February 23, 2023 • 38 mins
Ben Maller talks about the abysmal TV ratings for the NBA All-Star game, what the league can do to make the All-Star Game Great Again, Puck the World w/ Eddie Garcia, Fact or Fiction, and much more!
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Hello and welcome. It's our name bur four O four
of our radio program, and we talk about the report card,
the wellness check on basketball. How do you compute the
NBA All Star rating debaccle, Will the message reach the
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power brokers in the NBA a historically low rating? And
what can be done to make the NBA All Star
Game great again. We'll talk about all of that and
a whole lot more right now in our number four.
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lead this hour coming from the Boom Tube. Say why
a report out indicating how the twenty twenty three NBA
All Star Game did a wellness check and how did
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it do? If you didn't see it, smell that it's
stunk the high Heaven. We've been told the NBA All
Star Game was an airball in the ratings. Swing Bata,
swing Bata, saw wing Bata? Yeah, how bad was it?
Lebron James and the Greek Freak generated the smallest smallest
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recorded audience in the history of the All Star Game.
Turns out they suck U turn out the last the
parties over Sunday's All Star Game average day combine two
point two rating, four point five million viewers across TNT
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and TBS. We are not in television, we are in radio.
But we are told by the Pulse in Sports Media
watch group that that is easily the lowest rated and
least watched edition of the All Star Game. Keep in mind,
the ratings have been bad in recent years and this
year is a new standard of futility. How bad was
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it year to year the decline The NBA lost twenty
nine percent of their customers twenty seven percent from last
year's All Star Game, but the decline twenty nine percent
and just insane. The ratings going down. And while the
All Star Game viewership has been going the wrong direction, right,
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the wrong direction here, it's not going the way it's
supposed to. We've been told that live sports is invincible,
that it is the last of the mohegans, that all
of us watch everything on demand now, but when it
comes to sports, will watch it live. But this year's
decline the steepest for the All Star Game since all
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the way back in two thousand, a generation ago, the
first All Star Game after a hiatus because of the
lockout that they had back in the late nighties. And
but wait, there's more. The ridunculously bad audience means that
the NBA All Star Game got fewer people watching than
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the quote reimagined close quote flag football All Star Pro Bowl.
So more people would rather watch a flag football game
than an NBA game with the biggest stars, the biggest
stars around. In fact, it was almost two million more
people watching the Pro Bowl than the NBA All Star Game.
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And people that love to say Baseball's dead, no one's
watching baseball. Well, Major League Baseball's All Star Game through
seven point five million people to watch it, while the
NBA All Star Game had four and a half million.
So that's my computer like break tells me about three
million more people chose to watch the Baseball All Star
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Game than the basketball. But wait, there's even more. The
All Star Game got smoked by the Daytona five hundred.
That happened earlier in the day, eight point one million
people watching on Fox. The Daytona five hundred. As my
old pal we used to have on Fox all the time,
Darryl Waltrip on Fox Sports Radio would say, Buca, let's
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go racing boys, all right, So let's discuss the question
how do you compute the hoops All Star rating debacle?
And what a debacle it is. So I've got Russell Stover,
termites and used car salesman, and we will combine all
of these things together, all of them, and we are
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going to make a trip to detention, which is where
the NBA needs to go. It's as clear as vodka
they need to go to detention. So to tip off here,
this is a good thing. Bravo. I say, I am proud,
maybe not of you, but of others. Amongst us that
are part of this. We're all in this together as
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consumers a sport sports fandom. It gives us hope. It's
it's like this if if you love a restaurant and
you've supported the restaurant, say it's a mom and pop restaurant.
You go to that restaurant a couple of times a month,
and they change ownership, and then you go into that restaurant,
the menus different. Your go to items not on the
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menu anymore. And let's say you like the prime rib.
They used to serve a great prime rib. You go
in there, but we don't have a prime rib. But
try the new menu and you order something up and
it's a bowl of delicious, very palatable perina one dog food.
You're not contractually obligated to keep dining at the restaurant.
And so it's I'm happy that we're looking at some
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what I believe is discerning customers. We believe in you, right,
we need. Entertainment's an odd thing, right, It's one of
the traits that makes humans unique. Now, can you live
without entertainment? Sure? Sure, but you'd probably need a straight
jack straight jacket. I remember a story about Nelson Mandela
who was in solitary confinement, and he would be doing
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things to try to entertain himself. And I've heard I've
heard stories about this over the years, where like people
that are detained in a in a cell somewhere where
they're by themselves, solitary confinement, like they watch insects and
they'd count the cracks on the wall, or they'd find
something something to help entertain them. Now that's it. We
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are not last I checked in solitary confinement. So your
options are not limited. We all have better things to
do with our time. And think of it like a
box of Russell Stover chocolates. You don't have to eat
the raspberry cream. I don't know a lot of people
that like the raspberry cream. You can go with the
milk chocolate truffle, you can go with the cashew cluster.
You don't have to do the raspberry. And so you
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flip that remote on and you go somewhere else, or
if you're just doing streaming, you go somewhere else there.
The moment I knew the All Star Game was gonna
blow was right at Jump Street when I saw Luca
don Chick of the Mavericks and a few other players,
but I remember Luca in particularly had this big smirk
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on his face when the first possession took place and
they played defense or no defense. Wink wink. It was
one of those wink wink inside jokes. El Matador Ollo
right the screen, the screen door in a hurricane offers
more defense than the NBA All Stars did in that game. Now, furthermore,
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will the message reach the powers that be, the power
brokers hanging out on Madison Avenue in New York City?
Will it reach them? And the answer is highly unlikely.
I'll tell you why. The big shots they're the ones
that are wearing the noise canceling earplugs. They are able
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to compartmentalized, They're able to drown out a lot of
the negative feedback. And I continue to bring up Adam
Silver's name, the Reptilian commissioner of the NBA, who is
paddling his canoe down a river called Denial, playing the
fiddle while Rome burns if you will. He does not
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think it's a big deal. And it's like termites are
eating the foundation of the building and it's not until
the roof caves in that you realize you've got a problem.
Nothing to worry about. We're all good now. The NBA
spin doctors are already working their hocus pocus what's my evidence?
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They are declaring a partial victory, sending out information to
useful idiots in the media, the basketball toe sucking media,
saying that the All Star Game was still the most
viewed cable program among all viewers, and it was the
most watch TV program of any kind among viewers under
the age of fifty, So that, while it may be true,
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is not the point. This is a case that all
big businesses go through, and even small businesses. It's called
quality control, poor quality control. It's it's paltering, is what
it is. It's it's like you're you're misleading. It's your
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your house shopping and you're a real estate agent who
tells a potential buyer that the property has a lot
of inquiries. When you're asked how many people actually bid,
you know on the property, you know how many bids
there are, and all, well, it's very popular's a lot
of inquiries. It's actually unpopular. No one's bid on it,
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all right, party shot. So what can be done to
make the All Star Game great again? Drastic times call
for drastic measures as some wise people have said in
the past. So this actually I want to steal this
take from Pete Vessi. Peter Vessey was the original NBA insider.
