Panthers Have a New Rhuler

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a free or a quote. So an NFL team on
the prowl. We'll get to that, Mama Telly. But we
do have some late developments from the NBA. And I'm

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not gonna be the guy that says I told you
so because I am not being there. You don't want
to hear that, right, You don't want to hear that
kind of conversation on the radio. But there are some
things in life that are a given. We're all gonna die.
We've all been born with the fatal disease. It's called life.
No one's getting out alive. We know that you're gonna

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have to pay taxes, we know that. We know that
if you have an insured claim, most of the time
they will find every reason not to pay the insurance claim.
We know that to be true as well, so we
usually world we live in. So that's that. Those are
all truisms. Another truism is this, if a player is
injury prone, that player will continue to be injury prone. Comprende,

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Now we don't talk too much NBA. I want to
talk more about the NBA a little bit later. And
footballs would pays the bills and keeps the lights on
in the building, which is which pretty good. We like that.
But we had a little snap crackle pop in the
NBA which took place not that long ago, and there's

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panic and anarchy because the unit brow has a hurt tushy.
Yes he does. He's that withering in pain. There the
video of the Anthony Davis, Now, how many times have
we seen him down on the court? Now, it was
a Julius Randall play. Lakers were up by like twenty

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or in close to twenty point. They were by nineteen points.
It was in the third quarter against the Knickerbockers with
two forty five to go in the third quarter, and
Julius Randall's driving to the basket. There's a little bit
of a collision with Anthony Davis and he goes down
right on the tuckas right on the tuckas down Anthony

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Davis and just in agony. He was banging the wooden
court in pain. And of course the Lakers are now spinning,
is all. He's fine, he's fine, He's gonna get some rest.
But he but he's okay, I don't believe you. You're lying,

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you're lying, And so it begins. So it begins. Anthony
Davis is gonna miss the upcoming road trip for the Lakers.
They're calling it a bruised I guess tailbone. They used
some technical bas term. But to Anthony Davis, who is
now officially a Laker because he's hurt. You know, you know,

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you don't get the full Anthony Davis experience until he
is injured, So get used to it. This is Ad
at his best. The Lakers Lebron James said, we hope
he'll be fine, which we believe he'll be fine. Hope
and believe are not he's going to be fine. You

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don't say hope and believe you. Hopes don't come true.
Beliefs don't always work out for you. But if you
say it's gonna happen as a fact, well it's gonna
happen anyway. Moving on, So we have the NFL coaching carousel,
which I believe right now is spinning out of control.
Two more vacancies have been filled. Will focus for the
purposes of this man of monologue on the one in
the Tar Hills State. And I assume you saw it

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happened early in the day. Maybe maybe you missed it.
The Carolina Panthers have hired who Yeah, if you were
in another dimension and you've been out of the loop,
Matt Rule, he rules the day. He's a Matt Rule.
He was a coach of Baylor, and he also he

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also in accomplishing a couple of things. He became an
NFL coach, and he also remade a Hollywood classic, The
Great Train Robbery by Matt Rule, who has no NFL
head coaching experience, but very briefly was a assistant position
coach in the NFL. And he gets a reported seven
year contract worth sixty million, which with incentives, could be

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worth up to seventy million dollars. Holy bo Jangles, Batman,
what is up with that? Anyway? Let's discuss the question,
how should Carolina panther supporters, all of them listening to
us in Charlotte right now, how should you feel and
all over the Carolina feel about Matt Rule as your coach. Now,

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I've got risky business, characters and pie and we will
combine all these things together. Now. Number one, I find
I believe the word is interesting. Now. We were asked
the other day in Mallard of the third degree whether
or not Matt Rule would return to Baylor for another season,

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and at that time we said, absolutely, he's not going
to the NFL. He's going to do these interviews, but
these are not great jobs. They're not and part of
that was because he had a massive buyout, and the
Panthers job is at best average, is not a plum
job in the NFL. Well, it turns out that it

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became a plum job because the hedge fund guy that
owns the Panthers, that Weasley Wall Street guy, David Temper,
what David Temper wants as the owner, who David Temper gets.
That's the reality. Now, it does help to be worth
twelve billion dollars. That is his said net worth. Think

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about that, twelve billion, not million. Twelve billion, which means
means you're living in a nice part of town and
you have cash to burn. You have cash to burn,
kind of like writing a check for six million dollars,
which is what the Carolina Panthers have done. They wrote
a check for six million dollars to Baylor and said,
here go out. I think you can buy half of Waco,

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Texas for six million dollars. But that is what they
got as a compensation situation. Hey, it's only money, chump change.
In fact, when you're worth twelve billion dollars, it is
a massive gamble. Though typically you'd say for both sides,
but on this one, it's a big gamble for Carolina.
It's the old risk Rewar right Matt rule for him, Hey,

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he was the hot name. You only get to be
the hot name one time, very rarely, I mean almost
like once in a blue moon. Are you a the
hot guy for more than one time? And he picked
up panthers? Not a great job. It became a great
job when the dollar amount was thrown around. How do

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you make an average job a great job? Overpay, any
job becomes a better Whatever you're doing right now, a
lot of people listening live work and even the podcast
you're working while you're doing this, and you might not
like your job. I hear from people all the time.
I don't really like it. I gotta do it. I
got you know, I get a zillion kids, I got bills,

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I got a you know, a whole thing. I get
emails from people all the time. It spilled their guts.
And here's the thing. That same job you're doing right now,
if they tripled your salary would not be such a
bad job. You'd be like, that's a pretty good job.
I like this job. I can embrace this job. The
hours might be tough, but so what anyway, So that's
the thing for Rule, if you're talking about a seven

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year contract, you know that old saying strike while the
iron's ho. Well, Matt Rule struck while the iron was hot.
And even if he does a face plant and sucks
at a time you should not, you know, suck coaching
in the NFL, Carolina will pretty much be married to
him and connected at the hip for at least four
years plus. If he fails, and most of these coaches fail,

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he can go back to college Matt Rule and his
tail between his legs and his bank account filled with money.
It is risky business for David Tepper because he is
putting his neck out there on what is a wild card,
and it could be a joker, it could be an ace. Right,
there are justifiable red flags. This is a guy who's

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claimed to fame is the resurrection of woebegone schools like
Temple and Baylor from sin to salvation. Right now, news flash,
you're not in Waco, Texas anymore. Right, You're not in Waco,
Texas anymore. So. The NFL is whole different animal, not Charlotte.
It's not a massive media center and all that. But

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every NFL town they have their lapdog media. Probably oh
I guess Buffalo's got the biggest lapdog media. I heard
from my friends Sports with Coleman this week. But but
every town has some guys that are critics, and by
the way, we have our made for TV moment one
of them. In the NFL twenty twenty. We don't have
these schedule out, but we know the matchups and Matt

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Rule and the Carolina Panthers will play his predecessor, Ron
Rivera and the Washington Redskins in land over Maryland. So
that'll be I think Monday night, Thursday night games something
like that, some primetime festivities. Now. Secondly, Carolina, they certainly
regressed under Ron Rivera, the aforementioned Ron Rivera, things had

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become stale. So from the standpoint of chain, pretty much
anybody would be good. Ron Rivera, let's just say the roster. Now,
he wasn't fully involved in building the roster, but he
had a roll in it. He the roster that Rivera left.
The cupboard is bare in many areas. Now. They have
Christian McCaffrey on offense, and they've got Louke Keickley the

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linebacker on defense. But outside of that, there's a hodgepodge
of nondescript players. I don't see very many playmakers, if
any other than Christian McCaffrey regularly performing there. And now personally,
I like the Matt rule. Hire for Caroline ain't my money.
And I like the excitement. I mean, I would say,

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of the hires that we've had in the NFL, this
one is right there at the top of the list.
And he could fail, and it's still at the top
of this We're all playing the speculation game. You're all gambling,
all of us that this is gonna work out. And
I don't know too much about him. I saw some games.
I don't see him when he's coaching Temple, but at Baylor,

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And how could you not be impressed with a turnaround
of Baylor? In fact, how good has this guy? Ben?
He's critically acclaimed. This past year, the Baylor Bears became
the fourth team, but the first Power five team since
nineteen thirty seven to win eleven games two years after
losing eleven games. That is a dramatical turnaround situation. And

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I also liked the backstory, which gets shoved up your
nose in times like this, like the path he took
coach and playing football. Matt Rule included some very interesting
and infamous football characters who were his mentors. And now
he's an NFL coach. Matt Rule was a walk on

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at Penn's State and guess who the coach was, Joe Paterno.
But he also played defense and his defensive coordinator in
state college was the notorious pervert Jerry Sandusky. That's right,
the guy who was molesting little boys. Jerry Sands was

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his defensive coordinator and the new coach of the Carolina Panthers.
Matt Rule's father worked for Jerry Sandusky's charity in state college.
I assume they did not put that in the press release.
Now that doesn't mean anything at all. It just you
people work with people, and sometimes you don't know the
real story on people, and they've got two sides and

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all that. I get it. But it's interesting. Are these
are interesting names? Now? The final point, if you do
the old winners and losers thing, we don't have a
winner yet because well I like to hire because it's exciting,
it's new, it's fresh and all that. We do have
a loser. That would be the New York Football Giants.
All right, this is a big blow to Big Blue

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because Matt Rule grew up in New York before he
moved to Pennsylvania. As a teenager, he was an offensive
line coach assistant officsive line coach for the Giants on
the Tom Coughlin. It was all lined up. All the
anecdotal evidence led you to believe he was gonna be
the next coach of the Giants. The media in New
York were convinced of it. Instead, he decided not to

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even talk with him and take the money and run
with Caroline. I don't blame him. Giants aren't going to
pay that kind of money. How about low self esteem
for Dave Gettlman and the Giants eating humble pie and
bone appetite and all that. Now they were backed into
a corner. They ended up hiring Joe Judge, the Special

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Team's coach or the Patriots. More on that later. So
Matt Rule, Joe Judge is the guy's name. So Matt
Rule immediately becomes one of the highest pay coaches in
the NFL. Right rags to riches the whole deal. He
moves into the high rent district. As the thinking goes,
he is I believe richer now than Scrooge McDuck. I

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believe he is richer than Scrooge McDuck. And he's also
in the running for the worst dress coach in the NFL. Now,
Bill Belichick and Andy Reid kind of go back and
forth on that. But I don't know if you've you
watched him at Bay. One of the few things I
remember that's odd how I remember these weird things watching
Baylor a few times over the last couple of years,
that Matt Rule dresses like he's doing overnight talk radio.

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You know, we do the overnight show here, so there's
no one in the building. Management's not around. They don't
even clean the toilets while we're here. There's nobody in
the building, so we can pretty much wear our pajamas
if we wanted to. Now, I dressed the success. I'm
wearing a tuxedo right now. But these other guys are
dressed like clowns. I want you to know that. But
Matt Rule seems like a meat and potatoes kind of

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guy that's not worried about strutting down the catwalk. Now,
he's no fashion east considering some of the crap that
he's worn. But you know, who am I to speak who? Well,
I'm a talkture host. I get paid to speak, that's
how that works. And big news here. I received my
company Christmas gift and I'm very excited about that. It
is almost midget nuts first week in January, but I

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still picked up my my company holiday gift. We'll talk
more about that later because I might have to give
it away. I might might have to regift it. I'll
explain why I might have to regift it. If you
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Why don't we should spind the wheel? Find out who
exactly is producing? Cooper Loop has quit the show. He's done.
He didn't want to come back in twenty twenty. So
every night what we're doing is we have a new
producer and so we're gonna spin the wheel of producers. Now,

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we had that's right on. Oh that's a good spin.
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Ben Maller. We'll get to curb your enthusiasm coming up
here in a minute. Did you get at your Christmas
gift from the company, Eddie, I did, Yeah, can you

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use it at this time? No, neither can I I
don't have a phone that is compatible. Yes, I have
the same prop so they they gave us these very
nice and these probably cost, you know, a decent amount
of money. I love when you get a gift and
you judge how much it costs. But it's a charger
for your phone. Who doesn't need a charger for your phone?

(19:25):
The problem is, I'm like five generations behind in the
iPhone game. I believe I'm six. What what I have?
An iPhone five S? What do you have? Well, it's
I know it's a five. I don't know if there's
an S next to it. I have a five S
is what I have. I think you're up to ten plus.
I'm six behind. Need to be six behind. Eddie. I've

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said you need a new phone. I'm like, oh, I don't,
And she says, well, do you know it's a five
right of leven? Now It's like, oh my god, maybe
I do. Maybe I need a new phone, but I
am holding out now my battery. I have to charge
my phone and all the time because the battery died
long ago. Now I could just get a new battery
for like, you know, seventy bucks or something like that.
I can get a new battery and save the phone

(20:09):
and it would last. How does your guys phone even
work like the phams? Because yes, my dad, my dad
has like an iPhone eight I think, and then he
had he had to download a new app for like Chase. Yeah,
and then it wouldn't work the apps or doesn't low
for him. It just it just has a stuff. Now,
there are some apps that have become unusable, some I've

(20:33):
paid for, which I'm annoyed by. Yeah, but I don't
work as far as I know. Yeah, no, I mean
it mostly works, and and and I don't use the
apps that much anyway. It's like just like two games
I play on the phone and they cut you off
from the app, so they force you to buy a
new phone. Yeah, no, it's and the people could do
the phone business. And I study this stuff a little
bit because I'm interested. I we're in the advertising business.

(20:55):
We're on radio. We're selling your stuff on radio. I
guess I don't know, but I know in like TVs,
the TV business, they change the TVs every few years.
So you have to buy a new TV. They come
up with some new razzle dazzle, some technology, ultra HD
four K, yeah whatever. They just put some big words
on it, and people were all lemmings. We run to

(21:16):
Walmart buy a TV. At the December on Black Friday,
we run out to get a TV. So we got
that and then the phone game is the same thing.
The original Lifephone's fine, you could you didn't need to
change it. But you always have. You in business, you
always have to come up with a new product. And
the cool thing that they do, the Weasley thing that
they do in that business is you know, is they

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just they if you have a smartphone, the stuff doesn't
need As Roberto said, it stops working, so you have
to get a new phone. Yeah, it's a scam. It's
the damn scam, is what it is. Dick you. So
I'm gonna hold on to this charger because I hope
at some point I'll save up enough pennies where I'll
be able to that's a lot of pennies though those

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new phones. Man, Now this charger, you don't have to
plug your phone in, right, you just like lay it
on top of it appears to be a stand. It
says on it, it's time to take a stand, is
what it says. The future of charging is here. Yeah,
it's good advertising. So I'm excited, Tod. I hope this
still works by the time I get around to getting

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into phone. I don't think it's gonna be any time.
So I know exactly exactly. All right, So did you
see this story involving the New York Jets. So the
New York Jets, one of their big celebrity fans says
he's such a diehard fan of the team. He called

(22:38):
the Jets up and told them. But before the twenty
eighteen draft, this guy calls up the general manager of
the Jets and advises him to draft Lamar Jackson. All right,
of course the Jets didn't do that. Now, Lamar Jackson,
there were there were a lot of people who were skeptic.
I was skeptical of Lamar Jackson. He certainly was a

(22:59):
stiff his first year, and then at this year he's
put up MVP numbers. But did you see the name
of the comedian Eddie. It's no I'm racking my brain
to try and think of a celebrity Jets fan. Is
it like Kevin James or something like no, no, you're
not far away. It's someone I like a lot that
Cooper Loop hates and thinks isn't funny. But I think
the guy's hilarious. I laugh all the time. It's one

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of the few TV shows I don't watch a lot
of regular TV. I mostly yes, Larry David. Larry David
went on the Michael K Show in New York and
said he called up Mike mcagnan the Old Jets GM
and advised the team to take Lamar Jackson. And then
Larry larryus said, we have the audio or not, but

(23:42):
it's going on. But he said that the GM kind
of gave him a condescending answer and then laughed at him,
which is I think what you should do if a
comedian calls up and request you to draft someone, right,
I mean, he wouldn't like, you know, if Billy Crystal
called up the Clippers and said, hey, I got I
got a guy there in Indiana, you should get her, right,

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I mean, if Kevin Hart contacted the Lakers and said,
I know a guy who knows a guy for the
Orlando Magic who usually go yeah. So now I love
Larry David. I my my brother in law actually worked
on Curb Your Enthusiasm, the new season which is not
out yet, which I'm excited about. And I was very
concerned because my brother in law who works seat, he
works in the I don't want give too much away

(24:26):
because I don't get in trouble, but he works kind
of behind the scenes. He's on the stage crew, builds,
builds the sets and all that that kind of stuff. Uh. Yeah,
he's got a cool job. And so he told me
he's like he was doing the show and he said,
I think this is the last year. Every indication from
the people on shows, this is the last year at
Curb Enthusiasm. But then he told me recently that apparently
Larry had a change her heart wants to do another season,

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so there might be another season, which I'm excited. I
like the show. It's funny. You don't watch the show,
do you? None? None of you guys watched this. I've
seen something. Yeah, it's funny. I've seen what I've seen
pretty funny, but I regularly watch it. It's like loosely
scripted TV, right, I mean they have a premise and
then they kind of add libit through that. Have you

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seen that documentary on Netflix how Larry David got a
Dodger fan from oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah great. There
was a yeah, what was it he was on murder
chargers or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, charged with murder and
he was in the background while they're filming a yeah. Yeah,
that's pretty neat great. All right. If Larry David wants

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to give the Rams advice at this point, I think
we might when they might actually listen to Larry David
at this point, because Larry Prow would have said, don't
give Jared Golf the money and do not give the
money over there to the to the others. Maybe Larry
David has some advice for Andrew Freeman because he's not
doing so well. I don't know what you're talking about.
Big moves by the Dodgers. Big moves by the Dodgers.
All right, greatness in journalism, I think in Edward R.

