Hour 4 - Still Waiting

Ben Maller talks the odds of Trevor Bauer pitching in MLB this upcoming season, which teams would be a good fit for Bauer, Coop's Scoop on Entertainment, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome. It's our number four, hour four of
our radio shows. We come unstitched here an hour number
four talk and bays Ball Spring training is underwaste. Never
too early to talk some baseball because there's an interesting
story that I think you'll agree we should be discussing here,

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and it involves the future of Trevor Bauer. We open
up the Mallors Sports book. What are the odds that
Trevor Bauer, who's back from suspension, pitches for a big
league team circa twenty twenty three? How does Trevor Bauer's
map back to the big league's look and how does
that play out and project into the future? And tell

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me which teams would be a good fit for Trevor Bauer.
We will spend the Mallard wheel of speculation. We'll get
to that and much more right now in our number four. Enjoy,
we don't forget our podcast as well. Have a great weekend.
Here's our four Still waiting, Still waiting, Welcome, in the

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hour come from the Grapefruit League and the Cactus League.
This is a two for one situation. They call that
the tufer. It's a twofer and a site for sore eyes.
If you're jones in for some baseball. If you're a
baseball person, you've likely seen the clips online of pitchers

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and catchers working out random position players in Arizona and Florida.
The boys of Summer are working out the kinks, and
there are a lot of kinks to work out with
spring training getting underway and the spring training games are
being starting very soon here. So you know who's not
towing the rubber in Florida or Arizona. Yeah, that's Trevor Bauer,

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ning Ning Ningning, Trevor Bauer. Have you heard the latest
on that. Maybe not Trevor Bauer. He won reinstatement from
an arbitrator. That was back in late December of twenty
twenty two. Here we are in mid February twenty twenty three.
The three hundred twenty four game suspension without pay was reduced.

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An arbitrator said that was too much punishment was reduced
to one hundred and ninety four games. Shortly after that,
the Dodgers, despite pleased by members of the organization to
keep Bauer, the Dodgers claimed that that didn't happen. They
lied and they released them, and they scored some very
expensive pr points. I don't know who they scored them within,

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but they got a lot of good publicity out of that,
I guess, even though it's going to hurt their product
on the field. They released a former Cy Young winning
pitcher outright, even though they still have to pay them.
And they did it on a Friday. That tells you
they didn't want a lot of people to know too
much about It was a Friday news dump that happened
in early January. Now since then it has been radio silence.

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We have had a few teams, the Atlanta Braves, for example,
and some others that have issued statements saying that they
categorically want nothing to do with Hour. But other than that,
it's been bubb Kiss. We even had the GM of
the Baltimore Orioles who said he was not allowed to
comment on Bauer because he was a free agent, which
last I checked, is not actually reality. You are allowed

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to talk about free agents. But it's been mostly Bubb Kiss.
So you have a cy young, winning pitcher, a pitcher who,
even if you hate Trevor Bauer, was one of the
top ten starting pitchers in baseball at the time he
went away, and he was not charged with a crime.

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There was no crime committed. You couldn't convict on a crime,
there was no charge of a crime. And Bauer has
been blacklisted. So how long will this last? Let us
discuss the question, what are the odds that Trevor Bauer
pitches in a major league game? Circa twenty twenty three.

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So we're gonna open up the Mallors Sports Book of
Record and we're going to set the odds on this
at plus one seventy. Now, what does that mean? If
you're not good with Matt that means a thirty seven
percent chance a thirty seven percent chance that we see

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Trevor Bauer, which is it's not great. It's like a
three seventy hitter in baseball. If you're a three seventy
hitter in baseball, you're Tony Gwynn. You're a Hall of Famer. Now,
now my views on this. You've got Flavor, Flavor, sombrero,
and the Giant Wheel, and we will combine all of
these things together, and we are going to make the

(05:40):
Babba Ganoosh is what we're gonna make. We're gonna make
the Baba Ganoe. Now, first of all, Trevor Bauer is
clearly not making things easy on himself. We know that
part of the reason the phone is not ringing, it's
not buzzing with text messages is because Bauer has refused
to play the game. That he's very stubborn. And from

