When I Count to Tree

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In the battle of words. It is no contest. Connor
McGregor continuing to pummel Floyd Mayweather in the news conferences
they're taking place, the hype fest for the Big Fight
in August. Welcome in the beginning of the Ben Maller Show.

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(00:43):
making a pitch stop. They had to get some water,
a slurpee, and they stopped out in Canada on Wednesday
to hang out the circus What's in Town? And I
watched this twice mainly because there was a very little
activity going on of any substance in the wacky world

(01:04):
of sports, so I was able to watch this multiple times.
And it was more performance art, he's to describe. I
hope you've seen these things and they're on YouTube. You
don't have to like pay for the for the news converence,
but it was performance art. The two combatants here bringing

(01:24):
the turbulence in Toronto, throwing it down. And you cannot
have a sports related event that is part of Canada
without Drake showing up. He was there, he had to
make an appearance. Hello everybody, I'm still here, mister Toronto.
Isn't he still a good will ambassador for the Toronto Raptors.

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I believe he is. I believe he is still a
good will ambassador for the Toronto Raptors. So they they
played all kinds of hype music. I even heard the
Florida State slash Atlanta brain War chant that has become
so infamous. Were those two institutions in sports when there's
a big event. I heard that. Prior to the it

(02:10):
was it was all over the place. It was again
a pro Conor McGregor crowd. He's got the people. That's
why all these bets are coming in on Connor McGregor.
He's dominating the early money on that fight, not even close,
even though most who know point out that McGregor is
not actually gonna win the fight, but he's certainly winning

(02:32):
this now. Some of the highlights. Connor McGregor had the
Vince McMahon LaVar Ball pimp walk when he got on
stage there in Toronto. He maybe we'll walk there. The
notorious Connor McGregor, he was spitting fire. He was on fire. Now.
He started off by getting the crowd going. And whenever

(02:54):
you go to a pepper I remember back when I
was in school, you gotta get the crowd going, you
gotta get a cheer going. And so Connor McGregor thought, well,
what could I do to inspire some excitement? How can
I get the crowd going here? What kind of chance
should I do? When I count the tree? I love
this entire leader to scream the magwetters two tree if

(03:18):
the mayweallers d London. That's right. Did anyone pick us
up on like live television? I don't know. I watched
it on the internet. Was it on TV anywhere like
actual TV? I'm sure someone probably broadcasted. That must have

(03:38):
been awkward. So that was the opening salvo. But but wait,
it got even better because then Connor McGregor pivoted and
walked up to the pay per view boss. The irishman
strolled over to a guy from Showtime. Stephen Espinoza is
his name, And this is the one that is putting

(04:01):
all of this together in cahoots with Floyd Mayweather putting
the TV broadcast together and listen to Connor McGregor here
give his thoughts on what he thinks of Stephen Espinoza
and show talk to you know, look at you, he's
like a seed in your eyes. Cut the chap, chaps, Micolf, Hell, no,

(04:28):
you weasel and you oh, come on. They bleeped that
part out too. It's wrong with the editing department here.
He called him a weasel and a bitch is what
he called him. That's that's what he said there. Now,
why was mcgregors off said you heard the last clip
kind of referencing this, the fact that the conspiracy is

(04:48):
the Connor McGregor's microphone was cut while he was on
stage in Los Angeles and Showtime denying that they claim
it is not true. They are not to lame. This
has not come some kind of grand conspiracy. But the
best part you couldn't hear this on the audio that
we played because it's a visual thing. But while that

(05:10):
was going on, wal McGregor was pointing and calling the
head of Showtime a weasel and a female dog. He
even Floyd and his posse started laughing. They thought they
thought that was wonderful. They thought that was just great,
and it was. It was a tremendous performance art. There

(05:33):
a great thespian act by Connor McGregor. To do that,
To have the Mayweather posse, all those meatheads, steroid bodyguards
laughing hysterically, was quite enjoyable. And some of the other
highlights McGregor pointing out the age thing. He said, when
I was twenty eight, I says, you're twenty eight. Now
he says, I'm twenty eight now. I got all this

(05:54):
money and all this stuff. And then he pointed out
how Floyd Mayweather when he was twenty eight years old,
he was in a different situation when when he was
twenty eight Mayweather he was on the Oscar Dave Joya undercard.
He's going on and I kept calling Floyd all kinds
of names, and and then he questioned why Mayweather would
be in the strip club business, like why he would

(06:17):
be in there and what he was doing, And we
have that audio. I don't know if we have that audio,
but Mayweather said, or McGregor rather said, what the f
is he Mayweather doing with those fifty strippers on his payroll?
He can't even read he can't even read. Trust is Yeah,
he looks like a little breakdowns and sup twelve Blackdowns.

(06:41):
He's forty, you're forty years of edge dress your Madge canty.
The schoolbag on stage? What are you doing a school
bag on stage? You can't even read? Yeah, the fair point.
That's a fair point. Uh So listen. A couple of
big takeaways from employe. Was it fun to start Connor

(07:03):
McGregor what we already knew, we were reinforced with much
more entertaining. In fact, I would go as far as
to say, would I watched the news conference both days
the PEP rally, Connor McGregor is more entertaining than Jimmy Kimmell,
Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert combined. If you provided all

(07:23):
three of those people and put them into one, they
would not be as enjoyable as what Connor McGregor was
in this news conference. He was so amusing that he
should be one of the new Netflix comedians. You know
how they have these big name comedians that come on
Netflix and every month or every other month, they have
a big Chris Rock or something like that will do
a stand up. They should have Connor McGregor, come out

(07:45):
there and just do f bomb and call everyone a
bitch and just go through and be great. Now, Once
Money Mayweather got to the mic, it was painfully obvious,
painfully obvious that he he's in over his head in
the verbal octagon of hyping up a fight. It's just

(08:05):
is this is not something that he's good at, and
certainly compared to Connor McGregor, this is a disaster. This
is an absolute disasion. In fact, when Maywether got up there,
in classic WWE fashion, a chant broke out this outdoor
theater in Toronto and they started channing, pay your taxes,

(08:26):
pay your taxes. You know. There looked like there were
a few thousand people there and there pay your taxes.
They were they were, they were going nuts. They were
going on and on there, and so Mayweather, let's you know,
twenty two twenty three millions something like that in taxes.
It's nice to know that our Canadian friends are concerned
about the US tax situation. It was very nice. And furthermore,

(08:50):
pretty much everything Mayweather said, the Notorious at a pretty
good quip back. It was punch CounterPunch of the verbal variety,
and Mayweather trying to point out all the fans were
booing and giving him a hard time. He tried to
not drop some knowledge on this and that the fans

(09:11):
are great, but there's a problem, good day. We do
know the fans can't fight for you. Shut you, yes,
if you missed that, McGregor said, the fans can't fight
for you. And McGregor said, shut your effing mouth. That

(09:34):
was That was the the comeback there, and there were
some other examples Mayweather pointed out. He said, hey, bitch,
I make money. Connor then immediately came back and said
you owe money. And see that was the good part
of this. There were several good parts of it, but
the fact that Mayweather was drowning while he was trying
to speak like Mayweather was was in over his head here.

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So they left McGregor's microphone on. So it turned into
a back and forth situation. They went back and forth
continuously because Mayweather, if you just leave him up there,
he would have had flop sweat and they would have
had to drag him off the stage with a gong
if they had just left him out there, Mayweather without
any assistance. But the back and forth, the Mayweather said

(10:21):
at one point said I'm forty, but I looked twenty.
And then Connor McGregor had the great comeback to that
one when he said you act ten so standing. The
timing on that was one, if we have a little
bit like, give me a little more, you give me
a little taste of what it was like there between
these two combatants and the verbal octagon, the baggut books,

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and we're gonna say you what the books look like.
If you believe in yourself, let you say you believe
in yourself, bitch your whole fight check you no problem.
Send that contract kid, it's done. Yeah, that's of course
the way that McGregor phrased that is send the contract

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over when means lawyers have to be involved in it,
which means it's not going to happen. The crescendo moment
of all of this, and you work up to that
big crescendo was Mayweather. He grabbed an Irish flag from
the crowd and then danced around the stage with it,
and he looked at me and then so McGregor then,

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in a completely unscripted moment unless it wasn't, grabbed the
infamous Floyd Mayweather childhood Elementary School backpack and then opened
it and pulled some money out and claimed there was
only five thousand dollars inside the backpack, and then that
led to an unusual stare down. So they've now turned

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into using props like Carrot Top. That's what they too.
And they're already using prop comedy. And that was as
nat troll as the yachty ere Molina photo of Nelson
Cruz and Joe West in the All Star Game not
staged at all. Not Mayweather has an army of meatless

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dopes that stand around him at all times to protect
his money. Right, they protect him money, and he's gonna
allow Connor McGregor just to grab that money on the
backpack and all that. Come on, come on now. So
but hey, it's enjoyable. Now. They'll go to Brooklyn on
Thursday and we'll see if they have more prop comedy.

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What's the Who's gonna is jay Z gonna be there
in Brooklyn? What's the jay Who do they have to
pull out? Spike Lee? Who do they pull out there?
What New York centric celebrity do they have to pull
on stage? Because they had Drake at this event in Toronto,
so they have to get some Brooklyn guy to show
up there. All right, let's let's listen to a little
more and then we will go to the judges scorecards.

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Does about it? That's it? That's it? So about five
grounded Hill? About grounded Hill? Yeah, that's the big reveal
when he opened the backpack there. The timing on that
was great, absolutely wonderful. All right, so let's go to

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the judges score cards. How did we score the pep
Rally Toronto. Now, McGregor came out dominated earlier fact that
Floyd Mayweather needed help from Connor McGregor. That McGregor had
an open mic while Mayweather was speaking, tells you all

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you need to know. That's like doing a pep rally
with training wheels. And so I am gonna score this
a convincing ten to eight win in favor of Connor McGregor.
He won the LA news conference or Pepper Rally whatever,
we're gonna call it ten to nine. So we are
two events in and the best the Money team can

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do at this point is to come rally back, rally
back now and win in Brooklyn and then win in
London and then they can be tied up, but they
have to dominate the last two, and I don't see
a scenario. I don't see a path for that to happen,
especially in London, where you would think if Maywear is
getting booed in la and in Toronto, what's it gonna

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be like when he gets to London? Yikes? All right,
Edmund Dallas steam boat Willie is in the house, right, yeah,
big Ben, I agree with My scorecard would read exactly
the same. You had a ten eight in favor. There
were a couple of knockout blows thrown there in Toronto.

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It was great. And you know, these guys are just
going backstage and just laughing hysterically together, right, this is
all This is all a gag and they're having a
great time and they're very good at it. They're very
successful at it. And uh yeah, McGregor, this guy should
have a comedy show. He should do a late night
TV event of pay per view. I'm not the biggest

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MMA guy. I don't watch a lot of UFC fights.
Maybe just every once in a while I'll look at something.
But I knew McGregor had a strong mic game, but
it's even stronger than I thought. He's in the zone.
He's never had this kind of a spotlight before and
he is stepping up and performing. It's impressive. It is

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it's and it's so it's not I guess it's natural
the right word. It just seems like he's he's in
his place, he's in his happy place. He's loving it,
and he just wants more and more. And that's why
he's winning because this is I mean, he can improvise
on the fly, come back with with you know, the shots.
It's no, he's keep in mind, this does not change

(15:58):
my position him chance of actually winning the outside of
a dive. But if he can only punch as quickly
as he can deliver zingers to Mayweather, that's why it's
essential that he wins the verbal battle because he's not
going to win the physical battle. And by the way,
I don't believe now Mayweather, I firmly believe will win.
But he will win on points. He's not. I don't

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believe he'll knock Connor McGregor out. He just said that,
you know, yeah, No, he's just gonna dance around and
he won't get hit and he'll land some points on
some punches for points and then well McGregor boring for
Gregor needs to get those judges that judge the last
fight in Australia and Paccial. Yeah, yeah, against the school teachers.
They need those judges to be in in vague. He

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might need even more than that. So yeah, yeah, what
if he puts like cement, If McGregor puts cement in,
I don't think it'll help, no help, because he want
make contacts, right, all right, all right, I got you.
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Ta Kima man writes and says, Ben, if you think
that this is real, you are crazy. He's talking about
the Mayweather McGregor thing. Don't waste one cent on those fools.
So we've been lectured by Taqima manless. It's entertaining. I'm
entertained by Connor McGregor. He's fun. I enjoy his BS

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as someone who is specializing in BS. I respect another
man's BS, and there's a lot of it from Connor McGregor.
Just wonderful, just absolutely wonderful. Ernie says Larry David should
be at the press conference in Brooklyn. Should be there
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He started out just mimicking and goofing on Mike Francesa,

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(19:51):
we would say happy birthday to Funhouse. Do you think
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on his birthday? That's a fair point. Yeah, And I
don't typically watch those, but I will have some interest
in this one absolutely if I told the story now,
I never met FRANCESSA or Russo, but years ago I

(20:14):
when this is way back, this is twenty years ago.
But I was doing a show from the w FA
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these TV studios in the middle of Queens and in
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(20:37):
in New York. And I was doing a show in
LA but I was in New York for some reason
doing something, and then did the show back to LA
from their studio and at that time the Big TV Show.
There were two shows that I believe they were taping
in those studios I remember correctly. One of them was
like Sesame Street, and the other was the Bill Cosby Show,

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The Cosby Show, which was on TV at that time time.
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this will be in my book someday doing the Overnight Show.
By the time, at that time, it wasn't the Overnight Show.
It was just a nighttime show. But by the time
I got out of there, and all that the the
time difference from the West coast to the east coasts,
it might as well have been an overnight show. And

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the one of the people at that station and said, hey,
you got to kind of get out of here because
because Imus is gonna come in. Don Imas was the
big morning guy. Yeah, like a legendary figure, like he
was a nemesis of Howard Stern, like a big This
guy's like a radio legend, you know, Don Imas, And
so but I was warned I had to get out
of there because Imus didn't like when outsiders were in

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the studio. I wasn't even in their studio. I was
at a like a production studio down the hall. But
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And the other thing I remember about that idiot, there's
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was this New York sportscaster who's known if you're an
old fart, you know, he is Pete Franklin. And they
had written in some lockers in the back hallway there

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like f Pete Franklin, and I still I still remember
I was like, Wow, they must really not have enjoyed
working with this guy. Really upset. I'm like and then
like now I'm flashing back. Then I'm wondering, like if
I go down the wrong hallway here at Fox Sports Radios,
like f Ben Maller, that guy sucks. I hate working

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as planting excuses, planting excuses. I don't know if you

(23:09):
saw this on Fox Sports one. Do you hear? Floyd
Mayweather Senior, the patriarch of the Mayweather and the Mayweather
boxing Empire. Floyd Mayweather Senior appearing on Fox Sports one
said that he does not does not think that his
son is going to knock out Connor McGregor. But unlike

(23:33):
my colleague here Eddie, who thinks there, let's just be
a standard Mayweather fight. And this is why you all
Mayweather fights are the say, that's why there will be
no knockout. No, no, no. Floyd Mayweather Senior, talking about
his kid, says the reason he does not expect his
son to knock out McGregor is because of a hand problem. Yes, yes,

(24:00):
according to Mayweather SENI your quote, I ain't gonna say
a knockout because my son got a hand problem. So
the King's English right there, he stated. He said, that's
a true story. He's got a hand problem. Now. When
pressed on this, Mayweather Senior said, no, Moss, declining to

(24:23):
enhance that report on how bad that is. What does
a problem mean? Problem means to me? What like a
knuckle issue? What are we looking at here? Tips of
your finger, maybe a fingernail, he needs a manicure? What
are we looking at here? Because a problem is a
very generic term. There's a lot of things that could
fall into the problem category. But Mayweather's got a hangnail possible, Yes,

(24:46):
I'm sure a hang nail wouldn't heal by August twenty six.
I don't know about your football coaches, man, but my
football coaches love to talk about hangnails. They did, yeah,
and I never I didn't really know any little injury
you had and they say, oh, you gotta hang Oh
is that right? Yeah, they would just tell us to
stop being what's this? But they used a different word
other than that word, but they would tell us to

(25:07):
tough enough. But anyway, So again that's the story. So
this is this not planting an excuse like say, hey,
well Mayweather, he'll win the fight, but you know he's
got a bad hand. Doesn't seem like that. I'm putting
it in that category. That's where I'm putting this. Is it?
Is it possible Mayweather has a hand problem? Sure? What

(25:29):
is the damn problem? I need answers. I need answers
because this smells like there's some smoke in the air
and someone's blowing smoke and it's the old man named Mayweather.
That's what it sounds like to me. So the Ben
Maller Show on Fox Now mean one one of my
favorite stories from a couple of years ago. And if

(25:49):
you listen to this show, you know we spent a
lot of time on this. It involved the wife of
an NFL player who sent out so many offense of
tweets that the NFL team got read of said play yes,
go ahead, Eddie. Miko Grimes, Yes, Miko Grimes. Now, Miko Grimes.

