August 6, 2024 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about Jim Harbaugh refusing to apologize over Michigan scandal, the backlash over the Chiefs giving kicker Harrison Butker a massive raise, Cite the Bite, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number four and a happy
Tuesday to you, the sixth day of August. Here an
hour number four, we go where the news of the
day takes. It's a hybrid story combining college and pro football.
What do you suppose is behind Jim Harbaugh refusing to
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apologize over the Michigan scandal, the NCAA expected to bring
down the gauntlet on the Wolverines, and Harball, of course,
coaching the Chargers. Now, Also, where are you at on
the backlash from the Chiefs handing kicker Harrison Buckner a
massive raise, He's the highest paided kicker in football? And
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how much stalk do you put into glowing reports of
Micah Parson's domination situation at Cowboy Camp. We'll talk about
all of that and more right now. Have a wonderful Tuesday. Here,
it is our number four. Sorry psych not sorry. Welcome
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So our lead this hour a crossover story. It's from
the Bolt, but not about the chargers. It's not about
the chargers now. It's where Jim Harball works now and
he holds court and he's a great sound bite. Jim
Harball is a good SoundBite. We're into that. We like
good sound bites. We're all about the good sound bites.
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We're gonna play one here in a second. So Jim
Harball was asked about the new reporting on the scandal
that has been bouncing around at the Michigan Wolverines, the
champions of college football and all the confetti and all that,
and oh, you've got to get rid of all of it. Now,
there's rumors that they're gonna vadcate, they're gonna have to
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vacate the championship. Will be a massive fine that will
come down against the Michigan football program. So he's asked
about all this. I think we have the audio on this,
but when the news bouncing around, this is a I
think it's a level one They called it level one
punishment situation. So the nc double a's notice of allegations
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against the Michigan football program. Jim Harbaugh knows a thing
or two about the Michigan football program. He addressed the
situation to the media at Charger training camp, and did
he apologize or not. Let's go to the audio tape.
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Never lie, never cheat, never steal. I was raised with
that lesson. If you stumble, you apologize, and you make
it right. Today, I do not apologize. No, I did
not participate. Whoo was not aware nor complicit in those
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set allegations.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
That's a good line, though. You never lie, ever cheat,
and if you do, you apologize, And I'm not apologizing.
Go pound saying is what Jim Harbaugh essentially said. Let
us discuss this is what we'll talk to you about. The question,
what do you suppose is behind Jim Harbaugh refusing to
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apologize over the Michigan scandal. So I've got Seinfeld matrix
and the answer, and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to jump over some
hurdles and try to win a medal at the Parisian Olympics.
That's what we're going to try to do. So to
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lead off here, I have long been an advocate that
if you're a public figure, you should not apologize. And
so Jim Harbaugh is following advice that I have given.
Because if Jim Harbaugh had apologized for what happened at Michigan,
it would not be strong enough. People would then bring
up a bunch of other things. You should apologize for this,
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What about this? My stock portfolio went down this week
because Wall Street went in the toilet. You should apologize
for that, the whole thing, right. But Jim Harbaugh also
is a very proud man. He's a quirky goofball of
a man, but he believes that he did nothing out
of sort. I truly don't think that Jim Harbaugh is
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lying about this. I think that Harball believes that there
was nothing that was outrageous that happened at the Michigan
Football program, or you could argue he's convinced himself that
that is the case. Either way, that's the part of
the book that Jim Harbaugh is in and clearly a
fan back in the day is Salad Days when he
was playing in the NFL in the nineties, fan of
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Jerry Seinfeld's TV show, and he's using a version of
the Costanza defense, which is obviously refers to a classic
episode of that show, Long Lost show, and George Costanza
on the show was confronted by his boss. He was
sleeping with the cleaning lady, if I remember the episode
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there and right on the desk in the office, and
he said, was that wrong? Something? Was that wrong? Were
you not supposed to do that here? And because I've
worked at a lot of offices and people do it
all the time and all that stuff, something like that.
That was his line. And so that's that's what Jim
Harbo's now. It's like, listen, I'm not apologizing. And essentially
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it's like in my head, Harball is like, well, this
happens all over the place. It's not that big a deal.
We didn't go bang bang like the ass one thousand
and two one thousand holes. We didn't do that. Now, furthermore,
let's move on from that because there'll be more on
that story today and as we go through the week. Now,
where are you at on the backlash coming out of
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Canza City? The back to back bellyt Belllet champions in
the Chief's Kingdom have handed their kicker, Harrison Buckner, a massive,
massive contract, in fact, the biggest contract for a kicker
in the NFL. Wow, that's a lot of cash. So
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my reaction and there's a lot of backlash. People said
he had made some comments speaking as the keynote speaker
at a college several months back. The Wokesters got very upset,
very upset with what he had to say. They were
very angry. But he gets this massive contract. So all
of this, to me is proof of the matrix being
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the matrix. Like we kid around with this, but we're
not kidding around. This is based in reality. Here that
you've got the social media world, which is the matrix,
and then you have this other parallel dimension, which is
the real world. And people often confuse the matrix with reality,
which is what we're supposed to be living in, and
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the matrix, which is social media that's the fund Zone,
that's the midway. It's filled with mirrors and it's got
these weird objects. And it was a lot of outrage,
a lot of faux outrage, the bots attacking and all
that stuff, because most people don't get that worked up
into a lather about things. You know, people disagree even today.
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I still think I maintained to this day, people disagree
with each other politically, whatever. But it's blown out of
proportion by the matrix because most people I've met and
we've gone out and met people at different events throughout
the years I've been here and meeting people that consume
Fox Sports Radio and just trying to get through life right.
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They got bills to pay, they got friends, they want
to hang out with, family, they want to hang out
with They're just trying to survive. They're not sitting there
futzing around on their phone worried about everything. And so
the people are all upset about the chiefs and how
could they give this money to know, there were a
mix of people. There were some outrage, but there were
also a lot of people that were just involved in skulduggery.
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That's what they were involved in. So you've got the
real world. Clearly, the Chiefs did not have a pebble
up there. Took us when it came to this guy.
And you can say where they aligned politically, fine, whatever,
but it's not like they think he's going to affect
the value of the product that they gave their kicker
a record deal. I don't have any skin in the game.
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I don't. The NFL has long overlooked certain activities. If
you're good enough, all right, we talk about it all
the time. And maybe there's a quote Steve Kime, who
famously was the executive in Arizona, didn't do a great job,
so he's working here now. If he did a good job,
he wouldn't be working here. But Steve Kime a longtime
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NFL big shot, and he gave a line I'm paraphrasing.
