Money Mahomes

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to another edition of the Mallard Podcast. Now,
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But here's what's coming up on today's edition of the

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podcast for only you, only you get this podcast. Coming
up on today's show, will the Chiefs end up regretting
the Patrick Mahomes extension ten year extensions to be locked
up till he's thirty seven years old? In Cansa City,
the Raiders are kicking the tires on Jadevion Clowney. John

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Gruden said to be smeton with the free agent defensive player.
Is there a match between the Raiders and Clowney? And
a former Yankee player who was only in New York
for a couple of months is attacking the team's longstanding
dress code. So we asked the question, is it in
danger the Yankees have to change their facial hair policy?

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And is it possible we go back to Patrick Mahomes?
Is it possible that Patrick Mahomes will live up to
this five hundred million dollar contract. And what would he
have to do to live up to the five hundred
million dollars contract. That is the question. We will analyze
that with a Maller monologue. Got some game shows and
some other things along the way as well. It's all

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coming your way right now. Have a wonderful day, and
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have chosen to spend a little bit of time with
us here. As we get right into it, and there's
an old adage that the pen is mightier than the sword.
You might have heard that somewhere along the road of life.
But what about the ability to throw a football? I
believe that is even more mighty than the pen or

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the sword. Example a would be Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas
City Chiefs quarterback who seemingly will be the Kansas City
Chiefs quarterback forever. That is the talk of the town
in the little sporting world. And I assume that you've
heard about this by now. I don't know how you
could have missed it, but maybe you did so. Patrick

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Mahomes has officially officially agreed to a multi year extension.
Depending on where you go, it's ten to twelve years,
but five hundred and three million dollars the contract extension
being reported by several news outlets, which if true, makes

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Mahomes the first player in the history of sport to
sign a contract worth more than half a billion dollars. Allegedly,
four hundred and seventy seven million are in something I've
never heard of called guaranteed mechanisms. Okay, it's called monopoly money,

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Mickey mouse money, and that's a lot of mucho di
naro is what it is. So let us discuss the question.
Is this Patrick Mahomes contract the no brainer that many
of the NFL media have repeatedly said it is. That's
how it's been positioned in the media. That's how it's
been portrayed in the media, that this contract. The mainstream

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telling us that this is a no brainer. You gotta
do it. I say not so fast. Now. Listen, Mahomes
is great, He's been wonderful. He's the top quarterback in football.
But this is pushing the envelope too far. You've got
the thumb, high end, insurance, and human nature, and we
will combine all these things together and we will make

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apple pie. Because I had some apple pie over the
fourth of July. That's right, I'm a bad person. I
celebrate America that some apple pie was really good, really
good apple pie was Kirkland brand apple pie. Anyway. So
let's begin with a when I own a professional sports franchise,
at some point this radio thing is gonna kick in,

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or some of my investments from my financial advisor, Blind Scott,
and I will get enough money to own a professional
sports franchise. And when that happens, I will never give
out a contract of ten or more years at all.
The most I would go is about five years. That's it.
Call me Scrooge McDuck, coof on me. All you want
not gonna happen, right, I've been very consistent. We talk

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about these things from time to time. They've come up
a lot. And as a rule of thumb, and that's
a big thing, a rule. I have a big thumb.
A rule of thumb, it is a mistake ninety nine
point nine percent of the time. We have seen a
number of these mega contracts in recent years, most of
them in baseball. Shout out John Carlos Stanton who signed

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with the old Florida Marlins, then they became the Miami Marlins,
and then he was dispatched, excommunicated to the Yankees and
he's been malingering in pinstripes. Recently. You've got Mike Trout
with the Angels and Bryce Harper who also signed big
contracts recently Many Machado not quite as big with the Padres.

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But these are all massive deals. And even a player
as good as Patrick Mahomes, and there's no debating his greatness,
it is risky business and not something I would be
a party. Two. And when you look at all the
variables including and you can't undersell this a global recession, okay,

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a global recession, the NFL facing backlash, and they've got
this whole platform, they've adjusted, the social media or social
justice platform really that has gone to extremes, the black
anthem they're gonna play before games, and they have no
idea where this is going to absolutely blow up in

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their face or not. And the economics on that, you said, well,
it doesn't matter. A few people won't watch, but they'll
still make their money. Maybe that is true. But the
best case scenario is that Mahomes stays healthy and continues
to play at the level he's at right now and
even gets better. But how often does that happen? Once
in a blue moon, And I'm not talking about the beer.

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There are a handful of possible outcomes when you give
somebody this kind of a contract, okay, And if you
go down all of those possibilities and you look at
the possibilities and you lay them out, you're like, it's
probably not for me. Right now. The injury is a
huge one, and the injury rate and in football one

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hundred percent. Mahomes himself has already been heard. And let's
say he goes out, maybe not this year, not next year,
but three years down the line, he gets blown to
smithereens the offensive tackle doesn't block, or there's a miscommunication
and boom goes Mahomes all of a sudden. He's his
new nickname is Hoppity Hop because he's hopping on one leg.

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And but let's say that doesn't have Let's say Mahomes
stays healthy all right under this scenario. Oh that's fine,
but what if he regresses. It's Oh, it's impossible. He's
not going to regret. Okay, Really, there are players, and
there have been plenty of them over the years that
have peaked early in their career or plateaued and then
gone down. And the other issue is that if you

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look at the game of musical chairs, when the music
stops and the contract kicks in, and apparently there's gonna
be a couple of years before the meat of the
contact contract really kicks in for Kansas City, but they're
gonna have to then get out a butcher's knife and
trim some fat off the roster. Mahomes he's getting his
but that means, you know's gotta stay healthy, but he's

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gonna get paid his contract. That means the Chiefs are
not going to be able to spend a lot of
money around the roster. And as comparison, if you look
at Tom Brady, which is the people in Kansas City
seem to think Mahomes is going to be Tom Brady
two point zero in the next dynasty of the NFL.

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But for the majority, the vast majority of Tom Brady's
time with the Patriots, in the meat of those glory
years in New England, he was not a top five quarterback.
He was outside of that. Now, he wasn't fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen from the money list, but he was generally sixth, seventh, eighth,

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somewhere in that range among the highest peg quarterbacks in
the NFL, which allowed the Patriots to spread it around.
Not that the Patriots like to pay anybody, but that's
just the business model, the Patriot way. The Chiefs don't
have that now part B of this. So, as far
as Mahomes, congratulations, right, MOSELTOF You've cashed in your chips.

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You have a deal which I from what I read,
is going to lead you to your thirty seventh birthday
as a professional athlete. Once you get to that point,
anything after that's gravy and living up to the time
honored Maxium that the big dog is always gonna eat
Apocalypse be damned, Apocalypse be dam And it's essentially like

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he contacted the petroleum company Mahomes and his agent and said, listen,
I'm sitting on top of an oil reserve. I would
like to sell the oil reserve right now. And this
is a whale of a contract. Even that is an understatement.
And although you've got to look a little bit below
the surface, because at first glance right there on the surface, man,

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is that sexy five hundred million dollars. That is a
masterpiece by Lee Steinberg. The superagent has done it again.
He fell on hard times. What a comeback story. And
he for not having to throw a pass in the NFL.
Lee Steinberg's gonna get what five percent, ten percent of
that contract. Good for him, great for the quarterback. Mahomes
has been the man right now. He's been given the

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riches of Solomon and Mahomes is also gonna cash in,
not just in this monetary value on the field, but
he's also going to make a ton of money Madison Avenue.
He will Mahomes become a darling of Madison Avenue for
years to come selling you all kinds of crap you
don't really need. And as they say, in business, money

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makes money. So that being said, you gotta go a
little bit deeper. Now it's a bad deal because I
wouldn't give anybody a ten year contract, even with all
these apparently outs that the chiefs have. They have what's
known as high end insurance. Now we like to talk
about Geico on Fox Sports Radio, but they have their
own insurance there. I don't know if this is a

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Geico policy or not, but high end insurance. And this
is supposedly now a rolling series of contracts. It's described
as a ten or a twelve year deal, but from
what I've been reading now, it's actually a rolling set
of one year contracts. That's how it was explained to me.
And so keep an eye on a new weasel word

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or words. In this case, it's a new one. I've
not seen this one before. Guaranteed mechanisms. Have you ever
heard that before? Guaranteed mechanisms. I have not heard of
guaranteed mechanisms. So they say four hundred and seventy seven
million in quote guaranteed mechanisms unquote, What does that mean

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in English? What does that mean? Now, here's what I
understand it to me. Let me explain what I believe
it means. Mahomes deal is only guaranteed, I say, only
one hundred and forty four million dollars, which is roughly
four out of the ten years that is being reported.
So if I said Patrick Holmes agreed to a four

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year contract for one hundred and forty four million dollars
and that's it, that would be fine. I mean, I'd
be a great situation that the rest the chiefs can
pretty much wash their hands with, get some salt, scrub off,
and then just be done with it. They'd have to
pay a small amount of money, but they'd be able
to get out of the contract. If that is true,
and it appears to be, then it's still a bad deal,

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but it's not as bad a deal from the chiefs perspective.
You look at who's got the liability here. Well, Mahomes
has to stay healthy. That's a big question mark and
almost a guarantee. No for most in the NFL. AH,
they certainly insulate quarterbacks these days. Now the last word here,
so this is going to push the limits. Push you back,

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push it back now on Mahomes and these kind of contracts.
You're testing the scruples. Now Mahomes has pasted every test
so far, but the work ethic test. Do not underestimate
this right normally, and you can look this up for yourself.
You don't have taking my word for it. When you
win the lottery, when you've won the powerball, you suddenly

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put your feet up and you're like, that's it, I'm done,
and you get lazy, all right, You get lazy, alright.
Many people quit their jobs the moment they get that
first check. And make no mistake, this is a clearing
house sweepstakes type of situation here. For Malmes, he is one.

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There's a knock knock on the door and there's a
big cartoon sized check with his name on it. It
is human nature to become satisfied. There's a reason for
the idiom fat, rich and happy, because that's what happens.
And even when you try your best to guard against it,

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some of those bad habits creep in. We see it
all the time here. And yeah, there's a term in
the postal industry mail it in which which could apply.
You go through the motions right, cut corners, and we
all know examples of this. Maybe not to this level,
probably not, but complacency sets in. Player X gets a

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big contract and player X gets paid, the team gets
played as the line goes. Now, hopefully Mahomes will not
go into cruise control. I just gotta tell you. Fortunately,
my boss is here at Fox Sports Radio are making
sure that I don't mail it in because I have
never had a multi year agreement the entire time I've

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been at the company. So they see they want me
to be no, no, they want me to be hungry.
You know, I don't want me to be hungry. And
they realize I do these dopey monologues every time a
contract is signed in sports, which is eight, nine, ten years,
I go on the same ranton, I repeat the same thing,
and I belabor the point and I beat I beat
the horse. I flogged the horse. And so they're like, hey, Matto,
we don't want you to say that to us, so

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we're not gonna give you the big money. So here
I am. Look at me now. Yeah, all right. It
is the Ben Maller Show. If you would like to
talk about any of that, it is all fair game.
We also have a story we'll get to later in
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NFL player in trouble? This NFL player saying some horrific things,

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posting some things on social media. We get to that
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from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller,
all right, Robin Vegas writes, and he says, Mahomes seems
to be cut from the same cloth as Brett Farmley
misspelled cloth. There. I don't think the money goes to
his head. He says, I also learned from yesterday's podcast

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thanks to Marcel, that Robbie the Josh Allen jock Sniffer
had passed away and very up at rest in peace.
He says. There that's from rob Will we have the
six six line salute? Yes, Robbie the man face that
an hour six, We're gonna have a six line so
that we look for to that. And I thought you
weren't supposed to be here, Eddie. I thought you were.

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You said you were going to be here one night
and then you were Oh yeah, Well there was, as
you know, some issues here. So some people haven't been
cleared to return yet, so to speak. So so you're
still so I'm here until further notice. Okay, But I
did do something really stupid a few minutes ago, Oh
share with the class. I locked everything that I brought

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with me in my car with the keys. Oh no, yeah,
including my glasses. They're there on their way now. Our
security guard, I think, has not come back, right, so
we have a new security guard at the building. Yeah,
our comic book guy left and never returned. I hope
he's okay. I don't know what that was all about

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super nice guy, not a very great, not a very good,
terrible security nice man, and I will miss him randomly
coming up to me in the parking garage in ten
minute conversations about comic books and TV shows and movies
and people. You know, I'm not really familiar with most
of that stuff, but he would just go on and
on and uh, yeah, so we have a new security guard.

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We're good luck, Eddie. If you if you need, don't worry.
Coop can do one of your trainings if you want.
Coop's willing to slide right in there if you need
an extra half hours. I can also get into your
car much quicker than Triple A. Whoa, yeah, Coops, watch
The Fast and Furious and some of those. It doesn't
include breaking my window or anything, does it. Oh no,
you'll have to fix your window. I'll go ahead and

(18:26):
stick with the Triple A, but thank you, Coop. It's
very just get a you get like an old coat
hanger or something like that, and then the movie. Back
in the day, you could remember it used to have
that little button there you could kind of pull up,
but now it's it's a lot harder as teams. Well,
if you want Eddie, one thing I know about the
Malan militia. We have a criminal empire amongst us here.
So we can get somebody to call up who has

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some experience breaking into cars, if you want, Eddie, and
we can have them on if you want to go,
I'm good pointers you're good on that. I'm good. I
got you all right. Let's see page down here. Frank
and La asked an interest interesting question. He says, what
will the most likely scenario be in the year twenty
thirty two? Wow, twenty thirty two, says Patrick Maholmes is

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still the Chiefs quarterback, me Ben is still hosting overnights
at Fox Sports Radio. That both are going to happen
or neither is going to happen. All right, So Eddie,
what do you think? Eddy, you think that of those
scenarios that both mahomes will be the quarterback of the
Chiefs and I'll still be here. Neither of those are
going to happen, or one of those is going to happen.
What do you think the most likely scenario? I would

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say neither of those will happen. So you think that
I will not be here in twenty thirty two, that
I will be doing something else. I will find my money,
I will get my riches somewhere else. The odds say
that you and I have extended our stay here for
way too long. Is that right? So we have to
the jig is up and all that. I mean, I'm
shocked we're still here, both of us. Fun. If you're good,

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they keep you. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?
You know, plenty of good people that have been have
found their way. Most of the people of self destrust
did or they they were unhappy, you know they. So
do you disagree with my with my choice? Well, no,
I mean it's possible I might leave. I don't know that.
I man, I could always get rid of me. I

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don't know if I would. I would look at it
like this. If sports don't come back, we're all done.
So if it's if these sniveling athletes, these uh pussy
willow athletes can't deal with a little adversity in their
lives and all the testing and all the requirements they have,
then we're it's all. The jig is up, and that's fine.
I'll go do something else, and there's other options we have.
But assuming that sports do come back, I look on

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you know television, Eddie, and there's like soccer games and
baseball games around the world, but here everyone just bitches
and complains non stop. And so we'll see what happens.
But if sports come back, I think everything, I'll be
all right. But maybe I'll get that big TV offer, Eddy.
Maybe I'll be gone because I'll be a big TV
star by then another better career. Yeah, there you go,

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think positive, all right. So you think you're every day
is a blessing here, Eddie, that you know your days
are numbered here you're going with I can say, honestly,
if that day comes, I will be like I was
here a lot longer than I ever thought so interesting.
I'll be pissed. I'll be angry when that day comes,
unless it's my choice. Then I'll be very happy because
I'll have more pile of money somewhere and be happy