(25:53):
Murrow Award could be handled out. This is I think
Marcel now is reporting on the NFL. Wait till you
hear this story. We'll get to that. But right now,
over to Eddy. We go to get you cut up
on everything going on overnight in sports, and we start
with head coaching news in the NFL, where the Carolina
Panthers have hired Baylor's Matt Rule to be their next
head coach. He reportedly gets a seven year deal worth

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sixty million dollars. He had a successful college head coaching
run at Temple, and Baylor guided the Bears this past
season two an eleven and three record. New York Giants
reportedly finalizing god Able to hire New England Patriots assistant
Joe Judge as their next head coach. Judge was a
special teams coordinator with the Patriots for four seasons before
adding the title of wide receiver coach this past year.
He has never been a head coach at any level.

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I've never been a head coach either. Why didn't they
hire me? It's a good question. I don't know. I
don't have the answer. Some NBA games a note. We
had the Lakers beating the Knicks one seventeen to eighty seven.
Lakers or thirty and seven, first team in the West
to hit the thirty win mark. But the big story
I had of this game is the status of Lakers
starry Anthony Davis fell hard on his back in the
third quarter left didn't return. They called it a Bruce
tailbone X rays were negative evolved on MRI on Wednesday,

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and he's back to miss the team's upcoming road trip.
Trailblazers get by the Raptors one o one to ninety nine,
Anthony hitting the game winner for Portland with four seconds
to play overtime for the Thunder to down the Nats
one to eleven two one oh three. Oklahoma City star
Chris Paul had twenty of his twenty eight points in
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that you're going to talk more in depth about this
guy that no one's ever heard of, that the New
York Giants are reportedly hiring as their next head. Don't
judge me now. There are reports earlier in the day
that the Giants wanted to seek permission from the Cowboys

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to speak with Jason Garrett about their offensive coordinator position.
Why not, He's still under contract with the Cowboys for
another week. And then there was later reports that they
were not requesting permission to interview with him, So we're
not sure who's right. Who's right? But didn't they say
when he was coaching the Cowboys that the Giants were
to hire him, that he usually the guy they want.

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That's what we heard. But if you're Jason Garrett, are
you gonna accept an offensive quitier job and there's some
guy no one's ever heard of, Well, depends how much
money you have in the bank. He could always get
a TV job. They'll put any of these ex coaches
or jocks on television to talk about the NFL, so
he could do that. That's a possibility. But those jobs
pay pretty well, and it would be kind of fun.

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I would think, if you're Jason Garrett, to stick it
to the Cowboys, your old team. If you have an
opportunity to do that a couple of times a year,
that'd be fun to get back at Jerry Jones and
the Cowboys and all that. Why not? All right? St
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(28:42):
dot com. For a free right quote, mister nice guy says,
I never thought I'd be longing for a Kyler alligator
Arms Murray monologue. But here we are. Well, mister nice giff,
you want me to do an oompa loompa monologue, I
will do that. You know, he fell apart at the
end of the year, did not have a good rookie
year was a zaster at the end of the year
for the Carolina Panthers. Teams figured them out. What I say,

(29:06):
I have Carolina on the mountain, that's mine, that's why,
or the mount but no Kyler Murray for for Arizona.
At the end of the year, the last five games
of the year was exposed against teams that were not
playoff teams. They figured them out. The jig is up
for Kyler Murra. I've determined that right now that jigs playoffs.
That's right, Yeah, that's correct. All right? Who else were

(29:26):
Let's see a forty nine of Robs has been Did
they get you the Jelly of the Month club as
your company Christmas gift that keeps on giving? Yeah? I
don't think that's not it, Rob, but I know you're
you probably got that at your job. He probably got that.
That's why he's bringing it up. Robin Vegas says, more
butt hurt jokes been. You're exciting Robbie the Mariner fan
with that kind of talk. I don't know why you

(29:46):
would say that. I have no idea why that would
come up here at all. Ernie the Greater Opiner says,
I have an iPhone five S E and it's still
working great. Well good, Yeah, I'm a hold on one
to this. I'm a whole lot of that. Maybe I'll
get a yeah, I'll get a rotary phone. I don't
like phone shamers though, people, Oh you don't have a
new phone. You know what's wrong with you? Your phone

(30:11):
should be in a museum. Screw you. Okay, I did
that to a friend of mine. That was he was
visiting from out of town and he asked me to
take a picture of him and his sons. They were
at the King's game on Saturday, and handed me his phone.
I was like, my god, this I think it's tiny.
It was. It was unbelievable. Yeah, anyway, all right, let's

(30:32):
go to the phone. Joe and Louisiana. Hello Joe, Hey,
what's going on? Big man man? Pleasure to you. I
appreciate that very kind of you. What's up? Hey? What's
going Hey? I was trying to control Laker fans because
I'm talking to him and then saying that if the

(30:53):
guys don't get squilled, if the Clippers don't squeak on
yeah the post season, that they'll be okay if they
see them in the several gay series And I'm just like, man,
that's not real, and I'm wanting to get your take
on that. Man, Now, who do you enjoy your Are
you a Clipper? Famut? Who a team do you like?

(31:15):
Joe I? I'm a Boston fan or you're a Celtics.
But so you're a Laker hater? Yeah? Okay, I honestand
I'm a Laker hater too. So that's a high five.
They're high high Yeah, they're high five right there? Why not? Well,
the ironic thing about the Clipper Laker thing is it
doesn't really matter if they play in the Western Conference

(31:37):
finals who's got home court, because they will have the
home locker room. They both When the teams play each other,
there's a hallway and so they're in their own locker room.
They just have to wear different laundry and the lighting
is a little different in the arena, but it's pretty
much the same thing, so it doesn't I mean, it's
an odd it was a home home court advantage, Well,
that would be a seven game series where every game

(31:59):
is in the same same venue. So it doesn't really
matter whether the Lakers have a better record or the
Clippers have a better record in their own beds. Yeah,
they get their own sleep number beds exactly right. But
I think if you want to joe this, if you
want a goof on Laker fans, you you bring up
Anthony Davis with a bruised tailbone. I hurt my tailbone
years ago. Now, it took me two years before and

(32:21):
I think it was even longer than that. I had
to sit on those pads, you know, those special cushion things. Yeah,
I had those. I was like an eighty year old dude.
I and I was driving around the car. I had
things kind of got messed up in the car and
I sat on the seat the wrong way and I
my tailbone just got destroyed. And uh, I'd like how

(32:44):
the Lakers are saying, Oh, he's only gonna miss a
couple of games against Dallas in Oklahoma City, and then
you'd be back. Yeah, I'm gonna take the over. I'll
bet you right, anyone who wanted, I'll bet you five
bucks that because we're so you agree with me, that's
not a bet if you agree with me, Joe, Joe,
you weren't in on this action. I'm saying Anton all right,
but you agree with me though, that he'll be over

(33:06):
two games, right, Joe? Oh yeah, yeah, all right, Yeah,
there you go. Because, Uh, the Lakers, I think Monday
they play the Cavaliers in LA and so I don't
think he plays in that game. So I would say,
don't playing that game, caps sock, and the Lakers probably
figure they can win that game without Anthony Davis White
rushing back. So he ain't gonna play in that game.

(33:27):
And uh, and judging by what he did there Joe
down near you in Louisiana, in New Orleans, I don't
think he's coming back anytime soon. How about that from
the guys, Yeah, exactly, kind of he's kind of fault.
He's kind. He's a mister softy. That's right, He's a
mister softie. That's great. Now, Now, Joe, what do you

(33:48):
do for a living there in Louisiana, Joe. Hey, I'm
labor man, you know, working poplace stuff like that. Oh
really blue collar guy, right, I got you? Oh cool?
All right, Well thank you Joe. I gotta go, thank you, mane.
All right, keep hating those Lakers. You know what's funny
is the actually have friends that work for the Lakers.
I've known people for a long time to work there.

(34:10):
In fact, the public address announcer of the Lakers, Lawrence
Lawrence Tanter, was an old radio guy in LA. I
love Lawrence, and he actually might call him the show
one of these nights. Oh cool, yeah yeah, and I yeah,
we'll make a job when he calls into the show.
Oh yeah. He's got the pipes and he ran a

(34:31):
jazz radio station. Friend. In fact, I think he I've
talked to him on the years, but somebody told me
he was working at one of the boss job. He's
like a boss jock. Back in the early one, radio
really was huge and all that was the Lake great
Joe McDonald Was he a Laker guy? Was he a
Clipper game? Oh? Joe McDonald was. I mean he and
Jerry West were besties. They hung out. He was a

(34:52):
mister Laker guy. Joe McDonald the old LA talk show host.
May he rest in peace. He was all about the
Lakers and yeah, and he had like inside or informational anyway,
it is the Ben Maller Show. We will press on
time now for the who am I? Game? Through the
first eleven weeks this season, I lead the NBA with
the most deflected passes. Again, through the first eleven weeks.

(35:15):
I remember Phil Jackson when Chicago and with the Lakers
used to say, hands on balls, hands on balls, right,
deflect those passes. I lead the NBA with the most
deflected passes. Who am I? The answer? And the NBA
pick him next. Be sure to catch live editions of
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(35:36):
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(35:57):
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a couple of minutes, But first, who am I game?
Through the first eleven weeks of the season, I lead

(36:19):
the NBA with the most deflected passes? Who am I?
That is the question? What's the answer? The brit is
going with Chocolate Thunder Daryl Dawkins as his answer. Mannic
Mike says it's Ben Simmons, the Aussie Tom from Fullerton
checks in with Julius Doctor Jay Pooh Richardson guess by

(36:40):
Lazy Casey, our former colleague here at Fox Sports Radio.
See can't read there, I can't close the deal, Neil.
I think you spelled that name wrong. I think you
spelled that name wrong. David's going with Hugh Hefner as
his answer. Mookie Blaylock guess by Chris Mookie Betts named
after Mookie Blaylock. There's a fun fact, Ben walla guest

(37:01):
by Trucker Joe Fear the Frow. I think he's what
he was getting at here. Who else? Lawson's going with?
Bobby Portis Craig in the Camel City and the Carolina
says Michael Cooper's knee high socks is the correct answer.
Justin and Cincinnati says, I ran sympathizer. Robbie the Mariner

(37:22):
fan is the answer. I don't know where that came from,
Lisa Ann guest by Travis Jennet Jamison from Milkman, Mike,
we know where these guys are going. V Stiviano from Nate.
That's Donald Sterling's old right hand man. Caleb's going with
my favorite Clipper. That's right, Patrick Beverley. I love the
junkyard dog, Patrick Beverley. He annoys everyone. I like guys

(37:43):
like that. Everyone I know everyone's annoyed by. Patrick Beverley,
gets under everyone's skin. He's a pest. Parker the snow
Dog's going with Tony Coo coach Dennis Robmin's Hair. Guests
by Legally Blind Christopher and the Carolinas Eddie, do you
have an answer? I can go on and I'll be
a lot of answers. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's Vladimir Radmanovich,
Vladi Radmanovich? Is it Radmanovitch? Sorry, not Vladimir Rodmanovitch. It's

(38:07):
not the total package. Lex Luger Guests by Rob in
Vegas All right. The correct answer here Drew Holiday of
the New Orleans Pelicans. How about that for an odd answer?
One hundred and fifty three deflected passes. That is number one,
ahead of Chris Dunne of the Chicago Bulls. Ben Simmons

(38:30):
is number three, and Andre Drummond of the Pistons is
also on the list. And that ends. NBA trivia is
what it does. So it's the end of that. The
Malar militia though very active here chiming, I'm pushed back
the story that we had, which is it just a
great story. It is involving journalism and Edward R. Murrow.

(38:55):
We're gonna push that back for time reasons. Who the
real Martin? Says Mallard my Denver. No real Martin's at
the airport in Denver, says my Denver. Broncos should bring
back Wade Phillips to the Mile High City. Can you
make some phone calls and make it happen? Absolutely, Martin.
I am gonna make some phone I'll send some texts.

(39:16):
I'll send some text and I will make that happen.
I learned also reading some of the comments from the
p ones here that Matt the Warrior Raider as fan
is one of these people that phone shame you. Like
he's trying to phone shame me on social media because
I have an iPhone five S and six iPhones behind.

(39:36):
You know what I don't like though, the new iPhones
they don't have like a headphone plug, and I don't
like that. That bothers me. I'm annoyed by that. What
else don't I like? They don't have a button, right,
the new iPhones don't have a button. I need a button.
I'm a button guy. I like pushing button. No, I
need a button. I demand a button. I'm seriously if

(39:58):
they come out with like the iPhone thirteen it's got
a button, I mean I'll buy the whatever the new
iPhone is with a button. I demand buttons. My position
for the twenty twenty election pro buttons. That's my position.
Get the wireless uh earbuds too, na, I'll lose him.
I don't get the other thing. I'm gonta sound like

(40:18):
the old guy Eddie. I don't get I know everyone's
obsessed with air pods. I don't get it. Like I
can go get some ten dollars headphones that work just
the same. It doesn't matter why those are one hundred
and fifty bucks, aren't there. Yeah, and I know I
want him because I'll lose him. I want. I know
of court attached to it's I can find it easier.
I agree with you. But we're all man, can't. I

(40:41):
mean you we're not cool. Don't you go to the gym?
Use that I use headphones to the gym. But here's
the other problem. The gyms. You the gym is archaic
that I go to and you have to plug in.
He doesn't do it. So, yeah, all right, we better
get to the NBA pick and we're gonna run out
of the time. We don't need to get to it.
I mean, Eddie doesn't want to do it. I'm fine
on doing it now. Roberto wants to do it. It's

(41:02):
the NBA pickard. The music, Yeah, we just played the
John tesh movie music. You would like the music. It's
good music. Doesn't Fox Sports one? Yeah they're using that. Yeah,
college basketball games that put this on there? All right, Eddie,
go ahead, Eddie, Luca done. I did not have him
on my board. Help me. I'll go with James Harden.

(41:24):
Come on, you're not supposed to try to wind you.
We're not gonna have you in again, Roberto Johns, I
think that kompole all right, I am gonna take give
me the Kohli Yoki, and I will also take any
meany mighty Mo Trey Young, Trey Young, Roberto, Rudy Gobert.
Rudy Gobert is off the board. Back to Lee we go.

