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You know, a guy came up with a concept about
twenty years ago called two twelve the extra degree, and
it goes like this. At two hundred and eleven degrees,
water is hot, very hot, scaling hot. But at two
hundred and twelve degrees, just one degree more water boils,
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which can produce steam, which can power a locomotive. What
would happen if everybody gave that one extra degree in life?
All the time? Magic happened on a daily basis. And
when I think of Vince Gully, that's what I think
of in the sense of he personified the concept of
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the extra degree. I don't know anybody that ever met
him that didn't come away, blown away. Listen to one
of his broadcasts, The Melodic Tones. We're talking sixty five
years behind the mic. And you when you were listening
to him, you knew you were listening to Royalty. I
only met him one time, and it was many, many,
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many years ago, and as well, before I was in
the media. I began my media career on June seventeenth,
nineteen ninety four. That was the end of the White
Brocco Chase. That's a story for a different day. I
talked about the first chapter of my book, The View
from the Chief Seats. Now where am I going with that?
When I met Vince Gully, You're standing there in front
of him and he starts to talk and it's like
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that voice, that that mesmerizing voice, and you hear it
in person, It's like, oh my god, this voice is
How do I describe it? And I was kind of
a dorky and I said, I didn't know what to say.
And I said, well, you know, Ven, you must really
love baseball. I know you played it at Fordham and
you've been baseball has been your life. And he looks
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to me with a ray smile and says, you know
you can call me by my name, Bernie. You gave
me a sunny day and afternoon at the ballpark and
a pretty girl by my side, and you can have
the sunny day in the afternoon at the ballpark. He
got me, right, He got me because he was a
well rounded enough man. Of course he loved baseball, but
he was very well rounded. And by the way, I
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can't lie. October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight. I was there
when Kirk Gibson hit the home run, but I left early.
I might have been the guy in the parking lot
in the right field that you saw the lights on right.
I'm not. The thing is, I'm not the only reason
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I'm mad. Though I left early. There were a couple
of well I lost a hundred dollar bit when Gibby
hit the home run. He went deep. Years later I realized, though,
that what's interesting is I got to hear one of
the most iconic calls in baseball history live while it
was happening in the parking lot at Dodger Stadium with
Vince Scully, and I beat the traffic right. And let
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me just say this Vince Scully story is magical from
the beginning because when he was in high school, he
was graduating from Fordham Prep High School in New York,
he had a baseball friend teammate named Larry Miggans and
one day, the two of them were talking in the
school auditorium. They were getting ready to graduate, and they
asked each other, you know, what do you want to
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do when you grow up? As it were, right people
do that and Megan's He told Vinn that he wanted
to be a major league ball player, and Vinnie told
Larry that he wanted to be a major league sports announcer.
Eight years later, May thirteenth, nineteen fifty two, Larry Megans,
Vin's friend at Fordham Prepp, was now playing for the
Saint Louis Cardinals, happened to be playing that day against
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the Dodgers at Abbottsfield in Brooklyn, And on that day,
Larry Mimiggans hit a home run, the first of his
only two career home runs in the Major leagues. And
who happened to be on the call behind the microphone? Yes,
it was Vince Scully. Vin Scully admitted later that it
was the only time he ever broke down and shed
a tear doing a baseball game or any other sporting event.
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Right Vin would have turned ninety seven on August twentieth.
Larry Mimiggans is still alive ninety seven years old. The
old the fourth oldest living Major League ball player. You
can't make this stuff up. I don't have enough time
to really give the the complete synopsis as it were,
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of Vince Scully. I'll do the best I can. When
you when you you hear modern dagg scribes like Tom Verducci,
he calls Vince Scully the ideal Order or modern Socrates,
only more revered than Socrates. Obviously, I described Vin this way.
These are my wor I believe he was observant. I
believe he was elegant. He was an actual eye witness.
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He was a rock and tour could tell stories with
the best of it. And he was a rock and
tour of history always managed to weave in the proper references.