He was the Wog before Wog. I'd love to get
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Pete Vessi on my podcast. I wonder how he feels
about the cottage industry. He was one of the early
people that did that insider for the New York Post
and NBC and to watch What's Happened Now with guys
like Adam Schefter and Jay Glazer and Wog and all
these other insider types, and that was his baby, like
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he was the first one that really got into that
in basketball. But anyway, the advice he had he's retired now,
but the advice he had is to take a page
out of the used car salesman salesman's playbook. He used
car salesman's playbook way back over twenty years ago. Major
League Baseball's All Star Game was in Milwaukee. The game
was tied seven seven. What happened next? Bud Selik, the
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used car salesman who owned the Brewers and was the
Commissioner Baseball, threw his arms up literally in the eleventh
inning of a tie All Star Game, after the umpires
told him that both the National League and American League
All Star teams had run out of pitchers, so the
game ended in a tie. He gave up. What did
Bud Selick do? Then? Baseball was so embarrassed. They were
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so shamed by this. We were not at the era
we're in now. This was twenty years ago. In that era,
this was an embarrassment. Now they would have said, what
do you want. It's too hard for the pictures. They
need to rest up well. Basic League Baseball put down
the gauntlet and they said that the winning league after
that in the All Star Game in future years would
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get home field advantage in the World Series. This time
it counts was the commercial that we played on Fox
Sports Radio. And the NBA needs to follow that plan.
It's drastic. Some would call it dr Conyan. Get rid
of Team Jannis and Team Lebron. That's for gazing. Anyway,
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go old school East versus West. Winning conference gets home
court advantage in the NBA Finals. And I promise you,
I will garn ffante you. You will see an honest effort,
and you will see guys playing defense. Maybe not the
entire game, but you'll certainly see more defense than that
turd burger they served up the other day. And some
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will say no, They'll say no, no, it's not the worst,
not worth the risk of injuries, a meaningless game, blah
blah blah blah blah. But I say felly, I say
fooy that it is the Ben Maller Show. If you
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We'll take your calls. Also on Twitter at Ben Maller.
We have Puck the World coming up a little bit
later this hour, fact or fiction as well, and it's
the prime time effect. What is the prime time effect?
We'll get to that and we will do it next. Oh.
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the tirerack dot Com. Fox Sports Radio Studios, it's Ben
Maller Firk Dog Wrightson. He says, Hey, Ben, don't be
so sure that none of your listeners are in solitary confinement.
(14:56):
You've got a lot of prison fans. Yeah, but I
don't get a lot of prison mail anymore. Bums me out.
I used to get prison mail. I had prison pen pals,
six pack and some of the other listeners. The years
I got the most mail. I'm sure there's no correlation
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to this. When I worked with the great Karen Kay
at Foxbus. For some reason, when I worked with Karen Kay,
there were a lot of people sending from prison, and
also Miranda, my old producer Miranda. For some reason. I
don't know these horn dogs in prison. They send a
lot of mail in those days. Midnight Walker, Right, there's
a great monologue. Ben. At a risk of sounding like
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a suck up, he says he likes our show and
Coward show. There you go. He listens. He says, I
listen to a lot of sports talk, both live and
on the podcast. Well, thank you, Midnight Walker. I appreciate that.
Sharon says, excellent idea. Make the NBA All Star Game
means something. Players don't respect, honor the honor of being
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an All Star players player as they should. Blah blah
blah blah blah. All right, let's get to it. We'll
go to the phones right now and eeny meany miny mo,
pick a collar by the day. Let's say a lot
to the black irishman who's in Omaha. Black irishman has
gone to bed, he's checked out, he's no longer there,
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and I'm sure next time he calls up he will complain, scream,
shout and all about. Let's say hello to Ed in Arlington. Hello, Ed, Welcome.
The stores at night are big and bright deep in
the heart of Texas. Oh yeah, a age in bloom
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is like perfume deep in the herd of Texas. How
are you been? Hey? If I was any better, I'd
be a Ranger, but not a Texas Ranger because Jacob
de Graham already having some issues in spring training. Yeah,
I figure if they get a half, you know, get
a dozen starts out of him, and he's ready for
the playoffs. So I guess to get their money's worth
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to mean they make it that far, because I don't
think they're gonna get anything like a full season to
starts out of that guy nor any of their other
recently signed starters. They signed a bunch of sore arm
pitchers for top dollar. Yeah, because those guys. Those guys
are available. Yeah. Yeah, Nathan Evaldi has been hurt a lot.
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Andrew Any Yeah, yeah, they gotta listen to and I've
been I've been advising, listen, you're the only Ranger Texas
Ranger fan that calls the show. Ed. I've been telling
the Trevor Bauer. They signed him their playoff team. He's
out there, he's available. I know, I wouldn't be opposed
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to it. Like I said last time I called, the
guy's not been convicted of anything. Anybody in this country.
You can sue anybody for anything you want to sue
him for. That doesn't mean you're gonna win, or that
he's guilty. And uh, I accept that they had about
of that he and his accusers, at least a couple
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of them, they had about of rough sex. Things may
have gotten out of hand, but nobody has seen fit
to charge him or to bring him to trial. And
one of his accusers is a total flake. I mean
she she used him in an incident, and then she
continued to see him after that incident that she's now
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complaining about. That's ridiculous. It's a it's a tangled web.
It's a tangled web. You want to go down a
rabbit hole, you can find all kinds of interesting stuff
on there. Yeah. Hey, Actually, what I what I called
you about was you did a fine monologue not too
long ago, a couple of weeks ago maybe, on the
rule changes in baseball, and have this about this dopey
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zombie runner thing and how the baseball is sticking with that,
which I can't stand. But I thought, as long as
we're gonna do goofy rules, I came up with with
one that I hope I can get you to support.
I heard I saw a quote from Joey Kora saying
that the new larger basses uh or no, it's uh what,
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I don't think his first name is Joey, but anyway,
Alex Core yeah, cheating astro. Yeah, yeah, well he said
the new basses, they look like a pizza box. And
that gave me an idea, why not why why? Why
stop it? That looks like, why not make the basse
an actual pizza box with a warm slice in it?
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And so if you hint a triple the third base,
then the player, and the player makes it ahead of
the throw. Uh, then he gets the slice of pizza
he gets just stands there. In fact, no one, I'm
gonna piggyback. That's a great idea. I'm gonna piggyback out that.
Why don't we slap like a Domino's logo or a
Pizza hut or a pizza pizza, a little Caesar's log
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go on the base. It's a great idea. Cross promotion, Yeah,
I love it. There aren't Yeah, there aren't enough. There's
not enough commercialization in ballparks. Need more low notes. No.
Major League Baseball is very good about not shoving logos
down our throats when we go to the games. They
don't put them on the uniforms, they don't put them
on the outfield walls, they don't put them everywhere. They're
very good at at moderation when it comes to sponsors.
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I got an idea, how about first base is Pizza Hut,
second base is Domino's, third base is Little Seasons. What
would home plate be? What at home plate? Oh? Shoot,
well we got Papa John's down here. I don't know.
Oh yeah, Papa John's. Yeah, you could do Papa John's.
You could be the home play. Yeah, sure, there you go. Perfect.
