December 14, 2022 • 41 mins
Big Ben talks about the San Francisco Giants signing Carlos Correa to a massive free agent deal, the tragic passing of coach Mike Leach, Maller to the Third Degree, Cooking w/ Roberto, Password: Word Game of the Stars, and more!
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story happening not that long before the on air lights
started flashing here in the studio. We got action. We
got action from Major League Baseball. You're saying, wait a minute,
it's mid December. We got football going on, Basketball starts soon,
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Christmas Day will be here. That's when the NBA starts,
and so it's a it's a big time of the year. Well, baseball, baseball.
Baseball has been very very good to me. Another name.
Free agent signing has taken place. An agreement in principle
has been reached. If you have not heard, and the
chances are maybe you're not paying attention, you know, late
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to night, you're doing something else, you get other things
going on. But listen, The Ben Maller Show has confirmed
that forever cheating Astro Carlos Korea a bad Ombre, and
the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a thirteen year,
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three hundred and fifty million dollars contract. It's all done,
the fourth largest contract in total dollar in the history
of professional baseball, which goes back to the eighteen hundreds.
But remember, up until about seventy years ago, baseball players
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didn't make but really nine seventy years, like fifty years ago,
baseball players didn't make any real, real ridiculous money, but
now they do. Only Mike Trout, Moocky, bets errand Judge.
That's it. That's the list of people that have bigger
contracts in total value than this Carrea. So let us
discuss we have big free agent signing. We immediately put
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on our teacher's cap the question what letter grade do
you give Carlos Correa and the Giants on this long
term relationship? So Carlos Correa gets an A plus plus plus.
And let me very clear here on the Giants. And
I'm fair, you know I'm fair. That's why I'm here overnight.
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I'm fair. The San Francisco Giants get in f in
f failure, failure for the Giants, I've got as bestis
esteem and Taylor's shop, and we will combine all of
these things. I'm also going to help out the San
Francisco Giants marketing department as a public service here since
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we are on the terrestrial airwaves there in the Bay Area.
So to lead off here, Carlos Carrea is the face
of corruption in Major League Baseball and he ends up
laughing all the way to the bank. Carrea played the system,
and the system rewarded him. He's a muck, Carlos Correa,
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but we are giving him an A plus plus plus.
You can only give an a plus plus on a
contract like this. Correa is being rewarded for bad behavior,
another feather in the cap of Scott Boris the superagent. Financially,
this is an unbelievable great windfall. Now that being said,
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Carlos Karea did not want to play for the Giants.
Don't mistake this contract being a win for Correa with
this being the team that he wanted to play for.
This is a team that he is willing to play
for because they're meeting his demands. He's not going to
a contender. The Giants are a second division team. He
has no connection to San Francisco, and Correa, who is
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an unapologetic money grubbing baseball mercenary, now puts on the
orange and black of the Giants. There. If Baseball had
a commissioner, if they had a leader in Major League
Baseball with any balls that had a spine, Carlos Correa,
you know what to be doing right now. He would
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be submitting paperwork and say, maybe I can be allowed back,
and I can ask for reinstatement from my lifetime suspension.
But instead of submitting paperwork for a reinstatement from his
lifetime band for cheating, No, no enough, since he wasn't
properly punished or punished at all for his role in
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the cheating scandal with the Stros. Instead he's filling out
paperwork for three hundred and fifty million dollars. But also,
as we learned and we're reminded of when Aaron Judge
got his contract with the Yankees, the big winner in
this not only Carlos Korea, but mister Whiskers the United
States government. The federal tax rate on that contract thirty
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seven percent. That doesn't have anything to do with the
California tax rate, which is insane, the San franciscod taxes
which are ridiculous, but just off the top the United
States government. That's you and I. We don't work for
the government. It's supposed to be a government by the people.
Yeah right. Anyway, the offense will get one hundred and
twenty nine and a half million dollars from Carlos Correa,
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as your favorite politicians will be able to squirrel that
money away and spend it friviously on who God only
knows what all right now furthermo So the giants get
a bad grade, But why do the giants make sense
for karea even with their bad grade? And the way
I respond to that after a minute's long evaluation, Desperate
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times call for desperate measures. The giants had a wad.
They had a giant wad of cash, my big old
water burning a hole in their wallet. And the giants
wrongly assumed the position that they would get the native sun.
The soul caused the no cow slugger would go across
the country right leave the Yankees go across the country
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to northern California, play within a reasonable driving distance to
where he grew up. Aaron Judge, though rejected, rejected the
Higantes to stay in the Bronx. And so the giants
were having a steam issues. They were suffering from low
self esteem, a lack of self worth, just like the
Padres who couldn't get Aaron Judge. So they went out
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and they were they had money burning a hole in
their pocket. They went out on Godxander boguards. But the
giants were humming bars from that that song. Bad decision,
I am making bad decision, And so San Francisco. They
got desperate, and they ended up with one of the
desperadoes of baseball. The Giants get an F minus on
the Mallar scorecard because who exactly were they bidding against?
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I'm just asking, between me and you, who are they
bidding against? Right? The answer hello is nobody. Right. I'm
gonna set up on those little card tables and I'll
put a sign ups change my mind. Let me give
you the supporting evidence on this. Now. Karay is twenty
eight years old. He's got, by my estimation and by science,
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four more years four in his athletic prime. The Giants
are paying him for nine extra years past his use
by date. That means diminishing returns are guaranteed for the
majority of those following nine years after the next four.
And you're always looking for the fool in the deal.
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And when you look for the fool and deal, it's
a simple way to approach this. If you don't find one,
it's you. And when the giants look around for the
fool and the deal, they should look at a mirror
because they're the ones. Right, that would be the giants
in a nutshell, and all of the big whales had
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already been harpooned. They were tapped out. The Dodgers. No,
they wanted nothing to do with this job. Brownie, get
out of here with that guy. He's a mama Luke.
The Red Sox, they're too cheap. The red Last time
I checked, Boston was a big market. But the Red
Sox are penny pitchers, but a bunch of dopes. Then
you got the Yankees, right, you got the Yankees, and
they backed out the Mets. No, although Scott Boris was
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trying to plant the seed, the Mets were interested. They
weren't the Rangers they are. They signed a bunch of
infielders last year. They don't want this bumb so none
of them were interested in this cat. And the Giants
still forked over three fifty million. You get the way
that dud's gap. You get the way the duds gap?
All right, party shot, So taking a couple of steps
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back in a deep breath so we don't hyperventilate. How
can this Carlos career contract work out for San Francisco?
And I've looked at all the different variables here and
the answer is it can't. It's impossible. Right, there are
two strikes against Carlo's career, which makes this mission impossible.
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Carlos Correa is tainted. He's tainted. It's not a bum wrap,
it's not unfairness. He was caught red handed and unpunished,
one of the criminal masterminds, the greatest cheating scandal ever
pulled off in the industrial complex of North American sport
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in the modern era. His fingerprints, his DNA, his blood
all at the crime scene, and Carlos Correa, as a result,
gets to go to the tailor shop and he can
wear a finely embroidered extra patch on his ugly Giants uniform,
the scarlet letter, the badge of shame, and that means
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anything that he accomplishes, any of his teammates accomplished in
a team standpoint, the rest of his career will be
voided by real baseball fans that have integrity, and if
you don't avoid it, you have no integrity. Just like
the twenty twenty two baseball season was the void of
a champion because Jose Albba, Alex Bregman, the Cheeta Cheeta
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Cheeta Cheeta, Ulie Garla races. They were on that team,
so that doesn't count for the Astros. The same punishment
away it's going forward for the Higantes because they have
signed up with this bum. The guy's a bum Carlos career.
