Mookie Mistake

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to another edition of The Ben Mallard
Show podcast and a programming note. I'm actually on furlough
the next couple of days, so this is the last
show with me. The show will still continue and you
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hosted by me the next couple of days. I'm on furlough.

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I got a lot of furlough time unfortunately that I
have to take, so I just want to let you
know I will not be here the next couple of days,
but I will be back this weekend. I'm gonna be
recording some podcasts so you can hear the Fifth Hour
if you need a little fix, if you're addicted to
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television and one of the people that inspired me to

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get into sportscasting is going to be a guest on
the Fifth Hour this weekend. But on this edition of
The Ben Maller Show, we do a deep dive on
the Third Rail. Miam the Third Rail Shan Jackson, the
Philadelphia Eagle receiver with a halfhearted apology for his anti

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Semitic comments. The most amazing part of the story, the
most alarming part of the stories all those athletes that
are positioning themselves as being woke. They had nothing to
say about the Sean Jackson, no condemnation, nothing. We'll get
into that. Also, Joe West, the longtime umpire, is being
shamed because he wants to work baseball games during the pandemic.

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He also said some things that the media did not
like about the coverage and the reporting of those facts
from the coronavirus. We will give unsolicited advice to the
Ravens on Lamar Jackson and his contractual future and the
Dodgers Mookie Bets dubling down on his rejection of a

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three hundred million dollar contract offer he turned down from
the Red Sox. We examine whether we believe that Mookie
Bets really is happy. It doesn't have any second thought.
It's about turning down that amount of money. We get
some surprises along the way as well. It's all come
in your way right now, have a wonderful day, have
a wonderful rest of your week. And here is the podcast. Well,

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So some days you come in here and you're like,
I don't know, is there really a lead story. We're
in the middle of an apocalypse, but we got one.
We got one, And don't worry. I have my body
armor on. I am getting ready to jump on the
unicycle and take a trip down the third rail. Man
the third rail, and don't worry, I will be juggling
hand grenades while we go down the third rail. A

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long time NFL player who has set some records in
his career is in the middle of a mini firestorm.
Now I don't want to go full fire storm remb
We're talking about de Sean Jackson. If you have not
been paying attention here and you've just kind of been
in the dark, living in a vacuum or something like that,
perhaps you have not heard about this. So I'll give

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you the brief recap here a thumbnail version. So it
was a world wind day of sorts for the in
battled Philadelphia Eagle receiving Now Jackson, you talk about doing
damage to yourself. He was called out by a series
of anti Semitic postings on social media. Apparently he's been

(04:05):
doing this for some time, finally became an issue. He
used a quote that claimed it he claimed it was
from Hitler, like people have said it's not from Hitler,
but he attacked the Jewish community. And then it did
not reach full Drew Breese status. But I will say
I was surprised that we got not one, but two apologies.

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Breeze issued three apologies and his wife apologized I don't
know if de Sean Jackson is married or not, and
it did. This did not generate near the backlash that
the Breeze story. God. He was called a bigot for
supporting patriotism and standing up for the flag. Deshaun. He
issued a near two minute video trying to explain the

(04:52):
post and attempting to apologize. Now my favorite part in
an apology, He says, my post was definitely not intend
for anybody of any race to feel any type of way,
especially the Jewish community. What I posted, Jackson said, I
definitely didn't mean it to the extent that you guys

(05:13):
took it. See, you're the problem, you took it. He
was just making a reference to what he thought was Hitler.
Can't we please just allow that to happen? What's wrong
with you? How dare you? Well that went over like
a ton of breaks, because so the guy apologized and said,
you guys took it the wrong way. So then of
course we had the next apology, which is this is

(05:34):
actually the reverse of Drew Brees, because Drew Brees issued
a written apology and then he had to issue a
video apology because people didn't like the written apology. Well,
this is is the opitive. So Deshaun did a video
on the Graham that didn't go over well, and so
then he had to issue a written apology later in
the day, and in that he claimed that he apologized

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to the Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurry and the GM Howie Roseman,
who are both Jewish and claimed he is going to
meet with a rabbi or talk to a rab behind
the Philadelphia area says he's already done that, and the
old you know bs about sensitivity training and all that.
So it's essentially, hey, this is what the people who

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are in charge of caretaking these type of situations are
telling me, and I have to just repeat what the
mouthpieces tell me so the story will go away. And
that's what I'm gonna do, all right, So let us
discuss are you buying the two apologies of DeShawn Jackson. Well,
I'm not, of course I'm not. Now my observations, you've

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got hutzpah, laryngitis, and hall pass and we will lock
all these things together. Not number one. So Deshaun Jackson
is not known as a deep thinker. I think we
can all agree on that he's pretty good at playing football.
He's had a decorated career as a receiver, although lately

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he's been injury prone. Made a lot of money for
his ability as a professional athlete, and I hope he's
paying some of that, I assume to this crisis management
team that is overseeing this the whole situation you can
file in the disingenuous category. Certainly, Ken, Deshaun Jackson is

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a toolbag, is what he is. And now that said,
he should not have apologized. I'm gonna be very consistent
here and I'm gonna give you my boiler plate advice,
and I've been pretty straight on in all of these situations.
When it comes to public figures, they only make things worse.
Drew Brees should not have apologized. You could have said,

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this is worse than what Drew Brees said. I would
agree with you, But Deshaun Jackson should not have apologized.
The first apology talking about missing the mark, that was meaningless.
The second one was even more awkward. And it just
goes back to my theory here that when you issue
these apologies, people think they're disingenuous. I certainly thought Deshan

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was disingenuous, so don't even do it. And plus the
second apology, which was even more awk where I'll tell
you why, there's roughly I think I'm not wrong on this,
a zero percent chance that Deshaun Jackson ever wrote a
word of that apology. Now, what's my evidence? All you
have to do is look at the way that he
writes things on social media. He's not the most articulate

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scribe from what I've seen of his social media posting.
So maybe he just dumbs it down on social media,
but he really smartens it up when he wants to
issue an apology. So the quasi apology, this is great.
So I mentioned the first apology again, I'm gonna go
back to that if you missed it. He said, essentially,
you took it the wrong way. You were the problem.

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You took it the wrong way. So the second apology,
which again I don't even think was written by him,
but he signed his name on it, and whoever wrote
it is like woo. My intention was to uplift, unite,
and encourage our culture with positivity and light. Unfortunately that
did not happen. I unintentionally hurt the Jewish community in

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the process, and for that I am sorry. All right,
So again I'm channeling I'm going to the ever beyond
and channeling my late grandfather who would scream a lot
of profanity in Yiddish and I would say the hutzpah,
the hutzpah. Deshan Jackson used a quote that said Jews
will blackmail and extort America for world domination. And he

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then issues two apologies, the first one saying you're you
didn't get it the way I wanted it received, and
then nothing to see here. You know, he was just
just trying to split and unite, I guess at the
same time, trying to break people up in unite and uplift.
He used to uplift, unite, encourage. Yeah, all that which

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I think. Would you smell that chicken crab? That's what
that is? Yep, chicken crap. All right. So DeShawn Jackson,
who has also been sharing quotes of another lunatic, Lewis Farrakhan,
the famous anti Semite himself, and now Lewis only he
didn't only hate the Jews, he also hates gay people.
And he's the leader of the Nation of Islam. So

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Jackson's gone down that rabbit hole. Now. The second thing here,
the most alarming part of this story. You know what
it is. It's not what Deshan Jackson. There's probably a
lot of guys in sports that feel the same way
Deshaun Jackson does. I'm not naive to the world. I
know how the world works. I think I've lived in
a few years, So I wasn't even like shocked by that.
The most alarming thing, which is another thing it's probably

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more about me than these guys, was how this entire
episode has played out in the NFL community and the
bigger sports community as well. And it's quite the juxtaposition
between the pushback that Drew Brees received universally condemnation from
the jock accracy of the world, right just killing Drew Brees,

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and he had to bow on the knee and beg
for forgetting it. Deshan Jackson. He issued a couple of apologies,
but it's not even where close to the same thing.
So let's go back, you and I to the way
back machine the beginning of June. I believe this was,
and Drew Brees said in an interview with Yahoo Finance,
I believe it was. He said that he believed you

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should stand for Yeah, I said you should stand for
the I don't look at Yahoo Finance, but anyway, So
the reaction to that was so over the top. You
had Lebron James leading the way. He had blown into
the bugle and sounded the mob of athletes. So Lebron
James and a host of players you've heard of and
some of you haven't. Who led a full on attack

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against Drew Brees. Richard Sherman said Breese was quote part
of the problem. Aaron Rodgers demanded that we educate ourselves
and used the wake up America hashtag he used the
Jamal Adams of the Jets said damn it Drew, the
mccordy Twins shout out Patriots called Drew Brees a disgrace.

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Malcolm Jenkins, who played in Philadelphia and now with the Saints,
he posted a video on Drew Brees telling him to
shut the f up? How about Shannon Sharp TV guy
Shannon Sharpe who called for Drew Brees to be canceled?
And do you know how many of these guys can
damn the anti semitic comments of the Sean Jackson. Do

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you want to take your guess you got a number?
How about none? Zippo? Bup kiss? The mob got laryngitis.
The jack mob got laryngitis. Doesn't fit the agenda. Bunch
of hypocrites. They're all a bunch of areas. Of course,
Lebron had his own docy dough with anti semitic stuff
back in twenty eighteen. You can google that he was

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given clemency by the NBA twenty eighteen. Now we saved
the biggest phony of them all for last, and that
would be Stephen Jackson, mister Wokee mcwoh from the NBA
who called out Drew Brees a bunch of foul language.
And now don't you love when things like this happened?

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He has now been exposed as an anti Semite himself. Right,
he's his own douchebag for his comments. Now, Stephen Jackson
played a long time in the NBA. After Deshaun Jackson
cited a fake Hitler quote, his response was, quote, he
was trying, he Jackson was trying to educate people, and
he's speaking the truth. Deshaun Jackson said, you hear that, right?

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Or Stephen Jackson. Stephen Jackson, a former NBA player who
I think pops up occasionally on CNN as a contributor
speaking the truth, he said of DeShawn Jason Jackson. There,
so there you go, all right, Now, final point. Now,
as you know, I am not a supporter of the
council culture. I'm not and I do not believe that

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DeShawn Jackson should be fired. I don't think he will
be fired, just like I didn't think Grant Napier deserved
to be removed as a talk show host and the
voice of the Sacramento Kings because he dared say that
All Lives Matter should not have been canceled. He was.
I didn't agree with it. I know common sense to
be damn Listen, Deshan Jacksons played a long time in

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the NFL. I'm assuming he didn't all of a sudden
wake up and have these thoughts. He's had these thoughts
for a while, but he has been issued a hall
pass from the Fraternity of Pro Football. And amongst this,
Pierce Now, there were some media blowback. I'll give you that.
There was some media blowback, and there were a couple
of apologies. The Eagles ownership was upset. But amongst his contemporaries,
this was neither humiliating or emasculating. It's not a problem.

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It's not He's been given amnesty by his fellow players,
meaning what he said is not that out of bounds
in the culture of an NFL locker room. You know,
let that marinate for a little bit. The NFL community
has spoken loud and clear, and really the woke community
of sports tells you all you need to know about

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what's been going on here. Now. Meanwhile, what about the
man that runs the NFL and has been running in
circles to try to appease everyone in the last couple
of months, Roger Goodell? How is he going to handle
it now? The NFL traditionally has said these are team matters,
not league manners. But we know Goodell loves to pander.
So what is the plan here? They're gonna issue some

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kind of sizzle reel and say we're all united with
the Jewish community. Is that what they're gonna do? What
kind of pandering are we looking at? I guess the
obvious one, The easiest one will be just play the
Israelian national anthem right after Now you play it, you
have to play it before the black anthem, and then
you can play the US anthem? Is that how this works?
I'm not sure how this all works, because remember I

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made the joke about how it's gonna be like the
Boston Pops. It's gonna be like the Boston Pops before
these NFL games with everyone who's offended, they got to
play the anthem. So we got the black anthem. We
got the now the Israeli anthem, and then eventually we'll
get to the US anthem. And we have another couple
of months before the regular season the NFL, so there's
several more things that can happen. We could get like

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four or five songs before we get to the NFL games.
There you go, All right, is he Ben Maller Show.
If you want to talk about any of that, you
can certainly do it here At eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox eight seven seven ninety nine, six sixty
three six nine. A lot of people all of a sudden,

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biting their tongue, who had a lot to say, had
a lot to say. I've had a lot to say,
but all of a sudden, no, no, I got I
got nothing. I'm tap out on this one. I'm good
on this one. Now, speaking of the story involvement the
Philadelphia Eagles receiver DeShawn Jackson, we have a major sports

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star who has also been tragged into this story, an
active player who has let's just say, stepped in it.
If you will, we'll get to that and we will
do it next moon who oh hey, hey, hey, bona O.

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that monologue doesn't get a Marconi, I don't know what will.

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Don't worry. There's no Marconi for that. Not gonna happen.
Nick and Iowa liked it. Even mister Nis Guy said,
great monologue tackling racism Justin and Cincinnati. The woke community
is only woke when it's convenient for them. It is
beyond pathetic, Robbie the Mariner fences. Where are all these spineless,
moronic sports columnists with their scathing condemnations of Deshan Jackson,

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These paragons of virtue wasted a lot of trees. Well, actually,
he didn't waste a lot of trees, Robbie. That's all
on the internet criticizing Drew Brees. But apparently the anti
Semitism is okay with them. Yeah, well listen, that's that's
another wing to it. There were some people in the
media that made a big deal about DeShawn Jackson, but
not too many. Not too many there eight seven, seven

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ninety nine on Fox We did the monologue to begin
the show on some damage controlled by the Philadelphia Goes.
A couple of apologies, a video apology by DeShawn Jackson,
and then a written apology. The written one, if you
look at his postings on social media, very unlikely to
be ever written any word of that written by him.
Now an NBA star has stepped into this, Kevin Durant.

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The Internet never lets down here. People have a lot
of time in there. Apparently Kevin Durant was a big
fan of some of the things Deshan Jackson was posting
and from I was just reading this earlier here that
Kevin Durant liked an Instagram photo from Eagles wide receiver

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DeShawn Jackson of Anti Semi Lewis Ferricon that was posted
by Deshaun Jackson. So now I guess Durant's not gonna
play this year because he's sitting out the fake bubble.
They have an Orlando. But is somebody gonna ask We
know Durant's pretty thin skinned, he's got that reputation. So
is he gonna handle when somebody asked him about that?

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Is he gonna have a canned answer? How's that? How's
that going to go over? Yeah, we'll see. All right,
let's go to the phones here and and uh, let's see,
Oh he's calling I called him out on the podcast
and he's calling back. We've got real talk in New
York City. Is not called in in sometime. Hello, real

(20:12):
talk boom boom, the real here he is. Look at
that with a big introduction. That's how, that's how. That's

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how you enter a room. Right there, That's how you
enter a room. Yes, so what's you know? Then? You
called me on the podcasting? What happened? Man? You was
that at me, show me some sho No, I was
just I was just wondering what happened you. You vanished occasionally,
you vanished for like half a year at one point,
and you haven't called in a while, so I was
just curious, and you don't call it if you vanished

(20:53):
again to he said, then you've missed a couple of
days too in the last two weeks. And you know
what I'm saying, And I missed more. I got some
more furlough days coming up, so I'll be on furlough.
In fact, this is this is the last Real Talk,
Real Tide. This is the last show of the week.
I got furlough the rest of the week, so I
will be in not getting kay is the thing I

(21:13):
called because you know, but it's funny because I've been
busy the last a couple of weeks. I've been I've
been listening to all my shows, all your shows from
the last five years since i've been calling. And I
did the mathematics and you know what. Then the last
time I called, when I called Christian Houston a toy,
Ben's favorite toy toy. That was my ninety ninth dropped call.