I'll probably get it wrong, but Steve Kime was talking
about the draft process and how the NFL operates, and
he talked about if Hannibal Lecter could run a four
to four at the combine, that the NFL world would
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come out and say, well, you know what, he's got
a bit of an eating disorder, but man can he run.
And that's essentially what the NFL's always done. If you're
gonna hurt business, it's a problem. Like Colin Kaepernick actually did,
they thought affected the business. The ratings did go down
a little bit. That was an issue. So he was
sent to the Hoosgal and has not played. And they
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did even try to bring him back. They gave him
opportunities that were never good enough for Kaepernick. But in
this case, on the opposite end of the spectrum, if
you will here or the opposite wing, it's like, well,
gave him the money. He's been on a couple of
Super Bowl teams. Now it's like, apparently the talent pool
at Kickers not that great, and so they gave him
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the money. They trust him that he's going to make
the kick, and they gave him the money. But the
NFL's always paid guys in comparison to some actual crimes
that were committed. This small potatoes, right, small small potatoes,
all right, last thing here, let's go to Dallas. The
obligatory mention for the Cowboys. How about damn Cowboys? So
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how much stalk do you put into the glowing reports
out of cowboy training camp in the nard Aux Nerd
that Micah Parsons has dominated the offensive line. There's a
domination situation for Micah Parsons last couple of practices there
for the Cowboys. So I'm gonna answer this by saying
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likely true, likely true, but irrelevant, like the amount of
stock would be zero point zero zero percent, that would
be the amount of stock. Like, we don't doubt that
Micah Parsons is having some success, that he's playing like
a cyborg in camp, that he's built differently. Congratulations. Nevertheless,
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though my answer is the answer like Alan Iverson, we
here talking about practice, not a game. We talked about practice,
and the conversation about the Cowboys is always the same.
It's Dak Prescott at quarterback, lighting up opposing defenses during
the regular season, then Dak Prescott against a halfway decent defense,
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normally slipping up, and then in the playoffs he literally
is in the cockpit of the vomit comet. And Micah
Parsons has much of that in his body of work. Also,
he hasn't had as long a run as Dak Prescott,
but you look at his brief time in Dallas and
I look around and I'm like, well, Michah Parsons, Yeah,
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he was the Week two MVP member. Last year, I
think the Cowboys opened up with the combination of the
Jets and the Giants and got off to a great start.
Everyone was all excited, MVP greatest defensive player since Lawrence Taylor.
And then they had to play the rest of the schedule,
and by the time the playoffs came around, Michael Parsons
was more worried about whereas next podcast was going to
be rather than succeeding for the Cowboys on the field.
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So we had a great training camp practice we How
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Coming up later this hour. If you stay with us
for the whole hour, you get a nice surprise. We'll
just keep talking. Well, we're gonna have Site to Bite,
the great Site to Bite sports radio mystery that'll be
coming up. You can try to solve that mystery. You
could win a golden ticket and then you don't have
to all up and begged for golden tickets like hollering
James in Minnesota. Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Hey Ben, you know that kicker that made that a
lot of money for being a number of pretty good
kicker in the NFL. I can name the first kicker
that broke the record and set the record in all
time NFL history until somebody tied it. That kicker was
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Tom Dempsey of the Washington Redskins. And after they became
the Redskins, they were known as the Washington Football team,
and then they became the Generals. The Guardians.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Got the name right in the ballpark. They did become
the Washington whatever they're called the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
No, Tom Dempsey was the tricker, yeah, for the Saints,
for the Washington team. No, was the kicker for the
rocking team.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
A lot of different guys are Probably the greatest question
about kickers though, the I think he's the only MVP
in the modern era. Oh yeah, kicker, that's correct, Yes, yeah,
you know, No, no, no, not right. What do you
want me to James? There was a that was a
strike here right, Adie Mosley Mark Moseley in nineteen kickers.
(16:25):
Was it eighty two or eighty three or something? It
was in the early eighties.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Yeah, I'm doing because I'm sixty years old. I go
back then.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Hey, James, James, we're trying to be hip or can
you say you're like thirty? Can you just say you're thirty? Now?
Speaker 8 (16:39):
I want to sixteen, trying to get.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We're trying to get the younger demo? Can you say
you're thirty?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
I'm thirty, I'm thirty.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Okay, thank you, James, you're thirty. It's amazing sound it
sounds so you sound so educated for thirty. So it's
so knowledgeable for age thirty.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
So for me, it was the best meeting I ever had.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
I met you, Manton, you Ma and.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Doc Severnson side by side. Who that is? Lorena has
no idea who Doc Severnson is? You know who? Doc seven?
I never heard of them? Coop, no, Coop, I have
no idea. Tonight show right back in the day, Johnny Carson,
he was he was the Carson How soon we forget it?
Trumpet player? Yeah, just across the valley here over in Burbank,
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over there all right. Well, James, that was a terrible
phone call, but you're very consistent. We love that about you,
so thank you, thank you, hang up when you go away,
and Lorraina, in fact, can we play the short version
of the Lee Ilia can we can we play that?
Because this is my favorite rand of all time. I
hadn't heard angry Bill did not know who Lee Ely is,
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and he's old. Yeah, it's one thing of your young
But Lee Eliot was a manager of the Cubs. It
was the early eighties. The Cubs got off to a
terrible start. They were playing the Dodgers. The fans at
Wrigley Field started throwing trash at the Cub players. Back
in those days, they had to walk off the field.
The clubhouse at the old Wrigley Field was in the outfield.
They'd walked on the field and fans were raining down
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trash at the Cub players, and Lee Elia lost his
mind and gave us the greatest rant of all time.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Take Away, We've got all these so called faking fans
that come out there, Cup fans that are supposed to
be behind it, ripping every thing you do.
Speaker 10 (18:23):
I'll tell you one second thing. I hope we get seeking.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
Hotter and just to stuff it up them three.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Thousand people that show up every second day because.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
If they're the real Chicago.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
Fans, they can kiss my seaking ants right.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Downtown and print it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah. Really, he's just warming up. Listen, best lines coming up.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
Nobody's doing here because you guys are written good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Here we go. He's warming up again.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
But the am I supposed to do go out there
and letting my players get destroyed every day and be
quiet about it.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
For the nickel din people to show up. The motherfucker's
only can work.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
That's why they're out of the game.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
They want to go out and get a job and
find out what.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
It's like to go out there living maybe five percent
of working the other fifteen come out here.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
People pooh, and that's the.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
Ass.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Is that not great?