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what I've been told, maybe I'm getting bad information, but
Major League Baseball's brass pretty much demanded that Bauer genuflect,
that he apologized and show remorse, and Bauer has done
a one eighty on that he does not believe he
did anything wrong, and as a result of that, why
would he apologize. He is also very litigious. He may

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sue me just for doing this monologue. He's become the
flavor flave of baseball, right, public enemy, Yeah boy right,
All we need is Chuck d and then we've got
the hip hop magic there we can put we can
put Trevor Bauer in that. But let's go back a
couple of months in the way back machine. So Bauer,
I think most people know the story. He was accused

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of choking a San Diego baseball groupie that he met
on social media, and she was unconscious, and he was
accused of punching her repeatedly while they were making whoopee. Now,
Bauer maintained from the very beginning that everything that happened
during the not one, but two booty calls, that those

(07:11):
encounters was all consensual and for those that want to
attack Bauer, you're free to do that. But the evidence
actually backs up his argument, which is a tough pill
to swallow if you're against the Bauer. He was thoroughly
investigated by law enforcement. There was a month several months
of investigation, and it turned out there was no there there,

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which is unfortunate for those that are convinced there was
a there there. There was no there there, or else
Bauer would have stood trial. And they had a hearing,
which is, I guess as close as you can get
to some kind of ruling in this There was a
hearing that lasted four days, almost a full work week.
You had a judge, who, I guess we should point out,

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a female judge, the kinder sex, who determined that Trevor
Bauer did not pose a threat to the woman in
San Diego and that her injuries were not the result
of anything that she verbally objected to, which means that

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they were both on the kinky train. Was what that
means based on how I read that. And he was
never formally charged Bauer. And so it does appear, you know,
I mean to rephrase it again, that he's got some
odd fetishes that he's into whatever floats your boat, as
long as it's not illegal, and it was not illegal
in this case, as they determined no crime was committed,

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they could not even get a charge. And if major
League Baseball, and I want to be clear about and
I think what you do in your bedrooms, what you
do in your bedroom, that's you know, teas thrown all right,
I don't really care. But Major League baseball teams. If
they got rid of the guys that were into taboo activity,
shall we say, for polite society, they would have a

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lot of job openings in baseball. And I highly doubt
it's changed. I was lucky enough in my younger days.
I very briefly traveled with a baseball team, and I
admit I was a bit naive. I was pretty young.
I didn't really know that much about the world. I
heard things and experienced I saw things. I didn't experience them, unfortunately,

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but I heard and saw things that really opened my
eyes to a whole new world that I had known
nothing about. That was available to the star athlete, that
was not available to the guy that drives a truck
or I mean, you gotta deal with a lot lizards,
you know, you gotta deal with that. It's a whole
different world now. Secondly, I reached out to some of

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the people that I know that that work in that
business of baseball, some of my baseball peeps, and I
was trying to get some reaction, a pulse of the
people on what's going to happen here, and they were
all over the map. There was no consensus. I reached
out to several people, well, uh that. One One person
said that that that Bauer has essentially been run out

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of He's run out of road. The road has ended,
and it's a dead end for him. Another person compared
Bauer to Yacio Puig who was ostracized from the big
leagues and has not returned after at one point being
a very bright star for the Dodgers and an All Star.
He's been kicked out and he's not welcome back. And

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I'm gonna be Benny bright Sead on this one. So
the question here is how does Trevor Bauer's map look
to get back? If you were to type in the
address into the GPS, how would that look to get
back to the majors? How does that play out? So
there is no clear set path, but based on the
things that I know in this situation, Trevor Bauer seems

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to think this is the consensus that he's going to
get a major League Baseball offer, that he's not going
to have to go anywhere other than the major leagues,
that he just has to sit by and wait, and
that there will be plenty of injuries that happen. It
happens all the time. Baseball players are soft There'll be
a bunch of starting pitchers that get hurt. We've already
seen some of that. One of the Yankee pitchers got hurt,