Not that the giant will even sniff a division title,
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and they'll have to add a couple more wild cards
for the Giants to get in. It's the Dodgers and
Podres division. The Giants rotation includes Logan Webb, Alex Cobb,
Sean Maniah who they signed this week, Ross Stripling who
they just agreed to a contract with, and Alex Wood.
I see a lot of old Dodger trash that is
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now pitching for the Giants and a lineup. Their big
pickup was Mitch Haniger, who looked done with the Mariners
this year. Brandon Crawford's moving to third base. He batted
in the two thirty range. Jack Peterson's good for like
twenty five home runs and that's about it. And Joey Bart.
I'd rather have the rapid transit system in the Bay
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Area named Bart than Joey Bart and JD. Davis. That's
the Giant lineup, and just be fair here, all we
are goofing on the Giants. The same rule applies to
the Toronto Blue Jays, who have George Springer, cheating astro.
Any team who has the stank of the cheaters is
not authentic. Furthermore, one of the main selling points of
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free agency is likability. He signed someone that your electorate
can get behind. Carlos Carea is a card carrying slimeball.
He's as crooked as a dog's hind legs. This guy
is a low level batman villain. And that's the Giants.
And how wonderful is it? How easy is it going
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to be to sit back and enjoy the boondoggle of
Giant Baseball. But I would like to help out the
Giants marketing department. I imagine they'll buy some billboard space
around northern California to promote their big signing here and
I have the perfect billboard slogan. I hope you're ready
for this. And I know they're listening right now. They're
monitoring this. They all the teams monitor what we say here.
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So instead of the San Francisco treat, Carlo Korea, have
a picture of Korea up there, and you put right
under it the slogan the San Francisco cheat right there,
that's San Francisco cheat Carlos Correa. There you go, boys
and that's a franchise that knows a thing or two
because they've done a thing or two involving cheating. Shout
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out to Barry Bonds in the Balco days, and man
oh man, it's it's great. Rooting for Carlos Correa is
kind of like rooting for Hannibal Lecter in Silence of
the Lambs. Man, is this going to be fun to
watch him fail miserably in San Francisco? And it's great
for the Dodgers and the anybody else who's just as
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integrity that can can boo the hell out of cheating. Yeah, well, okay,
Hecko harass, sports harass. Of course, a blast to Correa
with boo birds for the next thirteen years. Of Course,
the odds of Corea being in San Francisco all thirteen
years are very slim, slim that that actually happens. Typically,
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what plays out here is you end up playing seven
or eight years and then the last part of that
contract you end up going somewhere else. But that's the
big story. Carlos Korea going to the Hi Contees in
a three hundred and fifty million dollar deal, and we
will enjoy every time the contract comes up and they say, Well,
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I can't believe the giants haven't one day they spent
all this money. I can't figure it out, makes no sense.
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We'll get back to the normal sports chatter. The big
Baseball agreement, Carlos Correa, the cheater going to the stroke
and some of the other nonsense that is taking place.
But our lead this hour coming from the world of
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collegiant football. That's right, collegian football. The rare and appropriate,
rare and appropriate Mallard monologue on college football, but not
really so much about anything going on today, end of
the bowl games or getting going and all that. But
we assume you are aware that you've heard by now,
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but maybe not. Mike Leach, the head coach for the
last few years at Mississippi State in the Southeastern Southern
Fried Football he has died, passed away this week of
complications from a heart condition. Had a heart attack over
the weekend and did not It was not able to
come back from that. Leech suffering that incident on Sunday,
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he was airlifted to a hospital about one hundred and
twenty five miles away from where he was living. And
I just could not do anything to bring him back.
So sixty one years old, I should have been with
us at least another ten fifteen years, at least another ten.
And so Mike Leech leaving this mortal coil here. There
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was a monsoon of tributes and the eulogies that have
poured in to the sporting world. We're late to the party,
but I wanted to spend a few good minutes paying
homage to a coach that I had a chance to
meet a few times over the years when he's at
Washington State in the Pac ten which eventually became the
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Pac twelve and all that. And so while we are
late to the party, it's better to be late to
the party than the nacho up to the party at all.
So please bear with us for a few good minutes.
So let's discuss the question here, what are we going
to remember about Mike Leach, the football coach, not the
winning is coach of all time, didn't set all kinds
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of records. So I've got Somepodico, doctor SEUs, and ocean,
and we'll mix all these things together here and we'll
make a happy, happy story to a good life, a
life well lived. So I will forever hold a special
place in my part for the stockpile of quips and
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wisdom from Mike Leech. Not that I necessarily used any
of it in my life, But doing this job, you
become very jaded, and you hear the same bullcrap over
and over again. Now these are first world problems, but
we've often belly ached over the years that on these microphones,
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the very stale nature of athletic chatter. It's only gotten
worse since I got into the business because of the
corporate attitude towards sports, the amount of money that's in sports.
And it was big when I started, it's even more
ridiculous now. It's ridunculous, is what it is. And so
what ends up happening is nobody wants to say anything
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that's even mildly interesting, because god forbid you do that,
you're gonna get in trouble and you might lose your
seat at the table. So what we get is an endless,
an assembly line of meet head coaches and players stumbling
and mumbling, supplying us with cliches, buzzwords and catchphrases. And
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you can go to sports cliche dot com right now
and get almost verbatim, word for word, a carbon copy
of what will be said before and after and during games.
But Mike Leach was not that guy. He was the
guy that colored outside the lines. He didn't follow the
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normal cliches, the talking points, the things that you're supposed
to say. Don't don't say anything interesting. He wasn't that guy,
Mike Leach was not afraid to do a fifteen minute
improv act at his daily news conferences. He was unprepared, unrehearsed,
and would often shoot from the hip, and who knows
what he was saying he knew about or not, didn't matter.
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But he would also call a spade a spade. He
had this simpatico delivery, this hokey delivery that was relatable,
was endearing, It was chummy, it was every man, It
was pleasant. And I could listen to Mike Leach talk
about everything from pirates to politics, and I found it enchanting.
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I did. I like the way that he approached his
conversation with the media and the fans. Now, another part
of this is how is Mike Leach able to stand
out from the crowd. Well, he obviously spoke differently. He
didn't follow the normal talking points memo that was sent
out for coaches in the sporting world. He followed the
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Doctor Seu's model of life, be yourself, everyone else is taken,
and another Doctor Seus's classic, Oh the places You'll go
and the people you see. And I was reading some
of the eulogies and I knew I thought I knew
a lot about Mike Leach, but there were things in
there that I didn't know about that I would like
to share with the class, and you're in the class,
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or I'd like to share them with you. And when
I was learning more about the life that Mike Leach
lived as a football coach and what I had known
of him since his days at Texas Tech and actually
at Oklahoma and when he was on Bob Stoop staff
at Oklahoma briefly back back in the day. But Mike
Leach in many ways lived a life, a football life
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that was like a Steven Spielberg movie, a football version
of Catch Me if you Can. It's one of my
favorite movies. Frank Abigail Junior. There the guy that allegedly
who knows if it was true or not, but before
the age of twenty one, he conned himself as a pilot.