I gotta go, I gotta go, Ed. But thank you buddy,
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the great da in Arlington. Let's go to Jed Hoof.
Oh the black Irishman's callback. So Jed screwed because we're
gonna talk to the black irishman who will now complain. Hello,
black irishman, welcome to the show. Don't give me a a
chance of thinking I wasn't. I was on a I'm
waiting for you like three hours anyway. Now you're complaining, man,
I mean I knew you were gonna complain. I know.
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I hear yeah, I hear you. No. First of all,
I'm gonna say you, man, I ain't forgot about that hat.
I owe you. It's only been a year, okay. I
First of all, I want to say, his name is
not Patrick. The name is pat Lockmore Holmes. Did you
see that that move kay Tony made on that part return.
I told he mind me of Dion standing men. You
see how he broke You see how the people may
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he He had five people surrounding him. Do you see
that cut he made? Anyway, what else I was watching?
I was why for some reason I watched the Super Bowl.
I don't know why I did that day I chose
to watch anyway. What I'm gonna say, uh uh, Rachel Barnett.
Rachel Barnett is hot as hell. And that one, that's
what you wanted to say. That's you wait on hold
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to say that. He no, no, no, no, no, I
ain't done many black irishman. Check check this out, Black irishman.
So you mentioned Dion Sanders. That got me thinking the
prime time effect. Check it out now, coach coach prime
Dion Sanders. For the first time, we are told Colorado
they're selling tickets to their spring football game. It's still
two months away. They've already sold thirty thousand tickets now.
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According to one of the Colorado Beat writers Colorado, if
you go back the last seven spring games, they had
a total of thirty thousand people show up to the
spring football game combined over seven years. Last year they
had less than two thousand people. And this year, already
with two months to go, they've they've sold over thirty
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thousand tickets because of Dion Sanders. That guy is good
box office. No neon Dion anyway. Man, We're not gonna say.
I bet that one that co hosted show. I bet
you got some high high heels. One more team a man?
You know what way a man that a little girl,
man that that died on the what is it a TikTok? Hey?
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I want to tell everybody, man, it's they they any
all these people that they go with, murderers and these
perverse or stuff like that, they can get the first
class to Hill. I'm gonna tell you, man, don't never
give up. You know how you try yourself to sleep
at sometime at night. All you gotta do is wake
up in the morning. Everything's gonna be okay. Gonna never
give up man, for real, man, you gotta keep it
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really all right. Good advice. And the Black Irishman thank you.
So that one call is a grab bag. Yeah, he's
a scattershot Black irishman. He's all over the place. Racis there,
He's everywhere. Be sure to catch live editions of the
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Let's say hello to Jed who fled? Who is next
on the show. We'll get back to Eddie in a minute.
Here with Hockey News. Hello, Jed, who fled? Its calls
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pushing the lock because Zed saying did shut there in
the heart of Texas and Colleg's name did ain't gonna
be as good as Jed. I'm doing draws and torna
and when them. College complained they must be insane because
we're on the Then Mallard Show. I couldn't remb I
couldn't work the last part into the rhythm. It's it's
(24:46):
it caught, it's it's like a it's a thunderous silence.
It's actually more on because whenever I'm on hold, which
I which I hang up about six times when I'm
on hold during the course of the show. But I
know you're putting you just you just enjoy riding me,
and I'm like, he's gonna leave me on hold, he
can leave me. I hold the a fairy last break,
it's still it's funny. And then it's like, holy crap,
they'll wrap it up the show and I'm not I'm
not on there. And that's the only time I get
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upset is when it's just, uh, you know, my my
my arm hurts, my my my biceps from holding the
phone to my ear so long. And then it's like
I hear the amount of college is like Ben did
not go to me over over those people, and so
it durts confidence. I'll tell you that I'm not sure
what I'll go with that. What do you think or
do you think I was going, you have low self esteem,
but that's why you do the drugs, right, and you
call the show you have low self esteem? That's fine,
(25:28):
I understand. Did that just did you just become a
Did you just come in me with a real psychological evaluation? Dude?
That I despise. Don't ever do that again, dude, let's dat.
I was hoping to replace doctor Phil though. Isn't doctor
Phil leaving TV? Maybe I can replace him, dude. I'll
be like, I'm knowing the kind of doctor's Phil good?
You know what I'm saying, Those drugs that make you
feel fine? And I'm like, hey, you can you're laughing.
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Nobody else was laughing. Hor Scoop Prat Coops. He's not
how tonight. That's the reason he last at me? Are
you last last at me? Not with me? So these callers, man,
when do you come out here college? Everyone? When you
come to the East coast? When do you kind of
have a Mallard Ben Mallard, you know, visitation? Not if
you I'm saying out your funeral Ben mallor visit and
a funeral not yet. I don't know. Whenever we were
playing these things kind of last minute. So I'll let
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you know never I'm not sure I got you. So
can I sing at your funeral? As we're talking about it?
I mean, you got people sing on your perfect you.
You're the thing that brings in your your financial Yeah,
if you can find out where I'm buried, you can
sing at my funeral. How about that. I'll make it
deal with you. Okay, Ben, If you're buried, are you
buried right now? I'm gonna find out where you're buried
right now? Dude, I am buried. I'm on the Overnight.
(26:35):
I'm on the overnight show in radio that's being buried.
So I my career is buried. Yes, dude, you and
Art Bell I get I hope you hope you're not buried.
You know I'm all right. Hang up on yourself, please
go away, May God. Let's say hello to Dick in Dayton,
the Dickster. Hello Dick in Dayton, Hello Dick? How are you?
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If I was any better, I'd be Eddie, But no,
I wouldn't get Eddie's desperately trying to give hockey news
right now. And I took your phone call. Yeah, well
I've been kind of busy. Yeah, what happened? We even heard.
We haven't heard from you. Where you've been. I've been
at the local libraries and I've done some research for
(27:22):
this class I'm going to take, and I've been looking up, oh,
you know, say like Ben Mawers show and other things.
I did look up an article that they did for
me that I want to try to send you guys.
It was Dick from Dayton. I don't know if you
have it. It was November twenty six, two thousand and six.
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Sean mccollin did it. It was real good. And I
did an article, you know, as much as I love
the Browns announcers when GiB Chanley died. It had a
little quote April twelfth, before my birthday, two thousand and eight.
It was about all the Browns we we love give
all the Browns announcers are now in heaven. And some
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people at the library, uh get some old articles on me.
So it's really nice, you know. Yeah, And I've been
playing so you went to the library to look up
articles of your own articles that you were articles. Yeah,
there was one you had. It was good. It was
called the U Ben Mauer Militia that had Tammy uh
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coop uh. Every once in a while yeah, they do
write stories about the show, but very real that happened.
All right, Well, I'm glad you're doing well. Did good
luck with the studies. Call us again. Well we'll have
more time, thank you. Yeah, we'll have a good day.
All right, bye bye, All right, there you go. Let's
get over toddy right now. Hockey news. Hooray for hockey,
hooray for hockey. Are you sure I don't need to
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time to shift this for ratings purposes? We're gonna have
time for this? Well, I don't know how I'm how
long are you gonna go? How about you just get fresh?
We don't need to stand He's just give like fresh stuff.
