March 28, 2025 • 33 mins
Ben Maller (produced by Danny G.) has a fun Friday for you! He talks: Opening Day, Death of the Circus, Word of the Week, MLB Player Props, Foodie Fun, & more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio,
who is producing this podcast, and he'll be with me
hopefully over the weekend for the Saturday and Sunday podcast.
But happy Friday. It is day two of the Major
League Baseball season.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But you knew that already. The twenty seventh day of
the month of March.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The final Fifth Hour podcast here in the month of March.
And the thing that I always get a kick out
of is we spend so much time us with opening
Day in Major League Baseball. If you heard the Overnight Show,
we talked a lot of ball, a lot of baseball
on the Overnight Show. And today it's like, yes, it's
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the day after, it's like the second day of school.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You get all worked up.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I remember as a kid, my mom would Every mom
is pretty much the same, right, or your dad or whatever.
Maybe you have an uncle whoever you're with when you
were a kid, and they take you out shopping. You
got the clothes, you got the backpack, you got all
the crap for school back when we had backpacks.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I think some schools band backpacks.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And then you get all worked up all and I
never liked school, but you get all worked up for
the first day of school. And the first day of
school is usually pretty easy. The teachers are trying to
get on your good side. There's not a lot of
work to do. And then where the rubber meets the
road is day two. And in Major League Baseball, I
know the Dodgers and Cubs played those fugazy games in Japan,
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which Baseball sold to Japan and they made a lot
of money on that. But the US opener and Day
two and then baseball falls off a cliff. Now I'm
still watching. I'll watch the game today. I don't know obviously,
March Madness. I don't know how much of that I'm
gonna watch actually today because by the time I get
back on the regular radio show on Sunday night in
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the Monday. The games that are played tonight, I don't
think are going to be really that much to talk about.
Now I might if something's crazy going on, I might
flip over. So anyway, this's day two of the baseball
season today. It is also one of my favorite characters
in American history.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It is a day for them. And you say, well,
what is that.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's Barnum and Bailey Day, which is actually two people.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's not one. It's not one.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And and that's to appreciate the day Barnum and Bailey
Day for Phineas Barnum and James Bailey of the Barnum
and Bailey circus that thrilled millions and millions of our
relatives back in the day and came up with one
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of the wonderful marketing terms of all time. That marketing
term the Greatest Show on Earth, which has been ripped
off by NFL teams.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Who were the Rams.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
If you're old enough, when they had some really high
powered teams in Saint Louis, they called themselves the greatest
show on turf, which was which was pretty cool. But
Barnum and Bailey, the Barnum and Bailey circus which later
became known. When I was a kid growing up, I
remember coming to town it was the Ringling Brothers and
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Barnum and Bailey Circus. They these two big circus outfits
combined together. But that actually went back to eighteen eighty one,
the Barnum and Bailey Ringling Brothers Circus eighteen eighty one,
and it ran for.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Over a century. In fact, it in and that's been
been a few years since.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It ended twenty seventeen, and they had the title they
were self proclaimed the greatest show on Earth, and that
was back back. And then the only reason they got
rid of that, well, there were two reasons. First was
sales weren't great. People's taste changed people because of social
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media and things. Not just social media, but people were
not going out as much and they just weren't into it.
They could see any kind of animal they wanted, do
any kind of stupid trick they wanted, and they could
see clowns at a moment's notice, and their attention span
was pretty short, so attendance started away. And then you
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also had these activists, these wackadoodles that were going crazy
about oh my hear abusing the animals. This, that and
the other thing, and so you can buy those two
things and that's it. And usually in business. I was
reading about this the other day, I fell down a
rabbit hole. It actually started on.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
AI.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I was on one of the search engines that uses AI,
and I was, I.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Fell down this rabbit hole. I was like, I was.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It started out with second generation sports ownership, because we
have a lot of that. We have we have families
that got into the NFL or Major League Baseball eighty
years ago or whatever it was, and then they just.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Keep passing the team down to generation to generation.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Great examples of that would be the Raiders, the Las
Vegas Raiders, right Mark Davis who just happened to win
the genetic lottery and he happens to run.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
The Raiders, even though he has no business running the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But his father Al actually had some some perseverance and
some gusto and made something for himself. And then Mark
Davis just got to ride the gravy train. Same thing
about the Steinrenner family in New York. And you know
there's a bunch of teams Genie Buss with the Lakers,
people that are in the right position because of genetics,
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not necessarily anything that they did.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So I fell down this rabbit hole.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And most businesses do not make it to the third generation.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Second.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, but normally in sports are a little different because
it's a fool proof business. It's a fool proof business.
You're guaranteed to make money. Now you're not gonna make
as much.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Men.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I got a call a couple of nights ago from
a guy in Cleveland who was ranting and raving about
another caller.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You know, this being the first week of baseball.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, was going on and on, ranting and raving about
the salary structure and it's not fair, you know, this
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Going on and on and on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
And he annoyed me because I thought a lot of
what he was saying was just talking points from teams
that don't want to spend a.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Lot of money.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But if you own a professional sports team, you're making money.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Now you might not be making a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
And I've heard from people that work in the business
who have told me they make projections. Every business makes projections.
We're going to sell this many cans a soup now. Obviously,
it's a lot different when you run a professional sports team.
There's a lot of hidden costs. There's also a lot
of hidden revenue that you can make. And if you
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say your team X and you're projecting, you're going to
make and we do last year as an example, because
this year's who knows. But in twenty twenty four, at
the end of twenty twenty three, going into twenty twenty four,
you did the books and you looked at everything. You
had your spreadsheet out, and you said, listen, if we
take the TV revenue, the national money, the merchandise opportunities,
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and we put all of these things together, we are
going to make profit. Once we give out all the expenses,
we're going to be sitting on a pile of ten
million ten million in profit, which.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Is not that much. That's not that much.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So then they play out the twenty twenty four season
and a few things go wrong and you only make
a profit of six million dollars. You then announced that
you lost four million dollars, that you're in.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The red for the year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
When you actually made money, you just didn't make enough
gemstones because you thought you were going to make more
gemstones and you didn't. And so therefore you say well,
we were supposed to. I looked at the spreadsheet and
I crunched the numbers and I used the math, and
the math ain't mathing. And we were supposed to make
this amount of money.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
We did not.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And so there you go. So again, boy, I went
way off, way off the reservation. But Wringling Brothers, Arnham
and Bailey circus lasted from eighteen eighty one all the way.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
To twenty seventeen. Amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Now, the modern circus began in the seventeen hundreds in England.