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and that he will be able to go right back
to the big leagues. Now, I believe it is more
complicated than that. Major League Baseball at this point is
filled with a bunch of sheep. There are very few lions.
It's mostly sheep. And the sheep are afraid of sticking
their neck out. And Bauer, even though he was not

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charged and all of that, the baseball media establishment has
him on the list of do not call. And Baseball's
very concerned about their image. They're overly concerned about their origin.
Bauer is seeing his toxic at this point. Now, my
advice the Mallard Think tank to soften the blow, make

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it easier for the sheep, the cowards in Major League Baseball.
And I'm gonna quote the Golden voice, the late great
Vincent Scully, the Dodger broadcaster who's so eloquently said back
in his day, if anyone has a sombrero, throw it
to the sky, because Trevor Bauer needs it. He needs
to find his way to Monterey and not the one

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in California, all right, much like Yasiel Puigan hasn't worked
out for Pueag yet. But Bauer needs to go to
Cancoon or Tijuana or Jalisco or Durango or any of
those other outposts in the Mexican League. Find a team,
any team. Play for the cotton farmers, play for the Sultans,
the railroadsman, the parrots. I don't care, but that is

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where he needs to go. And that way the way
I see it. The sheep in Major League Baseball can
then say, well, we didn't sign him first. That team
in Tijuana signed him. And Bauer was a model citizen,
he kept his nose clean, he played for the Guadalajara

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Musicians or whoever, and and they can put a bunch
of qualifiers in it that Bauers got to quote Johnny Cash,
walk the line. Blah blah blah blah blah. All right,
final thought, So let's project into the future here, and
let's let's give some team's advice on where they should

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go to get Bauer, Which teams, which teams would be
a good fit for Trevor Bauer. So we need the
big wheel, the mallor wheel of speculation for some Bauer power.
Do we have the Mallor wheel ready to go. We're
gonna spend the mavel there. It is big money, big money,
nomy nomy stop. Okay, the Mallor wheel of speculation was

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just never wrong. I've got it, says on the wheel
here Buckaroo and Zoo. So that means the Texas Rangers.
Those have to the buckal ruse off the baseball map
the Rangers. That actually makes sense. The wheel of speculation
is not wrong. The Rangers have been spending money like
it grows on trees. They have cracked the piggy bank.

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They've signed big name free agents like Jacob Degram this
past winter, Corey Seeger away from the World Series champion Dodgers,
Marcus Simeon, big money free agents that they've signed over
the last couple of years. Ownership has this brand new ballpark,
not that old. They're horny to get a winner. If
you add Trevor Bauer and I'm looking into my crystal

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ball right now, you add Trevor Bauer to the mix,
the Texas Rangers are a playoff team. The Texas Rangers
make the playoffs with Trevor Bauer. You hurt me right,
you'd have a rotation of the Graham, who will probably
only make fifteen starts because he's away hurt. Bauer would
slide in as the number two starter. You've got Martin Perez,

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Nathan Vivaldi, who they added the ex red Sock. They
signed John Gray, who's an average major league starter a
couple of years ago. They also got a Through Haney
who's not very good from the Dodgers. But they've got
enough there. And if you look at the division, the
cheating Astros they lost for a Lander, so they're not
as good. The Mariners are a good squad. I'm not
going to knock the Mariners, but they've got the jinks

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of Robbie. The Mariner fan are super fan so and
they're certainly not unbeatable. The Angels are a middling team.
The A's have hit the pause button. They're trying to
wait until they move to Vegas to be good again.
So the only downside here for a team like the Rangers,
who take a pr head for a couple of days.
But these news cycles last less than twenty four hours.

