December 27, 2022 • 37 mins
Ben Maller talks about Tua Tagovailoa getting put back into concussion protocol for the Miami Dophins, pundits advising Tua to retire from the NFL, Cite the Bite, and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our nab ber four hour four
of our radio program and headlines at a South beach,
the Dolphins playoff run as a flat tire to a
hurt in Miami. What do you make of the pundance
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advising to a tongue of Byeloa to retire as he
has another concussion. We'll talk about that storyline. How should
tah handle his latest medical malady? And why are social
media detectives better at finding concussions than the NFL hired
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eye in the sky. We talk about that and much
more here. It is our number four. Have a great
rest of your week. At a reminder, we will have
the podcast this weekend, the fifth Hour podcast. We'll have
a Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and I'll be back next
week with brand new shows in twenty twenty three. Have
a great New Year's stay safe here. It is our
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number four. Not all right in dolphin land. Well come
in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller Show.
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Coming from South Florida, fresh off of a debacle of
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a performance against the Packers, the Dolphins are yet again
worthy of the Mallard monologue treatment. Now why is that
if you have not been paying attention, if you let
your guard down because of the holiday's bad job by you,
and you might have missed it. The news came out,
we learned that dolphin quarterback to a tongue of buy Loa,
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who burst onto the scene this year as an MVP candidate,
then faded over the last month. That two, a tongue
of bay Loah has made a return appearance in the
concussion protocol What Wall after being eviscerated in the second
half against the Packers on Sunday. Dolphin head coach Mike McDaniel,
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not looking like such a genius lately, announced on Monday
that tongue of Iloa would would be going straight into
the protocol and they're gonna put him on time out,
putting his status in doubt for the game against the
Patriots coming up this weekend in the Commonwealth is the
Dolphins try to figure out what's going on with Tua
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and also advanced to the playoffs. The Dolphins claim that
they are not sure when the injury happened. They don't
even know when the concussion happened, McDaniel telling the media
that nobody recognized anything in terms of a concussion. It's
not like it was obvious the way it was in
Cincinnati that Thursday night game when we learned about the
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fencing position. When you have a traumatic brain injury, you
get into the fencing position that your brain resets the
like you were. Toddler didn't know that before that went
down back in Cincinnati, But nothing like that happened in
this game. At least it was an obvious and so
it was something where to a met with the doctors
and they discussed the symptoms, and that's how that went down.
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So this has led now to what the media reaction
machine bouncing around the echo chamber, and many prominent media
figures calling for to a tongue of Byela to step
away from the NFL, some going as far as to
say he must retire, he should never play again, that
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this is a career and the injury. The doomsdays are saying,
all right, so let us discuss the question. Let's talk
about that part of the story first. So what do
you make of very prominent people in the sports media
who are now publicly advising to a tongue of Byeloa
to retire from the NFL based on this latest concussion.
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So I've got applause, chessboard, and mathematical truth, and we
will combine all of these things together and then we're
gonna shut up. But we're gonna make the babaganos before
we shut him. So to kick off, I would file
the media part of this story the shutter down. It's
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not worth it, go sell insurance crowd. That is a
de ja vo situation, and I'm not talking about the
gentleman's club. It is a byproduct of the social media
age that we live in. You get cloud points online
for these kind of sanctimonious statements. And what happens is
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you have the orchestra, Strike up the band, strike up
the band. Na la la, la, la la la. You've
got armchair psychologists, You've got social media therapist brain experts
trained on Twitter who have come crawling out from behind
the refrigerator, and they have all the answers. And what
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I have witnessed here over the last not even twenty
four hours less than that is a public urination situation
which will make our friend Doc Mike very happy. But
everyone and their mother is trying to one up each
other with these holier than thou decrees, the tabernacle of
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sports chatter over the top with self righteous media figures
tossing out all kinds of gibberish about what to us
should do in terms of retirement. And my theory on this,
I'm want to run this by you, is my theory
that many of these people, not at all, but many
of them are looking to gain prestige status on these
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social networks. And it's a way to grab the Twitter
applause when you say that I'm so concerned about two
how concerned them? I am so concerned. I want him
to retire. You get the proverbial standing ovation, the Bravo,
you get the Bravo, and you get the chefs kiss,
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everyone say, oh, you're such a You're so good, You're
so good, A good ay, how great you are you?
You're such a better person. I don't see it that way. Now, furthermore,
let's let's talk like reasonable human beings. How should to
a tongue of Eloah handle the latest concussion puffery? Aside,
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Tah is an adult, he's a young adult. He's in
his early twenties. So he's going to be given a
diagnosis by the medical professionals. They will have recommendations on
how to handle this at that particular point. It's like
sitting in front of a chessboard. It's your move, to Ah,
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it's your move, and tongue of Eloah will have to
do what's in his best interest for him and his family,
and it's not gonna be what some wokester in sports
media is telling him to do. Ultimately, he should do
what's in his best interest. Now. I anticipate that he'll
be cleared event you know, the next couple of weeks,
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Probably not this week, they'll give him the game off
and then he'll want to play, and it's it's his
decision at that point whether he wants to play. I
think he will, but that that's ultimately his call. And
it's going to lead to pro clutching from the usual suspects.
And the NFL is a high paying job. You push
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things further the more money you make. And two us
on a rookie contract to great rookie contract thirty million
dollars over thirty million, nineteen and a half million. He's
already banked in the signing bonus. He's playing for a
second contract. Now, the concussion does throw a turn in
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the punch bowl. It throws another variable in the mix,
because not only do you have questions about Tua as
a performer the last month, he's fallen apart, he's run
out of gas here, but you also have the fragility,
the fragile nature of Tuah and that becomes a factor
that you're going to have to overcome in a long
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term negotiation. All right, now, parting shot the Dolphins, Let's
talk about the Komodo dragon the room. The Dolphins claimed
they did not know when Tua suffered the concussion. The
head coach said that. Coach McDaniel said that, however, internet investigators,
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internet sluice, we're able to pinpoint what they believe happened.
It was late in the second quarter before halftime, and
Tah's head fell back and hit the ground rather hard,
and that's the clip that many people have said, that's it,
That's when it happened. So the question here is why
are the social media detectives better at finding concussions it
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would appear than the NFL. I in the sky, and
the NFL has multiple people at these games that are
there to monitor concussion. So I have some thoughts on
this that this is a simple arithmetic problem, that it's
it's multiplication on the side of the public. And I
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think we can agree on this that you have hundreds,
if not thousands, of ego eyed hall monitors who are
watching these games observing any improprieties that pop up, versus
the NFL, who employs one or two people at a game,
who's on the payroll, whose job is to keep track
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of this stuff, who may or may not be eating
some nachos with that gooey orange cheese on top, or
pretzels or peanuts or candy and maybe watching with half
an eye at the time the injury goes down. But
never let a mathematical truth get in the way of
the narrative. And as we have preached in previous shows
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from the bully pulpit that we happen to sit on here,
the NFL is a collision sport. It will always be
a collision sport played the way it's played currently, in
the way it always has been played. It is cousins first,
cousins with sports like rugby and roller derby and lacrosse
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and ice hockey. The meat and potatoes, the meat and
potatoes for Tua tongue of Viola and all these other
football players is you know going in that you're going
to get dinged up, You're gonna get your bell wrong.