(41:45):
It's the NBA pick them. I'll go with Bradley Beal.
Alright again, you're trying to win, Lee. I don't like that, Eddie.
I will take Seahawks quarterback Russell Westbrook. All right, this
get you out by you. Here's a big game against
the Packers this weekend. Go ahead, Lee, Kemball, Hey, you
got one more d Brandon Ingram all right, Brandon Ingram,
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(42:07):
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Don't judge me, I gotta judge you. I mean that's

(42:28):
my job. I come in here and I sit on
my bully pulpit, and I Judge. People welcome in the
beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show. We
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(42:49):
Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on
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free ray quote. So we have coach is flying in
the air everywhere around the NFL. Last hour a featured
Malon monologue on someone named Matt Rule. Who is the
new head coach of the Carolina Panthers. You need to

(43:10):
get a pad of paper and take notes because there
will be a quiz later. The New York slash New
Jersey NFL scene, there's a new head coach there, And
if you were not listening, you've not heard. Maybe you've
been out of the loop here. I don't know how
you could have missed it, but maybe you did. The Giants,
the New York Football Giants have agreed to hire who

(43:36):
Joe Judge. Please pick up your parting gift on the
way out, because you are a loser. Yes, you do
not win the game. The Spate Patriots Special teams coach.
The problem with hiring guys from the Patriots is what
Bill Belichick is all mighty and all powerful and all compassing,

(44:00):
and he pretty much controls everything. So but Joe Judge
gets the job he was thought. The assumption was, you
know what happened between zoom, he was gonna be the
offensive coordinator for the Patriots if Josh McDaniels had laughed.
And how about McDaniels. You talk about a kick in
the you know what I mean, You don't get the
Giants job and a guy who doesn't have your resume
gets the Giants job. That's embarrassing. That is a humiliation situation.

(44:27):
And so Joe Judge should become the hot name for
the Patriots. They loved him supposedly. Of course, now I
don't know what to believe in what's real and what's
not real. But they made the move there, and he
was going to either be the offensive coordinator McDaniels left,
or the head coach at his alma mater, Mississippi State.
So he doesn't get either of those jobs. Instead he's

(44:48):
skyrockets to an NFL head coaching job and the number
one media market. How about that? Another young field janual.
He's thirty eight years old, Judge becomes the third youngest
head coach, behind Sean McVay, who's still the youngest coach
in the NFL I think is thirty three, and Zach Taylor,

(45:08):
who soon will be the former coach of the Bengals
given another year, he's thirty six years old. So that
the Giants, though, are being absolutely charboiled and spit roasted
because of this move. Judge is seen as someone who
should not have been given the job, that it was
a courtesy interview and the New York media establishment, many

(45:29):
of them are very upset that they did not hire
an established, big name coach, someone like Ron Rivera who
went to the Redskins, or Mike McCarthy who went to
the Cowboys. They like, what is this? Or even Matt Rule.
They wanted buzz the media in New York, I get it.
You want buzz instead, you got buzz kill is what

(45:50):
you got. That's what you got. So let's discuss are
people being too hard? It's too hard? Are they being
too hard on the Giants over this? Joe Judge Hire,
I'm gonna veto that line of thinking. Now I've got
Sandra Bullock, cherry picking and Fox news, and we will
combine these three things and we'll tie them all together. Now, hey,

(46:12):
the Giants, let's call it like it is here. We're
all grown up. So the Giants got caught napping. That's
what happens. They were taking a nap, like hollering James.
There they were snoring. How's that for a hollering James
in person? Is? It's not bad? Right? Not quite the
full water buffalo. But the Giants assumed the position that

(46:37):
they had an elite coaching job. And it turns out
this was a massive miscalculation because Ron Rivera and McCarthy
and Rule and all these other guys, these coaches that
were supposedly the leaders and the race, the popular pick
by popular people, did not pick Big Blue said. They

(47:00):
went over three, in fact, never getting a chance to
hire and even talk to a couple of those guys. Now,
my theory on this is simple. The Giants ended up
with Joe Judge as their coach because they are guilty
of equal parts arrogance and anxiety. What I mean by
that the arrogance of New York City mixed with the

(47:24):
false bravado that that is a legacy job that any
coach would want and turn down other teams, a real
blue blood of the NFL the Giants and pump their
chest out. We're an iconic franchise. We're a big effing deal.
Who doesn't want to work for us. It's the same

(47:44):
thing that happened to the Lakers. The Lakers assumed every
elite coach, everyone they wanted would want to work for
the Purple and Goal. They ended up being rejected by
several coaching candidates said I want nothing to do with you,
and they were forced to hire Frank Vogel. How the
anxiety part for the Giants is simple. When Matt Rule,

(48:05):
Matt Rule, a big Apple native, took the money and
ran to the Carolinas. The Giants they were like the
old Sandra Bullock character in the blockbuster movie back in
the day, The Blindside, Right. They were like you know
that character because they were caught off guard. This was
a kick to the nuts and a stomach punch. The Giants,

(48:30):
you gotta think the morale down the sewer. So they
had this anxiety that, oh my god, we're uncomfortable. This
is awkward. They panicked, they had a panic attack. They
circled the wagons and Presto you hire this no name now.
Part B. I always appreciate the damage control. And I'm

(48:50):
I've been around long enough, and I'm such a cynic
that I love what's going on right now because the
Giants franchise looks like a bunch of silly dufass a
bunch of dingle berries, right Mama Luke's. And so what
they're doing here because that nobody wants to admit that
they got hornswoggled. Nobody wants to admit that they were bamboozled.

(49:13):
So what they did is the Giants are positioning this
through their media surrogates as a bold higher It is,
as we often say, a trip to the laundromat. The
spin cycle has been turned all the way up. The
Giants claimed that this is very similar to when the
Ravens hired John Harbaugh, who had never been a head

(49:34):
coach before was a special team's coach. And I believe
Philadelphia and they're using John Harball as a shining example
of how this is going to work out. Now, you
know what that is cherry picking. That is known as
cherry picking. It's also in legal parlance, I believe the
term is lie of omission because going back to biblical times.

(49:57):
You can look this up. I'm not making it up.
Look it up. There's lists on the internet go back
to Biblical times. Most head coaches who get hired without
ever being an offensive or defensive coordinator, you know what
they do. A trapdoor opens up and they go down
to a pit of vipers. That's what happens. Telling you
seeing it. Hell, do you want an example. I'll give

(50:18):
you an example. Freddie Kitchens, who happens to have a
history with Joe Judge and Alabama and all that back
in the day. You can talk about Joe Judge's coaching pedigree.
The Giants are trying to spend that right. Following a
stint with Nick Saban at Alabama, he joined Bill Belichick
and the Patriots special teams assistant back in twenty twelve.

(50:41):
And I also read somewhere that Bill Belichick gave a heartfelt,
glowing endorsement. Blah blah blah blah blah. Spin spin, spin, spin, spin,
spin spin. Now, people that make a big deal about that,
I don't understand. I'm not smart enough. So maybe you
can explain it to me, like I'm five years old.
To my knowledge, Bill Belichick, you know what he does.

(51:02):
He always indorses his assistant coaches, his underlings. They're the
people that work with him there as friends, and it
helps Belichick when these guys go out and become head coach.
What coach doesn't do that. You'd be the king of
the dingling if you don't indorse your assistant coaches. So
that is meaningless. I take all of that with a

(51:24):
grand assault mount. If you look at the situation here
with the Giants, I am convinced they I know for
a fact they didn't want to hire this guy judge,
because give him my evidence. Even after Matt Rule had
agreed to take the Carolina Panther head coaching job, he
apparently gave a courtesy call to the Giants and said, listen,
you know, I know I was gonna you brought me

(51:46):
a plane ticket, I was gonna go an interview for
the job, but unfortunately I got this other job and
I'm not going to be taking the job. I'm sorry.
Even after Matt Rule took his name out of the
running for the Giants job, the Giants still asked him
to interview anyway. Does that sound like a franchise that
was ready to judge and go with the Joe Judge,

(52:07):
I don't think so, maybe you do. That sounds like dysfunction.
Junction is what it sounds like to me. What's your
function now? The last warrior? So Joe Judge is mister
nobody man with no name. Now I understand that every
somebody started out as a nobody, and that there's a
chance that Joe Judge will get the last laugh here.

(52:29):
And people say, oh, I can't believe you're questioned this higher.
But don't hold your breath. He's never been a head
coach at any level. Now, I'm not saying college or
the NFL, even like high school. Like imagine your first
leading role is on Broadway that you've never even been
in a high school musical or an elementary school play,

(52:52):
and your first as the leading actor and your first
job is on Broadway, not off Broadway. On Broadway, by
the way, you know the difference between off Broadway and
on Broadway. The only difference. I learned this from somebody
that one of my cousins used to work on Broadway.
The only difference is the number of seats in the theater.
That's it. The ones that have more seats are Broadway,

(53:13):
and the ones that have fewer seats are off Broadway.
Isn't that crazy? Was the odd things you learn along
the path of life? Anyway, back to get to the point,
because this is strange Brook, right, you know you asked
the question what could possibly go wrong? This is a baffling,
underwhelming hire. At least, though I will give the Giants

(53:35):
this much credit, it's not Josh McDaniels. So at least
they didn't hire Josh mcdans. Now, if you want to
hire someone who's got some name value, you know, I'm
old school. I don't think Judge Wapner is alive in him.
I think he's dead, so he can't hire him. But
how about Judge Apolitano a Fox News there's a famous judge.
He lives in New Jersey. Judge Napolitano lives in He's
a big name. Right, come on, Simon Cowell, the TV

(53:57):
reality judge, Simon Cowell, you can hire him him, any
of these judges TV. They're all kinds of TV judges.
So this Joe judge hire continues to speed up the disintegration,
the humiliation and all that other nonsense about the Giants.
You know, the Giants, all those championships that they've won

(54:17):
over the years and a blue blood of the NFL.
Despite all that past success, the Giants are an NFL
worst twelve and thirty six since the start of the
twenty seventeen season. Holy Michael Strahan, I mean, what is

(54:37):
going on here? Daniel Jones. I've also heard from some
of the Giant PR people that, boy, this guy Daniel Jones,
what a great guy this guy is. How do you
know that I have not been overly impressed. I have
not not at all like the Daniel Jones doesn't he

(54:58):
doesn't have a sea legs underneath him. There's no guarantee
he will ever be an established product as a big
time quarterback in the NFL. All right, it is the
Ben Mathers Show on Fox. As we press on here
and let's go to the phone and we will say
hello to let me see here you this button right here.

(55:19):
I like this button right here because I like hitting buttons.
Let's go to holler and James in Minneapolis, Minnesota, who
I think is in the running for caller of the Week.
I think he could win call No. Two nights in
a row. That shows you that Joe Judge is a

(55:41):
bad hire for the giants. I did a Joe Judge
monologue the first Call. I'd take the guys on a
snooze cruise. I'd like to interview Holler and James. Holler
and James Big Newsday Today. That's right, let me talk, Okay,

(56:03):
I'll let you talk. So what do you think of
Anthony Davis? Oh? Wow, you're upset by his injury? I
get it. How long do you think he's gonna be out? Whoa,
that's a long time. All right, let's go down. We
got sorry, we got coaches that have been hired. I
know you're excited. You're excited. So what do you think

(56:24):
of Joe? Joe? Not much? Huh oh yeah, okay, all right,
come down. What about Matt rule? Matt? Yes, okay, all right,
we got Matt rule there. That's good. See. Who do
you think the Cleveland Browns are gonna hire? Whoa? Whow?

(56:49):
Now that would be a big name. Yes, that is right.
I'm agreeing with you. That is a big name there. Unbelievable. Yeah,
how un should the astros? Whoa? Okay, how long should
a j. Hinch be suspended? Oh wow, he's just said

(57:11):
for life? He said suspended for life? Yeah, well, thank you,
great job, Thank you. I gotta go, James, thank you.
Three nights in a row. First night we did the

(57:33):
old classic radio bid I can't hear you. That was fun.
Last night he called up. He fell asleep, and again
he's falling asleep. He's trying to win caller of the year.
Hollering James is trying to win caller of the year
is what he's trying to do. Ernie, the great old
Pinea rights and says, Ben, I am no NFL expert

(57:54):
like yourself, but if your GM who is going to
pick the Belichick Patriot tree, wouldn't you go after like
one of the Patriots strong suits, but not the area
where they were the weakest, the receiver's position. Well, yeah, Ernie,
I you know that's a good cheap shot. I get it.
But he was also the special teams coach, although again

(58:15):
I believe Belichick is the overlord of all that. Yeah, absolutely, guy, right,
since says you need to add the laugh track all
you can add the laugh track all the want, all
you want. This is bad rating. Oh yeah. He gets
upset when we do the Halloween James bit. Should we
retire the Halloween James bit? When the guy snores like that.
I think gots a fun bit. I liked. That's funny man. Yeah,

(58:39):
come on sticking up, yeah, lighten up, life short man.
Enjoy the ride. Just come on, it's wrong. We slap
you around a little bit, all right. Spen Ola Show
on Fox, The Edward R. Murrow Story of the Week.
We'll get to that, and Hall of Famers. All of

(59:00):
famers now predicting where Tom Brady is going to end up.
Will it be back to the Patriots, will it be
to Team X? Or retirement? We'll look at the Sue
Sayers of pro football. We'll get to that, and we
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or not enough? Also pass word the word Game of
the Stars, all of that down the line. Who knew
that our most polarizing caller would be hollering Jane. I
had no idea. Jonathan MGM Jones is hollering James should
be banned like the astros should be banned. Who absolutely not,

(01:00:28):
no exactly. Webe doing an overnight show. People fall asleep
all the time. I wish I could take a nap.
I would rather hear the storing some of our other calls.
Some are pointing that out as well, but others are
saying he should not be allowed on the show. There's
a lot of mixed reaction. Ben says, two nights in
a row of Holler and James snoring. I love it.
The Yazzi guy agrees with you. Eddie says, Holler and

(01:00:49):
James just made more sense than most of your regular caller.
Tom from Fullerton says that Holler and James is so
good he should get his own show on Fox Sports Radio,
and then he takes it's a shot at the people
that filled in for me. How dare you holler and James.
Nestor points out that I am high on Hollering James.
His insight was right on point. I agree. Pam says

(01:01:15):
that hollering James Pam and Kansas City says, Holler and
James needs to change his name to snooze and James. Yeah, well,
he got the nickname Hollering James when he first started
calling us years and years ago, and he started calling
us up and screaming in the middle of the night
and hollowing. He actually got evicted from his home his

(01:01:35):
apartment because of our show because he kept loved to
show so much, and he started screaming and hollering in
the middle of the night like all the time, and
he ended up getting evicted. But he got a nickname
out of it, so that it wasn't like a completely
sad story because he got a nickname and a radio nickname.
Not everyone gets a radio nickname. David says the Holler
and Jame bit is stupid. But funny, Yeah, points him.

(01:01:59):
That's his way of saying, I'm an educated man, but
I can laugh at your stupidity. That's what are you saying.
The Palm Desert Rat says that Anthony Davis has hurt
so often he needs to change his nickname from the
brow to the owl. That's pretty good. That's a good line.

