitting in for Jason and Mike. Share a
little bit of that with you before we get out.
But in the meantime, if you're just getting up, you're
just getting added. Here's a couple of things that you missed.
You heard the saga in the update. What a wild
(02:55):
finish to the TCU USC game. In the out first first,
TCU decided to kick a field goal rather than try
to win it in regulations.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Full the tip Calkila will stap it.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Back kick from Livermot is up and it is cold.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Over time we cope it's Senantorio ten Seals leads the
Frogs back.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Now some we're questioning whether or not in set Alamobile,
you decide and again we can fight over bowl games
all we want. Bowl games are meaningless. You bet unless
you win it. If you lose it, it's like nobody cares.
It's meaningless. Why are we even watching you? Sound like
(03:47):
Matt Lioner. Is what happens whenever your team loses a
bowl game, because as soon as they lose. It's nobody
cares about this, but if you won it be hey,
this is a springboard. This is something we can build
off of right now. But I do think that it
is absolutely positively fair to have questioned TCU's decision in
that moment to go ahead and kick the field goal,
(04:10):
to try to force overtime rather than go for it
and potentially win the football game. I mean, you're looking
at let me see where they have the ball at
Was it a ten yard line? You have about the
ten yard line?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (04:25):
But TCU played for overtime, and by god, it worked
because on third and twenty this happened.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Seals pumps. It left pain rix one tackle and two
and dives forward Hillers.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Trade got the left touch five to the pad to
the five is a yet, fads, let's see second's touchdown?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Can seals hood deal here tonight?
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Oh, the horn Frogs have filed the bedrick against USC.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
One four times.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Impressive. Impressive.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
TCU beats USC thirty to twenty seven in overtime. But
the good news is USC, you guys are close, and
that's what's most important. You guys are close. And now apparently,
according to Lincoln Rally post game, you have kicked that
door open. And after this Alamo Bule lost to you
to TCU, a middle of the road big twelve team.
(05:20):
You're ready to go win the title next year.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Good luck.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Meanwhile, the bull struggles continue for the sec but it
didn't happen without some excitement between Tennessee and Illinois.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Kick off his hammer downfield, but the wind's gonna hold
it up. Dotson fumbles it. He picks it up at
the fifteen, looks for Roun.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Bounces it outside, dots it in the twenty to the
way five, no way to the forty, to the fifty,
to the honing to the thirty, to the twenty, to the.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Ten to the five to the inside.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
Joe tam dot Sig touchdown, big.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Urach tie the game at twenty actually took the lead
twenty eight to twenty seven. But once again the excitement
of the play by play call of a field.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Three seconds laugh alto in the middle of the field
from nineteen for the Winds snap back kick in the air.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
The kick is.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
We do It's God, I'm sorry, I just I had
to laugh. Over the Illinois play by play, our analyst
guy saying it's what we do.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Illinois football. I mean, you know, when you're the fighting line.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
I all right, Thankfully, Bert Bellama is starting to do
some things nice. So you've won bowl games in back
to back years, but you're sitting there saying that's what
we do when you hadn't won back to back bowl
game since twenty ten to twenty eleven.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Stop it, that's what we do. No, it's not.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
One of the quick college football note before we get
to the NFL into your tweets, Lincoln Riley is making
a few enemies because of the Notre Dame scheduling. I
guess kerfuffle would be the word. Here's what Lincoln said
leading up to the bowl game tonight about the fact
that Notre Dame and USC will not be playing each other.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It's pretty simple.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
You know, we've both worked for months to try to
find a solution. Notre Dame was very vocal about the
fact that they would play us anytime, anywhere, and obviously
them not having a conference affiliation gives them an ability
to be.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Pretty flexible with their scheduling.