Speaker 7 (19:28):
It was great watching Lorena's face. There's like a little
child on Christmas opening up.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Is that not the Mona Lisa of rants. It doesn't
get better than that. You can't be better than that.
You could maybe match it, but you can't be better
than that. He did everything you're not supposed to do.
He attacked the fans, which you're never supposed to do.
He said, they don't have jobs, they're cheap. The whole
city of Chicago he ripped, And yeah, did anyone count
the beeps? I did at one point know the number
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of beeps. I probably have that someone of my notes.
But I did come. And my favorite part of that
is it happened. I didn't know about it because I
was a kid, but it happened on my birthday, So
it was April twenty ninth. It happened nineteen eighty three.
I didn't get fired after that. Yeah, he kept his job.
And the guy that recorded that, Les Grobstein, unfortunate, passed
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away couple years ago. But I had a chance to
meet him in my travels, and he did the overnight
show at the Score in Chicago for years and and
he much like Lesorda you talk to the old Tommy
Desorta had all these rants when he was managing the Dodgers,
and only a few of them have been saved for
posterity sake, like Lee Ilia had. Now that that was
supposedly the greatest rant, but Lee had other rants. He
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was a fiery man. Lee he's still alive, I think,
unless he passed away the last couple year. I think's
still like a man.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
With that much fire.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You know he's still oh yeah, yeah, the fire does
not go out easily when you got that kind of passion. Fiee.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
He's still alive eighty seven years old.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
He briefly did some stuff. He was like an advisor
with his Dodgers when Ned Kaletti was like the executive
the Dodgers had. Lee Yois. I saw him a few
times and I just admired him. You know, you're in
the presence of greatness. Some people think being around Michael
Jordan is great. And though Lee Elia attacking the Chicago
cub fan that line I eighty five percent of the
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world's work. The other fifty percent that is the single
greatest line. Unamazing. All right, Manuel is in Guardina a
fan favorite. I think was it was it mister Luciano
at the Mala Meetingree, Who's sang your praises? Manuel? I
believe he did? Hello Manuel and Guardina?
Speaker 10 (21:29):
Okay, man like Lucky Luciano. Mister Luciano knows what's up?
Much love. Benny Blancs and per Banks, Bennie Bloke and
Sherman Oaks. Lorena Eddie also known as Steamboat Willie and
my man Coop the mother effing loop in the house. Hey,
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lee Ilia, Man, I love when you do stuff like this. Man,
Damn the youngsters, they need to be schooled on this,
lee Elia. Why don't you bring up some Tommy la Sorta,
Dave Kingman, Tommy Lasorda, kurtvaka.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Dennis that's right, Oh.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Boy, that almost had an aneurism. Jim Jim Morra Sr.
Remember hey, man, the list goes on and on. When
when these head coaches and these managers have that passion?
I love it. You guys had Lou Panella in the
in the uh in the trivia a. Remember wasn't it
him who grabbed the base and threw it?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
He did.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
He did with the Reds. And also remember when Panella
we're doing old guy radio, but who cares. It's overnights.
So remember when Panella was managing the Tampa Bay Rays
I think it was, and a hot mic caught him
berating the team saying, this is why you guys lose
one hundred games. And he just started screaming at the
players in the dugout and was caught by a hot mic.
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It was awesome, so.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
Good God bless him. Hey. And you know what, he
could speak to that because he had won a championship
as a player. He had had a lot of success
as a manager. I don't think he won that ring,
but uh, he was a hell of a manager, man.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, but he won. He was with the Reds, they
won the World Series. He managed. Didn't he manage the Reds?
And no, no, no, that was yeah And it wasn't
our friend Rob Parker. Didn't Rob Parker. He's the one
that escalated that confrontation between Dibble. He was He was
a Red Rob was a Reds beat.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
And he did the old overgrown health he did.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
But but Rob did the old trick where he said,
did you hear what he said? And he went back
and you tell Panela that? And Panella a fiery Italian guy.
He's gonna not put up with that. He attacked back
and he came out of the office looking for Dibble
on him.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
You know, hey man, those old New York guys, they
don't play. Hey man, he just like you play. In
the air everywhere America is treated to this.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Every in the air, every rare.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
So long, five seventy Fox Sports Radio Malatia is up
in this bi y outro.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right, thank you Manuel in Guardiana. So I just
have to do what we can do, like getting how
about this Coool? We get an open old guy radio,
like once a week we can do like old guy radio.
Oh like old guy radio. Just do it, like random
stories about Leo. How much longer before I qualify? You're
getting close, Coop. You're starting to become as you've gotten older, Coop,
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And as I've known you, You're you're becoming you don't
put up with as much stuff as you used to
put up with. Right, You're I get that sense? Am
I correct? That life's starting to weigh you down a
little bit? Like the bull crap in life, you get
to a point as a human being you just get
tired of the bull crap. You just get to a
certain point. You're like, I don't want to put up
with that. I'm good true Anyway, it is the Bain
(25:00):
Mahler Show. We thank you for listen. I'm doing a
day night double header. Manuel's not lying. I'm filling in
on the local affiliate here in LA Today with the
dean of LA Sports, Fred Rogan. So I've I've been
getting about well, I get I don't get much less
sleep than I normally get. It's just a little more compact.
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Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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Speaker 1 (25:21):
Let's have some fun here we go. Let's have some
fun fun fact all right, So, congratulations the Chicago White Sox.
With their loss to the Athletics last night, the White
Sox are now at least twenty wins behind every other
team in the American League. Wow. That would mean almost
an entire month. They would have to win and everyone
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else lose for them to catch up. But wait, there's more.
The White Sox winning percentage is two thirty five, and
that is the same as the batting average of their
best hitter. Andrew Vaughan is the leading here for the
White Sox. He's hitting two thirty five, which is also
the winning percentage of the Chicago White Sox. How much
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how much fun is that? Come on?
Speaker 7 (26:09):
I saw that they're oer for fourteen on Mondays this season.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, Monday is a day of rest if you play
for the Lights, and they've rested a lot.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
But yeah, the only team in the major leagues that
is winless on a day of the week for.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
The seats and if Doc Mike still called the show,
he didn't call anymore. But if Doc called the show,
you know, he'd say something about it's some kind of
illness the White Sox have. That's not they're not winning,
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a poem that I wrote for David.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That say, wow, hell, okay, here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
It's okay to be gay, David, thatsay, time to come
out of the closet. At first sight, your wife was
the only one that didn't vomit. That includes your mom
and dad. Disappointed. Your little radio show is so bad.
Career highlight wiping out on the slide. It was reported
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that you even cried receiving hairline. Your career is in decline.