A guy named Philip Astley is the first person to
create a one stop show. And the original circus in
England had horseback riding or tricks.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Rather that riding. You watch people write horses anywhere.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The automobile was not a thing in the seventeen hundreds,
but they had horse riding tricks, so like some dude
on a horse juggling.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
They had acrobats, clowns and other entertainment. And so that
was back in the seventeen hundreds and then P. T.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Barnum and Bailey got together and the circus started.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The US version of the circus. The PD.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Barnum was the first ever freak show and that that
is a wild story. P. T. Barnum figuring out that
people would pay good money to watch things that were different,
things that were different and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
But P. T.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Barnum he partnered with William Cameron Coop after he retired.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
After his retirement and the P. T. Barnum Museum.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Menageree and circus, and that was where they came up
with the marketing term the greatest show on turf, and
so a major tip of the cap. And that actually
leads us to the word of the week. That's right,
the word of the week. We'll do it earlier this week,
on this Friday. So the word of the week is
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circus in honor of P. T. Barnum and the Barnum
and Bailey circus and all of that in the Hippodrome.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
But the word of the week is, as we said, circus.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
The word circus, if you go way back in the
hot tip time machine, the roots of the word circus,
it's Latin and Old English mixed together, but it comes
from the Latin word of circus, which means circle or ring.
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But in ancient Rome, the term circus cir cus it
referred to a large open air venue used for public events. Now,
back in ancient Rome they had chariot races and gladiators
in combat.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Who were slaves, by the way, gl ideas were.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Slaves, and they also had the circus maximus, and so
those those venues in ancient Rome were typically circular oval.
Thus the origin of the word. Now we move ahead
in this Word of the week word circus. So by
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the late fourteenth century the term entered what was English,
but now we call it Old English, and it evolved
from the fourteenth century further on in the late eighteenth century,
the modern concept of what you and I call a circus, right,
it is a circus in that modern version of circus,
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which features the clowns, the acrobats and the animals, all
of that. That was pioneered by someone named Philip Astley
in England. Now most people don't know who that is
because he's not as famous as P. T.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Barnum and the Barnum and Bailey circus and all that.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But Philip Astley in that period in England was the
first one to use that term in relation to what
is still known as what we think of as a circus. Right,
and so this usage hating the idea that the circular performances.
Remember that you go to you used to go to
the circus. You had round tents or rings and under
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the big top and all that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
The word of the week. The word of the week
is circus. I know, so exciting, all right, So turning
the page from the word of the week, we go,
I want to go back to baseball.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And I didn't mention this.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I did the Bennies Baseball Bonanza, the big opening Day
show the other night, did a monologue about baseball and
the storylines of baseball. One thing I did not get
into that I wanted to do here on the pod
is the exotic player prop bets. Now I love these,
absolutely love them. And the twenty twenty five season is
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now underway. We're off to the races and you can
bet the normal thing. You should not gamble. You should
not gamble if you can't control yourself, right, it's obvious,
right A lot.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Of people can't.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Many of us can, and like anything everything within moderation,
even moderation. But in honor of the start of the
baseball season on this State two today, I thought we'd
look at some of the more interesting exotic player prop bets.
And again not your normal over under or strikeouts or
any of that stuff. So we'll start with the face
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of Major League Baseball show, Hey Otani, So Otani the
one prop bet. There's a bunch of Otani prop bets,
because you gotta get that money. You gotta get that money.
The one that I'm gonna use for this is will
Otani hit forty or more home runs and pitch enough
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to win ten or more games?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
So that is the question.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Now Otani, keep in mind, is not even yet in
the Dodger pitching staff.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
He's he's coming back. Their slow rolling him.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
He's I think I read the other day Otani's they
think you'll pitch maybe sometime in May.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I believe. I mean they're going very slow, very slow.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I might be wrong on that, but I think I
read that somewhere anyway, shoe A Otani will he had
forty or more home runs and pitch ten or more
wins this year.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So I would go know on this. I would go
know on this because you have and I don't know
if you can bet No.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
All right, Otani is supposed to be pitching, but he
had major elbow surgery. That is his second major elbow surgery.
You combine that with the fact that he's likely going
to pitch maybe once every five every six days, and
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he'll skip some starts, so he's not going to get
that many starts.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And when he does pitch, is he going to go
five six? Now? Is he gonna get enough innings to
get wins? Now?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The offensive number, I think it would be surprising assuming
all these things, Assuming hell, forty home runs. Absolutely, he's
already got, you know, he's already got a good start
to that. So he is projected to hit the odds estimate,
he is projected to hit about forty plus home runs.
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The thing that's the wild card is the ten wins, right,
because not only do you have to pitch enough, you
got to be healthy.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Obviously with all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
But Otani's coming off a fifty to fifty season with
fifty four home runs and fifty nine stolen bases, and
he's a much better, much better offensive player. Obviously, an
MVP level offensive player is a generational offensive player.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
He is not a generational pitcher.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
The reason that Otani is so especially he's not terrible,
but it's.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
The uniqueness of it. Like there have been.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Players who have futched around with pitching and hitting, and
they're usually really bad at one and okay at the other.
Otani is elite. He's omni present when it comes to
hitting the baseball, but pitching, based on what I saw
in Anaheim, he was, Okay, there'll be some good starts,
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and there'd be a lot of crappy starts. But the
fact that he's just doing it at all, it's like, Wow,
that's like really cool.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
All right.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Some of the other exotic props for baseball this year,
how about Elie Dela Cruz, another dynamo for the Cincinnati Reds,
Elie Dela Cruz, who's now got a real manager in
Terry Francona. I would keep an eye on the Reds now.