Speaker 8 (07:42):
We went back Jim cohin Road went back to Notre
Dame roughly a couple of weeks ago with the scenario
and a proposal that would extend the series for the
next two years, and we took Notre Dame at their
word that they would play US anytime, anywhere. That proposal
was rejected. Not only was it rejected, five minutes after
(08:02):
we got the call, it was announced that they had
scheduled in another opponent, which I'll give them credit, that
might be the fastest scheduling act in college football history.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
First of all, I don't blame USC for not wanting
to play Notre Dame because there is no benefit in
playing a truly tough schedule. Oh unless you win those
games Texas. And what is USC not doing. They're not
winning the big game. They're losing their big matchups if
it's Oregon, if it's Notre Dame. I mean, they're just
(08:32):
they're not getting it done under Lincoln Riley. So with
that in mind, I don't blame it all for not
wanting to play. But oh are we have one benefit
here at Fox Sports Radio because we can bring you
both sides of the argument. Now you can have the
people from USC that are carrying the water, and they've
got their PR team that's out there telling you all
(08:53):
these things that USC didn't have done for them by
Notre Dame. Here was Brady Quinn Q on Two Pros
and a Cup of Joe yesterday talking about this scenario
and why why that Notre Dame is getting blamed for
everything that say grenade, that was a shade rocket.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I take that tank, go ahead. What are you talking about?
What's he talking about? I've said this publicly.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
It's rich coming from the guy who basically questioned playing
the game in general back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
And it's rich coming from him because he couldn't beat
Notre Dame.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
Really, if you look at his record, I mean, I
don't know, Jonas like, is his record any better as
a head coach at USC than Clay Helton's?
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Was not?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Really, hasn't won a conference championship.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Didn't win in the Pack, hasn't won one in the
Big Ten, never run a Rose Bowl, hasn't made the playoff.
He has a worst winning percentage as the head coach
of SC than Clay Helton.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
So it's it's funny to me.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
It's entertaining to me that you hear SC fans defend
Lincoln Riley when in reality, he's been a worse version
of the guy you ran out of your program, and
so you're defending these comments that he makes. And so
here's what's interesting about it is this is a pr
campaign by Southern cow And if you go through the
(10:23):
timeline of how this all started, why this robbery no
longer exists, it really started with Lincoln Riley and his
inability to want to compete. Back when he was at Oklahoma,
had the chance to go to LSU that didn't work out,
didn't want to go with Oklahoma to the SEC because
he wouldn't He knew they couldn't compete and he wouldn't compete.
So he goes to the PAC twelve for easier, greener pastures,
(10:46):
and he hasn't been able to win anything.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
So I will first off say I love Brady Quinn,
but as of right now, nobody's really crying any tears
for Notre Dame because y'all have been crying for like
literally the last month about not making the playoffs number one,
but number two in this case, I couldn't care less
about either side. I just think it's pretty rich, great adjective,
(11:09):
pretty rich that Lincoln Riley is coming out and trying
to be the well they say it any common anywhere,
and it's like, well, when you go to me and
say we want to play week zero in Mexico reportedly,
I mean, it's like, Okay, well that's not going to work.
And then you try to lean on the where they're
not in a conference. Everyone feels that, right. So it's
(11:33):
a big case of kind of who gives a you
know what I think in a lot of instances. But
it's part of what's wrong with college football. Now. You know,
I've talked a lot of college football tonight, and for
the most part that is a big turn off to
some I see a shady sean. You don't have to
send to me the tweet. It's college football. It's a
great sport. It's the second highest rated sport, period. Embrace it.
(11:54):
But the bottom line, more than anything else, is this,
This is part of what's wrong with college football. We
are losing the fat of our great rivalries. We're losing
games like Oklahoma Nebraska. Hell, I throw West Virginia pit
in there. I think that's a great rivalry, USC Notre Dame.
These are games it should be played, period. And when
one of the first things you say after a couple
(12:15):
of years on the job is I don't know why
we play this game, and then you want to try
to pretend like you didn't play a role. It's like,
well they said anytime anywhere, Rich. I hope they get
it figured out. It's a great uniform battle and it's
fun to watch, but the bottom line, more than anything else,
it ain't happening. It ain't happening in twenty twenty six.