You know that going in, that's what you sign up for.
There's there's a exchange, a quid pro quo that you're
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getting paid a ridiculous amount of money to play the game.
You know you're gonna get beat up while playing the game.
And there's also only so much that can be done
to minimize the risk. That most things are reactive. They're
not proactive, meaning that once you get the concussion, they're
supposed to take you out of the game, but they
can't prevent the concussion, so you're gonna be tackled, and
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it is a two way straight Like you're supposed to
in theory come out of the game if you have
a concussion and you're supposed to go into the injury tent,
many players want to keep going and they want to
try to work around the concussion, so that becomes a
factor as well. Where if it's obvious, where if you're
laying on the field and they have to take your
helmet off, well that's one way to have a concussion.
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But as oftentimes you get these concussions and they're somewhat
minor and you feel like you can play through it.
And obviously Ta based on the video, thought he could
play without missing a beat and turned out that was
not the case. But it goes back to the fact
that everyone has a price and you have to decide
how many hits you're willing to take that price point
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before you don't want any part of it anymore. And
that's the decision that two is making right now, and
other people who play the sport of football are gonna
have to make. But the idea that because some talking
head on televisions like you gotta retires, not safe if
I need those online applause help me out, Like no,
come on now, you're gonna base it off what you here.
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You know, they don't know. These idiots don't know your
individual situation and how bad it is, or maybe it's
it's not as bad. So it's up to other people
who are medical professionals to decide. It is the Bannet
Mallers Show, as we roll on through the overnight, we'll
take your calls here at eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. The lines are open, fill them up right now.
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Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We have Site
to Bite. The Great Sports Radio Mystery coming up a
little bit later, and an interesting wrinkle has been tossed
into the Great Baseball Ope Opera, which is playing out
over the Christmas Holidays. It is being whispered that there's
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one giant problem aside from the injury chart that has
popped up in the New York Mets drama O rama
with Carlos Kreg Did you hear what the problem is?
It's not a medical problem. There's something else going on
with the cheating stro what is it? Well, you are
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gonna find out. We will get to that, and we
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So check that out later this hour for your dining
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Sports Radio mystery Problems problems not medical related to the
big soap opera of the baseball offseason. We'll get to
that coming up in a minute. Robin Vegas right since
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there's another great year of shows. Fellas the pleasure has
been all all years. I'm sure yes, that is correct. Rob,
Happy holidays, blah blah blah says there, stay safe, look
forward to hearing all of you again in twenty twenty three.
Ferd Dog says the NFL, thank you. Rob. Fergduck says
the NFL better be very careful with TUA. The world
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cannot take another concussion movie starring Will Smith would not
be right. We'd be terrible. Alf the Alien opineer says,
thank you for another year of great radio. Cannot wait
for twenty twenty three when the FSR management nominates you
for the well deserved Marconi Award. I'm sure that's that's
right around the corner of their alf. Unless it's not.
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We're gonna find some other awards that management cannot nominate
me for. That's the that's the key, because I don't
think that's gonna gonna have. Let's take some calls, though,
we will take some calls. My boards being resent right now.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Let's say hello
to Doc Mike, who's in the Grand Canyon State. Hello Doc, Well,
surely no, it's Doc Mike. Hello, doctor, Yeah, Brian played
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that urine is for Karen video or what do you
call it? A little diddy? Well, he was backing you
up the other night. Have you heard that yet? Yeah?
Have you convinced Brian not for twenty years? Have I commission? Well?
I don't know. You know, billions of people around the
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world have been drinking it for years, so everybody's jumping out.
I got a message. I got a message from a
very prominent member in the mall Or militia who sent
me a message wondering if you were in Colorado. Queen Rocks,
and she was driving around she spotted a vehicle that
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had a pro urine bumper sticker on the car, and
she thought maybe it was maybe it was you. But
as you pointed out, Doc, I wrote back to I
put it. I told her this that when you booked
the guests about urine therapy, that guy lived in Colorado. Correct,
that's correct? Yeah, Yeah, that's a very pro year stale.
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You know. You know, my thing over here in Phoenix
is guns, girls and golf. And over the weekend I
met twenty eight year pro twenty eight year old pro
height golf with him yesterday. Yeah, golf at the TPC
here in Phoenix, Okay, And Thursday we're going to play
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around the golf and he's going to be playing in
the Phoenix Open hopefully. Now is this the new Ecuador
doctor used to go to? Use for years? You went
to Ecuador and then COVID happened, you stopped going. Are
you now going to go to Arizona? Is this going
to be your winter getaway every year? Very possibly? They
loved me over here. I've got new patients, there's families
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here that I'm working with. I started in Tucson but
wound up over here in Phoenix. And I'm going to
New Mexico for New Year's Oh. I can't think of
a better state to celebrate New Year's I mean that
is am I, Roberto, I wrong, New Mexico. When you
think New Year's Eve bash, that is the state to
go to. So much going on there, so amazing, And
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that's where they tested the nuclear bombs back in the day. Doc, Hey,
I'm going to I'm going to come down. Yeah, yes, doc, Yeah,
I'm right here. Go ahead, all right, you want to
take a call? Sure, Oh yeah, let's ask a doc?
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Why not? All right, let's sell let's go to Steve
in Kansas City. Steve, we're on with Doc Mike. Hello, Hey, Doc,
good evening, the middle of the night. Doc, how can
you say good evening? What's wrong with you? My question is, um,
I've got a dehydration problem. How many courts of urine
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do I need to put in my girlfriend's mouth to? Okay,
all describe call before you recognize that guy's voice. That
everyone's a jokester here, Doc, everyone's got jokes for you.
I know. Well, it's very serious subject, Doc. I mean,
you've been doing this. You look like you're thirty five
years old. You're you're twice that, and you're still going here.
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It's amazing. I've been drinking my earin since nineteen sixty five.
It saved my life. You haven't drinking my earin for
twenty years, longer than I've been alive. Doc Mike has
been participating in this. It's amazing. Yeah, you were in
diapers when I started drinking my ear even in diapers. Alright,
hold on a second, Doc one. No, Well, if anybody called,
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I don't know Coop. Coop's gonna be the judge of that.