So when you were listening to Vince Gully to a
ball game, you clearly were listening to a guy that
was painting a masterpiece. And this is a guy that
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had a resume far beyond even just baseball. Now, he
covered Fordham football. That's where Vin attended college and played
baseball in New York, played college baseball against and by
the way, Vince Gully covered Fordham football when they had
an assistant coach by the name of Vince Lombardi, and
he played college baseball against George H. W. Bush when
Bush was playing for Yale. And who'd Vince start his
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career with Red Barber and the great Red Barber? And
Red Barber told him, he said, don't copy anybody, Vinny,
You'll be watering down your own wine. And along the
way he befriended Jackie Robinson and Rachel Robinson. He was
in the Dodgers clubhouse after the home run by Bobby
Thompson offer Ralph Branca and he that, you know the
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shot heard around the world. You know the you know
the whole story. The Giants win the pennant, The Giants
win the pennant. This is a guy who broke bread
with pulps and the presidents, various presidents hung out with
John Wooden. He called multiple Sandy Kofax no hitters, and
people who heard those calls said it was like poetry. Right,
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you're all football fans. You remember the catch that Joe
Montana rolled right through it to Dwight Clark, who was
on the call that day. Vince Scully was on the call.
He called the catch from Montana to Clark. Obviously, he
called Gibbey's home run October fifteenth, nineteen eighty eight, in
a season that's featured the improbable, we've just witnessed the impossible. Well,
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they also called Barry Bond's seventy first home run. And
along the way he coote Opera and Shakespeare, and he
could even yuck it up with Yogi Berra. But here's
the beauty. Never once when Vince Kelly was talking, was
he condescending? Did he ever place himself above the people
or any of the events. Their award a chronicle, and
you know, growing up in southern California, and it's pretty spoiled.
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We not only had Vince Scully, we had Dick Enberg,
and we had Chick Hearn, and we had you know,
Bob Miller and Jigs McDonald and the Kings. They were incredible.
And then I moved to Detroit and spent seventeen years
in the media. Who I get to know the great
Ernie Harwell, who I became very good friends with him.
I gave good friends with it. In nineteen forty nine,
in his first full year of the big leagues, Ernie
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Harwell was broadcasting for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and he actually
got to do one inning with Vince Scully, and there
was a triple play turned and Harwell didn't remember the
triple play because he knew that Scully was going to
be this, this amazing guy, and he succeeded. Vince Scully
succeeded Ernie Harwell in nineteen fifty and Harwell moved along
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to the Tigers. Now by the nineties, you know, Harwell
and Scully, they'd both become Hall of Famers, and you know,
they were trusted people. And in nineteen ninety six, during
the World Series of Dodgers played in Atlanta, Harwell was
doing the game for CBS Radio and sitting in the
booth right next to Vince Scully. But there was a
glass partition between them. And when you know it, in
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the first inning, Chipper Jones lines into a triple play
and Scully reported that it was the first triple played
by turned by the Dodgers since nineteen forty nine. That coincidentally,
they were the same two calling the play when he
was sitting with Ernie Harwell, what fifty seven years prior
to that. You know, I'll tell you what. Let's let's
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let's bring in the crew on this right. And one
last thing about Vince Scully. He didn't battle thousand no
one in his life. Does you want to know a
little known fact about Vince Scully. Vince Scully had a
trout with CBS to do call NFL games alongside John Madden, right,
and Scully. It was between Vince Gully and Pat Summer
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All as to who was going to get the you know,
the number one job next to John Madden and mad
would be the color man. Well, obviously Scully lost, He
lost the Pat Summer all. But they threw him a bone.
They allowed him to call one last game in January
nineteen eighty two, and it was a send off that
ended up being the Dwight Clark catch game. Right, And
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you always knew that it was Vince Kelly because he
had his signature high everybody and a very pleasant good
eatning to you and wherever you may be, Eddie, I'm
sure you got some great thoughts on Vince Kelly. You
want to share him? Yeah? Sure? You know I was
not a Dodger fan, didn't grow up a Dodger fan. Sure,
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but my next door neighbor was a huge Dodger fan.
And he had a swimming pool and and we would
go swimming in his pool all the time because it
was hot, and he always had the Dodger game on
and it was just every day, you know, it was
Vince Scully on the radio, and uh, that was that
was the That was the soundtrack of my childhood, was
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hearing him do Dodger games. And I, even though I
wasn't a Dodger fan, I loved Vince Scully. I loved
listening to him call a game. It didn't matter who
the teams were because I always learned something. Um and
uh it was Yeah, that was great memories of him.