So we'll keep our fingerscrossed and they can figure it
(12:36):
out sooner rather than later. Now, before we put a
rap on the opening segment of our number four here
on the Ben Mallord Show on Fox Sports Radio, got
a couple tweets I want to hit, including this from
Josh and Lorena. This is kind of geared towards you,
so I want to get your take on this. Does
(12:57):
Mike the lepre Kahn write get his rocks off? Every
time he mentions Lorraine's name, not even in the convo,
and still says it it's scary and creepy. Hashtag protect
the Queen, hashtag creepy.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
I'm glad people agree with me. Who was this lovely person?
Speaker 1 (13:19):
This is at Purple in Gold two four eight, Josh.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
But I'm not hallucinating because sometimes I'm like, maybe I
am overreacting.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
No, it was always so I did the I don't
know if I have to reset this. I don't know
if there's I'm sure there's people waking up on the
East Coast that had heard this. I used to do
the Friday Show. I did the Friday Show during the summer.
Bernie went back to one show and before A. Kfig
and Adam took over. F and A.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
They're going to be in tomorrow night. They're great.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I kind of filled that void for a bit and
I loved it. I love doing it. I love this
time slot. I think it's the most passionate fans, and
I think we can get into pretty much whatever we
want whenever you people don't get.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Mad that it's not here.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
Yeah, shenanigans, there's the term shenanigans. We can get away
with a little bit more because not a lot of
people are up and around right now, and if you are,
you're pretty locked in. So whenever Mike the Leprechaun would
start calling on Friday Night, I liked him. You know,
there'd be there'd be times whenever you need a little
bit of humor, and he tried he would come and
try out his bits. We were like star search for
(14:29):
the Ben Malord Show in a lot of ways. But
he would always mention you always, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Like, that seems odd. That seems odd. So I'm glad that.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Wait, it's not just on this show.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
No, well, I haven't done the Friday show in a
while now. I don't know if he still calls k
Fig and Adam. We'll find out tomorrow night. But yeah,
it's not just here, It's not just here. Lefty has
a question for Coop. Lefty pho Shizzle Rights. What a
great name. Coop just said he would probably be getting
seats one at because seats eleven and twelve are closer
(15:02):
to center field. Is he going to a football game
midfield midfield, center field to twenty to twenty one, whatever
it takes. I know what you meant. I was following
along with it. But you said, we dug a little
deeper into ticket gate twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six now,
and it's maybe not where the seats are. You think
(15:24):
there's actually twelve seats in the row and it might
be a little bit higher or what have we discovered?
Speaker 9 (15:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:28):
I think seat one I found like a three sixty
view thing. I thought, huh.
Speaker 10 (15:32):
I think seat one is literally on top of the aisle,
like nothing is in front. There's no other person in
front of you, no seat, it's just stairs, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 11 (15:43):
Interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
It could be wrong, but that's what it looks like. Ingrass, seagrass.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Baby, that's what you want, unless you're standing next to
a gate at New Year's Eve and you're not allowed
to go pee because someone's gonna take your place. Craig,
tickets for events Jesus too expensive. As much as you
want to tend, it's a lot, especially for a playoff
game or two. Coop, consider yourself luckier than most. And
(16:11):
as far as the college football playoffs go, writes, Craig,
should have been six to eight teams period. With that format,
all teams play, no buys, higher ranked teams have home field,
and all games, including the championship, would be done by
New Year's Well, Craig, I'm afraid I've got some bad
(16:32):
news because we're not what's it called. Whenever you take away,
they're not minimizing, they're not shrinking the number of teams
in the playoffs. It's growing. But I think there is
one thing that we all can agree upon, and that's this.
The college football playoff atmosphere for home games is infinitely better,
(16:56):
infinitely better than anything that's gonna happen in a bowl game.
In fact, talking about ticket prices, and I saw this
today in preparing for the program. The get in the
door price for the Cotton Bowl tonight. Let's just say
you're in Dallas and you want to go to the
Cotton Bowl. The get in the door price is thirty
two dollars, thirty two bucks. Now, if this game was
(17:21):
on campus, you think anyone's getting in for thirty two bucks.