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So what you do is you signed Bauer on a Friday,
take out the trash Day Friday afternoon around five o'clock
and by Monday morning people that have moved on to
the next big thing, now whatever, the Air Force will
be shooting down some balloons over some lake somewhere and
that'll be the big story. So the other option on
the mallor wheel of speculation would be the zoo. As

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in the su the Yankees have already dabbled with guys
that have some checkered things on their resume. El Duque,
for example, a beloved Yankee. So if you deal with
El Duque, you can certainly deal with Trevor Bauer. And
the Yankee rotation is filled with fragility. They need all

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kinds of reinforcements there, and Bauer would be a major upgrade.
The one problem is his mortal enemy is Garrett Cole,
so that is a problem. But that's a wobbly starting rotation.
So that is what I have on the Bauer Hour,
the Bauer Watch, if you will, It is the Ben
Mallers Show. That's the show you're listening to right now.
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(17:43):
Why is that Monsey? Why they destroy everyone that works
on this show anyone? Obviously it's because I'm a Clippers fan. Obviously,
that's right. People have come around the younger generation. Yeah,
a burgoo boomer team, you know, that old school team

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back in the old days. Absolutely right. We have the
Coop scoop on entertainment that'll be coming up in a
couple of minutes, and we'll get back to the calls.
Right now. We haven't taken a call in a while,
So let's see who do we have any meany miny mo?
Pickup caller by their name? Which way, well, which we

(18:25):
will like? Go here? By the way, David in Pennsylvania
rights and he says weed Man is a con. He's
on public assistance, he says, which means his healthcare has
covered and get teeth anytime he wants. So from David.
Look at David Man attacking the weed man, destroying weed man, hippie,
how dare you David? We finally made up. We had
a falling out. We man didn't call the show for
a couple of years, and then all of a sudden

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he returns. There you go. Let's go to the phones
and we'll say hello to Let's see here, how about Christopher,
who's in the Great State of Ohio. Hello, Christopher in
the Buckeye State. What's going on? Man? Welcome? Methinks that
Christopher has passed out, but he did not hang up

(19:10):
on his phone. And I don't hear a lot of
snoring there. So well, thank you for the call, Thank
you for the effort. All right, let's go to Don,
who's in Wisconsin. And Don is next on the Ben
Mallers Show. Hello Don, Welcome, Hello Ben. I hate to

(19:33):
admit it, but I totally agree with you on the
Trevor Bauer situation. He will never get hired by a
team on the West Coast because of the news cycle.
But I do think that an American League team, and
that would be the Rangers, would be a good fit
for him. Now do you agree, Don, as a fellow

(19:53):
baseball fan like myself, that the Texas Rangers with Trevor
Bauer and you've got the grom for the fifteen starts
till he gets hurt that he might win one. Well, no,
he'll win every time he pitches, but he'll get he'll
miss half the season. But now, that's what he did
with the Mets. He won every time he pitched pretty
much until he got to the late in the year
and then he fell apart. That lost to Atlanta late

(20:15):
last season was devastating. But but no, I'm looking at
the Rangers now. They don't have a great lineup. But
they got it. They got you know, three or four
good everyday ball players, and they've got some guys in
the bullpen that have had good numbers. But I don't
really know who the hell they are. And I'm looking
at their pitching staff. I think that's a playoff team.
I believe that's a playoff team if they get Bower.
I don't think it is without him, but with him,

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and let's say he makes twenty five starts and they
they go, they win fifteen, sixteen, seventeen of those starts,
that's a playoff team. So yeah, a look at that done.
We are great. Don you know what. That's a great
job by you don calling up to agree with me,
tremendous well. And also, this is the first time I've
ever called a long first time long time. I always

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remember your first They'll always remember your first time. What
part of Wisconsin in there? Uh? Madison? Oh see, my
brother lives over and over in Appleton across the which
is a long drive. I'm told there's no real direct
way to get between the two, Like you have to
drive kind of small roads and things like that. Because
I wanted to go to Madison to check it out.
Because I've seen college football games there and whatnot on TV.