He was a lawyer, a doctor, he pretended to be
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all these things that made a great movie about it,
that's been books written about it, and he's worked for
the FBI for years because he was supposedly such a
conniving individual. But Mike Leech his life, if you made
a movie about him, he was a pirate, an attorney,
a philosopher, and I've been to a lot of funerals
over the years. I don't like to admit that, but
you know a lot of people I've known over the
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years of passed away, family, friends I've worked with in
the business and whatnot. And there's a song that gets
played at pretty much every funeral. I'm sure when I
die someday, maybe they'll play it at mine and probably
yours too. It's Frank Sinatra's My Way right now, the
nearest you know, the end is near. I faced the
final curtain and he goes on and on. I've lived
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a life that's full. I've traveled each and every highway
and more and much more than this. I did it
my way, right. That was the gist of it. Probably
butcher Dad, but that's the gist of the song. That
was in minute respects Mike Leach here, the guy was
raised in a small town in Wyoming, mostly in Cody, Wyoming.
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Right now, the population in Cody, Wyoming is ten thousand.
It was named after Buffalo Bill Cody. Can you imagine
what the population must have been like when Mike Leach
was a kid. I'm guessing there weren't ten thousand people
in Cody, Wyoming. When Mike Leach was a little boy
growing up and he would go on to BYU. He
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played rugby. He was not a football but he didn't
play college football. Didn't play. He studied college football, he
learned watching BYU football, but he didn't play. He got
a law degree at Pepperdine, which, if you're not familiar,
it's in LA. It's in Malibu, some expensive real estate
there in Malibu, boo. He co authored a book on Geronimo,
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The Indian Leaders Approach to Life. Coached tremendous offensive football
teams at a bunch of Power five Conference schools in
his career. And something I did not know how Mummy,
who is the mentor of Mike Leach, he told the
story that I thought was great, and it summed up
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perfectly what Mike Leach was all about. What a great
promoter Mike Leach was. So he's known Leech for the
air raid offense, which was how Mummy's offense. He helped.
How Mummy come up with that, supposedly the legend of
Mike Leach. Well, how Mummy said, listen they were at
I think it was Valdosta and this small school and
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to get publicity back in those days before the internet,
Mike Leach was like the hype man. He was like
the guy in the corner that was hyping up the boxer.
And so he would send out news releases to major
newspapers to get them to write stories about this amazing offense.
And Mike Leach, knowing how the media operated, realized, well,
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I got to come up with a sexy name because
these newspapers will put it in there. They'll get some
attention because that sells. That's good copy. So he's the one,
according to how Mummy, that cooked up the name the
air Raid offense, and it worked, got a lot of attention.
That helped how Mummy get a better job at Kentucky.
It helped Mike Leach and he had a wonderful run
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as a head coach. Our last thing here, as we
look back at the life and times of the late
Mike Leach, is there a lesson from all this? And
I want to get too deep and poetic on this.
He's just a football coach. After all. We happened to
like sports and so for us it's a big deal.
But is there a lesson? From Mike Leech's life, and
if there is one, it's that he was an Originals
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as we talked about with the doctor SEUs stuff, a
mensch and in a deep blue ocean filled with fish,
he was the mermaid. He was, He was the one
that stood out there. It survived attempts to cancel him
years ago when he was at Texas Tech and he
lost his job because of an assault by Craig James,
who was all upset with what Leech had allegedly done
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with his son. And more recently, more recently, Mike Leech
had sent a joke out when COVID was going on
about husbands and wives, and they attempted to cancel him.
The Woke Army tried to cancel Mike Leach had to
go to some sensitivity training because he sent out a
picture of a noose, which was it was just for
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just what it was like being in cooped up with
married couples who had to be around each other all
the time when when the world was shut down, and
it was just a joke in the Wolkes was of
course have no sense of humor, so they said, oh
my god, that's racist, and Leech had to jump through
hoops and all that. But he kept his head down
through it all. He lived his life and whether it
was talking about Bigfoot or aliens, or cowboys and Indians,
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or Democrats and Republicans, none of it was off limits.
None of it was taboo right up until his premature
departure from our world. And the guy was he was
at football practice. I read on Saturday and essentially for
all intensive purposes, he died on Sunday, although he was
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not pronounced dead until a couple of days later. But
the world is a little less colorful today. Mike Leach
quite dementia. Be sure to catch live editions of The
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they do apply to Koobaloop. After a surprisingly strong start
to the season, the New York Giants are O three
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and one in their last four games. The records too
good to snag a quarterback in the draft, or a
good quarterback at least. Do you think the Daniel Jones
experiment continues for another year? No, there's no way. Right
there were idiots in the New York media that were like,
the Giants have to sign Daniel Jones right now. But
there's a reason they didn't pick up the fifth year option.
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Even the new guys knew that Daniel Jones' career was
like a beast whale stuck in the sand, waiting to
explode from gas, dying on the beach. The Giants, they've
shown they have a little bit of talent. They won
some close games that they were fortunate to win, but
they're not a good team that the offense is twenty
third in the NFL, the defense is ranked twenty six,
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so it's shocking they've won as many games that they have.
So Brian dable, but no, he's gonna go out. He's
gonna get a quarterback that he wants. This is not
the quarterback that he wants. Someone else will be playing
quarterback for the Giants next year. He will not be
named Daniel Jones next. It was reported yesterday that the
Seahawks want to sign Gino Smith to a long term contract,
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but there's a chance that they could be outbid by
another team. Ben, do you think there will be a
bidding war for Gino Smith? Well, Coop, I do not
want to live in a world where there's a bidding
war for Gino Smith. So I'm gonna go no. And
my advice to the Seahawks, and I think this is
wonderful advice if they don't follow this bad job by them,
if the Seahawks are really smitten Seahawks Sea Birds for
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Gino Smith. What you do here is you franchise pag
Gino Smith. Let him do it again, let him run
him back. Let's see Gino go out and play at
the level he's played at this year. He'll make a
ton of money. So he'll make a lot of dough
and you'll make him one of five highest big quarterbacks
in the NFL for next season. And if Tino goes
out and lives up to it again, then at that
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point you sign him to a long term contract. But
there should not be a beating war because until proven otherwise,
as good as Gino has played for Seattle, he's a mirage.
You're not actually sure whether or not you're hallucinating or
you're seeing water otherwise, there's a bunch of other teams
that are fools, all right. Next, With the Cleveland Browns
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not performing as well as expected after the return of
Deshaun Watson, head coach Kevin Stefanski has been getting a
lot of the blame. Stefanski said on Monday that he
doesn't mind the heat, and then it's just part of
the job. Been how much longer will he have that job? Yeah? So,
first of all, Deshaun Watson's clearly going to outlast Kevin
Stefanski at the stone cold lock. The Browns have to
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do everything in their power to squeeze something out of
the creepy quarterback. But it's up in here because it's
like a throwaway year. The Browns and their backup quarterback
playing Everything's clubs been Cleveland. The defense has been humiliating.
