The Price is Wrong

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Coming up on today's edition of the radio show, David
Price has tapped out No Moss he ain't gonna play

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for the Dodgers. Pablo Sandoval is now the most interesting
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of a programming past the fourth of July Holiday, which
is now in the rearview mirror, and we're still several
weeks away from the return of actual legacy sports leagues.
There was the great hot dog eating contest that took
place in Coney Island. They were able to pull that
off over the weekend. But we are going to talk

(02:53):
baseball right now. That will kind of talk baseball right now.
We had been told you and I that at you
gotta be prepared. You must be prepared because some big names,
big names in Major League Baseball are not gonna show up.
They're gonna bow out, They're not gonna take part in
the twenty twenty seasons. It's gonna happen and over the weekend.

(03:15):
I guess this would count as a couple of big
names that popped up on our radar. A pair of
former cy young winners have decided to not partake in
the twenty twenty baseball season. They are giving up now.
I don't know if you saw this or not. Maybe
you did not. Felix Hernandez, who you know, must be
honest here, he's sucked for years. He was trying to

(03:39):
latch on and reinvent himself with the Atlanta Braves, he's
decided not to do that anymore. And David Price, Yeah,
that guy, David Price has said, ah Asta labista, j
to Los Angeles this summer. Now, with all due respect
to King Felix, who has been stealing money for years
in Adlan, they finally got rid of him, and now

(04:01):
he went to Atlanta. Don't bear the lead, Mama, in
all right, We're not going to bear the lead. This
is all about David Price leaving the Dodgers hanging, or
is he leaving the Dodgers hanging? He came over from
the Boston Red Sox in the offseason, the late offseason
blockbuster trade before the apocalypse. So let us discuss the
question should the Dodgers be upset with David Price? Did

(04:24):
the Dodgers have a right to be upset? Now they're
saying they're not. They're saying they're not upset with David Price.
The way I look at it, they shouldn't be upset.
They should be happy that David Price is giving up
on the season. And my thoughts on this, You've got
basic math, rainy day and full deck, and we will
put all these things into the pot and we will

(04:45):
stir it up and we'll do that for proximately ten
fifteen minutes or so. So a David Price, who is
not someone I was excited to watch play and pitch
for the Dodgers. He's a guy that the Dodgers didn't
even really want. Let's call it like it is here.
David Price was the bounty the Dodgers had to pay

(05:10):
to get Mookie Betts, and so they were willing to
take David Price on. And I was trying to explain
this to a couple of my buddies who love the
Blue Crew, that David Price's decision is a net positive,
this is not a negative, and and and they tried
to play Devil's advocate and say, oh no, no, he's

(05:31):
a world champion bin clearly not knowing my position on
the Championship Defenders League. That is generally the number one
tell in my experience that a fan is an uneducated fan,
that the fans a dummy when their defense of said players.
He's a champion. Past results do not guarantee future outcomes,

(05:56):
just like on Wall Street. And never been a member
of that Championship Defenders Lee, that's not how I roll.
And I am of the mindset that you should not
be living in the past, which many people the uneducated fan.
He's a champion. People who live in the past are failures.
You're gonna fail forever if you live in past. So
tell me what you're gonna do in the future, not

(06:18):
what you have done in the past. I don't care
about what you've done in the past. I want to
know what you've done in the future. And David Price
is absolutely free to raise the white flag. I don't
want to say that he's not. He obviously is. We
are also free to point out that this is actually
gonna have no bearing on whatever happens to the Dodgers
in twenty twenty. This mini sprint, not a marathon, a

(06:38):
sprint of a twenty twenty season. So and I'm just
talking about this in terms of basic math, which is
mallor math. Basic math. This is what's known as addition
by subtraction is what this is. David Price is on
field performance would have been okay, he's been trending the
wrong way. His earned run average is ticked up each

(06:59):
of the last three seasons in Boston and the Red Sox.
Here's all you need to know about David Price. The
Red Sox were so giddy when they got the Dodgers
to take Price off their hands. He was such a
liability to that franchise that they agreed to pay a
big chunk of David Price's contract just so he wouldn't

(07:22):
contaminate the Red Sox anymore. They get out of here.
Please think about that, thinking about David Price, former cy
young winner, world champion the Red Sox. Please, I'll give
you a mookie bets, but you gotta take David Price
off our hands. You got his reputation proceeds. He's a malcontent.
That is who David Price has been. He habitually complains

(07:42):
he's unhappy and it infects a negative attitude on whatever
team he plays in. This is a fox in the
Henhouse situation. So the Dodgers are avoiding a fox in
the Henhouse situation. The kind of ball player that separates
and divides a team. Asked Dennis Eckersley what he thinks
A respected relief pitcher and a cy young guy himself

(08:05):
back in the day and a broadcaster with the Red Sox,
asked Accorssly what he thinks of David Price. David Price,
your typical, thin skinned athlete now part B of this.
Major League Baseball, like every sport, every legacy sport, is
bending over backwards right now with as much safety as possible,
and it's never enough. It is never enough. It's just

(08:29):
remarkable to see what has gone on with the players
pitching in basketball and football and baseball across the board,
although hockey, I guess I haven't heard too much of
maybe I missed it in hockey. But it's never enough, right,
I mean, if you know, all that falls by the
wayside for the players who are complaining all of the protocols.

(08:49):
And this David Price story is a stark reminder it's
not so much about the safety protocols. With David Price,
they could have the safest game in the world, but
he lives in a different zip code, and any of
these guys live in a different zip code than the
rest of us. And when you're richer than Scrooge McDuck,
you are given the freedom to play or not play
if you're unmotivated, if it's too much of a hassle,

(09:11):
just tap out. Doesn't matter to you. David Price has
not just a decent He's got an extreme rainy day
fund for situations like this. FU money is what they
call it, though, and throughout his Big League cree he
has been well compensated. Price has earned one hundred and
eighty four million dollars on field. That's just on field,

(09:32):
not endorsements or any of that other stuff, going back
to his early days in Tampa and with the Blue
Jays and the Tigers and the Red Sox, me O
my and so. It is also a lesson on how
slightly out of touch from reality the rest of us
have to deal with the rest of people have to
do it. And specifically, I'm talking about you, the frontline workers.

(09:53):
So many of you listen to the show while you're
stocking grocery stores and driving trucks and things along those lines.
And the front line employee, which I'm sure they'd like
to tap out sometimes I'm good, I don't need the money,
I'm all right. And their protocols. Think about the protocols
that professional sports have put in with all the extra
testing and all that stuff, and that's it's not nearly

(10:16):
the same if you work at a grocery store. And
more importantly, you obviously don't have a rainy day fund
to take a year off and look out for your family.
Can't do that it's in the best interest of your
family to keep working because you gotta bring home the
bacon and that doesn't pay for itself. So the Price

(10:36):
doesn't have those words again, different Zipco. He doesn't have
to worry about that kind of stuff. He's fine. And
keep in mind, this is the same guy who his
claim to fame with the Red Sox was he was
he was such a dedicated baseball player that he actually
missed the start against the Yankees because of an addiction
to Fortnite. That's a true story, you can look it up.

(10:57):
Not making it up. He had carpal tunnel syndrome, a
mild carpal tunnel syndrome because he played so many hours
of Fortnite that it messed up his hand and the
ability to hold and grip the baseball were messed up.
So now he doesn't have to worry about working his
night job with the Dodgers. He is free. He's free

(11:17):
to play as many video games as you want. Feed
the addiction. Feed the addiction. All right, last word on this,
So back to the Dodgers here. Then we started as
David Price not gonna play. He's decided he's not going
to show up fine, but the Dodgers they didn't want,
as we said, David Price. They don't need David Price.
And that's why this is nothing for the Dodgers. Like

(11:39):
they have a full deck of cards in terms of
starting pitching. And you look in the back in the
bowels of Dodger Stadium, they have a treasure test of
talent and many of these guys, now some of them
were inexperience, some of them have been around the block,
but they all have the skill set to dominate, and

(12:00):
they just have to make the right choice here. They
go into the stockpile and they have to make sure
they make the right decision on who to bring in.
Whether it's I'd like to see Dustin May slide on
in into the Dodgers' rotation and see if he can
find some consistency. One of the top young pitchers in baseball.
Let's see if he can blossom here with the opportunity.
If not, May, the Dodgers have Rows Stripling, who they

(12:23):
tried to trade and they didn't worked out well. Now
and Tony Gonslin also in that rotation. They even signed
Jimmy Nelson, the old Milwaukee brewer who has been injured
he's a big, fat guy played for the Milwaukee So
the point is, David Price, you're not gonna be missed.
No one's gonna be upset. You're not playing for the Dodgers.

(12:44):
You're not even gonna be noticed. So I'm glad it's
actually a good thing because he won't rub that sour
puss attitude on the other players on the team. The
Dodgers have an embarrassment of Richard, So they are in
good shape in this department. They are they in the shape?
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(13:52):
is going to be bambino like. I will explain what
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It's Ben Maller. So bambino life. We'll get to that
coming up in a couple of minutes. To the mal Militia,
very Active Valls fan Jimmy says, when a baseball player
opts out this season, will they still get paid? And
my from what I understand, they will not. Unless they
have a really good note, like a doctor's note, they're

(14:57):
not going to get paid. So there's some that have
pre exist conditions that baseball is going to pay. But
my understanding is I don't think David Price is on
that list. Bourbon writes in The Bourbon Badger says, Ben,
I have a question for you. If their team wins
the World Series of League Championship series, do these big
names like David Price who opt out still get a
ring of any sort? I hope not, And he says

(15:21):
I have the same question for basketball and hockey. Well,
the difference though there see I would say baseball no,
although maybe they would as some kind of symbolical you're
still with us even though you're not with us. But
basketball and hockey have already played most of their season.
They're just gonna have essentially the playoffs. I know the
NBA is gonna play some exhibition type games or some

(15:42):
I guess the regular season games, but they're just gonna
be nauseating before the playoffs start. So that's a different
that's a different animal in basketball and hockey, because they've
already played most of the season. Animal, the Manacho Pine.
Remember we had back when Ernie, before Ernie quit the show,
he pulled to David Price. He tapped out, earning the
great Oldpiner who couldn't handle the show anymore. But Animal,

(16:04):
we had this, all these other parody accounts, they all
went away as soon as as soon as earning the
Great Olpiner quit, they all quit, says David Price, softer
than Charman on Animals Bottom after Animal has explosive diarrhea. Yeah,
all right. And Herbert, who was also part of the
Muppet militia, says Big Ben, David Price is risking his

(16:27):
life braw with each game of Fortnite. That is technically
true with the Fortnite thing, because you know, come on, Eric, life,
that's right, Yes, Eric says, I am sure the fact
that the Yankees actually owned David Price in his career
had nothing to do with his Fortnite injury. No, no, no,
no, no no, David Price, you can go look it up.

(16:49):
It was an amazingly delicious story about David Price and
his addiction to video games, and it wasn't just him.
It was a bunch of guys in the Red Sox
that were during Red Sox games would be in the
clubhouse playing Fortnite, and that was mostly Fortnite, but a
bunch of other games also. And who else do we have?
We have Anthony in Anaheim who writes and he says, hey, Bett,

(17:10):
you would think a guy with the last name Price
would have a price to pay. Apparently, them silk sheets
make it pretty hard to get up in the morning.
Hashtag privileged is what he has to say. All right,
let's go to the phone, so we will get to
the bambino like also later this hour attacked by the Pope.

(17:31):
We'll get to that as well. Let's say a story
that you will not hear just about anywhere else. Let's
go to the phones. Slow goat man is in Kansas City.
Hello goat man. Then what's going on? Hi, goat man?
Are you a half man half goat? Or is that reality? Then? Hi?
I own goats. So they eat my beer cans and

(17:53):
they eat my grass, so I don't got a mow
and I don't have to recycle. How many goats do
you have? Eight? Right now? You own eight goats? Is
that right? And how old are these goats? What age
range are we looking at? Well? One of them, I
had nine? One of them died like four days ago.
Oh it's very sad. Yeah, you had a at least

(18:16):
you had a good dinner out of it, right, what? Right? Well?
And I named it mom Pasco? Oh you did our
great morning guy at Yeah, I got Pasco. And one's
the name Cling, one's name Ryan? I got them all.
What would it take for you to name one of
those goats malla militia? What would it take? Nothing? I'm

(18:38):
actually gonna get a new one since that one died.
I mean, you give me one of them golden tickets
or something like, Well, they won't go I'll name it
any cob. That all right? So so all I have
to do is give you a golden ticket, and then
you're gonna name a goat. Now, how do I know?
Can you take a photo of the goat? How do
I know? You're gonna brand it with militia like a

(19:01):
branding of cow? What are we looking at here? Oh? No, now,
I'm not gonna do that. How much how much land
you have? You have a decent amount of land? I
think eight goats that's a that's a lot of goals.
I have any how much land you have, I don't know,
like eight feet you So you're now you're full of crap.
See now I think you're full of crap. No, no,
I have more than that. I have more than that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

(19:22):
Have you rated the liquor cabinet tonight? How's the booze?
Is doing really good? So you don't even remember any
of us. You're not gonna remember any of us. But yo,
you're just getting drunkard st You're all bad, boozed up
and all that, and you're schnocker and you're having a
good time calling the show. And I think that we
need to get weed man Hippie on with Fresco in

(19:44):
the morning. I don't know who that is he stopped
to calling the show. Listening to the show. I don't
know who that person is. Oh well, yeah, but I
gotta go. Thank you go man. I appreciate that. But
im I next time call up when you buy the
go if you name him Mala Misia, I'll give you
a golden ticket. Right here's the everyman right there, Joe
six packet. Oh bro, I'm low key faded, bro. Goat

(20:06):
man in Kansas City. He's still enjoying the it's not
the what's the sixth of July, it's moving into the
sixth of July, and he's he's still celebrating. He's in
a celebratory mood. Here's an odd story. I came across this.
I was unaware of this, and I the tease was
Bambino like, did you know? I did not know. I'd

(20:26):
like to think I know a little bit about everything,
but not a lot about everything. So back in nineteen eighteen,
the last global pandemic, which is akin to the coronavirus
that we're living through these days. But in nineteen eighteen,
that was the Spanish flu. Yeah, they had the Spanish flu.

(20:47):
Did you know? I did not. Babe Ruth was infected
with the Spanish flu, not just one time, no, no, no,
but twice twice in nineteen eighteen. Babe Ruth had the
Spanish flu. He then made a quick recovery and went

(21:07):
out and smashed the baseball all over the place. But
early early in May of nineteen eighteen, the Bambino did
not follow social distancing guidelines of nineteen eighteen. He had
he went to the beach with his wife and he
ended up in the hospital. He was bedridden. He had
one hundred and four degree fever. But he made a

(21:31):
recovery's playing for the Red Sox at that time. The
Red Sox team doctor, I guess mistakenly gave him the
wrong medication, so the story goes, and he had a
bad reaction and all that, and but he ended up
coming back. Red Sox officials thought, if you believe read
the story which is available, they thought that he had
such a bad else he was on his deathbed, which

(21:53):
he never would have ended up going to the Yankees,
and the history would have been changed forever and all
that stuff. But he made recovery with the Red Sox.
And then in early October, after the season had ended,
it ended early because there was a world war, World
War One that had taken place, and Babe Ruth was
infected with the Spanish flu again and once again he

(22:16):
was able to come back and play and dominate. And
we know the legend, the mythical legend of Babe Ruth,
which has passed down from generation of generation. I thought
it was interesting though, because the Spanish flu and you
look at the death toll on that and how terrible
it was and how horrible And then you see photos
of baseball players wearing masks when they're out in the

(22:39):
field in nineteen eighteen, and you know, if only social
media had been around, Babe Ruth would have been shamed
for going to the beach. He would have been shamed.
There was no social media in nineteen They're like typewriters.
I guess right, they teletype machines and things like that.
That was before radio and those type of things. Modern
technology swept the world. And but it's interesting, So Babe

(23:02):
Ruth biggest who's the biggest name athlete now? I guess
Kevin Durant or von Miller would be the biggest name
in this this portion of the apocalypse that has been
given that that illness the coronavirus. Be sure to catch
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(23:23):
Schemes Redskins are apparently looking into changing the team's nickname. Also,
the Cleveland Indians apparently are looking into it as well.
When are the Cowboys going to change their name? Because
the cows that could and that the Indians. I'm also
offended by the Yankees because I've been told that we're
not supposed to be patriotics, So the Yankees' nickname is offensive.