Let's go to the Black Irishman though, who's in Omaha?
And he is next he's back as the Black Irishman.
He had changed his name, but he's back to He
did one of those tests and he found out that
he's he's a black Irishman. Hello, Black Irishman. Hey, you're
you're funny man? Yeah, mister mister Mallet, Yeah, what's up?
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Whatever you ever thought about being a stand up comic? Man? No,
I like to sit down. No, anyway, we don't tell
you man. Giants man, No, those those giants, man, they've
runed it. Mister day Ball man. I thought they're gonna
win their game. Look, I think the Giant How about this?
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The Giants cannot win another game and still make the playoffs?
About that one? No, I remember day Ball I told
you man back in the day, he sucked and so
and so that. Brady Quinn. I apologize to saying that.
But what's wrong with you? You can't talk like that?
Did you hear what the caller said one when they
said hello to Doc Mike? It was terrible. It's horrible.
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The Giants are eight The Giants are eight and six.
There's two weeks to go in the season, and there's
a bunch of seven win teams, a lot of them
play each other. But there's a scenario where the Giants
don't have to win another game that they can. They
can absolutely stink it up these last couple of weeks. Still,
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despite not even winning a game to close out the year,
they could end up making they play the Colts in
the years now. If you can't beat the Colts, do
you really deserve to make the playoffs. But there is
a scenario where the Giants lose those last two games
and end up losing six of their last eight games,
go one, six and one, and still make the playoffs
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to close the year. I was on the New York
teams Man, I'm gonna get off the band wagon of
New York Giants. Don't win this week, I'm off the
band You hear that, New York Giants, if you do
not win, you're gonna lose The Black Irishman enturprise man
the New York teams Man, did that? Good? Come Thanksgiving? Anyway? Yeah?
But one more thing, then we don't tell you even
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you tell me you got to start man like Steve
Steven smith Man didn he uh when you call in
on radios, I'll do Smith Stephen A. Smith. Did he
call in the shows? Now? I don't believe he called
in the radio show. I don't know. Maybe he did
when he was a kid. But he worked at Fox
Sports Radio before he blew up. He was a writer
in Philadelphia and he was one of the weekend hosts
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here at Fox Sports Radio. And Skip Bayless also worked
at Fox Sports Radio. He was a near a contributor
and he's a writer from Dallas, and he was the
like the cowboy expert and all that stuff. And then
he went off. I know what I'm say, man. Sometimes man,
because when I was in the Navy, I used had
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to do eighteen hour days. But then I had to
wake up in the middle of the night and do
a guard duty. So so the military taught me how
to stay up all night. Well, I'd like to thank
the military for you. What are you doing for New
Year's Black Irishman? Big plans? There? Nobody never Ain't nobody
told me Happy New Year's, Mary Christmen or none of that.
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Oh all right, well, let me cover every Let me
covers Merry Christmas, Happy Honka, Happy New Year, Happy Valentine's Day,
Happy July fourth, Happy Thanksgiving. I want to cover every
holiday in twenty twenty three, every major holiday. Happy President's Day? Congratulation?
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Are you cool? All right? Be good manne I gotta
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down by fourteen with three and a half minutes to
go in Detroit rally. Back beat the Pistons one two one.
You want a fun factor in that, so they just
stat's been bouncing. Okay, glahead, you said you were not interested.
I'm not, but I know you are, so glad. I
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know you. I know more I know you want to
go ahead. I want you to be into the city.
Pretend it's make believe that he can you pretend like
you're interested in Come on, man, entering, Might hear a
fun fact about the Clipper game Thank you? Entering Monday
NBA teams who were in the situation the Clippers were
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in trailing by fourteen or more points with three minutes
remaining in the game. This goes back to nineteen ninety six.
Their record was two and twelve thousand, eight hundred and
seventy three. The Clippers were oh and four hundred and
seventeen in that scenario, and now they won their first
Wow you always wow bro. Thank you was so fun
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Clipper propaganda right there, Clippers, I've not heard from Clipper
dof to check it out, break find out what's going on.
I hope he hires. Who's that billboard lawyer we see
all the time there? Sweet James? Sweet James? Yeah, hire,
sweet James. Well, I love this story? Is that punk?
That cheating scumbag? Carlos? Correct? Well, Eddie, you're the you
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want to get started with that, Eddie because we can
go down that road if you want. Please anyway, Uh,
Carlos Correa, who had a deal with the Giants, and
then the Giants gave him a physical and said, wait
a minute, you are really effed up. I can't give
you this contract. What I mean, that's a terrible deal
because you're you're not gonna make it through the contract.
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And so then he left, and then the Mets were like, oh, yeah,
this is what a great situation for us. We're gonna
get this guy. Well, now there's a there's a there's
a buzz because the Mets deals on ice right now,
not done, but it's on ice. They're in a whole
holding pattern because the Mets are like, wait a minute,
we agree with the Giants. The Mets doctors are like,
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this is so messed up that you're you're a scumbag,
and you're an injured scumbag. So the chatter was the
Mets were like, okay, listen, we can't give you that
twelve year, three hundred and fifteen million dollar contract, but
why don't we restructure the contract and then we'll work
out something more reasonable. Because of our injury concerns, we're
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not confident that you will be stable over the long
term of the contract. And so before we make it official,
let's just redo the deal. Well, we're hearing that. Carlos
Correa is like, screw you. I'm not giving you a
dollar back, not a dime back. I want the deal
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you said you were gonna give me because I'm a
punk if you and I'm a loser. Yeah, that's the
a hole right there, that's the ass one month in
two one thousand. Hold. These are the kind of people
you cheer against in sports. These are bad actors, all right,
bad actors. Uh, Carlos Correa and I hope a team
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in Afghanistan offers him four hundred million dollars and he
goes and plays there. Maybe he can go to Dubai
and play there and we can say bye bye, enjoy
Dubai just like that. So the problem is that, yes,
we're baseball expert our man, he's our insider. We're gonna
lose him to the athletic in twenty twenty three. He's
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gonna replace Ken Rosenthal. If the athletic problem. The problem
is that I think you said as before that these
long with these long contracts, uh, these these uh, these
teams get obviously they have insurance right in case, like, yes,
players get hurt and Lloyd's of Lund and there. Yeah,
and they're they're covered, right, So obviously the insurance is
not gonna cover We're not gonna cover the Giants. And
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now obviously the insurance is not gonna cover the mets
On with this contract, right because of the of the
of the of the medicals. So that problem. Yeah, so
the content he's not gonna find the contract that's gonna
come is gonna cover. It's certainly not gonna be twelve years. Yeah,
it would seemingly mean maybe six or seven you can
get away with and the team with the Yeah, but
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I think the insurance still not gonna cover the seven.