Napoleon complex, You have to pay for sex shorter than
the average man. No one likes you, you have no fans.
Jealousy of Ben Maller is unbecoming. Instead of attacking work
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on what your show is lacking.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Oh, Tammy, that was a knockout ball right there by, Tammy,
and this, I would argue, in the history of the show,
the single greatest upset. Remember when Tammy and Montana challenged
Genie and Medford and we all thought it, there's no contest.
Tammy's so nice, there's no way, and Genie and Medford
(29:05):
Missy rest in peace was saying, no moss. That's how
vicious Tammy can be when she wants to turn it on.
Speaker 12 (29:12):
When somebody attacks somebody I like or love.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yes, upset, we love that about killed her. That's actually
how Genian mead for. That's actually pretty funny. Jesus, that's
actually a good line. Yes, all right, thank you Tammy,
very very kind. I'll make sure to bring that up
on the daytime show that Tammy and Montana did a
very nice poem. We yes a family man. Well, you know, hey,
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you what's the old line? You mess with the big dogs, Eddie,
you know this happens, yeah, exactly, lay down with the dogs. Please,
Strip club, Strip Club John. Let's say hello to him.
If I punched the Rye right lineup, that would help. Hello,
Strip Club John. What's welcome, sir? Welcome?
Speaker 9 (30:06):
You know Harris Buckner, I did it. I did a
little pool. I pulled up the video. I think he's
he's he's should need new president of the United States
with his comments you think.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
You should be about I I uh, something tells me
that's not going to happen. But but yes, well you
never know. He's got to wait about sixty years to
be able to run for president anymore.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
God brought him to have the guts to say what
that's on his mind.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Well, that is rare in these days that he said
what he thought. But he did speak. He was speaking
at a like religious university, so university, Yes, like he
was talking. You know, it's like the old line preaching
to the choir, right, that's what he was doing. It's
like if you were to talk about stripping at the club,
you're that's your audience, right, that's well, I.
Speaker 9 (30:53):
Mean, I mean if the girls, if the girls that
weren't for me I had the same philosophy that Harri
Stucker had, they wouldn't be in a situation.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Wow, look at you ship club John right, abe fire,
it's the the hour of fire, is what it is.
Strippersh of people too, yeah, absolutely very important people. Yes,
the gymnast yes, yeah, all right, well you looked it up.
And so he's he's very rich. So I guess when
the chiefs if I don't know if they play Cleveland Pop.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
Yeah, he's my new favorite kicker. I mean I don't
have too many favorite kickers, but he's my new favorite kicker.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I hear you. All right, Well, I gotta go. Thank you,
Strip Club John, the great Strip Club John. Let me
see if I can say a look to Greg. Who's next?
He had a thought on meltdowns. Hello, Greg, we love meltdowns.
What's up?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yes, the meltdowns you were talking about just a little
earlier reminded me when I was I think I was
in my teams Gene Mark lost his mind during the
game and it had to be restrained. I mean I
didn't pay much attention to stuff like that then, but
it was on TV TV game and he was going crazy.
I'm like, what the heck is going on here?
Speaker 10 (32:01):
This guy?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, he had some mostly we were talking about with
the media, like Earl Weaver. I don't know if you
remember him, Greg. He was the manager of the Oriols
and Earl Weaver had some of the greatest tie rades
of all time. They used to mike him up and
he would just start screaming at the umpires and he
did it. Never got broadcast because it couldn't be broadcast.
But a coach's corner or manager's corner with Earl Weaver,
(32:25):
one of the great. Just google that. Put that on
the YouTube. You'll laugh your ass off at that. Greg.
It's like the can we do that? All right? Thank you? Greg,
appreciate that, and we are going to have I was
gonna put that like, well, you know, I'll put him
on real quick, Jet Dad, give me one line on
the White Sox. Jet Dad, do you have one line
on the White Sox.
Speaker 13 (32:44):
I'll tell you this quickly because I know you're in
a rush. Bands been a long time. By the way,
the last time I called you, I was Jet Boy.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
You probably don't want to quickly years ago.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
But yeah, man, anyway, I've bet three hundred bucks a
day since Game five. Literally all you got to do
is bet against them.
Speaker 10 (32:58):
Literally every day.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
I'm up the dollars.
Speaker 10 (33:00):
It's crazy.
Speaker 13 (33:01):
Vegas never gives money away. They're literally giving money away.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Now you're saying that, and you know what's gonna happen now,
Jet Dad. The White Sox are now they're now going
to a seven game winn instrum.
Speaker 13 (33:11):
Got my betting man. They're minus one eighty today.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Okay, all right, you're loading up. But there's a lot
of there's a lot of juice on that, as you know,
because because of the White Socks, but and not against
the A's as much. All Right, thank you, Jack Dad,
good luck. So he spent a lot of money yet
again against the Chicago White Sox. We are going to
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Hello and welcome. It's our number four and a happy
Tuesday to you, the sixth day of August. Here an
hour number four, we go where the news of the
day takes. It's a hybrid story combining college and pro football.
What do you suppose is behind Jim Harbaugh refusing to
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apologize over the Michigan scandal, the NCAA expected to bring
down the gauntlet on the Wolverines, and Harball, of course,
coaching the Chargers. Now, Also, where are you at on
the backlash from the Chiefs handing kicker Harrison Buckner a
massive raise, He's the highest paided kicker in football? And
(00:42):
how much stalk do you put into glowing reports of
Micah Parson's domination situation at Cowboy Camp. We'll talk about
all of that and more right now. Have a wonderful Tuesday. Here,
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So our lead this hour a crossover story. It's from
the Bolt, but not about the chargers. It's not about
the chargers now. It's where Jim Harball works now and
he holds court and he's a great sound bite. Jim
Harball is a good SoundBite. We're into that. We like
good sound bites. We're all about the good sound bites.
(02:30):
We're gonna play one here in a second. So Jim
Harball was asked about the new reporting on the scandal
that has been bouncing around at the Michigan Wolverines, the
champions of college football and all the confetti and all that,
and oh, you've got to get rid of all of it. Now,
there's rumors that they're gonna vadcate, they're gonna have to
(02:51):
vacate the championship. Will be a massive fine that will
come down against the Michigan football program. So he's asked
about all this. I think we have the audio on this,
but when the news bouncing around, this is a I
think it's a level one They called it level one
punishment situation. So the nc double a's notice of allegations
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against the Michigan football program. Jim Harbaugh knows a thing
or two about the Michigan football program. He addressed the
situation to the media at Charger training camp, and did
he apologize or not. Let's go to the audio tape.