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The ninety ninth time. If you include Danny G and Roberto,
my calls have been dropped ninety nine times. You feel mean, congratulations,
that's very impressive. And you have a certain rat a
tat tat to your delivery where you talk for a
couple of minutes and then there's something, there's like a
light that goes off in your head. I don't know
if you're annoyed or frustrated, and then you're like, I'm

(21:56):
done with the call. But I don't just want to
hang up. I want to get dumped. I want to
say one of the seven Deadly words. And because that
will be interesting and fascinating to these guys, and you
do it, and you do it so well Real Talk.
I don't know how this is. I mean, if you
count Danny G, Roberto ninety nine that I'm gonna work

(22:16):
really hard from that on. There will not be any
more drop calls from Real Talk. At stop at ninety nine.
Thank you for that. Yes, all right, he's got his
megaphone out there. Yeah, well, squawk box, Yeah, there you go.

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We've talked recently, of course about the Washington Redskins and
the Cleveland Indians. The Atlanta Braves say again they're not
considering a name change, but they are having discussions about
the Tomahawk chop, which includes the chance at games and
merchant and things like that. And the Chicago Blackhawks of

(23:02):
the NHL also issuing a statement basically saying, uh, they
understand the concern. It's something they're talking about, but basically
they're not looking to make any kind of name change
or logo trade there as well. Yeah, so how are
the Braves. It's kind of like NASCAR with the Confederate flag, right,
people have been showing up the NASCAR racist still, So
I think it's harder than that. It's much harder than that, actually,

(23:24):
I think unless you're going to do searches of people, Uh,
I mean you could see if someone has a flag
maybe underneath their coat or something like that, Yeah, and
you can confiscate it. How do you stop a person
from moving their arm and saying, oh, I know that's
what I'm saying. It's you know, it's the seventh inning,
bottom of the seventh. Braves are trailing the Dodgers of course,
because the Dodgers are good and they're down, like, you know,

(23:44):
say six to four, bottom of the seventh and some
dopes out and the bleachers are like, all right, let's
do the tomahawk chop and they go, na, how are
you gonna stop that? Keep everyone out in the stadium
by finding finding the team? You know, find the team.
What happened that's out of the Mexican national team when
they had when they had a certain chan at the
Mexican national game. Have the fans stopped doing it? I

(24:10):
not as not as much, but not as much. Occasionally
for special occasions, birthdays, holidays, you know, I guess, I
guess they The thing would be with the Braves is
that they wouldn't put anything on the scoreboard, you know
that would promote. They wouldn't do you know they wouldn't, Yeah,
they would, I should have remember now, No, it hasn't stopped.

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What they've done is they just they take out the
audio from the live television feed. People just just blur
out the stands. Yeah, because when I was in school
that they paid much attention. But usually when you banned something,
it becomes more interesting to people, more valuable people. They
kind of like people. Sure, yeah, I think a lot

(24:53):
of people like look at prohibition booze was was unavailable.
It became Oh man, it was amazing. Anyway, right is
the Ben Mallers show. As we press on, I left
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So big free agent, the only big free agent left,
Jadevian Clowney, defensive player, over rated, over rated, Hey mcclowney

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is still trying to get a big money contract. Hasn't happened?
I say, go to the Titans of the Patriots. But
here's some weasel terminology coming out of the media in Seattle,
where it has been reported that quote the odds are
likely increasing that Jadevian Clowney plays another year in Seattle.

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That everything else apparently has fallen through. Now here's where
it gets a little awkward because the Seahawks they had
an offer early on for Clowney. He wasn't interested. I'm
assuming the price tag has gone down, but I also
read a few I think it was a few weeks ago,
maybe it was a month ago that the Seahawks gave
somebody else Clowney's number, which is a taboo. You don't

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give away another man's number and then bring the player back.
Now they could all obviously it's a clerical thing. They
could undo it. But they gave Clowney's number to another player,
and now they're they're gonna bring him back. But you
talk about going back with your tail between your legs
if you're Clowney, and it's got to be like a
one year deal, right, They're not gonna sign him to
a more than a one year deal. It would come

(26:44):
back for one year and then try to get back
into free agency in twenty twenty one. The Seattle is
going to be a decent to good fringe playoffs, Like
you're guaranteed to be in the playoffs next year, but
they're gonna be lurking, and so that's not a terrible
spot for Clowney, But I would have gone if I
was him, I would have gone in at Tennessee. Or
I would have really tried to go to the Patriots

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and go there for a year and then and figure
it out, all right, spem Mathers show on Fox. Just
go to Mike, who's just down the street from the
headquarters of Fox Sports Radio in beautiful Sherman Oaks, California. Hello, Mike, Well,
it's nice too here that you knocked it out of
the park. Uh, one of the few with your monologue,

(27:27):
one of the few talk show hosts that really uh
is not afraid to tell it like it is. Uh.
It's a shanda, which for uh your the non Jewish listeners,
means a disgrace to the religion. For all the Jewish
talk show hosts from a Max Kellerman and down the

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line to not bring this up on their platforms. Of
this anti Semitic Lewis Sparacon, the Seawan Jackson and posts
getting a pass by all of talk radio and TV.
Have they really might? I haven't listened. I don't know.
I mean to Each person does their show differently, but
you're saying this was not talked about that much on

(28:13):
the shows the mainstream. It was only on the crawl
on first take. That's it. I thought it would be
maybe number five, And I mean, if you want me
to name names. Nick Wright was defending it. It was
like saying, this is not my opinion, but this is

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my perception that black people are too stupid to know
about history so they can get a pass. And I
disagree with it. They should. I think there's some people
I wouldn't include, like all black people, but I think
there are some people that are going down that highway
where it's not that big a deal and all that stuff,
where if the tables were turned it would be there'd

(28:56):
be a congressional investigation into it. And exactly, yeah, and
you gave the case in points with Seattle King's announcer
of over thirty years, Dan Napier, who was set up
by DeMarcus Cousins. The question is, what do you think
about BLM Black lives Matter. This guy's got a good reputation,

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he's thirty years. He says all lives matter, and you
didn't answer it the correct way. He got fired. I'm aware.
I'm aware of it. It's one of the more ridiculous
things I've seen, but yeah, I hear, all right, Mike.
We'll leave it there, buddy, But Mike checking in. Fiery
fiery reddick from Mike, fiery rhetoric from from Mike, who's

(29:41):
called in sporadic. I think Mike was the guy. Wasn't
Mike the guy in the game show? And Coop said
his airness and he said, pass, I think I think
Mike was the guy in the in the game show clip.
I think that was him. I believe, all right, Mitchell,
Oh is it? Mitchell? I don't know. Do we have
the clip? Maybe we can investigate here and play the clip.

(30:01):
We can. Roberto trying to look. He's efforting right now
to find it. He's desperately trying to find it. Yeah,
let's see here. Rob in des Moines says, the B
teamers bringing Corona into the building. We will airness. Yeah,

(30:22):
that's definitely Mitchell. I don't know. It sounds like Mike
to me. That sounds to me like Mike and things. Mitchell.
I'm going with Mike. I'm vote with Mike. They sound us.
They sound he's the same one that said rocket ishmail.
Oh yeah, all right, play the rock, play the rocket
ishmail one. Let's see this here. Let's have fun with

(30:43):
drops here. Get nothing else going on? Yeah, find a drop.
We'll put Roberto on the spot, like seven thousand drops
over the years here at Fox Sports Radio. So we're
gonna see how quickly Roberto can type the right magic
words into the computer system here at Fox, which is
the top technology from nineteen ninety nine we have. When

(31:03):
this place opened in two thousand, they spared no expense
and we're still using the same basic computer system. So
he's trying to find that any luck there, stiff, not
gonna happen. All right, that's fine, I'm I'm doubling down.
I think it was Mike, but you guys think Mitchell

(31:24):
and could have been Mitchell and Mitchell the Rocket. He
was a picture for the Yankees Rocket. Ill miil, Now
that's definitely that is definitely Mitchell. Yeah, that's the same.
Play the other one. I'll play the other one. I
think the other one was Mike. The Jordan one was
Mike the Rocket. He was a picture for the Yankees

(31:45):
rocket little Mail. I guess wait, wait, that was rocket
is Wait a minute, you'll play the air play the
air Jordan one. Wait a minute, play the same one.
How dare you play the air in this one, because
I'm telling it's a different voice. I can tell I'm
very good with the voice things. I'm not good at
anything else in life, but I can tell voices pretty good.
His airness, Yeah, that sounded like a pass from from Mike. No,

(32:12):
well you can disagree. Nobody will admit to that right now,
Like no one's gonna admit nobody's gon. So you're not wrong,
neither of my I because no one will do it,
all right, So this is a wild story. I love
stories like this, like old school stories. And I was
on the air the day that Wilt Chamberlain died. It
was bummed out. I will used to go to two games.

(32:33):
I was always always amazed by Wilt Chamberlain because he
scored one hundred points in the game, and he had
all these records guy average, like fifty points and twenty
rebounds and all these ridiculous things in his NBA. Obviously
the NBA was much different when he was playing. But
an interesting story here that Bill Russell, the very tremudgeney

(32:54):
former Celtic, the most decorated athlete in team sports. We
know that the great Joey Chestnutt is the greatest champion
in individual sports. But who But Bill Russell's won so
many with the Celtics over the years. And he told
some random schmow on social media that he actually drove

(33:17):
a race against Wilt Chamberlain, across country race in a Lamborghini.
Say why? First of all, how do I got questions?
Like Bill Russell? What is he six? He's like six
nine something like that with the Celtics, and Wilt was taller.
Wilt was probably seven seven one something like that. How
do you fit into a Lamborghini that had to be

(33:39):
especially altered Lamborghini. But Bill Russell said that he had
a Lamborghini four hundred GT and if the seat was
all the way back, I could not touch the pedal
I used to race Wilt Chamberlain in his Maserati. Don't
ask who won? You know the answer way to pat

(34:01):
himself on the back. But yeah, so Russell claimed that
he had a cross country race that No, what year
do you think that was? Was it like the seventies
or something like that? What do you what timeline? Seventies?
I would think have to be seventies, right, so I
can early Lamborghini, early Maserati, And how much the players

(34:24):
get paid in the sixties, Yeah, not too much for Lamborghini.
Maybe somebody that owned a car dealership was a big fan,
you know, and say here, Yeamborghini hooked him up. I'd
like to do that at some point, to drive across
the country. I think that would be so much fun.
I'm kind of jealous of these long haul trips. When
I went to UH Paris, France, they had a Lamborghini's.

(34:45):
You can rent them out and them around. I was Tampton, man,
I was like, oh God, what's the insurance on that?
You know, you'd wreck that? And then it's like my
my wife wants to rent a boat, you know, and
I'm like, I could rent a boat, but what if
I hit another boat? What's gonna happen? And I don't
know how to drive a boat, you know, Yeah, exactly

(35:07):
why I didn't do it. Yeah, the problem with the
boat is you got to get the boat out of
the harbor and then back into harbor. I could. I'm
in the ocean, I think I'd be all right driving
a boat, but in you know, navigating, I think I'd
ff it up. And I don't want to pay the
the insurance. So anyway, all right, it is an the
Ben Maller Show. Time now for the who Am I? Game?

(35:27):
This is where we pretend to be somebody else in
a blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
bit longer. So here it is. There have been eighteen
players in Major League baseball history to record a game
of four home runs. Eighteen players have done it, hit
four home runs in a game, But I am the
only player whose team lost when I hit four home runs.

(35:51):
It's only happened once. Baseball has been played since the
the eighteen eighties roughly, and I guess eighteen seventies actually
start messing around with it. But there have only been
eighteen players in the history of professional baseball to hit
four home runs in a game. But I'm the only
player in the big leagues that was on the losing
side of a four dinger game. Who Am I? The answer? Next?

(36:15):
Do you know who's on the show? George No. Fox
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(36:37):
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(37:01):
and he says, I think I saw that movie with
Bill Russell and Will Chamberlain. It was called It had
Burt Reynolds and Dom Deloise and Sammy Davis Junior. It
was called Cannonball Run. Now, Oh I remember that as
a kid, Yeah, I do. Yeah. I was on a
plane one time with Burt Reynolds. True story. I was
going to Florida and Bert was on the plane and uh,

(37:25):
I always said, if that plane went down, it would
be Burt Reynolds died in a plane crash and nobody
else that was it. But they by everyone a plane
was like, Oh, Burt rends a big star. He's huge
in his day. Anyway. Time now for the who am
I game? I got a little morbid. There have been
eighteen players in MLB history to record a game of

(37:47):
four home runs. That's an amazing accomplishment. I am the
only player to be on the losing side of a
four dinger game. Who am I? That is the question?
What is the answer? David in Seattle, who knows where
all the good restaurants are going with Dale Long. It's
good name, Dale Long is his answer. Justin's going with

(38:08):
just He's going with Jamis Winston as his guest. Stanley,
who's apparently not on social media, he emailed in to say,
Dave Kingman is the answer. I just happened to see that.
Who else do we have? Mike Cameron guest by J. J.
Big Jim is going with Joe the Paperman as his answer.
Bobby Bonds from Wally Supermarket. Steve says, you are for

(38:32):
home runs in a single game. Al Bundy the Rooster
checks in from Minnesota. He's going with Bill Buckner as
his answer. Johnny Q from Parts Unknown says Johnny Bench
is the answer. Bert Camp and Eiris tossed out by
Rob in Minnesota. Mike Cameron from a Pioneer high school

(38:54):
their baseball team checking, Yeah, that's nice. O. J. Simpson
guests by William Scooter Anette or Scooter Jannette from Chris
in Des Moines, Rocky Colavito tossed out by Mannick Mike
in Nashville. Here's a good name from Red Sox past
Carlos Quintana from Perfect Vision, Bill bragging about his vision.

(39:16):
Bad job by him, Biglues going with Eric montros is
his answer, Biglue in the LBC will got this right,
clearly cheating, as did plane Spotter in Boston. These guys
started looking up, who has Eric's going with? Ron Karkovis
as his answer. I like that one. Yeah, A big
chubby ketcher for the White Sox back in the day.
Mcguel on fire. Here's a good name. I got to

(39:36):
hit off this guy in a media game. Mariano Duncan,
world champion. I gotta hit off him playing he was
a coach for the Dodgers. Not his true story. Good guy,
Marina Duncan. I like him. I don't know what he's
doing these days. All right, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie? Yes,
the answer is hard hitting Mark Witten. Hard hitting Mark
Whitten a fine, fine name, but that is incorrect. Also
not Foghorn leghorn guess by Troy and Seattle, the correct

(39:58):
answer from the Atlant Braves. Bob Horner, third baseman of
the Braves nineteen eighty six. He was the eleventh out
of eighteen players in Big League history to have a
four home run game, but Atlanta lost to the Montreal
Expos eleven to eight. He hit four home runs, they

(40:18):
scored eight. They scored eight runs in the game, Atlanta.
And you know, I think it was the guy calling
the game was John Sterling, who's now the voice of
the Yankees. He was the Braves broadcaster back then. But
that's the only two we've ever had a player hit
four home runs in a loss. And Bob Horner did
not look like he should be very good at baseball.