The team will will pay like like five or seven years, right, yeah, yeah,
And again, I mean we've talked about this, but these
long term contracts. People in baseball I've talked to who
I know, have told me over the years that these
they know, these are lost leaders. And you got to
look at him. A ten year contracts really a five
year contract. You're paying double the salary because you know
you're not gonna get much the backside of the contract.
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They know that going in there, they assume the player
is gonna be great. The first part of the contract
and the last part, whatever they get, this is great.
He's not gonna get the contract, so good and vert God,
I might have to. I might have to do an
emergency show if the year falls apart. I might have to.
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I might have to do an emergency if it happens
while while I'm away, I might have to step on
the Cohen not a dummy, Right, He's where he is
because he's a smart guy and he knows that been
able to work Wall Street. Yeah, when it comes to finances,
he's he's a smart man. But it's just I suppose it,
like a neck and neck fifty fifty proposition, that Corea
and the Mets deal falls apart. And you know, you know, Roberto,
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that this is a legitimate possibility because Corea's camp floated
the rumor that other teams have contacted Correy. So you're
telling me, Wait a minute, So you're telling me trying
to work. Yeah, he's trying to get another team. So
if the Giants said, hey, we don't want anything to
do with you, and then the Mets all if they
also say that, you're telling me there's a third sucker
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out of the thirty major league teams that is gonna
line up and sign that player to that kind of contract.
I mean jeez. Anyway, all right, that's the latest on
the Carlos Carea story that we are we are monitoring,
all right. For the final time. In twenty twenty two,
let's go to wins Her, Ontario, Canada, and we cowboy
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up on the Ben Matler Show. Cowboy John Brad a
fine Anadian lad. Okay, Well, I hope everybody had a
great Christmas. And clip Pepino Quavers the former World Monkley
Association Worlder Right Champions sixty five today and Unco thirty
nine years ago today. Walter Scott, who was the lead
(31:25):
singer of Bob Kuban in the End and who had
a big hit called The Cheater back in nineteen sixty five,
was murdered by his wife's boyfriend and stuffed down the
sister and of their home. In the case of wife
and dating hard but the boyfriend's been I don't died
in prison. The wife got a prison term. She you know,
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she died I guess years later after Yes, that was
two days before Dennis Wilson and Beach Boys drowned off
the Barrata Delray, which was December twenty ninth, nineteen eighty
three and first yesterday one hundred nine, Yes, one hundred
and fourteen years ago, yesterday, Jack Johnson became the first
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black heavyweight champion by beating a hand over Ontario's Tommy
Burns and by a fourteenth round knockoff. Of course, our
prime minister was a fifty one on Sunday, and Larry's
uncle Okay, Larry Sonka and Jimmy Buffett were seventy six
on Christmas Day. And I'll pick to people to morrow
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tomorrow morning. Remember you've got to be a boy to
your cowboy will buy all right? There he goes cowboy
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all believers? Our longest tenured caller at Fox Sports Radio
Cowboy Genre with a winking or eye to Doc Mike
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Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. It's time now to sit
Site to bite tite where we play random generic sound bites,
you know, in a sports and entertainment cliche spoken by
so called experts. You try to tell us who's doing
the talking, and it is psychified the great sports radio misters.
(33:58):
Watching some videos from that blizzard in Buffalos. I was
in Buffalo years ago and I saw some of the
places I went. It's wild man anyway, all right, Site
to bite the great sports radio mystery. This is where
we play an audio byte from someone in this world
of sports the last seven to ten days, and then
see if anyone can get it right. And let's go
to the audio tape. Hit that button right there, Roberto.
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That's all you can do. That's all you can do,
all right, someone from the world of sports the last
seven to ten days? Will anyone get this right? I
will go call her number five. I'm gonna go call
her number five. What about you, Eddie? Nobody will get it?
Kobalou calment five, all right, Roberto, Nobody, Navian, nobody, nobody.
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Play it again, Roberto. That's all you can do. That's
all you can do. All right. Let's start out on
the international line. We'll have a couple of guests. We'll
have guesses, and then after every two incorrect guesses, we'll
give you a clue. We'll start out on the international line.
Our friend Butch in Germany. Hello, Butch on the autoban. Hello,
what's going on? Buch? What's the answer, Russell Wilson, Russell Wilson.
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A legitimate answer from Butch in Germany is that correct.
Have a good new year, Butch. We'll talk to you
I know a lot in twenty twenty three, my man,
let's say hello to furd Dog. Who's next up in
southern California? Hello, furd Dog? Is that the fill in
host for the next couple of days? Petro's Papa Dacas. Oh,
that's right, pet but a lot of people are gonna
be surplising when Petros he takes time off and host. No,
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that is incorrect. This person holds the Florida State High
school record in the shot put. That's all you can do.
Holds the Florida high school record in the shot put.
Caller number three, a show legend from the mean streets
of Brooklyn. No, not Marcel, Uncle Mo. Good morning, Ben,
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enjoy your vacation. Is that for with Toronto Blue Jay's
legend Frank Catalinado. Frank Catalinado, the great shot put artist
at Florida State back in the day. Is that Frank? No? Unfortunately, not,
thank you Mo. All right, hang up on yourself if
it's not Frank Catlado, Cantlonado, Petro's Papadacus or Russell Wilson.
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And let's go to Black Steve the second caller number four,
Hello Black Steve the second Huh let's see, I'm gonna
go with ninety nine Warren Sapp Warren Seth. See, that's
the legitimate guess, is it? Warren Sap Nor? Sorry Black
(36:39):
the second you did not win? Time for another clue.
This person defensive player is defensive player that caused the
butt fumble. He's the defensive player that caused the butt fumble.
All you can do we go down to the one
that's gonna get it right. Caller number five, who served
out his suspension very honorably and apologize, came back to
(37:01):
the show Justin in Cincinnati for the win. Justin Rachel
and Montabella's win. Vince wille Fork tabe. Vince Wilfork is right.
That is when in your face Barsella, in your face,
Justin in Cincinnati, continuing as a show legend, a trivia savant,
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even as he's working, he's still getting these right. Unbelievable.
How about that one's got a murder Gotta go
Hello and welcome. It's our nab ber four hour four
of our radio program and headlines at a South beach,
the Dolphins playoff run as a flat tire to a
hurt in Miami. What do you make of the pundance
(00:23):
advising to a tongue of Byeloa to retire as he
has another concussion. We'll talk about that storyline. How should
tah handle his latest medical malady? And why are social
media detectives better at finding concussions than the NFL hired
(00:46):
eye in the sky. We talk about that and much
more here. It is our number four. Have a great
rest of your week. At a reminder, we will have
the podcast this weekend, the fifth Hour podcast. We'll have
a Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and I'll be back next
week with brand new shows in twenty twenty three. Have
a great New Year's stay safe here. It is our
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number four. Not all right in dolphin land. Well come
in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller Show.