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But it's it's kind of a long drive. It's an
interesting town. But yes, yeah, and I also I also
like the Clippers too, So you know, now I've had
another point. We look at that. Now you're just sucking off.
Now you're sucking off. That's a good job by your dome. Solid.
So why is this night different than how a nice dome?
Why did you decide to call tonight as opposed to

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these other times you've listened? Just I agreed totally with
you with the Trevor thing. I mean, yeah, what he
did was pause. I mean, yes, it was a little kinky,
but hey, you know, like you said, to each his
own and I got you done right, But well thanks

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for calling. Now you next time you call, you can
say first time, long time. Well I almost did, but yeah, yeah,
all right, buddy, thank you. I'll get that new caller.
And you people say there's only the same seven people
that call this show. There's new people. You see that, Manzy,
that's a new person, right there, a new human being.
You're doing great, Ben, Thank you. Let's go to Chris,

(22:21):
who's in the Commonwealth. And Chris is next on The
Ben Mallow Show on Fox. Hello Chris, Hi, Ben, good morning.
Thank you. Thank you for the monologue because it brought
me back because I'm you know, I'm a little older.
I'm fifty two, and I thought about Wade Box. He
was kinky too. Remember Margot Adams, I remember her name.
This I was thinking of. I was thinking of half

(22:43):
Pinder or something like, because you look like half pinderfin.
But thank you, thank you for that because I was
thinking about that, and you know whatever, it reaches own right.
But I want to flower here because all we have
is Rafael Davis. I mean that we need a right
and Chris Sales like Jacob Dram you might might make
one stot this year, if you know what I mean.

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But the reason and I did spend the wheel of speculation.
But the reason I don't think the Red Sox came
up is because I don't think they're really trying to win,
Like are they really? I don't I don't know what
they're doing, Like they're just like a middling team, Like
I don't put the highest ticket prices and all these things.

(23:26):
It's like people are going nuts, like over here, and
you know, they're talking about craziness. Craziness over here, Like
what are they doing? I mean, you got the computer
guy running the team, you know, looking at stats and
all that stuff. Time Bloom, you know, it's like where
are you going with this? But like explaining this to me,

(23:46):
I don't understand, Like all like the Dodger rejects end
up in Boston and a lot of the Red Sox
rejacks end up in LA. That's a great point. That's
a great point. That's a great point. They said this
team has more Dodge players from Dodger players from the
tooth was an eighteen teen. They are on the league
right now, you know, Turner, Yeah, there were three. They

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they've got k kek Hernandez Jansen. Yeah, that's right. They
really That tells you that Hi'm Bloom was a big
fan of the twenty eighteen Dodgers. All right, thank you, Chris.

(24:29):
I'm looking at the Red Sox rotation. You see, they're
no the Red Sox fans. They are better than that. Man,
that's that's awful. Yeah, they do get hose Man because
like every I've been I've been lucky enough to go
to Fenway a few times. Are you still trying to
get back there? Right? Roberto. Yeah, I'm hoping to go
this year. Yeah, that's it's awesome. But it's like it's
I feel like it's a lot of people that don't
live in that area that are like or travel from.

(24:51):
I feel like right now the Red Sox are kind
of mean, like manage like the Dodgers were with Frank mccourd,
whether or like trying to compete, but not really feels
that way. Yeah, half sucks, man, it really really sucks. Yeah.
Corey Kluber, who please, he's been washed up for how
many years? He's their number two stars. Chris Sale, who's
one bike ride away to get a sandwich from falling apart.

(25:12):
He's their numbers. Don't forget about the trade with Mookie
Best already got rid of the guy with the bets
to the Dodgers got an MP Crimea Rivers. Red Sox
fans shut up, well, Coop, you got you got two
better players in the Red Sox. E though you're not
gonna win crap, but you got two. Yeah. Tired for

(25:33):
the longest playoff drought in all of baseball. It's the
Angels and the good news is Alardy Marino's not gonna
sell the team. So yeah, great, great news. Yeah I
had red sock. I'm looking at this line up. Holy
terrible man. This reminds me like the Butch Hopson when
he was managing the Red Sox back in the Yeah,

(25:55):
I think it was the late nineties. It was not
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for missing calls. This stems from that Lakers Celtics game
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didn't call anything, but he was a good non call.
Let him play in that situation, let him play. It
was just so blatant, like in slow motion. It was
so obvious and bad. But he said it's not something
that they've publicized because they don't think it's appropriate. They
don't get find but they their assignments are affected. He