How about that, like the new stuff, Just fresh stuff.
I don't need the standings and mean people can get
that online. But you know, like the news, the new stuff.
How about okay, sure, all right, let's get to it.
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Here we go, all right, hit the button right there,
hit that but the world all right. We had another
outdoor game this past week, the final one of the
season at least for North America. They may have one
in Canada later on, but the stadium series game very
much a college football field to it At Carter Finley
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Stadium there on the campus of NC State, the Carolina
Hurricanes hosting and defeating the Washington Capitals. They had the
NC State band was there playing, the cheerleaders were there.
I think it was in the thirties something like that,
But looking Fairley felt like a college football game, kind
of a different field than some of the other outdoor
games we've had recently. Washington Capitals losing that game, they
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didn't have their star Alexander Vetchkan as well. He headed
back to Russia. Unfortunately his dad passed away Mkael at
the age of seventy one. He is now back though
in the US and going to be back on the
ice with the Capitals here in a couple of days.
They need him because they are they are not playing
very well right now. Jonathan Tames he capta into the
Chicago Blackhawks, apparently dealing with long COVID's got these COVID
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symptoms that have been lasting for weeks and weeks and weeks,
and it's been talking about maybe him being traded at
the trade deadline, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen.
Speaking of the trade deadline, we're now coming up about
eight days away. The third. Will you be having an
emergency podcast, Eddy for the trade deadline. It's possible. It's possible.
So we've had three major trades so far. The New
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York Islanders landed forward Bohorvat from the Vancouver Canucks. The
New York Rangers pick up forward Vladmir Tarasenko from the
Saint Louis Blues, and the Toronto Maple Leafs getting forward
Ryan O'Reilly from the Blues as well as Saint Louis.
One of the teams that are going into the seller's
mode here, those teams that are not in a playoff
spot looking to sell offs and piece. It's probably the
biggest name that could be moved to the deadline. Three
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times Stanley Cup champion MVP Patrick Kane for the Chicago Blackhawks.
He was wanted to go to the New York Rangers,
but they got Tara Sinko instead, So I think it
maybe Vegas is where Patrick Kane might end up. Is
it true, Eddie, that you reached out to NHL play
by play announcer with the last name Albert. It is true, Yes,
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it is. It is true. He'll be on the show
next week. Apparently. Uh huh. How did you How did
you know you're talking to Kenny Friends with Kenny Albert?
No people, super nice guy, super nice guys, great guy,
friend of the show, absolutely great. Kenny Albert loves our show.
I've met him. He's a great guy. Connor McDavid continue
to tear it up for the Edmondson Oilers. He scored
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one hundred points the other day. Uh in just fifty
three games. No other player in the last twenty five
years and scored one hundred points in fifty three games.
How many more years does he have to play Eddie
to break the record, which Alexander Oveskin will I don't know,
like fifteen more years or something like that. So it's like,
so in twenty old crack, twenty thirty thirty to be here,
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I don't know, No, no, I hope not. Well, let's
close it out with this. I'm not sure we're gonna
We're gonna maybe go down the third rail here a
little bit. But Mark Crawford was a former Stanley Cup
winning coach with the Colonel Avalanche. Coached the Canucks and
the Kings and Stars. He's not coaching in Switzerland and
he's in hot water because he allegedly called a referee
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using a homophobic slur. He has been suspended, getting called
out in the media, all that kind of stuff. Now
there is video of this, and I watched the video
and he definitely used some abusive language. But I am
actually gonna take issue with him being because he's up.
He's in trouble because they say it was a homophobic slur,
not because he used naughty language. Was it at the
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coach a cigarette? No no, no it was not. He
called the referee something very close to a cork soaker. Oh,
and they're saying that language. I disagree time. I don't.
I think it's definitely an insult. Everyone enjoys that. I
don't know that. I don't think you have to do
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homosexual man, exactly right. That's the case. Eddie signed me up.
I mean, yeah, so I am glad that you guys
agree with me on this, apparently at least Ben, because
I don't think that's cool slur. I think that's definitely
enjoy doing that. Bed No, no, no, no, no, not
doing that. No no, no, I didn't mean that. I
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definitely did not mean that. Definitely. What happened to the
airport departing? Is that all right? I try to support
my man, Eddie, and that's what you do me dirty.
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I didn't mean you know what I meant, all right,
Calm that he said up. Uh yeah. The Ben Maller Show,
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the judge and Braden in Florida. Hello Leslie, Jack, But
hey Jack, Good morning Jack. How's life treating you? Pretty good?
How about how about you? Everything's all right, Jack, And
again I'm looking forward to watching and play for the
Pirates this spring. It's gonna be great to see out there. Yes,
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I'm ready to play the first What position are you
gonna're gonna pitch? You gonna play second base? Where are
you gonna be? Jack? After? An outfielder, catcher? And after
you're gonna catch and then if the ball sits to
the outfield, you're gonna run out and catch it. Yeah,
all right, hold on, Jack, We've got Doc Mike. He's
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get a kick out of these guys waiting in two hours.
The judge made me wait two years, Sorry two years?
You were being all right? Hold on a second cowboy
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the way, those last two monologues years were spot on.
I hope they go dead broke. Thank you God, bless
you all. Right, hold on a sec here. Story number one.
Figure out which of these stories is not true, separating
fiction from fact. Well, Tiger Woods gotten some trouble with
the Wokesters. He did had a joke with Justin Thomas.
He handed the golf for a tampon. Well, everyone got
all upset, all flustered. So now Thomas is trying to
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make amends. He's putting that tampon up for auction, proceeds
going to women's charity. Story number two. James Dolan, the
owner of the Knicks, discovered on a dating app for
rich people called Raya. His profile states, I have a job,
all my hair, love kids and done making them sober
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twenty nine years and story number three, Patrick Mahomes spoiled, rotten, Well,
not him. It's the second birthday his daughter Sterling second birthday.
He went all out. A video posted online the pair
had been gifting their two year old daughter a mini
Chanel bag valued at nearly five thousand dollars for a
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two year old kid. What's up with that? All right?
Which of these stories is not true? One? Two or three?
Jack the judge? Which one? Number one? Then? All right,
thank you Jack number one? Doc like one two or three?
Doc number one, number one, cowboy John Brad number two,
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number two, alright, Rod the Ambassador number number three, number three,
alright to fake story number one. The last part of
that was a bullcraft part of the Tiger Woods story.
There's no charity with the Tampa. I gotta murder, gotta
go
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of our radio program, and we talk about the report card,
the wellness check on basketball. How do you compute the
NBA All Star rating debaccle, Will the message reach the
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power brokers in the NBA a historically low rating? And
what can be done to make the NBA All Star
Game great again. We'll talk about all of that and
a whole lot more right now in our number four.
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lead this hour coming from the Boom Tube. Say why
a report out indicating how the twenty twenty three NBA
All Star Game did a wellness check and how did
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it do? If you didn't see it, smell that it's
stunk the high Heaven. We've been told the NBA All
Star Game was an airball in the ratings. Swing Bata,
swing Bata, saw wing Bata? Yeah, how bad was it?
Lebron James and the Greek Freak generated the smallest smallest
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recorded audience in the history of the All Star Game.