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about that. Well. Scooping the insider, here's an interesting store.
I gotta kick out of this one. I always love
when things like this happened because we've been the beneficiary
of things like this. What am I talking about with
my pronouns? Let me announce? So the Mahomes contract was
not broken by Jake Glazier. It was not broken by
Adam Schefter or any of the usual suspects in the

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NFL insider wing. It was broken by a woman working
at a liquor store. A woman working at a liquor
store broke the Mahomes contract and it turns out at
the Plaza Liquor in the Kansas City area. There she
was able to break the news hours before for it
then hit the sporting news world and made its way

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through the echo chamber of sports. So how did this happen?
The woman named Katie, she broke the news. Katie is
her name. She works at the Plaza Liquor store, and
she had the story about this half billion dollar contract
and she got it right. The She actually deleted the
initial tweet, but somebody took a screenshot of it. She

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said she was nervous that she had done something wrong,
but there are screenshots that she sent this out at
about noon Kansas City time, and it's a good story.
So what happened? All right? So she's working her job
normal Monday, who gives a crap whatever, doing your thing,

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and some big shot comes in from the chiefs and hey,
I I want to buy six bottles of dom h
and I want some dom perion. I would like to
six bottles there and said, what's about as well, there's
some big news, but it's not Chris Jones. And then
then she guessed it was Patrick Mahomes. She said, she guessed,

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but I think she was told. I think she got
inside her information from whoever that was from the Chiefs,
and so she tweeted that out and she broke the
story hours before because the Chiefs celebrated them homes contract
by boozing it up and getting all schnockered and drinking
a bunch of dom there at the Chiefs say, there

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you go, So let's hear it for Katie. If you
want breaking NFL news, you go to Plaza Liquor in
Kansas City because when news breaks, she is right there.
We've heard of these things in the past. We're like
I used to on the weekend overnights. We had guys
that were working front desk at hotels and would hear
stuff or see stuff in the lobby, and we used

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to have a pretty good network. We had some guys
that would work the Hollywood's trip. That's how we used
to tell stories about no tipp and Pippin when the
Bulls would be in town to play the Lakers of
the Clip and Scottie would be out with the guys
having a good time. It would never tip and we
would always get those updates and a few limo drivers,
some taxi cab drivers back in those days. Now, I

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guess it's uber, but we've got some interesting stuff from
random people that are working just regular jobs and they
just happen to be in the right place at the
right time, and over here stuff they're not supposed to
over here. Sometimes they're told stuff because people love to gossip.
But the end result the same, all right, So we
will press on here and another PR crisis if you will,

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for the NFL, or is it a PR crisis? Is
this allowed? Is the end of it? Going? Will allow
this one to go unchecked? What is it? We'll get
to that coming up in a couple of minutes, but
right now, over to any we go to get you
enlightened on what you need to know in the world
of Sportsple is here, Ben, But I'll get this through
this real quick. I'm sorry. News from the NFL, or

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are the Kansa City Chiefs and Super Bowl MVP quarterback
Patrick Mahomes have reached an agreement on a ten year,
four and fifty million dollar contracts tension could be worth
up to five hundred three million. The extension includes one
hundred and forty million injury guarantee as well. It's a
no trade clause. In Baseball News, the league least it's
full schedule for the sixty game pandemic shortened season. They'll
be two games on opening day July twenty third, with

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the defending World Series champion wash To Nationals host in
the New York Yankees, followed by the Santaciso Giants traveling
to play the Los Angeles Dodgers following and I will
feature fourteen games on the schedule. NHL News, the league
and the players Associative Players associ Asian reachs tenantive agreement
on a return to play restart the season, while agreeing
to add four years to the collective bargaining agreement. Next
step is a vote of the Board of Governors and

(25:36):
the players, so that is expected to pass. So training
camp will start on July thirteenth and the season on
August first. And it's soccer. The MLS is gonna have
a season opening tournament in Orlando on Wednesday. It starts,
but FC Dallas has been forced to drop out. Thirteen
players in the MLS have tested positive the coronavirus. Ten
of them have come from FC Dallas. Let me go

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talk to this Triple A. Now back to Ben the
Fox radio. Eddie's got twenty seven minutes roughly to get
the car opened, and so like, how does faster than that?
I think, I, Oh, yeah, they'll have it opened in
like two minutes. Yeah, but how does Triple I work
because you have to prove who you are. But he said,

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but it's pretty fast. They just show him your ID
and but doesn't take long. Isn't his ID in the car?
He has that on him? He has his idea on
that's exact question. Oh yeah, how they gonna get a card? Oh?
They say they opened the door and then they stand
there and wait for him to they arrest him on
the spot. Yeah. I remember one time at the at

(26:41):
the gym back when I used to go to the
gym before the apocalypse, and I locked my locker. The
lock broke in the gym, so I had to get
the bolt cutter in there. They had to come in
and cut it. But I didn't have my wallet obviously,
so they had to like I had to stand there
and show them much like Eddie, I guess is gonna
have to do. I've had to do that multip times
in Vegas. It's a pain. A pain in the took

(27:04):
is for sure. Rob in de Moine right, since it's
the only thing I ever got from my local liquor store.
It was dirty looks he u he says when I
paid an all change. Well, yeah, that's a douche move
when you I've had that happen when you're in line.
Usually it's like not too stereotype, but it's like an
older woman that will pull out or an older dude

(27:26):
that'll pull out the coin will coin pouch and no,
it's just old people. That's agist, I think is what
it is. But but no, they pull out, they come on,
just go go to the coinstar machine. Yeah, don't be
taking my time up. But here's a wild story. I
don't know where this is going to fall. I have
some thoughts on it. It involves I was going to
do a monologue on it, but I had some other

(27:46):
things that I thought we were more interesting than this.
But it is a wild story, and we'll see if
it has legs or not. DeShawn Jackson, who has been
a very productive receiver, although often injured over the course
of his career with the Eagles, Redskins, Buccaneers, and now
back in Philadelphia, and he sent he posted a bunch

(28:07):
of anti Semitic stuff on Instagram and just went all
in down anti Semitic highway. And it was while it
was a quote he thought was from Hitler. Apparently it's
been debunked. It's actually not from Hitler, but he thought
it was from Hitler, and he talked about how Jews
in America were oppressing the black community and all this

(28:30):
stuff just like went over the edge. And so far,
as of about an hour ago when I last checked,
I did not see any kind of statement from the Eagles.
Normally there's a certain rat a tat tat to these
kind of situations where something happens like this and then
the team comes out and condemns it, or they say
they're going to investigate it, something along those lines. I

(28:51):
have not seen any of that. Now. I did see
Deshan Jackson, who's insisting he has no hatred towards the
Jewish commun even though he tweeted out anti Semitic comments,
and there's a lot of Internet rage on this. Now.
I'm not really an expert on the on how this
all works here. Like, I know, if you had said

(29:14):
something akin to that about the black community that you
would have been canceled. I know that is true. But
I think you're allowed to take shots of the Jewish community.
I know Lebron James tweeted out some anti Semitic stuff.
I think it was last year. I might have been
two years ago. I think it was last year, and
he did not get punished by the NBA. The NBA

(29:34):
allowed that to happen. And it's an interesting dynamic in
Philadelphia because you've got the owner of the Eagles who's Jewish,
You've got the general manager of the Eagles who's Jewish,
and you also have other other prominent people in the organization.
So here you have Deshan Jackson just taking shots. The
NFL's now gone down. Hey, we're we're about fighting the

(29:57):
fight social justice. Does anti Semitism apply to that or
is that not that big a deal because that's not
really the cause and you don't get woke credit for
addressing that. I'm not sure how this is gonna go,
we'll fight. We'll find out in the next day or so.
But the Eagles have yet to release a statement, and
is DeShawn Jackson gonna have to issue like Drew Brees apologies,

(30:22):
you know, three or four apologies, get down and beg
for forgiveness and all that, because Drew Brees dared say
that he's supported standing up for the flag. But based
on what I have seen recently, I am I'm sure
that he. I'm not sure, but I would guess that
this just blows over because it's not the media. It's

(30:43):
not sexy, it's not part of what the media agenda is.
And the media agenda right now is not about anti Semitism.
It's about social justice. And so even though you would
say these things somewhat tied together, but you gotta if
you have not seen the screenshots of what a lunatic
Deshaun Watson is DeShawn Jackson rather is DeShawn Jackson made

(31:05):
me sure I get my name, But yeah, you should
check that out because it's pretty pretty crazy stuff there,
pretty crazy stuff. We'll see if that has legs or
not over the next day or so, But again I
am I'm doubtful. Doubtful. That's gonna have le Let's go
to the phones. Blind Sea Bass is next. He's hanging
out in Nashville. Hello, Blind Sea Bass, Benny, my man,

(31:31):
you know, I mean, good for uh my homes. You
know he's quarterback. We ain't seeing that in a while.
Good for him. But I was just gonna kind of
give you an update of what's going on with me
and stuff. You know, I ain't called in a while
because so Blind Sea Bass, you're calling just to tell
us about you. You're giving us an update on the

(31:53):
life and times of blind SeaBASS, because you were very
depressed a few calls ago. You were a regular for
a while, then you were like Nana. You had you
had a bad couple of turns in your life, and
then you got all upset and so where are you
at right now? See best? Well, let's see. So me
and herd we split, and then that next fall in
the league, my great aunt, who I was very close to,

(32:14):
she passed away. So I spent that whole weekend from
the time I got home from the funeral to probably Wednesday,
completely slashed. Yeah. Um, but the good thing is I
did I got to reconnect with one of my cousins
and uh so, uh you know, I've been talking to
him and he's, you know, helping me out. Decided actually

(32:37):
to go back to school. Oh yeah, what are you
gonna study? Uh? Law? You can become a lawyer. I
am all right. Just try to try to pass the
bar like was that movie when he got passed the
bar without actually going to law school. Save a lot
of money that way. Yeah. But just at one request

(32:58):
from Roberto, see it's the music injury lost a great
man yesterday morning? Can he play at least one song
of Charlie Daniels in his memory? Well, you have to
explain to Roberto who that is. But are you familiar,
Roberto with Charlie Daniels? Are you? Yeah? I know that
is all right, Debt Devil went down to Georgia. He'll

(33:20):
go through the arcam okay, all right, good luck with
law school. I remember me when you become a rich lawyer.
Thank you. Let's go to Connor. Who's in Minneapolis and
Connor is next? Hello Connor? Hey, hey bet, how's it
going man? What's up? What's up? What's going? Oh? Hopefully
the ratings are up. I don't know. We're just hanging
out talking talk talk talk talk talk. I mean, they

(33:42):
better they better be. I'm I'm listening to you up here.
I know you have a lot of listeners on k fans,
so you're right, no, we dominated. I was so upset.
If it wasn't for this pesky pandemic, I would have
I was planning a trip to go hang out with
everybody in Minnesota. But I guess I'm not doing that
now because nobody wants to hang I mean, and I
don't blame you for not coming here regardless, at least

(34:04):
in the winter time. Is blows. But anyway, I do
agree with Bonta Bess on the Charlie Daniels thing, first
of all. But on the homes. My mom lives in
Kansas and I know a lot of Chiefs fans. I've
kind of followed the Homes since sexas tech, and I
think I generally agree with you as far as long
contracts they are for the birds. You know, it's a dumb,

(34:27):
dumb move, But when have you ever heard about Mahomes
being this practice demon? You know, I think he just
kind of was born with that ability, and so even
if he does go a little wax, he's gonna still
be good like he's always gonna be that good. Even

(34:48):
puts on fifty pounds, He's gonna be able to throw
like that. That's a would like him more. I would
like him more if he gained about seventy pounds, became
a big yeah. Come on, remember the hefty lefty, the
late great Ja Lorenz in my Yeah, but he could
still throw. And I mean his mobility is a part
of his game obviously, But like, I don't think if

(35:10):
he gets a little laxles. I've never heard about him,
and I've you've heard people change, people, you know, Oh,
i'ld you. I don't know how old you are, Connor,
but I'm a lot different now than I was when
I was in my twenties. And over your life, you evolve,
you change, you grow, and sometimes you go in the
wrong direction. But those things happen. He's not Mahomes is

(35:32):
not gonna be the same guy twelve years from now
that he is right now. And if he is, that's
a problem. It's never a good idea to sign someone
for that long. I agree with you on that, but
I just think Mahomes, compared to like say, I don't know,
some much more reliance on their athleticism. Who didn't just
have a cannon? And this understanding for football? I think

(35:54):
with him, even at his worst, he's still gonna be
pretty like unless he gets shot in the arm. That
army going nowhere. That's a very morbid thing. How dare you,
Connor to put that out of You're an evil bastard?
How dare you? I can't. I got Kurt Cousins for
a quarterback. Don't tell me about morbid. Okay, he's a

(36:16):
great salesman. He sells a lot of beds. All right,
I gotta thank you. I gotta go thank you, very
happy positive Connor, who sounded a little bit like Brian
Finley because he worked in some ghoulish stuff. He worked
in a little bit of ghoulish stuff in there, but
you couldn't really tell it was ghoulish all right. Time
now for the who am I? Game? This is the
issue of Jube hoovered. Yes, that's our insider right there.

(36:40):
When you want pronunciation, you go right there to Brian Finley.
When will he come back? See? If I was him,
I would milk him. I would just force Eddie to
work all week there if I was anyway, here's the
who am I game. I hold the record for the
most receiving yards in my second season in the NFL. Again,

(37:01):
I hold the all time record for the most receiving
yards just in my sophomore season in the NFL's all
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(37:45):
Eddie's out to face, Oh my god, Eddie's back. That
guy was fast man, he was a pro. Yeah. Isn't
it rather disheartening though, how easy it is to break
into cars like these guys from the Auto Club the
pros man. They got all the tools, they got everything.
They could go to the dark sive minutes tops, five minutes. Yeah,
they could go to the dark side though, and become

(38:07):
like a professional car. All he had was this little
like air pouch thing he stuck in the side there,
and he blew it up a little bit and then
he reached that that long pole thing in there and
just like that bad, just like that. Yeah, it's great,
and they got all the tricks. I'm glad they're going
for the They're on the good side, right, not the bad.
What we do the studios are as, you know, Eddie,

(38:28):
We've been working at Fox Sports Radio a long time.
This is the number one area for car theft in
Los Angeles because I actually did not know that. You
didn't know that. Yeah, because it's easy access to the Fay,
to the one oh one and the four or five
freeway intersect, and so yeah, this area, the blocks around

(38:50):
here very popular for the car thieves because they can
get the car boom, they're on the highway and they're
off to the races with it with no time. Anyway.
All right, here's the who am I game. I hold
the record for the most receiving yards in my second season.
Who just my second sophomore season in NFL history? Who
am i? Michael from San Francisco's going with Drew McIntyre

(39:13):
as his answer? Who else do we have here? Let's
see page down. Rob in Vegas says, mister six one
nine Ray Mysterio is the answer. We have Tyreek Hill
from Ken Let's see page down here. Jerry Rice guest
by Joe Page down, page down. Isaac Bruce guests by

(39:35):
Matthew Warrior Raider as fan. That's his effort to try
to stump me. Steve Largent from Perfect Vision Bill Rob
i am is going with Eddie's automobile. James Jet tossed
out by Jeff. That's a good name. David Boston from
Chris in Des Moines. Matthew's going with the iconic Billy

(39:55):
White Shoes Johnson is his answer. Who else do we have?
Page down, page down. C W. McCall from Orange and Blue.
Ricky the Dragon Steamboat guess by Jason in Rocky Mount.
That is his guests here. Who else do we have here?
The Ozzie Guys says he's going with the new Rabbi

(40:15):
DeShawn Jackson as his answer. Frank in La says it's
Patrick Mahomes pre nup agreement, that is the answer. Henry
Ellard guest by Parker the snow Dog. Got a lot
of names here, Steve Largent from Rob in de Moine,
Chris Collinsworth just tossed out by just Josh in Cincinnati,

(40:37):
page Reggie Wayne from the Hoopster. Riek in Minnesota's going
with Troy Williamson as his answer. And let's see here.
I was gonna. I was trying to find Skeeter. I
saw Skeeter posted or an answer with some Oh here
it is. It's a Jim Reeves country music legend. Jim Reeves.
All right, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie? Oh yes,
I believe the answer is Riley Cooper. Riley Cooper. There

(41:00):
you go. That's he's trending right now. But no, that
is incorrect the correct answer now, damn it. The guy
from the Bay I got it right again, Matt the
Matthew Warrior ratorways fan. It's Isaac Bruce of the Saint
Louis Rams In nineteen ninety five, The Greatest Show on Turf.
Isaac Bruce had one thousand and seven hundred eighty one

(41:20):
receiving yards his second season in the NFL. That is
the most all time, and all of the receiving numbers
for a second year player have happened in the last
twenty five years because Josh Gordon, before he went off
on a booze cruise, Josh Gordon had a dunculus season

(41:41):
in Cleveland. He had sixteen hundred and forty six yards.
That second all time. Tory Holt from the Greatest Show
on Turf actually has a little after that, but Tory
Holt from the Rams, who was a little bit of
that have that run. He is third all time. Jerry Rice,
who had been the record holder for many men years,
but as time moves on, Jerry Rice is now fourth.