(01:02:21):
I might have to steal that. I might I might
have to steal that. Justin and Cincinnati says it's obvious
that Ernie is no NFL expert because he's a tool
that blocks anyone who disagrees with his punk ass. That
is bitter and broken Justin and Cincinnat's caller on caller
or tweeter on Twitter crime, here's the guy. In my opinion,

(01:02:43):
is Joe Judge and Aaron Judge related? Are they related? No? No,
they are not. I've not seen the DNA, but I
am told they are not related. All. Right, to the
phones we go, and let's say hello to Christopher, who's
in Houston. I was gonna save him for later, but
he's been on hold for a while, so we'll get
to them right now. Hello, Christopher Free. Like the Giants

(01:03:05):
mistakenly thought they were getting Aaron Judge, Joe Judge. So
maybe some dumb, some dumb Yankee fans will think that
it's Aaron Judge these moonlighting as a football coach, and
then they'll go out and support the New York Giants.
Now being I'll hunt something to day, I'll watch these
Lakers beat up on these sorry Nicks and Stuffy twenty
one and against losing teams. Yeah, so that's great. You

(01:03:28):
beat up on the bad teams. You're supposed to do that.
I'm not going to written for that. You're supposed to
beat up the bad team. So they're thirty and what seven?
So that means there? What nine and seven are just
teams that actually mean something? Yeah, yeah, that's why they're Listen,
we're around knocked out. They're paper Tiger, Chris. We know
that your Rockets have a better chance of winning the
championship this year, tweeto dumb and tweedle dude do have

(01:03:53):
a better chance because the Lakers, they don't have nobody
except Lebron and ad And once they get hurt, y'all
back with car Will Pope. Well, Anthony Davis has already
he's already hurt. As you know, the man's already injured.
He's got a bad took. His body's following apart. Don't
get the fact that the GM came and fit it.
And we ain't talking about Polka. We're talking about Lebron's tody,

(01:04:16):
the real GM mother Lakers, Rich Paul. I know he
came and told the media how great Rich Paul is
running the Lakers, how embarrassing. Jerry Buss is rolling over
in his grave somewhere. But I mean, how what are
you doing here? And Kawai's uncle's running the Clippers. No,
he's not. Uncle Dennis is not running the Clippers. He
owns the Clippers. He's not running the team. He owns
the team. Right, Hey man, hey man, I'm telling you.

(01:04:43):
But Ben, I'm looking and they were talking about Kyrie Irvan.
I mean, yeah, dude, I looked at the last this decade,
the number one picks in the NBA. What I just
shake my head and all is drinking this shame. I mean,
if it wasn't for Lebron going back to Cleveland helping
Kyle re win the title, this is pathetic. None of
these guys actually turned any friends out around. Yeah, well,

(01:05:04):
and you're right. I mean, the thing about it too.
Which makes it even more outrageous is how many teams
have thrown away portions of you know, decades to try
to get that franchise player with the number one pick
and you end up with Marquel Fulter, DeAndre Ayton or
Andrew Wiggins or or even worse. Yeah, and they betted

(01:05:25):
that was a He's still playing around so many he
wasn't he with the rockets and training? Yeah? Yeah, they
picked him up for a while, then they dropped him.
You know, Leke, give him a sight of whatever. Ben Simmons.
Ben Simmons is the most overrated player in the NBA.
To say he's a star in this ridiculous, dude. I mean, yeah, well,
you know, he's like dating a Kardashian Spain, so yeah,

(01:05:47):
he's got the Kylie Jender Kardashian curse thing going on.
So so let me guess you're gonna try to tie
his Red Sox crappy into the Astro stuff. I don't know,
I don't need to tie that. Major League Ball has
already tied it together. The Astros are involved with the
Red Sox. The Astros are they've hurt the iconic Boston
Red Sox doing business by the Red Sox with the

(01:06:08):
Astros is hurting, is hurting the Boston Red Sox and
they must. I hate to say it because I like
the Red Sox where they must be punished. What, oh
my god, come on, come on, that's the Red Sox.
You're wrong, you're wrong. I'll do a malar monologue on
this later, but you are wrong, and it'd better be

(01:06:30):
a still more too. Don't get that old half half ben.
I'm gonna go guns ablaze and I'm gonna bring in
my tank. Yeah, I got my tank, bringing the whole
art through being and I'm out. I know you got
all thank you? All right? And well he knows the
clock better than let me point out. Also little Birdie,

(01:06:51):
Little Birdie tells me that by the super Bowl, major
League Baseball will punish the Astros. Buy the super Bowl.
Now if it's just gonna be a fine though, that's
all it's getting. No, let me tell you something. Ban
them for life. Ban ban ban ban band, ban ban band,

(01:07:14):
my own song band, band, ban men men, ban ban
bann men band, the Astro song ban ban ban ban
ban ban that's what we're gonna do. Ye, Come on,
that's a shame. The Red Sox did be You know,
you know, you gotta be careful who you do business with.
You know, you do business with shady people like former astros,
and this stuff happens Bad news all Right's Ben Mallard

(01:07:36):
Show on Fox got Mallard to the third you greet
a whole bunch of other good stuff to get to
as well, including the Eventually, I'll get to it. I'm
one of my favorite stories. I'll get to it next.
But right now, Eddie to enlighten you on all that's
going on overnight in sports, and we start with news
from the NFL, where the Carolina Panthers have hired Baylor's
Matt Rule to be their next head coach. He reportedly
gets a seven year deal where sixty million dollars. Rule

(01:07:58):
had successful college head coaching stints at Temple and Baileory
a guide at the Bears this past season to an
eleven and three records. The New York Giants are reportedly
finalizing a deal to hire in New England Patriots assistant
special teams coordinator with New England for four seasons before
adding the title of wide receivers coach this pastor. He
has never been a head coach at any level in

(01:08:19):
the NBA. The Lakers beat the Knicks one seventeen to
eighty seven. Lakers or thirty and seven on the year.
First team in the West hit the thirty win. Mark
big story though out of this game as a status
of Lakers story at that Davis fell hard on his
back and the third quarter left didn't return. They're calling
it a bruce tailbone, devastating injury, could be career ending Eddy. No,
that's not true. Negative X rays are negative MRI coming.

(01:08:39):
If you don't, if your tailbone is damaged, why are
they having an MRI? If he's fine, I just I
didn't say it was fine. But he's not cost a
lot of MRI costs. They're not gonna waste that. Why
they think he's left up. Yeah, he's gonna miss the
upcoming road. Trimmer panish Lake, your fans, panic, you historians,
you're pathetic. College basketball, we had number twelve, Maryland, number eleven,

(01:09:00):
Ohio State sixty seven to fifty five. Couple upsets. Boston
College knocked off number eighteen, Virginia sixty to fifty three.
Rutgers beat number twenty, Penn State, seventy two sixty one
wins for number four Baylor, number thirteen Louisville, number fourteen Kentucky,
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(01:09:25):
Ben and then there was one one NFL team yet
to fill their head coaching vagancy. We saved the best
for last. The Cleveland Browns still looking for a new
head coach. So apparently they want to have a head
coach by Saturday, according to the report. I'm sure now
they're going to visit with Eagles divisive coordinator Jim Schwartz
later today. They the Schwartz be with you. They've got

(01:09:46):
Vikings offensive coordinator Kevin Steffenski in Cleveland on Thursday, and
they'll cap it off with Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels
on Friday. Now, do you know who's making the decision
on who the Browns coach is going to be? Did
you see who they're de fact they fired the GM Yeah?
You saw who the new GM is or the interim GM.
Who's Jimmy Haslum that would be making the well he

(01:10:09):
has the final say. However, it is interesting to note,
and I love this because it ties into one of
the teams that I like, the Cleveland Browns. The person
who will decide the list of candidates and while the
list down is former Los Angeles Dodgers general manager Paul
de Podesta. Yeah, so I think and Roberto backmham Is.

(01:10:30):
I think that he stopped Choi will be the new
coach of the Cleveland They will bring in he stopped Choi.
He will be the head coach there. I think that'll
be a bold move. I like it. What a life
de Podesta has had. This guy was the moneyball guy.
He was a character in a movie there, the Moneyball
movie they made there back in the day Hill. He's

(01:10:51):
been a general manager of baseball. His name wasn't using
that movie, I know. But he's running a he's running
an NFL team. Not a lot of people people have
run teams in two different supports. Member stan Casting used
to be the GM of the and the Atlanta Hawks
and the Thrashers, and he was like the president of
the Thrashers did a great Yeah, deeple Tess has never

(01:11:12):
won anything, No, but he's got great upside. He got great,
great up just just tremendous. So my favorite story. I
want to get this real quick. I'll get back to
it later. So one of the rumors that popped up
for the aforementioned Cleveland Browns was a person who reported
that CFL coach Ryan Dinwoodie, who was hired as the

(01:11:35):
Toronto Argonauts. Yeah, the Argonauts coach was in the running
for the Browns job. Who Now, this report came out
of Cleveland, and it was a long time Cleveland Browns
reporter who cited multiple sources. Well, it turns out this
is great. This is people ripped the media. And I'm

(01:11:57):
in the media, I guess, but I'm doing overnight, so
I'm not mainstreams, so I can goof on everyone too.
But this guy reported that multiple sources said the CFL
coach was up for the Brown's job. It all originated
from a single fake text message and the writer from
Cleveland and he's been out at here, Tony GROSSI I

(01:12:20):
believe it is his name. That's the name that people
are putting in these stories. But he got a message
from a number. He didn't know the number. He then
wrote a story around the text message and then added
on unless there was some other fake text that came
in that said this is the case. In fact, the

(01:12:41):
copy of the conversation is on the internet. I believe
it's to be real. And the message said, Hey, Tony,
I know this is insane, but depot Paul de Potesta
is looking at former Boise State quarterback Ryan Dinwoody as
a Candidate's even more nutty because he just got hired,
as the Argonauts said, December nineteen. So then the writer
writes back, sorry, who is this? And the guy says,

(01:13:04):
you can call me a friend, he says, and that
turned out to be a story. It reminds me I
got a text the other day from a number that
I did not have in my phone that said the
Dallas Cowboys we're going to hire a new head coach.
And this guy knew who it was. Who was it

(01:13:25):
going to be? He had said in the text message
he said the Cowboys were going all in on Lincoln Riley.
So you know what I did? I wrote back, I said,
who is the person didn't say? I said, I'll make
a deal with you. If Lincoln Riley is hired as
the Cowboy coach, we will leave your number on my phone.

(01:13:48):
If not, you're blocked. I blocked the guy, you know.
I don't know I got my number anyway. It is
the Ben Mallows Show on Fox. We got Mallard to
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brought to you by Discover Card because we treat you
like you. Trivial could be I think it is hello,
led a Lap. Hey, Ben, We'll take a lap with
lead a Lap. You've never heard that in elementary score? No,
I never heard that one. Yeah, all right, you'd you'd
actually mentioned stan Casting. Will. In an interview with the
La Times, Dodgers president Stancasting says he expects the team

(01:14:31):
will go over the luxury tax line. Yeah, Ben, do
you believe him? Well? The thing I know is this
never believes stand cast. And that's what I know that
that's not just standcasting. He has been an executive for
forty years. He was hired as a kid by Ted
Turner back in the day to Run. I think it
was the Atlanta Hawks in the in the like the eighties.

(01:14:54):
Uh maybe even I might be in the seventies, might
have been the seven I mean, it was a ridiculous
amount of time. But anyway, bidy halt that. The fact
that he's been an executive that long. You can't listen
to a thing he says and take it seriously. The
Dodgers have won the offseason in terms of talk. They
have been mentioned for every big name free agent. Right.

(01:15:14):
They talk a good game. The Dodgers. They're interested in everybody.
They want to trade for everybody. They get nobody. They
get nobody. And here's when I believe stand casting when
they actually go out and get somebody I've heard of
and they walk the walk instead of just talking to
talk and be listen. We've said this before Stan Casting.

(01:15:36):
Some people like him, some people hate him. I've seen
him assault writers in the press box verbally. He happened
last year. He did. But the way I would answer
this with Casting, the and the Dodgers is they want
to model themselves after the nineteen ninety Atlanta Braves. They
want to hold on to every young player They're convinced
every of their mind, every one of their minor league
players is going to be the next big thing and

(01:15:57):
all that stuff. They don't want to trade any of them.
By the way, Stancasting was the president of the Atlanta
Braves in the nineties when they won every year and
the only won one World Series. The Dodgers assumed the
law of averages. It's gonna kick in here, and just
by being in the playoffs every year, just by dumb luck,
they're gonna win. Good luck. I don't think it works

(01:16:19):
that way all right. Next, after coming in late to
replace the Marcus Cousins, Lakers centered Dwight Howard will have
his hunt track guaranteed. Yeah, Ben, are you surprised by
the turnaround by Dwight Howard. Yes. I mean last time
we talked about Twight Howard before this year, there was
a guy accusing him of like owing him money and
a gay relationship. I don't know what happened with that,
but but this is wild. I mean, number one, this

(01:16:42):
had all the makings of a titanic. Twight Howard passed
around the last couple of years like a fruit pie
at Christmas. I mean, he has become a basketball hobo.
He's a vagabond, bouncing from team to team to team.
The reason his reputation receives him a toxic player, a
bad apple. Teammates don't like him, he's disingenuous, he's had

(01:17:05):
a fake smile, all those things. But to his credit
so far, apparently Dwight Howard is trying to change his reputation.
He's been on his best behavior. It's like a boy scout.
So good for him. But the second thing, you know,
time will tell whether this actually will work out or not. No,
I would assume the position that Dwight is going to
be on his best behavior because he wants another contract,

(01:17:26):
he wants to get paid again, and so eventually he'll
get back to his old habits. Old habits die hard.
But yeah, he's done a good job, and I didn't expect.
I thought he'd be gone by now. All right, next,
all right, ben Texas quarterback Sam Ellinger has announced he's
gonna return for his senior season. That's big. Do you
think Texas has a legitimate shot at finally being back

(01:17:47):
next year? Well? They better right. First of all, this
guy Tom Herman. I've talked about this before, but Tom Herman.
He has been like Jim Harbaugh of the Lone Stars Stay.
Actually Harbaugh's got a better record than Tom Herman, but
it's the same concept, right, wins a fair amount of games,
and hardball can't beat Ohio State and Herman can't beat Oklahoma.

(01:18:10):
So he's owing three against Boomers. Sooner the Longhorns again.
If they produce a team that goes to the Alamo
Bowl instead of a bigger bowl, the Natives will get restless.
Herman's going into year four. You don't normally get many
more years than that if the program is treading water
in mediocrity. And I want to point out that this guy,

(01:18:32):
the Texas coach Tom Herman, now I am pulling for
him because he was an intern at Extra Sports eleven
fifty in Los Angeles, a radio station I worked at
in the nineties, and I was hosting a show and
he was a weekend like. He was a promotions guy,
part time producer, and he realized there was no future

(01:18:54):
in radio and he went into coaching. He left to
become a coach. Now, I want you to know at
that time, I was doing a midday show in the
number one radio market Los Angeles and he was in
like a weekend producer. He went to go coach football.
He is now making twelve million dollars a year in Austin, Texas,
and I am doing overnights on Fox Sports Radio. So

(01:19:19):
we're both making I'm making a little bit less than
twelve million dollars. If you're bad at math, you know,
not that much less than twelve minute. All right, there,
it is Mallett of the third degree. How did we do?
I'm gonna give you a pass on this one. That
is well, thank you, Lee. You can come back again

(01:19:40):
time after the instant trivia, the Dallas Mavericks star Luca
don Chick has more triple doubles in his career one
hundred and four games, then blank in one thousand, nine
hundred and fifty seven games. Again, Luca don Chick of
Dallas more triple doubles in his career in one hundred
and four games, and then blank in one thousand, nine

(01:20:02):
hundred and fifty seven games. That's the question. The answer
next doing it with so many guys? Really, it's a
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(01:20:48):
live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller,
So Maverick Starr, Luca don Chick has more triple doubles
in his career one hundred and four games than Blank
in one thousand, nine hundred and fifty seven games. Let's
see easy money's going with Larry Conspiracy Johnson is his answer.
Manic Mike says, it's the entire stinkin NBA. Earl Boykins

(01:21:13):
tossed out by Rob in Minnesota. Let's see who else
do we have here? The Ozzie Guys, says owner the Clippers,
Uncle Dennis Ron Jeremy from El Guapo the Higantes fan.
Who else? Justin and Cincinnati says CNN after having to
pay off the high school kid. I saw that. I
don't know how much they actually paid, though, I'm not sure.

(01:21:36):
Let's skeptical. Meta World Peace guest by Scott Mark Eaton
from mediocre Kabuki Billy Martin tossed out by the fire
Lake DJ. Who else do we have here? Let's see
Earnie the Great Upunter says that the former Marines punk
as Ernie is that the answer? Tyreek Evans guests by

(01:21:57):
Eugene coaches against Fortnite guy? I who else do we have?
Page down? Page dam Brett to hit Man Heart from
Rob in Vegas. All right, what's the answer? Eddie Othella Harrington.
It's a good name, but believe it or not. Dallas
Mavericks star Luca don chick At. I believe he's what
he's eating like hell old the nineteen twenties something like that.