Turns out they suck U turn out the last the
parties over Sunday's All Star Game average day combine two
point two rating, four point five million viewers across TNT
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and TBS. We are not in television, we are in radio.
But we are told by the Pulse in Sports Media
watch group that that is easily the lowest rated and
least watched edition of the All Star Game. Keep in mind,
the ratings have been bad in recent years and this
year is a new standard of futility. How bad was
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it year to year the decline The NBA lost twenty
nine percent of their customers twenty seven percent from last
year's All Star Game, but the decline twenty nine percent
and just insane. The ratings going down. And while the
All Star Game viewership has been going the wrong direction, right,
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the wrong direction here, it's not going the way it's
supposed to. We've been told that live sports is invincible,
that it is the last of the mohegans, that all
of us watch everything on demand now, but when it
comes to sports, will watch it live. But this year's
decline the steepest for the All Star Game since all
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the way back in two thousand, a generation ago, the
first All Star Game after a hiatus because of the
lockout that they had back in the late nighties. And
but wait, there's more. The ridunculously bad audience means that
the NBA All Star Game got fewer people watching than
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the quote reimagined close quote flag football All Star Pro Bowl.
So more people would rather watch a flag football game
than an NBA game with the biggest stars, the biggest
stars around. In fact, it was almost two million more
people watching the Pro Bowl than the NBA All Star Game.
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And people that love to say Baseball's dead, no one's
watching baseball. Well, Major League Baseball's All Star Game through
seven point five million people to watch it, while the
NBA All Star Game had four and a half million.
So that's my computer like break tells me about three
million more people chose to watch the Baseball All Star
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Game than the basketball. But wait, there's even more. The
All Star Game got smoked by the Daytona five hundred.
That happened earlier in the day, eight point one million
people watching on Fox. The Daytona five hundred. As my
old pal we used to have on Fox all the time,
Darryl Waltrip on Fox Sports Radio would say, Buca, let's
(05:14):
go racing boys, all right, So let's discuss the question
how do you compute the hoops All Star rating debacle?
And what a debacle it is. So I've got Russell Stover,
termites and used car salesman, and we will combine all
of these things together, all of them, and we are
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going to make a trip to detention, which is where
the NBA needs to go. It's as clear as vodka
they need to go to detention. So to tip off here,
this is a good thing. Bravo. I say, I am proud,
maybe not of you, but of others. Amongst us that
are part of this. We're all in this together as
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consumers a sport sports fandom. It gives us hope. It's
it's like this if if you love a restaurant and
you've supported the restaurant, say it's a mom and pop restaurant.
You go to that restaurant a couple of times a month,
and they change ownership, and then you go into that restaurant,
the menus different. Your go to items not on the
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menu anymore. And let's say you like the prime rib.
They used to serve a great prime rib. You go
in there, but we don't have a prime rib. But
try the new menu and you order something up and
it's a bowl of delicious, very palatable perina one dog food.
You're not contractually obligated to keep dining at the restaurant.
And so it's I'm happy that we're looking at some
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what I believe is discerning customers. We believe in you, right,
we need. Entertainment's an odd thing, right, It's one of
the traits that makes humans unique. Now, can you live
without entertainment? Sure? Sure, but you'd probably need a straight
jack straight jacket. I remember a story about Nelson Mandela
who was in solitary confinement, and he would be doing
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things to try to entertain himself. And I've heard I've
heard stories about this over the years, where like people
that are detained in a in a cell somewhere where
they're by themselves, solitary confinement, like they watch insects and
they'd count the cracks on the wall, or they'd find
something something to help entertain them. Now that's it. We
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are not last I checked in solitary confinement. So your
options are not limited. We all have better things to
do with our time. And think of it like a
box of Russell Stover chocolates. You don't have to eat
the raspberry cream. I don't know a lot of people
that like the raspberry cream. You can go with the
milk chocolate truffle, you can go with the cashew cluster.
You don't have to do the raspberry. And so you
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flip that remote on and you go somewhere else, or
if you're just doing streaming, you go somewhere else there.
The moment I knew the All Star Game was gonna
blow was right at Jump Street when I saw Luca
don Chick of the Mavericks and a few other players,
but I remember Luca in particularly had this big smirk
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on his face when the first possession took place and
they played defense or no defense. Wink wink. It was
one of those wink wink inside jokes. El Matador Ollo
right the screen, the screen door in a hurricane offers
more defense than the NBA All Stars did in that game. Now, furthermore,
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will the message reach the powers that be, the power
brokers hanging out on Madison Avenue in New York City?
Will it reach them? And the answer is highly unlikely.
I'll tell you why. The big shots they're the ones
that are wearing the noise canceling earplugs. They are able
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to compartmentalized, They're able to drown out a lot of
the negative feedback. And I continue to bring up Adam
Silver's name, the Reptilian commissioner of the NBA, who is
paddling his canoe down a river called Denial, playing the
fiddle while Rome burns if you will. He does not
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think it's a big deal. And it's like termites are
eating the foundation of the building and it's not until
the roof caves in that you realize you've got a problem.
Nothing to worry about. We're all good now. The NBA
spin doctors are already working their hocus pocus what's my evidence?
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They are declaring a partial victory, sending out information to
useful idiots in the media, the basketball toe sucking media,
saying that the All Star Game was still the most
viewed cable program among all viewers, and it was the
most watch TV program of any kind among viewers under
the age of fifty, So that, while it may be true,
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is not the point. This is a case that all
big businesses go through, and even small businesses. It's called
quality control, poor quality control. It's it's paltering, is what
it is. It's it's like you're you're misleading. It's your
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your house shopping and you're a real estate agent who
tells a potential buyer that the property has a lot
of inquiries. When you're asked how many people actually bid,
you know on the property, you know how many bids
there are, and all, well, it's very popular's a lot
of inquiries. It's actually unpopular. No one's bid on it,
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all right, party shot. So what can be done to
make the All Star Game great again? Drastic times call
for drastic measures as some wise people have said in
the past. So this actually I want to steal this
take from Pete Vessi. Peter Vessey was the original NBA insider.
He was the Wog before Wog. I'd love to get
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Pete Vessi on my podcast. I wonder how he feels
about the cottage industry. He was one of the early
people that did that insider for the New York Post
and NBC and to watch What's Happened Now with guys
like Adam Schefter and Jay Glazer and Wog and all
these other insider types, and that was his baby, like
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he was the first one that really got into that
in basketball. But anyway, the advice he had he's retired now,
but the advice he had is to take a page
out of the used car salesman salesman's playbook. He used
car salesman's playbook way back over twenty years ago. Major
League Baseball's All Star Game was in Milwaukee. The game
was tied seven seven. What happened next? Bud Selik, the
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used car salesman who owned the Brewers and was the
Commissioner Baseball, threw his arms up literally in the eleventh
inning of a tie All Star Game, after the umpires
told him that both the National League and American League
All Star teams had run out of pitchers, so the
game ended in a tie. He gave up. What did
Bud Selick do? Then? Baseball was so embarrassed. They were
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so shamed by this. We were not at the era
we're in now. This was twenty years ago. In that era,
this was an embarrassment. Now they would have said, what
do you want. It's too hard for the pictures. They
need to rest up well. Basic League Baseball put down
the gauntlet and they said that the winning league after
that in the All Star Game in future years would
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get home field advantage in the World Series. This time
it counts was the commercial that we played on Fox
Sports Radio. And the NBA needs to follow that plan.