(42:03):
What a random stat just the second year as a
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the big story here, and don't bear in the lead,
my man. The big story is Pastrick Mahomes. But we're
going to get back to Mahomes and his ridunculous contract
in Kansas City, a lifetime of football, assuming he lives

(43:12):
out that contract with the Chiefs. We will get back
to that. That's the big story. But I am fascinated
by the curious case of Jadevian Clowney, a number one
overall pick in the entire NFL draft a couple of
years back, played marginally well at times for the Texans,
was very inconsistent, went to Seattle, and he is still

(43:35):
out there malingering around as the biggest name left in
the NFL free agency market. And there's not a lot
of days left to go shopping. Now. There have been
some new developments, depending on if you believe the scuttle
butt around the NFL. So if you've not heard here,
let me maybe the condensed version of events. So we

(43:58):
have learned a new bidder has shown interest in Clowney,
and they're interested. Per a broadcast report RAIDUS, the Las
Vegas Raiders have offered Jedevian Clowney. That's weird, saying the
Las Vegas Raider. Still, that's gonna take a little while.
But the Raiders have offered Clowney a contract that according

(44:21):
to a report, and the report also said that John
Gruden quote really wants Clowney. It would become obvious if
you offered him a contract. He really wants him. Now,
the general manager, Mike Mayock and the owner of the team,
Mark Davis, apparently not so head over heels in love
with Jadeveon Clowney. And so that's where we're at there,

(44:44):
And so there's some speculation that Gruden would like to
up the offer and the Raiders don't have a ton
of money to play with here. So as of now,
the Raiders are down here and you gotta be up
here supposedly to get Clowney signed, although no one is
really knocking down the door at this particular point to

(45:06):
get Clowney. So the question is this, as we discuss
what does the Raiders interests, say to you this late
in the game, showing no interest at all, and now
all of a sudden showing what we'll see how much
depending on whether they get the player or not. But
my observations, you've got the rummage sale, pre owned automobile,

(45:26):
and the water heater, and we will lock all these
things together now number one. All right, So this tells
you that John Gruden is having second thoughts, that he
does not have confidence in the players the Raiders have
on the roster at the pass rushing side of things.

(45:49):
For the Las Vegas Raiders, that is the kryptonite, or
at least one of the weak links on that Raider team.
Otherwise you would not be even considering this. Vegas has
not been a blip on the radar. They have not
been mentioned at all in terms of Jadevi and Clowney
in free agency. Then all of a sudden, right there,

(46:11):
out of left field, we get the whole thing going
on here. And now now they're they're smitten. Now they're
all into it and all that stuff. But you enter
the conversation with just weeks to go before training him.
It doesn't make a lot of sense. Now, my theory
is the Raiders. There's two things going on, all right.
I mentioned the Raiders. They're not that confident in what

(46:32):
they've got, which is odd. More in that in a minute.
But they're also treating this like a rummage sale. And
necessity is the mother of invention, right, And it's one
of the old phrases that's passed around. But from the outside,
it would appear to be a referendum on Cleveland Farrell,
who was the fourth overall pick in the twenty nineteens

(46:53):
raft defensive end out of Clemson, who actually statistically had
better numbers than Clowney last season as a first year player.
He was more productive when he was on the field
statistically than Clowney. But the main part of this is
that the Raiders see an opportunity. They can get a
player at a bargain rate, and so what do you

(47:17):
have to lose, right, kick the tires on a bigger name,
bring him in. Excite everybody a little bit, the dumb people,
the uneducated figure. It's all excited about Clowney. Now. The
second thing, it looks also like there's a couple of
reasons that here we sit in early July and Jadevian

(47:39):
Clowney is still available for the tech. It's the seventh
day now of July, and so we're a week into
the new month. And on one hand, it's obvious that
you don't need me to tell you this. He overplayed
his hand, right, basic card playing mistake. Clowney supposedly turned
down fifteen million smack a ruse to play in Seattle

(48:03):
and enjoy the Pacific Northwest there with the Seahawks. And
there's an old saying about negotiations, right, always look for
the fool in the deal, and if you don't find
that fool in the deal, then it's you, right, it's you,
And that would be Clowney because he if he turned
down fifteen million, No one's offering anything like that, and

(48:24):
he can't even he can't even sniff that we got
a problem, right, Well, no, I don't have a problem.
It's not my money. It doesn't affect me at all,
whether it gets paid or not. But it is interesting
that we're this laid into the game. And again nothing
crickets crickets for Clowney. Now, on the other hand, playing
both sides here, Clowney's just not that good, right, And

(48:47):
you don't have a lot of bargaining power in a
negotiation when the people that you're trying to get to
give you a lot of money are all saying the
same thing. They're all seeing the same thing on tape.
That clown he is not he's not in a beneficial
situation here because he's not somebody that you add and
you're like, oh, this is gonna make our team that
much better, and especially at a ridiculous price point. So

(49:12):
you gotta look at this thing like you're selling a
pre owned automobile, all right. Now, Jadevian Clowney at this
moment is a used car. Now, he don't have a
lot of miles, but he's got some miles on the odometer.
So you look at that, You look at the wear
and tear. There's a couple of dents in the bumper,
been around a little bit, a few minor bumps, So

(49:34):
you're like, oh, it's a pre owned car. Every day
that car sits, the value goes down, down, down, just
a little bit, doesn't go up, goes down. So every day,
tick tick tick tick tick tick, the sands of time
are going and that value of that automobile goes down
every day that it sits on the lot. Now the

(49:58):
final point here, we have been told that Clowney is
actually lowering his asking prize and now it's a more
reasonable amount of money. I don't know what that means.
That's open for interpretation. What's reasonable to you and what's
reasonable to me might not be reasonable to Jdevan Clowney.
But training camp is approaching, and assuming there are no setbacks,

(50:21):
we are three weeks away from the July twenty eighth
starting point for the NFL, and my advice remains the
same today. I am locked in. I am pigheaded on
this same advice. Take a one year deal with your Clowney,
prove yourself, go to a good team, take an incentive
laden contract, and then it's good for everybody because you

(50:45):
then prove you can do it. You earn your money.
That makes the team happy and the team thinks. For
a year, you can hide all of the warts and
all of the moles of Clowney and he plays football
like if you ever lived in an apartment or a
house that has had a broken water heater, and you
know how like when you take a shower or you

(51:07):
wash your hands, sometimes you get hot water and sometimes
you don't, and sometimes you get hot water for a
little bit and then all of a sudden, it turns
cold and you're like, what the what the hell? Crap,
that's Clowney. The way he plays football, He's really good
for about two games a season. The rest of the time,
he's a bystander. He's a rubber necker, watching what's going on,

(51:28):
taking up space. And that's why he's behind the april.
His reputation, Clowney's reputation precedes him someone who's known as
lazy and lacking a passion, and those kind of players
doesn't matter. I'm not a Raider fan. I got no
skin in the game with the Raiders, but it doesn't matter.
I mean, these kinds of players are exhausting either. They

(51:51):
tease you when they rarely please you. And I get
Clowney go to the Patriots, knock on Belichick's goar and say, hey,
yet to sign Cam Newton for peanuts, I'd like some
chicken feet. I'll go play for you for a year,
or go to hang out with blind SeaBASS in Nashville
and help him study to become a lawyer and play

(52:12):
for the Titans. I take a one year deal and
then enter the market. Again, get a due over in
twenty twenty one. You know, now, others are saying that
he's going to take a page out of Levian Bell's
playbook and that Jadevian Clowney is going to miss the
entire twenty twenty season. He's gonna hold out and be

(52:34):
a man of principle. This would be the most idiotic
thing you could possibly do. And that doesn't mean he's
not gonna do it, but really the prudent thing. Get
some money, because some money is better than no money.
And then you go back, and especially if you go
to a high profile team, a good team, and you

(52:57):
prove yourself, then you can go back and give it
another swing in the batter's box as opposed to the
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(53:18):
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(53:42):
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(54:48):
the instant Trivia later this hour, and some other random
things that will pop up. How dare you pause for
such a long time? They give you a heart attack
the very Berto. Yeah, sorry, it's letting the mom I
wanted to happen organically, Roberto, I just wanted to. Yeah. Teverlee, right, so,
we haven't heard from Teverley in a while. She came.

(55:10):
She was in Bakersfield. Teverlee and he her guy. They're
still together there. Very cool couple. They're fun to hang
out with. That Bakersfield Blaze game years ago, she says, Yes,
the Raiders are thrift shopping. Sometimes you might find a
player who can contribute something. I hear you on a

(55:31):
one year deal, I got Clowney would not be the
worst thing in the world. On a one year deal
because you then have to show up and play to
get another contract, so that would not be bad. Then
you can live in Vegas. Yeah, well Vegas is still open.
I haven't shut it down again, right, so still there
you go. Matthew Warrior Rader Ayes fan says, I would
take a discount deal on Clowney. Max Crosby would be

(55:53):
a huge beneficiary if Clowney came in and actually put
in a decent effort. Give him an in set of
lative deal. Yeah blah blah blah blah. Well Clowney started
checking out. Remember he had that big game in the
Outback Bowl his junior year. I think it was his
junior year at maybe it was a sophomore year, but
it was. It was in the Outback Bowl gainst Michigan.
He decapitated the running back from Michigan. And then he

(56:15):
became everyone's darling. And the next year he did not
play particularly well for South Carolina and the game Cocks.
And then you know, he still got drafted number one
because he's built like Adonis and he's bigger than life
and all that stuff. Now, no help in Minnesota. Says
that he thinks the Raiders would be taking a page
out of the Patriots book. Perhaps come into the picture

(56:38):
last minute with a low ball offer and see if
he bites. Yeah, I got again. I get all that.
I understand. It's just odd that the Raiders had no
interest in in this guy. It's very similar to the Patriots.
Benchers had no That's a good example because Benchers had
no interest in Cam Newton, at least publicly. They downplayed it,

(56:59):
said we didn't want the guy. And then a little
over a month before training camp, they signed Kim Newton
for some chicken feet and they say, here have this something.
We're good. Robin Vegas, says Big Ben. I like John
Gruden in this spot, shout out Dave Roberts. The Las
Vegas Raiders can lock in Clowney to a four year

(57:19):
deal worth fifteen to sixteen million annually. I would call
that a victory for both parties. Rob, Listen, you gotta
relax from the Raiders. Haven't even played a game yet
as the Las Vegas Raiders. And if you signed Clowney
to a four year contract with a lot of guaranteed money,
we can't get out of it. There's no poison pill
to get out of it. You are up poop creek

(57:41):
without a paddle, is what you are. All right, let's
go to the phones right now and let's say hello,
let's go to Berkeley. She's got her star charts out
right now. She's known as the sports sorceress on this
show who is she announced your pronouns? That would be
Andrea in Berkeley. Hello Andrea. Oh boy, she's busy, she's

(58:04):
probably she's probably there. There's some kind of cosmic accident
right now. She happened to just put the phone down,
assuming I wouldn't go to her. All right, we'll put
her back on hold. It's very unlike Andrew. She's smoking
a fatty. I mean, she's smoking a fatty out there.
She got some, yeah, for sure, Little Ganda, little Mary

(58:24):
Jane going on over there. I got you. All right,
Let's check in with Christopher in Houston? Who is next
on Fox? Hello, Chris? Really looking? The only thing I
remember I don't think i'll remember about Clownic was him
getting cheese grated against the coach two years was it
two years ago? When the Texas played the coach at

(58:46):
the goal line. The dude is built like a dona,
plays like tards like Jane. That's exactly what he is.
I was never a fan of his in Houston. I mean,
everybody's just god. He's a great run stopper. Cool. I
don't want to I want to pass rush. You get paid, Yeah,
you get paid if you sack the quarterback and have

(59:07):
disruptive plays and quarterback hits and all that. That's those
are the guys that are the most valuable. Who cares
about that, though, Chris, Because I'm looking at my calendar
right here. I got my calendar out and I am
looking at the Astros coming to La La Land for
a two game Saturday Sunday situation. Tickets not available anyway?

(59:37):
What's that? What's that? Yeah? I wouldn't be anyway. So
something we're planning something. We can't tell about it right now,
but we are planning something to welcome the Astros to
Los Angeles. We are working on something right now. I
might I might have to contact I might have to
contact my guy, Clipper Dare. I'll get a couple other
people involved in this this. But I got a plan. You lost,

(59:59):
You lost number two pitchers. You don't want to play,
so I mean the number two normal? What is this?
Ten years ago? Number two? David Prices. He's a bum.
Guy's a bum, David. You have a few screws loose.
He's a bum, all right. The Dodgers have been with
him without him now. He's a bumb Really, he was Roberto.