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also talked about load management, and he said that one
way to deal with it would be to tie awards
to the amount of games played. That's where we're at, Ben,
that's where we're at. It. Absolutely believe that it might.
It might. Here's a trophy for participating. Get out of here. Well,
once these guys established themselves as stars, that's when they

(27:23):
start doing it. You can't do it when you're like
a young I guess maybe now you can if you're
like the number one thing, who's that guy from France, whatever,
the guy that's supposed to be the next female. That
guy could probably do it already. It's like a generic
lottery pick. I don't know about that. Stupid though, it's stupid.
Back to you, Ben, all right, thank you for that.
It is the Ben Mallor show. As we continue on here,

(27:45):
and I think we should have the Coop Scoop on
entertainment right now. Hooray for Holly, Ray for Holley would
So let's get over to Google loop. What are you
gonna be watching this weekend? There's no there's no NBA.
They got the All Star Gamer. Who cares about that?
So what else is going on this weekend? Blue? Well?
Ben over in theaters? This weekend we have the premiere
of Aunt Man in the Wasp Quantum Mania. I know

(28:10):
you're super stoked about that. I can't wait. I'm lining
up right now after the show, I'll be waiting in line. Yeah,
I don't believe you, and I won't either, because I'm
just man. I just I don't know. Is it yeah?
Is it ever gonna get? Eddie's not here so we
can bash the Marvel movies without him getting all upset
about to watch that today. You're probably right, I just man,

(28:34):
it's just like it's too many at this point. It's
just too many, for real, for real, for real, you
can't you can't keep up. It's too much. When I
was eating, when I was fat, you know, you eat
too much. Even you gotta eat a little bit. There's
no self control. I watched the first Iron Man. I
never watched any other Marvel movies. You don't need Yeah,
I watched more than that, but yeah, still, I mean

(28:55):
that I watched, and I'm like, I watched. I know
it's not Marvel, but I watched, like Harry Potter, the
original Harry pot I haven't watched in the other movie.
Yeah I didn't, Okay, watch the first Harry Potter. I
Harry Potter is great. And it's like, you don't need
to make seven movies. Okay, you don't need to do.
And I watched like Star Wars the first three. I'm out,

(29:16):
that's it. That's the original first Yeah, the original three
back in the old all about it? Anyway, we'll bash
Marvel all the time, but the Star Wars and Harry
Potter and stop it. Whack what good job? Good job,

(29:37):
you've never you've never watched Star Wars. Turn your mic off.
I've only seen the new ones. I've never seen the original.
Oh mind, that's even worse than Roberto. That's a good
job by monsters. He's a Clipper fan. If he's only
seen the original, that's a solid job by you. Yes, anyway,
Moving on to television this weekend, Um Normally I wouldn't

(30:00):
mentioned this in a coop scoop and entertainment because it's
on Network TV. But networked, I know it's awful boomer,
yeah exactly, But I do want to mention this because no,
because there was about I don't know five thousand commercials
for this during the Super Bowl on Fox the new
show Animal Control with Joel mccale. H Now, I just

(30:25):
I'm throwing this out here doing croup scoop because if
any of the listening listeners watch that, you know, let
me let me know how it is. I'm curious because
I was watching the Super Bowl and I saw the
you know, the different previews and the commercials, and I'm like,
guaranteed that gets canceled after like two seasons. But then again,
it's Joel McHale, so that's probably just part for the course.
Did you did you see? This is off topic, I apologize,

(30:47):
but did you see the two be commercial member during
the rabbit Hole one? Yeah? People were freaking out. They
were like yeah, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's funny.
All right. Moving on to later in the week, actually
actually today today, a couple of new things from Apple
TV Plus, which is one of my favorite and one

(31:09):
of the you know, top growing streaming networks. First, we
have these streaming networks you have right now, Coop? How
many do I pay for? Or how many do I
have access to? Oh, I'm gonna tell people Netflix about that, Coop.
I pay for Netflix, so I'm not worried about that.
I know. Yes, I say you have four streaming services?