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Her husband, a defensive back named Brent Grimes, was by
most accounts, a decent NFL player. It's been around a
long time, but a couple of years back, Miko went
on a rampage, so much so that many of us
thought she should be in the Looney bid. She was
just over the top, right over the top. And she

(26:36):
now has claimed that all of that public criticism of
the Miami Dolphins a couple of years ago, all of
that was to manufacture Brent Grimes, her husband's release from Miami.
Not yes. Uh. Miko Grimes is now saying that the

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Dolphins had told Brent he had to take a pay
cut if he declined, they would wait until other teams
used up all their cap space and then released that.
She's she's saying here, and and she then claims she
went to work. Now the Dolphins are denying this, but
who teams lie all the time. Chances that this is true,

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that Miko Grimes successfully engineered an NFL player getting released
by being such a pain in the ass with her tweets.
Chances that this is true. I'm going to go first.
I will go fifteen percent. I'm gonna go fifteen percent.
That there's a chance that this is true. I'll say

(27:40):
five percent, and he's going five percent. To anyone else
want in on this? Seven percent? Danny g says seven percent.
Coopna go nice? Round ten? Okay, so we've got I'm
the highest. Well, I guess I have the most faith
in Miko. Me and Miko are we're gonna be friends
once she hears about this, Absolutely, pick your poison. What

(28:01):
are you gonna drink with her out in the parking lot? Oh? Moonshine?
What are you talking about? Come on? Are you gonna
go right to the moonshine? So yeah. Miko's story is
she was not going to allow the Dolphins to screw
her husband over, and so she became as wild as
possible on social media, and that is her version of
the story. And she even claims in this report that

(28:24):
we're getting here. She claims here, Miko that her husband,
Brent said, go for it, like Brent Grimes gave the
Seal of approval telling his wife to embarrass the I
guess for most people that would be embarrassment, but I
guess for these guys, they're like, hey, it's all good.

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I think Brent Grimes goes along with anything Miko says
or does out of fear for his own life. I
think that seems from what we know that said, it's
probably not wrong. Miko also claimed this is this is
where it gets even better. Miko claimed, while she was
ranting about the Dolphins trying to get her husband to
get out of Miami's, he was with the Bucks. Recently.

(29:06):
I think he's still with the Bucks. Miko claims that
she tossed in assaults at Ryan Tannehill only because she
didn't like Tannehill's wife. Ah, that's great, It's just just wonderful.
So yeah, Miko, he made some money. He's he's in Tampa.
You got a contract. He's got seven million guaranteed in Tampa.

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And Miko is now writing columns and doing podcast last
I heard she's now she's got a horrible cottage industry
that she's got based on being the as Connor Murrello
would say the bitch. Uh. That's that's how he would describe.
Because if you were to do like a counter every

(29:51):
time the F word and the word bitch were used
that the Connor McGregor Floyd may were the news conference,
your machine would break right, it would start he would
start smoking. Now I have one other Brent Grimes story.
I just I need to clear out all of these

(30:11):
stuff I have on Brent Grimes. I must do that
right now. There's another story that caught my attention. Now
it's actually tied into the previous story. This is like
we call this a a sidebar if you will. But
this profile that was done on an SI on Miko
Grimes and Brent Grimes, where his wife, as I just

(30:33):
told you, claims that this was all part of this
grand plan to medal with the Dolphins so her husband
wouldn't get screwed over and have to take a pay cut. Well,
in that particular profile piece, it was revealed that Brent
Grimes was considering leaving the NFL, retiring from the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. Remember, he's got seven million guaranteed leaving the NFL,

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and why would he leave the NFL because of concussion,
because he was burned out on the NFL. He wasn't
happy with the coaching staff in Tampa. No, no, none
of that. Instead, Brent Grimes, if this is true, and
it was written, so it must be true, the Buccaneers
defensive back was considering retiring from professional football to try

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out for the NBA Developmental League. He was going to
leave a seven million dollar guaranteed nut in the NFL
to try out in the what is now corporately branded
the G League. According to Grimes, he said, the NFL

(31:42):
doesn't have a cool vibe. They make everyone look the
same with their shoes and their socks the same way.
And and then Miko talked about how the sport is weak,
and she said the ft up contracts, the owners are dirty,
and so Brent Grimes was actually considering retirement and he's

(32:06):
gonna play, try to catch on in the summer league
in audition for some NFL teams or NBA teams rather
in the in the D League. Well, I wish that
had happened. Maybe it'll happen next year. Maybe it'll happen
next years. Thirty three years old, I'm sure there's a
lot of interest in the developmental League of the NBA
for a thirty three year old football player whose wife

(32:27):
has a very large mouth. I'm sure that would be.
There'd be teams lining up down the strip right from
New York, New York to the Bellaggio. They would be
lined up all the way down Las Vegas Boulevard to
try to get their hands on this guy. No, that's
not the case. So the Ben Mauther Show on Fox,

(32:48):
I know you are on whole. We got a bunch
of phone calls. We'll get to that. Also, the who
am I Game? Here's the who am I? Game? No,
no MLB pick him because there's no MLB and taking
the extra day off'll be back on Friday baseball. Right now,
they're sitting poolside or beach side, or god knows where.
What kind of debauchery your favorite baseball player is getting into?

(33:10):
Time now for the who am I? Game? Though, I
am the only Hall of Famer to appear in the
Major League Baseball All Star Game as a position player
and never get a hit again. I am the only
Hall of Famer that appeared in Baseball's All Star gamus
is obviously all time as a position player, and I
never got a hit in the All Star Game? Who

(33:32):
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(33:52):
We'd like to learn all our affiliates down the line,
there will be no MLB pick him, No MLB pick
him today. I know you're devastated by that. We will
go to alternative programming. No MLB pick him. Time Now
for the who am I? Game? I am the only
Hall of Famer to appear in the Baseball All Star
Game as a position player and not get a hit.

(34:14):
Who am I? That's the question, what's the answer and
the answers coming in. Chris is going with Tim Tebow,
Razor Ramone. Guests by Rob and Vegas. Andre Dawson thrown
out by Van. Who else do we have? Pete Rose?
Guess by Justin? Yeah, that's a good guess. Ivanson checks
in with the Smoke Runner Johnny Walker thrown out by Troy.

(34:39):
A lot of the All Stars love Johnny Walker, especially
Johnny Walker Blue can't get enough of that, Buddy Bianca
Lana guests by the desis NATed quitter who Oscar went
with one of my former co hosts. I did a
radio show with this guy, Chris Gwynn, who played with
the Padres and the Dodgers back in the day. Who
else do we have? We have a Yogi Bear thrown

(35:00):
out Candy Mauldonado. Jogi Bear, I guess by Patrick the
Uber driver Yo and Maldonado. This is a good name
Candy from Frank in La. All right, let's see here.
Do you have an answer? Eddie? You have? The answer
is de Lino de shield the Great de Lino de Shields. No.

(35:22):
The correct answer the iconic longtime Milwaukee brewer Robinyunt Robin
yout at seven at bats in the All Star Game
in his career he was oh for seven and Robin
youunt is the answer we were looking for. So if
you said Robin youunt, you chances are lived in Wisconsin.

(35:45):
Let's say hello to Mark the full name guy who's
in Santa Barbara on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Mark the
full Name Guy. Hello Van Mallard. You know I really
want to talk to Steamboat Willie Oh you do you
want to tell you? Now, you realize this is valuable
real estate that you're on. Normally we do the MLB

(36:08):
pick him and we just shout out random and baseball
player names. But we're allowing you to take some airtime. Here.
Let me see if steamboats available. Hold on a second, Mark, Uh, Eddie,
are you available? Eddie? There's someone that wants to talk
to you. No, okay, Mark, Eddie's busy doing something in
the back room. He does not have time to talk

(36:29):
to you. Oh, I'm just flattered. You know that Tom Sawyer,
he sure got that style. You nattering name, Bob of negativity.
So Ben Miller Jackets, Yes, Yes, what can I do
for you? You know? If you're Dodgers Mark, Mark, Mark?

(36:50):
How come every conversation with use an uphill battle? Why
is that? Because I'm on the down side of my life?
That's very deep? All right, here's the standard call. Here's
the standard call from Mark, the full name guy. Let

(37:10):
me take a shot at the Dodgers, the Clippers of
the Rams, one of those three at least. Let me
then take a personal attack at Mallard over something that
he said on the air, and then I'll he's screaming him,
and I'll hang up. This is no care or just
natural rivals. No, you live in so count now, Santa
Barbara from Kings County. Santa Barbara qualifies as Southern California.

(37:36):
You misfit. You're now in southern California. Well, I'm just visiting.
But you've been here. You've been there for two months.
What are you talking about? At least two months? Three months?
You've been there there. I know your whole life. Look
at you. I'm tormented. I know your life. I don't
even know my life, and I know your life. That's
what kind of trouble you caused me. I know where
you are. Well, you know, if you weren't practicing characters,

(37:59):
says the Nation, you would there's no character assassination. Stop that.
Stop that people. You want to Let me get my
little let me get my little violin out, a little
tiny violin. Oh woe is me? Mark the full name
guys a character on the show. We play your stupid
drops all the time. Danny g has got a whole

(38:19):
board of your dumb drops. I mean, you had a
mental breakdown on the air, and we play those all
the time. You should be honest. You should be flattered.
Even when you don't call in, we still play your voice. Amazing,
isn't it. You know that's not the word I would use.
You know, there's a DJ in San Francisco's and he
calls me no voice. Does anyone believe that's that's true

(38:44):
at all? Wrong? That's that's what we call fake news
by Mark the full Name Guy. And if that is
the case, if that did actually happen, that's just trying
to pacify Mark the full Name Guy. So he will
stop calling, right. I know that true. I've tried it.
It does not work with him. The NFL's dreamboat quarterback

(39:06):
of the future, with a message to the teams in
the upcoming NFL Draft. Next year's NFL Draft, do not
stumble and bumble for me. Don't do it. Welcome in
the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben Maller Show.
We are in the air everywhere the vast Fox Sports

(39:27):
Radio network, emanating live from the Geico Fox Sports Radio studios.
your car insurance. Just visit Geico dot com for a
free rate quote. In the NFL training camp here you're
gonna open up in less than two weeks. In fact,

(39:49):
scratch that, we are less than a week away from
the start of NFL training camp. Our first catastrophic injuries
should take place six days from today. There'll be a
handful of teams that will report their rookies will report
to training camp on July nineteenth. And as you know,
this is July thirteenth, so we have six days to

(40:10):
go before rookies will start practicing in the NFL, and
then the early August the first practice game that will
take place, and so we'll be on our way, and
then college football is gonna get started soon as well.
And one of the favorites to win the Heisman to
be the number one pick next year's draft is Sam
Darnold of USC. The quarterback has scouted drooling. They are

(40:34):
aroused about the idea that this guy is going to
be a future number one pick in the draft, and
several teams have already hinted at a stink for Sam
marketing strategy to try to get that number one pick.
But here's the rub on this. Sam Darnold, the quarterback

(40:55):
from USC made a rather surprising declaration this week, and
I'm surprised this did not get more played considering how
popularly the NFL is and what a cult following the
draft has. But the player projected by most to be
the number one pick in the twenty eighteen NFL draft

(41:15):
made a declaration. Sam Darnold said that he does not
think any team should tank their season because of him.
So I wanted to talk about this briefly. The question
here is there anything to these particular comment And while
some will just brush this aside and say, wow, there's

(41:36):
nothing to it, there is absolutely something to this. And
I got a couple of thoughts. Number one, by the book,
and the second thought I had was, this is conspiracy
theory feeding. Yeah, And this is why you need to
tune into sports radio. The untrained ear will hear a

(41:57):
quote from Sam Darnold saying, do not tank for me,
and we'll just brush it aside and say there's nothing
to do it. This is why you come to the
gift of the gods that is sports talk radio for
this kind of conversation. And I'll explain what I mean
by that. Number one, I will completely agree with you
that on the surface Darnald saying that there's no NFL

(42:19):
team that should tank for him, and all that, it
seems like a harmless comment. It's certainly the right thing
to say. I'm not going to disagree with you on that.
It's modest, it's self effacing. You win social media applause
when you say stuff like that and you get a
pat on the back. The grizzled football type will say,
that's a wonderful thing. It's a good job by you.