(23:46):
I think they should change that. It looks like the
Atlanta Braves are saying they are not looking into changing
their name, and there was a tweet over the weekend Eddy,
I'm offended the Braves will not change them. There was
a tweet over the weekend from a fake account that
Cla Patrick Mahomes had said he would not play for
the Chiefs until they change their name. That was ended
up not being is that our guy Sports stock Berry?

(24:09):
There was a fake Adam Schefter account that tweeted I
could it could have been sports stock Berry though he
does like to in person. They d Schefter and all
those NFL in Cis it might have been. Not sure
about that. But the Chiefs say they're not looking into
changing their name or the name of Arrowhead Stadium. I
did see the Chicago Blackhawks. Uh, we're talking about not
changing the name, but maybe changing the logo. But it

(24:31):
is interesting if you don't know, there is no Blackhawk
Indian tribe. That was actually just a made up name. Uh,
so they're they're not actually named after a specific tribe
or anything. But but the logo apparently is now on
the Lakers going to change their name. I've been offended
by that for years and really it's me. It's it's
stealing the heritage of the people of Minnesota. The team

(24:53):
was originally in Minneapolis, of course, and it's stealing the
native people of Minnesota. It's their identity. There's not a
lot of around Los Angeles. There are not And the
other thing is, think of the people, Eddie that have
been really just you're mocking the death. There's a lot
of people every year that die in accidents at lakes
and the Lakers are just that nickname just triggers a

(25:16):
lot of pain. There's a lot of pain for people,
and it's just not right. I would like to see
big corporations try to unite and use those extortion attempts
they used on Dan Snyder here to get the Lakers
to change their name, because it really is offensive. It
really is offensive, and I think more people need to
talk about that. And it's kind of whispered in hush tones, Eddie,
how offensive the Laker nickname is. But really, when you
think about it, imagine if you had a relative that

(25:38):
died in a boating accident on a lake drowned. And
then you've got to see that Laker name shoved in
your face. I mean, this is disgusting. It's not right, Eddie.
It is interesting how the Lakers and Dodgers their names
make no sense at all. As far as the Dodgers,
they gotta get rid of that also. I mean, please,
there were people that what it means. It just it's

(25:59):
not dogs, Billyears. You gotta get that right anyway, all right,
thank you for that. You can change every name. We
get rid of all names. And then now they of
course got to get rid of Washington also because that's
named after George Washington, who owned slaves, So they have
to get rid of that also as well. So it's
got to keep pushing the envelope here a little further
and further. That's how that council culture works, all right. Anyway,

(26:21):
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And back to the phones we go, and let's say
hello to a blind Scott in Boston. He's back on
the North end of Boston. Hello, blind Scott. Hey, what's happening? Dude?

(27:04):
I could all fired up when people recognize me on
the street. It happened like three times last week, three
different guys. And you know, it gets me so excited.
So I gotta impress my friends. I gotta keep these
good calls, you know. So, dude, I heard uh, I
heard um like you were at this party over the weekend,
so you weren't social distancing. I don't know if you
were in a facemask and then your friends were coming
up to you and talking about the Dodgers. Man, Well,

(27:27):
we ripped you guys off again. That's how we we
We gave you aid, rinks, insalus and all this stuff.
You know, you know your friends are just asking you
about the Dodgers though, because they know you have nothing
else to talk about. They don't really you know, they
don't necessarily care what you have to say, just trying
to get you talking because you're just probably standing there
not saying much, you know what I mean. But I
wasn't at a party. It was a text. I wasn't.
I didn't go to it, any party or any I

(27:48):
didn't really leave the house much this weekend. Yeah, I've
been worried about you too. You haven't been leaving the
house so much either. You know, I want you to
get out more and like get involved with the people.
You know, you used to go to all these sporting
events and stuff. Okay, I'm getting kind of concerned. You know,
people's everybody's listening to your show. I'm getting recognized. You know,
you're really putting in the work here. They put your
show for like eight hours last week on the network.

(28:09):
I go to bed to Ben Mall, I wake up
to Ben Mall. You know you're you're more popular than Evan. Now,
we're just gonna get your back out into the public.
You know, you gotta You're gonna like run for some
political office or something with Doc Mike again. Would you
support me? Would you vote for me? Blind Scott if
I ran for city council or something like that. You
would say, yeah, yeah, would campaign if I don't have
that great of a name right now, but I'm clearing

(28:29):
everything up, and you know I would be a great spokesperson.
You know, you've done a lot for the disabled community.
We could debut my glasses when they come out of
your campaign, and you know that would get a lot
of votes for you. You know what I mean. Oh yeah,
that would be yeah, because you will be They're gonna
make documentaries about you, blind Skuy. Yeah, yeah, there's an
artificial intelligence. I'm gonna be one of the first people

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with these things. You know, Hey, you could be my companion.
So when I get stuck, I can call you up
and you can see out a little camera and tell
me what I'm seeing, you know, concerned blind scout. Once
you get your vision back, that you might go back
and look at some people that you might have spent
some time with and say, wow, if I had my vision,
I might not have spent time with them. Well, no,
it's all synthetic. Though. It just says like it is

(29:11):
Ben Mallow from Fox Sports Radio. It's not really going
to tell me. You know, I'm not gonna be up
skirting anybody on the train or anything yet you know
what I mean, not yet, but that's down the line there.
But it is real. It's breakthrough technology. Bows has a pair.
But you know Google, this is made by Google. Some
of these people should be sponsoring the show. I also,
I want to get a head transplant too. I realized
I'm going bolved on top of my head. You know,

(29:33):
I wouldn't mind maybe taping. Maybe I could get some
of your hair on top of my head and then
i'd be really I don't I don't have much left
on top of my head either, so I don't know.
I might be in line with you. They back in
when I first got in a radio, they had the
big advertisers were I was weight loss. Weight loss is
always big in sports radio. They had what else? Well,
they had mail problems if you needed some pills, they
knew how to help you on that. That was a

(29:53):
big advertiser. Eyesight that like laser eye surgery, the latex
or laser what's it called laces laces that was big,
and then also harrow placement. At one point those were
like the top advertisers in and RADIOSI a while ago.
All right, thank you, Scott, yeah, there you go. All right,

(30:16):
so you don't deserve sports. You don't deserve sports. I
got a kick out of this. I wanted to talk
about it for a couple minutes. So Sean Doolittle, who
must have just gotten his ass kicked in school with
a name like Doolittle as his surname. Anyway, he's a
pitcher for the Washington Nationals, and he went on a rant.
He was ranting and raving in the Nationals version of

(30:39):
Spring Training the Air, and he said, the highlight the
money quote. Let's just give you the money quote, because
that's the quote the matters, you know. The other stuff
gets lost in translation, and we don't have time to
go through everything. Sean Doolittle says, God forbid. I hope
I never get to the point where I have to
go through everything. Sean Doolittle says. But the headline on
the Doolittle story, National's Closer says US hasn't earned the

(31:00):
reward of sports yet, as coronavirus deaths mount was the
quote there from Sean Doolittle. He said this to the
Washington Post a bunch of other news outfits that we're
covering the Washington Nationals, and he said that sports are
like the reward of a functioning society, and we're trying

(31:22):
to just bring it back even though we've taken none
of the steps to flatten the curve. All right, couple
of things. First of all, he's completely wrong. Sports are
not a reward to society. That is crap. That is
how sports are marketed. Sports are a major institution, a
major business in America, a multi billion dollar industry in

(31:46):
America that sells itself as part of the public trust,
so they can convince dumb politicians to give them money
to build their ballparks in their arenas and their stadiums.
But the overall revenue in twenty seventeen it was nine
point four billion. I believe they topped ten billion dollars
in revenue. That is not some kind of small Hey,

(32:09):
if the public's good, you'll get your sports type of operation.
That is not how it works. Sean Doolittle is an idiot.
He's a moron, is what Sean Doolittle is. If that's
what he thinks, if that's his belief that it's some
kind of reward. No, it's your job, dummy, it's a job,
and it's a big industry in America a massive industry.
Now I will agree it a market it is. It's

(32:30):
some kind of you know, public situation where it's it's
your part of the community. You know what sports are
like going to the park is a reward at the
end of the week, your weekend warrior and you're going
down of the park and you partake in basketball or
whatever you might whatever a sport you might play at
the park. You're a weekend Warriors. That's your pleasure, that's
your reward for working during the week. But this idea

(32:54):
that it's a reward to watch the Miami Marlins play
baseball or check out the Seattle Mariners that are terrible,
that's a reward. That's a punishment. That's not a reward.
It's not a reward at all. It is the Ben
Mallers show. You want to talk about that you can't
eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is the number

(33:15):
eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine time.
Now for the who Am I? Game? This is where
we pretend to be somebody else in they blatant attempt
to get you to listen a few minutes longer. So
Shaquille O'Neill and Blank are the only players under the
age of twenty two in NBA history to average at

(33:36):
least nineteen points twelve rebounds and one and a half
blocks per game. Again, Shaquille O'Neill and Blank are the
only players under the age of twenty two in NBA
history to average at least nineteen points twelve rebounds one
and a half blocks per game. And that is the question.

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(34:40):
game in a couple of minutes. Djo Don John writes
in and he says, Hey, Ben, it's my forty first birthday.
Can you give me a shout out? No? I will not,
DJ Don Sorry, don't give shout outs. If I gave
shout outs to everybody that wanted shout outs, I would
have no time left to do the show. It would
just be hey, shout out over here, shout out over there.

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I'm not some kind of circus act here. I'm not.
How dare you? We're not under the big top, are
we now? DJ Don John also says he says the
Lakers need to give back our name. They are thieves.
He points out that's true, yes, and you're in the
Twin Cities there, DJ, you should be offended by it.

(35:25):
It's not right. Baker says, what about the Vikings. The
Vikings used to rape people. That's offensive. You got to
cancel the Vikings. That is true. Well, I ran to
I was ahead of my time on this. Years ago.
We used to do shows about how ridiculous this is
when you go down this rabbit hole, how absurd this
thing is, and you're gonna have to get rid of everything.
Just have teams with no name. Even city names are

(35:47):
offensive because they're named after people, many of the cities,
and you got to get rid of them, or they're
false advertising. Like New York it's not new anymore. It's
been around for a long time time, to get rid
of it. New Jersey also not new anymore. Time to
what change the name on it? Not right? All right? Now?
For the who Am I? Game? A attempt to get
you to listen to a couple of minutes longer. Thus

(36:08):
we'll call it the the who Am I? Game? Shaquille
O'Neill and myself are the only players under twenty two
in NBA history to average at least nineteen points, twelve
rebounds and one and a half blocks per game. Again,
Shaquille O'Neil and me, myself are the only players under

(36:28):
the age of twenty two in NBA history to average
at least nineteen points, twelve rebounds and one and a
half blocks. That is the question. What is the answer?
And let's see here page Dan Rick Smith's guest by
Matt the Warrior Raider, a's fan clearly not cheating tonight.
Kevin Durant from mister nice Guy Rob in Vegas says,

(36:52):
those damn Midwestern mosquitoes is the answer. James checks in
with Donald Foyle as his answer. Brad is going with
Jamal Mashburne as the choice there. Who else do we
have here? Let's see page down page now, we'll get
to that. Miguel on fire it's on my list. We'll
get to that. We pushed it back. Frank and La
is going with Brian Scalabrini Sean and Portland, says Bill Cartwright.

(37:14):
Shaquille Harrison from so Cal Studd Bobby Vinton tossed out
by the fire Lake DJ Tim Duncan from Just Josh
that's his answer page dab Pete Maravich from Thomas the
Cub fan, Joe Barry Carroll, there's a good name from
David in Seattle, Rob in des Moines going with Steve

(37:38):
Urkel as his answer. And do you have an answer there?
Eddie Chris Washburn Chris Washburn, oh man who is going
to dominate the NBA for years to come? Unless he didn't,
The correct answer is de Andre Eyton of the Phoenix Suns.
De Andre Eyton and Shaquille Hio the only players under

(38:00):
twenty two d average nineteen twelve and one and a
half blocks per game. Does anyone think of DeAndre Ayton
as a future megastar in the NBA. Anybody, I don't. Yeah,
I mean a lot of a lot of numbers on
some terrible, dreadful Phoenix Suns teams He's put up. He
has put up numbers and sons. They showed a little flicker,

(38:23):
they showed a little flicker before the apocalypse. But I'm
not I'm not in on that. I'm not in that.
All right, let's go to the phones here and let's
see who is next. Let's go to beer drinking Brian,
who is in Kansas City. Hello, beer drinking Brian. Man.
Oh there he is ready to go all schnuckered up.

(38:48):
I could have got I'm ready. You're ready, You're high, baked,
waisted and blown. Uh you're you got all the big
the big four all covered there ally. Let me ask you, yes, yes,
do you really think they're gonna take the Minnesota Vikings
out of the Vikings? Well? Given enough time? Yes, yes,

(39:11):
given enough time. If we continue down the path we're going,
I think that every name will be changed. I think
every name is offensive. You can find a group of
people who are offended. So it just depends what's your
standard know, does a certain percentage of people have to
be offended? You change the name, uh, and you go
to have the Pirates. Think of the people that have died,
the Pittsburgh Pirates, Eddie, How could you be a Pirates fan?

(39:32):
Think of thee and the Steelers, Eddie. Think of the
people that die making steel and it's just mocking them.
It's not right. It's terrible. I think it's horrible. I
think the whole world. What's what's half Pine up too?

(39:56):
Is she hanging out over there too? Right here? Yeah?
I have fin It's a family's this family. We had
the high half fight. You're on the radio half Fight. Yeah, Hey,
I just done out. My man have an alcohol used disorder.
I heard Eddie. Can you translate to Eddie? I cannot said.

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He has an alcohol use disorder, an alcohol abuse disorder.
His name is disorder. His name is Beard drinking Brian.
I don't think he's really hiding it. You know, at
least he's out of the hospital. Rights in the hospital
that adopted alcohol disorder. I could listen to you talk.