It's drastic. Some would call it dr Conyan. Get rid
of Team Jannis and Team Lebron. That's for gazing. Anyway,
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go old school East versus West. Winning conference gets home
court advantage in the NBA Finals. And I promise you,
I will garn ffante you. You will see an honest effort,
and you will see guys playing defense. Maybe not the
entire game, but you'll certainly see more defense than that
turd burger they served up the other day. And some
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will say no, They'll say no, no, it's not the worst,
not worth the risk of injuries, a meaningless game, blah
blah blah blah blah. But I say felly, I say
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We have Puck the World coming up a little bit
later this hour, fact or fiction as well, and it's
the prime time effect. What is the prime time effect?
We'll get to that and we will do it next. Oh.
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Maller Firk Dog Wrightson. He says, Hey, Ben, don't be
so sure that none of your listeners are in solitary confinement.
(14:56):
You've got a lot of prison fans. Yeah, but I
don't get a lot of prison mail anymore. Bums me out.
I used to get prison mail. I had prison pen pals,
six pack and some of the other listeners. The years
I got the most mail. I'm sure there's no correlation
(15:17):
to this. When I worked with the great Karen Kay
at Foxbus. For some reason, when I worked with Karen Kay,
there were a lot of people sending from prison, and
also Miranda, my old producer Miranda. For some reason. I
don't know these horn dogs in prison. They send a
lot of mail in those days. Midnight Walker, Right, there's
a great monologue. Ben. At a risk of sounding like
(15:39):
a suck up, he says he likes our show and
Coward show. There you go. He listens. He says, I
listen to a lot of sports talk, both live and
on the podcast. Well, thank you, Midnight Walker. I appreciate that.
Sharon says, excellent idea. Make the NBA All Star Game
means something. Players don't respect, honor the honor of being
(16:00):
an All Star players player as they should. Blah blah
blah blah blah. All right, let's get to it. We'll
go to the phones right now and eeny meany miny mo,
pick a collar by the day. Let's say a lot
to the black irishman who's in Omaha. Black irishman has
gone to bed, he's checked out, he's no longer there,
(16:20):
and I'm sure next time he calls up he will complain, scream,
shout and all about. Let's say hello to Ed in Arlington. Hello, Ed, Welcome.
The stores at night are big and bright deep in
the heart of Texas. Oh yeah, a age in bloom
(16:41):
is like perfume deep in the herd of Texas. How
are you been? Hey? If I was any better, I'd
be a Ranger, but not a Texas Ranger because Jacob
de Graham already having some issues in spring training. Yeah,
I figure if they get a half, you know, get
a dozen starts out of him, and he's ready for
the playoffs. So I guess to get their money's worth
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to mean they make it that far, because I don't
think they're gonna get anything like a full season to
starts out of that guy nor any of their other
recently signed starters. They signed a bunch of sore arm
pitchers for top dollar. Yeah, because those guys. Those guys
are available. Yeah. Yeah, Nathan Evaldi has been hurt a lot.
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Andrew Any Yeah, yeah, they gotta listen to and I've
been I've been advising, listen, you're the only Ranger Texas
Ranger fan that calls the show. Ed. I've been telling
the Trevor Bauer. They signed him their playoff team. He's
out there, he's available. I know, I wouldn't be opposed
(17:45):
to it. Like I said last time I called, the
guy's not been convicted of anything. Anybody in this country.
You can sue anybody for anything you want to sue
him for. That doesn't mean you're gonna win, or that
he's guilty. And uh, I accept that they had about
of that he and his accusers, at least a couple
(18:07):
of them, they had about of rough sex. Things may
have gotten out of hand, but nobody has seen fit
to charge him or to bring him to trial. And
one of his accusers is a total flake. I mean
she she used him in an incident, and then she
continued to see him after that incident that she's now
(18:27):
complaining about. That's ridiculous. It's a it's a tangled web.
It's a tangled web. You want to go down a
rabbit hole, you can find all kinds of interesting stuff
on there. Yeah. Hey, Actually, what I what I called
you about was you did a fine monologue not too
long ago, a couple of weeks ago maybe, on the
rule changes in baseball, and have this about this dopey
(18:52):
zombie runner thing and how the baseball is sticking with that,
which I can't stand. But I thought, as long as
we're gonna do goofy rules, I came up with with
one that I hope I can get you to support.
I heard I saw a quote from Joey Kora saying
that the new larger basses uh or no, it's uh what,
(19:14):
I don't think his first name is Joey, but anyway,
Alex Core yeah, cheating astro. Yeah, yeah, well he said
the new basses, they look like a pizza box. And
that gave me an idea, why not why why? Why
stop it? That looks like, why not make the basse
an actual pizza box with a warm slice in it?
(19:37):
And so if you hint a triple the third base,
then the player, and the player makes it ahead of
the throw. Uh, then he gets the slice of pizza
he gets just stands there. In fact, no one, I'm
gonna piggyback. That's a great idea. I'm gonna piggyback out that.
Why don't we slap like a Domino's logo or a
Pizza hut or a pizza pizza, a little Caesar's log
(20:00):
go on the base. It's a great idea. Cross promotion, Yeah,
I love it. There aren't Yeah, there aren't enough. There's
not enough commercialization in ballparks. Need more low notes. No.
Major League Baseball is very good about not shoving logos
down our throats when we go to the games. They
don't put them on the uniforms, they don't put them
on the outfield walls, they don't put them everywhere. They're
very good at at moderation when it comes to sponsors.
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I got an idea, how about first base is Pizza Hut,
second base is Domino's, third base is Little Seasons. What
would home plate be? What at home plate? Oh? Shoot,
well we got Papa John's down here. I don't know.
Oh yeah, Papa John's. Yeah, you could do Papa John's.
You could be the home play. Yeah, sure, there you go. Perfect.
I gotta go, I gotta go, Ed. But thank you buddy,
(20:44):
the great da in Arlington. Let's go to Jed Hoof.
Oh the black Irishman's callback. So Jed screwed because we're
gonna talk to the black irishman who will now complain. Hello,
black irishman, welcome to the show. Don't give me a a
chance of thinking I wasn't. I was on a I'm
waiting for you like three hours anyway. Now you're complaining, man,
I mean I knew you were gonna complain. I know.
(21:07):
I hear yeah, I hear you. No. First of all,
I'm gonna say you, man, I ain't forgot about that hat.
I owe you. It's only been a year, okay. I
First of all, I want to say, his name is
not Patrick. The name is pat Lockmore Holmes. Did you
see that that move kay Tony made on that part return.
I told he mind me of Dion standing men. You
see how he broke You see how the people may
(21:28):
he He had five people surrounding him. Do you see
that cut he made? Anyway, what else I was watching?
I was why for some reason I watched the Super Bowl.
I don't know why I did that day I chose
to watch anyway. What I'm gonna say, uh uh, Rachel Barnett.