They don't have enough if you look at a depth
chart pitching wise. But Terry Francona, and I didn't think
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much of him when he was in Philadelphia and the
Red Sox had loaded teams when he managed there, they
with Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, so I thought, well,
he's all right, but really they've got tremendous talent. But
the crafting of Terry Francona managing a team, I thought
in Cleveland. They used to be just called a team
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called the Indians, and to me, that was where Terry
Francona just crafted these amazing teams that overachieved. Now, some
of that was.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
The division and there weren't that many good teams in
the division.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
But I thought that the Cleveland Indians and now they're
the Guardians with Francona, overachieved. They in and underachieved. They
overachieved based on what they I thought the talent level was,
and they were able to play off the radar. There
wasn't a lot of hype about their young players, and they.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Pulled it off.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And Francona played it off and pulled it off, and
so now he's in Cincinnati anyway, So this is not
about Terry Francona, but La did and the Cruz. The
prop bet is will he lead Major League Baseball in
stolen bases and triples? So leading the league in two
categories that involved speed is this is not that easy,
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my friend. Now, last season Dela Cruz led major League baseball.
He had sixty seven sixty seven stolen bases and he
had ten triples. That was tied for second. But keep
in my playing in Cincinnati. That is a band box.
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It's not a great Triples ballpark. You're more likely to
hit a home run than have the ball bounce off
the wall at the Great America Ballpark, which I think
it's still called, and then roll around. In order to
get that amount of triples, like where you're leading baseball,
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there has to be like weird bounces and yeah, yeah,
it's like trick shot.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's like your trick shot artist when you're doing that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
And anyway, so I would I would say, yeah, stolen
bases if you just bet that your eye the triples
is like total toss up right, You're just you're grabbing
out of thin air. Another prop bet for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
It's Paul Skeens and pray for Raid, this phenom who
will be in Pittsburgh for a couple more years and
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then play for the Yankees or the Dodgers and the
Red Sox or wherever he's from. Southern California. Actually Paul Skeins.
Fun fact, fun fact about Paul Skeins. He grew up
not that far away from where I grew up in
Orange County. In fact, he went to Eltoral High School
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in Orange County. And when I was in high school,
we played against his obviously like a.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Million I'm a dinosaur compared.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
To him, but we played against the high school where
he went, and so he does have ties to southern California.
But Paul Skeins pretty straightforward this exotic prop bet for
the baseball season.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Will he throw a no hitter? Will Paul Skeins throw
no hitter?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So on this one, the odds are plus twenty five hundred,
and much like leading the league in triples, it's impossible.
I don't care what kind of algorithm you have. You
can't just type it into some deep search engines said, well,
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that's going to be the answer. No, because no hitters
are endangered species. They are a throwback to an era
when pictures had hair on their chest and the world
was not run by cowards, and pitchers could stay in
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games and you were actually shamed. It's one of these
things that's changed in my lifetime. There was a time
when you were shamed if you came out of a
game early, and then at some point in the last
about fifteen years or so, it changed and now, well,
you're really letting the team down if you go too
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far into the game because you got to save those
bullets for.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Later in the year.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Now, my favorite example of that is a couple of
years ago, Clayton Kershaw was pitching a perfect game, not
a no hitter, not a no hitter, a perfect game
against the Minnesota Twins. It was like it was like
April or May. It was early in the year. Kershaw
was dealing and they took him out of the game.
Dave Roberts took him out. They had a perfect game.
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And the argument the Dodgers made was they had to
save Kershaw because they're not worried about a perfect game.
They had to save him for the playoffs. And I
believe if I'm right, and I know if I'm wrong,
you'll correct me.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You'll send me a nast email.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You said that on the podcast, and you were right,
and I don't like that you were wrong, and I
got to correct it.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
So I think that was the year that Kershall went
out in the playoffs against the Diamondbacks and he did
pitch and he vomited all over the mountain. He was
in the vomit comet in that first start. I'm pretty
sure that was it. So but anyway, get back to
Paul Skins, so will he throw a no hitter? No
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hitters are again, like it's like seeing if you're in
California seeing a bald eagle. Now, I know on the
East Coast, I've seen some bald eagles out and about,
but very rare. In California you will see a bald eagle.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Okay. Anyway, last season, you know how many no hitters
there were?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
You got a number? How about three? In all of baseball?
Three happened.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I'm surprised there were that many.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Now Paul Skins is electric, all right, this guy is bananas.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
He was the an L Rookie of the Year, had
an ERA under two. Keep in mind, though, for a
no hitter, you actually have to have help. What are
you talking about? If they make an error, then that's
not you know, that doesn't count as hit. Well, I
understand that. Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
The issue though, is if it's a fifty to fifty
defensive play, they might give it as a hit or
they might give it as an error. But if they
give it as a hit, there goes you're no hitter.
But is Paul Skins capable throwing? You know, yeah, one
hundred miles an hour. He's got this killer slider that
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falls off the plate and all that. But I wouldn't
bet on that because of the fact that he's likely
not going to pitch that deep into games and he's
playing for a suck bag Pittsburgh Pirates team.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
He's just terrible all right. Now.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Meanwhile, how about the Royals. Now, I was getting messages
from my guys in Kansas City. My friend Bob Fesco
was at the Royals opening game yesterday and some of
my other friends in Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
They were like, well, wish you were here.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I was like, yeah, By the way, my friend Bob
Fesco has a awesome powder blue nineteen eighties Kansas City
Royals jersey, which I want. I'm not even a Royals fan,
but that is a smooth, smooth looking jersey.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Really nice, really nice.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Anyway, get back to the exotic prop bets. Bobby Witt
Junior will he hit three hundred and steal forty or
more bases this season for Cans City, So I'm actually
gonna go yes on this.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I'm gonna go yes. And here's why.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
He hit three point thirty two last season, had thirty
one steals, so he's got a lot of wiggle room,
a lot of wiggle room with the batting average. Even
if he goes down twenty points, he bats three ten
or three twelve or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
That's fine and the steals.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
The thing you worry about is if he's out for
a couple of weeks because of injury, or even if
he plays. But let's say he tweaks something Bobby Witt Jr.