(40:42):
You should read the phone book. I would listen to that.
He's so damn entertaining. Let me tell you don't understand.
You two should go on the road. You guys ought
to go out, and of course you need a designated driver,
but you should go out and perform once things open
up after the apocalypse. All right, I gotta go alright.
Uh wow, that was amazing. You know, some people are

(41:09):
made for each other. I don't know how half Pine
and Brett or Brian rather met beer drinking. Brian aren't
the guess it was while drinking. You might have been
a happy hour somewhere. But but they're the perfect match.
You know. We say, oh, that couple's made for each other,
that man and woman. No, no, no, they're the perfect match.
Oh my god, is that amazing. Be sure to catch

(41:30):
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(42:15):
and Spring training two point zero has started with players
bitching and complaining. And we also had a big surprise
though they're talking baseball here, and this was at all
of all places, the San Francisco Giants workouts that have
been taking place like all these other teams. And if
you were out of the loop because you were shooting

(42:36):
off illegal fireworks over the weekend, man, that was quite
the show. You see the video, Oh my god, everyone,
everyone and their mother shooting off fireworks. More on that later,
we'll get into that later. But anyway, the Higantes, they
were working out there in San Francisco. And if you
didn't see this because you were busy on the fourth
of July, you might have missed it. Pablo Sanda ball

(42:58):
was the talk of the town. He was the talk
of the town. The portly giant infielder who has been
battling the Bold for many, many years, was photographed taking
round balls at third base and looked like if you
wondered what the stay puffed marshmallow man would look like
if he played third base, that would be Pablo Sandoval.
He's listed at five eleven. He's a I don't think

(43:21):
he's even five eleven. They say he's five eleven. And
his weight, Pablo Sandoval is two hundred and sixty pounds.
He has to be well over three hundred pounds based
on the photographic evidence that we saw. A picture is
worth a thousand words, or in this case, a picture
is worth a Maller monologue. So Pablo Sandoval, we know
he hasn't been skipping any meals good for him. He's

(43:43):
not on the Mallar fasting plan that I've been on here.
So let us discuss the question what do you make
of the Higant's backup infielder Pablo Sandoval and his new
look for the Giants. So I've got MLB, shop Balina
and the beer spokesman. All right, those three things, and

(44:04):
we will combine them all together now Number one. So
I was wondering, and we as a show, we're wondering
which athletes would just let themselves go, and who is
going to show up and be lazy and during the
pandemic and not work out and not do anything to

(44:24):
stay in shape. And much of our focus was on
the NBA and we didn't spend too much time on this.
But it's a bad job by us. We missed out
on Pablo Sandoval. It's bad job, all right. Quarantine feasting
and then so every night at the Sandoval household was
the last supper every night. Now, normally when spring training starts,

(44:47):
there is a boiler plate story. Now this is obviously different.
These are uncharted waters that we're in right now. But
typically during spring training there is a story that every
sports writer uses. It's a cliche story that is repeated
year after year. I'm in the best shape of my life.
I'm in the best shape. I'm ready to go. Now, technically,

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that is not wrong with Pablo Sandoval because round, as
I know, I've lived that life, round is a shape.
And he's either seven months pregnant with twins, or he's
been just feasting on a diet of candy bars and
Cheetos and you name it. Man, it must have been
a great diet. Either way, it is a very impressive

(45:33):
lack of dedication that we should celebrate. We on this show,
we like the fat athlete. We are fans of the
fat athlete. And there's nobody fatter right now I can
think of in sports than Pablo Sandoval of the Giants.
He is not only ready for the major leagues, he
is ready for Beer League Softball. If the season gets canceled,
Santoval can slide over and he can play the hot

(45:55):
corner in a Beer League Softball situation. Now, the Giant
equipment staff, they have to put uniforms on all these guys.
So I'm assuming they went to mlbshop dot com and
they ordered Sandoval some maternity clothing to put on there,
because it looks like that's what he's gonna do. And
who knew that Pablo Sandoval not closely being watched over

(46:18):
by I assume trainers and people around him, they don't
have a babysitters follow him around, and that he could
actually like he could have eaten himself to death. And
he's known as the Panda that's his nickname, Pablo Sanva.
I think he's been working at a Panda Express. He's
been eating all the food at the end of the night,
when the Beijing beef and the orange chicken, and when
they're gonna throw that out, I'll take that now, in

(46:40):
all fairness them, in all fairness, Sandoval, what's the old line?
I remember I used to hear this one. I was
when I was really big that you know, I only
eat when I'm bored. Unfortunately, on board all the time,
so I just continually eating all that stuff. And as
far as those that say, well, you gotta have a
six pack to play sports, which is not true, we
know that's not true. Sandoval does have a six pack.

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It's just covered up by a nice layer of protective fat.
But somewhere in there there's a six pack. It's hidden,
but it's in there. And he is ready. This is
a guy that's prepared to be a designated hitter the
National League has added to DH and of course with
a catch. There is a catch there that not only
is Sandoval ready to be a designated hitter for the Giants,

(47:24):
but he's going to need Rob Manford to put another
tweak in the rule book and implement a universal pinch
runner because he's going to need a pinch runner there
because he could hit the ball, but running is going
to be slight issue there. The way he looked, I
could see him hit the ball off the wall and
then be thrown out at first base. Now, fortunately the
Red Sox, I believe this is correct. I'll have to

(47:46):
go double check, but I think the Red Sox are
still paying Pablo Sandoval his contract. He's still getting getting
a check. Most of it's from the Red Sox because
of that horrific free agent signing several years back. You
gotta think that's coming to at some point. So it's
like limited headaches for the Giants. They're not really paying Sandoval,
they're just paying him I believe the pro rated minimum.

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So the second point here, so as we were commenting
on this photo of Sandoval and it didn't make me smile,
it made me smile on the fourth of July, after
Bartolo Cologne was denied work in the big leagues, we
have been searching to find the next plump star. I
mean bigger than life, right, bigger than life, And I

(48:33):
had hoped it was going to be Williams, asked Thedo
of the Minnesota Twins. Unfortunately, he is mister everything, asked
the deal of the Twins. He's catcher, third baseman, second baseman.
But even though he's got the great nickname, which is

(48:53):
he's named the Tortoise or la torga, which is tortoise
in Spanish. We need to come up with some better
nicknames for Pablo Stanimal. He is known as kung Fu
Panda or just the panda. Others have called him the
round mound of pound or little money, but we can
do better. Forget ballerina, how about ballina, which I think

(49:15):
I have. I know Spanglish, which is a version of smash,
but I think ballina, I believe, is the word used
for whale in the Spanish language. I think that is accurate.
So you can just call him the ballina at third base,
and you could have the instead of just calling him
ballino or pando or little money or round mound. How

(49:36):
about we call him dojo, right, he could be the
doe Joe. There you go. That's not bad, all right now,
final final. That's when he's on defensive, of course, because
you're dojo teaching your defensive techniques. All right, final point.
So unfortunately, Populo sive fandaball is going to be a
bit player on the Giants. In fact, I don't even
think he's guaranteed of being on the team, although it

(49:57):
seems likely because of the pandemic. That's Sandoval is gonna
make the Giants the Apocalypse gonna help him out there.
I'm pulling for him, all right. It's odd because I
like the Dodgers, but this is a guy I can
get behind, all right. And with Mike Trout, who's kind
of got cold feet in Anaheim, he's he's never embraced

(50:19):
the headliner's status of professional baseball, and that's that goes
without saying. So Pablo Sandoval should become the new beer spokesman.
He should be the new beer spokesman, absolutely right. I mean,
he is the most interesting man in the world of baseball,
and professional baseball should embrace this. Should They should pay

(50:42):
some money to the dose Ecaes people, the beer people
over there, the advertising campaign and imagine the commercials with
Pablo Sandoval going around doing his thing, the most popular
backup first baseman, third baseman, pitch hitter, and designated hitter
in baseball history. And might I add the mark getting
campaign three Sports Star? What is that? Three sports are?

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Well Pablo Santoval. Not only is he a baseball player
who's not very good anymore, but he can also duke
it out with Bay Area legend, the pride of San
Jose Joey Chestnut who just won another Mustard Belt. More
on that coming up later. And then when the NFL
season begins, assuming it does happen as planned, then Kyle

(51:24):
Shanahan could offer Pablo Sandoval a contract because he's got
a spot on the forty nine ers practice squad waiting
for him as like a backup center or guard. He
could slide right over there. So, Santoval, you can really
monetize this, right. You can never have too much depth?
Why not? What's not to like? Now? My advice to

(51:44):
Pablo Sandoval is someone again that has lived this life
all right. As I relate to this, I've had the
battle of the balls. I've still fighting it, fighting the
good fight. So you should try to avoid Pablo, here's
what you got. You gotta try to avoid things that
make you fat. For example, scales. You stay away from scales,
they make you fat. Mirrors, do not look at any mirrors,

(52:05):
and do not allow your photograph to be taken. If
you can avoid scales, mirrors, and photographs, the big three,
then you have nothing to worry about. And I know
that the human body, what is it like, ninety something
percent of the human body is made up of water.
So there's just a lot of water there. There's just
a lot of water if you ask the science community.

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And so he's not really a big fat tub of goo.
He's just he's just water logged, is all he is.
They're Pablo sentival. But boy, that was good. If you
have not seen that photo, I retweeted it, it's wild,
wild photo. I check that out. Pablo Sandoval living his
best life, living his greatest life for the Higantes. All right,

(52:48):
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and have some fun. Let's go to the phones right now.
Let's see here where do we have any meany mighty mote.

(53:10):
Let's go to Andrea in Berkeley. He's got her star
charts out right now. Hello Andrea Virgo in service on
Twitter the sports sorceress. Hi, Ben, did you have a
nice holiday full moon weekend? Oh? Yeah, the full moon
weekend was in full OFFENCT. We had we had a
big full moon show at the end of last week

(53:31):
there on the fourth of July as a third of July.
It was a third of July. It was a wild Yeah, yeah,
I know. Like you said, motions get a lot more
intense around the full moon, so the callers get crazier
around the moon's way. I'm really worried about it. In
this job, you can tell when there's something going on
out there with the stars because people say that. Some

(53:53):
people say that's not true, Andrew, and they say that's
not right. But I know for a fact something's up
there around certain certain cosmic events. The callers get a
little more on him. Yes, as above so below. You know,
we definitely feel the planetary influences some more than others.
So that said, I just had to look up David

(54:13):
Price's astrology August twenty sixth, nineteen eighty five. What do
you know a fellow virgo, and I can relate to
the you know, hypochondria, germophobe. I've been, you know, as
you can imagine, just really worrisome about health and so on.
So you know, Virgo energy can be a little obsessive, compulsive,

(54:33):
and kind of hypochondria ish, so that can be a challenge.
So we opted out of the season, and you know,
I give him credit though he's losing. Um. I looked
at his chart. He's forfeiting then twelve million dollars in
salary by opting out. Yeah, but he's got one hundred

(54:54):
and eighty six whatever it is million if he had not,
if he was somebody making fifty thousand dollars a year,
he obviously wouldn't have that option. He does. I mean,
to his credit, he's made a ton of money. They've
overpaid him for years in baseball, and so he has
that option where the unwashed doesn't have that option. They
have to work because they have to They have food

(55:16):
they want to eat, and they have bills they have
to pay and things like that. He's none of those worries.
It's a charmed life as an athlete. I mean, you
can imagine the you know, the pushback we're getting with
Buster Posey's saying he may or may not play. Yeah,
you know, I was looking at the photos of Babe
Ruth from like the Spanish flu Times you back in
that in the day, and as like like baseball players

(55:37):
didn't in nineteen eighteen. They weren't making it. They weren't
making ridiculous money. It wasn't it. Obviously at some point
it changed, I guess in the in the seventies and
the eighties, and the money's kept getting bigger and bigger
and bigger. But yeah, I mean it's just um, you
know and blow. Of course I was tweeted out and um,

(55:57):
you know, Leo, he does tend to overindulge in the food.
And I think, what are they calling it? The quarantine nineteen,
the COVID nineteen that people are gaining about nineteen pounds
from being quarantined and being less active. He's got more
than nineteen pounds there. He's skewing the numbers. He's an
outlier because he's gone way over nineteen pounds. So I've

(56:18):
actually lost weight though, Andrew, I've been able to lose
some weight during it's for you. No, not really, I'm
just not eating. Oh no, I'm definitely less active. I
used to walk through campus and do a lot more activity.
So now you're honkering and bunkering is what you're doing. Yeah,
I'm working on a lot of charts and you know,
just taking it one day at a time, but looking
forward to baseball season in the end of this month,

(56:41):
that should be nice. But David Price, you know, fellow Virgo,
and he has his Moon and Capricorn, he's kind of
overcautious Venus and cancer. Saturn's opposing it, so it's not
a happy time. But you know, nonetheless, Virgo have that
critical can't see the forest for the trees energy, and
they can get a little skeptic and nitpicking. So he'd

(57:02):
rather just sit it out. And that's how Virgo rolls.
There you go, that's how they roll. Are Andrea, thank you,
and you're on Twitter there Virgo in service. Yes, thanks,
then take it. There you go. Thank you for where
she goes. Only she knows. We'll press on eight seven,
seven ninety nine on Fox. We'll get too attacked by

(57:23):
the Pope. We'll get to that coming up here in
a minute. And everyone's got a price. Everyone's got a price.
We'll get to that as well, but we'll do it
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All right, Matt the Warrior Raider ACE fan writes in
from the bay. He says, the reporter that tweeted out
the photo of Pablo Sandoval is now chastising people for
making fun of Sandoval's Wait, yeah, I have it. Come on, listen,
what we do is that canceled. Also, we're not allowed

(58:31):
to have fun with that. We can't goof around on that.
Are we gonna get into There's no way that person
didn't know exactly what he was doing when he tweeted
that photo exactly. If you look at the photo, come on, please,
and this not just not just that photo. I was
looking at some other photos. There's a photo I'm looking
at right here on my computer and it's got Sandoval
standing up in the outfield and he's got a giant

(58:52):
shirt on and he's wearing a mask, and you can
you know he's a big guy. He's got a big
beer belly right there, looks like he's a few months pregnant.
And I love what Gabe Kapler had to say. He
see Gabe Kapler, who's he's now the Giants manager. He
did such a terrible in Philadelphia. He got hired by
the Giants. How lucky are the Dodgers They avoided this

(59:14):
guy he was It was between him and Dave Roberts
years ago, and the Dodgers picked Dave Roberts. Although we've
got the curse of I really liked him in that spot,
which is the default position of Dave Roberts. But Gabe
Kapler's just a boob anyway. Kapler attempted to downplay all
of the scuttle butt on social media about Pablo Sandoval

(59:36):
and his obese appearance as he showed up for the
summer workouts for the Giants before the shortened season. And
I love the quote here Kapler addressing it because everyone
was talking about it over the weekend, and he said
that Sandoval demonstrated that he's healthy, is what Kapler said.
He went on to say, I think what we're always

(59:58):
looking for. Is pobl able to do the things necessary
for him to be a play a baseball player. I
think it's understandable that in today's world we focus on wait,
Kapler said, I get it, and sometimes body shapes and sizes.
In this particular case, what we've all noticed, Kapler declared

(01:00:19):
about Pablo is the balls jumping off his bat, and
his throws have nice carry. Yes, pisses me off. When
balls go underneath his sauce in the chain really bugs me.
He also went on to say that when he runs,
he's got a nice jingle, a nice little jiggle to
it when he runs, there his whole body. No, this
is funny though, because Gabe Kapler is like the poster

(01:00:40):
boy of fasting, meditation and fruit smoothies and yoga, like
pilates all that stuff, And in fact, he was too
much into that in Philadelphia, where people are like, what's
going on with this? He's all about eating that oatmeal, eggs,
berries and avocados and all that stuff, and they're like, man,
this guy's not he's cheese steak enough. He's not tasty

(01:01:03):
caking off pretzel enough, like Philadelphia. So now, Gabe cabin
lest I get it, First of all, you you got
to defend your players, right, that's by the book. You've
got to defend your players. He's one of my guys.
I don't care if he's overweighted on. I'm gonna defend him.
And the same thing. You gotta think. This is a
public private situation where publicly they're saying this, but privately

(01:01:23):
they're like, holy crap, what the hell is going on here?
My god, that is ridiculous. All right, to the phones
we go, and let's say hello to America's favorite drag
queen caller in Buffalo, New York. We say hello to Felexus.
Hello Felexus, Hello man, Hello world, And I hold to

(01:01:45):
my new home and port to York w l WV
thirteen forty Hello Lockport, New York, fifteen miles west and
me Ben, you're the new buner a Lockport, New York.
You like, well, I don't care, So you moved. You're

(01:02:06):
not You're no longer in Buffalo? Is that right? You
check out? No, I'm in Medina, New York, which is
fifteen miles east of Lockport in New York. Get your
backs right then, gotches? Oh my goodness, Yeah, all right,
that's fascinating. Is this tremendous radio? Any other upstate? Can

(01:02:27):
we talk about that? Luger can neon eat no good
eat doing and they gonna keep it. He'll be gone
in two months. You've watched you know how New England
likes to play games. They love a soap poppers. You know,
they just can't keep their nose clean and be quiet?
Not no they Flexus? Is your nose clean? Flexus? You? Yeah,

(01:02:54):
I picked my nose hairs and everything. Yeah, so how
come you don't pick your nose hair? No? I don't
pick my nose hairs. I don't. I bet you got
a lot of old hairs. I have noticed, as I've
gotten older that that hair seems to be growing like
my ears and places it never used to grow before,
which is rather disturbing. Eddie. You got a lot of

(01:03:18):
old hairs, Eddie, more than I would like, I would say. Yeah. Yeah,
well you know, Justin Cooper has no hair at all,
and all that we smoked all are is that the key?
So you just Eddie, we just got to smoke a
lot of weed, according Flexus, and then we won't have
to work. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, all right, but thank

(01:03:43):
you so felexus over the weekend. Was he thought he
had been shadow banned or something like that by the show.
What does that mean? I don't know. I was gonna
ask him, but he acted like an idiot, so we
had to blow him up. But I think he thought
like somehow we were blocking him from calling the show
or something like that, and he doesn't understand social media.