(01:00:21):
You were here the night he never on the David Price.
I never liked this guy. He's a lunatic. I don't
like the guy. He's got Play fort Night and get
Carpal Tunnel again, missus starring? How about that? Yes, this
is the same guy who roots for Clayton Choke the
Kershall's Come on, man, you gotta know who choke Clayton

(01:00:43):
light years ahead of Oh, stop with a champion. Stop
stop put a dirty sock in your mouth with that.
Stop stop the nonsense. My god, what that's what he is?
I mean, you can't put that. I'm not saying that's
where you sound like. You sound like you're in the
championship defenders and you sound like a psycho when you

(01:01:04):
say that kind of stuff. How dare you? No, No,
I can't defend championship and I can't be in that least.
But I mean, David place curse. David Prices go up
the last four years. Every years he already goes up.
I get a bad attitude. He treats older people like douchebags.
Asked Dennis Eckersly about that. The guy's got thin skin

(01:01:25):
and at least credit for that, yeah, exactly. At least
Kursha goes out there and pukes. At least he's going
through it, and this guy Price can't even do that. Then,
I'm just ready for sports, man, We are ready for sports.
We are left him probably two weeks away from at
least basketball from preseason past. Oh, I hope you're right, man.
I'm so sick of seeing all these doom and gloom,

(01:01:47):
woe be gone, sorrowful stories. They're gonna pull the plug
on all this and everyone's in the duldrums and all that.
Just get get back and play, all right, go away?
Thank you? All right? Do it's the the Bennager. Yeah.
The dates on that again in September. It's the second
weekend in September. The Dodgers actually go to Houston in

(01:02:10):
this month, in the month of July, the twenty eighth
and twenty nine midweek series, a couple of night games
in Houston play the Astros. It's a wonky schedule like that.
There's some like a Friday. It's only you look at
the schedule, it's like parts of it's two months and
then like a week and a half and the Dodgers

(01:02:32):
have like a day off on a Friday. Assaw, that's
very rare. The have a day off and oh yeah,
it never happens. These are unprecedented times. There's see how
many of those games actually get played. I know many
people are cheering for that not to happen, but we
will find out anyway. So opportunistic profiteering. There is a
lot of money to be made in the woke community.

(01:02:52):
And we've seen two examples of this just in the
last twenty four hours with announcements. Bubba Wallace, who has
not won a NASCAR race at the top level and
was involved in that fiasco a few weeks back, he
is now cash and he's monetized that and he has
landed a big money endorsement deal to sell headphones. Now

(01:03:15):
I'm not going to mention the name of the headphone
company because they didn't buy a commercial on Fox Sports Radio,
but it's a well known headphone manufacturer that has given
Bubba Wallace an endorsement deal. And just wild when you
think about would this have happened if Bubba hadn't gone
on CNN and made the rounds and talked about the

(01:03:37):
injustice of the garage pull cord that he got all
upset about and all that. And this is a very
profitable time for these type of things Colin Kaepernick also monetized.
So again, what he's been selling here is resonating with
corporate America. They love it. Disney. Disney is now on board.

(01:04:01):
They have a partnership with Colin Kaepernick that is on
top of Netflix and Nike. These are major American companies
that are in the Kaepernick camp. Now, does that mean
they agree that the Fourth of July is about white supremacy?
Because Kaepernick just tweeted that out the other day? Are
they in lockstep with all of the beliefs. Are they
just pick and choose some of the beliefs of Colin Kaepernick?

(01:04:23):
It is It is just nuts when you think about
the things he said, the outrageous things he's done, and
the endorsement dollars now buried in that story which was
a wire story on the Kaepernick thing, and you know
those rumors a couple of weeks ago, how Kaepernick and
people were interested in there are a bunch of teams
that were calling around and it's all bullcrap. It was

(01:04:46):
all bullcrap at least if you believe this. The latest
report which was about the Disney deal, the Wire Service,
the Associated Press, are they still respectable I don't know.
I don't know who's respectable and who's not anymore anyway,
A person close to kaeperni Nick told the Associated Press
that Kaepernick is an excellent shape, He's ready to play,
but there's always a butt. How many calls do you

(01:05:10):
think Kaepernick has received about playing in the NFL? Colin
Kaepernick has received as many calls to play in the
NFL as you have, and I have none. No one's calling,
the phone is not ringing. Nobody wants this guy. Despite
all the moves the NFL's making and all the pandering
that Roger Goodell has been doing, they have not crossed

(01:05:32):
the rubicon. And nobody, at least according to the Associated Press,
has contacted Kaepernick to offer him a job, which would
make sense. That would be the common sense thing that
this guy doesn't really want a job. Kaepernick in the NFL.
It's bad for business because then it might take away
from his deals with Netflix, Disney and all the other

(01:05:54):
big companies Nike that are locked in on that. Be
sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show
weekdays two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. In the world
of sports, we've had one player drop out and one
player I guess opt in Atlanta Braves outfielder Nick mark
Cakis announcing he is not going to be playing for
the Braves this year because of concerns over the coronavirus. Meanwhile,

(01:06:15):
I'm sure Coop and uh Roberto are thrilled that Dwight
Howard who announced on CNN he was only Don Lemon
show that he is going to be joining his teammates
in Orlando, great Rice hustlers of our time, Don Lemon.
So that's an appropriate show there. Dwight Howard also announcing
that he is donating his salary for the for the
restart of the season to the charity Breathe Again. I

(01:06:39):
don't know what that is, but oh it's he started
the charity apparently, so he started, so he's gonna help
himself his own charity out her right right. Yeah, he
started the Breathe Again through his D twelve Foundation, which
is established in twenty fifteen. So thea Dwight Howard to
go buy Yeah about those charities and how much they
take off the top of those charities, those athlete charities,

(01:07:01):
what scams they actually are, and how a lot of
the money doesn't actually end up going where they say
it's going to go. I know, in the in the
in the pacity, I've I've won a few of those
contests to donate money to charity, like the super Bowl props,
you know, the super Bowl prop thing. And I go
to these websites and they have there are there are
fact checking websites that that actually tell you where the

(01:07:22):
money goes. And you'd be stunned at how little of
donations actually go. A lot of them go to clerical
things and to pay people, but not the actual the
cause you're donating for. I know that it's it's it's
kind of a known thing that you know, anytime somebody
signs a big contract, their agent will immediately tell them

(01:07:42):
to open up some kind of charitable foundation too. Yeah,
for tax purposes, I believe right Well, they tell you
to move to Florida. That's always what they say if
you live in a state that's a high text, high
tax state like New York, California, Massachusetts. I have a
mutual friend with Matt Drudge from the Drudge Report. And
when Drudge made it big, he was living in la
at like going to coffee shops. When the Drudge Reports

(01:08:05):
started back in the Clinton Days political website. And as
soon as he it hit and he made the big money,
they said, you got to get your ass to Florida,
get an address in Florida, and so he did and
he lives. He lives in Florida. So that's the way
to do it. That's why a lot of radio guys
moved to Florida. Like there's a lot of the big,
big radio people, because you can avoid paying the full

(01:08:26):
share of tax. All right, anyway, it's the Ben Maller Show.
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a story from the world of college sports, the nc double.
It's not a story that got a lot of it tension.
It's not a sexy story, but it's an interesting story.
So the NCAA is asking the Supreme Court of the

(01:09:09):
United States where else to take up a case in
which this is somebody with the ninth US Circuit Court
of Appeals that judged their district judge in the ninth
US Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that the NCAA
cannot have association with wide limits on education related benefits

(01:09:31):
that college athletes can receive. You might remember, with much fanfare,
the nca had announced that they were going to allow
players to make money off their image and things like that,
and I believe, if I'm reading this properly, maybe I'm not.
The NCAA then of course said fair market value, which
meant they were going to cap how much the players

(01:09:52):
could make. And so there was some legal work that
was filed. Well, so the NCAA, long story short, is
a ten something to go all the way to the
Supreme Court. They want Scotus to determine what's going to
happen with is they want the Supreme Court of the
United States to determine whether or not they are allowed

(01:10:12):
or the players. It's kind of open season and it's
it's scattershot depending on where you go to college. And
their arguments they're like, well, you know, it's unfair, it's
got to be a level playing field and all that. Yeah,
of course, the tuition at these colleges, it's never a
level playing field, right, They gouge your man, set you
up for debt for the rest of your life with

(01:10:34):
those student loans. All right, let's go back to the
phones eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven
seven nine nine six six three six nine, and let's
go to Berkeley. The sports Sorceress has returned. Enria checks in.
She's on Twitter, their virgo in service. Hello Andrea, Hi,

(01:10:55):
can you hear me? No, very funny. I'm loving some
some mercury retrogade technology glitches. So thanks for your patience.
It's all goods. What's on your mind here, Andrew? Yeah? Well,
like I said to Coop, I hate to bet against
the fellow virgo, but in this case, I'm just going

(01:11:16):
to have to Patrick's mahomes September seventeen, nineteen ninety five. Okay,
So here's the thing. Neptune's opposing his son a low
energy cycle and wait for it, Uranas supposing his mars
in scorpio. No no Uranis enters the chat. Oh no

(01:11:36):
opposing his mars. Check this out. Injury prone Mishap's arguments
accident easily loses his perspective more excitable and impulsive. So
can you please clarify what one hundred forty million dollars
in injury guarantee money is in his clause? Yeah, So,
the way I understand it, he signed a ten year contract,

(01:12:00):
but it's only guaranteed for the first like there's four
years of it for one hundred and forty million dollars.
So like I think it is only the first four years.
After that, it's a year to year proposition. Okay, So
they'll they'll do the old they'll do the old dipsie
do every year, and if he plays well, give him
the contract. Now, keep in mind, if he plays really well,

(01:12:20):
he's gonna want to then tear up that contract and
get even more money on top of it. And so
you know, there's no way that he plays all the
way through the contract because either he's gonna get hurt
or play poorly and the Chiefs will get out of it,
or he'll play well and the market will change and
they'll be like, I can get more money. Okay, Well,

(01:12:40):
thanks to clarifying that, because guess what next year starts
this cycle of injury prone Miss nixt Oh my god,
he's gonna be hurt. Cooper. Look, tweet that out on
the Fox Twitter feed. Fox Sports Radio has learned from
our our woman in Berkeley, the sports sorceress. That's right, y'all.
Tweet that out, Coop, that's breaking news here. The chiefs

(01:13:01):
are doomed. They are doing in the cosmos. They should
have contacted you. Bad job by the on one seventy
five an hour. They they're going on five hundred three million.
That's right, come on there. So they're so bull headed.
That's a bad job by them. And you will get
the last laugh there when snap crackle pop happens. I know,

(01:13:24):
I mean, you know, like I said, you know he's
a fellow virgo. He's actually September seventeenth, but you know,
being an objective astrologer, this is when he's subject to
more nervousness, stress, strain, trouble with competitors. I mean, this
is not a transit you want to sign someone with
long term and it starts next year. We're not saying,
well in five years, renegotiated starts next year. And part

(01:13:47):
of that Neptune to post Son is the disillusionment and
dispiritedness when he gets injured, because it's not like he's
not earnest and doesn't want to do a good job.
He's a virgo. Of course he does. But the planets
are just not aligning for him. And you know, again
the old paradigm of basing past performance. And he was
awesome in the super Bowl. We all know that. But
basing past performance on future performance is a worn out paradigm.

(01:14:11):
It's not. And they tell you that when you invest
in real estate or Wall Street, they say, past results
do not guarantee future outcomes. Okay, same thing with sports people,
Same thing with sports. All right, Well, Andrea, boy, you
are on fire here. You you gave us Cam Newton.
The Patriots are screwed. Everyone in New England should their

(01:14:33):
blood should be boiling because Cam Newton's doomed. The star
chart says that. And now yet again you have come
back throwing haymakers here that it is a bad day
for the Chiefs. It is a bad day. Yeah, yeah, wow,
that is unreal. All right, well, thank you, Andrew, and
you're on Twitter, verry going service. People can say, all alight,

(01:14:58):
all right, there she goes. Only she had been able
to medal with the Chiefs. They are in for a
rude introduction when that contract kicks in. According to her,
she's never been wrong about Patrick Mahomes. She's never been
wrong about Patrick wahl A. We have Mallard of the
third degree. We'll get to that time. Now for the
instant trivia, and this is what we use this years ago.

(01:15:20):
I've not used this in a long time, so it's
it's new to most people here. It is Blank has
the most career receiving yards without scoring a receiving touchdown.
Again history of the NFL. Blank has the most career
receiving yards but never scored a receiving touchdown. All right,

(01:15:42):
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Mallard of the third degree here. It is Blank has
the most career receiving yards in NFL history without scoring

(01:16:26):
a receiving touchdown. I'm a suck. You get all those
receiving yards, but you don't get a touchdown, which is
the fun part. David aka Skeeter in Montana's going with
Dwight Yoakum as his answer. Will says former Mallard producer
Greg Bergman, who's now a programming weasel. Ron from Minnesota

(01:16:46):
says it's Curtis Conway that that is the answer to
legal Tampera is going with JJ Stokes. David in Seattle,
who knows all the good restaurants in Seattle's going with
Elton John as his answer. Chris and des Moines says
Mary Butts is the way to go. Ron from Minnesota
says Jake Reid. Joe Washington from Manic Mike in Nashville,

(01:17:08):
Hobby Bobby is checking in with Julian Edelman of the Patriots.
Will is going with his favorite both favorite football player
and favorite name. Fair Hooker from Will in Pennsylvania ravishing
rip rude tossed out by Luke, the vending guy, Barkavious
Mingo from Herbert Bird's foot, the great O Piner. That's

(01:17:33):
that's what it says. Brian checks in with Jimmer for debt,
Tommy Waddell from Jason and Rocky Mount Virginia. Who else
do we have? Freddie Mitchell with the championship belt guests
by the scorpio niner. All right, do you have an
answer Eddie? Please? Yes, the answer is lawyer Tillman. No,
that is incorrect. The answer Eddie gerald Riggs never him.

(01:17:58):
I do Redskins. Yeah, Atlanta Falcons played with the Redskins.
Gerald Riggs had fifteen hundred and sixteen receiving yards, but
he never scored a receiving touchdown. Here we go, it's Meller.
How about that? To the third degree, This is one
big band gets grilled, all right, Koba. Luke ben So,

(01:18:19):
the next general manager, admitted that Kyrie Irving and Kevin
Durant are involved in the team's coaching search and that
they will have a say in the final decision. Now, Ben,
knowing this, are there any candidates that you'd peg? Is likely? Well,
I saw Popovich's name floating around the other day over
the weekends. That's not going to happen for several reasons.
But the name that you pop up. You got to

(01:18:42):
find a sock puppet. Who's the biggest sock puppet coach available?
Tylu ty Lou's the obvious choice for Brooklyn because he
checks all the boxes. Hey lewis considered the ultimate players coach.
He was writing the coattails of Lebron James and allowed
Lebron to do whatever he wanted to Cleveland, and so
he's got experience to kowtow to the star player and

(01:19:05):
be Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving are such delicate little
flowers here. There's so thin skinned both these guys. There
is no way on God's green earth that they are
going to bring in someone who would challenge them and
hold them accountable. They want no part in that. They
will find a coach who is in a part time

(01:19:25):
masseuse to massage the shoulders and whisper sweet nothings into
their ears. Next. Ben last month, you Darvish revealed a
new pitch that he added to his repertoire that he
called the Supreme It's a hybrids, right, Yeah, yeah, sure.
It's also when you get sour cream and tomatoes on

(01:19:47):
a taco at Taco Bell. That's a good point. Yours
is more yours is more contemporary than mine, going motown,
But yeah, go ahead. Uh. Apparently the pitch is a
hybrid of a steamer and a splitter. So, Ben, there's
a video floating around. I'm sure you've seen it. You
think this is gonna be the key to his revival. No, listen,

(01:20:08):
I will believe it when I see it in actual games.
You darvish, he did well. I'll give him this in
the second half on a mediocre Cubs team. But I
always take these reports of some trick pitch take it
with a grain assault. He's getting paid top dollar on
that Cubs contract. He's got to live up with the contract.
He's gonna be thirty four years old. Sun. He's always
had a lot of pitches. The problem is not the

(01:20:29):
variety of pitches. The problem is sporadically he has terrible performance.
Now I'll give up a pass because the astrolls were cheating.
I'll give him a pass to a point. Should have
figured it out. It's somewhere along the way. But yeah,
I'm not buying what you Darvish is selling. Next, the
Chiefs running back coach that he expects a big jump
from Damian Williams this season. Do you expect the same,

(01:20:49):
Ben Well? I haven't spent much time thinking about it,
but I don't because I think when anytime, much like
you Darvish with a trick pitch, anytime a coach says,
this guy's gonna be a breakout player. They just drafted
Clyde Edwards Hilaire in the first round, a running back.
The Chiefs drafted a running away. If you were so
smitten with Damian Williams, why did you draft a running back?