And he stays in the lineup, Well, the Royals are
not gonna run him. But this is what I would
actually bet yes on this because the three hundred average,
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I believe is a guarantee this guy's elite the steals.
It'll come down to the final couple weeks of the season.
The Royals are one of those fringe teams. Do they
make the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Again? Do they not? But I would bet yes on that.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Well, Aaron Judge hit a five hundred foot home run
or the New York Yankees that old Captain El Capitan.
So Aaron Judge is one of the largest human beings
ever on a baseball field, and it's it's such.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
A crazy thing.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I've seen Judge play in person a few times when
the Yankees and Dodgers have played in LA and Most
baseball players are petit there. They're not big dudes. And
Aaron Judge is like a monster. He's the snowman. He's
a sasquatch compared to these other mere mortals. Now that
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being said, if you look at Judge last season, his
longest home run was four hundred.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And seventy three feet.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
So the last time someone hit a five hundred foot
home run, do you know what it was? It was
Gean Carlos Stanton, who's hurt right now for the Yankees,
and that was years ago when he was in his
prime for the Marlins. I think they were called the
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Florida Marlins then before.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
They became the Miami Monas.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
But John Carlos Stanton is the last one to do
it in baseball. And the other issue, when you look
at Yankee Stadium, you don't have to hit the ball
five one. It's like williamsport Pa. There at Yankee Stadium.
You can just tap the baseball and it'll go in
that short porch and you're just licking your chops.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You're like, oh man, that's awesome. Anyway. All right, Moving
on from.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
That, Roiki Sazaki, the next great Dodger phenom who made
his debut in Japan last week. There's a prop bet
will Roki Sazaki strikeout fifteen or more batters in a game?
The latest addition from Japan. And again, I think those
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of you that reached out to me, I complained on
this podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
That the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
After thirty years of covering the Dodgers, the last two
years I have been denied from daily access to the
Dodgers because of the Japanese media that is covering Otani
and I do appreciate it, and I am considering your offers.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
My favorite offer was that.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I should quit the overnight show and work for Radio
Tokyo or something like that. I get a job for
a radio station in Tokyo, the Dodgers will give me
the access that I had. The fact that I worked
for their own station and whatnot is not good enough.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It is not.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
But anyway, as far as this prop is concerned, roy
Ki Sazaki willie strikeout fifteen over batters in a game. Now,
he debuted in in Japan and has a really it's
like a gimmick pitch. They say it's a splitter, but
some of the baseball nerds sits more than that. There's
something else going on, and he throws consistently over one hundred.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
In Japan a couple of years ago, he had nineteen
nineteen strikeouts in a perfect game in Japan. So that's
pretty good. But here's the problem, the math on this,
the malor math. Last season. Last season he all of baseball,
all baseball, we had eight pitchers that struck out fifteen
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or more batters. So again, he's untested, and there's a
learning curve.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Some guys get off to a good start and then
the league catches up to them. So I would bet
no on this. If you're able to a lot of
these prop bets, you can't bet know. You just can't
do it because most people would bet know and they'd win,
and so you can only bet yes. And that's that anyway.
All right, that's enough of that. We also have some
time for some food. He fun, holl ry for food,
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he fun. Try to help you guys out. You boys,
I know, working your ass off. You don't want to
sit home and cook when you're done. You're not like
my fat ass, where I have nothing but time. I
do a four hour show a day. So anyway, all right,
little Caesars now I'm bringing this. I've not eaten Little
Caesars in years pizza pizza, but they have two items
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that caught my attention.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Little Caesar's introduced.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
A five ninety nine large two topping pizza deal. Now
that is available, of course, always only on the app,
only on the app till April sixth, so you have
a little time on that.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
That's that's a pretty good deal, large two topping pizza
five ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
You also have, now this got my attention more, the
all new stuffed pizza with pretzel crust. Yeah, that's the
petzel pretzel crust pizza.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
And I saw a photo. This actually looks pretty good.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's available for a limited time now. It starts March
thirty first, so we still have to get through the weekend.
Starts next week, nationwide availability in store and online, and
it'll go.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I guess it. It says it starts March thirty first.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
But then there's another note on this this story that
I have that says April seventh to June twenty second,
that'll be that'll be going on. There's there's also a
story about who's got the greatest burger? And there was
a recent survey that was done from Delish, and shockingly
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it said, in and out, in and out, that's what
a Hamburger is all about. The greatest fast food burger. Yes, absolutely,
and it's good.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
You know it's good.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I've had I've had some. I like five guys. I
used to be able to afford five guys, but they
priced me out.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I can't. I can't afford that. What else do we have? Subway?
Are people still eating at Subway?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Subway has debuted a new Hot Honey Pepperoni and Hot
Honey Chicken sandwiches featuring their all new.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Hot Honey sauce.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Okay, bo Jangles Solid chicken fingers at bo Jangles underrated.
When I go to the South, I go bo Jangles.
Bo Jangles really a new item strawberry cobbler.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I'm good on that. I don't think I need that.
I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Pizza Hut has introduced the Cheesy Bites pizza, which I'm
in on until they added the Ranch Lover's Flight, which
is different. I don't want anything to do with that
at all. All right, we'll get out on that note.
Danny should join me at some point this weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Hopefully he'll be with me. Tomorrow, enjoy your.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Day two of the baseball season US style, and also
watch I will check out the college basketball. I'll watch
some of that stuff. Have a wonderful rest here Friday.
Thank you for supporting the radio show, the podcast, all
this crap, and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Got a murder. I gotta go,
Cutbooms.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He
treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to clearing House
of hot takes, break free for something special. The Fifth
(00:23):
Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
In the air everywhere.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Mahler and Danny g Radio,
who is producing this podcast, and he'll be with me
hopefully over the weekend for the Saturday and Sunday podcast.