You can actually sit in the lower bowl between the
forties for four hundred and fifteen bucks, but you can
get in the door for thirty two dollars. The bottom line,
more than anything else, is these games need to be
played on campuses. If you want to do the final
(17:41):
four in a playoff set, in a bowl game setting, fine,
But these whole atmospheres are awesome. And Cody won more.
Since we're on college, he writes, you're talking about the
Oklahoma State kid. It made me think of all the
players in the schools posting resigning post our resigning post
(18:02):
like when it's National signing day for incoming high schoolers.
So I get excited because our best safety the last
two years decided to return. WTF. Oh, I'll add one
more to it. And I know we got a break,
I'll add one more to it. You know what's equally
enraging is whenever someone sends out there I'm leaving, thank
(18:23):
you for everything post whenever they have no eligibility left
you have no other options. Bro, welcome to the workforce
or the NFL draft. Go enjoy your time, all right,
we'll get to your phone calls. Next eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox eight seven, seven nine nine six
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Let's take a look at it for sure. But Jade
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let's get to the phone here. Let's get a couple
of calls in. We're heading down the home stretch of
the show. Whoopee Pie Blair, a little on us, see
(21:07):
what's going on? Whoopye Pie Blair? How are you?
Speaker 11 (21:10):
I'm doing great?
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Help?
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Are you doing good?
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Man?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Are you you sound down, Are you okay?
Speaker 11 (21:17):
No, I'm just a little bummed right now for the
Patriots right now?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh uh well, I mean with this fun dig stuff
for more, I mean the fact that they lost to
the Raiders and don't control their own destiny.
Speaker 11 (21:30):
No, this the phone digs thing like, how do you
manage to do what he did? You know, you got
to know better to do what you do to he's
to get to get that kind of charge on you
for you got no better not to do that kind
of case, you know.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
And then to try to get her to sign an
NDA was the thing that's most hilarious. I mean again,
accusations so far, no charges, But I understand your frustration.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Right now, what's that?
Speaker 11 (21:57):
You know?
Speaker 4 (21:58):
It's all claim still so yes, that's true. Are we
just going to give her all that?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Now?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
We're gonna take our time. Maybe Stefans is a really
great guy.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Maybe he is patience my friend, So what's on your
mind tonight?
Speaker 11 (22:09):
Come out. He'll come out of jail. But he needs
all the chargers he's gonna get and be the dummy
he's gonna be. But he's a great player now for
the NFL. But he's gonna come out of all the charges.
He's gonna get out of jail and stuff and then
play again, probably, I hope in the playoffs. But I
(22:29):
don't know. I don't know about that guy. He needs
to his mind needs to be set into the playoffs
of the NFL, not being like a dummy he did
all the stupid things he just did, and mindset and
playing the NFL, like being playing with the football, playing
in the NFL and not doing stupid things like he did.
(22:51):
You don't hit a woman. You don't do any of
that bull crap.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Well, you know, let me let me clean us up
just a little bit blair for you. And I appreciate
your phone call. I know you.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I wanted to get to some usc But these are
all accusations. Right now, we have one side of the story,
and as it stands right now, the Patriots have said
that there, boy, this sounds gonna someone that's just tuning in.
It's like, are you a defending Stefan Digs? No, No, no,
I'm just saying we live in a society where we
usually just ride away say well, there's a felony charge
(23:22):
of strangulation and a misdemeanor charge for an alleged assult. Guilty.
Guilty guilty, throw them under the jail. We don't know.
There was a motion hearing that took place yesterday and
the arraignment is set for January twenty thirty, which, by
the way, is the Friday before the AFC Championship Game.
So I just I didn't mean to cut you off.
Will be bye, Blair. I just think that there's a
(23:45):
long way to go. The Stefan Digg's side is denying
the allegation. Quote they're unsubstantiated, uncorroborated, and were never investigated
because they did not occur. The timing and motivation, rights
David Meyer, the attorney for Stefan Diggs, the timing and
(24:06):
motivation for making this allegation is crystal clear. They are
the direct result of an employee employer financial dispute that
was not resolved to the employer's employee satisfaction. STEFAR looks
forward to establishing the truth in a court of law.