(40:39):
He's another one of those guys, kind of stocky, chubby
like seventies eighties guy, but he had a pretty productive
career for a little while. Be sure to catch live
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we have another outrage. You give us ten minutes, we
will give you a sports outrage. Now this comes from

(42:10):
the world a baseball talking base ball. It does not
involve a player or a coach. It does not involve
an executive or an owner. In fact, it doesn't even
involve a team. This story involves an umpire, a notorious

(42:30):
figure in baseball circles, Joe West. Now, if you are
not a newshound, and you pay a little attention, but
you don't pay that much attention, maybe you miss this,
but perhaps you know. But if you know, I'll just
give you the brief version of events here the abridged comments. So,

(42:53):
Joe West has announced that he has gonna work the
twenty twenty season despite his age. Certainly at that age
you could bow out. No one would look the other way.
So this caused a backlash by woke baseball writers who
were very upset. Not so much that Joe West is
gonna umpire, that's bad enough, but it's the comments he

(43:16):
made because he did not follow the talking points Joe West,
and that outraged a lot of people. Because Joe West
says that he doesn't use the word quote, believe that
all these deaths have been from coronavirus. That's the money
quote which ignited the mob. And he also claimed that

(43:40):
he's lost a bunch of weight Joe West in the
off season, twenty five pounds or so, He says, what
if he's doing inter minute fasting anyway, He says he's
lost twenty five pounds since last season, playing golf every day,
living his best life. Says he's fine, and he's not
gonna back down now. He is going to continue on.
He's a lifer, and he's also closing in on a

(44:00):
record for games umpired. He's I think sixty five or
so games away, and so he's gonna have to come
back in twenty twenty one, assuming he is able to
umpire sixty games or so this year at least fifty games,
so probably won't do all of them, but then he'll
have to come back. And then at that point I
would imagine he would say bye bye, I'm out of here,

(44:21):
see you later. So let us discuss the question when
you first saw this Joe West story, and maybe now
is the first you're hearing of it, what do you think?
What do you think? So I've got Mark Twain, lighter fluid,
and the court system, and we will combine all these
things together. Now, first of all, this is actually something

(44:46):
I think Joe West should not be attacked for. I
don't know, you can go as far as good job
by Joe West. But I do like people that show
up to their jobs and people that want to work.
I think that is something where that's how I was
raised and a lot of people I don't know. He shouldn't,
it's bad for his health. I respect the hustle. Now
maybe that makes me a bad person in your eyes,

(45:06):
but I respect people that work hard. Whatever your job is,
what you're an umpire, you're a truck driver, your stocking
shelves in a grocery store all night. I respect people
that put in an honest day's work and bust their ass.
I do. And you know, it's very easy to take
the easy road. Right took the path of least resistance,
and he would have gotten paid money for nothing. Didn't

(45:29):
have to come back an umpire, but West was. He
was designated as a high risk coronavirus person by Major
League Baseball, which means he could have opted out could
being a weasel word. He would have gotten full salary,
all the benefits that come with being an umpire. They
make a lot of money. Joe West is well compensated.

(45:49):
He's not making millions, but he's in the hundreds of
thousands to be an umpire. So I've maintained my business.
I'm a believer in freedom of choice. Bravo Joe, right,
Bravo Joe. And he's not somebody who's drinking the same
group think kool aid that a lot of the media is.
And that's upsetting the media, and they're they're upset with

(46:11):
his position. How dare you? You're you're not following the
talking points here. And I understand in twenty twenty things
are different and it's a weird time and all that,
but I still believe, maybe not, he's entitled to his
position here. And of course the mob is making him
out to be a heathen. It's their way or the highway.

(46:35):
And I would just say, you know, Joe West is
looked around and he's done his own own research, it
would appear, and that's not a bad life hack. You
can form your own opinion. You don't have other people
have to tell you their opinion and then base your
opinion off that, and maybe you agree with popular opinion.
If you look at the numbers that are available on
the internet, or it's possible you'll find out that there's

(46:58):
some manure mixed in there, and there's some manipulation of
numbers in there. It really has been an oil painting
in terms of twisting the narrative to fit the doom
and gloom that you're trying to sell. And I have
friends of mine that work in the newsman. I was
talking to somebody, actually, I was on my walk because

(47:20):
I don't go to the gym anymore, but I was
on my walk and I was on the phone actually
talking to somebody who's a news reporter, and I was like,
you have mastered the art of panic pedling. You really have.
It's a gold mine. And TV has really put a masterpiece,
it's masterpiece theater out there. And as I and we

(47:40):
were going back and forth, I was like, I understand
that the studies where people are scared, they're gonna watch
the news more. But it reminds me of an old
Mark Twain quote that there are three kinds of lies, right, lies,
damn lies, and statistics. And Joe West is sixty seven
years old. He's from the old school, right, He's on

(48:00):
the old school. And if he wants to umpire, good
for him. Maseltoe go out there in umpire. Different strokes
from different folks, And it's an interesting juxtaposition on this
one though, compare to like David Price, David Price who's
only in his mid thirties, but he doesn't think it's
safe enough or he's just not really motivated to play
either one, which is fine. I mean, I've done the monologue.

(48:23):
I've ranted. I believe the Dodgers are actually better off
without these services of David Price on the field. Now,
the second part of this, in terms of umpiring style,
Joe West has been a gift from the gods for
those of us that do this kind of work that
are sports gas backs, because I know very confidently when

(48:47):
a baseball season begins that over the course of that
baseball season, country Joe or cowboy Joe, whatever you want
to call him, he is gonna stir the pot. He's
gonna stir the pot is what he's gonna do several times.
And Joe West is the epitome of the confrontational. Confrontational

(49:09):
umpire is what he is. And he doesn't mind a
face to face stair down. And I know that baseball
wants the umpires to have no personality and they want
to quote Aaron Rodgers, relax, it's what they want to
calm things down, calm the waters everything's good here, Calm

(49:31):
the waters, right. They want to do that whole thing,
and and it really is working because of the way
that umpires, the younger generation of umpires are But I
in that regard, I have a love hate relationship with
Joe West. Do I think he's a terrible umpire. Yes,
I believe he's a terrible umpire, But he's good for

(49:52):
what I do. So you see the quagmire that I
have here when you talk about Joe West, the newer umpires,
they're all cut out of the same cloth. They have
no personality. They're all like robots, and eventually they'll get
to robot umpires and drone umpires and the supercomputers gonna
call balls and strikes and all that. As long as

(50:12):
you have no personality, you're allowed to be an umpire.
But some of my fondest memories, and I guess I'll
date myself, but some of my fondest memories of watching
baseball when I was growing up was a kind of
boring game that wasn't really didn't have a lot of juice,
And then an umpire would run out of the dugout
and get in the face of the home plate. Umpire

(50:33):
and it was on like Donkey Kong. They were in
a spinning match. Remember Tommy Lasorda had some legendary confrontations
with umpires years ago. Earl Weaver another Earl Weaver has
been gone for a few years. Billy Martin also got
lou Pinella somewhat more recently, lou Pinella famously kicking dirt
and having a hissy fit and all that. Remember Lloyd
McClendon when he was managing the Pirates and he got

(50:55):
upset with the umpire and he took I think it
was third base. He ripped third base out and walked
back into the clubhouse with the base to get back
at the umpire. And Joe West is obviously still around.
He's he's the last of the Mohegans and uh and
it was crazy. It was a first base, but it
was first base that mckenalan, So I knew it was
either third or first. I had a fifty fifty chance.

(51:16):
I had a fifty fifty chance, but it was it
was first base. So anyway, the umpires other than Joe
was Amber ken Kaiser was a crazy guy. Eric greg
and who could forget If you're you're old enough to remember,
I think it was the National League Championship Series Braves
and Marlins, where he called everything a strike. Everything was
a strike. He wanted to get the game over. Tim McClellan, um.

(51:38):
There was a guy who's he's also been dead for years,
Derwood Merrill was an American League umpire, and I got
a kick out of him because he know he would
call a strike, but he would turn and point to
someone in the crowd and that always annoyed the hell
out of the players that were so annoyed by that.
All right, final thoughts, So this is about Joe West. Now,
Joe West says he does not believe all the deaths

(51:59):
are from COVID that are being reported as deaths of
the coronavirus, which is being just annihilated by the baseball
media and some of the other branches of the media.
But it has It's that's not actually an unreasonable position,
considering early on in this the numbers were being screwed.
It's it's not an outrageous tinfoil hat type of conspiracy.

(52:23):
In fact, it's been proven some of it. Now how
many is up for debate. But the other thing that
annoys me about this conversation when this comes up and
I see my friends, people I know in the in
the sports media that that just take the low hanging fruit,
which is the most delicious fruit, and go with it.
And the thing about this that is being ignored, and
this always bothers me say, you can report. Yeah, the

(52:44):
cases are going up, but it's the agenda, right, it's
the good news is swept under the rug. You don't
want to report the good news. You want to sell
the badness. You don't want to calm people down. The
media's job is not to calm you down. The media's
job in this case is to ratchet up emotion is
where it is right in the court system. There's a

(53:06):
term for this. It's called a lie by omission, and
it essentially means you just leave important details out that
would certainly change the facts of the case. For example,
there's a lot of this just doesn't get reported. The
death rate has declined nationally by seventy six percent for
the coronavirus over the last ten weeks, down seventy six percent.

(53:28):
Is that being reported? Why across the I don't think
it is. Maybe I missed it in March seven percent.
Way back in March, seven percent of people that were
hospitalized with COVID die. That's a seven percent death rate.
Today it's at one percent and continues to go down.
But you're not allowed to celebrate that. You're not. And

(53:50):
those parts of the story are upsetting. So this Joe
West wants to work. He's made his decision, and if
something happens to Joe West, then he's gonna have to
deal with that. But that's his decision. That's fine, and
I say good for Joe West. The guy wants to
show up and he could take the easy road, as
we said, and get paid and not have to worry
about it, but he wants to do it all right.

(54:11):
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the guy coo Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller, Eddie.
I was trying to remember some old umpires. I you
have a name though that I did not mention that
I should have mentioned. Yes, Dutch Renerd, Dutch Renerd, it's
good name. See doing old guy radio, Eddie. Was it
Doug Harvey that was the old nationally umpired Dog Harvey.

(56:01):
Remember that? Yeah, that was good solid. Do you realize
Joe West has been an umpire since nineteen seventy six?
That's mind boggling. He was umpiring games and what was
I guess when did an Aaron retire? Was it seventy five?
Was he still playing in seventy six? But Pete Rose

(56:23):
was still doing his thing and thinking about who was
playing baseball in nineteen seventy six and this guy is
still umpiring today. That's nuts. He wasn't such a jerk
and a mediocre umpired We could celebrate him, right. He's good, Bennedy,
I mean, he's good for what what we do here,
for our purposes. Like didn't he sue Paul Leduca? Remember

(56:44):
that there's like a lawsuit there? Remember remember reading about that.
I don't know what happened with that. I don't remember that. Yeah,
he he sued Leduca. He used to play for the
Dodgers and the Mets for like defamation because of something
Leduca had either written in a book or said on
a podcast or something, and he suited him, and which

(57:06):
opens yourself up to discovery. So it's all you got
to really make sure your house is clean when you
when you sue somebody, because the discovery phase can be
if the other side has good lawyers, can be a
little unnerving, a little unnerving. So I don't know what
happened with that. Let's go to the fun. We have
a first time caller in Memphis and we say hello

(57:26):
to Logan. Hello, Logan, you are next up here on Fox.
What's up, big band? Hey y'all doing. How's everything in
Memphis this morning? Man, it's decent at best. I'm first time,
long time, you know, the whole gambit. Um. I just
want to I don't have any agenda or anything. I

(57:47):
just wanted to say that I love the show. I
usually catch it on the podcast because I work early,
so I catch it on the podcast. And yeah, man,
I even got my helper listening to it. The guy
that rides with me my apprentice, he doesn't even like sports,
but loves the show. And you know, we just oh good. Yeah. Well,
I don't know if you know this, but there are
no sports we have We have not had sports. Now,

(58:09):
this is a big day. This is the hundred and
twentieth day since the industrial complex of sports shutdown. We
like round numbers, and so this is one hundred twenty days.
Today's number one twenty since the last NBA and NHL
games were played. Well, we got baseball July twenty third,
so and that that's actually my twenty eighth birthday. So oh,
look at that. Look at big twenty eight year old

(58:31):
coming on. You're gonna do to celebrate? Logan? You can't
do much, right, everything's pretty much closed though. You can't
do too much. Yeah, for the most part. You know,
I'm gonna sneak down to Tunicos, about a thirty minute
drive from my house here down to Tunica, Mississippi, and
uh put a hundred bucks on the Dodgers man out
one hundred dollar bill Dodgers to win. That's not a

(58:55):
bad back logan, that's not a bad gives me that
in that birthday card this year. That's what I'm gonna
fit so right from grandma. So essentially your grandma's fueling
your gambling addiction logan, which I love. I really did, Yeah,
that man, I love it. Hey, as long as fifteen
percent goes in the plate on Sunday, we're good. There
you go. As long as you do donation, the Higher

(59:18):
Power does not mind. As long as you tip a
little bit right. You can't be no tippet pipper. That's right, man.
I just wanted to say I finally got the courage
to call a big Daddy man. He's inspired me that
somebody from Memphis, Tennessee can make it big time. So yes, yes,
Big Daddy is a star. He is a mean he's

(59:38):
a positive guy from Memphis. So that's that's not h
that's pretty unusual. So he Yeah, Big Daddy does have
a I feel like he's always smiling. I like people
like that. I'm not like that, but I always feel
like he's in a good mood. Big Daddy when we
talked to him, all right, well, logan, thank you man.
I'm glad you called in. Why are you up tonight though?
What keeps you? Um? Man? I just I just wanted
to sneak in. I had to my wife and kid.