One after another, we chopped down the overnight early morning hours.
As we are in the air everywhere right nearby, as
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Coming from South Florida, fresh off of a debacle of
(02:18):
a performance against the Packers, the Dolphins are yet again
worthy of the Mallard monologue treatment. Now why is that
if you have not been paying attention, if you let
your guard down because of the holiday's bad job by you,
and you might have missed it. The news came out,
we learned that dolphin quarterback to a tongue of buy Loa,
(02:38):
who burst onto the scene this year as an MVP candidate,
then faded over the last month. That two, a tongue
of bay Loah has made a return appearance in the
concussion protocol What Wall after being eviscerated in the second
half against the Packers on Sunday. Dolphin head coach Mike McDaniel,
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not looking like such a genius lately, announced on Monday
that tongue of Iloa would would be going straight into
the protocol and they're gonna put him on time out,
putting his status in doubt for the game against the
Patriots coming up this weekend in the Commonwealth is the
Dolphins try to figure out what's going on with Tua
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and also advanced to the playoffs. The Dolphins claim that
they are not sure when the injury happened. They don't
even know when the concussion happened, McDaniel telling the media
that nobody recognized anything in terms of a concussion. It's
not like it was obvious the way it was in
Cincinnati that Thursday night game when we learned about the
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fencing position. When you have a traumatic brain injury, you
get into the fencing position that your brain resets the
like you were. Toddler didn't know that before that went
down back in Cincinnati, But nothing like that happened in
this game. At least it was an obvious and so
it was something where to a met with the doctors
and they discussed the symptoms, and that's how that went down.
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So this has led now to what the media reaction
machine bouncing around the echo chamber, and many prominent media
figures calling for to a tongue of Byela to step
away from the NFL, some going as far as to
say he must retire, he should never play again, that
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this is a career and the injury. The doomsdays are saying,
all right, so let us discuss the question. Let's talk
about that part of the story first. So what do
you make of very prominent people in the sports media
who are now publicly advising to a tongue of Byeloa
to retire from the NFL based on this latest concussion.
(04:50):
So I've got applause, chessboard, and mathematical truth, and we
will combine all of these things together and then we're
gonna shut up. But we're gonna make the babaganos before
we shut him. So to kick off, I would file
the media part of this story the shutter down. It's
(05:15):
not worth it, go sell insurance crowd. That is a
de ja vo situation, and I'm not talking about the
gentleman's club. It is a byproduct of the social media
age that we live in. You get cloud points online
for these kind of sanctimonious statements. And what happens is
(05:39):
you have the orchestra, Strike up the band, strike up
the band. Na la la, la, la la la. You've
got armchair psychologists, You've got social media therapist brain experts
trained on Twitter who have come crawling out from behind
the refrigerator, and they have all the answers. And what
(05:59):
I have witnessed here over the last not even twenty
four hours less than that is a public urination situation
which will make our friend Doc Mike very happy. But
everyone and their mother is trying to one up each
other with these holier than thou decrees, the tabernacle of
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sports chatter over the top with self righteous media figures
tossing out all kinds of gibberish about what to us
should do in terms of retirement. And my theory on this,
I'm want to run this by you, is my theory
that many of these people, not at all, but many
of them are looking to gain prestige status on these
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social networks. And it's a way to grab the Twitter
applause when you say that I'm so concerned about two
how concerned them? I am so concerned. I want him
to retire. You get the proverbial standing ovation, the Bravo,
you get the Bravo, and you get the chefs kiss,
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everyone say, oh, you're such a You're so good, You're
so good, A good ay, how great you are you?
You're such a better person. I don't see it that way. Now, furthermore,
let's let's talk like reasonable human beings. How should to
a tongue of Eloah handle the latest concussion puffery? Aside,
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Tah is an adult, he's a young adult. He's in
his early twenties. So he's going to be given a
diagnosis by the medical professionals. They will have recommendations on
how to handle this at that particular point. It's like
sitting in front of a chessboard. It's your move, to Ah,
(07:49):
it's your move, and tongue of Eloah will have to
do what's in his best interest for him and his family,
and it's not gonna be what some wokester in sports
media is telling him to do. Ultimately, he should do
what's in his best interest. Now. I anticipate that he'll
be cleared event you know, the next couple of weeks,
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Probably not this week, they'll give him the game off
and then he'll want to play, and it's it's his
decision at that point whether he wants to play. I
think he will, but that that's ultimately his call. And
it's going to lead to pro clutching from the usual suspects.
And the NFL is a high paying job. You push
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things further the more money you make. And two us
on a rookie contract to great rookie contract thirty million
dollars over thirty million, nineteen and a half million. He's
already banked in the signing bonus. He's playing for a
second contract. Now, the concussion does throw a turn in
(08:54):
the punch bowl. It throws another variable in the mix,
because not only do you have questions about Tua as
a performer the last month, he's fallen apart, he's run
out of gas here, but you also have the fragility,
the fragile nature of Tuah and that becomes a factor
that you're going to have to overcome in a long
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term negotiation. All right, now, parting shot the Dolphins, Let's
talk about the Komodo dragon the room. The Dolphins claimed
they did not know when Tua suffered the concussion. The
head coach said that. Coach McDaniel said that, however, internet investigators,
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internet sluice, we're able to pinpoint what they believe happened.
It was late in the second quarter before halftime, and
Tah's head fell back and hit the ground rather hard,
and that's the clip that many people have said, that's it,
That's when it happened. So the question here is why
are the social media detectives better at finding concussions it
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would appear than the NFL. I in the sky, and
the NFL has multiple people at these games that are
there to monitor concussion. So I have some thoughts on
this that this is a simple arithmetic problem, that it's
it's multiplication on the side of the public. And I
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think we can agree on this that you have hundreds,
if not thousands, of ego eyed hall monitors who are
watching these games observing any improprieties that pop up, versus
the NFL, who employs one or two people at a game,
who's on the payroll, whose job is to keep track
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of this stuff, who may or may not be eating
some nachos with that gooey orange cheese on top, or
pretzels or peanuts or candy and maybe watching with half
an eye at the time the injury goes down. But
never let a mathematical truth get in the way of
the narrative. And as we have preached in previous shows
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from the bully pulpit that we happen to sit on here,
the NFL is a collision sport. It will always be
a collision sport played the way it's played currently, in
the way it always has been played. It is cousins first,
cousins with sports like rugby and roller derby and lacrosse
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and ice hockey. The meat and potatoes, the meat and
potatoes for Tua tongue of Viola and all these other
football players is you know going in that you're going
to get dinged up, You're gonna get your bell wrong.