The fancy's definitely on the He's on the list of
coaches that couldn't end up out of work this year,
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but only if they can get a bigger name. And
that's the great question. Does anyone want to coach the
Deshaun Watson in Cleveland? That's a tough, tough situation. How
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He didn't get some culinary school. He didn't need to.
He learned recipes from the old country, passed down from
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the generations, and he shares them with you and I
on a weekly basis. The Great Roberto Flores cooking with Burt,
all right, big bad today with Mexican. Some Mexican bunuelos.
All right, this is a traditional dessert this time of year.
Every Mexican household. You'll see these during this time. All right,
very simple stuff. Two cups of purples flour, a teaspoon
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of baking powder, one tables when the sugar half a
teaspoon of salt, one egg, one tables when the butter
melted and already cool. About three four cups of warm water,
one teaspoon of vanilla extract, about two cups of vesta
boil for frying. Add some sugar to sprinkle these bad boys.
All right, sounds good. I like the sugar'd sentiment. Also,
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oh yeah, yes, cinnamon's wonderful, Yes, sir, what a wonderful
Imagine the world without cinnamon. I don't want to live
in a world without tearing. Right, all right, it's great,
very simple, and a large bowl mixed flour, baking powder,
one tablespoon of sugar, and half teaspoon of salt. All right, okay, stuff,
We're gonna form a well in the center and add
the egg, melted butter, and vanilla extract. Mix until the
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mixture resembles a coarse meal. All right, all right, slowly
add the water till us out of time, mixing in, neting,
and netting until you have a soft and smooth dough.
All right, this will take less than fight who doesn't
like it soft? Exactly? All right? The simple It will
take less than five minutes, all right, all right, cover
the dough with a kitchen towel and let it rest
for like for thirty minutes. All right. Okay, Well the
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dough is resting, and prepare your working area with a
rolling pin, a large large dish with paper towel or
open paper bags, extra flour for rolling the circles, a
large frying pan with the vegetable oil ready for them
the moment you can start frying these bad boys. All right,
So we didn't get dirty, they get dirty. You gotta
get those hands dirty. You gotta be a dirty doll,
A dirty doll be a dirty dollars. They get dirty.
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Mamb my mom is to do this, man, she'd be
full of like her her her apron with full of flour.
Get messy man, Yes, all right, all right. Divide the
dough and twelve small small balls and covered heat three
four inches of oil for the for the large frying pan.
All right, you gonna fry those ball It's so good,
delicious fried balls. You can fry through till just buying
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the store fried. But that's disgusting, all right, yeah, it's
not the same. All right. We'll give me the row here,
place one of the place one of the doughballs, and
you're already flower working surface and stretch with their rolling pin.
All right, roll out each ball to form a circle
as thin as possible without breaking the dough. Don't break
the dough, baby, no, please, don't break that. Don't break
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that dough. No dough left behind. All right, get your
hands dirty, don't be scared. All right, to give that
extra stretching to the bunuela placed on the inverted bowl
or claypod, covered with the pastry towel, and pull the
edges very gentle, all right, try to stretch it out
of it. Don't but don't rip that bad boy apart,
all right. Bunola should be thin, almost transparent, all right
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before cooking. Some people like the place to already form
form bunola's over a clean tablecloth and a large table.
Make sure they don't touch each other, all right. This
step will drive the dough. The bunodos will be even
crispier and absorb less oil wall cooking, all right, all right,
almost on here Friday, buniolo's in a very hot oil
until they are golding at crispy. This stamp will take
a few seconds. Place the bunolas on the plate covered
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with paper towels to drain the excess oil. Serve warm
or a room temperature, and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.
All right. Yeah, If you not sprinkle the sugar right away,
they can still be nice and crispy, but for another day,
and just add the sugar at serving time. I do
it all at once, all right, Well, you could do
it at once and then add more later. Epple up
on the sugar. Doctors do not recommend that, Roberto, but
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you can't do it right. You can also enjoy some
hot chocolate or even some ice cream. Baby, yeah, and
just sleep And just like that, you got some authentic
Mexican munuelos. My wife gave me a mixer for my birthday,
So I'm gonna do these bad boys this week. Can
baby so at joy? Now? Normally you tweet out the
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rescue got fired and the doctors haven't done crap. So
you know what made them beyond Twitter? Maybe they'll try
to crying out loud. Be sure to catch live editions
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Here's Ben Maller. A listener over on the Facebook pitch
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emailed me asked if the producers credit will be given
to the Gremlins. Yes, we will be giving the Gremlins
a producer credit tonight on the show. So congratulations to
the Gremlins. Let's play pass word the word Game of
the Stars. Ready to go, right now, we say hello
to our contestants. We have. Let's see here, who do
we have? We have Aaron in Indiana's gonna play Hello. Aaron, welcome,
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good morning. What's up? Ben? Are you doing everything good? Yes?
Very good? All right, let's play the game here. Aaron
you're gonna play, and we also have David in Waterloo
a Waterloo moment. Hello, David, Hey, what's going on? Ben?
There you go? You never heard that one before, right
in Waterloom moment? No oh no, no, God forbid? Yeah?
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All right, well, good, good deal guys. You're gonna play day. David,
what are you up to right now? What are you going?
What are you doing? Just waking up early to listen
to your show? God bless you? All right? And Aaron,
what do you got going on this morning? I'm just
driving to work, all right, doing the old nine to
five thing, or actually earlier than nine. All right, well,
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good luck to you gentlemen. Here we go. Let's play
the game, and let's see. Aaron, who do you want
to partner up with? Well, since you've got keys of
cheating last week, I'm gonna pick you again so we
can prove that, uh we are the best. That's right,
all right? And David, who do you want to partner
up with? David? Um? Who got you is from? Again?
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Let's see you just woke up? You've got let's see here,
bro Blaren Maine, Marcel in Brooklyn or Eddie Roberto or
Coop oh I'm definitely going with Roberto. All right, Roberto,
you're the you're the guy picked. All right, let's play
the game. You're picking number. Aaron, you were on first,
so please pick a number one to ten, number five,
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number five. All right. The clue is let's see here,
let's go with conceal hide. There you go. That's ten points.
We start out with ten points, and we worked our
way down and the next up is David and Waterloo
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with Roberto. David picking number number ten. All right, number ten, Roberto,
that's a hard he's thinking deception, deception, he said, yeah, deception. Shoot,
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I got nothing, all right, the man has nothing. Just
woke up, Aaron. I'm gonna use the Mala maneuver. Aaron.
You ready, yep, here you go, magic trick. Yeah, there
you got nineteen never and we can go and get
hurry up picking number or quickly Aaron, number one number.
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You already got the win. But let's go with Oh,
this is a hard one, actually, yo yo yo. Uh.
I don't know which one. I don't even know what
to do with this one. Let's go with uh article
article with an a article uh story no resus thesis
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thesis all right, oh, paper. The word was essay, but
it doesn't matter. We won the game. No cheating. Take
that gusht. Go back to bed, David, You're very tired.
Go back to bed. I gotta murder, gotta go. I
have nowhere to go. Literally, I have nothing to do.
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story happening not that long before the on air lights
started flashing here in the studio. We got action. We
got action from Major League Baseball. You're saying, wait a minute,
it's mid December. We got football going on, Basketball starts soon,
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Christmas Day will be here. That's when the NBA starts,
and so it's a it's a big time of the year. Well, baseball, baseball.