(01:22:18):
He has more triple doubles in his career than the
entire Memphis Grizzlies do as a franchise in one thousand,
nine hundred and fifty seven games. Yeah, that's a Memphis barbecue. Well,
the barbecue in Memphis is good. The basketball actually had
some decent teams a few years ago. But guys, you

(01:22:40):
guys only played a couple years. Luca don Chick, he's
had more success than the entire Memphis Grizzlies franchise. I
think I've had more success than the Grizzlies franchise as well.
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right quote. There is no joy in Mudville or lebron
Land Bronny, that's his kid, actually lebron the old man.
As the world turns, the Lakers put a beat down

(01:23:47):
on the Knickerbockers. But that's not the story. The story
is a boo boo for Anthony Davis. Who could have
possibly anticipated that Anthony Davis would get hurt. It's so
unlike him. He's an iron man. When you think tough,

(01:24:10):
you think Anthony Davis. Next man up. That's the attitude,
next man up mentality. Ha ha. This DeMarcus cousin is
gonna come back and place hurt. He's out for the year,
right and he's gonna come back and save the day
for the Lakers. Well, if you missed it, now, there's

(01:24:31):
two things about Anthony Davis that we need to talk about.
He left the game in the third quarter last night
or tonight, depending on how you look at it. It
is the middle of the night so or early in
the morning now. So it was last night Laker Knicks game,
blowout game, third quarter. And oh a collision between Anthony

(01:24:54):
Davis and former Laker Julius Randall. Ironically they were like
united is one there for for a little while, but
they got together. Now, Anthony Davis left the game. He
walked off under his own power. The Lakers owner, general manager,
President of basketball operations, Rich Paul Lebron's toady and also

(01:25:19):
the agent for It's all. It's you know, it's everyone's
in bed with everyone here in the laker Land. But
Anthony Davis's agent came over and it wasn't some pr person,
it was Rich Paul himself that said, there's nothing to
see here. Everything is fine. Is essentially what he said.

(01:25:41):
It's like that famous, famous scene in one of the
great movies of all time from back in the Day,
Leslie Nielsen and the Naked Gun, the late Leslie Nielsen,
when he's standing there and he says, you know, there's
He's actually had two lines in movies that the Naked Gun.
He was standing in front of like a building with
fireworks going off and all this because and he said,

(01:26:03):
move on, there's nothing to see here, please disperse. And
another old movie that has been many years ago, but airplane.
Remember remember the line Leslie Nielsen had an airplane. He said,
there's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll
enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is
there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?

(01:26:26):
Solid line, solid comedy, gold in the movies. But so
Rich Paul's like, oh, there's nothing to see here, don't
worry about it. He'll be fine. That's he says that
out of one side of his mouth. Then it comes
out that not only is Anthony Davis injured, he's gonna
miss the upcoming road trip for the Lakers. So he's
out for the roadie. He will not play in those games.

(01:26:48):
And but wait, there's more. He's gonna have an MRI
on his lower back. Inquiring minds would like him though,
this is gonna go. I'd be surprised if we see
him again before February, knowing his injury record. And then

(01:27:09):
you have the future of Anthony Davis. I don't know
if you've heard the latest on that. No bad job you.
We're gonna get to that in a minute. Let's hear
from Frank Vogel, though, who tried to help tow the
company line here the Lake. It's not really the Lakers coach.
He's Lebron's assistant, the lead assistant for the Lakers. Frank
Vogel commenting on the injury to Anthony Davis. A tailbone

(01:27:32):
injury in this while diagnosis of bruce tailbone and he's
gonna go through additional testing tonight and we'll have an
update for you tomorrow. It's all I got. That's it,
I want more, I need more. No, apparently that's always gone.
So as far as the contract, though, the Lakers offered
Anthony Davis a four year, one hundred forty six million

(01:27:55):
dollars MAX extension that happened on Tuesday, was reported on Tuesday,
and the Lakers were handed by Anthony Davis this is
great a rejection letter. Hours before he went out and
mutilated his tailbone. He turned down one hundred and forty
six million dollars and then immediately got hurt. Immediately, don't
even pass go you have picked up a tailbone injury.

(01:28:19):
Davis is bypassing the end season extension and he would
like to become an unrestricted free agent in July. Now,
there's several schools of thought on this, so I thought
we would take a spin and figure out what's really
going on the question how nervous should the Lakers be

(01:28:39):
about Anthony Davis leaving? He just turned down one hundred
and forty six million dollars. I am going to pull
out the Mallard scale of anxiety, and on the Mallard
scale of anxiety, one to ten, with ten being you're
staring down the barrel of a flamethrower. I'm out of eight.
I am at a crazy eight. I know the guys

(01:29:01):
in the other room there, the Laker apologists don't want
to hear that, But I'm at an eight. All right.
I've got superficial, deep dish and collateral damage, and we'll
put all these things together. Not to lead off with
Anthony Davis has been, for the most part, a good soldier.
He is saying and doing just about all the right things.
Per media reports, he appears to be bff with Lebron James.

(01:29:26):
They're hanging out together, smoking cigars, They're having Taco Tuesday together.
Oh my god, they're having so much fun. Every day
is a trip to Disneyland with these two knuckleheads side
by side. And Anthony Davis on the court has been
very productive. The team is winning. He seems genuinely happy
to play for the Lakers. YadA, YadA, YadA. However, much

(01:29:50):
like the Laker franchise motto, it's all superficial. You have
to take this stuff at face value. It is irrelevant. Now,
what is my evidence? Example A Kawhi Leonard and Uncle Dennis.
That is example A. Remember Kawhi was laughing and having

(01:30:12):
a good time winning in Toronto and the Raptors, thanks
to the Warriors crumbling, won the NBA championship. Kawhi Leonard
seemed genuinely happy. He was more popular than the Prime
Minister of Canada. They were giving him deals. He was
hanging out making you know, TV commercials and big deal,

(01:30:33):
big deal in Toronto and all over Cannon. At first,
you always remember your first that first championship for the
Raptors franchise. And so why would he leave? But boardman
rejected max offers from the Toronto Raptors. He exited stage
right in free agency. Now, furthermore, Anthony Davis, he has

(01:30:55):
a similar circumstance around him. Now. The only difference here,
and it's a it's aildly big difference, is that he
wanted to play for the Lakers, and this is where
he chose to escape from New Orleans. Kawhi didn't pick Toronto.
He ended up in Toronto. However, Laker historians ought to

(01:31:15):
be skittish and nervous because while Kawhi Leonard chose to
play for his hometown team, it's hip to clip, you know,
the hometown team for Anthony Davis, the running of the Bulls,
that's right, The Chicago Bulls. The Uni Brow a native
son of Chicago. The Bulls have been a slow motion

(01:31:38):
train wreck for years, and I feel bad for my
friend Chuck Swirsky, the voice of the Chicago Bulls there,
who's had to call some terrible bulls teams over the
recent years there radio voice of the Bulls. You're a
schmuck if you don't know who Chuck Sworsky's. He created
the nickname Eric Canada and Vinceanity when he was the
voice of the Toronto Raptors back in the day. Very

(01:32:00):
very nice man, very talented man, the great Chuck Sworsky.
But anyway, I digress. So Chicago like the Bulls because
they've been so bad. You imagine Davis could just be
the perfect tonic, just what the doctor ordered right, walks
back into the Windy City. He'd be bigger than Deep
Dish Pizza in Chicago if he were to do that

(01:32:23):
as the guy that would fix the Bulls. And you know,
his friends from back home in Chicago, if he has
any of them left from the Second City, there have
to be planting the scene in his ear like hey,
come on, Maby, we need you. You'd be the savior.
The messiah of the Chicago Bulls franchise. Anthony Davis now
on a positive note for the Laker Lapdogs Rich Paul,

(01:32:46):
who we referenced earlier, the de facto owner of the
Lakers and general manager and president. And yeah, also Anthony
Davis is agent. He is the one who, in theory,
is orchestrating the very future of the unit brow or,
as our friend the Palm desert Rat said, instead of
the brow, it's just the owl. That's I'm gonna have

(01:33:08):
to use that. That's a good line. I'm gonna steal
that eventually. I will not give you credit, Pom dosert Rat.
I'll just use that as my own. I learned that
from Tom Looney, who I used to work with here,
because I would say something the first hour of a show.
We did the Blitz, and it was like like six
or seven hours whatever it was, and so I'd say
something kind of witty that worked the first hour, and
then three hours later he Looney would use the same line,

(01:33:33):
and then he would turn his mic off and laugh
at me and point his finger at me like a child.
So I will do the same thing with the Palm
desert Rat. I will say he's not the brow, he's
the owl. And then I will just laugh and I
will turn my mic off and goof on the palm desert. Right,
That's what I'm gonna do. Let you know right now.
But Rich Paul, you're the Rich Paul Dynamic is the

(01:33:54):
orchestrator of the future of Anthony Davis. Imagine Paul on
Lebron James. I would think are putting a full court
press on Davis, hoping to hypnotize him, to brainwash him
with Laker propaganda, mine control. And we know Anthony Davis.
You know he's a good basketball player. But he didn't

(01:34:15):
even dress himself. I mean, it's all embarrassing, right. I
remember the whole New Orleans thing. He wore the T
shirt the last game in New Orleans where he didn't
even play that said that's all folks, And then when
asked about it, so I didn't even know. I don't
dress myself. You know. It's like his mom puts his clothes.
Not even his mom, It's said, one of his handlers
puts the clothes on the bed for him to wear
in the morning. Imagine that. I mean, at some point,

(01:34:37):
don't you I pick out my own clothes. I look great.
By the way, thank you, thanks for her noticing. All right, now,
the last thing here, so reports say Anthony Davis. The
reason he rejected the Lakers max offer is to get
more money by waiting until the summer. And the way
the salaries working. This way, you can get two hundred million.
If he wags, he gets one hundred and forty six million.

(01:34:58):
Now it's an extra couple of million years not so
fast though. All right, there's a curveball, a backdoor curveball, which,
by the way, Los Angeles Dodger hitters do not know
how to react to in the postseason, but they're fine
during the regulation. Anyway. Sorry, I'm having flashbacks, but a
reality check. Anthony Davis could actually end up costing himself money.

(01:35:22):
There's two ways this can go sideways and upside down
and topsy turvy for Anthony Davis. And the first way
is the salary cap, which has gone up, up, up
and away for years, keeps getting higher every year revenues
get better. The party bus is about to run out
of gas. A long time NBA employee told me on

(01:35:45):
Christmas night, I was the Laker Clipper game, and was
it the chickern press room or whatever hell it is,
and he sat with me, he talked to me. He
told me that it is going to be a very
ugly offseason in the NBA and there's going to be
a market correction in terms of revenue. Now, why is

(01:36:09):
it that is collateral damage from the NBA doing the
dirty dance with the People's Republic of China and the
fallout from that. We haven't talked about it in a while.
The NBA has done a good job of bearing the story.
I haven't seen Darryl Morey all year. He's normally does
a news converence, he pops up on radio shows. I
haven't seen the guy since that whole rhubarb took place,

(01:36:31):
the general manager of the Rockets. But we are talking about,
according to the people who know, hundreds of millions, if
not a billion dollars plus in revenue that has Presto
vanished from the coffers of the NBA, all because Darryl
Morey endorsed Hong Kong right picked the right side Hong

(01:36:54):
Kong rather than a oppressive government in China, and so
they went with Hong Kong. And because of that, a
lot of NBA business in China dried up. Some of
it has come back, I understand, but not all of it.
And so essentially the chickens are going to come home
to roost when the bean counters look at the books.

(01:37:14):
So that means that the salary numbers are going to
go down. Now, they likely will not go down all
that much, that's true, but that's a way that Anthony
Davis gonna lose a little bit of money. There's also
the fact that he's very fragile, very fragile. We saw
I got hurt last night. He's got a bad tailbone.
He's got that going for him, and he is much

(01:37:37):
more likely to have a catastrophic injury than he is
to make it through the rest of the season healthy.
And why am I saying that? What is my evidence? Well,
look at his injury chart. It's four pages long. I
think he's actually five pages long. And he heard his tailbone.
Like we said last night, thirty point went over. The
Knicks gets an MRI today, the results will come out.

(01:38:01):
He's already done for the road trip the Lake. I
love Lakers again. They're saying, Oh, he's fine, everything's good.
By the way, he's not going to play on the road.
And in addition, we're gonna have an MRI, which costs
thousands of dollars to have an MRI. All right, it
is the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. We will press

(01:38:23):
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(01:38:45):
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bring on the weed. Speaking of that, let's go to
Mark the full name guy for the first time in
twenty twenty. Hello, Mark the full name guy in Medford, Oregon,

(01:39:52):
who very read. I to do a read and Mallory
wants me to sell some weed to the weed man.
There's there's rowing plentyment around here, but I ain't got
another to do with it. Oh you want to talk
to the weed man? No, no, no, okay, calm down.
I won't put you on with the weed man. Then

(01:40:13):
fine er No, but I figured out another name I
can call you. You're if I had to ball from
the So City crowd, Yes for dambler, A fanatic, degenerate dambler.
Everybody who laughs about sports injuries. The way you do

(01:40:37):
is definitely Adammbler. What are you talking about? Look here,
Ben Maller. You know I've heard you just within the
last few minutes. You're sardonic laughter about mister Affany Davis

(01:40:57):
was born on his but her his tailbar. Oh, my
clippers are gonna win chip this year. It's nice of
me to say that. I think you're probably right. I
didn't say that. You laughing about your forty nine ers
quarterback before the season started, like you just can't wait

(01:41:18):
till he gets another injury. So you're right. I did
not I did not do you. I'm not didn't do
any of that. I didn't do that. You You are
former high school offensive lineman at Polk High School, Al Bundy,
a Bundy, And the most half bitchest thing about you
is the way you talk about another athlete. Oh yes, Dambler,

(01:41:41):
All right, fantic did jenic Dambler? Can I hang up
on you now? I feel like Joe. All right, goodbye, bye,
bye bye bye, get out of here. A hole in
the world's calling. And that's legally blind Christopher. He will

(01:42:03):
settle he will settle things back. Hello, legally blind Christopher.
Oh that was a tough call to follow, mister Maller,
thank you for taking my call. But the reality is, sir,
we know why you love working mid nights. As it's
been reported many times, you're a multi millionaire and you
do this for free, of course, working for Fox Sports Radio.
This is a true yes, too generous of your heart

(01:42:26):
for what you do for sports fans. Well, not only
this is you know, Christopher, the podcast is pro bono,
So I do everything for free, That's what I do. Well,
you have to carry everything on that podcast with David
legally blind castcott. We're hoping he'll leave the company soon
so we can get somebody else in there, but so
far he's remained this is true. My question for you,

(01:42:47):
mister Maller, is this all right? Since we've had a
joke of hiring yesterday in the NFL, my question for
you is will there be another qumless doormat of a
high in Cleveland where they replace another specialist from New
England to bring in his GM and methods of madness?

(01:43:08):
Well here, yeah, yeah, I mean, unless these media reports
are completely wrong, the only choices the Browns have are
guys that are likely going to fall in their face.
Jim Schwartz who failed as the Lions coach, and Kevin Stefanski,
the Vikings offensive coordinated. That those are supposedly the guys
that are at the top of the list. That's no
one's going to get excited about either one of those guys. Well,

(01:43:31):
maybe the Schwartz will be with him, as the old
movie used to say, and they'll have some luck from Swarts,
who's a super Bowl winning defensive coordinat of course, Tom
Brady said, a super Bowl record in that game against
the Eagles defense, And yeah, exactly. Well, then we could
bring mister Brittany over to Cleveland and you know, to
help him try and begin to lose two. Yeah. Well,

(01:43:51):
I'm sure Surgi Zell wants to live in Cleveland. The
richest woman in modeling wants to live in Cleveland, Ohio. Oh,
that's why they've sold their houses twice. In Man, they'll
be moving somewhere to they sell. They sell their houses,
as you know, Christopher, because that's how you make money
in real estate. Rich people. You sell a house, you
buy low, sell high, then buy another house, and then

(01:44:11):
when the real estate market goes up, you sell it
and you keep making money. Hand over fist. I hope
that reminds me of my eighteen years of living in Connecticut,
where the rich would live just outside of the city
in New York because hey, the taxes were cheaper than
living in New York. It must be cheaper than living
in mass But hey, that's why I live in Charlotte now. Anyway,
that's why you know Stanford, Connecticut and those other means

(01:44:33):
doing very well. A lot of people doing very well there. Yeah,
this is true. Thank you so much. Legally blind Christopher
in and out. That's what illegally blind Christopher call is
all about. Sean the Hood Guy is next. Hello, Sean
the Hood Guy. Welcome back, man. Thank you appreciate that.