Rachel Barnett is hot as hell. And that one, that's
what you wanted to say. That's you wait on hold
(21:50):
to say that. He no, no, no, no, no, I
ain't done many black irishman. Check check this out, Black irishman.
So you mentioned Dion Sanders. That got me thinking the
prime time effect. Check it out now, coach coach prime
Dion Sanders. For the first time, we are told Colorado
they're selling tickets to their spring football game. It's still
two months away. They've already sold thirty thousand tickets now.
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According to one of the Colorado Beat writers Colorado, if
you go back the last seven spring games, they had
a total of thirty thousand people show up to the
spring football game combined over seven years. Last year they
had less than two thousand people. And this year, already
with two months to go, they've they've sold over thirty
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thousand tickets because of Dion Sanders. That guy is good
box office. No neon Dion anyway. Man, We're not gonna say.
I bet that one that co hosted show. I bet
you got some high high heels. One more team a man?
You know what way a man that a little girl,
man that that died on the what is it a TikTok? Hey?
(22:58):
I want to tell everybody, man, it's they they any
all these people that they go with, murderers and these
perverse or stuff like that, they can get the first
class to Hill. I'm gonna tell you, man, don't never
give up. You know how you try yourself to sleep
at sometime at night. All you gotta do is wake
up in the morning. Everything's gonna be okay. Gonna never
give up man, for real, man, you gotta keep it
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really all right. Good advice. And the Black Irishman thank you.
So that one call is a grab bag. Yeah, he's
a scattershot Black irishman. He's all over the place. Racis there,
He's everywhere. Be sure to catch live editions of the
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Polly Fosco here with Tony Fousco. Yo. As you all know,
(23:41):
we're the host of the number one rated show and
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people tune in every week. Yeah, they want to hear
us talk sports, not our idiot guests who think they
know more about sports than we. Though he ain't listen
to these dummies. You don't know crap about This is
(24:02):
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Let's say hello to Jed who fled? Who is next
on the show. We'll get back to Eddie in a minute.
Here with Hockey News. Hello, Jed, who fled? Its calls
(24:25):
pushing the lock because Zed saying did shut there in
the heart of Texas and Colleg's name did ain't gonna
be as good as Jed. I'm doing draws and torna
and when them. College complained they must be insane because
we're on the Then Mallard Show. I couldn't remb I
couldn't work the last part into the rhythm. It's it's
(24:46):
it caught, it's it's like a it's a thunderous silence.
It's actually more on because whenever I'm on hold, which
I which I hang up about six times when I'm
on hold during the course of the show. But I
know you're putting you just you just enjoy riding me,
and I'm like, he's gonna leave me on hold, he
can leave me. I hold the a fairy last break,
it's still it's funny. And then it's like, holy crap,
they'll wrap it up the show and I'm not I'm
not on there. And that's the only time I get
(25:06):
upset is when it's just, uh, you know, my my
my arm hurts, my my my biceps from holding the
phone to my ear so long. And then it's like
I hear the amount of college is like Ben did
not go to me over over those people, and so
it durts confidence. I'll tell you that I'm not sure
what I'll go with that. What do you think or
do you think I was going, you have low self esteem,
but that's why you do the drugs, right, and you
call the show you have low self esteem? That's fine,
(25:28):
I understand. Did that just did you just become a
Did you just come in me with a real psychological evaluation? Dude?
That I despise. Don't ever do that again, dude, let's dat.
I was hoping to replace doctor Phil though. Isn't doctor
Phil leaving TV? Maybe I can replace him, dude. I'll
be like, I'm knowing the kind of doctor's Phil good?
You know what I'm saying, Those drugs that make you
feel fine? And I'm like, hey, you can you're laughing.
(25:51):
Nobody else was laughing. Hor Scoop Prat Coops. He's not
how tonight. That's the reason he last at me? Are
you last last at me? Not with me? So these callers, man,
when do you come out here college? Everyone? When you
come to the East coast? When do you kind of
have a Mallard Ben Mallard, you know, visitation? Not if
you I'm saying out your funeral Ben mallor visit and
a funeral not yet. I don't know. Whenever we were
playing these things kind of last minute. So I'll let
(26:13):
you know never I'm not sure I got you. So
can I sing at your funeral? As we're talking about it?
I mean, you got people sing on your perfect you.
You're the thing that brings in your your financial Yeah,
if you can find out where I'm buried, you can
sing at my funeral. How about that. I'll make it
deal with you. Okay, Ben, If you're buried, are you
buried right now? I'm gonna find out where you're buried
right now? Dude, I am buried. I'm on the Overnight.
(26:35):
I'm on the overnight show in radio that's being buried.
So I my career is buried. Yes, dude, you and
Art Bell I get I hope you hope you're not buried.
You know I'm all right. Hang up on yourself, please
go away, May God. Let's say hello to Dick in Dayton,
the Dickster. Hello Dick in Dayton, Hello Dick? How are you?
(27:01):
If I was any better, I'd be Eddie, But no,
I wouldn't get Eddie's desperately trying to give hockey news
right now. And I took your phone call. Yeah, well
I've been kind of busy. Yeah, what happened? We even heard.
We haven't heard from you. Where you've been. I've been
at the local libraries and I've done some research for
(27:22):
this class I'm going to take, and I've been looking up, oh,
you know, say like Ben Mawers show and other things.
I did look up an article that they did for
me that I want to try to send you guys.
It was Dick from Dayton. I don't know if you
have it. It was November twenty six, two thousand and six.
(27:45):
Sean mccollin did it. It was real good. And I
did an article, you know, as much as I love
the Browns announcers when GiB Chanley died. It had a
little quote April twelfth, before my birthday, two thousand and eight.
It was about all the Browns we we love give
all the Browns announcers are now in heaven. And some
(28:05):
people at the library, uh get some old articles on me.
So it's really nice, you know. Yeah, And I've been
playing so you went to the library to look up
articles of your own articles that you were articles. Yeah,
there was one you had. It was good. It was
called the U Ben Mauer Militia that had Tammy uh
(28:28):
coop uh. Every once in a while yeah, they do
write stories about the show, but very real that happened.
All right, Well, I'm glad you're doing well. Did good
luck with the studies. Call us again. Well we'll have
more time, thank you. Yeah, we'll have a good day.
All right, bye bye, All right, there you go. Let's
get over toddy right now. Hockey news. Hooray for hockey,
hooray for hockey. Are you sure I don't need to
(28:48):
time to shift this for ratings purposes? We're gonna have
time for this? Well, I don't know how I'm how
long are you gonna go? How about you just get fresh?
We don't need to stand He's just give like fresh stuff.
How about that, like the new stuff, Just fresh stuff.
I don't need the standings and mean people can get
that online. But you know, like the news, the new stuff.
How about okay, sure, all right, let's get to it.
(29:09):
Here we go, all right, hit the button right there,
hit that but the world all right. We had another
outdoor game this past week, the final one of the
season at least for North America. They may have one
in Canada later on, but the stadium series game very
much a college football field to it At Carter Finley
(29:31):
Stadium there on the campus of NC State, the Carolina
Hurricanes hosting and defeating the Washington Capitals. They had the
NC State band was there playing, the cheerleaders were there.