Baseball has been very very good to me. Another name.
Free agent signing has taken place. An agreement in principle
has been reached. If you have not heard, and the
chances are maybe you're not paying attention, you know, late
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to night, you're doing something else, you get other things
going on. But listen, The Ben Maller Show has confirmed
that forever cheating Astro Carlos Korea a bad Ombre, and
the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a thirteen year,
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three hundred and fifty million dollars contract. It's all done,
the fourth largest contract in total dollar in the history
of professional baseball, which goes back to the eighteen hundreds.
But remember, up until about seventy years ago, baseball players
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didn't make but really nine seventy years, like fifty years ago,
baseball players didn't make any real, real ridiculous money, but
now they do. Only Mike Trout, Moocky, bets errand Judge.
That's it. That's the list of people that have bigger
contracts in total value than this Carrea. So let us
discuss we have big free agent signing. We immediately put
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on our teacher's cap the question what letter grade do
you give Carlos Correa and the Giants on this long
term relationship? So Carlos Correa gets an A plus plus plus.
And let me very clear here on the Giants. And
I'm fair, you know I'm fair. That's why I'm here overnight.
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I'm fair. The San Francisco Giants get in f in
f failure, failure for the Giants, I've got as bestis
esteem and Taylor's shop, and we will combine all of
these things. I'm also going to help out the San
Francisco Giants marketing department as a public service here since
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we are on the terrestrial airwaves there in the Bay Area.
So to lead off here, Carlos Carrea is the face
of corruption in Major League Baseball and he ends up
laughing all the way to the bank. Carrea played the system,
and the system rewarded him. He's a muck, Carlos Correa,
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but we are giving him an A plus plus plus.
You can only give an a plus plus on a
contract like this. Correa is being rewarded for bad behavior,
another feather in the cap of Scott Boris the superagent. Financially,
this is an unbelievable great windfall. Now that being said,
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Carlos Karea did not want to play for the Giants.
Don't mistake this contract being a win for Correa with
this being the team that he wanted to play for.
This is a team that he is willing to play
for because they're meeting his demands. He's not going to
a contender. The Giants are a second division team. He
has no connection to San Francisco, and Correa, who is
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an unapologetic money grubbing baseball mercenary, now puts on the
orange and black of the Giants. There. If Baseball had
a commissioner, if they had a leader in Major League
Baseball with any balls that had a spine, Carlos Correa,
you know what to be doing right now. He would
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be submitting paperwork and say, maybe I can be allowed back,
and I can ask for reinstatement from my lifetime suspension.
But instead of submitting paperwork for a reinstatement from his
lifetime band for cheating, No, no enough, since he wasn't
properly punished or punished at all for his role in
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the cheating scandal with the Stros. Instead he's filling out
paperwork for three hundred and fifty million dollars. But also,
as we learned and we're reminded of when Aaron Judge
got his contract with the Yankees, the big winner in
this not only Carlos Korea, but mister Whiskers the United
States government. The federal tax rate on that contract thirty
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seven percent. That doesn't have anything to do with the
California tax rate, which is insane, the San franciscod taxes
which are ridiculous, but just off the top the United
States government. That's you and I. We don't work for
the government. It's supposed to be a government by the people.
Yeah right. Anyway, the offense will get one hundred and
twenty nine and a half million dollars from Carlos Correa,
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as your favorite politicians will be able to squirrel that
money away and spend it friviously on who God only
knows what all right now furthermo So the giants get
a bad grade, But why do the giants make sense
for karea even with their bad grade? And the way
I respond to that after a minute's long evaluation, Desperate
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times call for desperate measures. The giants had a wad.
They had a giant wad of cash, my big old
water burning a hole in their wallet. And the giants
wrongly assumed the position that they would get the native sun.
The soul caused the no cow slugger would go across
the country right leave the Yankees go across the country
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to northern California, play within a reasonable driving distance to
where he grew up. Aaron Judge, though rejected, rejected the
Higantes to stay in the Bronx. And so the giants
were having a steam issues. They were suffering from low
self esteem, a lack of self worth, just like the
Padres who couldn't get Aaron Judge. So they went out
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and they were they had money burning a hole in
their pocket. They went out on Godxander boguards. But the
giants were humming bars from that that song. Bad decision,
I am making bad decision, And so San Francisco. They
got desperate, and they ended up with one of the
desperadoes of baseball. The Giants get an F minus on
the Mallar scorecard because who exactly were they bidding against?
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I'm just asking, between me and you, who are they
bidding against? Right? The answer hello is nobody. Right. I'm
gonna set up on those little card tables and I'll
put a sign ups change my mind. Let me give
you the supporting evidence on this. Now. Karay is twenty
eight years old. He's got, by my estimation and by science,
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four more years four in his athletic prime. The Giants
are paying him for nine extra years past his use
by date. That means diminishing returns are guaranteed for the
majority of those following nine years after the next four.
And you're always looking for the fool in the deal.
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And when you look for the fool and deal, it's
a simple way to approach this. If you don't find one,
it's you. And when the giants look around for the
fool and the deal, they should look at a mirror
because they're the ones. Right, that would be the giants
in a nutshell, and all of the big whales had
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already been harpooned. They were tapped out. The Dodgers. No,
they wanted nothing to do with this job. Brownie, get
out of here with that guy. He's a mama Luke.
The Red Sox, they're too cheap. The red Last time
I checked, Boston was a big market. But the Red
Sox are penny pitchers, but a bunch of dopes. Then
you got the Yankees, right, you got the Yankees, and
they backed out the Mets. No, although Scott Boris was
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trying to plant the seed, the Mets were interested. They
weren't the Rangers they are. They signed a bunch of
infielders last year. They don't want this bumb so none
of them were interested in this cat. And the Giants
still forked over three fifty million. You get the way
that dud's gap. You get the way the duds gap?
All right, party shot, So taking a couple of steps
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back in a deep breath so we don't hyperventilate. How
can this Carlos career contract work out for San Francisco?
And I've looked at all the different variables here and
the answer is it can't. It's impossible. Right, there are
two strikes against Carlo's career, which makes this mission impossible.
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Carlos Correa is tainted. He's tainted. It's not a bum wrap,
it's not unfairness. He was caught red handed and unpunished,
one of the criminal masterminds, the greatest cheating scandal ever
pulled off in the industrial complex of North American sport
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in the modern era. His fingerprints, his DNA, his blood
all at the crime scene, and Carlos Correa, as a result,
gets to go to the tailor shop and he can
wear a finely embroidered extra patch on his ugly Giants uniform,
the scarlet letter, the badge of shame, and that means
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anything that he accomplishes, any of his teammates accomplished in
a team standpoint, the rest of his career will be
voided by real baseball fans that have integrity, and if
you don't avoid it, you have no integrity. Just like
the twenty twenty two baseball season was the void of
a champion because Jose Albba, Alex Bregman, the Cheeta Cheeta
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Cheeta Cheeta, Ulie Garla races. They were on that team,
so that doesn't count for the Astros. The same punishment
away it's going forward for the Higantes because they have
signed up with this bum. The guy's a bum Carlos career.
Not that the giant will even sniff a division title,
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and they'll have to add a couple more wild cards
for the Giants to get in. It's the Dodgers and
Podres division. The Giants rotation includes Logan Webb, Alex Cobb,
Sean Maniah who they signed this week, Ross Stripling who
they just agreed to a contract with, and Alex Wood.