Now it's well said. And even though you weren't, you
knew you were listening to Baseball Royalty. You could, didn't,
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you know if you hear the stories. The same with
Ernie Harwell the summer day, the long summer days and
you know the pool days in the backyard and it
which is filled the whole sound right, the back filled,
the whole backyard was sound. Uh, we're Berto and Coop.
I want to get to you. Let's squeeze in a
couple of calls here, because who do we have on
the line. The legend he was outstanding over Thanksgiving when
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he checked in when I was doing the Mallar show.
It is the inimitable Marcel from Brooklyn. Marcel, what's happening buddy? Hey,
good morning Bernie, I'm back baby, glad to have you.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year? What are we com good morning?
Good morning? Before I had to say to you, do
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I mention it? Where were once the mixed match from
from the show from Thanksgiving? Oh yeah, let's do it
again one time for Chris mess trust me. It's a
new dad, a new day, almost getting into the new year.
Get ready for twenty twenty three people. So mala militia,
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let's get into it. And we're the ones who are
respecting me and always standing with yours truly. And I
bring in Robin Vegas now he is a true fan
of mine and he joins us from Vegas. Good morning,
my friend, starting with you. What in the world? So
you have the foot picks from last night especially for Christmas?
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Thank you, Martha, thank you, good morning. If you don't
have you donated to Blair's charity event yet? Absolutely not.
But according to um the messages from my Twitter handle,
we're the Blair hater people. You know why? I don't worry?
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Will you say? Guy day? No? No, no, no, no,
that's not the mixed match. And before I had to
say to you, Bernie, you know why we're the Blair
Blair hater people by no, no, no, no, no, we
aren't an initiative that always to Blair stop interrupting my calls.
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I stand with this fool. I'm standing with that no
good person. And you know why this is not going
to be true next year Blair right away. We don't
trust Blair. He is the enemy of the people, just
like Trump and the devil itself. Get a day, all right, Um, Bernie,
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I gotta say what the mixed match in the holidays
looks like? Started with you? My man? You got the floor.
You have to guess last night. Oh I'm sorry, Marcella.
I'm no one ever accuse me of being smart. Okay,
I'm gonna go with chicken and rice with some snow
peas and some sour dough bread. Oh, chicken and rice.
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I like it. I like it. This is gonna be
a mixed match. But that's okay, that's okay, It's gonna
be chicken and rice. Eddie, what's next, my man? From Christmas?
From Christmas? I'm gonna say you had lasagna. Oh, put
the lasagna in a mixed match of it. But that's okay,
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it's gonna be a very mixed match for the day
as well. Don't sorry. You better stay tuned for the answer.
We're Bruno take it away, my man. I think you
had some really yummy sleep Oh oh come on now,
I say you had some carniasada carnosata. No, that's not
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the mixed match either, chicken pomesha arm loop. This is
a chance. Let's go, Marshall. I just want to clarify here.
We're guessing what you ate on Christmas, or we're guessing
what you ate last night. What do we what do
we ate from Christmas? Okay, then in that case, I'm
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gonna go a coconut shrimp and uh lasagna? Yes, what
the lasagna in the mixed match with Eddie so At
along with the shrimp. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
mixed match. Let white food pick. Do you not like
shrimp marceilla like everyone else does not? Me like French
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fries all the time, all the time. All right, man,
I'm getting hungry. We got Carnie Assano lasign. You keep going, man,
I'm getting hungry now. Who ever thought, who are day?
All right? Day? All right? Fast Uca belts for what
in the wall to have the food picks from Christmas?
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It's too much in masturbation. Here we go, here we
go places already chicken, rice, turkey, steak, and mac and cheese.
It's ours. Are you kidding? Yes, that's right. Hey, Marcella,
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I got one question for you. Will be a mismatch
for chicken and rice. I know it, man, marcell I
knew it. By the way, Marcella. One last question. Anything
to drink with that all? I could get some soda.
I could get some orange soda, and you, my friend,
got the same thing. The question is, yes, the SODA's
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gotta be. It's gonna be. Good day. Bernie and the
guys thank you. You enjoy the rest of the show
and everyone else, my man Bernie in Fort Ben Mallet
comes right back on Fox Sports Radio right after these messages.