(01:44:55):
I love hanging out in hood. We got to get
you in here this year at some point, Sean. Yes,
when I man, Man, it's got to be on the
low management. I understand. We won't tell anybody, and you'll
only pop in here for five minutes and then leave,
so nobody knows that you're here. Yeah, man, because the
funnies don't pullies be kind of hot out there in
that area, man, So you gotta gotta get in and
get out. Man. But I want what I wanted to say, man,
that the NFL teams, Man, it looked like they've forgetting

(01:45:17):
about this Rooney rule. Man, I guess for enough in
the league. Huh, well yeah, I know people have been
bringing that up with that. No, like Marvin Lewis was
in by the Cowboys and all this stuff. But the
Rooney rule, I mean, the Rooney rule, I don't fix
a good rule. Do you think it's a good rule, Sean,
I mean, it's okay. I don't even care if you
were playing, if you can coach, man, it don't even matter.

(01:45:39):
But I mean, give somebody an opportunity. To me, I
understand that. But to me, the Rooney rules, like, hey,
we think this is entire league of racist. That's why
we need a rule in here, because we've got a
bunch of racists that these NFL teams, and so we
have to mandate, sir. I mean I would. I mean,
I feel bad for these guys that are are interviewed
and you know they have no chance of getting the job. Negative.

(01:46:03):
But I think it's because the teams have figured out,
you know, they want to hire who they want to hire,
and they don't, you know, with the hot names pop
up now I don't know that Kevin Stefanski should be
a hot name or Jim Schwartz should be a hot name.
But yeah, it is odd how this works, Shark. I
think there's like head hunting firms that decide who's certain
who the hot coaches are, and it's it's a pinning

(01:46:24):
the ass. Yeah, I mean, it seemed like it's just
that they always want to pick somebody from the Patriots
or somebody from a super Bowl team or something like that.
But you know, they go, they gonna pickle, they want
to pick. It's like they just run down the street
just grabbing strangers. Man, I don't know. So hey, if
you can coach, man, you can coach it don't matter
what color you are. I mean, you could just run
a team, do what you want to do. So I
just love it like that, man, But you know I

(01:46:44):
was I was calling the same man. You know, I
missed y'all, y'all, I missed out doing the holidays. Man, y'all,
hope y'all had a good one. Man before I get
out of here, Man on this is this is January
the eighth, Elvis's birthday, twenty twenty, John, John, what's your
boy named? Cowboy John. He only got his butts and
rode for the New Years that he passed away and
his tools. I's gonna say he came and went at

(01:47:05):
the same time I talked, all right, I am looking
for a game show contestant. Have you ever played a
radio game show? You have not all right that you're
the person I would like eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. We're gonna have too much or not enough

(01:47:26):
coming up beer momentarily. Also bring on the weed right now, though,
we bring on Eddie Garcia with all the ladies, all right, Ben,
We start with news from the National Football League coaching news.
The Carolina Panthers have hired Baylor's Matt Rule to be
their next head coach. He reportedly gets a seven year
deal where sixty million dollars a Rule had successful college
head coaching stints at Temple and Baylor. This past year,

(01:47:48):
he guided the Bears to an eleven and three record.
New York Giants are reportedly finalizing a deal to hire
New England Patriots assistant Joe Judge as their next head coach.
Judge with a special teams coordinator with New England for
four seasons before adding the title of wide receivers coach
this pastor. He has never had a head coaching job
at any level in the NBA. It was the Lakers
beating the Knicks one seventeen to eighty seven. Lakers are

(01:48:10):
now thirty and seven on the year, first team in
the West to reach the thirty win mark with The
big story out of this game is the status of
Lakers story Anthony Davis. He fell hard on his back
and the third quarter did not return. Could be season
ending injury. Eddie, could be could be as a weazel word,
and you used it well just now they're saying it's
a Bruce till from you. No, you did not X rays.
We're negative. He's gonna have an MRI later today and

(01:48:32):
probably not gonna play in their upcoming a road trip.
Trailblazers get by the Raptors one on one to nine
following Lakers, and that brings us to our Geico play
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(01:48:54):
with our Gico player the day. It was Carmelo Anthony
hitting the game winning jumper wheels in the Trailblazers one
in back wheels Raptors. Yeah, and we have no control
over that. I understand that, but I I mean Carmelo Anthony.
He has done such an amazing job with the Toronto
with the Blue Blazers beat Toronto, I won the championship
last year. I don't even know this, but they won

(01:49:14):
the championship last year. Yea, Carmelo's back. Great news. The
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And then I'm sure you saw the report in the Athletic.
I know you've talked a lot about the Houston Astros
and the cheating scandal with Bang Bang Well the Athletic
reporting that the Boston Red Sox used video replay to

(01:49:56):
steal signs during the World Series team room. Yes, they did. Yeah,
And of course the connection there is Alex Cora, who's
now the Red Sox manager. He was with the Astros
back in two thousand and seventeen. So we know about
the Astros and now the Red Sox are are involved
in this sense. Yeah, and I'm gonna address this fully

(01:50:17):
with the male of monologue, and it must be said,
it must be done about the Red Sox. I will
also give baseball a solution on what they must do
here to stop this egregious activity. It has started. It
was started by the Astros, and now he is spreading
all over Major League Baseball. The Astros are patient zero

(01:50:39):
and it has gone all over the place. But we'll
get to that next hour. It is the Ben Maller Show,
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for a free rate quote. So, in Ohio, a bunch
of petitions, Oh I saw this, this is good have
been sent to the Ohio State Medical Board asking that

(01:51:03):
Bengals or Browns fans be considered to qualify for medical
marijuana because they happen to be fans of the two
football teams. The suggested condition is listed as tenth on
the list of twenty eight medical conditions the board has
been asked to consider, so number ten on the list.

(01:51:23):
The Board's gonna get together February twelfth to discuss the petition. Now,
I did see a funny quote from one of the
people that works at that company or that group of
people that put the rules together of who's allowed for
the medical weed, and the guys said maybe they should
sell marijuana as well as beer at the stadiums. By

(01:51:45):
the way, I was in Vegas a couple of days ago,
and the strip there is a cloud of weed on
the Las Vegas trip. It is unbelievable. It is wild.
It smells like there's not people staying at those He
tells there's skull bet ah. Yeah, I thought I think
I got a contact high just walking down the strip

(01:52:07):
in front of the Bellaggio. I was like, I'm getting
this is ridiculous, man, this is out of control. People
have lost their mind. All right, real quick, Justin and
Cincinnati's gonna cash a golden ticket. We'll probably dump him.
It won't get on the air, and then we'll go
play the game. Hello, Justin, Hey, that bang bang you
just heard was Anthony Davis's ass be employment out? All right,

(01:52:29):
thank you for that. I knew why you knew that
was coming. You knew that was coming? All right? Do
we we have our contestant for the game. A hit
that button right there? Here we go. It's another Ben
Meller game. We've endured too many of these, too much
or not enough enough already? All right, let's do it
too much or not enough? And the season we're going
with line five or line four? Here, Lee, which one

(01:52:50):
five or four? Let's go with five five? All right?
We will go with number five, Lee says, and then
Charlie in San Antonio, Hello, Charlie, what's going on? Big man?
Welcome in? How you doing everything good? Yes, yes, sir,
I'm actually uh an outright now. Me and my girl
we had our first child. Okay, Maltel, congratulations boy boy

(01:53:15):
or girl boy? Many look out proud. Charlie said, what's
ther kid's name? Oliver? Oliver? All right, yeah, little Ali
Oliver twist. They're very nice. Congratulations and healthy. Everything's good, Yes, yeah,
everything's great, man, awesome, man, congratulations, that's wonderful. Enjoy, enjoy

(01:53:36):
because when the kid turns about thirteen, the kid will
hate you. But until then it's all good. Until then,
it's all good. Yeah, all right, all right, very good.
Let's play what are you for a living? By the way, Charlie,
what kind of work? I barked end at a hotel
in downtown San Antonio. Oh yeah, it's like a high
end type play, sir. Yeah, any famous people, any famous
people come in there and had a couple of pops?
Uh almost almost say. The person we had was Chubby Checkers,

(01:54:01):
but he's a cheap skate so yeah, well he's famous though. Yeah,
he's fiffed me and he I guarantee you had a
lot of triple sec margaritas after that. That's right, man, right,
all right, Well, good luck to you here, Charlie with Oliver.
You gotta win it for Oliver here. Now, I'll give

(01:54:22):
you five questions. All you have to do is get
three right, here we go, Question number one. Devin Booker
now has sixty six career thirty point games, the third
most by a guard before turning twenty four in NBA history,
and one behind Michael Jordan for the second most. Is
that too much or not enough? I'm going not enough? Right?

(01:54:45):
See here Charlie says not enough. Let's find out is
he right right? Not enough? Devin Booker had his seventy
seventh a rear thirty point game. Booker turns twenty four,
and he could pass Oscar Robertson for the most all time.

(01:55:07):
Of course, could is a weasel word. All right, let's
move on here to question number two. So you're one,
and i'll question two. Former Heisman Winner winners Lamar Jackson,
mark Ingram and Derrick Henry all finished the twenty nineteen
regular season with over a thousand rushing yards. So you
get the Titans and the Ravens in the playoffs this weekend.
It'll be the sixth time in postseason history to feature

(01:55:30):
three one thousand yard rushers in a playoff game? Is
that too much or not enough? I feel I feel
like I feel like you're trying like a Mallard maneuver.
So I'm gonna go U not enough. Are you sure
about that? You gotta think this through here? Yeah, you know,
And when you're trying to z yeah, yeah, not enough.
I think I'm gonna you're doubling down or not enough.

(01:55:51):
Let's see if you figure out the mind of Maller. Now,
you can't figure me out. Yeah, that kid, Oliver. You
won't figure at Oliver either. You're you're one, You're one
in one, he answers too much. It's only the fourth
time in playoff history that you've had three one thousand
yard rushers to play in the same game. Right, question

(01:56:13):
number three, You don't have to worry about sweeping the game.
Question three. Jimmy Garoppolo did not throw deep off in
this year, but was successful when he did. Only eleven
percent of his throws were twenty plus yards down the
field this season, lowest in the NFL. Is that too
much or not enough? Too much? All right, he's going

(01:56:34):
to change it up. He's going with too much. Let's
find out. Is Charlie right? Yeah? How many times that
point story? At least once? I think twice because he
probably met her and then took her out in public
another time. So I think that at least twice exactly

(01:56:57):
a gentleman. Anything to do, he might be seen, who knows,
I don't know, dating on the down low. All right,
the answer is too much. Garoppolo through twenty plus yards
down the field only six percent of his throws, But
it didn't matter because the forty nine ers had a
very good regular season. Question Number four Alabama quarterback Ta
tonguea Byloa. Now this is for the wind. By the

(01:57:18):
WAYA has declared for the NFL Draft. To his career
total QBR ninety seven point nine at Alabama is the
best in the history of the metrics since twenty four
it's been around. Is that too much or not enough?
I'm gonna say not enough? Sure about that? Pretty sure?

(01:57:39):
Pretty sure? One hundred percent. If you're not one hundred scent,
might much change? Uh, I'm one hundred percent. Yea percent.
So I can't talk you out of it. Okay, they're
talking out of it. I am going to talk you
out of it. Not enough? Well, no, you I thought
you already said too much? Too much? Well, I'm confused.
Now what's your final answer? Who go it? Too much?

(01:58:01):
For the win? All right? See if I fooled him
if I horn swaggled him, or if he's a winner,
good job by you. Too much to his career, QBR
the best, but he's only ninety three point four but
still pretty good. All right. Congratulations Charlie Bartender that got

(01:58:25):
stiffed by Chubby Checker. Backward to day and get a
golden ticket. You can keep it, you can give it
to Oliver. Could be his first golden tickets. I understand,
well you'd only last for so long, but but thank you, Charlie. Congratulations,
good luck with the kid. All right, there he goes, Charlie,
the big winner. We will have cooking with Robert. What

(01:58:49):
are we making today, Roberto Penna Hellavaca. I don't know
what that is, but we will make it next. Be
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(01:59:11):
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(01:59:32):
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I didn't see that on the list. I did not
see that one on the list. But that's okay, I understand.
Today we're gonna pick up one of my favorite pasta dishes,
Big Ben. My best friend growing up was a chef,

(01:59:54):
was making pasta. Yeah, pasta. Typically you've made Mexican foo.
Now we're making it up today. The Aposta dishes one
of my favorite dishes. All right, I never made it before.
My best friend growing up was a chef and Pasadena
is one of one of the best dishes he he had.
Eric Gang, you would come in all the time for
this dish joke. All right, So what kind of we
are we looking at? Like a fetaccini? It's well traditionally

(02:00:18):
this traditionally, this plate doesn't have it doesn't come with
any meat. It's just uh just yeah, just the sauce.
And where's the beef and the pen and the pain a.
But I'm I'm substituting that for riggatoni. Okay, so you
like the you like the paint a better, I'm substituting
the pane for the riggatoni. The the the recipe I

(02:00:42):
found said that the that the riggatoni, the pasta's bigger,
it's thicker, so it helps to uh make sauce stick
to the pasta. So with the pasta, you're a size
king with the exact Yeah, they're like a bigger pasta.
Who doesn't like a bigger pasta? It's gotta be bigger, right?
Who wasn't like? Who doesn't like bigger? Bigger is better?
I never made it. I never made this play before,

(02:01:05):
but I did it for Christmas Eve. Yeah. It was
it was like, it was awesome. Yeah, you know, my
sister tried. My sister thinks she's a better cook than me,
but she's wrong. Yeah it's correct. I told her what
I mean. She was like, oh okay, and she was
very she was very impressed, Actually she was. She was
very impressive. All right, So how do you make this?
You get the Riggatoni right in the box of that, Yeah,

(02:01:27):
Riggatoni this is This is for fourth servings. Mine was
way more comedic, or if you're fat one exactly. Yeah.
It's prep time five minutes, total time thirty five minutes.
We need three tablespoons of butter shalotte, one shalotte, mince
garlics mins. What I did? I just put it together

(02:01:47):
and put it in the blended really fast, a little
bit of water and boon. You got mint, shalotte and
garlic all together there. Yeah, how throw some extra garlic
in there, but that's just me. Oh yeah, exactly, go
you go with extragar It doesn't matter. Sure, have a
cup to my little paste, all right, one half a
teaspoon of a crushed red paper flakes. Two tablespoons the
vodka those red paper flakes, so like a pizza exactly. Yeah,

(02:02:09):
that's good. Its holps. If you want to the pasta
little spicier, it's good. I kicked my dumb mass forgot
to add it, but it wasn't necessary. It was still
pretty good, all right. Kosher solid. Course, of course, I
gotta put the Jewish stuff exactly one one pound two pasta. Yeah,
and have a cup of cream, half a cup of
freshly grated pomesan and baso. We're gonna have the bezol afterwards. Yeah,

(02:02:32):
you put that on to make it look better. I guess.
So what the vodka does. The vodka hops the pasta
become creamier, and hops release flavors from the tomato. That's
you drunk. It's good and it helps release flavors in
the tomato. It's in a large skillet over medium heat,
melted butter, add shallotte and garlic. Stir frequently until soften
four to five minutes. Add a tomato paste and red

(02:02:52):
paper flakes and cook, stirring frequently until paste has coated
shalots and garlic and it's beginning to darken about five minutes.
Let me tell you that Chef Roberto hat looks marvelous. Oh,
thank you, it's awesome, right, thank you, thank you, Tammy
and Montana. It's a good looking hat. Good looking hat.
Add a voka to pot and start to incorporate, scraping
up any brown bits from the bottom of the pot