Take a listen.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Never lie, never cheat, never steal. I was raised with
that lesson. If you stumble, you apologize, and you make
it right. Today, I do not apologize. No, I did
not participate. Whoo was not aware nor complicit in those
(03:50):
set allegations.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
That's a good line, though. You never lie, ever cheat,
and if you do, you apologize, And I'm not apologizing.
Go pound saying is what Jim Harbaugh essentially said. Let
us discuss this is what we'll talk to you about. The question,
what do you suppose is behind Jim Harbaugh refusing to
(04:12):
apologize over the Michigan scandal. So I've got Seinfeld matrix
and the answer, and we will combine all of these
things together, and we are going to jump over some
hurdles and try to win a medal at the Parisian Olympics.
That's what we're going to try to do. So to
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lead off here, I have long been an advocate that
if you're a public figure, you should not apologize. And
so Jim Harbaugh is following advice that I have given.
Because if Jim Harbaugh had apologized for what happened at Michigan,
it would not be strong enough. People would then bring
up a bunch of other things. You should apologize for this,
(04:54):
What about this? My stock portfolio went down this week
because Wall Street went in the toilet. You should apologize
for that, the whole thing, right. But Jim Harbaugh also
is a very proud man. He's a quirky goofball of
a man, but he believes that he did nothing out
of sort. I truly don't think that Jim Harbaugh is
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lying about this. I think that Harball believes that there
was nothing that was outrageous that happened at the Michigan
Football program, or you could argue he's convinced himself that
that is the case. Either way, that's the part of
the book that Jim Harbaugh is in and clearly a
fan back in the day is Salad Days when he
was playing in the NFL in the nineties, fan of
(05:38):
Jerry Seinfeld's TV show, and he's using a version of
the Costanza defense, which is obviously refers to a classic
episode of that show, Long Lost show, and George Costanza
on the show was confronted by his boss. He was
sleeping with the cleaning lady, if I remember the episode
(06:00):
there and right on the desk in the office, and
he said, was that wrong? Something? Was that wrong? Were
you not supposed to do that here? And because I've
worked at a lot of offices and people do it
all the time and all that stuff, something like that.
That was his line. And so that's that's what Jim
Harbo's now. It's like, listen, I'm not apologizing. And essentially
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it's like in my head, Harball is like, well, this
happens all over the place. It's not that big a deal.
We didn't go bang bang like the ass one thousand
and two one thousand holes. We didn't do that. Now, furthermore,
let's move on from that because there'll be more on
that story today and as we go through the week. Now,
where are you at on the backlash coming out of
(06:45):
Canza City? The back to back bellyt Belllet champions in
the Chief's Kingdom have handed their kicker, Harrison Buckner, a massive,
massive contract, in fact, the biggest contract for a kicker
in the NFL. Wow, that's a lot of cash. So
(07:09):
my reaction and there's a lot of backlash. People said
he had made some comments speaking as the keynote speaker
at a college several months back. The Wokesters got very upset,
very upset with what he had to say. They were
very angry. But he gets this massive contract. So all
of this, to me is proof of the matrix being
(07:31):
the matrix. Like we kid around with this, but we're
not kidding around. This is based in reality. Here that
you've got the social media world, which is the matrix,
and then you have this other parallel dimension, which is
the real world. And people often confuse the matrix with reality,
which is what we're supposed to be living in, and
(07:53):
the matrix, which is social media that's the fund Zone,
that's the midway. It's filled with mirrors and it's got
these weird objects. And it was a lot of outrage,
a lot of faux outrage, the bots attacking and all
that stuff, because most people don't get that worked up
into a lather about things. You know, people disagree even today.
(08:17):
I still think I maintained to this day, people disagree
with each other politically, whatever. But it's blown out of
proportion by the matrix because most people I've met and
we've gone out and met people at different events throughout
the years I've been here and meeting people that consume
Fox Sports Radio and just trying to get through life right.
(08:38):
They got bills to pay, they got friends, they want
to hang out with, family, they want to hang out
with They're just trying to survive. They're not sitting there
futzing around on their phone worried about everything. And so
the people are all upset about the chiefs and how
could they give this money to know, there were a
mix of people. There were some outrage, but there were
also a lot of people that were just involved in skulduggery.
(08:58):
That's what they were involved in. So you've got the
real world. Clearly, the Chiefs did not have a pebble
up there. Took us when it came to this guy.
And you can say where they aligned politically, fine, whatever,
but it's not like they think he's going to affect
the value of the product that they gave their kicker
a record deal. I don't have any skin in the game.
(09:19):
I don't. The NFL has long overlooked certain activities. If
you're good enough, all right, we talk about it all
the time. And maybe there's a quote Steve Kime, who
famously was the executive in Arizona, didn't do a great job,
so he's working here now. If he did a good job,
he wouldn't be working here. But Steve Kime a longtime
(09:41):
NFL big shot, and he gave a line I'm paraphrasing.
I'll probably get it wrong, but Steve Kime was talking
about the draft process and how the NFL operates, and
he talked about if Hannibal Lecter could run a four
to four at the combine, that the NFL world would
(10:05):
come out and say, well, you know what, he's got
a bit of an eating disorder, but man can he run.
And that's essentially what the NFL's always done. If you're
gonna hurt business, it's a problem. Like Colin Kaepernick actually did,
they thought affected the business. The ratings did go down
a little bit. That was an issue. So he was
sent to the Hoosgal and has not played. And they
(10:27):
did even try to bring him back. They gave him
opportunities that were never good enough for Kaepernick. But in
this case, on the opposite end of the spectrum, if
you will here or the opposite wing, it's like, well,
gave him the money. He's been on a couple of
Super Bowl teams. Now it's like, apparently the talent pool
at Kickers not that great, and so they gave him
(10:49):
the money. They trust him that he's going to make
the kick, and they gave him the money. But the
NFL's always paid guys in comparison to some actual crimes
that were committed. This small potatoes, right, small small potatoes,
all right, last thing here, let's go to Dallas. The
obligatory mention for the Cowboys. How about damn Cowboys? So
(11:11):
how much stalk do you put into the glowing reports
out of cowboy training camp in the nard Aux Nerd
that Micah Parsons has dominated the offensive line. There's a
domination situation for Micah Parsons last couple of practices there
for the Cowboys. So I'm gonna answer this by saying
(11:35):
likely true, likely true, but irrelevant, like the amount of
stock would be zero point zero zero percent, that would
be the amount of stock. Like, we don't doubt that
Micah Parsons is having some success, that he's playing like
a cyborg in camp, that he's built differently. Congratulations. Nevertheless,
(11:57):
though my answer is the answer like Alan Iverson, we
here talking about practice, not a game. We talked about practice,
and the conversation about the Cowboys is always the same.