(01:21:12):
You don't spend that kind of capital on that position.
I expect the Chiefs to have an ensemble backfield again,
and I listen, he played well, Damie Williams in the playoffs.
Playoff Damien was great, and he was he should have
been the MVP more than Mahomes in the Super Bowl.
But no, I like this guy, Clyde Edwards Hilaire. How
do we do kopolop? You pass this edition? There it
is that is a winner. Put it on the bar.

(01:21:35):
Another win. To change to change to change, to change
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(01:21:58):
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(01:22:19):
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big story in sports right now is Patrick Mahomes signing

(01:22:40):
the largest contract if he lives up to the every dollar,
which he won't because either if he's really good they'll
tear it up, or if he's bad, they'll tear it
up either way. But in theory, he's got five hundred
million dollars coming his way in Kansas City. But I
wanted to talk about something other than that. Right now.
They caught my attention, and it involves a trend. There's

(01:23:03):
no stopping it, at least there appears to be no
way of stopping it. These special interest groups and others
who are chipping away at many things in the sporting world.
Now we have seen cancel culture, as it's being called,
the mob attack a number of figures in sports. Whether
there be people like Drew Brees who was forced to

(01:23:24):
get down on a knee there and apologize, and his
wife had to apologize and he had to apologize over
and over again. You had Grant Napier who didn't even
get a chance to apologize, to the Sacramento Kings play
by play guy who was fired for daring say that
all lives matter. He lost his job for that. We've
seen here recently the cancel culture mob turned to the

(01:23:46):
Redskins and try to take them out, the Cleveland Indians,
the Atlanta Braves, and so now the Yankees have their
turn in the batter's box. They get to step into
the on deck circle and come up to home played here.
The next sports related controversy, which is it endangered or

(01:24:06):
not endangered, involves the New York Yankees dress code. Now,
if you didn't hear about this, or maybe you missed it.
So Andrew McCutcheon, who at one point was an MVP
level player. Now he's not very good, but at one
point he was thought of very well with the Pittsburgh Pirates,
and he's bounced around since he left Pittsburgh. He's now

(01:24:27):
with the Philadelphia Phillies. He got a big contract. I
believe he got hurt last year and missed most of
the season. Anyway, McCutcheon trashed the long standing Yankee policy
involving hair quote. I definitely do think it takes away
from our individualism as players and as people, McCutcheon complained

(01:24:48):
in a podcast interview. We express ourselves in different ways.
He said, I don't know what we means. He's talking
about players in general as he talking about something more specific. McCutcheon,
who has made a decent amount of money as a
baseball player over the years, he's become a journeyman since
leaving Pittsburgh, he spent some time with the Yankees. He

(01:25:09):
was there two months. About two months with the Yankees
in twenty eighteen, he was traded from the San Francisco
hey Gantes in a late season trade and then left
after that season. McCutchen thinks that owner how Steinbrenner the
spawn of George, that How Steinbrenner needs to remove the
rule that his dad put in. Now, this rule has

(01:25:31):
been around for almost fifty years. Nineteen seventy three, George
Steinbrenner put this rule in involving facial hair. McCutcheon had
more to say, quote, I feel like maybe there should
be some change now. Maybe he's a weasel word, Maybe
there should be some change there in the future. Who knows.
When mccutcheen said, but it's just one of the many

(01:25:53):
things in this game that I feel that there just
needs it needs to be talked about and to be addressed.
McCutcheon's insisting, all right, so let us discuss the question.
Will the Yankees dress code end up on the chopping blot?

(01:26:14):
It's in the cross eres right now. I don't know
about that. I don't know about that. You've got the
arcade game, You've got Aristotle and Mickey Mouse, and we
will combine all these things together will make some bob
a ganoosh. Now, first of all, Andrew McCutcheon, who did
a bit of a tap dance, let's call it what

(01:26:34):
it is around this, and he used some wheezel words,
but he implied the implication is clear that the Yankees
dress code is pushing the boundaries. And normally I would say, oh,
this is nothing, come on, this is ridiculous. But we're
in an apocalypse and people are doing really wild things
right now. We're in uncharted waters. So we're at the

(01:26:55):
point now where this is what it looks like to me.
Maybe I'm I'm overly dramatic here. It appears that anyone
that has a grievance, even the most innocuous thing, people
are trying to topple it and change it. And common
sense just doesn't apply to a lot of these things.
The next few days are going to be big. We

(01:27:16):
talked about there's a big controversy in the NFL. If
you missed it, there's an anti Semitic player in the NFL,
Deshaun Watson of the Philadelphia Eagles. There's an anti Semite
and send out a bunch of stuff on Instagram. And
the Eagles, who are owned by a Jewish guy, they
have not released a statement and the NFL has not
released a statement. We'll see what happens with that. But
on this one, on this Andrew McCutcheon Yankee dress code thing,

(01:27:39):
the next couple of days are big, and if you
look at the way this has worked with the mob,
you would like to think that the grown ups are
going to just dismiss this and say, you know, come on,
we know this is ridiculous, but never underestimate the world
we're in these days. I mean, it has become like

(01:28:00):
an arcade game. We've used the line before, but it
certainly applies here. It's it's like whack a mole and
they're holding their mallet and they're hitting the toy moles
and then they go on to the next one, and
it's it's never ending. And obviously we're concerned about sports
because we deal in sports. But the Mob has been
empowered here. Just about everyone so far has has caved in.

(01:28:24):
Dan Snyder hasn't yet, the Redskins owner. We'll see if
he does or not. But this one, this facial hair
policy and this hair policy the Yankees have just really
we got to change that. Now you can't have you
can't have a dress code. So we'll keep an eye
on this. Inquiring minds would like to know now the

(01:28:46):
second part of this. From where I sit over here
on this side of the microphone, this is much ado
about nothing. If you asked me, I said, who cares? Right,
Different strokes for different folks. Different teams have different rules
in plays, just like different businesses. Now I happen to
work for Fox Sports Radio, I'm assuming it's different if
I worked at CBS or ESPN. It has been standard

(01:29:10):
operating procedure for corporations to have grooming guidelines for their employees.
This is not some foreign concept. In fact, the bedrock
of Yankee baseball has been very consistent over the past
almost again fifty years, we're coming on and a few
years away from fifty years. The Yankees have had this,

(01:29:31):
and they follow the teachings of the Greek philosopher Aristotle
that the whole right, the whole is greater than the
sum of its parts. And if you play for the Yankees,
you don't get to have your name on your jersey.
Every kid that played Little League that was a big
day or in high school when you got your name
on your jersey, that was a big thing. Yankees don't
do that. You don't get to have a beard, you

(01:29:52):
don't get to have long hair. None of those things
are allowed with the Yankees. And it doesn't matter your
ethnic background. That's just the way it is for all
players across the board. The Yankees are someone that this
policy in theory, is not about an individual. It's not
about being an individual. It's about being a team. Right.
When you play with the Yankees, you gotta look a
certain way, you gotta dress a certain way. Meeting you're

(01:30:14):
you're using a razor, and you're getting a haircut every
so often, all that stuff, and nobody is forced to
play for the Yankees. Now, my Cusheon was traded from
the Giants, but if he had raised Holy Hell and
said I'm not going to report to the Yankees, then
he wouldn't have played a day with the Yankees. And
last I checked him, maybe it's changed. I know the

(01:30:35):
Bronx is changing a little bit, but I don't think
that they're bringing guns and knives in and forcing people
to play for them. And it's it's perfectly fine if
if you know you don't agree with the dress code.
There are plenty of other people that you can work
for in Professional Baseballs twenty nine other teams, and they're

(01:30:55):
talking about expanding and there'll be some more teams and
for your troubles. And when you play for the Yankees,
you don't get the jersey with the name on it,
you don't get the beard, you don't get the long hair,
but you get astronomically high salaries to wear the pinstructs
now the final thought on this. So the Yankees in

(01:31:18):
this regard having a dress code are no different than Disneyland.
Is Disneyland being attacked? Are people saying that Disneyland needs
to change their dress code? And I remember a couple
of years back I read a book which was build
the Employee Bible of the Mickey Mouse Operation, and it
went into great detail about the requirements of working at Disneyland.

(01:31:41):
And did you know that you work at Disney Quarterer
to this book that I read a couple of years ago,
you are required to wear deodorant. It's required. They don't
want you to show up to work with bo so
you got to wear deodorant. And you can say, well,
that's cutting down the expression the bodily expression of smells.

(01:32:02):
But that's a rule. Uh. And and even the most
minute detail like sunglasses. They don't want you to wear
sunglasses at Disney. And now if you have to wear sunglasses,
they want your eyes to be available. You must look
at the patrons of Disneyland eye to eye. They don't
allow sunglasses that block the eyesight though you know those

(01:32:25):
mirrored sunglasses not allowed. And uh, I mean, go on,
there's rules about when the women that work at Disney
on their nail polish, and it's got to be a
neutral shade and all that and and that's how Disney operates.
And until two thousand, it's only been twenty years that
Disney became slightly more lenient on their facial hair policy.

(01:32:52):
And they have they have rules there and it's it
says it's available. You can look it up online that
you must have a well maintained mustache beard or go
to it is permitted unless restricted by other I guess
codes and standards and all that stuff. But it must
be trim neatly and may not you may not present
yourself in an unkempt manner, which essentially what the Yankees

(01:33:13):
are saying as well, they got rules against tattoos as well,
and visible tattoos or a taboo at Disneyland and things
like that. Now listen, Compared to the rules at Disneyland,
it is a walk in the park to play for
the Yankees. But I keep going back to common sense
not being common That's a mantra on this show. We

(01:33:34):
repeated a lot. So we will sit back and we'll
get a big bucket of popcorn, and we'll see what happens.
See the way I look at it, I guess I'm
from the old school. But every job you do has
certain qualifications, recording, dress code, or things you have to
do to show up and do that job. There's certain requirements.

(01:33:57):
But last I checked, like individual usual expression is not
a requirement of employment. Now, I like when baseball players
are flipping their bats and they're they're playing with some
pizzazz and some razzle dazzle. It's more fun. I find
that more enjoyable. Back when Yacio Plague was doing his
thing with the Dodgers, and I thought that was fine.
But I have no problem with the dress code. I don't.

(01:34:20):
But again, everyone's offended by everything these days, and we've
seen a lot of athletes, in particular, that they have
just been going off the deep end, complaining and belly
aching about all kinds of So the key to this, though,
is the next twenty four to forty eight hours to
see if something bigger pops up, or if this becomes
a talking point for the woke members of the media

(01:34:42):
and they start a dressing this, and then then that
will the bugle will be signaled and blown into and
then the mob will will attack. So the Yankee dress
code under attack or is it under attack? We will
find out. It is the Ben Maller Show. You want
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(01:36:36):
We will have again show called Maller's Mounting of Money.
We look for that now that's moneyball will go there
as well. And also I had missed this, but they listened,
pointing out that a mascot, another mascot in sports, is
gonna undergo a change. I guess even better, better and

(01:36:58):
better and better and better. A lot of reaction to
the Andrew McCutcheon monologue. McCutcheon, a Yankee for two months
who's now with the Philadelphia Phillies, complaining and certainly implied
that he would like to see the Yankees change their
longstanding facial hair policy. Manick Mike in Nashville says, complaining

(01:37:19):
about a dress code for a team that you no
longer play for. And he says that he complained about
that when he played with the Yankees. I don't recall him, didn't.
The Dodgers had this policy and they changed it for
Gary Sheffield. Uh yeah, well Sheffield he held them hostage.
I remember when they Piazza trade. I was at I
remember I was covering that and the Dodgers traded Piazza

(01:37:41):
and then Sheffield demanded like he had all these demands.
He wanted more money and all this too because he
had a no trade clause, remember correctly, And that was
a big disaster. That was a hot mess. He held
them against it. But Manick Mike says, I'm about to
give up on humans. Don't give up on humans, Mannick Mike.
They're just humans are going through a patch right now.
That's all Azzi Guy writes in says, I am with

(01:38:03):
Andrew mc cutch, and the Azzy Guy says, if I
was forced to shave my beard, I would look like
a fat fourteen year old as opposed to a fat
thirty seven year old. But nobody needs to see my chins,
so he so, he says, and let's get Brad and
I guess he's in Toronto. He says, nobody's forcing anyone
to play for the Yankees. You know there's a draft,

(01:38:24):
right And I tried to tell Brad. I guess he's
not that bright that players get drafted all the time
and don't sign with the team that drafts them. There's
no rule that says you have to sign a contract
if a team drafts you. In fact, that's not exactly
how that works. If you don't want to play it
on after let's see here, Chris in Houston says, somewhere
in New York, Yankee fans just had an orgasm with

(01:38:47):
that monologue. Yeah, there you go, Chris, and de Moine says,
screw the Yankees. It's twenty twenty. Who needs a facial
hair code? Chris in des moines, well, nobody needs it.
You don't really need anything. We don't need baseball, we
don't need football, we don't need basketball. I mean a
lot you need, like food, need shelter. If you're a

(01:39:08):
long to break it down to what you need and
what you don't need, there's only a few things you
actually need. And let's go to the phone. Though. Blind
Scott is in Boston and he is next. Hello, blind Scott, Hey,
what's happening on me? I love that sound that it
makes when I'm ready to talk and fire out. My
heart takes man. Once I get these eyeglasses, I'm going
to start a mallot militia men's hockey league with a

(01:39:29):
bunch of guys from around here to listen to the
show at the rink. You know, dude, you won't believe
what happened. I mean, I don't really mind. But I've
been on hold for a while and I had Cramer
in the park and he must have went for something
I do is bread in the ground. I fell over
this bench, you know, when it was made of concrete.
I lose my phone. I can't find my phone for
like an hour. I went all the way to bakery
to get Mike, brought him back and he finds my

(01:39:50):
phone in the park and then I'm still on hold,
and now I got this big gash in my leg.
I'm you know, I have blood going down my leg
and everything. You know, I might need a lawyer, you know,
maybe seapass. I got a high them along and to
get that law degree. You know what I'm saying. I
think I might have. You know, somebody might have violated
my civil rights in the past few hours, you know
what I mean. Yeah, but hey, hey, you know one
other thing, you know, with the with the Sean Jackson.