(42:42):
And this is the cliche by the book response, Right,
You're supposed to say that it's humbling. It's the thing
to say. And we certainly know that this is an
incomplete quarterback as good as he looked for USC last year,
and I've been to a lot of USC football games
being based in LA over the years, and he's as
he's probably better than most of these quarterbacks that have

(43:03):
passed through. And they've had some good quarterbacks at the
college level. Keep in mind that pretty much all of
them have stunk in the NFL. But we have seen
plenty of one hit wonders in college football. Right so,
even though Darnald looked great last year, if you look
at the track record of quarterbacks recently, I mean, and

(43:24):
you go back a few years, Matt Barkley, who was
at USC could have come out been a top five pick,
if not the number one pick. He went back to
school trying to get some fame at USC and he
ended up I believe it was a fourth round pick.
Did not go so well by the Philadelphia Eagles. Just
look at Josh Rosen, UCLA quarterback. People said he was
gonna be the number one pick and then he did

(43:46):
a face plant last year and it was a debacle
for those gutty little bruins of Ucla. His value plummeted,
at least temporarily in the eyes of the NFL. So, yeah, well,
Sam Darnald has advanced, he's still unpolished in terms of
being able to walk into the NFL and tearing things up.
And so he'll be back, obviously for another year. He

(44:07):
can't go to the NFL, so he can be there
for another year. And the expectation is that he's gonna
get better and that he is going to be the
next franchise quarterback. But there's certainly he's no guarantee that
he's going to evolve. And that's all, you know, speculations
and exercise and speculation. Now I would bet on this guy.
You gave me a couple thousand bucks and you put

(44:28):
me in a sports book in Vegas? Will he make it?
Will he not make it? Definition to make it? Not
only are a starter, but you make multiple Pro Bowls. Yeah,
I'm gonna say that Sam Donald does that. I wouldn't
bet my life savings that he's gonna take a quantum
leap and become a great quarterback in the NFL. Now,
the second part of this, and this is where it
gets really good. And this is very nuanced, and I'm

(44:50):
gonna warn you this might be too much for what
I'm about to say might be too much for you
about this comment by Sam Donald, the USC quarterback. There's
a bigger meaning to this. Telling NFL teams not to
tank for you, again seems noble to some. Many people
say that, but it also serves another purpose. It's a

(45:13):
message directed mainly at the Jets to knock it off. Now,
I have heard whispers, and if you pay attention to
this stuff, I assume you've seen and heard the same
stuff that I've heard. This is not a state secret
that some of those people around Sam Darnald do not
want him to be drafted by the Jets, and there

(45:36):
is some concern there's some anxiety that he will end
up playing for Gang Green, some going as far as
to hint that Sam Darnald the people around him his camp,
if you will, if the Jets get the number one
pick and it looks like Donald's gonna be the number
one pick, that They'll have him go back to USC

(45:56):
for an extra year to avoid the plague of having
to where the Jets util That's a possibility. So when
the comment comes out and he says it seems like
a harmless comment that no team should tank for me,
it's being interpreted as a cryptic message to the Jets
to stay away, or, as LaVar Ball would say, stay

(46:18):
in your lane, do not draft me, stay away from me, please,
I beg of you. Now, the bottom line on this one,
you would think that any college player would be flattered
to be the number one pick and would certainly want
every team to think so much of them that they

(46:40):
would intentionally lose games to get said player. Now, my
counter argument is that the Jets and Browns are so terrible,
so lousy, that even if they did not try to
intentionally tank, they would still stink so much they would
have a chance to get the number one pick. The

(47:00):
reality is if you're really, really good. That's always my argument.
I used to kill Elijah Manning when he stuck it
to the Chargers, and I'll rip Darnald if he does
this too, does a power play and tries not to
play in certain cities. But Eli Manning was going to
be drafted by the Chargers. They wanted him, and they

(47:20):
got the old fu from the Manning the first family
of football there, the Manning clan. They said, now we
don't want to go to San Diego, and so Eli
went to New York and the Chargers. They made a
trade that worked out pretty well for them, and certainly
in retrospect, not as well as it worked out for
the Giants. On the Giants not necessarily winning because of
Elijah Manning, but you get the point. So if Sam

(47:44):
Donald is a truly transcendent player, it should not matter.
He should be so good that he should be able
to overcome the stank that is on the Jets. Now
here's how I relate to the situation. All right. When
my contract was up at sports Radio last year, I
was heading into free agency to be a radio free agent,

(48:05):
and what I did was I encourage sports radio stations
and radio networks to get into a bidding war, right,
that's what I took the opposite path of the USC quarterback.
I took the opposite path. Now, fortunately, much to my amazement,
I was flattered that Fox Sports Radio was able to
back up the Brinks truck at to the Mallard mansion

(48:27):
and win the bidding war. It was. I was stunned
by it. It was very it was I did not
expect it, but somehow we were able to work out
a new contract. I just can't believe that happened. It's
amazing great mits. Yes, of course, I go home to
a Sleep Number bed covered. I don't have sheets onbody,

(48:47):
but I have. I have a mattress, and then I
have the Sleep Number mattress, and then I've got like
a blanket made of like one hundred dollar bills. It's
like me and money Mayweather. All right, So Ben Mallers
show on Fox. Now we have a comment that got
a lot of play, and this involves the world of
the NFL and Richard Sherman. Richard Sherman had to say,

(49:10):
Richard Sherman commenting on NFL contracts and how we can
get more money, bigger paydays for the NFL, and he said,
if the NFL players want to get bigger contracts, I'll
give you the short version of this. They need they
need to be willing to strike. That the only way
to get more money is to get into a labor

(49:31):
stalemate with ownership and said Sherman said one hundred percent.
He said, quote if we want as the NFL as
a union kind of get that NBA level to get
anything done, Sherman said, players have to be willing to strike.
That's the thing that guys need to one realize, I'm
better at life than you. That's what Sherman said. So

(49:53):
you're gonna have to miss games, You're gonna have to
lose some money. And if you're willing to make the point,
he said, that's how baseball and the NBA got it
done a miss games. That's what he said. All right,
here's my position on this. All right, this is two things.
This is a pipe dream and it's also self preservation.
All right, there are there. You're not gonna see NBA

(50:15):
like contracts or baseball contracts for two reasons. Number One,
guys don't want to miss games. Right, even with the
carrot at the end of the stick of a better deal.
Even if you got a better labor agreement in the NFL,
this is the problem that you have. In the NFL.
You have a fifty three man roster. If you got

(50:37):
more money, the top one percent would certainly benefit from that,
and the contracts would be cartoon like, much like the
NBA where they just give out a billion dollars and
twenty four hours of free agency when that began. But
if you if you look at the way the roster's
broken down in the NFL, if you put more money
into the NFL payroll, the top one percent, the quarterbacks,

(51:00):
a few wide receivers, maybe a running back here or there,
a great offensive lineman, but it's it's sparse, would get
that money. This is not a trickle down situation where
the money would go to the guys that are forty
fifth on the roster are not going to get that
much more money. It's not the way it's gonna work.
That's a pipe dream to think that's gonna happen. And

(51:20):
number two, that the argument is the same as it
was back in the old work stoppages years ago. In
the NFL, you have a short window. You only play
in the NFL. The average career is like three years
or less, and you get that money, get the paper right,
you start missing checks in the NFL. And while it

(51:42):
is a very noble thing to do because you're gonna
be helping future generations in the NFL, ultimately we are
all wired the same way. What are we wired for?
We are wired for self preservation. As much as we
like to talk about, hey, we want to look out
for a few generations and all that. Are you going
to really leave money on the table. So guys that

(52:06):
are in college or high school right now they can
benefit from you losing money. Is that something you want
to do? Most players will say no. They might say
publicly yes, but there's not enough. There's not a majority
that we'll do it all right. Ben Maller's show on
fox Edmund Dallas Steamboat Willie is right over there there

(52:26):
he is hanging outsing doing his thing. I'm sure you saw.
Then this comes along with how much money the teams
received last year. So the Green Bay Packers had to
release because they were a publicly owned team. Yeah, all
the money they received last year from the mostly from
the TV deal to million dollars. Yeah, didn't they add

(52:53):
that up? Is that that is seven point eight billion
dollars for the league. It's not bad. It's pretty good.
I can see why the players might want a little
bar that, a little bit more of that. What's the
payroll minimum in the NFL? Do you know what? The payroll?
Doesn't that TV money cover just the payroll. So they

(53:14):
they make money, they cover their costs for player. They
gotta pay people in the front office and things like that,
and there's up. But the player payrolls covered just from Nashville.
So it's not bad. It's a license to print money. Yes,
pretty much. Yeah, all right, very nice. So the Ben
Maller Show on Fox we will take your phone calls,

(53:34):
you know the number, would love to have you be
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That's Ben mall Show. You can be part of the
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(53:58):
like Picasso like. We'll get to that and we'll do
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(54:18):
Sports Radio network. It's the Coop de Loop Justin Cooper.
He's at you, h bronco fan. I wish I could
pull off those suits. And I live from the Geico
Fox Sports Radio studios. It's Ben Maller. Well, I'm Mallard
to the third degree coming up in a couple of minutes.

(54:38):
But first, Pocasso, Like, now, I don't know if you
see the story, Eddie. There's an NFL coach who says,
as a child, he used to drink paint. Did you
see this one? That is not healthy? I did not say, okay, good,
Oh I'm glad you didn't. All right, I'd like you

(54:59):
to see if you can get yes, which NFL coach
that he he drank kid paint as a kid because
he thought growing up that it made him harder to
tackle when he played football. Yeah, that's an interesting theory.
That's a great theory. Right, it's very it's it's not
real great, it's very deep. Totally possible too. I mean,

(55:20):
there's a lot of interesting things in paint. I'm gonna
go with Jack del Rio. Jack del Rio, that's a
great guest. Jack del Rio sounds like the kind of
a coach. He just listening to him talk and watching him.
It's not bad. I mean he was a linebacker, so
he's got a screw loose from you, exactly exactly, so
it makes sense that you would go that direction. Danny,

(55:40):
you want in it. Yeah, I'm gonna say Jay Gruden.
Jay Gruden, another fine guest. Anyone with the last name Bruden.
You could see drinking paint as a child, right, completely
possible that that's that's the coach. Coop. You have a
guest on this Cooper loop. You want to throw some
name out there, the head coach, it's a head coach.
I was gonna go Josh McDaniels. So now, no, I don't,

(56:01):
I don't know. I'm gonna I'm gonna pass on passing,
all right, the correct answer. The head coach of the
Arizona Cardinals, Bruce Arians, said growing up he had to
have his stomach pumped multiple times from drinking paint multiple
times a great, what a great minds. Couple of times, No,

(56:25):
he said, Eddie, he drank the paint because it gave
him ability to dominate the playground neighborhood football games. So
that's it's just wonderful. That's just absolutely great. I'm sure
we will hear a lot of lame jokes about that.
I would imagine this week. But I'm not the one
writing the jokes. So if you want to send some
jokes in, it's care of the Ben Mallers Show, Ben

(56:47):
Mathers Show at Gmail. Do you think he's the only
head coach in the NFL that drank paint when he
was a child? I would say multiple, multiple times, Yes,
multiple Man, when you're a kid, sometimes you eat dirt
or something weird like that. Maybe you'd make that mistake once,
but multiple times. Yeah, I'm gonna say he's the only
one who's done that. But kids do that kind of stuff,

(57:09):
I mean they do, don't you not maybe drink paint.
I didn't go that far. I know a lot of kids.
I never did. But a lot of kids ate paste, right,
and when they were a little I used to doing
those arts and yes, you you ate paste? Well mine
I got in well, here's what. Hold on a second, now,
let me be clear. Here, wait, did you let it
dry on your hand? I got. I got in trouble.

(57:32):
I love because it looked just like a skin, you know,
it just looked like you get. So what I would
get in trouble for it? So what I did was
I would just end up pouring it all over my
hands because I knew that teacher, are you gotta pull
it off your hands? And I just i'd peel it off.
Two kids in class that annoyed me once who did that,
and the other ones who flipped their eyelids inside out.
I couldn't do that. Yeah, but I can move my

(57:53):
ears up and down. I have that ability like a
like a Star Trek character. Let's say hello to Jay
in Nebraska. Oh, hold on, I said, yes, Coop, you
have somebody to add Coopa loop. No, now we're gonna
I just wanted to make sure you saw the golden ta.
I thought that he had the golden tike. All right,
he has a golden ti Jason's. I thought you were
going to the other one. Oh, I don't want to

(58:13):
talk to that guy. All right, here we go, I'm kidding.
All right, let's go here we go hit that butt.
Hello Jason in Nebraska. Okay, thank you Jabs taking my call.
And I just heard you guys talking about the football hits.
You know, um what about the one when Kenny baw

(58:33):
laid out the dude? I believe it was in Wisconsin. Jason,
are you listening to a different show? No, because I
heard you guys talk about um football hits that was
two shows ago. Are you listening to a podcast that
was a good podcast? Jason? Are you are you drinking paint?

(58:54):
Is that no? Probably? Uh no, it's not paint though,
King like he's drinking something. But it's not fair. This
is good. This is the first time ever we've gotten
a call from someone that wants to comment on something
we did two days ago on the podcast. So this
is pretty good. Well, yeah, we were. I think I
mentioned Chuck Cecil if I remember, and he was like

(59:15):
a torpedo and yeah, that was a good segment of radio.
It's been a couple of days since I can you know,
check out my it's been a hard couple of days.
How's how's the singing going, Jason? How's the singing? You
know it's a live Jason, there's a live show on

(59:36):
right now. You know it's a live radio show. Yeah, yes, yes,
what are you What are you drinking tonight? What you
got mix? Well mix? Yeah? Yeah, Jack and coke? Yeah,
all right Jack. And after that was Doctor Pepper and
Captain Morgan. Oh okay, well you gotta bring the captain in. Yeah.

(59:58):
The captain's the clothes, The Captain's the closer. Yeah, I understand.
Yeah yeah, oh oh you go with the wild Turkey?
Is the club interesting? All right? We should have a
poll question on my Twitter. What's the best closer when
you're drinking all night? Do you go Wild Turkey or
the captain? What do you? What do you do there?
What's you? Well? I know you just said that. Yeah

(01:00:21):
all right, all right, well, thank you, Jason. Get back
here drinking. All right, there you go? All right, Jason?
Is it interesting? Let's let's say hello to Craig in
Walnut Creek in northern California on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Craig,
Ben Mallard. So, Ben, I'm sitting here in my car.

(01:00:42):
I listened to you late night due to the fact
that when I want to hit my peace pipe, the
girl from really doesn't like it. So I'm in my
car listening to Babylon. I am the Tower of Babylon.
That's one of my nicknames. So yeah, yeah, yeah, that
is that is Craig. So I've been sitting there in
the past United doing this ritual and you've been doing

(01:01:05):
the who am I game? And I'm starting to I'm
twenty seven now, so I'm starting to, you know, get
some years under me and starting to get better after guesses.
And I'm thinking tonight. Last night during the All Star Game,
they quoted it. I looked it up on Baseball Reference
dot Com and they have Joey Vodo at five All

(01:01:26):
Star Games, no hits, with nine point appearances. So I'm
are you giving me false information all these different nights. Well, well, well,
well you're right. I'm listen. I I was there when
Joey Vodo got into Baseball Hall of Fame, and uh
it was It's very I think he's the first a
Hall of Famer that's still playing. It's very rare that

(01:01:49):
someone gets in the Baseball Hall of Fame and they
still allow them to play in the Major League. So
you are I apologize, Craig. You are correct. It's a
bad job by me, and I'd like to apologize Joey Otto,
and I think we're all happy that he got on
the Hall of Fame. He had a Hall of Fame career,
and it's very odd that he's still playing. But you're right, Yes,
was I correctual? Was the criteria hall of Fame player? Well?

(01:02:12):
It depends. I mean I did say hall of fame.
But if you chose not to hear that, I that's fine.
I think I said the Hello. All right, Ben, you win? Well?
I do you know you were winning? You're smoking the
peace pipe. I'm doing a radio show in a dark
radio studio. You're winning. I'm losing. Yeah, gotta be up
in nine hours for work, and you're gonna be done

(01:02:35):
by then, but well I'll be done, but obviously I'll
probably still awake in nine hours from now. Now, Now, Craig,
how do you get the smell out of the car?
That's what I want to know, because I don't I
don't need to get this not out of the car
gone by the morning. Okay, all right, well, very good?
Thank anyway, Yeah, I can hear appreciate the sh Ben,
thank you? Well, all right, you too, be safe. Get

(01:02:56):
back to that girlfriend. She's waiting for it all right,
thank you. So just to recap, we went from Jason
and Nebraska, who called about a podcast. He wanted to
comment on something we did two days ago on radio
that's now on the podcast archive while drinking jack and coke.