It's Dak Prescott at quarterback, lighting up opposing defenses during
the regular season, then Dak Prescott against a halfway decent defense,
(12:18):
normally slipping up, and then in the playoffs he literally
is in the cockpit of the vomit comet. And Micah
Parsons has much of that in his body of work. Also,
he hasn't had as long a run as Dak Prescott,
but you look at his brief time in Dallas and
I look around and I'm like, well, Michah Parsons, Yeah,
(12:42):
he was the Week two MVP member. Last year, I
think the Cowboys opened up with the combination of the
Jets and the Giants and got off to a great start.
Everyone was all excited, MVP greatest defensive player since Lawrence Taylor.
And then they had to play the rest of the schedule,
and by the time the playoffs came around, Michael Parsons
was more worried about whereas next podcast was going to
be rather than succeeding for the Cowboys on the field.
(13:06):
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Coming up later this hour. If you stay with us
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could win a golden ticket and then you don't have
to all up and begged for golden tickets like hollering
James in Minnesota. Hello, hollering James.
Speaker 8 (15:05):
Hey Ben, you know that kicker that made that a
lot of money for being a number of pretty good
kicker in the NFL. I can name the first kicker
that broke the record and set the record in all
time NFL history until somebody tied it. That kicker was
(15:25):
Tom Dempsey of the Washington Redskins. And after they became
the Redskins, they were known as the Washington Football team,
and then they became the Generals. The Guardians.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Got the name right in the ballpark. They did become
the Washington whatever they're called the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
No, Tom Dempsey was the tricker, yeah, for the Saints,
for the Washington team. No, was the kicker for the
rocking team.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
A lot of different guys are Probably the greatest question
about kickers though, the I think he's the only MVP
in the modern era. Oh yeah, kicker, that's correct, Yes, yeah,
you know, No, no, no, not right. What do you
want me to James? There was a that was a
strike here right, Adie Mosley Mark Moseley in nineteen kickers.
(16:25):
Was it eighty two or eighty three or something? It
was in the early eighties.
Speaker 8 (16:28):
Yeah, I'm doing because I'm sixty years old. I go
back then.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Hey, James, James, we're trying to be hip or can
you say you're like thirty? Can you just say you're thirty? Now?
Speaker 8 (16:39):
I want to sixteen, trying to get.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We're trying to get the younger demo? Can you say
you're thirty?
Speaker 8 (16:43):
I'm thirty, I'm thirty.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Okay, thank you, James, you're thirty. It's amazing sound it
sounds so you sound so educated for thirty. So it's
so knowledgeable for age thirty.
Speaker 8 (16:53):
So for me, it was the best meeting I ever had.
Speaker 9 (16:57):
I met you, Manton, you Ma and.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Doc Severnson side by side. Who that is? Lorena has
no idea who Doc Severnson is? You know who? Doc seven?
I never heard of them? Coop, no, Coop, I have
no idea. Tonight show right back in the day, Johnny Carson,
he was he was the Carson How soon we forget it?
Trumpet player? Yeah, just across the valley here over in Burbank,
(17:23):
over there all right. Well, James, that was a terrible
phone call, but you're very consistent. We love that about you,
so thank you, thank you, hang up when you go away,
and Lorraina, in fact, can we play the short version
of the Lee Ilia can we can we play that?
Because this is my favorite rand of all time. I
hadn't heard angry Bill did not know who Lee Ely is,
(17:46):
and he's old. Yeah, it's one thing of your young
But Lee Eliot was a manager of the Cubs. It
was the early eighties. The Cubs got off to a
terrible start. They were playing the Dodgers. The fans at
Wrigley Field started throwing trash at the Cub players. Back
in those days, they had to walk off the field.
The clubhouse at the old Wrigley Field was in the outfield.
They'd walked on the field and fans were raining down
(18:07):
trash at the Cub players, and Lee Elia lost his
mind and gave us the greatest rant of all time.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Take Away, We've got all these so called faking fans
that come out there, Cup fans that are supposed to
be behind it, ripping every thing you do.
Speaker 10 (18:23):
I'll tell you one second thing. I hope we get seeking.
Speaker 11 (18:26):
Hotter and just to stuff it up them three.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Thousand people that show up every second day because.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
If they're the real Chicago.
Speaker 11 (18:35):
Fans, they can kiss my seaking ants right.
Speaker 8 (18:38):
Downtown and print it.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah. Really, he's just warming up. Listen, best lines coming up.
Speaker 10 (18:47):
Nobody's doing here because you guys are written good.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Here we go. He's warming up again.
Speaker 11 (18:51):
But the am I supposed to do go out there
and letting my players get destroyed every day and be
quiet about it.
Speaker 10 (18:56):
For the nickel din people to show up. The motherfucker's
only can work.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
That's why they're out of the game.
Speaker 10 (19:02):
They want to go out and get a job and
find out what.
Speaker 11 (19:04):
It's like to go out there living maybe five percent
of working the other fifteen come out here.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
People pooh, and that's the.
Speaker 10 (19:24):
Ass.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Is that not great?
Speaker 7 (19:28):
It was great watching Lorena's face. There's like a little
child on Christmas opening up.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Is that not the Mona Lisa of rants. It doesn't
get better than that. You can't be better than that.
You could maybe match it, but you can't be better
than that. He did everything you're not supposed to do.
He attacked the fans, which you're never supposed to do.
He said, they don't have jobs, they're cheap. The whole
city of Chicago he ripped, And yeah, did anyone count
the beeps? I did at one point know the number
(19:54):
of beeps. I probably have that someone of my notes.
But I did come. And my favorite part of that
is it happened. I didn't know about it because I
was a kid, but it happened on my birthday, So
it was April twenty ninth. It happened nineteen eighty three.
I didn't get fired after that. Yeah, he kept his job.
And the guy that recorded that, Les Grobstein, unfortunate, passed
(20:14):
away couple years ago. But I had a chance to
meet him in my travels, and he did the overnight
show at the Score in Chicago for years and and
he much like Lesorda you talk to the old Tommy
Desorta had all these rants when he was managing the Dodgers,
and only a few of them have been saved for
posterity sake, like Lee Ilia had. Now that that was
supposedly the greatest rant, but Lee had other rants. He
(20:36):
was a fiery man. Lee he's still alive, I think,
unless he passed away the last couple year. I think's
still like a man.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
With that much fire.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
You know he's still oh yeah, yeah, the fire does
not go out easily when you got that kind of passion. Fiee.