(02:03:12):
to turn off the heat. Bringing a large pot of
salt water to boil a, cook pasta until I'll dentate
two cuts of pasta at wait, reserved two cups of
pasta and water before draining. Okay, go at this red.
The whole recipe will be on It's gonna be on
my Twitter right now. Return sauce to meet him. Heat
at one fourth cup of pasta, water and heavy cream
stirring to combine. Have the parmeer John Stirt, melt it,

(02:03:35):
turn off the heat, cook the pasta. Boom. It's ready
to go. I'm gonna put that recipe right now. Sounds
good to me that that sounds like a good meal.
Put it on my Twitter page. Drive all right. Fox
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(02:04:17):
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free rate quote. Big injury in the NBA last night,
we'll tell you real quickly here that Anthony Davis in

(02:04:40):
the Laker Knicks game fell hard on his dairy air
and they're saying it's a tailbone injury. Now, the Lakers
are trying to spin this that it's no big deal,
but we are told that a Anthony Davis is going
to miss the upcoming road trip and b he scheduled
to have an MRI later today. So a lot of
people holding their breath in Laker Land about Anthony Davis,

(02:05:04):
who has a rich history of ending up out of
games because of injury, and it looks like that has
finally started with the Lakers. You knew eventually this was
going to happen. So we'll talk more about that later.
But Major League Baseball pitchers and catchers report to spring
training in a little over a month, talking about like
I think it's February twelfth or something like that, pitchers

(02:05:27):
and catchers report crazy. It's absolutely crazy. So now we
have known for a while that the Houston Astros are dirty,
rotten cheaters, dirty dogs of baseball. They were caught red
handed banging on trash cans, and now they have some
company in the penalty box of baseball. If you've not heard,

(02:05:50):
Dark Day for the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox
are the latest major League team to be involved in
a sign stealing scandal that has rocked baseball to its court. Now,
what did the Red Sox do? What did they do?
The Red Sox are accused of using the video replay

(02:06:10):
room to steal opponent's signs during the twenty eighteen World
Series winning season. You know who the Red Sox beat
in the twenty eighteen World Series. Yeah, this comes to
us from Kenna Rosenthal and Evan Dreliic of the Athletic. Now.
I know Evan. I work with him at the other

(02:06:31):
radio station in Boston back in like January, February of
last year, March and April, and then that was about it.
But Evan's it's very interesting that he's the guy that's
got the story because he was a Red Sox beat
reporter and before that he was an Astros beat reporter.
The two teams that have been outed by the Astro

(02:06:53):
by the athletic are the Astros in the Red Sox.
So how do they do this? So apparently the Red Sox,
if you believe this, or they sent players to the
video replay room, which is right near the dugout to
study signs and relay information back to the other players
on the team. Now they claim they have three sources
and this went on during the twenty eighteen season. Now

(02:07:14):
that they claim that it's this is not unusual, but
Major League Baseball attempted to crack down on it before
the twenty eighteen season. They sent out memos for beating
players from using the video replay room and steal signs.
Of course, who reads those memos. So the Red Sox
then passed the signs on to each other and had

(02:07:34):
a grand old time cheating, cheating, cheating, cheating, cheating. So
let's discuss the question what do you make of the
Red Sox being tossed in to this particular story. It
had been an Astros story all along, and now we
have the Red Sox. So I've got common denominator, rationalize

(02:07:56):
and apple those three things and we will connect everything together. Now,
First of all this is as shocking is learning a
child does not lie eating vegetables. That the Red Sox
are involved in this, that other teams are involved. Now
the Red Sox are going to be punished by Baseball.
They've got to be punished. But the DNA on this,

(02:08:17):
the Astros DNA, is all over it. The tentacles of
the astros elaborate cheating scandal have spilled in to the
hallowed grounds of Fenway Park. Alex Cora is obviously the
direct link, and he was a. J. Hinch's right hand
man during the twenty seventeen Houston playoff run that was

(02:08:41):
fueled by depravity and debauchery, as we have come to learn.
And then Alex Cora leaves the Astros, gets the Red
Sox job and brings the dirty tricks with him to
the commonwealth, the same things he used deep in the
heart attacks. Is Alex Cora is the common denominator. But

(02:09:04):
he learned, I think from aj Hinch. Remember what aj
Hinch said, Remember what he had to say back in
the playoffs last year for the Astros when asked about
the Astros cheating. What did he say? So you know
what nobody heard of, you guys, have audio video people
in places and nothing, and there's no evidence of anything.
So there are hundreds of videos that have popped up

(02:09:31):
of the Astros doing this, no evidence. That's the guy
that Alex Cora worked with. So now, to his credit,
though Alice Cora evolved the cheating of the Astros, the
Red Sox were more cloak and dagger, not as in
your face as the tactics used by the Astros. Houston,

(02:09:54):
for those of you that have been in a closet
somewhere in a shoe box, Houston has been using all
kinds of of tells to their players. For example, bang
bang whistles, band aid buzzers, earpieces with communication. Imagine that
you're on the road. You know, the helmet with the

(02:10:17):
flaps over the ears so you can't see it inside
of ears, and some sound of the ass. That's an
Astro's Rangers game last year. That's Astro's Mariners. That's right,
that's how that went there. So all this went down,
so again the laundry list, they used garbage cans, bang
bang whistles, bandaid buzzers, earpieces, flashing lights. That's a pyrotechnic show.

(02:10:39):
Now Boston is accused of a more modest, a more
understated cheating scheme. Typically, the player who stole the signs
would then walk back to the dugout to inform their teammate.
Right now, once a runner got on base, they would
pass along the signs based on the position of the basse. Now,

(02:11:00):
how would they do this, Well, this is where it
gets interesting. The runner would let the hitter know if
he was aware of the sequence, he would put like
two feet on the bag, or look out into center field,
or do something very subtle, and nobody seemed to notice.
According to one of the Red Sox sources for this story,

(02:11:22):
the runners stepping off the bag with the right foot
first could mean fastball, left foot first, a breaking ball,
or an off speed pitch. But it's the same concept
of what the Astros did. Now. Red Sox hitters reportedly
discussed in their pregame meetings how they were planning to
cheat for that night's game, what they were going to do,

(02:11:44):
what methods they were going to use in that game. Now,
by itself, I'm gonna be an adult here. I have
no problem with sign stealing, but the fact that you
have taken it to the next level with the technology.
All right, Dad, means it's not a misdemeanor, it's a felony.

(02:12:04):
And even one of the former Red Sox players, of
course didn't give their name, not like Mike Fires, who
gave his name, said, hey, it's cheating. Person that was
with the Red Sox when they won the World Series said,
because if you're using a camera to zoom in on
a crotch of a catcher, about that zooming mean on
the crotch of the catcher to break down the sign

(02:12:27):
system and then take that information to give it out
to the runner, then he doesn't have to steal it
because you've already stolen it. You see how that works. Now.
The second thing here, as we talk here on Fox
Sports Radio, this sign stealing epidemic is obviously widespread. It's
not just the Astros, it's the Red Sox. There are

(02:12:48):
other teams involved. But it reminds me of the steroid
controversy in the early two thousands. Now, I might or
might not have been doing talk radio in those days,
but the Astros you remember listening to talk radio, the
people who are around the Astros and the Red Sox,
mostly the Astros, the apologist, the defenders, the mouthpieces for

(02:13:11):
the Astros. They are using the same defense that I
remember the people that supported Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire and
Sammy Sosa did back in that day. You know what
their defense is, Yeah, but everyone does that. That's the defense.
So they're trying to rationalize that that's not that big

(02:13:34):
a deal. But because everyone does it, but everyone does,
So let's examine that. Now, would the defense strategy in
a court of law stand up if the Astros were
put on trial and their defense was but everybody does that?
The answer, noe chance in hell? Now what is my
evidence that that would not stand up? It has been

(02:13:57):
used by harden criminals and respected members of the community
that step into it. And each time someone uses that defense,
but everybody does that, it's rejected almost universally. You know.
It's kind of like I talk about spirit of law
versus letter of the law. Everyone speeds at night, you know,

(02:14:21):
on the highway, everyone's going faster than the speed limit,
but certain people get tickets. But if you if I
got a speeding ticket, and I think they should just
if you're going with the flow of traffic and you're
not driving dangerously, you should be allowed to go over
the speed limit. If you're going with the flow traffic.
But if you go to court and I say, listen,
I was going, you know, ninety miles an hour. Everyone

(02:14:41):
was going ninety miles an hour, you know, And I
used the defense, but everybody does that, They're still gonna
give me the ticket. I'm not getting out of the
ticket anyway. So Houston fans are using that to rationalize
it doesn't work right. Each time it's rejected almost universally,
and in the legal world, they ask, how could you

(02:15:02):
possibly believe that an act is right simply because everyone
else he's doing It's kind of like that argument though
you know your parents told you you shouldn't do drugs,
you shouldn't do bad stuff in you. Yeah, everyone, even
if everyone else is doing it, you've got to not
do it, and then you end up doing bad stuff anyway.
And that's how that works. So how can Major League

(02:15:23):
Baseball crack down on sign stealing? Let me get to
that in a minute. I got final thought, though, if
this report is true, what should Baseball do with the
Red Sox? Well, really, the fall guy in all this
is gonna be Alex Cora. Now the Red Sox will
be punished, and I believe they will be fine. And
if it turns out they did this throughout the playoffs

(02:15:46):
in the World Series, they should forfeit the twenty eighteen
World Series. Give it back, Give it back now. Fair
is fair, it will be gotten gains. Alice Cora should
be given the Pete Rose treatment and banned for life.
The Dodgers are gonna have to schedule back to back
World Series parade, back to back, gonna break the budget

(02:16:12):
in Los Angeles to the city budget there with these parades.
What do you think Thursday, this Thursday and then next Thursday?
All right? Said, yes, why not? I wouldn't be shocked
if the Nationals did something illegal. How about back to
back to back World champions for the Dodgers? Yes, all right?

(02:16:37):
So how can Major League Baseball crack down on sign stealing?
I'm a problem solver, That's what I am. My theory
is the only way to stop this kind of cheating
is to fight technology with technology. Now what do I
mean by that? Take the signs out of baseball? Major
League Baseball needs to partner with Apple and have players

(02:17:00):
and catchers alike pitchers, catchers, players wear air pods. Why not?
I'm not going to injure yourself with an AirPod. This
goes on in football. We see this in football, right
quarterback has a system to communicate with the sidelines, with
the coaching staff, and they have about fifteen seconds or

(02:17:22):
twenty secs or whatever it is to get to play
in right here, the Seahawks game, and one of the
coaches is telling Russell Wilson, here's the play we're gonna run.
There's no signs. You can't steal any signs. So if
you did this, now, this, and that would pretty much
eliminate stealing signs. Now it would be possible. The only

(02:17:43):
way to steal a sign would be if you're either
a psychic or a hacker, like a North Korean hacker,
and you hack into the communication system. But the only
problem with this plan is that infielders everyone's gonna have
to be wearing the air AirPods because the infielders need

(02:18:03):
to look at the where the pitch is going so
they know where to line up. So that becomes a
little bit of an issue. But that is my solution
for baseball. And again we are told by the end
of January, major League Baseball is going to issue long suspensions, banishments,
for the Astros before Super Bowl Sunday. Now, knowing how

(02:18:29):
baseball operates, they might just wait till Super Bowl Sunday,
So nobody talks about it. But that's what's going on.
To the phones, we go JJ in Renting. Hello, JJ,
are close to Renton? What's going on? Big man? You
tell me what's going on with you? Man, just got
my my butt whooped in the Super Bowl by my cousin,

(02:18:52):
the one that I brought down there with me. You know,
he's a Tampa Bay fan, but he's playing with Kansas
City on Madden And let me guess you're playing with Seattle.
You only know who I'll playing with. Well, I understand,
And yeah, he would not be able to win because
Jameis Winston would have five interceptions in the game. And right, hey,

(02:19:19):
he's thirty for thirty. He's ready for thirty. Man, really,
but does he work at ESPN? I wish I'd make
a lot more money than I am right now. I
don't know about that. I know people that work there.
They don't make a lot of money. So not everyone's
rich over there. Okay, oh yeah, I hear you on
that though, man, But man, how's your how's your trip

(02:19:41):
back to La Man, it's all good, JJ. I've had
a fine time here. It's good to be back. And
we're in our first week of the new year, twenty twenty.
How exciting is that? JJ? Right right? I know your
wife missed you too. I bet you should kicked your
butt when he came back home. Yeah. Yeah, I had
to take her to Vegas for a couple of days
because I was out of town. They were hanging out
with you guys. But yeah, it was fun, great, it

(02:20:02):
was a nice meeting at JJ and all your your
group there. You got a whole Yeah. Like I said,
you're like a boxer entering the ring there, you got
a whole group with you. Okay, But man, what I
gotta ask you, man, what do you about DK Metcalf? Now,
remember at the beginning here we go. No, man, I
told you the Seahawks were going to make the playoffs,

(02:20:23):
And I asked you, what did you think about hey Metcalf?
And you said he's gonna be hurt. Well, I remember
you scouted the Seahawks in training camp. If I remember right,
you were you were getting inside information. Legal you can't
do that, Yeah, you were. You were a mole at
Seahawks training camps. He played great. He looked like a
man among boys against Philadelphia Secondary. Let's see him. Let's

(02:20:43):
see the sequel. Let's see him do it again. Let
see him do it against Green Bay. Play like that,
you become a legend. But Russell winsor man, he hasn't
been playing too well. But h on his Twitter though, Man,
he wouldn't visited in my one of my buddy's son today.
We just found doubt that he has lived foma cancer. No, honest,

(02:21:04):
Russell Wilson's Twitter page, you can see him visiting a Skylar. Man.
You know, that's very nice. If I don't really need
to put it on Twitter, but that's nice that he
did that. No, he always puts the stuff on Twitter. Man,
you know, but I don't know if he needs to
do that. But I think an active sharity you don't
need to announce it. You should do. It's the right
thing to do. But anyway, thank you, Jay, I gotta go.
Thank you. Get back to the video games. There he

(02:21:24):
goes to great JJ in renting our guy. We will
press on here later this hour. We're gonna have password
the word Game of the Stars, and we're talking about
baseball and rules and what's going on and all that
good stuff. Well, one of the names that is supposedly

(02:21:47):
going to be traded before spring training is Nolan Eronado,
the star of the Rockies. And where could he be headed?
We'll talk about that. We'll get to it. We'll do
it next. My tequiras, my clothes, Oh I understand. Be
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(02:22:08):
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(02:22:30):
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it's Ben Maller, our buddy supermarket. Steve writes in since
they started charging for parking and weed got legalized, I
have no reason to drive to Vegas anymore. Steve points out, Yeah,

(02:22:53):
that's is true. The parking thing. You know what ruined Vegas.
Parking needs to be free in Vegas pro sports. They
built that arena behind the New York New York Hotel
and casino, and you can't have a pro sports team
without parking revenue. And so they had to figure out
a way, and so they started charging for parking at
all the hotels around the strip. There's I think there's

(02:23:17):
a couple that are free, but the way around it
is that they make you get the credit card, like
the MGM credit card or the Caesar's credit card. The
problem with that, though, when I was in Vegas is
one of the times I parked, they didn't work. The
credit card for some reason didn't work, and they charged
him like nine bucks for like forty minutes of parking.
I'm still bitter about it, right man, They never they

(02:23:39):
didn't charge it before, they never charged It was wonderful.
They wanted you to spend your money in the casino,
not in the parking lot. But they ruined all that.
Dave's upset that I did a baseball monologue and he says,
bad you up by you be ready easy money, says damn.
I was three monologues off my prediction it's bad job

(02:24:00):
by by him. Manic Mike says, So when the Dodgers
get their twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen World Series trophies,
when are they When are they getting them? Astro has
already damaged the twenty seventeen trophy. I think they'll get
them by July first. Voss fan Jimmy says, if the
Nationals are such cheaters, why did they beat the Nationals?