You know that going in, that's what you sign up for.
There's there's a exchange, a quid pro quo that you're
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getting paid a ridiculous amount of money to play the game.
You know you're gonna get beat up while playing the game.
And there's also only so much that can be done
to minimize the risk. That most things are reactive. They're
not proactive, meaning that once you get the concussion, they're
supposed to take you out of the game, but they
can't prevent the concussion, so you're gonna be tackled, and
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it is a two way straight Like you're supposed to
in theory come out of the game if you have
a concussion and you're supposed to go into the injury tent,
many players want to keep going and they want to
try to work around the concussion, so that becomes a
factor as well. Where if it's obvious, where if you're
laying on the field and they have to take your
helmet off, well that's one way to have a concussion.
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But as oftentimes you get these concussions and they're somewhat
minor and you feel like you can play through it.
And obviously Ta based on the video, thought he could
play without missing a beat and turned out that was
not the case. But it goes back to the fact
that everyone has a price and you have to decide
how many hits you're willing to take that price point
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before you don't want any part of it anymore. And
that's the decision that two is making right now, and
other people who play the sport of football are gonna
have to make. But the idea that because some talking
head on televisions like you gotta retires, not safe if
I need those online applause help me out, Like no,
come on now, you're gonna base it off what you here.
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You know, they don't know. These idiots don't know your
individual situation and how bad it is, or maybe it's
it's not as bad. So it's up to other people
who are medical professionals to decide. It is the Bannet
Mallers Show, as we roll on through the overnight, we'll
take your calls here at eight seven seven ninety nine
on Fox. The lines are open, fill them up right now.
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Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. We have Site
to Bite. The Great Sports Radio Mystery coming up a
little bit later, and an interesting wrinkle has been tossed
into the Great Baseball Ope Opera, which is playing out
over the Christmas Holidays. It is being whispered that there's
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one giant problem aside from the injury chart that has
popped up in the New York Mets drama O rama
with Carlos Kreg Did you hear what the problem is?
It's not a medical problem. There's something else going on
with the cheating stro what is it? Well, you are
(14:31):
gonna find out. We will get to that, and we
will do it next. Be sure to catch live editions
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(15:16):
So check that out later this hour for your dining
and dancing pleasure, We'll have site the Bite the Great
Sports Radio mystery Problems problems not medical related to the
big soap opera of the baseball offseason. We'll get to
that coming up in a minute. Robin Vegas right since
(15:40):
there's another great year of shows. Fellas the pleasure has
been all all years. I'm sure yes, that is correct. Rob,
Happy holidays, blah blah blah says there, stay safe, look
forward to hearing all of you again in twenty twenty three.
Ferd Dog says the NFL, thank you. Rob. Fergduck says
the NFL better be very careful with TUA. The world
(16:04):
cannot take another concussion movie starring Will Smith would not
be right. We'd be terrible. Alf the Alien opineer says,
thank you for another year of great radio. Cannot wait
for twenty twenty three when the FSR management nominates you
for the well deserved Marconi Award. I'm sure that's that's
right around the corner of their alf. Unless it's not.
(16:26):
We're gonna find some other awards that management cannot nominate
me for. That's the that's the key, because I don't
think that's gonna gonna have. Let's take some calls, though,
we will take some calls. My boards being resent right now.
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox. Let's say hello
to Doc Mike, who's in the Grand Canyon State. Hello Doc, Well,
surely no, it's Doc Mike. Hello, doctor, Yeah, Brian played
(16:49):
that urine is for Karen video or what do you
call it? A little diddy? Well, he was backing you
up the other night. Have you heard that yet? Yeah?
Have you convinced Brian not for twenty years? Have I commission? Well?
I don't know. You know, billions of people around the
(17:10):
world have been drinking it for years, so everybody's jumping out.
I got a message. I got a message from a
very prominent member in the mall Or militia who sent
me a message wondering if you were in Colorado. Queen Rocks,
and she was driving around she spotted a vehicle that
(17:31):
had a pro urine bumper sticker on the car, and
she thought maybe it was maybe it was you. But
as you pointed out, Doc, I wrote back to I
put it. I told her this that when you booked
the guests about urine therapy, that guy lived in Colorado. Correct,
that's correct? Yeah, Yeah, that's a very pro year stale.
(17:52):
You know. You know, my thing over here in Phoenix
is guns, girls and golf. And over the weekend I
met twenty eight year pro twenty eight year old pro
height golf with him yesterday. Yeah, golf at the TPC
here in Phoenix, Okay, And Thursday we're going to play
(18:14):
around the golf and he's going to be playing in
the Phoenix Open hopefully. Now is this the new Ecuador
doctor used to go to? Use for years? You went
to Ecuador and then COVID happened, you stopped going. Are
you now going to go to Arizona? Is this going
to be your winter getaway every year? Very possibly? They
loved me over here. I've got new patients, there's families
(18:39):
here that I'm working with. I started in Tucson but
wound up over here in Phoenix. And I'm going to
New Mexico for New Year's Oh. I can't think of
a better state to celebrate New Year's I mean that
is am I, Roberto, I wrong, New Mexico. When you
think New Year's Eve bash, that is the state to
go to. So much going on there, so amazing, And
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that's where they tested the nuclear bombs back in the day. Doc, Hey,
I'm going to I'm going to come down. Yeah, yes, doc, Yeah,
I'm right here. Go ahead, all right, you want to
take a call? Sure, Oh yeah, let's ask a doc?
(19:25):
Why not? All right, let's sell let's go to Steve
in Kansas City. Steve, we're on with Doc Mike. Hello, Hey, Doc,
good evening, the middle of the night. Doc, how can
you say good evening? What's wrong with you? My question is, um,
I've got a dehydration problem. How many courts of urine
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do I need to put in my girlfriend's mouth to? Okay,
all describe call before you recognize that guy's voice. That
everyone's a jokester here, Doc, everyone's got jokes for you.
I know. Well, it's very serious subject, Doc. I mean,
you've been doing this. You look like you're thirty five
years old. You're you're twice that, and you're still going here.
(20:10):
It's amazing. I've been drinking my earin since nineteen sixty five.
It saved my life. You haven't drinking my earin for
twenty years, longer than I've been alive. Doc Mike has
been participating in this. It's amazing. Yeah, you were in
diapers when I started drinking my ear even in diapers. Alright,
hold on a second, Doc one. No, Well, if anybody called,
(20:32):
I don't know Coop. Coop's gonna be the judge of that.
Let's go to the Black Irishman though, who's in Omaha?
And he is next he's back as the Black Irishman.
He had changed his name, but he's back to He
did one of those tests and he found out that
he's he's a black Irishman. Hello, Black Irishman. Hey, you're
you're funny man? Yeah, mister mister Mallet, Yeah, what's up?