(01:04:06):
That is true. He's on Twitter, but it's not well
neither is marked the full name guy Mark. Yes, he
sent me a direct message and he said, hello, Justin,
am I not your favorite drag queen anymore? Does somebody
block me on Twitter? I can't tweet? And so all
I said in response was ll you got suspended, question Mark?

(01:04:30):
And then he thought that that meant that I suspended
him from the show. I guess, yeah, yeah, yeah, because
he was sending me messages that he had been banned
from the show or something like that. And I'm like, listen, listen,
the knuckleheads they call up. We don't really ban anybody.
You really got to go to the extreme to get
banned from calling the show. It's the standard. Not that

(01:04:51):
great to call in. Let's be honest here. So but
marked the full name guy who's on Twitter, and he was.
He kept sending out photos of a driver's since it
was probably from like nineteen, like seventy eight or something.
It was a photograph of him. He claimed it was him,
I don't know, and it shows him in his younger days.
And in every tweet he kept sending out the photo.

(01:05:12):
It was very odd, it was very bizarre behavior. And
he made that his abby his avatar. Be sure to
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are amongst several teams including the Nuggets, Heat, Clippers, and
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of issues with the coronavirus. So all those teams apparently

(01:05:33):
are just gonna keep their facilities closed and not have
any workouts until the teams travel on Thursday and start.
I don't need to work out when I go play basketball.
I don't practice. I go to the park. I play.
That's what happened. When was the last time you played basketball?
My nickname Moneyball Maller. As you know, I'm lethal from Downtown.

(01:05:53):
Last time I picked up a basketball a couple months ago.
I didn't play during the apocalypse. Yeah, I went to
the park shot some hoops. Wait wait do you say
no like that? I'd beat you at a shooting contest.
I would love to uh to take. I'm the top
shooter on the show Money, just like you had the
best arm. When we went to Bakersfield, I threw a strike,

(01:06:18):
and that pitch would have frozen the knees of the batter,
and and that batter would have been out caught looking
right down the pipe, right down that in the middle.
It's all about movement. There's different ways to bake a cake. Eddy,
And that pitch I threw in Bakersfield was amazing. It
was great. It was gas. It was not gas. It

(01:06:38):
was definitely not gas. It's different grades of gas. It
was gas. It was like helium gas. You're jails. We
won't be able to do that. All the Minor League
baseball has been canceled. I guess all these teams are
gonna go out of business, so there's no more minor league.
Don't blame us. That was not our fault. We love
we support minor league baseball. We did close the team
in bakers but they closed it. I think I was

(01:06:59):
gaga to be honest. Yeah, well he hired that guy,
David guy, that's stooge. What did you expect. I liked
that he put us in the cool zone. And then
we had we had the water dripping that was none
of the fans worked. It was a million degrees in
Baker's field. It was wonderful anyway, all right, Not that
I'm complaining. It is the Bannet Mallers show. As we

(01:07:21):
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(01:07:41):
monologue to start the hour. In fairness to Pablo, he's
simply preparing for his post baseball career breaking news. He says,
this is for Marcel here and it says Pablo Sandoval
will be collaborating with Bill Cosby to revive the cartoon
series fat Albert. Hey. Hey, hey, so says Rob Shape

(01:08:04):
thinks I have some kind of agenda. Here, says Mallar
is so salty, he says about Pablo Sandoval because Sandoval
has had more success in the World Series than any
Dodger in the past thirty years. Yeah, of course, keep
in mind, Shade that the Dodgers back to back champions
in twenty seven twenty eighteen, so I wouldn't say that anymore.

(01:08:24):
And they played the Astros who cheated and also the
Red Sox who were involved in a cheating scandal themselves
back to back World Series. Did the Giants have to
play any of those teams they played in the American
League that were cheating against them? I say no, of course,
not so the Giants. He played the World Series and
it's on the up and up. Both teams were playing

(01:08:46):
by the same rules Dodgers didn't have that, didn't have
that at all. All right, Now, moving on from that,
I present to you now the curious case of Blair
in Maine. Now, Blair is a form recaller of the year.
He's a great special Olympian champion and our our guy
fun House who hates the bell. Fun House was a

(01:09:08):
big listen to the show back in the day, and
then they started playing the bell and he stopped listening
to the show religiously because because of the bell. Anyway,
so he records his claim to fame as he records
radio shows and then plays back clips radio shows that
are on television and then they go viral, and a
lot of people only consume sports radio based on what

(01:09:29):
fun House sends out. And so he was recording documentary
Mike Francessa, the Long and the Tooth sports talker from
Mike and the mad Dog back in the day, now
just Mike for years anyway, So I guess this was
on Friday, I believe it was, and Blair and Mayne
called in to Mike frances a legend in sports talk

(01:09:53):
radio over the years, and he got run from Francessa's
show in a I think he was on for like
maybe fifteen twenty seconds. He got his opening line in
and it was something to do with being worried because
Mike Trout wasn't wasn't might not play or something like that,

(01:10:13):
and then like he just got ran right away, just
ran ran from by Francessa. And so some of the
militia were like, hey, wait a minute, here, this is
our guy. Yeah, we're only we're allowed to goof on
Blair and Maine. He's one of us. He's a Malar
militiaman and he's a caller of the Year and all that.
How dare this Mike Francessa? So do we really want

(01:10:34):
to go to war? I don't think Francessa's savvy enough
to even understand like what that would be the Mallard militia.
But I'll check in with Eddie Garcia here because Eddie's
normally the one that likes to release the hounds here.
Did you are you even aware of what I'm talking about? Eddie?
Are you aware of this confrontation between Blair and Francessa?
I am aware? Yes, all right. So some of the

(01:10:55):
militia were like, hey, we gotta do something here. We
got to defend the honor of Blair in Maine and
these people have sworn by the Mallard militia oath Eddie,
and should does this rise to the level where we
have to go forward and do something? I mean, I'm
all for it, You're all for so you are released.

(01:11:16):
You've got to say the words, Eddie. You're the one
that says it. Are we do we think that Mike
frances has any any power to do anything. I mean,
what do you mean, what does that mean? I don't know.
I mean he did banned fun House or he did
some legal mumbo jump, threatened to sue fun House, and
then realized that no one would ever hear his show
if without fun House, and then back down from that. Okay,

(01:11:38):
I was I was not sure what exactly. Yeah happened. Yeah,
he ha fun He threatened like a cease and assist
against He read it on the area, the thing in
the air, and then somebody told him, hey, stupid. Without him,
no one will even know you're alive. And so then
all of a sudden, they changed their tune later on. So,
I mean, I'm gonna be you're concerned that he might

(01:12:00):
you know, they might. We might keep just asking, I'm
just ask I don't know, I don't, I don't know. Here,
here's what I think. I think that Mike Fransasa probably
doesn't even use social media. Yeah, I agree with you,
And so releasing the Yeah, releasing the hounds, it's gonna,
you know, irritate the people that probably get paid minimum

(01:12:23):
wage to handle his social media accounts. Yeah, I think
a more effective strategy. And I can't cannot endorse the
city because it would be wrong to do phony phone calls,
I think, but I can't endorse that. I can't endorse
that be more effective. You can't, you know, can't give
birthday shout outs. I do not give birthday shout outs,
that's right, Eddie. And I can't tell someone to call

(01:12:43):
up and shout Malam, Milisia, Blair and Maine. I can't
do that because that would be wrong and you'd have
to do that on your own, and I cannot encourage it,
as I tweeted out. And for people who may not
follow me on Twitter, every once in a while we'll
get someone complaining that we are not being mind to
Blair or Marcel or some of those folks, and my

(01:13:04):
response is always, there's no one else that would give
them the type of air time that we do, and
we do it because we like them and we think
they're entertaining, and if we do happen to make fun
of them occasionally, it's because we make fun of everyone.
We treat them equally. And I'm personally I'm I'm glad
that that Blair has the time he has on our show,

(01:13:25):
and I'm finding him not going anywhere else, so he
should he should stay here and not try and call
other shows. This is his home. No, no, he's addicted.
He's clinically addicted to calling sports talk radio shows. But
that's the one cool thing about them, Mala militia. Right,
we goof on each other. We and it don't matter
who you are, or whether you're beer drinking Brian and
a half Pine, or we've got lawyers and doctors that

(01:13:46):
listen to the show and all that, but we all
bust each other's balls, right, That's what we do here.
That's how the show operates, and so Blair and Maine
loves to be part of it. And our friend Marcel
who is breaking news and all that. So do what
you want there, Malla militia. But there's our conversation, Blair
and Maine. It was treated rudely by Mike Francessa. We

(01:14:08):
are going to have mallard to the third degree. We're
gonna get to that, but first the insta trivia. Here
we go. Former Montreal expos picture Blank at one point
had no idea who Hank Aaron was when the Hammer,
the all time legitimate home run king, visited the park
during a spring training game. So his roommate then told

(01:14:31):
him and said, hey, Aaron hit the most home runs
in Major League Baseball history. And as the story goes,
the then expost pitcher, who would become a legend himself, said,
then why isn't he in the lineup today? All right,
that's the Insta trivia again. We're looking for the name
a former Montreal expost pitcher who had no idea who
Hank Aaron was when Hammer and Hank visited the park

(01:14:53):
during a spring training game. That is the Insta tribute
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(01:15:34):
But here's the instant trivia, former Montreal Expos. There should
be a picture of a team called the Montreal Expos.
They don't exist anymore. The Montreal Expos picture. Blank had
no idea who Hank Aaron was. When the Hammer and
Hank character visited the ballpark during spring training, his roommates said, Hey,
that's that's Hank Aaron. He's at the most home runs

(01:15:54):
in Major League Baseball history. The then Expos picture who
would come on go on to become a legend himself?
Said then why isn't he in the lineup today? Was
the question? That is the answer trivia. The answer right
now James is going with the great Tony Armas Junior.
There's a good name. Maddie from the Natty says it
is Pedro Martinez. That that is the answer. Zion Williamson

(01:16:17):
guests by mister nice guy Rob in Vegas says it
is the rated R Superstar Edge. That that is the answer.
All right, Eddie, do you have an answer? Eddie play?
The answer is, oh, there's a good expo. Floyd Yeoman's
solid job. You could have gone Also, is it Bryan Smith,
remember the beard red Beard? Yeah, this is Randy Johnson.

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Randy Johnson was with the Expos in nineteen ninety one
and Hank Aaron showed up to a Braves Expos spring
training game. And as the legend goes, Randy Johnson had
no idea who Hank Aaron was, had no concept. And now,
of course Randy Johnson's in the Hall of Fame. A
man that leads us into this. Here we go, it's Meller.

(01:17:03):
How about that? To the third degree? This is one
big band gets grilled. All right, here we go. What
do we have? So I methitting coach Chili Davis will
be coaching the team remotely to avoid potential coronavirus exposure.
And maybe, wonder Ben, is this a method that's foolish
to even try? Or do you think remote coaching will

(01:17:24):
be the way of the future. All right, So, first
of all, listen, I love Chili Davis. I've told the
story a few times over the years. I covered the
California Angels when Chili Davis was playing for that team.
He saved me from getting my ass kicked by an
enraged lunatic named Tony Phillips. Years ago. So I love Chili,
and I love that he keeps getting hitting coaching jobs
around baseball. He's been with the multiple teams now now. Secondly,

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it is not the way of the future, but it
is doable in the big leagues. I had a veteran
coach tell me who had been a big league hitting
coach for years. This is many, many years ago. But
by the time a hitter reaches the big leagues, they
are set in their technique, they are set in their ways.
The hitting coach's job is akin to just touching up
and maintenance. You're not reinventing the wheel when you get

(01:18:09):
to the major leagues. But but yeah, they're gonna be
back when this is all done. It's this is not
the wave of the future. Right. Next, so Donovan Mitchell
says that he and Rudy Gobert are now good after
reports of reparable damage being done to their relationship when
both tested positive for coronavirus. Do you think the Jazz
will truly coexist peacefully in the bubble ben? All right,
So this is another one of those where you say, yes,

(01:18:30):
they will, but there's reasons for that. Hey, they can
play make believe as long as the cameras are on
them for a couple of months. Since the media are
segregated away from the players with zoom conversations and all that,
there's very little chance unless somebody snitches that the animosity,
the underlying animosity, is gonna get out and beat in

(01:18:53):
the long term. This is ultimately up to Donovan Mitchell.
The Jazz are going to try to sign him long term.
They want to show him the money in Salt Lake,
given one of those Megamax contracts, and so they will
be at his beck and call. Meaning if Mitchell wants
Rudy Gobert tossed off the island, then his ass is

(01:19:13):
grass all right. Next, So the Dodgers were supposed to
have the All Star Game this season, now I'm aware
of that. I was supposed to be sitting here Marlin's
Man at the All Star Game. Yeah, well, obviously it's
not gonna happen because of coronavirus. So they got awarded
the next available All Star Game, which is in twenty
twenty two. But we do know that the Players Union

(01:19:34):
or the Players Association tried to go for a All
Star Game played after the World Series, but that didn't
really get anywhere. Ben, would you have supported that? No,
that's a dumb idea. Listen, the one thing first thing here,
baseball players don't even like playing the All Star Game
when it's in the season. Can you imagine after the
World Series when everyone skipped out of town and they're
on vacation and they're like, oh no, no, you guys