(01:40:12):
You know, you didn't even say what he said. I mean,
I know it was probably wrong, but a lot of
people think they can get away with saying that stuff
about that certain nationality because they're so wealthy and they
resent them. That's a that's the reason why it happens.
You know, you never see like a Jewish home with shelter,
you know what I'm saying. That's why people take shots
at that. You know, what's going on now, and there
are you know, there are Jewish people. They're homeless. They

(01:40:35):
do exist. Yeah, no, yeah, I know they are. I'm
just saying, but what's going on in this country now
is people don't have enough bunny, don't have enough to eat,
they're not working, they're shit at home. They're just really angry.
That's why I say, like, you have a couple extra bucks,
you should just hand it over to somebody on the
streets if they need it. You're not kind of mist it.
And if you could donate so so. Yeah, if you
just like see blind scout around Boston, just go over

(01:40:58):
and hand them some money. You can make eight, eight
to sixteen dollars an hour panhandling in Boston. It's a
pretty good profession, especially if you can look like somebody's child,
you know what I mean, or at somebody's son. Even
if you wear a nice card, they'll give you some money.
I mean it, there's a talent to it. I mean,
there's a lot of money out there, like in these
charities now because people are donating so much too. So

(01:41:20):
if you can get involved in some of these charities,
you might make a little bit of money. And if
you if you start your own charity too, you can
scam money from the irs that way. That's okay, all right,
thank you, thank you, Scott. I appreciate Scott though for
years though his instinct when anything happens. Scott is like,
all right, let's call a lawyer. I got a case here,

(01:41:40):
and he's told us before. I don't know, maybe he's lying,
but he said he he's been to court many times
as a witness because they tug at the heartstrings of
jurors like they if there's these high profile cases, they
bring in blind Scott because you bring a blind guy
into a courtroom. Ever, oh it's blind. Kramer's with him
the whole thing. Let's go to Rick Rick, who's in

(01:42:01):
North Hollywood in southern California. What's going on? Trick Rick? Hello,
mister Meller, Hello, thank you so much for taking my call.
I love you. I love the show. Even though we
have no sports, it's been so great because you fill
the content not after night. Well, sports have really been

(01:42:21):
holding us back Fox Sports Radio listeners since sports stopped
and when sports were going on, trick Rick, has anyone
ever told you you sound a little bit like Inca Terror?
Has anyone told you that Trick Inca Terror is a
good guy. He always hosts your talent show, Yes, every year.
Inca Terror, who's a classically trained musician. He lives in
New York. He travels all over the world performing music

(01:42:43):
and every once a year he comes on for the
entire show and he's one of our judges. But you
sound to me, you sound like him a little. I
might be him. I might be him in a trick account.
But listen. I reached out to Boston, had real talk
and Randy and Norman they all called in eventually. Yeah,
so it was great. Yeah, well, Boston hater, he's waiting.

(01:43:06):
I guess when the Red Sox get eliminated, then he'll
call up the next time, or the or the Bruins.
I mean he could, he could, he could call up,
like it's conceivable the way the schedule works out that
like like three days in a row that the Bruins
could be eliminated, the Celtics and then the Red Sox
right back to back. Yeah, bad bang links they listen.

(01:43:27):
That's the Newvie Call of the Year twenty eighteen, as
voted in by the Melon Militia, And you can check
that with Cooper Loop and it's all good. So I
just wanted to check him check the year. I appreciate
that's on your Wikipedia page, trick Rick. It's a former
Rookie Call of the Year. Yes, all right, so this

(01:43:50):
is the real money ball talking about the money in baseball.
So baseball is coming back. The TV deals all of
course the reason for that, But according to a media
research firm, national MLB games in twenty nineteen, just the
national games, not talking about the local broadcast, the national
broadcast generated five hundred and eighty three million dollars in

(01:44:15):
ad sales revenue. Now that's going to go down this
year because the ad markets in the crapper. But five
hundred eighty three million. Of that five hundred eighty three million,
according to what I was reading here on Sportaco, one
hundred and ninety six came from the regular season. Only
on hundred ninety six out of that five hundred and
eighty three in the one month of the baseball postseason,

(01:44:38):
the national advertising was at three hundred and eighty seven
million dollars from the postseason over one month. And thus
you know the rest of the story as to why
Major League Baseball was demanding to play the games in October,
because the advertising community and the network TV people were like, hey,

(01:44:59):
that's where we get our money. We got to play
the games in October. So yeah, less than two hundred million,
less than two hundred million regular season add revenue postseason
one month almost four hundred million, almost four hundred million,
about two almost two hundred million dollars more from regular

(01:45:19):
season to the postseason. Be sure to catch live editions
eleven pm Pacific. Then we've got a promo playing on
the air, right, you know, we hear the promos. I
don't know what the people here out there listening. Hopefully
they hear commercials Eddie and not the promos. Right, But
there's one for the Clay Travis Show where he and
Jason Whitlock are running down the approved names by the

(01:45:41):
NBA and the Players Association as to what message of
the players can put on the back of their jerseys.
It's it's a long list of names, but apparently it's
not good enough. Mike Scott of the Philadelphia seventy six
Ers and Jalen Brown of the Boston Celtics both speaking
out saying they are not happy with the list of
names and raises and things they can put on the
back of their jerseys. They hope that the NBA will

(01:46:04):
change their mind and allow players to be I have
a little more freedom with what the messages are going
to be on the back of the jersey. Well, this
actually fall first of all, this falls into what I
always talking about apologies. You should never apologize because then
you apologize as a public figure that people ask for
more apologies and more apologies and apologies me and apologies
and all that stuff. Well, here's an example. No good

(01:46:24):
deed goes unpunished, the NBA allowing and you say it
doesn't matter. It's going to upset a group of people
that watch NBA games that are like, oh, this is
not a good idea. But the NBA is willing to
do that. But it's still not enough. It's never enough, Eddie,
It's never enough. You cannot please. This is from the
category if you cannot please everyone, No you can't. And

(01:46:48):
it's like, rather than the players being grateful that their
business is willing the same company that had problems with
anyone knocking communist China where they have concentration camps in China,
the NBA's got a business relationship, so they're cool with that.
But in America they're like, Okay, we've got we've got
to clean up our act here in the US, but

(01:47:08):
we'll still take that money from China. It's it's insanity.
What if somebody this would be great. What if somebody
on the rockets to honor Darryl Morris says I stand
with Hong Kong put that on their jersey with the
NBA all out that. I think that's exactly the reason
why the NBA wanted a list of what was approved.
They didn't want anybody doing something like that. They wouldn't
allow that. Right, Maybe that would be blasphemy if you

(01:47:28):
say I stand with Hong Kong, that would be wrong.
And yeah, all right, well, good luck NBA. You've made
your bed of nails. Now you have to lay with
it and lay in it. And good luck to you
on that. All right? Is the Ben Mallers Show as
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(01:47:48):
the last year full policy term. Visit Geico dot com
slash give back for info and eligibility. Well, the Cancel
Culture mob has now landed at Boston University you see this, Eddie,
this is another Yeah, yeah, this is great. So one

(01:48:12):
of our guys in Boston here sent this along and
he's changed his Twitter accounts several times. So, oh, he's
known as the planes spotter. I think that's a plane spotter.
I think that's it, or planes potter, I don't know anyway,
So this is from Boston University. Now that they're they're
known as the Terriers, and their mascot is named Rhet

(01:48:32):
the Terrier at a beautiful campus by there. We've ever
been to Boston, I've never been to Boston. Oh, it's
beautiful there. You should go to Boston. A great city.
But anyway, Boston University has got a fine campus. I
think the Kennedy Museum is on. I think it's on
it's on one of the university campus. I think it's
on Boston University's campus. Anyway, it doesn't matter. So Boston

(01:48:53):
they're known as the Terriers, the Boston Terriers. What could
it's a dog? What could possibly be upsetting about it? Well,
it turns out, Eddie, you know that that school has
been around for a long time, and that the mascot
named Rhett was named in reference to the character Rhet
Butler played in the novel Gone with the Wind, the

(01:49:16):
fictional character Rhet Butler in the novel Gone with the Wind, which,
as you know, Eddie, has now been canceled. We are
not allowed to watch Gone with the Wind anymore. Canceled
culture is determined because it's about the Civil War and
all that stuff that it's it must not be allowed
anymore and it must be taken off all the streaming sites.
So there is a movement in the Boston I guess,

(01:49:40):
I assume, I don't know how many. There's two people
involved in this, but they want to rename Rhet the
Terrier because the name Rhett is offensive because it was
named after again, a character, a Rhet Butler from Gone
with the Wind. So we can add this a fictional character, yes,

(01:50:05):
and a mascot, and it just gets better and better, Eddie,
it gets better and better. If you've opened up Pandora's box,
maybe we get the Gandhi statue at your school Fresno
State that they got to take down. Well, they're saying
they're not going to do it. Really, Yeah, that's the
president Ladist State and he says that they're not doing it.
We'll see they're standing by Gandhi. Yeah apparently so all right,

(01:50:27):
they're letting letting Gandhi stand. All right, Well, good luck there.
So if your name Rett, if you know anyone named
rhet Um, you should change your name because they quoting
the people, the very woke people at Boston University. That
is a reference to rhet Butler from Gone with the
Wind and that has been canceled. You gotta get rid
of it. Racist, yes, clearly. All right, let's go to

(01:50:49):
the phones right now. And beer drinking Brian is next. Hello,
beer drinking Brian in Kansas City. Oh he passed. He's
probably in the gutter somewhere with half pint. All right,
will that gives us more time for our guys. Sean

(01:51:10):
the hood guy, who was up next. Hello, Sean the
hood guy, big man? What's had in umi? You doing? Buddy?
What's going on? And got with y'all in a while. Man,
I had one of those Michael Jordan's flu games going on, man,
and took me a while to recover from me. You know,
the older you get, the longer take for you to
recover from anything. Man. So, now did you did you
freak out when you got the flu? Because when anytime

(01:51:33):
somebody gets sick. Right now, everyone's like they got the corona,
they got the coronavirus. Nah, I didn't flip out, Man,
I knew what I ate. I ate some pizza and
I knew it made me sick, So it was coming
out the wrong kind of way. So you know, I
already knew that. But I was trying to call y'all. Man,
Let you know, hey, tell homie Eddie. Man, why did
he called me? Man, I'd have had the homies, the
Triple A homies come down and opened that car for him. Man,

(01:51:56):
I got three homies. Man. That's that's the masters are
opening cars and without even knowing it. Man, it's very
generous of you. Hey, Man, you know that was Hey,
that was That was part of my criminal activity at sixteen. Man,
we used to be riding around stealing cars from from
South central Inglewood all the way up to Hollywood. Man.
We used to steal cars left and right. Now, Sean,
let me ask you this, now, how does and you

(01:52:17):
you're we're around the same age. So in our day
when we were going up, you didn't have access to
the internet. You didn't go like you'd probably go on
YouTube and get a video on how to break into
a car if you wanted to, or the dark web somewhere.
But how does Sean the hood guy did did like
other guys teach you or did you? How did you
figure it out? Uh? One of the homies, one of
the homies from the hood, you know what I'm saying. Uh,

(01:52:38):
one of the homies from the hoodie. We got one
of the spaniard guys from the hood, you know what
I'm saying. And he knew how to he knew how
to steal cars, so he would show us how to
do it, man, and he showed us how to do it.
And we just went on the spree with that and
we were still cars man, and go out and dates
on them, go to the movies, go to the beach,
take them and wash them up and put two and
three dollars round for gas and them and ride around

(01:52:59):
like they was until this to this one particular night
we was hanging out of me and my homeboy. We
were supposed to go on this double date with these
two girls. You know, we was riding stolen cars. So
we're gonna take some girls out in the stolen cars.
And I said, man, the police rolling too tough man.
The ghetto bird keeps flying around the police, hitting the
corner every five minutes. I said, I ain't going nowhere.
I'm not going to night. He said, well, I'm gonna
still go. So I sat there on the porch when

(01:53:20):
he took off. I sat there on the porch. About
ten minutes later, me and the other homies we seeing
out there talking and we see the ghetto bird. We're like, oh, man,
I hope that's not him. And then when we saw that,
when I said that, the phone rang and it was
the girl that he was pupposed to had him picked up,
called the house and was like she just saw him
run past her house with a German shepherd running behind him.
I'm like, oh, she was like, yeah, the police got

(01:53:42):
after him, and you know what I'm saying. The police
got after him and they let the dogs loose on
him because he was running. Oh no, not the dog. Yeah,
And then at the dogs loose on him. Man, So
he got bit up by the dog and ended up
going to juvenile hall, going to fire camp for about
two years. And then the other homeboy he broke in
a hardware store, but he came out with his hands

(01:54:02):
up and the dog still attacked him, so he got
a violation plus two years. But then all those times
that three years he was sitting in there, he got in,
he got in contact with a lawyer, and the lawyer
got him paid. By the time he got up, the
lawyer got him, you know, got him paid eleven thousand
dollars for a dog bite because the dog was supposed
to bite him because he had his hands up. So
he got paid as soon as he got out the pin. Man.

(01:54:23):
Look at that Tells from the Hood with Sean the Hood. Guys, Hey, man,
you know I just called. Let you know, man, got
a homeworking summer for every YoY y'all say, you know,
tell Us from the Hood. That's a movie. Man. If
y'all ain't ever seen him, Man, check it out. It's
gonna drive you kind of crazy, but it's kind of good. Man,
it's good. Check it out. A homeworking summer from me. Man.
I love y'all. Man, I give it y'all tomorrow. We
love you Sean all right. Isn't that great? Though? It's

(01:54:44):
one of the weird things about life. Like you, you
can be a drug dealer, but if you were a
code at the drug store, you're legal. But if you
sell her on the street, you know you're illegal. And
you could steal cars or not break into cars. If
you work for Triple A, you're fine. But if you
steal cars showing the hood guy, you got problems. All right,
we are going to have we gotta or a little
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(01:55:05):
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you have what it takes to get to the top.
Probably not all right, so we're not a lot of time.
So let's get to the game. Right now. We have
our contestants lined up. We say hello to h Let's
see here, We've got Matt and Salt. Wait, hello, Matt,
going on, man, how you doing? Welcome in? Matt? You
ready to go here? Okay, hold on a second, and

(01:56:09):
Justin and Cincinnati's gonna play. Hello Justin. I hope they
have an outbreak in that bubble and just shut it down.
All right, Thank you for your positivity. Matt, who do
you want to partner up with? Matt? Eddie? Eddie? All right,
Eddie has been selected there. And Justin? Who do you
want to partner up with? I guess I'll have to
drag your fat ass across the victory ardow what? All right,

(01:56:35):
that's the team. So it's Eddie and Matt and then
myself Ben with patient zero. All right, gentlemen, this is
the Charlie Daniels edition Rest in Peace passed away yesterday.
The categories are as followed long Haired country Boy, the
Devil went down to Georgia, Blue Star, and a few
more rednecks. Matt, you were on first category, would you

(01:56:58):
like Devil was down to Georgia? All right? And justin
what do Obviously I'm going with the Red deck Y. Yeah, Ben,
your category is the Devil went or I mean sorry, Eddie,
h Eddie and Matt. Your category is the Devil went
down to Georgia. These athletes are off from Georgia. We
need the first and last name Eddie and Matt. You ready? Yeah?
Forty five seconds ago he broke the color barrier with

(01:57:19):
the Brooklyn Dodgers. Former magic Star center, not Shack. He's
now with the Markers. Yeah, Megatron wide receiver for the Lions.
The big Hurt. Freddy Thomas, greatest running back in Georgia history,
traded from the Cowboys to the Vikings of Herschel Walker. Yes,
old school nick star, great dresser. He's now an announcer

(01:57:43):
for msg um Beldy great right, first name wrong, last name, Yes,
former NFL lineman with the Colts. His last name is
the day before Sunday or after Sunday. Yeah. I don't
even think I gave you a good clue there, but
you got it right board, Yes, great job, all right,
I wasn't that good. It wasn't that Saturday that was easy.