I think it was in the thirties something like that,
But looking Fairley felt like a college football game, kind
of a different field than some of the other outdoor
games we've had recently. Washington Capitals losing that game, they
(29:53):
didn't have their star Alexander Vetchkan as well. He headed
back to Russia. Unfortunately his dad passed away Mkael at
the age of seventy one. He is now back though
in the US and going to be back on the
ice with the Capitals here in a couple of days.
They need him because they are they are not playing
very well right now. Jonathan Tames he capta into the
Chicago Blackhawks, apparently dealing with long COVID's got these COVID
(30:16):
symptoms that have been lasting for weeks and weeks and weeks,
and it's been talking about maybe him being traded at
the trade deadline, but it doesn't look like that's gonna happen.
Speaking of the trade deadline, we're now coming up about
eight days away. The third. Will you be having an
emergency podcast, Eddy for the trade deadline. It's possible. It's possible.
So we've had three major trades so far. The New
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York Islanders landed forward Bohorvat from the Vancouver Canucks. The
New York Rangers pick up forward Vladmir Tarasenko from the
Saint Louis Blues, and the Toronto Maple Leafs getting forward
Ryan O'Reilly from the Blues as well as Saint Louis.
One of the teams that are going into the seller's
mode here, those teams that are not in a playoff
spot looking to sell offs and piece. It's probably the
biggest name that could be moved to the deadline. Three
(30:58):
times Stanley Cup champion MVP Patrick Kane for the Chicago Blackhawks.
He was wanted to go to the New York Rangers,
but they got Tara Sinko instead, So I think it
maybe Vegas is where Patrick Kane might end up. Is
it true, Eddie, that you reached out to NHL play
by play announcer with the last name Albert. It is true, Yes,
(31:19):
it is. It is true. He'll be on the show
next week. Apparently. Uh huh. How did you How did
you know you're talking to Kenny Friends with Kenny Albert?
No people, super nice guy, super nice guys, great guy,
friend of the show, absolutely great. Kenny Albert loves our show.
I've met him. He's a great guy. Connor McDavid continue
to tear it up for the Edmondson Oilers. He scored
(31:39):
one hundred points the other day. Uh in just fifty
three games. No other player in the last twenty five
years and scored one hundred points in fifty three games.
How many more years does he have to play Eddie
to break the record, which Alexander Oveskin will I don't know,
like fifteen more years or something like that. So it's like,
so in twenty old crack, twenty thirty thirty to be here,
(32:01):
I don't know, No, no, I hope not. Well, let's
close it out with this. I'm not sure we're gonna
We're gonna maybe go down the third rail here a
little bit. But Mark Crawford was a former Stanley Cup
winning coach with the Colonel Avalanche. Coached the Canucks and
the Kings and Stars. He's not coaching in Switzerland and
he's in hot water because he allegedly called a referee
(32:22):
using a homophobic slur. He has been suspended, getting called
out in the media, all that kind of stuff. Now
there is video of this, and I watched the video
and he definitely used some abusive language. But I am
actually gonna take issue with him being because he's up.
He's in trouble because they say it was a homophobic slur,
not because he used naughty language. Was it at the
(32:46):
coach a cigarette? No no, no it was not. He
called the referee something very close to a cork soaker. Oh,
and they're saying that language. I disagree time. I don't.
I think it's definitely an insult. Everyone enjoys that. I
don't know that. I don't think you have to do
(33:06):
homosexual man, exactly right. That's the case. Eddie signed me up.
I mean, yeah, so I am glad that you guys
agree with me on this, apparently at least Ben, because
I don't think that's cool slur. I think that's definitely
enjoy doing that. Bed No, no, no, no, no, not
doing that. No no, no, I didn't mean that. I
(33:27):
definitely did not mean that. Definitely. What happened to the
airport departing? Is that all right? I try to support
my man, Eddie, and that's what you do me dirty.
(33:49):
I didn't mean you know what I meant, all right,
Calm that he said up. Uh yeah. The Ben Maller Show,
as we press on and I need some contested, will
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popular this thing's a big hit. Let me tell you
a factor fiction. We'll get to that. We will do
(34:10):
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Sports radio Studios. It's Ben Maller. Please transmit of medias
back fiction. Let's face some rough fact on the Ben
Maller Show. All right, let's do it here. We'll get
to back or fiction. We have our celebrity panel of
(35:13):
judges standing by. We started the power couple, Leslie and Jack,
the judge and Braden in Florida. Hello Leslie, Jack, But
hey Jack, Good morning Jack. How's life treating you? Pretty good?
How about how about you? Everything's all right, Jack, And
again I'm looking forward to watching and play for the
Pirates this spring. It's gonna be great to see out there. Yes,
(35:34):
I'm ready to play the first What position are you
gonna're gonna pitch? You gonna play second base? Where are
you gonna be? Jack? After? An outfielder, catcher? And after
you're gonna catch and then if the ball sits to
the outfield, you're gonna run out and catch it. Yeah,
all right, hold on, Jack, We've got Doc Mike. He's
(35:55):
hanging out in parts unknown. Hello, Doc Mike. Yeah, I
get a kick out of these guys waiting in two hours.
The judge made me wait two years, Sorry two years?
You were being all right? Hold on a second cowboy
Cowboy John Brad in Windsor, Ontario. Oh, hi Ben Well,
(36:19):
first of all, former Major leaguer Ron hunts Lady two
today in Stanlawel the Skinny Path of the World Aready
Comedy team died fifty eight years ago to day. Oh okay,
thank you Rod, the ambassador of Bakersfield is there. Hello Rod,
good to hear from you, Big Ben. It's good to
hear you. Man. Hey, stop miss you guys. And by
(36:41):
the way, those last two monologues years were spot on.
I hope they go dead broke. Thank you God, bless
you all. Right, hold on a sec here. Story number one.
Figure out which of these stories is not true, separating
fiction from fact. Well, Tiger Woods gotten some trouble with
the Wokesters. He did had a joke with Justin Thomas.
He handed the golf for a tampon. Well, everyone got
all upset, all flustered. So now Thomas is trying to
(37:04):
make amends. He's putting that tampon up for auction, proceeds
going to women's charity. Story number two. James Dolan, the
owner of the Knicks, discovered on a dating app for
rich people called Raya. His profile states, I have a job,
all my hair, love kids and done making them sober
(37:27):
twenty nine years and story number three, Patrick Mahomes spoiled, rotten, Well,
not him. It's the second birthday his daughter Sterling second birthday.
He went all out. A video posted online the pair
had been gifting their two year old daughter a mini
Chanel bag valued at nearly five thousand dollars for a
(37:49):
two year old kid. What's up with that? All right?
Which of these stories is not true? One? Two or three?
Jack the judge? Which one? Number one? Then? All right,
thank you Jack number one? Doc like one two or three?
Doc number one, number one, cowboy John Brad number two,
(38:11):
number two, alright, Rod the Ambassador number number three, number three,
alright to fake story number one. The last part of
that was a bullcraft part of the Tiger Woods story.
There's no charity with the Tampa. I gotta murder, gotta
go
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