I promise, Wow, nicely done. God bless you. Marcella. We'll
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see you next time. Let's squeeze you. One more call,
Fluffy Dave. You get to follow that, buddy. What do
you got, Fluffy Dave? Are you with us? My friend? Yeah?
Uh well, how do you follow that. Um, just do
your best. You're your's all good ladies and gentlemen. Can
we get a little uh drum roll for Fluffy Dave
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No no, no, I guess not okay, go Fluffy Dave. No.
I was just I was because of the stadiums thing,
and yeah, what do you got. One of the best
stadiums I've ever been to is clearly Club Stadium Wrigley
and I mean, I it was insane, how beautiful that was.
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I've been to the new Twin Twins Stadium ye, yep, yep,
Target Field, and I just I'm a Twining. What's the
one you haven't been to that you want to get to?
It's gotta be uh, it's yeah, man, I want to
go to Dodger Stadium. But I'm just you know, maybe
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the sports Clippers used to play. Never mind, go ahead,
Fluffy Dave Stadium. You got to get there. Well where
do you live, Fluffy? Uh? Minnesota? Yeah. I just want
to say hi to Coop, uh, you know, everybody in
the crew, and I wish them all happy, uh, Coop, Roberto, Roberto,
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and hope they all have happy holidays and you as well.
I thank you. First time i've ever heard you. But
you're doing a hell of a job, so keep it
up and I wish them Mallar Militia happy holidays and
Merry Christmas. Thanks for checking in, Fluffy Dave. My by
the way, just hired Fluffy Dave as my agent. Coming up,
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I promised I'll preview it quickly. We got a couple
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We're hours away. Saturday kickoff four pm Eastern Michigan. We'll
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tee it up against TCU number two ranked Michigan against
number three TCU. Michigan currently a seven point favorite. They
opened up nine point five. Here's really the X factor
because TCU would be the best offense that Michigan has
seen all year. But Michigan has been a second half
team all season. They've got a plus one eighty six
point differential lefter halftime, second highest margin for any FBS
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team in the last ten years. They're a hell of
a second half team. TCU can't fall behind. Yes, they
got the offense to catch up, but if they do,
that means your defense is not slowing down Michigan. I
like the over in the game, and I think TCU
keeps it close. It's a coin flip game. Now Ohio
State and Ryan Day they're telling everybody they've gonna make
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the most of their opportunity. It's unbelievable. They get to
go down to Atlanta and they get a second bite
of the apple. Doesn't happen very often. Here's the X
factor in that game. Wide receiver Marvin Harrison Junior. He's
one of the best receivers in the country. He can
continuously make ridiculous catches. He makes plays most receivers can't.
He's an X factor that keeps Georgia honest. He you
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know the whale. Ohio State wins though, and I'm not
saying they're going to they need to limit big plays.
Obviously against Michigan that didn't happen. Michigan ran for five
or accumulated five hundred and forty yards on offense, but
three hundred and sixty of those yards are on five plays.
Five plays the other way the other players he averaged
three yards of play. So George's defense, it's ridiculously good.
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Even though they put five guys in the NFL, I
think we're probably good. I'll tell you what. I think
we're gonna see a Georgia TCU final. I'm gonna go
against the grain here. What we shall see, what we
shall see, and it should be a lot of fun. Frankly,
I'm looking forward to when they expand the playoff coming up.
First of all, we will take Cowboy from Windsor's call
after Eddie's update, but I want to get heavily into
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what I talked about earlier in the show. Ye are
not going to believe the next new fangled idea in
sports betting that will be legal in Ohio January. First.
It's called micro betting, and when I explain this to
you're gonna be going Are you kidding me? That is
coming up in a second. Be sure to catch live
editions of the Ben Maller Show weekdays at two am
Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Hey, this is Jason McIntyre. Join
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me every weekday morning on my podcast Straight Fire with
Jason McIntyre. This isn't your typical sportspod pushing the same
tired narratives down your throat every day. Straight Fire gives
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Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Before I
dive into the world of micro betting, which I will explain,
you won't believe your ears. That's what I think. Let's
go back to the phones and joined by the gentleman
who's called me back in the day when I was
in Detroit. He calls over Thanksgiving and get your pens
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and pencils ready because he'll probably give you a history lesson.