(01:58:07):
Please Jeff Saturdays on TV. Come on, Justin and Ben,
you have a few more rednecks. These athletes can all
be considered rednecks, so you should get this category. Justin
seconds on the clock, begin all right. Quarterback for the Colts.
He came over from the Chargers. Yes, from French Lick Indiana,
from the Celtics. Correct Royals and Raiders. Star in the

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nineteen eighties. Correct picture for the Giants when they won
all these world series the last couple of decades. Correct
Yankee Starry It's sixty one home runs to set the record.
Correct picture for the Atlanta Braves. He ripped the New
York City subway system. Correct white socks. First baseman, he

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quit because they wouldn't let his son in the clubhouse anymore.
Come on, come on, his last names like what uh,
it's a bug, it's a it's a something that helmet
man has his kitchen. That was a good clue. Adam
Laroche was the pointer you're missing there. So two forty

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you guys have some catching up to do you want
blue star or long haired country boy? What the country boy?
All right? These athletes all rock long hair. Forty five
seconds begin all right, the big unit. Yes, picture for
the Mets. He just won the Cy Young Award again.
Notice the guard, No the other one? Oh uh? Pass

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the good all right. He's a defensive player. We talked
about him earlier with played with Seattle and the Houston Texans. Yes. Uh,
center for the Lob City Clippers. He's now in the
Brooklyn Nets. He uh DeAndre Jordans, Yes, uh, third baseman
for the Angels. He was a World Series Hero for
the Nationals last World Series third baseman. What's this window? Yes?

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All right? What's his first name? It escapes all right,
the Pride of New Zealand. He plays from Oklahoma City.
All right, we gotta go, Matt, let's go. You only
need twenty points Blue Star. These athletes were all drafted
by the Cowboys forty five seconds ago. Former head coach
of the Showtime Lakers' he's with the mind now. Yes,
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Glad you have chosen to spend a couple of minutes
with us here on the Overnight and it is the
big story we talked about earlier. But if you were
not listening, the show did not exist. So let's circle
back to our lead story, the top story in sports,
the ridunculous contract Patrick Mahomes. We will take a closer
look an elephant sized deal over five hundred million dollars.

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It's not all real money. It's actually about one hundred
and forty four million dollars with injury clauses, meaning that
if he gets hurt in the first few years, the
Chiefs only have to pay one hundred and forty four
I say only one hundred and forty four million dollars.
But the way this works, Mahomes conceivably could make five

(02:01:58):
hundred million dollars. That's the big headline, that's the sexy headline.
And when the legend becomes the fact that you go
with the legend. Of course, if Mahomes plays well and
lives up to the contract, we know that the contract,
he will ask to have it torn up and we'll
then say he wants more money. And if he doesn't
play well, the Chiefs will then say, asta leavista, riva dercha,
We're done. And so we will see how this all

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plays out and what is real and what is not real,
what is imagined. We know that Kansas City won the
Super Bowl. They're the defending champions of the NFL right now,
and this is a big edition of satisfaction for the
Mahomes family and for the Chiefs franchise. They were trying
to get this done. The rumors turned out to be reality.

(02:02:44):
So let us discuss the question, what are the chances
that Patrick Mahomes will live up to the contract. What
does that even mean to live up to a contract
that conceivably could be worth five hundred million dollars. So
I will walk you through what I believe living up
to the contract would mean. But I'm gonna sit the

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odds on him doing that at plus nine hundred, which
means there's only a ten percent chance. I think Mahomes
is great, I think he's wonderful. But my position, if
you missed it earlier, go back into the podcast. I
wouldn't give anybody. I wouldn't give any not Mike Trout,
not Mahomes, not Lebron James in his prime. I wouldn't
give any of them a ten year contract, none of them.

(02:03:27):
So my thoughts on this. You've got the gambler's fallacy,
Hollywood trope, and Don King, and we will combine all
these things together now to lead off with Patrick Mahomes,
who has obviously moved to a different tax bracket at
this point, and for that, congratulations, a tip of the

(02:03:49):
hat to you. But it's more than just being filthy rich.
The way that football has set things up, and you
say it's not fair, but this is the way it is.
The business of football is that for a team to succeed,
for a team to win, their star players theoretically have
to outperform the contract. We've all seen examples of that.

(02:04:12):
And when a player outperforms this contract, then all of
a sudden, you're like, well, wait a minute, we got
something special. Team's going to succeed. That is standard operating
procedure in the way that football has worked. It is
going to be impossible for Mahomes to outperform the contract.
It is. Now that said, let's tackle some of the

(02:04:34):
mythical propositions that are out there that are being tossed
around on the dark web of what it would mean
assuming that Mahomes is actually a quarterback for the Chiefs
over the next twelve seasons, and there's that marriage, and
they've already consummated the relationship with the Super Bowl. But

(02:04:54):
over the next twelve years, the over under, I'm gonna
give you three prop bets, and I'm gonna where I'm
at at this, and then you can tell me where
you're at on these prop bets. Over under, the Chiefs
will make the playoffs ten and a half times over
the next twelve seasons, over under three and a half
Most Valuable Player awards for Patrick Mahomes as quarterback of

(02:05:17):
the Chiefs, and over under three super Bowls. Now, I
got one, so we're gonna discount that. So I guess
we'll go three and a half on this and say
over under three and a half super Bowl. So where
are you add on all that? So I'm gonna go
first here because I can't hear you. I would bet
under under under across the board, and again I think

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Mahomes is great, but I would still bet under ten
and a half playoff appearances over the next twelve years.
I would bet under the three and a half MVPs.
That's a no brainer. And I would bet under the
Super Bowl wins for the Patriots. And the term here,
it's an important term, is gambler's fallacy. I can look

(02:05:59):
it up now. In the gambling world, not to go
too far down that rabbit hole, but there are people
called squares and they're the worst kind of gambler, because
the kind of gambler of the casino loves if you're
a square, they give you free drinks and free food
and things like that because they just take your money.
You might as well just hand your wallet over and

(02:06:19):
that's it, because you end up if you're a square,
you end up drowning in this nonsense. The gambler's fallacy
in layman's terms. First, rather for me to say it
refers to the erroneous thinking that a certain event is
more likely or less likely given a previous series events.

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For example, the Chiefs just won the Super Bowl, so
therefore they're a dynasty, and they're gonna be back every year,
and they're gonna make the playoffs. And if you're a
Proco fan or a Raider fan or a Charger fan,
forget about it right, forget about gamblers fallacy because it
just happened. It's going to continue to happen in the

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long run. As a rule, you are better off betting
against team success and player success. You have multiple ways
of winning those bets. If a player, let's say a
player prop bet like, for example, I gave you the MVP,
which is the top honor in football, and over the

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next twelve years, Mahomes we say what we say, the
numbers three three and a half MVPs. If you bet
the under, you have more ways to win because the
years Mahomes is inevitably going to get hurt, he's not
going to win the MVP award. The years that Mahomes underachieves,
he's not going to get the MVP award. You also

(02:07:46):
have a case of voter fatigue. We see oftentimes that
certain players who win a lot of awards and the
voters are like, ah, we've given him enough awards, Let's
give somebody else the award. So you have that, and
the same thing goes for team success. In this case,
we're talking about Super Bowl, and it's not just Mahomes.
Mahomes can play great, but you've got the team that

(02:08:08):
could be ravaged by injuries as well, or players not
live up to expectations. The roster is going to turn over.
The only way you lose on those type of wagers
is if the player in this case Mahomes or the
team the Chiefs live up to expectations and often exceed
the expectations to win a championship. Otherwise you're not gonna

(02:08:29):
win now. Furthermore, as a distant relative of the great
Nostre Damas and friend of Nostredinas who lives in Seattle,
I have made a lot of predictions. Predictions, though, are
remarkably difficult if you're not trained, and especially because they're
about the future. It's a very fickle business. And look

(02:08:53):
at some of the comps in not that far back.
We don't have to go on the way back machine
for this contemporary of Patrick Mahomes. Aaron Rodgers won a
Super Bowl at age twenty seven Green Bay. Russell Wilson
was twenty five years old the year that the Legion
of Boom took the crown from the Broncos in the

(02:09:16):
Super Bowl. And both these are related because after those championships,
there were heartfelt stories written by scribes and bloggers and
everyone on sports radio was, Oh, my god, the Packers
are gonna win so many championships. Oh, it's gonna be
so great with Aaron Rodgers and Seattle Russell Wilson. Please

(02:09:41):
come on, this is gonna be back every year they're
gonna win the Super Bowl. These guys were tagged as
the people that are going to orchestrate dynasties in their
respective cities for the Packers and the Seattle Seahawks, and
how did that work out. We're still waiting for that
matching set of Super Bowl rings for both Aaron Rodgers,
who's getting long in the tooth now and Russell Wilson,

(02:10:03):
who's crossed over now. And it's been a few years
since Seattle was the Super Bowl champions, still waiting to
get over the hump again. And so does that mean
that Mahomes is doomed. No, it doesn't mean he's doomed.
I will tell you though, if you missed it earlier. Andrea,
who's a sports astrology expert there these sports sorceress, claimed

(02:10:24):
the star chart is not good if you believe in
that kind of thing. She said that it is not
looking good for Patrick Mahomes there and the stars are
not lining up in his favor, and he could certainly
be the exception to the rule. In many ways, Mahomes
has already been the exception to the rule. He's someone
you're typically the Hollywood trope is rags to riches. You know,

(02:10:49):
you're from the wrong side of the tracks. You're from
a family that doesn't have a lot, and you overcome
the odds and you become the star quarterback, you lead
your team to the super Bowl. He's signed a big contract.
That's the rags to riches. This is not a rags
to riches story with Patrick Mahomes. It's not. It's a
riches to cartoon riches type tale. And there's something wrong
with having some money. Mahomes decided to go into the

(02:11:13):
family business, but his father was probably no. I assume
everyone knows this, but maybe not. His father was a
professional baseball player, mostly with the Minnesota Twins. He had
a big year for the Mets as a relief pitcher,
and he wasn't a very good relief pitcher, but he
had a decent career, and he made a few million
dollars back in the nineties, and that was a decent

(02:11:33):
amount of money. And he was a baseball hobo, bouncing
from team to team. He's a wandering man, but that
was pretty good money for a vagabond relief pitcher in
the nineties, in the early two thousands. And we have seen,
though rarely, children of pro athletes out distance their dads, right,

(02:11:53):
It happens every once in a while they exceed expectations.
But there's a path I know in baseball and pretend
and also in basketball. It's like the DNA rights. Oh,
this guy's father was a good player, so he's gonna
get a chance. It opens up doors, you know, people.
But if you look at what Mahomes did, and his
father had a big again, not a great career, but
a successful career in the fact that he lasted and

(02:12:16):
he reached I believe the full Major League Baseball pension
Pat Mahomes. But Patrick Mahomes the kid. It's like Ken
Griffey Jr. Ken Griffy the old man. Ken Griffey Senior
was a good player. Griffy Junior better Barry Bonds thanks
to Balco and all the drugs and all the cocktail
of stuff that he used. He was better than his dad,

(02:12:39):
Bobby Bonds. At Bobby Bonds was a very good player
in baseball. And now Patrick Mahomes joins the list in football.
I hate to say it because he's also fueled by
the guy or clinic there. Look at the documentary of
the Dark Side with Peyton Manning certainly better than Archie Manning,
who was beloved on some terrible Saints teams back and there.
But it's a very short list. Typically, much like a

(02:13:01):
Hollywood movie, the sequel is not equal to the original.
Now the last thing here, so Patrick Mahomes, who has
been the man for a couple of years that we
can all agree on, right, we all know that. But
he's now going to experience a whole different world and
it's possible that he stays the same and his performance

(02:13:24):
stays the same. I am I'm always skeptical. It's a
cautionary tale that he is now the standard bearer Patrick
Mahomes for North American Sports wealth as a player. And
he got this contract in the middle of an apocalypse.
And when I saw the announcements, and you know, it
was kind of like groggy and I saw this and

(02:13:45):
I was like, oh wow, this is a big story.
And then I flashed back to a rant boxing promoter
Don King head. I quote Don King a lot because
he was a good, good sound bite. But Don King
famously said in a rant, and it was regarding boxing
and money and things like that, but he talked about
an he won us long ran about how you're scrutinized, despised, politicized, dramatized, chastised, analyzed, moralized, stigmatized, sensationalized,

(02:14:11):
and criticized. I think I knew them. And that comes
with the territory, right, comes with the territory. You buy
the real estate that's on the real estate. It's a
package deal. And we also must point out that if
you look at all of this, right, all of this,
the define print in the contract is a big part

(02:14:33):
of us. Now. We referenced it earlier state sponsored NFL
media telling us this new weasel term guarantee mechanism. I've
never heard that term. I've heard of the word guarantee.
I've heard of the word mechanism, but never together. And
this one essentially means that Mahomes could make up two

(02:14:56):
five hundred and three million dollars if he reaches all
of those mechanisms in the contract. But it's only a
four year deal relief for one hundred and forty four million,
which is still a great deal. It's just not as
hot and not as sexy and not as attractive as
a five hundred million dollars contract. I would take a
four year deal for one hundred and forty million dollars

(02:15:17):
right now, and so would you. So would you? And
then you look at the numbers like how much Mahomes
is gonna make like per minute? And I think that
I saw one number said eighty seven dollars per minute
if he earned the five hundred million. Another said ninety
six dollars per minute of every single day between now
and the time the contract expires in twenty thirty one.

(02:15:38):
So I guess he made this smart decision there not
to stay at Texas Tech and get his diploma, right.
I think he did a good job there, A good
job by him, I would say so. I would say, so,
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(02:16:43):
what happens when Beatle Juice meets the Hamburglar? We'll get
to that coming up volmentarily. It's a preview of what's
to come in sports radio. Let's go to the phones
right now, and let's see who shall we go to?
By the way, the number eight seven seven ninety nine

(02:17:04):
on Fox if you'd like to be part eight seven
seven nine nine six six three six nine. Let's go
to the phones and we'll say hello to Let's see here,
let's go to Doc Mike, Doc Mike, what's going on
in Chicago? Rad Tat Tat totally smokes a target practice

(02:17:25):
here every day in the South side of Chicago. They're
blasting away from cars, from sidewalks, everything else. This has
been going on for years in Chicago. I don't know's
trying to solve it. I've tried to get into the
police department, the Cook County Sheriff, the fire department to
reduce the stress over there with my tapping routine. You've
seen it on my brochures. Wait wait, wait, wait, do

(02:17:47):
you think you can solve the murder problem on the
south side of Chicago? How are you going to do this? Doc? Well,
what stress is when somebody has nothing, They got nothing
to lose, Okay, so they go out with suicide bike cop.
You paced a cop over here in Chicago that they
have a blue code one for one Okay, you wind

(02:18:08):
up with thirty nine bullet holes in your backside. Okay,
where it works, Okay, but we're going to stop that.
It's a tapping routine on five points. It's on my
brochure there. I'm taking it to the new commander. The
coe said, let me let me check in with my advisor, Eddie.
You met Eddie by the way, Doc, you and Eddie
had a pizza to gain Well you didn't fantastic and
thank you very much Eddie for coming to the winding Connie's.