(02:24:21):
Why didn't they beat the Nationals last year in the
World Series? Well, Barry Bonds cheated, never won the World Series.
Mark McGuire cheated with the Cardinals and all that. And
I didn't win with Saint Louis, and Sammy Sosa didn't
win with the Chicago Cups. They all cheated. Not every
cheater wins. But Barry Bonds is a terrible pulseason player

(02:24:42):
until he started using the cream and the clear or
whatever it was. Yes, and just just a little bit, yeah,
just a little bit better all of a sudden the playoffs.
Absolutely all right, So the Benelos show on flights, let's
go to let's see here, any Meanny money mo? How
about Tammy in Montana? Montana? Hey Ben, glad you're back.

(02:25:06):
Chris and Brian did a great job filling in folios.
Thank you, thank you, thank you very much. And also
um Roberto, you're welcome on the chef hat. Thank you. Now, Tammy,
some people were in Seattle. We're like, do you think
Tammy is going to show up to the event in Seattle?
Because Montana closer to Seattle than it is to get

(02:25:29):
to la But you did not, you're you're you might
have been there in the shadows a woman of mystery, Tammy,
but people were talking about you. I was there in spirit,
then you were. In fact, they gave away one of
the gag gifts that Jay Scoop came up with had
a Tommy, Tammy and Montana theme to it. So oh, really, yes,
what's that? I don't know that we're allowed to say

(02:25:51):
it on the radio. But was it a sexual organ No,
it was not not that, but it was in that
genre that the thought was along those lines. You know.
Oh yeah, I'm glad. I'm glad somebody was thinking about me.
Oh they were. They wanted I think Tammy's gonna show up.
I don't know if TAM's gonna show up. I don't

(02:26:12):
think she's gonna be here, but yeah, who knows. I
would have let you know, but just couldn't. Couldn't do it,
so um for the I think it's going to be
the first time in the new year. I did. I
feel bad. I missed an hour of the show um
this week, so I'm not sure if anybody has requested
this bad job by you, Tammy Emmy, I know, like

(02:26:33):
first time in years. Um. You know, girl's gotta have
fun once in a while in the middle of them. Hello. Yeah,
but for a supermarket Steve and myself and anybody else
who enjoys this. Oh, could we please have the nickname
roll Call? I would love to hear Eddie too and
all of yours, but I know you have time issues.

(02:26:55):
Well listen, there's very kind of you. I can give
you some of the that's his nick on the clock.
Let's move on. But Eddie, the listeners always right, and
you never turned down a very lovely lady. Year is
supposed to be in the all right, the fifth hour. No,
we're not going to know. We're doing it in the
fourth hour, which is this hour. And I am known
as the Baron of Baldadash Bennish the Menace, Captain knee

(02:27:18):
Jerk the General of the generous to get asked on Facebook,
the tycoon of teas, the master of Disaster, the hustler
of Philipbuster, the night light of nightlife, the pummeler of producers.
He coops on his deathbed because I'm the pummeler of producers.
Benny bright Side, Yeah, I'm positive, Manateeve insanity. Marconi Maller,

(02:27:40):
emissary of embellishment. They dropped the kioten on him too,
week Night wind Bag, the Wizard of Wacky, the slayer
of naysayers, the grand Goober of gab, the Tower of
babel On honest, that Donnas, the Knockers, I'm not attracted
to women. Nocturnal Colonel, the underdog of monologue and the

(02:28:00):
Holy Pope. You pay me five hundred thousand dollars, I'll
endorse a game magazine of the Slippers. What's wrong with
that man? It's twenty eighteen. I'm woke eight twenty twenty.
Why is he twenty eighteen where twenty eightieth it's like
two years? All right, enough of this, that's it, thank you.
That's the partial nickname. Rundown Nolan Eronad a big star

(02:28:22):
for the Rockies and friend of our caller in Maine
caller of the Year for last year. We'll have a
new Caller of the Year which will be named at
the Bennies, which will be coming up in awards season.
Really kicksie in there. When they usually do it around
Oscar's Weekend is when we have the Bennies. But Nolan Ernando.
Now the buzz is the Chicago Cubs and the Saint

(02:28:45):
Louis Cardinals, the original cheating Cardinals, are said to be
at the top of the list that the Rockies are
looking to trade Nolan Eronado, and I'll believe it when
it happens. Now he can opt out of his contract,
which means the Dodgers could be interested if he's willing
to opt out only play for one year and then

(02:29:06):
they could trade for him. But yeah, Aeronado is a
good ballplayer. I'm always worried about those Rockies though, because
of the mile high altitude and the numbers, the video
game numbers they put up. Yeah, their home road splits
are always Yeah. But I look at it the same
way like the Red Sox with the Green Monster the
numbers in Boston. Though it's a different element but the
same thing. It's bandbox and you know you go there.

(02:29:28):
Saint Louis has a pretty big ballpark, really feels not
that big, so that shouldn't be a problem for Aeronado
as long as the wind is blowing out. I think
they'll trade him after the Rockets finished in last place
once again. Well they should trade him before though. They
trade him now or trade him before the deadline. Aeronado,
what good luck to him. We'll check in with our
friend in Brooklyn. We've also got password the word game.
I'll start. You want to play password? Call in right now.

(02:29:50):
We'll have Believe Cowboys corner as well. But first over
to Eddie, we go for all the latest, and we
start with the latest in the coaching hires in the NFL,
with the Carolina Panthers hiring Baylor's Matt Rule to be
their next dead coach. He reported seven year deal for
sixty million dollars. He Rules he was accessful coach in

(02:30:13):
college with stints at Temple and Baylor last year led
the Bears to an eleven and three record. New York
Giants reportably finalizing deal to hire New England Patriots assistant
special teams coordinator for New England for four seasons before
adding the title of wide receivers coach this past year.
He has never been a head coach in football at
any level. In the NBA, we had the Lakers over

(02:30:34):
the Knicks one seventeen to eighty seven. Lakers or thirty
and seven first team in the West hit the thirty
win mark. Big story though out of this game was
the injury to Lakers Starry. Anthony Davis fell hard on
his back and the third quarter left didn't return. They
called it a bruce tailbeat. It's so funny, these uneducated
reporters with a tailbone injured. I've injured my tailbone. They're like, well,
Anthony Davis walked out under his own power. The issue

(02:30:54):
with a tailbone is not when you're walking. It's when
you're sitting. That's the problem. You can't sit when you
have an injured tail by you soft, just like what
Davis is. I used off just like Anthony need am
I so no, I'm tough. I don't think he has
to sit when he's playing. I had to get one
of those pads though, when I injured my tailbone, and
I felt like I was eighty years old. Well, Davis
is gonna have an MRI later today. He's out Eddy

(02:31:16):
for a year. Well that's not true. He may be
out for the year. Eddy, maybe out for the upcoming
road trip, is what they're saying. That's what you say.
I think it'll be worse. That's what they say. College basketball,
believe Maryland beating number eleven Ohio State sixty seven to
fifty five. We had Boston College knocking off number eighteen
Virginia how about sixty to sixty three, and Rutgers beating
number twenty Pence State seventy two to sixty one. The

(02:31:37):
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(02:31:57):
know if you saw this story, but this is fantastic.
Remember Jay Agia running back Miami Dolphins Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah,
well he's been a hurt of late and apparently his
NFL career could be coming to an end. But he
was hired by a professional sports team in Philadelphia, the
Philadelphia Union, which is an MLS squad. He's not gonna

(02:32:19):
play soccer, at least not real soccer. Jay Agia has
been hired as a professional online FIFA player. He will
play video game FIFA twenty twenty or whatever year it
is for this team in competitions. I don't know how
much he's getting paid for it. But the twenty twenty

(02:32:42):
e MLS Cup campaign will kick off with a tournament
in Philadelphia this weekend, and Jay Agia is on the team.
He's playing video games professionally, the MLS video game FIFA twenty.
I didn't realize Jagia is a big name where you
want hire him to play video games apparently, so I

(02:33:03):
didn't know that is I mean, I know the people
in Philadelphia are deranged by the way, Eddie. Somebody told
me that we were featured by me It did that
monologue the other day ripping Carson Wentz for being injury prone,
and apparently local Philly radio was so upset. They played
that and goofed on me. It's good fanboy radio in Philadelphia.

(02:33:23):
Tribalism is alive and well, Eddie, they can't handle the truth.
They cannot handle the truth anyway. It is the Ben
Mathers Show. As we press on, we're gonna password coming
up here in a little bit. Let's check in with
Marcel in Brooklyn. Hello, Marcel, it's a good morning, sir,
Ben Mueller, Eddie Karen's husband. There you go, Roberts all Edlie,

(02:33:49):
thank you so much. He minus six. So the College
Football National Championship. Their teams, the Tigers of the South,
number three LSU take on number one Clemson this Monday night.
It's a new dawn, it's a new day. We're still
in the middle of the week of the new year.
So mala militia. Let's get into its well before we

(02:34:15):
get the food picks. You still are not on social media?
When is your uncle getting you that tablet so you
can go back on the social media? H Saturday, Saturday
the eleventh. Are you going crazy Marcel without being on
the internet. I mean you're always there. You're breaking news.
You broke the Titanic story and you broke a lot.
You broke a lot of a lot of stories here.

(02:34:37):
I really miss all the breaking news from understand culture
to sports. So what do you? What are you? What
are you doing during the day to kill time? I
was just listening to my radio fay Di Yes, my
mom my mom gave it to me from my twenty
sixth birthday in twenty nineteen. Oh ye yeah, yeah, that's Digre.

(02:35:00):
All right, we'll do food picks. I'll do oodles this morning,
Oodles and noodles. Eddie, let's go with um oodles and
noodles as well, cheating off my paper. Oh come on, man, Roberto,
I see Marcell wants you to go different. I'll go ahead,
Roberto pana alavacca. That's right. And Lee, you want to
pick a food this year? Lead a lap. Let's see,

(02:35:21):
here's putting headphones on it. Let's go with roasted chicken.
Roasted chicken the salad choice. All right, we know Marcell
as a master in the in the kitchen. All right,
what did you have, Marcell? Okay, my food pick from
last night, it will be French fid you said, you
said oodles and French French fries. That's it. I just

(02:35:46):
said Ben French Fries with a cat shot. I call him,
Oh yeah, ketch him. Yeah, it's a condom. You know
who invented ketchum? Oh God Hines, Oh he knows. Look
at that high in Pittsburgh, you know of the Steelers
and the Panthers. I watched the documentary about Ketchup the

(02:36:10):
other day and how before Ketchup people use like tartar
sauce and just this disgusting other things. Come on, come down, Marcel,
absolutely alright. I gotta go anything else, Marcel? Are you
Rangers beating the Avalanche? I gotta go. Thank you? All right?
Dare you? Yeah? That's cowboy up. On the Ben Maller Show,

(02:36:33):
we go from Brooklyn to Windsor, Ontario, Canada, and a
man who is a human roll the decks. This guy
know he's he's an encyclopedia of knowledge, cowboy John Brad Good,
good morning. Everybody will love the Carolina Panthers. Man rules
and don't Joe Judge the Giants. By the way, Joe

(02:36:53):
Judge was thirty eight New Year's Eve, making him three
days older than the Eli manning all this would have
been eighty five today and former Major League player and
manager Chuck Cottier is eighty four today and the host
Harris Robbie Krieger is seventy four today and Monday. The
singer Nino Tempo was eighty five member British bucksing British Babe,

(02:37:18):
but nine Young Ralfind sixty and then Adomndonna Conso thirty
eight and major leaguers um I h Roberta Rustall, Lola
and Alan Wiggins died January six fifty four. In January sixth,
nineteen ninety one for us to land Wiggans respect And

(02:37:40):
when I was a kid, I used to watch Marla
Ritual of Olahas the Wild Kingdom, which premiered on NBC
January sixth, nineteen sixty three, runs until one, nineteen seventy one.
Speak to bive to Morrow Morning, Wilby. That is a
complete loan of rap. All right, there he goes. If

(02:38:02):
you're a new listener, we're on some new stations here
in twenty twenty, would like to welcome you. And if
you're new to the show, maybe you're working overnights. You
haven't done that before early mornings. You're getting a start
on your way to work. We're gonna play password the
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(02:38:23):
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(02:38:46):
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and the password. Password, you idiot, password the word Game
of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller. All right, let's do it.
Here we go time for password. Each and every week

(02:39:07):
at about this time, we play password the word Game
the Stars. We have our contestants lined up. We have
too many contestants, so we're gonna have to pick and
choose here who gets to play the game? Will say
alo to Rob in Vegas. Hello, Rob, good evening, Benjamin,
Happy New year, good evening, good morning, and good night.

(02:39:27):
Oh no, what was the Italian joint you hit up
in Town, New York? Here was there at Bootleggers? Have
you ever been there? Oh? Okay, yeah, yeah, you've been
around for a long time. Yeah yeah, yeah. Pretty good
to open twenty four hours a day too, Yes, sir.
It's hard to find good fetecchini alfredo at three in
the morning, you know, but you can there in Vegas,
which is pretty good. Now, Rob for the guy in

(02:39:47):
beaver Dam, who's got a friend in Punksatani, who knows
somebody in Rancho Cucamonga. What do you do for a living? Rob?
Play poker player? There is Rob the poker got hold
on a second? Rob, you're gonna play? And who else
do we have here? Eddie picked three four or six
four four? Oh wow? You picked Logan in Indianapolis. Hello, Logan,

(02:40:14):
I think he's there. I didn't all right, see if
the other people hung up. Let's go to Wendell in
la Hey, how's it going? Gra Not that you're bitter
about that window. To be fair, Eddie didn't know who
was on which line, so that's why I had him choose.
When Dell is the bitter and broken truck driver or

(02:40:37):
bus driver? Right, bust bust? And as I told you before, Windell,
you sound like a bus driver. You sound like I. Right, yeah,
there a hold on a sec now, Rob, who do
you want to partner up with? Rob? The secret? Dgk
uh fan Eddie? All right? Tell you have picked Eddie?

(02:41:00):
Very good? Will put you down for that and bet
job by you? Wendow? Who do you want to part
up with? Wendow? Let's do it? All right, that's a
good choice by you. We are gonna win this game.
Let's get to it now. We list of number words
associated with numbers one to ten and Rob, you were
on the inverse of pick a number seven Eddie number seven,

(02:41:23):
number seven? All right, Rob, the clue is we start
out with ten points, go to nine eight seven. Then
when you throw the word out, uh, let's go who
is awe? Look, let's go with strike. What the clue is?
The word strike? I could tell it was a very

(02:41:50):
good clue. I think we should just have the music
play for the rest of the hour. What what he
said out? That's not the Malan maneuver. He you didn't
pick me. I would have used the Malla maneuver. He
did not. All right, Eddie said strike. I am going
to go with demonstration. Wendell. Oh boy, oh, good job, Wendell,

(02:42:20):
good job. Protest. Now this is where we can blow
the game open right off the top. Here. Pick another number,
anything but seven, four, number four? All right, let's go
with cadaver. Is that noise? Cadaver? Of course? Boom? Nineteen

(02:42:42):
than nothing, nineteen than nothing. Yeah, we heard you the
first time. All right, Rob, the nineteen that nothing? The
number not seven, not four, number one, number one? All right,
here we go the clue voyage, endeavor. No, let's go

(02:43:03):
with how about excursion? Journey? No, Rob, how about vacation trip?
Oh wow, how about sightseeing? They just said the word trip,

(02:43:35):
Sweet baby Jesus, go ahead, and he come a journey.
He just said journey. Oh he's a trip. No. The
guy went down said journey. No, you already said. We're
throwing the word out. The word is god. The word
is travel. Travel. All right, you on a journey or

(02:43:57):
you go on excursion. Eddie's losing twenty seconded, he's being
shut out. Pick another word, window, another number of how
about eight, number eight? All right, let's go with uh
wim l I M blimb limb branch. Oh, that's my

(02:44:19):
good job. You tack at. You want to call the
tack at. That's another win. I'm undefeated a password at
twenty twenty. I've never lost this year. Fox Sports Radio
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