So the team had a statement that said, and I
(24:27):
quote we support STAFUND. We will continue to gather information
and will cooperate fully with the appropriate authorities and the
NFL is necessary out of respect for all parties involved,
and given that this is an ongoing legal matter, we
will have no further comment at this time. The NFL
is added their aware of the matter and has been
in contact with the Patriots. So don't learning. Did I
(24:50):
do a good job of cleaning it up?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
Whenever? It will be by Cot just one.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
There should be no legal issues now, thank you none.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Hey, Scott Shapiro, Bud, I'm looking out for us, all right,
I'm looking out for Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
All right? What do you say we make this the
last call of the night? Coop you good with that? Loreni,
You're good with that? Sorry? All right?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
How fitting is it that it is Marcel that gets
the last word tonight on this show and the last
word on the Ben Malors Show, at least for the
Central and Eastern time zones in twenty twenty five?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
What's going on? Marcel? Welcome to the show.
Speaker 9 (25:25):
All good morning, Chris, you're filling in for mister Ben Mahler,
Loreena and Coopy Loop. Happy New Year's Eve so both
of the three of you, is a matter of fact,
thank you, and Happy New Year's Eve to all of you.
Can't wait for twenty twenty six. I love to have
the Caller of the Year still four times and looking
(25:45):
forward for five and the Benny Awards mom next year.
And I'm so excited. You're so excited.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
About it, Chris, I'm excited about it.
Speaker 9 (25:55):
Oh yes, I hope you all vote for me in
this next year's Beny Awards, picking down Mike the idiot
con Mike in New Hampshire, we'll be Pie Blair and
of course, last, without least all the transgender long we
don't say transgender on radio because Boston blind. As a
(26:18):
matter of fact, those are four New England villains of mine.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Yeah, Marsa, you're calling them all out tonight, All right,
well go ahead, don't let me stop you.
Speaker 9 (26:29):
Oh yes, the last picks. We saw the food picks
and now the TV picks. This is the last Teavy
picks of twenty twenty five. I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know. My friends, we'll do some more
picks for you in twenty twenty six from yours truly.
So it's a new dawn and it's a new day.
(26:50):
So Mala militia, let's get into it. And we've got
the phone calls are playing along with me. So let's
see what line'es one through three going to be taking place,
and Coopy Loop is going to be standing by. If not, Chris,
Willina and Coopie Loop will play along with me.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
I tried to shut the calls down, Marcel, I was
giving you the last words. So I think we're playing
along here.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Okay? Is that fine?
Speaker 9 (27:18):
Oh? Absolutely?
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (27:20):
The phone calls pass and straight to the personalities of
overnight radio. Chris, you're a filly in for ban Let's go.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Okay. I don't know the rules of the game.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
You guess what he watched on.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
TV last night. Oh, this is not eating anymore? Okay,
Food Picks was the other day. Oh okay, so this
is what you watched. What you watched on TV the
USC TCU Bowl game.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
Oh this is not the mixed matches all industry, but
thank you for that, Chris. Do you say, speaking of USC,
you love USC, aren't you me?
Speaker 2 (28:01):
I mean no, I don't. I think they're soft all.
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Oh wow, what a shame for the Trojans instead, how
lost it is? But not a mixed match. It is
a La reno. This is the last TV Picks of
the year, so go right ahead.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Oh it's so hard since it's since it's the last
one of the year, we're gonna go with you watched
the final three episodes of Stranger Things.
Speaker 9 (28:28):
Oh good, guess Stranger Jings on Netflix Stranger Things, Stranger Things.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yes, yes, I don't think he was just like the eighties.
Speaker 4 (28:38):
They do look like the eighties. Yes, oh, well done.
Speaker 9 (28:41):
Well'll believe it or not, my friend, not a mixed match.
It is Fiskey correct and Coopley looked the last TV
pits of twenty twenty five. Go right ahead, buddy, I
think you.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Were watching Hit and Run, which is episode four of
season six of Better.
Speaker 9 (28:57):
Call Saul Ooh ooh, Better Call Us on HBO Max.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
It's on Netflix.