(02:18:34):
So so I had a salad. Yeah, yes, well, well
at least he didn't drink what he likes to drink.
So yeah. So now Doc just informed me Eddie that
not only can he solve a lot of health problems
by drinking urine, but also the murder problem on the
South side of Chicago. A tapping routine is going to
solve everything. They We're trying to get it on channel two, five, seven, nine,

(02:18:56):
and eleven here every hour. How's that going when you
call the TV station and tell him like, how does
that go over? Well, I'm setting a new record for
being thrown off a TV show. This is this is
big money. The mortuaries Okay, uh, Bill Gates Fauci this

(02:19:17):
big money for these people. I don't think I love
a good conspiracy as much as the next guy. I
don't think they're benefiting from people killing each other when
I like this this first part of your third shift
hour or the fourth hour. Okay, as you went after
Mahomes and how his father think, well, uh, my father

(02:19:42):
was one of the engineers on the Norton bomb site
in a Second World War. He was a brilliant electrical
engineer at the University of Illinois in the Navy. William W.
Whittoor Www, Okay, famous years later before when he was
allowed there was no way we won the Second World
War with the Norton bomb site. Anybody that is like

(02:20:05):
war buff all right, all right, thank you? All right.
There's a little light that goes off in the studio
when you talk about the Norton bomb site. It just
kind of, for some reason, it flickers. I don't know
why it flickers. I have no idea. Why about urine
for twenty years? All right, let's go to Aiden. I'm
gonna see if I can. I'm gonna test my skills
as a talk showst Aiden is in Boston, listening to

(02:20:27):
us on the Sports Hub, the Fox Sports Radio. What's
going on? Aiden? Hey, man, um, I just have a
quick question for you. Who would you rather choose? Lamar
Jackson or Tom Brady? All right, so this is like
a good This is like a good question for like
daytime sports radio, like, well, why are you? Why are
you calling? We can't sleep? You up early? What's going

(02:20:49):
on with you? Why are you calling a show to
talk about this? What's on your mind? Here? What I
normally listen to you when I can't sleep? I got you?
So you just really want to talk? You don't really
care about this? I mean, you know the answer is
Tom Brady's a whole all time great and Lamar Jackson
he's off to a good star. You know. You know
that answer, aid, And you know they just want somebody
to talk to your boar. You're lonely. You called me

(02:21:10):
up here, I am and that's how that goes. Yes, yep,
I got you. No, you don't have to hang up.
You want to talk to Doc Mike. I'm good. Okay,
that's a wise choice saying all right, well good luck buddy,
if you and I'm here for you. I got no
friends here, So if you wanted somebody to talk to

(02:21:32):
your friend Uncle's radio station. There you go, all always
listen to you. Well, thank you, buddy, big fan. There
you go. I was gonna say it your friend uncle Ben,
but I don't think I'm allowed to say that anymore.
I think that's not been been canceled. I am technically
uncle Ben, though I have a couple of nieces. I
have a nephew, so I am to them, I'm uncle Ben.

(02:21:52):
Actually my my niece. She it was her birthday, she
has a birthday on the fourth years of list. I
was over at the little cake thing. I somehow missed
out on the cake. But she she's now I'm not
Uncle Ben to her. She's now called me Uncle Benny.
So I'm now I'm now Uncle Benny, which is nice,
which is an honor. Let's go to let's see here.

(02:22:14):
I get a hold on. I say, but we do
have cowboys quarter. But I wanted to get to this story.
So did you see the photos that are making the rounds.
You gotta check this out. It's more of a visual story.
So Cam Newton, you talk about making an introduction. Now
these photos are going around. So Cam shows up allegedly
to Foxborough. At least that's what the photos claim. I

(02:22:34):
have no way of confirming whether these are legit or not,
but he showed up in the most flamboyant outfit. Have
you seen the photos here? Now? I saw one where
it looked like he was wearing like a bathing suit
from like the twenties, you know those. Yeah, he has.
It's a white and black and white stripe. It looks

(02:22:54):
like the kind of thing it's a little thicker than
beetles juice. And the hat looks like the ham burglar.
And if you look it kind of appears in the
photo it's from from the backside, it looks like Cam's
wearing a cape. It kind of looks like he's a
superhero and he's wearing a cape as he's going to
save the Patriots after Tom Brady left to go to
Tampa Bay. But I think that's just the shirt that's

(02:23:16):
like the top part, and he's got he's got the
backpack on. Like what do you think the first face
to face I know Brady or not, Brady Belichick, Bill
Belichick and Cam Newton have, like I had had some
interactions sporadically when the Patriots have played Caroline over the years.
But what do you think, like this is like Gronk

(02:23:38):
two point oh, Like Gronk would wear a kind of
funny stuff. Remember when Gronk dressed up as an off
road race like a bike ride the guy, remember that
off road bike guy. I don't remember that, you don't
he should have. He had a news conference, there was
some event in Foxborough and he dressed up in the
full outfit. It was that might have been actually after

(02:23:59):
he was playing. It might have been the gap year
that he had. But way to go, Cam is he
is going for it. Cam is living his best life,
is what he's got. Showmanship up the wazoo, out of
the wazoo, like a conquering hero, dressed and ready to go.
All right, it is the Ben Maller Show. We got

(02:24:20):
cowboys corner. We'll get to that coming up. Good luck
to Cam. I can't wait. This is gonna be a gift.
I was texting my guys that do the local radio
in Boston. I was like, you guys are set up.
I mean, you are so f and lucky. You go
from Tom Brady and all that winning and now you've
got Cam Newton for the next at least a year
or maybe only a month. We'll see if this works
out or not. But that is just great and oh,

(02:24:43):
what a what A what a mix. Be sure to
catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at
two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. An interesting tale involving
words and getting called to the carpet. Mike Rizzo, the
gen manager of the Washington Nationals, said some very negative

(02:25:03):
things about baseball returning in question whether baseball was going
to come back the Washington Nationals GM. He made some
comments over coronavirus testing, and according to reports out of DC,
the I ninety five corridor there, Rob Manford apparently was incensed.

(02:25:25):
Reports implying that Manford the Commissioner of Baseball who has
allowed Blaton cheating to go on by the Astros and others.
But this is where he drew the line, and he
jumped on Mike Rizzo, the general manager of the Washington Nationals. Now,
you can interpret that many different ways, but that is

(02:25:45):
the reporting that there was a little conversation between the
Commissioner Baseball and Mike Rizzo. You think Manford said, listen,
I gave you that little piece of metal. Can you
just shut up, can maybe please just be quiet. Let's
get to the season. Stop you you're bitching, stop your
complaining please all right, he's the Ben Masher time now

(02:26:06):
for Cowboys corner. That's Cowboy up on the Ben Mather Show.
We go to Cowboy John Brad and he just had
a birthday. He just had a birthday, O day in Windsor, Ontario, Canada,
just south of Detroit. Yeah. Well, rest in peace, Charlie
Daniels and happy eightieth birthday. It is Sir Richards Tharkey.

(02:26:26):
Now not very many people know who Sir Richards Turkey
is that most of us know who Wringles Star Wars
and they're the same person who he's the tool is
eighty Ringo. Yeah boy, he's eighty today. Well anyways, Bill
Mountain seventy five, Chuck Nabock fifty two and forty six
years ago today as Zora Furley, the former heavyweight tender

(02:26:49):
who was stopped by Muhammad Ali in March twenty second,
nineteen sixty seven, and Ali's final title defends before he
had his three and a half year and fourth layoff,
was told by the bout or died mysteriously and the
thirty years ago Today was the death of long time
game show hosts Bill Cullen and yesterday at Tea and

(02:27:13):
Tamarrow Moory Lor actresses were forty two yesterday and tomorrow
of course Jaden Smith and Will smith Son will be
twenty two and my favorite country singers, my favorite country
singer Peace will be fifty nine and speak to people

(02:27:34):
tomorrow morning about the bronze matter will buy and where
do I coming at? Phone went to hell? The phone
went to hell there So Cowboy triggered a story in
my head because of a name he said in Cowboys Corner.
Back in the olden days at Fox Sports Radio, we

(02:27:55):
had a guy named Pat O'Brien who used to work here.
And Pat was a big TV star at CBS and
he had a good career in television. I did a
few shows with Pat. We had a love hate relationship,
but I talked to him on the phone a few
times about random things about shows or whatever we had
coming up. And Pat is one of the great name

(02:28:17):
droppers of all time. I love him to death, but
he loves dropping names. Pat. I gotta get him on
the podcast one of these days. Ben Mallow, who was
my favorite sports stock radio guy, Thank you Pat So,
so I'm on the phone with him. I'm in mid
conversation with Pat O'Brien, right, and Pat always loved to
brag about how he knew everybody and hand to God

(02:28:38):
all right. One of our conversations, Pat says, Ben, I
gotta go. I got Ringo on the other line. He said,
Ringo Star was calling up on the on the other line.
And then and then another time, Pat, he got off
the phone with me because he said that Yoko. He
was waiting a call for Yoko and he had to

(02:28:58):
he had to hang hang up on me. Uh, it's
just just because now there's a chance that he was
just trying to hang up the phone. He and that
that was not really it was not Ringo and it
was not Yoko Ono at all. He just wanted to
get off the phone with me, which I wouldn't blame
him for. But it was just so funny how he
of all the names he like, he mentioned the lady

(02:29:19):
friend of John Lennon and Ringo Star of the Beatles
that he had to get off the phone from bigger name,
bigger name. Anyway, it is the Ben Mallards Show on Fox,
and we are going to have site the Bite the
Great Sports Radio Mystery coming up in a couple of minutes.
If you want to call for that, you could do

(02:29:40):
that right now At eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox,
rob In des Moines says, I think Geico needs to
cast you and the Bennetts in their next TV commercial Hall.
That would be great because we'd have to get the
rate that a TV commercial pays, which is slightly more

(02:30:01):
than radio. Television pays slightly more than radio times infinity
compared to what we do in radio. I'm also jealous
of TV because they can, like Cooper Loop did Liar Liar?
How old were you, Coop when you did Liar Liar?
Seven seven? And to this day you still get a
little bit of money, right, Coop? Don't you get a

(02:30:22):
little bit of money every time that movie airs on
television somewhere? Yes? Oh my god. You imagine if we
got paid like a classic got the Liar money? Man,
But think like we we all got a little stipend
every time an old radio show. They don't play old
radio shows old radio. I know the podcasts are available,
but I am so jealous. It's not evergreen, man. We

(02:30:44):
could make it evergreen. I could do it Evergreen show
if you want, I could do an evergreen show. No,
let's do a scripted show just one day. We should
he well, we know, we'll tape it during the day
and then we will go to bed at a normal
hour and nobody will know the difference. You know, it
won't be able to take any calls or have live
feedback on social media. This is the perfect time with

(02:31:06):
no sports, Let's do like a you know, one of
those old school radio dramas, like like like orson Wells,
oh radio drama. That's a good bit. We should do that.
And we could also well, we could crank it up
and we'll always the Mount Rushmore, which Gascon does. He
likes Mount Rushmore Radio. Those kind of things. We could
pull that of who I don't know. He's some guy

(02:31:27):
that used to work here. I don't know he's been
in the last couple days, or why he's not been
in the last couple of days. Anyway, we will we
will get to site the Bite, the great sports radio
mystery site to Bite. We'll get to that and we
will do it next. Sports gas Bags and Blowhards. It's
sports Bag and gas Bags. Fox Sports Radio has the

(02:31:48):
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It's time now too, site to Bite Tite, where we
play random generic sound bites, you know, in a sports

(02:32:29):
and entertainment cliche spoken by so called experts. You try
to tell us boos doing the talking. All right, let's
do it here we go each in every week. It roughly.
This time we have another edition of the very popular
game show site de Bite. Only eight contestants get to

(02:32:53):
call up to try to answer. Now you listening can
play along and attempt to answer it. We have a
sound bite from the world of sports here, and we'll
do this blind. Here we'll do together blind and uh,
let's let's play the the sound bite and then we'll
see if anybody can get this right. That's the mental battle.

(02:33:14):
That's the mental battle, all right. That's the mental mental battle. Okay,
let's see, well anybody get this right? I will go first.
I will say caller five. Caller five is gonna get
this right? Eddie? Trust didn't Cincinnati? All right? And what

(02:33:37):
about you, Roberto. It's not gonna be Justin because he's
mad at you because of Mallor's mind of money, say
caller Quatro. But he might not be Caller five. Maybe
I will banish Justin from Cincinnati from playing the game.
I have the gate gatekeeper power here to keep him off. Justin.
By the way, Justin, I need the board here. Can

(02:33:57):
you help us out? What's the answer going to be?
Or Justin? Um, I'm gonna go with nobody. Nobody will
get this right. That's the mental battle, all right. Again,
only eight people get to play, and just send that
over one of you get a chance there, Justin. But
that's uh, let's go to the phones right now. And
caller number one is Slim the Tucker, Slim the Trucker,

(02:34:25):
Ben Mallard. What's up? Hey? Whatever happened to coach Harball?
Did he still call? Oh? Yeah, we used to have
the not the Jim Harball, the John Harball in person
or no. I've not heard from John Harball. He has
not called the show. And sometime he's a big shot.
I guess he's too big to call the show. That's right,
bad job by him. Oh, I guess is is it?

(02:34:46):
Former La Clippers Hall of Famer Jerry curl Waring Michael Cage?
Love Michael Cage rebounding champ in the eighties, beat out
Charles Oakley. That's a great answer, Slim the Trucker? Is
it Michael Cage? Oh no, all right, hanging up on yourself,
So no, it's not Michael Cage. All right. Time for

(02:35:08):
caller number two on site, the Bite, the great sports
radio mystery. Now, this guy's always on the pulse of
this game. Let's go to the Valley of the Sun
and the cactus are there? The sun is up? Oh
my god, Actually, sons not up right now? But Dan
and Phoenix, what's going on? Dan? Well, Ben, we're having
a cold front. It's only gonna be one hundred and

(02:35:30):
twelve to day. Oh, man, jacket, get your jacket out please? Yeah,
I hate Ben. My guest is gonna be Is it
former Phoenix Suns coach Cotton that Simmons. Oh, the late
great Cotton Fitz Simmons. Is it Cotton fitz Simmons? Nice man.

(02:35:50):
I talked to him a few times back in the day.
I was a young punk. He was an old fart
and men battle. All right, Yeah, who is this? We're
trying to figure out who this person this time for
our first blue and here it is. This person was
coached by his mother during his youth in North Carolina. Yeah,

(02:36:10):
was coached by his moms during his youth in North Carolina.
Does that help you out? That's pretty pretty generic. Let's
go to Jason in Ottawa. Hello, Jason, good morning. Now
I believe that then the third Jason for the hundred
loss O two Royals. Joe Randa. Oh, Joe Randa, very

(02:36:34):
good player back in the day, unless he wasn't, is
it Joe Randa? Jason Joker, You're gonna run out. He
played with the Pirates roles having their problems on the road.
I'm Ben Malock, You're just feeding the problem a love.
Let's go to who's next caller for? Is John in Tacoma?
Hello John in Tacoma. Hey man, thank you. I think

(02:37:00):
it's legendary. A baseball player stubby clap? All right? Is
it Stubby? Is Stubby stubby clappy? No, it's not. Thank
you for that. I really needed that. Right now. Uh
call time for another clue, and here it is. Uh.
Let's see here. This person led his high school to
three straight state championships. Let's go to caller five right now. Yeah,

(02:37:29):
I gotta do it. Justin and Cincinnati? Justin, go ahead?
Will he be a better partner than you? With Zion?
Suck at? Patty? Oh it's Zion? Is he right? The
dope from Cincinnati got it right again? I picked. I
picked Callar five. I named him my name. No, I picked,

(02:37:51):
I can pick caller five. I could have taken somebody else.
Did you see Eddie that Carol Baskin wished Zion Williams
a happy birthday. I did not. That's odd from the
Tiger King. Yeah, well, anything she does is odd, right,
I mean, she's an odd person, slow river Dan person

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