(01:19:57):
gotta come back because we got to play the All
Star Game. Imatchine the vitriol that would take place in baseball.
And then secondly, when teams are eliminated, right and everyone
they're like rats jumping off a burning ship and all
that stuff. But the more important thing here the All
Star Game is to build up hype for the second half,
right Midsummer's Night classic fuel excitement. It's also all about

(01:20:17):
the fans, and the fans still aren't allowed. And even
as fifty percent, it's bullcrap, wait till the fans could
come back. You don't need it. All that's lost in translation.
It's a game for the fans without fans. What's the point?
All right? There? It is maller to the third degree.
How did we do? Ben? You passed this edition? There?
It is? That is a winner. You can put it
on the bar. Yeah, it's still bummed out. I was

(01:20:41):
gonna have so much fun at that All Star game.
Boom the ass rows. Be sure to catch live editions
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(01:21:06):
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(01:21:28):
we filibuster the wee hours of the Morning Away And
it was a historic weekend in sport. Did you watch
Joey Chestnut make calaric history. Maybe you did not. Maybe
you did not check this out, you didn't see the
highlights on the internet. I don't know how you could
have missed it. So Joey Chestnut, who already was the

(01:21:51):
King of Kings, has done it. Yet again, he digested
a new world's record seventy five hot dogs in ten minutes,
hot dogs and buns in ten minutes. He dominated the
entire field that the Nathan's Famous hot Dog Eating contest,

(01:22:12):
which was at a secret location, not at the normal
outdoor event because you can't have crowds. There is the
thirteenth Mustard Yellow Belt, thirteen of these things that Joey
Cheston has won, so he breaks the tie with Rafael Nadal,
Rafael Nadal who had won twelve French Open titles and

(01:22:33):
I really the Mustard Yellow Belt and the French Open
title one and the same Bill Russell, the King of
NBA rings with eleven championship rings, but that pales in
comparison to thirteen Mustard Yellow Belts, which is what Joey
Chestnutt has and his man cave. Now, not everyone agrees them.
Not everyone agrees with the comparisons between Joey chestnut and

(01:22:56):
these other athletes and their accomplishments. There. There was actually
a lot of blowback. People are very upset with this.
So that's what I want to talk about. The question
is should Joey Chestnutt be included in the conversation when
you talk about top athletes, greatest athletes, and that tired
cliche debate, and the answer is absolutely, And if you don't,

(01:23:19):
you're doing a disservice to reality. I do not short
change what Joey Chestnutt has done. We have not embraced
this enough. You know, we suck up to our athletes
so much in this country, but we do not suck
up enough to Joey Chestnutt in comparison to these other
athletes to get fond over all the time. So I've
got the dictionary, the microcosm, and relatability, those three things,

(01:23:44):
and we will connect everything together just like that. All right.
So first of all, all right, let's start with this now.
Joey Chestnutt, who I've interviewed him in the past, had
him on a couple of years back. Joey chestnut is
not just an athlete, all right. He is the most
dominant competitor living in athletic competition. Chestnut is both an

(01:24:05):
athlete and competitive eating is a sport. And I want
to get into that right now. We have marveled at
the greatness of Joey chestnut and year after year you think,
while he's too old, he's pastors prime. No, who knew
competitive eating? You're never past your prime. And yet the
blue hair's wine. It's not as smart. It's not as smart.

(01:24:27):
He's not an athlete. All right. Time now for Professor Maller,
I will now educate you here on both of these things.
I will now go to the dictionary. All right, So
let's go to the dictionary. Now, the definition of sport
for you dummies in the back of the room. The
definition of sport and activity involving physical exertion and skill

(01:24:49):
in which an individual or team competes against another or
others for entertainment. Close quote. All right, so head of eating,
let's go through this here. Stay it with me. Now.
It involves intense physical exertion, the amount of wear and
tear on the human body, my god. And it is

(01:25:12):
a competition against other individuals, and it's for entertainment. It
checks every criteria as a sport. It's done. It's a sport.
No debate, no debate. Now what about Joy Chestnut being
an athlete. Let's tackle that right now. All right, we'll
go right in the lion's mouth. All right. So that

(01:25:33):
yet again, let's double down. We'll go to the dictionary
all right, By the dictionary definition, what is the definition
of an athlete? It says right here, I'm looking at
it right here, it says a person who is proficient
in sports and other forms of physical exercise. Now, since
we already determine it's a sport and we know what

(01:25:55):
it does to the body, that makes Joy Chestnut an
athlete certthing more of an athlete than any NASCAR driver
like Bubba Wallace, And I would say that at the
end of a competitive eating event, the body of Joey
Chestnut is in worth physical condition than Mike Trout after
a baseball season, or even Lebron James after an NBA season.

(01:26:15):
Joey Chestnut, Now play the laughs all you on. Joey
Chestnut down seventy five hot dogs and buns in ten minutes.
Even at the peak of my fatness, I couldn't need
seventy five hot dogs in ten minutes. That is twenty
one thousand coldories. That's over two pounds of fat. That's

(01:26:36):
nearly two ounces of salt that he consumed in ten minutes.
Imagine what his intestines and his colon must have looked
like when he got done. And even if he let's say,
and there's a theory that Joey Chestnut does not actually
hold that food down, that he has a reversal of fortune.

(01:26:57):
Imagine how painful though, even if he does puke all
those hot dogs up. You still they've got to come
out somewhere, whether they come out the back door or
the front door, they're coming out, and the smells and
all the pain and the agony. You know, I had
my gall bladder, as you know, last year, before the apocalypse,

(01:27:18):
they chopped my gall bladder out of me. I had gallstones,
and they said, that's the worst pain you can have,
the gall bladder, the gall stones. When you have that removed,
it's like the worst, most painful feeling. I don't know
that's true. I hope to not find out. It was
pretty bad. It was pretty bad. But Joey Chestnut, what
he must go through at the end of an event,

(01:27:41):
my goodness, it's mind boggling. Now. Secondly, the fun Police
have entered the chat. Now that would be Peter King. Now,
I actually worked with Peter briefly years ago when I
was doing stuff at NBC. But Peter King was a
washed up NFL writer by day, and he's moonlighting as
social justice warrior by night. I don't think this qualifies

(01:28:03):
as social justice, but he's attempting to play the role
of negative Nancy and peaking. Peter King attack Joey chestnutt
the sport of competitive eating the Joey Chestnut has put
on the map here, and King agreed with a tweet
that said the media could do the culture of favor

(01:28:24):
and ignore the sickening spectacle of competitive eating. It's revolting,
the angry man said on social media. Now the rotun
Peter King, who's not turned down many free meals in
his day. He was then called out by people that said,
a Peter, you know, Peter, you have a remote control.
You have the ability to not watch competitive eating if

(01:28:46):
you're so offended. Well. King was annoyed by that. He
then gave a sermon. He says, I've never have, never will,
implying that he's never watched competitive eating, but he's got
a hot take on it. He says, that's not the point.
The fact is Espend celebrates the birthday of our country
by airing gluttonous, vomitous and grotesque event. Grotesque event eating

(01:29:09):
is not a sport. Competitive eating is a sin. It's
right Joey Chestnut, you are a sitner. According to Peter King.
Oh my god, you can't even enjoy watching a guy
eat hot dogs without it being a sin. Now, we
have already debunked the hypothesis of Peter King that it's
not a sport by definition, It is exactly that it

(01:29:32):
is a sport. He's flat out wrong. But the rant,
and this type of neurosis is right on brand. Is
what it is with the way things are headed in America.
It's a microcosm of society. You can't think of a
more harmless thing than a group of people eating copious
amounts of sausage and weeners. It is benign fun, which

(01:29:56):
is not allowed. You're not allowed to have fun. You're
a sinner. You are a sinner. How dare you? And
you have a group of people, not elected, not voted on,
who tell you how you're supposed to feel and whatever
they think has to be the rules of society. They
are these self appointed gatekeepers on what is allowed and

(01:30:17):
what is not allowed. And of course I go by
the live and let live for the most part, live
and let live. And guys like Peter King think that
his wants and desires are the only ones that matter.
And that is an example of the underlying issues that
we've been talking a lot on the show about in
recent weeks. And Peter King is using morality to talk

(01:30:41):
about a hot dog eating contest, which I believe qualifies
as psychosis. I believe that qualifies as psychosis. All right,
so let's get back to Joey Chesnut. Joey Chestnut, who
is a finely tuned athlete. It's a niche sport, but
still a sport. And he said, well, it doesn't matter, right,
because it's sure. What about obscurity, Okay, Olympics come around

(01:31:05):
every so often and are very popular, get a lot
of attention on the media, in the media, on the
internet and also on television, and Olympic sports who are
very obscure, much more obscure than competitive eating, and they're
celebrated in society. For example, racewalking, that's an Olympic sport.
Over the years, they've had rhythmic gymnastics. I would rather

(01:31:28):
watch a hot dog eating contest than rhythmic gymnastic trampoline, right,
That's something when you go to the fast food restaurant
in the ball pit, they might have a trampoline in there.
That's an Olympic sport. It has been. These things are unrelatable.
Every man, woman, and child that has ever walked the
planet has had to eat every one of them. You

(01:31:52):
know what that means. Relatability, that's what that means. And
this guy has dedicated, Joey chest not his life to
this and the amount of work that he has to
put in. You're talking about stretching your stomach to the limits, right,
super human limits. He whether it's water, milk, protein, whatever,

(01:32:12):
he puts in there. And it's not like he's Poplo Sandoval,
who's playing professional baseball, is a big fat tub of goo.
Joey Chestnut has maintained roughly the same weight, give or
take a few pounds, and nobody has been able to
even touch this guy's toes. In the competitive eating theater.
He is lapping in the competition and Chestnut had a

(01:32:35):
great line over the weekend. He said his dream is
to donate enough money to his elementary school for them
to name a cafeteria after him. And my advice to
Chestnut is to think of a different dream because the
way the world's going, at some point, some offendered group
will say no, no. That was gluttony. We can't celebrate
Joey Chestnut. It's teaching the kids that it's a proper

(01:32:55):
thing to eat a lot of hot dogs. And they
would they would then pull the name off the calf
Materia and they'd knock the cafeteria over and burn it.
They'd burn it, right. They'd come over there with matches
and gasoline and they burn it. And I wish the
late great Jim McKay was around, right, and we can
bring back the wide world of sports, spanning the globe,
to bring you the constant variety of sport, the thrill

(01:33:17):
of victory, the agony of defeat, the human drama of
athletic competition. And you got all of that in the
hot dog contest, although not a lot of drama because
Joey Chestnut. Not only is this guy human garbage disposal,
but if he was a horse, of course he would
be secretariat at the Belmont, lapping the field. He won

(01:33:40):
Chestnut by thirty three hot dogs and buns thirty three.
All right, And as far as you know, it's not
that popular scort. Typically they get about forty thousand people
in attendance, forty thousand roughly in Coney Island. Obviously no
one was there this year because of the apocalypse. And

(01:34:00):
that event gets better ratings than like MLS soccer on
television and w NBA of course everything. Yeah, it gets
better ratings than the w NBA and go down the list.
So there we go. In your face, those of you
that attack competitive eating. I've just debunked every one of
your arguments. Man, that filth. Good. I haven't had a

(01:34:22):
good man. That's a sun. No, no, I was a
great man. Come on, please out, dare you? Oh? I
think one of my Yeah, all right, let's see here.
All right, Oh, I just got an interesting text. All right, anyway,
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(01:34:46):
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(01:35:11):
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(01:35:53):
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Robin Minnesota writes and says, Joey Chestnut's bathroom breaks must

(01:36:13):
smell as bad as one of Angry Bill's calls. Well,
that would be pretty bad, be terrible. See who else
do we have here? Maddie from The Natty says Peter
King is just a whiny little jerk. That's what he's become.
Blah blah blah blah. I still laugh about the time
Clay Travis completely owned him a few a few months back. Yeah,

(01:36:36):
Peter's living large in more ways than one. Rob in
de Moine says, hands down, the best monologue you've ever given.
Joey Chestnut maybe one of the greatest athletes of our generation.
He's a champion MGM John who religiously listens to Fox
Sports Radio, and God love him for that, says even
Steve Hartman said he's the goat better than Brady and

(01:37:00):
Jordan combined together. It's twelve titles, Joey's got thirteen. Now
Riek in Minnesota's very upstates. You've lost I just you've
lost my respect. He said. He's very upset with us
because if my Mala monologue, they're not happy at all
about that. All Right, let's go to the phones and
we will say hello to Christopher, who's in Houston on

(01:37:21):
Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Chris, lift every thing something something,
that's all I know, being that's all I know. I
didn't know that was a national anthem. I didn't even
know that. Being so you learned, you learned last week
that the there was a black national anthem. I was

(01:37:42):
unaware of this too, and I did text some of
my friends who were older than I. Maybe I missed
it or something like that, but I thought it just
was a one of them spirituals you know, one of
them spiritual songs. I thought that was what it was.
I didn't know it was the Black National anth A
bunch of pan but well, exactly what. Let me ask
you this, though you feel christ I did a monologue
on this last week about how it was total pandering,

(01:38:04):
and some people are upset with me. He says, No,
it's not. I mean, I feel like people are just
inventing things now that we need to add. I don't.
I don't. I don't quite get it. The NFL just pandering.
And at the same time, it's like, okay, we get
your prump for you to be quiet, like it's just
too much, man. It's it's just too much because you
have people that really hate the history of their life

(01:38:27):
and that's how they feel and that's how they come
at him like that. And it's like, dude, you know,
we know you got racist in your organization. You're putting
all these different things in and it's just making you
look worse and worse as it goes. So it's just
I just I just shake my head and a lot
of all these things then, But I shook my head
at your podcast man, with that so called civil rights lawyers,

(01:38:49):
he was great if he well because you didn't agree
with him, so you didn't like what he had to say.
You're talking about Leo Terrell. No, I agree with points.
But if you're gonna call yourself a civil rights attorney,
who are you representing white people? Because you're sure I
ain't represent the bus Because Johnny Cochran was a civil

(01:39:10):
rights lawyer, was more civil rights lawyer than this guy.
He has been a civil rights attorney. You can look
him up on the internet. He's been around forty years.
You want to fight some real cases, go down to
these little small towns down here in Louisiana and Mississippi
and Alabama and fight some of new civil rights. But

(01:39:31):
he's based he's a lawyer based in Los Angeles and
he's done a lot of civil rights stuff. In that way,
I like, I think Leo's good. I love the interview.
Is going to talk to him and I'm I mean,
the thing is the only thing I had. I agree
with him that a little bit was a school that
they need to have a better school district. But that
doesn't save a young black man walking down the street

(01:39:51):
getting getting stopped just to see just because he looks
like something like he's he's into something to something, you
know what I'm saying. That doesn't stop that. Well, mean, listen,
Leo has been he's been in the in the weeds.
They're fighting the fight as far as civil rights for you.
But think being I tell you, it doesn't. It doesn't
help the black man that's trying to buy a nice
house in a nice neighborhood just to get a rast

(01:40:12):
about the neighbors to say what are you doing here?
I mean, you can contact you can contact Leo if
you want. I mean, you can see the contact him
and you've already take this up with him. He was
the he was the one that was on the podcast.
So Ben, you're gonna go get yourself a little nickname,
Ben Bunker up Malice, because I mean, you show this,
stay in that bunker. You're scared to come to Fox