Speaker 9 (29:03):
All the same on Netflix with you and Lorena. Yes,
oh wow, what a ball, what a shame? And this
is not a mixed match.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
Okay, given to your general Sorry big answer.
Speaker 9 (29:19):
Here my last TV picks of twenty twenty five. It's
the NBA on NBC. What that?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
Wow wow.
Speaker 9 (29:32):
And a lot of surprise. I hope you all having
a great new year. For more my calls in twenty
twenty six, be back on Friday to start the new one.
I promise you that. And Coop your Coop's coop on entertainment,
the announce the one from yours truly coming from you
see you?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Then thank you Marcel. We'll talk to you then.
Speaker 9 (29:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Up on Friday, there's a well are you guys off?
Are you guys getting a couple of days off? Off?
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I'll be for you vote. I will have tonight like
you know, gotcha New Year's Day?
Speaker 4 (30:08):
I will not I will be here, but.
Speaker 8 (30:09):
I will be.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I will be back for Friday and coop scoop on entertainment.
Do you know I got?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I gotta say I every single time I don't get
to fill in for Ben as much as I will,
it never takes any time off. But when I get
to I forget the unabashed brilliance of Marcell's phone calls,
because there is only a handful of people on the
planet who could turn either a what they ate or
what they watched on TV into a full radio segment.
(30:37):
But here's Marcel. I apologize for getting confused. I've only
done the food segment and what he ate? All right,
That's all I've ever done with Marcel, So the TV
kind of threw me off a little bit.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Coop, that's on me.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
Okay, look at the spread in your wings.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Fill in. You know, I'm learning a little bit. I
do appreciate too.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
How we say all right, we'll take the last phone call,
and he's trying to get more phone calls, and what
are you doing, Marcel, I'm giving you the last word
on the show. I wasn't quite expecting you to say,
all right, let's go to the phones. I'll be better
prepared next time. Thanks for all the calls tonight, man,
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I had a couple more quick tweets that I wanted
to get to, and I got my non talked about
stories of twenty twenty five that we do have to
talk about, though, I will say there are some of
(31:50):
you that are already starting to look ahead, like Eddie
the nature.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
Boy's been on fire tonight, he writes.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Prediction, we will look back at twenty twenty five when
everyone thought the Lakers were ascending and the Clippers were
a dumpster fire, only to find out the opposite ended
up being true. Boy, that would take quite a rally
from the Los Angeles Clippers. But again, knowing this, I've
(32:18):
been threatened earlier to not talk too terribly much about
the NBA.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
The Lakers look awful.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
They look terrible, and again I know that huh changed,
I know what do what happened? But they went from
being a team that was kind of up there being
talked about with maybe competing with OKC. We'll see what
the Jokic Nicole Yokich injury. It looks like Spurs look
really good this year. But now now all of a sudden,
(32:45):
you're looking at a team that I don't know, can't
seem to get out of its own way. They've lost
four of their last five games. It's the NBA, so
it's a long season, so I'm not going to freak
out too terribly much.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
But we'll see.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
They got back to back games coming up on Friday
and against Memphis. Memphis, I mean that should get you
back on track. They've struggled a bit this year, so
we'll see. We'll see if maybe the Lakers can't get
things right. I will say I do appreciate that JJ
Reddick hasn't been afraid to I guess call him out.
(33:19):
But suddenly you look at the Clippers and they're starting
to put some things together. They've won five straight games,
So maybe nature Boy, you're right, Maybe you're right. I
did have to laugh about one more from nature Boy,
who said chin up to all the Raiders fans. After all,
nobody thought the Patriots would be where they are today,
(33:41):
one strangler away from the playoffs, allegedly, allegedly, Eddie allegedly.
All right, when we come back, I have the top
non talked about stories of twenty twenty five, the things
in the sports world that were either dumb or made
(34:03):
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Speaker 1 (35:12):
Sitting here looking at all this audio I had queued up.
We never got to Kirby Smart, RPTE Golding, We never
heard from Kurt Signetti. We didn't hear from Ryan Fowler.