Speaker 7 (20:48):
He's still alive eighty seven years old.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
He briefly did some stuff. He was like an advisor
with his Dodgers when Ned Kaletti was like the executive
the Dodgers had. Lee Yois. I saw him a few
times and I just admired him. You know, you're in
the presence of greatness. Some people think being around Michael
Jordan is great. And though Lee Elia attacking the Chicago
cub fan that line I eighty five percent of the
(21:12):
world's work. The other fifty percent that is the single
greatest line. Unamazing. All right, Manuel is in Guardina a
fan favorite. I think was it was it mister Luciano
at the Mala Meetingree, Who's sang your praises? Manuel? I
believe he did? Hello Manuel and Guardina?
Speaker 10 (21:29):
Okay, man like Lucky Luciano. Mister Luciano knows what's up?
Much love. Benny Blancs and per Banks, Bennie Bloke and
Sherman Oaks. Lorena Eddie also known as Steamboat Willie and
my man Coop the mother effing loop in the house. Hey,
(21:52):
lee Ilia, Man, I love when you do stuff like this. Man,
Damn the youngsters, they need to be schooled on this,
lee Elia. Why don't you bring up some Tommy la Sorta,
Dave Kingman, Tommy Lasorda, kurtvaka.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Dennis that's right, Oh.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
Boy, that almost had an aneurism. Jim Jim Morra Sr.
Remember hey, man, the list goes on and on. When
when these head coaches and these managers have that passion?
I love it. You guys had Lou Panella in the
in the uh in the trivia a. Remember wasn't it
him who grabbed the base and threw it?
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (22:34):
He did.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
He did with the Reds. And also remember when Panella
we're doing old guy radio, but who cares. It's overnights.
So remember when Panella was managing the Tampa Bay Rays
I think it was, and a hot mic caught him
berating the team saying, this is why you guys lose
one hundred games. And he just started screaming at the
players in the dugout and was caught by a hot mic.
(22:55):
It was awesome, so.
Speaker 10 (22:56):
Good God bless him. Hey. And you know what, he
could speak to that because he had won a championship
as a player. He had had a lot of success
as a manager. I don't think he won that ring,
but uh, he was a hell of a manager, man.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Yeah, but he won. He was with the Reds, they
won the World Series. He managed. Didn't he manage the Reds?
And no, no, no, that was yeah And it wasn't
our friend Rob Parker. Didn't Rob Parker. He's the one
that escalated that confrontation between Dibble. He was He was
a Red Rob was a Reds beat.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
And he did the old overgrown health he did.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
But but Rob did the old trick where he said,
did you hear what he said? And he went back
and you tell Panela that? And Panella a fiery Italian guy.
He's gonna not put up with that. He attacked back
and he came out of the office looking for Dibble
on him.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
You know, hey man, those old New York guys, they
don't play. Hey man, he just like you play. In
the air everywhere America is treated to this.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Every in the air, every rare.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
So long, five seventy Fox Sports Radio Malatia is up
in this bi y outro.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
All right, thank you Manuel in Guardiana. So I just
have to do what we can do, like getting how
about this Coool? We get an open old guy radio,
like once a week we can do like old guy radio.
Oh like old guy radio. Just do it, like random
stories about Leo. How much longer before I qualify? You're
getting close, Coop. You're starting to become as you've gotten older, Coop,
(24:39):
And as I've known you, You're you're becoming you don't
put up with as much stuff as you used to
put up with. Right, You're I get that sense? Am
I correct? That life's starting to weigh you down a
little bit? Like the bull crap in life, you get
to a point as a human being you just get
tired of the bull crap. You just get to a
certain point. You're like, I don't want to put up
with that. I'm good true Anyway, it is the Bain
(25:00):
Mahler Show. We thank you for listen. I'm doing a
day night double header. Manuel's not lying. I'm filling in
on the local affiliate here in LA Today with the
dean of LA Sports, Fred Rogan. So I've I've been
getting about well, I get I don't get much less
sleep than I normally get. It's just a little more compact.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Let's have some fun here we go. Let's have some
fun fun fact all right, So, congratulations the Chicago White Sox.
With their loss to the Athletics last night, the White
Sox are now at least twenty wins behind every other
team in the American League. Wow. That would mean almost
an entire month. They would have to win and everyone
(25:44):
else lose for them to catch up. But wait, there's more.
The White Sox winning percentage is two thirty five, and
that is the same as the batting average of their
best hitter. Andrew Vaughan is the leading here for the
White Sox. He's hitting two thirty five, which is also
the winning percentage of the Chicago White Sox. How much
(26:06):
how much fun is that? Come on?
Speaker 7 (26:09):
I saw that they're oer for fourteen on Mondays this season.
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Well, Monday is a day of rest if you play
for the Lights, and they've rested a lot.
Speaker 7 (26:17):
But yeah, the only team in the major leagues that
is winless on a day of the week for.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
The seats and if Doc Mike still called the show,
he didn't call anymore. But if Doc called the show,
you know, he'd say something about it's some kind of
illness the White Sox have. That's not they're not winning,
and all that something to do with yeah, yeh our.
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in Montana. Hello Tammy, Hey.
Speaker 12 (27:45):
Ben, I know you're squeezing me in. So I've got
a poem that I wrote for David.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
That say, wow, hell, okay, here we go, Here we go.
Speaker 12 (27:56):
It's okay to be gay, David, thatsay, time to come
out of the closet. At first sight, your wife was
the only one that didn't vomit. That includes your mom
and dad. Disappointed. Your little radio show is so bad.
Career highlight wiping out on the slide. It was reported
(28:17):
that you even cried receiving hairline. Your career is in decline.
Napoleon complex, You have to pay for sex shorter than
the average man. No one likes you, you have no fans.
Jealousy of Ben Maller is unbecoming. Instead of attacking work
(28:38):
on what your show is lacking.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Oh, Tammy, that was a knockout ball right there by, Tammy,
and this, I would argue, in the history of the show,
the single greatest upset. Remember when Tammy and Montana challenged
Genie and Medford and we all thought it, there's no contest.
Tammy's so nice, there's no way, and Genie and Medford
(29:05):
Missy rest in peace was saying, no moss. That's how
vicious Tammy can be when she wants to turn it on.
Speaker 12 (29:12):
When somebody attacks somebody I like or love.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Yes, upset, we love that about killed her. That's actually
how Genian mead for. That's actually pretty funny. Jesus, that's
actually a good line. Yes, all right, thank you Tammy,
very very kind. I'll make sure to bring that up
on the daytime show that Tammy and Montana did a
very nice poem. We yes a family man. Well, you know, hey,
(29:45):
you what's the old line? You mess with the big dogs, Eddie,
you know this happens, yeah, exactly, lay down with the dogs. Please,
Strip club, Strip Club John. Let's say hello to him.