(01:40:32):
Sports studios. Man, you get to gonahead and tell Scot
the heiro I got me, let me So. So here's
the deal. I am following the company guidelines, just like
the baseball players have to follow. Just like the baseball
players have to follow what Baseball tells them to do.
As soon as it's green light go. As soon as

(01:40:53):
I get the green light, go to come in there,
then I'm not I'm not given the light. That light
is very red at the moment, by the way, I'm
aware of that idiot where it's very red right now.
But yees now, being now, we know you are the
excuse maker. I mean, look at the teams you make
excuses for him every year. So you wait, wait, you
made your team, cheated, your team never never won a

(01:41:15):
World Series at all. Zero, you cheated. So let's trophy
still here. So, I mean it's still there. It's just
a little piece of It's just a piece of metal,
that's all that is, just a little piece of metal.
I mean, come on, remember band Roberto putting me in
thirteen hours to day Man. There are reasons. There are

(01:41:39):
reasons for that. We will not get into here, Chris.
But I don't think you understand. But hey, you guys,
but his story is Robbie Demer the fan man. He's
got Roberto's got hemorrhoids. Now, because thank you, I gotta go, Chris,
thank you my god. Jeez, it's like the Christ and
Houston Hour. It's like another power hour with Christ and Houston. Jeez,

(01:42:01):
let's keep it going on the phones. Let's see who
is next. Us go to Tammy in Montana. Hello, Tammy
A Ben. I just have three three things. Um, Mike
Francesa drinks prune juice, has ed and never gets laid.
He is an angry, washed up guy who needs to

(01:42:21):
quit being a dick in Dayton to Whoopie Pie Blair
in Maine. Um. You know, I was like, that was
like five things right there, Tammy. You combine like five
different things in your first point. That's one subject. There's
secondly Billy rob Pokey Pokey guy, Adrian Eric in Iowa,
and anyone else who is ill. I just want to say,

(01:42:43):
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of our members to stay with us. Yes and laste.
Since I'm a paid caller, Um, here is my paid advertisement. Um, Ben,

(01:43:08):
you're fantastic at cameo. I think anybody should really consider
paying the very small fee that you request to have
a creative, um little thing for anybody who needs to
either be cheered up. Ben even does fight songs for people,

(01:43:30):
and I can do yes, yeah, you know what I'm
talking about. He even can do the nickname role call
multiple times and make it completely different because he uses
props in the way he says things. So I just
think you're amazing Ben. All right, thank you? All right?
Than a right there she goes, all right, our friend
Tammy there promoting promoting from well, thank you. I'm very

(01:43:53):
kind of you to do that. Let's see here, I'll
skip over that. I don't think I can read that
one on the here. Oh, Marcel's checked in. He's planning
on being on the show, so make sure a line
is open for Marcela very important we get him on.
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believe you opened up the show with a Mallard monologue

(01:44:13):
about David Price. Now, I don't think you have you
forgotten Eddie because it was so long ago when the
show started, you've forgotten them, understand. I don't think you
mentioned this. If you did, I apologize. But David Price
not the only CY Young Award winner that is opting
out of this season. Felix Hernandez, former cy Young Award winner,
also announced he is not going to play this season
because of concerns over COVID nineteen. How the thirty four

(01:44:36):
year old former Mariners start trying to be the fifth
starter in Atlanta with the Braves, but obviously that's not
going to happen. Yeah this season, Yeah, Felix last year
in Seattle was one and eight with an ERA of
six point four for the Mariners. Did not rise to
the level of malar monologue status in the last Really,

(01:44:56):
the last I think it's four years has earned five
years is actually wait six years. His era has gone
up every year over the last six seasons. It's fallen
off the map and you're no longer the king. No,
but it's it is interesting to know it did. Both
Felix Hernandez and David Price technically thirty four years old,

(01:45:18):
though Prices about to turn thirty five. Felix just turned
thirty four, and both have made a lot of money.
So when you have a lot of money, you have
got rainy day fund, as we said in the monologue,
and you are allowed to the freedom of not having
to show up to work because you your bills are
still paid. You know, you don't worry about paying the

(01:45:39):
mortgage and the car payments and all that stuff because
you've already paid all that enough to worry about it.
You're good. So anyway, all right is the Bannet Mallers
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for info and eligibility. So ed he's been mentioning this
Washington Redskins story, which they haven't changed the name yet,
Allo certainly seems like they're heading that direction and dan
Stein is gonna gonna bow down there to the Mob
at some point here because of the almighty dollars. So

(01:46:23):
I'm starting to a friend of mine over the weekend
about this and talking about the extortion, and You're like, yeah,
that's extortion, that's the And I said, yeah, I brought
that up the other night in the monologue and they're like, yeah,
said you know why the Mob has used extortion because
it works, And I'm like, I guess, So, I guess
the extortion does work, right, if you want to get something,
that's that's a condition that human beings can use and
get what they want via extortion, and its appears to

(01:46:46):
be working for the Redskins. But I bring this up
changed the name of the team because the parent company
of the Harlem Globetrotters has entered the conversation and they
have offered to sell the nickname of the team that
the Harlem Globetrotters would all always beat up. If you've
ever seen the Globetrotters over the year's chances are you've

(01:47:07):
seen this. They would always use and abuse. The Washington
Generals was who they would beat up there, the Washington Generals.
And so the company that owns that brand, the Washington
Generals brand, says, for a price, they are willing to
sell the nickname to the NFL team there, and they'd

(01:47:29):
be called the Washington Generals. Now, as far as the odds,
that would be a terrible oh my god, the Generals.
And as a little kid, and I didn't realize it
was all staged the Harlem Globtrots. Remember watching the Globetrotters
play the Generals, and I was kind of pulling for
the Generals, and then I realized that there had no
chance to when they were trying to win. But the
General would be a terrible name. It's it's a team

(01:47:50):
synonymous with losing, which might or might not be appropriate
for the for the Redskins. But the odds on the
offshore book, I'll give you here. Let's see here, I'll
give you most of these. These are the actuals plus
one thousand, the Washington Arlington's, which would be kind of
the Washington Monuments, which would also be a little out there.

(01:48:13):
That's plus eight hundred, the Roosevelts, not honestly, because they'll
turn something up on the Roosevelts there. I'm sure they
did something on tort there because you know they've got
to they have to cancel that. The Jeffersons can't do
that because slaves veterans. No, because that would support the
military industrial complex. The Washington Capitals, which I think has

(01:48:34):
already taken I believe by a hockey team. The Memorials,
which is a play on monuments, has been listed here.
The Washington Kings. That's not going to really work. There's
the La Kings. The Washington Americans. Well that, Paul. Can
you imagine the people triggered by nicknames if they find
out the teams called the Americans. Holy crap, Oh my god,
they have an s fit. The Washington Lincolns. I don't

(01:48:57):
think that'll work. And the top two. Number two is
the Washington Generals, which we talked about. And the number one,
the favorite, based on the odds, to be the new
nickname of the Redskins if they change the name, if
that actually happens, the Washington Presidents, and then of course
when they lose, they could be the Dead Presidents. And
then you could go down the list there and they

(01:49:18):
could have the running president's contest and all that. So anyway,
those are the list of name. Let's go back to
the phones right now. And I'm told it's this person's birthday,
so let's get him on right now. We say happy
birthday to Cowboy John brad in Windsor, Ontario. He's now
twenty one years old. He's legal to have a beer. Congratulations, Cowboy,

(01:49:39):
happy birthday. Well thanks, pound course, I'd have been legal
to have a beer over here in nineteen the third
drinking age. But okay, I'm trying to think of some
of the Oh Zion Williamson's twenty and let's see the
Delai Lama's eighty five. Ned Baty probably remember him from Deliverance,
you know, boy, he's eighty three and around Don Robinson

(01:50:01):
who was the brother of the late for former ABC
News anchor Max Robinson seventy nine, Randall Robinson's ahead of
this lobbying group called trans Africa and c. Sylvester Stallone
and George W. Boischer seventy four. And if you remember,

(01:50:23):
you remember because you weren't born then. But the original
Batman TV series went from nineteen sixty six to sixty
eight on ABC. Well Burt Ward who played Robin as
a seventy five today, and I believe that Mike Wiley,
the former coach of the university in the Brads team,

(01:50:46):
and Walter Reed Pierce is the son of the late
former Big league pitcher Billy Pierce, or sixty seven just
as I am. And Jason Thompson and Willie Randolph who
were both former Major League All players. There's sixty six
to day. And also let's see j Crowder is thirty,

(01:51:07):
I believe, and uh in nineteen six, what are you
doing to celebrate your birth? Who are you? Am? I
doing this? Well? Actually I had a servant early birthday
celebration at my nieces on thirty. You know, I had three,
I two Hamburgers, three at Kans of Beer, and I

(01:51:27):
had a couple of cupcakes and you know a few
A snack is what he? Yeah, Paul Sandall called yes snack. Yeah, well,
well hell and then he'll heal what he's five, five
or six times a day. So, but in nineteen sixty six,
on this date, there was a major league pitcher from
years gone by named sad Sam Jones had died and

(01:51:50):
in seventy won the Great Jazz uh Clara Attis and
Louis Louis Armstrong died at that in nineteen seventy one. Eighteen.
Dan McCoy, who I had a hit with the Hustle
of a Fossil at dance in nineteen seventy five, died
at eight thirty forty one years ago today. And Roy

(01:52:11):
Rogers the Kick of the Cowboys by twenty two years
ago today. And so I hope you had a great
I hope you guys had a great weekend, the fourth
of July weekend. Of course, our first of July was
last Monday, Big two people were buying all right, cowboy,
taking the full advantage of the birthday shout question. My recommendation,

(01:52:34):
I gave you that list of nicknames. I believe the
Washington NFL team they're gonna change the names should be
called the Washington Lobbyists. I think that would sum up
politics in Washington, DC. Right, what just go all in? Right?
Those are the people that really call the shots in
American politics anyway, So why not just embrace it, why
not celebrate it? They're the ones that, right, yeah, they're

(01:52:56):
the ones that buy off the Congress people and then
they get the laws they want pass and whatnot. So
just call it like it is. And that works for
both Republicans and Democrats because lobbyists on both sides they're
paying off everybody. And anyway, all right, there it is.
We'll press on. We are going to have this is.
I was gonna get taken another call, but the cowboy

(01:53:16):
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(01:54:02):
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(01:54:23):
There's a couple of ways I could go here, there's
a couple of ways I could go, But I think
what we need to do. We were in the malamust
We like to eat a lot of food, most of us, right,
So what is your advice to Joey Chestnut who likely
already knows how to handle this? But he ate seventy
five hot dogs and buns in that eating contest over

(01:54:43):
the weekend? So how do you recover after a gluttonous
weekend of gorging food? Many of us did for the
Fourth of July with barbecues and all that. So what
is your advice to Joey Chestnut on recovering from over
eating with the seventy five hot dogs? You're live on
the air when you hear my voice at eight seven
and seven ninety nine on Fox. We'll keep this simple, though,

(01:55:07):
in lighthearted advice to Joey Chestnut on how to recover
his body from those seventy five hot dogs. We'll go
to the phones right now. Hello, you are on the air.
Hello at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. He
should have let two hands for three dollars, two hands
for three dollars. All right, that's advice to Joey Chestnut.
Thank you. Just keep yelling that over another. All right,

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that's we're off to a flying start. Let's go over
to you you are next year. Advice to Joey chestnunt
on how to recover from eating seventy five hot dogs
being I suggested dip his hot dog in some urine.
Come on, man, don't don't encourage doc. He's Doc's probably
waking up right now in Chicago, getting ready to call in.

(01:55:47):
We don't need to encourage him. All right. Yeah, he
left me several messages over the weekend. He was very
upset with his last phone call last week. Let's go
to you you are next. We're giving advice to Joey
chestnunt on how to recover after eating seventy five hot
dogs and buns. Hello, You're on the air. Just change
the team name to the DC Redskins. We all win.

(01:56:09):
All right, there you go. All right, let's see here
that's off topic by the we're time about Joey Chestnut.
How dare you bad job by you? Justin and Cincinnati,
you knucklehead. Let's go to the wildcard line. Wild card line.
You're on the air. Advice to Joey Chestnut how to
recover after eating seventy five hot dogs? You need a
last minute anniversary gift Ben Maller and cameo for three

(01:56:29):
dollars guaranteed to makers. Say, who the hell is this?
That's a good point, though, So why do you waste
your money on that? You lose her? What's wrong with you?
All right, let's go over there. You are next. We're
giving advice to Joey Chestnut. The man ate seventy five
hot dogs. There's a world record, all time record. We
how great are we? We're alive to witness this? Hello,

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you're on the air. Advice to Chestnut? How to recover?
I'm such a hello occations? All right, there you go.
We need somebody to call up and say pop pop,
fizz fizz, or what a relief it is? That's that
would probably be a good way to approach this. All right,
you are next over there on the line number three,
your advice to Joey Chestnut on how to recover from

(01:57:13):
his epic eating endeavor. I didn't call for this, all right,
then we'll hang up on your ass. Was that? Was
that the two second, three second, four second delay guy
in San Antonio? Yeah? Yeah, Oh my god, Joe just
play along? What a moron? What's wrong with you? All right?