(01:03:19):
But he's switching to Doctor Pepper and Captain Morgan. And
now we've got this guy who's got kicked out of
his home because his girlfriend doesn't like that he smokes
the peace pipe. And he was convinced that I got
the question wrong and was convinced that it was Joey Vottom.
So this is great. See what happens. I don't give
out the number, better calls. If I'd given out the number,

(01:03:41):
bad calls. You don't get those kind of calls when
you give out the number. You don't do it. It's
the Ben Mallers Show on Fox. We'll get to Mallard
to the third degree and more phone calls. And I
hear a former caller of the Year could be in
the on deck circle who you'll find out. We'll get
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We will have Mallard to the third degree coming up
in a moment. But right now a caller who is unequal, unrivaled,

(01:04:27):
one of the elites ever calling sports talk radio. We
go now to Boston and we say hello to Blind Scott,
who's on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Blind Scott, bunch of
hookers and cocaine. I'll tell you, man, that Golden tickets
the biggest failed experience for the show. I've never heard
a good talk come from a golden ticket. I'm standing

(01:04:48):
outside on Cosway Street right now. I got a little
bit of an audience here. People ask me what frame
rads Cramer didn't want to get up this morning. He
didn't want to leave the apartment. I didn't want to
wake the girlfriend up. She's getting to place some ball
in August first, so that will be a little better though.
But you know, I can't stand this UFC fighting stuff. Man.
This Dana White is a bozo. He's supposed to be
from Boston. I mean, it's called the McGregor. He's the
biggest loser. Man. I don't like white people. They're racist.

(01:05:10):
You know, this guy's from Ireland. He should go back
and eat from a wooden spoon in a wooden bowl
and pick potatoes. Man, this guy des there's no money. Man.
His probably about Stevin, you know what I mean. I'm
a Mayweather guy, even though I don't support what Mayweather does,
but I don't like what this guy's saying to him.
You know, it's racist, you know what I mean. I'm
a big Red Sox fan. We stand up from minorities
around here in Boston. We care about people, you know,

(01:05:31):
those states down self. I would love to just go
up to a bunch of Alabama fans if they were
up for it, and just start fighting them, you know
down self. That's made to discriminate against minorities and disabled people,
you know, and that's the biggest thing that's wrong with
our country right now. You know, the people with Darren Hanandez,
they're going after the Patriots, and I think they should
go after from for every doll they have. I don't
care if the Patriots kept put out of business. You know,

(01:05:51):
already got six rings. You know, I'm doing good. You know,
the Patriots gave me an extra ring because I'm the
number one caller in the year. You know, I just
can't getting up in this sports radio though. I just
love it. You know, Ben, when you came into Boston
last year, I did everything I could to get you
into the Boston market. I helped you negotiate your contract.
But you know, Fox shit's offen you a little bit
more money. And that's true, that's true. I would have

(01:06:12):
loved to have I loved bosses, you know, Blind Scott.
I had a great meal with you. You didn't eat much.
And when Kramer attacked the waitress, I enjoyed that. That
was was enjoyable and I had never seen that before
the restaurant, so that was fun. I enjoyed that a lot. Yeah.
I was out here the other night and I Cramer
was with me and some guys like this Cramer bite
and I'm like yes, And then he's like, well, can

(01:06:33):
you call me an uber? And I'm like, well no,
what do I look like? You know, it's crazed you
out here now that there's no sports. All the cycles
are out here. You know, it's the nightmare, Like you. Yes,
I mean I hear him. I got you, all right, well,
Blind Scott, be safe there, Blind Scott? All right? Yes, okay,
are you full of energy? Blind Scott bringing the gas?
You're wow factor. You're three calls in a row or

(01:06:55):
the addiction trifecta. No one else had this, all right,
no one. We're not gonna beg you for money. No
one else has this, all right, And keep in mind,
I'd like to let you know right now, you might
think this is bizarre, this is odd, this is weird.
I don't know what I'm listening to. This is ridiculous.

(01:07:17):
All of these people that have called up as intoxicated,
as inebriated as you could possibly be, right gone to
the wind. All of them were able to dial a phone.
I have not given out the number in months, and
they all figured out the number. They were all able
to call the radio show. It's a mace. It doesn't

(01:07:40):
matter how intoxicated they are. No, no, no, this show
is so intoxicating. I am gratified that they were able
to call it. They find this so appealing, even when
they're hammered, they have to call it. All right, let's
get to it. Here we go it's how about to
the third degree gets grilled and we bring in the

(01:08:05):
Coop do loop. Justin Coop Ben, The Utah Jazz were
a promising up and coming team last season, even taking
out the Clippers in the postseason. Well, they would have
lost if the Clippers had stayed healthy. Yeah. Well, Rudy
Gobert also got hurt, so that's not really much of
an excuse. But he's a push That's why he got hurt, right, Yeah,

(01:08:28):
what's what's the excuse for Blake Griffin and Chris Paul there?
That's bad luck anyway. Moving on now, with Gordon Hayward
leaving town, early projections have the Jazz missing out on
the playoffs. Rudy Gobert responded by saying, quote, if I
listen to projections, I'd be playing in France. Ben, how
far do you think the Jazz will fall next season? Well,
I don't spend too much time worrying myself with the

(01:08:49):
Utah Jazz. But but Utah is going to be one
of the doormats in the Western Conference and then I
have to worry about playoff basketball. This is going to
be a contest for the as with teams like the Lakers,
the Mavericks, the Suns, the bottom feeding teams in the
Western congerence. And if you look at that roster, I
know there's still some changes that are gonna be made.

(01:09:10):
They're talking about getting rid of Boris Diaw and they
signed the Cephalosha Thabo Cephalosha to a contract. I'm sure
that'll make all the difference in the world. But the
big addition, will you lose Gordon Hayward and you're gonna
have some combination of Joe English, Joe Johnson and whatever
other slop the Jazz can pick up. It's like going

(01:09:33):
from a penthouse apartment in Manhattan on the seventy fifth
floor of the most exclusive tower in New York City
and then living in a gutter in Flint, Michigan. That's
what the Jazz are going to experience now. Utah's big addition.
The second part of this is Ricky Rubio, who is
a past first guard, which is great. He can't shoot.

(01:09:56):
That's an achilles heel in the modern NBA and so
barring in injury to the elite teams in the West,
the playoffs are pretty much set right now. You've got
the Warriors, Spurs, Rockets, Clippers, Timberwolves, Blazers, thunder Grizzlies, who
are your playoff teams in the West, and the Jazz.
They'll win thirty or thirty five games something like that,

(01:10:18):
but they're not a playoff team. They do have an
edge at home court because of visiting players cannot stand
going to Salt Lake City. They don't like that. There's
not a great nightlife vibe in that particular town on
the NBA circuit. But the Jazz are going nowhere and
Rooney Gobert apparently he's going nowhere either because he's pretty
much locked himself to the Jazz. Good luck with that next.

(01:10:39):
Connor McGregor is one of the best trash talkers in sports.
We certainly got some more evidence of that today. His
quotes certainly get a lot of airplay, but that doesn't
mean he doesn't get some serious criticism now. After the
press conference on Monday, or on Tuesday rather, many thought
McGregor was being racist when telling Mayweather dance Boy Dance.
He was also accused of being racist when trash talking

(01:11:00):
Nick Diaz calling him a cholo gangster. Ben. Do you
think McGregor is a racist? No, I don't. I don't
believe Connor McGregor is a racist. To my knowledge, he's not.
I'm not a Rhodes scholar on Connor McGregor. But first
of all, it would appear, and I've watched these first
two PEP rallies for this fight trying to get you

(01:11:21):
to open up your wallet. Connor McGregor, I would put
him in the LaVar ball President Trump camp. The guy's
got no filter. He's an entertainer who's not worried about
political correctness, and that's not that's not how he's wired
when he performs, Like a lot of people when they performed,

(01:11:42):
they're like, I gotta edit that out. I gotta No,
it doesn't appear that Connor McGregor has that that he's
just gonna say whatever, whenever and however he wants. And secondly,
I will quote Floyd Mayweather's dad, Floyd Mayweather's old man,
who said that, no, oh, there's not These are not

(01:12:02):
racist comments from Connor McGregor. Of course, he's got a
vested interest to get people to keep watching. But there
are a lot of race baiders that run around on
a witch hunt. Turning everything into a racially focused conversation
is one of the fun things about living in America today.
Here's my problem with that. There are real racist there
are people at are races, and those people need to

(01:12:24):
be called out for it. Do I believe that Connor
McGregor is gonna come out in that fight in August
in a K K K robe. No, I don't believe
that's the kids and only he's a racist. I think
he's a knucklehead. Next, Ben, yesterday you mentioned Nelson CRUs
pausing the All Star Game to take a picture of
Yadi Ra Molina with my pirate Joe West, my favorite

(01:12:45):
All Star moment. Oh my god, Yes, now, And I
know you're usually not the type, but who are some
people that you've made a point to get a picture with? Yeah,
much like yourself, Coop, I'm not very photogenic, so I
don't I don't take too many photos. A couple of
them though. Back in the day when I did some
stuff with the Los Angeles Dodgers, I got photos with

(01:13:06):
people who I love very much and respect, people like
Vince Scully, Ross Porter, Tommy Lasorda, people like that who
I was very fortunate to work in the same circles with.
Outside of that, and there's a few random media types.
Does Pat O'Brien count I have a photo of him
sitting on my lap. Does that count? No? Uh yeah,

(01:13:30):
we worked here together. Uh oh, Penn Gillette, I have
a photo of from Penn and Teller and my favorite
comedy act. I got't want a photo with those guys
years ago or Pen, not Teller. You stuck around his
security and got a picture of Mayweather. I don't have
a were you talking about? I don't have it. You did, remember?
Oh I did get a I wasn't in the photo,
but yes, I was able to dodge. Yeah. Well we

(01:13:53):
were shopping together, me and Mayweather in Vegas. Yeah, I
got the photo through you that I got photo. Now,
the one thing, the one exception. I am not Photogenny,
but I have mascot photos up the wazoo, all right.
I got multiple photos with my brother in arms, Chuck
the Condor. I've got photos with Clipper, Darryl, the who Else,

(01:14:17):
Billy the Marlin, the Son's mascot, the Gorilla Kaboom, the Lancaster,
Jedhawks mascot. I even had a photo done with Torch
the Dragon, the Bakersfield Blaze mascot. He died though, towards
the dragon died. Unfortunately, I've got photos with the Memphis
Grizzlies mascot, rampage, the Rams mascot, the UCLA Bruins mask.

(01:14:38):
I can go on and on here there it is
Mallard of the third degree. How did we do? Benny
Paths edition? That's whatever. We will talk to more intoxicated
people in a moment. Right now, though, it's the instat trivia.
Which player holds the big league record to have the

(01:14:58):
fewest runs batter in buy a player with one hundred
or more home runs? Again in history of baseball? Which
player has the record the fewest RBIs for any player
with one hundred or more home runs? That's the Insta trivia.
The answer next. Aller's show has been called the most
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(01:15:38):
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Here's the instant trivia. We're looking for the name of

(01:16:00):
the player that holds the Big league record the fewest
RBIs for a player with a hundred or more home runs.
That's the question. What's the answer? Speaking of the oils,
Pauli's going with Rick Dempsey as his answer. Patrick the
Uber Driver checks in with Padre legend and Brewer Legend.
Greg Vaughan, who halts to have Curtis is going with

(01:16:22):
Sean Dunstan Spud Webb guests by Rob in Vegas. Joe
Mauer thrown out by Troy in Seattle. Oscar is going
with the Great Rob Deer as his answer. Ricky Henderson
from Craig, Jose Valentine from Mooch. Who else do we have?
Jim Tomay thrown out by the Rooster. Now that's quite
the guest, all right? Do you have an answer, Eddie,

(01:16:46):
of course I have an answered. I gotta go with
Ellis Burks. Great. Ellis Burks, no, the correct answer. The
player that holds the big league record for the fewest
RBIs brought by a player with a hundred or more
home runs. Former Detroit Tiger and New York Yankee outfielder
Marcus Teams had one hundred and fifteen home runs in

(01:17:07):
his career. He batted three h he had three hundred
one RBIs one hundred and fifteen home runs, and he
averaged a home run every fifteen point nine at bats,
but most of those were solo home runs in his careers. Guys,
I think he's a coach in the Yankees organization. He
was not expected to make the major leagues. How do

(01:17:29):
I know he was not expected to make the major leagues?
He was a thirtieth round draft pick of the Yankees,
and he actually served four years in the National Guard
in Mississippi and still ended up having a ten year
major league career, which means he's got that pension. I
don't even want to play in Major League baseball. I
just want to get it. I wanted the pension is

(01:17:50):
what I want, you know, what those checks are like
every single month. My God, looking the other way basketball style.
Welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben
Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere the vast
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Sports Radio studios. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent
or more on your car insurance. Just visit Geico dot
com for a free rate quote. Consider this a follow
up of sorts because earlier this week, Mark Cuban did
an interview during apparently it's a summer League game. He
popped on and admitted that the Dallas Mavericks are in

(01:18:38):
the middle of a tank and not shark tank. They
are tanking the NBA season, and Cuban said that if
the Mavericks played in the East, they wouldn't not be
doing that. We've talked about that on the show a
little bit Mallard of the third degree in a previous episode.
But since the Mavericks are in the West and there's
really good teams there that it's essentially hopeless, and so

(01:19:01):
Dallas is deciding to try to get lottery balls. That's
what they're doing. So the Mavericks are the latest team
to admit they are more interested in trying to get
the number one pick than competing and overcoming the odds.
And so Adam Silver, the short term commissioner the NBA,
addressing all of this, these latest tanking comments by Mark Cuban, Now,

(01:19:26):
what do you think that Adam Silver said? Have you
heard this? Do you think that A he said, the
NBA will take this matter very seriously and will investigate.
Do you believe that the commissioner of the NBA B
denied that there was tanking going on? Or C said

(01:19:50):
no comment? So again A is the NBA will take
this matter seriously and investigate. B denial and see no comment.
You got your answer. You should have picked B. You
should have picked fee. Adam Silver claims that Mark Cuban's
comments on taking are at the same time while they're

(01:20:12):
not what he wants to hear, and he said that
Mark Cuban is provocative. He concluded that the Mavericks are
not intentionally losing games. That's the commissioner of the NBA.
So let's talk about this now. The question is how
do you feel about Adam Silver and a stance which

(01:20:32):
pretty obvious. What is going on here? Mark Cuban did
not hide from this situation. Now, I got two reactions.
First of all, this is toothless, and secondly, it's expected,
all right a Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA,
has let the players and the owners do whatever they want.

(01:20:54):
He's like a neutral observer while the NBA does its business.
He's a total figure. And it's like the commissioner has
been out the lunch the entire time he's been supposedly
running the NBA. The commissioner's role is a ceremonial job
in pro basketball? Am I wrong on that? I mean,

(01:21:15):
when it comes to making enforcement decisions, Adam Silver has
been mostly spineless and certainly toothless. He allows the players
and the owners to walk all over him. And maybe
that's not such a bad thing to me. There's a
middle ground. You've got Adam Silver here and you've got
Roger the Hammer Goodell here. Can they meet in the middle.