If I punched the Rye right lineup, that would help. Hello,
Strip Club John. What's welcome, sir? Welcome?
Speaker 9 (30:06):
You know Harris Buckner, I did it. I did a
little pool. I pulled up the video. I think he's
he's he's should need new president of the United States
with his comments you think.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
You should be about I I uh, something tells me
that's not going to happen. But but yes, well you
never know. He's got to wait about sixty years to
be able to run for president anymore.
Speaker 9 (30:28):
God brought him to have the guts to say what
that's on his mind.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Well, that is rare in these days that he said
what he thought. But he did speak. He was speaking
at a like religious university, so university, Yes, like he
was talking. You know, it's like the old line preaching
to the choir, right, that's what he was doing. It's
like if you were to talk about stripping at the club,
you're that's your audience, right, that's well, I.
Speaker 9 (30:53):
Mean, I mean if the girls, if the girls that
weren't for me I had the same philosophy that Harri
Stucker had, they wouldn't be in a situation.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Wow, look at you ship club John right, abe fire,
it's the the hour of fire, is what it is.
Strippersh of people too, yeah, absolutely very important people. Yes,
the gymnast yes, yeah, all right, well you looked it up.
And so he's he's very rich. So I guess when
the chiefs if I don't know if they play Cleveland Pop.
Speaker 9 (31:22):
Yeah, he's my new favorite kicker. I mean I don't
have too many favorite kickers, but he's my new favorite kicker.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I hear you. All right, Well, I gotta go. Thank you,
Strip Club John, the great Strip Club John. Let me
see if I can say a look to Greg. Who's next?
He had a thought on meltdowns. Hello, Greg, we love meltdowns.
What's up?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yes, the meltdowns you were talking about just a little
earlier reminded me when I was I think I was
in my teams Gene Mark lost his mind during the
game and it had to be restrained. I mean I
didn't pay much attention to stuff like that then, but
it was on TV TV game and he was going crazy.
I'm like, what the heck is going on here?
Speaker 10 (32:01):
This guy?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Yeah, he had some mostly we were talking about with
the media, like Earl Weaver. I don't know if you
remember him, Greg. He was the manager of the Oriols
and Earl Weaver had some of the greatest tie rades
of all time. They used to mike him up and
he would just start screaming at the umpires and he
did it. Never got broadcast because it couldn't be broadcast.
But a coach's corner or manager's corner with Earl Weaver,
(32:25):
one of the great. Just google that. Put that on
the YouTube. You'll laugh your ass off at that. Greg.
It's like the can we do that? All right? Thank you? Greg,
appreciate that, and we are going to have I was
gonna put that like, well, you know, I'll put him
on real quick, Jet Dad, give me one line on
the White Sox. Jet Dad, do you have one line
on the White Sox.
Speaker 13 (32:44):
I'll tell you this quickly because I know you're in
a rush. Bands been a long time. By the way,
the last time I called you, I was Jet Boy.
Speaker 9 (32:49):
You probably don't want to quickly years ago.
Speaker 13 (32:51):
But yeah, man, anyway, I've bet three hundred bucks a
day since Game five. Literally all you got to do
is bet against them.
Speaker 10 (32:58):
Literally every day.
Speaker 9 (32:59):
I'm up the dollars.
Speaker 10 (33:00):
It's crazy.
Speaker 13 (33:01):
Vegas never gives money away. They're literally giving money away.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Now you're saying that, and you know what's gonna happen now,
Jet Dad. The White Sox are now they're now going
to a seven game winn instrum.
Speaker 13 (33:11):
Got my betting man. They're minus one eighty today.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Okay, all right, you're loading up. But there's a lot
of there's a lot of juice on that, as you know,
because because of the White Socks, but and not against
the A's as much. All Right, thank you, Jack Dad,
good luck. So he spent a lot of money yet
again against the Chicago White Sox. We are going to
press on. We got site the Bite, the Great Sports
Radio Mystery. If you'd like to play, Site the Byite,
call right now eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
(33:36):
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(34:13):
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Speaker 14 (34:18):
It's time now to site site a bite Bite where
we play random generic sound bites, you know in a
sports and entertainment cliches spoken by so called experts.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
You trying to tell us who's doing.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
The talking and the way we go. It is time
now for the site the bite, the great sports radio mystery.
It's someone from the world of sports in the last
seven to ten days. You gotta figure out who it is.
No clues. Could be a coach, an athlete, obviously prominent
media figure. Let's go to the audio tape. I'm a fan.
(34:54):
I'm a fan. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. All right, Well,
anyone get this right. I will say, call he number.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
Five.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
Call it five. We'll get it right, Eddie, nobody, Lorena
call it for a Ben. Call he four. You always
have to be contriering the bits. Caller five. Uh, what
about you? Cool? All right? Okay, call he if I
play again, play again, play again, play again. Bright, I'm
a fan. Flighty gag, I'm a fan. You know the answer.
You'll get a golden ticket. You'll be the smartest person
(35:27):
in your neighborhood eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three sixty
nine if you would like to give it a shot.
And we start out with caller numb Burn. Keg drinking
Steve is my caller one? Hello, Keg drinking Steve?
Speaker 9 (35:49):
Yes, Ben, did you know Tory spelling is gonna do
only fans? She told William Shanner that she's gonna put
her college kids through college.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Okay, is it Tory spelling? Is it Tori spelling? No,
that is incorrect. Thank you for that. Who else do
we have on site to Bite the Great Sports Radio Mystery.
Let's say hello to hollering James, who keeps calling back.
He's my caller number two. He loves the Show's right,
(36:17):
there's me.
Speaker 7 (36:30):
Whom Tom Layman.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Tom lan Layman. No, it's not Sid Hartman. Thank you,
go away, Golfer. Uh cite the Bite the Great Sports
Radio Mystery. Let's give a clue. This person went back
to back high school national tournament championships playing alongside Ben Simmons. Okay,
let's say hello to Damon in Paris, Californi and Yellow Damon.
(37:02):
What's the answer, Damon? No, Damon's not gonna answer. Let's try. Uh,
let's go with Uncle Mo. Uncle Mo.
Speaker 12 (37:14):
Is that former Ben Simmons teammate and Karen Braves rookie
sensation Spencer Schwellenbach.
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Is it Spencer Schwellenbach. No, we are out of time.
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