Of course, I'm talking about Cowboy from Windsor needs no introduction.
COWBOYI Burnie, Thank you, bye bye. JJ want see you
when Canton Bye bye. Nathaniel Hacker will see you in
the unemployment line Michigan, I think will beat TCUs. Thirty
one twenty seven. Today is the birthday of Denzel Washington
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and Brandy Randy Macho Man Leaping LANDI popum await great
man Randy Macho Man Savage his younger brother. They're both
sixty eight today yesterday. Ken Benson, the former NBA player
and former World Boxing Association walterweight champion um Pepino coaverress
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for sixty seven um um. The first all black heavyweight
title bout was December nineteenth, nineteen thirties, and that ye was.
That period was very racist, and Jack Johnson especially defended
the heavyweight titament against Jim Johnson by a draw. And
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also see Walter Murphy. He remember all enough to remember
that disco song instrumental a fifth of Beethoven. He was
a seventy on the nineteenth and as what al kayline
have been eighty eight on the nineteenth mister Tiger number six,
but he died April twenty six, twenty twenty. And also
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Bobby Layne was would have been ninety seven on at
ninety six on that date, but he died. I think
it was a December first, nineteen eighty six. Step eighteen
days away was sixtieth birthday. Well, everybody, have a great day.
Remember you've got to be a boy to be a
cowboy and talk to you people hopefully tomorrow by that,
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ladies and gentlemen. Cowboy Windsor covered a lot of ground.
Pepino Quavis actually fought Tommy Hearns in July and nineteen
eightiot Joe Louse Arena. How do I know that? Well,
because I know that. All right, I'm gonna talk about
micro betting in sports guys. First of all, needs in
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Ohio answer your question, buddy. Online sports betting will launch
in Ohio in January first, and there will be plenty
of information online how you do it and if you
let me set this up, because when you look at
the history and evolution of sports betting in and of itself,
it started with brick and mortar. You go into a casino,
you go into a sports book, you place your bet
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to give you your ticket, and you can come back later,
you can sit and watch the game. All the sports
books in Vegas now have beautiful big screens and places
to eat and drink. And it's still a lot of
fun for people. If you don't believe me, come out
during Super Bowl, come out during March Badness. It's amazing,
all right. And then along about nineteen eighty five, they
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started this thing called prop betting. And there, of course
player props, and there are the team props. You know,
will your team score more than twenty two points tonight?
Will refrigerator Perry score a touchdown? Yes or no? That
was the actual first ever prop bet. You know, how
many yards will your wide receiver get? You can do
it for NBA, you can do it for baseball, certainly
in football, believe it or not. Okay, there were about
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twelve hundred ways to bet the Super Bowl last February,
and a good majority of those were prop bets. So
prop bets came along, and that added to the enhanced
viewing participation and products. Then what came next in game betting?
And so you could be watching a game on TV,
and for instance, perhaps Let's say you're the Tennessee Titans
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and you're getting ten points Thursday night, and all of
sudden the Cowboys jump out a fourteen nothing lead. Is
all hypothetical. Now you look up and you see, you know,
all that ten plus ten points says, look as attractive. Now,
all of a sudden, you can get the Titans plus
twenty one. So you get the rest of the game,
and so the line has been adjusted. They adjust for
line totals throughout the game, and that's called in game betting.
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So you had brick and mortar going to casinos, going
to sports books that morphed into still in the sports book,
you know you've got prop bets and then online or
check that in game betting. Then, thanks to software and
technology and legalization and PASPA overturning in twenty eighteen, states
rights thirty two states don't have legalized gambling. The new
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rage now is online sports betting. You can bet right
from your app for the comfort of your living room.
Give a ton of credit to the folks in New Jersey.
They're way at the hell way ahead of the game.
About eighty three percent of all folks who bet in
New Jersey bet with their phone right, and it's better
for everybody. It's quicker, it's it's simple, all that kind
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of stuff. You know what that is. I'm sure if
you haven't seen the ads for crime allowed, draft, Kings,
van duel, you name it, you know what it is.