(01:21:39):
It's there, like a middle ground somewhere where you don't
have to be a complete pushover and you can occasionally
flex your muscle because that's not going on in the
NBA now at all. And beat Mark Cuban. He did
not use cliches. He did not use any kind of
vague suggestions. He was very open about the fact that

(01:22:00):
the Mavericks had a plan, and their plan was do
the old Tankaru. You don't have to spend millions of
dollars and bring in a New York City lawyer and
investigate this. This is not one of the world's great mysteries.
Mark Cuban incriminated himself without even a second thought, and

(01:22:23):
Adam Silver dismissing this and saying that Cuban has been provocative,
which is true, and saying that the Mavericks are not
intentionally losing. Of course, this was also expected. If you
look around the NBA and you look at the landscape,
we've got the Lakers who have been desperately trying to
keep their top picks. Now begously, they don't have to

(01:22:44):
do that anymore, they don't have them. They're gonna lose
their pick next year anyway. But the Lakers were desperately
trying to lose games to keep their top lottery pick.
The seventy Sixers have been tanking the Sacramento Kings and
several other teams intentionally. Having a tank fawn in the NBA,
not a telethon a tank athon every year, sucking on

(01:23:06):
purpose for the soul, intention of turning their fortunes around
with a lottery ticket, playing substandard basketball, and how's that
worked out? Trying to manipulate things. Ironically, all of these
teams have ended up back in the dumpster. They're still
dumpster diving. You go point by point. The seventy six
ers have had all these top picks, damaged goods, right,

(01:23:30):
damaged goods, and the idea of what those guys could
be is much better than what they are. The Lakers
are over three in the lottery. They've already gotten rid
of one of those guys. Shout out De'angelo Russell, who's
off to Brooklyn. And God only knows what the hell
is going on with the Sacramento Kings and what they're
trying to do. They keep adding up lottery picks and
eventually maybe one of them will be good. It could happen.

(01:23:52):
But the last thing on this, you're not supposed to
tank in the NBA. The league wants competition, at least
that's what they claim. THEEF is that you cannot sell
tickets if you don't win, If you if you don't
try to win, you can lose, but as long as
you say we're trying to win, that matters. But is

(01:24:14):
that even true if you live in Dallas. We've got
some listeners in the greater Dallas area and if you
buy tickets, I know it's cool to see the other players.
And every team is going to be better than the
Mavericks just about. And you can see stars on other
teams in the NBA. But aren't you feeding in and
enabling the tanking by the Mavericks here? Isn't that what

(01:24:35):
you're doing. We'll see the seventy six ers. The tenants
has been terrible, but people still go. In reality, you
can now be with the way Adam Silver is. You
can be completely transparent. You don't have to lie, you
don't have to use cliches and and kind of shadow
what you're actually meaning. Adam Silver is not going to

(01:24:57):
punish anyone. The NBA is not going to change. It's
a lottery. It's good for business. And while they might
say from time to time we do not want teams
to tank, the only real punishment you get is you
just don't end up on national TV all that much.
Although the Lakers got on there a lot when they
were tanking, but most of these teams don't pop up
on the radar on national TV. All right, it's the

(01:25:20):
Ben Maller Show on Fox Now. Meanwhile, there is other
stuff going on. The NBA is desperately trying to circle
the wagons to close the gap that opened up last
year when players were taking rest on a regular basis,
and they feel like there's this disease in the NBA,
which is true. There is a disease in the NBA,

(01:25:42):
and as far as just players not playing, not performing,
healthy players, players that are not injured in any way that,
rather than overcome the long NBA season, have decided to
jerry rig the season. And I don't need to give
you the whole monologue. Again, We've talked about it many times.
So what is the NBA going to do. They've announced

(01:26:03):
a couple of things. It's a three point planned by
Adam Silver to improve and enhance and the NBA Board
of Governors to improve the quality of the NBA. They're
gonna push the start of the season back. It's gonna
start October seventeenth. Why are they doing it? The NBA
is gonna start the season October seventeenth to cut down

(01:26:24):
on back to back games. I'm gonna cut back on
the God forbid the back to back. I mean, you
know what a painting it. I had to come in
here and do five back to backs a week. I
would love for Fox Sports Radio management to say, Ben,
you know that's a little too much. You're really fatigued.
By the end of the week. The shows usually suck.
I mean, you gotta think this is our fourth back

(01:26:46):
to back to back to back, not three. Yeah, that's right, Lebron.
I mean you think we came in here. We did
the Monday, We've done the Tuesday, the Wednesday. This is
our Thursday show. That's four in a row. Do you
understand that I might not be fresh when the NFL
season comes around if I have to continue this kind

(01:27:06):
of draconian work schedule. My God, and you at your job.
Most of my guys, my p ones, I don't know everyone.
There's only a few people I interact with. It are
kind of pestering me with emails and messages on social media.
But I feel like we have a higher percentage of
people that work multiple jobs. Like a lot of the
guys that listen to the show, they're on their second

(01:27:28):
or the third job. Wouldn't you like to have your
boss say we're gonna give you a little more time off.
We're gonna we want to move the schedule around seeking
some more time. Pay you the same amount of money,
We'll just give you some more time. So the NBA also,
what else have they done well national TV? Now, there

(01:27:49):
was one room where I've not seen this confirmed that
the NBA is going to put a rule in before
the marquee national TV games, for example on ABC Saturday
Package and Sunday Package, that both teams have to have
the night off before so they can no longer play

(01:28:10):
back to back like if the Golden State Warriors on
the road in Minnesota and they have to then go
to San Antonio. We know that's too difficult for those
guys because the whole team rested when they were in
San Antonio last year. So the NBA is now going
to put a rule in where you can't have back
to backs like that. You're gonna have to give if
it's a marquee game, both teams have the day off. Now,

(01:28:30):
is it going to work? I know they're also cutting
down on the timeouts in the final minutes. They're getting
rid of four timeouts. They think that's gonna fix it.
Is this gonna work now? My theory is no, it's
not gonna work. And the reason I don't believe this
new plan is gonna work from the rest standpoint A.
The phrase that applies to this is the toothpaste is

(01:28:53):
out of the tube. You know, in the morning or
if you work overnights at night when you brush your teeth.
If you do brush your teeth and you squeeze the
toothpaste out of the tube, try getting it back in
without missing any of it. It's impossible. You cannot do it.
I know there's YouTube. Every time I bring this up.
Who would have put to YouTube video? Because I did it?

(01:29:13):
Shut up? All right? For the for the mortal person,
you can't do it. So it's toothpaste out of the tube.
You can't get it back. The players believe that they
have figured out what is best for them, right. They
have been brainwashed by some voodoo medical people, and some
of these teams are convinced that this is the way right.

(01:29:35):
And secondly, the players feel entitled to this. I mean
you heard Lebron has have a little hissy fit last
year and several other players who were complaining about the
idea that the NBA would look into the resting and
the manipulating of the schedule. They feel like they're they're
big enough and smart enough and better than everybody, and

(01:29:59):
they can make as many days off pop up as boss.
All right, it's so the Ben Mather Show on Fox
Edmund Dallas steamboat. Willie is right there. He's right over there.
He's saying, you know, he's drinking paint like Bruce Arians.
I'm not drinking paint or not. I have never drank paint.

(01:30:20):
What is the weirdest thing you did as a kid?
I mentioned that I used to pick the glue off
my hands, and I had great fun with that, And
there was a lot of fun as a child. I
was kind of the opposite of being what would you say, experimental? Uh,
you were by the book. I would eat like four things. Well,

(01:30:43):
I still eat four things, and I'm a middle aged person.
I yes, Well, my palate has expanded since those days.
But it was like macaroni and cheese hot dogs. You
got to admit, Eddie, you were forced to expand your
pal you got married, you were forced to expand your past.
I kind of wanted to to be honest with you. Really, Yeah,
I have no interest. No I do. I eat all
kinds of vegetables and stuff. Now, I kind of like it.

(01:31:04):
I always tell my wife, I said, get creative and
sneak the vegetables in. But I don't don't know, wrong,
I still prefer the you know, the staple of the pizza, cheeseburgers,
et cetera, tacos, but the core four. Everyone's got their
core fours, right, yeah, exactly. I got the chicken fingers,
the tacos. Yeah, well, those are two staples. Occasionally I'll

(01:31:25):
mix it in, like the A good Philly cheese steak
is not bad at all. And then the last thing, uh,
nice Chinese buffet. Buffet is solid underrated, I agree, yeah, underrated.
But for for many, many, many years, I did not
stray from the the core four there if you will,

(01:31:45):
from you know, the yea cheeseburger, you know, maybe a
little chicken every now and then pizza. It was. It
was not a lot of variety there. Yeah, all right.
Tony writes and says that he's accusing me of tanking.
Did I tank? That monologue? Was at a thank job
by me that I that I screw this up. Is
it a bad job? No, I don't think so. In

(01:32:06):
what way would you be would you be taking I'm
very proud of our show. I hear so many I
don't listen to a lot of radio, but I've heard
a lot of a little little clips, I should say,
radio shows this week, And is so pathetic my industry
with everyone getting on the radio complaining about how oh
there's nothing to talk about. Oh, I'm like a lot
of them aren't even showing up, cowards taking time off listen.

(01:32:27):
Here's the thing, there's plenty of stuff going on. I
was trying to explain to someone. I was like, I
did radio. I'm gonna be like that old guydy back
in my day. I've done radio without social media. I've
done it when there was nothing going on. There is
so much crap going on right now. I don't have
enough time. I don't. I'm not exaggerating that at all, Eddie.

(01:32:49):
I remember doing the Ben and Dave Show in nineteen
ninety eight thinking, oh my god, I've got five hours
of radio and there is nothing to talk about on
all our week. Nothing Because Aol and Netscape Navigator were
the online thing that we had access to. Good old days,
we're not that good out clippings from the sports page.

(01:33:12):
Oh I didn't do That's Hacks all used to do that.
I never did that, but I I know, yeah, that's
the last place I worked. There was this guy who
I apparently did sports talk in the seventies, and our
program director owed him a favor, so they had him
come in on a Christmas shift and this guy brought
in a stack of clippings from the La Times sports

(01:33:32):
page and all of us were just in shock. We're like,
what is this guy doing? It was was a nightmare. Yeah,
well we used to have the sports sticker and the
AP sports wire. Now everyone has that. Yeah, and I
follows before. But I was an intern at a big
sports station in San Diego, the old Mighty six ninety

(01:33:53):
and this big star afternoon guy Lee Hacks on Hamilton,
And whenever there was like a race car driver who
was an accident, in an accident like in Europe somewhere
right open wheel racing, I would have to stand in
front of the ticker to get reports. Just in case
the guy died, I'd have to run it in so
he could give the high rippin read baby ripping readily.

(01:34:14):
The good old days, as you said, they sucked. Yeah,
I mean now in my phone right now, I'm holding
in my hand the high speed sports wire that that
guy Hacks I used to use, you know, twenty five
years ago. Whatever. Anyway, all right, I will take your
phone calls. Eight sevens oh, I almost gave out the noo.
I stopped up that. No, I stopped it. Dump. Nobody

(01:34:35):
heard that. Nobody heard that we dumped it. Did not
get on the air. The last part was six three
six nine. I don't know what you're talking about, all right.
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(01:35:16):
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we go, and we say hello to our friend Jason,
the CFL guy in Ottawa who's on Fox Sports Radio.
Hello Jason, Hey man, I hope you are a carrab
A great night, Jason. I'm giving you full credit for

(01:35:37):
our number one rated Canadian podcast. That's why, Jessica, I
appreciate that. Yeah, what's on your mind? But well it
is Thursday, so you know what time it is. It's
time for three, that's right. Of course, I was just
looking at my watch. I was like, what time is it. Oh,
that's right, it's time to go inside the Canadian Football League.

(01:35:58):
What's going on with the yard Goes and the rough
Riders and everyone else? That's what I want to know.
All right, Well, we had an action pack Week three.
Your Toronto Argonauts upset the Ottawa Redblacks twenty six to
twenty five and a mistake filled back and forth thriller.
Now that's happened when Ottawa muffed the extra point hold
on the game tying touchdown. Stay away from those muffs.

(01:36:20):
That's right. So Toronto now first placed in the East
at two and one. Now the week three Mallard mp
most outstanding performance of the week was in this game
as well. Veteran wide receiver s J. Green, coming off
a tour and acl first stint with the Argonauts, had
ten receptions for two hundred and ten yards, including a
fifty five yard touchdown reception. Now looking ahead to week four,

(01:36:43):
we did get our pick right last week, saskatchew one
and one by seventeen points, covering the one at half
spread easily. I very much like the five start pick
of the week would be Calgary the Stampeders on the
road in Montreal to play of the Alouettes four and
a half play favorites. That's a tough place to play.
That's a tough place to play, though, Jason, come on,
it is. But you know what, I fully expect the

(01:37:03):
best team by far in the CFL going and handle
a bunch of all easily. How's my guy Ricky Ray doing?
Is he still hun guns slinging for Toronto? He and
trustman give trust in a veteran quarterback, you know, rich
gannet Et cetera, and they just light up the sky.
So all right, if you're looking for if you're looking
for a little upset special, Ottawa is on the road

(01:37:24):
in Edmonton four point dogs. So say that's a live dog.
That's what they say in Vegas, live dog, Yes, exactly,
all right, all right, thank you, Jason. There it is.
I'll be next Wednesday because we have a unique week
next week, and all right, every weekend. I'd like to
a load all our stations down the line. If you

(01:37:46):
are looking for the CFL report, it'll be a week earlier.
And I found CFL music. It's exciting. I feel very
Canadian right now, very Canadian. Oh can then? Oh can?
Old damn Ever, we go to Cincinnati and say hello
to video game Clint, who's on the Ben Maller Show

(01:38:09):
on Fox. Hello Clint, what's happening? Well, I'm talking into
a microphone. The lights are dimmed down here, and there's
a bunch of TV's in front of me and a
computer and random papers and things like that. That's what's
going on. Well, I'll spare you the video games tonight

(01:38:30):
because it hasn't changed. Although I just beat the Dodgers.
But the only way you beat the Dodgers is on
a video game. That's it. I just want to get
your opinion. How scared are you after Zach Cozart had
that single in the All Star Game We're coming for
them Dodgers. Yeah, and I'm shaking in my boots that

(01:38:51):
I'm doing. Very scared. Yes, I heard this. I heard
Zach Cosart could be traded. I read that somewhere read
gonna trade Zach coz All right, he's a franchise guy.
He's a franchise No, he's not, but they gonna trade him.
He's played well, they got to get him the donkey
before they get him out of town. Now, get rid
of Billy before they get get rid of the sack.