I see a lot of old Dodger trash that is
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now pitching for the Giants and a lineup. Their big
pickup was Mitch Haniger, who looked done with the Mariners
this year. Brandon Crawford's moving to third base. He batted
in the two thirty range. Jack Peterson's good for like
twenty five home runs and that's about it. And Joey Bart.
I'd rather have the rapid transit system in the Bay
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Area named Bart than Joey Bart and JD. Davis. That's
the Giant lineup, and just be fair here, all we
are goofing on the Giants. The same rule applies to
the Toronto Blue Jays, who have George Springer, cheating astro.
Any team who has the stank of the cheaters is
not authentic. Furthermore, one of the main selling points of
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free agency is likability. He signed someone that your electorate
can get behind. Carlos Carea is a card carrying slimeball.
He's as crooked as a dog's hind legs. This guy
is a low level batman villain. And that's the Giants.
And how wonderful is it? How easy is it going
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to be to sit back and enjoy the boondoggle of
Giant Baseball. But I would like to help out the
Giants marketing department. I imagine they'll buy some billboard space
around northern California to promote their big signing here and
I have the perfect billboard slogan. I hope you're ready
for this. And I know they're listening right now. They're
monitoring this. They all the teams monitor what we say here.
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So instead of the San Francisco treat, Carlo Korea, have
a picture of Korea up there, and you put right
under it the slogan the San Francisco cheat right there,
that's San Francisco cheat Carlos Correa. There you go, boys
and that's a franchise that knows a thing or two
because they've done a thing or two involving cheating. Shout
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out to Barry Bonds in the Balco days, and man
oh man, it's it's great. Rooting for Carlos Correa is
kind of like rooting for Hannibal Lecter in Silence of
the Lambs. Man, is this going to be fun to
watch him fail miserably in San Francisco? And it's great
for the Dodgers and the anybody else who's just as
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integrity that can can boo the hell out of cheating. Yeah, well, okay,
Hecko harass, sports harass. Of course, a blast to Correa
with boo birds for the next thirteen years. Of Course,
the odds of Corea being in San Francisco all thirteen
years are very slim, slim that that actually happens. Typically,
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what plays out here is you end up playing seven
or eight years and then the last part of that
contract you end up going somewhere else. But that's the
big story. Carlos Korea going to the Hi Contees in
a three hundred and fifty million dollar deal, and we
will enjoy every time the contract comes up and they say, Well,
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I can't believe the giants haven't one day they spent
all this money. I can't figure it out, makes no sense.
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is going well with you can't be that bad. You're
locked in here to the radio show. We appreciate that.
We'll get back to the normal sports chatter. The big
Baseball agreement, Carlos Correa, the cheater going to the stroke
and some of the other nonsense that is taking place.
But our lead this hour coming from the world of
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collegiant football. That's right, collegian football. The rare and appropriate,
rare and appropriate Mallard monologue on college football, but not
really so much about anything going on today, end of
the bowl games or getting going and all that. But
we assume you are aware that you've heard by now,
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but maybe not. Mike Leach, the head coach for the
last few years at Mississippi State in the Southeastern Southern
Fried Football he has died, passed away this week of
complications from a heart condition. Had a heart attack over
the weekend and did not It was not able to
come back from that. Leech suffering that incident on Sunday,
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he was airlifted to a hospital about one hundred and
twenty five miles away from where he was living. And
I just could not do anything to bring him back.
So sixty one years old, I should have been with
us at least another ten fifteen years, at least another ten.
And so Mike Leech leaving this mortal coil here. There
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was a monsoon of tributes and the eulogies that have
poured in to the sporting world. We're late to the party,
but I wanted to spend a few good minutes paying
homage to a coach that I had a chance to
meet a few times over the years when he's at
Washington State in the Pac ten which eventually became the
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Pac twelve and all that. And so while we are
late to the party, it's better to be late to
the party than the nacho up to the party at all.
So please bear with us for a few good minutes.
So let's discuss the question here, what are we going
to remember about Mike Leach, the football coach, not the
winning is coach of all time, didn't set all kinds
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of records. So I've got Somepodico, doctor SEUs, and ocean,
and we'll mix all these things together here and we'll
make a happy, happy story to a good life, a
life well lived. So I will forever hold a special
place in my part for the stockpile of quips and
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wisdom from Mike Leech. Not that I necessarily used any
of it in my life, But doing this job, you
become very jaded, and you hear the same bullcrap over
and over again. Now these are first world problems, but
we've often belly ached over the years that on these microphones,
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the very stale nature of athletic chatter. It's only gotten
worse since I got into the business because of the
corporate attitude towards sports, the amount of money that's in sports.
And it was big when I started, it's even more
ridiculous now. It's ridunculous, is what it is. And so
what ends up happening is nobody wants to say anything
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that's even mildly interesting, because god forbid you do that,
you're gonna get in trouble and you might lose your
seat at the table. So what we get is an endless,
an assembly line of meet head coaches and players stumbling
and mumbling, supplying us with cliches, buzzwords and catchphrases. And
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you can go to sports cliche dot com right now
and get almost verbatim, word for word, a carbon copy
of what will be said before and after and during games.
But Mike Leach was not that guy. He was the
guy that colored outside the lines. He didn't follow the
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normal cliches, the talking points, the things that you're supposed
to say. Don't don't say anything interesting. He wasn't that guy,
Mike Leach was not afraid to do a fifteen minute
improv act at his daily news conferences. He was unprepared, unrehearsed,
and would often shoot from the hip, and who knows
what he was saying he knew about or not, didn't matter.
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But he would also call a spade a spade. He
had this simpatico delivery, this hokey delivery that was relatable,
was endearing, It was chummy, it was every man, It
was pleasant. And I could listen to Mike Leach talk
about everything from pirates to politics, and I found it enchanting.
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I did. I like the way that he approached his
conversation with the media and the fans. Now, another part
of this is how is Mike Leach able to stand
out from the crowd. Well, he obviously spoke differently. He
didn't follow the normal talking points memo that was sent
out for coaches in the sporting world. He followed the
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Doctor Seu's model of life, be yourself, everyone else is taken,
and another Doctor Seus's classic, Oh the places You'll go
and the people you see. And I was reading some
of the eulogies and I knew I thought I knew
a lot about Mike Leach, but there were things in
there that I didn't know about that I would like
to share with the class, and you're in the class,
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or I'd like to share them with you. And when
I was learning more about the life that Mike Leach
lived as a football coach and what I had known
of him since his days at Texas Tech and actually
at Oklahoma and when he was on Bob Stoop staff
at Oklahoma briefly back back in the day. But Mike
Leach in many ways lived a life, a football life
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that was like a Steven Spielberg movie, a football version
of Catch Me if you Can. It's one of my
favorite movies. Frank Abigail Junior. There the guy that allegedly
who knows if it was true or not, but before
the age of twenty one, he conned himself as a pilot.