(01:00:00):
They're asleep in the bedrooms, and I just snuck to
the snug to the other room pops some antihistamine so
I could stay awake and call you guys. But I
just wanted to say one more thing. You guys frustrate
me so bad when y'all are naming the dick budgets
and the all the best Dick names, and y'all always
forget Dick Felt, the Patriots defensive back. That's the best

(01:00:22):
Dick name of all. We're doing a disservice to it's
a guy's name, Dick. We really bad job by us,
I will you know, heads are gonna roll, Logan. Let
me tell you something. You love the show, big bend.
I appreciate you guys, love the crew, y'all take it easy,
big love to you, all right there he goes, look
at that, another satisfied customer. No, but hello Dick, you
got the big Dick there? And Dan, Hello Dick. Come on,

(01:00:44):
I don't play that, Roberto that somebody was supposed to
hear that. That call got me thinking, Ben, Yes, I
feel like a lot of these you know, I don't
know bigger you know, uh, higher odds, you know, more
of long shot teams. They'd all be good bets this season, right,
I mean, just to take a gamble because with the

(01:01:05):
shortened season, who knows, right, Yeah, the problem is the
playoffs are the same though, But to yeah, you could
to make the playoffs. I would bet on a big
dog to make the playoffs, but to actually win the
World Series. Usually all you need think about this if
you have, like the Dodgers have Kershaw and Walker Bueller,
and if they in those two guys, they're gonna get

(01:01:26):
right what twelve starts over sixty games. So if they go,
say the Dodgers go ten and two with each of
those guys, they're sixteen games over five hundred, even if
they don't get to win Kershaw and Walker Bueller. But
there's sixteen games over five hundred, which means they just
have to be five hundred the rest of the time
and they're in. But you are right. You could see
a team that sucks, it's crap and can go out

(01:01:47):
for two months. We've seen teams for two months that
have had good records and then they fall apart the
dog days of the summer. There are no more dog
days of the summer. They're done. They've been canceled. The
Phillies who were garbage last it would have made the
playoffs after sixty games. Yeah, I might just drop a
fifty spot on the Angels Twins. Oh cool, that's what
I knew this was going to that. I knew this

(01:02:08):
thirty five to one Ben to sign. Yeah, Dodgers only
fifteen to four. That's you know, hey, I like Joe Madden.
You know, I'm a Madden guy. You know, Madden was
it was cool back in the day. So I'm pulling
for Madden. I'm not an Angel hater anymore, coop until
that's That's how I've approached the two LA teams my

(01:02:30):
entire life. So I got you all right, All's fair
in love and war. Be sure to catch live editions
eleven pm Pacific. Now, Ben, I've got a w NBA
story here. I think it's actually interesting. But if you
would like, I could go to Plan B and uh
and do something else. If if you don't want to
go down that road, well I'm not normally w NBA yet,

(01:02:53):
but if you want to talk about that, you feel free.
I won't do a monologue on the w NBA, but
you can you want to. You don't get to do story,
and it'll keep people riveted to the radio. Go ahead, okay? Well.
Atlanta Dream co owner Senator Kelly Loffler apparently wrote a
letter objecting to the league's planned to do the Black

(01:03:14):
Lives Matter stuff on the court and on the jerseys
and all that kind of stuff. She says, I'm not
going to read her letter, but basically that it's not
a good idea to have this because you know, we
need less politics in sports, not more politics. In response
to the letter, the w NBA players Union demanded the

(01:03:35):
league remove her from her position. They want the w
NBA to do the Donald Sterling on Atlanta Dream Co owners,
so Kelly Loff so she she didn't agree with the mobs,
So the guess the w NBA mob she has to
be she has to be removed. I mean, apparently she's

(01:03:56):
very outspoken and a lot of things that are not
popularized pose with w NBA players. Um so wasn't she saying?
Is saying, like I you summed it up that people
that watch sports don't want like politics and this has
become politicized, so they don't want that, right, That's what
she's saying. I think that's the gist of what her
letter was from one. Guess what, Eddie, She's right, Most

(01:04:19):
people don't watch sports to hear about politics. They don't.
That's just the reality of it. So but the w NBA,
let me say, I fully support them doing everything they
want I will not watch a second, so it doesn't matter.
They can do anything they want in the w NBA,
and it does. It's no no effect on me at
all because I have not been a consumer of that product.

(01:04:40):
And based on the television ratings and based on the attendance, nobody,
I say nobody, very few people are consumers of that product.
What do you think the odds are that, uh? I
mean that they get her removed as co owner of
the team. I haven't really read it much. I mean,
I don't know that a lot people are you know,

(01:05:01):
beaten down the door to be owners of the w NBA.
So maybe that's you know, it's a little bit different
than the NBA, where you've got you've got a mogul
waiting in the wings to buy up the team. So
that might play a fact. Well, the NBA has been
propping up the w NBA has has lost money for
it's the great disaster of the of David Stern when
he came up with that w NBA. Nobody watches the

(01:05:23):
games they force as of a few years ago, I
don't know if it still is, but there's no bidding
on the w NBA contract. If you want the NBA.
You have to take some of the w NBA and
they put the games on. I think NBA TV does it,
but yeah, it's not. If it had to stand up
on its own, the w NBA would have been gone
years ago. There's no no interest. The people have spoken,
the market has spoken, they're not interest. But whether she loses,

(01:05:45):
I have no idea. I haven't really. When I see
a w NBA story, I'm like, next click, I'm like,
I'm not gonna talk about that because we don't talk
about the w NBA, So why would we start now? Anyway?
All right is the the Ben Mallers Show. As we
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You saying Bolt has a daughter a great Mosleton. Congratulations

(01:06:30):
Usain Bolt, the Olympic star when all those medals world's
fastest man. I don't know if he's still the world's
fastest man, but one point he's the world's fastest man.
Do you see, Eddie what he names his daughter Ben.
I'm normally against these koukie celebrity names. I gotta say,
I think this one's pretty cool. This is great, this
is wonderful in so many ways. Usain Bolt named his
daughter Olympia lightning Bolt. That's awesome. She's named lightning Bolt

(01:07:03):
and the Olympia too. I mean that's you know, the
Greek gods and all that stuff. That's awesome. That is
a good job. I agree with you, Eddie. That's ten stars.
You get a little gold star there. Good job by you,
you same Bolt. That was funny. That is now the
only problem with that is what if the kid, What
if the little girl grows up and wants nothing to
do with running and nothing to do with the Olympics

(01:07:24):
and just as like, doesn't even like sports, which happens sometimes. Right,
you're kind of you're gonna be pigeonholed to be an
athlete if you're the daughter of U saying Bolt, right,
you can you would think that he might take her
to the track and show her some techniques and whatnot.
You know, I interviewed him years ago on Fox l
Was he a better interview than the Little League kid?

(01:07:45):
He was really cool, but it was oh yeah, well,
nobody's worse than a little league kid from Hawaii. That
I'd ask him, I would ask him open ended questions.
He would give me one word answers. I asked him
like twelve questions and like a ninety seconds of time.
I don't even think made nine seconds. But no, the
U seen Bolt was on to promote some some product.
He was hawking, so he the way that those interviews working.

(01:08:06):
They're like those Super Bowl interviews at Radio Row where
guys wore themselves out and they do a commercial for
sneakers after they talked to you about their past glory.
So U Same Bolt called up and he was pumped.
I forget what he's promoting, but we were you know,
I'm not really a big track and field sprint guy,
but we had you Same bolt on and he was like, said,

(01:08:27):
he didn't really work out and he liked just to
play video games when he wasn't training for the Olympics
or whatever. He's like, really wasn't into it, which I
thought was was was pretty honest, and he just wanted
to sit around, lay down and play video games, which
some of you listening to the show are doing right now,
laying down and playing video game. All right, let's go
to the phones and let's see your guy. Who do

(01:08:48):
we have. Let's see any meny miny mo. Let's go,
is hollering James there in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Let's check in
with our buddy, hollering James. Step this time, big man,
James admitted, Man, you just walk up, Come on, you

(01:09:09):
just walk off, James. I just woke up, and you said,
mindary millerwing James. Yes, the legendary hollowing James, father of
the year. Now my knee. I was up for Color
of the Year. I'm knee and I should have won.
Come I should have won. I should have won. FI

(01:09:33):
file a formal file, a formal complaint, James. All right, So,
so how can we how can we help you, buddy?
How can we help you? James? What's what's on your mind?
What's in my mind? How need to like baseball season
and returning and the Dodgers don't I don't think it
looks so hot? No, I don't know I mean, I

(01:09:53):
like the Dodgers. I don't know be hot. I don't
know they'll look hot. I mean, but maybe I have
to let her skinny. Now? Oh yeah, what is It's July?
You know what happens in July? Holler and James, he
gets hot. It's the Jimmy toirt of July. On Malio,
I follow him a test of a chance by being
born at one oh eight in the morning on the

(01:10:15):
twenty total of July. After the twenty second, I am
going to be fifty six years old. It's still twenty seven. Great,
that's a See, you don't have to age age. Age
is just a number. You can act like you're a
teenager and you can live your life right. Look at
you your instation as long as you're looking as young

(01:10:37):
as Eddie. Look are you flirting with Eddie? Eddie? He's
flirting with you over there? Yeah, Eddie has when's the
last time you saw me? Holler and James d Why
don't you send me a photo that they send Big
Ben to a list your name? Ye, I'm not going
to do that. Oh you're you're just you were just

(01:11:00):
praising his boyish good looks there shot me down. He
shot me down and shot me Now, you're very flirtatious
here all of a sudden, you know why. I feel
very happy about my twin season. And Rocko bo Delli. Yes,
Rocko bald Delhi everyone in Unison, all over the state

(01:11:22):
of Minnesota. It's Rocko bald Delhi for the wind. Yes, yeah,
watch out? All right, thank you. Let's go to Chris
and san Antonio. Who is next? Hello? Chris? He he

(01:11:45):
got he paying attention? Was that talking to somebody else?
I think? Or is that Jeeves? Wow? Dude, I think
you're very confused. We'll go, oh, yeah, that's not I

(01:12:06):
don't think that's a I thought that was James, but
I don't don't think that. Can't wait till hollering James
next phone call, will do a deep dive on the
Twins depth chart, which will be really good radio that
will be big, that is going to be a ratings winner.
When we break down, will Eddie Rozzaro be able to

(01:12:28):
put up another monster season? Will he be able to
do it? And what about Nelson cruz Well at age?
What is he forty? Now? Hot Twinkie Talk coming to
a radio near you? And Josh Donaldson they picked him.
I was a big pickup, right Josh Donaldson from the
Atlanta Braves. But he looked done a couple of years
ago at Toronto, he looked like he was Dunskis. But

(01:12:51):
he's got another contract. Good for him, all right. He
is the band at Mallard Show. We're gonna have Mallard
of the third degree. We'll get to that coming up. Time.
Now for the instant trivia, and here it is. Jerry, Rice, Sterling,
Sharp and Blank are the only receivers to have multiple
four touchdown games during the course of their NFL careers. Again,

(01:13:12):
Jerry or Ice, Sterling, Sharp and Blank are the only
pass catching players receivers to have multiple four touchdown games
during their NFL careers. That's the instant tribute of the answer. Next,
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Radio Network. It's the coup de loupe Justin Cooper and
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the guy co Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller
and we will pay off the always popular instant trivia,
but we'll get the third degree as well. Here's the

(01:14:17):
instant trivia. Jerry or I, Sterling, Sharp and Blank are
the only receivers to have multiple four touchdown games during
their respective NFL careers. That is the question. What's the answer?
Mediocre Kabuki is going with Tim Dwight Larry, who's in Florida,
says John Stallworth is the answer. Randy Moss guests by

(01:14:40):
Will in Pennsylvania, Manic Mike and Nashville checks in with
Bob Shaw as his guests. And let's see who else
do we have? Tito Santana from the Legal Tamper. We
have Lex Luger from Luke the Vending Guy, Flipper Anderson
tossed out by Rick. That's his answer to the instant trivia.

(01:15:02):
Let's see here, five time world champion Paul macbeth guest
by No Help in Minnesota. James is going with the
Hawaiian little leaguer who did the terrible interview. That kid's
probably in his twenties now, by the way, that's a
long time ago. Joe and san Antonio clearly cheating. Got
this right. Bad job by him. Jason and Rocky mountin

(01:15:24):
Virginia's going with Don Beebee as his guests. Who else
do we have? Jeremy Shockey from Rob in Minnesota. Marvin
Harrison guests by Polly d Dick Tracy from Trucker Joe
as he goes down, Let's see mallarprop guys are answering
Bob Horner, which was the right answer for the who
am I? Game? But not the instant tribute? Not the

(01:15:46):
instant tribute? But Guel on Fire is going with TV's
Hunter and Ben Mallershow friend Fred Dryer Mike from Pittsfield
got it right. Let's see here, funhouse is he's I
guess he's uncutting up FRANCESSA. He says, I'll go with
Roberto and the stupid bell that he rings every five

(01:16:06):
seconds like a dope fun house we have not heard
from Blair. Blair was featured in one of the fun
House clips. Anyway, Do you have an answer? Eddie played?
Do the answer? Ronaldo Nehemiah. There's a good name. No,
it's actually a more contemporary name, Marvin Jones, not Marvin
the Martian, Marvin Jones with the Bank Gals and the

(01:16:29):
Detroit Lions. So it's Rice Sterling, Sharp and Marvin Jones.
That's the list, and it leads us into this. It's Meller.
How about that? To the third degree. This is one
big fan gets grilled. All right, here we go, Kobolow fan.
So there's lots of reaction to pictures of Zion Williamson,

(01:16:51):
who reportedly lost fat and gained muscle during quarantine. JJ
Reddick said that he looked like a superhero. Should the
League be scared? And no, are you kidding? You know?
I know you're scared. First of all, Zion Williamson, who
he didn't look that different to me. I he's trimmed
up a little bit, but it looked like there was

(01:17:12):
some good lighting there. His muscles are more toned, and
he's more defined. But the proof is in the pudding here.
And just because he looks better and swim trunks at
the pool in Orlando does not mean that it's gonna
lead to better basketball performance. He was playing well anyway, right,
And so I guess see if what he comes back here,

(01:17:33):
there's gonna be a lot of rusty players playing basketball.
I imagine it's gonna be pretty ugly. And the second
part this, and the NBA needs Zion Williamson. He is
the next face of the NBA marketing department. That's why
they brought back all these bad teams because they want
to make sure Zion is playing in the fake bubble
in Orlando, all right. Next, So, then a little while ago,

(01:17:55):
Melvin Gordon was signed by the Broncos. The idea is
kind of a two running back attack here, but he
was on a podcast earlier this week and he admitted
he knows there can only really be one number one
back in Denver. Who do you think that's gonna end
up being? Yeah, So I'm not going with Gordon. I'm
gonna go with Philip Lindsay, who was already there. And
the Melvin Gordon thing, I feel like he should still

(01:18:18):
be on double secret probation A because of the Shenanigans
with the Chargers, and there's there was no real market
for him. I don't know why John Elway had to
bring this guy and didn't make a lot of sense.
They didn't really need him. And Philip Lindsay, who's not
I mean, this guy's not great either, but he had
a better season. He averaged more yards per carry over

(01:18:40):
sixteen games, and he had I believe he has had
much better ball secret. I don't think he's even fumbled
as opposed to Melvin Gordon, who does put the ball
the bug on the rug as they say there. So
I'm gonna go with Lindsay. Now, I think the Broncos
is gonna shove Gordon down people's throats because they signed
him and they have to justify the signing. But based

(01:19:00):
on just ability, I would go with Lindsay. All right, Next, well, Jr.
Smith admitted that he went through a depressed state being
out of the NBA so much though that he stopped
playing NBA two K because it reminded him of not
being in the league. Ben, when you went on your
involuntary hiatus, yeah, were you still able to listen to
the radio. No, I didn't, Well, I did. I don't.