(01:39:13):
Are you sure about that? You're playing video games all night?
I should? I trust you. I'm you're college educated. All right,
there you go? All right? Thanks? All right, thank you?
That was awkward. John the Pie Guy is on Fox
Sports Radio. Hello, our friend, John the Pie Guy. What's
going on? Man? Hello John the Pie Guy? What's on

(01:39:35):
your way? What inspired you to call? Why is this
night different than all other nights? Well? I tried a
couple other nights, but I just had a little extra
free time. And I hate to straight away from the
in the insinuating uh exciting CFL talk, but I just
was wondering what angry Bill would think of the press

(01:39:55):
conference earlier today. I am no MMA or boxing expert,
but um, I did quite enjoy the show a little bit.
But if you noticed. I don't know if anybody else
has brought this up, but next Floyd met maywe they're
right when Connor McGregor, gregor student profanities at UM Boyd

(01:40:16):
Mayweather is looks to be a nine year old girl,
and uh, I don't know if she was nine, but
she looked forty young, and I just didn't think that
was very appropriate for him to have her there. And
then also I was interested by it she was part
of the posse, Mayweather's posse. I don't know. I don't
know who she was. I noticed, I didn't notice you

(01:40:39):
there was like if you were saying, who doesn't belong
on that in that particular group? Yeah, but I mean,
I don't know the backs or maybe she's just older
than she appears. I don't know. Well, I think hump,
because Connor's saying, you know, he's got a got a
bus full of hose. You know so well he runs
a strip club in Vegas. That is the definition of

(01:41:01):
owning a bus load of hose. That is uh yes,
I think that's accurate. The longest thing I started to
get in real quick. I think, uh, Connor is gonna
upset him here because Floyd Floyd maybe seen Nisian people
up in profanities on Life this morning. Um what you
think you you think you think that McGregor is gonna

(01:41:23):
lose because because of prob No, I think Maywether is
gonna lose. You think because of profanity? No, no, no,
not because of the profanities. He's already Uh maybe other
senior was already making effuses this morning on I know
we talked about that earlier, but uh and then and
then and then and then they were at the press conference, says, oh,

(01:41:46):
I'm going knock you know, I'll fight with four ounds.
Grow up, and he said, no, back out. Listen, don't
get carried away by the hyperbole and the puffery of
the news conference. Mayweather is gonna win this fight. Outside
of a dive. Maywell is gonna win the fight, all right.
The Ben Maller Show on Fox. We'll get to that

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free rate quote. And now back to Ben Maller. We'll
get to ask Ben in a moment. Dana White, did
you see who? Dana White says wants to attend the
Mayweather McGregor fight. You see this eddie is a Trump? Yes,
according to Dana White, President Trump one hundred percent would

(01:42:50):
like to attend the Mayweather McGregor fight. However, there's a
caveat to this. According to Dana White, he claimed that
he did talk to the White House about this. They
had called and they were interested in going to the fight. However,
White says even though Trump wants to go to Vegas
August twenty six with the fight, he says he thinks

(01:43:11):
he'd ruin the event, not because of politics, because he
says if he shows up, what happens when the president
goes anywhere? There's dogs sniffing for explosives, and the Secret
Service is going to have to go through everything and
shut down streets and traffic will be It's already a
nightmare in Vegas, and it's gonna be even a bigger

(01:43:32):
nightmare if the President shows up. So he says, even
though Trump wants to attend, he does not think that
he is going to actually make it. Ben and I
were talking yesterday and it was an amazing conversation. That
is correct, mister President, but that's coin to white, So
mixed messages. Although oftentimes though, the President does not like

(01:43:53):
to announce where he's going to go this far in advance,
so it could always be like a last minute thing
where the President just kind of skid that's in there
at the last minute. And is our next president going
to be Kid Rock? Eddy? Did you see Kid Rocks
gonna run for the US Senate in Michigan? No? I
did not do not. No. Go to Kid Rock for

(01:44:15):
Senate dot com. You can buy a T shirt, a hat,
or a bumpers. This is legitimate. Well apparently it is.
He's I know that. Steve Gorman, our colleague on Fox
Sports City, I tweeted something out about it. But I
didn't know if that was a joke or not. Uh No,
he is announced that he is going to run for
the Senate. He's from Michigan, kid Rock. What's his real name,

(01:44:36):
Robert or something that. Hey, he's gonna run for the
US Senate. He announced it on Wednesday. He's gonna win, right,
famous people win. We like famous people. We don't care
if they know what they're doing. We like famous people.
We want famous people to win. And so his name
is Robert James Ritchie. Okay, you can get any order
over thirty five bucks. Eddy, you get a free bumper sticker. Shit,

(01:44:58):
these are good looking at I should like say I'm
running for senator. President. Me and Doc Mike several times
we have run for the White House. We're coming up
with bloody goat beer. According to Doc, we have not
interfered in any way. We've not been influenced by Russians
or any other country. That's what the doc tells us.

(01:45:19):
And we finished second, even though the vote totals said
we didn't finish second. Was that the Health Party? I
think we were part of the Health Party, which is
ironic because I when it comes to health, I it's
ironic because Mike has done time for practicing medicine license. Well,
it's a slight issue. It's a slight issue, but it's
a it's a broad term health. What's health to you

(01:45:44):
might not be health to me. So the doctor is
apparently a broad term for Mike. Yes, well there's new
age medicine actor. Yeah. Remember one time were you with
me when there was some voodoo medicine thing that we
were goofing on and it was involving Doc Mike, And
then there was a parade of people that called up
and said, oh, that's good, that's actually works. All right,

(01:46:07):
let's let's get to it. Here we go. It's now
time for time for Ask Twitter us your questions on
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(01:46:27):
It's innovative, it's creative. Occasionally, it's imaginative. Sometimes we even
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the reading of the questions. All right, Ben, We're gonna
start with a very important question for you. Okay, this

(01:46:48):
is from Eric on Facebook. Hello Eric, Ben, are the
teenage mutant ninja turtle superheroes or just heroes. Couldn't there
job be done by anyone with martial arts training? Well,
that'sk a great question. The way I look at the
teenage mutant ninjus heroes, they are superheroes because they're on
TV and they're on movies, all right, And so that

(01:47:08):
to me, you know, you you could break it down
that way. But they've got the great names Michaelangelo and
Raphael and all. I mean, they're wonderful name turtles. And
while you could say, hey, I could go train for
ten years and I could learn advanced karate and martial
arts and things like that, No, no, no, you wouldn't

(01:47:29):
get a TV show, You wouldn't get movie deals, and
would you really want to go through the sewer and
the gutter? Come on, they're heroes, they're superheroes, all right. Next,
All right, Ben, we're gonna have another one for you.
This is from Orlando on Facebook. Hello Orlando, what's your
favorite Hebrew cuss word? Now? I don't know he I

(01:47:49):
know Yiddish? Does he mean Yiddish? Probably? Okay? Yeah, because
like Hebrew, I'm not I mean, I know it a
little bit. But I know I've forgotten most of it.
I Yiddish. I grew up My grandfather spoke eaters, and
so I would say, like I nut Nick's a good one,
but that's not really a curse word. Schmuck is one

(01:48:10):
I use regularly, so I would go schmuck, which just
means like a foolish person. That's that's schmuck um. How
many of these can I say, coop? I don't know,
because if some of them, I don't know if I'm
allowed to say I'm a sugar as a good one.
That's like we have a lot of our callers and
a sugar. No, they're crazy, all right, They're absolutely crazy.
So those are a couple of them. We'll go with that.

(01:48:33):
I don't know if we can use the ones to
describe genitalia. I don't know that we're gonna do that.
I was gonna say, I wouldn't know which ones to dump. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
So yeah, I mean, well, took us is one I use.
That's that means buttocks. If you hear the word took us,
it means buttocks. That's what that means. So those are
all those are some of them. They're really good ones.

(01:48:55):
Though I don't think I can use. Yeah, we've got
a question for Eddie here, Oh, Eddie the godfa Yes,
this is from from Petros. Oh. It's good to know
the peas listening. Yep. What was the first NHL game
you attended? Who was involved in? What do you remember? Uh? Well, um,
I did not grow up in southern California. I grew
up with Central California. So I watched his first game

(01:49:17):
two years ago. No, I came down to LA for
the Baseball Winner meetings. It was during the mid nineties,
looking for a minor league radio job. No, it was
in downtown Los Angeles, and uh and because I was here,
I decided to, you know, obviously take taking the big
city sports. And so I went to a Laker game

(01:49:39):
and a King's game on back to back nights. I
saw Magic Johnson play for the Lakers against the Vancouver Grizzlies. Nice,
and then Wayne Gretzky and the King's play against the
Dallas Stars. So that was pretty cool to see those
two legends on back to back nights. I honestly don't
remember who won the game, but seeing I did, did
I did? Yeah, you can go look it up. Then

(01:50:01):
if you have it, you can go go to the
Hockey Reference. That's true. I could look at up. I'm
guessing the Kings probably lost or I remember if they won. Well,
was that the when Gretzky was washed up because they
lost a lot when he was at the end of
his run with the Kings. Yeah, I was a few
years after they had a little magical run to the Stay,
and I was I might have been at that game, Eddie.
I I was forced to cover the Kings by my

(01:50:24):
station at those times, and so yes, I might have
been there. Wow. And we didn't even know each other,
just ships passing in the night. True. Amazing to ask Ben,
Your questions are answers, all right. This one is for
the crew from James on Twitter. Hi James, what is
the most each of you have weighed? I don't know.
You know, when you're when you're at your fattest, you

(01:50:45):
don't weigh yourself. You don't because the scale doesn't go
up that high. Uh, So I don't I know when
I and I also say I lost two hundred pounds.
I actually lost a lot more than that, but I
don't know exactly how much I lost because I didn't
weigh myself my fattest. So it's your boxing weight. Where
where would your doctors say you're supposed to be? Oh,
I'm probably over my boxing weighted. This picular the doctors

(01:51:08):
always go low. I think the doctors always want you
to be like, for guy my my height, probably I
don't know, two twenty or something like that. I'm a
little bigger than that. So what about you, Eddie? Before
I started working here, I got just over three hundred pounds,
and I remember the really stupid funny thing about that
was is that apparently when I stepped on the scale,

(01:51:31):
I was like two ninety five. That wasn't a big deal.
But when it went over three hundred, you know, like
the alarm bells went off. I was like, Jesus, I
cannot believe I weigh this much. And so thankfully I've
now I've lost like seventy pounds. I hear in my head,
I hear Looney's voice. Round numbers, round numbers, two ninety nine,
not a problem. Three hundreds of paper was ridiculous. I

(01:51:53):
was stupid, but it was true. And congrats on your diet, Eddie.
You've been looking like he's been lately. Yeah, thank you.
I don't know about that, but thank you. You want
to the gym. Any you're working out, what are you
doing doing a lot of walking? Playing hockey on the weekends?
Not eating a ton, No treadmill, no, no, just walk.
I lived near a park and I walk around the
park every day. That's cool, as you know, Big Ben.

(01:52:15):
I ride a bike on the weekend. But I can't
go uphill. Um you should? You know you should do
is get get an electric bike? You should? Yeah? I
saw those That Is that an inside joke? Or what's
the going up hill? Oh? It's just hard to ride
a bicycle over. Yes, you ever try to ride a
bike up hill? I can the hell wants to do that?
My my father in law is a big bike rider,

(01:52:36):
and he goes to like on these bike trips around
Europe and crap, and he wants to bring me, you know,
because I'm the son in law. You'll go over like
a cliffic France. Exactly. I'll die on the side of
a road in Germany or No. I think that the
heaviest I've ever been is like two thirty five. Yeah,
I'm like two ten right now. I should be at
like one eighty one ninety so yeah, they want they

(01:52:58):
want as low as you can go. Now, Coop's like,
I think he's the biggest. Was five hundred. I think
you would think. So how he eats? He just burned
some food, Yeah, a couple of minutes ago in here.
He's got a good anatomy there. Because you should be heavier, Coop,
I right, I mean you'd admit that. Yes, I guess
what your diet, what you eat, I don't know. I

(01:53:19):
have friends that eat just as bad, if not worse
than I do. You're still young, though, You've got that advantage.
I think I think if I was, I should be
if like a few inches taller, and then I'd be
real lean and I could eat exactly how I'm eating. Now.
That's that's what I blame it on, is my hype.
But no, the most I've weighed is is one eighty
one eighty Yeah, all right, but your your height, it's

(01:53:41):
a lot. I'm meant like one sixty five right now?
All right, you go away yourself right now? Anyway, I
just didn't just did that? Did yesterday? Go all right?
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Your question is our answers a heavyweight matchup? And the Coop,
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a funny, little quick one and we'll leave it just

(01:54:23):
for it for you and Eddie, all right? Is soccer
giant grass hockey? Or is hockey tiny ice? Soccer? Ah,
that's a good question. What's old? What is older? Soccer
or hockey? Probably soccer, I would think, right, I would
I would think so. If soccer is older than hockey's
a rip off of soccer. That's deep, Eddie. It's a

(01:54:46):
terrible question that you have nothing in common soccer sea
it's the same. Yeah, there's no comparison. They both have shootout,
they have nets, that's the comparison. Well, the players on
hockey don't really touch the puck. Much every once in
a while they do, right, they touch it with their
hockey sticks, and the and the soccer players touched the

(01:55:08):
ball with their feet, don't. They also have those terrible
offsides confusing the blue line. Get rid of it. At
least hockey players are manly. Soccer players flop thank you
with like a fingertips. Hockey players to flop. Not really
all right? M you? Moving on? This is for the
entire crew. This is from Ernie. When was the last

(01:55:29):
time any of you change the flat tire? Oh that's
a good question. Well I am thanks to my my
late grandfather, Grandpa Jack. I am a Triple A member
for seventy years almost so, but I did when I
when I first started driving. My my, uh my parents
made sure I learned how to change attire. I've done
it twice in my life, but probably not in twenty years.

(01:55:50):
I just call the Triple A guys, Edie. What about you?
Pretty much the same, although I didn't become a Triple
A member until I got married. So before that though,
I changed tires several times, but not since I've been married.
Danny just changed the tire this afternoon two years ago. Actually,
I ran over a big time. What do you call
it a nail? And I hate that? Yeah. It. By

(01:56:13):
the afternoon, I came out of my job and the
tire was completely flat side, got the jack out and
put the spar on it and was off. What about you?
Those damned lugnuts on as a pain in the ass Yep,
I've never changed the flat ti Yeah, I'm always When
I did it, I was always Conster Hollywood. It's not
a bad thing. When you work on the set of

(01:56:34):
Liar Liar, there's people that change tires for you, right,
I don't have to worry about that, you know, people
like us. Yeah, exactly. We changed my tire as we
haven't way by getting grease on us. You know, Bronx
is burning, Bronx is blooming. What is it going on?
What is this Bronx thing? With one Bryce Harper, we
will discuss welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's

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I don't I don't follow baseball. Trust me. Bryce Harper
is a big deal. And the Washington Nationals getting set
to start the second half on Friday. They are headed
towards the postseason in the despicable National League East. But

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Bryce Harper has one year left after this on his
contract in DC, So after the twenty eighteen season, this
will be a lebron like experience for Bryce Harp. It's
not gonna be during the summer. I'm sure Jim Gray
will come in. Bryce Harper wants for a price, and
you can find a boys and girls club somewhere in

(01:58:04):
Ohio if you want. But Bryce Harper is going to
get wined and nned by the big market teams in
baseball be lining up to give him tons of money. Now,
many have predicted that he is going to end up
Bryce Harper with a Yankee. But this week, this dead
dormant week in baseball, with the All Star break, Bryce

(01:58:28):
Harper has sent mixed signals about his future. And so
I would like to read the tea leaves here, I've
got my Dakota ring On and I will decode what
Bryce Harper has said. But maybe you did not here.
So let me give you the quote. And people wondering
whether or not he is trying to dodge the Big Apple.

(01:58:49):
Here's what Harper said. Quote, going to New York City
for a couple of days. I want to get out
of there in about three days. The declaration made by Harper.
He says, you go there the Big Apple for three days,
it's pretty crazy, it's hectic, and I want to go
back home. I want to go back home to DC.