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Whatever you ever thought about being a stand up comic? Man? No,
I like to sit down. No, anyway, we don't tell
you man. Giants man, No, those those giants, man, they've
runed it. Mister day Ball man. I thought they're gonna
win their game. Look, I think the Giant How about this?
(21:14):
The Giants cannot win another game and still make the playoffs?
About that one? No, I remember day Ball I told
you man back in the day, he sucked and so
and so that. Brady Quinn. I apologize to saying that.
But what's wrong with you? You can't talk like that?
Did you hear what the caller said one when they
said hello to Doc Mike? It was terrible. It's horrible.
(21:39):
The Giants are eight The Giants are eight and six.
There's two weeks to go in the season, and there's
a bunch of seven win teams, a lot of them
play each other. But there's a scenario where the Giants
don't have to win another game that they can. They
can absolutely stink it up these last couple of weeks. Still,
(22:01):
despite not even winning a game to close out the year,
they could end up making they play the Colts in
the years now. If you can't beat the Colts, do
you really deserve to make the playoffs. But there is
a scenario where the Giants lose those last two games
and end up losing six of their last eight games,
go one, six and one, and still make the playoffs
(22:23):
to close the year. I was on the New York
teams Man, I'm gonna get off the band wagon of
New York Giants. Don't win this week, I'm off the
band You hear that, New York Giants, if you do
not win, you're gonna lose The Black Irishman enturprise man
the New York teams Man, did that? Good? Come Thanksgiving? Anyway? Yeah?
But one more thing, then we don't tell you even
(22:46):
you tell me you got to start man like Steve
Steven smith Man didn he uh when you call in
on radios, I'll do Smith Stephen A. Smith. Did he
call in the shows? Now? I don't believe he called
in the radio show. I don't know. Maybe he did
when he was a kid. But he worked at Fox
Sports Radio before he blew up. He was a writer
in Philadelphia and he was one of the weekend hosts
(23:07):
here at Fox Sports Radio. And Skip Bayless also worked
at Fox Sports Radio. He was a near a contributor
and he's a writer from Dallas, and he was the
like the cowboy expert and all that stuff. And then
he went off. I know what I'm say, man. Sometimes man,
because when I was in the Navy, I used had
(23:27):
to do eighteen hour days. But then I had to
wake up in the middle of the night and do
a guard duty. So so the military taught me how
to stay up all night. Well, I'd like to thank
the military for you. What are you doing for New
Year's Black Irishman? Big plans? There? Nobody never Ain't nobody
told me Happy New Year's, Mary Christmen or none of that.
(23:48):
Oh all right, well, let me cover every Let me
covers Merry Christmas, Happy Honka, Happy New Year, Happy Valentine's Day,
Happy July fourth, Happy Thanksgiving. I want to cover every
holiday in twenty twenty three, every major holiday. Happy President's Day? Congratulation?
(24:09):
Are you cool? All right? Be good manne I gotta
go all thank you. Be sure to catch live editions
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every weekday morning on my podcast, Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.
(24:29):
This isn't your typical sports pod pushing the same tired
narratives down your throat every day. Straight Fire gives you
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to Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Clippers were
(24:55):
down by fourteen with three and a half minutes to
go in Detroit rally. Back beat the Pistons one two one.
You want a fun factor in that, so they just
stat's been bouncing. Okay, glahead, you said you were not interested.
I'm not, but I know you are, so glad. I
(25:15):
know you. I know more I know you want to
go ahead. I want you to be into the city.
Pretend it's make believe that he can you pretend like
you're interested in Come on, man, entering, Might hear a
fun fact about the Clipper game Thank you? Entering Monday
NBA teams who were in the situation the Clippers were
(25:36):
in trailing by fourteen or more points with three minutes
remaining in the game. This goes back to nineteen ninety six.
Their record was two and twelve thousand, eight hundred and
seventy three. The Clippers were oh and four hundred and
seventeen in that scenario, and now they won their first
Wow you always wow bro. Thank you was so fun
(26:02):
Clipper propaganda right there, Clippers, I've not heard from Clipper
dof to check it out, break find out what's going on.
I hope he hires. Who's that billboard lawyer we see
all the time there? Sweet James? Sweet James? Yeah, hire,
sweet James. Well, I love this story? Is that punk?
That cheating scumbag? Carlos? Correct? Well, Eddie, you're the you
(26:24):
want to get started with that, Eddie because we can
go down that road if you want. Please anyway, Uh,
Carlos Correa, who had a deal with the Giants, and
then the Giants gave him a physical and said, wait
a minute, you are really effed up. I can't give
you this contract. What I mean, that's a terrible deal
because you're you're not gonna make it through the contract.
(26:45):
And so then he left, and then the Mets were like, oh, yeah,
this is what a great situation for us. We're gonna
get this guy. Well, now there's a there's a there's
a buzz because the Mets deals on ice right now,
not done, but it's on ice. They're in a whole
holding pattern because the Mets are like, wait a minute,
we agree with the Giants. The Mets doctors are like,
(27:05):
this is so messed up that you're you're a scumbag,
and you're an injured scumbag. So the chatter was the
Mets were like, okay, listen, we can't give you that
twelve year, three hundred and fifteen million dollar contract, but
why don't we restructure the contract and then we'll work
out something more reasonable. Because of our injury concerns, we're
(27:27):
not confident that you will be stable over the long
term of the contract. And so before we make it official,
let's just redo the deal. Well, we're hearing that. Carlos
Correa is like, screw you. I'm not giving you a
dollar back, not a dime back. I want the deal
(27:50):
you said you were gonna give me because I'm a
punk if you and I'm a loser. Yeah, that's the
a hole right there, that's the ass one month in
two one thousand. Hold. These are the kind of people
you cheer against in sports. These are bad actors, all right,
bad actors. Uh, Carlos Correa and I hope a team
(28:10):
in Afghanistan offers him four hundred million dollars and he
goes and plays there. Maybe he can go to Dubai
and play there and we can say bye bye, enjoy
Dubai just like that. So the problem is that, yes,
we're baseball expert our man, he's our insider. We're gonna
lose him to the athletic in twenty twenty three. He's
(28:30):
gonna replace Ken Rosenthal. If the athletic problem. The problem
is that I think you said as before that these
long with these long contracts, uh, these these uh, these
teams get obviously they have insurance right in case, like, yes,
players get hurt and Lloyd's of Lund and there. Yeah,
and they're they're covered, right, So obviously the insurance is
not gonna cover We're not gonna cover the Giants. And
(28:51):
now obviously the insurance is not gonna cover the mets
On with this contract, right because of the of the
of the of the medicals. So that problem. Yeah, so
the content he's not gonna find the contract that's gonna
come is gonna cover. It's certainly not gonna be twelve years. Yeah,
it would seemingly mean maybe six or seven you can
get away with and the team with the Yeah, but
(29:13):
I think the insurance still not gonna cover the seven.