(01:19:21):
I try not to listen to the radio that much anyway,
because I don't want other people do their own thing.
I try to do my own thing. But when I
was on the beach for six months and twenty six
days coop back, very dark day in radio in twenty
oh nine, eleven years ago, I was just trying to
stay busy. I was, I was getting auditions, you know,
I heard. I did listen a little bit. There were
a lot of people that were a bunch of hacks

(01:19:42):
that were on the radio. That upset me. But I
do think radio is at art and when it's done right,
and when it's not done right, it sounds like a
finger painting, so I try to avoid it. But no,
I was actually auditioning for different jobs at a gig
in Boston. I auditioned for one in southern California. I
was actually close to a job in New York when
Fox Sports Radio called me to come back here. So

(01:20:02):
I'm happy about that because at that time I couldn't
really leave La for other reasons. All Right, anyway, how
do we do? Coopa Loop? I mostly agreed with you.
You pass yep, I'll take that the last guy in
law school is still a lawyer. Be sure to catch
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(01:20:23):
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(01:20:44):
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for info and eligibility. The plot thickens in the National
Football League. We have had twenty four hour news cycle
with people celebrating, rhapsodizing about Patrick Mahomes. He got paid

(01:21:28):
his big contract with the Chiefs. It's still reverberating like
a pinball bouncing around a pinball machine in this case,
reverberating around the echo chamber of sports chatter and mahomes
getting up too. That's a weasel term. You ever go
to the store back when we're allowed to go to
the store. At some places you are allowed to go
to the store. But if you go to the store,
a lot of advertising, even online is up two fifty

(01:21:51):
percent off up two. Yeah, So mahomes could get up
to five hundred and three million dollars or at worst
one hundred forty million dollars in guarantees. But I was
what was that like, fifty sixty million dollars each of
the next two years, something along those lines. Now, many
people in the NFL media establishment are never satisfied with

(01:22:14):
just the news. No, no, no no, no. The conversation has
to evul It has to move on to who's got next? Right,
you don't have time to You can only spend so
much time to take a bow, and then at some
point that gets excessive and you're like, Okay, who's who's next?
Who are we going to boast about next? To get

(01:22:35):
paid and the media's Chidan, Chad Johnson, Joe Sinko, who
is on the fringe of the media. He's done some
media stuff. Chad Johnson loved him doing the riverboat dance
back in the day with the Bengals. So if you
did not see what Chad Johnson had to say, maybe
you missed it. Chad Johnson, who was the man in

(01:22:57):
Cincinnati and not the man elsewhere, but he it was
just gushing over Lamar Jackson, the reigning NVP. And here's
what Chad Johnson say said quote Mahomes deal is also
great for Lamar Jackson. You'll pine after season's end he

(01:23:19):
will be paid significantly. With Mahomes setting the bar that
will not be surpastor won't be surpassed, Lamar Jackson falls
right underneath. Here's Mahomes and then down here you can't
see my hands, but there would be Lamar Jackson. So
let us discuss. Now, how do you see the Ravens
handling a interesting situation with Lamar Jackson. This is not

(01:23:44):
a no break Like, I don't agree with paying anybody
a ten year contract. I know it's not really a
ten year contract. There's a lot of funny money in it,
but still the idea of it could be a ten
year contract, I just I don't I would never do that.
But it's not nearly the same level of layup line
that Mahomes is when you compare and contrast him and

(01:24:06):
Lamar Jackson. So my thoughts on this. You've got maritime,
robbers lane, departure, and Yogi bearra all right, those three things,
and we will combine everything together just like that and
see what happens. Now, A you gotta love the very
I think the word is prodigious appetite that many in

(01:24:28):
the media had. Now I'm featuring Chad Johnson here, but
I could have featured a number of other people in
the mainstream media establishment of football, never satisfied, never satisfied,
and just digesting what Mahomes got. Because then it's like, okay,
we talked about that. I don'tenough people are bored with that,

(01:24:48):
and so let's smell ourselves a little bit and find
out who's next. And so it instantaneously, right in just
the blink of an eye, you're trying to find out
who's gonna get up on top of the podium and
get the big cartoon check, the big oversized check. And

(01:25:08):
this is like this little tug a war game. Right,
You're holding a rope and you're tugging. You're tugging against
other media people to try to be the one that
gets it right and who's gonna get paid and all
that stuff, And we see this all the time. These
are often silly debates, and that's what we do in
sports radio, often silly debates. But in terms of Lamar
Jackson situation, this is an apples and oranges type of

(01:25:32):
conversation because when you compare Mahomes and Lamar Jackson, you say, wow,
I forget about it is what you say, forget about now,
don't put the cart ahead of a horse with Lamar Jackson.
Both are MVPs, that's true, But when you look at
the resume of Patrick Mahomes, there's something that stands out
compared to Lamar Jackson, and it's something you cannot overlook,

(01:25:56):
and especially when it's time to write that big oversized
check Mahomes the MVP season couple years ago. He then
backed that up by delivering the knockout punch Bam bam
bam in the postseason. This playoff run, he had ten touchdowns,
two interceptions, averaged three hundred yards per game. Didn't actually

(01:26:17):
play particularly great for a large chunk of the Super
Bowl but in the end, thanks to the incompetence of
Richard Sherman, he was able to take advantage of that
and make the big play. And we can debate whether
he should have been the MVP in the Super Bowl,
whether it was Damian Williams, but he got the award.
And so that's what the history books will show. But
you look at the comeback. The Chiefs were down big

(01:26:40):
and Deshaun Watson gagged played terribly the last three chords
of that game. That opened the door taking advantage of
the incompetence of the Texans, and the chief storm back
one of the great comebacks in playoff history. And then
they got past the Tennessee Titans in the forty nine
ers in the Super Bowl. So in five playoff games,
two years in the playoffs, five playoff appearances, Mahomes, he

(01:27:03):
has passed the acid test, he has passed the eyeball test,
he has passed the smell test. All of it right,
He's not counterfeit. This is the real deal here. And
to take a term to compare these two, if you
take a term from maritime robbers, also known by their
better name pirates, maritime robbers are pirates, lamar Jackson, who's

(01:27:28):
on the other side of this conversation. In the playoffs,
he has been sailing under false colors in the postseason.
You know, the legend of pirates is oftentimes they would
put up a friendly flag on their boat, so the
other people with the boats would say, all those aren't
evil pirates, They're they're friendly, and they turned out it

(01:27:49):
was That's where the term sailing under false flag comes from.
If you didn't know that anyway, I just love dumb
stuff like that. So not only was Action Jackson a
playoff quarter act, but he was terrible. He's also terrible
and there's really no other way to say it. The
Ravens have been in two playoff games, they're all in
two and in those two games, Lamar Jackson could you

(01:28:13):
can interchange him in a bag of trash the first
three quarters of both of those games, and then Lamar
was able to put up some empty numbers in the
fourth quarter, fatten up his stats, enhance his yardage total,
so the people that didn't watch the game or didn't
pay attention think, well, he wasn't that bad. In fact,
he had a record setting yardage total in the Ravens

(01:28:33):
loss to the Tennessee Titans. But he's completed barely fifty
percent of his passes in the postseason, and his touchdown
to interception ratio it was three to three again Mahomes.
Just this year Mahomes was ten to two ted touchdown
student receptions and Lamar Jackson averaging less than six and
a half yards per attempt average is seven. At average

(01:28:54):
is seven. He was at six point four. And the
biggest biggest problem turnovers. Seven turnovers. He had the three interceptions,
but four fumbles. All right, so seven total turnovers in
two playoff games and also sacked eleven times. And that
is a leafal combo is what it is? Now part

(01:29:16):
B of this my advice to the Ravers, how do
you handle this? Because Lamar made me look like a donkey?
He was much better than I ever imagined in the
regular season, but he was the same old Lamar in
the playoffs. So what is the advice here? What is
some ten cent overnight talk radio advice? All right, my
advice lane departure, All right, change lanes, be very leery.

(01:29:42):
Do not be in the fast lane. That's no, no, no,
you're not in the fast lane. I would not open
up the pocketbook right now now. If Lamar continues to
play like this in the regular season, the Ravens are
gonna have no choice. They're gonna have to pay him
a lot of money, but they don't have to do
it right now, and they can drive in the slow lane.
It's the same advice I give the cowboys with Dak Prescott.

(01:30:03):
Sounds like they're listening to me, and we'll see if
that continues here. Dak hasn't gotten paid and certainly won't
get paid now because his asking price. He gotta think
he's gonna go out. But this is about Lamar Jackson.
There is no need to rush into this. It's kind
of like when you start dating somebody. Most people are like,
all right, let's not run off and get married. Let's
just enjoy the dating, and then eventually we will end

(01:30:26):
up in wedded bliss at some point down the line.
And that's what you gotta look at. If you're the
Ravens and you don't run into this thing, you don't
You've got to reap the benefits. If you're Baltimore of
the rookie contract, and if you're a farmer, you treat
the rookie contract of a quarterback who's good like a cow,

(01:30:48):
and you gotta melk the cow is what you gotta
do there. And the Ravens they've got Lamar if my
math is correct here, they've got him under contract for
the next two years, all right, two years on the
rookie deal, and they've got the fifth year option. So
that part of this story is a no brainer, is

(01:31:08):
what it is. The window to win for Baltimore is
between now and the final year, which I guess would
be You've got twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
so the twenty twenty two season would be the last
year of the window, and then you've got to make
your decision. And most of these guys don't even go
into the fifth year, so it's at least the next

(01:31:28):
two I would say three. I would say three, and
Lamar he's got to walk the walk. And it's it
doesn't matter whether you think he's the greatest quarterback in
the world. Actions are always more important than words. And
his playoff performance has stunk. He has been rotten. He
has been rotting in the playoffs. And yeah, he was
the breakout star Lamar Jackson last year. Congratulations, but you've

(01:31:51):
got to have an encore, and you really don't even
have to have an encore. I would imagine his numbers
are gonna go down. He had a career year. I
think his regular season numbers will go down a little bit.
But it's all about the playoffs. It's all about us,
because even if he puts up the same numbers or
better in the regular season, it ain't gonna matter if
he goes out there and pukes all over the field
for the Ravens in the playoffs. All right, last word here,

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So we know the NFL is a notoriously fickle industry.
And it reminds me of a quote from the late
great Yogi Bear, one of his iconic quotes. It gets
late early out there. And I know the other argument,
the other argument, Devil's advocated argument, Well, it's only been
two games. You can't rip a guy only after two

(01:32:33):
playoff games. But again, it gets late early out there,
and that means, like Lamar Jackson, you build your reputation.
Once you build your reputation. That reputations is so important
because once you have a bad one, it's terribly It's
kind of like in marketing, first impressions, right, first in
the mind is important. You don't have to have the

(01:32:54):
greatest product, but you have to be first in the mind.
And Lamar Jackson, in the mind of football fans, has
sucked in the playoffs. He's a painter, but he's not
Picasso or Michaelangelo or Van gold. Instead, he's been a
choke artist, is what he's been. He's been like a
finger painter, that kind of thing. He's been tentative, hesitant, uncertain,

(01:33:19):
all qualities you don't want from a playoff quarterback. And
to avoid boondoggle boulevard. The Ravens who were absolutely loaded,
they had every advantage you could possibly want, home field advantage,
everything in their favor. They were coming off to buy
and they went out there and pooped the bed. And
he really went out there and pooped the wed the bed.

(01:33:41):
So if you're on the hamster wheel of mediocrity in
the postseason, guys like that don't set records in contracts.
It doesn't happen. The postseason is a different kind of
cat and mouse game than the regular season. And only Lamar,
only Lamar Jackson can change this, nobody else. It's up
to him. And I know there's a bunch of guys

(01:34:02):
are oh, they're probably right now sending me tweets about
excuses and calling in to defend him and all that.
But Lamar also plays a style of football where he's
like he's like two in one. He's a running back
and a quarterback, and he's like a crash test dummy.
So the hybrid running back quarterback, which is not the ingredient.

(01:34:24):
Those are not the ingredients for long term success. They're
not short term success, absolutely long term success. All right,
he is the Ban Mather Show. You want to talk
about any of that, you are certainly more than welcome
here at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight
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(01:34:46):
Available on Twitter at Ben Mather later this hour. We're
gonna have too much or not enough. We also have cooking,
I assume with Robero right, Roberto right, what are we
making today? Tostada's baby tostadas? Well, summertime, July tostada The
authentic is a family recipe or is this just something

(01:35:07):
you found you like? There's something I like, like, yeah,
all right, just where you're supposed to lie and say
it's a family recipe, goes back one hundred years, hundred
years and the Flora's family goes so far back. Just
just crazy anyway. All right, So we'll have a cookie
with Roberto later in the hour, and you can put

(01:35:27):
those jet skis away. We'll get to that. We'll do
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(01:35:48):
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(01:36:08):
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the jet skis. We'll get to that. We have too
much or not enough cooking with Roberto. Right now, though,
let's go to a former caller of the Year who

(01:36:28):
is checking in, and we say hello to Whoopee Pie
Blair in the great state of mazor Boy. What's going on,
Ben Blair? Have you recovered from your confrontation with the
sports Pope Mike FRANCESSA? Oh what happened? I needn't even

(01:36:51):
know I had one? Blaire. You you've blocked out you
you file the way you called into last week. You
called into Mike Francesa show and he got played all
over the internet because he ran you from the show
after like thirty seconds or something. You don't remember that, No,

(01:37:11):
not at all. No, I'm Larry Blarry. He got played
a thousand times, thousands of times on the internet. He
got played fun House immortalized you Funhouse can have his
own Funhouse. He's a freaking idiot, freaking clown. We know

(01:37:34):
what he did to Roberto. You know he's gonna get
his belt rung. He's gonna get a belt run him there.
I'm gonna come in and just just hammer him one
and then he's gonna be dead. Right, He's gonna be
bleeding from his nose to his toes. We freaking want
to put him down and put him down right because pounding, pounding,

(01:37:57):
down and right baby, he don't want that little clown
to have any chance with them in the freaking You know, Blair,
if you want to take him right down, baby, you
want to write down in the throat and take him bam.
We want that sucker. Now you keep mentioning what's his

(01:38:17):
name again? Fun house? Clown's name? Fun House. We're gonna
have fun with you, baby. We're gonna put you in
the ring. We're gonna have fun with you. We're just
gonna knock your son of a gun out because we
want to have fun with you. I'm gonna let the
clown who cares about listen, fun House a good guy.
But listen, here's the deal. Oh he's not a good guy.

(01:38:38):
He's terrible, a freaking clown. Alright, alright, tough guy. So
I'm fascinated by this. Now, you, Blair, that you are
clinically you're clinically addicted to calling sports radio shows. You
love calling these shows, right, you live for this? Oh
my god, yes, I do you do all right? But
you don't even remember? Have you f a n in
New York. That's what I'm saying. You called in that

(01:39:00):
that's where Francessa works. You called into francessa show, but
you don't even remember. You wanted to talk about Mike
Trout and you were like pretending to be all bummed
out because he thought the season might be canceled, and
then he just ran you from the show. Oh, is
that is that JJ after Dark? No, no, no, it's

(01:39:21):
it's it's uh Mike Francessa, who's been doing sports radio
since before sports radio existing JJ after Dark. No, it's
not JJ. No, no, No, I thought I was your man.
How could JJ after Dark be your man? I thought
I was your man? Come on, Ben, you don't know
JJ after Dark. No. But but but I've met you
and you have you met JJ after Dark? No, but

(01:39:42):
you've met me. You know I'm talking about. I have
no idea who JJ after darkies, But I don't care.
You're talking. You're talking to me. That's probably the guy
aton at seven, Mike Francesca, Yeah, it's probably j J
after Dark guy. All right, Yes, they've been what I
rode twice now in the dark pitch dark in Maine

(01:40:06):
on the road where I live. I've rode two and
a half miles now two point five two days, like
in a row, you know, on my bike, Oh your bike? Okay, well,
good job. All right, you're a big stud. You're a
big stud. Will be playing. Oh yeah, oh yeah. I'm
I'm getting myself ready, getting try to getting myself fit

(01:40:27):
for next year. I want to lose. I'm trying to
lose that ponzai on my my my ponzone on my belly. Yeah, okay,
like that, Blair, you didn't seem like a big fat
guy when I met you last year. You seem like
I have a pun zone. Don't worry, nozz ponza. Yeah,

(01:40:53):
I gotta I gotta go, all right, thank you, I
gotta thank you. All right. Well that was fascinating, Blair.
It's like he had amnesia for a while and he
forgot about the phone call. I was so excited when
I saw his name on the board. I went right
to him because I was like, this is a big deal.
And then he didn't even remember for like half the call,
and then all of a sudden, he starts ranking about
JJ after dark, Let's go to Chris and Houston. Who

(01:41:19):
is next A the number one the Houston sports apologist.
I know, Christopher and Houston. Hello, Chris Well, I let
miss missus Mama Blair know to give Blair cookie arounding
his bike. Don't don't be jealous of the celebrity of
what'll be playing. But you know what, it's a lot

(01:41:42):
of jealousy in the mirror. You know, a lot of
this stuff rains on jealousy. Man, you know, to turn
Jackson and what he put up. Let's just say we
all grew up with football players. They ain't the smartest
bunch in the book, you know. I mean there's a
as you know, Chris, there's a stereotype, the dumb job
and uh it got to be a stereotype because it's

(01:42:03):
often true. Yeah, it's often true. Is I mean this
rare is some of them that's actually that's smart enough
to know. And I mean, you know, just a black
culture period has a has a rain of jealousy just
because of the history of this country, you know, and
you know, and sometimes you just shake your head and
what these guys put out and what they don't want
to fight for, and and then they get rained through

(01:42:25):
the media and it just turns into just me shaking
my head. Now, you know, the Hitler thing is big. Now,
am I correct that Hitler did recruit blacks? I think Hitler,
I think that the Nazis hated everybody who wasn't this
this is actually, this is actually in the history book. Man.