(01:59:09):
End quote. So let's talk about this now. Harper went
on to say that he does want to build a
weaning culture with the Washington Nationals similar to that of
the Bronx Bombers, and he went on to sing the
praises of Aaron Judge, celebrating the rookie phenom, the home
run derby champion, Aaron Judge. So the question here, I've

(01:59:31):
got my Dakota ring On, is this distaste, right doesn't
like the New York hectic and crazy New York City ways,
This distaste for the hustle and bustle of New York
City something or nothing, because remember many have connected Harper
to the Yankees for several years. This is absolutely something,

(01:59:52):
but it's not what you think. This is known as
posturing and double speak, right, That's what my Dakota ring
came up with, posturing and double speaking. I'll tell you why.
First of all, it continues to be my belief that
Bryce Harper is the definition of a baseball mercenary. He's

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a Vegas kid. He's got no strong ties to any
individual Major League city. He's not worried about whether or
not he plays for the Yankees, the Red Sox, or
the Dodgers. If the Toronto Blue Jays broke the Piggy
Bank and tossed all of the Canadian currency, all the
loons over to Harper, he would happily move to Canada,

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and he would tell stories about when he was a
kid watching Carlos Delgado smash home runs at the stadium
men known as sky Dome when he was a boy.
The fact that Bryce Harper says now he does not
like New York City more than a couple of days,
this is posturing. It's also irrelevant. Most of the guy,

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she's the ugly truth. Most of the players that play
for the Yankees and the Mets for that matter, they
don't live in New York City. Now, if I played
for the Yankees of the Mets, I would want to
live in New York City. But a lot of these
guys live in the sticks, and there are a few
miles outside. You get outside New York City, what is it,
It's it's suburbs, it's trees, it's not the hustle and

(02:01:22):
bustle of New York City. The ball players, and I've
known a few of them that have passed through here
and other places I've worked, that have played for New
York teams. They often live in New Jersey or Connecticut,
or if they live in New York, it's out in
the suburbs in Westchester County somewhere like that, or Terrytown.
They don't live in New York City you commute in.

(02:01:44):
So I would think if I was there, I would
want If I'm a single guy, if i'm I'm not.
I'm married now, but I was a young guy playing baseball,
I wouldn't want to be in the belly of the beast.
I would want to be in Manhattan. I would be
like Derek Jeter, get me a place at the Trump Tower,
and I'm good to go. But it's Harpers sending these
vague messages to the Yankees. What he's doing, his posting

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that they're gonna have to pay more. Consider this like
a Bronx tax, if you will. It's more expensive to
live in New York. So the Yankees and Mets have
to pay more to bring players in now. Secondly, Bryce
Harper has to worry about his current lot in life.
He's with the Washington Nationals the rest of this year,

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and it would appear all of next year, and so
he's got to figure out a way to appease the locals.
Harper has to use double speak. He's not gonna come
out of the All Star break. Oh, by the way,
I fully intend to sign with the Yankees. Be as
dumb as having Paul George tell his surrogates he's gonna

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go play for the Lakers. Stupid. Even Paul George is
walking back on that now in the NBA because he knows, hey,
I need negotiation. I need a negotiation. I need other
teams involved in this. So Bryce Harper has to play
the game right now. What are the chances he actually
stays in Washington? It's not as low as you think.

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I would say it's twenty percent. I'm gonna give the
Nationals a twenty percent chance to keep Harper around. There's
a comfort level there. The Nationals appeas and are able
to allow Harper to to have his temper tantrums and
his hissy fits from time to time. However, here's the thing.

(02:03:31):
Washington would have to pony up four hundred million dollars
over four hundred million dollars to you're talking about a
ten year contract if I'm Bryce Harper, though I don't
sign a ten year contract. I sound like a three
or four year contract, and then do it all over again.
But there's not gonna be like a hometown discount. That's
not his hometown. So there's no hometown discount there. Now,

(02:03:53):
the final word on this, Bryce Harper is going to
be twenty six years old when he becomes a free agent.
Even with solid but unspectacular performances this year, he's on
pasted thirty seven home runs, which sounds like a lot
but everyone's on pasted at thirty seven home runs. He's
still gonna win the lottery. Even if he's not hitting

(02:04:14):
fifty home runs a year. Harper is the exception to
the rule in baseball. He's got the swagger, the showmanship.
Apparently doesn't like baseball that much. He doesn't watch it
when he's not playing. But most of these guys are robotic, boring.
They go out of their way to be dull. He's
not necessarily like that at all. So just to repeat them,

(02:04:38):
you would be a fool. Any free agent needs the Yankees.
They need the Red Sox to be on the bidding,
in on the bidding, and they have to be willing
to go anywhere. It's just the way it is, all right,
Spen Mallers Show on Fox, and now I present to
you Alex Rodriguez has come up with a four point

(02:04:58):
plan two save baseball. A Rod, saint, A Rod is
gonna save baseball. Do you hear about this, Eddie? You
see this a Rod four point plan to save baseball. No,
I sure haven't. I can't wait to hear it. Yes,
I have it right here. Well, if anybody can do it,

(02:05:19):
it's a Rod. Yes, of course, a Rod is a
gift that keeps on giving. Well, here it is point
number one. This is an op ed that A Rod
wrote as a guest columnist for one of the New
York Papers. I think it was the Post. Here's what
he said. Number one, A Rod wants the league and
it's broadcasters to implement live footage of what's going on

(02:05:41):
at all times within the ballpark. Number one, Eddie, all right,
he's already lost me. What does that mean? Last second home?
If you watched the home run derby, right, they all
they had like they always showed what was going on
in the stadium, but they still put the commercials on.
Oh okay, yeah, it was an experimental thing. But some
other local broadcast do anything. Red Sox to do that
from time to time. So so you never actually leave

(02:06:03):
the stadium that you put commercials on in a smaller box,
and then the rest of the TV will have I
just saw an article about that for NFL games too. Yeah,
some consultants said this is the way to go. Yeah,
and so all these lemmings are like, okay, yeah, whatever
you say, all right. Number one. Number two, Number two
he wants A Rod wants Major League Baseball and Google

(02:06:24):
to just Google it to join forces and share background
information and social media posts from players. It's kind of
lay minute, right, we can already find out there social
media posts plus the background stuff that's broadcasting one on one.
That's what the broadcast is. So far, he's over too,

(02:06:45):
all right, So I thine I'm stupid. At point number three,
this is a Rod's four point plan to save baseball.
Point number three on every month, first Tuesday, the first
Tuesday of every month, Alex Rodriguez is calling on the
owners of baseball to charge just ten dollars per ticket

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the first Tuesday of every month. You're with him on that.
I mean, baseball tickets aren't that expensive as yeah, but
you can if every tickets ten bucks, every ticket is
ten bucks. Okay, that's certainly a good sit down to
revert to the old price, the old price structure. I

(02:07:28):
don't see that happening, but okay, I'll go with him
on that one. Okay, you'll agree with him on that.
So A Rod's one for three so far. That's a
three thirty three batting average. That's not terrible. And the
final point on a Rod's plan four point plan to
save baseball, the final point from a Rod is to
implement microphones on every player, coach, and manager during games.

(02:07:50):
Anyone in uniforms miked up. Well's I think that's a
great idea. But you know you're gonna have to be uncensored.
Are you gonna when they go to a certain channel
to hear breaking as breaking down the hottie behind home
players that they'd like to take back to the hotel
room after the game. You want to hear that conversation. Yeah,
I did cheat a little bit. I've always said I

(02:08:10):
would pay extra money for my direct TV whatever. Yeah,
if I could listen to a certain player or a
certain coach uncensored for the entire game, I would pay
extra money. Filt they do that in a NASCAR you
can listen. I know I shouldn't bring up NASCAR, but
you can do that, right, You can buy the radio
and you can if you go to a NASCAR race,
you can listen. Yeah, yeah, I think they do do that. Yeah,

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so okay, I like that idea. You liked two for
two for four is a Rod's batting? Yeah? From with
me anyway. But I don't do I do I see
any of these things really happening. No, I don't see anything.
I disagree. I think they they're going to experience. We
saw the All Star Game was like Petrie Dish where
they tried some different stuff that's out of the comfort

(02:08:53):
zone of baseball. So they are willing to try a few.
They might try all of these. But I don't understand
the Google thing, and what's that all? I just google
as other companies. Well, the first point he had about
the no commercials, but you still have the ads and everything.
What are they showing though, you know, I mean there
wasn't anything interesting, job and deal spitting a loogie and

(02:09:15):
that's all very important. Maybe they canna have a camera
when the player goes to take a leak before, I mean,
when you're showing the guys running out to take the field.
I care. I say, get rid of warm up pitches, une,
I'm fine without no warm up pitches. Just go out
there and be a man, especially when they you know,
when they warm up in the bullpen for an hour
and then they got to come out and throw warm
up pitches. Exactly. You don't need that, all right, that's
a starting point. Get rid of warm up pitches. How

(02:09:38):
about no warm up pitches in the bullpen either, Let's
get rid of that. That's a waste. You know, arm injuries. Oh,
stop stop being as get out there and pitch. You
need to. You need to warm up Picture Company. All right,
Ben Mallers Show on Fox on Fox. We'll take your
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(02:10:00):
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(02:10:20):
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(02:10:46):
We'll get to a modern medical miracle coming up here
in a moment, but it's in sports. But first to
the phones we go and we say hello, Where shall
we start? How about we say hello to David in Wichita,
who's on Fox Sports Radio. Hello David, Hey, how are
you guys doing this morning? Well, it's it's actually morning
out where I'm at. There's what's morning here too. If

(02:11:08):
I was any better, I'd be a shocker, but not
a Wichita State shocker because they're not gonna win the
NCAA tournament. Oh whoa, we're moving up. We're moving so
competition is gonna get stiffer. But uh, I think coach Marshall,
I'll have the boys in tune come uh this fall.
But what I wanted to say was, you know, I

(02:11:28):
work in sports radio, so I did the local Fox
affiliate uh kgso Wichita here all day, and I thought
I've seen all the comical things and that I could
see in one sports day. I mean, I watched the
Mayweather McGregor press conference and I thought, you know, McGregor
hit the highest note when he grabbed Floyd's bag and said,

(02:11:50):
wait a minute, there's only like five thousand dollars in here.
And but then I thought Peyton Manning hit hit a
grand slam until you said something about eight Peyton Mannings
roast on KD at the speeds. It was pretty jaw
dropping to me, and uh, Katie's express and said at all.
But when you said a Rod gave four points to

(02:12:12):
how he was gonna say baseball, I about spit my
coffee all over the floor, I mean really all people,
of course people. And then you know, I will say,
what was the uh one reason? Uh? You know the game?
In game, I liked players mic up. I don't see

(02:12:32):
how you could have everybody mic up, but I would
like to see that concept. That was the only thing.
But the other the three things he should have said
was that, hey, I'm a fraud. That's gonna say the
game be I'm gonna give all my money back forgetting
ten dollars. Yeah, and then uh, the number one point
he should should have said was that no PDD users

(02:12:56):
should be on the Hall of Fame ballot if Pete
Rose cannot be there with it. Yeah. So okay, So
where were do you have sent the money? Though? If
you if Ay Rod wakes up today and says I
want to send my money back, where does he send it? Well, well,
happened to I guess the whole New York metropolitan area
and then Arlington, Texas. Well, Oh no, no, no, no,

(02:13:16):
why not send it to me? I need the money?
About that? Hey, I need Hey, I need the money too.
We could we could build a radio conglomerate. You know,
we can planch off me and you. We'll be foxed behind,
of course, just like just like your n two of Days.
I've got a stretch coming up where I worked seventeen
days in a row. Probably I do a baseball game

(02:13:38):
in the morning and a baseball game in the evening
for the which tar Wing that's which is an American
League Association team, and then we have to fame the
NBC World Series. All right, Well, listen, you're busting your ass.
You're trying to make it, and I respect that. That's
a good job by you. You gotta do it. You
gotta pay your dues. As they say, I am such
a radio loser. Run off me and David. Are you

(02:13:59):
gonna take over a radio? That's what we're gonna do.
Keith is in Nebraska on Fox Sports Radio. Hello, Keith,
I've been Everything's fine in Nebraska this morning. Oh I'm glad.
I was worried. I thought I was just I was
just telling Danny, I hope everything's okay in Nebraska. I
have not gotten my Nebraska update. I need to know.

(02:14:21):
I need to make sure everything's going well. In the
land of the Corn. Oh no, yes, I'm actually from
South Dakota, but I'm a truck just happened to be
going through. It's just passing through Nebraska. You thought, what
a wonderful place to stop. They've got the best damn
truck stop around. So I'm gonna stop you there you go. Well,

(02:14:41):
I'm not stopped. I'm going down the road talking to
you on the hits. How much traffic? Now? What highway
are you on right now, Keith? Where I'm on York, Nebraska?
All right? And how many other cars are out there?
Just give me a kind of painted picture of what
we're looking at here around. I'm I've got two trucks

(02:15:02):
following me, and I've got a real slow truck. They're
gonna pass here. But does that get Does that get frustrating?
When you keep getting passed by the other trucks. That's
gotta be annoying, right, It doesn't bother me too much.
I just except that you know you're you're a better
You're a better man than me, because I would go
nuts when I when I get passed on, I get
so upset. I'm like, I gotta go faster. I can't

(02:15:24):
get passed. I'm annoyed by it. So well, yeah, I
just uh, I've been doing it for quite a while
and it's uh, it's just the reality of my job. Yeah,
well you just get paid by the mile, so you're like,
I don't care, I'm getting paid with the hell. Yeah,
that's that's that help. Yeah, you know that helped all. Well,
what's on your mind that you didn't call about that? Yes?
I heard the A Rod list too, and you know,

(02:15:48):
I kind of agree. You know, two out of the
four ideas are okay, but it's just like, that's not
saving baseball. That's just that's it's a maybe a fair
or niece an idea. But I'll play I'll play devil's advocate.
Arod thinks ten dollars tickets, you're gonna get more kids
in younger people, they're gonna go out, So that's good, right,

(02:16:10):
And he clearly A Rod does sound like the old
guy with that Google MLB thing. Doesn't that he sound
like the old dude? Ye? Right, that's a that's a
little tough. That's a tough one. It's not the other
ones aren't that outraged, But you right, I mean, what
what would you do to save baseball. Does Keith the
truck driver have a better plan? Yeah, yes, I do.