I had some good stuff on coaching searches, never got there.
But that's fine because I like hanging with you guys
and taking your calls. Two quick tweets before we get
out of here. Craig followed up on his college football
(35:33):
playoff tweet, writing, I know college football is not going
to drop teams from the playoffs. Too much money involved,
along with all the bowl games rewarding four to five
and six win teams after this iteration of twelve, by
twenty thirty, it'll probably be thirty two teams. So dumb,
So three and four lost teams are going to be
in And Lefty, who's been on fire tonight, Lefty rights.
(35:58):
The news on Stefan dis is all messed up. I've
read from news websites that he's been charged with a felony. Well,
if that was true, wouldn't he be in jail. He's
not in jail. The lawyer for the chef obviously has
a media savvy lawyer. Has anyone heard from Gloria Alredy.
Here's just kind of become my go to take whenever
(36:21):
it comes to every legal issue. Let the process play out.
We don't have to be knee jerky in first like
life lesson. No one wants to hear that. It's like,
by god, I want to know now is he playing?
Is he gonna play? Is gonna be okay for the playoffs.
But let the Stefon big situation play out. He doesn't
even even have a hearing until what the Friday before
(36:45):
the AFC Championship game, So the Patriots season could be
done by that point, or it becomes a major story
by the time we get to that moment in the season.
Patriots have said they're standing behind him. NFL has no
comment now. Twenty twenty five was a wild year. Twenty
twenty five was a wild year. Dodgers went back to back,
(37:06):
Eagles won the Super Bowl. You had a college football
national champion in Ohio State who might be able to
repeat this year. It's a fun year. NBA title from
my Oklahoma City thunder who looked like they're gonna win
it again and no one's gonna stop him.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Maybe ever.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
But I think what continues to be the wildest stories
in sports come to us from the gambling world. Let's
go back a little bit, give you a little perspective.
Twenty twenty three, we had NFL players suspended, You had
an iwhen Iowa state controversy. You had the Shohei Otani
controversy with his interpreter. Yeah, John Tay Porter, who was
(37:43):
permanently banned from the NBA after withdrawing early from games
to get out from under a gambling debt so he
can hit us under. There's FBI involvement in games that
grew and grew and grew. But in twenty twenty five,
that trend has not slowed down. And I tipped my
cap to those areas that have really done a good
(38:06):
job of making sure that you're getting things right. You know,
we're not having people try to fudge the system. I
don't know if we've had a more wild story than
following the Terry Rosier, Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones arrests, conspiracy
to commit wire fraud and money laundring that came win
(38:28):
Rosier scary Terry was already under investigation by the NBA
in February. We weren't done there. You had the Cleveland
Guardians pitcher pittures Emanuel Class and Luis Ortiz, who were
placed on leave by Major League Baseball over the summer
(38:49):
because they threw specific pitches in certain games to profit
from illegal wagers on whether or not there would be
first pitch strikes.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
We also had an in It's I.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Guess you could say an instance in February where umpire
Pat Hoberg was fired for sharing legal sports gambling accounts
with a friend who bet on baseball games, and he
intentionally deleted emails and messages that were perting it to
the league's investigation. Oh and let's not forget the FBI
(39:26):
also busted an illegal sports betting ring that was allegedly
operated by a member of the what is it the
Lucisi crime family New Jersey, in which two of the
fourteen arrested were former NCAA wrestlers who were charged with
racketeering in the first degree. Oh, that's not it. In September,
(39:48):
we had three D one basketball players that were banned
from the NCAA for betting on their own games. You
want to find the juiciest stories of twenty twenty five,
you don't have to look in the in the NBA column,
or in the college football column, or in the baseball column.
You look right in the gambling world, where we continue
(40:10):
to try to get an edge. And kudos to those
who are holding everyone accountable. All right, Lorena, have a
great New Year's Eve celebration. Coop always appreciated. Thanks to
everyone who checked in on the phones. And on X Tonight,
stick Around, two pros and a cup of Joe is
coming up next. Have a great New Year's, don't drink
and drive, and we'll see you in twenty twenty six
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