Here is the next frontier. It's called micro betting. Now,
microbetting is one of these situations where you're watching a
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Major League baseball game. You're watching an NFL game. A
little more difficult for hockey because it's more of a
free flowing game. But you're watching an NBA game, and now,
forget the side, forget the total, forget the endgame, you know,
evolvement of the line. Now here is an example of
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a microbet. You're watching an NBA game and all of
a sudden, Lebron James has filed. He goes to the
free throw line. Will he make the free throw? Yes
or no? Will it be a make or will it
be a miss. Let's say you're watching a Major League
baseball game. You know Eddie Kazinski comes up to the plate.
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Rather than betting on the innings, you can bet on
an individual at bat. Will he hit a home run?
You might get sixteen to one on and he hits
home run? On at a bat, will he strike out?
Will he put the ball in play? What will be
the result of the bat? If you want extremely rapid action,
they're talking about what will happen on the next pitch?
Will it be a ball or whether it be a
strike or micro betting may also include will the Cubs
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score and he runs this inning? Can you believe how
crazy this is? Now? I know there's probably gonna be
some growing pains and software. You're gonna have to get
your bet in quick and you're gonna get a result quickly.
This is why they think it's gonna take off because
there are some bets. There are some prop bets. For instance,
if you've bet Dallas to win the Super Bowl back
in August, you say you put up a hundred bucks,
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that money's tied up. Dallas may still do it. You're
gonna wait till February to collect that money. You're tying
up your money for six months. A lot of people
don't want to do that, or maybe a or our
game they get itchy, or whatever the case may be.
This ye're gonna get your result in seconds. What if
you're watching an NFL game kickers lines up to make
a fifty two yard field goal. Will they make it
or will they miss it? You can bet that. Well,
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how about the next drive your team takes over first
and ten on their own twenty. What will happen on
the next drive? Will it result in points? Will it
result in the turnover? Micro betting is gonna be whack
all right. It'll be very much similar to live betting,
which people are used to, but on a much quicker
turnaround pace. And here is a potential drawback because if
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you're really serious about making a profit, which betters aren't,
they're just not. They get their high making the bet,
not winning the bet. It enhances their viewing participation. That
feeds a competitive spirit. They may tell you they want
to make they want to lose money to get their
high making the bet. But here's a drawback. It can
be very difficult if you get too tied up making
too many microsports bets. How the hell is it gonna
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you're gonna really make a profit, because it's going to
be rapid fire, one after another. You know, the books
are going to tilt things in their favor and you're
gonna have to win sixty percent of the time to
to you know, win and do to the rapid nature
and do to the way that you know you're gonna
have to make a decision quick and it may not
always been the right one. Here's what is the concern.
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What may happen to certain betters. They lose one, they
lose two, then they're gonna be tempted to chase their
losses by placing additional wagers over and over again. Before
you know it, you're starting to endange your bank roll.
And that's the biggest problem both betters. So in addition
to the guy who lost all weekend it wants to
get even on Monday night, In addition to the guy
who has having a rough Sunday and says, let's play
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the over in this final game and get it all back. Now,
you start chasing microbets on top of that. Having said that,
it's just more in a long list, a long line
of profits. Legalized sports betting is here to stay, folks.
It's in thirty two states and with the evolution of software,
with the evolution of opportunities in again, you'll go live
and all hi hioh January First, I'm not totally sure
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the amount of products they're gonna have with the choices.
But you get the picture, you get the concept. You're
watching the game. You're watching the Cleveland Browns. It's third
and seven. Will they get a first out on the
next play? Will there be an interception on the next play?
Will there be a touchdown on the next play? And
they'll be you know, they'll be assigned odds accordingly, of course.
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But it's going to be rapid fire, staccato, rapid fire.
You're gonna be drinking through a fire hose when it
comes to betting. We'll see how it plays out. There's
an insatiable demand for more products, and trust me this one,
you know, I believe you'll see a lot of people
that will partake. Yes, it's called micro betting coming up.
I tease this earlier in the show. Jim Mercy of
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the Indianapolis Colts has his has designs on hiring a
particular coach that I know a lot about and I
covered that mark in seventeen years. I'm going to tell
you who it is, why it is, and what could
happen In February. I'm Bernie Fratto, where coming to you
live from the tirerac dot Com Studios. Here in Las Vegas,
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Marshall Mathers Eminem No one likes the name Dropper. Yeah,
I met him once at his studio and Nine Mile
Road back in two thousand and six when I didn't
article on Igor larionoff Eddy. You probably remember when the
NHL was on strike. They had a showcase in Moscow.