The team will will pay like like five or seven years, right, yeah, yeah,
And again, I mean we've talked about this, but these
long term contracts. People in baseball I've talked to who
I know, have told me over the years that these
they know, these are lost leaders. And you got to
look at him. A ten year contracts really a five
year contract. You're paying double the salary because you know
you're not gonna get much the backside of the contract.
(29:35):
They know that going in there, they assume the player
is gonna be great. The first part of the contract
and the last part, whatever they get, this is great.
He's not gonna get the contract, so good and vert God,
I might have to. I might have to do an
emergency show if the year falls apart. I might have to.
(29:55):
I might have to do an emergency if it happens
while while I'm away, I might have to step on
the Cohen not a dummy, Right, He's where he is
because he's a smart guy and he knows that been
able to work Wall Street. Yeah, when it comes to finances,
he's he's a smart man. But it's just I suppose it,
like a neck and neck fifty fifty proposition, that Corea
and the Mets deal falls apart. And you know, you know, Roberto,
(30:19):
that this is a legitimate possibility because Corea's camp floated
the rumor that other teams have contacted Correy. So you're
telling me, Wait a minute, So you're telling me trying
to work. Yeah, he's trying to get another team. So
if the Giants said, hey, we don't want anything to
do with you, and then the Mets all if they
also say that, you're telling me there's a third sucker
(30:41):
out of the thirty major league teams that is gonna
line up and sign that player to that kind of contract.
I mean jeez. Anyway, all right, that's the latest on
the Carlos Carea story that we are we are monitoring,
all right. For the final time. In twenty twenty two,
let's go to wins Her, Ontario, Canada, and we cowboy
(31:02):
up on the Ben Matler Show. Cowboy John Brad a
fine Anadian lad. Okay, Well, I hope everybody had a
great Christmas. And clip Pepino Quavers the former World Monkley
Association Worlder Right Champions sixty five today and Unco thirty
nine years ago today. Walter Scott, who was the lead
(31:25):
singer of Bob Kuban in the End and who had
a big hit called The Cheater back in nineteen sixty five,
was murdered by his wife's boyfriend and stuffed down the
sister and of their home. In the case of wife
and dating hard but the boyfriend's been I don't died
in prison. The wife got a prison term. She you know,
(31:45):
she died I guess years later after Yes, that was
two days before Dennis Wilson and Beach Boys drowned off
the Barrata Delray, which was December twenty ninth, nineteen eighty
three and first yesterday one hundred nine, Yes, one hundred
and fourteen years ago, yesterday, Jack Johnson became the first
(32:08):
black heavyweight champion by beating a hand over Ontario's Tommy
Burns and by a fourteenth round knockoff. Of course, our
prime minister was a fifty one on Sunday, and Larry's
uncle Okay, Larry Sonka and Jimmy Buffett were seventy six
on Christmas Day. And I'll pick to people to morrow
(32:29):
tomorrow morning. Remember you've got to be a boy to
your cowboy will buy all right? There he goes cowboy
John Brad where he goes, only he knows. It's a
great mystery. The longest. Now I'm a believer, aren't we
all believers? Our longest tenured caller at Fox Sports Radio
Cowboy Genre with a winking or eye to Doc Mike
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(32:52):
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Radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. It's time now to sit
Site to bite tite where we play random generic sound bites,
you know, in a sports and entertainment cliche spoken by
so called experts. You try to tell us who's doing
the talking, and it is psychified the great sports radio misters.
(33:58):
Watching some videos from that blizzard in Buffalos. I was
in Buffalo years ago and I saw some of the
places I went. It's wild man anyway, all right, Site
to bite the great sports radio mystery. This is where
we play an audio byte from someone in this world
of sports the last seven to ten days, and then
see if anyone can get it right. And let's go
to the audio tape. Hit that button right there, Roberto.
(34:21):
That's all you can do. That's all you can do,
all right, someone from the world of sports the last
seven to ten days? Will anyone get this right? I
will go call her number five. I'm gonna go call
her number five. What about you, Eddie? Nobody will get it?
Kobalou calment five, all right, Roberto, Nobody, Navian, nobody, nobody.
(34:45):
Play it again, Roberto. That's all you can do. That's
all you can do. All right. Let's start out on
the international line. We'll have a couple of guests. We'll
have guesses, and then after every two incorrect guesses, we'll
give you a clue. We'll start out on the international line.
Our friend Butch in Germany. Hello, Butch on the autoban. Hello,
what's going on? Buch? What's the answer, Russell Wilson, Russell Wilson.
(35:11):
A legitimate answer from Butch in Germany is that correct.
Have a good new year, Butch. We'll talk to you
I know a lot in twenty twenty three, my man,
let's say hello to furd Dog. Who's next up in
southern California? Hello, furd Dog? Is that the fill in
host for the next couple of days? Petro's Papa Dacas. Oh,
that's right, pet but a lot of people are gonna
be surplising when Petros he takes time off and host. No,
(35:35):
that is incorrect. This person holds the Florida State High
school record in the shot put. That's all you can do.
Holds the Florida high school record in the shot put.
Caller number three, a show legend from the mean streets
of Brooklyn. No, not Marcel, Uncle Mo. Good morning, Ben,
(35:58):
enjoy your vacation. Is that for with Toronto Blue Jay's
legend Frank Catalinado. Frank Catalinado, the great shot put artist
at Florida State back in the day. Is that Frank? No? Unfortunately, not,
thank you Mo. All right, hang up on yourself if
it's not Frank Catlado, Cantlonado, Petro's Papadacus or Russell Wilson.
(36:19):
And let's go to Black Steve the second caller number four,
Hello Black Steve the second Huh let's see, I'm gonna
go with ninety nine Warren Sapp Warren Seth. See, that's
the legitimate guess, is it? Warren Sap Nor? Sorry Black
(36:39):
the second you did not win? Time for another clue.
This person defensive player is defensive player that caused the
butt fumble. He's the defensive player that caused the butt fumble.
All you can do we go down to the one
that's gonna get it right. Caller number five, who served
out his suspension very honorably and apologize, came back to
(37:01):
the show Justin in Cincinnati for the win. Justin Rachel
and Montabella's win. Vince wille Fork tabe. Vince Wilfork is right.
That is when in your face Barsella, in your face,
Justin in Cincinnati, continuing as a show legend, a trivia savant,
(37:23):
even as he's working, he's still getting these right. Unbelievable.
How about that one's got a murder Gotta go
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