(01:57:36):
So it's that hard to play along? I didn't call
for this, no, no, thank you, Sherlock. All right, boy,
I always said a bad word. Let's go over there.
Line five. You're on here? Hello, line five? What's uh?
All right, we'll hang up on you. This is where
I give out the number. So I tried to leave

(01:57:58):
a little extra time, and now I'm getting ear for that. See,
no good deed goes unpunished. I was like, I really
short change the audience with the instant advice line in
recent week, so I need to give it more time.
Let it breathe a little bit. So eight seven, seven
ninety nine on Fox, this is the voice of the people.
You would be the people were giving advice back to

(01:58:18):
Joey chest not the pride of San Jose on how
to recover the man ate seventy five hot dogs and
buns in Coney Island, New York there over the weekend.
What is your advice? Hello, you are on the air. Hello.
Now for my next trick, I will try to messicate
a twenty year old. All right. We knew that was

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going down a path we didn't want to go down.
So we'll go over to here the line one, Line one,
you're on the year. Line two is not working. But
line one is your advice to Joey chess not on
how to recover from his epic eating weekend. Good damp, funk,
chicking and no, good dumb all right. I couldn't understand

(01:59:01):
most of that. Probably good, I did got Is he
doing some kind of chicken dance or something like that?
Is that what he was? I'm not sure. I only
understood a couple of words. Yeah, it's probably better that way.
I've got my headphones turned up. Here. Let's go to
you over here on line six. You are next on
the Airline six. We're giving advice. Oh it's cowboy. It's
on the wild card line. Wild Carlin, what's your advice

(01:59:22):
to Joey Chestnut oh well, Kevin Harden fittyell okay, all right,
thank you cowboy. Yeah. Matthew Warrior Ratter rays fan was
upset because you didn't mention bucks and blonde in your call.
He was upset at that. All right, this is one
more cooperhoop, only one more of it's good. I'll take credit.
If not, I will blame you. Line four. Line four

(01:59:44):
the final call, the instant advice line for Joey chest
Nut on how he can recover from eating seventy five
hot dogs and buns. Line four, you're on the air,
go this is be your near craft and he can
join me and cam for dead as a rubing two.
All right, dare you go? They're to rub and tug.
And now you know why if you ever get a

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for info and eligibility as well. So I'll be at
a good weekend at a good time. I was the
girl Master. I was out some barbecuing on the fourth
of July in the backyard at the Mallard mansion there,
and I was listening as it sounded like I imagine
if I was in Fallujah, That's what it would sound
like with all the explosions everywhere I looked. It was

(02:01:35):
rat a tat tat, NonStop all night long, and but
I was enjoy I didn't have any fireworks myself. I
was like, I was blown away by how many people
were able to get these things crazy. Now, in years past,
there have been people that have had crazy fireworks, but
this is like the kind of fireworks you would see
at a baseball game on the fourth of July or
a Friday night fireworks show. Was insane. But something else

(02:01:58):
happened over the weekend that caught my Aisian I wanted
to talk to you about. And while I was celebrating
the birthday of America and many people were lighting explosives
off and barbecuing just like I was celebrating the US's birthday,
not everyone was happy. Not Colin Kaepernick, for example, the
player who many people are desperate to get a job

(02:02:20):
again in the NFL. There are cheerleaders in the media
that are desperately trying to get Colin Kaepernick employed by
an NFL team, and the world won't be right in
their eyes until Kaepernick gets a job. So Kaepernick took
advantage of the holiday to open up his old bag
of tricks. And I don't know if you saw this
or not. Maybe it didn't come on your radar but

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got my attention. So this is great. So on the
fourth of July itself, on Saturday, now washed up former
forty nine or quarterback denounced denounced the two uttered forty
fourth birthday of America as a quote celebration of white supremacy,
is what Colin Kaepernick said his post. He included a

(02:03:03):
video that showed images of the clue Klux Klan, police brutality, slavery,
and lynchings, had all that in the video. And then
people started digging around and this is where Kaepernick had
not such a great weekend because Kaepernick tweeted out, you know,
the celebration of white supremacy, and he wasn't going to
take part in it. Then they discovered that Colin Kaepernick,

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who now again thinks that July fourth is horrible and
should not be celebrated, he had no issue with it
back in twenty eleven, not that long ago. Back then
nine years ago. Colin Kaepernick, then they just drafted by
the forty nine ers and starting his NFL career, tweeted out, happily,
happy fourth of July everyone, I hope everyone has a

(02:03:48):
blessed day. That was from Colin Kaepernick before he became
a douche. Now, of course, if you celebrate it's white supremacy.
So let us discuss here the question what do you
make of Colin cap Bernick and his twist on social media?
These social media saga say exposed, I've got acid wash, monetize,

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and poison pill, and we will combine all these things together.
Not to lead off with this is actually a teachable moment.
It is a reminder that Colin Kaepernick is actually a phony.
And I know he's been turned into a deity and
a false god and all that stuff, But there are
a few things that human beings hate more than hypocrisy.
I think we had all agree on that. And Colin

(02:04:31):
has been caught here with his hands in the dishonesty
cookie jar somewhere along the way, and we can debate
when and how, but he was brainwashed along the way
with some extremist views here. And whether that was his girlfriend,
which many people on the internet seem to think, or
someone else I have no idea, doesn't really matter. It

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happened and it became his agenda. And that's what he's
known for here, at least whoever is in charge of
his social media accounts. But back in simpler times, Colin
Kaepernick was not a race hustler. He didn't have a
distorted worldview, and he wished everyone a happy Fourth of July.

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Just nine years ago, everyone, even the evil white people.
He wished him a happy four fourth of July. Now
now if you celebrate, you're being vilified by him for
celebrating the white supremacy. Talk about evolving your position and
also being exposed as a fraud. Right. He's most guilty though,

(02:05:34):
of oversight. And it just shows you the people that
work for Kaepernick, that are on his team are lazy
and he's sloppy as well. Because Kaepernick, what he should
have done now that he's become a radical, he should
have acid washed his social media. Didn't do that. It
took internet sluice, a bunch of dopes in the other

(02:05:54):
smartphone just minutes to go to the archive and find
that Kaepernick wasn't always to whack if you will on
the fourth of July. He's turned into that now. Furthermore,
the other issue here, and I don't know how you
get around this. I don't know to get around on this.
The kool aid drinkers of Colin Kaepernick that are like Hey,
we gotta get this guy a job here. And in

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all this, one of the big points they've made many
times is listen, it's not about the flag, it's not
about the country. It's about police brutality. That's what it's about.
That's Kaepernick's position. He's about police brutality. But I would
say that his actions are not that of someone who
just fighting police brutality. Colin Kaepernick has, in no uncertain terms,
again and again turn this into a referendum on America

(02:06:41):
as a whole. And so you can position it however
you want, but it's the actions, not what you say
the position is that is reality here. And considering that
Colin Kaepernick is a brand ambassador for Nike and that's
how we believe he's making his money, you wonder is

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this Nike's position as well? This is the swoosh think
that the July fourth holiday is a celebration of white supremacy,
and the smart money, of course, says, hey, this business
is business. Colin Kaepernick has figured out a way to
monetize his wokeness and for that he should be credited.
There's a whole cottage industry in that, and there are
a bunch of mindless robots who follow along. And to

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his credit, he had a failed NFL career. He had
not been good for some time with the forty nine ers,
and he turned into this activist and it pays well
and big corporations. Netflix is in on Kaepernick, right, there's
a Netflix show coming, Nike is in on this, among
other companies as well. And so Kaepernick at this point

(02:07:51):
is so far out in the ocean that he cannot
change course, cannot do it right, cannot do it even
though he had a different position as of nine years ago.
And the problem with this is you have to be
as shocking as possible because you got to keep those
checks coming in from Nike and from Netflix, and you

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got to get the crowd to do your bidding for you.
And by doing these outrageous things, that's what you get. Now.
The last thing here, I was talking to a friend
of mine. I was texting a friend of mine who's
worked in sports for years, and it was like, do
you see what Kaepernick said? We were going back and
forth and he thanks the Kaepernick had ulterior motives here

(02:08:34):
in this latest message that he put on social media.
It was about America. But really, Kaepernick is aware that
that is not going to go over well, even though
everyone in the NFL seems to be on board with this,
and Roger Goodell's fully embracing the activism a among the players,
and he even went as far as to go down

(02:08:57):
total pandering highway with his Black national Lantham thing that
they're talking about playing before the openers of the NFL season.
But there has to be a line at some point,
right and so the position of my friend, and it
certainly made sense to me, is that Colin Kaepernick doesn't
really want to play in the NFL game, and it's
getting dangerously close to a position where somebody would actually
offer him a chance to go to training camp and

(02:09:20):
try to be a quarterback somewhere and u and so
he would then of course be exposed if that was
the case, and that would ruin a lot of his luster.
And so this is a way to circumvent that. This
is the type you post, this type of thing, and
it works as a poison pill, is what it does.
And you would think that even the NFL, who's right

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now fully down this avenue, as we said, that they
would run for the hills, because if you signed Colin Kaepernick,
then you have to say, what do you support He
thinks that the fourth of July and America is supporting
white supremacy, do you agree with it? And do you
have you have a problem with you saying that? And
then of course they would have to say they have
no problem with him saying it, which you know, even

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though a lot of people think that, oh, you can
say whatever you want and it's fine. Now there is
a price to pay for that. And even in a
league that is seemingly embracing rebellion, there has to again
be a point of demarcation. And I think this would
qualify as that maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm wrong, and
this this is fine. And remember Kaepernick did the un
Thanksgiving or that was one of his things. I think

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it was last year he had that as well. So
you would assume the position though that even when the
NFL is trying to be as woke as woke can be,
right woke, mick woke, that is still too nuclear. But
maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm wrong, and that that will
not have no any ramifications at all. But that's that's it.

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So somebody did a bad job. You gotta if you're
you've now become a radical. You gotta elete your old
tweets when you were like normal and you like celebrated
Fourth's lie like other people normally do, and just that
kind of thing. But now you you've crossed over there.
And he Kaepernick. To be fair, he was not the
only one. There were several other celebrities that were also
caught with sloppiness and not not cleaning up the the

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social media. All right, is the Ben Maller Show on Fax.
Now here's a fun story from the world of golf.
My buddy Sports with Coleman sent this along. And I
believe this is the same guy that had the fart issue.
We talked about this last last week. There was a
golfer that, let's just say, as he was swinging there

(02:11:36):
was a little bit of a toot toote situation there.
It did not go over very well. Uh and uh yeah,
So I think this is the same gay. Maybe I'm wrong.
I thought it was briand Shambo, but maybe not. All
these golfers kind of liked all the same to me.
I don't know, they've been one PGA guy from the next.
But so this Brian D. Shambo. Over the weekend he

(02:11:58):
had a meltdown. He got very upset with a camera
person who was just doing their job. He confronted a
camera operator after making bogey on the seventh De Shambo
said the operator kept the camera on him for too long,
whal Deschambau reacted angrily because of a very bad bunker

(02:12:22):
shot on that particular hole, and then confronted the guy,
got in his face. The guy's wearing a mask and
all that stuff, and he's a tough, tough golfer guy.
Very upset and that is great. And then he said
after his round. D Shambo said after the round that

(02:12:43):
the players should not be shown in a negative light
and thus have their brand jeopardized. Which let's give d
Shambou the dunce cap. What a douche, what I'd come on,
It's so so ridiculous, so absurd, all right, eight seven
seven ninety nine on Fox. But there you go. There's
a PGA tour and they're trying to social distance the

(02:13:05):
golf design for this right, no fans there and all
this stuff got the camera guy aways, No, you should
not show me when I show human emotion. What's wrong
with you? How dare you? You heathen? Oh my god,
the nightmare. All right, Well, no more, mister Humble, No more,
mister Humble. We'll get to that and we will do

(02:13:26):
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It's Ben Maller. Think of all that overtime though, think

(02:14:10):
of all those billable hours to ching nou Yeah not bad, yeah,
I hear you. All right, So Cam Newton, no more,
mister humble, the now Patriot quarterback that still seems weird
to say. So, Cam Newton, I want to send out

(02:14:30):
a message yeah, he doesn't of course on social media,
which here's a question. Will Bill Belichick end up twisting
the arm of Cam Newton to keep him off social
media once he arrives in New England? Will see if
that that changes. Because Cam loves to post updates on everything.
Everything is life like many of these guys. But when
you get to the Patriots, like the patriot dogma, you're

(02:14:52):
not supposed to do that. But in an Instagram video
that popped up over the weekend, Cam Newton said, quote,
he's really a killer. I should boy, let me stop
right there. Cam, you're going to a team that had
a guy that was a killer. You should not want
to play. You shouldn't use that language. How dare you?
That could trigger somebody? Look up the Aaron Hernandez Netflix

(02:15:13):
documentary He was a real killer. Anyway, Newton says he's
quote getting tired of all this humble s S word
we're not allowed to say it. It involves the word poop,
but it starts with an as. He added that they
start taking advantage of you when you're a humble So

(02:15:34):
what do you say? So who are they? Who? Who's
they that take advantage? I'm not sure about that there's camp.
Good news. If you're a Patriot fan, you're excited. You're
getting up early. There he's working out. Yeah, he's ripped.
He is ripped in his home gym. There got an
Auburn Cam Newton jersey looks like a Carolina Panther jersey

(02:15:56):
right there, and he's got his that's a pretty good gym.
That's actually better. His home gym is better than any
of the gym's I've worked out in back in the
back when I used to go to the gym before
the apocalypse. So Cam Newton getting tired of being humble.
Watch out, He's gonna tackle everybody. Now, he's gonna take
you down. No longer humble. All right. So we had
any monologue at the beginning there about Colin Kaepernick and Terry,

(02:16:19):
and England points out that my monologue was wrong. He said,
not only did Colin Kaepernick tweet out Happy Fourth of
July in twenty eleven, in twenty twelve, he also did
the same thing there you go to I was unaware
that I saw the one going around from twenty eleven.
I did not know that in twenty twelve he did
that as well. Let's go to the phones. And let's

(02:16:41):
see here, let's say hello to cruising. Who's running around?
I don't know who this is. By the way, the
far was Ian Poulter, not d Shambo. I got my
golfers mixed up cruising. What's going on cruising? He was summer.
How are you doing cruise? I'm are you cruising for
a bruising? Or is everything good with you? Dude? I

(02:17:03):
I actually had like two Mickey's and U and one model. Yeah,
you're feeling no pain right now. I get off on
about ten thirty eleven o'clock, so I'm confutely good. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I got you. You sound like you're really good shape
right now. You're really happy. I am. No, I am too,

(02:17:26):
though I got a ticket for fucking fireworks. Oh you
can't say that, jeez, But you don't even realize you
said it. But I would have liked to have heard that. Dude.
That guy's drinking Mickey's terrible. I drinking Mickey's and I
was like thirteen, dude, Oh wow, now you're taking a
shot at the guy's manhood right there. Roberto, that's terrible.

(02:17:46):
Keep it clean. I know you're this beard drinking. Brian,
he's able to do it, and he's on the area.
Rarely curses, so I mean, what I would have been good.
He was gonna tell a story about how he got
a ticket for fireworks. I can't imagine the police were
riding many tickets for illegal fire No man, it was
going off in my neighborhood, my street where I live.
It was awesome. He told me off the air that

(02:18:08):
it was a thousand dollars ticket. He got a thousand
dollars ticket for fireworks this weekend. That's what he said.
And he said it wasn't even him that lit off
the firework man. There's a bunch of places to get
these illegal fireworks. Man, my god, where's the underground? Roberto

(02:18:29):
of the guys that works in the underground, he slangs
those things, uh before to July or you just drive
to peramb or something. He gets them in bulked from Mexico. Yeah,
yea in Mexico. But my theory was because the didn't
the fireworks companies. My theory was that the fireworks companies

(02:18:50):
were gonna lose a ton of money because a lot
of cities banned fireworks that even had fireworks. A lot
of places don't have fireworks I mean Tom Looney's theory. No, no, no,
Looney stole that. His tweet was a minute before your tweet, right, no, no,
hold on sake. So, so I'm Looney's texting me on
the fourth of July. Right, we're sending each other videos
of he used to work here back in the day. Anyway,

(02:19:12):
he's a TV dentist now, believe it or not, he's
on a new he's on a talk station in La
as a news guy, Tom Looney. You imagine a guy
who does the news named Looney. Anyway, So, Louis has
been a friend for years and we worked together, as
you know if you if you follow Fox Sports Radio. So,
so we're texting on the fourth Jult. We're going back
and forth, right, and we're trying to figure this out,
this whole fireworks thing. I'm sending videos, He's sending videos

(02:19:36):
of these fireworks, and it's just insane. It's just NonStop. Right,
We're going back and forth, and so I said, is
exactly what I wrote. I said. My theory is the
firework manufacturers were so pissed off because so many of
these shows got canceled and the government's canceled the fireworks.
They turned to the black market to try to recoup
some of the losses. And Looney then it takes a bow.