He was a lawyer, a doctor, he pretended to be
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all these things that made a great movie about it,
that's been books written about it, and he's worked for
the FBI for years because he was supposedly such a
conniving individual. But Mike Leech his life, if you made
a movie about him, he was a pirate, an attorney,
a philosopher, and I've been to a lot of funerals
over the years. I don't like to admit that, but
you know a lot of people I've known over the
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years of passed away, family, friends I've worked with in
the business and whatnot. And there's a song that gets
played at pretty much every funeral. I'm sure when I
die someday, maybe they'll play it at mine and probably
yours too. It's Frank Sinatra's My Way right now, the
nearest you know, the end is near. I faced the
final curtain and he goes on and on. I've lived
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a life that's full. I've traveled each and every highway
and more and much more than this. I did it
my way, right. That was the gist of it. Probably
butcher Dad, but that's the gist of the song. That
was in minute respects Mike Leach here, the guy was
raised in a small town in Wyoming, mostly in Cody, Wyoming.
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Right now, the population in Cody, Wyoming is ten thousand.
It was named after Buffalo Bill Cody. Can you imagine
what the population must have been like when Mike Leach
was a kid. I'm guessing there weren't ten thousand people
in Cody, Wyoming. When Mike Leach was a little boy
growing up and he would go on to BYU. He
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played rugby. He was not a football but he didn't
play college football. Didn't play. He studied college football, he
learned watching BYU football, but he didn't play. He got
a law degree at Pepperdine, which, if you're not familiar,
it's in LA. It's in Malibu, some expensive real estate
there in Malibu, boo. He co authored a book on Geronimo,
(24:29):
The Indian Leaders Approach to Life. Coached tremendous offensive football
teams at a bunch of Power five Conference schools in
his career. And something I did not know how Mummy,
who is the mentor of Mike Leach, he told the
story that I thought was great, and it summed up
(24:52):
perfectly what Mike Leach was all about. What a great
promoter Mike Leach was. So he's known Leech for the
air raid offense, which was how Mummy's offense. He helped.
How Mummy come up with that, supposedly the legend of
Mike Leach. Well, how Mummy said, listen they were at
I think it was Valdosta and this small school and
(25:17):
to get publicity back in those days before the internet,
Mike Leach was like the hype man. He was like
the guy in the corner that was hyping up the boxer.
And so he would send out news releases to major
newspapers to get them to write stories about this amazing offense.
And Mike Leach, knowing how the media operated, realized, well,
(25:37):
I got to come up with a sexy name because
these newspapers will put it in there. They'll get some
attention because that sells. That's good copy. So he's the one,
according to how Mummy, that cooked up the name the
air Raid offense, and it worked, got a lot of attention.
That helped how Mummy get a better job at Kentucky.
It helped Mike Leach and he had a wonderful run
(25:59):
as a head coach. Our last thing here, as we
look back at the life and times of the late
Mike Leach, is there a lesson from all this? And
I want to get too deep and poetic on this.
He's just a football coach. After all. We happened to
like sports and so for us it's a big deal.
But is there a lesson? From Mike Leech's life, and
if there is one, it's that he was an Originals
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as we talked about with the doctor SEUs stuff, a
mensch and in a deep blue ocean filled with fish,
he was the mermaid. He was, He was the one
that stood out there. It survived attempts to cancel him
years ago when he was at Texas Tech and he
lost his job because of an assault by Craig James,
who was all upset with what Leech had allegedly done
(26:43):
with his son. And more recently, more recently, Mike Leech
had sent a joke out when COVID was going on
about husbands and wives, and they attempted to cancel him.
The Woke Army tried to cancel Mike Leach had to
go to some sensitivity training because he sent out a
picture of a noose, which was it was just for
(27:05):
just what it was like being in cooped up with
married couples who had to be around each other all
the time when when the world was shut down, and
it was just a joke in the Wolkes was of
course have no sense of humor, so they said, oh
my god, that's racist, and Leech had to jump through
hoops and all that. But he kept his head down
through it all. He lived his life and whether it
was talking about Bigfoot or aliens, or cowboys and Indians,
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or Democrats and Republicans, none of it was off limits.
None of it was taboo right up until his premature
departure from our world. And the guy was he was
at football practice. I read on Saturday and essentially for
all intensive purposes, he died on Sunday, although he was
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not pronounced dead until a couple of days later. But
the world is a little less colorful today. Mike Leach
quite dementia. Be sure to catch live editions of The
Ben Maller Show weekdays at two a. I'm Eastern eleven
pm Pacific. Hey, what's up everybody? It's me three time
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they do apply to Koobaloop. After a surprisingly strong start
to the season, the New York Giants are O three
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and one in their last four games. The records too
good to snag a quarterback in the draft, or a
good quarterback at least. Do you think the Daniel Jones
experiment continues for another year? No, there's no way. Right
there were idiots in the New York media that were like,
the Giants have to sign Daniel Jones right now. But
there's a reason they didn't pick up the fifth year option.
(29:39):
Even the new guys knew that Daniel Jones' career was
like a beast whale stuck in the sand, waiting to
explode from gas, dying on the beach. The Giants, they've
shown they have a little bit of talent. They won
some close games that they were fortunate to win, but
they're not a good team that the offense is twenty
third in the NFL, the defense is ranked twenty six,
(30:02):
so it's shocking they've won as many games that they have.
So Brian dable, but no, he's gonna go out. He's
gonna get a quarterback that he wants. This is not
the quarterback that he wants. Someone else will be playing
quarterback for the Giants next year. He will not be
named Daniel Jones next. It was reported yesterday that the
Seahawks want to sign Gino Smith to a long term contract,
(30:24):
but there's a chance that they could be outbid by
another team. Ben, do you think there will be a
bidding war for Gino Smith? Well, Coop, I do not
want to live in a world where there's a bidding
war for Gino Smith. So I'm gonna go no. And
my advice to the Seahawks, and I think this is
wonderful advice if they don't follow this bad job by them,
if the Seahawks are really smitten Seahawks Sea Birds for
(30:45):
Gino Smith. What you do here is you franchise pag
Gino Smith. Let him do it again, let him run
him back. Let's see Gino go out and play at
the level he's played at this year. He'll make a
ton of money. So he'll make a lot of dough
and you'll make him one of five highest big quarterbacks
in the NFL for next season. And if Tino goes
out and lives up to it again, then at that
(31:07):
point you sign him to a long term contract. But
there should not be a beating war because until proven otherwise,
as good as Gino has played for Seattle, he's a mirage.
You're not actually sure whether or not you're hallucinating or
you're seeing water otherwise, there's a bunch of other teams
that are fools, all right. Next, With the Cleveland Browns
(31:29):
not performing as well as expected after the return of
Deshaun Watson, head coach Kevin Stefanski has been getting a
lot of the blame. Stefanski said on Monday that he
doesn't mind the heat, and then it's just part of
the job. Been how much longer will he have that job? Yeah? So,
first of all, Deshaun Watson's clearly going to outlast Kevin
Stefanski at the stone cold lock. The Browns have to
(31:51):
do everything in their power to squeeze something out of
the creepy quarterback. But it's up in here because it's
like a throwaway year. The Browns and their backup quarterback
playing Everything's clubs been Cleveland. The defense has been humiliating.
The fancy's definitely on the He's on the list of
coaches that couldn't end up out of work this year,
(32:11):
but only if they can get a bigger name. And
that's the great question. Does anyone want to coach the
Deshaun Watson in Cleveland? That's a tough, tough situation. How
did we do cooo? He passed this edition? I wad
the weird connection. I still bad. Fox Sports Radio has
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and we've passed the microphones over to a self made man.