But happy Friday. It is day two of the Major
League Baseball season.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
But you knew that already. The twenty seventh day of
the month of March.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The final Fifth Hour podcast here in the month of March.
And the thing that I always get a kick out
of is we spend so much time us with opening
Day in Major League Baseball. If you heard the Overnight Show,
we talked a lot of ball, a lot of baseball
on the Overnight Show. And today it's like, yes, it's
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the day after, it's like the second day of school.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
You get all worked up.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
I remember as a kid, my mom would Every mom
is pretty much the same, right, or your dad or whatever.
Maybe you have an uncle whoever you're with when you
were a kid, and they take you out shopping. You
got the clothes, you got the backpack, you got all
the crap for school back when we had backpacks.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
I think some schools band backpacks.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
And then you get all worked up all and I
never liked school, but you get all worked up for
the first day of school. And the first day of
school is usually pretty easy. The teachers are trying to
get on your good side. There's not a lot of
work to do. And then where the rubber meets the
road is day two. And in Major League Baseball, I
know the Dodgers and Cubs played those fugazy games in Japan,
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which Baseball sold to Japan and they made a lot
of money on that. But the US opener and Day
two and then baseball falls off a cliff. Now I'm
still watching. I'll watch the game today. I don't know obviously,
March Madness. I don't know how much of that I'm
gonna watch actually today because by the time I get
back on the regular radio show on Sunday night in
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the Monday. The games that are played tonight, I don't
think are going to be really that much to talk about.
Now I might if something's crazy going on, I might
flip over. So anyway, this's day two of the baseball
season today. It is also one of my favorite characters
in American history.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
It is a day for them. And you say, well,
what is that.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's Barnum and Bailey Day, which is actually two people.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
It's not one. It's not one.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And and that's to appreciate the day Barnum and Bailey
Day for Phineas Barnum and James Bailey of the Barnum
and Bailey circus that thrilled millions and millions of our
relatives back in the day and came up with one
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of the wonderful marketing terms of all time. That marketing
term the Greatest Show on Earth, which has been ripped
off by NFL teams.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Who were the Rams.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
If you're old enough, when they had some really high
powered teams in Saint Louis, they called themselves the greatest
show on turf, which was which was pretty cool. But
Barnum and Bailey, the Barnum and Bailey circus which later
became known. When I was a kid growing up, I
remember coming to town it was the Ringling Brothers and
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Barnum and Bailey Circus. They these two big circus outfits
combined together. But that actually went back to eighteen eighty one,
the Barnum and Bailey Ringling Brothers Circus eighteen eighty one,
and it ran for.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Over a century. In fact, it in and that's been
been a few years since.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It ended twenty seventeen, and they had the title they
were self proclaimed the greatest show on Earth, and that
was back back. And then the only reason they got
rid of that, well, there were two reasons. First was
sales weren't great. People's taste changed people because of social
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media and things. Not just social media, but people were
not going out as much and they just weren't into it.
They could see any kind of animal they wanted, do
any kind of stupid trick they wanted, and they could
see clowns at a moment's notice, and their attention span
was pretty short, so attendance started away. And then you
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also had these activists, these wackadoodles that were going crazy
about oh my hear abusing the animals. This, that and
the other thing, and so you can buy those two
things and that's it. And usually in business. I was
reading about this the other day, I fell down a
rabbit hole. It actually started on.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
AI.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
I was on one of the search engines that uses AI,
and I was, I.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Fell down this rabbit hole. I was like, I was.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It started out with second generation sports ownership, because we
have a lot of that. We have we have families
that got into the NFL or Major League Baseball eighty
years ago or whatever it was, and then they just.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Keep passing the team down to generation to generation.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Great examples of that would be the Raiders, the Las
Vegas Raiders, right Mark Davis who just happened to win
the genetic lottery and he happens to run.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
The Raiders, even though he has no business running the Raiders.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
But his father Al actually had some some perseverance and
some gusto and made something for himself. And then Mark
Davis just got to ride the gravy train. Same thing
about the Steinrenner family in New York. And you know
there's a bunch of teams Genie Buss with the Lakers,
people that are in the right position because of genetics,
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not necessarily anything that they did.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
So I fell down this rabbit hole.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
And most businesses do not make it to the third generation.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Second.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Yeah, but normally in sports are a little different because
it's a fool proof business. It's a fool proof business.
You're guaranteed to make money. Now you're not gonna make
as much.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Men.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I got a call a couple of nights ago from
a guy in Cleveland who was ranting and raving about
another caller.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
You know, this being the first week of baseball.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Yeah, was going on and on, ranting and raving about
the salary structure and it's not fair, you know, this
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Going on and on and on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
And he annoyed me because I thought a lot of
what he was saying was just talking points from teams
that don't want to spend a.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Lot of money.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But if you own a professional sports team, you're making money.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Now you might not be making a lot of money.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
And I've heard from people that work in the business
who have told me they make projections. Every business makes projections.
We're going to sell this many cans a soup now. Obviously,
it's a lot different when you run a professional sports team.
There's a lot of hidden costs. There's also a lot
of hidden revenue that you can make. And if you
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say your team X and you're projecting, you're going to
make and we do last year as an example, because
this year's who knows. But in twenty twenty four, at
the end of twenty twenty three, going into twenty twenty four,
you did the books and you looked at everything. You
had your spreadsheet out, and you said, listen, if we
take the TV revenue, the national money, the merchandise opportunities,
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and we put all of these things together, we are
going to make profit. Once we give out all the expenses,
we're going to be sitting on a pile of ten
million ten million in profit, which.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Is not that much. That's not that much.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
So then they play out the twenty twenty four season
and a few things go wrong and you only make
a profit of six million dollars. You then announced that
you lost four million dollars, that you're in.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
The red for the year twenty twenty four.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
When you actually made money, you just didn't make enough
gemstones because you thought you were going to make more
gemstones and you didn't. And so therefore you say well,
we were supposed to. I looked at the spreadsheet and
I crunched the numbers and I used the math, and
the math ain't mathing. And we were supposed to make
this amount of money.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
We did not.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And so there you go. So again, boy, I went
way off, way off the reservation. But Wringling Brothers, Arnham
and Bailey circus lasted from eighteen eighty one all the way.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
To twenty seventeen. Amazing.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Now, the modern circus began in the seventeen hundreds in England.