(01:42:47):
This is well when when we had history book. Now,
I don't know about that. But as far as as
far as that, as far as the jealousy thing, though,
as far as the jealousy thing, the problem is the
hypocrius though. The problem is the problem is because if
you are positioning yourself as you are fighting social justice
and injustice anywhere, but you're really not. Because all those

(01:43:08):
guys I listened in the monologue, all those guys who
were very outspoken about Drew Brees and he was wrong.
Not a single one of those clowns, not a single
one had anything to say about DeShawn nothing, nothing, Deshan
Jackson that nothing. Well, well, come on being that's on
all side. Everybody plays their pardon. They sit there and

(01:43:29):
they you know, they defend who they want to defend
and defend who they don't. Different. But it's a difference
here is this is this is going on right now,
button issue right now, let me let me tell you.
Let me tell you, Ben, let me tell you one
thing about it. We get offended over anything. I was
in the Florida. I travel to Florida one time and
I got an argument with a Hispanic guy and I
called him a Mexican. And you should have seen how

(01:43:49):
red this this guy would because he was cubed and
they had it. He had a serious problem with Mexican.
But you know, it's like, that's that was my bad
because they know your nationality. Am I supposed to sit
here and know your nationality? Yeah? You know, yeah. I
mean people do get aggravated over everything, and social media
just fuels the hell out of it. And it's just

(01:44:11):
the language. The language of social media is to be
irritated and exasperated. Even things that don't cost you shouldn't
cause you to be exasperated. People exactly, they'd love to
get their feathers ruffled. But let's get freight to it.
These pomp is arrogant players, the NBA and the w
NBA players. What did you think he was walking into
a Lila Lands. It was gonna be just rainbows and

(01:44:33):
Lilie pops when you roll there. These people had the
work night and day to try to make sure these
foods actually have proper bed They brought in bigger beds
for them. But they want look at the rule, look
a look at what they're feeding it. They can't touch
your food, they can't prepare your food, and tell you
have a test wid everybody's negative. They look at through this,
look at the conditions, like, come on, many living too

(01:44:55):
long eating off a silver spoon turns you into people
like this. Oh yeah, you're referencing the players were there, Well,
they were complaining because of their boxed neils. They were not.
They were not. No you've seen the new ones. No,
you've seen the rugle of salad that the NBA players posted.
Some man the w NBA, you know who cares about
the w NBA, And they can go with the washing
machine And so they posted videos of the washing machines

(01:45:17):
or a lodging mad that it had concrete on the
floor and it was marble floors so he couldn't walk
on marble floor like, oh on man, Like they got
to suck it up. Man, it's not gonna be the
most perfect environment for you to have. You're there to
play basketball. Whip. I think the term is suck it up, Buttercup,
I think is the term right, exactly exactly, A little girl,

(01:45:38):
a little rough thank you, because grow a little rhinos kid, right,
little rhinosk Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Ben,
I don't think you mentioned this if I apologize if
you do. But did you see that Chief's head coach
Andy Reid obviously very excited about Patrick Mahomes new contractor,
of course, coming off the Super Bowl win, and he's

(01:45:59):
not thinking of retirement anytime soon. Now he's sixty two
years old, and he says that he's looking to coach
into his seventies. Now, I think the oldest head coach
in NFL history probably Marvel Levy and George Hallis. I
think we're both seventy two at the time that they
had their last season. Can you see Andy Reid coaching
into his seventies? Well, I mean the first of all,

(01:46:21):
you say, because he's a big, fat guy. You say,
probably not. Because of that, something's gonna come up here
in the next few years, you hope not. I like
Andy Reid. I get a kick out of him. I'm
still amazed when he got the job in Philadelphia. I've
told the story before we had Andy on I was
in local radio in LA and I remember, why are
we putting this guy? I remember her Andy Reid like
he was like the quarterbacks coach for the Packers, And

(01:46:42):
now he's gonna be in the Hall of Fame. But
he's sixty two, right, He just turned sixty two, so
at least the next three years he should be okay.
After that. Anything after the age of sixty five, I
would say is gravy. With modern medicine, and assuming he

(01:47:03):
watches his diet a little bit and takes the proper
cocktail of drugs. Got a shot, Got a shot. Not
a great shot. I wouldn't bet on it, but he's
got a chance. Hard to believe. Pete Carroll is sixty eight. Yeah,
Pete carries himself as a young cool, isn't he? Is
he older? He's older than Belichick, isn't he? I think

(01:47:24):
maybe a year older? Yeah, Belichick sounds it seems like
he's like fifty years older than Yeah. What do you
think you're gonna be like Eddie when you're that age?
You think you'll be grumpy? Now you're be happy. Yeah,
absolutely happy, go lucky. Yeah, all right, thank you for that, Eddie.
Good luck to Andy Reid, Andy Reid. Well, if Patrick

(01:47:48):
Mahomes woke up today and said I don't want any
read as my coach, they'd fire Andy Reid right, And
Andy Reid now is at the mercy of Patrick Mahomes.
Isn't that how that relationship will now work? If Andy
Reid wants Patrick Mahomes to run another lap around on
the field, Momes will be like, f you, I'm not
doing that. I'm in charge. I'm in charge. Now there's
a new sheriff in town. I'm the man, You're not

(01:48:08):
the man. I've blazing. All Right's Ben Maller' show. We're
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We've endured too many of these. Busy, too much or
not enough enough already. All let's play the game, and

(01:48:51):
we've got cooking with the Berto coming up in a
couple of minutes. We say hello to Josh, who's listening
to us in Vermont. Hello, Josh, Hey, good one. I'm
doing all right, Josh, Hopefully the line will hold up
out there. How's everything going in Verma? What are you?
Are you driving to work or driving as you are
at work? I am a trunch driver, so right now
I'm driving. I'm working as I'm talking to you. All right,

(01:49:15):
where are you heading? I'm heading back to my term.
And also I can unload my first load in the morning.
And how many loads do you have to make during
the course of your shift? Um? The goal to make three? Okay,
I'm curiously. And how long does it take to do one?
One round trip? Um? The funns I go is like

(01:49:38):
three and a half hours round trips. So okay, so
that's that's still at least nine ten eleven hours something
like that right in the car? Yeah, yeah, I got you?
All right, Well, thank you, Josh, good luck. Here we go.
Golden ticket on the line. You gotta get three right
to win. If you get all five right, you're a
men's I'll give you an extra golden ticket. Question number one,

(01:50:00):
Only four players, Only four players have averaged more points
after the All Star Break. Then Bradley Beale was averaging
for the Wizards. Is that too much or not enough?
All right? He says too much. Let's find out, as

(01:50:22):
Josh Wright, all right, let's correct your job by you
too much. Michael Jordan and the late Great Kobe Bryant
were the only ones to average more than Bradley Beale, who,
as he had averaged he's not gonna play anymore, but
he averaged thirty six and a half points for Washington.
We move on to question number two. Joey Chessnut, My guy,

(01:50:45):
this guy ate twenty more hot dogs than the closest
competitor at the Hot Dog Eatings Championship on the fourth
of July. Is that too much or not enough for
Joey Jaws chessnutt Oh boy, go with your first instinct? Yeah, yeah,

(01:51:11):
not enough all right. He's not confident, Josh, but he's
going with not enough. Let's find out if you're right
that's correct. How about this guy, Joey Chestnut thirty three
more hot dogs than buns. That's better than Secretariat of
the Belmont. Secretariat won by thirty one lengths at the Belmont,

(01:51:34):
the greatest horse re instant win of all time. Joey
Chestnut thirty three hot dogs and buns. What a competitor,
What a champion? All right, you're doing great. Question number
three here for you, Josh and Vermont. There have been
three players to win the Nie Smith College Player of
the Year, which is the second greatest college basketball award
next to the John R. Wooden Award. But there have
been three players to win it three times. Is that

(01:51:56):
too much or not enough? Too much? All right, Josh
says too much. Let's find out. Yeah, that's a winner.
Good job by you. We'll keep going. But Rob Sampson
and Bill Walton are the only players to do this.

(01:52:17):
You're making a mockery of this game here, Josh, good
job by you. All right. Question four. We'll keep going.
You've already got the golden ticket, You've already got the win.
But we'll see if you can run the board. There
have been six players to hit a leadoff home run
in each game of a double header Is that too
much or not enough? Please? All right? So there have
been six total ball players that have hit a leadoff

(01:52:40):
home run in each side of a doubleheader. So the
day game and then the night game. Is that too
much or not enough? All right? He says too much?
Let's find out right again, it's been done four times
somebody named Harry Hooper in nineteen thirty, Ricky Henderson, remember him,

(01:53:01):
Brady Anderson when he was on the Juicy Juicy and
Ronald Acuna Matata of the Atlanta Braves a couple of
years ago. All right, you've done great so far. To
run the board, here we go. There are six players
in the four major US sports that have contracts into
the twenty thirties. Is that too much or not enough?

(01:53:29):
Not enough? Not enough? This is to run the board.
You sure you want to go with that answer? Yeah?
Welcome home to that? All right? Let's find out. Does
he take it home? Nah? Well almost? Yeah, you're hitting
eighty percent. That's a good job by you. Josh, you
got four out of five. Right, You got yourself a

(01:53:51):
golden ticket. You can use that or pass that on
to somebody else if you don't want to use it.
But it has about a thirty day lifespan. So good
luck and be safe out there on the roads. Josh,
all right, thanks, I appreciate it, all right, good job
by you. All right, there he goes Josh dominating in
the great state of Vermont. Some of my friends, my

(01:54:12):
Boston radio soldier and a couple of years ago that
live in Vermont say it's cheaper, the taxes are better there,
and it must be nice. I guess, yeah, oh, this
isn't that? Where is that? Where Spaniel Arnie Arnie? Yeah,
I wasn't even talking about him. I have some other
people who lived. Yeah, Arnie's big vermonta. Arnie's lived everywhere,
though he he treated his life in radio like a

(01:54:34):
military brat moving around. That's crazy. When I first met
Arnie twenty years ago, he had already worked in like
seven different cities, And then since I first met Arnie,
he's worked in like seven other cities. It's it's insane anyway.
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It means a couple of things, but in this case,
it means cooking with Roberto, classically trained chef. He's about
to give you a recipe that goes back one hundred

(01:55:40):
years in your families. That correct, Roberto, That's right, that's right,
Just go with it. Wink wink. My Aztec relatives started
this year. Yeah, yes, billions of years ago. You go
on that one of those websites that tracks your DNA
exact way back. Yes, exactly, All right, what are we
we're making one? I was first time I was gonna
get different recipes that you can do with those styles,

(01:56:02):
the different things you can do with those styles. Okay,
these are these are obviously homemade. You know, I'm I'm
I could get lazy at times, and you know I
go to the supermarket and oh, I see that thirtia
is next next to the Stas and all right, I
grabbed Tho styles with the thirtias. But you know the
other day, uh my wife wanted to style us and
you know what Thereto styles. So what I do get

(01:56:22):
in the kitchen and fry those tortillas and make some
homemade to style us. They were delicious and that's why
I was motivated to give this recipe. All right, So
what do we need here? What do we need to
go to the store and get so we're prepared to
make the style us at home? What are some of
the ingredients? It's easy, just corn tortias, vegetable oil, you know,
coast your salt because salt. Sorry. De Shaun Watson Jackson,

(01:56:46):
we like the coach my mom my mom sorry with
that coastr staal And she's like she never went back,
so I ain't going back either. Some of those lines, okay,
for those are for those who know what the styles are.
There corn tortias that have been baked or fried, but
these are gonna be fried. I I really don't like
the baked ones. The only one I eat almost some
ice cream. Fried is better exactly. Homer Simpson taught me

(01:57:07):
that years ago. It's fried, it's for me. And you
can top these off with anything you want. Read fried beans, cheese, chicken,
ground beef, many other toppings. Thinking about like a big
round tortilla chip or open face crunchy toccos like the
ones you like big the green gooat tacos. I like
those crunchy, crunchy crunch Like I said, I prefer the
fried ones. All right, yeah, how are you going? And

(01:57:28):
then medium size frying pan. Pour the oil in a
skillet over medium heat. The bottom of the pan should
be coated in oil. Al right, make sure you got
you got some good enough oil to cover that tortilla.
You don't want to go too much oil. Not too
much oil, yeah, exactly, just enough. There, there's a science
exactly not too much place the court tortilla in the

(01:57:48):
in the hot oil. Seare the tortillas on each side
for about three to six minutes until they are crispy
and golden, all right, until they're crispy and golden, golden, Yes,
And to continue to coat that p with oil because
sometimes you know, once you start cooking these tortillas one
by one, the oil uh starts to run out. So
just keep adding the oil until you're done. You gotta
keep that oil there. That's your job, exactly. Oil oil, right,

(01:58:15):
all right, keep that vechtup oil going to You're done
frying all those tortillas, all right, Place the chrismy tortillas
on a drying rack. Sprinkle each side. Here you go.
This is what I like to do when I'm doing
these things at home. Sprinkle each side with a pinch
of coosher salt and lime and nice. Those things are good. See,
those things are good, Just like that. You open up
a bottle Pacifical beer and dip those those styles with

(01:58:38):
my salta and you got some authentic and you got
some good, authentic Mexican food. Now do you ever add
a me like sugar? No, no, no style, no no sugar.
Only only to the when you fry flower tortias, you
you can add cinnamon and sugar to that like it
was that I made for Christmas when I brought good Yeah, yeah, good,
all right. He's usually quarn thirtias are more more as

(01:59:00):
a main as a main dish when they're when they're fried.
So I loves cinnamon, man, Oh yeah, cinnamon them down
with cinnamon, cinnamon rolls anything. So the other thing I
the recipe give out last night. Also with the with tortillas,
the flower tortillas. You can bake those in, bake those
in the in the oven and then bring them out.
He baked us in the oven and add some cinnamon
to it, and you bring them out and then you

(01:59:22):
add some uh apples, move some ice cream. Oh so good. Yeah, yeah,
and you'll be tweeting out the recipe exactly. Yeah, if
you want to hear exactly. You can add some of
that Costco chicken to these torta cheese brand exactly, and
then you have some easily made uh chicken tostadas. Yeah. Summertime,

(01:59:44):
you gotta experiment with stef. You've never made this before.
It's not that hard. It's very easy to mask on wine.
Something easy for the Yeah, I'm not that smart. I
could pull this off, cookie ye, Roberto. Be sure to
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I don't care about the money, said the ball player,
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So with the baseball season green light go for now,
the players are complaining, Management's complaining, everyone's unhappy talk about

(02:00:52):
being entitled. Well, Mookie Bets, he is gonna wear the
Dodger uniform in real game, right real getting Now, it's
a fun size season, it's not a real season. It's
a messed up short season. It's a sprint, not a marathon.
And then he will enter the free agent market. Now,
Mookie Bets has no choice. He has to play this
season because if he doesn't play, he won't be a

(02:01:16):
free agent in the off season. From what I understand it,
he's gotta play. He's got no choice. Now. The big
part of Mookie Bets is that he was excommunicated by
the Red Sox. That's how he ended up with the Dodgers,
a big late off season trade. Now, something Mookie said
this week just recently here has raised some eyebrows. And

(02:01:41):
I don't know if you saw it, and now maybe
you missed it. Maybe the baseball is really not on
your radar right now. So Mookie Bets has said in
no uncertain terms that he does not regret turning down
a three hundred million dollar extension from the Socks. Saying

(02:02:02):
no to the Red Sox. Now, Bets made it clear
that even if the free agent market is, if it
sucks and it's not what was anticipated, I think it's
a no brainer because of the pandemic, He says he
is comfortable with turning down the Boston Red Sox. Let

(02:02:24):
me know. Let me give you the condensed version. So
he says, quote, I don't regret turning down that meaning
the contract, Bets babbled in a zoom conversation. Once I
make a decision, quote continues, I make a decision. I'm
not going back and questioning myself. I don't worry about

(02:02:46):
that the market will be what the market is. Will
cross that bridge when we get there close. Quote sounds
like he's living a little Zen Buddhism, living in the moment.
But let us discuss. Do you believe Mookie the man
named after not Mookie Wilson, named after Mookie Blaylock. Do

(02:03:08):
you believe Mookie Bets when he says he has no
regrets at all turning down three hundred million dollars. Yeah,
this is a Pinocchio special, is what this is. I've
got the exhaust system, the jigsaw puzzle, and also the
truth serum, and we'll put all these things into a pot.