(31:30):
Are you? Are you talking about what I pay for? What?
I pay for two? But you have access to two
other ones? No, I have a lot more than that.
I pay for Netflix, I pay for Disney Plus, I
pay for HBO Max, and I pay for Showtime. Wow.
You pay for four? Yeah? Oh and Apple TV Plus
so I guess that's yeah, how many other ones you have?

(31:52):
And then I use my mom's Hulu and Amazon Prime seven? Yeah? Yeah,
Why do you have time to watch all that? Well?
You know I have to. I have to. I have
to prep for this segment. I understand exactly. Oh, I

(32:16):
mean if if we should all be writing off our
our TV bills in this industry? Yes, how do I
jump on that? The irs and see what they say? Anyway? Um,
So on Apple TV Plus today is a new series.
It's called Hello Tomorrow and it's kind of like a
retro future dramedy. And this one stars Billy Crudup crude

(32:41):
up Um and Hank Azaria and basically they are part
of a group of traveling salesman that pitch time shares
on the moon. Yeah, so, uh yeah, it should be interesting.
I saw, I watched. I got a great business idea.
How about we sell we name a rain of sand
after you. If you send me nineteen ninety nine, we

(33:04):
will make your own grain of sand on the mighty
Pacific Ocean. Uh and and we can do it? Why not? Yeah,
that's a great idea. Thank you. Um. Also available today
on Apple TV Plus is a new movie and this
is also playing in select theaters right now. It is
called Sharper and basically it follows a group of corn
artists that target New York billionaires. Julianne Moore and John

(33:28):
Lithgow star in this one, and it's getting pretty good
reviews from people. And that's gonna be about Darren Sharburn. No,
but that'd be that'd be an interesting watch. That's that's
a true crime documentary. And then also, uh, last week,
Tonight returns for their new season on HBO Sunday, night
at eleven PM. And that is coop scoop on entertainment.

(33:51):
All right, thank you. We went a little along there,
so Balderdash is kicked out of the show. But I
see I get some some random big names, and I
failed to mention this earlier bat job by me my
favorite story from the Chiefs Championship Rade. It is not
Patrick Mahomes handing the trophy to a fan. Something even

(34:11):
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(35:17):
along our condolences to those that enjoyed the work of
Tim McCarver. I didn't know Tim McCarver as a baseball player.
I knew Tim McCarver as a broadcaster and he was
the voice of Major League Baseball as far as a commentator.
He did twenty four World Series and they changed. He went.

(35:38):
He worked at ABC, CBS and Fox. McCarver passed away. Uh, my,
buddy gets upset when I said that he died in Memphis, Tennessee.
I guess he had been in support health there, passed
away at the age of or died at the age
of eighty one. But looney, uh this yes, yes, some people,
I said, I don't know, you don't know. You're not

(35:59):
gonna pass away, but you're gonna die. You're not gonna
but but Tim McCarver, My first thought is I'm very grateful.
I was actually talking to a couple of radio friends
and my Tim McCarver is one of the all time
great talk radio guests, and we were lucky enough in
the early days of Fox Sports Radio we had Tim
on semi regularly. I did a weekend show. During the day,
we had people on to chat. And the reason Tim

(36:21):
is one of the all time great sports radio guests.
You would ask Tim McCarver a question about whatever the
big stories in baseball were at the time, and Tim
would answer your question. He would then do a four
minute monologue asking himself like five other questions. It was amazing,
It was great, and he just it. It was the

(36:41):
way that his mind worked. And if you're old enough
to remember, this goes way back, but there was a
famous moment way before social media where Tim McCarver and
Dion Sanders had a beef. Dion was planning for the
Braves in the early nineties and they I think they
had won the National League pennant and Dion poured a

(37:01):
bucket of ice on mccarver's head in the locker room,
and I remember McCarver said, you're a real man, Dion,
and ya Rest in peace. Tim McCarver, I got a murder,
I gotta go.