A guy named Philip Astley is the first person to
create a one stop show. And the original circus in
England had horseback riding or tricks.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Rather that riding. You watch people write horses anywhere.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
The automobile was not a thing in the seventeen hundreds,
but they had horse riding tricks, so like some dude
on a horse juggling.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
They had acrobats, clowns and other entertainment. And so that
was back in the seventeen hundreds and then P. T.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Barnum and Bailey got together and the circus started.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The US version of the circus. The PD.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Barnum was the first ever freak show and that that
is a wild story. P. T. Barnum figuring out that
people would pay good money to watch things that were different,
things that were different and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
But P. T.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Barnum he partnered with William Cameron Coop after he retired.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
After his retirement and the P. T. Barnum Museum.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Menageree and circus, and that was where they came up
with the marketing term the greatest show on turf, and
so a major tip of the cap. And that actually
leads us to the word of the week. That's right,
the word of the week. We'll do it earlier this week,
on this Friday. So the word of the week is
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circus in honor of P. T. Barnum and the Barnum
and Bailey circus and all of that in the Hippodrome.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
But the word of the week is, as we said, circus.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
The word circus, if you go way back in the
hot tip time machine, the roots of the word circus,
it's Latin and Old English mixed together, but it comes
from the Latin word of circus, which means circle or ring.
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But in ancient Rome, the term circus cir cus it
referred to a large open air venue used for public events. Now,
back in ancient Rome they had chariot races and gladiators
in combat.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Who were slaves, by the way, gl ideas were.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
Slaves, and they also had the circus maximus, and so
those those venues in ancient Rome were typically circular oval.
Thus the origin of the word. Now we move ahead
in this Word of the week word circus. So by
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the late fourteenth century the term entered what was English,
but now we call it Old English, and it evolved
from the fourteenth century further on in the late eighteenth century,
the modern concept of what you and I call a circus, right,
it is a circus in that modern version of circus,
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which features the clowns, the acrobats and the animals, all
of that. That was pioneered by someone named Philip Astley
in England. Now most people don't know who that is
because he's not as famous as P. T.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Barnum and the Barnum and Bailey circus and all that.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
But Philip Astley in that period in England was the
first one to use that term in relation to what
is still known as what we think of as a circus. Right,
and so this usage hating the idea that the circular performances.
Remember that you go to you used to go to
the circus. You had round tents or rings and under
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the big top and all that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
The word of the week. The word of the week
is circus. I know, so exciting, all right, So turning
the page from the word of the week, we go,
I want to go back to baseball.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
And I didn't mention this.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I did the Bennies Baseball Bonanza, the big opening Day
show the other night, did a monologue about baseball and
the storylines of baseball. One thing I did not get
into that I wanted to do here on the pod
is the exotic player prop bets. Now I love these,
absolutely love them. And the twenty twenty five season is
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now underway. We're off to the races and you can
bet the normal thing. You should not gamble. You should
not gamble if you can't control yourself, right, it's obvious,
right A lot.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Of people can't.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Many of us can, and like anything everything within moderation,
even moderation. But in honor of the start of the
baseball season on this State two today, I thought we'd
look at some of the more interesting exotic player prop bets.
And again not your normal over under or strikeouts or
any of that stuff. So we'll start with the face
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of Major League Baseball show, Hey Otani, So Otani the
one prop bet. There's a bunch of Otani prop bets,
because you gotta get that money. You gotta get that money.
The one that I'm gonna use for this is will
Otani hit forty or more home runs and pitch enough
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to win ten or more games?
Speaker 1 (14:45):
So that is the question.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
Now Otani, keep in mind, is not even yet in
the Dodger pitching staff.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
He's he's coming back. Their slow rolling him.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
He's I think I read the other day Otani's they
think you'll pitch maybe sometime in May.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I believe. I mean they're going very slow, very slow.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
I might be wrong on that, but I think I
read that somewhere anyway, shoe A Otani will he had
forty or more home runs and pitch ten or more
wins this year.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
So I would go know on this. I would go
know on this because you have and I don't know
if you can bet No.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
All right, Otani is supposed to be pitching, but he
had major elbow surgery. That is his second major elbow surgery.
You combine that with the fact that he's likely going
to pitch maybe once every five every six days, and
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he'll skip some starts, so he's not going to get
that many starts.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
And when he does pitch, is he going to go
five six? Now? Is he gonna get enough innings to
get wins? Now?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
The offensive number, I think it would be surprising assuming
all these things, Assuming hell, forty home runs. Absolutely, he's
already got, you know, he's already got a good start
to that. So he is projected to hit the odds estimate,
he is projected to hit about forty plus home runs.
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The thing that's the wild card is the ten wins, right,
because not only do you have to pitch enough, you
got to be healthy.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Obviously with all this stuff.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
But Otani's coming off a fifty to fifty season with
fifty four home runs and fifty nine stolen bases, and
he's a much better, much better offensive player. Obviously, an
MVP level offensive player is a generational offensive player.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
He is not a generational pitcher.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
The reason that Otani is so especially he's not terrible,
but it's.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
The uniqueness of it. Like there have been.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Players who have futched around with pitching and hitting, and
they're usually really bad at one and okay at the other.
Otani is elite. He's omni present when it comes to
hitting the baseball, but pitching, based on what I saw
in Anaheim, he was, Okay, there'll be some good starts,
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and there'd be a lot of crappy starts. But the
fact that he's just doing it at all, it's like, Wow,
that's like really cool.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
All right.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Some of the other exotic props for baseball this year,
how about Elie Dela Cruz, another dynamo for the Cincinnati Reds,
Elie Dela Cruz, who's now got a real manager in
Terry Francona. I would keep an eye on the Reds now.