(02:03:31):
And it's like cooking with Mallard. It's not cooking with
her BIRDO. We'll see what we make. I said it
at high temp, and we'll see what comes up. So
to lead off with Mookie Bets, I'm anticipating a good season.
I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do in
Dodger Blue. He seems like a nice enough guy, not
a big personality, not a big personality. I'm pulling for him.

(02:03:54):
I'd like to see him do well. I don't know
that he's gonna be a Dodger more than just this season.
I hope he can rake while playing in a home
ballpark that is not a pinball machine. And I love Finnway.
I've been there a few times over the years and
it's great. But it's a fun zone and Dodger Stadium
while that has become more of a fund zone. There
are reasons for that. Chavez Erine, the dimensions and the

(02:04:17):
way the ballpark plays, it's not close to what Finnway
is now. Despite that, let's not bury the lad my man,
don't bury it. This is about Mookie Betts turning down
three hundred million dollars. Not a funny money like Patrick
Mahomes got a five hundred million dollar contract, but a
lot of funny money. Mookie Bets had three hundred dollars

(02:04:40):
of real American currency, dead presidents that were his. And
what he's doing now is putting up a false front.
I don't blame him. He's holding on to his machismo right,
his master plan. It's kind of like an automobile with
a malfunctioning exhaust system. His plan backfire. There's no other

(02:05:06):
way to say it. He overplayed his hand. Now, there
are reasons that he overplayed his hand. He thought he
had the leverage while the leverage changed and he didn't
have it. Anymore, and he got greedy. And so that's
the reality if you look at the six characteristics of
human nature. And I've studied this over the years because

(02:05:28):
it's one of the fugazy things I'm into. But greed
is number two behind. You know what number one is? Laziness?
All right, laziness, there's six characteristics of human nature. Laziness
is human beings trying to find the easiest path, the
quickest path that you don't have to do as much work.
And greed it's right there. So now lou mur Looney,

(02:05:51):
who with a little bit back in the day, a
former Red Sox who is a gas bag in Boston.
He reported that the Red Sox at off for three
hundred million dollars, and then Mookie Bets had scoffed at that,
how dare you? Don't you know who I am? I'm
Mookie eff and Bets, And so he asked Boston to

(02:06:14):
then the brass and the Red Sox to go to
four hundred and twenty million dollars, a great homage to
weed smokers everywhere, four hundred twenty million dollars, just trying
to up the ante, and it blew up in his face.
The Red Sox are like, no, we're not doing that,
and that wrote the ticket out of Boston for Mookie Bets. Now, furthermore,

(02:06:37):
the Mookie Bets Store, it's kind of like a jigsaw
puzzle in the fact that we don't have all of
the pieces. We know some of the pieces, we don't
know all of the pieces. We don't have all the
pieces either, some missing, which which is unfortunate, but not
unfortunate because then we can just make up our own pieces.
But Mookie Bets has gone on the record that he

(02:06:58):
had no issue with playing in Boston. You look at
some of his comments, some of them are cryptic, and
it never came across to me as sincere he had
always been evasive and non committal, and which is fine.
But I think it's obvious that he didn't love playing

(02:07:20):
for the Red Sox. Certainly he's right. Not everyone likes
playing for the Red Sox. Not everyone likes playing for
the Dodgers or the Yankees. There's some guys that don't
like that, and he's not the first and not going
to be the last. But call a spade a spade, right,
Call a spade a spade, and you got a winning team.
You look at all the boxes. The Red Sox check
winning team, fan base that loved Mookie Bets. They were

(02:07:44):
big fans, they adored Mookie Bets, hitters, ballpark, high profile team,
playoff success. Obviously that ties in with winning, but none
of that was enough and the Red Sox we're gonna
pay top dollar. So I believe there's ulterior motives that
are in play here, because if Mookie Betts was smitten

(02:08:05):
with being part of the vibe at Finway, then he
would have figured out an extension and Sabbies, you don't
need me to tell you that you split the difference
and you'll say, okay, we'll figure it out. And instead
he called the Red Sox bluff in a game of chicken,
and they said, all right, we'll trade your ass to
the Dodgers and we'll get the Dodgers and take that
bum David Price off our hands. At the same time,

(02:08:27):
that's a win win, all right. Last thing, So decisions,
it's always fun to talk about these decisions. Right. Decisions
are like roads. Sometimes the decisions are obvious, they're smooth, right,
nice smooth paved road. Sometimes the decisions are rocky and
they're hard. Mookie Betts thought he was on a straight pat.

(02:08:48):
You know what happens when you assume right, you make
an ass out of you and me. He assumed the
position that he had all of the power. He was
gonna get his contract, come hell or high water. It
doesn't matter whether the Red Sox or not. I didn't
to his credit, he's a baseball mercenary. He doesn't care
about the Dodgers either, Mookie Bets. If the Dodgers offer

(02:09:09):
him the most money, he'll stay in Los Angeles. If not,
he'll go play for the Diamondbacks or the Texas Rangers,
or whoever offers him top dollar, which is I don't
have a problem with that. That's how you should operate
if you're a professional player and you have a limited
time to make money. But don't try to spin it
like it's something other than that. And he's trying to

(02:09:31):
save face with these comments. If you gave Mookie Bets
some true serm, you think he would say the same thing.
You think he would sing a different song. I think
he'd sing a different song. Now, it's obvious. Betting on
yourself is great when things are normal, when the water

(02:09:51):
is calm and not turbulent. I don't know if you've heard.
It's kind of turbulent with what's been going on. And
you know, we can go back and forth about the
pandemic and the numbers and all that and suddenly open
to debate, but we can all agree the apocalypse is real.
As far as what it's done to the economy, that

(02:10:12):
part is indisputable, and so that has chopped down there.
Think of all the different arteries that baseball gets money from,
that feed the baseball machine and provide cash, all those
different arteries. The business of baseball gate revenue big one,
but the biggest one of them all is advertising. I

(02:10:34):
work in advertising, I work in radio. We're in the
advertising business. And when you run a baseball team, you're
in the advertising business. Not only in stadium advertising. Who's
going to pay for an instadium advertisement, no fans in
the crowd, but television advertising, local television advertising like there
will be I would think pretty good ratings for baseball games.
But does it matter if the advertising market doesn't boomerang back?

(02:10:59):
All of that changed overnight while we were talking. All
of it changed, And if there had been no apocalypse
in this parallel dimension, if we go to the twilight zone,
and there's no apocalypse. Mookie Bets is getting four hundred million.
He might not get four hundred twenty. He's getting four
in a million. Now all Bets are off. What a

(02:11:19):
perfect last name. He is in a very precarious situation
because there are so many more variables right now to consider.
Do the Dodgers offer him a mega contract? It has
not been the m o of the Dodgers under the
Andrew Friedman regime to hand out eight, nine, ten year contracts.

(02:11:41):
These megamegamega constracts. They'll pay a guy for a couple
of years, but they haven't really gone that far out
into the future. Is Mookie Bets so important that that
changes how the Dodgers have operated? And most important, I
don't really matter about the Dodgers. It matters about the economy, stupid.

(02:12:02):
It's all about the economy, right the accountants, the being encounters,
those people, because the owners have a right here. If
things do not get better, they can say, hey, we're
tight wads, and you can't really complain because you're like,
oh yeah, and there's you know, there's a lot of
a lot of stuff going on right now that's not
great for the economy, and so if things continue sideways,

(02:12:25):
the smart money says, here's what's gonna happen for Mookie bets.
He's not gonna get eight, nine, ten year off or
like he was hoping he wanted a twelve year deal
from the Red Sox. That's not gonna happen. He's gonna
have to take a short deal, whether it's two years
or one year, and and hope to enter the market
again and say, Okay, I'll I'll have a duo over,

(02:12:49):
give me the mulligan. I'll take another one year. Do
I think you might stay with the Dodgers for another
one year, big money contract for one year and then
try to strike while the iron's hot, assuming the iron
gets hot again. So we'll see how this plays out.
It is the band at Mallard show you want to
talk about. That is all available to you. We had
the monologue earlier. If you missed it, go back into

(02:13:11):
the podcast. Did a monologue about DeShawn Jackson of the
Philadelphia Eagles, who issued two apologies, but it's mostly media
that he's apologizing to. Nobody in the sports community who's
an active player that I saw. Maybe I missed it,
but the guys that were out there in front over
the last couple of months about fighting the good, fighting

(02:13:31):
all that they suddenly had laryngitis bit their tongue on
this one. They sat out the DeShawn Jackson story, which
was alarming. When you position yourself a certain way and
then you are hypocritical because you don't actually go down
that road. I think there's a line which's good for

(02:13:53):
the goose is good for the gander in this case
apparently not. Apparently not eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
If you want to be part of the show eight
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lot of players are playing baseball or planning to play baseball,
but some of them are admitting they have no choice,

(02:14:16):
they have no options other than playing. And I'll tell
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(02:14:59):
We'll get to the calls coming up. Also later in
the hour, password the word Game of the Stars too,
that straight ahead. But right now we say hello to
Sir scratch Off. Hello, sir scratch Oh ask you have
a golden ticket? Justin and Cincinnati excuse me, Justin and
Cincinnati cashing a golden ticket. Then we'll get the Sir
scratch Off. Hello, Justin. I stand with the Jewish community.

(02:15:23):
I just want to say that I'm basically a rabbi.
You screwed up into the trivia there, budd H, No
I didn't, but thank you, Justin. Let's go to Let's
go to Sir scratch Off. Hello, Sir scratch Off. Well,
you know being all you guys listening there in the
studios being I'm gonna take being and the food contest,

(02:15:44):
a hot dog contest and being picked a bad number.
I want two hundred dollars and being lost if you
took my bad Friday night, because Being took the seventy
seven and over and I took the seventy five and
over and pull being lost out. We did some prop
bets on that, but I said he would win by

(02:16:04):
I said over it was a sixteen and a half
dogs and buns, and I took the over on that. Okay, Dan,
I'm sorry. I thought you said to seventy seven and
he was seventy seven. But I think that I think
the number. I think the number was only I think
it was. It wasn't seventy seven. I thought it was
like seventy two and a half. He said. Chestnut had
said he wanted seventy seven dogs and buns jaws, and
then he got I think the line, the actual offshore

(02:16:27):
line was like seventy two and a half or something. Yeah, yeah,
that was That was just crazy. That was a good contest.
I uh, I said there and watched that. You don't
even go to bed, and I tell you what that was.
I don't know. I've been in food contest at four
I throwed down seven pounds of food and under an
hour was eight other guys that got in off the
contest and I beat that contact. They end up giving

(02:16:47):
me a freaking T shirt. That's great. Seven pounds of food,
which you destroy your small intestine and you're calling, but
you got a T shirt, so that's a good deal.
Now you gotta go to that famous what's that famous
Texas steak house there? You gotta eat that massive steak house. Yeah,
you gotta go over there. It's not that he can
drive home in there. And yeah, we have one of

(02:17:08):
those at Jonesboro. Now, oh do you okay? He just
came in. Nobody will come to our town now with
a draft county and whenever Arkansas and everybody in our
town comes with the liquor mices now, so I don't
know what they're gonna do next. All the all the
religious people go out of town to by the beer
if they go to restaurant director cooled, so you know,
it's just one of them things. But but anyway, we

(02:17:30):
had seven pounds of food. I said three three, two
pounds of hamburger meats, two pounds of a bun, and
then we had a lot of extras added on, and
I just rolled up the hamburger I mean the patty stuff.
You just douche went off on it. I mean it
was fun. But anyway, and let me talk to you
real quick. Yes, that Peyton Manning and Eli Manning. I've
never been a big fan of theirs, and I'm glad

(02:17:52):
that my homes if it's ever been money for him,
I like him. Go get me wrong, no kid, no
players worth that kind of money. But as it always
ends up taking the money over them two together, I'll
be particularly to death how much my home gets because
I still think they're two boys. Yes they got two
super Bowl championships, but I still think they're overrated. And
I enjoyed the year of the Rams played Peyton Manning

(02:18:15):
and we put him on the bitch for a couple
of weeks. That's what I got. Good out there? All, Well,
thank you, Yeah, I listened. I made my entire career
ripping the Manning family. So whoever wrote that narrative can
shove that. And where the sun don't shine, the monarchy
of football the Manning family. So yeah, if you want
to know what Peyton Manning is really about, look at
the Dark Side documentary. It's on YouTube. You can learn
all about Peyton Manning racist. Yeah, super Bowls. It's the

(02:18:37):
name of the document. What's that? COO said they have
four super Bowls? He said two? He said no, they
Well Manning went to the Super Bowl four times, but
he's two and two Peyton Manning. I thought I thought
he was saying that the Manning brothers have two Super Bowls. Oh,
I don't know. Yeah, he did say them. Yeah. You
look at some of Peyton's numbers in the Super Bowl.
It was not particularly great. Eli actually put him somehow

(02:19:00):
better numbers. Let's keep it going on the phones. Who's next?
Beer drinking Brian in Cansa City stays up all night
drinking beer. That's that's he's called beer drinking Brian. Hello, Brian?
Was that buddy? I'm here tonight. Hey, I got a pilot,
uh piggyback off of Hour and James earlier. Let's go
Rocko for the twins first of all, And I gotta

(02:19:23):
ask you the question because half pint uh sprain her back,
and so I want to she's sleeping because she's on medicine,
and I want to do a cameo for her. Okay, well,
yeah you can do that. You can't do that here,
but you can do that. I want Doc to give
you some hold on. Let me then put Doc Mike on. Doc.