Oh man, I would have loved to have gone. I
found out later I could have. I blew it. I
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blood Adam Sandler, all right, speaking of someone who doesn't
want to blow it. Jim Ersey, he's presiding over a
dumpster fire the Indianapolis Colts. I never once believed that
Jeff Saturday was going to be the coach next year. No, No,
I think he wants to be, okay, I think he
was hired for nine weeks to be the consigliari and
report back to Jim Ersey. This proud franchise who can't
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seem to find their way. They're in a ditch. They're
like a drunk crossing an icy street. They just can't
get it going. Quarterbacks. No, ever since Peyton Manning left,
it's been an absolute cavalcade and nothing until maybe now
Here's why who will Jim Ersey offer the colt's job
to in late January? Wait for it, yes, Jim Harbaugh
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talking out my butt. I got all my moles back
in a arbor. Who knows what's what? And I'm not
I'm not I'm not really I'm not really predicting this
is going to happen in terms of Harball taking the job.
But I will tell you what eats at Jim Harball
quite a bit is that he never won a super Bowl,
not only to lose the one he was in. He
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losted to his brother. You can't win a super Bowl
in ann Arbor, Okay, So you can't rule this out.
And the stock is high, and you hear the Sean
Payton rumors, and now you know, Denver fires their coach,
Nathaniel Hackett, and whose name is mentioned, Harball. I don't
know if he'll go to Denver. I don't know. I
know the mc caskeys loved him with the Bears, but
they didn't they didn't fire their coach a couple of
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years ago before they brought an ebra fluce and so
that sailed. But here's the thing, here's why you cannot
pooh poo the fact that Jim er saw Jim Orsay
well not only offer Jim Harball the joke Colt's job
in January. These two have history going back to nineteen
eighty seven. Remember, Jim Harball was a quarterback in Indianapolis
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and hers Jim Ursay loves Jim Harball. In fact, he
named him. He nicknamed him captain comeback back in the day.
And when Chuck Pogano was fired as Indianapolis's head coach
back in twenty seventeen, there was a straw poll in
the city. Eighty one percent of the fans in the
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polls said they wanted Jim Harball. You gotta stay tuned.
Harball makes a nice piece of change at Michigan, but
RS's got money. He may even try to make Harball
the highest paid coach in the National Football League to
get him there, and I think he would give Harball control.
And by the way, Frank Greich was making nine million,
so I think he would. Harball would be paid more
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than that. Bill Belichick, if you're scoring at home, makes
twelve million, mcveay makes fifteen million. But ERSI can do
whatever the hell he wants. He clearly approved that when
he just hired Jeff Saturday and Bill Kawer lost his mind.
Here's a little more grist for the mill for you.
Remember back on March ninth, before the fifty eight year
old Jim Harball signed his new deal at Michigan, his
extension his boss, by the way, the athletic director Ward
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Manuel at Michigan is not only his boss, it's a
former teammate. They both played football at Michigan in the
early eighties under Boscheenbeckler. Harball told Ward Manual he would
no longer revisit the possibilities of coaching the NFL again.
That was after the ill fated meeting with the Wills
in Minnesota, where the Vikings had zero interest in Jim Harball.
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He got the interview as a courtesy, and I think
Harball was kind of shocked he didn't get the job.
But remember this, Harball his new extension five years, thirty
six million, last year at Michigan, it runs through twenty
twenty six. Here's the kicker. The buyout is not big
at all. If Harball were to leave Michigan after this year,
the buyouts only three million dollars, and it drops incrementally
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over the next five years, all the way down to
seven hundred and fifty thousand in twenty twenty five. So
it's not like he's got some Jimbo Fisher buyout. And
I would just say this that if this wasn't real,
why would Harball negotiate a contract with such a small buyout.
Jim Mersey Indianapolis Colts. They'll be talking to Jim Harball.
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Watch it's gonna do it for Ben Mallishaw. I'm Bernie
Fraudo back on these airwaves Thursday night. Keep it locked
right here. It's time for two pros and a cup
of Joe