They don't have enough if you look at a depth
chart pitching wise. But Terry Francona, and I didn't think
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much of him when he was in Philadelphia and the
Red Sox had loaded teams when he managed there, they
with Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz, so I thought, well,
he's all right, but really they've got tremendous talent. But
the crafting of Terry Francona managing a team, I thought
in Cleveland. They used to be just called a team
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called the Indians, and to me, that was where Terry
Francona just crafted these amazing teams that overachieved. Now, some
of that was.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
The division and there weren't that many good teams in
the division.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
But I thought that the Cleveland Indians and now they're
the Guardians with Francona, overachieved. They in and underachieved. They
overachieved based on what they I thought the talent level was,
and they were able to play off the radar. There
wasn't a lot of hype about their young players, and they.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Pulled it off.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
And Francona played it off and pulled it off, and
so now he's in Cincinnati anyway, So this is not
about Terry Francona, but La did and the Cruz. The
prop bet is will he lead Major League Baseball in
stolen bases and triples? So leading the league in two
categories that involved speed is this is not that easy,
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my friend. Now, last season Dela Cruz led major League baseball.
He had sixty seven sixty seven stolen bases and he
had ten triples. That was tied for second. But keep
in my playing in Cincinnati. That is a band box.
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It's not a great Triples ballpark. You're more likely to
hit a home run than have the ball bounce off
the wall at the Great America Ballpark, which I think
it's still called, and then roll around. In order to
get that amount of triples, like where you're leading baseball,
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there has to be like weird bounces and yeah, yeah,
it's like trick shot.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
It's like your trick shot artist when you're doing that.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
And anyway, so I would I would say, yeah, stolen
bases if you just bet that your eye the triples
is like total toss up right, You're just you're grabbing
out of thin air. Another prop bet for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
It's Paul Skeens and pray for Raid, this phenom who
will be in Pittsburgh for a couple more years and
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then play for the Yankees or the Dodgers and the
Red Sox or wherever he's from. Southern California. Actually Paul Skeins.
Fun fact, fun fact about Paul Skeins. He grew up
not that far away from where I grew up in
Orange County. In fact, he went to Eltoral High School
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in Orange County. And when I was in high school,
we played against his obviously like a.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Million I'm a dinosaur compared.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
To him, but we played against the high school where
he went, and so he does have ties to southern California.
But Paul Skeins pretty straightforward this exotic prop bet for
the baseball season.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Will he throw a no hitter? Will Paul Skeins throw
no hitter?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
So on this one, the odds are plus twenty five hundred,
and much like leading the league in triples, it's impossible.
I don't care what kind of algorithm you have. You
can't just type it into some deep search engines said, well,
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that's going to be the answer. No, because no hitters
are endangered species. They are a throwback to an era
when pictures had hair on their chest and the world
was not run by cowards, and pitchers could stay in
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games and you were actually shamed. It's one of these
things that's changed in my lifetime. There was a time
when you were shamed if you came out of a
game early, and then at some point in the last
about fifteen years or so, it changed and now, well,
you're really letting the team down if you go too
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far into the game because you got to save those
bullets for.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Later in the year.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Now, my favorite example of that is a couple of
years ago, Clayton Kershaw was pitching a perfect game, not
a no hitter, not a no hitter, a perfect game
against the Minnesota Twins. It was like it was like
April or May. It was early in the year. Kershaw
was dealing and they took him out of the game.
Dave Roberts took him out. They had a perfect game.
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And the argument the Dodgers made was they had to
save Kershaw because they're not worried about a perfect game.
They had to save him for the playoffs. And I
believe if I'm right, and I know if I'm wrong,
you'll correct me.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
You'll send me a nast email.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
You said that on the podcast, and you were right,
and I don't like that you were wrong, and I
got to correct it.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Anyway.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
So I think that was the year that Kershall went
out in the playoffs against the Diamondbacks and he did
pitch and he vomited all over the mountain. He was
in the vomit comet in that first start. I'm pretty
sure that was it. So but anyway, get back to
Paul Skins, so will he throw a no hitter? No
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hitters are again, like it's like seeing if you're in
California seeing a bald eagle. Now, I know on the
East Coast, I've seen some bald eagles out and about,
but very rare. In California you will see a bald eagle.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
Okay. Anyway, last season, you know how many no hitters
there were?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
You got a number? How about three? In all of baseball?
Three happened.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I'm surprised there were that many.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Now Paul Skins is electric, all right, this guy is bananas.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
He was the an L Rookie of the Year, had
an ERA under two. Keep in mind, though, for a
no hitter, you actually have to have help. What are
you talking about? If they make an error, then that's
not you know, that doesn't count as hit. Well, I
understand that. Okay.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
The issue though, is if it's a fifty to fifty
defensive play, they might give it as a hit or
they might give it as an error. But if they
give it as a hit, there goes you're no hitter.
But is Paul Skins capable throwing? You know, yeah, one
hundred miles an hour. He's got this killer slider that
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falls off the plate and all that. But I wouldn't
bet on that because of the fact that he's likely
not going to pitch that deep into games and he's
playing for a suck bag Pittsburgh Pirates team.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
He's just terrible all right. Now.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Meanwhile, how about the Royals. Now, I was getting messages
from my guys in Kansas City. My friend Bob Fesco
was at the Royals opening game yesterday and some of
my other friends in Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
They were like, well, wish you were here.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
I was like, yeah, By the way, my friend Bob
Fesco has a awesome powder blue nineteen eighties Kansas City
Royals jersey, which I want. I'm not even a Royals fan,
but that is a smooth, smooth looking jersey.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Really nice, really nice.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Anyway, get back to the exotic prop bets. Bobby Witt
Junior will he hit three hundred and steal forty or
more bases this season for Cans City, So I'm actually
gonna go yes on this.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
I'm gonna go yes. And here's why.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
He hit three point thirty two last season, had thirty
one steals, so he's got a lot of wiggle room,
a lot of wiggle room with the batting average. Even
if he goes down twenty points, he bats three ten
or three twelve or whatever.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
That's fine and the steals.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
The thing you worry about is if he's out for
a couple of weeks because of injury, or even if
he plays. But let's say he tweaks something Bobby Witt Jr.