(02:19:59):
He sends that out on Twitter, essentially what I said
with one of the video clips he sent me. Then
he sends this to me. He says, in college, I
stole from Hemingway and then I graduated to stealing from
Big Ben. Is what he said. That was Tom Looney.
It reminds me of when I did the Blitz with him,
and I would use a line that was like mildly

(02:20:20):
good in the first hour, which rarely happened. For example,
during baseball season, when a young player would get called
up and it would be like a big story. Some
top prospect for like the Cubs gets called up right
and we're talking about it all day, and I would
quote Dusty Baker, because Dusty Baker had a great line
when he was managing the Cincinnati Reds and he said,

(02:20:41):
a prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise. So I
stole that from Dusty Baker and I made it my own,
and then Looney would steal it from me, and this
is how that would work. So he stole that for
me out dare him. And then and then laughed about it.
I mean my trademark idea right there, and he runs off,

(02:21:02):
dare him. All right, let's go back to the phones here.
Dick in Dayton is next. Hello Dick, Good morning, Ben
and Crewe, Good morning to do. Did you work on
the fourth of July? No, I had to take a
day off that day. They have been getting take a
day off. You know, you're the day off. Okay, I

(02:21:23):
got you. Yeah, it wasn't. I went back yesterday. It
wasn't too busy. You know, with the heat. The heat's
bad down here in Ohio. Yeah, it's not the heat,
it's a humidity alright, Yeah, yeah, Oh. I just wanted
to tell you it stirred up a big hornet's nest.
The changing of the mottel of the Cleveland Indians. Yeah,

(02:21:46):
what do you think about You're You've been an Indians
fan your entire life. You know what I think, man,
I don't think it's good. I never like when they
got rid of the you know, the emblem, you know,
but it's been the phone lines have been jam But
I told them when I called the other day, I said,

(02:22:07):
I think that they should go. The model would be
the Cleveland tribe the tribe, the tribe. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know that. I don't think that would for
the people that are angry that want these names changed,
I don't think that would work. How about have they
named the team after you? How about the Cleveland Dixon Dayton?
How about that? Oh that'd be yeah, yeah, that would be.

(02:22:32):
That would be. And then another thing, I don't know
what their logo would be, you know, Washington Redskins. I
don't think they should take their model away either. Yeah. Oh,
they're they're dick to cancel culture. They're going to get
rid of every one of these names here before you know,
everything's offensive. They're gonna get rid of all of it.
I don't know why. I mean, you know, we got

(02:22:52):
what the Bengals forty nine ers known offensive. You know
how many people died in the gold Rush and he
stole gold from people. That's not right. The goal of
forty nine is celebrating the gold Rushes offense, right, and
people have been attacked by those Bengal tigers and died.
It's really mocking the ancestors of people that had survived.

(02:23:14):
So they should get rid of that. Yeah, yeah, but
you know, I'm and another thing too. I am thank
you guys Fox Sports for both both are Indians on
TV and both the Reds now. We get the Reds
down here. Now we're up where my cousin left. She's
a big call up. She's a big Indians fans, you know.

(02:23:38):
And she happened to call me the other night. She uh,
she was laughing. She says, Dick, I heard somebody one
of my girlfriend and Ben Mauer. So you got a
big fan based in Cleveland. Now, buddy, well that's great.
We're blowing up because of you, Dick and Daton. Clearly
you are the leader of the MAU militia there in Dayton.

(02:24:01):
All right, Dick, have a good day. Thank you, bye
bye bye bye. All right, there he goes, the great
Dick in Date. I like how it was fully on
board with him being called the Cleveland Dickson Dayton. I
think that would be His name is Dave is Dave amazing?
Think of the logo, Think of how that would work.

(02:24:22):
I think that would be be amazed. Andrea Virgo and services,
hey man, thank you for sharing one of my favorite
Dusty Baker quotes. Prospects or suspects. Indeed, that is where
sports astrology comes in you go. Be sure to catch
am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. All right, let's go to Jake.

(02:24:43):
We're trying to get We had this guy on earlier cruising,
but he was on all this, you know, drinking and
all that kind of stuff. He didn't he couldn't keep
his mouth shut say words you're not supposed to say.
By the way, Geico, Geico, Geico Company, from the Geico
Fox Sports Radio studios. Let's go to Jake in the LBC.
What's going on, Jake, Yo day, what's up? Jake on

(02:25:09):
the radio? You're on the radio, Jake, I understand. I'm
Dick from Long Beach. Oh you want to be called
Dick in Long Beach? Yeah, I was saying, you put
Dick in day after them like I gotta put Oh boy,
all right, what do you drinking to night? What do
you got going on there? I was drinking, Mickey. Oh

(02:25:30):
you called back? You can, but you know we can't
put you back because you said a bad word. We're
not allowed to put you back on. You gotta be
on time out. See that's how that works. And by
the way. If you're gonna don't admit that you just
got on the air and said that's like basic caller
one on one. If you're gonna call back, don't admit

(02:25:50):
you were just on the air. Oh my god, let's
go to Marcel in Brooklyn, a caller of the year,
are you rating? Call her your Hello, Marcel, good morning man,
some tough news for Robbie the Mariner's fan. He passed
away during his transition surgery. Thank you Justin s eight

(02:26:15):
six double eight one seven three two for sending me
this shout on my Twitter account. Sir. All right, so Marcella,
you are reporting that, just to clarify for all our affiliates,
that Robbie the Mariner fan, you are saying has passed away. Yes,
the coronavirus. All right, we wish him the best it

(02:26:39):
can be, as always prayed could be. Well yeah again,
let me tell you, Marcel, you yet again, are the newsman.
You're the modern day Walter Cronkite. When news breaks, you
are the one that often breaks this news absolutely, and
when Walter Cronkite says, in a fault, that's the way
it is now. A news on a new day, a

(02:27:01):
new month, the Fourth of July has come to an end.
But we got summer all here, and so mala militia.
Let's get into it, starting with our foot picks of
the morning and then starting with you. All right, I
get to go first. Well, fourth of July weekend. Maybe
you had some leftover hot dogs hamburgers. We're playing food picks,

(02:27:25):
Marsel comp that. I am gonna say that you gave
up the hot dogs. You gave up the hamburgers. You
had that on Saturday for the Fourth of July. So
on Sunday for dinner, I'm gonna say you you went
back to an old favorite, oodles and noodles. That's what
I'm going for. Eddie, I'm gonna say French fries. Oh solid,
that's a good choice. Roberto, are we talking mismatch here

(02:27:46):
and mix match? I think so? Oh he's not sure,
he said he thinks so well, I'm gonna say he
made the recipe give out on this past show on Wednesday. Hamburgers, Oh, hamburgers,
all right? And Coobolo, what do you think Marcel had
for dinner last night? We're playing the Marcel food game.
I think he had a three piece buffalo chicken tenders

(02:28:08):
with a biscuit and a side of mashed potatoes. Oh oh,
he's saying. Oh no, he never says that. Now here's
my foot pick from last night. Here we go. Well,
my fool pick from last night. It will be macaroni

(02:28:28):
and cheese and chicken. Half half credit for me. Yeah,
you have some credit but not full credit on that.
That is stunning. Also at moving, may Matt send me
this tweet? You know this breaking news? What do we have?

(02:28:50):
Do we have a sound of fat or no? We
broke our sound effect? I think you yeah. Oh, National
Baseball Writers have announced come when Willie Polsey or come
will be enshrined a club owner in the Negro All right,

(02:29:10):
what happened? I don't know. Yeah, I hate the dumpling there. Yeah,
I think God love Mars. He'll read anything. He's like
Ron Burgundy with the teleprompter. Yeah, exactly, put it on
there and he'll read it. He's like a trained seal.
Whatever you put on put let me tell you listen

(02:29:34):
if you're idiots. At least Justin and Cincinnati kept it clean.
Although he uh, he reported his bff there Robbie's demise,
which is not true. But then like moving man, Matt Man.
I know on the moving truck you can say that,
but you can't not allowed to say that on the radio. Geez,

(02:29:54):
what's up with that? Twelve hours here and there, I
finally gout he's a dumbling Yeah, but you have remember
before the show, I was telling you Roberto, because he
was like, Hey, I've been on the air and I
haven't had the dump once. I said, all you just wait,
you just wait, because it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen
at some point. Let's try. Let's try Jimmy and Richmond.
What's going on, Jimmy Man, I was just going to

(02:30:18):
come in on the Kaepernick thing, like basically, you getting
criticized for celebrating something in two thousand and eleven. But
people change their minds all the time based on naught
as the information that they received. For instance, vegans, vegans,
a lot of vegans at one time, eight Port meeting,
all these things, but they might have watched the videos

(02:30:39):
and they saw that those particular foods might not be
helped to him. So they so, Jimmy, do you you
do you agree that? Do you think you agree with
kaeperni you think which which Kaeperni do you agree? I
would I agree with the Kaepernick in twenty eleven and
twenty twelve A Happy Birthday America, Kaeprinick. I believe I
agree with the modern day Kaepernick because Kaepernick might have
looked at American history and saw the Independence Day was

(02:31:01):
between the so called white America man sending the independence
from so called white I'm going to hang up on
here because i've I've I don't need the race baiters.
Jimmy So, I'm sorry, I'm good, Thank you. Let's go
to Ron in Minnesota. What's going on? Ron? Ron's gone?
Ron's gone? How dare run? All right? Why don't we
Let's get a couple of people on here. We're gonna

(02:31:21):
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(02:32:04):
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we will have coach player entertainer now we mentioned earlier,
If you go back and do the podcast, which will
be up shortly after the show. We talked about David
Price who tapped out not going to play for the Dodgers.

(02:32:25):
I have not heard. Maybe Eddie has heard, and we're
gonna get to the game in a minute. But hockey
I did see. I was reading this earlier that they
the NF, NHL and the NHLPA agreed on protocols to
resume the season, but they also have some more work
to do here. The players have until five pm tomorrow

(02:32:47):
on Tuesday, five pm Eastern time, two pm in the West,
whether or not to opt out. Has anyone opted out? Anyone.
I've heard of opt out, Eddie, and have not yet.
No one's opted up, not yet. Do you think today
we'll hear a name that somebody's gonna opt out and
not play, or do you think hockey hockeys are players
are so tough they're not gonna and they don't have
as much money as well. Let's put it this way.
There's a guy named Chris la Tang who plays for

(02:33:08):
the Penguins. He's got a hole in his heart and
like he's got like three or four different like serious
issues that most people would say, I'm not gonna play.
He said, he's playing. So oh so you guys got
a hole in his heart and he's gonna play. But
David Price not gonna play for the DOGHO says, do
you see the limits on this? Up to thirty skaters
and unlimited goalies in camp, Eddie, Yep, you could be

(02:33:29):
a goaltender. You can go play goaltender. Yeah, do it, Eddie.
I would be awful, No, be great, come on, be wonderful.
They said they're gonna have daily testing in the hub
cities for players, team league and restaurant, hotel arena staff.
In the world of hockey. She's very excited. What else

(02:33:50):
did I see that was mildly interesting? Oh, coople, do
you see the opening day starter for the Angels? Is?
I did not see that? Who do you think the
Angels name is their opening day starter or anything? I
mean it, it'd be awesome if it was Shoho Tani.
But is it gonna be since you brought it up,
I'm gonna guess Dylan Bundy. No, that would be great
if Andrew Heeney or Hainy or whatever the left hand again,

(02:34:17):
he's gonna be. That's not bad. By the way, my
one of my good friends asked me how many Pittsburgh
pirates could I name as far as starters, and I
came up with, Oh, that's a good one. One, that
is a good one. Yeah, Garrett starting pitchers, no star starters,
the position starting players. Uh, that's a faceless team. Yeah,

(02:34:40):
that is a that is a very face. And I
know one picture because he's a piece of never mind,
Josh Harrison's still there, Josh Bell. I think he's Josh Bell.
Josh Bell first base, Gregory Blanco's outfielder. Who did Harrison? So,
so he's definitely not there anymore. Well, I know, but
where go. Don't worry. He's with He's with the Phillies. Now,

(02:35:03):
he's a decent player. He's I liked him. Yeah, I'm
glad they got rid of him. Starling Marte still there. No, No,
he's Arizona right him? Yeah? Yeah, the dback that ends
hot baseball talk, Chris Archer is the picture is just
a complete bag of garbage. Like the guys Tampa Bay

(02:35:25):
they got. They gave away two good players for that baggage. Yeah, garbage.
There you go, don't worry. The Pirates would be good
about seven or eight years from now. I don't even care. An,
I don't even care. That's why he hates baseball. It's
part of it. Yeah, pirates there, Yeah, I got you.
All right, Well, let's let's get to the game show
here already got my name? Is time do identify my name? Is?

(02:35:46):
Is it a coach, player or entertainer? Let's play the
game here. We go to the international line listening to
us where it is not an overnight show, it's not
early in the morning. We say hello to Chris in Japan. Hello, Chris, Hey,
how are you guys? Welcome in Chris, how's everything in Japan?

(02:36:07):
It's hot. Yeah. Yeah, I'm in Okinawa, so very way
down south, very hot. All right, And tell the guy
in beaver Dam who's got a friend in Punksatani, who
knows somebody in Rancho Cucamonga. What you do for a living, Chris,
I'm military? All right? There you going in the military world.

(02:36:27):
I got you. Thank you for your service, sir. All right, Chris,
hold on a sec. You are gonna play. And we
have Nathan in Olympia in Washington. Hello, Nathan, Hello, oh hello, Nathan.
You're on the air, buddy. You're gonna take this guy on, Chris.
He's in Japan. So he's what time is it, Chris
in Okinawa right now? What time is it right now?

(02:36:50):
It's about six almost seven in the afternoon on Monday. Yeah,
so we're doing like afternoon late afternoon drive there in Japan.
And so Nathan, you're you're at a time zone disadvantage.
And what do you do, Nathan, what kind of stuff
you've got going on in your life? I'm looking for
a job, I hear you. Man, Well, good luck. It's

(02:37:12):
tough time to be looking for a job right now. Okay, guys,
So the way this works, your name is your buzzer,
and the answers are one of three categories, either a coach,
a player, or an entertainer. I will say the name
you tell me, your name is your buzzer. And then,
for example, if I said Dave Roberts coach, player, entertainer,
you'd say your name. You'd say Dave Roberts is a coach,

(02:37:35):
coach manager, the same thing, and then you for an
extra point, you would say he is the coach of
the Los Angeles Dodgers. So that's how this is gonna work.
Good luck to you, gentlemen, as we are on our way.
It's coach, player, entertainer. The first name up, Bill Burr,
coach player, entertainer, n Nathan coach. No, that is is incorrect.

(02:38:00):
Bill Burr is actually a comedian. He's a comedian. Although
you'd be fun as a coach, you will be fun
to have Bill Burr as a coach. Coach player. Delay
going on here, so this ain't fair. Come on, guys, now, Chris,
there's no delay. You called in, Chris, how dare you?
You're already complaining? How dare you? That's that's I'm sorry, guys,

(02:38:22):
all right, that's what I get all right, let's keep
going here. The next name up for us is Joe
Judge coach, player, entertainer, Nathan Nathan coach. That is correct
that time. You're right, Nathan. What team does Joe Judge coach?
I don't know. Yeah, he's he's a disciple of Belichick.

(02:38:45):
He's coaching the Giants. Though the Giants, it's coach, player, entertainer.
The next name up for us is John Lytton. John
Lytton coach, player, entertainer, Chris Chris in Japan, he's a player.
John Lyon's a player. You say that is incorrect. Well,

(02:39:06):
he is a player, but not that kind of player.
He's a singer. He's known as Johnny Rotten of the
Sex Pistols. But I'm guessing he was a player. Oh well,
I mean okay, well we had to be more clear
on that one. God, alright. The next name up for
us Charlie Montoyo coach, player, entertainer, Nathan entertainer. No, that

(02:39:31):
is incorrect. Charlie montoya is No, he's a No, he's
a manager, believe it or not. A Blue Jays. All right,
we're out of time here. This was a low scoring game,
but Coopa loop. I believe Nathan wins. Yes, Nathan, you
knocked out Chris. There you win yourself a golden ticket,
got a murder, Gotta go.

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