He didn't get some culinary school. He didn't need to.
He learned recipes from the old country, passed down from
(32:52):
the generations, and he shares them with you and I
on a weekly basis. The Great Roberto Flores cooking with Burt,
all right, big bad today with Mexican. Some Mexican bunuelos.
All right, this is a traditional dessert this time of year.
Every Mexican household. You'll see these during this time. All right,
very simple stuff. Two cups of purples flour, a teaspoon
(33:14):
of baking powder, one tables when the sugar half a
teaspoon of salt, one egg, one tables when the butter
melted and already cool. About three four cups of warm water,
one teaspoon of vanilla extract, about two cups of vesta
boil for frying. Add some sugar to sprinkle these bad boys.
All right, sounds good. I like the sugar'd sentiment. Also,
(33:34):
oh yeah, yes, cinnamon's wonderful, Yes, sir, what a wonderful
Imagine the world without cinnamon. I don't want to live
in a world without tearing. Right, all right, it's great,
very simple, and a large bowl mixed flour, baking powder,
one tablespoon of sugar, and half teaspoon of salt. All right, okay, stuff,
We're gonna form a well in the center and add
the egg, melted butter, and vanilla extract. Mix until the
(33:57):
mixture resembles a coarse meal. All right, all right, slowly
add the water till us out of time, mixing in, neting,
and netting until you have a soft and smooth dough.
All right, this will take less than fight who doesn't
like it soft? Exactly? All right? The simple It will
take less than five minutes, all right, all right, cover
the dough with a kitchen towel and let it rest
for like for thirty minutes. All right. Okay, Well the
(34:20):
dough is resting, and prepare your working area with a
rolling pin, a large large dish with paper towel or
open paper bags, extra flour for rolling the circles, a
large frying pan with the vegetable oil ready for them
the moment you can start frying these bad boys. All right,
So we didn't get dirty, they get dirty. You gotta
get those hands dirty. You gotta be a dirty doll,
A dirty doll be a dirty dollars. They get dirty.
(34:41):
Mamb my mom is to do this, man, she'd be
full of like her her her apron with full of flour.
Get messy man, Yes, all right, all right. Divide the
dough and twelve small small balls and covered heat three
four inches of oil for the for the large frying pan.
All right, you gonna fry those ball It's so good,
delicious fried balls. You can fry through till just buying
(35:02):
the store fried. But that's disgusting, all right, yeah, it's
not the same. All right. We'll give me the row here,
place one of the place one of the doughballs, and
you're already flower working surface and stretch with their rolling pin.
All right, roll out each ball to form a circle
as thin as possible without breaking the dough. Don't break
the dough, baby, no, please, don't break that. Don't break
(35:23):
that dough. No dough left behind. All right, get your
hands dirty, don't be scared. All right, to give that
extra stretching to the bunuela placed on the inverted bowl
or claypod, covered with the pastry towel, and pull the
edges very gentle, all right, try to stretch it out
of it. Don't but don't rip that bad boy apart,
all right. Bunola should be thin, almost transparent, all right
(35:44):
before cooking. Some people like the place to already form
form bunola's over a clean tablecloth and a large table.
Make sure they don't touch each other, all right. This
step will drive the dough. The bunodos will be even
crispier and absorb less oil wall cooking, all right, all right,
almost on here Friday, buniolo's in a very hot oil
until they are golding at crispy. This stamp will take
a few seconds. Place the bunolas on the plate covered
(36:06):
with paper towels to drain the excess oil. Serve warm
or a room temperature, and sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon.
All right. Yeah, If you not sprinkle the sugar right away,
they can still be nice and crispy, but for another day,
and just add the sugar at serving time. I do
it all at once, all right, Well, you could do
it at once and then add more later. Epple up
on the sugar. Doctors do not recommend that, Roberto, but
(36:26):
you can't do it right. You can also enjoy some
hot chocolate or even some ice cream. Baby, yeah, and
just sleep And just like that, you got some authentic
Mexican munuelos. My wife gave me a mixer for my birthday,
So I'm gonna do these bad boys this week. Can
baby so at joy? Now? Normally you tweet out the
(36:47):
rescue got fired and the doctors haven't done crap. So
you know what made them beyond Twitter? Maybe they'll try
to crying out loud. Be sure to catch live editions
of The Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am Eastern
eleven pm Pacific. Password the word Game of the Stars.
Here's Ben Maller. A listener over on the Facebook pitch
(37:10):
emailed me asked if the producers credit will be given
to the Gremlins. Yes, we will be giving the Gremlins
a producer credit tonight on the show. So congratulations to
the Gremlins. Let's play pass word the word Game of
the Stars. Ready to go, right now, we say hello
to our contestants. We have. Let's see here, who do
we have? We have Aaron in Indiana's gonna play Hello. Aaron, welcome,
(37:32):
good morning. What's up? Ben? Are you doing everything good? Yes?
Very good? All right, let's play the game here. Aaron
you're gonna play, and we also have David in Waterloo
a Waterloo moment. Hello, David, Hey, what's going on? Ben?
There you go? You never heard that one before, right
in Waterloom moment? No oh no, no, God forbid? Yeah?
(37:54):
All right, well, good, good deal guys. You're gonna play day. David,
what are you up to right now? What are you going?
What are you doing? Just waking up early to listen
to your show? God bless you? All right? And Aaron,
what do you got going on this morning? I'm just
driving to work, all right, doing the old nine to
five thing, or actually earlier than nine. All right, well,
(38:15):
good luck to you gentlemen. Here we go. Let's play
the game, and let's see. Aaron, who do you want
to partner up with? Well, since you've got keys of
cheating last week, I'm gonna pick you again so we
can prove that, uh we are the best. That's right,
all right? And David, who do you want to partner
up with? David? Um? Who got you is from? Again?
(38:36):
Let's see you just woke up? You've got let's see here,
bro Blaren Maine, Marcel in Brooklyn or Eddie Roberto or
Coop oh I'm definitely going with Roberto. All right, Roberto,
you're the you're the guy picked. All right, let's play
the game. You're picking number. Aaron, you were on first,
so please pick a number one to ten, number five,
(39:00):
number five. All right. The clue is let's see here,
let's go with conceal hide. There you go. That's ten points.
We start out with ten points, and we worked our
way down and the next up is David and Waterloo
(39:23):
with Roberto. David picking number number ten. All right, number ten, Roberto,
that's a hard he's thinking deception, deception, he said, yeah, deception. Shoot,
(39:51):
I got nothing, all right, the man has nothing. Just
woke up, Aaron. I'm gonna use the Mala maneuver. Aaron.
You ready, yep, here you go, magic trick. Yeah, there
you got nineteen never and we can go and get
hurry up picking number or quickly Aaron, number one number.
(40:16):
You already got the win. But let's go with Oh,
this is a hard one, actually, yo yo yo. Uh.
I don't know which one. I don't even know what
to do with this one. Let's go with uh article
article with an a article uh story no resus thesis
(40:41):
thesis all right, oh, paper. The word was essay, but
it doesn't matter. We won the game. No cheating. Take
that gusht. Go back to bed, David, You're very tired.
Go back to bed. I gotta murder, gotta go. I
have nowhere to go. Literally, I have nothing to do.
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Ben Maller
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