(02:16:31):
My idea. My first thing that I would take care
of is to either eliminate or mandate the designated hitter.
You gotta have both leagues the same and one idea
to do that rather than get rid of one or whatever.
My idea, that's not exactly mine. I heard somebody else

(02:16:53):
say that, you're still why not? Why not just add
add the designated hitter to then the league and the
American League make picture here. So you want to you
have a lineup? Oh why not? Just why stop at ten?
Why doesn't everyone? When I played baseball when I was

(02:17:14):
a kid, everyone got in at bat? So why doesn't
everyone get into bat? But that might be okay, Yeah,
but your lineup would be twenty five players and you
just go through and then that would be great a right?
All right? Soft? Yeah, be safe, Keith, Thank you, buddy,
Keith driving around passing through? Yeah. Maybe this is just
because I'm way smarter working with you on the show

(02:17:36):
every morning and night. Here. Clearly, why isn't anyone else
saying to eliminate the catcher? Yeah? We had that on
this show. We did. That's true. I think that's a
great idea. How about this one? All right? How about
you know, if your team is playing really really well,
like the Dodgers and Astros for like a week, you

(02:17:57):
have to play with only seven guys in the field,
you gotta take away one defensive player. You didn't get
the picture, and then you got the eighth defensive play
yet to take one away? How about that? Like, yeah,
take no no second basement? Bad? Right? Come on, even
up the playing field, and like the terrible teams like
the San Francisco Giants and the Phillies, they get to

(02:18:17):
have an extra defensive player, fourth outfielder about that or
fifth in field Ben Maller's shaw on Fox, We're gonna
call this one a modern medical miracle. He missed the
game with a pulled right groin in the Summer League.
Cooper Loop said it was a totally legit injury and
he was not dodging anyone that Lonzo Ball would not

(02:18:42):
try to avoid Diaron Fox. So amazingly, not only did
Lonzo Ball practiced the day after he missed the Summer
League game, he then went out and played I think
almost forty minutes or close to it, and lit up
the Summer League in Vegas. This is just one of
the great modern medical miracles. Do you think, well, var
Ball put some magic dust on top of a lonzo

(02:19:04):
to make this. Gotta find some way to spin a
neg you know, spin spinning negatively after lonzo. Listen, I'm amazed.
This is one of the great recoveries of all times.
How is he able to come back? I mean, you
miss a game, he must have really been hurt that
poor did you massages? Growing coop? Nobody ever claimed that
he was really hurt, I said on the airban I said, no,

(02:19:26):
I do not think that the injury is Legiti says,
right here, the Lakers sent out of presently sore right
groin because everybody, everybody who read that knows that it's
just an excuse to get them some rest. Did he
have cramps? I said? Is that he's not afraid to
play against a player that's just that's just ignorant. Yeah,
so you're admitting that he's a liar, right, I mean

(02:19:47):
lied about it about all the time as a Clippers fan.
Are you really in a place to make fun of
injuries on a team? For real? Wow? Listen, those are real, legitimate.
This is not a legitimate injury. Bunch of snowflakes. Lonzo
Ball missed a summer league game with a made up
groin injury. You want to talk about? This happens all

(02:20:09):
the time when you're playing a guy that's gonna embarrass you,
dearon Fox, this guy's a start ridiculous way to Beacramento
in the house, way to bury the lead, their malice,
no bearing the lead at all, there's no Actually the
lead is the shoe story. We'll get to that in
a moment. And also, if you want to be part
of Factor Fiction, call now, Call now, We'll put you

(02:20:31):
on Factor Fiction. You know the number. We'll get to
all that. The big shoot controversy, which I don't get it.
I don't. I don't really get all worked up about this,
but some people all fired up about it. We'll get
to that in sixty seconds. No long commercial break. But
first let's find out what's trending. The Ben Maller Show's
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(02:20:52):
car insurance. Visit Geico dot com and get a free
rate quote. And now here's Ben maller So on a flashback.
Now we'll get the factor fiction in the moment. But
a Lonzo Ball playing in this Summer League game, apparently
he played well. I looked at the box score. I
didn't watch summer league basketball, try not to and I

(02:21:13):
didn't watch this particular game. But several people have pointed
out the big controversy in the shoe world is the
fact that LaVar Ball or A Lonzo paul A Lonzo
showed up to the Summer League not wearing the Big
Baller brand shoes. He has crossed his father, LaVar a
big shoe controversy. There's an internet outrage as Lonzo ended

(02:21:39):
up wearing Kobe Bryant shoe in the in the Summer League.
And do we have the audio on this? I think
we might have some audio on this. A Lonzo was
asked about this. Why why would you dare not wear
the Big ball or brand shoe? What's wrong with you?
Your dad's selling them for five hundred bucks a pop?

(02:22:00):
What's going on with that? Well? Uh, I believe A
Lonzo commented, and here's the do we have the quote?
We do not have the all right, Well, the quote
was he wanted to have the mamba mentality, is what
he said, The mamba mentality what LaVar is thinking about

(02:22:22):
the five hundred dollar shoes. Yeah, that's that mama mentality.
Ain't gonna sell the big baller branch shoes. That's a
nice color purple though you liked it. You like to tell, well,
why don't you wear more purple? You don't wear a
lot of pros. Don't know you were a lot of
black because my little sister, one of them, used to
watch that Barney thing. Yeah, yeah, memories. Now, Danny, are

(02:22:44):
you embarrassed for your other Laker fans that Lebron James
attended the Summer League and Laker fans immediately said, oh,
he's he's at a Laker Summer League game. He wants
to play for the Lakers. Really was scouting Lonzo though.
Let's you know, he had been working the general manager
as you know. You know, he'd been working out with

(02:23:05):
Ben Simmons, who plays he's playing the Summer League. Who
was sitting next to him? Do you know at the
at the game they were both wearing these really bad
tight eyed T shirts. I don't know who's in his posse.
I'm sorry Lebron I don't know who's in his his circle.
But how about Lebron also sticking it to ESPN not
showing up to their cheesy award show. How about that? Yeah,

(02:23:26):
I saw that me. Lebron would rather be a summer
League game in the in Vegas. My god, that he
knows what Vegas is. Well, yeah, really the bunch. Really,
Lebron just wanted to go out after the summer League.
He just happened to kill some time because the nightlife
in Vegas really doesn't get going at seven o'clock. You go,
wait a little bit. But Ben, you know he was

(02:23:47):
picturing Lonzo making some miraculous passes to him. I'm sure, yes,
I'm sure he was sitting there. Oh if only I
had a point guard like Lonzo, if only I could
play with Lonzo. All right, so the Ben Maller Show
on Fox, let's get to it. Here we go, Please

(02:24:08):
transmit a media is it fact or fiction? Let's face
some raw fact on the Ben Maller Show, and here
it is. It is yet again a fact or fiction. Time.
We'll give you three stories. You have to figure out
which of the three is not true? Is not true?

(02:24:32):
You do that, you will be declared the winner, and
we will say that a boy that a boy. I
did notice. I was looking at some of the photos
of Lebron. Ironically, a guy who I knew twenty years
ago was there chatting with Lebron. I don't know. I
haven't been in contact with the guy though he used
to used to work at the ly sports are reading.

(02:24:54):
I just helping run the summer league anyway, I don't
know why I mentioned that on the A about job
by me. Let's get here we go. It is factor fiction,
three stories, and you have to figure out which of
the three is not true, separating fiction from fact. We
have a panel of judges. The best and the brightest

(02:25:15):
minds have united here for one common cause and they
want to get this right. They want to help judge.
We always start out with the power couple. Is it
gonna be Jack the Judge? Is it gonna be Leslie?
This week? And they have mixed it up for a
long time. It was always Leslie. Lately we've gotten a
lot of Jack the Judge. But let's find out. Let's

(02:25:36):
go now to Long Island. Is it Who's it gonna be?
Let's find out the power couple. Please reveal yourself reveal answers.
It's Leslie, the lovely Leslie getting up early to join
us here on Factor Fiction. Welcome. It's good to talk
to you again, Leslie. Very nice. Now, what time do

(02:25:57):
you guys get up in the morning, because you're up?
Don't want to know? Oh very early, we're like farmers.
Oh really? Yeah? How long have you been up at
this point here, Leslie? Because an hour you've already been
up an hour? Yeah? Wow? Anyone? Now have you always
been like that when you were like a little girl
growing up? Were you like that? Or is this something

(02:26:18):
that's happened more recently. I did always go to bed early,
but not and get up early, but not this early.
I got you all right? All right? Well cool, that's good. Hey,
you're so much life to live, Leslie. You don't want
to be sleeping all the time exactly. Oh no, no, no, yeah,
I understand. All right, very good. Well, hold on a sect, Leslie.
I hope everything's well, yes, all good. Come to New York.

(02:26:41):
I will I will be there, not anytime soon, but
next year. I got a trip to New York. I
hold on, thank you. List Let's see who else do
we have? Oh? Rob in Vegas, we go from New
York Long Island to Sin City. Hello, Rob, top of
the morning and top of them all. Rob, you're seeing
any of these summer league guys around town? Haven't seen

(02:27:05):
any of them up to this point? No, haven't made
it down there for a game yet you Yeah, all right? Yeah,
I mean you got other stuff going on. You're a
busy man. I spend a lot of time at poker tables,
as you well know. Yeah. Well, sometimes those basketball players
pop up at the poker table. It does happen. Yeah,
all right, Rob, Now you make Do you make a
living playing poker? Rob? Are you that good at it? Yes? Really?

(02:27:28):
Oh man, you're you're interesting. How long a you been
playing poker? For? Uh? Six? Seven years? Now? Really? All right?
The game? How many hours a day do you play? Poke?
Four or five? Usually, so you only have to work
four or five hours. You can pay your bills. Gotta
love the United States of America so wonderfully. Now, are

(02:27:50):
you like banned from some hotels because you win a lot? No,
you're not that Okay, You're not like Billy Walters or
anything like that. Nope, Yeah, I got you. All right,
Well that's awesome. You're a great success story, Rob, that's all.
That's wonderful. Yeah, I guess I only worked four hours
a day too. But all right, who else do we have? All?
Lend our friend, Lend the grilling Man, and Washington's gonna

(02:28:12):
play Hello, Lenn. What's going on? What's on the what's
on the grill? Land? Oh? Everything's off the grill right now.
But I'm working on put some thro line steak in
my belly. All right. Any potatoes are just yeah, all right,
that's good. You have potatoes with the He gave me
a clue. We took care of there. I baked up potato.

(02:28:34):
I put some chives on there. Oh good. Who else
do we have? Patrick the uber driver in San Diego? Hello? Patrick,
Good morning, Benjamin. You don't like. Two favorite things about
your connection with San Diego is with the great legendary
Hack Saw and my high school alumni Karen Kay. Oh. Yes,
A big fan of kk is. You know. I think

(02:28:59):
I may have told you this and earlier calls that
her and I, you know, my earlier years of djan
her and I would work together. So I know I've
known Karen for a long time, so that makes me
a very probably part of the Mallard Militia very cool.
I like Karen worked with me in the old edition
of the old Third Shift on Fox. So all right,
hold on, Sack Patrick and Radio Rich. Well, we're gonna
have no time for the game. Hello, Radio Rich, Hello,

(02:29:22):
curmudgeon of callers painting the ass wheeling West Virginia. Yes,
that kind of stuff. They have a fact as I
checked it out last Friday night, and it takes six
minutes to go from one end the wheeling West Virginia
to the other, so booming metropolis. All right, thank you.

(02:29:43):
Story number one. Kevin Durant has released a documentary that's
big news. Kevin Durant gaining a reputation being a quiet
reserve guy. Well he's a champion in the NBA playing
with the Warriors. Durant, you gonna open up a little bit.
Earlier this week, he released a many thirty five minute
documentary video titled Still Katie Through the Noise. I don't

(02:30:07):
know if he was smiling in that. I know he
wasn't smiling at some word show last night. It follows
Durant as he struggles to block out the critics. Oh wloe,
is me kind of the path to the NBA Finals.
Story number two, Pitbull now wants to buy a baseball team.
He made headlines at the start of the home run

(02:30:29):
derby for his ridunculous outfit, the white pants, the gloves,
the whole thing talked in looked like a child's jersey
with the Marlins logo on it. Well, now it has
been confirmed that Pitbull is jointing forces with Jeb Bush,
who doesn't belong together je Jeb Bush and Pitbull they
were made for each other and in an attempt to

(02:30:49):
buy the baseball team in Miami. Pit Bull as a
long history of being associated around the Marlins and being
djaying and things like that, so he is interested in
buying part of the Marlins. And story number three, the
Dodgers have hired the Rally Granny, the old lady that
became a viral internet sensation this past weekend at Chavez

(02:31:11):
Ravine when she was shown dancing suggestively, she showed her
boobies on the Big Street right, she flashed her brow
the whole thing on camera and then after that the
Dodgers were able to complete a comeback when now it's
being report of the team's reached out to the more
advanced woman there and hired her to record a few
video promos as the official rally Granny of the Dodgers.

(02:31:35):
Whatever it takes to win the World Series. I fully
endorsed that. All Right, those are the three stories we
gotta fly. Which of these three is not true? We'll
go around the horn here and we'll start with Leslie. Leslie,
which one, one, two, or three? I'm gonna go with one.
I got you. Have a great weekend, Leslie. Thank you?
All right? Be good? Party? Yeah? Party on Rob in Vegas.

(02:31:58):
He's partying on Rob. What's the answer. I'm gonna go
a story number three? Big Ben? Hey, Rob, when I
lose my radio job, can you teach me how to
play poker so I can make a living doing that?
Will you anytime? Yeah? Thank you? All right, appreciate that. Len.
Len's eating his potatoes and his nice piece of meat.
What's the answer here, Len, I'm gonna go with one,

(02:32:19):
all right? All right, Lenn, don't choke on that, Lenny,
am you know I'm not going to choke on my kneet?
All right? Well, that's sure. Patrick in San Diego, Oh well,
I thought for sure it was pit Bull, but I
know the Dodgers are a more high class. It's gotta
be three, all right. Patrick's gonna go with the Dodger Granny,
the Rally Granny. Thank you, Patrick, Radio Rich bringing up

(02:32:42):
the real rear. What's the answer. I'm going down that
number one road and I'm wondering if I'm a bit
much of pain. The answers Angry Bill. Now, I like
you better than Angry Bill because I just hang up
on you. You only call once a week. Angryville calls
every day. We will give the answer right now. We
have have a winner. In fact, we have a couple
of winners. The fake story is number three. The Dodgers

(02:33:06):
hiring the Rally Granny. That's the made up story. The
pitfall story with the Marlins, the Kevin Durant documentary are real.
And we'll get the cowboys corner. We'll do that. We'll
do it next. There's a world would have excitement going
on around our show reddit page. Search for our subreddit.
Ben Maller showing at the latest authentic listener generated content

(02:33:26):
about the Mallar Militia. Now live from the Guy Coo
Fox Sports Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller and right to
the phones, we go Angry Bill Is on Fox Sports Radio. Hello,
angry Bill, what about a nine year old girl? You
hurt my feelings then, but that's okay. You talk about
the a rod thing as far as helping baseball, and

(02:33:47):
you don't need to save baseball. We'll be the fantastic
thing for baseball to make them look fantastic and get
things rolling on bigger scale. All children falling under free
no matter what, All children completely free come into a
baseball game. Yeah, good luck on that. Why did you'd

(02:34:08):
make up in the food alone? And then the wife
has to bring the other kids, the second kid in
the family, so the wife comes make more than more
than What if twelve year old Johnny wants to sit
behind home play, is that free? I don't care where
as long as as long as the adult quarter ticket
and that's that seat next to one that Johnny sits there? Okay,
all right, Oh good luck, that's gonna happen, cowboy John

(02:34:31):
brad Windsor, Ontario. Okay. At five forty two am Eastern
daylight time on Thursday, July thirteenth and twenty seventeen, Hey, baseball,
how about how about making a free for all butts
some bonds that come to the game and anyway, um,
rest of the peace from a big league pitcher and

(02:34:54):
NBA player Gene Connolly and the McGregor and Mayweather Boys
Boys Derby in the American League for winning the All
Star Game. There he goes, Cowboy John brad Where he goes?
No one knows? Hey, did you see the former Fox
Sports radio talk show host Andy Roddick throughout pretty much

(02:35:15):
all of his tennis trophies. You see this? No, I
did not worry. What a whack job, right? I mean,
who would do that? According to his wife in the
People magazine, he didn't tell his wife, Brooklyn Decker, he
just one day decided to throw out all his tennis
trophies outside of the US Open trophy. Everything's in the trash.

(02:35:36):
What the hell's up with that? Could have sold him exactly?
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