(02:19:44):
You're there, Doc in Chicago. I'm not drinking here, all right,
Come down, Brian, you drink anything? Uh so, Doc mikeye
half pint? Which is the is he now? Brian? Is
she your wife or just your girlfriend? Well? We've been
together ten years? All right, so you're in you know,
by the might as well be married. So anyway, so

(02:20:05):
Doc Mike, Brian's wife who doesn't have a legal contract.
She's sprayed her back. Any advice there, Doc, Yes, you
take a pillow layer on her back or sit her up.
Put the pillow under the lower back and sit or
layer back down so there's a gentle stretch on her tummy,

(02:20:27):
and gently go from the solar plexus just below the
bullet belly button, pressing gently and relieving that tension on
a summer. All right, you're gonna do this, Brian. I
mean you should probably not take advice from a radio
show Carrie. It'll work. I don't have to creak my ear.

(02:20:49):
Well that would be that would be great too, because
it's got a lot of oxygen in your bulletproof yourself
against a COVID, both of you. Ill you Doc, I
know you do. Uh. He's got a girl waiting in
the wings for me here. You know, I'm gonna make
another call, all right, all right, all right, everyone hold on,

(02:21:11):
Thank you Ben? All right, yeah, cold Doc, thanks Brot. Yeah,
if you want to, you can go to that website. Allah,
I'll hook you up there, Brian. Let's see here. All right,
let's go over to Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel, it's
the top of the morning, and I'm back on this Wednesday.

(02:21:33):
Welcome in, Ben, Eddie Roberts so and justin a news
on a new day. Still the new month, you know,
the month of July. So mala militia. Let's get into act.
Thank you Bot text of the morning, and then I
straight to Eddie for the latest overnight sports. Go ahead, Ben,

(02:21:57):
all right, So I was thinking maybe you had I
was gonna go with like mats of ball soup, but
I think I'm gonna instead, I'm gonna go noodles and oodles, Eddie,
Let's go with French fries. French fries. That's a solid choice.
With ketchup. That was we're playing food picks. Marcel calmed down, Um,

(02:22:23):
I'm gonna say he had fried chicken. Fried chicken might
be a winner, that might be might tell almost all right, coop,
go ahead, I'm gonna say that he had Chinese food. Marcella.

(02:22:48):
Marcel shocked because you can't you know, you can't say
Chinese food anymore? A right, go ahead, yes, go ahead?
Please you it Shack said, no, no, no, no cut
that sound about out for my food back from last night.

(02:23:08):
It will be chicken Patty switch catch up, but it
will be to catch up, mix Match Deluxe, the chickens.
I win, yeah, yeah, what is he win? Marsa, You
have to send him twenty but you're not allowed to
give anytime you want. Indeed, you know now when we

(02:23:33):
come back, I have the story on the Eagles to
Shawn Jackson faces backlatch for posting antime semestic messages. Now
straight to ed Eddie on Fox on Twitter for all
your overnight headlines. Take away take away, sir, oh thank you, Marcel. Well,
you've got the DeShawn Jackson news coming up, so we'll
skip over that. We'll head right to the NBA where

(02:23:56):
they Washington Wizards announced it. Star guard Bradley Bill will
not participate in the NBA restart in Orlando because of
a right rotator cuff injury. Never mind the fact he's
had four months to heal and he played games before
the season ended, but he can't play now because he's hurt.
Brooklyn As guard Spencer did Winnie, who tested positive for
COVID nineteen last week, has decided not to rejoin his
teammates for the season restart, and teammate forward to Rene

(02:24:17):
Prince also testing positive. So that makes four Brooklyn As
players that will not be heading to Orlando for the restart. Soccer,
the MLS postpone tomorrow's opening day match between the Chicago
Fire and Nashville sc after five national players tested positive
for COVID nineteen and Ben before we send it back
over to Marcel, did you see that there's a chance

(02:24:37):
the New Orleans Pelicans may have no coaches for their
restart in Orlando. Now. The team will not have assistant
Jeff Bisdillick because he has underlying health conditions. Jamille McMillan
is going to stay home because his wife just had
a child, and Alvin Gentry, at sixty five years of age,
may not be allowed to coach the team. So it's

(02:24:59):
possible all that the New Orleans Pelicans will will not
have any of their normal coaches coaching them in Orlando. Well,
you know, Eddie, the joke is that it doesn't really
matter because players coach themselves in the NBA. Thank you
very much. I'll be here all week. Actually I won't
be you now, let's send it back to Marcel Marcel.
Thank you, Eddie. Welcome back everyone, and top of the

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money more? Well, thank you Marcel. You now you're gonna
get a show here on the weekend. So I hope

(02:26:06):
you're excited about that. Walter Plonkite says, that's the way
it is. Yeah, he's dead, all right, Yeah, very timely,
very contemporary reference there, Walter Cronkite. Yeah, all right, well, Marcel,
thank you, Eddie. You wanted you at the final point
you wanted to make here. Yes, oh, I have to
say about the Shawn Jackson of the Egos Ben He

(02:26:29):
will be facing backlash for posting anti Semitic messages on Instagram.
He has no hatred towards anyone. And after he posted
messages on social media on Monday, there are falsely attributed
to Hitler racist. Yeah that's racist. You're not say anti Semitic,

(02:26:50):
but yeah, that's Nike. That is not true at all.
Get over it. After dark Marcel on Twitter, everybody, or
you could find me on Facebook. Fakh Martha Mark got
three Okay, then thank you for the call. Come no, no, no, hey.

(02:27:14):
Have you guys seen these photos going around of the
human sized bat? Have you seen this? Wait? What yeh?
Come on this it's gotta be It's gotta be fake, right,
it's gotta be. If it isn't, I'm going to lock
all of my doors. And there's photos that popped up
on redditum from the Philippines and they say it's a

(02:27:37):
huge fruit bat in the Philippines. It's gone viral. You
gotta boy, you gotta check this thing out. Man, it's
I know we're on an audio platform and you can't
see it. But this thing. They estimate the wingspan reaches
five and a half feet. Oh, I've seen I've seen
these before. Yeah, but look at the face. Have you
seen these photos? The face looks like you would right

(02:27:58):
out of a horror movie. Yeah. Yeah, they're I think
they're if I remember correct, they're not. They're not actually
are they actually bats? They're called like fly fly fox Yeah, yeah,
but what's going in? They weren't that big though, but
they were flying around all over the place. Man, it's crazy. Man.

(02:28:21):
Do they have all because like bats have like horrible
things like rabies and things like that, do these flying
foxes have the same deal. I don't know, it's possible. Yeah,
I guess they just eat fruit. I mean they weren't
like attacking people or anything like that, like some kind
of horror movie. Yeah. But if you go out of
your house to get the mail and there's a giant
bat with a five and a half foot long wings,

(02:28:41):
what are you gonna do. You're gonna poop your pants,
is what you're gonna do, I would think, right. I mean,
there must be like the Philippines. There's so many like
and it's like the animals in that part of the world,
It just means must be insane. Right, I've never been there,
but it must be just nutso with all the different,
weird exotic animals that are living there. Anyway, all right,

(02:29:04):
is the the Ben Mallers Show. As we press on
and let's play some some radio game show fun. Let's
have a game show right now here we go, let's
hit that. Should we do it now? Is it too
early to do it now? Should we? Should we take
another call? Coop? What do you think here? Should we
go to the game or yeah? I mean I need
I need at least another contestant. Oh you need Mark?
All right, well, I'll give out the number eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. That gives me Tom. I

(02:29:25):
had some things that I needed to get to. I
got distracted by these photos. I just saw the giant bat.
So anyway, eight seven seven Yeah. Oh, he's answering his
mic so on you could hear him. That's how Coop
works right there, that's behind the scenes. That's how we
make the hot dogs right there. That's magic, that's radio magic. Anyway.
So brock Holt, who was a red Sock for a

(02:29:47):
long time, but he's now a Milwaukee Brewer. His wife
is pregnant, but he did not consider quitting on the
baseball seat. He could have, right, We've heard other players
their wives are pregnant. They're like, I'm not playing, And
so they asked at the Milwaukee workouts, they asked brock Holt.
They said, how come you're not opting out? You know

(02:30:09):
some of these other guys are up now. He said, quote,
I feel like if I sat out the season, my
career might be over, he said, in an honest moment
of reflection. And he essentially said that if he sat
out the season, nobody would offer him a contract, and
so this is the only way for him to continue
his career. He has to play, which is a nuanced position.

(02:30:31):
He's not wrong on that that brock Holts one of
those fringe guys at the end of the roster. And
you know, it looks good at times. He had some
big games for the Red Sox, but he also had,
you know, kind of some He was a dirt dog
type of player for the Red Sox and those guys
generally are not in demand around the major leagues. And
then one other thing I wanted to mention the Patrick

(02:30:53):
Mahomes contract, and this made the rounds and I don't
really know why because it said Mahomes. I guess he's
prohibited from playing basketball, from going on jet skis and
those kind of things. But if you've ever seen the
standard NFL contract, and they're available on the internet, if
you go to the dark web, and you know, you

(02:31:14):
don't have to go to the dark web, it's just
available on the internet, and there are clauses in contracts
that say you cannot take any significant risk. And this
came up when Jason Pierre Paul a couple of years
ago blew his hand up, both his hands playing with fireworks,
and they're like, there's no specific fireworks clause in the contract,

(02:31:36):
but there's a bunch of other stuff that, without prior
consent of the club, player will not play football or
engage in activities related to football otherwise then for a club,
or engage in any activity other than football which may
involve significant risk of personal injury. And then it goes
down and it lists a bunch of there's a bunch
of other legal mumble jump on and all that, but

(02:31:58):
it lists a bunch of stuff, and all these contracts
have the basketball, the same thing. You can't skydive, motorcycle
ride a motorcycle, boxing, wrestling, auto racing. There's this boilerplate
thing and they all have it, and so it's it's
not like really newsworthy that mahomes can't do those things
because every contracts all rights. Bett mal Show on Fox.

(02:32:22):
You want to introduce the contestants real quick and we
get the game right on the other side of this
welcome in. Our contestants will go to who do we
have here? Let's see we have blind Scott, who's in Boston? Hello,
Blind Scott? Yeah? Yeah, Mookie Best didn't do his micro
and mea micro and macro economics classes before he played baseball,

(02:32:43):
so that's why he's screwed out all his money. You know. Well,
to be fair, nobody predicted a global pandemic that was
not on the radar. So yeah, and then did Sean Jackson.
He needs to go to he needs to go to
church and stop watching adult movies. That's what corrupted his brain.
I think you think, all right, well, I'm not gonna

(02:33:04):
even all right, you don't really want to play the game,
No I do, Yeah, yeah, I want to play. I'm good.
I haven't even smoked. I'm fresh. You know I think
I'll win, you know, okay, all right, all honestly? All right?
Who else you want? Cool? We got? We got. Let's
see here. You want to pick Cooper, I'll have Eddie pick?
Which one do you want? Eddie pick? Coop hates picking?
All right? So we have a Goofy caller, we have

(02:33:28):
an older caller who's annoying, and we have a younger
caller who's annoying. So which one do you want to pick?
Um boy, those are not very good choices. No, no, no,
I guess let's go with Goofy and maybe we'll get
some fun, funny, funny business. All right, congratulations Eddie. You
have picked Flexis outside of Buffalo, New York. Hello Flexis.

(02:33:56):
Oh we can beat Brian Scott. Eddie. You know I
want you for my partner. We congratulations Eddie? All right,
hold on, well let's see blind Scott could pick Eddie.
Hold blind Scott? Who you want to part roll with?
Blind Scott? M I'll take Eddie because Plexus is an
alcoholic that's twice missing all his toad so he's a joke.

(02:34:17):
We're going to crush him. He's probably all right, Flexus.
Sorry you don't get the partner up with Eddie? Who
do you want to play with? FLEXUSO I never thank you,
thank you, sweet baby Jesus. All right, everyone, hold on.
This ought to be entertaining. Flexus is blind, Scott is

(02:34:41):
saying mean things to Felexus with Eddie, and we'll have
password the word Game of the Stars and we'll get
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(02:35:02):
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(02:35:26):
Password the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Maller.
So I'm gonna send the line on this game at
minus seven fifty blind Scott and Eddie or a minus
seven fifty favorite against Plexus and Roberto, which implies an
eighty eight percent chance that blind Scott and Eddie will win.
But we've seen bigger upsets before. So we have a

(02:35:50):
list of words. Guys. Those are the teams and who
was on the air first. I think Flexis was right,
I think so? Oh no, what Scot? All right? Blind Scott? Alright,
Blind Scott picking number one to ten? Number seven? All right,
Blind Scott from Boston's picked number seven? Go ahead there, Eddie,
all right, the clue is donation fundraiser. No, it's incorrect, alright,

(02:36:18):
So see if Flexus can take advantage of Berto. Uh
word is um geez. That's uncomfortable philanthropy. Why speaking lush philanthropy.
That's a good word. I'll pay offerings offering. Jokay, that's

(02:36:45):
a terrible answer. That was actually a good clue, girl,
and you screwed her out. Flexus out there? All right,
let's see drag que donation Republican? How about uh compassion?
Oh sympathy? In the Puck podcast is released later on today. Well,

(02:37:10):
the last part of that is correct. The first part, though,
is not correct. This is going. This is a disaster, Alexus.
You suck a countdown, Scott, all right, no stop, you
know do you know what will happen? All right? Go ahead, Flexus, flexus.

(02:37:34):
His name is Roberto. Go ahead, Roberto. Endowment and Meyer
and Meyer. He said endowment and you said, wow a blood, Scott.
Let's review here. Okay, for idiots, I've said some time,

(02:37:56):
I've said donation, I've said compassion. How about contribution? Oh um,
Jewish vocational services? Come on, come on, I think I

(02:38:17):
got it. All right, hurry, I gotta throw the word
out or you want to go no, no assistance, okay,
assistence number number one. The word was if you make
if you make a donation, you make it to a charity.

(02:38:39):
Number one. Come on, word with charity. The word was charity,
you dummies? Next whatever? Okay? Number one, Eddie or Scott?
Rather pick a number one to ten? Flexus, whatever flexis,
go ahead, you guys both good idiots. Too many naturalizs.

(02:39:00):
They melt number one. All right, let's go with the
uh uh, this is terrible pasture. Flexus didn't go to
Boston University, that's for sure. Neither did you? Brother went
to be you? Yeah, brother in law? Pasture do you what? Yeah? Right?

(02:39:30):
Oh my god, what Alex, what do you say? Wait
a minute, what did you say? Flexus say again, Flexus Field?
You gotta right? Okay, all right, let's go Scott, number
number two, number two, number two, Go ahead, Eddie, all right,
come on now, Scott. Um wait, yeah, this is awkward.

(02:39:55):
Oh huh all right, Um you want to throw that out, Eddie?
You want to? I mean, ay, we should all right
throw it out. Pick another number, Scott already number one,
number one. We just did number one, number one, That
number three, Okay, I'll do them. I'll do the Mallard maneuver.
Scott will do the Mallarw maneuver. Alright, alright, alright, insurance business,

(02:40:21):
call the insurance business. It's insurance policy and that's all.
No chance of losing it. Flexis won the game. Any
Oh my god,

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