And he stays in the lineup, Well, the Royals are
not gonna run him. But this is what I would
actually bet yes on this because the three hundred average,
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I believe is a guarantee this guy's elite the steals.
It'll come down to the final couple weeks of the season.
The Royals are one of those fringe teams. Do they
make the playoffs?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Again? Do they not? But I would bet yes on that.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Well, Aaron Judge hit a five hundred foot home run
or the New York Yankees that old Captain El Capitan.
So Aaron Judge is one of the largest human beings
ever on a baseball field, and it's it's such.
Speaker 1 (26:50):
A crazy thing.
Speaker 3 (26:51):
I've seen Judge play in person a few times when
the Yankees and Dodgers have played in LA and Most
baseball players are petit there. They're not big dudes. And
Aaron Judge is like a monster. He's the snowman. He's
a sasquatch compared to these other mere mortals. Now that
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being said, if you look at Judge last season, his
longest home run was four hundred.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And seventy three feet.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
So the last time someone hit a five hundred foot
home run, do you know what it was? It was
Gean Carlos Stanton, who's hurt right now for the Yankees,
and that was years ago when he was in his
prime for the Marlins. I think they were called the
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Florida Marlins then before.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
They became the Miami Monas.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
But John Carlos Stanton is the last one to do
it in baseball. And the other issue, when you look
at Yankee Stadium, you don't have to hit the ball
five one. It's like williamsport Pa. There at Yankee Stadium.
You can just tap the baseball and it'll go in
that short porch and you're just licking your chops.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You're like, oh man, that's awesome. Anyway. All right, Moving
on from.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
That, Roiki Sazaki, the next great Dodger phenom who made
his debut in Japan last week. There's a prop bet
will Roki Sazaki strikeout fifteen or more batters in a game?
The latest addition from Japan. And again, I think those
(28:39):
of you that reached out to me, I complained on
this podcast.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
That the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
After thirty years of covering the Dodgers, the last two
years I have been denied from daily access to the
Dodgers because of the Japanese media that is covering Otani
and I do appreciate it, and I am considering your offers.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
My favorite offer was that.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
I should quit the overnight show and work for Radio
Tokyo or something like that. I get a job for
a radio station in Tokyo, the Dodgers will give me
the access that I had. The fact that I worked
for their own station and whatnot is not good enough.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
It is not.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
But anyway, as far as this prop is concerned, roy
Ki Sazaki willie strikeout fifteen over batters in a game. Now,
he debuted in in Japan and has a really it's
like a gimmick pitch. They say it's a splitter, but
some of the baseball nerds sits more than that. There's
something else going on, and he throws consistently over one hundred.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Miles an hour.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
In Japan a couple of years ago, he had nineteen
nineteen strikeouts in a perfect game in Japan. So that's
pretty good. But here's the problem, the math on this,
the malor math. Last season. Last season he all of baseball,
all baseball, we had eight pitchers that struck out fifteen
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or more batters. So again, he's untested, and there's a
learning curve.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Some guys get off to a good start and then
the league catches up to them. So I would bet
no on this. If you're able to a lot of
these prop bets, you can't bet know. You just can't
do it because most people would bet know and they'd win,
and so you can only bet yes. And that's that anyway.
All right, that's enough of that. We also have some
time for some food. He fun, holl ry for food,
(30:35):
he fun. Try to help you guys out. You boys,
I know, working your ass off. You don't want to
sit home and cook when you're done. You're not like
my fat ass, where I have nothing but time. I
do a four hour show a day. So anyway, all right,
little Caesars now I'm bringing this. I've not eaten Little
Caesars in years pizza pizza, but they have two items
(30:57):
that caught my attention.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Little Caesar's introduced.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
A five ninety nine large two topping pizza deal. Now
that is available, of course, always only on the app,
only on the app till April sixth, so you have
a little time on that.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
That's that's a pretty good deal, large two topping pizza
five ninety nine.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
You also have, now this got my attention more, the
all new stuffed pizza with pretzel crust. Yeah, that's the
petzel pretzel crust pizza.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
And I saw a photo. This actually looks pretty good.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
It's available for a limited time now. It starts March
thirty first, so we still have to get through the weekend.
Starts next week, nationwide availability in store and online, and
it'll go.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I guess it. It says it starts March thirty first.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
But then there's another note on this this story that
I have that says April seventh to June twenty second,
that'll be that'll be going on. There's there's also a
story about who's got the greatest burger? And there was
a recent survey that was done from Delish, and shockingly
(32:12):
it said, in and out, in and out, that's what
a Hamburger is all about. The greatest fast food burger. Yes, absolutely,
and it's good.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
You know it's good.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
I've had I've had some. I like five guys. I
used to be able to afford five guys, but they
priced me out.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
I can't. I can't afford that. What else do we have? Subway?
Are people still eating at Subway?
Speaker 3 (32:40):
Subway has debuted a new Hot Honey Pepperoni and Hot
Honey Chicken sandwiches featuring their all new.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Hot Honey sauce.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Okay, bo Jangles Solid chicken fingers at bo Jangles underrated.
When I go to the South, I go bo Jangles.
Bo Jangles really a new item strawberry cobbler.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I'm good on that. I don't think I need that.
I'm all right.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Pizza Hut has introduced the Cheesy Bites pizza, which I'm
in on until they added the Ranch Lover's Flight, which
is different. I don't want anything to do with that
at all. All right, we'll get out on that note.
Danny should join me at some point this weekend.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Hopefully he'll be with me. Tomorrow, enjoy your.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Day two of the baseball season US style, and also
watch I will check out the college basketball. I'll watch
some of that stuff. Have a wonderful rest here Friday.
Thank you for supporting the radio show, the podcast, all
this crap, and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
Got a murder. I gotta go,
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